MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kaycebasques | 2025-10-07 04:23:00+00:00
In the 2021 thread [1] that dang linked to, there was some discussion of friendly and hostile forks. What's the status of the forks?

Are there any libraries similar to Doxylink [2] that ensure that links from Sphinx to pdoc (and vice versa) are valid?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25903595

[2] https://sphinxcontrib-doxylink.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
by bapak | 2025-10-07 04:23:24+00:00
In my case I simply refuse jobs that don't let me work when I want to. Daily standup? Absolutely no way. Weekly standup? Only as long as I can skip it on the regular.

I'm extremely productive and I'll work weekends, but if on a Tuesday at 11am I feel like going on a trip, I absolutely will and you can't stop me.
by jltsiren | 2025-10-07 04:24:03+00:00
Why waste time and energy on chores such as laundry and shopping, if you can avoid it by taking a bit more stuff with you? A big roller bag is almost as effortless as a small one, as long as you are going to a semi-civilized place.

My favorite way of traveling involves a 20l backpack and a small checked bag. There is usually enough space for whatever I need, I don't have to worry about overhead space, and I don't need special travel versions of the things I use. But sometimes I take a larger (~100l) suitcase, or even both for longer trips with multiple activities.

As for trekking in the Himalayas, you should always carry clothes you don't expect to need and gear you hope you won't need. Mountains are objectively dangerous, and bad things do happen occasionally. Such as the unexpected blizzard on the eastern side of Everest last weekend.
by tomhow | 2025-10-07 04:25:47+00:00
Please don't post trollish comments like this on HN. As I wrote above, the article is clearly off topic for HN. Users were right to flag it, and the ones flagging it are users who flag items for the right reasons (out of HN's scope or breaching guidelines) rather than for political reasons.

It's long been against the guidelines to complain about downvoting or sneer at the community, and we need you to make an effort to contribute positively if you want to keep participating here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by tkgally | 2025-10-07 04:25:51+00:00
I started to suspect a few paragraphs in that this post was written with a lot of AI assistance, but I continued to read to the end because the content was interesting to me. Here's one point that resonated in particular:

"There’s a missing primitive here: a secure, portable memory layer that works across apps, usable by the user, not locked inside the provider. No one’s nailed it yet. One panelist said if he weren’t building his current startup, this would be his next one."
by landl0rd | 2025-10-07 04:25:56+00:00
I tend to agree, sure. This doesn't make the PR worse or something.

On the matter of curl yeah I've seen they got actual help that way. Here is the problem. If you are an open-source maintainer there is some proportion of good contributors (most) and some proportion of low-effort spammers (few). AI is a force multiplier for sheer volume. So the spammers all pick it up because they do not care about quality. It can be used carefully to good effect, true, but now your mix of incoming volume goes from "lots of good contributions and a little to spam" to "lots of good contributions and lots of AI stuff" with the latter being mostly slop.

So open-source maintainers with limited time do what all humans do: they fall back on heuristics and adopt a bias against AI output, because now dealing with the spammers on a case-by-case basis takes way more time and just tossing AI stuff becomes easier. Like all heuristics it is imperfect, and I don't know if it's the best way, but I get why they do it.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-07 04:26:48+00:00
The crucial part: these business leaders won't see the ugly consumer side.

Enterprise windows is completely different, in that most of the crap we complain about will either be disable at the MDM level, or from the start depending on the license. A CEO being issued a windows laptop isn't barraged with ads, nor do they care if their account is local or not. It will "just work".
by praxulus | 2025-10-07 04:27:09+00:00
>A customer actually has no competitor to move to - crunchyroll has a defacto monopoly (barring piracy).

When fansubs were good, Crunchyroll was forced to compete with them on quality. It's hard to convince people to pay when the alternative is both free and much higher quality.

