MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-11-07 16:12:13+00:00
So it's interesting that I never hear much about the Morrowind modding community.

Daggerfall has a huge one because of how archaic it is by modern standards. Oblivion and Skyrim had mods since day 1 (in fact I think some of my favorite New Vegas mods were Oblivion mods first).

But I rarely hear about Morrowind mods. Is the consensus just that it doesn't need them?
by reactordev | 2025-11-07 16:12:14+00:00
Exactly. The article should just say “Mass consumption of media causes brain rot” because since 1900 that’s all it’s doing.

Radio programs that caused mass hysteria. TV advertising that caused people to cook plastics into their food. The advertisements for hair loss. For ED. For testosterone, for bunions, warts, insomnia, apnea, eczema, droopy eye, eye bags, teeth, dogs teeth, cats bum, extended car warranty, leasing a car, phones, computers, vbros, and all those TikTok “hacks” which are just mcguyver poor people hacks.

Brain rot comes from watching others live their lives…

Get outside, do something.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-07 16:12:25+00:00
>>> I suspect that you didn't understand the subtext of the conversation.

>> I suspect you're inventing a subtext that simply isn't there.

> No I am not. I don't appreciate being gas-lite about this.

It's not gaslighting to simply disagree. So please don't throw around accusations like that. Subtext is by definition open to interpretation.

I wasn't trying to be patronizing, and I certainly wasn't "feigning concern". Again, that's the response of a cynic who refuses to believe that sincerity and good intentions are possible. But you are making it clear you don't want to continue the conversation so that's fine.
by muragekibicho | 2025-11-07 16:12:34+00:00
Shameless plug. I run LeetArxiv. It's a successor to papers with code built on the thesis "Every research paper should be a brief blog post with relevant code".

Here's our "Sora's Annotated Diffusion Transformer" writeup (code+paper side-by-side) Link: https://leetarxiv.substack.com/p/the-annotated-diffusion-tra...
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-07 16:12:41+00:00
> If this structure is good at taking down drug kingpins it will be good at tackling human trafficking and other types of organized crime

It was already doing that, though. From this same article:

>> The Reagan-era unit, which comprises hundreds of prosecutors and thousands of intelligence and law enforcement personnel from across the federal government, has long been responsible for dismantling major transnational organized crime networks, drug cartels and human trafficking rings.

> Sounds like a positive change.

What's actually changed is not that it's doing what it used to do (which was not a change because it was already doing it...), it's that it's now being directed towards immigration enforcement as well. To complete the quote after your "...":

>> the group’s remit will be broadened beyond targeting drug cartels to also include immigration enforcement
by oofbey | 2025-11-07 16:12:44+00:00
Nothing unique? Totally disagree.

Unlimited compute resources aren’t literally unique but there are only a small handful of places in the world that have that.

Vast quantities of private data, especially text communications and images. Very few places have that. Coupled with a culture that puts zero privacy protections on that data. Even Google likes to think they’re doing the right thing, so I think that makes Meta unique.
by swiftcoder | 2025-11-07 16:12:51+00:00
> I can choose not to use a social medial platform, it is kind of hard to choose not to drink water/wash/etc.

I don't think that's actually true for WhatsApp in a lot of countries - it's the default communication for many, to the point I'm not sure I could get parcel deliveries reliably here in Spain if I didn't have WhatsApp.

Ditto for communicating with the entire generations who moved onto Facebook after we all abandoned it. I could delete Facebook entirely, but then I'd spend every family gathering hearing the chorus "why aren't you on Facebook? Your cousins are all on Facebook. They all know the family drama" (instead I keep Facebook off the homescreen of my phone, and check it about once a month).
by zahlman | 2025-11-07 16:13:18+00:00
> it still breaks certain unspoken expectations the Boomer generation has about goods and what exactly it is you are buying.

Sigh. I learned from my pre-boomer parents that if the product were any good it wouldn't need to be advertised.

