MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xp84 | 2025-11-27 07:19:46+00:00
I have no connection to Microsoft but I think this take is terrible.

Part of maturing and growing up, for me, was realizing that there are really very few people who truly deserve scorn and disrespect[1]. Those I disagree with politically, mostly think they’re doing the right thing and they think that if people only understood, they’d change their tune (and that’s basically what I think of them). Those “big companies” like Microsoft, Atlassian, etc, their incentives line up - and literally must line up - in a fashion where they make software that frustrates many users constantly. It really isn’t malice or incompetence - no one, from the intern that wrote some snippet of JS on GitHub dot com, to Satya Nadella, is either intentionally phoning it in nor waking up in the morning asking himself, “how can I frustrate the efforts of people out there?”

And anyway, because most people are trying their best, regardless of how the outcomes line up to affect my life and my interests personally, really do not deserve my scorn and derision. If I were in their situations, very little if anything would actually change. So spouting insults at these people who I don’t know, and whose roles I don’t really understand, is really not a mature, productive, nor fair thing to do.

[1] if you are curious I’d say murderers, etc. dominate that group.
by Antibabelic | 2025-11-27 07:20:22+00:00
You are making the false assumption that if output can be inferred from structure, the converse is true as well. Similarity in behaviour does not in any way, shape or form imply structural similarity. The boy scout, the migrating swallow, the foraging bee, and the mobile robot are good at orienteering. Do they achieve this goal in a similar manner? Not really.

Re: "I'm baffled that someone in CS, a field ruled by applied abstraction, has to be explained over and over again that abstraction is a thing that exists". Computer science deals with models of computation. You are making a classic mistake in confusing models for the real things they are capable of modelling.
by throwaway150 | 2025-11-27 07:21:17+00:00
> Amusingly, this post violates Zig's own code of conduct: https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct

Not sure it does. Right there in the same link you posted:

This document contains the rules that govern these spaces only: The ziglang organization on Codeberg #zig IRC channel on Libera.chat Zig project development Zulip chat
by misiek08 | 2025-11-27 07:21:22+00:00
In every language having any kind of asynchronous features you should get exactly same result. Other comments already mentioned how the example should look and how it differs.

In short: having other coroutine working and awaiting e.g. on sleep() you can get anything between „parent before” and „child start”. In Python is impossible, because child is not run as new task.
by seanhunter | 2025-11-27 07:22:02+00:00
I don’t think it’s that the radius of the wheels makes it possible (or not) to fit brakes. You can make very strong brakes with relatively small discs for example. You can see on a sportscar that the discs are nowhere near the radius of the wheers (like they are probably 1/2 the radius).

All the forces for acceleration, braking and cornering for a vehicle are limited by the contact surface of the tyres on the road. This is drummed into you quite viscerally when you ride a motorcycle and have 100+ bhp engine and you find yourself leaned over having gone into a corner too fast. If you try to brake now that you are leaned over, your bike will skid out because you only have a contact patch about the size of the palm of your hand and your braking will use up some of the friction that would otherwise get you round the corner.[1]

Bigger tyres mean more contact with the road so you have more friction available for braking (or acceleration).

[1] on a bike your best option in this scenario is to keep your head up, look where you want to go, keep your speed constant and trust that your tyres will hold you and you’ll have a little bit of luck and not meet a patch of spilled diesel, sand, paint etc and slip out.
by kronks | 2025-11-27 07:22:32+00:00
This is absolutely insane. If you look at joelreymonts recent activity on GitHub, there is what I would consider an bomb of AI slop PRs with thousands and thousands of changes, AI generated summaries/notes, copyright issues, you name it.

People like this are ruining open source for the rest of us, and those poor maintainers really have their work cut out for them sorting through this slop.
by gapan | 2025-11-27 07:22:34+00:00
"We've removed the distractions..." So, no browser is included then? That won't be very useful.

And also "Commercial-grade media support". Those two things are at odds, aren't they?

And why is it a "terminal" and not a "computer"? Is it because "terminal" is a geeky word?

