MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by protocolture | 2025-10-07 10:42:20+00:00
You would be surprised how many companies dont have the expertise in house. And of that set, you would be surprised how many make financial and technical decisions based on no expertise and get themselves into all sorts of trouble.

You may also be surprised how many companies have 1 guy in house who pretends to be an expert and does his damned best to prevent people getting hired who might out them.

Good consultants come in, tell you how it should be done, with evidence. Better consultants then provide those services if needed on a project basis. Usually "Good Consultants" in the IT industry are absolute heavy weights. Like we carry a bunch of different skillsets where there are few other people in our country with the same experience, and no one can afford to carry that expertise on an ongoing basis, but lots of people are willing to pay for a couple hours a month.

That ofc, does not reflect the sales channel for most consultancies. Sales is focused on finding anyone they can schmooze into paying for services. Generally where large consultancy firms are involved, the decision maker is treated like royalty. Usually it involves helping them cheat on their spouse or get access to drugs. Weeklong out of town trips, usually vegas, paid for by the consultancy, with a hefty petty cash card. Smaller decision makers might only get local strippers and beer.

One time, I was involved where a company we were consulting to on X, was concerned they were being lied to by consultants on Y project, and we stepped in and sounded them out in a meeting in front of the client making it evident they were just being told to justify Dynamics CRM and Sharepoint at all costs.
by graemep | 2025-10-07 10:42:45+00:00
> The problem is that "anti-fascist" has been co-opted by Antifa

That is very much an American problem. The founder of Antix is Greek and it would be appropriate to interpret anti-fascist in the context of Greece and its history. It is very obvious he means something any decent person would oppose.

Why do Americans expect us all to conform to their culture and vocabulary? I am really fed up of this.
by NomDePlum | 2025-10-07 10:44:11+00:00
Sure, that's correct.

It has no right to murder and maim tens to hundreds of thousands of civilians and children and manufacture starvation for millions. Similarly the expansion of settlements are decades of illegal activity. Then there is the matter of illegal strikes on other countries contravening international law. It has no right to do any of those things. Those things it should be held responsible for.
by DrScientist | 2025-10-07 10:44:17+00:00
While we are on the topic of listing problems with consultants/outsourcing - another potential problem is the A team/ B team switch.

During initial engagement you are often talking to somebody who appears to actually know their stuff - you hire them and find that this knowledgable person has moved on to the next big sales, and you've got the B or C team.
by osn9363739 | 2025-10-07 10:44:44+00:00
I have a senior that talks like this. Does everything through AI now. Barely writes anything himself. Has 5x'd his productivity. Like having his own team. Thing is his work is awful. The people who review his PRs have to spend 5x the time looking at his work. He's been pushed off to another team thank god. Not saying there aren't advantages and uses for AI. but if what you are saying were true (like having 2-3 reports) and it was a great benefit, there would be way more examples out there I could look at.
by trashb | 2025-10-07 10:45:41+00:00
Isn't there already a lot of separate implementations around color handling?

It would be good to unify it, perhaps some of the distributions can also have a hand in it.

terminfo also has "Mono mode" with the "-m" suffix which I don't see mentioned in the article.

I see a lot of handing of color options in the standard Ubuntu .bashrc https://gist.github.com/marioBonales/1637696
by NicolaiS | 2025-10-07 10:45:42+00:00
Note that this requires an authenticated user, so most redis installations are not directly at risk.

The github issue has these workarounds: > An additional workaround to mitigate the problem without patching the redis-server executable is to prevent users from executing Lua scripts. This can be done using ACL to restrict EVAL and EVALSHA commands.

I guess most people doesn't use the lua engine, so this is probably a good advice to disable even if upgrading to a non-vuln version of Redis.
by whyoh | 2025-10-07 10:46:42+00:00
>The cheapest base M4 Mac Mini has 16 Gigs of RAM and plays AAA games written for Mac today.

The frame rates are quite low on the base M4. Cyberpunk 2077 test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gID9S2hwJpU

I think you need an M4 Pro or a Max for a good gaming experience with AAA games.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-07 10:47:41+00:00
They'd have to outlaw compilers to make that work.

Say (hypothetically) they forced KDE and Gnome to do that - they are open source, you can't hide that it was done, someone will rip out that part and either compile and release a new distro or post the git somewhere outside that jurisdiction and someone else will do it.

This isn't a new thing even - we've had free/non-free/rpmfusion and the like for decades - hell back in the day I had to pull and compile freetype because of the patent on subpixel hinting that was valid in the US and not in the EU.

