MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmull | 2025-10-02 15:42:54+00:00
I waited until I was mostly blind in my left eye and the right was maybe 6-9 months behind, assuming it continued to progress consistent with the left.

Driving at night had already been out-of-the-question for a while, and soon I would be unable to work, at least without learning an entirely new physical workflow.

At that point 1/20 is great. (It all worked out very well for me.)
by Der_Einzige | 2025-10-02 15:42:55+00:00
Nietzsche and his whole philosophy are stupid, wrong, and ontologically evil. His whole philosophy is poorly reacting to the great ideas of Philipp Mainlanders “the philosophy of redemption”. Philip mainlander and Aruther Schopenhauer were correct in their philosophical pessimism and actual nihilism and nietzschian radical optimism is what motivates nearly all modern totalitarian, fascist, and authoritarian movements.

The only good thing nietzsche produced was the “Wall-E” movie from Pixar, which is a radically nietzschian film.
by mayhemducks | 2025-10-02 15:42:57+00:00
Here's my genuine and honest question: What does "owning your chronic fatigue" look like in practice?

Having the knowledge about how your own mind and body work is essential when it comes to dealing with the challenges you are presented with. Having a diagnosis of some kind doesn't let you off the hook. But it is comforting to know that it isn't your fault. You aren't a lesser person because of it - you are just going through the game of life on a different level of difficulty than you expected, and a different level of difficulty than someone without that same challenge.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-02 15:43:21+00:00
And this is why people demand CarPlay, and why automakers continue to refuse to put CarPlay/Android Auto support in their vehicles.

I will never buy a vehicle that doesn't support it, nor would I ever buy one that locks it behind a subscription.

If I need to I'll keep older cars alive to avoid the enshittification. Older vehicles are easier to repair and maintain anyway.
by jfengel | 2025-10-02 15:43:24+00:00
Today I learned:

Boom lifts, available in various models such as mini scissor lifts for sale, spider lifts, and tracked scissor lifts, offer excellent mobility, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness for many tasks. Cranes, on the other hand, are essential for heavy lifting and large-scale projects.

I also learned that "spider lifts" look like something a bad guy drives in a sci-fi movie.
by onraglanroad | 2025-10-02 15:44:05+00:00
> Just my opinion as a FORMER senior software dev (disabled now).

I'm not sure what this means. Why would being disabled stop you being a senior software developer? I've known blind people who were great devs so I'm really not sure what disability would stop you working if you wanted to.

Edit: by which I mean, you might have chosen to retire but the way you put it doesn't sound like that.
by gamblor956 | 2025-10-02 15:44:05+00:00
This makes sense. Navigation maps cost $$$ to maintain. Subaru has been charging for built-in navigation for years (it comes free for 3 years with most purchases) with the expectation that most people won't renew when the free period expires. The navigation is very good as whatever service they use is able to account for construction and other map changes significantly faster than Google does. But the UI is really slow.

The alternative is to use CarPlay/Android Auto and the navigation app of your choice for free. (Until like Toyota Ford starts requiring a subscription to use CP or AA. They had planned to do this several years ago but decided not to after backlash.)
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-02 15:44:11+00:00
I don't think it's that companies want the ad model, it's that they know they cannot compete with it if they have a subscription model.

Nebula, the "answer" to the shittyness of youtube that creators have been falling over themselves to promote for the last 5 years, still has a conversion rate under 1%.

People hate ads, but they really really hate subscriptions.
by BinaryIgor | 2025-10-02 15:44:14+00:00
5) Yes - but even if not popular, competent people are always respected 6) I would say that there's correlation, but it's not 1.0, more something like 0.5 - 0.7; other factors matter as well.

Sometimes these do not hold true, but then you have a truly toxic organization - one that you should run from, as fast as possible
by tomjakubowski | 2025-10-02 15:44:31+00:00
Some of those bugs, like using the wrong printf-specifier for a size_t, would be flagged by the compiler with the right warning flags set. An AI oracle which tells me, "your project is missing these important bug-catching compiler warning flags," would be quite useful.

A few of these PRs are dependabot PRs which match on "sarif", I am guessing because the string shows up somewhere in the project's dependency list. "Joshua sarif data" returns a more specific set of closed PRs. https://github.com/curl/curl/pulls?q=is%3Apr+Joshua+sarif+da...
by ishaanbhagwat | 2025-10-02 15:44:43+00:00
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by rayiner | 2025-10-02 15:45:17+00:00
> Agencies like the NLRB, SEC, and others also preside over judicial action.