> looked good if you just glanced at it but when you went to look at any particular detail of the shirt it was AI garbage.

To be fair, that was also all over the place before "AI" as currently understood. (And I don't think that previous iterations of machine learning techniques were involved.)
by jaredklewis | 2025-11-07 16:13:25+00:00
I’m continually frustrated by the amount of press the grocery store thing gets. I’m probably against it, though it’s hard to know because there are not clearly outlined policy goals for what the grocery stores would try to accomplish and how. But that’s beside the point. My issue is that a government run grocery stores are one the least remarkable points of Mamdani’s platform. NYC already has a budget shortfall of ~$5bn and he wants to spend billions on free buses, tens of billions on child care, and (IIRC) borrow another $70 billion for housing development.

NYC tax revenues are not growing and even optimistic estimates of the proposed tax increases (which the mayor doesn’t have the power to impose anyway) top out at $8 billion.

This is the epitome of magical thinking. Even with the most optimistic estimates of revenue increases and conservative estimates for the proposed spending, the numbers are miles away from adding up. And we’re talking about some municipal grocery stores? Like even if he really screws it up, the cost is probably only in the hundreds of millions.
by cantor_S_drug | 2025-11-07 16:13:34+00:00
Zuck and Meta are playing the role of Robinhood. They take the money from scammers and advance their philanthrophy.

https://x.com/a16z/status/1986486508355002584

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg on Curing All Disease

We sat down with Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, co-founders of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, to discuss their ambitious plan to cure, prevent, and manage all disease by the end of the century.
by brightball | 2025-11-07 16:14:08+00:00
I've never seen it as that much of a leap. At least half of my work on web applications in my career, especially earlier before SPA's were so popular, revolved around finely tuning the database. In the later parts of my career, it still does because it seems like fewer people want to "deal" with the database internals.

IMO pivoting fully into DB development would be a very natural path, for me at least.
by Telaneo | 2025-11-07 16:14:33+00:00
The goto options that are commonly recommended locally to me both have 40k+ channels, and if that doesn't include damn near every TV channel in existence that's still running, I'd be surprised. I'd imagine the IPTV pirates have no reason to limit the number of channels they can give you access too, since more = better, while trimming it down is just more work for the pirates, and getting access to every channel in the world is apparently not very difficult.

I'd imagine the situation is much the same in other places.
by randycupertino | 2025-11-07 16:14:44+00:00
I'm in a local facebook group for my town where people post hiking pics, bird pics, local business updates, contractor recommendations etc. I am annoyed to see "brain rot" videos starting to take over the page.

There is one dude promoting his succulent repotting/resale business and he's posted like 5-8 ai generated surfer dude monkey surfing and partying with his potted succulents just in the last week. I opened the comments expecting to see other people complaining, "hey buddy take your ai-spam elsewhere" but all the comments were "cute!" "adorable" and "love this!" I just ended up blocking this dude but I am sad for humanity lol.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-07 16:14:46+00:00
Most software flaws would manifest during the design phase, and a crashed application just causes design delays (pushing back bridge opening, but still). The sort of software flaw that would cause the application to not crash, but to mysteriously micalculate some load/shear/whatever limit seems unlikely. You'd almost need a silicon bug, a floating point unit that just totally shits the bed and comes up with a retard result.

That said, I'm in general agreement that the software developers should be as rigorous as the "real" engineers, but that's often just impossible from an office politics standpoint.
by vladms | 2025-11-07 16:14:48+00:00
> We need to start paying for ad-free services. Wake up.

You make it sound like there are no people that pay for ad-free services they find valuable. Or that there are no free ad-free services (ex: WhatsApp).

My feeling is that people know some "services" are not that "valuable" (ex: facebook, instagram, etc.), so they would not pay for them, but, like with drugs, they can't reduce their usage.
by jsight | 2025-11-07 16:15:03+00:00
I think you are describing it pretty well, and I've noticed the same thing. The farther into the future the forecast goes, the higher the probability is that it will look like the historical average.

