MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AlotOfReading | 2025-11-27 20:47:15+00:00
What I said was a much more precise statement than "there was no violence". Nothing you've mentioned is a counterexample.

The slaves of early 17th century Iroquois were not dehumanized property like colonial era natives and Africans. This is what I meant by pointing out that the term "slavery" encompasses a vast number of radically different types of unfree servitude.

The Apache example is both not similar to Atlantic slavery, and mainly from the 18th century period where I specifically said such systems existed among North American natives.

If you're trying to make a point about the racial hierarchy within the Aztecs, the term Mexica is much more precise. If you're just referring to the slave social class within the empire itself, I can't imagine why you think it's remotely similar to colonial slavery. Aztec slaves weren't property in the sense of colonial era slavery. They had to consent to sale, only their labor was actually sellable, and it wasn't hereditary, among other differences.
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-27 20:48:08+00:00
> realistically no one ever cares or brings this up from the perspective of celebrating American origins

It's still a very common narrative that's historically been an integral part of the myth around this holiday. And it's simply a fact that the Wampanoag and other tribes of the Eastern U.S. even to this day dedicate what we call Thanksgiving as a National Day of Mourning; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Mourning_(Unit... A similar memorial gathering is held on Alcatraz Island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unthanksgiving_Day
by mustache_kimono | 2025-11-27 20:48:10+00:00
> What does it take to rewrite the foundational components of one of the world’s most popular Linux distributions? Ubuntu serves over 12 million daily desktop users alone, and the systems that power it, from sudo to core utilities, have been running for decades with what Jon Seager, VP of Engineering for Ubuntu at Canonical, calls “shaky underpinnings.” > In this episode, we talk to Jon about the bold decision to “oxidize” Ubuntu’s foundation. We explore why they’re rewriting critical components like sudo in Rust, how they’re managing the immense risk of changing software that millions depend on daily, and what it means to modernize a 20-year-old operating system without breaking the internet.
by raphman | 2025-11-27 20:48:12+00:00
Thanks HN! I regularly open HN during lectures. There is no better way to show my students what software engineering entails and why I focus on certain topics.

Is SCRUM really as great as its evangelists claim? Let's read HN comments.

What are good use cases for UML? Let's check out HN.

Does anyone actually care about CoCoMo or CMMI? Let's read ... oh - nearly nobody's talking about it there. Maybe it won't be that relevant to the students.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-11-27 20:48:13+00:00
That line is wild, btw.

We've been paying less and actively avoiding lower quality Cherry branded MX compatible switches.

There is no reason to ever pay Cherry's pricing when Kalih and Gateron completely control that market now.

Also, the patent they're discussing, afaik, isn't MX specific, but more a specific thing in how Cherry's switches work (including the MX). Kalih and Gateron both built their businesses on making patent-avoiding designs that are superior.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-27 20:48:20+00:00
> Just let me subscribe to an agent to do my work while I keep getting a paycheck.

I've already done this. It's just a Teams bot that responds to messages with:

"Yeah that looks okay, but it should probably be a database rather than an Excel spreadsheet. Have you run it past the dev team? If you need anything else just raise a ticket and get Helpdesk to tag me in it"

"I'm pretty sure you'll be fine with that, but check with {{ senior_manager }} first, and if you need further support just raise a ticket and Helpdesk will pass it over"

"Yes, quite so, and indeed if you refer to my previous email from about six months ago you'll see I mentioned that at the time"

"Okay, you should be good to go. Just remember, we have Change Management Process for a reason so the next time try to raise a CR so one of us can review it, before anyone touches anything"

and then

"If you've any further questions please stick them in an email and I'll look at it as a priority.

Mòran taing,

EB."

(notice that I don't say how high a priority?)

No AI needed. Just good old-fashioned scripting, and organic stupidity.
by jorvi | 2025-11-27 20:49:50+00:00
> Their Snapdragon X laptop didn't do very well, and they likely realize an ARM Windows laptop will always be a second class citizen

Why? So far ARM laptops provide either vastly better battery life for the same performance or vastly better performance for the same battery life. Even versus discrete GPUs.

