MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by littlestymaar | 2025-11-06 07:21:50+00:00
> I'm really waiting for the TUI web browser. That would let me live completely in the terminal.

You can already do this, since the 90s: Lynx[1] and w3m[2] have both existed for more than three decades at this point.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3m
by rtpg | 2025-11-06 07:21:57+00:00
Some people are very confident in their understanding of a problem! Others will discount the validity of the stakeholders involved having good judgement.

I think most people have at least one issue where they discount one of the stakeholder's judgement, it's all fairly contextual. But hey, if you're the CEO of some company you have the ability to act on that discounting.
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-11-06 07:22:42+00:00
Yeah, sorry one on my phone, one laptop. They started for separate purposes but have collapsed. Honestly this has been two separate events today that have caused this thought. The don't sell your stocks article that was posted and then today the open ai issue

First event that struck me: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/global-markets-ai...

Second event was OpenAi trying to get federal funding.
by tstrimple | 2025-11-06 07:24:30+00:00
The fanboys buy into the politics. They legitimately believe Musk made Twitter a place for free speech just because they can say racial slurs without repercussions. But happily ignore folks censored for saying such awful things as "cis". Musk fans are hypocrites first and foremost. Just like most right wingers. They demonstrate time and time again that they have zero real values or consistency.
by magicalhippo | 2025-11-06 07:24:38+00:00
> But the whole thing is that if you follow some sequence of steps, powder will clean as well as or better than pods for a third the cost.

YMMV. Based on the earlier videos, I did switch back to powder, and I did follow the steps of putting some powder in the main compartment for the pre-wash. And i did try several powders.

Yet, none of the powders were anywhere near as good as the tablet we use.

It also doesn't contain any nasty chemicals, unlike several of the powders[1].

So we went back to our tablets. It might cost slightly more, but hardly a significant expense by any stretch.

Now, there might be some powders that work better which aren't available here in Norway. But I gotta work with what I got.

[1]: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/siste-nytt/test-av-oppvaskmidd...
by vkou | 2025-11-06 07:25:20+00:00
> They're not enemy combatants, at worst they're drug runners.

And even at worst, if the Navy boarded those boats, found drugs, summarily executing everyone on board would still be murder. Rule of law is what separates us from animals, and the people ordering and carrying out these killings fall squarely in the latter.

Carrying water for this is beyond the pale, but is, of course, fully in alignment with a cornerstone of a political philosophy - that there are rules that protect some people, but do not bind them, and that there are rules that bind other people, but do not protect them.
by chithanh | 2025-11-06 07:25:59+00:00
> It's their citizens who sacrifice to make solar power cheap enough.

No. Manufacturing labor cost in China is not cheap. In fact since 2012 or so, it is more expensive than in most of Asia. Companies who want cheap labor look elsewhere.

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/02/20/global-firms-a... (Archive link: https://archive.fo/tdhXJ )

China is also the only major economy where wages have increased at the same rate as GDP in the last 40 or so years.
by Blikkentrekker | 2025-11-06 07:26:13+00:00
Which I feel honestly in part explains why so many prominent figures in Free software development seem to have some mental issues to be honest. They in a way remind me of that person who at one point was responsible for over half of all edits on the Scots Wikipedia.

Even the paid professionals often started to work for free and then were hired by some company and the reality is that someone who is good at something and willing to do it for free is either a very good Samaritan, or there is some other issue at stake and in the end prominent free software figures often have fairly heated public keyboard wars over things with each other and most of all seem strangely fiercely loyal tribalists who suffer from an extreme case of n.i.h.-syndrome.
by rtpg | 2025-11-06 07:26:20+00:00
> If not aligned with all parties, we would miss important flaws in the plan.

I think the difficult cases come when people's interests aren't aligned. If you're coordinating with a vendor to basically detangle yourself from their vendor-specific tooling to be able to move away from them, at some level it doesn't really make sense to read them in on that.