One thing that I've found to help a lot is to go to weather.gov and look at the "forecast discussion". Often it will help to understand what types of uncertainties exist within the forecast.

It isn't unusual to see notes that make it really clear that 24-48 hour variations are expected, or that massive differences will exist based upon hard to predict variables. "Hey we think it will rain heavily as far south as X, but actually it might end up staying north of Y in which case X will stay dry"

It is easy to see how hard it can be even if the forecast itself turns out to be fairly accurate at a high level.
by strogonoff | 2025-11-07 16:15:12+00:00
I have heard of Nebula and Floatplane. Is Nebula good?

My issue is that in presence of one large player who does it for free competition is already impossible: $2 is twice as much more than $1, but $1 is infinity/NaN times more than $0. It’s one of the many problems with the fact that it is legally allowed.
by isolatedsystem | 2025-11-07 16:15:16+00:00
You'd be surprised. I have to run RHEL at work, with Gnome. No Albert, no Wofi, no Rofi. Fuck all in the repositories. For months I missed typing Alt + Space, typing filename, hitting enter and having it open.

One evening with Claude. Done. Obviously it's not perfect, but man what an amazing thing to be able to do. I'm not even a software developer. LLMs are the new Excel.
by Joker_vD | 2025-11-07 16:15:54+00:00
> However, there’s still one issue: Backup only calls Save, yet the Storage interface includes both Save and Load. If Storage later gains more methods, every fake must grow too, even if those methods aren’t used.

First, why would you ever add methods to a public interface? Second, the next version of the Backup's implementation might very well want to call Load as well (e.g. for deduplication purposes) and then you suddenly need to add more methods to your fakes anyhow.

In the end, it really depends on who owns FileStorage and Backup: if it's the same team/person, the ISP is immaterial. If they are different, then yes, the owner of Backup() would be better served by declaring a Storage interface of their own and delegate the job of writing adapters that make e.g. FileStorage to conform to it to the users of Backup() method.
by mikewarot | 2025-11-07 16:15:56+00:00
Electrical Engineering - The user sees an outlet, plugs in a lamp, and it works. If the lamp contains a short, the circuit breaker trips, everything else remains safe.

Behind the scenes, a power grid, with protection every step of the way, all the way down to a home. If something goes wrong with a load, the circuit disconnects, protecting the wiring in the home, the user (in the case of ground faults), and in most cases, the load itself.

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Software "Engineering" - The user installs a program. They then run the program, Any bug can result in permanent ingress of control, exfiltration of data (bank accounts, email, personal information, etc), and the computer can be made permanently unsafe.

All the authority of the user is supplied to every program they run. There are no equivalents to the protection system of the power grid, or circuit breakers. It's all patchwork fixes in layers of accumulated cruft.

Real engineered solutions are possible. It's possible to make systems as user friendly and productive as we're used to, while keeping things safe.
by hollerith | 2025-11-07 16:16:00+00:00
One of the causes of the bias is that decision-makers in the media organizations preferentially hired those that shared their ideological commitment. This is easier in fields where a worker cannot prevent his or her ideological commitment (or lack thereof) from showing in his or her work product. Besides journalism, other fields with this property are the social-science and humanities departments of universities, which is why those fields were captured by Leftist many decades ago whereas other fields were captured only much more recently.

One department of the social sciences has resisted capture by Leftists, at least in the US, at least the last time I looked, namely economics. One could argue that that is because it was captured first by liberal or libertarian ideologues.

