MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by antonvs | 2025-11-24 03:20:35+00:00
> No matter what language you use, most of the code running between what you wrote and the hardware will be written in C.

The goal of changing that is a big part of why there’s so much discussion about Rust.

> Your choice for the 1% on top is not very consequential. There is still a huge attack surface area no matter what.

For an internet-exposed service, the 1% that implements that service is important. Most of the rest of that attack surface is only accessible if an attacker gets past that first layer.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-11-24 03:21:01+00:00
> I do not think that [0] was vibe coded. Vibe coding something does not mean that everything is vibe coded ...

The author claims in the project README.md[0]:

I was working on something else and as a side effect accidently vibe coded a prolog interpretor on my phone over the weekend.

And has yet to show any evidence of "vibe coding", to the point where I chose one of many commits challenging this position.

So there are two reasonable explanations:

A) There is no way to show prompts used when "vibe coding". B) This claim of "vibe coding" a Prolog is disingenuous.

Which do you think is the case?

0 - https://github.com/nlothian/Vibe-Prolog
by marcosdumay | 2025-11-24 03:21:24+00:00
> I'm not sure how accurate the methodology is to come up with the specific budget that produces the number "sixteen" here

The share of goods in people expenses is something governments have been tracking extremely well since the end of the inter-wars period (losing some quality during WWII).

As far as economical measurements go, those are among the best you'll get on the real economy (monetary measurements tend to be more precise).
by WalterBright | 2025-11-24 03:21:54+00:00
It's not at all in bad faith. Businesses are formed to make money. If the IRS discovers that your business is not intended to make money, they will re-define it as a "hobby" and will not let you deduct expenses.

Surely you can give an actual example of a business not formed to make money?

P.S. When you talk about bad faith, I recommend that you do not invent things I did not write, put those things in quotes pretending that I did write them, and then argue with that strawman.
by smileysteve | 2025-11-24 03:22:02+00:00
I feel like the author addresses most of your points well with his comparison of a survival line vs a crisis line.

But re the "people in poverty don't have" a few caveats, in comparison to the 60s, "public" transportation is generally of lower availability and higher priced, single earner households were the norm, and housing was cheaper (addressed).

And while <$100k is pointed to as the line of dimished marginal benefits, in the context of the US median household income being $66k is an indictment of a broken system.
by mcdeltat | 2025-11-24 03:22:07+00:00
So I'm guessing most people are downvoting this as a knee jerk reaction to the comparison with slavery, but I think the core point is quite valid.

At some point, if people are unhappy working towards some goal, you gotta re-evaluate if the goal is worthy. I consistently meet people in other industries who really enjoy their job, whereas in tech, most of the people I know consider their job to be one of the lowlights of their life. And I don't think it's a stretch to say many, many tech jobs are not serving a worthy goal.

So it's disappointing to see people who can't look past "but business value bro", as if we got where we are because capitalism is some holy, inevitable universal law.
by Avicebron | 2025-11-24 03:22:13+00:00
From TFA: "In 1963, she observed that families spent roughly one-third of their income on groceries."

He's not saying the average person who was homeless, or living with relatives in 1963 was spending roughly one-third of their income in groceries, it was explicitly families.

You've just No True Scotsmanned your way into redefining what is being discussed. Please read article and firmly secure yourself :)
by retrac | 2025-11-24 03:22:21+00:00
I have worn hearing aids since childhood in the '90s. Moderate sloping to profound loss. Been through all the tech since the equalized analog era.

For a while now, like the last 15 to 20 years, since hearing aids went DSP, I had not been much impressed by each new generation. At the risk of sounding like a bit of an advertisement, that changed this year.

I have the new Oticon Intent. RIC style aid. They have some of the best spatial awareness I've experienced. They're capable of quite a lot of directionality - accelerometer and three microphones in each. I had to have the intensity of the directionality turned down a bit. It was startling me when I turned my head and I wasn't hearing things behind me enough. But that's at the expense of less signal due to more environmental noise.

The machine-learning based noise reduction is an improvement over the previous generations, too.

They have a music mode. It drops all the speech remapping and noise reduction and just makes it feel loud. It's some sort of perceptual algorithm: in my case as I turn up the volume it gets more and more treble, because only at the loudest volumes would I hear those high frequencies. All while being power limited at 95 dB SPL so I know I'm not blowing my ears. I used to wear over-the-ear headphones for that but I now prefer the hearing aids. It's nice to not worry about if it's too loud.
by burkaman | 2025-11-24 03:22:30+00:00
Yes, everything after the intro seems to be AI-written. It is lazy and unpleasant to read, but beyond that there are some serious issues of inaccuracy and dishonesty that make this worse than other cases I've seen.

> I came across a sentence buried in a research paper: “The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation.”

