MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Rick76 | 2025-11-10 03:41:28+00:00
I've been wanting to learn more embedded type projects, and I've been snacking too often so I've been building a box that will only open on the weekends.

I got all the components, tested it on a breadboard, learned to solder and now I'm working on the 3d Print to enclose everything.

I actually just did a test run to see if my current 3d design would fit my PICO board, and it fit, but not that secure yet.

Im a developer but never worked this close to metal, so I've been so happy with how it's been going so far, making me real proud of myself.
by kjellsbells | 2025-11-10 03:41:47+00:00
I don't think the attackers are after your credit card records as much as they are after using your network as one base amongst thousands of others to perform illicit compute, generate traffic to a victim network, etc. That is: the attack is outbound from you to the victim, not inbound to you as the victim (at least not beyond the initial beachhead).
by protocolture | 2025-11-10 03:42:01+00:00
>My analysis is that by that time I got into reading books - both science and fantasy, and then boom my eyesight was fucked.

When I became a heavy reader I speedran long sighted to short sighted. I think 4th grade I got my long sighted diagnosis. 5th grade I started lifting heavier books. By the end of 7th I had more or less the prescription for Myopia I have now.
by ggm | 2025-11-10 03:42:20+00:00
I knew something about it differed, I wasn't sure what it was. If they kept their cooling model, a lot of prior buyers may say "nah, that was a bad choice last time"

Although TBH I think the main thing about leaf was the range was dire. It suited people with zero range anxiety doing city runabout, and almost nothing else according to the rumour machine. (rumours are bad, but often grounded in some underlying issue)
by eru | 2025-11-10 03:42:31+00:00
What is the 'citizenry as a whole'?

As a simple example, Finland's national government just passed a smartphone ban in schools. That's fine by the criteria you brought up, but I think it's utterly moronic.

Not because I disagree with the Finnish people, or their elected representatives on the issue itself: that's for them to decide. I disagree that this should be handled at the national level at all!

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity

> Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate or local level that is consistent with their resolution. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as "the principle that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed at a more local level".[1] The concept is applicable in the fields of government, political science, neuropsychology, cybernetics, management and in military command (mission command). The OED adds that the term "subsidiarity" in English follows the early German usage of "Subsidiarität".[2] More distantly, it is derived from the Latin verb subsidio (to aid or help), and the related noun subsidium (aid or assistance).

In this case, I lack the imagination to see the reason why this issue couldn't have been handled at eg the city level, so that the good people of Oulo get the policy they want, and the good people of Helsinki get the policy they want.

Or even lower: there's no reason to even go as high as the city level, each school individually can decide what they want.

But just to give you the limits of subsidiarity here: I can see why you'd want to have a unified policy per school instead of per teacher or per class: the logistics are easier, and the individual teacher doesn't have to use their own judgement and authority on this. (Of course, individual schools should be free to let the teachers decide, if that's the policy they want.)

You can surely create your own example that cover more familiar territory, eg legal drinking ages in the US (which are ostensibly a matter for the states, but have been hijacked by the central government.)
by vineyardmike | 2025-11-10 03:43:18+00:00
I've seen an uptick in LLM generated bug reports from coworkers. A employee of my company (but not someone I work with regularly) used one of the CLI LLMs to search through logs for errors, and then automatically cut (hundreds!) of bugs to (sometimes) the correct teams. Turns out it was the result of some manager's mandate to "try integrating AI into our workflow". The resulting email was probably the least professional communication I've ever sent, but the message was received.

The only solution I can see is a hard-no policy. If I think this bug is AI, either by content or by reputation, I close without any investigation. If you want it re-opened, you'll need to IRL prove its genuine in an educated, good-faith approach that involves independent efforts to debug.

> "If you put your name on AI slop once, I'll assume anything with your name on it is (ignorable) slop, so consider if that is professionally advantageous".
by paulmooreparks | 2025-11-10 03:43:34+00:00
XferLang, a data-transfer and configuration language to serve as an alternative to JSON.

https://xferlang.org/

Most obvious features, at first glance, are no commas and no need for escape characters. Other useful features include processing instructions, extensible data-substitution rules, and support for comments. Currently only implemented in .NET; plans are to rewrite the core in Rust and provide language wrappers around that core.
by applied_heat | 2025-11-10 03:43:50+00:00
I’m still using redmine. It allows me to create a project, break it down in to tasks, assign time estimates for the tasks, assign % complete, log time against tasks, which then allows for burn down charts so I can see if I am on track or behind. With time logged against projects I can generate timesheets and invoices. It also has Gantt chart which is handy for initial project planning meetings.
by mmooss | 2025-11-10 03:44:35+00:00
> Bad quality at one company is one thing, but if you’re arguing bad quality happened across a whole industry or country

There's a culture in industries. As you said, look at Germany. Look at the culture in SV - it would be hard to open a development business of any size that ran completely against the SV engineering culture.

