MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway150 | 2025-11-27 05:53:38+00:00
> You can express dissatisfaction and anger „naturally“ without calling people losers and monkeys.

I can't speak for others. But if I am screwing up as badly as GitHub is, I'd rather someone calls me a loser and monkey for it. It's like someone splashing ice cold water on my face and showing me the reality. It's going to be very uncomfortable, yes. But I'll learn from it and try not to screw up so badly again. I find this kind of natural outburst refreshing really.
by therein | 2025-11-27 05:53:39+00:00
> Is a racist screed acceptable to you as long as the following paragraph references technical issues correctly?

I'm not the morality police. Nobody should be. I'd still take the article on its technical merits. As a random example, if Satoshi's paper called people using the banking system cattle, I'd still continue reading it.

> Imagine how you would feel if you were the person who wrote this code, and now you are being called a monkey in front of thousands of people on the internet

It would be absolutely fine, nobody is named specifically. He wasn't like Josh Examplemann working on Actions is a piece of shit that botches any feature he touches. Nobody is going to remember a blog post and forever hold anyone that worked on Actions to an unhirable status. And personally, I think it would be good for people to feel some shame for having implemented a feature in such a terrible way. It's not like they were told by their managers to commit these the way that they did. Calling into the sleep binary wouldn't even be more work.

Whoever is behind the new React Start Menu in Windows

along with whoever is responsible for the Chrome Web Environment Integrity

along with whoever is behind the design of OSX Tahoe

along with anyone who is working on Windows Copilot that screenshots your screen

should be ashamed of themselves. The more articles that do that, the better. They are not doing good.
by x-complexity | 2025-11-27 05:55:04+00:00
> > For a perfectly spherical person

> The transformation of humans to spherical shape is gluttony not evolution. They should be forced to ride a bike until their silhouette returns to that of a human.

...GP's comment is a play on the "spherical cow" physics joke, and how models *will* have some unrealistic assumptions baked in, just so that the maths is easier to crunch through.
by Klonoar | 2025-11-27 05:56:47+00:00
> You're running what aims to be a major programming language - have it where people expect and live with your gripes about the platform.

The core types who will make use of, contribute to, and/or otherwise use the repo likely don't need it to be on GitHub. Having it "where people expect" is useful for drive-by contributions but Zig doesn't really need that.

Furthermore, why should we as a larger community cede things to GitHub and Microsoft? It doesn't change unless larger parties move the needle.
by Alupis | 2025-11-27 05:56:49+00:00
You don't just have to self-host, they offer a hosted version that's far more reasonably priced than Figma[1].

Their free tier supports up to 8 members, limited to 10GB of storage.

The next tier supports unlimited members, and is price-capped at $175 a month, but is limited to 25GB of storage.

The final tier is price-capped at $950 a month, with unlimited storage.

[1] https://penpot.app/pricing
by tavavex | 2025-11-27 05:56:50+00:00
Oh, I know why it works that way. The point is that overriding parts of the normal focus behavior makes sense within video players - not only does every function already have a key shortcut (reducing the need for tabbing through every button), but some shortcuts can only work if the player understands what can and can't be overriden. Losing focus on the volume bar for the sake of keeping the arrow key assignments consistent is how it was done. Many other video platforms have figured it out, and so did YouTube many years ago, but then during one of their endless player redesigns, they seem to have simply forgotten about that basic behavior. I have no idea how they allowed it to remain this way for years, with all of them being extremely intelligent and well-paid engineers that are working on probably what is the world's most popular video player UI.
by fayecat910 | 2025-11-27 05:57:35+00:00
Thanks for the suggestion! Floaty actually does support window transparency — you can adjust the opacity from the panel using the slider.

I haven’t added a scroll-based shortcut yet, but your Cmd + Scroll idea sounds great and definitely fits the workflow for people who adjust opacity frequently. I’ll explore whether I can support this in a future update.

