MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simpaticoder | 2025-10-12 19:15:41+00:00
The experiment has only been run once, and it was mostly a white, Christian project. Payne's personal values doesn't change the facts of the experiment. If we could go back in time and witness the invention of the Enlightenment, political Liberalism, and Industrialization for other (race, religion) pairs, I'd love to do it. Maybe we can, as a proxy, look across the world at how different (race, religion) pairs have adopted liberal values to see if there are any patterns.
by jatins | 2025-10-12 19:15:43+00:00
Not a diss but even after spending O(months) do you think it's as good as what you get with Pycharm + IdeaVIM out of the box?

Of course, there are other reasons to build your own configuration but I found purely from "IDE as means to an end" perspective getting into Neovim rabbit hole is a bit of waste of a time
by kccqzy | 2025-10-12 19:15:47+00:00
I did that for many years before buying a bike computer. If the number of turns isn't large, I memorize all the turns in advance. I finally gave up when I took part in an organized ride with hundreds of turns with no markings on the road.

I still like to memorize the route these days. When I do that, I mostly don't use the map feature of the bike computer: I look at my speed, cadence, and heart rate.
by dsign | 2025-10-12 19:16:08+00:00
This seems like a good time for musicians to start doing their own distribution. Not sure about the technical aspect; but I guess it's still possible to sell albums in iTunes? Or some other app?

The problem with Spotify, Apple Music's streaming and YouTube music's algorithm is that it wants you to keep listening and it will feed you whatever it guesses you will like. Which means they will feed listeners AI-generated slop if they can get away with it. So I guess it's time for independent musicians who can prove their humanity to just put a damn ad for their music in front of potential listeners and try the direct sales routes. Mind-you, a non-AI generated ad, created by actual human filmmakers with AI-free tools and workflows.

Of course, there may be a second problem, and that's the youth who can enjoy happy music are broke. Middle-agers are too busy caring for kids and for the elderly, and thus naturally depressed and running in coping mechanisms, and that's before coming to our ossified musical tastes. And anybody older than that must use their running-out time wisely and only shop for funerary tunes. Woe if the arts should depend on our patronage.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-10-12 19:16:21+00:00
I think that "serious" is not the right word here. But rather, saying "it's like a toy" is not constructive. When someone says "it looks like a toy" that tells me nothing about what they don't like about it. Saying "I don't like the rounded corners and wasted space" is something concrete you can have a discussion about, so it's better to use that kind of phrasing.
by senderista | 2025-10-12 19:16:29+00:00
To be clear, LSA[1] is simply applied linear algebra, not ML. I'm sure learned embeddings outperform the simple SVD[2] used in LSA.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_analysis

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_value_decomposition
by toast0 | 2025-10-12 19:16:32+00:00
The issue is the import phones I want to buy don't suppprt those bands. An example phone I might want (Xperia 10 IV) supports 12 bands for LTE, my carrier (US T-Mobile) supports 6, but the intersection is only 2 bands (the old GSM bands) and I know my carrier doesn't always have coverage on those bands. I've got enough dead zones without throwing out 4 bands.
by lm28469 | 2025-10-12 19:17:04+00:00
I was going to comment something in the same vein.

What even is the point anymore? They want flesh and blood robots to feed the algorithm overlords. They don't even seem to realise they're basically killing their profession/passion in doing so, although I doubt any writer with an ounce of self respect, passion and skill would perceive llms as anything other than repulsive monstrosities
by nemo44x | 2025-10-12 19:17:35+00:00
Sometimes they’re right. Lab leak people dismissed by experts for example.

I guess there’s a spectrum of fringe ideas. Some are ridiculous, true. Trolls. But they have no power of policy - flat earthers for example are harmless.

The more dangerous threat are people with consensus based on political power who appeal to authority, like bad science by “experts”, to silence criticism or challenges.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-12 19:18:07+00:00
> For Wireguard, there isn’t a reliable always-open UDP port. Port 123 or 53 could work sometimes, but it’s not as guaranteed.

