MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-23 05:48:41+00:00
It's a feature, not a bug because it's a weapon of authoritarians wearing badges on up the government punishment pipeline.

Furthermore, in the areas of business owner and employee it's even worse because of the vague, contradictory, and expansive commercial code plus the rest of applicable city, county, state, and federal laws that apply too that sometimes criminalize trivial transgressions with occasionally excessive penalties. There's a whole book about it: Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

I'm not one for no regulations or "all gubberment bad", far from it; the core problem is the almost complete lack of effective guardrails on malicious enforcement and prosecution.
by kens | 2025-11-23 05:49:14+00:00
Various papers describe the software, although they are hard to find. My earlier blog post goes into some detail: https://www.righto.com/2024/01/intel-386-standard-cells.html

The 386 used a placement program called Timberwolf, developed by a Berkeley grad student and a proprietary routing tool.

Also see "Intel 386 Microprocessor Design and Development Oral History Panel" page 13. https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_Hist...

"80386 Tapeout: Giving Birth to an Elephant" by Pat Gelsinger, Intel Technology Journal, Fall 1985, discusses how they used an Applicon system for layout and an IBM 3081 running UTS unix for chip assembly, faster than the VAX they used earlier. Timberwolf also ran on the 3081.

"Design And Test of the 80386" (https://doi.org/10.1109/MDT.1987.295165) describes some of the custom software they used, including a proprietary RTL simulator called Microsim, the Mossim switch-level simulator, and the Espresso PLA minimizer.
by Irtaza1 | 2025-11-23 05:50:32+00:00
And you can also qualify to participate in an in-person game jam in Singapore. Accommodations will be covered. And you can get Flight stipends too. ( the programs is only for teens!) This may sound too good to be true, but I have participated in past Hack Club programs, and they are legit. Some of their past programs include https://summer.hackclub.com (sponsored by GitHub).
by chmod775 | 2025-11-23 05:50:58+00:00
When you need a company like that to do something, figure out what they're afraid of.

The only thing monopolies like these are afraid of is the government. So if you want them to get off their asses yesterday, raise a stink with whatever arm of your government will listen: FCC, local politicians, etc.

You would not believe how fast even the lowest level government workers can get these guys to take care of your problem with a single phone call.
by terminalshort | 2025-11-23 05:52:00+00:00
Bullshit. I have no control whatsoever over the government. It is completely separate from me. I have 1000x more power over Amazon by my ability to choose to not buy from them than my vote gives me over government bureaucracy. That's why whenever I have a problem with an Amazon order it is resolved in minutes when I contact support. Good luck if you have a problem with the government.
by hexbin010 | 2025-11-23 05:52:21+00:00
Yup. McDonald's in the UK is a truly horrible experience that only "addicts" still put up with

Staff barely even look at you, they're miserable, fries are only 50% full, orders always wrong, no please or thanks or sorry for keeping you waiting 20 mins in the bay for a hamburger etc. Stopped going ages ago
by grafmax | 2025-11-23 05:54:28+00:00
First off, what I stated is a view held by reputable scholars such as Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Sachs, and John Mearsheimer, not just a view you (also) can find in Russian propaganda.

Second my point is understanding the Russian POV, regardless of the correctness of that POV.

Third, your comment is off base historically. The timeline is:

2007 Putin’s Munich speech warning against NATO expansion to Eastern Europe.

Feb 2008 US ambassador warning that NATO expansion to Ukraine was a red line for Russia.

April 2008 Bucharest summit Ukraine and Georgia were not given MAPs due to France and Germany objections but were promised NATO accession over their objections.

August 2008 invasion of Georgia.

Nov 2013-Feb 2014 Euromaidan protests overthrowing Russia-sympathetic Yanukovych

2014 invasion of Crimea

Feb 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Besides this Putin has argued for the invasion of Ukraine as restoration of historical Russia as part of his nationalist ideology. And other examples of NATO expansion such as Baltics, Poland and Finland have not led to Russian attacks.

