MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kentm | 2025-11-27 17:51:19+00:00
Art, writing, and communication is about humans connecting with each other and trying to come to mutual understanding. Exploring the human condition. If I’m engaging with an AI instead of a person, is there a point?

There’s an argument that the creator is just using AI as a tool to achieve their vision. I do not think that’s how people using AI are actually engaging with it at scale, nor is it the desired end state of people pushing AI. To put it bluntly, I think it’s cope. It’s how I try to use AI in my work but it’s not how I see people around me using it, and you don’t get the miracle results boosters proclaim from the rooftop if you use it that way.
by IMTDb | 2025-11-27 17:51:42+00:00
> or example, we can forbid corporations usage of algorithms beyond sorting by date of the post

Hacker News sorted by "new" is far less valuable to me than the default homepage which has a sorting algorithm that has a good balance between freshness and impact. Please don't break it.

> It is you that may have misinterpreted what regulations are.

The definition of regulation is literally: "a rule or directive made and maintained by an authority." I am just scared about who the authority is going to be.
by sireat | 2025-11-27 17:51:46+00:00
As I recall Holmes did in fact do a lot of walking. He vacillated between periods of inactivity(cocaine, violin, shooting V in wall with a revolver) and intense activity (taking up disguises and doing various physical activities including walking all across London and elsewhere.

Just because your logical mind says one thing is good to do and you know you should do it you are not going to always obey your rider, the inertia of the elephant takes over.

So you need a trigger to snap out of it, for Holmes it was a new case.
by anonymouskimmer | 2025-11-27 17:51:49+00:00
I'm taking "same way" to be read as "authoritative", whether de facto or de jure. Basically by dint of people using what's provided instead of coming up with their own.

Everyone has the same few dictionary spellings (that are now programmed into our computers). Even worse (from a heterogeneity perspective), everyone also has the same few grammar books.

As examples: How often do you see American English users write "colour", or British English users write "color", much less colur or collor or somesuch?

Shakespeare famously spelled his own last name half a dozen or so different ways. My own patriline had an unusual variant spelling of the last name, that standardized to one of the more common variants in the 1800s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_English_grammars

"Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modelled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534).[9] Lily's grammar was being used in schools in England at the time, having been "prescribed" for them in 1542 by Henry VIII.[5]"

It goes on to mention a variety of grammars that may have started out somewhat descriptive, but became more prescriptive over time.
by squigz | 2025-11-27 17:52:30+00:00
I've not read much of Holmes, so I can't really speak to the original character, but I would point out that the "he can socialize, he just doesn't like to" bit is somewhat part of BBC's Sherlock too - look at the relationship he developed with the woman to get at Magnussen. It's an aspect of him they never really explored much beyond that though - you're definitely right in that he seems more incapable of it than anything else.
by omnicognate | 2025-11-27 17:53:19+00:00
A key pillar of Microsoft's FUD campaign against open source was that if you use GPL software you run the risk of inadvertantly including some of it in your proprietary software and accidentally causing the whole thing to suddenly become open source against your horrified company's wishes. It was a lie then and it's a lie now. The comment I was replying to (along with many others on this post) indicates the brainworm lives on.

The difference between a license and a contract may be too subtle for the denizens of HN to grasp in 2025 but I assure you it's not lost on the legal system. It's not lost on those of us who followed groklaw back in the day, either. Sad we have to live with an internet devoid of such joys now.
by arjunprabhulal | 2025-11-27 17:53:47+00:00
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by pajuhaan | 2025-11-27 17:54:09+00:00
For more than 100 years, physics has had beautiful equations for gravity and quantum fields, but no clear, simple story for where the forces themselves actually come from.

There’s a new theoretical framework “Relator” that treats gravity and electromagnetism as two parity faces of a single microscopic kernel living on an internal complex space, rather than two separate forces.