> the country that started the industrial revolution and could come up with the Rolls Royce Merlin when it needed to

That is almost literally ancient history. Nearly Medieval history. :)

> I don’t know it unions were the whole story

Looking at the two countries with the best reputations for quality, a lack of union and labor projection may be the problem: Germany has very strong unions; in many cases, they get a seat on the board of directors. Japan treats its labor very well - often lifetime jobs, famously Toyota empowers assembly line workers to stop the entire line themselves - and has low labor market liquidity (but my info on Japan could be out of date).
by wat10000 | 2025-11-10 03:45:30+00:00
I didn't realize the UK was known for wool production. I know it as the birthplace of the industrial revolution and the country that mined enough coal to cover the entire country to a depth of three inches.

Blaming it on unions is dumb (German car makers seem to do just fine), but if you were looking at the situation in the first half of the last century, it would be pretty reasonable to expect UK car manufacturing to be a big deal. And especially ship building. They had the world's largest navy for a long time, and they didn't do it by importing ships.
by leptons | 2025-11-10 03:46:14+00:00
Git commit messages are nothing to obsess about. If you're worrying about a "messy" git commit history, you're not moving forward, you're stuck in the past, and that indicates bigger problems. The only thing that really matters to me is the state of the code today, not 500 git commits ago. But I don't know what kind of work you do, I just know I don't have time to obsess about anyone's git commits from weeks or months ago. I just know where the code is today, and where I need it to be in the next iteration. Sure, write a basic commit message, but don't waste time on it. And don't obsess about "rebuild" commits or whatever extraneous thing that needs a commit. It isn't going to matter if you're always moving forward.
by generationP | 2025-11-10 03:46:14+00:00
This looks like an index of Mir books, without any additional sorting or curation. You probably can get a good education on many topics out of these, but also waste significant time on reading out-of-date and out-of-order texts. Someone experienced could make this a lot more useful by proposing a reading order and giving some sort of evaluations of importance and quality.

And keep in mind that these are from the pre-1990 USSR, so don't expect any modern maths or CS.
by ggm | 2025-11-10 03:46:56+00:00
You seem to think nuclear weapons stop all forms of tension short of nuclear war but the evidence is strong that even nuclear armed parties do things which don't include nuclear weapons. India applies strategic pressures to it's neighbours including ones with nuclear weapons. They're bashing each other with sticks and stones on the border, to avoid pulling nuclear triggers.

There was an ad-blue shortage in Australia last year, we have no onshore refinery and got close to running out. The nearest one is Indonesia and we were in a number of trade disputes regarding lumpy skin diseases and cattle and sheep. It only takes one or two sore points for something like "sorry, we sold your ad-blue to somebody else" and the entire mining sector is shut down.

British strategic military thinking assumed its role in NATO was unchanging. The re-appraisal post Ukraine has been significant and I am sure it includes waking up the arms manufacturing sector, and the input side to that is heavy metals industry, which has unfortunately fallen in a hole because of under-capitalisation and world pricing and Gupta and the like now "own" the national steel plan to some extent.

You would think that kind of thing would have been thought about. Just making trains onshore instead of buying them in from overseas would have possibly demanded continual metals manufacturing and processing capacity, which kept furnaces alight and steel making to the fore.
by mmooss | 2025-11-10 03:47:39+00:00
There's a presumption that it would be beneficial to return mid-20th century manufacturing economies. If you look at economic output and productivity, and quality of life for labor (physical labor, especially repetitive physical labor, is hard to do for decades), we want to move forward and we did. We want to plan for a mid-21st century economy.

The problem is a small group seizing the benefits for themselves.
by eru | 2025-11-10 03:47:39+00:00
There's always trade-offs. Even local shipping producers can't magic together a ship in a week.

Of course, you can also look for some closer-to-home backup friends.

My main point is that close allies (both geographically and in terms of relationship) are about as good as having your own local industry. In a few important cases and areas, having production with friends is better than at home.

Mostly because it's harder for local political interests to capture a foreign economy.
by Parvathakkar | 2025-11-10 03:48:15+00:00
I recently launched Queens Hourly puzzle on App Store.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/queens-hourly/id6751763916

Every hour, new Queens Puzzle (LinkedIn style) is available to play. No leaderboard, no stats, nothing to buy, just pure play. Every user gets the exact same puzzle to solve for that UTC hour.

I would love to get some feedback from the community!
by hekkle | 2025-11-10 03:48:23+00:00
> the chipsets, are produced in Chinese factories owned by TPLink.

So are more than half the chipsets in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Microprocessors_made_...