Legally, they don’t! Nobody seriously argues Congress can create independent agencies that exercise Article III’s “judicial power.” The seeming “judicial actions” presided over by the NLRB, SEC, etc., are justified based on the theory that they are merely using court-like procedures to perform an executive function. It’s just a way of structuring an investigation and enforcement that resembles judicial procedures, but where the end result is something the executive would have the power to do anyway.

> I also personally don't think that the founders were playing a joke on us when they wrote the 9th amendment.

Can you help me understand this argument? Say I have a list of countries in Europe: Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Norway. Then I say, “the enumeration in this list of certain countries shall not be construed to deny or disparage other countries being in Europe.” That paraphrases the 9th amendment, right? You couldn't rely on that provision to say “Denmarkistan” is a country in Europe, right? You’d need some outside evidence to prove that this country exists.

The problem with “emanations from penumbras” is that it uses the constitution itself to bootstrap a supposed privacy right that isn’t listed and isn’t supported by outside evidence. Maybe a right to privacy exists, maybe it doesn’t. But you can’t prove that by pointing to the 9th amendment.
by kardianos | 2025-10-02 15:45:50+00:00
Sure, but SQL Server DB protocol (TD) has a dedicated Bulk Insert specific for that functionality. TDS isn't perfect, but it is much better then the postgresql wire protocol v3.

Sometime I want to build a DB front-end that you send up some type of iceberg/parquet or similar, and return a similar file format over a quic protocol. Like quic, persistent connections could be virtualized, and bulk insert could be sane and normalized: eg insert these rows into a table or temp table, then execute this script referencing it. While I'm at it, I'll normalize PL/SQL so even brain-dead back-ends (sqlite) could use procedural statements and in-database logic.
by jerf | 2025-10-02 15:46:28+00:00
"(1020 * 260 * 1656) seconds in years" [1] comes out to 14 years. Solid, of course, no breaks or sleep, no time for training or planning or debugging. And one block per second is a pretty good clip for a technical build. It doesn't take many multiplicative factors before it's more than one lifetime.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=%281020+*+260+*+1656%29+seco...
by Silhouette | 2025-10-02 15:47:06+00:00
MS used to be legendary for its efforts to maintain backward compatibility. I think it has lost a lot of credibility after the way it has managed Windows forward compatibility and support recently though.

It is apparently scrambling to offer extended support schemes right now rather than deal with the inevitable fallout of forcibly retiring Windows 10 on so many still-functional devices with no upgrade path to 11 even available.

It hasn't been very long since it forcibly obsoleted the Windows 7/8 generations that were also still in use on a significant number of devices at the time but did not include the level of control (or intrusion if you prefer) that Microsoft evidently wanted of its users' devices.

The difference this time is that it's showing contempt for even large customers' control. Corporate IT departments with all those externally imposed constraints can resist compromise and surrendering control much more strongly than most home users or small organisations.
by cutemonster | 2025-10-02 15:47:08+00:00
I'm guessing just one in a hundred is that person. But maybe not impossible, after all, that'd it'd be someone like her. Did you see what she saw? From the article:

> Her most disturbing studies came in the mid-1970s, when she and her team of field workers began to record a series of savage attacks.

> The incidents grew into what Goodall called the four-year war, a period of brutality carried out by a band of male chimpanzees from a region known as the Kasakela Valley. The marauders beat and slashed to death all the males in a neighboring colony and subjugated the breeding females, essentially annihilating an entire community.
by green_beans_25 | 2025-10-02 15:47:15+00:00
Blocking elements with ad block works well, but for convenience I use the extension Unhook. It can redirect the home feed to subscriptions, hide end screen cards, end screen feed, live chat, auto generated mixes, notifications, shorts, etc. I also use a tampermonkey script to auto set theater mode and resolution (necessary for incognito mode).

It would be nice if youtube could include some of these handy features in the settings, but it is not something they want to do it seems.
by mritchie712 | 2025-10-02 15:47:38+00:00
it'll be interesting to see what happens with n8n over the next few years.

On one hand, a ton of people are using it to build AI workflows.

On the other, it's never been easier to build a similar workflow in Python with Claude Code or other tools where you get infinite flexibility, version control, and more flexibility on hosting.

