MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Night_Thastus | 2025-10-16 21:25:22+00:00
I like HN generally, but there are a handful of things I wish it had:

* The ability to save comments, as well as posts

* Ideally a separate 'favorites' and 'read later' category

* Some kind of [tags] on posts, ideally something individuals can contribute to. It would be easy to add from an existing set of tags, adding a unique new tag would be harder and require maybe an older account or more 'points' or whatever.

* Maybe some kind of 'bump' system when linking to things that have already been posted? It feels a bit silly for there to be like 10 duplicates of a post from different time periods. But maybe that's better than the alternative, not sure.
by asdff | 2025-10-16 21:26:31+00:00
I don't get the rice cooker hype. Its so easy to make rice in the pot already. Cup of rice. Cup and a half of water. Pinch of salt. Bring to boil then set to simmer. Put lid on. 15 min timer. Perfect rice.

The way people talk about making rice online and having to seek out a rice cooker makes me wonder what they are even doing when they fail at making rice.
by evanelias | 2025-10-16 21:26:33+00:00
> > you tell people what software they should and shouldn't use

> There's no need to mischaracterize or reword what another user is saying.

You directly linked to a post by RMS which says things like "When you use proprietary programs or SaaSS, first of all you do wrong to yourself, because it gives some entity unjust power over you. For your own sake, you should escape." Among many other examples in that post, and countless other FSF posts, telling people not to use non-Free Software. This is not a mischaracterization.

Granted, these are RMS's statements, not yours. But I assumed that since you linked to that post and are espousing similar concepts, you are endorsing its contents and hold the same views. If that is not the case, my apologies. But perhaps you could clarify whether or not you think RMS is correct to tell people not to use non-Free software?

> if you consider yourself a fan of the FSL

I live in a free society and can be a fan of whatever license I want -- meaning, I can express free will in how I select what software I use, and how I license software that I create. That is freedom. I am not trying to dictate what software or licenses you use, because I respect your freedom to do the same.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-16 21:26:35+00:00
> Are you carrying your groceries to the coffee shop?

Obviously no. But where I lived ~20 years ago the nearest grocery was a 20 minute walk there and then 20 minute walk back with two or four shopping bags with stuff, and I wasn't the only one walking there when needing to do shopping.

I think it's more common than not out in the world that things are far away so you need to spend awful amount of time on just getting places. Unless you live in a city of course.
by estimator7292 | 2025-10-16 21:26:58+00:00
If your taxes are simple enough to fall under the 1040-ez as most Americans are, the IRS does know your exact tax responsibility. I have personally received a letter from the IRS informing me that I'd filed wrong, and gave me the actual correct values. Many Americans have.

Just because you personally disagree with something doesn't mean that it's a ridiculous lie.
by mickeymounds | 2025-10-16 21:27:05+00:00
Author here. you’re right to flag Switzerland. Our metric is hours of pay for a single new-lease renter, not hours actually worked. But 190 h for Switzerland still looks too high given official anchors.

Quick back-of-envelope with public data:

Typical pay: Median gross ≈ CHF 6,788/mo (FSO). OECD shows the net take-home for an average single worker is ~82% of gross; using actual hours worked ~1,529/yr ⇒ ~CHF 44 net/hour.

Starter basket (monthly): national rent avg ≈ CHF 1,451 (all dwellings; new leases in Zurich can be ~1,7–2,1k), utilities ~CHF 220, basic groceries ~CHF 500–700, Zurich monthly pass CHF 89. That totals roughly CHF 2.3–2.9k.

Hours of pay needed = basket ÷ net hourly ≈ 50–70 h, not ~190 h. (E.g., CHF 2,600 ÷ CHF 44 ≈ 59 h.)

Using a flat 2,080 h/year to derive hourly pay (instead of actual ~1,529) depresses hourly pay and pushes hours up, which likely inflated our Switzerland row.

Mixing capital-city pricing with national wages can also bias upward.

We’ll correct the Switzerland entry and add a footnote showing the actual-hours denominator we used. Appreciate the nudge.
by CyberDildonics | 2025-10-16 21:27:22+00:00
I think you're confusing a few things.

