MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aurareturn | 2025-11-30 19:42:05+00:00
Replace AI with Blockchain. With cloud. With big data. With ERP. With service models. With basically almost any fad since virtualization. It’s the same thing: over-hyped tools with questionable value being shoe-horned into every possible orifice so the investors can make money.

They said the exact same thing when electricity was invented too.

Gas companies said electricity was a fad. Some doctors said electric light harms the eyes. It's too expensive for practical use. Need too much infrastructure investment. AC will kill people with shocks. Electrification will destroy jobs, said gas lamp unions. It's unnatural, said some clergy. And on and on and on...
by foxheadman | 2025-11-30 19:42:44+00:00
Reading the NixOS release notes every 6 months is how I learn about new software that I might want to try: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes#sec-rele...

For my first few years of NixOS I didn't understand the point of the NixOS stable releases, since even on "nixos-unstable" I found that if my nix config evaluates, then it'll work. And in the very rare case things broke, I could easily rollback.

NixOS stable, for me, provides API stability. I can leave a machine auto-updating, and be confident that my nix config will continue to be compatible, and thus build.

Thanks to the release managers for the work that goes into this!
by umanwizard | 2025-11-30 19:43:10+00:00
I have to disagree with your assessment, especially because there has been explicit government condemnation of the Gaza war, and/or significant public opinion that views it as a genocide, in several countries with no meaningful connection to the Holocaust (e.g. South Africa, Brazil, Ireland, and of course Palestine itself).

> that is morally equivalent to you fighting a group that slaughtered a thousand of your civilians, raped and kidnapped babies

Public opinion in Western countries does not reject Israel's right to attempt to defeat Hamas. As far as I know, all mainstream Western politicians (perhaps outside of the far left) view Hamas as terrorists and think a military response to the Oct. 7th attacks was justified.

What people disagree about is (1) to what extent Israel has taken actions that harm innocent, non-terrorist civilians (indiscriminate bombing, indefinite air and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip, apartheid-like occupation of the West Bank, etc.) and (2) whether such actions are necessary to ensure safety from terrorists and can therefore be considered justifiable collateral damage.

I appreciate that Israel's supporters would dispute the views of the anti-Israel camp on both of the above points. However, it is not accurate to claim that people equate the bare act of responding militarily to Hamas in a targeted way with genocide.
by WalterBright | 2025-11-30 19:43:27+00:00
I'm saying Musk's company was not founded on family wealth. Even if it was, where are all the other trillion dollar companies given that lots of families have wealth?

> People from wealthy backgrounds take low paid jobs sometimes, so having done so doesn't imply he's a rags-to-riches story.

It does in Musk's case. Why not read a biography of him? It's more interesting than speculation.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-11-30 19:43:47+00:00
SwiftUI is also now an API for writing Android native apps, too.

I don't know why you skipped over that part? It's maybe like when Google rewrote Java. Win32 is a bad comparison because there's no Win32-compatible API for native apps on other platforms (that I know of?) except for emulation, but the Android SwiftUI project is not using emulation, it runs the code natively and the result is native Android UI.
by dekhn | 2025-11-30 19:44:13+00:00
Another way to interpret this (and I don't mean it pejoratively at all): Demis has been optimizing his chances for winning a nobel prize for quite some time now. Releasing the data increased that chance. He also would have been fairly certain that the commercial value of the predictions was fairly low (simply predicting structures accurately was never the rate-limiting step for downstream things like drug discovery). And that he and his team would have a commercial advantage by developing better proprietary models using them to make discoveries.
by seec | 2025-11-30 19:46:35+00:00
Well the common theme of leftist is that they are in complete denial of reality.

This is how you get some dude that will argue with a straight face that EU problems absolutely come from neoliberalism when many of the biggest members are closing on 60% public spending to GDP ratio. I just can't imagine the cognitive dissonance at this point.

I wish it would be simple ignorance or plain stupidity because it would mean that would be somewhat solvable. But they are simply and purely lying and they have been doing it for so long that they don't even know where/what reality is anymore. That's a bit sad when you think about it.