Really appreciate the feedback — if you have any other tweaks or ideas, I’d love to hear them!
by spookie | 2025-11-27 05:58:06+00:00
None of that matters. The header is there, in writing, and discussed in the PR. It is acknowledged by both parties and the author gives a clumsy response for its existence. The PR is simply tainted by this alone, not to mention other pain points.

You may not consider this problematic. But maintainers of this project sure do, given this was one of the immediate concerns of theirs.
by financltravsty | 2025-11-27 05:59:25+00:00
1. Yes, but that is not -- to the best of my understanding-- because of TRT itself

2. Yes

There is no "off ramp" for GLP-1s in my experience, because the off ramp is so insignificant to not worth a mention. You just don't take another dose after a week has passed from the previous one, and you're back to baseline. Same way there is no off ramp on taking aspirin -- just don't take it.
by baq | 2025-11-27 06:01:50+00:00
The most effective message GitHub can receive is when they don’t get to invoice you.

GHA in particular is a hot mess, I’m as surprised as a decade ago that anybody is using this crap. IMHO it’s bugs as a service kind of product, and the bugs start at the core design with the ‘pretend yaml but actually an unholy mix of shell, js and json’ language.
by galaxyLogic | 2025-11-27 06:02:20+00:00
The way I see AI coding-agents at the moment is they are interns. You wouldn't give an intern responsibility for the whole project. You need an experienced developer who COULD do the job with some help from interns, but now the AI can be the intern.

There's an old saying "Fire is a good servant, but bad master". I think same applies to AI. In "vibe-coding" AI is too much the master.
by pabs3 | 2025-11-27 06:02:26+00:00
Crash resilient Wayland compositing exists since 2017, it just isn't implemented in mainstream Wayland implementations. You have to go to Arcan for full resilience. KDE does have some crash resistance, thanks to some changes in toolkits, but it doesn't go as far as Arcan does.

https://arcan-fe.com/2017/12/24/crash-resilient-wayland-comp...
by firecall | 2025-11-27 06:04:43+00:00
I am not at all an expert, I can only share my anecdotal unscientific observations!

I'm running a TrueNAS box with 3x cheap shucked Seagate drives.*

The TrueNAS box has 48GB RAM, is using ZFS and is sharing the drives as a Time Machine destination to a couple of Macs in my office.

I can un-confidently say that it feels like the fastest TM device I've ever used!

TrueNAS with ZFS feels faster than Open Media Vault(OMV) did on the same hardware.

I originally setup OMV on this old gaming PC, as OMV is easy. OMV was reliable, but felt slow compared to how I remembered TrueNAS and ZFS feeling the last time I setup a NAS.

So I scrubbed OMV and installed TrueNAS, and purely based on seat-of-pants metrics, ZFS felt faster.

And I can confirm that it soaks up most of the 48GB of RAM!

TrueNAS reports ZFS Cache currently at 36.4 GiB.

I dont know why or how it works, and it's only a Time Machine destination, but there we are those are my metrics and that's what I know LOL

* I don't recommend this. They seem unreliable and report errors all the time. But it's just what I had sitting around :-) I'd hoped by now to be able to afford to stick 3x 4TB/8TB SSDs of some sort in the case, but prices are tracking up on SSDs...
by blackqueeriroh | 2025-11-27 06:04:55+00:00
> we need to create a culture that values craftmanship and dignifies work done by developers.

Developers waste a lot of time writing a bunch of boilerplate code that they hate writing and that doesn’t make them happy and has nothing to do with craftmanship. We also just spent 60 years in a culture that dignified work done by developers to the extreme, and honestly that produced some of the most narcissistic minds the world has ever seen: Thiel, Andressen, et al - and why? Because we dignify work in a capitalistic culture by increasing wages.

You want to talk about a culture that values craftmanship? Let everyone have the time and the freedom and the security to build whatever they want to build, instead of what they have to build in order to have health insurance.

> We need to talk seriously and plainly about the spiritual and existential damage done by LLMs.

Uhhhhhh…..excuse me?

