MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by badsectoracula | 2025-11-13 19:16:34+00:00
FWIW 95% of the games i play on my Linux are from other stores than Steam: GOG, Zoom Platform (not related to the Zoom telething) and itch.io, all of which are DRM-free stores. The Steam games i buy are mainly from small indie devs that do not have nor plan to have releases outside of Steam.

To play games i use UMU Launcher which is basically Proton minus Steam (or Wine plus DXVK, etc, depending on how you look it at). I use the "raw" UMU Launcher with its own command-line utility, though it can be used as part of Lutris for a GUI-based experience.
by Aloisius | 2025-11-13 19:17:08+00:00
> The UK invented tilting train technology, and it was given away to foreign corporations instead of being licensed and exploited in the UK.

It wasn't given away. Fiat Ferroviaria purchased the patents for it.

Mind, the UK wasn't the first tilted train (that would probably be PERC in the US) or even the first actively tilted train (either SNCF in France or Deutsche Bahn in Germany).
by stickfigure | 2025-11-13 19:17:17+00:00
Looks a lot like Google Wave. This is interesting for some things but I don't think coding is it, for the same reason that IntelliJ's CodeWithMe doesn't work for pair programming. And apparently one of the guys is a former Pivot, so it's a little surprising.

Pair programming is Two People One Cursor. A critical aspect of it is you're both looking at the same lines of code and working on the same problem and following each other's thought processes.

CodeWithMe (and it seems Zed) is Same Codebase, Same Day. There's no shared focus. You edit stuff, I edit stuff, maybe there's overlap. But this isn't much different from doing separate git commits.

So far the only remote pairing tool I've found that works competently is pop.com.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-13 19:17:23+00:00
> not the least of which is that it’s sanctioned by IT.

This is the big thing that Microsoft understands. For a non-tech company, it's going to be pretty hard to get buy in to pay for ChatGPT enterprise, and then pay for/spend dev or IT resources to integrate it (and develop those integrations) with their already existing Microsoft/SharePoint/Teams stack to make it useful. And then you still don't get the convenient Office app add-ins.

Microsoft bundles this all, integrates it for you, and provides a GUI for governance controls. It's very click-ops focused, which enterprise IT likes, and the bundling means you don't have to sell those with the wallets on buying extra third party tools. Nobody every got fired for buying s/IBM/Microsoft
by keraf | 2025-11-13 19:17:32+00:00
My parents are both 70+ and I put them on Linux (Ubuntu and Mint) a decade ago, best decision ever. All the frustration from Windows went away overnight. They are simple computer users - browsing (email, search, booking), opening PDFs, offloading photos from a camera and watching them, editing word documents and spreadsheets, everything just works with no friction. I'm so happy they never got to experience Windows 11.

A few months ago, I switched my aunt (70+ as well) to Linux Mint after repeated issues with Windows 10 and now 11. The last straw was the printer stopped working one day out of the blue. Tired to re-install it for over an hour, impossible! When I installed Mint and looked to add the printer, it was already there and ready to work. And for the user experience, I just sat her in front of the computer and asker her to do various tasks that she would normally do on Windows without any explanation, and she just did them intuitively. She even sent me a message a few days ago to thank me for installing Linux on her machine!

Microsoft keep shooting themselves in the foot with Windows, it's like they don't even care about consumer operating systems anymore. Most popular Linux distros are stable and easy to use, for an average computer user it's perfect. I also daily drive Linux (Bazzite, based on Fedora Silverblue) and it does everything I need - coding, browsing, games, it's all there. I'm never going back to Windows.
by BinaryPie | 2025-11-13 19:17:37+00:00
In vanilla neovim you can use autoread... this does depend on a focus event like entering and leaving the pane or switching buffers. However, for my workflow which is "go to a different terminal pane and do some things then switch back" as soon as I focus the buffer it updates.