Overall the concerns many European leaders have about Russia need to be tempered by a better understanding of Russia’s actual perspective (as I said not the same as advocating for that perspective).
by fzeroracer | 2025-11-23 05:54:40+00:00
> Cooking (provided you have access to some simple cookware) is literally printing out the recipe and FOLLOWING THE DAMN INSTRUCTIONS. If that’s beyond someone’s abilities then I weep for the general state of mankind.

I mean, if you don't understand how badly the US educational system is failing people then I don't know what you expect. There are a large amount and growing amount of people that are barely literate and can only follow basic instructions. This is by design because we're starving our educational systems and creating a two-tiered society where people either receive private education or no education at all. It should come at zero surprise that people can't cook because they were never taught how to cook nor how to even learn and integrate that knowledge.

My parents for example were fishermen, neither of them are functionally able to cook anything beyond tossing some meat in a crockpot and some rice in a rice cooker. Everything I know about cooking was shit I had to pick up on my own and it's only because I'm both literate and computer savvy that I can grasp and integrate these things smoothly.
by layla5alive | 2025-11-23 05:54:49+00:00
I had this same daily connection disruption problem with Xfinity on the east coast, on two different lines in the same building.

But, one difference is that the two lines would fail at different times, not at the exact same time (so not the cause guessed by Gemini, in my case).

I always assumed it was Comcast automating downtime to prevent anyone using the lines for business without paying Comcast Business prices.

I had the two locations connected by fiber and used multi WAN for both load balancing and failover, so the combined uptime was basically 100% because each line was down many times per day, but they were always down at different, non-overlapping times.

My guess is that this failure mode is quite common, whether or not it's intentional. I would love to see this be something a lot of us here can coordinate on jointly pushing Comcast to solve!
by londons_explore | 2025-11-23 05:54:55+00:00
I like the approach of mega.nz...

Server stores encrypted blobs. Server doesn't have the keys.

Entire application is on the client, and just downloads and decrypts what it needs.

Obviously your entire application stack needs to be developed with that approach in mind, and some things like 'make a hyperlink to share this' get much more complex.
by tptacek | 2025-11-23 05:56:10+00:00
Someone who used to be a prolific commenter here, who was also an emergency medicine nurse(!), pointed out that for the most part, for long-term caffeine addicts, everything "good" about caffeine was simply the cessation of withdrawal symptoms. Withdrawal cessation feels great! You can stay that way all the time if you like.

I had a rough bout of insomnia 10 years or so ago, and one of the things I did as a result was to cut caffeine completely. I thought it would be super hard to do. Maybe it was? I don't remember, it's been so long. I have no idea why I'd ever deliberately consume material amounts caffeine again.

I think it's probably a garbage drug. Whether it's strictly true or not that it has no beneficial effects once you're acclimated to it, telling myself that made quitting really easy, so I recommend just accepting the idea. There are better addictions to nurture.
by heavyset_go | 2025-11-23 05:56:35+00:00
> McDonald's is laser focused on low income customers.

Like some other fast food restaurants, they're desperately trying to be thought of as being Starbucks tier, with Starbucks prices, trappings, etc.

It's like Taco Bell desperately trying to be thought of as Chipotle tier, with Chipotle level prices and trappings. Like McDonald's, they significantly raised their prices without any quality improvements to justify it.

> Their CEO has been blunt about this recently, and trying to find ways to get low-income customers back.

It's lip service because news like "low income people abandon McDonald's" makes investors get bad feels about their investment.
by kennywinker | 2025-11-23 05:56:52+00:00
For a function setVelocity() that can accept 1..<200. You call it with numbers that you enter directly and types tell you something that would otherwise be a comment on the function, or you do runtime checks elsewhere, and the type becomes proof that you checked them before handing it into the function.

Btw, using “autism” to mean “pedantry” leaves a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe you could reconsider using it that way in the future.
by nprateem | 2025-11-23 05:57:47+00:00
I thought the same thing.

As for Musk... tbh I think as the vast majority of us want things from other people we temper our behaviour.