And no pictures, other than the very obvious render? How thick is it? What kind of connectivity/ports does it have? Is it completely flat, or wedge shaped? Can the keyboard be detached somehow? What's the deal with those weird keys? What does it look on the inside? What's the software that it's actually using? What WM is that? Can I install it on my laptop? Where is the source code? So many questions.

It looks a lot like vapourware to me. And at that price point, I'm not sure who is going to buy that.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-11-27 07:24:42+00:00
A positive effect from regulation does not rebut the general argument against government regulation of industry.

The problem with regulation isn’t that there are never any positive effects, of course there are.

The problem is it’s impossible to reliably avoid adding substantial friction to life via overly broad regulation that is not applicable but has to be followed anyway, or outdated but still-in-effect regulation that is not applicable but has to be followed anyway, at least.

If this only bothered huge companies then I would say cost of doing business, who cares, etc, but it actually affects things like how cities and towns are designed, how expensive housing is, how expensive medical treatment is, etc.
by Ultimatt | 2025-11-27 07:25:09+00:00
I'd say there are converging standards like Parquet for longterm on disk, Arrow for in memory cross language, and increasingly duckdb for just standard SQL on that in memory or on disk representation. If I had to guess most of the data table things vanish long term because everyone can just use SQL now for all the stuff they did with quirky hacked up APIs and patchy performance because of those hacked up APIs.
by ramblerman | 2025-11-27 07:25:58+00:00
He didn't even realize (and apparently doesn't care) that portions of the code were attributed to another author.

> Here's my question: why did the files that you submitted name Mark Shinwell as the author?

> Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it.

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Maybe he is having some kind of mental episode, is trolling, or genuinely doesn't care. But I would hardly hold this up as an example of an intelligent attempt at an AI generated PR.
by faidit | 2025-11-27 07:26:28+00:00
Genuine question (this is more about code than art): Since some indies brag about having no "assistance" whatsoever, is it still AI-free if you ever asked an LLM for help with a tricky programming problem, and incorporated that knowledge into your game's code? What if you just used a search engine and your eyes glanced over an AI-generated answer? Or you unknowingly benefited from an AI-written post or StackOverflow answer? I mean, is it really possible to code without any AI assistance any more? Also what about using third-party assets, that are likely to have a fly in the ointment somewhere (maybe at least a tiny bit of the asset creator's code involved asking Claude for help, or they tangentially benefited from a Google summary).

As much as I dislike the taste of AI slop, it seems to me like AI has so thoroughly permeated the internet at this point that a truly AI-free game is impossible unless you are a programming genius and/or independently funded to a point where you can hire domain experts for everything, such that you could make the game fully offline without even going on the internet at all. I actually find it hard to believe that anyone could code a game above a minimal level of complexity without searching problems online and using at least a tiny bit of AI-generated/summarized info, even unintentionally.
by eviks | 2025-11-27 07:26:42+00:00
> People call applications apps, and before that they called applications programs

Those are synonyms, how is it relevant?

> My link calls it an IDE.

Mistakenly because the sources it uses to support that do not call it an IDE

> Just because you don't like it being called an IDE doesn't mean it isn't an actual argument.

The reason isn't likes, but lack of substance. Like when you provide an empty reference to wiki without even reading it yourself to see that the sources don't support the statement

> Regardless, you haven't and can't attack my central point.

I have, your comparison is false, the "paleo slow" app is faster than the "fast" one. Now you claim that "fast" somehow doesn't include the speed of startup!

> All of which you've ignored.

Some of which, and given that you can't see the obvious about objective things like speed, and the common like the difference between an IDE and a code editor, there is no point in addressing more vague points like UI polish.

But also, why do you have the misconception that I should somehow address everything in you list???
by Flundstrom2 | 2025-11-27 07:27:01+00:00
At work office; three 1080p screens+laptop. Allows me to keep 6 browser windows+outlook/teams visible,or 4 browsers+vscode+outlook/teams.At my home office; a single 4k and laptop. Same at home.