Where as with Zed it'll just keep showing the old content and in fact closing and opening file wont even change what it shows in Zed. It's really really annoying. I have to exit zed and open it again. This means if you are working with AI agents you end up having to do this often.
by stopbulying | 2025-11-13 19:18:31+00:00
> Authorized drivers

Here's the legal apolitical part: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/25/11/48825719/gavin-n... :

> He did, however, finally acknowledge that federal government issued these drivers work permits.

But let's discuss the economics:

When there are not drivers taking loads (e.g. from load boards), perishables go to waste and production and distribution costs increase. Sellers pass those costs - CDL shortage, failure at free trade, bullying in external affairs, tariffs - onto consumers.

Consumers spend less when food prices increase but wages do not.

Stressed by sudden increases in cost of living, consumers then don't eat healthy and choose to take rational risks and invest in growth.
by gspencley | 2025-11-13 19:18:32+00:00
I switched to Mint (Mate) around 2012 or so because of radical UI changes made by Canonical. At the time, the "mobile revolution" was the big industry trend. Windows 8 had come out which was designed for touch screens (and people hated it) ... and Canonical released a new default desktop environment (I think it was Unity? Memory is fuzzy). It was shocking to me and when I complained about it, a friend recommended Mint.

The nice thing about Linux is that you have max choice. That can pose problems for new users who might be a bit overwhelmed but we shouldn't pretend that Canonical "owns" Linux or that everyone is necessarily going to land there. I recommend Mint when people tell me they're thinking of giving Linux a try. Haven't given Ubuntu a second thought in years.
by Vegenoid | 2025-11-13 19:18:35+00:00
Frankly, there are a ton of laws that seem dubious and underspecified to a person with an engineering mindset. This is by design, and it is the reason we have so many judges - because writing laws that clearly specify how they apply to every possible situation is often impossible. The law tries to make its intent clear, tries to lay out reasonably specific outlines, but necessarily must rely on the interpretation of those who judge the application of laws to cases.
by jack_tripper | 2025-11-13 19:18:43+00:00
>For example, can the person of today afford a higher standard of living than one of 20 years ago

Forget 20 years ago, you can just back 6 years is enough. Ask any person when life was more affordable and job security better, in 2019 or today and everyone will say 2019.

Graphs like GDP or the stock market going up, mean jack shit to the average person when they can't afford a house anymore.

A lot of our economic growth was just on paper through financial instrumentation.
by travisgriggs | 2025-11-13 19:19:32+00:00
I taught my kids to drive both manuals and automatics. Usually we got the hang of driving an automatic, and then added manual in to the mix.

But with one of my kids, it was exactly as above. They scared the crap out of me, because they just would not focus well enough. We transitioned to a manual so that they were required to focus on the task at hand, and they then turned into a good driver.

(Aside: my kids, now college+ age have all gotten great deals on cars on college budgets, because they were willing to take a manual that cost far less due to reduced demand).
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-13 19:19:45+00:00
We can argue back and forth whether this is a consumer price issue, or shareholder returns issue, but it will not matter. Congress has failed to effectively handle immigration for almost two decades, and we are here. Unauthorized immigrants are effectively slave labor in the US, who will be treated inhumanely because of their situation and high risk of being deported. If there is no path to citizenship, they are not safe on US soil. Enable their safety, even if that is outside the US. My personal opinion is treat the human humanely and with dignity, whenever possible.

If we want wages to go up, labor supply must be constrained (short term; long term, unions and organizing, but that takes years at best). Price levels will never come back down, so if you want wages to go up, you must take action to do so. Constrain the labor supply by any legal means necessary. If we want people to eat healthier, we should subsidize those parts of the agriculture system instead of cash crops for export and biofuels, no? Leveraging underpaid labor who live in constant fear is not a path to success from a cost component perspective, imho.

I cannot stress this enough: wages must go up to climb towards price levels, through most of the lower income parts of the economy.
by Anamon | 2025-11-13 19:19:57+00:00
That happened during the last offshoring hype cycle as well. Those Indian developers aren't stupid -- the ones who deliver quality work will soon move somewhere they can earn a salary to reflect that, and it will be comparable to a US/UK/EU salary. Companies who insist on sticking to low salaries are left with the worst people.

