MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by willibebanned | 2025-10-10 15:59:17+00:00
people refuse to acknowledge the truth and instead attack the messenger -- how is that 'elevating' the conversation? it's just pure propaganda.

https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/uk-free-speech-stru...

There is plenty of evidence -- anyone who saays otherwise tell me and i will provide it unless hn bans me yet again for attempting to spread the truth.

for germany -- look up CJ Hopkins. free speech is a farce in europe and has been for decades.
by nchmy | 2025-10-10 15:59:23+00:00
As someone who actually happily bought Pro, I completely agree with this. Inspector is great, and worth the (nominal) cost of Pro. I might use a couple other of the pro functions. I'm very much looking forward to Stellar CSS and Rocket Web component framework getting released - they'll DEFINITELY make pro worthwhile, and given that they are completely new, there should be no qualms about it being purely pro.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-10 15:59:24+00:00
I don't think there are any net neutrality laws that don't exempt things like in-flight Wi-Fi, where the upstream is so heavily restricted that providing balanced services to everyone is basically impossible or leaves the entire connection useless.

With Starlink things may be looking a bit better, but I think demanding net neutrality on in-flight satellite internet and plane-to-cell-tower internet is excessive.
by instig007 | 2025-10-10 15:59:34+00:00
> Many simple scripts at my work [...] For some unit tests it's 45 seconds

> I spend a lot of time rewriting the python logic in C++, which makes it 100x faster

Nice! Your workplace didn't care to pick a better tool for the job in the past, and it seems to not care what you're doing at present, if you have to spend time rewriting the stuff in C++, instead of picking Nim and calling it a day, in a day.
by hasanhaja | 2025-10-10 15:59:54+00:00
Fair enough! That's up to you

If the core of the framework fits what you need, you could write those additional plugins yourself, rather than relying on the official "pro" ones. My understanding so far is the plugin architecture is intentionally designed for this usecase, so you aren't beholden to the official maintainers to add/tweak features for your specific usecase.

This makes the investment in the tool a lot safer, because you can always swap out pieces that don't fit your usecase, rather than start from scratch with a new framework.

In an enterprise setting, I don't believe the cost alone will be the factor that drives the decision. It'd be weighing up the value of the framework (e.g., UI framework/programming language agnostic stack, simpler architectures, delivery speed, performance, cost of using the framework on users) against the license cost.

> Getting enterprise adoption of a front end framework is almost impossible outside of React, let alone paying for a niche one, and the "contact us" approach is a non-starter.

Two questions on this:

1. Why do you think it's impossible to get org buy-in? 2. Why do those same orgs pick frameworks like Next.js, whose full benefits can only be realized with sophisticated and paid infrastructure?
by tamimio | 2025-10-10 16:00:34+00:00
I ditched the whole smart TV years ago. I was never a fan of the slow, ad-ridden software, and later found that enormous packets were being sent when I monitored the DNS at the network level despite the TV being 'turned off'. Instead, I got a non-smart TV (you can find old Sony TVs) and attached a TV box or direct hdmi to an old laptop instead, far smoother and better at all levels.
by m-schuetz | 2025-10-10 16:00:39+00:00
There is also the problem that WebGPU doesn't really add much except for compute shaders. Older WebGL apps have hardly any reason to port. Other problem is that WebGPU is even worse outdated than WebGL was at its release. When WebGL was released, it was maybe 5 years outdated. WebGPU somewhat came out in major desktop browsers this year, and by now it's something like 15 years behind the state of the art. OpenGL, which got de facto deprecated more than half a decade ago, is orders of magnitude more powerful with respect to hardware capabilities/features than WebGPU.
by Molitor5901 | 2025-10-10 16:00:39+00:00
Possibly related, but not definite, this apparently has happened before with Ryan Air.

https://avherald.com/h?article=454af355

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/exclusi...

These were not definitive but it did raise concerns due to the budget nature of the airline.
by iancmceachern | 2025-10-10 16:01:52+00:00
Yes, but the two (software and hardware) scale very differently.

Once software is "done" (we all know software is never done) you can just copy it and distribute it. It is negligiblehow much it costs to do so.