First, upscaling with a filter kernel (weighted average) doesn't make as much sense because you aren't weighting multiple pixels to make a single pixel, you are interpolating, so "upscaling with a triangle filter" isn't something practical.

Second, lots of signal processing things that can be technically applied to pixels on a row by row basis don't work well visually and don't make a lot of sense when trying to get useful results. This is why things like a fourier transform is not the backbone of image processing.

Polyphase filtering doesn't make any sense here, you have access to all the data verbatim, and you want to use it all when you upscale or downsample. There is no compression and no analog signal that needs to be sampled.

Third, any filter kernel is going to use the pixels under it's width/support. Using 'too many pixels' isn't something that makes sense and isn't the problem. How they are weighted when scaling an image down is what makes sense. If you want a sharper filter you can always use one. What I actually said was that linear interpolating samples to downsample an image doesn't make sense and is like using a triangle filter or half of a triangle filter.

This all seems to be work arounds for what people probably actually want if they are trying to get some sharpness, which is something like a bilateral filter, that weights similiar pixels more. This
by Onavo | 2025-10-16 21:27:31+00:00
Why? There's nothing particularly special about this problem. I would bet a year for an alpha version, and production version in 5 years. We are not exactly limited by mechanical engineering here, there's nothing particularly unique about the human hand that can't be replicated. Tele operated surgical robotics have been a thing for decades. Give it a few months for the multimodal robotic VLM/LAMs to catch up. In many ways this particular problem is a lot more well defined than e.g. self driving cars.
by rufius | 2025-10-16 21:28:09+00:00
I think it does for a substantial portion, especially those with more traditionally aligned values. We know families, through our extended social groups, that would cringe at the Skibidi Toilet stuff.

I'm not sure why? At least some part of it, I suspect, is related to the "outrage economy". That is, outrage that can drive social media engagement. You don't do it because you're, in good faith, bothered by it. You do it because you can raise a stink and rally others to engage and make yourself popular.

That last bit is just a theory of mine. It seems anecdotally supported though from my own observation, but I am not a sociologist so I'm not going to claim any expertise here.
by dawnofdusk | 2025-10-16 21:28:33+00:00
>Mathematicians are prone to taking words from elsewhere, either twisting their meaning or inventing wholly new meaning out of thin air, all according to their whimsy for their own particular needs.

True but one benefit of those guys is that they actually define what they mean in a formal way. "Programmers" generally don't. There is in fact some benefit in having consistent names for things, or if not at least a culture in which concepts have unambiguous definitions which are mandated.
by benzible | 2025-10-16 21:29:40+00:00
"Building a business is a great qualification for any management position."

So the guy who owns a bunch of McDonald's franchises is qualified to manage a team of surgeons? Someone who built a successful plumbing business should run a law firm? This is such obvious nonsense it's hardly worth taking seriously.

Management positions require domain expertise. The editor-in-chief of CBS News needs to understand journalism - how to evaluate sources, verify facts, assess editorial judgment, manage reporters. Weiss has none of that. She's an opinion writer, and the Free Press is mostly opinion with a sprinkling of notably shoddy opinion-driven pseudo-journalism.

And her "business" - which again, sold for 10x revenue in what was clearly an ideological acquisition - has produced work like the Gaza starvation piece that has been thoroughly debunked, most recently by Drop Site [1]. The FP never contacted any of the families. When Drop Site actually did the reporting and spoke to the families, they found the opposite of what Weiss claimed - these children were starving due to the blockade, and their pre-existing conditions made them more vulnerable to malnutrition, not less.

That's not "ground truth" journalism. That's lazy Google searches used to push an ideological narrative while calling it reporting. And now she's running CBS News - including 60 Minutes, the #1 news program in the country.

When the talent heads for the exits and ratings tank, will you concede Weiss was actually destructive to the organization? Or will you celebrate because you're on board with her ideological project regardless of the journalistic outcome?

[1] https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/bari-weiss-free-press-incompl...
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-16 21:29:52+00:00
> When a post is down-voted or flagged, a self-cleaning procedure is triggered by other users, so quality posts and comments tend to float to the top.

