MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by netbioserror | 2025-11-05 18:36:29+00:00
I finished the rewrite in just a few months and have been happily maintaining it for two years and extending it with powerful features it never had before, partially thanks to optimized native binary speed, partially thanks to the ludicrous compatibility of a musl-libc static binary. The rewrite is the backend foundation of a web product stack that is best-in-category.

I didn't choose Nim because I was an evangelist; I had only toyed with it twice before. After much evaluating (and wrestling an ultra-frustrating previous attempt at a Rust rewrite my predecessor had tried), Nim surfaced as the best tool for the specific job. And it still is. It doesn't have to be our entire product stack; it's doing a small subset of very important jobs, doing them well, and is invoked by other languages that do their jobs better as web servers and such. A modular stack helps each language and tool shine where it works best.
by chrismorgan | 2025-11-05 18:36:36+00:00
I’ve never had TV, and have used ad blockers as long as they’ve been a thing. (Until 1⅓ years ago I even lived in a rural area where the closest billboard of any description was 40km away, and the second-closest 100km away.) On very odd occasions, I would get exposed to a television, and what I find uncomfortable at the best of times (notably: how do they cut so frequently!?) becomes a wretched experience as soon as it gets to ads, which it does with mindboggling frequency. I’m confident that if I tried actually watching that frenetic, oversaturated, noisy mess on someone’s gigantic, far-too-bright TV, I would be sick to the stomach and head within a few minutes.
by bArray | 2025-11-05 18:37:48+00:00
Due to getting some funding [1] they have been able to onboard more paid people [2].

I'm super excited to see this as an alternative to the mainstream browsers. It's also interesting how quickly it pulled in-front of projects such as servo that have been going since 2021 and received a lot of backing over that period [3].

[1] https://ladybird.org/#sponsors

[2] https://ladybird.org/posts/mike-shaver-joins-board/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(software)
by MarsIronPI | 2025-11-05 18:37:57+00:00
> Yes, JS is overused. But JS also brings significant real value to the web. JS is what has allowed websites to replace desktop apps in many cases.

Exactly. JS should be used to make apps. A blog is not an app. Your average blog should have 0 lines of JS. Every time I see a blog or a news article who's content doesn't load because I have JS disabled I strongly reconsider whether it's worth my time to read or not.
by chaboud | 2025-11-05 18:37:57+00:00
“For all the history of computational mathematical visualization, graphing equations has been done in binary mode...”

Intentional or not, the linked article opens with a comically untrue statement, that, because it is verifiably false, doesn't even escape as puffery. When I encounter this sort of grandstanding in framing (generally from junior engineers or fresh-from-school product managers), I spell out just how negatively such misstatements harm the point being made.

It's a turn-off for readers, and it's unnecessary.

"You may be used to seeing graphs like..." or "In grade school, we learned to graph like..."

would probably be more useful than dismissal of the history of visualization of implicit functions. Hopefully, next time, the author will be a bit less grandiose.
by jmyeet | 2025-11-05 18:38:04+00:00
Oh if that were only true. It's been made apparent in the last 2 years in particular that fighting antisemitism from the perspective of the ADL and figures like Jordana Cutler (who previously worked for the Israeli Prime Minister's Office) simply means silencing critcism of Israel, even when that means siding with actual antisemites (up to and including neo_nazis and outright Nazis). Examples:

- Ben Shapiro excuses antisemitic remarks by Ann Coulter because she's pro-Israel [1];

- ADL defends Elon Musk for making the Nazi salute (twice) on stage [2]

- We brutalized people with the police for organizing peaceful protests to say "maybe we shouldn't bomb children" or to get their respective universities to divest their endowments from the state doing the bombing;

- We went so far as trying to deport legal permanent residents for organizing said peaceful protests (ie Mahmoud Khalil); and

- The IHRA definition of antisemitism includes criticisms of the state of Israel.

