MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-05 15:12:57+00:00
> TDLR 10-20 years ago, the US started allowing maintenance of domestic planes in foreign countries, outside the reach of the FAA’s inspections

Foreign Repair Stations date back to the 90s [1], the thing is they need to be supervised by an FAA Certified Mechanic. Inspection of these was already a hot issue in the early '00s... No one gave a fuck, it was all about saving costs for a very long time.

The linked 2007 report's second page (!) already leads with this:

> Since 2001, eight commercial air carriers have gone through bankruptcy and one has ceased operations. Fuel prices remain high, and this makes cost control a key factor in both the sustained profitability and overall survival of an airline.

IMHO, this is a perfect example why the government needs to regulate prices in safety-critical industries. The "race to the bottom" must be prevented - sorry, flying NYC-SFO for 70$, that's not sustainable.

[1] https://www.oig.dot.gov/sites/default/files/Web_File_Foreign...
by ethbr1 | 2025-11-05 15:13:01+00:00
Some of them are solved by using managed-services that abstract away the messy config / security ops stuff.

The blog entry was wordy and repetitive for what it expressed (AI?), but the cloud argument should boil down to a few simple questions:

- Does it get you regulatory certifications you need? - Do you need to rapidly scale-up / scale-down? - Can you afford to hire the (minimal) necessary skills to self-administer servers? - Can you stay on top of security updates?

Add all that together and you get a few customers who should be using the cloud:

- Regulated companies who want to punt on certs/attestations - Small/medium growth-oriented startups (unknown needs, low headcount, focus on building product) - Companies with hardware demand volatility that exceeds their ability to provision it

That's not "all companies" or "no companies" either way, but it is a very large number of companies who are paying cloud premiums without actually needing or benefiting from the cloud value add...
by drewg123 | 2025-11-05 15:13:08+00:00
I come from a very different world (optimizing the FreeBSD kernel for the Netflix CDN, running on bare metal) but performance leaps like this are fascinating to me.

One of the things that struck me when reading this with only general knowledge of the linux kernel is: What makes things so terrible? Is iptables really that bad? Is something serialized to a single core somewhere in the other 3 scenarios? Is the CPU at 100% in all cases? Is this TCP or UDP traffic? How many threads is iperf using? It would be cool to see the CPU utilization of all 4 scenarios, along with CPU flamegraphs.
by d-us-vb | 2025-11-05 15:13:39+00:00
Yeah, this is concerning. Although, if the system is architected well, accessibility features ought to be something that can be added as an extension.

What is a screen reader but something that can read the screen? It needs metadata from the GUI, which ought to be available if the system is correctly architected. It needs navigation order, which ought to be something that can be added later with a separate metadata channel (since navigation order should be completely decoupled from the implementation of the GUI).

The other topic of accessibility a la Steve Yegge: the entire system should be approachable to non-experts. That's already in their mission statement.

I think that the systems of the past have trained us to expect a lack of dynamism and configurability. There is some value to supporting existing screen-readers, like ORCA, since power users have scripts and whatnot. But my take is that if you provide a good mechanism that supports the primitive functionality and support generalized extensibility, then new and better systems can emerge organically. I don't use accessibility software, but I can't imagine it's perfect. It's probably ripe for its own reformation as well.
by mapt | 2025-11-05 15:14:00+00:00
You don't just need to decide that Nvidia is overvalued by the market and will crash in price to make money on a short position.

You need to time the crash. If you're off, it could still crash and you could spend more money sustaining the position than you'd make. Or you could end up getting margin called, not just by semi-impotent private investors as Michael Burry was, but by the platform you're trading on itself. "You've lost too much money so far based on the current valuation, so we're going to seize this option and you'll owe us the balance". Trading at high leverages with Daddy's money, people on /r/wallstreetbets sometimes get margin called and end up owing much, much more money than they put in.

Before putting any money in, make damn sure you're able to write at least a 101-level summary of the different types of trades.

