MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DonHopkins | 2025-10-24 08:04:46+00:00
Do you really believe that RMS has suddenly done a 180 and changed his core beliefs and philosophy about Apple and Macs and non-free operating systems?

Do you even know him, have you ever talked with him about free software or copyleft, have you ever even read anything he's written? Are you brand new to this whole "free software" thing, and it's a total shock to you that RMS has a long standing opinion about supporting Macs and other non-free operating systems?

It's obvious you haven't read any of the links to evidence I posted, or even anything RMS has written about the subject, but you really should do some research before jumping to such historically uninformed conclusions.

Parading your self cultivated ignorance and unwillingness to read, enumerating things you don't care about, and refusing to indicate what I wrote that you disagree with or provide any evidence to the contrary after I asked you to, just isn't a good look, and won't win any arguments that I have nothing to add to the conversation.

One more time: what evidence I gave do you disagree with, and what evidence do you have than RMS has done a 180 and abandoned his long held principles? Do you even know what those principles are?
by Ferret7446 | 2025-10-24 08:05:14+00:00
> LOC is often a rough approximation for complexity.

Setting aside the anecdote, this statement is key. If you exclude deliberate efforts to game the LOC metric, LOC is closely correlated to complexity, however else you measure it (branch count, instruction count, variable count, rate of bugs, security vulnerabilities, etc). Unlike any other metrics however, LOC is dead simple to measure. Thus, it's an extremely useful metric, so long as you don't set up an incentive for devs to game it.
by sjw987 | 2025-10-24 08:05:19+00:00
That's odd, and to reassure you I would say that I personally would rather see somebody with a physical camera. That way I know I can avoid the area they're photographing if I don't want to be shot or just be aware I'm going to be in a photo otherwise. It also makes me (rightly or wrongly) think the photo will be uploaded somewhere a bit higher than an Instagram / Facebook feed (my wife used to put DSLR photos on Instagram and for an image feed website I used to be shocked at how poorly images were downscaled, maybe that's changed).

I find something much more pervasive about any upright smartphone being a camera at any given time, whether the person is being obvious about it or not. A dedicated camera is actually more reassuring to me, as its use-cases are probably more innocent than a smartphone camera.

Smartphone cameras have given poor photography to the masses. I reckon I'm probably in thousands of peoples photos that were taken on a whim with a phone. And I've witnessed situations where it appears people are trying to stealthily take photos of people with phones on public transport and the like.
by bob1029 | 2025-10-24 08:05:45+00:00
> According to IEEE Spectrum, facilities in Texas are already spinning up units based on General Electric’s CF6-80C2 and LM6000, the same turbine cores once found on 767s and Airbus A310s.

I wouldn't worry too much about the scaling around power delivery. The oil and gas industry is always one step ahead on this one. They've already got an LM9000 based on the engine found in the 777.

https://www.bakerhughes.com/gas-turbines/aeroderivative-tech...

Something else will be required to pop the AI bubble.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-24 08:06:45+00:00
Replacing battle tested software with untested rewrite is always a bad idea even if the rewrite is written a trendy language, key word being untested.

I’m still shocked by the number of people who seem to believe that the borrow checker is some kind of magic. I can assure you that the core utils have all already went through static analysers doing more checks than the Rust compiler.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-24 08:08:39+00:00
> I find headlines like this much more appropriate when placed in terms of days of revenue: "Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near 2 days of revenue!"

I feel like fines aren't even an appropriate remedy for this. They're both inherently arbitrary and not something that actually fixes it. And that combination gives governments a perverse incentive, because they get $2B to put in their own pockets while leaving the monopolist to continue monopolizing so they can come back and extract more later instead of actually solving it.

What they should be doing is breaking up companies that do this sort of thing.
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-24 08:09:16+00:00
Never claimed you couldn't, try distributing that unsigned code and see if your users can figure out how to run it, or if their OS will gaslight them into thinking they just downloaded a virus, or if they get past that, if they can get past the additional warning window that purposely doesn't show[1] the "Run anyway" button that lets you run what you want.

