MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tristor | 2025-10-07 16:15:16+00:00
The only way to escape PFAS is to go to a different planet. 3M and Dow have poisoned the entire world. It's shocking how much effort and money I have had to invest to try to mitigate this problem as much as possible in my own home, not because the alternatives are expensive, but because of how pervasive PFAS use is and how it contaminates everything. Every single decision-maker involved should have been jailed.
by macNchz | 2025-10-07 16:15:21+00:00
Depends a lot on what kinds of games you play, I think—I built a PC in 2020 and originally set it up to dual boot Linux and Windows, but over time I used the Windows partition less and less and wound up deleting it last year.

I realized recently that at some point I stopped even checking ProtonDB before buying games on Steam, I guess because its been so long since I've run into one that didn't work. I play a pretty wide variety of games, but not so much the type of competitive multiplayer FPS that seems to have the worst Linux compatibility due to anti-cheat.
by bob1029 | 2025-10-07 16:16:16+00:00
Proton runs like a dream these days. I can't think of a game that I couldn't run under it that I really wanted to. The biggest incompatibility seems to be caused by multiplayer games or live service games with hyper aggressive DRM or anti-cheat measures (Destiny, PUBG, etc). If you typically avoid these kinds of games I think you'll be alright.
by fingerlocks | 2025-10-07 16:16:47+00:00
I much prefer lldb over gdb, but why don’t you just try it and see for yourself?

Of course setting a gutter breakpoint is easier in an IDE, and that’s irrelevant to my point. OP made this aabout vim/emacs versus VisualStudio as if the former doesn’t have gutter-clicking capabilities. Which is ridiculous
by Neywiny | 2025-10-07 16:17:01+00:00
I mean, not overnight, it's 2 years from now and it's been long time coming. Play protect getting in the way, permissions to install apps from other apps (honestly a really good idea and should've been there from the start but the key is I can grant it), etc. The whole thing with getting rid of working apps that aren't updated for the sake of being updated. The writing's been on the wall.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-07 16:17:18+00:00
That is fair. I think you are onto something. I did miss out on some things as well, because I played very conservatively ( and at this point I am not that willing to change much ). Still, my own house appreciated a ridiculous amount. I see other assets appreciate as well ( just not as dramatically ).. I don't know how it can stay at these levels without some major re-alignment.
by terrelln | 2025-10-07 16:17:19+00:00
Out of curiosity, what was the input file format?

We actually worked on a demo WAV compressor a while back. We are currently missing codecs to run the types of predictors that FLAC runs. We expect to add this kind of functionality in the future, in a generic way that isn't specific to audio, and can be used across a variety of domains.

But, generally we wouldn't expect to generally beat FLAC. But, be able to offer specialized compressors for many types of data that previously weren't important enough to spawn a whole field of specialized compressors, by significantly lowering the bar for entry.
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-10-07 16:17:22+00:00
Yeah, sure. I'm getting heavily downvoted here, and that's fine, but truth of the matter is that nothing gets even close to Windows 11 when it comes to Enterprise-ish deployments, and failure to acknowledge that is why possibly-better alternatives are losing.

Source: I'm sort-of the IT manager for several around-50-employees businesses. All of these offer a choice of Windows, Mac or Linux laptops, because that's what needed to attract quality employees these days.

For Windows, it's really simple. Order HP or Lenovo without an OS, put on the Windows 11 Enterprise image, and send it on along with the Entra credentials. User powers the machine up, selects 'for work', enters the AD credentials and gets a working desktop with AV, firewalling, Office and so on.

MacOS? Slightly more involved story: we need to provide instructions on how to successfully navigate the forced Apple sign-in story, then download some dependencies to get to the point where the Windows users already were.

Linux? Oh, boy... Even when standardizing on something like Ubuntu LTS, basic compliance and policy enforcement is a huge pain. As in: hours and hours of support. I've evaluated several supposedly-solutions for this, and, ehm, no...