The first part is correct, the second part is correct in theory, but any place that has "upvotes" (like HN or reddit) ends up with the community putting straight up incorrect stuff as the "top comment".

So while "far up in the comment thread" can signal quality, accuracy and truth, you'd be mistaken to automatically assume so. HN is, after all, just another community on the website filled with humans who can be wrong.
by vader1 | 2025-10-16 21:29:53+00:00
> This is because app stores do a lot of heavy lifting to provide security for the app ecosystem. Specifically, they provide integrity, ensuring that apps being delivered are not tampered with, consistency, ensuring all users get the same app, and transparency, ensuring that the record of versions of an app is truthful and publicly visible.

The Google Play Store does none of this, lol. All apps created since 2021 have to make use of Google Play App Signing, which means Google holds the keys used to sign the app. They leverage this to include stuff like their Play Integrity in the builds that are served. The Android App Bundle format means that completely different versions of the app are delivered depending on the type of device, locale, etc. There is 0 transparency about this for the end-user.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-16 21:30:01+00:00
Sorry, I'm confused. I think it's totally reasonable to expect the customer to pick-up the food from the Waymo by walking to it. I feel that's what you were responding to, but I'm interested in the dynamic between the restaurant and the vehicle.

It just doesn't seem like it's guaranteed that the Waymo will even have parking availability adjacent to the restaurant. It seems wholly unreasonable to expect a restaurant employee to walk an order down a block to put it in a vehicle. Imagine it's rush hour, you've got a line of customers out the door, and one of your employees is constantly having to stop working the line to shuttle orders. You'd likely have to staff with that in mind in order to support that dynamic. The current model is one where dashers wait in the restaurant and grab the bag from the "to go" counter. It would seem like the restaurant's expectation would be for that model to continue with the introduction of Waymos.

What am I missing?
by ricksunny | 2025-10-16 21:30:13+00:00
I wrote a piece on this in 2017 - (hadn't even been familiar with NERVA at that point, only having had a passing awareness of Orion). It was very much inspired by a Kerbal Space Program-inspired graphic.

https://walkabout165.blogspot.com/2017/07/freely-zipping-aro...

Glad to see that nuclear thermal propulsion is getting attention, and there's buzz of more nuclear-propelled technologies on the horizon.

I'll probably convert it into a substack and link here.
by Flamingoat | 2025-10-16 21:30:18+00:00
Yes. I am sure it did contribute, but they are overstating the effect of the banner. I honestly think Win 7 being a good OS and the Intel Macs actually being good is what led to nibbling away of legacy IE.

As an aside. IE7 was IMO worse in some ways the IE6. It had many of the same rendering bugs but was more subtle in how it failed.
by gxs | 2025-10-16 21:30:28+00:00
no one actually prefers it, its just the default for ios users and what everyone uses in the US

this means that i either use ios or i have to be "that guy" always asking everyone to send something in a different format or to please move the conversation to some other app - no one wants to be that guy - apple's got us right where they want us

and to be honest, when texting other people, it makes a huge difference, believe it or not, if your chat bubbles on their screen are blue vs green. it shouldn't matter - people who would care about this aren't people you would want to talk to anyway blah blah - that's all fun and great but it does matter, unfortunately
by mickeymounds | 2025-10-16 21:30:41+00:00
Turkey topping the “fewest hours” list doesn’t mean “everything is great”; it just means that for a single renter the price of a minimal basket divided by typical local net hourly pay is low in time terms. We’re measuring affordability in hours, not product quality.

Quality: Out of scope here. The basket is priced to minimal staples (rent, basic utilities, staple groceries, local transit). We’ll add a “quality bands” sensitivity so readers can see how hours move if you upgrade items.

Big-Mac Index: That’s a tradables proxy and food-only. Our hours include rent + utilities, which usually dominate time cost. Also, you used minimum wage; we use typical/median net hourly pay—minimum-wage calculations will overstate hours vs our method.

Your math note: €540 ÷ €12.82 ≈ 42 hours, but again, that’s food-only and gross wage, so it isn’t comparable to our basket or denominator.

