MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2025-10-29 12:51:35+00:00
I agree fully with this. I was on a project once and the manager leading it would tell me to do things I thought were in pour taste. I gave him a list of reasons why I thought a different direction would be better. He couldn’t backup his opinions at all, but thought he was right based on his title. Eventually he got sick of fighting with me and installed a PM to deliver his baseless and tasteless opinions. That PM said he thought my design was better, but his job was to be the mouthpiece for the manager to push the worse design. He didn’t have any power, so me pushing back on what he said was a waste of breath.

People with strong opinions, who can’t back them up with reasons why they hold them, is a huge pet peeve of mine. This project was the most clear example of that.

With the above scenario, I eventually just made what he wanted, then secretly made what I wanted as well. This was an internal product. I told a few people about my secret page. Over the next couple months, 100% of the team was using my secret page and no one wanted to use the manager’s design. Once he was no longer paying attention to the project, I swapped out my secret page for the main page and it’s been that way ever since.
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-29 12:51:36+00:00
Yeah, that is an excellent point. I really wish there were a unique icon for self-signed certificates opposed to other untrusted certificates. Self-signed certificates are not deceptive or malicious but they are not trusted. In a localhost environment self-signed certificates from the host machine are perfectly fine. Even better would be if browsers did not require certificates at all to make use of HTTPS from localhost, 127.0.0.1, or ::1
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-29 12:51:42+00:00
Perplexity released theirs earlier, and as far as I know, they do not use any of your data like that for training. It's really a shame if that's how OpenAI is using your data. I was going to try their coding solution, but now I'm just flat out blacklisting them and I'll stick to Claude. For whatever reason Claude Code just understands me fully.
by nginity | 2025-10-29 12:51:44+00:00
How to build production-ready AI capabilities that actually compound over time:

You’re Working Harder, Not Smarter Your terminal is open. Claude is running. You’ve got that new AI coding assistant everyone’s raving about. You’re typing faster, generating more code, feeling more productive than ever.

Then you measure actual throughput. Features shipped. Bugs closed. Pull requests merged. The numbers don’t match the feeling.

Research from METR drops an uncomfortable fact: developers using AI tools often complete tasks slower than those working without AI — while consistently rating their own productivity higher. This isn’t a rounding error. It’s a perceptual gap large enough to drive a truck through.

I’ve spent over twenty years building production systems, from early web applications to modern distributed architectures. I’ve watched this movie before.
by actionfromafar | 2025-10-29 12:51:45+00:00
I am convinced as little as 32 bytes of uncontested (fast-ram) would have made wonders. It would almost have been like doubling the number of data registers on the 68000. Either an extra chip with address decoder and this scratch memory could have been placed on the 68000 memory bus... this would 100% have worked.

Or much better, the Agnus chip could have had this scratchpad added into it. It should have been feasible - it had about 20k transistors IIRC and a few hundred more should have been doable. I am fairly certain this would have worked but I'm not completely sure, it depends on if that addition would have complicated multiplexing and/or internal bandwidth demands, but the 68000 ran at 7MHz at the time, so it doesn't seem too difficult to me, armchair designer.

Thanks for the article! It's always nice to see AROS and Amiga get some love. :)

Achschully AROS m68k can be helpful for playing your old Amiga games in an otherwise open source way. You don't have to buy or pirate the official Kickstar ROM images if you use an AROS m68k ROM instead. But on the other hand, realistically you would probably pirate that old Amiga game to begin with, it's not like you have your old floppies lying around and if you did, you'd need a floppy drive to read them anyways...

Dieshot of Agnus:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/CBM_8370...
by Ensorceled | 2025-10-29 12:51:48+00:00
You can't. That's the use case FOR AWS/GCP. Once the differential between having a in-house team and the AWS premium becomes positive is when you make the switch.

A lot of the discussion here is that the cost of the in-house team is less than people think.

For instance: at a former gig, we used a service in the EU that handled weekends, holidays and night time issues and escalated to our team as needed. It was pretty cheap, approximately $10K monthly fee for availability and hourly rate when there were any issues to be resolved. There were a few mornings I had an email with a post-mortem report and an invoice for a hundred euros or so. We came pretty close to 5 9's uptime but we didn't have to worry about SLA's or anything.
by Bewelge | 2025-10-29 12:52:03+00:00
Can you explain how you mean this in the context of software?

What you describe sounds like the paradox of intolerance but I fail to see how that can be applied to free software.