Once hardware is done you have to manufacture each and every piece of hardware with the same care, detail and reliability as the first one. You can't just click copy.

Often times you have to completely redesign the product to go from low volume high cost manufacturing to high volume low cost. A hand made McLaren is very different than an F-150.

The two simply scale differently, by nature of their beasts.
by jayw_lead | 2025-10-10 16:02:15+00:00
Yes, both software improvements and tailored hardware will continue to pay dividends (huge gains from TPUs, chips built specifically for inference, etc, even if the underlying process node is unchanged).

Slowing transistor scaling just gives us one less domain through which to depend on for improvements - the others are all still valid, and will probably be something we come to invest more effort into.
by yucky_facts | 2025-10-10 16:02:17+00:00
Peace Deals Under Current Admin (2025–Present)

Date: June 2025 Deal: Rwanda-DRC Peace Agreement Parties: Rwanda, DRC Desc: Preliminary White House deal + Qatar ceasefire; ends proxy wars over resources. RW troop pullout, DRC disarmament, investment. US Role: Trump-brokered; signed late June, impl. July. Fragile per critics.

Date: July 2025 Deal: Cambodia-Thailand Ceasefire Parties: Cambodia, Thailand Desc: Truce halting border skirmishes (40+ killed, 300k displaced); med. by Malaysia w/ US-China input. Tackles old border disputes. US Role: Trump supported via leader calls; started July 28, but accusations of violations linger.

Date: July 2025 Deal: Egypt-Ethiopia Peace Accord Parties: Egypt, Ethiopia Desc: De-escalates Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam tensions; water-sharing & security coop to avoid Nile conflict. US Role: US shuttle diplomacy; fits African stability efforts.

Date: July 2025 Deal: India-Pakistan Truce Parties: India, Pakistan Desc: Renews/expands Line of Control ceasefire; cuts firing, opens econ corridors. US Role: Personal Trump calls; credited w/ averting nuclear risks.

Date: July 2025 Deal: Israel-Iran Rapprochement Parties: Israel, Iran Desc: Econ normalization & de-escalation; security guarantees, less proxy fights in Syria/Yemen. US Role: Brokered post-Iran nuclear pressure; called a "major stride" for stability.

Date: August 8, 2025 Deal: Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Declaration Parties: Armenia, Azerbaijan Desc: Ends 35+ yr Nagorno-Karabakh war; White House-signed. Creates "Trump Route" (TRIPP) corridor for trade/energy, cuts Russian sway. US Role: Trump hosted & negotiated; boosts Caucasus transit/resources.

Date: October 8, 2025 Deal: Israel-Hamas Gaza Ceasefire (Phase 1 of 20/21-Point Plan) Parties: Israel, Hamas (med. Egypt/Qatar/US) Desc: Ends 2-yr war: ~100 hostages freed by Oct 13, prisoner swaps, troop pullback to pre-2023 lines, 72-hr truce. Long-term: Hamas disarm, Gaza rebuild under intl board (Trump chairs). US Role: Trump's big win; Kushner/Witkoff finalized in Egypt. Hailed as "everlasting peace."
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-10 16:02:28+00:00
Boot up a router without any ethernet cables hooked up to it. Or turn on tethering on your phone but disable mobile data.

I believe this trick doesn't work on Windows 11 anymore, though. Microsoft will happily wait for you to move some place with internet access to finish the OOBE, especially with upcoming changes where they disable various internal mechanisms to bypass the account restrictions.

For about 30 bucks (or a crack) you get more life out of Windows 10 if switching to Linux isn't an option for you. You'll need to log in to an MS account once every three months to keep that going, but you can log out in between. If you live in the EU, you'll get the first year for free if you just sign in to an MS account, which I believe will also work as long as you sign in once every three months to keep the computer registered for updates.
by cynicalpeace | 2025-10-10 16:02:44+00:00
I sincerely pray that Maria Corina achieves her goals. Incredible bravery. I'm pretty sure she remains in hiding in Venezuela to this day

My "acid test" for whether or not someone on the left actually cares about freedom, democracy, etc is whether or not they support the Maduro government

There's a shocking amount of people who do!
by hamdingers | 2025-10-10 16:03:19+00:00
For "fun and interesting" consider an LG WebOS TV. Many can be rooted[1] which allows installing a homebrew channel[2] of unauthorized apps or writing your own.