I worked with some very good offshore engineers. They all left pretty quickly for a job with double the salary, or moved abroad outright to claim it. The only ones who stuck around were the ones whose poor skills kept them from landing a better job.

It's also great for productivity when your offshore team is a rapidly rotating cast. I remember being in meetings where without any announcement, half of the developers who had slowly started to get to know the project were replaced with new faces who had no idea what they were supposed to do.
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-13 19:20:32+00:00
That's less because Bavaria makes beer, otherwise the wine states would also impede cannabis.

The problem is that Söder and his CSU are obviously following the old Nixon attitude of targetting cannabis to hit left-wings [1]:

> You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.

And then you got the absolute deranged ones, like Marlene "Cannabis ist verboten, weil es eine illegale Droge ist" (cannabis is banned because it's an illegal drug") Mortler or Daniela "Cannabis ist kein Brokkoli" (cannabis ain't broccoli) Ludwig [2]. Imagine, these two utter failures were the official drug policy heads.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-...

[2] https://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/legalisierung-von-c...
by MostlyStable | 2025-11-13 19:20:44+00:00
At least they give complete control over AI summaries and allow the user to completely turn them off, and even when on, allow them to only be supplied when the user requests them (by appending a "?" to the end of a search).

I personally have completely turned them off as I don't think they provide much value, but it's hard for me to be to upset about the fact that it exists when the user has the control.
by guiriduro | 2025-11-13 19:21:27+00:00
Come come now. Elon has built Tesla on something closer to $38bn of taxpayer largesse/avoidance according to the Washington Post.0 I doubt many people would fail to create public entities with healthy casino ponzi stock trading if they had umpteen billion $ of govt funny money propping them up. Hell they might even start a rocket business as a sideline...

0. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/e...
by buster | 2025-11-13 19:21:47+00:00
That's all fine and such, but i suppose the SLAs aren't covering your revenue loss.

In fact after looking at https://www.mongodb.com/legal/sla/atlas/data-federation#:~:t... it makes me wonder how much worth the SLA is. 10% Service Credit after all the limitations?

Atlas can take their 10% Service Credit, i wouldn't care. Save the money and chose a stable provider.
by holly6k | 2025-11-13 19:21:54+00:00
One thing I don't understand:

> Pebble 2 Duo is sold out! We are not making more. If you want a Pebble, I recommend pre-ordering a Pebble Time 2 soon.

Is this supposed to be a collector's item? I'm not sure I'd want to invest in an ecosystem where damaging the device means I'm out or stuck waiting in line for replacement - with no guarantee the new device will be similar enough.
by pndy | 2025-11-13 19:22:18+00:00
Of course they won't admit they screw everything up and that's what exactly made their users run away to competition or towards FOSS alternatives. So there's this toxic marketing positivity clown dance of "plans" happen while they're ignoring once again the criticism and feedback. And frankly, I'm fed up with this - not only in this particular MS case because this ridiculous bs can be seen in the whole corporate world.
by andblac | 2025-11-13 19:22:29+00:00
The "ALL CAPS" part of your comment got me thinking. I imagine most llms understand subtle meanings of upper case text use depending on context. But, as I understand it, ALL CAPS text will tokenize differently than lower case text. Is that right? In that case, won't the upper case be harder to understand and follow for most models since it's less common in datasets?
by Vegenoid | 2025-11-13 19:22:50+00:00
I think what I’ve gathered is that the person I replied to is going with a TOFU model of key security (trust on first use), or is just seeking to avoid plaintext passwords in slack messages and is treating the key as disposable for the one-time encryption of the password.

Presumably they must trust that the user messaging them on slack is indeed who they say they are and is in control of the account.

If I’ve understood correctly, this seems like one of those cases where PGP is adding quite little security to the system, and may be preventing the implementation of more secure systems if it is providing a false sense of security.

But it’s probably just someone doing their best in a system beyond their control.
by Reason077 | 2025-11-13 19:22:55+00:00
> ”The UK invented tilting train technology, and it was given away to foreign corporations instead of being licensed and exploited in the UK.”