Happy to post Turkey’s component line-items (rent/utilities/food/transit) and the sources in the article for auditability.
by asdff | 2025-10-16 21:30:57+00:00
Explain to me how socal works then. For $12 you can get a massive burrito. A plate of excellent tacos. A decent amount of sushi. All sorts of sandwiches. Pupusa. Kebab. Salads. Ramen. Bahn mi. All from local businesses making real food made to order in maybe 10 mins.

And yet, mcdonalds still does tidy business in this environment despite everyone saying mcdonalds is more expensive than ever.

Explain to me how that doesn't reflect widespread individual failure? Why does mcdonalds even exist in this market where you can eat amazing food from around the world in about the same time for about the same price? It isn't like these people are devoid of choice or limited by price. They are actively choosing mcdonalds over other options that are objectively better. I mean its like smoking cigarettes still despite all the information out there.
by fluoridation | 2025-10-16 21:30:58+00:00
>that ARM could do just about anything to the poor 486 without it ever being the wiser.

Any device with DMA has that same issue, though. You could plug in a hard drive that takes control of the CPU by writing new instructions when certain conditions are met. Even if it doesn't have DMA, it could fulfill a request with crafted data. You can't defend against an adversary in your own machine.
by outlore | 2025-10-16 21:31:25+00:00
I'm struggling to see how this is different from prepackaged prompts. Simon's article talks about skill metadata being used by the model to look up the full prompt as a way to save on context usage. That is analogous to the model calling --help when it needs to use a CLI tool without needing to load up the full man pages ahead of time.

But couldn't an MCP server expose a "help" tool?
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-16 21:31:26+00:00
> * Maybe some kind of 'bump' system when linking to things that have already been posted? It feels a bit silly for there to be like 10 duplicates of a post from different time periods. But maybe that's better than the alternative, not sure.

I kind of enjoy it. Some posts have become like a yearly/bi-yearly occurrence, and if I enjoyed the discussions the previous times, I'll most likely enjoy the discussions this time too.

As long as it's not the same stuff every day, I'm fine with things being re-posted once a year or so, long enough for me to forget I read the previous one.
by rufus_foreman | 2025-10-16 21:31:29+00:00
>> The media releases one of the biggest ever leaks, completely embarrassing the government

The Pentagon Papers covered the period from 1945 to 1968. Nixon took office in 1969. If the leaks were embarrassing, they were particularly embarrassing to the JFK/LBJ administrations. Nixon initially didn't intent to do anything about the leak. Henry Kissinger convinced him that allowing the leaking of classified documents in the press would set a bad example:

"President Nixon’s reaction that Sunday morning was that the damage fell mostly on the Johnson Administration and that he should leave it alone. That afternoon, however, security advisor Kissinger convinced Nixon that he had to act on “this wholesale theft and unauthorized disclosure.”

“The massive hemorrhage of state secrets was bound to raise doubts about our reliability in the minds of other governments, friend or foe, and indeed about the stability of our political system,” Kissinger said in his memoirs.

Once energized, Nixon soon became obsessed. Dissatisfied with the FBI’s progress in the case, he organized his own group of investigators in the White House. They styled themselves “the plumbers” because their job was to stop leaks."

-- https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0207pentagon/

If Nixon had ignored Kissinger that day, he would probably close to the top of the typical lists of greatest US Presidents rather than close to the bottom.
by nialv7 | 2025-10-16 21:31:46+00:00
> Looking at the rust rfc for the lightweight clones feature

while the Use trait (a better name is proposed [1]) is useful, but I don't see how the .use syntax adds any value over .clone()? If the compiler is able to perform those optimizations, it can also lint and ask the user to remove the unnecessary .clone()/change x.clone() to &x. IMO this is better than the compiler doing black magic.

[1]: https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/10/07/the...
by mickeymounds | 2025-10-16 21:31:52+00:00
Totally fair—here are the data and components:

Basket (single renter, new lease): 1-BR market rent, basic utilities, staple groceries (~2.1–2.4k kcal/day), local monthly transit.

Formula: hours = monthly basket price ÷ typical net hourly pay.