I initially did it for Jellyfin before they made it into the official app store, but the Moonlight game streaming app has unlocked many hours of entertainment.

1. https://cani.rootmy.tv

2. https://www.webosbrew.org/
by jacquesm | 2025-10-10 16:03:51+00:00
Air + fuel explodes just fine. You really don't want to crash an airliner. At landing speed the number of people dead will still be > 0 and the remainder has a good chance of being injured seriously.

For instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_1951

This happened at landing speed (the airport is only a few hundred meters from the crash site) and the plane was at the end of its flight from Turkey, it did not catch fire. Still, 9 people perished and the remainder were all but one injured 11 of them seriously.
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-10 16:04:01+00:00
So do we exclude open LLMs like Deepseek or Llama then? If you do your own taxes on a computer, you don't owe anyone anything, but if you pay an accountant and they use a computer, they should revenue share with the entire chain of production from mining to manufacturing for the tools they use? Or if you pay an HVAC technician, they should revenue share from each job to miners and tool manufacturers, but that's not necessary if you DIY? Why is the idea of just owning a tool bad in the first place?

There still seems to be plenty of labor to be done to improve the world before we reach a point of unconditional UBI making sense. Why not have guaranteed work instead? Plenty of streets to clean or beautify, kids to tutor, buildings that need efficiency upgrades, etc.
by 1313ed01 | 2025-10-10 16:04:02+00:00
Termux is the only thing making Android nerd-useful and Google could make it useless at any time by just tweaking some permissions (e.g. come up with a few more ways to restrict app access to the file-sysye m). I don't want a phone without convenient ssh or rsync support (or git or fossil), or having to find some app to use instead of all the already existing command-line tools that Termux provides.

It is good enough that I am not in a hurry to try to go back to use some more open linux-based phone again, but definitely held back by not being allowed to be better integrated in the OS.
by patrickk | 2025-10-10 16:04:14+00:00
This, this, this.

Just never, ever connect the TV to the internet. Connect up an Nvidia shield, or a mini-PC/raspberry pi configured with whatever apps you desire, hidden behind a pi-hole. Connect a steam deck if gaming/linux desktop usage is your thing. I only touch the TV remote to switch on the TV, and even that could be automatable with home assistant+CEC if that's of interest.
by andersmurphy | 2025-10-10 16:04:26+00:00
I mean Datastar is pretty flexible. I'd say CQRS is pretty idiomatic if you want to do multiplayer/realtime stuff. As you mentioned, once you've se that up, the mental model is much simpler. That being said the initial set up is more involved than req/response Datastar.

Yes we are building complex accounting software at work with Datastar and use the same model. "Real UI" is often more complex, but a lot less heavy less divs, less data, fewer concurrent users, etc compared to these demos. Checkboxes are a lot more div dense than a list of rows for example.
by Tibbzzee | 2025-10-10 16:04:36+00:00
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We started this because manual plan checks take weeks and cost cities and builders a ton of money. Our system reads plan PDFs, applies local code checklists, and flags issues.

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by m-schuetz | 2025-10-10 16:05:00+00:00
> Closer to the hardware

To what hardware? Ancient desktop GPUs vs modern desktop GPUs? Ancient smartphones? Modern smartphones? Consoles? Vulkan is an abstraction of a huge set of diverging hardware architectures.

And a pretty bad one, on my opinion. If you need to make an abstraction due to fundamentally different hardware, then at least make an abstraction that isn't terribly overengineered for little to no gain.
by KirinDave | 2025-10-10 16:05:00+00:00
As I read it the op said, "I don't like how they changed this license, this is a bad direction and I didn't think there was adequate transparency."

And your rebuttal is, "Well you can always recover the code from the git history?"

I mean, this is true, but do you think this really addresses the spirit of the post's complaint? Does mentioning they're a non-profit change anything about the complaint?

The leadership and future of a software project is an important component in its use professionally. If someone believes that the project's leadership is acting in an unfair or unpredictable way then it's rational and prudent for them to first express displeasure, then disassociate with the project if they continue this course. But you've decided to write a post that suggests the poster is being irrational, unfair, and that they want the project to fail when clearly they don't.