The one that does worry me more is that they straight up just start locking down the hardware more strictly - a mobile phone style attestation/locked bootloaders would be a major challenge to open computing.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-07 10:47:47+00:00
This was here already earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45497027

Also: "As part of an ongoing effort by Redis and the Redis community to maintain Redis’ safety, security, and compliance posture, a security vulnerability in Redis has been identified and remediated in the versions indicated below." seems to be a bit strange given that this wasn't an effort led by Redis?
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-07 10:47:56+00:00
US rocketry has a tradition of making second stages dispose of themselves after their work is done. AFAIK no regulatory body enforces this - but launch providers usually do it anyway.

A common way to do that is to perform an extra burn and tip the second stage's orbit into the atmosphere - so that it burns up in a controlled manner. That's what's done on Starlink launches - the most common type of US launch.

Other countries may choose not to do that, because the second stage has to be designed to allow for those extra burns, and the fuel used cuts straight into the performance margins.

> Are they in the same orbit as the satellites?

Not exactly. Most larger satellites nowadays carry their own fuel and engines, and perform orbital adjustments and station-keeping. Which has a way of putting distance between them and the second stages. They might end up in the same orbital plane, but not the same orbit.

For some satellite types, the second stage only gets the satellite to a transfer orbit - and the satellite itself gets to the deployment orbit from there under its own power.
by Intermernet | 2025-10-07 10:48:36+00:00
The thing is, the original problem is one that "the free market" would say should fail. That company, without the expertise required to do the job, should fail.

Having consultants do anything in this situation is antithetical to the ideal of a company. The company should fail, OR, the consultants should advise that the company should either fail or gain the expertise to no longer require consultants.

Obviously this isn't going to happen, and here we are.
by DrScientist | 2025-10-07 10:48:58+00:00
To balance that with a positive comment - one of the reasons for going with a consultant/outsourcing is if you have a big one/off type project that you can't resource internally with perms.

So the choice is trying to hire a bunch of individual contractors and forge them into a team, or hire a pre-built team for a period of time [1]

[1] Sometimes it's sold as a re-built team - but in reality it might be hired in exactly the same way by the consultancy....
by akimbostrawman | 2025-10-07 10:49:11+00:00
It is not only a few times. I watch multiple shows every season for close to a decade and at this point it is the exception when most of them aren't butchered by political or "comedic" mistranslation.

If I have to choose between funding political zealot humans and political zealot AI, I pick the later. At least AI aren't boasting and insulting there customer on social media about "fixing" art for the greater good.

https://boundingintocomics.com/manga/interview-fan-and-profe...
by m_fayer | 2025-10-07 10:49:40+00:00
> Also many families try to push elderly to hospital for few days.

And rightly so. As people age and their health deteriorates, often a few day's monitoring and nursing care can forestall downward spirals, or catch sudden downturns so family can react appropriately, instead of the usual sudden crises and desperate scrambles. This is nursing, and hospitals used to do it, which I think is what your comment implies. But these days, without the right golden-key "diagnosis", nothing happens, and those diagnoses are certainly deployed "strategically".

There's no other accessible institution that really provides this kind of care, thus dumping responsibility on the beleaguered "community", as the social workers call it. If you happen to have insufficient wealth and willing empowered family to take care of this, I strongly suggest not getting sick. Or old.
by DiscourseFan | 2025-10-07 10:49:58+00:00
Yeah one of the benefits of the NHS, even with its problems, is that you can just roll up to a doctor/dentist whatever and if its something simple that requires slight medical intervention, or a cheap prescription for instance, there's no drama around insurance billing or bureaucracy. Now, on the other hand, you need to go to the ER, you need actual surgery?
by CapmCrackaWaka | 2025-10-07 10:49:58+00:00
I have a personal theory that this technology is inevitable, and will become widely used. As the technology gets better, and these cameras get more discrete, anyone not wearing these glasses is at a disadvantage.

I would love to record everything I see (assuming perfect solutions around video security and storage, another topic), not because I’m a creep and want to watch the videos, but because it acts as a personal dash cam.
by physicles | 2025-10-07 10:50:10+00:00
Windows as a platform lost the war many years ago when the web (and then mobile) took over, and is no longer a key part of Microsoft’s business since the CEO switch in 2014.

Microsoft’s current strategy is to 1) keep a stranglehold on enterprise (so, Office and 365 subscriptions) and 2) make money on workloads regardless of platform (with Azure).