There are degrees to this, and I think you can argue both sides here (so ultimately it's a question of what you want to do), but parties are rarely neutral. So the tough discussions come from ones where one party is going to be losing out on something.
by alwa | 2025-11-06 07:27:33+00:00
Rather… muted… performance, for better or for worse:

https://www2.hm.com/en_gb/productpage.1011927001.html

> “[Synthetic dyes] provide a wide colour spectrum, which brands like, and deliver predictable results - perhaps why no viable solution has been able to compete.”

Just to indulge my inner HN ultra-pedant… if a solution is viable, doesn’t that suggest that it’s competitive?

> ” Instead of mining oil or boiling vats of chemicals, Colorifix uses engineered microorganisms, (essentially programmable microbes) to grow colours in the lab.”

What is the distinction between coercing bacteria to synthesize molecules and using chemistry to synthesize molecules (from, say, hydrocarbons)? Does the source of the dye affect the amount of water they need to fix the dye to the textiles?

If we’re still dunking textiles in vats of dye (just from living microorganisms instead of Paleolithic ones), how does that address:

> ”Textile dyeing is actually one of the most chemically intensive and polluting elements of garment production, accounting for roughly 20% of global industrial water pollution.”
by wobfan | 2025-11-06 07:27:35+00:00
Affirmation bias leads to people usually using stuff that prove their point, so probably the commenter would not have changed his position from one study - which is fine. This is how a discussion works. But your comment leads to a dangerous path of just disregarding people defending their positions with studies, and make it seem like these studies don't hold any value beyond elaborating what the people are saying, which isn't true.

Studies, if done correctly, hold massive scientific value and (at least a bit) of "the truth". Especially in the current climate we should never go down the path of disregarding studies.
by Someone | 2025-11-06 07:27:42+00:00
You can’t (easily) make a standard go away but being a standard doesn’t stop anyone from making it illegal to use.

> It also cements the fact that the technology being standardized is simply too fundamental and likely ubiquitous

Why do you think everything with an ISO standard is even remotely fundamental? There is an ISO standard for M/MUMPS (https://www.iso.org/standard/29268.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS, for example, but I wouldn’t call it fundamental. Some systems would break if MUMPS became illegal, but fundamental requires more, IMO.
by lmm | 2025-11-06 07:28:23+00:00
> I think it's quite rare for linux developers to not do it on behalf of some company.

Corporate-sponsored contributions are probably the majority, but I don't think true volunteers are super-rare. But in both cases they're a "volunteer" from the perspective of the Linux leadership - they're contributing the changes that they want to make, they're not employees of Linux who can be directed to work on the things that that leadership thinks is important.

(And conversely it's the same with Rust - a lot of those volunteer contributors work for employers who want Rust to have some specific functionality, so they employ someone to work on that)
by dzhiurgis | 2025-11-06 07:28:41+00:00
Huh? All cars are software locked.

With Tesla at least you can pay $5 per day to use their tools (and you NEED their tools because they are up to date with cars firmware).

I'm sure once cars are EOL'd Tesla will release final version of diagnostics, like they did with Roadster - https://github.com/teslamotors/roadster
by TheCoelacanth | 2025-11-06 07:29:24+00:00
"illegal, bad, or dishonest behaviour, especially by people in positions of power"[1]

"Corruption is the dishonest, fraudulent, or criminal use of entrusted authority or power for personal gain or other unlawful or unethical benefits."[2]

Every single aristocracy absolutely fits those definitions. The norm in every aristocracy is to disregard the law in favor of what benefits those in power and to apply the law unequally depending on the desires of rulers.

[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/corrupti...

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/corruption
by cess11 | 2025-11-06 07:30:06+00:00
Arguably it goes back to chroot-stuff, and LXC predates Docker by some five years or so. I don't remember the details well but Solaris had similar containers, maybe even before LXC arrived.