I think this is quoting https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/research-matters/2025/..., where the real quote is "The poverty threshold was originally defined as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963 and is annually adjusted for inflation using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U)." This isn't buried in a research paper, you paraphrased and then claimed it was a real quote by putting in within quotes, and you failed to cite a source. This is deliberately lying to your readers about the core premise of the whole piece.

The next sentence:

> I read it again. Three times the minimum food budget.

That isn't even what your fake quote said.

> In her January 1965 article,

What article? You haven't mentioned this yet, and you still haven't cited a single source.

> ”if it is not possible to state unequivocally ‘how much is enough,’ it should be possible to assert with confidence how much, on average, is too little.”

This is minor, but again this is an inaccurate quote. The original (https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v28n1/v28n1p3.pdf) says "on an average", not "on average". Two out of two uncited quotes are wrong so far, making the whole piece untrustworthy if it wasn't already.

> “An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” — Plutarch

I assumed this one was real but I searched anyway because of the pattern of fake quotes. The first result is an article titled "Fake Plutarch Quotes Are the Newest and Most Facile Ailment of All Arguments About Inequality". This is another fake quote, three for three now.

I'm not going to read the rest of this, even without the trustworthiness issues the bland AI filler is not worth spending any time on. Everyone, please do not do this. Whatever rough notes you were going to feed into the AI are much better, just publish that if you don't have the time or ability to make it "good writing", however you define that.
by subspacer | 2025-11-24 03:22:32+00:00
over the past decade i've spent alot of time compiling rust code for arm6 / arm7 cpu's, which is a fancy way of saying that in my free time i have spent alot of time running `cargo build` on a variety of raspberry pi's.

doing that first when setting up an rpi is a good way to not only grab a bunch of useful programs like exa and bat, but it also functions as a nice benchmarking and stress test tool. i can check my heatsinks and fans, and grab a smoke and a coffee, while cargo compiles an app that concatenates a file with syntax rendering
Ask HN: What tools do you pay for today that feel overpriced or frustrating?
by psicombinator | 2025-11-24 03:22:48+00:00
Hello everyone,

I’d love to hear about:

1. Tools you pay for that feel overpriced or frustrating (especially if you’d replace them immediately if something better existed), and

2. Anything that routinely costs you time, money, or attention (and how much money and time it costs you).

I’m most interested in problems that are painful enough that you’d gladly pay to fix them.

If you’re open to sharing, it'd be nice to know:

1. the exact problem 2. how you solve it now 3. the approximate budget or cost

Thank you. The more concrete and specific, the better.
by chime | 2025-11-24 03:22:57+00:00
I did and it is amazing for someone with just mild 40s hearing issues. Took a bit of effort and updates to run the hearing test for AirPods Pro 3. Turns out I connected over Bluetooth when I should’ve paired them the Apple/iOS way.

The live listening mode is very good. I can hear my kid trying to quietly walk past 10pm :) There are a lot of features however you cannot selectively choose to lower / raise certain frequencies. I wish it had an equalizer I could use.

The ANC is fantastic, sometimes I even forget fans around me are on. Only issue is that when I use live listen mode and everything is super clear, people still treat me like I’m using full noise cancellation.
by pabs3 | 2025-11-24 03:23:25+00:00
In case anyone needs to help a relative without a Google account block YouTube channels or videos, the subreddit for uBlock Origin has a wiki that can help. You can block videos by channel or video title or URL using CSS rules. Removing the clickbait and watching a few videos of decent content with them helps a lot.

https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/youtube
by the_af | 2025-11-24 03:23:33+00:00
But is it universal for companies that aren't startups (or FAANG, where I hear they are also pushing for EMs to get their hands dirty or be fired -- or was that just Facebook)?

Like the comment you're replying to, I've also have NOT experienced this shift in EM skills. In my experience, they are still about making the team happy and productive, and definitely NOT coding or designing software (though I'll concede most seem technically minded and understand the details well enough to ask relevant questions and push back against bad takes).

But coding? Nope. EMs are still about the team, careers, hiring, alignment, etc.

C-levels forcing AI on everything, whether it makes sense or not, is definitely a symptom of the times.
by WillAdams | 2025-11-24 03:23:51+00:00
The great thing about OpenSCAD is that it makes it easy to programmatically model objects using cubes, cylinders, cones, and spheres by placing, stretching, and rotating them.

The awful thing about OpenSCAD is that one's ability to model in it is strongly bounded by one's fluency with mathematics and ability to use math to programmatically model objects using cubes, cylinders, cones, and spheres by placing, stretching, and rotating them.

The one tool I'm aware of which is looking at a new geometry kernel which I can recall is:

https://fornjot.app/
by 7thaccount | 2025-11-24 03:24:37+00:00
The Windows 95 left tile was basically perfect. A lot of Linux distros have something similar. It allows you to quickly survey the useful programs. There is no further perfection.

