MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yawpitch | 2025-10-26 14:17:58+00:00
You know, there was a time I’d have agreed with this, but yesterday at nearly 51 I walked up the emergency stairs of the UK’s 2nd tallest building 5 times, passing people well under half my age each time… never could have done that when I was physically young.

If you don’t completely destroy the joints, heart, kidney, liver, and lungs when your mind is young and stupid the much wiser and (hopefully) smarter mind you’ll earn can push the slightly more knackered bits further and faster then you’d earlier have thought you could go.
by mpweiher | 2025-10-26 14:18:25+00:00
Incorrect.

It was always a public/nationalized company. It started 100% owned by the government. In the 2000s, around 15% were sold to pension funds, so way over 80% in the hands of the state, which by EU rules (and common sense) makes it a state company.

The floating shares were bought back in order to facilitate the nuclear expansion plans.

The losses in 2022 were largely due to the energy crisis because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which interacted rather nastily with the French ARENH program that requires EDF to sell 25% of its power output for 4 cents/kWh, no matter what the market rates. And no matter if it needs that power itself.

When the energy crunch hit in 2022, wholesale electricity rates rose up to €1 / kWh. So EDF had to sell its electricity for 4 cents, then buy it back at 25x markup for €1.

Oh, and the government actually increased the ARENH quotas to more than 25%, because it used EDF to subsidize consumer/industry energy prices, something that was done by the states directly in other countries.

The problems with a part of the fleet, largely due to deferred maintenance during COVID, also didn't help.
by forgetfulness | 2025-10-26 14:19:01+00:00
AGPL and non-compete licenses like SSPL and FSL have been steadily adopted —Redis, ElasticSearch and Liquibase notably switched to them—, pretty much motivated by not wanting to be screwed over by Big Tech one way or another.

More than fine if you ask me, giving away your work for megacorps and oligarchs to steamroll your business or otherwise society at large isn’t much of a public service in the end
by xtiansimon | 2025-10-26 14:21:11+00:00
2/3 of the piece rambles across various notions of conspicuous consumption (or lack there of) from Medieval society to descriptions of the family in Peter Pan (Bang-a-rang) or Jane Austin. Only then arriving at activism. Why not just take it as wrote, we get it, and get to the leap of logic that activism replaces handbags?
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-26 14:21:26+00:00
It's not Fort Knox, mainly because I refuse to take much information from users, so even if baddies get in, they won't get much they can use.

Admins can't log into the frontend (as admins), so hackers can't deduce power user logins from this, or escalate privileges.

That's kind of blasphemy, with the HN crowd, I know, but we aren't interested in selling anything. It's a pure service.

I won't limit retries, because locking users is about as bad as you can get, with userabusability. I just make sure that the fox ain't worth the chase, and make the chase just a bit more difficult, so hackers will waste their time on low-hanging fruit (that tastes pretty bad).
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-10-26 14:21:38+00:00
It's not "so easy to use without understanding it", it's the opposite it has so much unnecessary complexity (on top of a brilliant simple idea btw), that once people learn how to do what they need, they stop trying to learn any more from the pile of weirdness that is git.

Decades from now, git will be looked back at in a similar but worse version of the way SQL often is -- a terrible interface over a wonderful idea.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-10-26 14:21:43+00:00
> It doesn't include pull requests, when cloning from github, though.

Because GitHub pull requests are a proprietary, centralized, cloud-dependent reimplementation of `git request-pull`.

How the "free software" world slid head first into a proprietary cloud-based "open source" world still boils my blood. Congrats, Microsoft loves and owns it all, isn't that what what we always wanted?
by lexicality | 2025-10-26 14:22:18+00:00
Yeah, a bunch of people started going on witch hunts against the people where were obviously using AI (eg ~30 second solve times) and also anyone who had "AI" anywhere in their bio.

IMO the levels it got to was wildly out of proportion, even if these people were cheating (say what you will about AI, but if the rules say not to use it and you do: you're a cheater) but maybe I would have felt differently if the timezones meant I could take part, rather than waking up to drama.
by Taikonerd | 2025-10-26 14:23:00+00:00
I'm not the OP, but the reason I started using D2 as opposed to Mermaid is that D2 supports animations: https://d2lang.com/tour/composition/

In other words, you can have one D2 file that generates `step1.png,` `step2.png`, and `step3.png`. Useful for PowerPoint presentations!
by Libidinalecon | 2025-10-26 14:23:13+00:00
Most business tasks are not low skilled language tasks that are so easy to automate. I am helping rebuild a business right now that has a call center and LLMs are basically useless for us.