Now that they've driven fansubs groups "out of business", they no longer face the same degree of competitive pressure to deliver a quality product.
by spookie | 2025-10-07 04:27:17+00:00
Yup, it's interesting. I think a major cause is just a lack of perspective. Maintainers are likely working for free, have their own jobs and the like. They will appreciate it if you make their jobs easier, and will be extremely cautious if you are changing fundamental/core components as a new guy in town.

One needs to study on their own, use forums or get in touch in some other way that isn't a PR if they want help. Also, while studying the codebase, finding low hanging fruit is going to be easy. That's where everyone should start.
by bapak | 2025-10-07 04:29:03+00:00
You can change.

I was the save everything, archive everything guy. I had a box of receipts for daily purchases at one point. I downloaded and burned all the movies I could.

Then I started nomading and now my life fits entirely in one 50lbs bag, which I still find way too much and I wish I could backpack like this guy. I can do monthly trips on a tiny backpack, but at some point some stuff is missing (for example I'd have to throw away nail clippers every time I take a plane during this time)
by ReactiveAI | 2025-10-07 04:29:14+00:00
Hi, I just published research paper that's introducing my Reactive Transformer (RxT) architecture. I would be grateful if you could check it and upvote on HuggingFace Daily Papers - https://huggingface.co/papers/2510.03561

Architecture is based on stateful real-time processing with innovational asynchronous memory update. Instead of reprocessing all the conversation history for each message, it's processing only single query with all the context moved to dedicated memory layers. Memory is updated after generating the answer, so it's not influencing latency - in tests, time to first token was almost the same as generating a single token. It has also better quality/accuracy in multi-turn dialogue than the same size stateless decoder-only model.

Initial experiments were small scale (12M to 160M params models trained on simple synthetic datasets), but just now I'm starting training of bigger 270M params model on real data
by rapind | 2025-10-07 04:29:16+00:00
> Why can’t anyone be bothered anymore to write actual content

The way I see it is that the majority of people never bothered to write actual content. Now there’s a tool the non-writers can use to write dubious content.

I would wager this tool is being used much differently by actual writers focused on producing quality. There’s just way less of them, same way there is less of any specialization.

The real question with AI to me is whether it will remain consistently better when wielded by a specialist who has invested their time into whatever the thing is they are producing. If that ever changes then we are doomed. When it’s no longer slop…
by bobalob | 2025-10-07 04:29:22+00:00
> Also, here's one of her many posts from JKR literally equating trans women with sexual predators.

> https://xcancel.com/jk_rowling/status/1972054407148695732

Consider what this conversation was actually about - a male sexual predator, caught pleasuring himself in the showers attached to a girls' changing room, who claimed, when caught, to have a female gender identity:

https://xcancel.com/KatieDR96/status/1972050074227429663
by philistine | 2025-10-07 04:29:41+00:00
> I'm tired of installing 5 tools to fix it

Are you installing those tools regularly? I have a couple of invisible helper apps but Time Machine backups and Mac-to-Mac Migration Assistant has made those apps transparent. They're always there.

But you know what, I think I know where you are mentally. I was there 2 years after I first bought a Mac. I wanted a clean Mac. Nothing untoward, nothing that wasn't Apple. I got rid of that feeling and learned to love the Mac as a platform, to love the Mac because of its vibrant third-party developers. That's why I use a Mac even though Apple is often a bad steward of this wonderful bicycle for the mind.
by flashgordon | 2025-10-07 04:30:04+00:00
Out of curiosity how do you feel about wasm? Reason I am asking is I've been doing something like this but using Go and phaserjs. I've found the experience pretty awesome and my main target was the web so didn't think beyond that. My choice was based on comfort with Go and a big frustration with the react eco system (also low expertise there).
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-07 04:31:10+00:00
> Is there really no way to get around the webview2 installer?

WebView2 supports both the auto-updating "Evergreen" version and a fixed version[1]:

In the Fixed Version distribution mode, you control the timing of updates to the WebView2 Runtime for your app. You download a specific version of the WebView2 Runtime and then package it with your WebView2 app. The WebView2 Runtime on the client isn't automatically updated.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/co...
by wrs | 2025-10-07 04:31:19+00:00
Given this is rewinding to the 1970s, I expected a mention of CSP [0], or Transputers [1], or systolic arrays [2], or Connection Machines [3], or... The history wasn't quite as one-dimensional as this makes it seem.