At least the "good thing" is that since they are nothing but parasites, eventually they successfully destroy the host system. Then comes the reality check and for a while the parasites get evacuated.

By the way, HN is infested with Marxist types, which is hilarious considering it is supposed to be a forum for a filthy capitalist endeavor. But this is the way of life of the parasite: identify a valuable target and destroy it from the inside. Find another supply, rinse and repeat.
by queenkjuul | 2025-11-30 19:47:04+00:00
> Right, you bike everywhere and yet you never had bike stolen and don't know anybody who had a bike stolen. In Chicago, no less.

This is correct.

1. You said theft is the main reason people don't bike. Prove it.

2. You said homeless people aren't prosecuted for theft. Prove it.

We refer to "homeless people" as "homeless people," we don't just say "homeless" as if they're something different than a person (and don't be sly, you never said "the homeless," you said "homeless," alone, using the adjective as a noun, which seems intentionally degrading)
by nimbius | 2025-11-30 19:47:36+00:00
as a professional diesel mechanic for a small chain of midwest shops, this "telematics" feature is on long-haul trucks as well as tractors (john deer is notorious for using it to send mail marketing about services.)

generally its not hard to disable.

- identify the telematics module in your car - pull the fuse (not always an option, sometimes this disables bluetooth)

- alternatively: identify the 1-2 SMC connectors on the telematics device. this is the LTE and low/alt channel for the cellular communications. disconnect these 1-2 connectors and connect the ports instead to a 50 ohm terminator. the vehicle will simply continue to collect data but never be able to send it anywhere. the system will assume it just cant find a tower.
Show HN: Revolut for International Calls at cheap rates
by daolm | 2025-11-30 19:47:57+00:00
We've built a service to easily call any international number at super cheap rates. You can call US numbers from your browser or your phone, from anywhere, for less than $0.05/min. You can also buy US numbers at approx $3/month. No subscriptions or signup fees, you just topup and start making calls.

Would love any feedback from startup founders/expats calling from abroad!
by Esophagus4 | 2025-11-30 19:48:04+00:00
Early in COVID, someone said to me, “survival rates are good - it’s only going to affect the weak.”

…without realizing the irony that he was mid-40s, overweight, and had had an acute heart problem.

The funny thing about the “natural immunity” crowd is that they don’t seem to grasp their own comorbidities.

Yet of the unvaccinated COVID patients admitted to hospital, 2/3 admitted they regretted not getting vaccinated.

I guess everybody’s brave until they’re in a hospital bed with a low pulse ox.
by acheong08 | 2025-11-30 19:48:54+00:00
Complained about this yesterday as well: https://duti.dev/blog/2025/rot-of-undergrad/

The incentives are all messed up & universities can't even do anything about it since if they lose students by being more strict, their stats look worse.

Coming from a student, it's disheartening to see seemingly nobody even remotely interested in the subject. Nobody to talk to about interesting research, to work together on projects with, etc. I'd present something quite interesting (e.g. https://duti.dev/randoms/wip-location-services/ on the massive amounts of analytics being sent off by iPhones) and their eyes would just glaze over and say something like "nerd" or "put the fries in the bag".

I'm sure this is not the case for all universities though. I was lucky enough to intern at the University of Cambridge over the summer & it was really cool working with the PHD students there. They were all highly motivated & actively working on research.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-11-30 19:49:08+00:00
For the context: on SE for 13+ years, north of 400k cumulated rep.

I hate what SO became. It is true that they get heaps of junk, but a carefully crafted question from a high rep user that gets downvoted almost systematically is a problem. With me or with the massive egos of the readers.

It used to be nice and friendly. Today it is not and Meta is full of inbread psychopaths. If you want to see a brain under cocaine go there.

In contrast there are wonderful sites in SE at large. Cooking, Tex, Law, Travel, even Academia -- you get good, terse, sensible answers there.

As an atheist I love to read the Jewish SE. The amount of effort Jews are putting into making their life a jungle is popcorn worthy (I am thinking about everything not directly related to god, but rather the innumerable rules for everyday life). And yet everyone is fine, friendly, people are not trying to downvote or close as of it was a competition.

