MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lurk2 | 2025-11-30 10:05:51+00:00
There was a user here a few months ago trying to promote his startup. He was being somewhat obnoxious when people offered criticism so I looked him up and found he was some 21 year old kid. Profile read:

> Founder & CEO of Nitrility which is the world's first music licensing marketplace working with over a billion $ in assets from 80K rightsholders.

> Age 21 as of August, high school diploma (Rutgers Prep), college dropout (UIUC), grew up in Somerset NJ, 2 time founder with 1 exit at age 18, 2400 rated chess player, former top tennis player, Forbes Technology Council.

> Usually you will find me in NYC, LA, or SF.

The dropout thing struck me because it was such an obvious attempt to try to appear to be the Mark Zuckerberg style figure that this kid desperately wanted others to believe he was. I’ve been seeing a ton of these kids claiming to have had exits before they even graduated high school, and even though I know they’re lying, I’ve been browsing here long enough that I would probably have believed them if I hadn’t picked up on it being a social media trend.
by snickerer | 2025-11-30 10:06:56+00:00
Meshtastic: Text message mesh network using LoRa modems.

Reticulum: full network stack (alternative to IP), mesh, focus on low-speed, unreliable connections. Transport layer agnostic. Current 'Hardware drivers' are written for LoRa, Internet Tunnels, Wifi, Amateur radio.

Reticulum sounds great? It is, but still has 2 problems: 1. The only complete & stable implementation is written in Python and 2. The existing end-user applications have confusing and complex UIs (except for the command-line tools for remote shell and file copy).
by berdario | 2025-11-30 10:07:39+00:00
Ok, but the market is absolutely flooded with exploitative stuff, laden with micro transactions and a trickle of miniscule rewards, in attempt to addict the user, rather than genuinely provide enjoyment.

How do you even discover the good games that are worth being played on Android?

I'm aware of https://nobsgames.stavros.io/ , but I'm afraid it might not be extremely up-to-date

And also, I think that Google Play has a much bigger problem than Steam, when it comes to old games being made unavailable (think EA's zzSunset stuff)
by nosianu | 2025-11-30 10:07:43+00:00
> over the past two decades basically all of the successful entrepreneurs and business owners I know

This very much sounds like survivorship bias to me.

But more importantly, I think the discussion is going off the track. The important ones are the 0.1%, not the 1% or 10%. The "normal" millionaire business owner usually actually worked for it (unless they are pure finance or something similar). They are also not the ones shifting a whole country's politics with their enormous influence. They don't have any over-inflated influence over anything. They are not the problem.

But they also don't serve as examples for the masses, because that would be confusing "anyone can do this" with "everyone can do this" - their successes don't scale. You can only have that many successful businesspeople and entrepreneurs, the majority must be their worker bees by necessity.

I see such discussions as distractions. If you talk about normal entrepreneurship you will not get to the core of our problems, not at the very top (the super rich), not at the bottom (why are so many so poor).

If you want to come up with an idea that works at scale you can't use one that only works for some no matter what. If you want to come up with a solution for the enormous imbalances looking at those normal entrepreneurs does not help either.

I suggest to develop an instinct to use in these kinds of discussions: For every concrete example, imagine it at scale. Thinking at individual examples when you talk about big things is a mismatch. Those examples are only useful if you use them to extrapolate upwards, what would actually happen if everybody did this?
by hermitcrab | 2025-11-30 10:07:48+00:00
Water extinguishers are almost completely useless.

I once had a go at putting out a fire in a waste paper bin with a water extinguisher, as part of a fire safety course. The burning paper just floated on the water as the bin filled up.

CO2 extinguishers are more effective. But I believe you have to be careful where you hold it or your skin may freeze onto it.

Get a fire blanket for your kitchen.
by f_devd | 2025-11-30 10:08:35+00:00
> I have no idea why I should be against using LLM

It highly depends on your own perspective and goals, but one of the arguments I agree with is that habitually using it will effectively prevent you building any skill or insight into the code you've produced. That in turn leads to unintended consequences as implementation details become opaque and layers of abstraction build up. It's like hyper-accelerating tech-debt for an immediate result, if it's a simple project with no security requirements there would be little reason to not use the tool.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-11-30 10:09:46+00:00
> If you study history, then you'll notice how preciously few people were focused on making the lives of regular people better.

