MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rvz | 2025-11-27 02:25:40+00:00
> Effective immediately, I have made ziglang/zig on GitHub read-only, and the canonical origin/master branch of the main Zig project repository is https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig.git.

If there is one benefit in moving from GitHub it is certainly avoiding receiving AI slop issues on GitHub.

Github was on the decline anyway in the past 5 years, it's time for an alternative and we'll see. Would rather it being Codeberg over something like Sourcehut.
by 51Cards | 2025-11-27 02:25:56+00:00
Perhaps I say at all the wrong (right?) hotels but... I stay in close to two dozen North American hotels a year and I haven't noticed this trend? Many have pocket doors but I can't think of a hotel in recent memory that was missing it completely. I usually partially close them so it's not as cold getting out of a shower so I hope I would have taken note if it wasn't there.
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-27 02:28:45+00:00
The earliest galaxies formed when the universe was just a few hundred million years old, which means there may have been planets that are 3x times older than Earth.

Several caveats apply, chiefly that heavy elements weren't produced for a while in significant quantity, but were produced fairly early on due to large stars exploding relatively quickly, when they were merely tens of millions of years old, if that.
by novoreorx | 2025-11-27 02:30:10+00:00
Seeing systems used in the most advanced areas of human civilization never fails to amaze me. They have been created half a century ago yet still functioning flawlessly in the autonomous, harsh environment of space. Meanwhile, I consider it a win if my Python API server survives a month without breaking. I'm always wondering, how did those engineers create something so robust, while I, despite standing on the shoulder of decades of software engineering progress, seem unable to avoid introducing bugs with every commit?
by autoexec | 2025-11-27 02:31:02+00:00
All the more reason not to add mold from the shower and excess feces from every toilet flush to the list of things I have to worry about being on the mattress.

There are good reasons to keep bathrooms physically separated from where you sleep and hygiene is one of them, along with not wanting the bed to be a front row seat to the sights, smells, and sounds of whatever is going on in there and not wanting an expensive hotel room I'm paying for to be like a prison cell.
by yanhangyhy | 2025-11-27 02:31:12+00:00
> Meanwhile, Tesla's Chinese competitor BYD (BYDDY), which sells a mix of pure EVs and hybrids, reported sales jumping 207% to 17,470 units sold in Europe. Another major China rival, SAIC, saw sales climb 46% to just under 24,000 vehicles sold.

From January to October this year, BYD has already sold nearly 140,000 units in Europe, an astonishing increase. Even setting aside people’s personal feelings about Musk, the main reason is probably that Tesla no longer has much competitive advantage. The BYD he once openly mocked with “have you seen their cars?” and laughed about by end up completely defeating Tesla in the European market

Personally, the one I most want to buy in the future is the Yangwang series, even though it’s very expensive. Or the series that comes with the drone feature.
by echelon | 2025-11-27 02:33:29+00:00
> Your guns-and-god remarks are way off the mark, by the way. I'm atheist, feminist, and probably more to the left than you. There's nothing progressive about trans-activist beliefs, fundamentally it's all about encouraging sexism and attacking women for not complying with male demands.

I don't understand how TERFs are a thing. That's somehow worse than religious hatred, because you actually did do some independent thinking on this and still arrived at this hateful conclusion. The cold dark universe cares nothing about us, even if the light of our civilization is what ultimately brings meaning.

You think sex is sovereign. I think everything in our genes is a set of shackles and limitations that show how beautiful, yet how cruelly inadequate evolution is in optimizing for happiness - it's just an algorithm for reproductive fitness. Mote of dust, infinite universe. No sanctified meaning in our abiotic origin or our ape body plans.

You deny our brain's sovereignty and freedoms - the most majestic phenomenon in the universe - when you cling to genetics as a dogma.

> fundamentally it's all about encouraging sexism and attacking women for not complying with male demands.

Do you think women can't become men? That they shouldn't be allowed to? Don't deserve to be?

Do you think being a woman is an exclusive identity and a right and a privilege? Better than male? A club now denied to oppressive brutes as a form of generational restitution to the matriarchy?