[1]: https://x.com/benshapiro/status/644505141299671041

[2]: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/22/adl-faces-backlash-...
by Fileformat | 2025-11-05 18:38:25+00:00
Another point: it is shocking how many feeds have errors in them. I analyzed the feeds of some of the top contributors on HN, and almost all had something wrong with them.

Even RSS wizards would benefit from looking at a human-readable version instead of raw XML.

I ended up writing a feed analyzer that you can try on your feed: https://www.rss.style/feed-analyzer.html
by linsomniac | 2025-11-05 18:38:40+00:00
A buddy of mine and I have been watching as investors he follows have been saying the market is going to have a major correction in the next 3-6 months for 3 years now. It definitely seems like the market is due for a major correction, but it sure hasn't happened despite repeated projections. The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
by jack_tripper | 2025-11-05 18:38:53+00:00
I'm with you on this. I feel like too much boogye-man-ing and FUD scaremongering is taking place on the cover of "China evil and has giants" in order to justify breaking anti-monopoly laws and allowing our own monopolies to form under this justification, that will only benefit shareholders of those companies but eventually harm European consumers via lack of innovation due to lack of competition, price gouging and the European workers via the inevitable layoffs that follow such mergers.

If you have two large, slow, bureaucratic and uncompetitive companies, then merging them together won't make the resulting giant less so, but the contrary, it'll be even more inefficient and uncompetitive, and then expect government bailouts because now they're too big to fail.
by Nevermark | 2025-11-05 18:38:56+00:00
I worked on a problem for a couple months once. As soon as my professor hit mid-sentence telling me he found someone with the solution, I rudely blurted it out.

My mind was so familiar with all the constraints, all I had to know was that there was a solution and I knew exactly where it had to be.

But before knowing there was a solution I hadn't realized that.
by burnte | 2025-11-05 18:39:26+00:00
> These are the comments that remind me of the core user base of out of touch SF people.

The concept of soft power, where you have power through friendship, influence, and relationships is a surprisingly difficult concept for a lot of folks. It's a nuanced concept and it takes nuance to pull off, but when done right it's far more effective than hard power. Hard power is people do it because you tell them, soft power is they do it because you get them to want to do it. Informal arrangements make some people uncomfortable.
by Gracana | 2025-11-05 18:39:29+00:00
My employer was running Growthpower (ERP software) on an HP 3000 system up until 2018 or so. We replaced it with a "modern" .NET/MSSQL ERP solution that does a lot more, but it's slow and terrible to navigate compared to the old console menu system, and its database is hundreds of tables without a single foreign key. The frontend application makes a long series of sequential queries to build each view... if you're willing to wade through the muck, you can write a server side query that can do in milliseconds what it does in minutes.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-11-05 18:39:41+00:00
> The home you have lived in and shared with your parents for, 27 years (the current and increasing average "moving out of home" age), could be considered as much yours as theirs.

I only spent about twenty two years in my parent's house (well less, because we moved), but you're making an emotive argument while I was arguing more from a data-driven point of view.

The Irish inheritance tax is more generous to children (325k euro per child is tax free), but even in the UK, my three siblings and I would have paid zero tax. And our inheritance is quite large, lots of people in the UK & Ireland inherit much less.

Like, the ONS data[0] (which covers 2014-16) suggests that most inheritences go to the top quintile in terms of income (which anecdotally matches my experience) so this is a tiny, tiny problem in societal terms.

I get that inheritance tax is very emotive (particularly around family homes), but given that the vast majority of wealth is in property (except for that of the 0.1%), then I think inheritance tax is a pretty good one, and am happy that it's something that my kids will have to worry about, assuming we're lucky enough to leave them anything.

For context, I regard inherited wealth as mostly unfair, as the children of successful people have often had lots of advantages afforded to them already, so I'm not sure why those advantages should compound over generations.

[0]: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personal...

