MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tr45872267 | 2025-11-20 00:05:30+00:00
Damning for who? Education is just one reason parents choose public schools for their children. Depending on the school (eg. Catholic schools) it may be the last thing they care about. Also you should look at the cost per pupil for public schools. It is very high in many states, with the average being $18,000 per student in 2021.[0]

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmb/public-school...
by jwpapi | 2025-11-20 00:05:44+00:00
I really hope one day Ill work on challenges that need these new type of agents.

Currently, I either need a fast agent that does what I want faster than I can type it (CRUD, forms, etc) or I need an agent to discuss a plan, ups and downs.

Whenever I try to give it a bigger task it takes a lot of time, and often is not what I’ve expected, which might be totally my fault or context specific, but as soon as I’m able to define the task properly I would prefer a faster model as it will be good enough, but faster. I really don’t have problems anymore that I can’t reasonable solve fast enough with this approach.

I’ve run multiple gpt-5 codex concurrent sessions in the cloud, but I didn’t accept one thing they did.

Eventually thinking through it, reading hack boom is faster than outsourcing the work for 30 minutes + 30 minutes to digest +30 minutes to change..
by rolph | 2025-11-20 00:06:49+00:00
the gold standard was enacted in 1900.

rfk chimes in about gold standard science frequently, thus science circa 1900, roughly 125 years ago.

miasma theory goes back to the time of hippocrates outdoing the gold standard.

if rfk really wants to get it right we should be allieviating disease states with body paint, and exhaustive dancing about the firepit in the deeper reccesses of the tribal cave.

the only thing better would be to consult the pleistocene cave paintings, surely the evil spirits and animal totems persist, and have greater efficacy than pharmaceuticals.

i wonder what is to be done about the miasma in the oval office, and the mar-a-lago, perhaps some febreeze will help.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-20 00:07:24+00:00
> Hey, you probably don't want to sympathize with a guy that everyone around you thinks is irredeemably evil.

> And if you do still want to sympathize with such, maybe examine that motivation for like three seconds.

This sounds like a theat - "hate the person we all hate too, or maybe you yourself are a threat to the group's values, and since we can't actually get to the guy we hate, we'll punish you in his stead for being a sympathizer"
by sitzkrieg | 2025-11-20 00:08:17+00:00
who cares? it impacts nothing. windows updates are counter productive for a decade. "but security and zero days!!"

ok surely that firewall and home lab and ability to not download and run garbage is enough for someone on the supposed "hacker news" to handle. but no, we got heaps of people using "out of support" as some sort of argument whatsoever to upgrade to absolutely dogshit versions of windows. make it make sense
by scastillo | 2025-11-20 00:09:06+00:00
This is just how the attention mechanism works.

(search for effective context problem for more info. e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21361)

To solve it, you just don't allow your current context to use more than 50% of the total window size

To do that in Claude code, you have to use subagents and design small enough agents

Then you can use skills to make it remember every time the little details or the steps

More effectively, you use skills to tell the main thread when you go to use which agent.

If you don't understand anything I said, try to restate the important things to the model periodically, and keep your tasks small.

Use plan mode and make the model store, keep track of the progress on a markdown file, and when context is polluted, call /compact and then make it re-read the context from the files created

You can prompt it as simply as:

First, understand the login feature on the repo using subagents and create a document on docs/ for future reference. Then, understand the task at hand and create an implementation plan. <task> blah blah </task>

Also, using XML tags makes the attention remember easily
by carlmr | 2025-11-20 00:09:23+00:00
>You get memory safety. That's about it for Security

Not true, you get one of the strongest and most expressive type systems out there.

One example are the mutability guarantees which are stronger than in any other language. In C++ with const you say "I'm not going to modify this". In Rust with &mut you're saying "Nobody else is going to modify this." This is 100x more powerful, because you can guarantee nobody messes with the values you borrow. That's one very common issue in efficient C++ code that is unfixable.

Sum types (enum with value) enable designing with types in a way otherwise only doable in other ML-based languages. Derive macros make it easy to use as well since you can skip the boilerplate.

Integers of different sizes need explicit casting, another common source of bugs.

Macros are evaluated as part of the AST. A lot safer than text substitution.

Further the borrow checker helps with enabling compile time checking of concurrency.

The list goes on, but nobody that has tried Rust properly can say that it only helps prevent memory safety issues. If that's your view, you just showed that you didn't even try.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-11-20 00:09:37+00:00
Why not? You can lease a car. IMO an interest-only mortgage is basically renting with upside to the equity, which is something the US seems to be very keen on getting everyone to have some skin in the realestate game. I'm not really into governments being paternalistic so I'd rather see people be allowed to choose poorly, but they also need to be able to suffer at least some consequences.
by drivingmenuts | 2025-11-20 00:10:33+00:00
It's interesting to me because how the hell did he think this was going to end? "Innocent until proven guilty" doesn't work in the court of public opinion. So, if one was even peripherally associated with Epstein, it would seem like that would be a hell of a liability.