Within a couple years from now you're gonna look like an utter fool for buying x86 (and Nvidia / AMD / Intel GPU) unless Intel, AMD and Nvidia really pull their head out of the sand.

There's a few specific workloads like local LLM and legacy where you'd want a discrete GPU or x86, but otherwise it is looking like GG.
by archagon | 2025-11-27 20:50:32+00:00
Synology also has a bit of a software moat with its BTRFS-backed SHR implementation. You can throw in drives of arbitrary size and it'll automatically maximize the available free space. ZFS can't do that, though AnyRaid should make it possible in the future: https://docs.hexos.com/blog/2025-05-22.html

Plus, DSM has a spectacular web interface.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-27 20:52:10+00:00
If you've barely read the article then I can understand why you mistook what and why the comment was trying to talk to in response to the virality portions of said article. It's pretty much an argument "because of court cases, this is how propagation of GPL to the whole LLM model could be forced in the future" and the comment was saying there is actually no case precedence at all about that because it never gets there (usually being something obvious with the copyright portions alone or settlement to release the GPL portions).

Including GPL code in your app requires/results in different things depending on how you do that. E.g. the way Cisco did it with binaries is different than doing it with static linking/ is different than dynamic linking/syscalls/apis is different than expanding the code directly. It's not possible to talk about it as generically as above, especially in context of discussion around an article adding a new method of interaction.

Yes, the point is precisely the article explicitly asks about this point being tested in court rulings and the comment is that it has never needed to go beyond settlement (usually not even that far). I also don't really agree with how the article assumes things around that in a few places, but that's neither here nor their to this point.

It's not that I want proof, it's that the article you admit to not reading sets out to look at court cases to "consider the path through which the theory of license propagation to AI models might be recognized in the future". In that regard it's pretty relevant to note past no court case, nor really the two ongoing in the article, involve propagation of the license to the whole entity yet.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-11-27 20:52:48+00:00
Back in the day there were some P2P RTS games that just sent duplicates. Like each UDP packet would have a new game state and then 1 or more repetitions of previous ones. For lockstep P2P engines, the state that needs to be transferred tends towards just being the client's input, so it's tiny, just a handful of bytes. Makes more sense to just duplicate ahead of time vs ack/nack and resend.
What College Doesn't Teach You – But You Must Master to Survive in Tech
by AkshatRaj00 | 2025-11-27 20:52:53+00:00
You can top every semester… But still fail in the real tech world.

Because the truth is simple: College teaches you theory. The industry demands skills.

Here are the things no textbook will ever prepare you for — but they decide your entire tech career:

1⃣ Problem-Solving Is Your Real Degree

Languages change every year. Frameworks die every month. But problem-solving? That’s the only skill the industry never replaces.

2⃣ Projects Speak Louder Than Marksheets

Real-world projects show: how you think how you build how you solve Your percentage can’t prove any of that.

3⃣ Communication Can Make or Break Your Career

You may be brilliant, but if you can’t express it, you’ll always be underestimated.

Strong communication = strong opportunities.

4⃣ Consistency Beats Intelligence

Success isn’t final exams. It’s what you do every single day. Even 1 hour of daily learning can change your entire journey.

5⃣ Networking Is Not Optional Anymore

People don’t grow alone. One conversation… One mentor… One collaboration… can change your entire direction.

6⃣ Tech Evolves Fast — Learn How to Learn

Tools change. Companies change. Industries change. But your ability to learn quickly will keep you relevant forever.

Final Thought

College gives you a classroom. The world gives you challenges.

If you want to survive — and grow — in tech: Build daily. Learn continuously. Stay curious. And stay humble.

Because the industry rewards doers, not just degree-holders.

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by bigyabai | 2025-11-27 20:54:51+00:00
> based on pure vibes

The tweet gives their justification; CUDA isn't ASIC. Nvidia GPUs were popular for crypto mining, protein folding, and now AI inference too. TPUs are tensor ASICs.