> despite hundreds of billions of dollars, it hasn't fully delivered on its promises, and investors are starting to be a bit skeptical.

More money was invested in the dot-com boom, and in the lead up to the railroad era, before anyone could ride. So this isn’t new.
by dwohnitmok | 2025-11-27 06:04:58+00:00
> I'd say GPT-4 in 2023 vs GPT-3 as the last major "wow" release from a purely-model perspective. But they've also gotten a lot faster, which has its own value. And the tooling around them has gotten MASSIVELY better

Tooling vs model is a false dichotomy in this case. The massive improvements in tooling are directly traceable back to massive improvements in the models.

If you took the same tooling and scaffolding and stuck GPT-3 or even GPT-4 in it, they would fail miserably and from the outside the tooling would look abysmal, because all of the affordances of current tooling come directly from model capability.

All of the tooling approaches of modern systems were proposed and prototypes were made back in 2020 and 2021 with GPT-3. They just sucked because the models sucked.

The massive leap in tooling quality directly reflects a concomitant leap in model quality.
by croh | 2025-11-27 06:05:11+00:00
Copying here an interesting comment on the video from user @melkiorwiseman -

Fun Fact: The first step-by-step switch and indeed the very first automatic telephone exchange was invented by Almon Strowger. Almon Strowger was an undertaker by trade. He became convinced that the manual telephone exchange operator, who was the daughter of the only other undertaker in town, was deliberately directing all calls for "the undertaker" to her father's practice instead of dividing them equally between the two as was standard practice at the time. Strowger decided that he needed to invent a way for telephone customers to dial the number themselves and used cut out pieces of paper to represent the electrical contacts so that he could work out how the equipment should work. If I remember correctly, Strowger was granted a patent for his automatic telephone exchange in 1929. Strowger's exchange required two extra wires from the exchange to each telephone to carry the dialling signals, but some clever lateral thinking allowed for using the same two wires for nearly all signalling as well as for speech.
by kstrauser | 2025-11-27 06:05:25+00:00
That’s not how that works. Broadly speaking, you compile your app against a selected SDK version. Want to use newer features? You have to use a newer SDK. The SDKs themselves support selected ranges of OSes and don’t go back all the way to the beginning.

If you’re writing an app that targets the newest hardware features, say because you’re making a camera app that uses the latest updates, it’s not going to run on iOS 5. You can’t hold that against app authors, or even against Apple, really. There’s not a lot of return on investment for sinking thousands of dev hours into supporting ancient phones that almost no one uses, and which by definition are more likely to be used by people who won’t spend a dime on apps or services.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-11-27 06:05:29+00:00
Regardless of the accuracy of this particular report, the general trend seems to be that Teslas are not improving in reliability, fit, finish, or worst of all, availability of spare parts as time progresses. This is now, what, a 15 year old company?

My biased opinion is that it won't get better in the future, because Tesla has ceased to be a company that aspirational people will work at, and the CEO isn't even interested in being CEO of a car company.

I hope that Chinese EV makers gain access to the US market directly or indirectly, and are able to globally diversify. It's the only way we'll really get the EV revolution and the diversity of models and form factors.

We'll certainly never get it with Tesla. They are years behind in battery tech, they basically make two cars.

If Tesla had a real CEO, they wouldn't just have 10 models of cars, they'd have multiple marques, true luxury cars, entry level cars, probably would have acquired other struggling automakers for production capacity, market access, existing designs to adapt, would have had companies pushing PHEVs with their motors, battery packaging, and battery management.

Instead, they make two cars, and still have a CEO that did perhaps the single dumbest public gaff in the history of corporations with his public nazi salutes and AfD dogwhistling.
by throwaway150 | 2025-11-27 06:05:31+00:00
> Surely you have your own line on what is or is not acceptable discourse. What is it?

I do but I decline to share it here. I'm not going to shift this thread from what the author is doing on their website to my personal beliefs and boundaries!