I did this in February 2020, and then bet a modest amount on the proposition "People keep saying that COVID isn't going to be a big deal, and I think they're very wrong". I still managed to lose out because I didn't foresee the Federal Reserve bombing the market with freshly printed cash. I lost it all. But what I didn't do, is end up owing millions of dollars I don't have to the brokerage, because I stuck to buying put options rather than selling call options or shorting stocks outright.

Timing aside? To what extent the Federal Reserve would intervene in an NVDA price collapse is an open question, because at this point a collapse in AI investment would threaten the solvency of entirely unrelated financial institutions.
by thisisit | 2025-11-05 15:14:02+00:00
> We disavow AI because people like Brenda are perfect and the machine is error-prone.

I don't think that is the message here. The message is that while Brenda might know what she is doing and maybe AI helps her.

> She's gonna birth that formula for a financial report and then she's gonna send that financial report

The problem is people who might not know what they are doing

> he would have sent it back to Brenda but he's like oh I have AI and AI is probably like smarter than Brenda and then the AI is gonna fuck it up real bad

Because AI outputs sound so confident it makes even the layman feel like an expert. Rather than involve Brenda to debug the issue, C-suite might say - I believe! I can do it too. AI FTW!

Even when people advocate automation especially in areas like finance there is always a human in the loop whose job is to double check the automation. The day when this human finds errors in the machine there is going to be lot of noise. And if the day happens to be a quarterly or yearly closing/reporting there is going to be hell to pay once closing/reporting is done. Both the automation and developer are going to be hauled up (obviously I am exaggerating here).
by throwway120385 | 2025-11-05 15:14:04+00:00
Look, information overload is a real problem. Medical devices are an analogous industry in that in an emergency nurses and doctors are getting completely bombarded with alarm tones, flashing lights, noise, and also whatever is going on with the patient. There are standards in that industry governing how you alarm, what your alarm tones sound like, what colors you're supposed to use, how fast you're supposed to flash, and so on. And people still miss alarms because there are still a ton of them all going off at once.

People have an upper limit on their capacity to take in information, and that limit goes down when they are moving quickly to solve problems. Throwing more information at them in those moments increases the risk that they will take in the wrong information, disregard more important information, and make really bad decisions.

So no, it's not cut and dried like you're thinking.
by sherinjosephroy | 2025-11-05 15:14:16+00:00
Nice find — interesting to see browsers moving to drop XSLT support. I used XSLT once for a tiny site and it felt like magic—templating without JavaScript was freeing. But maybe it’s just niche now, and browser vendors see more cost than payoff.

Curious: have any of you used XSLT in production lately?
by garkotipankaj | 2025-11-05 15:15:12+00:00
On first glance, this seems very gimmicky. The whole wolf fursona thing does not make sense. What's the logic here? That wolves are social animals? I digress.

There is nothing on the website that works to remove this initial skepticism. Your AI maybe actually wonderful but atleast for me, it is hard to trust it - it is purely because you have chosen to present it in a way that is basically a cosplay. If I trust an AI to connect me with VCs and potential employers / clients, I definitely expect it to be a lot more serious in presentation. Right now it looks like a furry's personal website. No shade to furries but it simply does not win my trust. Please re-consider the way you are branding this if you want people to use it like a serious tool.

Having said that, the core idea seems interesting to me. LinkedIn has become a cesspool of AI slop. People writing posts with AI and then people commenting on those posts with AI. Funny enough, AI itself seems to be the thing that will end up saving us from that non-sense.

I was going to try this but I do not have WhatsApp. Most people in North America don't. So I can't even access your product. Thanks for wasting my time.
by 5hstazqT | 2025-11-05 15:15:50+00:00
“When I hear short sellers attacking what I believe is clearly the most important software company in America, therefore in the world, in terms of our impact, … it just is super triggering,” Karp said.