Running signed apps doesn't require you to know a cursed arcane ritual to run the apps you want to run, you just double click them. Having to travel through several circles of hell, each time being urged to turn around immediately, just to run unsigned code means the vast majority of users are shit out of luck when it comes to running something they want if it's not in good standing with Microsoft.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4270245/...
by collinfunk | 2025-10-24 08:09:33+00:00
Yep. I was slightly incorrect in my original message, though. SUSv2 (1997) specified egrep and fgrep but marked them LEGACY. POSIX.1-2001 removed them.

The only place that that doesn't support 'grep -E' and 'grep -F' nowadays is Solaris 10. But if you are still using that you will certainly run into many other missing options.

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908775/xcu/egrep.ht... [2] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908775/xcu/fgrep.ht...
by bambax | 2025-10-24 08:10:08+00:00
Agreed. This product seems pointless because nobody's interested in a proof of authenticity (except maybe in certain legal niches?)

I take pics for me and my friends and family, and AI has almost zero impact on this (although, face swaping is lots of fun, and everyone understands it's fake and a joke).

Edit: also, and more importantly, the question of authenticity is moot. The point of art in general is to say something / make a statement, and certainly not to produce a faithful representation of the world. Anything that's not an exact copy (which is hard to do if you're not God), has a point of view, which gives it value.
by kelthuzad | 2025-10-24 08:10:17+00:00
>If you’d just said all of this upfront, it would’ve come across as more honest / less confrontational.

"I should have elaborated even further, because I already suspected that someone would nitpick that phrasing . So let me explain the difference:" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45690226

After me clarifying what I've meant, the response wasn't "Oh I see now what you intended to say, thanks for elaborating", but misquoting me and making hostile and snide comments. That is someone who wants to be confrontational and lacks honesty in trying to understand what was meant in the first place.
by zdc1 | 2025-10-24 08:10:26+00:00
CS is wild. I used to play and have like 40+ cases from free post-match drops. Because those cases are no longer supplied, the prices have been creeping up and to the right for years now; from $0.40 to $20+. I don't even know why people still buy these, but I will basically never have to pay for a Steam game again.
by bilekas | 2025-10-24 08:10:46+00:00
Ideally kids wouldn't be participating in real world transactions at all, and I'd love to see the numbers of how many were actually kids who directly went to gamble I stead of being pushed into it by streamers which is where I see it constantly.

> Now, thanks to a recent update from Valve, the latter is in a downward spiral, having lost 25% of its value — or $1.75 billion — overnight

The fact that they made this change to make these items far easier to simply earn should say a lot about the ethos of the company though.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-24 08:10:50+00:00
Great list! But I'm not sure the relevance? The intended point, which perhaps wasn't clear, was that logic / pure math as well as readily testable empirical theories are exceptions to the "everything is biased!" claim. There are in fact things that we can know with certainty, and that provides a foundation for a broader set of knowledge. The absolute relativist position is not just boring, but doesn't reflect reality either.
Ask HN: Preferred Dev Workflow with LLMs?
by retube | 2025-10-24 08:11:00+00:00
Hi HN - so my current dev workflow using AI assistance is basically: Give a spec to chatgpt, copy generated code into my IDE, run code, inspect output, then iterate by asking chatgpt for additions, changes etc, re-pasting into my IDE. The problem with this is that I often want to make my own changes to code directly in the IDE, and as such what's in my IDE gets out of sync with what's in chatgpt. Am sure this is a solved problem, so I was wondering what people's preferred approaches were for integrating LLMs into their dev workflow?
by jonathanstrange | 2025-10-24 08:12:37+00:00
That's tricky because it needs to store and verify metadata that the user cannot edit and that allows one to distinguish a "normal" photo from a professional photography of a photo. The only place where this can happen are the camera settings but these are limited on smart phones and it's not easy to discern the two cases. I'm sure someone would print a 10x10 meter fake image, put it at just the right distance, and wait for the best indirect light to prove that the Yeti exists.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-24 08:13:19+00:00
> I’m kinda split on the whole Apple situation. I’m firmly in the camp of “monopoly bad”, but apparently people are fine with apple’s practices. It’s not like they have to buy an iPhone.