A close second in my book was the PlayStation 3 User Interface. Gloriously intuitive. PlayStation 4 and the new XBox are god awful. I can't wait to buy a Steam Machine and never have to search for my freaking game again like on the XBox monstrosity that has all kinds of crapware on it. Is frustrating your users good for business?

Windows 8 and the Ubuntu of around that time both had absolutely bonkers interfaces. Is it better for a phone? Sure....but I'm not using a phone. Windows 8 was so bad I honestly can't believe it wasn't blocked by upper management. It made all the previous customer/user knowledge worthless. I literally had to memorize all these Window Key + letter commands just to shut down the computer and find the My Documents.
by roxolotl | 2025-11-24 03:24:43+00:00
You can buy microscopes for pretty cheap if you’d like to look for microplastics yourself. But regardless I’m curious what you think happens to the plastic you use. Where does the little bit you scrape away go when you cut on a plastic cutting board? What happened to the fluffy fleece jacket that’s no longer fluffy? This stuff doesn’t biodegrade so it’s gotta go somewhere.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-24 03:24:53+00:00
> the New York Times has spent most of this year actively trying to dissuade people from voting for the mayoral candidate in New York that had free buses as one of the more widely known parts of his platform

The Times editorial board repeatedly wrote anti-Mamdani opinion pieces. But speaking as a non-NYC New York Times reader I never saw it unless it was sent to me by a New Yorker--it simply wasn't commentary that was highlighted unless you were specifically trying to follow the NYC election. (And to the extent they criticised his candidacy, it wasn't in rejecting free busses.)
by kamaal | 2025-11-24 03:25:09+00:00
Bangalore(+State of Karnataka) is currently having free transit, but only for women.

Which seems to have drawn anger from Meninist circles.

People who support this say, it gives more mobility to women from poor and lower middle class households, and hence better employment opportunities, increased family incomes and by the effect taxes as well.

People who criticise this say, the expenses for free rides are offloaded to already burdened tax payers, who quite honestly in the Indian system get nothing in return. These forever increasing free perks for sets of people who won't contribute anything back, at the expense of ever increasing burden on people who are expected to pay without expecting anything in return, won't end well.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-24 03:26:07+00:00
> Big-city transit has an equilibrium

Iowa City isn’t a big city. Most American cities aren’t.

I lived in New York. We had paid subways and busses and that didn’t stop them from being abused like park benches—enforcement did. (And to be clear, the minority creating a mess for others were all over the place. Homeless. Hooligans. Mentally ill who got lost.)

I now live in a small Wyoming town. We have free downtown rideshare. (It’s just slower than Uber.)
by estearum | 2025-11-24 03:27:00+00:00
They could just go after Medicare fraud (committed largely by extremely wealthy corporations in extremely detectable ways), get an easy $100B or so under their belt, then reconvene on next steps.

That'd require them to be willing to go after their grifter buddies, and to understand anything about our institutions other than what they read on Twitter.

> The general problem is that nobody wants their thing to be the thing that gets cut even when it's the thing that ought to be, and then how do you tell if something is actually important when somebody will claim that everything is?

We have a process for this. It's called appropriations. It happens in Congress.
by namanyayg | 2025-11-24 03:27:34+00:00
I moved to SF this year and I love this poem.

Q: is the church of 8 wheels really a popular destination? Or is this the poet's bias towards the haight and hayes areas?

For me, Mission Dolores represents "classic SF" and is the area I'm fondest of -- and contrarily, the Salesforce Park and the surrounding area is the pinnacle of tech & capitalism (and b2b saas.)
by dpark | 2025-11-24 03:27:54+00:00
Sorry, does “disarming” here mean “not engaging in illegal authoritarian action”?

I’m not sure what system is being protected in the scenario where everyone is openly and illegally authoritarian. I hope that if Democrats get back into power they will invest in stabilizing democracy and the rule of law, not just attempting to run the same authoritarian playbook for their own benefit.
by defrost | 2025-11-24 03:28:08+00:00
Who Pays for Roads?

How the "Users Pay" Myth Gets in the Way of Solving America's Transportation Problems

~ https://frontiergroup.org/resources/who-pays-roads/

Road Taxes and Funding by State, 2025

Most states fail to collect enough in user fees to fully provide for roadway spending. This necessitates transfers from general funds or other revenue sources that are unrelated to road use to pay for road construction and maintenance. Only three states—Delaware, Montana, and New Jersey—raise enough revenue to fully cover their highway spending. The remaining 47 states and the District of Columbia must make up the difference with tax revenues from other sources. The states that raise the lowest proportion of their highway funds from transportation-related sources are Alaska (19.4 percent) and North Dakota (35.1 percent), both states which rely heavily on revenue from severance taxes.
by WatchDog | 2025-11-24 03:28:39+00:00
The impulse console command originates from Quake, the Half-Life 1 engine (GoldSrc[0]), was based on the Quake engine, and the Half-Life 2 engine (Source), was based on GoldSrc.