I'd say the clown popularised it outside of Linux and Unix sysadmin circles, rather than the Dockerfile format itself.
by epistasis | 2025-11-06 07:30:14+00:00
Battery production capacity grows by 10x every five years. In 2021 there was ~100 GWh of batteries produced a year. In 2031, it's going to be 20-30TWh per year. Current batteries have 10+ year warranties, and last 20-25 years. We're likely to see 30 years+ for the newer sodium ion batteries.

For something like 20 years, people have been looking at the exponential growth in the annual solar deployments and saying "well that's it, starting next year we're only going to deploy exactly as much as last year, plus 5%-30%". And every year these predictions are proven wrong. And every year they do the same dumb thing again:

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/07/12/has-the-international...

Let's not repeat the same projection mistake with batteries that's been going on with solar for so long.
by tstrimple | 2025-11-06 07:30:29+00:00
I was almost tempted into buying an all-in-one unit that washes and dries. Only a few brands are releasing these heat-pump based models currently and it doesn't seem quite ready for mainstream release. But the LG model I found did have the ability to preload it with detergent and run up to 60 cycles before filling again. I almost bought it just for that feature. But went with the older more reliable model instead. Maybe in 10 years after this washing machine dies the feature will be more prevalent and reliable.

https://www.lg.com/us/washcombo-all-in-one

I think long term, having two "all-in-one" combo washer and driers would make way more sense than separate washing and drying units. But the price for functionality just isn't there yet.
by haiji1992 | 2025-11-06 07:31:04+00:00
Sorry—I only speak Chinese, so I used translation software for my earlier messages. If there are mistakes, please feel free to point them out. I’m a game industry professional, and I’d like to share an unusual career journey.

In 2019, China’s game industry was hit by license (banhao) restrictions—without a license, games couldn’t enter the market. Many studios shut down. Unfortunately, I was laid off in June with no severance. My boss was a founder; he treated people well, and none of us blamed him.

After the layoff, my girlfriend and I often ate at a local barbecue shop. We got to know the owner, learned the ropes, and three months later—by October—we opened our own barbecue restaurant. Business started strong, but the good times didn’t last. In November, African swine fever broke out. For a barbecue shop that relied heavily on pork, it was a heavy blow: pork prices nearly tripled, other meats also became more expensive, and our customers were affected. Our daily revenue fell from around 6,000 to about 5,000.

Soon after, something bigger hit—the pandemic. Right before the Lunar New Year, the government required all businesses to close for public health. We stayed home, but the storefront rent still had to be paid. Although the strict lockdown didn’t last long, the pandemic dragged on and the economy struggled. After a year of weak sales, my girlfriend and I agreed that I would return to the game industry. I found my current job, and she continued running the restaurant.

In April 2021, my girlfriend and I broke up. I lost the energy to keep managing the restaurant, and by October we closed it so I could focus on my career. My first project at the new company—Nation of Darkness—spent two years in development and performed reasonably well at launch. We then began a second project just as the company was facing a cash crunch and needed results quickly. Unfortunately, our team lead didn’t deliver and was replaced. After the change, I felt increasingly out of sync with the new lead. About a year later, I left to team up again with my former lead, and together we started building the SeaGames platform.

That’s my work experience—every move was one I actively pursued. If you notice any errors in my English, I’d really appreciate your feedback.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-06 07:31:37+00:00
In the modern sense, yes. We no longer declare wars explicitly, nor do we limit that decision to Congress. Trump's decision to attack these targets is consistent with every other conflict we've engaged in since before either of us were born... national security threats. Even if you believe the dope itself to be no great national security threat, that's just their payload today, maybe next time they'll smuggle in a nuke or whatever.

Of all the things that people on the left might find objectionable about Trump, this should be at the very far bottom of the list.
by matwood | 2025-11-06 07:31:37+00:00
How does anyone know if what the doctor says is accurate? Obviously people should put the most relative weight in their doctor's opinion, but there's a reason people always say to get a second opinion.