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

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systolic_array

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
by southernplaces7 | 2025-10-07 04:32:49+00:00
My two cents:

1. Clean up the formatting of the page a bit, it seems a bit choppy along the edges, especially for the visuals (at least as viewed on a laptop).

2. Refine the content for the selling points about what it offers. It's grammatically awkward and wooden. Neither is a good idea in sales copy, especially in a service designed to help writers.

Other than that, looks pretty good, and good luck.
by snailmailman | 2025-10-07 04:33:41+00:00
I’ve had multiple friends who are not tech savvy ask me about steam os. Because they basically only use their gaming PC for gaming, and they are frustrated with windows.

None have actually switched yet, but also 10 is still supported, and steam os isnt quite ready from what i understand; (nvidia driver issues?) although I assume that’s changing quite quickly. I haven’t looked super recently.

Personally I run bazzite on a machine I’ve got hooked to a tv. It’s basically steamOS and works great for gaming. I can’t speak to the desktop mode, but as long as it’s passable, windows sets the bar pretty low. Main issue is that some multiplayer games intentionally don’t support Linux for anti-cheat reasons. :(
by pRusya | 2025-10-07 04:35:12+00:00
Personal experience after living in Columbus for a few months - it felt like everybody was driving drunk and/or distracted by default. Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati were not very fun to drive around and taking unprotected left turns felt like a gamble.

On the other hand, Amish communities had glass-smooth roads and people were careful when passing horse carriages.
by jamesblonde | 2025-10-07 04:35:47+00:00
Text2SQL was 75% on bird-bench 6 months ago. Now it's 80%. Humans are still at 90+%. We're not quite there yet. I suspect text-to-sql needs a lot of intermediate state and composition of abstractions, which vanilla attention is not great at.

https://bird-bench.github.io/
by EvanAnderson | 2025-10-07 04:35:56+00:00
Unless it has changed recently you need to have a minimum qty. license purchase. Any good reseller will sell you the one license of LTSC and pad the rest of the order with the cheapest qualifying license in the catalog. (In the past it was DVD playback licenses at a couple of bucks apiece, for example.) I was able to get licensing for my father's sole proprietorship DBA from a big name reseller w/o furnishing any kind of business-related docs and paying with his personal credit card. (In his case it was Windows Server and CALs, but the premise is the same for LTSC.) You'll probably have to talk to a sales gerbil but it's imminently feasible.
by selcuka | 2025-10-07 04:37:00+00:00
> You put a data exfiltration dongle between the modem and the LAN.

Sounds interesting, and could be used in a movie, but it doesn't look like it is practically applicable in real life. You will have a hard time making sense of the data without full-MITM'ing with SSL decryption, installing your CA certificate on all machines and browsers on the LAN, and solving the certificate pinning problem.

A USB keylogger may be a simpler solution even though it can't sniff the whole LAN.
by OptionOfT | 2025-10-07 04:38:19+00:00
There is no Microsoft in this story. There is the structure of the company which roll up to the CEO. And they have 1 priority: make the shareholders happy.

This has caused incentives to shift thought the company. No more long-term work. Only short term stuff, where each change needs to make impact somewhere.

This is why you see CoPilot in 20 places in Edge. This is why OneDrive shows you nagging screens to upload your data there.

And this is why the OOBE now makes it harder. That change is used by a PM / Developer to justify their existence in the company at review time.
by avhception | 2025-10-07 04:39:32+00:00
The snap disaster really was the final nail in the coffin for me. That bug report about ~/snap has to be the hottest bug in their bugtracker, and they simply don't seem to give a shit and pretend it's fine. All the while naive users like my father or colleagues at my workplace shoot themselves in the foot by thinking "what's that folder doing in my home directory? Delete." I'm not sure if that's still the case, but there was a time when that simply hosed your whole snap installation.

