MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by falcor84 | 2025-11-08 16:16:12+00:00
> If it solves the question, it is exactly the right answer, regardless how much time passed.

But that's the crux of the matter - what exactly is this "question" entity?

I'm reminded of Heraclitus's "You cannot step into the same river twice" - if a question is an utterance made by an individual at a given point in time, then it might have "exactly the right answer" that they'd accept, but then it's extremely sensitive to those conditions, and even an identically worded question asked by the same individual a week afterwards might merit them to choose a different accepted answer, because the context for their question changed. For example, something like "What’s the proper way for me to deliver a signal to a different thread?" can have a myriad different contexts, and even if you give a wall of additional information and code, there probably would be something important omitted.

On the other side of this spectrum, we treat questions as a pointer to an underlying platonic idea of the question, which is exactly what StackOverflow say in their guidelines [0]:

> There are many ways to ask the same question, and a user might not be able to find the answer if they're asking it a different way.

Indeed, the closed-as-duplicate label uses the following text make it clear that they approach a question as an idea independent of the context in which it was asked:

> This question already has an answer

So if a question is independent of its questioner and can lead to other questioners being told that their utterance is a duplicate even a decade afterwards, then why should the original have any extra rights in deciding which one answer is the right one? Shouldn't this be owned by the community? At the very least, if a questioner writes a good question that is marked as a duplicate, then they should be given the same access to decide on the accepted answer to the merged question.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/help/duplicates
by immibis | 2025-11-08 16:16:21+00:00
The thing about Android is that it lets you install apps (for now). In my opinion, that's the killer feature (for now). If you don't like how Google's music app works... install something else. If you want something Google won't allow in their play store... download it somewhere else and install it.

Yes, it still has a billion things wrong with it, including not being able to uninstall the shovelware, and not being able to modify the OS, and I'd rather have a third choice better than both these two.
by keithba | 2025-11-08 16:16:34+00:00
I’ve also experimented with using rust to create a new programming language where I vibe coded (eg never wrote myself). My opinion is that it’s quite capable with disciplined management.

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/aether

Note: the syntax is ugly as a trade-off to make it explicit and unambiguous for LLMs to use.
by ajdsfasdk | 2025-11-08 16:16:37+00:00
In general I agree with you, but parent poster is right that this article is complete marketing garbage. I can't remember the last time I read such a pretentious article for such a relatively...mediocre tool. Not a dig against cursor - it's cool! - but the scale of what they're doing does not match the tone of this article at all.

I know this article is marketing fluff, but the level of hubris displayed is astounding. Seriously, read the entire article. I know billions of dollars is a hell of a drug, but this author might as well have joined a cult.
Ask HN: Attestation-Based Identity: does this direction make sense? (EnvSecOps)
by _superposition_ | 2025-11-08 16:16:53+00:00
I’m proposing Attestation-Based Identity (ABI) as the category and EnvSecOps as the operating discipline.

Basically Zero Trust operationalized for the ENTIRE SDLC, from dev all the way to production support.

ABI: Issue credentials only when a requester presents fresh, nonce-bound evidence that passes policy, then expire quickly. Evidence → Policy → Token, with a tamper-evident audit trail.

EnvSecOps: The practice of governing access by verifying environment provenance at request time across dev, ops shells, and workloads—.

What I have (research/reference only): A small, spec-first reference implementation demonstrating the flow: capture/sign DSSE → OPA evaluate → short-lived OIDC/STS → optional Rekor inclusion → evidence bundle (token ↔ attestation ↔ policy version ↔ log entry). It’s not public yet; goal is a portable on-wire spec not a product.

Feedback I’m seeking:

Predicate must/should fields (materials digests, policy ref/hash, nonce, audience, signer identity).

Minimal, swappable PDP contract (deterministic inputs/outputs).

TOCTOU defaults: acceptable drift window, renewal cadence, revocation hooks.

Boundary with SPIFFE/SPIRE (workloads) and a clean model for ops-shell identity.

Auditor-friendly evidence bundle and reporting expectations.