I agree with you that they shouldn't be banned, but the US casting aspersions against another country is pretty rich considering the involvement of the CIA, and NSA around the world.
by JDM95AUS | 2025-11-10 03:49:08+00:00
My open-source food tech project is being suppressed by the Australian government and Big Tech. I have their written admission and proof of coordination. Can anyone with legal resources help? All Australian anti-corruption methods apparently don't deal with corruption at this level, trying has only put me in danger.

https://opensourceterracore.org/forthepress/forthepress.php
by bwhiting2356 | 2025-11-10 03:49:46+00:00
> “I am not the person in the VR rig or in the forklift chair. My world is the white collar side of this,”

Society should not be engineered to make sure members of the professional class don’t have to enter the working class. To do so would be unfair to the working class, not to mention bad for competition and productivity. Demand is high for a variety of trades and healthcare jobs.
by gruez | 2025-11-10 03:50:24+00:00
>Hopefully this is what changes. If, for example, AI reduces labor needs by 50%, we ought to gradually move to a 20 hour work week. Consumption patterns would change— the Covid years provide some very limited guidance on how such a dynamic would be shaped by changing the demand for different forms of entertainment and leisure activities.

How would this work for the jobs that can't be replaced by AI? Sure, the programmer might be able to work 10 hours a week because of AI, but it's unlikely anything similar is going to come any time soon for nurses, so do they have to continue working 40 hours? What happens to salaries? If programmers can work 10 hours and still get paid 6 figures, wouldn't everyone flood into it, driving down prices? Conversely wouldn't the wages of jobs that can't be replaced with AI go up, because we still need nurses or whatever?
by CGamesPlay | 2025-11-10 03:50:34+00:00
I make a lot of drive-by contributions, and I use AI coding tools. I submitted my first PR that is a cross between those two recently. It's somewhere between "vibe-coded" and "vibe-engineered", where I definitely read the resulting code, had the agent make multiple revisions, and deployed the result on my own infrastructure before submitting a PR. In the PR I clearly stated that it was done by a coding agent.

I can't imagine that any policy against LLM code would allow this sort of thing, but I also imagine that if I don't say "this was made by a coding agent", that no one would ever know. So, should I just stop contributing, or start lying?

[append] Getting a lot of hate for this, which I guess is a pretty clear answer. I guess the reason I'm not receiving the "fuck off" clearly is because when I see these threads of people complaining about AI content, it's really clearly low-quality crap that (for example) doesn't even compile, and wastes everyone's time.

I feel different from those cases because I did spend my time to resolve the issue for myself, did review the code, did test it, and do stand by what I'm putting under my name. Hmm.
by brailsafe | 2025-11-10 03:50:47+00:00
I believe they addressed this implicitly as a familiar explanation without actually needing to say it. Despite it being extremely rare to be able to pinpoint via external feedback mechanisms which areas conceivably provide tangible roi, it's just always relevant work on your weak spots.

The reality of the situation (which varies a bit depending on region and discipline) is that many people and economies are indeed cooked for a variety of reasons, and it's a much better explanation than some skill issue. People who think they're in the same economy just don't want to believe it's as bad as it is, or legitimately don't know many people in that age group.

It was a skill issue to some extent for me when interviews weren't working out because I couldn't do niche algo problems, or I didn't get a second or first call, but it was never the way it is these days. It was difficult in pre-covid times to get back into a job if I got laid off, sometimes took a year, but there was some information to go on. I'd get interviews periodically, maybe second interviews, maybe 5 interviews, before I'd be rejected. It was maybe 1 in 40 in terms of interview to application ratio; bad enough to end up living in the car, but even then I could pick up a manual labor or barista job. Now.. it's honestly not even worth applying in many cases. It got real dark before I landed my current one, to the point where I considered switching industries, but there was no viable path to do that and see prosperity on the other side. Even now that I'm in a relatively well-paying position, it's still precarious, and long-term prosperity is not even really a remote consideration; I have to assume that despite my best efforts to preserve my income, it can and likely will go away at any time, and therefore even the most basic mortgage (which would still be ~4x my annual gross income and give us less space than renting, doesn't seem feasible. I think it would be more beneficial to just completely forget about trying to aim for milestones that barely exist anymore.

Currently, my spouse has been out of work for nearly a year, not in CS, and she's depressed—rightfully so—because it's never been this bad in our adult lives. No responses _at all_ for any job, and she's way more capable on paper for the stuff she's applying to than I am for SE. One single interview in the last 6 months for something paid, and it didn't pan out. This is Canada mind you, but still.