It's also completely ridiculous when you run "docker run ubuntu; apt install whatever" only to find out that "whatever" is now a snap and won't run w/o getting into nested containerization. For packages that got the snap treatment, window tracking for the Gnome dash was broken for ages if, god forbid, you wanted to create a custom .desktop file to add some parameters. Completely broke the custom launchers I created.

I created bug reports, I tried to work with them. Others did, too. Some of these reports approach 10 years now.

I am purging Ubuntu from all of my employers systems, replacing it with RockyLinux. Only one major application still to go. Friends and family get Debian, that transition is already completed.
by freddie_mercury | 2025-10-07 04:40:39+00:00
Github deals with a lot of bots/AI that open pointless/spam/bad PRs/issues/etc.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/158850 https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/1akh9ll/a_...

etc etc etc

Github needs moderation, just like anything else with user-created content.

I am not in the tiniest bit surprised that sometimes moderation makes a mistake, whether human error or automated error.
by anonymous982347 | 2025-10-07 04:41:01+00:00
Developing a new consumer-grade OS is literally not possible. I don't mean it would take a herculean effort like the software ecosystem issue takes to address, I mean actually not possible regardless of how much effort any development team put in. Virtually all hardware on the open market is made for Windows, largely powered by proprietary, closed-source drivers. Linux gets some afterthought from a percentage of vendors, but even for it, hardware support is in an absolutely atrocious state. Hardware vendors will obviously not give the time of day to any uppity new OS. This relegates any attempt to a hobbyist project targeting virtual machines or obsolete hardware. The only way a new player could enter the game is by using Apple-level money to develop their hardware in-house, but any kind of corporation fronting Apple money to do that would certainly not be aiming to produce a user-driven experience.
by giardini | 2025-10-07 04:41:07+00:00
rockostrich says >"but the whole point of the analogy being a treadmill is that there's nothing to fall down."<

Spoken by one who obviously has not fallen on a treadmill! Allow me to correct your misunderstanding:

Falling on a treadmill is almost precisely the same as being drunk and disorderly and falling while facing the door of a saloon: that is, as if two thugs had grabbed your arms and thrown you unceremoniously and bodily out the door legs first and face down. Meanwhile you are (unsuccessfully) struggling to right yourself for some unknown reason [it's like a reflex response].

Not a nice experience: it taught me to always use a treadmill that had the safety clip that stops the machine if you move too far.

As for the comparative experience (being thrown out of a bar by thugs), the less said, the better.
by ggm | 2025-10-07 04:42:42+00:00
Its probably just me, but I miss "8x" and aside from normalising 1000% type statements which actually demand you do arithmetic to work out how many times bigger it is, the specious accuracy also annoys me.

Up with this, I will not put. End pointless percentage-isms now!

BYD are doing well. when their solid-state long duration fast recharge batteries hit, it may well be time to move ship from ICE, even if you have range anxiety. They're heading up, a long long way up from current WLTP levels. If you can get to your destination on one charge, and its above 500km, you should not try to worry you can't drive 600km without recharge because it's insane to drive that far without a break.

Sure, the Nullabor plain exists. I get it. There's a corner case guy just itching to tell me how they routinely do a 500mile commute, pissing into plastic jugs, to avoid stopping..
by drnick1 | 2025-10-07 04:44:11+00:00
> Friends who wanted to "take control of privacy in their life" never made it beyond a week of trying to use a Linux distribution.

I wonder why. Something like Linux Mint isn't materially different from Windows in terms of UI. Any peripheral sold as "Linux compatible" that you plug in will just work, and Steams allows to play practically any game that does not require an invasive rootkit (aka kernel-level anticheat).

I think a good first step would be to start using common FOSS programs such as Firefox, Thunderbird, VLC, LibreOffice on Windows during a transition period.
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-07 04:44:21+00:00
I tried just about everything a couple of years ago. Various VNC variants, X2Go etc.