We're betting on the later at https://www.definite.app/. Our agent writes pure Python with pre-built integrations into stuff like Hubspot, Salesforce, Attio, Stripe, Postgres, etc.
by sewerairecruit | 2025-10-02 15:48:15+00:00
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by looping__lui | 2025-10-02 15:48:41+00:00
Yes, they mention hydrogen caverns and thermal storage on pp. 5–6 — but those are more theoretical potentials than real, scalable solutions today. That’s why even in Fraunhofer’s own scenarios we still see 500–750 GW of wind + PV (6–9× average load) and 100–150 GW gas backup on top. In practice, it’s the massive renewable overcapacity that smooths supply, with storage playing only a limited supporting role.
by OJFord | 2025-10-02 15:48:42+00:00
> It's unclear if anyone was injured during the incident.

'It's unclear if' is a phrase that paints a brilliant picture of an organ's journalistic standing.

It means there's no information either way, what follows is pure speculation, probably false, but the author can put whatever idea they want in our heads, since they've prefaced that it 'may or may not be the case'.

It's unclear if the drones had malicious intent. It's unclear if the author was sober while writing and free of criminal record.
by everdrive | 2025-10-02 15:48:42+00:00
I was quite surprised how different work was from school. There are a few specific considerations I never really see discussed:

- In school you can fail the entire class, (ie, all the students) which is less true at work. At work, you're just hiring your "section" of the bell curve, and insofar as being "successful" means "doing well at your job and not getting fired" then a C or D student can potentially be happily and gainfully employed indefinitely. They might have to take a less prestigious job, but they can find their niche and their place. This one really surprised me. You just don't have freedom of movement in school the way you do at work, and so anyone who is observant and hard working can pivot to a relatively-good situation for themselves. This just is not true at school. - You get nearly endless chances to fail at work, and you usually have a PIP period of weeks or months to parachute to another job if you actually encounter failure. I know some people who have been failures for an entire 30-40 year career. - If you're bad at writing essays in school, it doesn't matter; you simply need to write essays and getting better or worse at writing essays won't modify the number of essays you need to write. With work on the other hand you can specialize and minimize your weaknesses and play to your strengths. Yes, you can more easily change positions to accomplish this, but even within a single position you can just find ways to focus on the parts of the job you're best at and and excel at that area. - Very, very few jobs have anything which resembles testing. In the real world you must understand _why_ certain things need to be done, but almost everyone has the opportunity to pause and look up the details via references. Testing really does not represent this whatsoever. It's also the case that some tasks at work will be done over and over again, and in real depth, and via this depth and repetition you will actually memorize things via real behavioral reward mechanisms that are just not possible in a classroom environment. - You can always seek more clarification in the real world, and can even negotiate your own limitations. Your boss has asked you to do something? Have a conversation with them and explain the limitations in the approach and what sort of partial approach you think might work. This works great in the real world but is much, much more limited in a classroom environment.

I could go on, but I was honestly shocked when I got my first job and I was actually a pretty good employee. This has been true ever since, but I was screwing up in school all the time.
by vidarh | 2025-10-02 15:48:57+00:00
I've "worked" with Claude Code to find a long standing set of complex bugs over the last couple of days, and it can do so much more. It's come up with hypotheses, tested them, used gdb in batch mode when the hypotheses failed in order to trace what happened at the assembly level, and compared with the asm dump of the code in question.

It still needs guidance, but it quashed bugs yesterday that I've previously spent many days on without finding a solution for.

It can be tricky, but they definitely can be significant aid for even very complex bugs.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-02 15:48:59+00:00
I also think that people don't have full understanding but I am also not sure how people can get that understanding.

us discussing things here won't reach those people and frankly I am not sure what would.

There is so much actual content about it that I am sure even I don't know 20% about, of all the ways these companies spy but I do know that there are some options to soften the blow by using things like librewolf etc. if you need privacy and ublock origin etc. too

We don't need people to have a full understanding imo, we just somehow need to show them enough and show them the alternatives somehow and hope that things change or try our best but I am not sure.
by glial | 2025-10-02 15:49:29+00:00
In terms of being useful, it depends on the field. In reinforcement learning, for example, the entire field is divided into 'model-free' and 'model-based' approaches. Model-free approaches are learning state-action mappings, which are like habits or 'fast' thinking. Model-based approaches try to build a world model that allows planning and forecasting.

If you're looking for utility in terms of understanding cognition, here are some resources if you're interested - pop-sci books written by cognitive scientists:

- https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-mind-within-the-...