This comment is restricted to the US and Britain because those are the only 2 societies I know well enough for my observations to have any value. Also, the OP is about American teenagers specifically.
by galangalalgol | 2025-11-07 16:16:23+00:00
You are right! As of 5.1.1 at least it catches the cross domain access I was using to smash things. From what I am reading it sounds like it didn't work in 5.1 I could go try it in godbolt to find out when it was fixed, but I kind of don't care. Very exciting, I like ocaml and was lamenting the changes.
by estebank | 2025-11-07 16:16:38+00:00
I guess the confusion happens because MIR: the representation, mir: the stage, stable MIR: the potential future API interface for hooking into the compiler stage, and miri: the MIR interpreter all share pretty much the same name. Const evaluation uses MIR and that's the most likely culprit. Miri is an interpreter (as you found out on your own now), and it is not meant for use in production workloads due to the slowdown it introduces, so it limits its use to use in test suites and during debugging.

From my understanding Fil-C is an LLVM operation, so it should be possible to build integration to have a Fil-Rust binary that is slower but gives you some of the benefits of miri. I see value in doing something like that. There are plenty of other languages that would be well served by this too!
by bobchadwick | 2025-11-07 16:17:17+00:00
Huh, I have the entire second story of my house outfitted with FYRTUR shades and the only one that sometimes gives me problems is the one that crashed to the floor when the 3M tape holding it up failed. (Don't get me started on Andersen windows having no way to secure inside-mount shades without voiding your warranty.) That one seems to eat through its battery far more quickly that the others. All the rest of the ten or so shades work flawlessly with ZHA in Home Assistant.
by infecto | 2025-11-07 16:17:31+00:00
Please don’t start drama where nothing exists. You were confused and I pointed out that 1) I believe we are talking about promoted, which is paid, videos not the recommendation engine. These of course are not purely ads but are paid for. And 2) that these chum style ads and promoted videos have a much higher prevalence with folks that block tracker where user profiles have not been built. It’s the chum ads of the video world.

I am simply asking what is the point of the response to my comment. Ads of all degree exist but these scams do exist in a pretty large % of the ads shown but perhaps much lower dollar value since they get shown to profiles without a tangible viewer model.

Next time, instead of using inflammatory language please just slow down and reread or have a more thoughtful discussion. Thanks.
by lubujackson | 2025-11-07 16:18:13+00:00
I thought this was obvious? These are social games where everyone is in the same funnel and the players with the most time dominate others... but also need new objectives. At the beginning you quest with people your level, but they always, always devolve into bigger, more tedious tasks (raids) that have less and less differentiated rewards (1% chance of a drop that boosts you 2%) because otherwise you have players at level 283 and there is no way to balance team dynamics as some people scale infinitely.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-07 16:18:22+00:00
"AI" absolutely contributes to brain rot. Google "AI" is just a status quo propagandist that makes things up, misunderstands questions and berates the "user" if the "user" dares to contradict. It is worse than any legacy media. It also weaves in how awesome "AI" is and how the "user" should treat "AI" with respect, preferably like a human.

You should definitely keep minors away from this dangerous brainwashing.

Even better "AI"s lead to outsourcing of thought, search capabilities, speed reading and critical reflection.
by yread | 2025-11-07 16:18:27+00:00
I use New Relic and I'm not sure I would recommend it. Sure it was easy to install on all the server but now I keep getting alerts every months (on like the 2nd day) that I ran out of some "quota" of 100GB. I thought that's impossible as I almost don't use it but apparently they (used to) send by default list of running processes every second and that gunks things up.

Also I setup alerts - for >50% CPU or >90% disk full. I do get an alert but it doesn't say which volume or how full is it - what was the actual value that triggered sending the alert. WTF.
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-07 16:19:06+00:00
> Any definition of engineering which excludes the Wright brothers and James Watt, who _invented the machine that gives the field it's name_ is a fairly poor definition. If you're creating something in a poorly understood situation by applying rules of thumb, you're doing engineering.

You seem to be implying that the Wright brothers built planes based on rules of thumb. They built scale models and a wind tunnel precisely so they could measure and design their plane more effectively.
by baby | 2025-11-07 16:19:22+00:00
I wrote the OCamlByExample and I can only say, good luck, I don't think OCaml is ready for production, and it's generally not a very user-friendly language, but IMO it's all about having fun first and if this is what makes it fun for you guys then you should do it!

