MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Koolyz | 2025-11-05 15:55:02+00:00
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by Fileformat | 2025-11-05 15:55:09+00:00
One extremely important XSLT use-case is for RSS/Atom feeds. Right now, clicking on a link to feed brings up a wall of XML (or worse, a download link). If the feed has an XSLT stylesheet, it can be presented in a way that a newcomer can understand and use.

I realize that not that many feeds are actually doing this, but that's because feed authors are tech-savvy and know what to do with an RSS/Atom link.

But someone who hasn't seen/used an RSS reader will see a wall of plain-text gibberish (or a prompt to download the wall of gibberish).

XSLT is currently the only way to make feeds into something that can still be viewed.

I think RSS/Atom are key technologies for the open web, and discovery is extremely important. Cancelling XSLT is going in the wrong direction (IMHO).

I've done a bunch of things to try to get people to use XSLT in their feeds: https://www.rss.style/

You can see it in action on an RSS feed here (served as real XML, not HTML: do view/source): https://www.fileformat.info/news/rss.xml
by rob74 | 2025-11-05 15:55:19+00:00
[citation needed]

All things being equal, I would assume that you are safer in an environment that's stationary and reasonably sturdy, rather than in an aluminum tube at 40,000 ft above ground? Ok, as they say, all things are rarely equal, of course people are more likely to die of old age or of various diseases at home rather than while traveling (simply because old and terminally ill people probably don't travel that much), but I would say that skews the statistics against the living room and should be discounted. And at home you can engage in various activities that you probably won't do while on an airplane (electrical repairs, cooking...), but if you get hurt while doing that, that's also not a fault of the living room per se...
by Flockster | 2025-11-05 15:55:25+00:00
Thank you for this suggestion!

For Laptops 16:10 (and with the framework and surface even 15:10/3:2) is already quite common, while in the desktop market 16:9 and these ultrawides are dominant.

With 16:9 the whitespace on websites even with Tabs on the side is simply to high ;)
by roywiggins | 2025-11-05 15:55:32+00:00
It's just a matter of subtracting the two functions, taking the absolute value, and putting that number through a color ramp. If you want to see the result in 3D you can subtract the functions and throw that into a 3D graph plotter. Building a 3d surface plotter would be the hard part, but they already exist, eg plug "abs(y/(x^2+y^2) - (x+1)/(x^2+y^2))" in here:

https://c3d.libretexts.org/CalcPlot3D/index.htmlT

This viewer also has a "2d" mode that produces a colored 2D plot.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-11-05 15:55:50+00:00
The relevant bits here - deaths from all causes in the US are 22 micromorts per day. Lower in the article, airline travel is listed as 1 micromort per 1000 miles travelled.

Background risk of death from non-natural causes are listed as 1.6 per day; many of those non-natural causes do not exist in an airplane cabin (e.g. you probably aren't going to be murdered because no one has anything more effective than a plastic spork, you probably aren't going to kill yourself, you probably won't be hit by a car). So it seems reasonable to say that being inside an airliner cabin is safer than being outside of one.

Also, this is probably confounded by many super-old or super-sick people not choosing to fly - if you are in an airliner, you are probably healthier than the average person.
by coldtea | 2025-11-05 15:55:53+00:00
>Everything I've learned from psychology (and by this I mean watching psychology lectures from Yale and Stanford on youtube and reading the associated textbooks) makes me confident that I will have a short and unhappy life.

By making this prediction you already run afoul of the findings in the article!

>At 35 I am starting to suspect that I may be on the spectrum

I mean, the ample parentheticals in your comment are proof enough :)
by infecto | 2025-11-05 15:55:53+00:00
It goes in direct conflict with your idea. I am sure you know some people within your circle that say they cannot leak data but the fact remains. Over 85% of Fortune 500 companies use some combo of OneDrive or Sharepoint. The companies have already gotten familiar with the risks and legally are comfortable with the MSAs. So I am not sure what legs you are standing on.

Absolutely there are specific companies or industries where they think the risk is too great but for many, outsourcing the process is either the same or less risk then doing it all inhouse.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-05 15:55:59+00:00
How many X11 holdouts are still around, really? I'm a curmudgeonly old man fond of old tech, but I have still had a Wayland-only setup since early 2020; once Sway was there as a good tiling window manager, and Emacs got its Wayland-ready pure-gtk branch, there was no need to look back.

I of course see people here and there on forums express discontent, but I don't think that demographic is big enough to drive both significant development and the adoption that makes development sustainable.
by bityard | 2025-11-05 15:56:05+00:00
From the pictures, this is the kind of vehicle that you would gladly pay extra to have delivered to your second vacation home so you can park it next to your 6 other semi-exotic cars and drive it half a mile to the country club on Saturdays.

