MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by willis936 | 2025-11-30 23:57:46+00:00
That's the thing: amazing hardware. I want two things: good hardware and software I trust. It's going to be hard to trust a for-profit company selling a closed source OS, but Apple is doing a much better job of consistently talking and walking respect for user privacy for many years. There may be another reason beyond incompetence that they're not rushing out half-baked chatbots wrapped in privacy disasters.
by guywithahat | 2025-11-30 23:57:51+00:00
I remember during my last (unsuccessful) startup, I was surprised at how many people actually used linux. It's not just techies, there were lots of plumbers and blue collar workers who used it, and their perception of it was similar to just using another tool (like I can build a dresser by hand, and I can plumb a house by hand, why can't I install an OS by hand?)

Of this demographic I found they were mostly conservative/right wing. It makes me wonder if there are a bunch of influencers like Luke Smith out there telling them how to use this stuff, or if they're just figuring it out on their own through forums. I think the word "flocking" is too strong, but there is definitely a large and growing non-technical userbase of people who use linux.
by IgorPartola | 2025-11-30 23:58:06+00:00
Setting up a server with SSH and GitLab is more work than setting up a server with SSH. Dropbox is great and I use it but only because I can’t get the same functionality out of rsync without major additional orchestration. But if I am the only one working on my own project why would I need a second read-only UI for my own code?
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-30 23:58:36+00:00
> The BEAM ecosystem (Erlang, Elixir, Gleam, etc) can do distributed microservices within a monolith.

This ain't new. Any language supporting loading modules can give you the organization benefit of microservices (if you consider it a benefit that is - very few orgs actually benefit from the separation) while operating like a monolith. Java could do it 20+ years ago, just upload your .WAR files to an application server.
by alex1138 | 2025-11-30 23:59:01+00:00
"Before FreeBSD can render a graphical environment, it needs a kernel module to drive the graphics processor. Graphics drivers are a fast-moving, cross-platform target, which is why this is developed and distributed separately from the FreeBSD base system."

"To enable the driver, add the module to /etc/rc.conf file, by executing the following command: ..."

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/x11/

I get that this isn't brain surgery. But come on
by johncoatesdev | 2025-11-30 23:59:17+00:00
It's funny your warning about QR codes goes onto warn about PDF exploits. Yet you clicked the link to this article, by your own definition opening you up to "a whole different world of possible exploitations via whatever file is being returned". It's the nature of the internet to follow links, but our updated browsers keep us safe from exploits.

When was the last time you saw an un-targeted mass 0-day exploit campaign? There haven't been any for modern browsers. If we're talking about 0-days, you likely known there have been zero-click iMessage/WhatsApp vulnerabilities in the past. There's no protecting against those, but you're not here warning users to disable iMessage and WhatsApp. What's more realistic is making sure users keep their software updated, and trust that QR codes and links aren't going to waste a 0-day worth a million dollars on you.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-30 23:59:41+00:00
>Thing is, that is standing up at a battle line which has been flanked entirely.

If you think for yourself, this doesn't really matter.

>If you are someone who has a counter theory, you just don’t get platformed.

You keep mentioning this stuff from a liberal perspective but conservatives and free thinkers have been fighting this fight on social media for years as policies they disagreed with were promoted unilaterally and everything else was censored and suppressed. People were at risk of losing their jobs and being sent into exile over not wanting to take a vaccine. "My body, my choice" doesn't count when it comes to that.

The information economy is full of shills and AI bots, but that does not in and of itself prevent you from finding your own reliable sources of information. Censorship would stop you from finding it, however. Mandatory online ID would also hurt the flow of sincerely communicated information.
by woodruffw | 2025-11-30 23:59:55+00:00
> Also, any password manager that's "cloud based" is potentially a security hole. Yeah, they say the server is secure. Right.

The entire point of end-to-end encryption is that you don't need to trust the server. If your password manager has access to your secrets (i.e. you don't control the secret key/password itself), then you have bigger problems than a potentially untrustworthy host.