MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Indri-Fazliji | 2025-11-21 12:48:11+00:00
GitPulse v1.0 is GitHub-focused as an MVP, but the architecture supports multiple platforms.

Roadmap includes: - GitLab - Codeberg - sr.ht - Self-hosted Gitea

Which platform would you most like to see next?

The algorithms (matching, difficulty prediction) are platform-agnostic and will work anywhere.
by lproven | 2025-11-21 12:48:20+00:00
> Genode, another OS that runs on SeL4.

Hang on, what? Genode can run on seL4 but seL4 is not part of it. Genode can also run on Linux and a bunch of other things. It has its own native kernel and it's not based on seL4 in any way, AFAIK.
by dgacmu | 2025-11-21 12:48:58+00:00
The comment is by the author. And it's not wrong! You can get super cheap microcontrollers for pennies that will act as an easy to use programmable oscillator, if that's what you want. And more to the point, you usually want an oscillator to _do something_, not just to wiggle in isolation, and the cheap microcontroller lets you skip the middleman in many cases.

Yes, you're using a million transistors to do something you could have done with a couple of discrete passives, but it will often result in a lower total BoM and development time. Not always.
by miki123211 | 2025-11-21 12:49:35+00:00
Also keep in mind that, for a $999 laptop, Dell and HP aren't getting $999 in profit.

Most of the price of that laptop goes into components that other companies make. There's very little that's actually made by Dell (or even specifically for Dell).

I wouldn't be surprised if they make as much on kickbacks for mcAfee subscriptions as they make on the laptops themselves.
by andix | 2025-11-21 12:50:27+00:00
So the fault is at purchasing departments, that buy incompatible laptops. They would probably need to order hevc as an option, or roll out licenses via MDM.

Individual buyers can just buy the HEVC license from the Windows store. I think windows even opens the store, if the codec is missing. A lot of companies disable the public App Store on their MDM though.

If missing licenses impact end users on a larger scale, it's also a communication issue from the manufacturers. This won't do them any good, as customers will be annoyed from the bad user experience. Even if one in 100 customers switches the brand, they make a loss.
by lproven | 2025-11-21 12:51:10+00:00
> What is the purpose of this OS ?

What is the purpose of any OS?

As all the modern ones slowly converge on similar attributes of being incomprehensibly vast codebases unreadable by any human, typically implemented in C or something closely related to it, using a similar underlying register-machine model, there is value in simply being small, simple, readable, able to do useful work, and being different. If something is also provably correct that's just the icing on the cake.
by badsectoracula | 2025-11-21 12:52:28+00:00
A related test i did around the beginning of the year: i came up with a simple stack-oriented language and asked an LLM to solve a simple problem (calculate the squared distance between two points, the coordinates of which are already in the stack) and had it figure out the details.

The part i found neat was that i used a local LLM (some quantized version of QwQ from around December or so i think) that had a thinking mode so i was able to follow the thought process. Since it was running locally (and it wasn't a MoE model) it was slow enough for me to follow it in realtime and i found fun watching the LLM trying to understand the language.

One other interesting part is the language description had a mistake but the LLM managed to figure things out anyway.

Here is the transcript, including a simple C interpreter for the language and a test for it at the end with the code the LLM produced:

https://app.filen.io/#/d/28cb8e0d-627a-405f-b836-489e4682822...
by thrance | 2025-11-21 12:52:31+00:00
Can confirm, this is nothing but more scaremongering from right-wing rags: Le Figaro and Le Parisien, both owned by right-wing oligarchs (Dassault and Arnault respectively) trying to fuel this climate of fear to further their economic interests by getting a right-wing demagogue elected. Both papers are caught lying all the time, like Fox News. You shouldn't be taking this seriously.

What you should take seriously though, is this amping up of right-wing populist rhetoric, manufacturing a mass hysteria about crime (when it's at its lowest point in decades) that is then used to justify increasingly authoritarian policies.
by codingdave | 2025-11-21 12:52:36+00:00
My experience scheduling workers was not in restaurants, but I assume my biggest pain point is still relevant: Gaps.