If that is not your demographic, they might have geo-located your IP and blocked you based on the median income of your area. (Only half joking.)
by baruchel | 2025-11-05 15:56:06+00:00
I wrote the main application for my wife's business — she's a psychologist. That was only a few years ago, but as a senior lecturer in the more theoretical parts of computer science, I never really needed fancy UIs with flashy graphical effects. So I built a core engine and used the classic dialog tool as the thin user-facing layer.

At first, my wife was pretty disappointed — as a computer science teacher, wasn't I supposed to know how to build a “real” app? But a few years later, she doesn't want anything else. I even offered to have one of my students create a nicer UI without changing the engine or database, but by now she's completely used to the terminal menus.

The tool keeps a database, collects data through dialog forms, generates PDF invoices with groff, and launches Thunderbird when needed (to send invoices, etc.).
by clickety_clack | 2025-11-05 15:56:27+00:00
It took me a second to figure out what these are showing because I usually fit plots to data and the “low error” areas are the areas where, if there was a datapoint, it would be in an area where there would be a wide confidence interval, ie low confidence and more likely to be high error in the model.

The dark areas in the plot seem to be the features driving the shape of the plots. That means that these would be the areas the plotter should be most sure about, otherwise the plot would have a different shape. The bright “low error” areas are the areas where the model seems least likely to be correct.

I might be missing an interpretation that makes much more sense, but I think “error” might be the wrong terminology to use here. It doesn’t just mean “difference between A and B”, it includes some idea of being a measure of wrongness.
Show HN: Dev Cockpit (OSS) – TUI System Monitor for Apple Silicon
by caioricciuti | 2025-11-05 15:56:33+00:00
Built a terminal dashboard for my M2 Mac because I wanted something better than jumping between Activity Monitor, terminal commands, and random cleanup scripts.

What it does:

Real-time charts for CPU, memory, disk... Quick actions menu - one key to flush DNS, fix WiFi, kill processes... Clean up all the dev cache garbage in one place (npm, Homebrew, Xcode, Go, Yarn) System insights with performance scoring

Basically everything I was doing manually or with different tools, now in one TUI.

Written in Go, GPL-3.0.

https://github.com/caioricciuti/dev-cockpit

Install:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/caioricciuti/dev-cockpit/m... | bash

Would appreciate feedback on the UI and what other quick actions or monitoring would be useful.
I created a 3D airplane tracker
by benlimner | 2025-11-05 15:56:45+00:00
- 4,000+ km search radius lets you see continental traffic

- flight following lets you follow your favorite flight as it journeys

- surf mode automatically follows another flight if yours lands so you can chill with air traffic

- 3D airspace in the US lets you see who is going to get a number to call from ATC

- terrain/map/satellite imagery

- and I’m open to adding features that you want!!

https://objectiveunclear.com/airloom.html
by beerandt | 2025-11-05 15:56:55+00:00
Deadweight or no-weight engine is a relatively negligible problem in terms of the weight-balance envelope.

Cut fuel & hydraulic lines near that engine (that affect the other engines/ apus) (or less likely structural or aerodynamic problems) is what's going to shift this from "engine failure" recoverable problem to a global nonrecoverable one.
by thisonetimeonly | 2025-11-05 15:57:02+00:00
It’s just the way, innit? People love to (rightly) bump their chest and say Linux is great for how customisable and open it is, but then go bananas the moment one software decides to do something different.

“Openness, customisation and freedom of choice are great—unless you are offering a software that doesn’t behave exactly like we want it to, then it should not exist as option for anyone, ever.”
by stego-tech | 2025-11-05 15:57:45+00:00
Wegmans’ cash registers still use a TUI. It looks quite clean and friendly compared to the GUI-heavy slop of, say, my time at a major retailer. Speaking of nostalgia, my old gaming store also used a TUI for transactions, and it was highly responsive for anything local (and a PITA anytime it had to communicate with the CO). Also been exposed to a number of businesses these past few years who still use old AIX/Unix/TUI boxes for critical business functions, and most seem happy with them.

And therein lies the rub: if the process works, and modern software doesn’t necessarily offer any better value proposition, then there’s no real reason to migrate. For a lot of companies, the status quo might literally be all they’ll ever need, and IT’s role is to just keep it up, available, and secure as times change. Sure, I’ll side-eye a theater using a Windows box as an intermediary for Ticketmaster to run transactions against their old AIX rig collecting dust in a corner of a closet, but if it works and it’s secure, well, more power to them keeping costs down.