Also with LLMs it's probably easier to just feed the compiler errors to an LLM and get something readable at the end.
by strogonoff | 2025-11-07 16:19:55+00:00
Not enough people would demand it for it to be actionable, and not having to pay is part of the reason. Why would we spend effort on actively demanding things when we are spending not a cent on this in the first place, and can instead passively-aggressively deploy adblockers while waiting for the next iteration of this arms race (which something makes me think might involve LLMs)?
by rekabis | 2025-11-07 16:20:18+00:00
This is the first time I have ever heard the term “database developer” to mean a developer of the database internals, of the database engine itself.

Every other use I have ever come across has meant the development of the databases themselves, the file in which data is stored in a relational (and recently, non-relational) manner.

Because when we talk about “a database”, we are almost never talking about the engine that works with one, we’re talking about the file that holds all the data. The former is invariably called a “database server”.

Wouldn’t a much more accurate and subject-separate term have been “database engine developer” or “database server developer”? That alone, I think, could have reduced or even eliminated a lot of confusion.

And no, not a newb: working with computers since 1982, on the Internet since 1988, on the web since 1992, and in the IT industry since 1997. In the English-speaking world, too.
by dangus | 2025-11-07 16:20:18+00:00
I completely agree with you, it’s scarily easy to inflate your lifestyle or even not inflate it that much and just spend inefficiently.

Still, it might be worth keeping in mind that W2 salaried upper middle class is the highest taxed segment of the US population. People who make more by owning companies and assets are taxed less, people who make less are taxed less.

If you spent those 10 years paying for daycare, paying for after school programs, saving for your kids’ college (because you expect to pay nearly full price due to your income), and making other logically sound luxury spending decisions like eating fresh healthy foods rather than survival staples or taking a vacation because you only live once, I can see how you can end up with not quite enough savings.

Or you might have a runway but you know it is really unwise to spend it, which ends up effectively making you functionally destitute by choice.
by vladms | 2025-11-07 16:20:26+00:00
> Where would my word be heard?

You do realize that we are on a platform without ads where your word is heard, so it still is possible.

And before "social media" there were plenty of free forums (each with a certain main topic, but in which people were discussing occasionally more than that), so it was not that bad. And in fact that continues today (ex: this one), with more relevant discussions in my opinion than what I glimpse from my occasional social media incursions.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-07 16:21:07+00:00
I thought traditional Indian pedagogy was heavily criticized for being heavily based on rote memorization over conceptual understanding or problem solving. And also being heavily hierarchical and exam-oriented.

This isn't to say engineering programs in the US can't be improved, but there seems to be widespread consensus that they don't suffer from the kinds of serious problems that ones in India commonly do.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-11-07 16:21:56+00:00
> It's not a database, it's just files. And they are hosted by Cloudflare so they can cope with a lot of downloads.

Database: a usually large collection of data organized especially for rapid search and retrieval (as by a computer) [1]

It is a database. Stop nitpicking.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/database
Show HN: Typefaster – A typing test where you race against your own avg speed
by saidin | 2025-11-07 16:22:19+00:00
I built Typefaster with a feature I haven't seen in other typing tests: a visual pacer that shows where you'd be if you were typing at your average speed (based on your last 5 tests).

It's like racing a "ghost" version of yourself in video games — the pacer underlines the word you should be at, so you can see in real time whether you're ahead or behind your typical pace. Makes practice much more engaging than just watching a WPM counter tick up.

Other details:

- Real-time metrics (live WPM, backspace counter)

- Progress charts showing improvement over time

- Word-level error tracking to find your weak spots

- Practice mode built from your actual problem words

- All data stored locally (no backend)

Tech: Astro + Vue/TypeScript + Chart.js (pure client-side).

Try it: https://typefaster.net

Would love feedback or ideas for what to add next.