If you study modern politics, then you'll notice how preciously few people are focused on making the lives of regular people better. I don't actually believe, if you were to do a deep dive on all of the kings of the past few hundred years and not just the most famous ones, that the ratio would be meaningfully worse. I do suspect fame will negatively correlate with "goodness", since people who do their job quietly are less notable than people who cause a commotion.
by mythz | 2025-11-30 10:10:08+00:00
This takes me back a few years when the first of my Uni friends had a baby, they spoiled him with so many toys that their lounge room was like an obstacle field where you had to be careful where to step, but despite all his toys the baby spent all his time while I was there playing with the door spring.

There's something therapeutic about door springs, that you just have to stop and play with it.
by roenxi | 2025-11-30 10:10:13+00:00
India has been gently aligning [0, 1] with the Russia-China bloc that the US has been encouraging to form over the last couple of years. Nothing crazy but that looks like undermining the US to me. It certainly isn't supporting US policy and the US has been trying to pressure them over it without much success.

[0] https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/national/explained-ahead...

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/16/india-joined-belaru...
by lurk2 | 2025-11-30 10:11:05+00:00
> The fact that paying taxes is required of all members of the community that organizes, collects and distributes resources in this way doesn't change the relationship between the person and the service at the point of service.

That’s irrelevant to the point the grandparent comment was making, which is that these resources don’t just fall out of the sky and that “I got it for free and I liked getting it for free,” isn’t a good basis for policy.
by trinix912 | 2025-11-30 10:11:25+00:00
Some cars (Honda Civic) had this feature where you could change the theme of the UI and it had 3-4 presets (blue, red, amber, green IIRC). That was before those screens were just a built-in Android tablet and sadly it didn't carry over.

But you're right and it's the reason most german cars had red illuminated gauge clusters until a few years ago.
by arianvanp | 2025-11-30 10:12:04+00:00
It's just incomplete and very early days for landlock.

Landlock requires you to commit upfront to what is "deny-default"ed but they only added a control for TCP socket bind and nothing else. So you can "default-deny" tcp bind but all the other socket paths in the kernel are not guarded by landlock. It tries really hard to have the commit of features be an integral part of the landlock API so that you can have an application able to run on multiple kernel versions that support different parts of the landlock spec. But that means that as they develop the API the older versions of landlock need to be less restrictive than newer versions otherwise programs dont work across kernel versions.

That way, a program that is very restrictive on say kernel 6.30 can also run on kernel 6.1 with less restrictions. The program keeps functioning the same way (never break userspace). The only way to do that is to have the developer tell what parts need to be restricted explicitly and you can't restrict what isn't implemented yet.

They're planning to extend it to all socket types. This is also mentioned in the linked article https://github.com/landlock-lsm/linux/issues/6

I guess if you want to run without networking at all today you can just unshare into a fresh network namespace, or maybe use seccomp strict mode
by bluecalm | 2025-11-30 10:12:17+00:00
>>Jensen Hung’s father was an engineer and his mother was a teacher. He wasn’t going to be homeless and on the street if he failed.

So now the goalposts are "isn't desperate" while a while ago it was "came from money". Having caring parents and being raised in culture that value education help. No one is arguing that.

>>And he didn’t come straight out college either. He worked at AMD and I’m sure he had established some type of financial foundation and I’m sure he could have easily found a job if Nvidia failed with his background.

He needed to get a job first like a average person before starting his own company. Privilege!
by vintagedave | 2025-11-30 10:12:35+00:00
> XP-era hardware doesn’t have AVX. Probably doesn’t have AVX2 or FMA either. But SSE4.2 is safe for most 64-bit CPUs from 2008 onward:

It won't; FMA is available from AVX2-era onwards. If you target 32-bit, you'd only be "safe" with SSE2... if you really want a challenge, you'd use the Pentium Pro CPU feature set, ie the FPU.