Nobody gets credit for their high rep in Cooking. People use SO for work or to show off - maybe the problem is in this dichotomy.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-30 19:50:01+00:00
My car is older than that and came with an embedded SIM card. Quite a few navigation consoles had "live traffic updates" (often in trial format, but sometimes "lifetime") that basically consisted of 2G clients occasionally updating traffic data along planned routes. Not quite bottom of the line at the time, but also not uncommon at that point either. It's probably slightly worse than the dedicated satnav screens people were buying back when the car was new, although neither compares to what a smartphone will expose passively from just being inside of a moving car.
by th3tekllc | 2025-11-30 19:50:53+00:00
The Uncomfortable Truth About Offshore

Every enterprise has the same story.

You hired TCS, Infosys, Wipro, or Cognizant. The pitch was compelling: $45/hour versus $150/hour. The math was obvious. You'd save millions.

Then reality hit.

You don't have 200 engineers in India. You have 12-18 real shippers in the US and a 180-person tax.

I've seen this pattern repeat across cable, big pharma, insurance, and more. At one Fortune 500, they had 55 engineers on the books. Only 3 were trusted to deliver end-to-end without handholding. The other 52? They generated work for those 3.

Enter AI (But Not How You Think)

Here's where it gets interesting.

Everyone's talking about AI coding assistants. Cursor raised at a $29 billion valuation. GitHub Copilot is on every developer's machine. The narrative is "AI will make developers faster."

That's thinking too small.

The real disruption isn't making your 200 offshore engineers 20% faster at typing. It's eliminating the need for 180 of them entirely.
by pocketlim | 2025-11-30 19:51:58+00:00
This was my first learning experience with iOS around late 2012. Watched all the lovely videos and did the homeworks just to learn, and eventually went on to write lots of probably horrible working code for early Tinder. At least we had a QA team that rocked back then.

Thanks Paul! Could not have asked for a better intro to working with Objective-C at the time. The fact that this is free and everyone can learn with it is awesome!
by jjaksic | 2025-11-30 19:52:09+00:00
Bazzite is an insanely awesome distro!

I used Ubuntu for 8 years constantly fixing issues, from the day I installed it (because it didn't support basic Ryzen), after every distro upgrade, and various other random points, e.g. when installing a package whose dependency overwrote something. Each issue took hours to fix, usually searching forums for arcane command lines and trying everything until something worked (possibly breaking other things in the process).

Last year I tried Bazzite for my kid who like games and realized that it's 100x better than Ubuntu, for both gaming and serious work. It's 100x more stable and virtually unbreakable, far more modern and up-to-date than Ubuntu, and I can still do just about everything I want (just have to do it differently because it's atomic). Since I switched to Bazzite I have had zero issues, because atomic distros are inherently so much more stable. Everyone uses the exact same image, and the state of the OS is always fresh and doesn't deteriorate over time the way mutable distros do. And best of all, if any issue does come up (which is extremely rare), the fix is always the same and it takes 1 minute: boot into the previous version.

I used to avoid using my PC due to constant issues with Ubuntu, now I often switch it on simply because Bazzite makes me so happy.

It frustrates me to no end that people to this day still recommend Ubuntu and its derivatives as "good" and "user friendly" when it literally breaks all the bloody time, and meanwhile there are awesome distros like Bazzite and Aurora that are rock-solid like MacOS and ChromeOS.
by pscanf | 2025-11-30 19:52:18+00:00
I see MCP as fundamentally limited: even if we had an LLM that knew how to use it perfectly, at the end of the day MCP workflows are integrations between many different APIs that were not designed to be composed and to work together.

What if $TOOL_X needs $DATA to be called, but $TOOL_Y only returns $DATA_SUBSET? What happens when $TOOL_Z fails mid-workflow, after $TOOL_W has already executed?
by 65 | 2025-11-30 19:52:36+00:00
Oh how I'd like the AI bubble to pop already when ROIs don't justify the cost. I like AI for things like getting recommendations or classifying images. And yet execs feel the need to force every possible use case down our throats even if they don't make any sense or make quality worse.