All I am saying is it is their project, their blog. They can be however much rude they want to be on their website. It's their website, their lines and their boundaries. Where I set my boundaries has no bearing on what Andrew should write on their website.

If Andrew alienates people by his writing, it's his decision, his action, his consequences that he has to deal with. How does it matter where I draw the line?
by abustamam | 2025-11-27 06:06:33+00:00
I've stayed in probably 15 hotels in the US in the past 15 years and at least one of them had either no bathroom door, or a glass door, or a bathroom door and a shower that had a glass door.

My sister shared with me a home listing that had a bedroom and basically a toilet in a closet, and no door — just a curtain for privacy. That was weird.
by coco_1 | 2025-11-27 06:08:33+00:00
AI makes it easier to copy things, but it also makes shallow copycat ideas extremely competitive. If I ever leave for a “single person unicorn”, I’d want it to be something where I have a real edge (problem I know well, users I understand, or a niche I actually like).

For now, I treat it like this: Job = stability Side projects = creativity + potential upside

That feels a lot healthier than quitting out of fear of layoffs or FOMO from seeing other people’s revenue screenshots.
by nh2 | 2025-11-27 06:08:38+00:00
It is still not a proper fix. It is still busy-looping 100% CPU.

Given that Github Actions is quite popular, probably wasting large amount of energy.

But probably good at generating billable Actions minutes.

One can only hope that not many people use sleeps to handle their CI race conditions, as that itself is also not a proper fix.
by ssivark | 2025-11-27 06:09:12+00:00
Opencode (from SST; not the thing that got rebranded as Crush) seems to be just that. I've had a very good experience with it for the last couple of days; having previously used gemini-cli quite a bit. Opencode also has/hosts a couple of "free" models options right now, which are quite decent IMO.

https://github.com/sst/opencode

There are many many similar alternatives, so here's a random sampling: Crush, Aider, Amp Code, Emacs with gptel/acp-shell, Editor Code Assistant (which aims for an editor-agnostic backend that plugs into different editors)

Finally... there is quite a lot of scope for co-designing the affordances / primitives supported by the coding agent and the LLM backing it (especially in LLM post-training). So factorizing these two into completely independent pieces currently seems unlikely to give the most powerful capabilities.
by eru | 2025-11-27 06:09:44+00:00
Btw, the Romans had leap days before Julius Caesar, but they were added ad hoc by the Pontifex Maximus.

Caesar happened to be the Pontifex Maximus (an office you hold for life once elected to), but he wasn't in Rome much to do that job. So after he came back from hanging out with Cleopatra in Egypt he came back and set the calendar on auto-pilot.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-27 06:11:31+00:00
if they call their employees monkeys, certainly. I think every big tech company is well aware of lawsuits regarding a hostile work environment, work place bullying, etc.. they all have company wide training on these topics.

Having been in that situation before, if I even get a hint that I would be treated this way, I'm backing out of any interview. I won't say for no amount, but for no amount they would consider reasonable compensation would I think it's worth it. People commit suicides over this stuff. This isn't a joke. Life is too short. I mean just seeing other people treated this way is horrible on its own. I can't believe people defend this stuff. People need to learn to be ashamed again.
by blackqueeriroh | 2025-11-27 06:11:40+00:00
Junior engineers will be fine; OpenAI is actually choosing to hire juniors now because they just learned all their theory and structure, and are way more willing to push the LLMs to see what they can do.

Bad code is bad code. There’s been bad code since day one; the question is how fast are you willing to fail, learn, fail again, learn more, and keep going.

LLMs make failing fast nearly effortless, and THAT is power that I think young people really take to.
by elmerfud | 2025-11-27 06:11:48+00:00
Clearly you don't remember why your other post was flagged. So now you're trying to twist it to fits your narrative. I have read it and I understand the scientific method. Clearly you do not understand history. How often people have used the scientific method to support their biases.