Note: the ONS statistics are weird, talking about inheritances and gifts interchangeably and the numbers seem far too low. Figure 7 shows the unfairness clearly, IMO.
by cpfohl | 2025-11-05 18:40:38+00:00
Tricky…my son had a really rare congenital issue that no one could solve for a long time. After it was diagnosed I walked an older version of chat gpt through our experience and it suggested my son’s issue as a possibility along with the correct diagnostic tool in just one back and forth.

I’m not saying we should be getting AI advice without a professional, but I’m my case it could have saved my kid a LOT of physical pain.
by simoncion | 2025-11-05 18:40:46+00:00
> The hard part is knowing if you need to file a form.

In my experience, the form instructions tell you clearly when you should and should not file a form. They also clearly indicate which other forms are to be filed when you meet specific conditions (income limits, possession of specific other forms, etc.).

Granted, I don't run a business, nor do I have exceptionally complex finances, so there are a great many IRS form instructions that I have never seen. Because I've not see them all, I'd never say that every such form instruction is clear, but the ones I've encountered have been.
by xg15 | 2025-11-05 18:40:50+00:00
I've heard those exact lines from several pro-Israeli commenters.

How would you even expect this to work? There was a two-year nonstop bombing campaign and an official "total blockade" for several months. How could there possibly be "restaurants everywhere" after that?

Also, Haaretz is an Israeli newspaper itself. Is the conspiracy running so deep?
by semi_sentient | 2025-11-05 18:41:00+00:00
Modern ranking systems (feeds, search, recommendations) have strict latency budgets, often under 200 ms at p99. This write-up describes how we designed a production system using a decoupled microservice architecture for serving, a feature + vector store data layer, and an automated MLOps pipeline for training → deployment. This is less about modeling, more about the infrastructure that keeps it all running.
by pizlonator | 2025-11-05 18:41:02+00:00
Cool article!

I would rename it to "Stack walking in C and similar languages" or if you want to be extra pedantic, "Stack walking, but not the GC kind, in classic C implementations" or something like that.

- JVMs have super sophisticated tech to walk the stack. VMs in general rely on the producer of the metadata (the JIT) being in the same process as the consumer (the stack walker), which allows for the approach to change more fluidly as the VM evolves.

- JavaScript VMs also have their own, sophisticated ways to do this.

- If you're walking the stack for GC, then none of this applies to you. You're either not in C, or you're in C and you're using conservative walking, or you're using Henderson frames, or if you're clever, you're using Pizderson frames.

Also, even if you are in C++, there's a lot more to learn, since there are different ABIs for exception handling (the Itanium one that most people use, a different one used by MS, and yet another one if you're on ARM).
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-05 18:41:16+00:00
Superceded? No. Webtransport already was well on its way to approval when p2p-webtransport was created.

Webtransport as a protocol certainly could be used for p2p, but the browser APIs aren't there: hence p2p-webtransport was created, to allow its use beyond traditional server<->client.
by alyanamzmous | 2025-11-05 18:41:33+00:00
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by zten | 2025-11-05 18:41:35+00:00
Yes, that's correct. Buffer sizes are also all over the place, so if you want to shoot continuously, you need to pick carefully. Check https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1856860/0 for a thorough analysis starting with the Sony A9iii (which can fill the buffer incredibly quickly with its premier feature, the 120fps 14-bit raw output global shutter). Deeper in the thread compares to the Nikon Z9.
by chucksta | 2025-11-05 18:41:56+00:00
Which says the same thing OP says

>Are free buses in NYC feasible?

Political expert J.C. Polanco, a professor at the University of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx, recently told CBS News New York the biggest hurdle Mamdani would face in making free buses a reality is the MTA, because it controls the cost of bus fares.

"[Mamdani] would need the support of those members of the MTA, which means you need the support of the state and those officials that appoint those individuals to the MTA," Polanco said.

He added that, because congestion pricing is the law of the land and the transit agency has a massive deficit, he believes the odds of New Yorkers getting to enjoy free buses are "slim to none."