E.g. Programming - and I do judge not only those who use AI to code but execs who force people to use AI to code. Sorry, I'd like to know how my code works. Sorry, you're not an efficient worker, you're just making yourself dumber and churning out garbage software. It will be a competitive advantage for me when slop programmers don't know how to do anything and I can actually solve problems. Silicon Valley tech utopians cannot convince me otherwise. I don't think poorly socialized dweebs know much about anything other than their AI girlfriends providing them with a simulation of what it feels like to not be lonely.
by nwellinghoff | 2025-11-30 19:53:29+00:00
This is pretty easy to work around via vpns etc. Guess its another barrier…for now. But it forces escalating tactics by the other side to appear legit. So if ppl come to trust the “source” information. It might actually end up worse in the long run as the sources are all spoofed. Would need a more advanced system using signatures and real life verification to actually know a source. Similar to a ca with all of its drawbacks. Point being, this move is kind of a wash.
by xyzzy_plugh | 2025-11-30 19:54:34+00:00
I'm not conflicted. Nothing compares to nix. I've been using it on macOS, for Linux hosts, for years now, and it's been incredibly rock solid. I stopped using homebrew years ago and I couldn't be happier about that.

> Consistently through the 25.05 period nix-darwin and nixpkgs would fall out of sync. I learned not to `nix flake update` too often as a result.

I find using a singular nixpkgs version is almost always a recipe for things breaking if you are on unstable. I usually end up juggling multiple nixpkg versions, for example you might want to pin the input to nix-darwin separately.

This is squarely a nixpkgs problem. It's the largest most active package repository known to man. I am pretty sure GitHub has special-cased infrastructure just for it to even function. Things are much more stable in release branches. If that causes you pain because you want the latest and greatest, it's worth considering that you'd experience the same problem with other package repositories (e.g. Debian), and then asking yourself what it is you are actually trying to accomplish. There's a reason they call it unstable.

> but if you squint and reason that mise and nix solve the same issue, why not use the less opinionated, easier to reason about mise?

If mise works for you then great, use it. When I squint and reason, they do not solve the same issue. I don't know how you come to the same conclusion either. Why are you using nix-darwin at all? What is the overlap between nix-darwin and mise? I don't see it.

If all you want is dev environments, I recommend flox.

At the end of the day I'll continue using nix, and especially nix-darwin, _solely_ because it let me set up a new machine in under 5 minutes and hit the ground running. Nothing else compares.
by vel0city | 2025-11-30 19:55:39+00:00
A massive chunk (if not majority?) of those top 20 metro areas are largely car dependent for most of their populations. Large areas don't have any public transit at all, and the rest is often designed to be actively hostile to pedestrians.

Try living without a car in these places, all in the 4th largest MSA.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/mHmGidZRJaKptHeL8

https://maps.app.goo.gl/5P4mW5iM6b5ab9Ve7

https://maps.app.goo.gl/JCiBgESKs5ZWqGny8

https://maps.app.goo.gl/E1iVwLCB28ooGhQL9

These are all in "urban" areas and a part of DFW. But how about Houston, the 5th?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7yEAimERmyE1EGde6

https://maps.app.goo.gl/UKSQjPqifWUSv82H7

I don't know how one would even get groceries without a car.

And even then, you're then talking about less than 1/3 of Americans living in that mostly car dependent space.
by pfp | 2025-11-30 19:55:47+00:00
I thought about getting a traditional navigator to avoid even relying on phone navigation.

Well, of course all the Garmins and Tomtoms available now have "built-in wifi for updates" and often BT for phone notifications too. Sure, I could just not configure either but what if I want a navigator _without any radios_ and with controlled updates via SD card.

Maybe a dedicated Android phone in the car with offline OpenStreetMaps installed and airplane mode on is more realistic. Or some old 2nd hand navi that's still updateable.
by snowwrestler | 2025-11-30 19:55:56+00:00
Yay for X publishing this, but only because it helps address a problem that they created in the first place.

By paying a little bit of real cash money for hitting engagement stats, X created an incentive for people in other countries to fake the most engaging content they can find—which on X is right-wing rage bait. It has high emotional content and X’s algorithm was tweaked to prefer it.