If you'd like to critique the post's points, I suggest you do so rather than straw manning and well-poisoning. This post may look good to friends of the project, but to me as someone with only a passing familiarity with what's going on? It looks awful.
by MisterTea | 2025-10-10 16:05:10+00:00
I mentioned in another post here that I opened a friends TV and found just 3 PCB's: Power, LCD interface, and Video SoC. The video SoC is an Arm SoC for TVs that runs Android complete with video input switching matrix and processing. The SoC board had Wifi, bluetooth, Ethernet and USB. It's all there.

My dream is to hack that SoC to boot whatever OS. Though good luck getting the datasheets...
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-10 16:06:03+00:00
There are no "toggles" that protect iOS users from data collection and surveillance by Apple

Today's Apple computers try to ping Apple servers the moment they are powered on for the first time. The devices incessantly try to "phone home". Apple's definition of "privacy" does not include privacy from Apple. That is not a coincidence

There is no "toggle" to enable this "convenience", i.e., usage of Apple servers, because it is, by design, on by default

This is not an opinion or a perspective (a "take"). It is a fact, verifiable with tcpdump or the like

One can focus on differences or one can focus on similarities. Many online commentators choose the former. But if focusing on similarities, then it is indisputably clear that Android and iOS are both designed to allow Google and Apple, respectively,^1 to conduct surveillance, data collection and provide ad services

1. Apple also allows Google to collect data from iOS users via default web search in exchange for recurring payement of several billion dollars

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/26/apples-eddy-cue-defends-defa...

One of the other facts that the court learned from the expert tetimony in this case is that defaults matter. If generally no one uses the "toggles", then Apple and Google operate as if they have "consent" to collect data, as if the computer owner voluntarily toggled "Allow surveillance, data collection and ads" to "ON"

"In-app advertising" is a growing business for Apple

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/global-app-store-help...

By design, in order to serve ads to iOS users, an app needs internet connectivity. Even when the app has no need for internet connectivity otherwise
by jlokier | 2025-10-10 16:06:23+00:00
Recent versions of macOS will provide either an OpenGL 2.1 context or OpenGL 4.1 context, depending on how you request the context. You have to request a 3.2+ core profile, and not use X11 or the glX* functions.

From macOS 10.7 to 10.9, you'd get an OpenGL 3.2 context. As OpenGL 4.1 is backward compatible to OpenGL 3.2, it's fine that the same code gets OpenGL 4.1 now.

Basically, macOS will provide an "old" API to programs that need it, which is fixed at 2.1, and a "modern" API to programs that know how to ask for it, which has settled at 4.1 and is unlikely to change.

OpenGL 4.1 is harmonised with OpenGL ES 2.0. Almost the same rendering model, features, extensions, etc. On iOS, iPadOS etc you can use OpenGL ES 2.0, and no version of OpenGL (non-ES), so my guess is that's why macOS settled on OpenGL 4.1. Both platforms offer the same OpenGL rendering features, but through slightly different APIs.

But if you request 4.1 over GLX (which uses X11/Xorg/XQuartz), the X11 code only supports OpenGL 2.1. For example, if you're porting some Linux code or other GLX examples over.

Unfortunately, the GLX limitation is probably just due to the Xorg-based XQuartz being open source but only minimally maintained since before OpenGL 3.2 was added to macOS. XQuartz uses Xorg and Mesa, which have all the bindings for 4.1, but some of them are not quite wired up.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-10 16:06:40+00:00
Possibly. Or 'why did your fuel readings deviate from what was actually in the tanks' or 'why did we leave with less fuel than we thought we did' and so on. There are so many variables here speculation is completely pointless. All we know is that something went wrong, that it almost led to a crash and that it involves an airline with a very good record when it comes to things like this.

Low fuel happens, but this is (very) exceptional.
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-10 16:07:20+00:00
It's almost as if, then, providers know they can push their rates up, and reimbursement rates go up, since all that means is that premiums go up. And by a stunning coincidence, how much that 20% is goes up.