Happy to answer questions; I’ll publish artifacts once the spec is less volatile.
by al_borland | 2025-11-08 16:17:08+00:00
A person will experience many different economic periods throughout their life.

The younger generation also has a lot of advantages today that the baby boomers didn’t have, they built them. Like the devices and protocols we’re communicating with, which have also made investing in the economy more accessible than at any other point in human history. And then Gen X made social media for them, when was reduced the barrier to entry for starting a business to next to nothing.

The world is as good or as bad as you want to see it.
by fluidcruft | 2025-11-08 16:17:22+00:00
lichess is really good. Thanks for the info, I'm not surprised to learn it's a webview app, but it is really good.

It doesn't look native but who even cares. I think when a UI sucks or is unintuitive or buggy then "it's not native" is a sort of catchall easy complaint. Native is a crutch. Sometimes it's a good crutch (accessibility etc). But that's more about developer efficiency and bare minimums of polish.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-08 16:17:29+00:00
Most people are stupid and short-sighted. Pointing to the stupid in support of your argument doesn't help it.

And, the app store does absolutely nothing to prevent "dangerous" apps. Apple doesn't review the code. In fact, if your code is reviewable, it's even harder to get it on the app store.

At the end of the day, the App Store and Play Store are filled with adware, spyware, and other malware - because Apple and Google like it that way. That's what they want. They don't give a single flying fuck about your security. They care about extracting 30% while simultaneously doing as little as possible. That's completely at odds with security, yes, and they know that. They just don't care.
by LocalH | 2025-11-08 16:18:01+00:00
Jobs was a dick, but so were many visionaries. See: Torvalds, Gates, Kildall. All with some dickishness, to varying degrees.

We need people willing to say "fuck you" to bullshit. Otherwise, the boards take over and focus on anything that brings them an extra few bucks.

Enshittification is real, and we need people willing to fight back against it.
by sriram_malhar | 2025-11-08 16:18:55+00:00
No, they didn't do a "quick analysis". They were in a race with Linus Pauling to figure out the structure. Pauling's son happened to leak the fact that Linus Pauling's lab had a triple helix, so they asked the son casually for notes. That, along with Gosling & Franklin's XRays convinced them that their own original model (and Pauling's) were flawed.
by bob1029 | 2025-11-08 16:19:10+00:00
If you still need to wrap a cross-platform web experience in a native container, I really begin to lose the plot. Once you are engaged with the iOS code signing monster, you might as well go all the way into the ecosystem.

To me, the web is the way around the app stores and codesign. I know how to visit HN on my iPhone despite there not being an official native app for it. It can work. The challenge is making it work in your particular case. Fear that the user wont know how to access the product seems to be a primary factor driving hyperbolic takes on how consumer apps must be built. Perhaps a bit of marketing budget (scan this QR code / visit this link) could eliminate a very expensive tech problem. Why fight visibility in the crowded App Store when there are countless other advertising channels you could pour your resources into?

> native code for the native notifications, GPS and healthkit / health connect.

Modern web can address everything here but the HealthKit item. You could consider handling this with a simple companion application that is exclusively about the collection and transfer of the data while respecting user privacy & consent procedures.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-08 16:19:15+00:00
The problem is we now have municipal and state governments taking on infrastructural investments (usually via subsidies) and energy companies racing to meet the load demands. There are all kinds of institutions both private and public dumping obscene amounts money into this speculative investment that can’t be a winner for everybody.

What happens to the ones that built for projects that end up failing? Seems to me the only way the story ends is with taxpayers on the hook once again.
by knollimar | 2025-11-08 16:20:22+00:00
I feel like grouping discord as something hooking kids after we teliably took their third spaces is problematic.

You wouldn't have called the equivalent when you were a kid problematic or even had a word for it. It's often just how they communicate with friends.

I feel as though algorithms dedicated to grabbing as much attention as possible are a major problem (youtube, tiktok), while notification checking on public spaces is also similarly an issue.