Does this stem from a hatred of one gender over another? Or perhaps just a preference? A disgust for men wanting something they should never be allowed to have?

What do you think about being born disabled?

Being born short?

Being born disfigured?

Ugly?

Being born poor?

Balding?

Getting atherosclerosis or cancer because of genetic predisposition?

Our neanderthal skin and sex marker profiling is flawed. It was built as a survival mechanism and is no longer needed to help us kill rival tribes and produce dozens of offspring.

But it's not just our reactions to bodies, it's our bodies themselves.

Our birthright is a set of shackles. We are more than our biology. We didn't choose it - we exist in spite of it. We are our hopes and our dreams and our love. Our actions and our deeds. The things our bodies could never be for us.

Our bodies are just dust.

They impose frail limitations on our dreams.

Do not ascribe value to these weak little prisons that destine us to death.

I am not the me that you see. I am how I spend my limited time here. I am the ripples of my actions throughout society. I am who I touch and act throughout. The ideas that I spread, which will outlive my skin and bones.

I utterly denounce your labels as primitive and anachronistic and harmful.

Where we're going we won't even have bodies or sexes or hatred. Your kind of prejudice can't exist there.
by drdeca | 2025-11-27 02:34:01+00:00
I didn’t say others are obligated to do the same. I said the opposite , actually. Rather, for the services to remain viable, some people have to not block ads, and for this reason, I have chosen to be one of those some.

How how-well-things-work depends on the number of people doing a thing, varies from thing to thing. For some things, as long as one or more people behave in a particular way, a thing goes well. For other things, if even one person does a particular thing, things go badly. And there are plenty of situations in between.

These different situations call for different responses, I think.
by mickael-kerjean | 2025-11-27 02:34:29+00:00
My first job out of uni was in creating automated tests to validate some set top box. It involved using library of "blocks" to operate a remote control. Some of the people I have been working with spent their whole career in this narrow area, building those libraries of block and using them for customer and I have no doubts a LLM can today produce the same tests without any human intervention
by markcipolla | 2025-11-27 02:35:03+00:00
I found a first gen ipad mini I had in a box of electronics and cables and thought it'd be great to use as a HASS controller. I found it's actually kinda impossible to run it on the device, both as the HASS ios app isn't built for devices that old and the web interface is broken for safari devices that ancient.

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1p7qn7q/old_...

You can't even build apps for ARM7 architectures used by 9.3.5 devices on modern macOS, or even install an xcode old enough to do it.

So, jailbreak the iPad, write a compatible app with Theos (but it's UIKit, so totally could be built for modern devices and put on the app store), and enjoy some home automation.
by DrierCycle | 2025-11-27 02:35:11+00:00
As our species looks pretty ill fitted in its niche these days, the zeitgeist is usually about preserving paradoxes at all costs to keep status quo. And that's reflected here pretty strongly. Much of what's come out of SV appeared at one time beneficial, and now it looks like the industry has shifted to dystopian. The zeitgeist that enforces that may be lost.
by bruce511 | 2025-11-27 02:35:16+00:00
Maybe. But maybe not.

Firstly, writing the code is perhaps only 10% of the product cost (over its lifetime.) Support, marketing, adjusting, debugging, handling edge cases and so on are where most of the costs lie.

In my case brighter folks than me wrote very good code in the same space. But taking working ode and turning it into a generic product is a lot of work.

Think of it like building a landing strip for your plane. If you're the only one landing there, then the specs are simple, and tight. You need little more than a grader and a building big enough for your plane. But if you're building an airport (think, say, JFK) you have to cater for everything from a Cessna to a Dreamlifter.

A LLM can certainly speed things along. But I wouldn't want to build based on LLM foundations. Long term support and maintainability would scare me.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-27 02:35:55+00:00
First off, all manufacturers are way, way closer in practical reliability than internet comment section circle jerks. It's like when you look at a wild stock ticker and then see the Y axis is somewhere misleadingly far from zero.