And: to be perfectly clear: I'm wide-open to suggestions for something better! If you can offer Ubuntu LTS, (or, well, anything) but with AV, firewalling and basic policy enforcement that can be remotely attested, I'm all ears!
by giobox | 2025-10-07 16:18:08+00:00
> while the Raspberry Pi was about the same price as an Arduino but way better performance

If you are cross shopping a full single board computer (Pi) with a microcontroller (arduino/esp32 etc) for a project, it's almost always a sign you don't know what you are doing. With the exception of the recent Pi Pico, non of the raspberry pis are Arduino/microcontroller competitors - they are typically full blown linux computers with all the benefits and drawbacks that provides.

While you can absolutely solve microcontroller-style problems with full blown computers, it's rarely the best/cheapest option.
by finaard | 2025-10-07 16:18:10+00:00
For a long time I did a lot of Arduino stuff because you could get Nano clones for less than 1 EUR - which pretty much makes them throwaway, if you mess up.

I recently was doing a few projects with the Arduino Every, which is a nice board - but it's just too expensive. I did fry a few - so now I'm just using them as development board (the additional UARTs help a lot there), and for the actual project still use Nanos where I no longer care about the serial debug output, and therefore am fine with just the one serial port.
by innanet-worker | 2025-10-07 16:18:39+00:00
you don't have to go so far as it buying the tickets for you if you don't trust it enough to do that. I built a deep research agent and one of the tasks that i found it very useful for was taking complex requirements and building a report for me to review and make decisions based off of. I live in one city, my travel partner lives in another, and we each want flights to get to a city around the same time, options for airbnbs, and travel activities. I may not trust ai to do this without human intervention but i certainly trust it to assemble this information for me with options and i can make decisions based on that
by f1shy | 2025-10-07 16:18:40+00:00
He was the first hacker as far as I know. He was constantly making jokes, laughing at formal things. I was in the Zuze Museum (his house), and I remember I think in his master Thesis he made some jokes (I think wrote some numbers in binary, which were easy to mix, like 2 as 10) which for the time, I think were relatively bold. He had a very "hacker" sense of humor. He was called out a couple of times, but had no real respect for imposed authority.
by MountDoom | 2025-10-07 16:18:42+00:00
There's a simple counterpoint to your argument: there are places that were selling physical gold for $2000 a decade ago, that were selling it for $3000 back in 2024, and that are now selling it for $4000. I don't see any of them going out of business. Online, Apmex and dozens of others seem to be doing just fine.

So evidently, there is healthy retail demand for gold at these price points. Futures markets can get weird, but they're ultimately rooted in demand for commodities. I can't sell you futures on something that no one is willing to buy.
by leshenka | 2025-10-07 16:18:46+00:00
if anything bad ever happened after using MAS there would be piles of evidence because MAS is brought up every time people discuss Windows license price. Equating piracy to malware is disingenuous and malware is not the only bad factor. If you consider all of them it turns out that there is a lesser chance you'll get screwed if you pirate be it music, movies or operating systems
by para_parolu | 2025-10-07 16:18:51+00:00
I have such a bad experience with Deloitte when calculating my tax return. Almost like some lazy joke about capitalism. It’s a very dysfunctional company.

They were calculating taxes in year when I moved from Europe to US and assigned two people, one for each country. For a month they were not able to make proper adjustments, until I realized they can’t talk to each other. One day I just started conference call from my phone to introduce them to each other and make sure they at least can talk. Nevertheless, in the end they made mistakes that cost me $5000. Luckily I was able to fix it with IRS two tears after
by pessimizer | 2025-10-07 16:18:59+00:00
> everyone is connected to the military but it means nothing.

No, people who live in tiny countries with mandatory conscription don't really understand that it means that their entire country is militarized. It's not surprising that fish can't see water.

> is like judging a US citizen on the fact that they went to public school.

It's exactly like that. If public school in the US trained people to kill and spy, it would be entirely safe to assume that the US was full of killer spies. For example, if you know that US public school taught a view of world history that was distorted in particular ways, and had very little emphasis in foreign languages, it would be safe to assume that Americans have a distorted view of the world, and largely don't speak foreign languages.