>As mayor, he would need the help of Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state Legislature to raise taxes.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-11-05 18:41:58+00:00
I understand your point. I’m pretty sure Obama thought he could at least get it through the Dem Congress; it is a sad statement on our country’s political elite that even the Dems couldn’t agree to it. But I disagree that he made it the centerpiece of his entire political career. I also think it was a monumental positive step forward even if not the change I wanted. He has no control over what future Congresses might do to it.
by ezst | 2025-11-05 18:42:16+00:00
I mean, without going this far, the very first computer I put my hands on as a child was a Mac, because then Apple had a reputation for user-friendliness and discoverability. Least I can say is that Apple has taken a few turns since. I don't consider myself a WM power-user, I just need boring, and MacOS is not, and the surprises I encounter along the way I can't describe as clever or well thought-out (especially stuff like this¹).

¹: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253594264
by bamboozled | 2025-11-05 18:42:20+00:00
I been using Claude for information regarding building and construction related information, (currently building a small house mostly on my own with pros for plumbing and electrical).

Seriously the amount of misinformation it has given me is quite staggering. Telling me things like, “you need to fill your drainage pipes with sand before pouring concrete over them…”, the danger with these AI products is that you have to really know a subject before it’s properly useful. I find this with programming too. Yes it can generate code but I’ve introduced some decent bugs when over relying on AI.

The plumber I used laughed at my when I told him about there sand thing. He has 40 years experience…
by klez | 2025-11-05 18:42:29+00:00
> If they weren't greeted with a load of what seems like nonsense for nerds there could have been broader adoption of RSS.

Why? Wouldn't just see a different view of the same website that had that intriguing icon and go "ok, so what?"

If they don't know what an RSS feed is, seeing a stylized version isn't really going to help them understand, imho.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-05 18:42:48+00:00
Well LA is not really a city, it's, like, 5 cities pretending to be one.

And what I mean is: the solution to not enough housing is to build denser housing, not just more housing. That's why LA is also broken: they didn't do that. They just built further out. Which didn't alleviate housing costs, because if you work in downtown, you have to buy a house in downtown-ish, and the supply there hasn't been fixed, because we built more housing somewhere else. Which is why LA housing costs are also mega fucked.

But NYC has another problem: it's already pretty dense. Building more housing where it matters won't be easy - which is why we see proposals from mamdani to convert some commerical space to housing.
by locallost | 2025-11-05 18:43:02+00:00
Actually I was born and lived the first years of my life in a communist country. America I have visited once for about a week.

Why is spending money on people's health social welfare, and spending money on their safety not social welfare, whether it's financing the army, police, fire department? Should it not be the responsibility of each individual to protect their life, family, home etc. from danger? Why should these dangers and the protection from them be SOCIALIZED? I for one am perfectly capable of protecting my property of fire, if someone is not, well it's their problem.
by IAmBroom | 2025-11-05 18:43:32+00:00
No, I think those three points are sufficient to explain it.

Additionally, Israel has the unwavering support of the world's biggest superpower, while (FOR SOME UNFATHOMABLE REASON) even the Biden administration kept a policy of "give the Ukraine just enough support to survive, but not to win against their mutual enemy".

Now, of course, the US is run by Putin's little toy.
by timeinput | 2025-11-05 18:43:45+00:00
I think the parent is saying what if the AI made such a terrible mess that the team of imperfect people thought it was fine, but it was just as bad as the terrible mess the team would have created because the team is not capable of evaluating whether it's a good idea or not. (possible follow on consequences -- no one can debug it or figure out if it's a good idea either)
by 1313ed01 | 2025-11-05 18:43:59+00:00
I love the system in Autodesk Animator (now: https://github.com/AnimatorPro). Every menu item or button currently on the screen always have a unique initial letter. There is no need to highlight or underline anything. Amazingly this was done without having to use any too obscure labels (but I doubt it would be fun to try to translate it to other languages). Almost every function is two or three single letter key-presses away, and after using the application for a while you will have memorized more and more of those.