Now, now. Palantir received social security from In-Q-Tel during its incubation. Alan Wade was the CIO of the CIA and had previously founded Chiliad with Christine Maxwell (sister of that Maxwell).

On the other hand, Karp knows Lutnick (who lived next to Epstein) from Haverford College. It's a small world. So with this administration bets against Palantir might be risky.

But "the most important software company in America"? Please, many here have said that it started out as a database search company (like Chiliad).
by terminalshort | 2025-11-05 15:15:53+00:00
No you can't do whatever you want. I have narcolepsy. There is currently a drug in development that is known to work (TAK-861). My doctor is involved in the research. It works so well that in phase 2 trials they couldn't keep them blind because the research subjects know instantly that they got the real medicine. My doctor would have prescribed it to me a year ago if he could. But he couldn't because the worthless bureaucrats at the FDA won't allow him to. I will have to suffer for another year before I can get it because of this bureaucracy. There is ample data published so far to show safety and effectiveness on top of the advice of my doctor. But I can't get it because of these worthless safetyist bureaucrats and their endless process and procedure. I demand to be treated like an adult and be allowed to judge the data for myself and take the risk rather than have the decision made for me by a bunch of government stooges. And on top of that, the drug will be much more expensive than it has to be because Takeda has to spend so much more money developing it. So I lose two ways.

https://www.takeda.com/newsroom/newsreleases/2025/takeda-ore...
by throw0101d | 2025-11-05 15:15:56+00:00
> Thunderbolt 5 supports up to 120Gbps one-way.

Two clarify, there are two options for allocating bandwidth:

* 80Gbps both up- and downstream

* 120Gbps in one direction (up or down), and 40 in the opposite

See:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)#Thunde...
by sdetheridge | 2025-11-05 15:16:31+00:00
I recall doing this on my BBC micro with 5.25" disks. In fact, some disks were deliberately designed for this, and had a 'notch' (which you would cover with some tape to make read-only) on both the left and right, so you could set the read-only state for each side individually.

The version of Elite that I played had the standard version on one side, and a version for the "BBC Master" (which had an extra 64KiB RAM) which had more colours than the standard version, on the other.
by user_7832 | 2025-11-05 15:16:40+00:00
> The EC is also under a lot of internal pressure from member states to calm down on the regulation, as it's considered one reason why Europe is such a bad place to do a tech startup right now.

Turns out then using private data for ads (Google) and acting like a middleman (Apple) are apparently lucrative and worth money?

(This isn't a critique to you OP or your comment, but rather a commentary on the 21st century.)
by cjbarber | 2025-11-05 15:16:47+00:00
Article is misleading/wrong on the sizing:

> Scion bought roughly $187.6 million in puts on Nvidia and $912 million in puts on Palantir, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

But 13F reports the market value of the underlying shares for options, not the premium paid for the options

All we know is at time of filing he has 10k NVDA puts and 50k PLTR puts. We don't know the strike price or the duration or how much he paid
by alsetmusic | 2025-11-05 15:16:56+00:00
> Other times, I've heard devs comment negatively after the holidays when they've tried their product on a family computer.

I worked for a popular company and went to visit family during the winter holidays. I couldn't believe how many commercials there were for said company's hot consumer product (I haven't had cable or over-air television since well before streaming was a thing, so this was a new experience in the previous five years).

I concluded that if I had cable and didn't work for the company, I'd hate them due to the bajillion loud ads. My family didn't seem to notice. They tuned out all the commercials, as did a friend when I was at his place around a similar time

All it takes is a change in perspective to see something in an entirely new light.
by latexr | 2025-11-05 15:17:01+00:00
> Doubt they would have been considered “goodwill”.

Perhaps you haven’t been following Apple for long? There was definitely a period, not that long ago, where they had a lot of goodwill from third-party developers, especially indies, and that has steadily been eroded under Tim Cook.

They also took stances that were (or appeared to be) principled, which again placed them at a high degree of trust and goodwill (deserved or not isn’t the point, they had it) when compared to competitors.