But when you have enough fame and money to do what you want the filters can come off and we can be the selfish nasty people we really are. And some people obviously like to play on that too to get air time or just prove a point.
by inkyoto | 2025-11-23 05:59:03+00:00
> I smell AI writing assistance. Which is a shame […]

I have met multiple brilliant, very bright, and talented people (mathematicians, physicists, doctors) who excel at what they know and do, yet immensely struggle to spell, write, or both. There are also people who do not like to write (whatever the reason is).

GenAI has been a great boon for such a type of person as it dissolves their struggle – they convey the idea to the machine (however awful the scribe is) and GenAI handles the grammar and style.

Granted, it is different from «hey, GenAI pet, write me a blog post on XYZ».
by kens | 2025-11-23 06:00:27+00:00
I've looked at a bunch of 386 dies, see: https://www.righto.com/2023/10/intel-386-die-versions.html I typically use an earlier 1.5µm chip since it's easier to study under the microscope than a 1µm chip and I use "ΣΣ" because they are more obtainable. Typical steppings are S40362 or S40344, whatever is cheapest on eBay.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-11-23 06:00:46+00:00
Is "smartphone usage" merely a proxy for "social media usage"?

When I got my first smartphone almost two decades ago as a 16yo, I used it mostly to play with the system, write my own UIs, debug system daemon issues, tinker with bootloaders and ended up contributing to a community distro for it. It was a fun computer in my pocket that taught me a lot and a massive upgrade over earlier phones where I had to use Opera Mini and Bombus via J2ME.

The vast majority of smartphones of today are toys with very little potential to tinker, and even when it's there, the entry barriers are enormous. Compiling Android is a huge undertaking, while as a teenager, I could already launch vim on my phone screen in a tram and hack on a SMS daemon written in Python. It's incomparable, and even if you do start, you quickly encounter hard barriers like device attestation.

These days I'm not immune to social media either, as evidenced by me writing this on my phone right now - but wouldn't these "worse mental health outcomes" be rather connected with social media usage, media consumption in general, intrusive notifications etc. that are commonly associated with but aren't inherently necessary part of smartphone usage? At the same time, my mental health isn't becoming immune to social media damage when I doomscroll on a PC just because I used a bigger screen with a physical keyboard.
by NaOH | 2025-11-23 06:01:20+00:00
Related:

Spaghetti-Tree Hoax - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34572174 - Jan 2023 (95 comments)

Spaghetti-Tree Hoax - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30962453 - April 2022 (1 comment)

Spaghetti-Tree Hoax - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25383763 - Dec 2020 (2 comments)
by Jedd | 2025-11-23 06:02:35+00:00
Reminds me of a) the breathtaking vox pop done by the BBC [0] in 1978 as metric adoption nipped at their imperial heels, and some spectacularly bewildered misunderstandings manifested -- the first citizen here inventing the word kilomileometres and (I wish she were joking) asserting that your car's mileage is reduced because you'll be using litres,

and b) the comedy radio show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, running since the 1970's but includes a game called Mornington Crescent [1] (since season 6) wherein the panel take it in turns to 'get to Mornington Crescent' using the London Underground map as a playing board. Many rules and variations are cited and vaguely explained, but it's all just made up -- nonetheless there has been an abundance of people who've listened to this madness, and then written to the BBC to demand a rulebook.

The point? Not sure. Does this reflect positively upon the some style of comedy favoured by the Brits, or negatively about their credulity? As a nominal Brit, I can't comment with any impartiality.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykthWUdkhu0

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game)
by silexia | 2025-11-23 06:03:19+00:00
I am coming up on a year without caffeine like this guy. I was never addicted like he was, nor did I face severe health problems from it. I just noticed that the quality of my decision making went way down on caffeine. I was not able to prioritize things properly. I would feel strangely tired or lazy sometimes or way too energized. Now without caffeine, every day I feel stable, productive, and happy.
by londons_explore | 2025-11-23 06:04:26+00:00
> They thought the camera’s file system was unencrypted, when it was encrypted.