Second, as described in other comments, this is just an analysis of safety inspection data. So you've got to consider the ease with which people can "just take it to the dealer", whether they trust the dealer enough to take petty stuff to them and the kind of people who buy what (Altima factor).
by KronisLV | 2025-11-27 02:36:38+00:00
You can either use the orchestrator mode and tell it that it must run a subtask that reviews changes after every successful sub-task is done (works in RooCode, I’m guessing KiloCode should also have the feature).

Or you can just switch the models in a regular conversation and tell one to review everything up until now, optionally telling it to get a git diff of all the unstaged changes.
by brailsafe | 2025-11-27 02:37:17+00:00
> You think Apple is going to make the user experience on iPhones – a product that makes them hundreds of billions of dollars a year – to sell more cables?

Seems like it's more a matter of conveniently waiting until it's clearly some kind of explicit competitive disadvantage not to switch, or otherwise have their hand forced, rather than making their products worse.

That said, Apple makes their products worse all the time for a variety of reasons, it shouldn't be so hard to believe, and they also let their products stagnate until they may as well be discontinued, like someone who stops engaging in a relationship until you eventually break up with them.

> How much profit do you think they can possibly make with those cables?

A lot. I'd wager somewhere in the realm of a % of hundreds of billions
by devmor | 2025-11-27 02:37:21+00:00
Anecdotal, but this reminded me of when I attended a conference in las vegas, booked two to a room, and unbeknownst to us or the booking agency, the hotel had a large window between the shower and the sleeping area that had no kind of shade or cover at all. It was extremely awkward - ultimately I and the other occupant agreed on being out of the room when the other showered.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-11-27 02:38:10+00:00
I'll do you one better, download a no root firewall that channels all of your traffic through a fake VPN which then drops it. You will be amazed at how many ads you don't see.

Obviously if you're not competent or are lazy with whitelisting apps when you need them to use the internet and then disabling it again this will be unhelpful to you; continue to feed the machine.
by LelouBil | 2025-11-27 02:39:13+00:00
Kotlin is trying to be one with notebooks[0], I even heard they have fancy code generation so that your dynamic data can still have typed properties (after the first evaluations, members corresponding to your field names are generated, or something to that extent I never used it)

[0] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/kotlin-notebook-overview.html
by drey08 | 2025-11-27 02:39:45+00:00
> Github was on the decline anyway in the past 5 years, it's time for an alternative and we'll see.

I tend to agree. But I don't see how an exact UI replica of Github is innovative.

I've only glanced at it though, maybe there's more features underneath the hood.

Happy to learn more about what makes it better. Is the CI system more refined than Github Actions? I was definitely never a fan of that system.
by dpark | 2025-11-27 02:39:57+00:00
> I’m not insulting you.

At least own it. Saying someone lacks imagination and creativity and now reading comprehension is absolutely insulting.

> I pointed out something interesting. The least thing you could do is actually look up to see if there’s any validity or research on what I’m talking about.

I can’t look up anything based on your vague comment. That’s why I asked what you mean.

> For instance:

Thanks. I’ll take a look at that article.
by aurareturn | 2025-11-27 02:40:23+00:00
With consumers right now? Sure, but so does WhatsApp and IG, both Meta properties. Meta and Google also WAY better brand power with advertisers. So there's that.

With AI. OpenAI/ChatGPT is synonymous with AI. People say "ask ChatGPT" the same way people say "Google it".

They have agreements of roughly in $1.5T infra spend (and that doesn't include their own S&M and R&D spend) for the next 5 years. They have to have a combined amount of cashflow to cover that $1.5T (mix of income, debt financing, and stock financing) + all their other spending. The CFO admitted that they may need to bail out data centers to cover this to stay solvent in the long run.

I'm sure their $1.5t infrastructure commitments are based on hitting certain goals. Their comment about government support for data center is isn't a call for a bailout and taken out of context/exaggerated by mass media.

YC is literally not God when it comes to advice, so this point is moot. Meta and Google didn't come out of YC and yet still beat incumbents.