Couldn't you pipe it through something like udp2raw in those few cases? Probably performance would be worse/terrible, but then you say it's on hotel network so those tend to be terrible anyways.
by akerl_ | 2025-10-12 19:18:40+00:00
Sure. I’m not going to nitpick exactly how long or how severely something has been rendered inoperable. If somebody wants to refer to their phone as a brick because they’re camping and forgot the charger, that doesn’t bother me.

I’m just pushing back on the idea that “bricked” is some random word with no meaning whatsoever.
by McGlockenshire | 2025-10-12 19:18:44+00:00
> made a political comment someone didn't like

It should be noted that this specific framing ("it's just a disagreement," "someone didn't like it," "it's nothing big") is used by the people that, instead, like the "comment." It's an extremely common pattern. So is one of the words he uses later, "histrionics."

The comment in question is an ethnonationalist blog post. Not a comment somewhere, but an actual goddamn essay. But you don't have to take my word on it, you can read it yourself:

https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

You should also click through his archive for more, because this isn't really new for him, it's just taking it to a new low.

> by a small group of terminally online histrionics

Again, witness the minimization of the actual thing he said and the redirection to the critics. Why? It's the argument pattern they've adopted.

The term that the parent post would be looking for it actually "social shaming." You see, shame used to be an effective tool against bigotry. Not wanting to associate with bigots isn't histrionics. On the contrary, being OK with bigotry is bad, and wrong!
by brookst | 2025-10-12 19:19:21+00:00
> the theory that Liquid Glass is an attempt to distract customers from iOS 26’s lack of long-promised AI features

How can anyone write that with a straight face?

A design system like this takes at least a year, probably more like zero or three years. It’s not something you do at the last minute to “distract” from other feature teams’ failures.

I personally think Liquid Glass is promising but flawed, but there is zero chance Apple’s UX designers were given a brief “distract from the lack of AI progress”.

For all its flaws, it is very deeply thought out. This is not a rushed project on a whim.
by viraptor | 2025-10-12 19:19:30+00:00
> Sex is a consequence of genes expression

Ok, we're getting somewhere. Which genes? Specifically.

And does it mean you're proposing genetic testing before putting the sex on a document? What do you do about chimeras carrying different generics in different parts of the body? What about people with organs transplanted from other people? Which part of the body do we check? What does it mean for artificial changes in DNA, like crispr - would that qualify as changing sex? What about just blocking the specific gene expression?
by Terr_ | 2025-10-12 19:20:04+00:00
> treating your PC like a multi-user system that has an admin by default, etc.

I think I have the opposite orientation: In the past when family and friends needed help to install/rescue their machine (on Windows versions that supported it) I always ensured there was a separate "Manager" admin login and then made their main account "limited", albeit with UAC popups.

If nothing else, it made repeat visits much easier.
by dang | 2025-10-12 19:20:35+00:00
Would you please stop perpetuating flamewars and taking HN threads on generic tangents? You've been doing this a ton lately, it's not what this site is for, and the effects your posts have been having on the threads is regrettable.

Also, please stop crossing into name-calling and personal attack, as you did here. jeffwass shouldn't have referred to you as "a troll" but there's no question that your posts have been having trollish effects in the threads, and this is actually what matters (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

Here are another couple of recent examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45522090, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45522043. We need you to stop posting like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by SyneRyder | 2025-10-12 19:20:51+00:00
Similar issues here with software center. There are some updates that continue working fine, but I'll often have to drop to the command line and use apt to do the full system update... which is not very "elementaryOS-like", when you consider how much it focuses on usability and UI and making a system where users won't need the command line.

EDIT: Tried again today, and the specific error I get when trying to update via Software Center, which then prevents any further updating:

http:// archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 libsmbclient amd64 2:4.15.13+dfsg-0ubuntu1.8 is not (yet) available (404 Not Found)

I've mostly stayed on elementaryOS 7.x, which is actually the best Linux I've ever tried for my use case. It's the closest Linux to what I would like my computer to feel like, and for a while I was running it almost as a daily driver for about 50% of my work (with Windows / mac for the rest). But the elementaryOS 8.x series was far too buggy on my system, even the dock was unusable for too long (though apparently now resolved). Having to reinstall the OS with each major version is awkward too, even when I run my Linux installs off a USB stick for easy switching.
by leakycap | 2025-10-12 19:21:22+00:00
This is what is on the homepage as I post:

Shift Hosting - is this an ad?