There are many things that now require you to have a phone that runs iOS or Google-approved Android. They both monopolize their respective markets and charge 30%, locking out competitors with attestation systems etc.

Two incumbents that each divide up the customer base between them while locking out other competitors is called a cartel and it's not actually a competitive market.
by alias_neo | 2025-10-24 08:13:37+00:00
The other commenter's analogy of a small-business is better I think, the issue with the browser problem is that it doesn't hinder one person getting to one house, it hinders all persons getting to one place the owner _wants_ people to get to easily.

The browser issue can destroy a small business, one thing I think we can universally agree we don't want. If all of the people who come looking for it find it's being marked as malicious or just can't get there at all, they lose customers.

Worse yet, is that Google holds the keys because everyone uses Chrome, and you have to play their game by their rules just to keep breathing.
by wqaatwt | 2025-10-24 08:14:39+00:00
It’s complicated. The gold standard in general is an awful system outside of stagnant economies (you end up with deflation + endless boom and bust cycles).

Banning everyone domestically from owning gold and then Bretton Woods massively propping up the US monetary system helped. But eventually West Europeans caught up with it and what happened was hardly avoidable.
by archon810 | 2025-10-24 08:15:10+00:00
A similar issue happened to us at APKMirror last week. https://x.com/ArtemR/status/1979428936267501626.

We still don't know what caused it because it happened to the Cloudflare R2 subdomain, and none of the Search Console verification methods work with R2. It also means it's impossible to request verification.
by kelthuzad | 2025-10-24 08:15:21+00:00
There is no false dilemma. You're just arguing for the sake of arguing at this point.

"In the meantime, Google’s story that this move is motivated by security it obviously bullshit. First of all, the argument that preventing users from installing software of their choosing is the only way to safeguard their privacy and security is bullshit when Apple uses it, and it’s bullshit when Google trots it out:

https://www.eff.org/document/letter-bruce-schneier-senate-ju...

But even if you stipulate that Google is doing this to keep you safe, the story falls apart. After all, Google isn’t certifying apps, they’re certifying developers. This implies that the company can somehow predict whether a developer will do something malicious in the future." - https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-01...
by bloq66 | 2025-10-24 08:15:25+00:00
Non-animal testing technologies — from human organoids to organ-on-chip systems and advanced computational models — are now mature enough to outperform traditional animal studies in many areas of biomedicine. Yet journals, funders, and scientists still often default to animal models due to inertia, legacy regulations, and peer-review bias. The message is clear — the future of human-relevant science won’t be found in mice.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-10-24 08:16:49+00:00
So maybe it’s just me, but I hate how the legacy auto makers, even the luxury ones, nickel and dime everything. You buy a $75k car and the frequently touched places are metal, but if you go looking at all you find cheap $15k car tier plastic. With Tesla, the entire car is made of a few middle of the road materials. I don’t want the cheap plastic, but I also don’t want a facade. I just want reasonable quality everywhere. I feel like cars that don’t do that are lying to me. Also Tesla basically succeeded at replicating an iPad as the screen, which to this day no one else has done. I think they actually poached part of the iPad team to do it.

Tesla makes their own fabrication machines in house, so their body panels don’t have to look like every other manufacturer that uses standard supplier machines. And I’m not referring to the cyber truck, the shape of the main line cars is not achievable with the standard equipment, which is why they are able to stand out visually.

Where are the competitor electrics beating out Tesla? Are the acceleration dynamics better? Is the handling better? Is the screen better?