They all sucked in terms of speed/performance compared to Windows-to-Windows RDP, and none allowed for starting a new desktop session if user wasn't already logged in, or resuming existing session if present. Both essential to me.

Many lacked some features like clipboard, file transfer, sound. First two are hard requirements as well.

I see things have been moving, so I'm hoping things become viable in a year or three.
by m463 | 2025-10-07 04:45:42+00:00
I remember when someone was prosecuted for a drug offense because their money was contaminated by cocaine... but it turns out 3/4 of currency is already contaminated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_currency

I wonder because it might be many people have THC in their blood for days, and it might not indicate what the prosecution infers. (I think thc lasts longer than say alcohol)
by xantronix | 2025-10-07 04:45:58+00:00
Humans are not this quick to be gratifyingly sycophantic, as your posts (note that I am careful not to say "you") in nearly every comment reply on this post. I sincerely must ask you, what are you getting out of all this? If it is the satisfaction of having conveyed a compelling story, does it not feel hollow? If it is the satisfaction of gamifying Hacker News, what insights could you possibly gain from this other than "people really hate AI writing"? If it is to waste people's time, congratulations.

What is the point of you?

Please don't bother copy-pasting my comment into your AI to prompt it for a response. I want to know what YOU value in your life, not some premasticated, overly-positive nonsense.
by saxelsen | 2025-10-07 04:47:09+00:00
I'll bet $100 they're seeing an opportunity to dethrone Google as the entrance point to the web and this is a big part of it.

It feels like OpenAI's mission has changed from "We want to do do AGI" to

"it'll be easier to do AGI with a lot of money, so let's make a lot of money first" to

"we have a shot at becoming bigger than Google and stealing their revenue. Let's do that and maybe do AGI if that ever works out"
by schrodinger | 2025-10-07 04:47:33+00:00
A decision tree is simply a model where you follow branches and make a decision at each point. Like...

If we had tech support for a toaster, you might see:

if toaster toasts the bread: if no: has turning it off and on again worked? if yes: great! you found a solution if no: hmm, try ... if yes: is the bread burnt after? if no: sounds like your toaster is fine! if yes: have you tried adjusting the darkness knob? if no: ship it in for repair if yes: try replacing the timer. does that help? if no: ship it in for repair if yes: yay you're toaster is fixed
by ggm | 2025-10-07 04:48:19+00:00
This is going to be sold as a bad thing. But, consumer/customer led "peak coal" is a good thing, not a bad thing. I am not for a minute denying there will be short term economic shocks, employment included. And, the people concerned are extremely vested in lobbying their way to perpetual profit in this, and there are land restitution problems in classic "privatize the profits, socialise the losses" out there.

But if you believe the evidence to AGW, this is what we need to happen: we need to turn down coal, and oil, and gas. we need to cap off the fugitive emissions.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-07 04:50:21+00:00
I think you can approach this 3 different ways:

Mathematical: If this were the case then all competitors would have seen an increase in marketshare proportional to their existing marketshare. This isn't what happened - Mac saw 3x the increase of Linux, even though Linux has greater marketshare on the survey.

Statistical: It's often said that the PC is dead or dying, but that's a misrepresentation of the issue. 25 years ago, a new computer was dated in 3 months and obsolete in a year, so PC sales were huge. Now a days, a ten year old PC is still fine for just about everything, even including relatively high end gaming. So sales have plummeted, but ownership rates are around historic highs. [1] The main limiting factor is money. More than 96% of households earning $150k+ have a desktop/laptop, while only 56% with income less than $25,000 do. The overall average is 81%.

Pragmatic: PCs are still necessary for many types of games as well as content creation. Mobile devices and tablets (to a lesser degree) are limited by their input mechanisms to a subset of all experiences, and there's a pretty big chunk of people that utilize experiences outside that subset.

[1] - https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/acs-5...