Scheduling is easy when all the availability lines up, but most of the time there are gaps where people's availability simply doesn't match the needed shifts. You need to make some people unhappy. Balancing the human side of spreading the unhappiness fairly is the biggest challenge.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-21 12:53:08+00:00
> Taking a photograph of a car with its license plate is legal. As is selling a photo you've taken, whether it has a license plate or not.

Because when those laws were enacted the technology to do so at scale wasn't there or wasn't cost-efficient. So it made sense to make it legal because nobody could realistically abuse it.

Nowadays this is no longer the case, so maybe the law should be amended. Of course, with the lawmakers being the ones benefiting from such abuses it's unlikely.

> We certainly don't want to outlaw taking photos in public.

Some countries (Germany I believe) actually do outlaw it; I believe taking a picture is ok but publishing it requires consent of everyone in that picture.

> journalists compiling public data to prove governmental corruption?

You could allow free public disclosure, but disallow selling of that data. Meaning journalists can still conduct mass-surveillance for the public interest since the results of that would be published free-of-charge, while destroying the business model of those surveillance-as-a-service companies.
by anal_reactor | 2025-11-21 12:53:34+00:00
If I get kicked out from big tech I might search for such a place, but for the time being, I am in a position where I get paid to do nothing, it's literally free money. My plan A is to keep doing same nothing until retirement (about 15 years). Plan B is not to have plan B and just look at the job market when I need to switch, because it's utterly unpredictable long-term.
Show HN: Codesprint – A LeetCode Typing Trainer
by cwkcwk | 2025-11-21 12:53:55+00:00
Hi HN!

I built CodeSprint because I realized getting good at typing code requires practicing syntax fluency, not just logic. I found myself screwing up on mock interviews not because I didn't know the algorithm, but because I fumbled the syntax. I needed a way to drill "Depth First Search in Python" or "Ring Buffer in C++" until my fingers actually knew the shape of the code.

The Engineering:

Renderer: Uses a heavily customized Monaco Editor instance. I'm using deltaDecorations to paint diffs directly onto the editor model without breaking syntax highlighting, and getScrolledVisiblePosition for a custom, low-latency caret.

Data Pipeline: I didn't want to hardcode snippets. I wrote a custom Bun script (scripts/sync-leetcode.ts) that reverse-engineers the LeetCode GraphQL API to pull real problem snippets, sanitizes them, and normalizes indentation.

Latency: To handle high WPM without UI lag, the typing engine isolates keystroke processing from the main React render cycle where possible.

Repo: https://github.com/cwklurks/codesprint Live Demo: https://codesprints.vercel.app/

I'm a 15-year-old student from Vancouver. Would love feedback on the typing engine feel vs. native VS Code!
by pdpi | 2025-11-21 12:53:55+00:00
From the same article I linked:

5.7.8. Implementation timing (402) Apple should implement the measures required to enable the scenario of close-range wireless file transfers while the receiving device has the relevant close-range wireless file transfer solution open by 1 June 2026. Apple should implement all measures for the features for close-range wireless file transfer solutions in the release of iOS 20, and in any case by the end of 2026.

(§5.7 is 13 pages of exquisitely detailed requirements for Airdrop interop)

Given Apple's usual release timelines, June 2026 is a bit early for iOS 27 (what the ruling calls iOS 20). In between that, the fact that this is a pretty big piece of feature work, and the fact that they were forced to ship other parts by iOS 26, I find it likelier that Apple shipped this in iOS 26, rather than shipping it some time next year as a point release.

Also, you have to consider the timing. Google is shipping this functionality now, a couple of months after the iOS 26 release. It would be just plain weird for Google to ship a reverse-engineered implementation of Apple's old proprietary stack after Apple has definitely already shipped part of the new, interoperable stack.
Show HN: StandbyBro – friends for rent (platonic companionship)
by binsquare | 2025-11-21 12:53:56+00:00
Japan has a whole “rental family / rental friend” industry and I’ve always wondered if there’s a version of that in US without being creepy or trip into the tinder realm.

Kind of silly idea but I wanted to show HN after launching in Seattle to a couple surprising requests.

