MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by excalibur | 2025-10-12 19:51:31+00:00
> Enterprise versions of Windows either don't have a lot of the crap or they allow it to be disabled by company IT.

Generally if the company is deploying Windows they are using OneDrive, although the exact configuration will vary.

Windows has always been designed with corporate customers in mind. That's true more than ever today, the whole Azure ecosystem is very lucrative for them. Personal Windows users have always been an afterthought, but starting around Windows 10 they became less important than their own data. Which Microsoft has been getting away with brazenly claiming as its own.
by eternityforest | 2025-10-12 19:51:53+00:00
I start with the standards. What file types and protocols and external tools do I want to support? How do I make Git and SyncThing understand my files?

How do I build this on an unmodified system with unmodified popular and trusted libraries?

How do I make sure that users don't have to modify my project to use it, unless they are going to be contributors?

If I'm truly just building for myself, which almost never happens, I look at resuability. If I have to learn a new tool, what's the most general one, that I'm likely to be glad I learned when I'm doing some other project?
by dang | 2025-10-12 19:53:00+00:00
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by techblueberry | 2025-10-12 19:53:28+00:00
I find it odd how much I feel like I could take or leave AI coding. It’s like - the rise of the lightweight IDE’s - SublimeText, Atom, VSCode, I feel like I couldn’t live without. Coding agents? If they’re not built into my workflow I’d hardly use them, and even built into my workflow? I forget they’re there so much I wouldn’t know they were missing. Odd considering I’ve hopped in most past trends - docker, etc.
by adsharma | 2025-10-12 19:53:44+00:00
One thing you might want to watch out for is that the storage format on disk is not stabilized.

Last few releases, you couldn't open a file written by a previous version of kuzu. You had to constantly export/import as new versions were released.

This is no longer a problem for kuzu because development has stopped. But any open source fork needs to think about how to stabilize storage.

In the past few releases kuzu switched from database as a directory to a single file database.
by leakycap | 2025-10-12 19:53:50+00:00
Do you think they will change the behavior of buttons morphing as you scroll an app's content?

It seems by design liquid glass is moving all over the place while I'm using it ... meaning I have to wait for the buttons to morph into whatever they want to morph into before I can tap one, or I end up tapping where the button I want just was and has now disappeared into a (...) menu.

iOS 26 has made me consider giving up the privacy benefits on Apple's ecosystem just so I can have a usable device. For now I'm on 18.7 & hope they build in public quickly. Otherwise, I'll be gleefully typing on a physical qwerty-keyboard Android device when iOS 18 becomes a friction to use.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-12 19:53:57+00:00
I re-read my comment chain and I don't see where I've acted in a conflicting way? I started by asking tstrimple which distros they've tried, and stated that some distros are better suited for handling cutting edge hardware, and finally concluded by saying that choosing the right distro makes a huge difference. I don't see what I did wrong here.

But then you suddenly started to pick a fight with me out of the blue, when I was merely trying to point OP in the right direction. So perhaps you're the one who needs to explain why you commented the way you did.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-10-12 19:54:00+00:00
I'm one of the immigrant groups people don't seem to like very much these days, but even I recognize some degree of ethnonationalism or desire to restrict immigration is NOT bigotry. I can empathize how jarring it must be to begin to feel like a minority in your own country - even if they aren't minorities nationally, they may be in local urban pockets. Unfettered immigration IS causing problems in many places, is often supported by businesses looking for cheap labor and it's absolutely reasonable to be opposed to it.

Moreover, the false equivalence you're drawing between opposition to immigration and bigotry is part of what let the problem fester in the first place. I think people should be allowed to oppose immigration without being called racist, its not the same thing. The open bigotry and racism by the right in many countries is partly a reaction to this false equivalence. They saw immigration in some cases as causing social disorder, as a tool to suppress wages, as causing increased crime etc. and they were forcefed a message of "all immigration is good and any opposition is racist" to reasonable objections. No one is obligated to accept every person who wants to come in.
by ck2 | 2025-10-12 19:54:07+00:00
I was a highly trained endurance athlete my entire life and covid/long-covid absolutely destroyed all of that, permanently

After 5 years I would happily trade only a 10% performance loss for the days and nights full of nerve damage pain (neuropathy)and what seems to be 30% performance loss

BTW very relevant to your daughter's story:

the first year of long-covid I was absolutely certain I had permanent lung damage and started searching everywhere for solutions

There are two possibilities that might be hopeful for her

The first is that it might not be permanent alveoli damage (which do not regenerate in humans) but rather obstruction from a "hydrogel" that forms during active covid and takes many many months if not years to dissipate entirely