FWIW I'm inclined to agree with Nvidia here. Scaling up a systolic array is impressive but nothing new.
by Phil_Latio | 2025-11-27 20:55:05+00:00
This argument, namely that politics can lower the price (by emitting extra certificates) when it gets too high, contradicts the whole reason for the mechanism in the first place: They claim a free market can find the right price better than politicians. But then they interfer anyway?

The price will rise much larger than a dumb, fixed increase-schedule would. Because the "market" wants it's profit.
Show HN: It's a Feature, Not a Bug, a gamified bug dismissal logger for QA
by sebi-secasiu | 2025-11-27 20:55:27+00:00
I built https://no-bug.app as a small love letter to frustrated testers. It’s a web app where you log every time a bug you reported gets dismissed as “not a bug”, “it is a feature”, or “works on my machine”. Instead of just venting in chat, you turn those moments into data, badges, and leaderboards.

Each log is one little “are you kidding me” captured for science. You record what was said, who said it, how annoyed you were, and then watch patterns appear, like realizing your team’s favorite rejection line is basically a catchphrase.

There are 28 achievements for things no one should be proud of, like logging your first dismissed bug, surviving a week of “by design”, or discovering that your frustration level graph looks like a crypto chart. There is also a “Blame Game” leaderboard where roles compete for the unofficial title of “most likely to gaslight a bug”, plus a “Frustration Olympics” for the most zen and the most cooked users.

You can keep everything private, or let an anonymous username represent you on the global boards, so it feels more like an arcade cabinet than a work report. There are shareable stat cards too, in case you have ever wanted to post “look how many times my bugs were ignored” as content.

Underneath the jokes, it is basically a tiny analytics layer on top of everyday QA pain, wrapped in a retro arcade skin.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-27 20:55:51+00:00
Which "Western LLMs" are you thinking about, specifically? Just tried with GPT-OSS-120b MXFP4 loaded via vLLM, and seemed to have handled it fine, no downplaying of widespread destruction of Gaza with civilian causalities back in 2009: https://gist.github.com/embedding-shapes/78719664df5d299938c...

Maybe I'm not asking the question the right way?
by alexrp | 2025-11-27 20:56:34+00:00
> Go's support for NetBSD has been a big boon to the more casual NetBSD user who isn't going to maintain a port. It means a random Go open-source project you use probably works on NetBSD already, or if it doesn't, it can be fixed upstream. Maybe Zig could play a similar role.

In fact, we do already have cross-compilation support for NetBSD (and FreeBSD). But we currently only "test" NetBSD by building the language behavior tests and standard library tests for it on Linux, i.e. we don't actually run them, nor do we build the compiler itself for NetBSD. Native CI machines will allow us to fill that gap.

As it happens, Go's cross-compilation support does indeed make our lives easier for provisioning CI machines since we can build the Forgejo Runner for all of them from one machine: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/runner/releases/tag/v12.0.0
by georgehotz | 2025-11-27 20:56:50+00:00
Musk sells several things. Electric cars for $40k-$100k. Satellite internet for $40-$120 per month. X/Grok premium for $8/mo. And space launch services for about $2,500 per kg. Which one(s) of these are the scam? Prices seem decent to me, but if you tell me where I can get cheaper and better I'm open to it.
by SackSolStr | 2025-11-27 20:57:36+00:00
The payback periods get me confused. A relative set up solar a year ago in one of the sunniest places in Europe, the Canaries, cost €7,000 for 6KW. He just ran the math on it and found out that the payback period is 15 years. The only way to make it profitable is government subsidies. How can it be profitable to install solar in continental Europe where taxes and labor costs are much higher while having much less sun? Why are we using taxpayers' money to subsidize such negative NPV projects?
by drdeca | 2025-11-27 20:58:29+00:00
With numbers, I can give an explanation for the phenomenon I described above. If such reasoning cannot be done without reference to numbers, then, if such reasoning is correct, numbers must exist. If there is no other reasoning can be given that provides a good explanation, and as the explanation I gave for the phenomenon is compelling, then I think that a good reason to conclude that the reasoning is correct, and that therefore those particular numbers exist.