- https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo362751...

Is the division true? Of course not - to paraphrase Box, all models are wrong. But some are useful. This one is useful.
by achierius | 2025-10-02 15:49:37+00:00
There's more to Nietzsche than "master and slave morality". I'm a big Nietzsche hater too but you're wrong to dismiss the rest of his work because of one part of it. He's incredibly influential in philosophy to this day, for good reason.

E.g. you can look into Deleuze's reading of his work, which focuses on the continuity from Spinoza and the analysis of ethics from a perspective of capabilities rather than obligations (as in the Kantian framing).

Or more directly, read about the idea of eternal recurrence, which I find to be an incredibly pro-, not anti-, human concept.
by bshul-silkline1 | 2025-10-02 15:50:36+00:00
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Show HN: Mdchat – Markdown-first terminal / CLI tool for LLM collaboration
by sarvesh21 | 2025-10-02 15:50:46+00:00
TL;DR mdchat lets you chat with LLMs directly with your Markdown files on your terminal. You can ask, edit, summarize, and generate inline without leaving your text workflow.

What is mdchat? mdchat is a cli tool that lets you collaborate with LLMs directly to write markdown files. You can issue prompts, generate content, edit, summarize — all inline, in your Markdown files via terminal sessions. The idea is to bring LLM interaction into your writing workflow!

Motivation: I write a bunch of markdown files for taking notes, summarizing bunch of notes that I have written, editing, etc and most of the time, I interact with ChatGPT to make it better~ since back and forth was getting to me a bit, I thought it would be great to have this!

Future Roadmap: 1. Conversation memory 2. Smarter API usage 3. Better reasoning for Markdown content 4.Context management across multiple files

Feedback and contributions are welcome!
by bigyabai | 2025-10-02 15:50:49+00:00
Funny thing is, we can assume that all the nasty stuff happens in China... but Apple is still a US company.

However Tim Cook kisses up to Trump in public is corollary to how he kisses ass in private. If Chinese iCloud servers had backdoored HSMs installed without anyone throwing a hissy-fit, imagine what kind of control the US Government has had for the past decade...
by simonw | 2025-10-02 15:51:11+00:00
Looks like you're reacting to the Hacker News title here, which is currently " Daniel Stenberg on 22 curl bugs found by AI and fixed"

That's an editorialized headline (so it may get fixed by dang and co) - if you click through to what Daniel Stenberg said he was more clear:

> Joshua Rogers sent us a massive list of potential issues in #curl that he found using his set of AI assisted tools.

AI-assisted tools seems right to me here.
by Aromasin | 2025-10-02 15:51:23+00:00
There's a guy in New Zealand I met who spent the last 30 years rewilding what was previously agriculture herding land. He said his biggest frustration with land owners wasn't the push back on what he was doing, but the ignorance as to what could be achieved. Every single person he spoke to told him explicitely if the land was left to go to nature, it would be nothing but gorse and it was a waste of good grazing land. The actual result was a return of native rain forest with levels of species diversity that were almost 60% of untouched rainforest, which is pretty incredibly in such a short amount of time.

This is the guy for context - it's a very interesting video that really highlights the impact that over-grazing has: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VZSJKbzyMc
by saghm | 2025-10-02 15:51:25+00:00
What's the alternative though? Creating new humans purely to be able to have them work and pay for stuff for other existing humans? That doesn't seem a bit dystopian for you?

The problem I have with this logic is that it seems to assume a binary of the population either staying at least as high as it is or massively reducing. The idea that there's no middle ground where the population goes down slowly rather than massively spiking all at once feels like it needs much more justification rather than just assuming it.
by listenfaster | 2025-10-02 15:51:30+00:00
Nice succinct read outlining something I think a lot of people are aware of, but don’t often describe. It’s my first time reading Indie Hacker, and I think there’s nice balance of quality, depth, and brevity that you’re trying to strike?

I recently watched a YouTube on cultural communication pathways, and there was a comparison of “engineered communication” being a top down approach, as opposed to a gardening approach to communication being a bottoms up approach; one being predictable with measurable outcomes, and the other being organic and unpredictable. In gardening we plant seeds, help them germinate, watch them grow. A lot of the articles on Indie hackers seem to be planting seeds, which I appreciate. I wish HN would see value in a range of articles, and not skew to preferring engineered rigid predictability. Pardon the overstatement but you get my drift.