The advice I’d give is not to knock something just because it doesn’t fit current narratives around technology. Our jobs - first and foremost - are to build and support solutions that amplify productivity of humans in a way they can use without external support; whether it’s an ancient TUI or a modern GUI isn’t as relevant as its efficacy.
by nikoomilana | 2025-11-05 15:57:47+00:00
This is anecdotal but I've been using bluetuith for a year on my nix machine with several adapters then switched to bluetui recently, and my experience with bluetui has been amazing. I just ran into issues all the time with bluetuith and I assumed it was due to the OS or something. An example I can think of is trusted connections- my devices just never automatically connected once switched on, but now they do.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-11-05 15:57:53+00:00
It's been a while since I worked at a bank, but most there core stuff was running in a mainframe and while "modern" front ends exist, the core work uses terminal access.

A key thing modern replacements lose is the input buffer: One can type multiple screens ahead. In a modern GUI application I can enter a shortcut, but then have to wait till the corresponding view/popup/window appears and registered it's event handlers till I can put in the next command. In a mainframe-style TUI, if I remember the sequence, I can type ahead the shortcuts and input for next screen(s) before it's ready. For the experienced user, who runs the same sequence often this is really efficient.
by JimDabell | 2025-11-05 15:57:57+00:00
> Finding and exploiting 20-year-old bugs in web browsers

> Although XSLT in web browsers has been a known attack surface for some time, there are still plenty of bugs to be found in it, when viewing it through the lens of modern vulnerability discovery techniques. In this presentation, we will talk about how we found multiple vulnerabilities in XSLT implementations across all major web browsers. We will showcase vulnerabilities that remained undiscovered for 20+ years, difficult to fix bug classes with many variants as well as instances of less well-known bug classes that break memory safety in unexpected ways. We will show a working exploit against at least one web browser using these bugs.

— https://www.offensivecon.org/speakers/2025/ivan-fratric.html

— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1kc7fcF5Ao

> libxslt -- unmaintained, with multiple unfixed vulnerabilities

— https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/b0a3466f-5efc-11f0-ae84-99...
by Der_Einzige | 2025-11-05 15:57:57+00:00
Given how fucked it’s competition is and how the delta between CUDA/NCCL and everything else like rocm/zulda has only grown yeah, Nvidia will own the whole thing for minimum 10 years.

Everyone who tried to compete failed hard because no one has the money, and raw talent or ability to get that talent needed to beat Nvidia at the software game.
by swiftcoder | 2025-11-05 15:58:01+00:00
> You need over 95 ppd to exhaust normal visual acuity

32" 4K at 36" is 91 ppd. Which I guess is good enough, seeing as I'm well the far side of 25 year old.

> Why are you assuming 36"? Nobody I know uses 32" monitors at 36" away.

36" is the point where I can see all 4 corners of the monitor at the same time (and significantly too close to focus on one corner and have the other 3 corners in view at the same time).

40 degrees of FoV is massive for a single monitor! I'm sitting here wondering how much you have to turn your head to use this size monitor up close
by jmclnx | 2025-11-05 15:58:35+00:00
To me, Palantir is a very risky investment, I think on the line with junk stock. I do not know if it will continue after the mid-terms, and after 2028, it could be gone.

At least Nvidia makes something real instead of hot wind, so I doubt their stock will fall that much if the AI bubble bursts. Maybe 10/15% at most.
by _menelaus | 2025-11-05 15:59:05+00:00
Did you know that Menachim Begin, the first prime minister of Israel, was the leader of Irgun?

'As head of the Irgun, he targeted the British in Palestine,[3] with a notable attack being the King David Hotel bombing. Later, the Irgun fought the Arabs during the 1947–48 civil war in Mandatory Palestine and, as its chief, Begin was described by the British government as the "leader of the notorious terrorist organisation".'
by psunavy03 | 2025-11-05 15:59:28+00:00
Orders of magnitude more Japanese people would have died, but I guess you can just handwave that away as "fabricated evidence" because it supports your priors.

I didn't drive my car into a brick wall yesterday, but just because it didn't happen doesn't make it "fabricated evidence" that it was a much better choice for me not to drive my car into a brick wall.
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by iveqy | 2025-11-05 15:59:35+00:00
I built my own ERP system for handling my business. It's also an TUI and has been here on Hacker News a few times.

About training new staff, there's actually studies done on it: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2655855/

My 2 cents is that GUI is good for exploring new software, while TUI is wonderful if you already have a mental map of what you're doing. So for everyday used software I would definitely hope that more TUI's where used.
by dmd | 2025-11-05 15:59:48+00:00
That's just it though. You're safer strapped into a seat, doing nothing, than you are doing whatever it is you do at home.