Yaak – The API client fo.. - ... for what? the descriptions need to be longer

Domain Name Search: Find.. - is this an ad?

Call of Duty® | Best-Sel.. - why????

Figma: The Collaborative.. - again, way too short on the description... and is this really a quality site anyone would come to a directory like this for? feels like an ad

Inkscape - Draw Freely. .. - could be nice to have this linked to Figma if you're going to list things like this, as they do somewhat similar things but one is free

Finally, the rest of the examples are mostly just well known or big companies...

Apple

Bleep · Organize Your Id..

Xbox Official Site: Cons..

YouTube

GitHub · Build and ship ..

Connect, protect, and bu..

OneLook Dictionary Searc..

Hacker News

Lucide

Intrasti - ends with the site... I'm currently on

I think you can really improve this by having a better homepage with good examples right off the bat
by onli | 2025-10-12 19:21:55+00:00
Right, afaik the Murena offer is the one option to get the Fairphone 6 in the US. I would be very surprised if the bootloader is not unlockable. Bootloader locked is likely meant as something positive: They installed /e/ and then were able to relock the bootloader. You should be able to do the same - but yeah, I would double check that with them before buying, given the price...

Lineage has no account system. /e/ does, optionally.
Show HN: I built an open-source CLI to turn your cloud app into a desktop app
by las_nish | 2025-10-12 19:22:14+00:00
I built an open-source CLI tool to solve a pain point I kept running into as a solo founder.

Most SaaS apps stay browser-only because building a desktop client usually means dealing with native frameworks, packaging, platform quirks, signing, CI/CD, and extra infra overhead. It’s slow, expensive, and frankly not worth it for many small teams.

This CLI abstracts most of that away. It:

- Wraps any existing cloud app into a desktop app - Requires almost zero native code - Runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux (Not fully tested on Linux btw) - Keeps the build pipeline simple (no Electron boilerplate hell)

The goal isn’t to replace your cloud stack, it’s to give your users a native-feeling desktop experience without burning weeks on packaging and deployment.

I initially built this for my own product but decided to open source it because I know a lot of indie devs and early-stage teams face the same friction.

GitHub: https://github.com/deskofy/deskofy Docs: https://docs.deskofy.app

Would love feedback, edge cases you’d like solved, or any integration ideas :D
by ares623 | 2025-10-12 19:22:37+00:00
IMO open source thrived is also driven by the ZIRP era boom. Lots of engineers who made bank and lots of free time (basically self manifested UBI) were free to take risks and create things without worrying about the basics.

It is the most successful UBI experiment.

Now that the gravy train is over, I suspect open source projects will suffer and will increasingly be at the mercy of corporate funding or VCs.
by dang | 2025-10-12 19:22:42+00:00
I'm sorry to pile on, since I just replied to you at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45560985, but this is such a bad case that I think two replies are warranted.

You started and perpetuated a completely unnecessary flamewar here, and of all the offtopic things to do that about, someone's use of the word "next" is particularly superfluous.

An isolated comment of that sort is forgivable, but perpetuating the flamewar and crossing into personal attack, as you did below, is not. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by quacked | 2025-10-12 19:23:22+00:00
I deeply hate Microsoft, and most modern commercial software design, but OneDrive has consistently been the best app I've ever used for large file storage. Can anyone explain why they hate it so much? I have near instantaneous access to my documents on my computer and phone. I've been considering a move to Mint, but I like OneDrive so much I'm not sure that I want to lose it.
by watwut | 2025-10-12 19:23:27+00:00
I dont think so. It says the words were choosen to wngineer peoples emotions and make then feel right way.

Tech people do not feel good about "writing propt essay" so it is called engineering to buy their emotional acceptance.