But is it so hard to teach your kids how to internet? Id advocate for restrictions but banning seems silly.
by Saris | 2025-11-08 16:20:50+00:00
My time involved in making Linux work right mainly, there's always minor issues that take a lot of effort to solve. Like my audio interface has CH 1&2 working fine, but CH 3&4 are at half volume no matter what I do, and after waking from sleep it stops working entirely. And this is an interface with no special drivers needed.

Also Lightroom and Fusion 360 don't run on Linux, fusion kind of works through wine but barely, and lightroom does not work at all.

Half the time I woke it from sleep the lockscreen would be broken and unresponsive too, requiring a reboot.

Overall its just too much time to figure out these problems, windows just works with very little involvement on my part.
by topkai22 | 2025-11-08 16:21:06+00:00
Just checked my ad history (https://www.clrn.org/how-to-see-recently-viewed-ads-on-youtu...);

Google YouTube TV for NFL Sunday ticket Robinhood Some dog tracker thing Detergent Peloton Liberty mutual Some truck brand Foam insulation

Other than how to buy gold ads and sandy hook promise, my ads are very mild. YMMV
by jerojero | 2025-11-08 16:21:31+00:00
its incredible how much easier and convenient pirating ebooks is to buying them.

when you pirate them versus buying them: 1a. searching for them has become incredibly easy 1b. searching for them is easy as well

2a. putting them on multiple devices is incredibly easy 2b. depending on the store, then you're going to be restricted to a particular device or app

3a. ten years from now, you'll have the same copy you bought 3b. in the case of amazon, they might arbitrarily modify the copy you "own"

Setting up a system for tv shows is a bit cumbersome, and of course disk consuming, but with a little bit of knowledge you get an extremely good and reliable system.
by PrairieFire | 2025-11-08 16:21:46+00:00
Yes, profoundly true and sadly profoundly not understood by most. Levers can be pulled for near term quantitative gains at the expense of long term qualitative experience. ERP systems and the like largely measure the quantitative, all things pegged to the almighty dollar. Most orgs have no such system or competency (with the exception of siloed martech systems) for measuring the qualitative. And the customer journey isn’t set up in such a way to reliably and consistently throw off the needed data in the first place. I’ve been preaching that orgs looking for true longevity need to make measuring experiences and sentiment a core competency, so the qualitative impact of levers being pulled can be measured and reported on in realtime, allowing short sighted decisions to be backtracked, and ideally, long term, putting functional guard rails in place that prevent those decisions from being made in the first place.
by teslabox | 2025-11-08 16:22:49+00:00
Halogen bulbs do dim out as they age. The most common problem with modern headlights is the plastic covers get oxidized (cloudy) due to sun exposure. The cloudyness blocks some of the light from the bulbs, and scatters the rest.

https://www.theautodoc.net/blog/why-do-headlights-become-clo...

The other problem is that some bulbs are just not very good - the filaments aren't properly positioned, or they don't have a good spectral output.

3M has a kit for polishing the haze off headlights with a drill, and for restoring the UV protection layer [0]. Dan Stern [1] told me it's really better to just get a new OEM headlight.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/3M-39008-Headlight-Restoration-System...

[1] https://www.danielsternlighting.com/
by chrismorgan | 2025-11-08 16:22:53+00:00
Or put the notes inside the slide, and then CSS is enough, the JavaScript doesn’t even need to know about notes:

Notes: <label><input type=radio name=notes id=notes-hide checked> Hide</label> <label><input type=radio name=notes id=notes-inline> Inline</label> <label><input type=radio name=notes id=notes-only> Only</label> <section> Slide <aside> Notes </aside> </section> <style> section { position: relative; } aside { background: #feb; padding: 1em; body:has(#notes-only:checked) & { position: absolute; inset: 0; } body:has(#notes-inline:checked) & { margin-top: auto; /* concept: if the slide uses flex, notes can try sticking to the bottom */ } body:has(#notes-hide:checked) & { display: none; } } </style>
by ch_123 | 2025-11-08 16:23:03+00:00
> Printing menus isn’t hard, or even costly.