It is actually kind of shocking how I can go home and learn about quantum computing from LLMs but find them useless for simple business processes. This though I think exemplifies the entire mistake of the bubble. Most business processes don't benefit at all from understanding the Hamiltonian of a system. Most business processes are simple tasks that are the end result of previous automation. In practice, most business processes in 2025 are simple processes done by a human who can deal with the random uncertainty and distribution shift that inevitably comes up. Exactly what a language isn't good but it is even beyond that. So much of what a customer service agent for example is doing is dealing with uncertainty and externality. There is the process that LLMs aren't good anyway but then there is the human judgement on when to disregard the process because of various externalities. The trivial business processes LLMs would be good at automating have already been automated years ago or the business went out of business years ago. AGI would in theory be amazing at all this too but we don't have AGI. We have language models that have a very limited use case beyond an interactive version of Wikipedia. I love the interactive version of Wikipedia but it is not worth trillions of dollars.
by skx001 | 2025-10-26 14:23:41+00:00
> As the saying goes, there will be friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime. Friendships will run their natural course. That being said, do your best to maintain friendships you want to try to keep as you get older.

I am at point right now where this statement definitely rings true. My generation as a whole is struggling with friendships.
by pwython | 2025-10-26 14:24:05+00:00
Valid question, as they already have a partnership with OpenAI to use ChatGPT in Siri. I personally use GPT for illustrations and Nano Banana for photo edits (Midjourney for realistic photos).

As an aside, perhaps they're using GPT/Codex for coding. Did anyone else notice the use of emojis and → in their code?
by asaws | 2025-10-26 14:24:31+00:00
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by mbork_pl | 2025-10-26 14:25:19+00:00
Staging is immensely useful in more than one case.

Case one: WiP on a branch, code is pretty stable, but I want to do some experiments which will likely be deleted. I stage everything and then make (unstaged) changes which I can then undo with two keystrokes.

Case two: I'm reviewing a complex PR, so I first merge it with --no-commit, then unstage everything and then stage chunks (or even individual lines) I have already reviewed.

Case three: I was coding in the state of flow and now I have a lot of changes I want to commit, but I want to separate them into several atomic commits. I stage the first batch of changes, commit, then stage another, commit, etc.

There are probably more, but these three alone are worth having the staging area.
by mycodendral | 2025-10-26 14:25:55+00:00
It’s unreasonable to assume the FBI is doing anything but investigating crime without evidence. The man was voluntarily interviewed because his name came up in an investigation. Most interviewees are leads, not suspects. People are mistaking routine inquiries for persecution. Saying “we’re investigating the protest” is like saying “we’re investigating the football game.” It refers to related incidents, not the activity itself.
by jonhohle | 2025-10-26 14:27:09+00:00
Instead of excluding non-public directories, I like to make an explicit `public` directory (or `doc`, `doc-root`, whatever you want to call it). Then configure your server to point to that subdirectory and don’t worry about the repo.

I usually throw `etc` and `log` directories at the top level as well and out my server config in etc, and have a gitignite rule to ignore everything in logs, but it’s there and ready for painless deployment.

Since the web root is already a sub directory, more sensitive things can go into the same repo without worrying about exposing them.
by prmph | 2025-10-26 14:27:13+00:00
The more I use git, the more I discover more depth to it.

So many features and concepts; it's easy to think you understand the basics, but you need to dig deep into it's origin and rationale to begin to grasp the way of thinking it is built around.

And the API surface area is much larger than one would think, like an iceberg

So I find it really weirdly low level in a way. Probably what is needed is is a higher-level CLI to use it in the most sensible, default way, because certainly the mental model most people use it with is inadequate.
by herdcall | 2025-10-26 14:27:14+00:00
Articles like this keep popping up because they're catnip to those who hate AI or feel threatened by it. On coding, I routinely see people trashing vibe coding and jumping on the slightest mistake agents may make, never mind that human devs screw up all the time. And write-ups citing stats on AI coding tend to be written by folks who either don't code for a living or never earnestly tried it.

I use Claude Code regularly at work and can tell it is absolutely fantastic and getting better. You obviously need to guide it well (use plan mode first) and point to hand coded stuff to follow, and it will save you enormous amount of time and effort. Please don't put off trying AI coding out after reading misinformed articles like this.
Show HN: RightMindMath and Arithmetic Fluency
by ruralfam | 2025-10-26 14:27:33+00:00
---TL;DR---

Free PWA for Arithmetic Fluency. Not Standard. Not Perfect. Vanity Project. Battle scarred author. Wife dislikes landing page. Kahneman (Tversky) affected development. Additional info: Daughters are great at math.

---Overview---

I am emboldened to post to ShowHN because of a recent (to me) study about "Arithmetic Fluency" (AF) by McNeil, Jordon, et. al. link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15291006241287726

RightMindMath.com (RMM) is a personal project built from an Adobe Air app I originally created solely for my daughters. It is a FOSS project, and I cannot (and have no intention to) monetize/scale it.