It’s no different from the incentives that produced a flood of AI slop on Facebook, as thoroughly reported by 404 Media:

https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/
by greycol | 2025-11-30 19:56:19+00:00
Without commenting on the rest of either of your posts, he is talking about how to trade between stable and other coins with that limit on Bitcoin. i.e. He is saying there will be so many people trading away stable coins for Bitcoins (as in Bitcoins not generic stand in for cryptocoin) or other coins that the 7tx/s limit of Bitcoin wallet transfers that it will become a significant factor as Bitcoin is used as a 'reserve currency' for these trades.
by dekhn | 2025-11-30 19:57:42+00:00
If there's one thing I wish DeepMind did less of, it's conflating the protein folding problem with static structure prediction. The former is a grand challenge problem that remains 'unsolved' while the latter is an impressive achievment that really is optimization using a huge collection of prior knowledge. I've told John Moult, the organizer of CASP this (I used to "compete" in these things), and I think most people know he's overstating the significance of static structure prediction.

Also, solving the protein folding problem (or getting to 100% accuracy on structure prediction) would not really move the needle in terms of curing diseases. These sorts of simplifications are great if you're trying to inspire students into a field of science, but get in the way when you are actually trying to rationally allocate a research budget for drug discovery.
Show HN: Sportfoli – A Simple, Clean Sports Profile Builder for Athletes
by ethjdev | 2025-11-30 19:57:47+00:00
I kept seeing athletes struggle with messy Google Docs, PDFs, and random Instagram pages when trying to show coaches who they are. So I built Sportfoli, a minimal profile builder that creates a clean public page in minutes. You just enter your details → it generates a shareable profile. No templates, no design work, no clutter.

Built with Next.js, Tailwind, and Supabase. It’s still early and I’d genuinely appreciate feedback from people who’ve launched small tools before — what to improve, what to cut, what’s missing.

Live here: https://sportfoli.com
by cyberax | 2025-11-30 19:58:05+00:00
I don't want microservices!

What I want is a lightweight infrastructure for macro-services. I want something to handle the user and machine-to-machine authentication (and maybe authorization).

I don't WANT the usual K8s virtual network for that, just an easy-to-use module inside the service itself.

You should be able to spin up everything localy in a docker-compose container.
by malwrar | 2025-11-30 19:58:07+00:00
I totally missed that part of your comment, my bad. Thanks for elaborating on those, I feel inspired to experiment!

So far my kernel journey has been about making my hardware work + enabling features, and that’s mostly how I’ve been discovering config options. Do you have any suggestions on where one aught to read further on this sort of kernel tuning?

EDIT: doing some further research, couldn’t you just set those options via sysctl w/o needing to build a separate kernel?
by II2II | 2025-11-30 19:58:16+00:00
I found the banning comment to be odd. That said, all it really takes is a policy change (something that I see as far more likely in Microsoft's case) or simply a change in the underlying software (again, somewhat likely with Microsoft) for the platform to become unusable for them. Keep in mind that Dillo is a browser for those who can't on don't want to fit into the reality of the modern web.
by everdrive | 2025-11-30 19:58:26+00:00
>Falling back to an attitude of not needing automation and instrumentation is a cope, and often a poor cope at that.

A lot of modern automation is not really automation. A washing machine is automation: it takes a task which would have wasted hours of your day and reduces it down to a few minutes. A lot of modern "automation" doesn't save you any actual time time, but just saves you from being attentive:

- Checking your tire pressure doesn't take much time, but TPMS is a privacy problem and an added maintenance cost that you cannot opt out of.

- A power rear lift gate actually takes _more_ time than just shutting it with your hands.

- Power windows don't go down any more quickly than power windows. The only only benefit here is that you can open all 4 windows simultaneously. However this is a luxury, not something which saves you time. You never _need_ all 4 windows down. So maybe people like it, but it's not like the washing machine that actually saves you labor.

- etc ....

People think that needed to do or attend to anything is wasting time, but often modern automation saves no time whatsoever, and has other downsides. (privacy, maintenance cost, vehicle weight, etc.)