Happy to answer questions about the approach, tech, and how I’m thinking about safety and ops. Brutal feedback welcome.
by xela79 | 2025-11-21 12:53:57+00:00
and let's not forget QuakeWorld that introduced latency compensation, allowing you to have an OK experience with up to 200ms ping, where as the normal Quake TCP/IP stack was basically unplayable with anything over 70-80ms. https://quakewiki.org/wiki/QuakeWorld

my first multiplayer Quake was with Qtest in February 1996 using a null modem cable between two machines, and later on using coax cables and IPX in DOS

getting a multiplayer game running was a tech feat compared to the plug & play nature of things now. the learning curve is gone now.
by HanClinto | 2025-11-21 12:54:07+00:00
It is cool that they don't disturb the surface vegetation or topsoil by simply dumping dredge tailings on the surface. Their method reminds me of injecting expanding foam underneath concrete slabs to lift and level them.

"Flood-prone terrain is then elevated by injecting a wood-based slurry 15–300 feet underground"

This is the part that's odd to me. A wood-based slurry? If there's high organic content in the pump material, won't that decompose (and settle down) over time? I would think that they would want to use something less organic (such as dredge tailings) as their fill material.

They say it's compact within a few hours and doesn't need much time to settle before it's ready to be built on -- but how long does it last?
by imtringued | 2025-11-21 12:54:38+00:00
I don't know if this source is biased [0], but Nehru sounds refreshingly pragmatic and does not come across as a burden to India and his "socialism" is different from the standard US boogieman socialism or Soviet socialism that you could hardly argue that India was ever on the path towards communism. At some point it's just a kneejerk reaction to the word "socialism".

[0] https://www.thehindu.com/society/nehrus-socialism-was-evolut...
by dinkblam | 2025-11-21 12:54:42+00:00
> Flood-prone terrain is then elevated by injecting a wood-based slurry 15–300 feet underground. > The Ark system is sized to lift an acre by a foot each day.

this sounds like science fiction, it would need to uniformly lift between 18.500 and 370.000 cubic meter of soil/rock by 30cm a day.

300.000 m³ soil/rock would weigh something like 600.000 tonnes and would require ~1.8 GJ to lift by one foot even with zero loss and discounting all other factors apart from lifting the mass.
by neobrain | 2025-11-21 12:55:33+00:00
Sadly compile times of LLVM-based recompilers make it impractical for competitive x86 emulation. We're not just talking a few single-frame stutters here and there, but considerable startup delays and pauses in-game.

LLVM's optimization passes also are less useful than you might think, since the vast majority of them is motivated by source->binary translation (like clang). They don't have much effect when recompiling an already optimized binary to another architecture.
by prmph | 2025-11-21 12:56:16+00:00
I disagree; I find many of Bach’s compositions to be devoid of heart, just intellectual in some mathematical way.

Now don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy many of his compositions for what they are. The thing about music and many other arts is that it is a fools errand to attempt to give them a total ordering; there are things to enjoy about wildly differing styles of music that I think people do a disservice to themselves being restrictive.

For example, some don’t like classical music because they say it’s not danceable. Well, duh it’s mostly not, but that’s not the point of it. It about enjoying the melodies and harmony and structure.

So one can compare art on specific axes, but to say such and such is the greatest composer is kind of meaningless to me.
by thih9 | 2025-11-21 12:56:25+00:00
> Half an hour and fifty dollars later, I realized I had spent fifty dollars on this, and that this was not sustainable because, if anything, the code was getting more and more buggy the more Claude fixed it.

Off topic, this has been my experience with AI so often that it prevents me from exploring AI uses more.

I liked Cursor’s “auto” plan but that now seems gone. I’d happily switch to a provider that offers a similarly “unlimited” usage.
by iamnothere | 2025-11-21 12:56:40+00:00
As an American I will happily help my EU colleagues ignore this absurd law by any means necessary, even if it requires sending SD cards affixed to letters through the mail or embedding them in 3D printed trinkets. Or, more likely, simply emailing gzipped installers or providing convenient download links that circumvent whatever firewall is eventually set up (assuming this law sticks around, but it won’t).
by palata | 2025-11-21 12:57:26+00:00
> But you can't! Metric uses Kilograms not Grams all the time for things like Force (Kg *m/s^2)

A <kilo>gram is 1000 times a gram, it's written in the word. Are you serious when you say you can't easily multiply or divide by 1000?