> And if people started having issues with their phones because of side loading

I’m not talking about or suggesting side loading at all. That’s an entirely orthogonal matter.

> Vision Pro as a test of hardware capabilities seems to be going as one would expect at the current price points.

Vision Pro is not a “a test of hardware capabilities”. It’s not an SDK, it’s a product marketed and sold at regular people, it’s described by Apple as a product you can use for enterntainment and work, not an experiment. And it had essentially no adherence from companies and developers, there’s not even an official YouTube app, for a device where one of the major use cases is watching video.
by nolok | 2025-11-05 15:17:02+00:00
To go one step beyond, here a simple way to view it that doesn't trigger the usual "it's a one store per app bonanza issue" : would a steam store work and be properly usable ? I use steam because it's one major "app" store (though on desktop) that is very large, not based on specific ethics nor to a specific manufacturer nor OS developper
by vasco | 2025-11-05 15:18:17+00:00
Come on, Karp is such a nice guy:

“I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us,” he said during a talk in New York to promote his new book in February."

https://www.ft.com/content/64a2345e-3961-4d5d-ae04-82d933fa5...
by MarsIronPI | 2025-11-05 15:18:31+00:00
To anyone who says to use JS instead of XSLT: I block JS because it is also used for ads, tracking and bloat in general. I don't block XSLT because I haven't come across malicious use of XSLT before (though to be fair, I haven't come across much use of XSLT at all).

I think being able to do client-side templating without JS is an important feature and I hope that since browser vendors are removing XSLT they will add some kind of client-side templating to replace it.
by im3w1l | 2025-11-05 15:19:03+00:00
I haven't fully made up my mind here, but I'm thinking that (most forms of) privacy is simply no longer viable due to technological advances. Mass collection of data is getting cheaper and cheaper, so these databases will be built. If not by the state than by corporations. And if laws prevent corporations, then by those operating outside the law like intelligence agencies (including foreign ones) and organized crime.

Having the government be the only ones without the data is a weird situation.
by d-us-vb | 2025-11-05 15:19:16+00:00
There are lots of systems that have tried to do something like the first quote. They're usually referred to as "semantic OSes", since the OS itself manages the capturing of semantic links.

I don't think anyone denies the current utility of AI. A big problem of the current OSes is that AI features are clumsily bolted on without proper context. If the entire system is designed from the ground up for AI and the model runs locally, perhaps many of the current issues will be diminished.
by SylonZero | 2025-11-05 15:19:36+00:00
Multiple models is a must, mostly due to the sometimes unpredictable variations in responses to specific situations/contexts/languages and frameworks. I find that Sonnet 4, Gemini Pro 2.5 are solid in comparison to newer models (especially Sonnet 4.5 which I find frequently to underperform). When one model is stuck in a loop, switching to a model like GPT-5 often breaks it but which model will work is subject to circumstance. P.S. I spend at least 3-4 hours a day in code-gen activities of various levels using Cursor as my primary IDE.
by a-french-anon | 2025-11-05 15:20:26+00:00
Where's the elegance? Equality is well defined on everything handled by those three, since they only compare the same types without doing coercion. Plus, you can't extend these to handle user types.

Which is why https://cdr.common-lisp.dev/document/8/cleqcmp.html exists, really; all the "copy-x" would benefit from the same fix, in my opinion.
by BirAdam | 2025-11-05 15:20:34+00:00
Just a bit of nitpicking. I am AWS certified, I still tell people not to do cloud. I even recommended as much to my current employer, laid out the costs for their architecture project doing on-prem, colo, and cloud (with multiple different cloud vendors), and they still chose AWS. At this point, the choice of cloud is nearly religious (in my observation).
by exasperaited | 2025-11-05 15:20:58+00:00
Right. I didn't use it much on the client side so I am not feeling this particular loss so keenly.