In quake, the impulse commands were used mostly to switch weapons[1]. I'm not really sure about the naming though, why choose the word "impulse".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldSrc.

[1]: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/0023db327bc1db0006...
by terminalshort | 2025-11-24 03:28:40+00:00
It assumes that 100% of the funding went to treating children with malnutrition. First of all its doubtful that even the intent of the program was to spend 100% of the money on that in particular. And even if it was, this is clearly false because even a super efficiently run program to help starving children is going to have massive overhead, so not even close to 100% of the funding would be spent that way. It's not like starving children of the world are located around major logistics hubs, so I would be absolutely shocked if they could even get close to 50% here. It also assumes that you only have to treat each child once. So ok, you treat a child for malnutrition and then what? You send him back out into the same place where he couldn't get food in the first place? There's just so much wrong with this number that I have a hard time believing you are even asking in good faith.
by lucid-dev | 2025-11-24 03:29:56+00:00
You use git worktrees, and then merge-in. Or rebase, or 3-way merge, as necessary.

I have a local application I developed that works extremely well for this. I.e. every thread tied to a repo creates it's own worktree, then makes it edits locally, and then I sync back to main. When conflicts occur, they are either resolved automatically if possible (i.e. another worktree merged into main first, those changes are kept so long as they don't conflict, if conflicted we get the opportunity to resolve, etc.).

At any merge-into-main from a worktree, the "non-touched" files in the worktree are automatically re-synced to main, thus updating the worktree with any other changes from any other worktree that have been already pushed to main.

Of course, multiple branches can also be used and then eventually merged into a single branch later..

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Also, this is very clearly exactly the same thing OP does in their system, as per the README on their github link..
by awaikour | 2025-11-24 03:30:20+00:00
Another option is to generate a key and put it on an offline storage, and have a second key only in the SE. This means you'll need to upload two public keys to places to have a backup instead of one, but I think would otherwise achieve the same thing.

The nice thing with this is you can keep your backup public key easily accessible. I try to keep a primary and backup Yubikey on everything important, but you have to physically get the backup Yubikey in order to add it to a site.
by WalterBright | 2025-11-24 03:31:08+00:00
You are arguing with "at all costs" which I never wrote, and so do not feel any need to reply to that.

Mom and pop businesses definitely do it to make money. They aren't charities. They pay taxes on the money they make. And if they don't make money, what are they going to live on?

Non-profits are not out to make money, but (again) they are not considered businesses.
by bobbylarrybobby | 2025-11-24 03:31:33+00:00
It still interferes with itself, and that interference affects the pattern of detections. It's as if the photon were a wave right up until the moment of detection, at which points it's forced to “particalize” and pick a spot to be located at — but it's the amplitude of the wave it was just before detection that determines where on the detection screen the photon is likely to show up. If you send many photons through one at a time, the detections (each just a point on the screen) will fill out the expected double slit pattern.
by vitorgrs | 2025-11-24 03:31:44+00:00
I actually believe this would happen.

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CNN Brazil’s report asks Trump about removing tariffs on Brazil on Thursday. He mentions that there would be another “big announcement on Friday”. On Saturday morning Bolsonaro is arrested for tampering with his electronic ankle monitor, something he did late on Friday but was caught in time.

Trump says he spoke with Bolsonaro on Friday and that they were going to meet. Then the reporters says he was arrested. He gets surprised that Bolsonaro was arrested and says it was too bad...
by Mauneam | 2025-11-24 03:32:16+00:00
No, it's not the "same as most other languages". C and C++ are actually the only mainstream languages that suffer from UB to this extent.

The fact that, in practice, with Rust you get a crash instead of UB is 100% a reliability issue with the language. The crashes are inbuilt. And blaming the crash on the author, saying they "chose to crash", is exactly the same as blaming UB on the author of C code, saying they "chose to double-free".
by hexbin010 | 2025-11-24 03:32:26+00:00
You're just frustrated I called out your main justification for Digital ID as BS.

Sorry you didn't make a stronger argument. It's one I've read a 100 times: 'we have it where I'm from, it's all I know, therefore it must be good'. Perhaps the UK should adopt Swedish as the official language too (given everything in northern EU is superior)

If you want to make an argument about tackling fraud etc, start with data about the scale of the existing problem, then present some research into exactly how much fraud, quantitively, will be reduced.

I'm not actually against things that would actually tackle fraud/visa overstaying etc – I just want solid evidence ethat multi-billion pound schemes that will reduce privacy will address a specific, known problem.

By the way, plenty of country have more digital systems and still have fraud and illegal workers. That completely destroys any such weak justification.