Freedom in general: You can't have absolute freedom because that includes the freedom to take the freedom from others.

In software: You can't have absolutely free software because ... ? I fail to see how free software might infringe on the freedom of others.
by tmtvl | 2025-10-29 12:52:06+00:00
The Debian derivatives, particularly the Ubuntu line is generally considered the most popular. That said, they tend to be 10 to 20 years behind on versions of various pieces of software so things that work there may not work on something a little more up-to-date, like Fedora; which also means that after a while those things will also stop working on the Debian derivatives. If you're not very interested in keeping on top of changes and maintaining things you're better off just targeting Wine, in which case the distribution you test on doesn't matter very much as Wine is very stable.
by everdrive | 2025-10-29 12:52:44+00:00
Boots and shoes are interesting because they're genuinely an area where premium materials and construction _could_ significantly improve how long they last. We're talking 1-2 years for "normal" boots and decades for $500+ boots (with re-soling) There's also a good middle ground here. I'm not saying everyone needs really expensive boots, but it nice that you can actually spend more money for higher quality rather than a horrible system on a chip that fails after a year and renders a whole product useless.
by macNchz | 2025-10-29 12:52:56+00:00
> I wish there was a setting in Safari that disabled websites from opening apps.

This has been one of my biggest iOS peeves for a long time—I really wish that installing an app wasn’t a commitment to letting it handle all of the links it wants to.

It’s particularly annoying because a lot of apps are terrible at actually handling the link: the app will show a login screen or some kind of interstitial and then just forget where you were going. That stupid behavior isn’t limited to web links either, it’s really great when it’s the app’s own push notification (thus irretrievable once tapped), but which the app will not even open properly 100% of the time.

There are a couple of imperfect workarounds (long pressing, incognito), but mostly I’d just rather have an option to limit or disable this behavior entirely—in the absence of that I’ve actually just uninstalled all of the worst offenders, I’m sick of having a million damn apps.
by state_less | 2025-10-29 12:52:58+00:00
Back in '99 Linux didn't run Excel/Word/Powerpoint or most games, but I ran it anyway. What others call showstoppers are for me inconveniences.

I have a motorolla edge 2024 that I'll load whatever open source phone OS will work well enough to place calls and browse the web. I'll keep another phone for the rare times some corporate/government overlord requires it. Many folks who refuse to use smartphones, similarly own a smartphone they rarely use for systems that require them.

My recommendation is to put as little time and energy into closed, locked down platforms as you can. Feel free to complain, but don't forget you can make choices.
by swader999 | 2025-10-29 12:53:47+00:00
For me it's ski race timing Software. Need a USB dongle and timing computer(a proprietary device that logs timestamps, prints and translates pulses offa wire into start and finish events to the PC Software) via USB. There's a lot of moving parts to manage, things like power to the USB, sleep etc. Bricking a ski race where thousands of volunteer, kid and coach hours have been spent in preparation for it is a nightmare. Last season our windows machines were in a Windows update death spiral on race day. The timing operators had no clue how to overcome it.
by kaoD | 2025-10-29 12:53:54+00:00
There's crap like https://hola.org/

https://hola.org/legal/sdk

https://hola.org/legal/sla

> How is it free? > > In return for free usage of Hola Free VPN Proxy, Hola Fake GPS location and Hola Video Accelerator, you may be a peer on the Bright Data network. By doing so you agree to have read and accepted the terms of service of the Bright Data SDK SLA (https://bright-sdk.com/eula). You may opt out by becoming a Premium user.

This "VPN" is what powers these residential proxies: https://brightdata.com/

I'm sure there are many other companies like this.
by nvr219 | 2025-10-29 12:54:34+00:00
But then I have to upgrade to iOS 26… The cure is worse than the disease!

For now I am using wireguard+pihole on a cheap VPS for all my devices. It’s not perfect (data center IP so some places block it) but it’s good enough for now. When I’m forced to update to 26 will definitely look at Wipr since I tested that out and it was really good other than the in-app issue.
by bayindirh | 2025-10-29 12:54:35+00:00
You're interacting with real people who doesn't see your face and hear your voice all day and affect each other.

Real life is a place encompassing the "cyberspace", too. They're not separate but intertwined. You argue that people affecting your life are the closest ones to you, but continuously interact with the ones who are farthest from you distance-wise and they affect your day at the moment.

Maybe this is worth thinking about.
by dspillett | 2025-10-29 12:54:41+00:00
> I would guess reliance on excel is declining

In some places, yes, especially where certain online options are good enough.