A mile is 5280 feet. I can't just convert 231 miles into feet like that, and that's assuming I remember "5280".
by ikari_pl | 2025-11-21 12:57:31+00:00
Today, Gemini wrote a python script for me, that connects to Fibaro API (local home automation system), and renames all the rooms and devices to English automatically.

Worked on the first run. I mean, the second, because the first run was by default a dry run printing a beautiful table, and the actual run requires a CLI arg, and it also makes a backup.

It was a complete solution.
by triceratops | 2025-11-21 12:57:37+00:00
> I don't want to be paid the same as all other workers with the same title

That's not what unions do.

> I like getting personal bonuses based on performance

A union doesn't prevent that.

Film and TV actors, and professional athletes are in unions. They are not all paid the same. They get lavish bonuses based on performance.

Retail and fast food workers are usually not in unions. They don't make much money.

A union can't increase wages (much) and it doesn't decrease wages. Only supply and demand can do that.
by lproven | 2025-11-21 12:57:59+00:00
10.8 was Mountain Lion.

But before OS X was OS 9, and OS 9 was not the same thing as OS-9.

https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Mac_OS_9

https://microware.com/

Before OS 9 was OS 8, which was unrelated to OS/8.

https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Mac_OS_8

https://gunkies.org/wiki/OS/8

Names overlap. The hommage in this one is fairly clear, I think.
by tomasphan | 2025-11-21 12:58:08+00:00
It doesn’t. Disabling hardware acceleration does which they needed to do in order to play content.

“ needed to either have the HEVC codec from the Microsoft Store removed entirely from [Microsoft Media Foundation] or have hardware acceleration disabled in their web browser/web app, which causes a number of other problems / feature [degradations]. For example, no background blurring in conference programs”
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-11-21 12:58:54+00:00
All the coverage lately on things like Flock and other privacy-reducing panopticon startups always softball the topic so hard.

"As long as its being used by police professionally..." is an insane stance to keep on this.

In the West we regularly point to China's surveillance state, as some horrific human rights abuse. Yet when it happens at home we don't use that same level of vitriol. Which is it? China uses authoritarian surveillance? Because then we have government-corporate cooperation here for the same authoritarian surveillance.

If it's okay for officer Opie to have access to enough data to stalk and harass any woman that refuses him, then we're no better. No amount of "right hands" can make this level of surveillance okay.
by Medox | 2025-11-21 12:59:49+00:00
> Since I didn’t want to make any permanent changes to the phone, I didn’t want to remove these tabs, or to solder anything onto them. I just wanted to connect a cable to them in the easiest way possible.

Same here but I want to go for a xilink bluetooth adapter and maybe even sacrifice and old smartphone with a separate sim. Not sure if the AI stuff will work but it seems possible….
by matthewdgreen | 2025-11-21 13:00:55+00:00
But that's not at all how things have worked out, even here within the US. Waze does not compete with Google Maps. WhatsApp and Instagram do compete with Facebook, each of these companies were simply acquired. We've learned that new social media companies have a very hard time spinning up the network effects required to make them prominent, and in the rare cases they do, they quickly get bought out or their products cloned by incumbents. There's an excellent chance this would have happened in China without state intervention.

The most prominent recent exception to this rule is TikTok, which spun out of an already-successful Chinese tech company. Its owners resisted acquisition until legislation forced their hand.
by earthnail | 2025-11-21 13:00:57+00:00
I’m gonna go on a limb here and say that I like this draft.

It’s an opt-in measure for parents with a one-click solution. Think ad blocker but for adult content.

Parents have to actively enable it. It’s on the device itself, not in the internet backbone. No censorship happening; government doesn’t even know whether parents use it.