Neither combos are perfect. Especially whenever I undock for a meeting or move between work and home office, there's always a mismatch between window placements.

I'm using virtual desktops to separate work for different projects, but there's two critical programs that don't allow me to be properly (in accordance to my needs, that is) opened on several desktops at once; Word (where I keep my diary) and VS Code (!).
by bigDinosaur | 2025-11-27 07:27:22+00:00
Density/proximity are far better incubators for innovation than people being bored and isolated on farms. Also not sure where the idea that 'freedom' is associated with farms comes from? How free are you if you must wake up at 4am and work for 12 hours to barely make a profit?

There are exceptions. They are notable for being exceptions.
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-27 07:27:30+00:00
Beautiful photos and incredible work!

> I want to photograph all of them.

Birders are really a different kind.

Watching the documentaries and interviews, their motivation is always so simple and plainly stated; Then what would sound like a cute wish actually results in epics quests that span the globe, people going into completely remote areas, crazy hard to access deserts, even war zones, all to spot with their own eyes the birds they're after.
by sixtyj | 2025-11-27 07:28:03+00:00
HTTPS stands for “Hostile Terrorist Transfer Packets Secured”…

But in French it would be different, as NATO is OTAN in French or AIDS is SIDA.

In French, it would be Transfert de paquets terroristes hostiles sécurisé - TPTHS :) /s

Btw I like France and French people, I have relatives there.
by cma | 2025-11-27 07:28:37+00:00
> they won't even invest in electric trucks with drivers.

Do any of these make sense economically right now? The Tesla one is mainly being piloted hauling potato chips for Pepsico because they are so light weight. Few of the Tesla Semi numbers from the presentation seemed to come true (and the part about having autonomous follower convoys working in ~2017...), and you had the guy from Nikola rolling it down a hill and needing a presidential pardon.
by lmm | 2025-11-27 07:28:58+00:00
> Who’s stopping anyone from competing with Apple?

Apple's dominant market position and abuse of network effects via their proprietary standards, like the one we're talking about from this article.

> Let’s force ASML to open up its manufacturing line and cancel their patents for squandering innovation

No-one's arguing for any equivalent of that to happen to Apple. Just that when there's an open standard for inter-device communication, they should follow that. Imagine if ASML-manufactured processors wouldn't work with standard DDR5, only with some special memory chips that only ASML could manufacture, that would be the equivalent to what Apple is doing.

Apple should enjoy the profits from when they make better products that win on their merits. But they should have to compete fairly.
by skrebbel | 2025-11-27 07:29:34+00:00
Ziglang is a small organization supported by donations, Microsoft is one of the largest companies in the world. If anything, they're punching up.

Calling people losers isn't classy, but if I were a well-paid Microsoft employee I'd laugh all the way to the bank that some community funded purist called me that. If it's supposed to be bullying he isn't very good at it.
by blutoot | 2025-11-27 07:30:32+00:00
IMHO, one understated downside in today's AI/Agentic/Vibe-coding options is that ALL of them are evolving a bit too fast before any of these types of "best practices" can become a habit with a critical mass of developers, rendering many such tips obsolete very quickly (as another person rightfully pointed out).

Sure, software in general will keep evolving rapidly but the methods and tools to build software need to be relatively more stable. E.g. many languages and frameworks come and go, but how we break down a problem, how we discover and understand codebases, etc. have more or less remained steady (I think).

I see this a paradox and have no idea what the state of equalibrium will look like.
by Sophira | 2025-11-27 07:31:11+00:00
It's also worth noting that app stores tend to have a range of SDK versions that they will accept for new uploads. (For iOS apps on the Apple App Store, the minimum is currently the SDK for iOS 18[0], and in April 2026, that will change to a minimum of the SDK for iOS 26[1]).

In some cases (such as with Google Play), app stores will even unpublish apps that were built with old versions of the SDK.

In other words, if you want to update your app at all, you have to stick to the rules that they provide regarding SDK versions.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/news/upcoming-requirements/?id=0...