Yes but Google also beat the incumbents in Yahoo, AOL. People thought no way back in 2000 as well. Heck, Google wanted to sell itself to Yahoo.
by igregoryca | 2025-11-27 02:41:16+00:00
The only languages that eliminate logic bugs are formally verified ones, as the article points out. (And even then, your program is only as correct as your specification.) Ordinary Rust code is not formally verified. Anyone who claims Rust eliminates errors is either very naive or lying.

Type-safe Rust code is free from certain classes of errors. But that goes out the window the moment you parse input from the outside, because Rust types can enforce invariants (i.e. internal consistency), but input has no invariants. Rust doesn't ban you from crashing the program if you see input that violates an invariant. I don't know of any mainstream language that forbids crashing the program. (Maybe something like Ada? Not sure.)

I don't understand why you bemoan that Rust hasn't solved this problem, because it seems nigh unsolvable.
by opello | 2025-11-27 02:41:30+00:00
Most easily using an add-on like Enhancer for YouTube[1], which has been hidden in addons.mozilla.org[2] but is still available on the author's site. But the player is HTML so writing element hiding rules (like `youtube.com##.ytp-ce-element`) is the easiest, which I figure out the relevant element using the Developer Tools Inspector tool, but the uBlock Origin Element Picker tries to make that easier. In this case the .ytp-ce-element-shadow is chosen first in the uBlock picker and then you can pick the element class I mentioned first, but it's nicer to have fewer rules to effect the desired outcome.

[1] https://www.mrfdev.com/enhancer-for-youtube

[2] https://www.mrfdev.com/contact
by theandrewbailey | 2025-11-27 02:41:31+00:00
I work in the refurb division of an ewaste recycling company. I was tipped off to these insane prices about two months ago, and switched focus from laptops to drives and RAM, and I'm starting to make bank. Roughly a petabyte of hard drives showed up two weeks ago, and I'm almost halfway through preparing all the drives. Hopefully I'll be able to finish and sell them in time to have a very merry Christmas.
by autoexec | 2025-11-27 02:42:08+00:00
This is why it falls on us to not simply put up with what little they expect us to settle for. Ask about their privacy and bathroom doors when booking and if caught by surprise by a lack of an actual door or inadequate privacy demand a new room, or go elsewhere taking a refund if necessary.

I have to admit that I'm getting very tired of the unsustainable push for endless growth driving companies everywhere to jack up prices as high as people will tolerate and then also delivering the least and worst product/service they can possibly get away with on top of it. It means that everything is getting shittier unless you're willing to spend insane amounts of money to get what used to be standard and more affordable.

It's becoming exhausting maintaining a list of businesses I no longer want to give money to and products/services I won't pay for. This is especially true as companies change names, redesign products, and buy up one another. the list just grows and grows all the time.
by godelski | 2025-11-27 02:42:25+00:00
Also even in the single person case I want to have the bathroom door closed when I take a shower because it keeps the heat in. Which is why I also dislike (most of) the barn door style doors. I can't be the only one that likes to step out of the shower and into a nice and steamy room. Like what, you want to step out and be cold? That's masochistic.

Not to mention no door doesn't bother me with another person because I can easily avoid "seeing them do their business" by being in the main room. I've never been in a hotel room where the bathroom door faces the beds. It's always in the hall just after entering the room. I'm sure there's exceptions but that's the standard setup.
by gardnr | 2025-11-27 02:42:27+00:00
He says the current models generalize dramatically worse than people: https://youtu.be/aR20FWCCjAs?t=1501

Then, he starts to talk about the other ideas but his lawyers / investors prevent him from going into detail: https://youtu.be/aR20FWCCjAs?t=1939

The worrisome thing is that he openly talks about whether to release AGI to the public. So, there could be a world in which some superpower has access to wildly different tech than the public.