Willing to bet plenty of hn readers are unaware of encryption going on at lower layers of the tech stack than they're aware of.

For example most hard drives encrypt all data, even when not commanded to, as a way to do 'data whitening' (ie making sure there are even numbers of 0's and 1's in the data stream and not some pattern which might throw off tracking.)

The encryption key is simply stored elsewhere in the drive - or nvram or in the firmware.

But it means if you extract the physical magnetic surface and read it with the right microscope, you might well find the data encrypted with no available key.
by tptacek | 2025-11-23 06:04:47+00:00
I'd make a joke about NSA conspiracies here but I'm 95% sure some kind of Foucault's Pendulum / QAnon thing would happen and 6 years from now I'd be the contrarian on a bunch of threads about how the IACR had been suborned to suppress cryptanalysis of MLKEM.
by rimeice | 2025-11-23 06:05:09+00:00
I like this. I’ve been working on something similar. Good spec’ing is critical to getting good output and I suspect a lot of the “I’ve already got plan mode” comments are from technical HN folk, who do know the right questions to ask and know what good looks like. But as the success of Lovable shows there are millions of people out there who clearly want to build apps but don’t have the technical chops to do so and clearly don’t know what a good spec looks like. My experience of “plan mode” is that it won’t serve these people. I’d be keen to connect and share ideas around this. My email in my profile.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-23 06:07:11+00:00
I find this great, finally an easy way to play with ALGOL 68, beyond the few systems that made use of it, like the UK Navy project at the time.

Ironically, Algol 68 and Modula-2 are getting more contributions than Go, on GCC frontends, which seems stuck in version 1.18, in a situation similar to gcj.

Either way, today is for Algol's celebration.
by BandButcher | 2025-11-23 06:10:27+00:00
I feel you,

one thing that has helped me has been to become less of a lurker in forums/social media spaces where they discuss topics on things i ACTUALLY enjoy.

seems obvious yet I've found to be the answer to "doom scrolling". When you doom scroll, you're looking for something to peak your interest but find nothing...

The crazy thing is, you ALREADY know what you like!

Music? Try to Engage with your favorite artists, musicians, fan clubs, album reviews, listening parties (bandcamp.com)....

Space photos? Look to forums, telescope videos, equipment youtube channels, star parties (irl)

Welding? Conspiracy theories? ...whatever interests you I guarantee there is more niche content out there than you could ever possibly scroll. More than you could ever connect with. But you must connect. (And if you do ever find the end, you can always be the fire starter for newer content!)

But you are correct, times are bleak and possibly getting bleaker. And that makes the algorithm happy.

That's why connection (as you said) is more important now than ever. So find a place you can connect

(HN is just ONE of the many places I do - random username and everything ;) )
by tomwphillips | 2025-11-23 06:11:19+00:00
I had a similar experience as an undergraduate.

In my penultimate year I was struggling under a huge lecture and lab workload, working at the weekends, and partying too.

I developed stomach pain and went to the campus doctor, who sent me off to A&E (ER) with suspected appendicitis. My appendix was fine, but the doctors thought I might have a stomach ulcer. I discharged myself early to get back to the library, so never actually got a diagnosis!

I was drinking 3-4 cups of coffee and ~500mL knock-off Red Bull a day, eating a poor diet, and then drinking alcohol in the evenings. I went cold turkey and spent an entire weekend in bed with the worst headache imaginable.

I think I managed a few months before cracking and getting back on coffee. I quit cold turkey again a couple of times but in recent years I titrated off of it by gradually changing ratio of caffeinated to decaffeinated beans in my coffee at home. I drink 1 - 2 small cups a day now.

Might give quitting a go again.
by sowbug | 2025-11-23 06:11:24+00:00
Here in California, as a residential customer, I pay close to 50 cents for even the very first kWh I consume each month, and there is no bulk discount. Meanwhile, Google et al. surely pay less than 10% that rate. A single Gemini query probably involves dozens of distributed machines that skilled SREs keep afloat, but let's say very optimistically that if I had a copy of the model, I could run it on a home workstation with six 80GB GPUs, consuming 4,200 watts when active, and 500 watts when idle. My utilization might be 10% on a day when I'm especially curious, whereas Google probably manages 95% utilization of its inference machines.