In particular, I would expect that if numbers don’t exist, the explanation I gave of the phenomenon I described, couldn’t be correct.
by ReptileMan | 2025-11-27 20:58:41+00:00
>Their people are still transitioning from agrarian hardship to urban factory life, and there seems to be a zeal that comes with this transition, a willingness to work hard for what here today would be considered little.

You don't find hordes of Chinese peasants in their dark factories.

Do you think that JLCPCB offer such prices because they have 2000000 lowly paid machinists drilling the pcb holes manually? China invests in all kinds of automation like crazy
by dekhn | 2025-11-27 20:58:55+00:00
At the time Google+ was started and shortly after, leadership (larry page at that time) focused the attention of the company on it. There was a social bonus (that you'd get if you integrated your product), there were large changes to existing systems to support Google+, and the company made it quite clear it thought that social was the direction to go and that Google+ was going to be an enormous product.

I and a lot of other googlers were really confused by all of this because at the time we were advocating that Google put more effort into its nascent cloud business (often to get the reply "but we already have appengine" or "cloud isn't as profitable as ads") and that social, while getting a lot of attention, wasn't really a good business for google to be in (with a few exceptions like Orkut and Youtube, Google's attempts at social have been pretty uninspired).

There were even books written at the time that said Google looked lazy and slow and that Meta was going to eat their lunch. But shortly after Google+ tanked, Google really began to focus on Cloud (in a way that pissed off a lot of Googlers in the same way Google+ did- by taking resources and attention from other projects). Now, Meta looks like its going to have a challenging future while Google is on to achieving what Larry Page originally intended: a reliable revenue stream that is reinvested into development of true AI.
by cheema33 | 2025-11-27 20:59:34+00:00
The need for lawyers will shrink and is shrinking. My company used to call lawyers for many small little things. Now it is easy to ask an LLM and have the second LLM verify it. For super critical things, we may still call lawyers. And in the court rooms, you will still see lawyers. But everywhere else the need for lawyers will keep going down.
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-27 20:59:42+00:00
A common talking point is that the number of people working in engineering is decreasing over time. The implication is that "we are making less", but the real story is that "we are making things more efficiently".

A case in point is agriculture in Australia, where a crop farm might be as big as a thousand acres, whereas its common in SEA for a family to have just one or two acres. The huge scale is enabled by multi-million dollar tractors, drones, huge irrigation systems, etc...

German manufacturing is the same.
by mrkeen | 2025-11-27 21:01:41+00:00
It's wishful thinking. It's like choosing Newtonian physics over relativity because it's simpler or the equations are neater.

If you have strong consistency, then you have at best availability xor partition tolerance.

"Eventual" consistency is the best tradeoff we have for an AP system.

Computation happens at a time and a place. Your frontend is not the same computer as your backend service, or your database, or your cloud providers, or your partners.

So you can insist on full-ACID on your DB (which it probably isn't running btw - search "READ COMMITTED".) but your DB will only be consistent with itself.

We always talk about multiple bank accounts in these consistency modelling exercises. Do yourself a favour and start thinking about multiple banks.
by mattkevan | 2025-11-27 21:03:29+00:00
Very different strategies. Sketch has been self-funding and sustainable from day 1. They have had 20m funding recently, but a fraction of Figma's 749m.

Figma lost over 1bn in Q3 on revenues of 274m. Share price is down 70% from IPO 3 months ago.

It's also clear from Figma's latest product releases - a grab bag of unfinished AI tools and a laughably shoddy website builder - that their primary audience is investors and not end users. I don't think the market of product designers is large enough to support their valuation and have any hope of making a decent return unless they diversify rapidly into other areas and try to become the next Adobe. Meanwhile Canva and more AI native tools are busy biting at their heels.

Speaking as a daily user, I hope they stay around long-term and don't enshittify themselves too much. But I'm not optimistic.
by hirako2000 | 2025-11-27 21:03:31+00:00
Blender did it by facing the industry going cutting edge for a decade or more. They somehow found enough donation to keep the thing as indie would support it just enough. Today blender is arguably better than industry standards, they just have to face the marketing wave but like Wikipedia probably got plenty of support.