On a side note, did Epstein have employees on his sex island and what happened to them?
by vondur | 2025-11-20 00:10:48+00:00
I think something like Bazzite would be great for those wanting to game. The fact that it's going to be hard to break the system and just letting updates be applied automatically will make it more like a console than a PC in that regard. I also assume that switching to the desktop mode is not difficult. I just started using Fedora Bluefin last year, and I've been really happy with it and it's architecture is the same as Bazzite, but for devlopers.
by Aachen | 2025-11-20 00:12:01+00:00
> A device can triangulate its own location

Trilaterate (or multilaterate). Angulation uses angle, like a directional antenna, constructive/destructive interference for beamforming (this is how airplane landing systems work if I'm understanding it correctly), or optics like our two eyes, to find the angles to a target from known positions in order to determine its position in space

Trilateration is based on distances from known locations, determined either by signal delay (GNSS does that; newer cell towers also but call it "timing advance") or signal strength (used with both WiFis and cell towers)

> locally, given the WiFi hotspots

You'll also need a local database with the hotspots' positions (usually those aren't actually measured but estimated from observations at different locations). I'm not aware of a device that ships with this, nor popular software that uses it as its primary method, as such databases are many gigabytes. Thus this is typically not local; you're sharing your data (thus location) with the server which then kindly tells you where it thinks you are
by Venn1 | 2025-11-20 00:12:35+00:00
This week we shut the doors on our Linux gaming podcast that has been running continuously for the past 13 years. No fuss, no drama, but with the announcement of Steam Machine II (we also covered the origianl launch) it just seemed time. Proton has evolved to the point most things work out of the box. Nobody is bothering with native and it's gotten difficuls to find things to cover.

It really feels like evertying is ligned up for the year of Linux in the Living room and yeah, it's really good to see.
by Venn1 | 2025-11-20 00:12:38+00:00
This week we closed the doors on our Linux gaming podcast, which has run continuously for the past 13 years. No fuss, no drama. With the announcement of Steam Machine II (we also covered the original launch), it just seemed like the right time. Proton has evolved to the point where most things work out of the box. Few people are bothering with native support, and it’s become difficult to find new things to cover.

It really feels like everything is lined up for the year of Linux in the living room, and it’s great to see.
by veltas | 2025-11-20 00:14:18+00:00
My point is these societies have the rule of law, and the vast majority of laws don't have a "unless you have 50 employees or less" or "unless your revenue is under $1 mil" qualifier. The difference in treatment is often a complex precedent of leniency in enforcement or punishment, but ultimately the rules are the same for everyone, even if you have to upset the 8 year old selling lemonade.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/asa-baker-...
by Analemma_ | 2025-11-20 00:15:05+00:00
I agree with all of this except for the claim that "Google wanted this". I think Google is as annoyed with this situation as everyone else. They would've preferred to have their own iMessage alternative, but they launched a dozen which all failed, so they went "Well, we can't make our own that people want to use, so let's get the carriers to make an upgraded version of SMS". And then the carriers didn't want to do that but the "it's decentralized!" message stuck with users and even a few governments, so now RCS is the worst of all worlds: it's a de facto Google service, but with a janky, half-baked decentralized protocol, where Google has limited capability to improve it compared to a native Google chat app.

It's a complete shitshow.
by jm4 | 2025-11-20 00:15:34+00:00
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with this. Every enterprise OSS company operates like that. People paying for support and funding the project get to make requests. Anyone else can submit a PR or be happy with the free software. It’s a pretty good deal if you ask me.

Granted, Oracle charges a lot just to even use the software, but I still don’t think it’s unreasonable to limit certain types of requests for higher paying customers. Pay base price and you get to use the software, get updates and call tech support. Pay a premium and they prioritize bug fixes and features for you.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-11-20 00:15:36+00:00
IMO, this is a great example of the lack of professionalism in the software development field. No individual software developer is responsible for violating the GDPR's prohibitions on cookie banners in a legal sense, but we could be. Real engineers have that leverage: A PE who thinks a bridge's design amounts to professional malpractice gets to refuse to approve that design, and anybody who the employer could find to approve it risks their entire career, on top of personal liability.
by autarch | 2025-11-20 00:16:18+00:00
My main complaints about Go are not that it needs more obscure syntax. The biggest problem with Go is basically that the core of the language's syntax is special, and only accessible to the compiler. This goes hand in hand with the language not offering generics out of the gate. This means that things like slices, maps, channels, etc. are all special. You cannot implement anything similar that uses the same syntax (even now that generics exist).