And then they buy/create PBMs which aren't covered by those limitations, and then force their customers into using them. "Oh, you want a convenient 90 day refill? Sure. If you go through our wholly-owned mail order pharmacy. From your pharmacy? No. You can keep going there every 30 days for your meds."
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-10 16:07:25+00:00
I’m guessing that pilot had also been taught the lesson of Avianca 052, which crashed at JFK because the FO / captain did not explicitly declare a fuel emergency.

JFK ATC in particular has an enormous workload with many international flights, combined with direct, even conflictual at times, NY communication style. It puts the onus on the pilot for conveying the message to ATC, rather than ATC for extracting the message from the pilot.
by gruez | 2025-10-10 16:07:32+00:00
>If we could get our hands on the SoC datasheet then its possible we could flash that SoC to run whatever OS we want and actually have a Smart TV instead of a spyware and malware vector

Surely it's more straightforward to buy a SBC yourself and plug that into your TV? Even if you could flash it, dealing with random SoC/hardware seems not worth the hassle compared to shelling out $50-200 for a SBC that you picked and can be carried between TVs? Flashing third party ROMs like lineageos makes sense because there's no real alternative for smartphone hardware, but the same isn't true for smart TVs.
by hamdingers | 2025-10-10 16:07:56+00:00
It disables smart features and many of the settings making it more like a dumb HDMI screen.

This may seem like a good thing, but it also usually enables a "vibrant" postprocessing picture mode, motion smoothing, and maximum brightness so the display looks good in a well lit big box store. Unless your viewing environment is similar (or you don't care so much) that's probably not what you want.
by pphysch | 2025-10-10 16:08:01+00:00
Definitely. Machado fits the profile of a "smol bean opposition" and is involved in a situation that USA government has great interest in (and she has great relationships with those on Capitol Hill). While Trump personally wants the award, the USG would have no qualms also lobbying for Machado as part of their "maximum pressure" campaign against Venezuelan sovereignty.
by bonesmoses | 2025-10-10 16:08:23+00:00
I don't recall which customer you may have been, but the standard solution to that specific DDL issue with BDR is to use Stream Triggers to enable row versioning. One of the 2ndQuadrant customers used it extensively for multi-region cross-version app schema migrations that could last for months.

Essentially what that boils down to is you create stream triggers that intercept the logical stream and modify it to fit the column orientation by version. So during the transition, the triggers would be deployed to specific nodes while modifications are rolled out. Once everything was on the new version, triggers were all dropped until the next migration.

Spock doesn't have anything like that _yet_, but as you observed, being unable to use DDL replication significantly increases complexity, and tmux is a poor substitute.
by mrweasel | 2025-10-10 16:08:24+00:00
I think you misunderstand what Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is trying to do. They take no stake in Igalia, which also isn't a German company, so best case the tax money goes to Spain.

They are trying to build digital sovereignty through open source software. Thinking about the commission from the Sovereign Tech Fund as a VC investment is a bit of a misunderstanding. You're right that VC is all but dead, due to AI, so this is exactly why we need some one thinking about the future or our joint digital infrastructure, rather than profit, to invest in projects like Servo.
by simonw | 2025-10-10 16:08:52+00:00
This is a really clever design.

The cost estimates are particularly notable: if they're right that's a cost of about $3/day for 6TB/day of written data, 2TB/day of deletes and 50K read queries.

Storing all those TBs of data in S3 is where the real cost lies. I think it costs $5520 to store 8TB*30 = 240TB in S3, and if you retain all data your monthly cost goes up by $5520 every month.
by YeahThisIsMe | 2025-10-10 16:09:01+00:00
I remember this stuff being a bigger story for a short moment x years ago, where low cost carriers (it might have been Ryanair then, too) routinely flew with unreasonably small amounts of "backup" fuel and had to declare emergencies in order to get on the ground safely.

I guess they're trying it again now that the whole thing had blown over.
by aylmao | 2025-10-10 16:09:32+00:00
> Man must sucks to be her, limelight is still on Trump, truly a showman.

She did dedicate this prize to Trump [1]:

> I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!

She is a vocal Trump supporter after all [2].

[1]: https://x.com/MariaCorinaYA/status/1976642376119549990

[2]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...