These are the rare examples of Linux going through the torrent, typically emerges as proud victorious, with reasonably low profile
by watwut | 2025-11-27 21:03:52+00:00
OP blamed women for supposedly complaining that men dont open up. Men simultaneously have natural friendships with other men, but it is women fault men do not open up.

Por op, women are at wrong when they want men to talk (which is outrageous ask), but also cause of men not talking. Which includes men not talking to other men, which is also fault of women.
by hershkumar | 2025-11-27 21:04:19+00:00
The hardware very much lags behind the algorithmic advances, much of the current push for new features in quantum hardware (midcircuit measurement/feedforward, phonon mode coupling, etc) often comes from theorist colleagues pestering experimentalists about whether their hardware can run their algorithms yet.

In fact, this is analogous to the original motivation for the development of classical supercomputers, physicists wanted to run expensive non-perturbation Lattice QCD calculations, so they co-designed some of the earliest supercomputer architectures.
by kragen | 2025-11-27 21:05:36+00:00
Your comment appears to be unrelated to Pakistan and, due to the confusion of units, has been reduced to nonsense. Moreover, your implied calculations don't work out.

If we assume that you meant €7000 for 6 kilowatts peak (not 6 kelvin wurtzite henries or 6 kilowatt hours, neither of which is sensible) the probable answer is that your relative paid 25× the current market price for their solar panels and therefore got 25× the payback time. However, if we assume €0.12/kWh and a 20% capacity factor, 6 kilowatts peak would average 1.2 kilowatts, which is 10520 kWh per year, which works out to €1260 per year, which would be a payback time of 6 years, not 15 years.

Moreover, another way of saying that the payback time on a durable investment is 15 years is that the investment returns 6.7% per year. That would be a highly profitable investment, even without government subsidies.
by tstrimple | 2025-11-27 21:06:42+00:00
The biggest cloud detractors are often the most ignorant about how to run things effectively in the cloud. They try to use the same patterns that they have used for the last 20 years on-prem and are all confused as to why it's more expensive. It's the exact same tired arguments over and over again. They don't want to learn how to do things in a new way.
by Barathkanna | 2025-11-27 21:06:59+00:00
The site is obviously satire, but the interesting part is the growth tactic behind it. oilwell.app is using a meme page as a distribution engine instead of a standard marketing site.

In a crowded AI tooling market, this kind of contrast joke on the front paired with a real product behind it, cuts through noise in a way a normal landing page wouldn’t. People mock the gimmick, but the gimmick is doing exactly what it’s designed to do, get everyone talking.
by testing22321 | 2025-11-27 21:07:07+00:00
Those numbers sound wrong.

I have 7.8kw in Canada, and if I paid out of pocket payback would be 6-7 years.

We pat $0.13 per kWh from the grid, get a one for one credit on anything we feed in. System makes 7.8Mwh in a year.

What are your friends numbers?

Grid price is also pre-approved to increase not less that 5% a year forever, so it will only go in my favour.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-11-27 21:07:10+00:00
> relationship between users' reward/punishment and the grid's health seems wildly disproportionate.

It's still much closer to the real costs for the grid operator than $/kWh. The fundamental problem that rooftop solar has revealed is that people think they are paying for the electricity, but they are not. Electricity is dirt cheap. Most of what they are paying for is the maintenance of the grid, and simple usage based billing crushes the system because of freeloader problem once rooftop solar is added.

Long term, the likely thing you pay for will be the size of the main fuse that connects you to the grid. Because that's the thing that scales with the costs you impose on the operator.
by sys_64738 | 2025-11-27 21:07:21+00:00
Most of the countries with free healthcare are dying at the seams. Look at the NHS in England, you can't even get appointments as there are so few doctors. Operations take years to be done. In the USA you get ops real fast and doctors can be seen same day. Obamacare has only reset back to pre-COVID subsidies so it was always temporary the COVID subsidies, per the Inflation Reduction Act 2021.