I don't know, this seems basic to me.
by phoehne | 2025-10-07 16:19:37+00:00
To me the benefits of an MCU have to do with latency on things like interrupts. A real OS sometimes gets in the way, if you're trying to run things on very tight timing, or want to go super low power. That's why even though I'm drowning in under-used Pis, I'm using Picos to drive the lights I'm making. (Trying to coordinate multiple 3w RGB LED floods with < 10ms of latency for fancy lighting effects - because as a maker - I can do it for as little as 10 times the cost of buying it). Also, I would rather release the magic blue smoke out of a $5 Pico than a $40+ RPi. Although the Zeros were nice. We should have another round of zeros.
Show HN: Kalendis – Scheduling API (keep your UI, we handle timezones/DST)
by dcabal25mh | 2025-10-07 16:19:43+00:00
Kalendis is an API-first scheduling backend. You keep your UI; we handle the gnarly parts (recurrence, time zones, DST, conflict-safe bookings).

What it does:

• MCP tool: generates typed clients and API route handlers (Next.js/Express/Fastify/Nest) so you can scaffold calls straight from your IDE/agent tooling.

• Availability engine: recurring rules + one-off exceptions/blackouts, returned in a clean, queryable shape.

• Bookings: conflict-safe endpoints for creating/updating/canceling slots.

Why we built it:

We kept rebuilding the same "hard parts" of scheduling: time zones/DST edge cases, recurring availability, conflict-aware booking, etc. We wanted a boring, reliable backend so we could ship product features without adopting a hosted scheduling UI.

How it's helped:

We stopped re-implementing DST/recurrence math and shipped booking flows faster.

One small team (just 2 developers) built a robust booking platform for their business using Kalendis—they kept full control of their UX without spending lots of cycles on scheduling infrastructure.

The MCP generator cut the glue code: drop in a typed client or route, call the API, move on.

Some tech details:

• REST API with ISO-8601 timestamps and IANA time zones

• Recurring availability + one-off exceptions (designed to compose cleanly)

• Focused scope: users, availability, exceptions, bookings (not a monolithic suite)

MCP integration:

MCP server exposes tools like generate-frontend-client, generate-backend-client, generate-api-routes, and list-endpoints.

Add to your MCP settings:

{ "mcpServers": { "kalendis": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@kalendis/mcp"] } } }

How to try it:

Create a free account → get an API key. (https://kalendis.dev)

Hit an endpoint:

curl -H "x-api-key: $KALENDIS_API_KEY" \ "https://api.kalendis.dev/v1/availability/getAvailability?userId=<user-id>&start=2025-10-07T00:00:00Z&end=2025-10-14T00:00:00Z&includeExceptions=true"

What feedback would be most useful:

Gaps in the endpoint surface (what's missing for your use case?).

Features that would benefit this service integration in your app.

MCP generator output—anything you'd want it to emit differently?

Happy to answer questions and post example snippets in the thread. Thanks for taking a look!

— Dave (Kalendis)
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-07 16:19:51+00:00
I transitioned to mostly cash. 50's are the new 20, 100's are the new 50. I rarely have an issue with a $100 bill, but I don't pay for a $3 cup of coffee with it either.

It's an annoyance similar to the people who like to whine and apply surcharges to credit card transactions.
by BizarroLand | 2025-10-07 16:20:10+00:00
The brand. All of their other stuff is essentially open, so they're just going to start adding new features that aren't open to force people to use their brand and probably claim ownership of any code that is published through their app or something, or make it so that builds will only work on their qualcomm chips.

Oh, and likely there will be telemetry and user data acquisition in the arduino app so they'll probably also get some juicy user data to sell along the way.

They'll sell a few more chips while they're at it.

I'm glad there's nothing I need to do that an ESP32 or ESP8266 can't do.
by lukeschlather | 2025-10-07 16:20:19+00:00
> If one does everything in a web browser (e.g. Google Sheets, Google Docs, etc), that's the type of usage profile where switching to Linux desktop is an easy no-brainer.