This lack of flexibility means that it's impossible to experiment with replacements for built-ins, and the lack of generics out of the gate meant so many things were simply impossible (like useful iterators).

Compare this to Rust, where almost everything like this is just a trait. If you want to offer a map replacement, you just implement the Index and IndexMut traits.

Overall, I don't think Perl is the best language design. It has some interesting ideas. Go is _also_ not the best language design. Is Rust the _best_? No, but it's better than both Perl and Go, IMO.
by MegaDeKay | 2025-11-20 00:17:38+00:00
I should have said "Much more expensive though compared to something like an ESP32 or RPi Pico". You can get something like an ESP32 Wemos D1 Mini on Ali for $4 to $5 USD, and besides solid performance and I/O, you get integrated WiFi and Bluetooth. Not to mention a community that is likely substantially larger than that built up around the Teensy.
by johnea | 2025-11-20 00:17:50+00:00
Via the link in the article to: Revision to Rules of Practice Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/10/17/2025-19...

It would be nice to have some confirmation, but I'm assuming there was an extension.

Given that EFF and the comment form at regulations.gov cite Dec 2nd.

In any case, I'm filing my comment now, and encouraging others to do so as well.

Anyone who's ever been through any kind of patent process should understand just how egregious this is...
by notahacker | 2025-11-20 00:19:03+00:00
You can expect to see it all you like; you won't unless and until you can persuade enough other members of the public to vote for a platform of amending freedom of information legislation to stop redacting sensitive information (unless its a whistleblower identity apparently)

I'm sorry you find it "laughable" and "fear-mongering" that people will switch to off the record conversations. Perhaps you are not aware that government officials already spend most of their day talking to people in unrecorded conversations, with many of those conversations being with representatives of business.

As it is, companies will also happily follow those questions up with slide decks, projections, technical details and requests for information etc which helps substantiate their pitch or their case for funding or their objection to a bill (unless they're actually doing something dodgy, in which case creating a paper trail is counterproductive). They will not send this information if that is expected to be publicly disclosed because they don't want everybody knowing that they are emailing Texas officials about a Texan location before they've even decided if they actually want one or how much they're spending on widgets from which suppliers. Never mind other intriguing possibilities like NASA circulating all the technical documentation SpaceX has shared with them.

If you are truly convinced that 'most people don't mind their business with the government being public on account knowing what "public" means', I advise you to test this hypothesis by emailing some businesses asking them to share unredacted content of emails they have recently exchanged with government officials (a no-effort filter on .gov domains in their own mailbox is sufficient for this experiment). Let us know how many unredacted emails they share with you...
by autarch | 2025-11-20 00:20:24+00:00
> What's an example of a language that's as bad as Perl, that's used as widely as Perl was, that's still in use today?

PHP? I don't know how widely it's still used, but I'd guess it's more widely used than Perl. Also, PHP is not "as bad" as Perl. It's much, much, much worse. It's Perl without the charm.
by 00N8 | 2025-11-20 00:20:54+00:00
They wanted to keep accurate global positioning as a US military exclusive capability. It's definitely useful for guided munitions, & alternative satellite positioning systems didn't exist or were less mature at the time, so US GPS was the only system one could realistically use for that. A missile able to hit a target within a 3 meter radius is vastly more effective than one that can only hit within 100m, for instance.

There are still some restrictions around this sort of thing: IIRC a GPS receiver for sale to the public isn't allowed to give accurate data if it's too high up &/or moving too fast, to prevent unauthorized usage in ICBMs & other similar weapons. I think there would be a lot of red tape involved if you wanted to buy an unrestricted GPS device without this limitation.
by PlunderBunny | 2025-11-20 00:21:03+00:00
In New Zealand, you can (effectively) force the co-owner of a property to sell or buy you out. The laws allowing this were introduced decades ago to prevent one person in a couple holding the family home 'hostage' (typically, a husband forcing the wife to stay in a failed relationship because she needed a home to raise the kids). A very sensible set of laws I think (someone please feel free to correct/link this property - I can't find a good summary online, although I can find lots of pages that talk about it).

Is this not the case in the UK, or did the first guy in the article forgo that option?
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-20 00:21:17+00:00
YouTube can be used in a healthy way: use NewPipe and subscribe to channels with edifying content and then, when a new video appears that you would want to watch properly, send the direct video link to yt-dlp on your computer. You then avoid the actual website, its algorithm, and its enshittification like short-form videos.