1. https://images2.imgbox.com/98/e1/gw8bO0ug_o.png

The second is much more serious and not available in the United States except experimental trials for other diseases

2. "Inhaled Tissue Plasminogen Activator" or "Nebulised Rt-PA"

https://www.google.com/search?q=Nebulised+Recombinant+Tissue...

https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/article/113/8/539/5818885 (look at the photos in this second link)

BUT there's something you can try right away

see this table of plasminogen activators

* https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5553328/table/t0001...

at the bottoms is Nattokinase and Serrapeptase

which are simple enzymes, you can buy Natto-Serra on Amazon and very very slowly perhaps over many months it might help her lungs (this is just a guess)
by JeremyJaydan | 2025-10-12 19:54:40+00:00
Hi leakycap, thanks for checking it out, it means a lot!

All of the submissions apart from one an hour ago (got my first user!) are submitted by me, for example Call of Duty is on there because that's what I do in my spare time, Shift Hosting is what I've chosen for hosting because of the cost x perf ratio and they seem great, YouTube is on there because that's where I learned to program from TheNewBoston, and so fourth.

I agree in general it's not great.. but it's a start and I have the skills to improve it and fully committed to doing so. For example favicon support, profiles to see who posted what, features centered around curation and such.

I'm currently working on implementing a changelog to give a better idea on what's happening so if you're still curious I recommend keeping an eye out for that and I'd love to hear any more ideas you have.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-12 19:54:51+00:00
What I'm saying is, if they're going to nag you anyways, "yes/maybe later" doesn't obviously seem more likely to get people to click yes than "yes/no". In response to e.g. "Do you want to enable x right now?"

I believe nagging increases conversion. I'm just taking about the obnoxious "maybe later" wording.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-12 19:56:22+00:00
>What is it with "queens" in SF

Insects. Queen bees, queen ants, queen termites. Feels nice an icky to humans.

Now, SF mostly gets this wrong as isn't that much of a leader, more of a 'starter' and many species have multiple queens and when one gets killed another is promoted from larva. This and the vast majority of behaviors are self organizing, and not ones from a leadership position.
by YZF | 2025-10-12 19:56:33+00:00
I would guess that the part list of the F-35 isn't publicly available but this sort of implies someone who worked on the design of that airplane chose an alloy or a part knowing that it 100% depends on something that's only available from China. I just find it hard to believe.

( https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/07/pentagon-f-35-deliv... is related )

What does sound plausible is that some mil-spec actuator (let's say a pneumatic actuator or a motor) happens to have a magnet from China in it. That is not a big deal.

I find it hard to believe that a US mechanical engineer working on the F-35 part would spec an alloy that is only available from China as some fundamental part of the design. E.g. a wing, or body panels, etc. I don't have direct experience but from knowledge working in other manufacturing industries engineers tend to prefer locally available alloys as they're more familiar with their properties and they can easily get them for prototyping purposes Now if the entire wing of the F-35 is subcontracted to China then you'd expect Chinese alloys in that wing. Many products are subcontracted to China and so it's no surprise they'll have Chinese made magnets, alloys etc. But weapons systems are generally not. High end weapons systems like the F-35 may have some secret materials in them that are designed as part of that program and manufactures locally. I guess it's theoretically possible they use some raw materials from China but those being irreplaceable at any cost (when you're talking billion dollar systems and relatively low quantity) also doesn't pass the smell test.

What would settle this question is us getting a BOM of the F-35 with the specific parts/materials that are a concern. We're obviously not gonna get that. Alternatively some sort of reliable source, like head of engineering for one of these companies. I don't think we've seen this either.

The simplest explanation is that saying this impacts something like the F-35 sells more newspapers or advances some agenda. I'd buy the economic leverage argument; just not the national security one. Not without more evidence.
by zzzeek | 2025-10-12 19:56:58+00:00
i live in a town full of Republicans. Some are more soft spoken than others, but to claim that any of them are not MAGA (which would mean they actually did not vote for Trump) is simply ridiculous. the "non-MAGA republican" is basically a few hundred famous podcast hosts who were ejected from the power they had under the Bush regime. That's pretty much it.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-12 19:57:11+00:00
> There’s a complete lack of empathy for blue collar labor which suffered job losses and industry shifts due to outsourcing

The government didn't force those people to leave their jobs, we don't live in a communist society. Blue collar jobs went away in America because we possess a free market economy. If your labor is not competitive on the free market, your employer has no reason to hire you.