To take Hinton's analogy of AGI to extraterrestrial intelligence, this would be akin to a government having made contact but withholding the discovery and the technology from the public: https://youtu.be/e1Hf-o1SzL4?t=30

It's a wild time to be alive.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-11-27 02:43:23+00:00
That's an easy one, hold my beer:

Pwa with permissions granted gives access to: Location, create notification, phone state, phone #, IMEI, motion data

Mobile app with permissions gives access to EVERYTHING a pwa gets PLUS, Contacts, sms, notification content, biometrics data, web browsing data, phone activity history, location history, camera access, microphone access, NFC access, near device history, nearby wifi listing, saved wifi networks, Bluetooth device ID, Bluetooth beacons nearby, some device settings, personal data access(photos/music)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-27 02:43:47+00:00
> They can "fingerprint" devices more easily. They have access to all kinds of subsystems, like Bluetooth, NFC, gestures (at low level), etc. Many require the user to give permission, but the first thing the app does, is ask for permission

Bluetooth

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Bluetoo...

Accelerometer

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Acceleromet...

So it’s a great conspiracy that apps have permission to do things after you explicitly give it permission?

No one is claiming that the app review process helps protect your privacy. The challenge is find something a native app can do surreptitiously to track you more than a website without you giving it permission bypassing OS safeguards.

And on iOS an app can’t access your NFC chip without you giving it permission.
by travisgriggs | 2025-11-27 02:44:31+00:00
Came hear and read “GitHub isn’t a good guy anymore” (not the first time, and seems to be increasing in frequency).

It’s like sourceforge all over again. History rhymes with itself, and enshitification has been added to dictionaries for a good reason.

As a once upon a time avid slashdotter, makes me wonder if some day, HN will go the same route.
by kijin | 2025-11-27 02:44:36+00:00
And it doesn't even need to be government regulation.

The hospitality industry has self-imposed standards as to what kind of amenities a facility should have in order to rate as a two-star hotel, three-star hotel, etc. Things like TV, shampoo, and hair dryer are on that list. If customers make enough noise about bathroom doors, the rating organizations might actually add that as a requirement.
by Arcuru | 2025-11-27 02:45:04+00:00
For a while now I've been dual hosting my projects on both Github and Codeberg and adding a note in the README's [1] explaining the situation. I donate to Codeberg and run my own self-hosted forgejo runners for actions, and maintain much of my testing on both platforms.

I push to Github and then an Action mirrors the code to Codeberg automatically.

I'd fully switch over except practically everybody is on Github and nobody is on Codeberg, and I've had more outages with Codeberg than Github over the past year.

It really feels like there could be some good tooling in this area to make working through multiple Forge's easier and not force things to be centralized so much. Hopefully more projects moving out of Github makes it easier and gets more people contributing elsewhere.

[1] https://codeberg.org/arcuru/eidetica#repository
by f33d5173 | 2025-11-27 02:47:59+00:00
When companies compete, consumers win. Don't make the error of thinking that because they're doing it for selfish reasons, it doesn't benefit you.

> If you had to bear the true cost, it would be $150.

That might be true, but it probably isn't. A larger company can spread the cost out over a larger number of customers, meaning the cost per customer is lower.
by gardnr | 2025-11-27 02:48:02+00:00
I get a lot from seeing the person talk vs reading a summary. I have gone back and watched a lot of interviews and talks with Ilya. In hindsight, it is easy to hear the future ideas in his words at the time.

That said, I use AI summaries for a lot of stuff that I don't really care about. For me, this topic is important enough to spend two hours of my life on, soaking up every detail.

As for being on par with typical surface level journalism. I think we might be further into the dead internet than most people realize: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
by gettingoverit | 2025-11-27 02:48:13+00:00
Okay, this will be a bit on a conspiracy theory side, but there was a paper recently describing how to do matrix computations on a RAM stick connected to FPGA, and they've shown it's possible to do it cheaper per flop that GPUs. Except, of course, there's a variety of RAM producers.

It might either be artificial to keep GPU prices where they are, or someone already started building their RAM-based AI datacenter.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-27 02:48:22+00:00
Not just the NFC chip. Almost every I/O system requires explicit permission.

That’s where a “social engineering” approach can be helpful. The permission request can be quite bland, to a non-technical person.

And yes, a native app with the program counter can definitely do stuff a Web site can’t. Run machine code, for instance.

We would hope the app sandbox is good enough to catch it.