Particles are modeled as phase loops locked by a simple rule, and long-range forces show up as entropy deficits in that hidden space, with explicit mass and charge cancelling out in the final force laws. The same setup was previously used to predict the fine-structure constant and the electron mass without tunable parameters.

curious what people who know GR/QFT well think of this approach.
by QuiEgo | 2025-11-27 17:54:41+00:00
I’ve been pretty happy with taking a Terramsater F4-425 Plus and putting Linux on it.

I feel like the mini ITX market for motherboards is just too niche. If you want something small, buy an off the shelf NAS. If size is not an issue, buy a case that can hold a full sized motherboard and lots of disks.
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-11-27 17:54:54+00:00
Excellent results, even if the source article is a bit government-optimistic-press-releasy. The less-good news is that, even with abundant solar, you still need a functional grid (even more so than in traditional top-down energy distribution schemes) in order for everyone to take advantage of it, but this is a problem that lots of rich nations are working through right now, so affordable off-the-shelf solutions are bound to appear in the near future.

And I wish Pakistan the best in taking advantage of those and/or their home-grown ingenuity!
by stonecharioteer | 2025-11-27 17:55:10+00:00
Your post reminded me how I could tell my online friend was pissed just because she typed "okay." or "K." instead of "okay". We could sense our emotional state from texting. One of those friendships you form over text through the internet. I wouldn't recommend forming these too deeply since some in person nuance is lost, we could never transition to real life friends despite living close by. But we could tell what mood we were in just from typing. It was wild.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-27 17:55:18+00:00
I do greatly appreciate you talking about cases instead of leaving it at saying there isn't a part of the license and calling any discussion about it FUD.

The Cisco case was about distributing GPL binaries, not linking it with the rest of the code base and the rest of that code base then needing to be GPL. It's a standard license enforcement unrelated to the unique requirements of GPL.

The BusyBox case is probably the closest in the list, but as you already point out we didn't get a ruling to set precedent and instead got a settlement. It seems obvious what the ruling would be (to me at least), but settlement was explicitly not what is being talked about.

Bringing in French courts, they issued fines - they didn't issue the type of order this article talks about which is about releasing the entire thing involved at the time with GPL.

This isn't related to fear, uncertainty, or doubt about GPL. It's related to what has/hasn't already been ruled in the court systems handling this license before as the article skips past a bit. Even in the case we assume the courts will rule with what seems obvious (to me at least), it has a tangible difference in how these cases will be run, the assumptions they will have, and how long they will last.
by dspillett | 2025-11-27 17:55:20+00:00
> Wait. You build a new one every -year-?!

For some people, building a NAS, or a fuller home-lab, is a hobby in itself. Posts like this are generally written by one of those people for an audience of those sorts of people. Nothing wrong with that. I was someone like that myself, some time ago.

On a more cynical note: if the blog is popular enough, those affiliate links might be worth more than a few pennies and a post about previous years builds with links to those years choice of tech, will not see anything like the same traction. It wouldn't get attention on HN for a start (at least not until a few more years time, when it might be part of an interesting then-and-now comparison).
by Sxubas | 2025-11-27 17:56:51+00:00
Lovely read.

Just a curious question if the authors or any maintainers read this comment:

Does this bug fix break the functionality of re-connecting the client? Or how would the client know they need to use the same port as the previous session?

(My understanding is that a new client coming from the same IP and different port will now be treated as a new player instead of a reconnect)
by the_overseer | 2025-11-27 17:56:56+00:00
I am wasting my time, you are arguing in bad faith. I have installed windows 7 in a VM and everything takes less RAM not just the start menu and for most things it performs much much better. Start menu actually searches my files instantly, not with delay, not presenting web results, not presenting wrong results. It's doing its job.

Task manager opens immediately. Windows Explorer the same.

Those applications and the OS were written by real humans, not by myths. With your terribly bad argument it seems those OSes never happened since it required "extreme difficulty". No, it didn't require Einsteins. It required non-monkey coders.