I cannot empathize with these positions because you seem to think economic shortcomings are a political issue. The past 80 years of globalism macroeconomics should be a gigantic flashing warning sign that reads "EMPIRE POLITICS DON'T FIX THIS" as a warning to anyone who thinks that invading China will make American manufacturing attractive somehow.
by godelski | 2025-10-12 19:58:11+00:00
> This is of course inevitable if the goal cannot be directly measured

It's worth noting that no goal can be directly measured[0].

I agree with you, this doesn't mean we shouldn't bother with goals. They are fantastic tools. But they are guides. The better aligned our proxy measurement is with the intended measurement then the less we have to interpret our results. We have to think less, spending less energy. But even poorly defined goals can be helpful, as they get refined as we progress in them. We've all done this since we were kids and we do this to this day. All long term goals are updated as we progress in them. It's not like we just state a goal and then hop on the railroad to success.

It's like writing tests for code. Tests don't prove that your code is bug free (can't write a test for a bug you don't know about: unknown unknown). But tests are still helpful because they help evidence the code is bug free and constrain the domain in which bugs can live. It's also why TDD is naive, because tests aren't proof and you have to continue to think beyond the tests.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45555551
by fragmede | 2025-10-12 19:58:45+00:00
You might need to stop dealing with cars made recently then. While steer-by-wire isn't so common, the number of cars with entirely digital drive-by-wire throttles would likely bother you.

Honda: "all Honda models use Drive-by-Wire technology" (for the accelerator pedal).

https://www.hondainfocenter.com/Shared-Technologies/Engines/...

Subaru's used it in a bunch of vehicles for decades: https://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/topic/70486-what-year-d...

Most new Toyotas, Ford, etc.

While throttle/acceleration isn't steering, if you're uncomfortable with the underlying concept of a potentiometer and a microcontroller and a small motor on the other end being used to control a vehicle and consider it unproven technology, then you'd need to avoid most new cars in order to be logically consistent.
by like_any_other | 2025-10-12 19:58:57+00:00
I don't follow - you'll have to hold my hand through your argument. You said the airwaves are a "shared service license" to the carriers, and so the carriers "have certification requirements".

If by that you mean the carrier has to be certified by the government for access to the airwaves, then that's just "the law" with extra steps. Nobody has cited a law or regulation that would demand carriers block any device that an end-user can modify to enable VoLTE.

If you mean that the carriers require certain certifications for the devices on their network, and these certifications have no basis in law (i.e. they are permitted to allow VoLTE-capable devices on their network, they just choose not to), then this is just mega-corporations colluding to sabotage consumers.
by leakycap | 2025-10-12 19:59:05+00:00
> they needed something splashy in the absence of their promised AI features

Yes - they showed their hand when Apple execs declined to appear at the annualThe Talk Show Live shortly after the host of the show publicly questioned the Apple about the failure to deliver on Apple Intelligence. They clearly did not want anyone talking to them about that, and the myriad of friendly interviews they did post with other tech folks danced beautifully around the lack of anything in Apple's AI offering.
by OptionOfT | 2025-10-12 19:59:22+00:00
It is still disgusting. There is no need for that fee to be there, because remember, it sits on top of the purchase of at least $1,500 (a decent Mac).

I tried to see if I could make improvements to Immich. No can do, as half of their entitlements require a team account (and even then begging Apple to get the entitlements).

Now, they do offer a private account, so I spent time removing those entitlements. Guess what? Starting over 3 times and you're hit with a 'you can only sign 10 apps / week'.

Why do apps built for my iPhone, which I explicitly need to put in Developer mode, need to be signed by daddy Cook?
Aks HN: Large scale refactorings with LLM. Any experience to share?
by iot_devs | 2025-10-12 19:59:52+00:00
I am working on a critical (the company depends on it), large (100k+ files), busy (100s of developer committing daily) and old (10+ years) codebase.

Given the conditions, I believe we are doing a stellar job at keeping the whole codebase somehow manageable. Linting and conventions are in place and respected.

But of course it is not "clean code".

Developer velocity is low, testing is difficult and cumbersome.

Dependencies between our components are very tight, and everything depends on everything else.

My team and I have a clear mandate to make the situation better.

A lot of tooling to manage the overall complexity have been build but I believe we have reached a plateau where extra tooling will not make the situation any better. If anything it will increase cognitive load on developers.

I start to think that handling the overall complexity of the codebase is the way forward.

Dependencies are needed, but we are not doing a stellar job at isolation and at keeping dependencies at a minimum.

This comes out as huge files with multiple critical and busy classes. Creating dependencies that are there for syntaxical reasons but not semantical reason.

I don't think it is feasible to manually address those problems. Also my team doesn't have the right business context.

Moreover none of the changes we should do are justificable from a business perspective.