What new software, besides games, targets windows anymore? If you wanted to target windows, what SDK and language would you build on, and how many times will it be replaced with $new_hotness in the next 10 years?
Show HN: Netstack.fm Ep8 Fuchsia's Netstack3 with Bruno Dal Bo Silva
by gdcbe | 2025-10-07 10:50:21+00:00
In this episode our guest is Bruno Dal Bo Silva, Staff Software Engineer at Google. We dive into his path into networking and Rust, and the story behind netstack3, the Rust-based networking stack built for Google’s Fuchsia operating system. We cover its origins from the Go-based netstack, why Rust was chosen, and the challenges of implementing a full range of protocols — from TCP and UDP with their POSIX socket API to the many less-visible but essential pieces like ARP, ICMP, IPv6, DHCP, and more. We hope you brought a bowl as you're in for a juicy letter soup with this one. Bruno also shares insights on where he sees the future of netstack3 — including its potential beyond Google.
by VGHN7XDuOXPAzol | 2025-10-07 10:50:42+00:00
This sort of difference is one of the reasons I will always prefer subs.

I guess I could be the odd one out but I'm not keen on the 'localisation' efforts that replace the cultural elements of the underlying media, e.g. how in Ace Attorney ramen is replaced with t-bone steaks (iirc?), prompting the meme 'Eat your hamburgers, Apollo'
by decimalenough | 2025-10-07 10:50:44+00:00
From my experience with using a $WITCH for a large support engagement, the A team woos you, the B team is what you get initially, and as soon as they think you've got your eye off the ball, they swap in the Z team.

This was for a contract where we made it very clear that quality/skill was paramount and we would happily pay above market rates forever if they could maintain it. Of course they got greedy and lost the deal entirely.
by 05 | 2025-10-07 10:50:48+00:00
The leak was inspired by Bork's opposition to privacy protections beyond those explicitly outlined in the constitution. [0]

On September 25, the City Paper published Dolan's survey of Bork's rentals in a cover story titled "The Bork Tapes". The revealed tapes proved to be modest, innocuous, and non-salacious, consisting of a garden-variety of films such as thrillers, British drama, and those by Alfred Hitchcock. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork_Supreme_Court_nomi...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bork_tapes#:~:text=On%20Septem...
by sph | 2025-10-07 10:52:50+00:00
So the strongly worded argument is just because on one locale of an unsupported proprietary system, which renders their entire desktop and applications with an abysmal font, you might get your website rendered with an abysmal font?

What if you get a terrible font choice on the standard `font-family: sans-serif`? Should all my visitors have to download 100 KB of external fonts because Microsoft are inept?

Meh, for my personal website, I'll keep using system-ui.
by npteljes | 2025-10-07 10:52:56+00:00
Windows can live in a VM no problem. But, depends on your use case. For GPU heavy usage, you can do GPU passthrough, and that needs a dedicated video card exclusive for the VM. If you only have light usage, like office tools, you can get by the mostly default settings.

I suggest that you just try - it's a couple of hours to install Linux and install Windows in a VM. You can try Linux dual-booting, so, no need to impact your existing system. If you end up not liking the out of the box Win VM performance, there are a couple of tricks that you can try to get substantial improvements.
by robbyrussell | 2025-10-07 10:54:33+00:00
Florent's team realized their test suite wasn’t just slowing down developers...it was draining focus, momentum, and budget. The root cause? Decisions that quietly piled up over time. Too many factories. Skipped Rails defaults. A bloated CI setup.

So they hit pause, revisited the basics, and started stripping away what wasn’t helping.

This is a case study in technical maturity. A story of how slowing down just enough can help a fast-moving team go further. Worth sharing with your peers.
by tim333 | 2025-10-07 10:55:18+00:00
>On the face of it, the options seem to mean that lending OpenAI the money to buy the GPUs is perfectly safe.

I don't think lending money against stock options would be considered at all safe.

However the deal may work along the lines of:

Investors buy AMD shares, send the price up.

OpenAI uses it's option to buy shares for 1c, sell the to the investors for far more, use the profit to buy AMD GPUs.

So it potentially works very well for OpenAI, ok for AMD and questionably for the investors funding it buy buying AMD shares.
by keyringlight | 2025-10-07 10:55:19+00:00
> At this point, moves like this are basically an advertisement for Linux and Mac.

I don't think it's the decisions themselves, but the (inevitable?) consequence in the coming months and years. The biggest example would be WannaCry attacking winxp in 2017, except it's not just individuals/companies who haven't got around to updating but additional hurdles added by MS.
Stopping email trackers in Gmail: What Works?
by jacopo_beschi | 2025-10-07 10:56:04+00:00
I’m looking for a browser extension that really stops email tracking inside Gmail.