I have to admit I'd be really curious what that looked like! You'd definitely want to use the fast math option.

This is an awesome effort, btw, and I enjoyed reading your blog immensely.
by rsynnott | 2025-11-30 10:13:01+00:00
That is about VW AG losing money due to one-off disruption relating to the Trump tariffs plus an issue with one of their minor brands. However, VW AG sales of electric cars in Europe are healthily up.

I'd struggle to see how you got the idea that they were struggling from a sales PoV from that article; it says the opposite. This website has a serious reading comprehension problem.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-30 10:13:07+00:00
At a young age and knowing I could easily get a job and rebuild? Why not? $200K to get back is a year a two in Silicon Valley just working in a tech company.

By 2010 with a combination of divorce and over investing in real estate before the financial crisis I had a negative net worth of over $200K at 36 years old and absolutely no money in the bank. I really didn’t stress at all. They were just numbers.

I had a job, a home and parents who could help me out a little when needed mostly for unexpected expenses because my credit was also shot by 2013 with 5 foreclosures/short sales.

At 51, remarried for 15 years and grown (step)kids and working remotely, and a lot of other quality of life changes, we are good.
by pfdietz | 2025-11-30 10:14:24+00:00
Some would dispute the "downward" part there.

Not trying to be the world's policeman would allow tremendous downsizing of the military and its associated expense.

Decoupling and isolation is a very rational response if nuclear proliferation is going to accelerate, in order to avoid having entangling alliances pull the country into a nuclear equivalent of the first World War.
by lurk2 | 2025-11-30 10:14:37+00:00
> "Free" doesn't mean "has no cost paid by anyone" and never has in these discussions.

Calling these programs “free” obfuscates the issue because there are people (even college-educated people) who genuinely believe the government can just make something appear from nothing; they genuinely don’t understand that the resources have to come from somewhere, which means someone else who does not necessarily benefit from the program pays for it now or those benefitting from the program have to pay for it later.

> Apologies if English isn't your first language.

I would encourage you to review the site guidelines. These kinds of quips are discouraged here.
by stack_framer | 2025-11-30 10:14:44+00:00
> you are significantly embellishing the story

The guy told us he was married, with children, and that he had a separate apartment where he "lived like a woman" most weekends. He lived that way because his wife didn't like it when he dressed like a woman around her. He said he was intensely aroused by wearing pantyhose and skirts, in particular.

That may sound "significantly embellished" to you, but I assure you it is not.

Regardless of what you, or anyone else here, would like to believe about my credibility, this was the beginning of why I personally no longer thought a college degree was worth the cost. I refused to spend another dollar of my hard-earned money sitting through courses where I was not allowed to openly debate the ideas being presented to me.
by viccis | 2025-11-30 10:15:15+00:00
By this definition, nothing is "free"; there is always some cost, whether financial or otherwise. It's an absurd bit of pedantry that does nothing but derail discussion. Free tuition is free at the point of sale to the student, just like the interstate I drive on sometimes is free to use as compared to the toll roads, even though my taxes paid for both. It's not complicated terminology.
by overfeed | 2025-11-30 10:15:47+00:00
> The conservatives are right about the partisan bias of universities

Yes - and? Police forces and catholic churches skew conservative, but I figure it's an emergent property based on the self-selected group who join the respective organizations plus some exposure to new ideas.

You seem like you expect political "neutrality", but if you look at at any institution, you'll find "bias": theatre fook, country music, poets, small Business owners, baristas , farmers, CxOs, software engineers tend to lean one way or another on average. The battle is not to establish political neutrality everywhere, but selective against universities because the staff & students leans left. I'm yet to hear conservatives complain about the political bias in the Fraternal Order of Police or the FBI.

Looking at history, every nascent autocracy takes aim at independent intellectuals, like clockwork. First to be neutralized is the opposition, then the press, then the intellectuals in higher education.
by mietek | 2025-11-30 10:16:00+00:00
1. Go to the App Shortcuts subsection of the Shortcuts section of the Keyboard preferences panel in System Preferences.