The solution that we see somehow feasible are 2:

1. Somehow force/convince the other teams to handle their complexity. We already tried this and it failed. 2. Figure out a way to do it ourselves.

Only 2. is an acceptable solution given that 1. already failed and the social capital we can deploy.

Approaching this manually is unfeasible, and naturally I am leaning toward using LLM for this kinda of refactoring.

The idea is to avoid updating the architecture and simply put as in a better position to eventually make architectural improvements.

I would like some sort of pipeline where we feed the codebase and the problem on one side (this file is too big, move this class), and get a PR on the other side.

I did try a quite challenging refactoring, and the AI failed. Not terribly, but not something that I can sell just yet.

I am here asking the community if you have tried something similar.
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2025-10-12 20:00:22+00:00
No kidding.

Just to elaborate for others, MACSec is a standard (802.1ae) and runs at line rate. Something like a Juniper PTX10008 can run it at 400Gbps, and it’s just a feature you turn on for the port you’d be using for the link you want to protect anyway (PTXs are routers/switches, not security devices).

If I need to provide encryption on a DCI, I’m at least somewhat likely to have gear that can just do this with vendor support instead of needing to slap together some Linux based solution.

Unless, I suppose, there’s various layer 2 domains you’re stitching together with multiple L2 hops and you don’t control the ones in the middle. In which case I’d just get a different link where that isn’t true.
by vee-kay | 2025-10-12 20:00:32+00:00
I have a suspicion that Satya Nadella himself doesn't use Windows 11, otherwise he would have fired the team that messed up the Start Menu and he would have banned all ads from start menu and desktop.

Even Bill Gates dumped the Windows Phone and switched to Android (he prefers the Samsung Galaxy Fold4)

https://www.gearbrain.com/bill-gates-windows-phone-android-2...
by sema4hacker | 2025-10-12 20:00:35+00:00
I remember how in the days way before the Web, it seemed that companies of various sizes that wanted to "computerize" their operations either built their own homebrew systems from scratch with in-house programmers or consultants, or they bought packaged software systems (MRP for manufacturers, or a distribution package for wholesalers, retail package for brick and mortar, etc.), usually with options to customize.

But none of those systems were ready to support users on the Web, and suddenly lots of new client-server technology (and security) had to be implemented, often by programmers who never created those kinds of systems before. I think the result is often the kind of low quality software and projects the reddit article describes.

I'm somewhat surprised that "turnkey" packages for manufacturers/distributors/retailers haven't become more prevalent and dominating, like they seemed to be in the old days.
Show HN: Play with our Agentic Agentic builder
by binsquare | 2025-10-12 20:00:36+00:00
Just built an opensource CLI tool at a hackathon with some friends to use an ai agent to build ai agents in a single executable file.

Working to use it to build an agentic self replicating system now :)

repo: https://github.com/Grego-GT/ERA-Replicating-Agents
by amluto | 2025-10-12 20:00:51+00:00
> The fixed DHCP addresses are found under Client Devices. Click the Globe icon above the search box (To the right of the binoculars) to get the DHCP blade. All fixed reservations are listed, even for offline devices.

This was almost the first thing I tried. It says "No Connected Clients" "Add new clients to see their usage and application data." For fun, I added a made-up client using that UI and there are still no clients. Oh, and the dialog to add a client doesn't ask which "network" to add it to, which is one of several examples of UniFi internal schema not matching reality. (Have fun trying to track down a client that has recently existed on two different VLANs. UniFi clearly has some fundamental architectural problems here.)

> -For ACLs I've had great success with their new object based model that I believe came in Network 9.3. Settings > Policy Engine > Objects

Huh, cute. This one is aware of VLANs. I wonder if it actually works well -- given the number of times I've seen UniFi misapply various security rules, I'm skeptical, but it would be handy if it actually works. It would be extra nifty if it worked seamlessly across wired and wireless networks.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-12 20:02:05+00:00
It's pretty horrible. When I use Windows, my foremost reaction is "how can they expect me to put up with this?" before walking away in disgust. I get offended, and I'm a sysadmin professionally.

Then I remember, in a moment of Eldritch revelation, my mom daily-drives this OS. My siblings and cousins probably use it at work. Billions of people around the world chafe through these lockscreen ads, "live tile" updates, OneDrive nags, Windows + G Xbox Game Bar (whatever the fuck that is), Cortana... it's baffling. The same thing runs through my head looking at recent macOS screenshots. Are geriatrics really expected to put up with all this theatrical nonsense? Is this subscription service racket really more attractive than trying to compete as a normal desktop?

Been using Linux for six years now. I cannot remember a single time I've truly missed Windows or macOS.