I know it feels good to seem to find a medical reason for an ideological difference. What I found nowhere in this study was a concentrated effort to find the exceptions. Because once you find the exceptions then you have to put forth another explanation. When you're not actively looking for those people who have the similar brain lesions that don't exhibit the same behavior or if you find methods to dismiss why those are different than these. It's using medical science to confirm a bias that you already have.

Please take a look at history and how this has happened many times before. It's zealots like you who hide under the cloak of science to trying homogenize the world under your view which is the most scary thing we have ever had. The problem is it keeps coming around again and again and nobody is learning from these mistakes. The scientific minds that we keep being told that we must trust keep doing the same garbage research to push an ideology or to fight against an ideology they don't like.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-11-27 06:12:08+00:00
Just when you think you’ve seen all the corporate/business fuckery in this world. I already ask stuff like — is it a non-smoking room or not, do not use a strong room freshener when prepping the room (or better save money and skip freshener), etc. Now do I have to ask — whether your room has a bathroom door or not? Fucking hell! Hopefully, such fucked-up trends don’t reach this corner of the world at the speed and efficiency with which COVID did.
by roenxi | 2025-11-27 06:12:20+00:00
> They tax and control everything, lock down distribution, prevent you from operating without rules.

You seem to be arguing that the EU should be doing that though. What about those of us who quite like the way Apple does things right now? I'm happy to pay extra for a lot of your dot points, I quite like someone to be acting as a firewall between my device and the unfettered soup that is stuff out on the internet.

Apple's product is a well curated walled garden. I certainly understand why there are a lot of people on HN who don't like that - they see 30% that they can't claim. But one of the reasons Apple is so successful is because they know how to create a great phone experience.
by wg0 | 2025-11-27 06:12:30+00:00
If voiced and channeled properly, I see very little chance of Microsoft and Github wouldn't prioritize fixes for a critical open source project.

Yes issues have been filed but more could be done back channel.

Personally - I think GitHub is a cultural artifact now. Of the entire planet. Hackers and curious minds from Japan to Alaska and everything in-between flock to GitHub.
by seec | 2025-11-27 06:13:29+00:00
This is just part of the bureaucratisation of everything. The bureaucracy always try to extend its power and find ways to self-justify its existence, accaparing ressources to extend the control and bring ever more people into the fold. It's an intrinsically parasitic process that ends up killing the host in the long term.

Which is why most communist like endeavor ends up in failure. Without the necessary pruning that comes with competition, you end up in a situation where it's more profitable to get the power to control the resources and take a fee for each interactions than actually do anything worthwhile to get "rights" to resource allocation.
by zkmon | 2025-11-27 06:13:37+00:00
Some algorithms such as binary search give an incorrect view of the overall cost. The search has a prerequisite of sorting. So, the assumption is, the data is sorted once, and searched several times, making the sorting cost insignificant.

What if the data is used for only a single lookup? For this case, actually a sequential search would have lower cost compared to sorting and binary search. Infact, sequential search may beat sorting and binary search for upto about 100 lookups. So I think it is important to consider overall cost.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-11-27 06:14:11+00:00
I think you are getting caught in marketing semantics. The scale is all you need movement was mostly a way to funnel money to LLMs. Did Ilya ever actually believe transformers with no other improvements would lead to AGI, or did he believe that it would lead to a much more useful AI and wanted to raise money for that but found it hard without claiming it would lead to AGI? At the end of the day it is probably a good thing that so much money went into scaling recently, because it did work, as long as your measure of success is more nuanced than “did it lead to AGI”. And even then it may lead to AGI as the amount of money spent on ai research is much higher now and that new money may be what is actually needed.
by tavavex | 2025-11-27 06:14:13+00:00
The reason why internet access/downloading from the internet isn't a "major" permission is that asking about it would let people conveniently disable it for any offline apps with ads in them to remove the ads. Google doesn't like that, obviously. Of course, you can still disable your wifi/mobile data connection entirely, but it has friction that most average consumers won't trouble themselves with. But if the app asked if you wanted to give it internet access on launch, Google's ad revenue would probably be visibly affected.