I could go on, but I think you get the point: the dollar cost for me to run a hypothetical version of Gemini at home far exceeds the price Google pays to deliver the same service to me. I'm effectively arbitraging the price of electricity by subscribing to an LLM service, because I could never run it for anywhere near the same price in my house -- and to provide the service at the speed and reliability of Gemini, I doubt I could even fit the equipment in my house-sized house and still have room for me to live in it.

Anyway, I stand by my original comment - it's neither easy nor cheap to run a frontier model at home.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-23 06:11:40+00:00
Again - there's nothing to refute. The only accusation in the video is that there is some grand conspiracy against C++ users, which would give Chris Lattner a belly laugh.

If it is you recording that video, I hope you get over it. You can find a better way to process your grief than complaining on all three of your HN accounts.
by herpderperator | 2025-11-23 06:12:27+00:00
Can someone explain exactly what's happening here? https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/16iax10h-linux-sound-saga/i...

It seems like there's a lot of personal information being asked for / thrown around... including a debit/credit card number?

Is there no better way to handle the bounty payment?
by retrac | 2025-11-23 06:12:32+00:00
The Bell System was, in modern parlance, fully vertically integrated. They didn't own the mines that the copper for the conductors was extracted from. And they didn't cast the copper ingots. Though they were interested in the metallurgy. Because they drew their own wire. And cables. And transformers. And vacuum tubes. And so on. It was all in-house. They even treated their own telephone poles. So something like a practical survey of various types of preservative treatments for wood was in the remit of Bell Labs just like the physics of a vacuum tube. Almost everything in science was in the remit when they had such a broad mandate. The Bell System had elements that almost resembled a kind of state within a state. (Part of why it was killed off -- antitrust violations.)
by Aurornis | 2025-11-23 06:12:45+00:00
I predict that in much sooner than 100 years social media will be normalized and it will be common knowledge that moderating consumption is just as important as it is with video games, TV, alcohol, and every other chapter of societies going through growing pains of newly introduced forms of entertainment. If you look at some of the old moral panic content about violent video games or TV watching they feel a lot like the lamentations about social media today. Yet generations grew up handling them and society didn’t collapse. Each time there are calls that this time is different than the last.

In some spaces the moral panic has moved beyond social media and now it’s about short form video. Ironically you can find this panic spreading on social media.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-11-23 06:13:19+00:00
I don’t understand why things like social media are meant to be regulated by the government.

Isn’t religion where we culturally put “not doing things that are bad for you”? And everyone is allowed to have a different version of that?

Maybe instead of regulating social media, we should be looking at where the teeth of religion went even in our separation of church and state society. If everyone thinks their kids shouldn’t do something, enforcing that sounds like exactly what purpose religion is practically useful for.
by stOneskull | 2025-11-23 06:14:13+00:00
one thing i miss about living in a city is being near a hare krishna restaurant or similar hindu place, like ones run by the sikh community. cheap, healthy and yum. some would offer free food to homeless or if you went to one at a temple it was pay-by-donation. sometimes the donation was just being there and singing the hare krishna song with them :D
by dmpayton | 2025-11-23 06:14:27+00:00
Haha, I promise you I am not! I can't prove it was me, but I did find some old tweets where I shared that blog post in 2011. At one of the Santa Clara PyCon's I ran a small Qtile BoF in the Open Spaces and ended up meeting one or two people I had only interacted with on IRC. It was a pretty great experience over all.

I'm also kinda mind blown that a 15-second interaction I had at PyCon 13 or 14 years ago got a mention on HN. I only saw this post because someone at my local hackerspace told me that Qtile was on the HN frontpage. (I'm the resident Python champion and have shown off my Qtile setup at our monthly Linux night before.)

Small world indeed!