Choosing edifying content requires, of course, some caution. Avoid individual “content creators” who might feel pressure to slowly conform their content to the algorithm and sponsors’ demands. Instead, follow e.g. local arts organizations who do their events as part of a whole offline ecosystem, and then just upload video of it to YouTube. Or universities who create teaching content for their own needs but then upload it to YouTube, etc.
by ca1211 | 2025-11-20 00:21:25+00:00
AIScriptGenerator.net is a specialized online platform dedicated to generating high-quality, coherent, and tailored scripts for a wide array of purposes. At its core, the website utilizes advanced AI language models that understand context, tone, and narrative flow. Users are no longer faced with a blank page; instead, they are guided through a simple and intuitive interface. By providing key inputs such as the script topic, desired tone (e.g., professional, humorous, persuasive), target audience, and specific key points, the AI engine gets to work, producing a complete, logically sequenced script in a matter of seconds.
by ascagnel_ | 2025-11-20 00:22:07+00:00
> I later got a hankering to play Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. This time, the game would not work and Steam wasn't really forthcoming with showing logs. I figured out how to see the logs, and then did what you do these days - I showed the logs to an AI. The problem, slightly ironically, with MD is that it has a Linux build and Steam was trying to run that thing by default. The Linux build (totally unsurprisingly) had all kinds of version issues with libraries. The resolution there was just to tell Steam to run the Windows build instead and that worked great.

I've heard it said in jest, but the most stable API in Linux is Win32. Running something via Wine means Wine is doing the plumbing to take a Windows app and pass it through to the right libraries.

I also wonder if it's long-term sustainable. Microsoft can do hostile things or develop their API in ways Valve/Proton neither need nor want, forcing them to spend dev time keeping up.
by badsectoracula | 2025-11-20 00:22:18+00:00
In practice this doesn't affect the overwhelming majority of people as they're either not going to be compromised (the most likely case) or, in the tiny chance they're compromised, they're not going to notice (in which case from their perspective it still "isn't broken").

It isn't like this is the original WinXP during the era where computers connected directly to the open internet and caught viruses just by existing, making computers groan and being very visible that something was wrong. Pretty much everyone is connected via a firewall and on top of that Windows has improved its security considerably over the years. And there are still security updates for browsers (the main vector for malware by far) that support Win8.x (e.g. Firefox ESR will be supporting Win8.x until next year and people have made Win7 and Win8 compatible builds for modern Chromium).

So it isn't surprising that for all intents and purposes it isn't broken, especially when the alternative is having to change to something that feels like downgrade in terms of UX. From a user's perspective it is a choice between the unlikely potential of something invisible perhaps happening (getting compromised) versus the absolute certainty of something very visible happening (having to get used to a worse UX). Considering Windows still tie security updates with everything else, it isn't surprising that people judge based on what they perceive the most.

Of course the best solution would be to switch to an OS where such choices are not necessary in the first place. I've been using Window Maker since early 2000s and the UI has remained the same since 1997 when WM was first made, aside from the occasional theme change (which is done only whenever i personally feel like it, i.e. is not forced on me) while at the same time i'm using the latest Linux kernel, C library, drivers, etc with all security fixes. I do not have any choice between having security fixes or using a GUI that i am comfortable with - i get to have both.
by benjiro | 2025-11-20 00:23:56+00:00
Did pewdiepie not write a voice to text for his LLM setup?

Thing is, we can talk faster then most of us can type.

Voice + Programming is slow because of all the special symbols. But voice + vibe coding? The ability to tell your LLM to do tasks, while you focus on other parts of the code, without the need to switch tabs/windows.

What about "change the color green on this element (html page), where my mouse is pointing"... Annoying with keyboard if you need to switch windows, very possible with voice.

And LLMs are very forgiving for mistakes, unlike if you want to voice program where every symbol needs to be accurate.

People do not realize that programming as we know it, is going to change.
by kfarr | 2025-11-20 00:24:02+00:00
Another case study to add to the maritime chapter of this timeless classic: https://www.amazon.com/Normal-Accidents-Living-High-Risk-Tec...

Like you said (and illustrated well in the book) it's never just 1 thing, these incidents happen when multiple systems interact and often reflect a the disinvestment in comprehensive safety schemes.
by fjfaase | 2025-11-20 00:25:00+00:00
I have one at home, which is the one we had to buy to use in highschool. In the math classrooms we had a 6 feet version that could be mounted on the blackboard such that the teacher could used for instruction. See for a picture on the Dutch page https://rekenlat.barneveld.com/rekenliniaal.htm