Definitely not in financial services, and many offices I could mention. Even for me: Excel is the reason I haven't completely binned MS Office. For the subset of features I use⁰ it is better all round¹ than other things I've tried.

I'll miss it significantly when the last Windows machine that I operate away from DayJob is no more.

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[0] Probably less than that 10%

[1] There are many tasks for which there is something better, but the something is different in each case. Excel is a very good jack-of-all-trades.
by schwartzworld | 2025-10-29 12:54:43+00:00
Have you actually played these games? I put in some hours on Hitchhikers Guide, and It was anything but natural. Maybe once you get far enough in the game and learn the language that is effective it gets easier, but I never got there. You wake up in the dark and have to figure out how to even turn on the light. Then you have to do a series of actions in very specific order before you can get out of your bedroom.

Figuring it all out is part of the fun, but outside the context of a game it would be maddening.

As for Eliza, she mostly just repeats back the last thing you said as a question. “My dog has fleas.” “How does your dog having fleas make you feel?”
by anymouse123456 | 2025-10-29 12:54:48+00:00
I'm not focused on this particular browser or the idea of using LLMs as a locus of control.

I haven't used it and have no intention of using it.

I'm reacting to the OP articulating clearly dismissive and incorrect claims about text-based applications in general.

As one example, a section is titled with:

> We left command-line interfaces behind 40 years ago for a reason

This is immediately followed by an anecdote that is probably true for OP, but doesn't match my recollection at all. I recall being immersed and mesmerized by Zork. I played it endlessly on my TRS-80 and remember the system supporting reasonable variation in the input commands.

At any rate, it's strange to hold up text based entertainment applications while ignoring the thousands of text based tools that continue to be used daily.

They go on with hyperbolic language like:

> ...but people were thrilled to leave command-line interfaces behind back in the 1990s

It's 2025. I create and use GUI applications, but I live in the terminal all day long, every day. Many of us have not left the command line behind and would be horrified if we had to.

It's not either/or, but the OP makes incorrect claims that text based interfaces are archaic and have long been universally abandoned.

They have not, and at least some of us believe we're headed toward a new golden age of mixed mode (Text & GUI) applications in the not-so-distant future.
by r_lee | 2025-10-29 12:55:03+00:00
What did you plug in?

If it wasn't structured as a coherent conversation, it will ask because it seems off, especially if you're early in the context window where I'm sure they've RLd it to push back, at least in the past year or so

And if it's going against common knowledge or etc which is prevalent in the training data, it will also push back which makes sense
by mindcrime | 2025-10-29 12:55:33+00:00
Most of the issues cited in this story could be addressed by not having "a meeting where an email would suffice" and by not inviting everybody and their cousin to every meeting for "optics" to to play political games. Just invite the people who are actually needed to make a decision. If you're not there to make a decision, it probably doesn't need to be a meeting.
by aeve890 | 2025-10-29 12:55:35+00:00
>We're now moving to Talos. We PXE boot with Tinkerbell, image with Talos, manage configs through Flux and Terraform, and run conformance suites before each Kubernetes upgrade.

Gee, how hard is to find SE experts in that particular combination of available ops tools? While in AWS every AWS certified engineer would speak the same language, the DIY approach surely suffers from the lack of "one way" to do things. Change Flux with Argo for example (assuming the post is talking about that Flex and no another tool with the same name), and you have a almost completely different gitops workflow. How do they manage to settle with a specific set of tools?
by stego-tech | 2025-10-29 12:55:52+00:00
For those of us immersed in hardware fandom, the cycle is neither new or disappointing - if anything, a lot of us relish the “boring” times, because it means we can finally squeeze performance out of our investment without fretting about arbitrary replacement timelines or major improvements in technology leading to gargantuan gains. It’s nice, quiet, and let’s us enjoy the fruits of our labors and hobbies.

That being said, I do kind of head-tilt at the folks screaming that this sort of “boring” cycle of hardware isn’t sustainable, that somehow, someone must create the next major improvement to justify all new spend or otherwise this is a worthless exercise. In reality, it’s always been the opposite: Moore’s Law wasn’t infinitely scalable, and anyone who suffered through the Pentium 4 era was painfully aware of its limitations. Sure, we can find other areas to scale (like going from clock speed to core counts, and core counts to core types), but Moore’s Law is not infallible or infinite; eventually, a plateau will be reached that cannot be overcome without serious R&D or a fundamental sea-change in the marketplace (like moving from x86 to ARM), often a combination of both.