Since it uses the "Pages" feature of Github, cost to keep it going is mainly my domain reg/dns costs which are about $15/year.

If you click thru to RightMindMath.com and click on the back story, there is a little information about how RMM came to be. Not stated is how extreme the resistance to "fluency" or "memorization" from those in my school district really was. For a parent, it was --frankly-- scary. This was early stages of the Common Core (CC) rollout. CC is absolutely against any type of AF, memorization and/or old-style algorithmic approaches. CC was heavily promoted in our WA school district.

Now, however, it appears that building Arithmetic Fluency (AF) in young children may be good as per link above. It actually helps with "theory/understanding" which the the bedrock of CC. Hence this ShowHN post.

Some school districts in Western WA may be starting to recognize this, but it is gradual, and I think there is still extreme resistance. CC so heavily promotes theory and understanding there is little or no room for "fluency" notably re: school politics.

Interesting History: Way back in the day when it cost little to be an Apple App Store developer, and Apple allowed Acrobat Air compiles to be distributed RMM was pretty successful. With *absolutely zero* ad spend or promotion, RMM (different app name at the time) was downloaded about 1500 times. This was an 99.9 variance measured against other free/non-ad apps. So perhaps RMM is OK given this. You can judge for yourself cause it is a PWA and FREE.

More in my comment below.
by Taikonerd | 2025-10-26 14:27:39+00:00
Hi Alixander! I started using D2 just a couple months ago -- the first time I had to design a system at work. I'm really happy with it -- I was amazed how easy it was to pick up.

TBH, I don't think these fancy animations are necessary. If I want to call attention to a certain box or arrow in the diagram, I would rather turn it red than have anything moving.
by tuetuopay | 2025-10-26 14:27:50+00:00
I've done HDMI edge connectors like this using plain HASL without too much trouble. Just don't forget to remove all soldermask on the connector path, they'll dirty out quickly otherwise.

But, now I do ENIG everywhere because it's often the same price as lead-free HASL (or so close it does not matter), while looking way cooler. I've started to take quite seriously leaded stuff now, especially since low temperature lead-free solder exists (SAC305).
by atonse | 2025-10-26 14:27:53+00:00
Stuff like this (lets wring more money out of our existing stuff even if it erodes the customer experience) smacks of a culture that’s losing a spirit of innovation.

This is the kind of thing some jackass worked out in a spreadsheet and then decided the profit outweighs whatever customer backlash.

Stuff like this is a huge red flag for the future direction of Apple.
by QuiEgo | 2025-10-26 14:27:59+00:00
If you're curious go walk through the bootloaders of an embedded platform, they serve roughly the same role as firmware that implements UEFI on traditional x86 systems.

Example, start with bl1 (first stage boot loader) for a Rasberry Pi here:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/arm-trusted-firmware

The Pi's hardware (register map, etc) is well documented so it's a good way to learn this stuff.
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by tetris11 | 2025-10-26 14:28:27+00:00
To quote an earlier comment of mine

> Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice series.

> Culture, gender identity, hive mind, all rolled up into one extremely dense universe with a rich history told through warfare and cutting remarks, humanising potentially inhuman central characters with a vague number of limbs.

> It takes ten pages to get used to the dense yet clipped writing style, but once it clicks, you cannot put the book(s) down: the plot moves forward at breakneck speed.
by mnky9800n | 2025-10-26 14:28:29+00:00
I suppose another way to think about this is it is a new industrial complex. The military industrial complex, which Eisenhower warned about, created an enclosed economy of defense contractors propped up by fear of communism (and now terrorism) and therefore is obligated to state subsidy. The same is now being done with AI, we must fund AI because of fear of what others might do with AI, therefore we must offer it state subsidy.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-26 14:29:26+00:00
> If I lose screen space to ads in my native Apple apps then I’m out.

The article says "The project will apparently give restaurants and other businesses the option to pay to have their details featured more prominently in search."

It doesn't sound like it will affect screen space of the map view in any way.

And software needs to make money. Their map data is hugely expensive to purchase and produce -- Maps isn't just a little app like Notes, it costs $$$$$ to develop and keep current. Apple isn't a charity. If you're out, who are you going to switch to? Are there OSM apps that are free without ads with the same level of functionality?
by fsflover | 2025-10-26 14:29:49+00:00
This has been going for a while:

Apple Further Expanding into Ads, Now Directly Selling Ads in News App (macrumors.com)

4 points by ksec 11 months ago | 1 comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299433

Apple's collection of user data hard to stop says report (appleinsider.com)'

44 points by janandonly on April 11, 2024 1 comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40006508
by Aurornis | 2025-10-26 14:29:52+00:00
> Close to 18. I had my first child when I was 27 and I was already very tired in the nights, we agreed with wife that it would have been better to start earlier

I have some extended family who had some unexpected kids around that 18 age and I firmly disagree that it’s better. We had so many more advantages by having kids when older, from better emotional regulation to better time management practices.