I'm not a fan of QR code menus either, but printed menus are not necessarily cheap. The owner of one of my favourite restaurants told me that he couldn't raise prices on his menu to match inflation because the cost of re-printing all the menus with increased prices would eat up the difference. IIRC, the restaurant later shifted to a cheaper and simpler menu design.
by jaredcwhite | 2025-11-08 16:24:08+00:00
1.method(:day).source_location <= your friend was wrong shrug

Look, I'm not a big fan of all of Rails' monkeypatching. That's why I don't use Rails anymore, I use other Ruby frameworks like Bridgetown, Roda, and Hanami. But there's definitely a way to dive into the "magic" and find out what's going on.
by stevenjgarner | 2025-11-08 16:25:05+00:00
I realize crypto has become dominated by the investment community, but money is not just a store of value. As a medium of exchange, fiat currencies use money to implement monetary policy and control. Electronic exchange of fiat currency is a permission based activity, and significant transactions are simply disallowed and users often debanked. You don't have to wait for a monetary system to collapse before crypto has meaningful value. That value can come from simply not being subject to corrupt monetary policies and control.
by Fuhrmanator | 2025-11-08 16:25:07+00:00
I built my private version of Infinity for Android. The steps were 90% automated. They were in a Reddit thread like this one (I just pasted the first thing I found now), although I don't know if the build process still works. https://www.reddit.com/r/Infinity_For_Reddit/comments/1izm7c... -- you have to side-load the app, which is a little tricky because you have to load it onto your phone. I think put it on a private Google Drive.

Maybe similar solutions exist for iOS, but maybe the side-loading is not as easy?

Anyway, on Windows/Chrome I use uBlock Origin and never see any ads in Reddit online. There was a lot of drama about reddit selling out in 2023 (I was sad to see Infinity die), but there are tech solutions to avoid its enshittification.
by ajdsfasdk | 2025-11-08 16:25:09+00:00
It's really not a dilemma. Those are US dollars - property of the united states government - and we can give them to whoever will use them best. Forcibly taking billionaires money seems scary, but when you realize most of them hate the median American (what else could you call the current wealth gap), it's the only sensible option. We need a new class of elites that love and have connections (race, history, religion) to their people. That being said, there's a reason "blood and soil" gets such a bad rep - our current elites would quickly be replaced, so the dominant narrative is "you're hitler if you want to take care of your countrymen".

Meanwhile, our tax dollars fund a genocide and we poor trillions into AI while the rest of the country suffers.
by afavour | 2025-11-08 16:25:21+00:00
I don’t know how to start a reply to you. Because Nvidia stock dipped for two weeks in the past there’s no chance we’re due a massive correction? Makes so sense whatsoever.

Nvidia’s stock price is not the start and end of AI investments. OpenAI is losing over $11bn a quarter. More than they were losing in 2023, and debt accumulates over time. Reality will snap in eventually when investors realize their promised future isn’t coming any time soon. Nvidia’s valuation is in large part due to the money OpenAI and others are giving it right now. What do you think will happen when that money goes away?
by port11 | 2025-11-08 16:25:37+00:00
I'm not even sure I know who Billie Eilish really is but she was all over Reddit for telling billionaires to donate their money.

More or less, the charitable and responsible approach to being ultra-rich, and which has disappeared in this century.

I see the people in charge of these big corporations as lizards, given every decision they take seems to be anti-Humanity. We should cherish non-profits, small businesses, having a good and boring life, doing normal things. Instead we idolise being successful, rich, or famous. What a stupid system…
by logankeenan | 2025-11-08 16:26:00+00:00
It's really cool to see someone else gravitate toward this idea. I think there might be some real potential in the future. I wrote about a similar idea in 2022 [0] and 2023 [1]. The service worker approach was heavily inspired by Richard Anaya's work [2]. HTMX migrating to fetch [3] makes this even easier. I had to create a xhr-fetch-proxy [4] to intercept requests with htmx today. I'm not the author, but would be happy to answer any questions.

[0] https://logankeenan.com/posts/a-rust-server-app-compiled-to-...

[1] https://logankeenan.com/posts/client-side-server-with-rust-a...