Apple, at least, has the unenviable position of being among the first in addressing this challenge: how do you sell more products when power or efficiency gains are increasingly thin, year over year? Their approach has been to leverage services for recurring revenue and gradually slowing down product refreshes over time, while tempering expectations of massive gains for those product lines seeing yearly refreshes. I suspect that will be the norm for a lot of companies going forward, hence the drive to close walled gardens everywhere and lock-in customers (see also the Android sideloading discourse).

The hardware cycle at present is fairly boring, and I quite like it. My M1 iPad Pro and M1 Pro Macbook Pro dutifully serve me well, and I have no need to replace either until they break.
by krapp | 2025-10-29 12:56:21+00:00
If you interact with American businesses, use American technology or pay taxes to any Western government, you're indirectly funding genocide, slavery, wanton environmental destruction and countless other crimes by the US, its allies and corporations.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, none of our hands are clean. We all deal with our complicity in various ways, and draw our lines in the sand where we will, but at the end of the day survival in this world forces us all to be hypocrites.
by imtringued | 2025-10-29 12:56:55+00:00
But the article is coming from a decisively antagonistic angle though.

>This was also why people hated operating systems like MS-DOS, and why even all the Linux users reading this right now are doing so in a graphical user interface.

What is the significance of "Even all the Linux users"? First of all it's probably incorrect, because of the all quantifier. I've went out of my way to look at the website via the terminal to disprove the statement. It's clearly factually incorrect now.

Second, what does hate have anything to do with this? Graphical user interfaces serve different needs than text interfaces. You can like graphical user interfaces and specifically use Linux precisely because you like KDE or Gnome. You can make a terrible graphical user interface for something that ought to be a command line interface and vice versa. Vivado isn't exactly known for being easy to automate.

Third, why preemptively attack people as nerds?

>There were a tiny handful of incredible nerds who thought this was fun, mostly because 3D graphics and the physical touch of another human being hadn't been invented yet.

I mean, not only does this come off as an incredible strawman. After all, who wouldn't be excited by computers in an era where they were the hot new thing? Computers were exciting, not because they had text interfaces. They were fun, because they were computers. It's like learning how to drive on the highway for the first time.

The worst part by far is the unnecessary insinuation though. It's the standard anti-intellectual anti-technology stereotype. It creates hostility for absolutely no reason.
by Freak_NL | 2025-10-29 12:57:07+00:00
Yep, the municipality decides on such matters. Places do still occasionally have their names changed (rarely of course, because it involves a lot of work including updating addresses), usually aligning with local use. In the case of De Westereen a name from the local dialect replaced both the Dutch and Frisian names (Zwaagwesteinde and Westerein, respectively).

In a number of cases originally Frisian names actually supplanted older Dutch names (e.g., Burgum, Grou, Eastermar, etc.), so those places have just one name in both languages (except on the Dutch language Wikipedia because of weird reasoning about allowable sources and apparently a hatred of Frisianised Dutch names).
by ivazquezv | 2025-10-29 12:58:13+00:00
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by Levitz | 2025-10-29 12:58:25+00:00
If I could press a button and remove money from the internet, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

I absolutely do enjoy content that is financed through ads. I really, REALLY do like some of the stuff, honest. But it is also the case that the internet has been turning into a marketing hellscape for the last couple decades, we've gotten to a point in which engagement is optimized to such a degree that society itself is hurting from it. Politically and psychologically. The damage is hard to quantify, yet I can't fathom the opportunity cost not being well into the billions.

We'd be better off without that.
by naikrovek | 2025-10-29 12:58:27+00:00
Well, the comment I was replying to cited ease of installation, so I did, too.

> Linux shoots itself in the foot just because Windows has two feet

This is exactly the opinion that everyone who is not accustomed to all of the GNOME nonsense gets after using GNOME. And GNOME fans are far too used to things to even hear that it is imperfect.
by wrp | 2025-10-29 12:58:36+00:00
As a teacher, I have closely watched the effect of LLM use on student writing and attempts by colleagues to use automated detection. I plead with you, DO NOT USE AUTOMATED DETECTION.

I hate AI slop and I fight against it in my work, but as that style of writing becomes increasingly prevalent, students are unconsciously adopting it for their base writing style. Automated detection of LLM writing never worked well, and now LLM and human writing have converged so much in style that machine detectors are worthless.

Our response should be to refuse to accept slop, whether produced by human or machine. I strive to point out the stylistic details of slop and how to avoid or edit them away.