Ideally, I want something that:

- Works reliably in Gmail’s web interface - Blocks tracking pixels and redirects - Doesn’t leak any data to third parties

I’ve been experimenting with this problem myself and I built a small extension called gblock (https://gblock.app ) that hides tracking pixels and neutralizes tracking links. I’m the developer, so I want to be up-front about that. I’m not here to promote it, I’m genuinely curious about what others use, what actually works, and what issues you’ve run into (false positives, performance, Gmail UI breakage, etc.).

If you’ve tested different approaches or have insights into how modern trackers evade detection, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Thanks!
by kpdoumbia | 2025-10-07 10:56:07+00:00
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by sjamaan | 2025-10-07 10:57:20+00:00
Same for me with Dzongkha: cha (ཅ) / chha (ཆ) and tsa (ཙ) / thsa (ཚ). I can aspirate the second of these fine, so that's not the problem. Hearing the difference is. This also makes it harder to remember the spelling as I mix them up all the time.

To be fair, I've only been learning for a short while (8 months or so) and haven't had much opportunity to listen to a lot of different speakers so perhaps this may get better.
by M95D | 2025-10-07 10:57:56+00:00
In east-european communist coutries steam was piped from the industrial zones into the cities. Industrial waste heat was used to heat apartment buildings in cities. It was terrible, because there was no alternative heating in those buildings and heat delivered depended on industrial activity, not weather.

But today, waste heat from data centers could be great as a base heating source in nearby cities with local building heating only as a supplement/backup.
by whyoh | 2025-10-07 10:58:13+00:00
>The screen is blurry 99% of the time. The only reliable way to get it sharp is to boot the PC with the screen attached.

That sounds like a (graphics driver) bug. It's not something I ever experienced on Windows 10, even when occasionally connecting an additional display set to 150% scaling. I believe you, though, bugs do happen.

>not sure about your mac point. I sometimes use a mac and it works at 200% on two separate 4k screens.

I think his point is that on macOS you pretty much have to use 200%, whereas on Windows it can be any value (though multiples of 25% are recommended).
by jurajmasar | 2025-10-07 10:58:45+00:00
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by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-07 10:58:50+00:00
Also not to forget the 260 character file path limitation, which still haunts Windows till date! You can lift the limits via a registry key, but programs still need support for it. Forget third-party programs, even many first-party Microsoft apps like Explorer itself still can't handle long paths.

But my biggest pet peeve with Windows is updates. Updates, updates, updates, it's such an underrated thing that Linux does so much better, I wish more folks would speak about this:

1. You only really need to reboot for kernel updates 2. Updates aren't forced upon you 3. You're in full control of the whole process - you can even decide to hold back certain packages, , or choose a different flavour that suits your needs better 4. Update everything - including thirdparty apps - from either the CLI or GUI (KDE Discover or Gnome Software etc) 5. Unlike Windows, updates rarely slow down your system, and if anything, they tend to make your system faster and better. 6. Most Linux users actually look forward to updates, whereas Windows users groan and swear at them, praying and hoping they MS doesn't break anything or add more crap/anti-features 7. When you reboot after updates, it's instant - no annoying "configuring... please don't turn of your computer" message that hijack your system when you need it the most. 8. If you've got an immutable distro, updates are atomic and can't break your system. 9. Many decent mutable distros also have the option to instantly snapshot the OS before an update, and allow you to rollback right from the boot menu.

Honestly, updates for me is easily the top reason why I feel Linux is a superior experience to Windows, I could write a whole essay on this.
by vntok | 2025-10-07 10:59:05+00:00
Facebook cares, right? Given their impact, their resources, their objectives, they of all companies must "give a shit". Right?

So here are the fonts of the Facebook posts listed on a Facebook user's wall:

> Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif

> system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif

Observe how there's no custom font, no weird font, and no "associations with some childhood Disney movie" to be found on a page seen and used by 2+ billions of users daily.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-10-07 10:59:51+00:00
Enterprise edition is as much of a clownshow as the others. I actually run one such edition at work and since a few weeks ago I've noticed in the "home" screen of the settings a new tile, inviting me to add my microsoft account to benefit from something or other.

Now, this is a machine I mostly use for goofing out, so it actually has my microsoft account connected to it. It's fully entra id joined: I log into my windows session with my office 365 account, which has a full license (p2 or whatever it's called), I can see the bitlocker key in entra id, the works.

Now, curiosity got the best of me the other day, and I figured I might just as well click that button. Guess what? It didn't work! It apparently doesn't support business accounts!

On my home pc (pro edition, which I use for photoshop and the occasional game), which does have a consumer microsoft account, that tile doesn't show up.