You say you wrote your own react native phone app and it only takes 30MBs. So what? You forgot the most important part: what does it do? If it's a basic text editor then yes it's extremely bloated garbage.
by _rwo | 2025-11-27 17:57:03+00:00
I love synology; bought one around 2018, runs nicely until this day; received last DSM 7.3 update so will be supported until 2028 but I will probably keep it running until it dies as I don't expose it to The Evil Internet anyway

does everything and more I need it to (backups, photos, storage, jellyfin, various media servers, torrents etc.)
by sidjxnbx | 2025-11-27 17:57:58+00:00
I get it, but I think there’s something deeply anti human about being ok with this (not just in software). It’s similar in sentiment to how you behave when nobody is looking - a culture and society is so much better off if people take pride in their work.

Obviously there’s nuance (I’ll take slop food for starving people over a healthy meal for a limited few if we’re forced to choose), but the perverse incentives in society start to take over if we allow ourselves to be ok with slop. Continuously chasing the bottom of the barrel makes it impossible for high quality to exist for anyone except the rich.

Put another way: if we as a society said “it is illegal to make slop food”, both the poor and the rich would have easy access to healthy food. The cost here would be born by the rich, as they profit off food production and thus would profit less to keep quality high.
by m000 | 2025-11-27 17:58:29+00:00
Not really.

I was not interested in maintaining an extensive homelab (so that I have separate storage and computing nodes), or buying into a new "software ecosystem" (I would consider buying e.g. a Synology/QNAP box if I did), so I ended up with vanilla Debian. Debian 13 (trixie) got released right on time, so I will be on the latest for a couple of years.

From what I tried (TrueNAS, OpenMV, Unraid), Unraid seemed to be the most appealing. TrueNAS was very unfriendly towards even the idea of opening a shell [1] and IIRC you couldn't even install debian packages out of the box. OpenMV had problems booting on my hardware, plus it is lagging behind mainline debian (the Debian 12 version of OpenMV got released around 2 months before Debian 13).

Unraid also had limitations regarding what you could run, but the community seemed to be the most robust. Also, it is the only one that stores its parity data externally. This gives you the most flexibility with disk configurations. Also, IIRC you can pull out a disk and the data on it would be readable, so migrating your data to something else would be relatively painless.

So, if I had to choose a NAS OS, it would probably be Unraid. The downside is that you need to buy a license. But hey! Black Friday to the rescue!

[1] https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/scaletutorials/systemsett...
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-27 17:58:33+00:00
Why are you assuming that someone who sensibly refrains from overly impulsive behavior wrt. showing their emotions (this is what "self-monitoring" ultimately means: we all do it in all sorts of social contexts, and it's a normal part of being a healthy, well-adjusted person) must necessarily be "disconnecting" from them altogether and lacking in emotional resilience?
Show HN: PrinceJS v1.7.7 Update. Down to 2.2 kB and top (13yo dev)
by lilprince1218 | 2025-11-27 17:58:47+00:00
Hey HN (update from my Nov 21 post),

Matthew here, 13 from Nigeria. After the autocannon correction (thx @saltyaom!), here's v1.7.7 of PrinceJS.

New since launch: • Bundle: ~2.2 kB gzipped (tree-shaking tweaks, down 600 bytes) • Speed: 21,748 req/s on oha (-c 100 -z 30s, Bun 1.2.x) – top 3 confirmed • Vs others: Hono 22,124 | Elysia 25,312 | Express 9,325

Full server (8 lines): import { prince } from "princejs"; const app = prince();

app.get("/", () => "Hello world "); app.get("/users/:id", (req) => ({ id: req.params.id }));

app.listen(3000);

Cloud VM benchmarks next. Feedback on size/speed?

Repo: https://github.com/MatthewTheCoder1218/princejs npm i princejs

Matthew (@Lil_Prince_1218)
by xp84 | 2025-11-27 17:58:53+00:00
Why can’t we hate both greedy and shitty GM, and greedy and shitty Apple and Google?

Both infotainment and phones should be open to run the software users choose. The biggest problem with tech today is how everyone with control of some kind of choke point expects everyone else to pay them to “allow” the user to use anything that isn’t in the first party’s strategic interest.