I’m guessing the seats are more comfortable, and the interior is bifurcated into nicer and less nice parts with the average niceness being about the same. They might be dumping here though since they are still burning through cash on these cars AFAIK, so I think it remains to be seen whether whatever advantages they have in the comfort and materials areas are sustainable.

(For the record, the electric door openers and the self driving labeling are both moronic, but when you have a dictator you can’t really avoid getting some bad stuff where the individual guy turns out to be wrong about something).
by leshokunin | 2025-10-24 08:17:11+00:00
Glad to chat with someone who understands in-game economies. I agree, but for a different reason. I don't think Valve cares about the economics that much. I think it's more of a product strategy move.

They have been threatened numerous times with lawsuits over the gambling aspects of the IAP. This moves completely de-risks that. As you said, it's not going to affect profits very directly. It will however make the speculative market collapse, and keep players engaged within the game's economy.
by lexicality | 2025-10-24 08:17:13+00:00
My uni kind of had that course! They just didn't tell us what it was going to be ahead of time and it was horrendous. We all absolutely hated the professor but it was required to graduate so we all came up with various coping strategies and at the very end he said "congratulations this is what the real world is like!"

(I didn't believe him at the time, but in some ways he really didn't go far enough...)
by alganet | 2025-10-24 08:17:27+00:00
I think it could be gamed, and quickly derail into influencer territory.

What makes progress reports useful and career-helping are valuable notes, not game-like achievements. Those are hard to craft, and often not digestable to a larger audience.

I'll think the next steps for you. If things continue the way they are, it's likely someone will try to skip the influencer stuff and create automated systems that evaluate whether someone is really making progress on something novel or not. That sort of thing could change the way we look at developer presence.

In that world, you want to cultivate a smaller audience that can understand your notes, build upon them, and resonate value within that smaller audience. I'm saying a smaller audience because the larger it is, the higher the chances of it derailing.
by grumpy-de-sre | 2025-10-24 08:18:25+00:00
Thinking about the three examples I gave, I think it's more that the externalities of not doing these activities aren't priced in.

Tabloid press is fantastically profitable, but fake news over time will erode a great deal of social trust.

Closed source software might be individually advantageous but collectively holds back industrial progress. It's a similar reason to why patents were first introduced for physical goods.

And yes people voluntarily without kids should have to pay significantly more social contributions.
by karel-3d | 2025-10-24 08:18:49+00:00
mmap is fine when you know the file fits in memory, and you need random file reads/writes of only some parts of the file. It's not magic.

It's also quite hard to debug in go, because mmaped files are not visible in pprof; whe you run out of memory, mmap starts behaving really suboptimally. And it's hard to see which file takes how much memory (again it doesn't show in pprof).
by redhale | 2025-10-24 08:19:46+00:00
Your view is quite myopic. And frankly, "if they don't they certainly will not be productive and probably not creative" is rude and insulting to many of your colleagues. I'm going to assume you are young and inexperienced.

For one, some engineers are grown adults with families and full lives outside of work, and they choose not to spend their free time coding. Some of the best engineers I've worked with fit in this category.

Secondly, I'm sorry, but it sounds like perhaps your work happens to not be very interesting or challenging. That is not the situation for everyone. I solve interesting, challenging, diverse problems all the time at work, on proprietary codebases that cannot be shared.
by abustamam | 2025-10-24 08:19:56+00:00
I wish the LLMs would tell you exactly what the input was (system prompt, memory, etc, at least, the ones we have control over, not necessarily their system prompts) that resulted in the output.

Also, out of curiosity, do you use LLMs for coding? Claude Code, Cursor, etc? I think it's a good idea to limit llm conversations to one input message but it makes me wonder how that could work with code generation given that the first step is often NOT to generate code but to plan? Pipe the plan to a new conversation?
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-24 08:19:58+00:00
Google-approved Android, at least for now until some judge hopefully shuts down the idiotic "verified developers" programme, has a range of app stores with different options. Unfortunately, Amazon shut theirs down, but charging a 30% convenience fee is a choice there.