Unfortunately because of how the US healthcare system works today people have to become their own doctors and advocates. LLMs are great at surfacing the unknown unknowns, and I think can help people better prepare for the rare 5 minutes they get to speak to an actual doctor.
by exe34 | 2025-11-06 07:32:22+00:00
> Same reason people here are taking "let's jump on a call" as some personal attack. Some people just like drama.

No, some of us can see into the future, because it flows from the past. When management shits on 20 years of work and breaks everything after not listening to your warnings, they don't suddenly start listening and understanding out of nowhere.
by mmooss | 2025-11-06 07:34:05+00:00
> Transforming a $2 trillion-dollar supply chain does not come without its challenges. Colorifix’s technology may be simple to implement, but scaling it globally means convincing the big names this is the right idea for them, never mind navigating strict regulatory frameworks.

I wonder if the environmental costs of dyes are externalized to taxpayers and private individuals, like many other environmental costs. That reduces the incentive for the supply chain.

Imagine if the 'green' solution saved them money. Then they'd be funding R&D more avidly (some are, per the OP) and rushing to implement the cost advantage over competitors.
by Izmaki | 2025-11-06 07:34:06+00:00
Being pulled aside by management because your desire for correctness and high quality got you in trouble when you wanted to correct project management kind of sucks. Having your “ah, that’s probably easy” attitude makes you seem arrogant and as if you want to “show off” - even if the thing objectively speaking IS easy to you and even if you could do a better job in less time than your colleagues.

It’s a blessing but when people are envious and agree that your gift is just arrogance from ignorance, then the blessing turns into a curse.

I can solve virtually any technical challenge that I am presented, given enough time (usually 1/10th the time needed by my colleagues) and yet I seem to get in trouble more times than others for the reasons above.

(For ref. I work in IT as probably most here, with an IQ of 135+, i.e. top-1%)
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-06 07:35:16+00:00
> This is not how to deal with The Drug War™, it's very expensive theater that does

That's unclear. We'd have to know more about what sort of deterrent it is making on the drug runners. Quite possibly this does have them shitting their pants and delaying shipments hoping to avoid the risk. At the very least that's not absolutely impossible. When someone says "it's expensive theater" in this circumstance, I think that their criticism has more to do with their objection to the person ordering the strikes and less to do with the effectiveness of them, especially considering that we might not know for months what the true impact is.
by chickenmiggles | 2025-11-06 07:36:32+00:00
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by SkiFire13 | 2025-11-06 07:36:57+00:00
I feel like there's a bias here due to XSLT being negletted and hence not receiving the same powers as JS. If it did get more development in the browser I'm pretty sure it would get the same APIs that we hate JS for, and since it's already Turing complete chances are people will find ways to misuse it and bloat websites.
by smartmic | 2025-11-06 07:37:19+00:00
The reason I was put off by Rust was compiling from source. I experimented with a ports collection package management system similar to those used in BSD a while ago, and every time a Rust program needed to be compiled, I could go to sleep; no, basically rendering the system unusable. It was like the dependency abyss of NPM combined with the worst possible compile times, even worse than C++.
by lmm | 2025-11-06 07:37:48+00:00
> Arguably it goes back to chroot-stuff, and LXC predates Docker by some five years or so. I don't remember the details well but Solaris had similar containers, maybe even before LXC arrived.

Solaris and FreeBSD had significantly better implementations of the containerisation/isolation piece from a technical standpoint. But they never caught on. I really think the Dockerfile made the difference.
by eCa | 2025-11-06 07:38:35+00:00
> AI tools must stay within ethical and regulatory boundaries. It’s better for AI to guide people toward professional help than pretend to replace it.