We saw this when Apple violently crushed that Android-compatible iMessage solution a couple years ago. It was portrayed as that developer “hacking” Apple - not as the users of the iMessage service choosing a different client than Apple likes. This shift in thinking is wild.

Since the AT&T breakup the phone company was forced to allow customers to choose their client hardware (phones). Now in the modern day critical infrastructure, we’re back to the same old tricks where powerful parties (platform owners) want to dictate the hardware and software customers are allowed to use based purely on their own greedy interests.
by hilbert42 | 2025-11-27 17:59:04+00:00
Right, I'm not surprised. The DPO4054 is a much later machine dating from I think after 2000.

My hands-on experience started with the 535 and it was beautifully built, it was a work of art and I still have a plugin for it. So too were the early solid state ones such as the 453 but they were harder to work on.

In my opinion the 'dream range' was the 7000 series, they were easy to work on and like the 535 the manuals are superb. I've used a lot of that series including the 7834 1ns storage unit with various plugins including the 7L13 spectrum analyzer.

In fact, I've still six functioning 7000 CROs including the 7L13 and about a dozen other plugins. An examination of their PWAs show copyright dates in the early 1970s, so that puts these instruments well over 50 years old and the majority have never needed maintenance other than calibration.

In recent years things have changed. With the advent of much cheaper Asian equipment from Anritsu et al Tek had to change to complete, 'bulletproof' engineering unfortunately had to give way to more modest designs.

Reckon those 50+ year old CROs will outlast me. That quality speaks for itself.

_

Edit: Their CRO products were always excellent but I cannot say that about Tek's 1411 modular PAL sync pulse and signal generator. The design was good but it had a build fault, the IC sockets had edge-wiping contacts instead of side-wiping ones which often went intermittent. Not good for a sync pulse gen when say a TV station relies on its output for its whole operation (if the sync gen fails, the whole operation goes black).

There's a long story about that unit, it was returned to Tek for repair under warranty and was still intermittent upon return. So I assigned one of my techs—much to his chagrin—to replace every IC socket (hundreds of them) with the best available-Augat's top gold plated range. From then on the 1411 worked perfectly. Sometimes the best of companies produces a bummer.
by bmn__ | 2025-11-27 17:59:45+00:00
The first thing I see is the badly designed keyboard.

The legends have insufficient contrast and quite a number of them are too small to read. The legends for ², ³, home, end, page up, page down, return, control, num lock and the four arrows are wrong, or in the case of escape, do not fit the theme. Minus and underscore are indistinguishable from each other. The small letter g has the wrong font weight. The level 3 and 4 legends are incongruent with /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/eu. Despite level 3 and 4 legends, there is no level 3 shift key. The return key is misshapen and the escape key has a grotesquely large size. The place of the insert key is usurped by the fn key.

I would behoove the designer to pay attention to ISO 9995 and verify the result with users before sending it off to manufacturing, the company could have avoided a lot of trouble.
by tastyface | 2025-11-27 17:59:57+00:00
"What do you think would have happened to someone like Seth Meyer under Franco or Hitler?"

In what year? 1933? 1937? 1945?

People conflate Nazi Germany with murderous, full-borne authoritarianism, but it took a decade to actually get there. They were just as much fascists at the start as at the end -- it's just that their ideology had room to fully metastasize.
by danbitengo | 2025-11-27 18:01:05+00:00
Thanks! For native Android, not directly yet because v0.1.0 is Rust → WASM → TypeScript (web/Node/Deno/Bun).

But since the core sync engine is pure Rust, native Android bindings are definitely possible. The main paths would be:

1. JNI bindings directly from Rust

2. Or using the existing WASM core with a JVM WASM runtime

Haven't prioritized this yet since v0.1.0 focused on web/JS ecosystem, but if there's demand for Android, I could explore it. Are you working on something that needs offline sync on Android?
by 47282847 | 2025-11-27 18:01:30+00:00
It seems we live in two almost separate only thinly connected realities (*). In such cases I’ve learned that while I wouldn’t mind deepening the exchange, for that to feel worthwhile for me it would have to happen in person and not online.