But server side, many years ago I built an entire CMS with pretty arbitrary markup regions that a designer could declare (divs/TDs/spans with custom attributes basically) in XSLT (Sablotron!) with the Perl binding and a customised build of HTML Tidy, wrapped up in an Apache RewriteRule.

So designers could do their thing with dreamweaver or golive, pretty arbitrarily mark up an area that they wanted to be customisable, and my CMS would show edit markers in those locations that popped up a database-backed textarea in a popup.

What started off really simple ended up using Sablotron's URL schemes to allow a main HTML file to be a master template for sub-page templates, merge in some dynamic functionality etc.

And the thing would either work or it wouldn't (if the HTML couldn't be tidied, which was easy enough to catch).

The Perl around the outside changed very rarely; the XSLT stylesheet was fast and evolved quite a lot.
by jjj123 | 2025-11-05 15:21:14+00:00
Only speaking for myself (also not a political wonk): I do not expect Mamdani to be able to enact all of his policies. Not because of money but because of political opposition from the powerful.

I felt the same about Bernie and Medicare for all. We have the money to do it, but the powerful will not let it happen.

However: that doesn’t mean we should elect politicians that won’t even try to make these things happen. It’s important to have a North Star to shoot for, to move the Overton window of what’s worth discussing and to keep an eye on what political machinations block it from happening. I will never vote for a politician who pre-compromises with an imagined opposition, because that tells me they have a different North Star than I do in the first place.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-11-05 15:21:18+00:00
> Every anti bloat HNer should be cheering

Actually a transformation system can reduce bloat, as people don't have to write their own crappy JavaScript versions of it.

Being XML the syntax is a bit convoluted, but behind that is a good functional (in sense of functional programming language, not functioning) system which can be used for templating etc.

The XML made it a bit hard to get started and anti-XML-spirit reduced motivation to get into it, but once you know it, it beats most bloaty JavaScript stuff in that realm by a lot.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-05 15:21:54+00:00
I don't really want multiple app stores all over my device. A world where if you want an application, you first need to install each developer's "store app" is a step backwards. Look at what happened on Windows. I can't just install Fortnite. No, I have to get the "Epic Games Store" and then use that to install and launch it. A lot of other games also have their own "launcher" now, too which is just a thinly veiled store that you have to launch before you run what you really want.

I just want to take the iOS equivalent of an EXE or APK, load it onto the phone, and be done with it. I don't want fucking stores all over the place.
by ethanlipson | 2025-11-05 15:22:03+00:00
Neat, but I think it's deceptive for the website to claim this is a "new type of graphing" [1]. The fuzzy graph of F(x, y) = 0 is simply a 3D plot of z = |F(x, y)|, where z is displayed using color. In other words, F(x, y) is a constraint and z shows us how strongly the constraint is violated. Then the graph given by F(x, y) = 0 is a slice of the 3D graph. If you're claiming that you've discovered visualizing 3D graphs using color, you're about 50 years too late.

[1] https://gods.art/fuzzy_graphs.html
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-05 15:22:29+00:00
I actually do have to work with raw XML and XSLTs every once in a while for a java-based CMS and holy hell, it's nasty.

Java in general... Maven, trying to implement extremely simple things in Gradle (e.g. only execute a specific Thing as part of the pipeline when certain conditions are met) is an utter headache to do in the pom.xml because XML is not a programming language!
by 7thaccount | 2025-11-05 15:23:10+00:00
Same. I was super excited until I saw the AI stuff you pointed out. I'll have to read more about that. I like the idea of a new OS that isn't just a Linux clone, networking stack that is old school and takes computing in a different direction. I don't have a lot of need for the AI stuff outside of some occasional LLM stuff. I'd like to hear more from the authors on this.

I also understand that the old BBS way of communicating isn't perfect, but looking into web browsers seems to just be straight up insanity. Surely we can come up with something different now that takes the lessons learned over the past few decades combined with more modern hardware. I don't pretend to know what that would look like, but the idea of being able to fully understand the overall software stack (at least conceptually) is pretty tempting.