Just like we call wrong output "hallucination" rather then "bullshit" or "lie" or "bug" or "wrong output". Hallucination is used to make us feel better and more acceptiong.
by stn8188 | 2025-10-12 19:24:01+00:00
I had a similar pleasant experience with Skype. Back in 2009, I was deployed to the Persian Gulf. This was before ubiquitous cell phones (at least, I left my cell phone back in the US). Phone cards worked to call home, but my cheap solution was to use Skype from my handheld PSP using Wi-Fi from a cafe. It worked out great for me at least, and I'll always appreciate that.
by mtalantikite | 2025-10-12 19:24:05+00:00
I didn't say there should be no strings. I believe institutions should follow laws, and if they or society find those laws to be unjust, we have recourse through our democratic institutions.

The Civil Rights Act was legislation put into place by Congress, signed by LBJ, and upheld by the Supreme Court. This compact was a letter sent by the White House telling universities to fall in line with their demands or be refused funding. I find those to be two completely different things.
by parineum | 2025-10-12 19:24:18+00:00
Nothing has really changed in this regard. When I was younger, most people didn't have huge collections of tapes or CDs, most just turned on the radio and had one or two CDs that they really only listened to one song of. Spotify giving _any_ money to artists improves this scheme (not to make a judgement on "fair").

The vast majority of music listeners aren't music collectors. Those people mostly want to listen to what others are listening to in order to share something in common. It's a very different approach to music than the collector who's looking for new music they've never heard of.

Artists typically fall into the latter category and want everyone else to also. They fail to understand that music, for most people, is a cultural touchstone, not a hobby.
by NewJazz | 2025-10-12 19:25:13+00:00
Note that the repo mentions "some of our resources are moving from our website to GitHub: "Docs: http://kuzudb.github.io/docs, Blog: http://kuzudb.github.io/blog" but those links currently redirect to kuzudb.com. I presume they won't be covering the domain name costs in the future and that the transition is in-progress.
by kwar13 | 2025-10-12 19:25:19+00:00
I'm a capitalist but yes when national security is in play "free market" in my book doesn't apply. You can't have health appointments, airline tickets, government services by default on WhatsApp. Most don't even bother with email and just default to WhatsApp.

It was kind of the same but not as pervasive with Facebook Messenger in the Philippines.
by wobfan | 2025-10-12 19:25:48+00:00
I mean, they need arguments to make their user base buy a new iPhone. Does a thinner, smaller battery make you buy it? No. Does Apple Intelligence make you buy it? Maybe, but it won't be released in the next 100 years. Does a very slightly better camera make you buy it? No. What if we make your current phone slower and use up more storage of it with every update, would that make you upgrade?
by Ray20 | 2025-10-12 19:26:03+00:00
> He believed in a universal basic income (Agrarian Justice)

I am, of course, only superficially familiar with his works, but calling what Paine proposed a basic income is extremely stupid.

This is a trivial concept of viewing territories as a natural resource, specifically, land, not productive assets in general. With the logic that land is not a product of human activity, and therefore, by acquiring land as "ownership", a person obtains it at the expense of everyone else, and it's logical to force them to compensate for this.

And it certainly can't be called a basic income if you look at the proposed tax burden. It's simply another form of tax redistribution, and in almost every respect, more capitalist compared to the tax distribution systems of that time, (and certainly of today).
by sqircles | 2025-10-12 19:26:36+00:00
Labs in general are notorious for having insane food drive to the point where when you run into one that does not, they're certainly an exception. All dogs in general have food drive, as it is a necessity to live, but they're given basically unlimited access to it which diminishes it's value in their psyche.

Once you pull that prey drive out of a working dog and associate it with something such as a ball, there's no greater satisfaction this planet than doing the thing for that animal. It usually works better as a reward for what we're doing, is more instant, but also it can be deadly for a dog to eat food when they're at working-level activity.
by curvaturearth | 2025-10-12 19:27:11+00:00
I like Spotify but it has got a bit bloated with audiobooks, podcasts and features like videos that I do not care for. I also find Spotify makes finding and listening to albums less intuitive, it feels like everything is setup for passive listening to algorithmically generated playlists. That's fine and it is how I listen to music sometimes, particularly for music discovery. But I use other services and means to have a library because Spotify's UI for it isn't great. I can't help but think that's intentional for some reason.