2. Add an arbitrary keyboard shortcut (perhaps ⌥⌘N) for the "New Finder Window" Finder menu command.

3. Add your desired keyboard shortcut (⌘N) for the "New Folder" Finder menu command.

4. Restart Finder.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-30 10:16:15+00:00
> If a person can own as much wealth as millions and the media is on their side; great men exist.

Consider the alternatives to this.

The first is that great works are being accomplished without anyone being in charge of them. People invent alternating current and land on the moon in a completely decentralized manner with no one leading the effort and no one making a larger contribution than anyone else. Not the thing where everyone gets to try but only one out of a million succeeds but rather some other thing where everyone is a fungible cog and you can't identify anyone as being the lynchpin or anyone else as not pulling their weight, and yet the great works still happen.

The second is that great works are not being accomplished.

The first one seems implausible. The second one seems bad.
by vintagedave | 2025-11-30 10:17:14+00:00
> out of which only 3.1GB are usable

That would be a real issue. I vaguely recall methods to work around this - various mappings, some Intel extension for high memory addressing, etc: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/addre...

Maybe unrealistic :( I doubt this is drop-in code.
by surgical_fire | 2025-11-30 10:17:59+00:00
The universe is meaningless and the world is cursed. Sentient beings are the ones ascribing meaning to the meaningless, uncaring universe. You have only a short amount of time while you can do this. Once life is finished, you just become inert matter.

Curiously enough, I don't think this invites nihilism. The opposite, really. The difference between kindness and malevolence exists because we perceive a difference, and give meaning to actions - they are either kind or malevolent.

If we can give meaning to things, it is imperative that we do so, and act accordingly. It is out little defiance to the great enveloping cosmic nothing.
by vintagedave | 2025-11-30 10:18:40+00:00
This is not really SkiFree, because it is missing the logs, the random trees, the other skiiers.

I recall making apps like this in BASIC on my BBC microcomputer: borders either side, only. I like it, a real blast from the past, but I'd love to see it adapted to be more SkiFree-like.
by lenkite | 2025-11-30 10:18:45+00:00
The removal of out-dated privacy offers great benefits. Why not begin to invest and develop technology to scan people's brains and leverage the supreme protection advantages for the nation state by its complete elimination ?

Mandate that every resident of the EU wear a certified, union-approved, scanning head-band that monitors the resident's brain for violent, racist, subversive or even "offensive" thoughts using state-of-the-art AI and supporting algorithms.

Authorities are notified immediately and are granted auto-approved warrants. Judges get notifications on auto-sentences that include mandatory re-education to heal such delinquents. Obviously, the system will include the vital and necessary exemptions - politicians and friends of the party, top campaign-donors, favored minorities and cartels, etc.

Every Resident will be made Safe and Happy! This will lead to the establishment of an utopian state - the ultimate paradise on Earth! "Privacy", today, is a nasty detriment that is holding back the Progress of Civilization.
by aw1621107 | 2025-11-30 10:19:50+00:00
> It seems to me statically checking this should be possible.

Statically checking this specific example (or similarly simple examples) could be possible, sure. I'm not so sure about more complex cases, such as opaque functions (whether because the function is literally opaque or because not enough inlining occurred), stored references (e.g., std::span), unintentional mutation of the underlying data structure, etc.

Thats basically one of the main reason Rust's lifetimes exist - to explicitly encode information about when lifetimes are valid in the type system. C++ doesn't have an equivalent (yet?), so unless you're willing to use global analysis an/or non-standard annotations there's only so much static analysis can do.
by jval43 | 2025-11-30 10:19:52+00:00
Yes, because StackOverflow is horrible to monitor.

I work on an open source project at $DAYJOB, and as a team it's much easier dealing with a forum or bug report than tracking SO questions.

You can't set up email notifications for watched tags [1] as SO doesn't take that use case seriously. There's no way to see read or unread questions, or e.g. mark them as read (personally or as a team).