Would you be safer in your living room doing nothing, strapped to a seat, never doing anything remotely hazardous (like walking around), vs the same in a tube in the sky? Yes, of course. But that's not what people actually DO in their living rooms!
by mike1o1 | 2025-11-05 15:59:56+00:00
I have some projects with a fairly steady load that I'm currently running on a VPS on Digital Ocean. I have some non-critical ones that I'd be interested in moving to "bare metal" for learning purposes, but having a hard time figuring out what the transition from VPS to dedicated server would look like.

Anybody have any guides or guidance on making the migration? I feel comfortable managing the VPS, but not sure what else I'd need to take on by moving to a dedicated server. I imagine hardware monitoring would be one, but what else?
by dec0dedab0de | 2025-11-05 15:59:58+00:00
Quite a few large businesses are still running code that was originally written for mainframes in the 60s and 70s. Usually it is large batch operations, but I know of at least two fortune 100 companies that still have non-technical users running terminal emulators to connect to their 'mainframe' to perform some tasks.

I was about to say that's what keeps Sungard in business, but then I googled and saw they are no longer in business. So maybe it is starting to die down.
by psnosignaluk | 2025-11-05 16:00:12+00:00
Pre-cloud pets vs cattle approach. We ran a few pets, but had DC's worth of cattle thanks to PXE, TFPT and Ansible. No Terraform required, as there was no need to control the state of multiples of cloud cruft. Good times. Except when something would pack up in the middle of winter in the wee hours and it was a bollock-cracking motorbike ride to the DC to spit on the offending black box.
Ask HN: What Would Make You Stick with a Fitness App?
by Warshow | 2025-11-05 16:00:16+00:00
I've been researching why fitness apps fail at long-term retention. Most people drop off after 2-3 months, even with streaks/badges.

For those who lift/run/train regularly:

* What killed your motivation in past apps? * Would tangible rewards (not just badges) change your behavior? * What's the difference between a "nice to have" feature and something you'd actually pay for?

Trying to understand if the problem is UX, incentives, or something else.

Thanks!
by znpy | 2025-11-05 16:00:31+00:00
> Maybe this even harder push by Gnome on Wayland will drive even more effort into the alternative software, and continue to fuel the healthy competition that (for better or worst) the Linux desktop is stuck with.

Competition in this space has been everything except healthy. Wayland people have been essentially sabotaging X11 development.

Example: people wanting to keep X11 alive have been literally banned from the freedesktop.org infrastructure: https://linuxiac.com/xlibre-xserver-project-plans-revival-of...

> In a dramatic turn of events, Red Hat employees banned developer Enrico Weigelt from the freedesktop.org infrastructure. Weigelt’s account, repositories, tickets, and merge requests (more than 140) associated with the Xorg project were also abruptly deleted. As a result of these actions, in a message titled “History repeats: Redhat censored me on freedesktop.org,”.

(more in the link).

As somebody that has a functioning desktop environment (XFCE) and that doesn't bother much with new stuff, this is incredibly annoying, as the Wayland people have been breaking the linux desktop for everybody while pushing for incomplete alternatives (case in point: another comment to this same thread: wayland breaks accessibility: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45824341 - they should have first developed it AND THEN push for it but no, they had to push incomplete and non functional garbage down everybody's throat).

I'm not really against Wayland per se, I'm against the fascistoid appoach that wayland people had all along the way.
by microtonal | 2025-11-05 16:01:10+00:00
fuel the healthy competition is a really positive spin on even more fragmentation. It's sad how Linux desktop eats itself.

GNOME is a perpetrator as well. I usually check the GNOME release notes (since I use GNOME on my NixOS laptop) and on a semi-regular basis there is a note that says: replaced app X by a completely new rewrite Y. And there is still no support for basic things like marking up/annotating a screenshot, even though the basic image viewer has been rewritten N times (anyone remember Electric Eyes?).
by myroon5 | 2025-11-05 16:01:13+00:00
De jure, even NYC's existence itself is contingent on NYS' permission:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forrest_Dillon#Dillon's_Rule

(de facto realpolitik-wise NYC will continue existing, but my point is to widen your Overton window to realize even NYC's own taxing authority is still under NYS' jurisdiction)

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Btw, federal and state funds were each ~1/6 of NYC's revenue in 2021: https://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/understandingthebudget....
by thelastgallon | 2025-11-05 16:01:22+00:00
An excerpt:

Gautam Mukunda, a lecturer at Yale School of Management, said Musk already owns enough Tesla stock to make him the world's first trillionaire if he meets the board's performance goals and hardly needs the incentive of a "second trillion" from company investors. The board, he said, should not be cowed by threats to leave from the person with the most to lose if Tesla's stock falls - its biggest shareholder.

"This is a guy who's holding a gun to his own head, saying: 'Give me a trillion dollars,'" Mukunda said. "It's not the job of the board of directors to just nod like a bobblehead doll when the CEO asks them for something."