Some frequently used functions have their own special single-key shortcuts as well, so instead of having to press C-P (to open the Clip menu and then select Paste) you can just press the ' key, saving the user a key-press every time they do that.
by atmavatar | 2025-11-05 18:44:11+00:00
Reminder: while the Democrats are trying to signal they have some power to resist, the truth is that the Republican party can end the filibuster rule today and pass whatever budget bill they like without requiring a single Democrat vote.

They had no problem carving out an exception to the filibuster rule when pushing through district court judges and later Supreme Court justices without Democrat support, so they can't even argue that they consider the filibuster sacrosanct: they don't.

This government shutdown is exclusively a problem of Republican making.
by SoftTalker | 2025-11-05 18:44:50+00:00
PPRuNe[1] is another good one. Just be aware that all of these sites have a mixture of commentary by professionals in the air transport industry, amateur enthusiasts, and random bystanders.

Best advice is always to wait for authoritative statements.

https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/669082-ups-md11...
by burningChrome | 2025-11-05 18:45:11+00:00
Mamdani took a lot of heat for proposing something that isn't that feasible.

From the article someone linked to below:

Speaking on Oct. 30, MTA chairman and CEO Janno Lieber didn't seem amenable to the idea of making buses free for all riders.

"I want to make sure that people of limited income get priority in this discussion, that we're not just giving a ton of money to people who are riding the 104 on the Upper West Side, where I grew up, the bus on Broadway," Lieber said.

So the guy who might hold sway, hasn't been convinced yet its something he would be immediately on board with. The MTA is also still struggling financially, so losing even more revenue by giving away free bus trips isn't something the MTA will be cool with.

And then of course what nobody wants to talk about is how they would offset the losses in fair revenues? Why increases taxes of course:

Mamdani told CBS New New York back in September that he would pay for free buses, along with his other democratic socialist policies, in part, by increasing the corporate tax rate to 11.5% -- the same as New Jersey -- and instituting a flat 2% tax rate for individuals earning $1 million or more.

"My vision for making the most expensive city in the United States of America affordable is actually one that benefits all of us," he said.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-11-05 18:45:48+00:00
The difference is that a game with its own market power is free to distribute directly on their website and keep that 30% for themselves, whereas an IOS app is not.

If Microsoft charged every program you download 30% of gross Windows proceeds, that would be inappropriate. If Apple allowed a free tier where you get 0 marketing power but you can link from your website to the ios store for a downloadable app, and charge what you want, it would be another matter.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-05 18:46:46+00:00
That is a plan, and an explanation of how it will be paid for. We can argue over whether it gets done, but New Mexico just passed universal childcare [1], and Colorado just passed legislation to raise taxes on high earners for universal school lunches [2]. I am so tired of hearing what cannot be done politically on a startup/VC forum where almost everyone's startup or business attempt fails except a select few, and yet everyone still maintains a shared delusion of broad success out of survivorship bias and that "this is the way.". Like, what is broken in the mental model? "It always seems impossible, until it's done."

[1] New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182372 - September 2025

[2] Colorado Proposition LL passes: $12.4M will fund school meals - https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-proposition-l... - November 5th, 2025
by wanabeunknown | 2025-11-05 18:47:04+00:00
In large-scale datacenter environments, traditional BIOS-based automation quickly becomes a bottleneck. This post explores how I automated server provisioning and RAID configuration directly through UEFI, without using a live OS. From building a bootable ISO with xorriso to embedding BOOTX64.EFI from EDK2, we’ll walk through each step — creating startup scripts, managing RAID controllers, and understanding UEFI’s limitations like missing log-transfer tools. This guide demonstrates how firmware-level automation can simplify provisioning across clusters while minimizing wasted storage and deployment overhead.