The economy is now composed of people who have jobs and are stressed about them disappearing, people who don't need work and do own all the land, and people who might miss a majority of their 20s in terms of working life unless they pull some miracle out of their ass quickly.
by liqilin1567 | 2025-11-10 03:51:16+00:00
I built a website (https://hpyhn.xyz) for hacker news users for reasons:

1. hn comments are valuable, I've spent a lot of time going through hn comments. I think there are valuable comments buried in the threads with fewer points, so it's not enough to just read top3 threads.

2. Sometimes a good post is ignored due to a bad title, sometimes I still have no idea what the post's theme even after I read a few paragraphs.

3. I want to filter out some posts I'm not interested in, but I realized I need read some other posts it's not a simple yes/no problem, so I gave every post a interesting score based on my own preference

so I want a tool to save my time while not missing out too much on hn
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-11-10 03:51:42+00:00
Prime Minister (at the time) Malcolm Turnbull announcing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i326eNOa6Us

The above is just the announcement and doesn't include answering media questions wherein we would have heard dear Malcolm's famous quote:

“Well the laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia"

Very quiet audio of the last half of the above quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VB3uQHa14g

Political understanding of mathematics and encryption has not progressed in the intervening 9 years, much the same as the thirty years prior. Regulating internet security is forming a similarly unfortunate trajectory.
by SanjayMehta | 2025-11-10 03:51:59+00:00
The real value in London - actually more accurately the City of London - is in the networks built up over the decades. By networks I mean the old boys networks where insiders share information with each other over the phone.

Software as in used in trading or other financial services is only of value if there are takers for those services.

One rapidly eroding service is insurance. The so-called "shadow fleets" are called that only by London, because they're not insured by London. That doesn't mean that they're not insured: various governments have already created vehicles to insure strategically important shipping.
by tkgally | 2025-11-10 03:52:07+00:00
The author's argument is framed more widely than just LLMs. He also discusses robots, teleoperation, and other areas where workers in the middle of the bell curve seem especially vulnerable to displacement.

I accept, though, your point that economic factors not directly related to AI are also playing a role. Presumably economists are now trying to to pick apart the effect of each factor on the job market.
by notyourycombo | 2025-11-10 03:52:16+00:00
Can you speak to why you and your partner elected to do WGS, when you could have opted for more specific targeted testing of GJB2?

I'd imagine that both you and your partner already had comprehensive carrier screening and most fertility centers would not implant an embryo with any known aneuploidies. What were the main advantages of WGS in your view?
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-11-10 03:52:46+00:00
> Having the retry logic within the `finally` block seems like the best way of denoting the intention to me, since the intention is to swallow the result, whether that was a return or a throw.

Except that is not the documented intent of the `finally` construct:

The finally block always executes when the try block exits. This ensures that the finally block is executed even if an unexpected exception occurs. But finally is useful for more than just exception handling — it allows the programmer to avoid having cleanup code accidentally bypassed by a return, continue, or break. Putting cleanup code in a finally block is always a good practice, even when no exceptions are anticipated.[0]

Using `finally` for implementing retry logic can be done, as you have illustrated, but that does not mean it is "the best way of denoting the intention." One could argue this is a construct specific to Java (the language) and does not make sense outside of this particular language-specific idiom.

Conceptually, "retries" are not "cleanup code."

0 - https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions...
by denkmoon | 2025-11-10 03:52:48+00:00
For anyone asking this question I might suggest Protectli. They've got x86 systems with coreboot. That's about as good as you can get these days for open source-ness without going really obscure or outdated. I've got a VP2440 as my router and firewall. You can neuter the intel management engine with coreboot, but there's still going to be firmware blobs somewhere in it, especially if you're trying to build a wifi ap.

One of my 2 pcengines APUs has developed an issue with its solder joints I suspect. It hangs at the bootloader unless the unit is already warm. Can't complain at all, it lasted ages and problems like this are just life for things that thermally cycle, it was in a pretty extreme climate for most of its life. Doesn't help with me needing a replacement now pcengines is out of business though, hence getting a protectli box.
by inemesitaffia | 2025-11-10 03:52:53+00:00
I don't think the courts will agree.

The presence of a person without a valid visa is illegal and the person working without a working visa is another illegality. Not reporting your presence to the authorities is another level.

Otherwise doesn't erase that.

>avoid justice for their crimes

Some other fact free nonsense.

Yes the drama and force is extra, but it's not illegal, or unprecedented as I'll have you know from seeing video of immigration raids in the past, from the UK, Canada, Sweden and Australia, or pre 49 immigration raids.

There's two classes of people who support this blatant criminality. The business class who relies on legal and illegal immigration + outsourcing to force down local and market wages. And the solidarity crew who are completely pro open borders without restrictions and couch it in other excuses.

Borders are violence, they argue. While complaining about settlers and occupiers of indigenous land. It's a circle you can't square.