To make matters worse, SO tags are often wrongly applied leading to seeing lots of unrelated or low quality questions briefly. These get removed eventually but still show up initially.

And lastly, I think SO has said that generally they don't want to devolve into a vendor support forum. Which is understandable, given that most companies just post boilerplate answers and aren't really helpful. As a company it makes things harder because moderation is completely out of your control.

[1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25224/email-notific...
by demirbey05 | 2025-11-30 10:20:01+00:00
This is response from mathematician: "This is quite something, congratulations to Boris and Aristotle!

On one hand, as the nice sketch provided below by tsaf confirms, the final proof is quite simple and elementary - indeed, if one was given this problem in a maths competition (so therefore expected a short simple solution existed) I'd guess that something like the below would be produced. On the other hand, if something like this worked, then surely the combined talents of Burr, Erdős, Graham, and Li would have spotted it.

Normally, this would make me suspicious of this short proof, in that there is overlooked subtlety. But (a) I can't see any and (b) the proof has been formalised in Lean, so clearly it just works!

Perhaps this shows what the real issue in the [BEGL96] conjecture is - namely the removal of 1 and the addition of the necessary gcd condition. (And perhaps at least some subset of the authors were aware of this argument for the easier version allowing 1, but this was overlooked later by Erdős in [Er97] and [Er97e], although if they were aware then one would hope they'd have included this in the paper as a remark.)

At the moment I'm minded to keep this as open, and add the gcd condition in the main statement, and note in the remarks that the easier (?) version allowing 1 and omitting the gcd condition, which was also asked independently by Erdős, has been solved."

The commentator is saying: "I can't believe this famous problem was solved so easily. I would have thought it was a fake proof, but the computer verified it. It turns out the solution works because it addresses a slightly different set of constraints (regarding the number 1) than what Erdős originally struggled with. (Generated by Gemini)
by mentalgear | 2025-11-30 10:20:05+00:00
And so the enshitification of LLMs/chatbots happen because of ads - ironic as chatbots main rise to popularity was due to the enshitification of web search engines (mainly google, amazon, ...) because of blatant ad-pushing and people not being able to fibnd stuff anymore.

Where do we move from here when we actually want to find good/fair information?

Something like private/paid search engines like DuckDuckGo/kagi as last hold-outs?
by haizhung | 2025-11-30 10:20:21+00:00
I use bazzite. I am a software developer at day, working on Unix exclusively. Let me try to give my reason.

I don’t WANT to fiddle around with some random bullshit when all I have in the evening are 1-2 hours. I want to boot the system and just get cracking with a game. Even the 1-2 hours of installation time are already a hard sell to me. It’s ~20% of my weekly gaming time.

And it’s never usually just „a minor amount of configuration“, is it? Depending on what game you are playing, what hardware you have, you can easily spend hours getting a game to work properly, and that’s with bazzite.

I want something that just works, I don’t want to spend hours figuring out magic incantations.

Though admittedly, with AI it’s gotten easier to figure out magic incantations.
by eterm | 2025-11-30 10:21:04+00:00
Overheard when I got my hair cut the other day,

> Where did you find us?

> ChatGPT

> Right, we're getting a lot of that, we do very well on there

For whatever reason, ChatGPT tends to recommend this one barber over all others in the town.

It's a decent barber, but the economic effect of being the barber that ChatGPT recommends is obviously significant.

Now I'm sure at first, any ads will be very clearly marked and separate from chat, just as google's first adverts were.

But over time that will degrade until they're seemlessly integrated into the chat experience.
by EliteGadget | 2025-11-30 10:22:51+00:00
> Perhaps it’s just evidence that anecdata isn’t some universal truth.

This isn't though. I have hard numbers. I've actually measured the performance. You get 5-20 FPS less and often more input latency and stutters (1%, 0.1% lows). If the machines doesn't well with Linux, it can be much worse.

Basically on HN whenever you express an opinion based on a significant amount of experience. You get someone basically saying "this is anecdote". There is a difference between "an anecdote" and "I've actually have a huge amount experience with this stuff.