(*) my definition of reality includes not only observable “facts“ that we may agree on, but also our experience of it; our perception, judgments, values etc.
by hgs3 | 2025-11-27 18:02:11+00:00
Copyleft isn't about the software authors freedom, it's about the end-users freedom. Copyleft grants the end-user the freedom to study and modify the code, i.e. the right to repair. Contrast this with closed-source software which may incorporate permissively licensed code: the end-user has no right to study, no right to modify, and no right to repair. Ergo less freedom.
by Havoc | 2025-11-27 18:02:33+00:00
I was looking at N class CPU builds and very quickly realized they're not for me. For storage only over LAN, low power prioritized use they're a valid play, but there are some tradeoffs that are not obvious at first glance.

See those NVMEs he stuck in there? They're running at 1/8th their rated link speed. Yeah...12.5%. (PCIe 4.0 x4 vs PCIe 3.0 x1). This board is one of the better ones on pcie layouts [0], but 9 gen3 lanes is thin no matter how you look at it so all those boards have to cut corners somewhere on that

I decided I'm better off with a ebay AM4 build - way better pcie situation, ECC, way more powerful cpu, more sata, cheaper, 6x nvme all with X4 lanes, standard fan compatibility. Main downsides being no quicksync, power consumption and fast ECC UDIMMS are scarce. That was for a proxmox/nas hybrid build though so more emphasis on performance

[0] https://youtu.be/1YJ0s_LxXgU?t=690
by sincerely | 2025-11-27 18:03:04+00:00
Making a minor-to-moderate sacrifice of convenience/money so that your actions align with your ideology and beliefs is extremely common human behavior. Organic food. Clothes made in the US instead of a sweatshop. Following a religion's customs e.g. Sabbath.

There are plenty of good reasons to not want to use gen AI (and many stupid ones as well). If someone wants to market their product that way, who cares
by lapcat | 2025-11-27 18:03:07+00:00
> I asked for what the difference would be.

Why?

> social media is full of foreign influence campaigns.

And local influence campaigns.

Which social media campaign gave RFK a brain worm in 2010?

Trump has basically been Trumpy for 40+ years: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ityrsu/1987_fullpage...
by _wire_ | 2025-11-27 18:03:14+00:00
> - 115 analog images encoded in the record’s grooves: how to build the stylus and play the record

To learn to play the record you've gotta play the record?

That thing is such a D/K pop-sci manifestation.

The writers of the Star Trek movie understood that Sagan's extra-solar artifact is merely a time capsule; humanity talking to its future self.

Some great grandchild of a millennial vinyl nerd, who lives and loves on the engineering deck of some Hyatt Regency in space, will have kept a perfectly maintained Technics, handed down across the generations, leading to a future crowd in ""Ten Forward"" being regaled by Sagan's Cosmos on a similarly well-maintained Magnavox 32-inch tube TV and VHS. "Billions of fucks were given for V'Ger to come back to us..." The meetup will be hosted by a curiously bald supermodel, a hunky but demure mensch, and an AI Carl Sagan.
by astrobe_ | 2025-11-27 18:03:38+00:00
I wonder, if the device is equipped with a microphone and/or a webcam, does it mean that the school has the right to remotely activate them for "monitoring" purposes? It not too far from what they did when the monitoring software sent the screenshots of an email that never existed.

And what if he joked about stabbing his girlfriend/boyfriend? Would the school report him to the police? What the police would do in this case?
by xp84 | 2025-11-27 18:03:40+00:00
That was hilarious, as though Lightning cables on average outlasted the devices they were used with. Meanwhile in the real world, Apple’s delicate “strain relief” started to fray and tear in 6-12 months of use, and thanks to their weird unnecessary DRM chip for MFi enforcement, third-party Lightning cables tended to become flaky for purely DRM reasons in a few months.

Show me anyone who had more than a couple of working Lightning cables left when they eliminated their last Lightning device.