Inside of the EU the same is true for iOS, of course, although Apple still somehow charging developers per install makes it hard to provide apps for free.
by benterix | 2025-10-24 08:20:14+00:00
This really got me curious. I watched the demo and was unimpressed. I mean, this is what Apple Intelligence is for but I never enabled it (and Apple is not pushing it too hard up our throats). So I wonder what's Altman plan on this, really. Do they really plan to market this product to Mac users or is something else at play? (Not that it matters much, with the amount of money he has he can experiment freely and buy whatever he wants.)
by zkmon | 2025-10-24 08:20:48+00:00
> CSCI 2100: Unlearning Object-Oriented Programming??

People in tech industry, seem to have no idea how the systems in the wild work. Enterprise Java runs the backbone of operations for all of large business organisations such as banks. It is just as grounded as MS Office is. It is object-oriented software that is running the bulk of production environments of the world. Who is going to maintain these systems for the next few decades?

And in reality, there is nothing wrong with Java or object orientation. It has the best battle-tested and rich ecosystem to build enterprise systems. It mirrors the business entities and a natural hierarchy and evolution of things. It has vast pool of skilled resources and easy to maintain. Python is still a baby when it comes operational readiness and integrations. You might get excited about Jupyter cells and REPL, but that is all a dev-play, not production.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-24 08:21:36+00:00
> I responded to the following comment: "Welcome to the web. Pages often have hyperlinks that can be followed to see related information." which I did not find reasonable.

But you're wrong about that. Would you consider a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book to be a couple hundred documents, or just one?

The text abnercoimbre quoted was explicitly referenced on the page as being the airline's policy toward affected "guests". Anyone looking for that information would have found it, because... it's included in the document. It's not like the quote was pulled from the "investor relations" page after abnercoimbre clicked a link in the generic site-wide topbar for no reason.

Try a different angle: suppose that link to the travel policy went to an outdated page that Alaska Airlines disavowed. The old page, for whatever reason, specifies a set of benefits that they are absolutely unwilling to offer, and that they haven't offered for 5+ years.

Would you consider the statement "A flexible travel policy [link to outdated policy] is in place to support our guests" to be an inaccuracy in the document, even though it is literally true that a flexible travel policy is in place to support their guests?

If you would, how can you fail to consider the correct link to the correct policy as being "part of the document"?
by spython | 2025-10-24 08:22:09+00:00
Absolutely. Running around with a large format camera (Graflex) with an Instax back (lomograflok) and making photos and immediately giving results back to people changed a lot. Strangers were basically lining up to ask about the camera and have their photo taken. That was a really fun experience, and I noticed how much I missed that excitement - before camera phones took over such moments were much more common. Now I build/3d print my own large and medium format cameras, and that also makes it much more interesting, but the fun of instant photography with an ancient looking camera is just incredible.
by ad_hockey | 2025-10-24 08:22:10+00:00
They're an institution in the UK. They're in the arcades at every seaside town, and every kid plays them. Now that I have kids I actually think they're brilliant; for £2 each they taught mine everything they need to know about gambling.

- You sometimes win a bit along the way, but eventually you lose everything.

- The jackpot prizes are only there to lure you in, and you never win them. Towards the middle of the shelf are things like £20 notes. We noticed that one of them was getting quite near the edge, and might actually become winnable, but then the following morning its position had been reset to the back of the shelf.

- It's still fun as long as you're just playing with money you don't mind losing, and not expecting to come out ahead.

They even learned something about company scrip, from the tickets that come out of the machines and the ridiculous exchange rate between tickets and the actual rewards at the prize shop.

I asked my son on the way home if he'd put all his Christmas money and savings into the machine if I let him, and the answer was hell no - maybe a pound, but he didn't want to lose all of his money. Valuable lessons all round.