I had kids when older than you. Although some of the early years being up late weren’t easy, it also wasn’t devastatingly tiresome. My wife and I split duties and staggered our schedules.

The low sleep years were also over very quickly. It’s not like you’re up all night with kids until they’re 10 years old. Optimizing the entirety of raising kids based on being as young as possible to stay up late during the first year of life isn’t a good idea, IMO. You have to look at the big picture.

I’m sorry you’re struggling and I don’t mean to downplay your personal struggles, but at the same time I have to agree with other comments that are puzzled at someone in their 20s being so crushingly tired when parents in their 30s routinely handle child raising. If you have some unmentioned condition then I don’t mean to belittle that, but I don’t want others reading these comments to assume your description is typical.
by ben_w | 2025-10-26 14:30:18+00:00
Some people in power will tell you they welcome and encourage critical feedback. They won't really, but they're nevertheless better to work for than the opposite.

Every government is bad at it, it's just to varying degrees.

Be willing and able to move country will open opportunities; learn one second language to business level that will enable more opportunities.

The Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness is real and important; have a lifestyle such that you build up a savings pile sufficient that you can afford to spend less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
by jrm4 | 2025-10-26 14:30:24+00:00
Cannot emphasize this whole notion enough; Very roughly, Github is to git what gmail is to email.

It's mostly probably fine if that's the thing most of everybody wants to use and it works well; but also it's very unwise to forget that the point was NEVER to have a deeply centralized thing -- and that idea is BUILT into the very structure of all of it.
by latexr | 2025-10-26 14:30:32+00:00
So first they didn’t do it because of the maintenance burden, and now it’s because the feature sucks and shouldn’t exist. If you’re going to keep ignoring my points and making up new things while moving the goalposts, I don’t see the point in having a discussion.

I’ll say it again:

> Plugging your ears and coming up with excuses doesn’t move the needle. Accept it or don’t, it makes no difference.
ASK HN: How to Make Connections?
by Tanishmittal | 2025-10-26 14:31:34+00:00
Hi, I am trying everything possible to create a genuine connection, but I'm unable to. I post on social media, Reddit, message on YC, and more. But still not able to make. Like Most of the people never respond. What should I do? I am making my startup in finance, so I need connections in order to do things further.

Thank You.
by hn8726 | 2025-10-26 14:31:51+00:00
Otoh if, as a human, you use a known (even leaked on the website) password to "bypass the security" in order to "gain access to content you're not authorized to see", I think you'd get in trouble. I'd like if the same logic aplied to bots - implement basic (albeit weak) security and only allow access to humans. This way bots have to _hack you_ to read the content
by jasonlotito | 2025-10-26 14:32:59+00:00
Apple has been including ads in it's products for years now. I'm not even talking about App store ads, but ads in the OS by default. This should not be a surprise to anyone.

Let me be clear: ads for Apple products and non Apple products have existed as a part of the default user experience in Apple products. Whether you noticed or not is merely whether you paid attention.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-10-26 14:33:05+00:00
I don't think that's true. In my experience it takes time, but once it clicks, it clicks. Sure, there is a bunch of weirdness in there as well, but that starts way further than where your typical git user stops.

I don't think git would end up this popular if it didn't allow to be used in a basic way by just memorizing a few commands without having to understand its repository model (however simple) well.
by ajkjk | 2025-10-26 14:33:05+00:00
I don't really care if someone uses AI for something that it's useful for. But that's not why random bullshit websites are doing it. They're trying to get you use it for some other reason--either a (likely false) hypothesis that "AI feature users = more engaged = more likely to pay" or "AI feature users = an audience that's set up to be advertised to = investors are happy to hear about this" or something.

That, or the <18 and >50 users are all addicted to the AI mode and I have no idea because I'm not in either of those buckets, or something. But it's still disrespectful, even if some people are clicking on it.
by jerf | 2025-10-26 14:33:46+00:00
It's four stories in the complete set: https://a.co/d/gEdBkYR

Wright also has an extended paen to the mentioned Voyage to Arcturus: https://a.co/d/hubUM05 which neither I, nor the author, recommend unless you have read and deeply love Voyage to Arcturus, but I mention it because the overlap reading this list was quite uncanny. That is a very, very specific point of overlap.

Should the original author ever read this thread I highly recommend Wright to them because of the overlap.