Some streaming services don't work on Linux, the ones that do have degraded video quality, and it generally feels like streaming services are deliberately trying to break the Linux experience because it's associated with piracy.
by nradov | 2025-10-07 16:20:22+00:00
Nonsense. No other major participants in the healthcare system have the financial incentives or resources to subsidize residencies on the scale needed. Hospital cost accounting is somewhat fuzzy but overall graduate medical education is a money loser. Hospitals have very limited ability to bill for procedures performed by residents: they generally have to be directly supervised by an attending physician, which is expensive. And reimbursement rates are largely fixed by Medicare: hospitals can't just raise prices to make up the difference.

You have no clue what you're talking about here and are essentially making a hand-waving argument without any facts to back it up.
by scuff3d | 2025-10-07 16:20:32+00:00
I think the better way to look at is that no matter how good Linux gets, if MS didn't shoot themselves in the foot it would always struggle to make headway. Even the modest headway it's made over the last couple years.

It's not about quality, it's about market dominance. Walk into any major retailer, 95% of the computers they sell have Windows on them (100% if they don't sell Apple). Go to any company and see what they run on almost all their computers, Windows. Go to any school, probably the same thing (though years ago Apple would have had a strong presence too).

And that's not even talking about business software like Office. MS built that dominance back when Linux was almost entirely focused on the server space. What Desktops did exist where mostly hobby projects or relatively small companies. Shit Linux itself was a hobby project lol.

MS has had that position for over 20 years. Windows is the Xerox of computers. A lot of people don't even realize there are options out there. In that environment, even if the Linux Desktops got better than Windows, it should have taken an absolute killer app or some big evolution in the space to get people switching. All MS had to do was keeping offering a competent product. Or even a kind of shitty one that didn't actively give people a reason to switch.

But they can't help themselves. Most of the money isn't enough, they need all the money. And they've degraded their product to the point where it is actively driving people away. And even now it'll probably take another decade for Linux Desktops to break the 10% mark.
by trashb | 2025-10-07 16:20:45+00:00
Sure it is a preference and that may differ.

I agree "HN is excellent" you only need to change the "85%" on the main table to your preference, in my case "70ch" in your case to "100%".

I do wonder how much you need UW for coding, in my experience without the IDE borders and decorations usually the code will end around halfway on my screen.

When I'm using my UW daily screen I usually dock two windows side by side. and didn't find that restricting. But I am also nostalgic for the 4:3 days from time to time.
by MichaelAOlson | 2025-10-07 16:21:34+00:00
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by EMM_386 | 2025-10-07 16:22:02+00:00
This is way too old school for me (and I've been developing with JS/CSS since 1997 and HTML since ... before that. On my site I just use prefers-color-scheme and have a toggle to switch light/dark it if the user wants, persisting the choice locally. I detect Dark Reader and honor the user's choice with that.

What would you do if you had the option to choose any font of your choosing? What color for the headers? The background of the buttons? Should you be able to define the border radius? The CSS transitions? All of CSS?

You can do that. There are extension for that.

I don't think this is a concern for the vast majority of users.
by csomar | 2025-10-07 16:22:32+00:00
Say you own your own house and you fill it with, uhm, all kind of stuff. You still rely on society for electricy, water, sewage, internet, roads, the same stuff you are storing, etc..

So no, his life style is much subsidized by society as someone with his own home. The subsidy is probably relative to your footprint. So maybe less?

> You're constantly making and throwing away relationships. I found this the hardest part.

I've been thinking about it too. I've made a few relationships but as soon as they break (or I break) off the trail, the relationship goes with it.

I don't think this is avoidable. You are seeing way more people than a sedentary life allows. You are probably not going to make these relationships in a small 300K city.

> There are opportunity costs. If OP had bought real estate in 2015 they would be better off financially. It's one of the reasons I stopped living in a bus and bought a house. Had I bought the last two times I "moved" in 2011 or 2016 I'd have almost enough money to retire and live OP's lifestyle permanently.