Sources: Prices via World Bank ICP 2021 component parities (plus local operator fares for transit, tariffs for utilities, and rental medians/listings where available). Pay via OECD Taxing Wages (net) for OECD countries; ILOSTAT gross series as a clearly-flagged proxy elsewhere.

Data files (with country rows you can check):

Global table: https://www.thepricer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/wtei_pu... OECD slice (net pay, full range): https://www.thepricer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/wtei_oe... Extended (gross-basis, non-comparable): https://www.thepricer.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/wtei_ex...

I’ll add a small component breakdown table under the chart (rent/utilities/food/transit per country) so you can see exactly what influences the hours. If you have a better official rent/utilities series for a specific country, link it and I’ll rerun that row and note the change.
by byearthithatius | 2025-10-16 21:32:20+00:00
Think about how fast progress is being made now. When I was a kid in the early 2000s we would see some basic robot progress on movements (almost always from Boston Dynamics or sometimes China) and we thought it was incredible. Robot dogs running was amazing and five or so years later a backflip blew our minds. Those robots were specially designed and didn't look humanoid. Now we have bi-pedal humanoid robots and they walk and move fairly capably - even able to get up after falls. Now within the last year I have seen them learn Kung Fu, become really fast at getting up, become resistant to being knocked down by quite a lot of force, and now even doing tasks like those shown here.

Just imagine 2050 if the progress continues at this rate. I am both excited and really scared.
by pdonis | 2025-10-16 21:33:01+00:00
> that would incentivize sitting on money

No, it would incentivize investing, since if you just leave money sitting under a mattress, it loses buying power over time because of inflation.

> the economy works better when people spend money

The economy works better when people create wealth through cooperation, specialization, and trade. Taxing production reduces the incentive for people to do that.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-10-16 21:34:19+00:00
These CF website relaunches are just that right? Workers last week (https://workers.cloudflare.com) and now this one yesterday. I mean, if CF has something newsworthy here they should do a blog post announcing it because otherwise it's just a refreshed website. It's hard to tell if there's anything new here.

It's the same SDK stuff from earlier this year right? https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/2025-06-24-annou...
by jyounker | 2025-10-16 21:34:23+00:00
JetBrains language plugins don't really map well onto VSCode's idea of a language server.

The first thing you do in a JetBrains language is to write a lexer and parser for the target language. Your parser produces a syntax tree containing enough information to reconstruct the original document, and the IDE then operates on this semi-abstract syntax tree. When the IDE saves a file, it re-generates the contents from the semi-AST.

JetBrain's products are best understood as a refactoring engine (their original product) skinned with an editor.
by cyberax | 2025-10-16 21:34:38+00:00
Their devices get steadily worse. Kindle Oasis was the best device ever. It also had cellular connectivity so you could read it on a train, then put it in the backpack and switch to listening to the same book on your phone.

All seamlessly, because Kindle used the cellular network for reading progress. Really a magical experience.

Then they removed cellular and _buttons_ from the devices. And now their app is actively crashing on my Kindle when I try to use it to buy a book.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-16 21:34:52+00:00
Can you point me to some of those comments?

I genuinely haven't seen them.

I see many people insisting it didn't work when they tried it for some little thing, therefore it's broken and useless. And a few people saying, actually it works really well if you're willing to learn how to use it.

I'm not sure I've ever seen someone here saying it hasn't worked but they're open to learning how to use it right. It's definitely not common.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-16 21:34:53+00:00
What profession do you have that made you a Luddite based on the current state of LLMs and AI?

I'm an artist, programmer and musician, and is no closer to being a Luddite today than five years ago, not sure why others would either. Anti-capitalist or Anti-fascist I'd understand, considering the state of the world and the current direction.
by nxor | 2025-10-16 21:35:11+00:00
Definitely. Are you in the US? Here in the suburbs things are just awful. Massive houses with 1 to 2 people, massive yards, many suburbanites grow no plants at all. It's very different from both rural neighborhoods and urban neighborhoods. But suburbanites tend to like it, and recent urban sprawl decisions in my area have been approved despite voices against them. And again to your question, people aren't happy with commutes now ... to get _anywhere_ in American suburbs you have to drive constantly. It's a draining way of life, that I can't even begin to describe well.