[2] https://github.com/richardanaya/wasm-service

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45803358

[4] https://github.com/logankeenan/xhr-fetch-proxy
by rhubarbtree | 2025-11-08 16:26:29+00:00
Yeah no I don’t think intelligence works like that.

There’s not some core reasoning engine in your brain that is independent of your knowledge. The two are intertwined.

Some people are better at reasoning about politics vs maths, for example, because they have both the knowledge, skills, and experience to understood how such systems work vs a mathematician who does not.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-08 16:26:29+00:00
Not the same kind of monitor tool exactly, but, I keep finding dstat hard to leave behind. Because I can see the past there! So many of these monitors have one or two or three over time graphs, but most of the information is ephemeral, only shows right now. But I really want to see network use, disk use, paging, context switching/interrupts over time!

There is also Below. Which has a much more htop/btop like interface than dstat. Below records system info over time, and allows time travel! However, it's not as convenient as dstat, not at a glance, as one has to to scrub through time. But it is pretty impressive system monitoring, great for what it is! It's per-process pressure metrics are also utterly unbeatable. The way it rolls up cgroups is also stellar. https://github.com/facebookincubator/below
by uaghazade | 2025-11-08 16:27:04+00:00
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by wat10000 | 2025-11-08 16:27:22+00:00
I’m far from an expert, but it seems pretty common for new CPUs to be compatible with old ones at the application level, but not fully compatible with OSes. It seems like there’s a (reasonable, I’d say) assumption that vendors are willing to update the OS when they ship new hardware. Of course, this makes it hard to upgrade the CPU in a machine that hasn’t been supported for decades.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-08 16:27:48+00:00
> This company is going to blow up the whole fucking economy

US economy growth without AI is around 0.1%, so I don't think there's too much to blow up. AI is pretty much the last hail merry US has in their bag and even that not for long.

https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/data-centers-gdp-growth-zero-...
by jerojero | 2025-11-08 16:27:53+00:00
4tb is not a lot, but I've realised if its for personal use you could just delete things you've already watched.

particularly tv shows, unless you really really want to keep them.

its not necessary to delete movies, IMO, as a 4k HDR 5.1 movie will go for about 30gbs. Not that much.
by LocalH | 2025-11-08 16:28:13+00:00
Guitar Hero also isn't directly comparable to guitar. It's more like piano if anything. But the key point is that it brings a tiny fraction of the feeling of playing guitar to people who are completely tone deaf.

The magic of Guitar Hero is that it does bring a semblance of that performance feeling to non-musicians. If what I feel while playing GH is even 1/1000th of what a real musician feels when they perform their music, then holy shit. It gives me a much greater appreciation for what musicians actually feel when they're performing.
by luke0016 | 2025-11-08 16:28:23+00:00
> reasoning ability should enable them to handle numbers of arbitrary size, just as it enables humans to do so, given some pencil and paper.

Or given a calculator. Which it's running on. Which it in some sense is. There's something deeply ironic about the fact that we have an "AI" running on the most technologically advanced calculator in the history of mankind and...it can't do basic math.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-08 16:29:33+00:00
Yep, he saw the Mamdani win and Vance gave new marching orders on X by pretending to care about jobs, housing etc.

Sacks was one of the most prominent whiners on X asking for the bail out the Silicon Valley Bank. He is lying, just as the all-in podcast was lying before Trump's election and then dropped the masks.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-08 16:29:50+00:00
> To the contrary, reasoning ability should enable them to handle numbers of arbitrary size, just as it enables humans to do so, given some pencil and paper.

People interested can see the results of giving LLMs pen and paper today by looking at benchmarks with tools enabled. It's an addition to what you said, not an attack on a portion of your comment :).
by mullingitover | 2025-11-08 16:30:21+00:00
> (I'm not sure where the coal plant comes in - really, those numbers should be derated relative to a coal plant, which can run 24/7)

It works both ways: you have to derate the coal plant somewhat due to the transmission losses, whereas with a lot of solar power being generated and consumed on/in the same building the losses are practically nil.

Also, pricing for new solar with battery is below the price of building a new coal plant and dropping, it's approaching the point where it's economical to demolish existing coal plants and replace them with solar.