It’s a good solution.
by geocar | 2025-11-21 13:01:08+00:00
Here's the Visual Studio redistributable licensing requirements:

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/license-terms/vs2026-ga-v...

There's nothing about Windows licenses in there. There is a specious claim that I can't modify the DLL in some circumstances, but I doubt that's enforceable in any jurisdiction Microsoft could reach me, and to the careful reader the license almost admits as such.

If I'm NVidia in this case, these would be pretty easy to follow. Now I redistribute the DLL: My user downloads the DLL and uses my software (with the DLL) in Wine. Good for them. I have a happy customer. _Maybe_ Microsoft is unhappy, but I'm not sure what they can do besides pound sand: _I_ haven't violated those terms, and my user doesn't have any relationship with Microsoft.

If I've made a mistake and the Visual Studio redistributable isn't typical, what exactly do you think _is_ a typical license from Microsoft that has the force you suggest?
by temperceve | 2025-11-21 13:01:48+00:00
I use FSD 99% of the time now and it works 99% of the time I use it. When it doesn't work, it is always in an annoying, going-way-to-slow way. I've never experienced it crash into anything. I'm sure the experts here know better than me, I'm just a lowly customer, but from MY experience, it basically works all the time.
by goku12 | 2025-11-21 13:01:59+00:00
Some of use in India don't even grok inches, miles, pounds, pints, ares or cubits. In fact, I haven't met anyone in the professional fields (science, engineering and medicine) who is comfortable with imperial or any other non-metric systems. Not even our parents are comfortable with them. It was a nightmare when we were faced with such units in public exams. That's an arcane skill that disappeared 3 or 4 generations ago. To be clear, I'm not claiming that the whole of India is like that. But I'm pointing to the fact that there are entire regions in India where it has been like that for generations.
by netsharc | 2025-11-21 13:02:19+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyXExGWGEyw

"War crimes are defined by the winners. I'm a winner, so I can make my own definition.".

The whole documentary is worth a watch, IMO. It's an incredible look about how people commit heinous acts and build an imaginary world for 40 years to say what they did was "right and justified". Including a scene where the killers imagine they're being thanked by their victims for taking them from godless communism and bringing them to Heaven. Maybe in 2065 there'll be a version where we'll need subtitles for the Yiddish dialog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TDeEObjR9Q
by igravious | 2025-11-21 13:03:09+00:00
I've gotten Claude Code to port Ruby 3.4.7 to Cosmopolitan: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

I kid you not. Took between a week and ten days. Cost about €10 . After that I became a firm convert.

I'm still getting my head around how incredible that is. I tell friends and family and they're like "ok, so?"
by nmridul | 2025-11-21 13:03:20+00:00
> ..... he calls on the EU to activate an existing blocking regulation (Regulation (EC) No 2271/96) for the International Criminal Court, which prevents third countries like the USA from enforcing sanctions in the EU. EU companies would then no longer be allowed to comply with US sanctions if they violate EU interests. Companies that violate this would then be liable for damages.

That is from that article..
by jemmyw | 2025-11-21 13:03:33+00:00
> Perhaps proprietary closed source development is better

Perhaps...

> Open source development should take some lessons if they want to be successful

A lot of people who write the gui stuff for Linux do it because they want to. Success is not necessarily the same metric as a company making a product.

There are companies working within the space and I doubt the licensing really makes much difference to the outcome (i.e. your Google example)

> If development for X is ceasing now, there isn't time to experiment on finding the true successor.

Why? Again, the people working on it because they want to don't need to do anything, they can experiment. Someone can still fix up issues in X. Some companies will fund the development of things that are important to them. You make it sound like the oss community should be acting like one entity to achieve something, but there is no overarching goal nor a reason for there to be one. People will continue pulling in different directions.
by hereme888 | 2025-11-21 13:03:45+00:00
Google made billions by scamming the world with "free email" and a search engine that would "never display ads" or "censor content".

It was "exactly what customers wanted". Microsoft Windows is just as successful....financially speaking.

Now, if I could just get teenagers to pay more money for a magic digital rune, besides extracting all that juicy marketing data from their phone app... Because more money = better corporation.