[1] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/submitting/
by flave | 2025-11-27 07:31:48+00:00
Better to link the actual study rather than what a know-nothing hack has to say about it: https://mmd.iammonline.com/index.php/musmed/article/view/111...

Nothing against the BBC but the most thoughtful journalist has all the scientific knowledge of Tarot Reader’s cat.

Anyway, n=56 which is fine I guess but leaves loads of margin for error.

Personally, I had a cystoscope and at the time had fancy health insurance so went to a bling London hospital and the surgeon insisted I listened to music - saying exactly what this article said. It lowers cortisol after, makes you less restless during and improves patient reported outcomes.

You can look up what a cystoscope is, I elected to do it with a blocker rather than with a general anaesthetic. All I will say is that track Shadowboxin’ by GLA is now completely unlistenable for me!
by jacquesm | 2025-11-27 07:33:05+00:00
I agree fully and I think it can be condensed quite a bit further: you get paid to code, so code. And if it is free work for instance in an open source context realize that dumping trash into the workflow has a negative cost so the effect is much the same, even if you didn't get paid others also don't get paid to review your junk.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-11-27 07:33:06+00:00
Can't these companies needing 200 billion in funding to get to a viable product just die off (err, sell themselves to someone else) instead of wasting/spending/grifting for so much money? Eventually so much of the startup or engineering world's investment money going to these companies is going to hurt.

https://fortune.com/2025/11/26/is-openai-profitable-forecast...
by zenlot | 2025-11-27 07:36:11+00:00
Despite what majority are defending here, I love how Zig phrased out their blog. We're not in fake enterprise, where HR is guiding your language, calling you family and then fire you whenever convenient to them.

This language by Andrew is natural, real and should be valued more than anything else. Thank you, it's a refresher and it reminds me an old internet, where everyone been really free to write what and how they wanted it to be.

Who are you after all to judge how he writes his opinions?

Happy hacking, Andrew!
by Telaneo | 2025-11-27 07:36:29+00:00
Statements like this are always funny to me. So I'm a terrorist/extremist for not wanting ads to be pushed in my face. I guess I am then. I'd rather adopt a label like that than give up what uBlock and the like have given me.

But what are then the people making the ads? In my head they are litterers, as they fill the public space with unwanted rubbish. But if I'm a terrorist, then these guys have to be on a whole other level. I sometimes think maybe 'rapists' is a suitable word, since they sure as fuck don't care about my consent when they push their rubbish on me. But in the worldview of the people who think I'm a terrorist for using uBlock, things are probably just all back to front.

Up is down, left is right.
by skrebbel | 2025-11-27 07:36:41+00:00
> Is sr.ht tainted now

I hate that this is now a thing you can ask unsarcastically.

Just use the tool you like the best man, screw what other people think. Yes, there's people who will go "you're bad because your use a tool that's made by a guy who said something wrong about Stallman" (or whatever he did exactly again). These people are not worth your attention.
by scbzzzzz | 2025-11-27 07:36:49+00:00
>> Apple is so successful is because they know how to create a great phone experience.

I disagree, may be they were at some time. Now they are successful because the walls of the well are so high. It is insanely difficult for us frogs to jump. Happy that governments are trying to bring those walls down

>> I am happy to pay extra for a lot of your dot points. Good for you because you trust them. Problem is I am not. I dont trust apple/google to make that decision for me. But they dont give that choice. They are making you sacrificing freedom, choice by masking them self as secure. But underlying motive is profits and control.

I heard a story that apple asked meta for comission on ads , when meta rejected they introduced features to remove access to usage metrics to 3rd party apps. If meta agreed , you might never see the privacy features app introduced.

The security you are thinking is a believable mirage. There are several users who have lost thousands of dollars to scammy appstore in app purchases/subsciptions and apple is doing shit to stop this.
by xp84 | 2025-11-27 07:39:38+00:00
Quote from his son:

> From a personal point of view, I would say to myself ‘I am working in something my dad made.’ Every time I would walk in, I would say, ‘Thanks Dad.’”