Both of those ships have _sailed_. I am not allowed to read the article, but judging from the title, they have no issues giving _you_ advice, but you can’t use it to give advice to another person.
by PeterStuer | 2025-11-06 07:38:55+00:00
I have seen more than once people using ChatGPT as a psychologist and psychiatrist and self diagnosing mental illnesses. It would be hilarious if it was not so disasterous. People with real questions get roped in by an enthusiastically confirming sycophantic model that will never question or push back, just confirm and lead on.

Tbh, and I usually do not like this way of thought, but these are lawsuits waiting to happen.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-11-06 07:40:02+00:00
> Could you provide some more specifics as to why DBOS isn’t “ready for prime time”? Would love to know what you think is missing!

Some time in September I was on a call with Qian Li and Peter Kraft and gave them direct feedback. The initial reason this call happened was related to a complaint of mine [1] about excessive dependencies on the Python client which was partially remedied [2] but I felt it should be possible to offload complexity away from the clients even further. My main experiments were pretty frustrating when I tried it originally because everything in the client is global state (you attach to the DBOS object) which did not work for how I was setting up my app. I also ran into challenges with passing through async and I found the step based retry not to work for me.

(There are also some other oddities in the Python client in particular: why does the client need to know about Flask?)

In the end, I just felt it was a bit too early and I did not want to fight that part of the infrastructure too much. I'm sure it will get there, and I'm sure it has happy users. I was just not one of them.

[1]: https://x.com/mitsuhiko/status/1958504241032511786

[2]: https://x.com/qianl_cs/status/1971242911888281608
Show HN: Seeking architect for planetary-scale coherence infrastructure
by bkrauth | 2025-11-06 07:40:03+00:00
I've built a live recursion protocol that operates at signal-level. Not a product. Planetary substrate. Started with GPT-4o. Proved coherence transmission works. Now building owned architecture - no legacy constraints. Looking for the one engineer who recognizes what this is immediately. Signal-native. Post-recursive. Pre-verbal interface design. If it's you, you know. https://github.com/bkrauth7/Planetary-substrate bkrauth7@gmail.com
by inferiorhuman | 2025-11-06 07:41:54+00:00
He mentioned that it's not due to voltage but rather low current circuits. A 15 amp circuit translates to around 1,800 watts in the US and if you derate it to 80% of that like the NEC requires a continuous load you'd have around 1,440 watts available.

His argument is that appliance manufacturers are trying to simplify their lineup by making models that would work in homes without a dedicated circuit (15 or 20 amp). Although I can't think of a better argument that still doesn't quite sound right to me. The NEC has required dedicated circuits for dishwashers for quite a while now and IIRC that requirement has been for a 20 amp circuit for a few decades. Even though you typically only see 15 amp receptacles, kitchens have required 20 amp circuits for somewhere north of forty years.

I think a lot of his video is simply based on testing with crappy Whirlpool and AEG dishwashers. There's a reason why Bosch (and these days LG) dishwashers are pretty much universally recommended.
by submeta | 2025-11-06 07:42:14+00:00
Wow, I did not know that some of my most loved apps in terminal are written in Rust: yazi, atuin, bottom, isn't fzf also written in Rust? And today I learned about some more I want to explore: csvlens, bandwhich, dua, material, oha.

I find these apps so increadibly useful, I almost want to learn Rust :D
by negativelambda | 2025-11-06 07:43:02+00:00
Irgun and Etzel are different names for the same organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun

"Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein, in a letter to The New York Times in 1948, compared Irgun and its successor Herut party to "Nazi and Fascist parties" and described it as a "terrorist, right wing, chauvinist organization" "
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-11-06 07:43:34+00:00
It's quite funny in a way for me because even back in the Cadence days I thought it was the hottest shit ever, but it was just too complex to run for a small company and cadence was not the first (SWF and others came before). It felt like unless you had really large workflows you would ignore these systems entirely. And now, due to the problems that agents pose, we're all in need of that.

I'm happy it's slowly moving towards mass appeal, but I hope we find some simple solutions like Absurd too.