This all happened in the 1970s and early 1980s, long before privatisation.

British Rail itself decided that the APT tilting trains were too risky/radical, and shifted to a more conventional design, the HST.

And the Italians had been working on their own successful tilting technology for years before they bought the APT patents in 1982.
by 0x457 | 2025-11-13 19:23:15+00:00
I'm aware. I'm saying getting a passport (or any state id...) in the US is not some epic battle against the system: it's a few bucks and reading comprehension to understand which documents to bring or someone to tell you what to bring.

Not only that, but I went from having zero photo IDs that aren't expired as a foreigner in the US to Real ID really quick without even making a DMV appointment.
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-13 19:23:24+00:00
In my brief testing just now, both extensions seem to be purely synonyms. Microsoft's documentation suggests that .razor is for Blazor components and .cshtml is for Pages, but even Microsoft's own templates are inconsistent on this and seem to use them interchangeably. The view engine doesn't seem to care what you call it and doesn't really seem to change its behavior. It really mostly just seems to underscore the difference between Razor Pages and Blazor "Server-Side Only" is real blurry to nonexistent. Obviously Blazor Hybrid and Blazor WASM have very different behavior from just Razor Pages.
by NaomiLehman | 2025-11-13 19:23:44+00:00
I just stream files from my Macbook via AirPlay to my tv. works pretty seamlessly. No media server setups. They don't even have to be on the same wifi network. I think most TVs support several streaming protocols nowadays? I got the cheapest Samsung smart TV.

You are probably right I'm out of touch with technology, but I also think that many people do much more advanced technical stuff like using VPNs - became pretty mainstream.
by lrvick | 2025-11-13 19:24:04+00:00
Are we looking at the same links?

It is provided as an option, the ONLY option, for those that feel encryption is merited for a sensitive report.

Google page: "If you feel the need, please use our PGP public key to encrypt your communications with us."

Apple page: "Apple security advisories are signed with the Apple Product Security PGP key. Sensitive security information may be encrypted to this key when communicating with Apple Product Security."
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-11-13 19:24:22+00:00
> F-Droid compiles all APKs on its store, and signs them with its own keys. Apps on F-Droid are not signed by the developers of those apps. They're signed by F-Droid, and thus can only be updated through and by F-Droid. F-Droid does not just distribute APKs uploaded by random people, it distributes APKs that F-Droid compiled themselves.

For most programs I use, they just publishing the developer's built (and signed) APK. They do their own build in parallel and ensure that the result is the same as the developer's build (thanks to reproducible builds), but they still end up distributing the developer's APK.
Show HN: Anytool – Give your LLM infinite tools with one API
by acoyfellow | 2025-11-13 19:24:23+00:00
I built inbox.dog and hit diminishing returns stuffing agents with dozens of static tools.

Context got noisy, tokens bloated, iteration slowed.

So I built Anytool: a single meta‑tool your agent calls to generate exactly the tool it needs, on demand.

First run generates + caches the code; subsequent runs are instant.

Each tool comes with its own isolated sandbox, ephemeral filesystem, per‑tool KV state, dedicated SQLite DB, per‑user env (USER_), full npm in a Bun container, and outbound fetch for APIs.

How I built it:

- Frontend: SvelteKit (Svelte 5) - Backend: Cloudflare Workers + Durable Objects - Execution: Bun container, full npm, auto‑install + global cache, no bundling - Storage: R2 for code/metadata (hash‑based), per‑tool KV + SQLite for state - Auth: Better Auth; per‑user encrypted env injected at runtime as USER_* - API: Hono + Zod OpenAPI + Scalar docs; MCP‑native surface - AI: Effect‑TS retries/self‑healing; version‑pinned imports for determinism

What it does:

- Natural‑language → real npm tool, executed in isolation - Hash caching: first run (AI + first install); next runs reuse cache - Per‑tool state (KV + SQLite) for workflows, history - Credentials: OPENROUTER_APIKEY and other secrets injected as env.USER_* - Retrieval/Augmentation (how it “learns”): - Full NPM accesss; indexes package README + types into R2 libraries/; generation retrieves these for better code and fewer tokens. - Per‑user similarity: LLM ranks your existing tools for semantic similarity and suggests modify vs create to avoid duplicates. Improves as your library grows. - MCP surface (simple on purpose): `search_user_tools` — semantic search in your library `create_tool` — generate and store new tool `execute_tool` — run a tool with input

Try it: AnytoolHQ.com

— 1,000 free runs/month. Bring your OpenRouter key (OPENROUTER_APIKEY). - Works with AI SDK/LangChain/MCP. - One tool → infinite capabilities.

Privacy/Safety:

- Per‑user encrypted env; no secrets in code - Isolated execution; audit/run history - Explicit versioned imports; reproducible runs

Would love feedback on:

- The “one meta‑tool” DX (AI SDK/LangChain/MCP) - First‑run latency + cache behavior - Env/credential ergonomics (USER_ injection) - Templates you want first (QR, CSV, validators, API clients, etc.)

Happy to answer questions.. cheers!

- Jordan Coeyman (x.com/acoyfellow)
by kalium-xyz | 2025-11-13 19:24:33+00:00
Here is the study that came to mind: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)...

However as the above study iirc doesn't directly state that these patterns cause discomfort and doesn't contain any examples I suggest reading chapter 10 "Photosensitive Epilepsy and Visual Discomfort" of "hierarchies in neurology (1989)" on page 70-71 which proposes this AND contains an example you can look at yourself.
by tick_tock_tick | 2025-11-13 19:24:37+00:00
Yes, emergencies that he determines and they can if they choose to rescind. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not exactly what powers they gave him.

My hope is the court rules that Congress cannot delegate all its power like it's been doing (nondelegation doctrine) but I'm not going to pretend he wasn't granted these powers.
by wartywhoa23 | 2025-11-13 19:25:00+00:00
Yes, it's very bad. And it's not organic. People in this very thread say that they have no choice but to use LINE. I don't know how exactly it rose to prominence in Asia, but for example in Russia people are now being forced to use the state-developed MAX. You only actually force a part of society - various state clerks, military, police, educational workers, schoolchildren, students - and they, together with their relatives, are numerous enough to leave no alternative for others by making it a de facto communication platform (while other messengers are incrementally blocked and require a VPN, which is a no go for the non-tech-savvy since regular VPNs are outlawed and blocked as well, and setting up alternatives like VLESS implies buying a VPS abroad - and the payment options are virtually all gone as well).

I believe this is the result of the current world leaders' agenda to close down and isolate countries and make as much chaos as possible by stirring local nationalism, setting up nations against nations, impeding international communication, perpetrating local atrocities while the rest of the world stands aside indifferent or doesn't even know the full extent of those, etc. And this scattered world will still be owned and milked by global entities, that's where the hypocrisy is.

If anyone's been living under the rock, I recommend that they check the news - too many rabbid talking heads are in a runaway warmongering mode now and have moved the Overton window enough to say in all seriousness that war between Europe and Russia, USA and China is not just possible, but inevitable!
by bmcahren | 2025-11-13 19:25:01+00:00
MongoDB Atlas was around 500% more expensive than in-house every time I evaluated it (at almost every scale they offer as well).

They also leaned too heavily on sharding as a universal solution to scaling as opposed to leveraging the minimal cost of terabytes of RAM. The p99 latency increase, risk of major re-sharding downtime, increased restore times, and increased operational complexity weren't worth it for ~1 TB datasets.
by canucktrash669 | 2025-11-13 19:25:28+00:00
turns out cross AZ is recommended for ES. perhaps our data team was rewritting the indices too often. but it was an internal requirement. so I think the data schema could have been more efficient to append deltas instead of reindexing all. but none of that will inflate your bill significantly at Hetzner. of course it will at AWS as that's how they incentivise clients to optimize and reduce their impact. and that's how you cut your runway by 3-6 months in compute heavy startups