As a dad, I should be so lucky as to create something my son will appreciate like that.

Also, Whitfield lived to the age of 92. What a blessing that must have been to his son, to have such a great role model and to have him still in his life for many decades. Maybe it’s just something I think about a lot because I lost both of my parents young.
by kajika91 | 2025-11-27 07:40:47+00:00
I also have an older Odroid HC4, it's been years it is running smoothly and not only I cannot use 1000$ for a NAS as the current post implied but the power consumption seems crazy to me for a mere disk-over-network usage (using a 500W power supply).

I like the extensive benchmark from hardkernel, the only issue is that any ARM-based product is very tricky to boot and the only savior is armbian.
by tarsinge | 2025-11-27 07:43:11+00:00
Except if a car was reliable it shouldn’t have errors at least until at least being 10 years old (the 12V battery is an exception because it has a smaller lifespan than the car). I never had a check engine light on my previous car during 10 years of ownership, I’m worried about consumers getting used to a new normal of low quality.
by MaxfordAndSons | 2025-11-27 07:43:38+00:00
It doesn't reflect well, but also, is it not fairly par for the course from a BDFL type? Surely Linus Torvalds has said meaner things at some point on a listserv. Why does this guy get blasted for it? Because people still have generally positive sentiment towards Github? Just a day or 2 ago some other article was making similarly "ad hominem" attacks towards anonymous Youtube PMs, it got tons of upvotes and nobody clutched their pearls for the poor PMs. The Github/MS engineers who maintain actions (whose poor performance probably isn't even the result of any single individuals bad code), will be fine.

Seems like the HN mob is just as capricious as the author in deciding who gets as pass or not.
by gethly | 2025-11-27 07:43:50+00:00
> it's painfully apparent how many think that being polite in your communication is more important than actually doing something

I absolutely agree, but people in charge of large projects/groups, in any context, should know better than to put their personal feelings and opinion on topics into the "corporate" messages they are putting out. I am guilty of this myself, no one is holier than thou, but still. AK should know better.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-27 07:43:59+00:00
> Obviously, I'm extrapolating a long way out, and maybe at some point we'll run against an unexpected wall.

GP has set the 'low bar' of providing a material that survives a series of nuclear blasts whilst generating useful thrust. I'm not qualified to judge whether or not that requires new physics but it seems to me that if we had such a material that we'd be using it for all kinds of applications. Instead, we rely on the physical properties of the materials we already know in configurations that do not lend themselves to the kind of use that you describe.

That's the difference between science and science fiction, it is easy to write something along those lines and go 'wouldn't it be nice if we had X?'. But if 'X' requires new physics then you've just crossed over into fantasy land and then further discussion is pointless until you show the material or a path to get to the material.

See also: space elevators, ringworlds, dyson spheres etc. Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.
by jalapenos | 2025-11-27 07:44:08+00:00
Oh you are in for a treat if you think a cushy high paid low stress FAANG job is soul crushing.

The software writing bit is easy. The extra special experience is managing the clients, who are barely able to manage themselves, and who will behave as stupid and unreasonable and finger-pointing at you for problems they caused as they can, at every opportunity.
by samplatt | 2025-11-27 07:45:24+00:00
Independently-owned farms aren't slave factories. Sometimes you'll be doing consecutive months of 13hrs/day labour, sometimes you'll have 75% of the day free, every day, for a few weeks. Guess what those with a low budget and an engineer's mind tend to get up to in their free time.

"Independently-owned farms" are the exception, these days, not the people. Every single one I've ever seen has at least one guy on there that performs miracles with PVC pipe, a TIG welder and spare bits of iron.
by jsnell | 2025-11-27 07:45:43+00:00
ChatGPT usage is already significantly higher than Twitter at its peak, and there is a lot more scope activity with explicitly or implicitly commercial intent. Twitter was entertainment and self-promotion. Chatbots are going to be asked for advice on how to repair a dish washer, whether a rash is something to worry about, which European city with cheap flights has the best weather in March for a wedding, and an indefinite stream of other similar queries.