I will also throw some points Spotify's way for having half decent support for API clients, decent hardware support (that is for consumers, not sure what the experience is like for a developer). I have an NFC card system setup for albums and playlists so I can have a limited physical library. This uses Spotify's libraries because the support is good.

For no fuss music Tidal has been good, but it certainly has fewer artists.
by lioeters | 2025-10-12 19:27:32+00:00
Unlike actual engineering, software "engineering" as a field has decided to reinvent itself every generation - worse, every turn of the trends, even every project and person. Majority of the practitioners are in it for superficial reasons, unaware of its rich history and culture.

With ignorance comes arrogance of an individualist intellectual, thinking their unique revolutionary contribution will wow the public and move the field forward. Except inevitably they're not only reinventing the wheel but the entire automobile, without knowing basic principles and the work of predecessors. It has a lot in common with modern art.

> we're teaching this whole discipline wrong

I sometimes think languages after C, like C++ and Java, were misguided in some ways. Sure they provided business value, brought new ideas, and the software worked - but their popularity came at a cost of leaving countless great thoughts behind in history, and resulted in a poverty of software culture, education and imagination.

There are optimistic signs of people returning to the roots, re-learning the lessons and re-discovering ideas. I think many are coming to realize the need for a reformation of sorts.
by G4Vi | 2025-10-12 19:27:48+00:00
Location: New Hampshire Remote: Only (occasional travel okay), 2+ years experience fully remote Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C, C++, Rust, Perl, TS or JS ES6+, Go, Python, WASM, Linux, Windows, Embedded, HTTP, and more Résumé/CV: https://computoid.com/about/GavinAHayes-Resume.html / https://computoid.com/about/GavinAHayes-Resume.pdf Email: gavin [at] computoid dawt com

Hi, I'm Gavin. Professionally, I have 8+ years experience between application and embedded system development for avionics, building WebAssembly tooling, full-stack SaaS development, and Rust network programming. At home, I've worked on side projects such as making my own HTTP media server/web interface and porting Perl to the Cosmopolitan Libc (featured on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33966755). For my next role, I'm mostly interested in systems/native development, but can be more flexible to work in an interesting domain.
by Telaneo | 2025-10-12 19:27:57+00:00
> I do not believe it is reasonable to use an OS where you need to do hostage negotiation on a daily basis.

So much this. It's not that technically minded people can't figure out how to florb the nerfwedge. It's that it shouldn't be needed to begin with, and you have to know about it to begin with (which usually happens by getting burned by not doing it, either with one's own machine, or a friend's or family member's machine).
by estearum | 2025-10-12 19:28:03+00:00
I've re-read the thread a couple times now and frankly it seems like there's a piece of the puzzle you're not sharing with me.

"Criminals are cockroaches because they're evil" makes literally no sense. Even if one accepts that anyone who commits a crime is de facto evil (very silly), cockroaches obviously aren't evil!

The non-sequitur about trivial vs non-trivial problems is just that: a non-sequitur.

Is it just that you're okay with exterminating certain types of people (like they're cockroaches), therefore it makes sense to call them cockroaches? You should just say it so we can stop this very strange word association game.
by k_bx | 2025-10-12 19:28:13+00:00
I'm very interested in reports of 10+ year users of Emacs, how do Helix/Vim compare? I understand reports from zero-to-Helix/Vim users that they're good, but I don't believe they truly understand how great Emacs is unless they really use it for a long time.

But because Vim-like keys and modes seem to be so much better integrated in all other editors these days (no good Emacs mode in VSCode for example), seems like it won, and it'll soon be time to accept that.

But every time I tried – I never had enough patience to use it until my fingers have the memory, and didn't see the point enough to keep smashing the editor.

So, very interested in reports of actual hardcore Emacs users about the switch.