I bought crypto, so it paid off way better than any real estate market in the world and all that money is liquid and ready to buy you a rental anywhere in the world.
by jasonjayr | 2025-10-07 16:22:34+00:00
> embroidery software for her sewing machine has a USB hardware dongle for DRM

While I don't have any sort of built up library of work or experience with a specific propriatary software, consider reccomending Inkscape + the Ink/Stitch extension to do embroidery designs.

I bought a Husqvarna Designer Jade, and the included windows-only software was a 'Lite' version, with an upsell for more advanced features (and pricing that was an additional 25-50% of the embroidery machine itself!), and I suspect a hardware dongle since I spotted references to it. I've been able to get by Ink/Stitch for the simple hobbyist jobs we've needed to do. The machine's USB port just expects a usb storage device, and the ink/stitch software can write the .vp3 files it needed to run a job.
by JohnBooty | 2025-10-07 16:22:34+00:00
That's why I'm drilling down on the definition of "need"

I like this train of thought. It leads to another great question or drilldown. If we're going to talk about needs we need to talk about it in relation to a goal. Is the goal...

1. To raise all childrens' education to some sort of minimally acceptable bar? (like the equivalent of a GED here in the USA)

2. To get as many kids as possible as close to their individual educational potential as possible, for humanistic and/or societal reasons?

3. Something else?

If it's the first option, then gifted children probably do not have a "need" as urgent as developmentally-challenged kids. If it's the second option, I think that gifted children do have an equally urgent need.

The second option is admittedly loftier, and to be frank, the first option aligns more closely with the way most laws function. But god damn, I think we really should be aiming for the second option.
by janalsncm | 2025-10-07 16:22:37+00:00
I imagine that we will look back fondly on these days, when AI still is easy to spot because it hallucinates references. A non-existent reference is a slam dunk against an argument, but also technically easier to avoid. They will likely be much less common in the future.

It’s much harder to counter the reasoning word salad that LLMs sometimes produce, where A doesn’t really connect to B but the text insists it does.
by labrador | 2025-10-07 16:22:46+00:00
I guess I'll be the contrarian in the thread: My main machine is Windows 11. I recently bought a refurbished laptop to make it a Linux torrenting machine with ProtonVPN. I first installed Fedora, which I hated. Where's the mininmize window button? Why are scrollbars practically invisible? What's with the hideous cartoonish desktop? I switched to Ubuntu, which I'm more familiar with. Installing ProtonVPN was an absolute nightmare. If I hadn't had so much experience with computers and if I didn't have AI helping me I would have given up. Windows 11 is a pleasure to use. I can't say the same about Linux desktop.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-07 16:23:01+00:00
I usually override non-specialists with ChatGPT plus my access to physicians in other countries (Canada, UK, India). Even specialists I always double-check with other countries' specialists I know.

There's a wide variation in doctor skill and they don't have interview systems like we do in tech. You need to be ready to override them.

I always wondered why other people talk about "needing to advocate" and so on until I realized I'm just a really pushy patient. "would you mind prescribing this anyway?" And "Could you order an MRI just to confirm anyway?"

They'll do it with some warning that insurance may not cover it and then you can choose to pay or not. And you have to push repeatedly (not forcefully, just repeatedly) to get your imaging and all that.

Except for some paediatric infection for my daughter and the ob/gyn care for my wife, this is mostly for me: I've been in hospitals many time because of trauma (Motorcycle accident, stuff like that) and so long as I'm lucid I assume control.

This is necessary in the US because there's no quarterback for your care here. There are people who do things but an overall CEO of Me does not exist. You have to play that role yourself or find an authority who can.
by The_MeatMaster | 2025-10-07 16:23:13+00:00
Wow, I never thought it would go this high. I found a gold pendant in the shape of a teddy bear at a water park in NY, and it was 10k. It's worth about $200, since the price of 10k gold is about $50 per gram. The reason that gold prices have skyrocketed is because the US dollar is slowly weakening and people are in anticipation of a recession, probably because of the tariffs that have been recently implemented.