MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 47282847 | 2025-11-05 12:49:12+00:00
This is not my experience.

I know people from different walks of life, some severely mentally disabled (Down syndrome etc) that are the most open and cheerful, to millionaires that are stuck in continuous streams of unhappiness and negativity.

Most people one would consider “intelligent“ with university degrees and such I know seem stuck in unhappy relationships and work and negative stress, worried about big and complex topics such as climate change and politics, people one would consider “dumb“ or “plain“ that work as cleaning staff or at supermarkets and such that are fairly happy living their simple lives. They think they are too stupid anyway to understand politics so why even bother with things like that. They’re not chasing personal/career “growth“ and achieving “more“ every day. Those with money can afford luxury goods but it doesn’t seem to make them feel more content that some that get the leftover foods from foodsharing networks. And yes, maybe a factor are things like fairly functional universal healthcare in this country, in terms of basic needs and security.

I know homeless people and also they seem generally happier than, say, the doctors I know. A few cans of beer a day and not-shittiest weather are totally sufficient to make them enjoy the day. They have no bosses that they need to report to, no alarm clocks, no calendar. I may not want to trade places with the “dumb“ or “poor“ but I don’t use my own judgment of their lives to determine if they are okay, I let them speak their own. Yes, I see them make decisions that I consider to be at least suboptimal given their situation, but that is my problem, not theirs.

The homeless/unemployed I know have a strong support network, meet up every day with maybe a dozen equals, very simple interactions, nobody intelligent enough to majorly fuck the other over. And why, if there’s nothing to gain from that. Their problems are simple, day to day, nothing too complex. The millionaires I know have to deal with highly “intelligent“ manipulative people every day, and deal with all sorts of complex bullshit, which understandably can be very exhausting, especially if there is no end in sight. It will go on like that for the rest of their lives. And on top of that unfortunately they are intelligent enough to see that.
by matltc | 2025-11-05 12:49:31+00:00
Thanks for this. Trying to follow along but modern compilers and cpus seem to modify the disassembly in a way that makes it tough to follow along. Tried throwing a bunch of flags at gcc but still getting some diffs. Had this issue when I was working with an older C book as well.

Maybe Godbolt has some way to emulate this better
by sigmoid10 | 2025-11-05 12:49:43+00:00
>How often are these people at war?

More often than people like you realise apparently. But it's not really your fault. If you only consume western news, you might believe that Ukraine or Israel are the worst wars of our time. But that's only because western news doesn't really report on the current situation in Sudan at all, despite it being much, much worse than anything else that's been going on in the world recently.
by vincentchu | 2025-11-05 12:49:55+00:00
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by Paleontologist | 2025-11-05 12:50:08+00:00
love this. going where others aren't looking is the key

actually working on something similar - tracking fresh funding rounds and then scraping those companies' career pages. they hire fast after raising, I'm sure.

tricky part is identifying which ones actually use PHP without burning time on every startup. your CL+RSS approach was way cleaner

might just add craigslist to the scrapers, bet there's still gold there
by brabel | 2025-11-05 12:50:10+00:00
Common Lisp is not a runtime, it’s a specification. Implementations are free to compile everything to fast native code, or to interpret everything. Various available implementations do that and everything in between. That said , SBCL and the commercial implementations can be extremely fast, especially if you specify types on tight loops. SBCL comes with a disassembler that shows you right in the REPL the Assembly a function compiles to so you can even get close to C performance.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-11-05 12:50:19+00:00
I agree with you (I have a 32G M2Pro) and I like to mix using local models running with Ollama and LM Studio with using gemini-cli (used to also occasionally use codex but I just cancelled my $20/month OpenAI subscription - I like their products but I don’t like their business model, so I lose out now on that option).

Running smaller models on Apple Silicon is kinder on the environment/energy use and has privacy benefits for corporate use.

Using a hybrid approach makes sense for many use cases. Everyone gets to make their own decisions; for me, I like to factor in externalities like social benefit, environment, and wanting the economy to do as well as it can in our new post-mono polar world.
by tomhow | 2025-11-05 12:50:53+00:00
Previously:

The Hacker’s Manifesto (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346387 - Oct 2019 (128 comments)

The Hacker's Manifesto (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520964 - July 2010 (16 comments)

The Hacker’s Manifesto (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=178686 - May 2008 (5 comments)
by sim7c00 | 2025-11-05 12:51:02+00:00
its super weird to me this isn't a thing, and there's resistence to the idea. I mean, if they are already masters at glacing at 100000 differnent indicators and warning messages etc. and processing them at super speeds (they really do!) then i'd say a monitor with a bunch of buttons below it to switch feeds (maybe a little more elaborate, but not tooo...) would be helpful.

the problem might be getting trained and experienced pilots to adjust to it since they are already in a certain flow of habits and skills to apply in their job, but new pilots surely could learn it as they aren't so set on their ways yet and have the opportunity to build this new data into their skillset / habits.
by vel0city | 2025-11-05 12:51:22+00:00
What you might not be considering is they didn't need a $60k+ oversized truck to go commute to their office job or a massive $70k 3-row SUV just because they have one kid now. That's the other side of my comment.

Not only do people tend to ignore (or even actively vote against) cheaper options they tend to then massively overbuy their more expensive form of transportation, at least if what they cared about was cost.

But it's not about cost. It's about comfort, style, lifestyle image projection, personal enjoyment, and more. Cost barely figures into it for so many.

If I were to ask the people I know "how much do you spend on transportation monthly on average", most probably wouldn't come close to having an answer. Many might be able to say their car payment. I doubt many would come close to factor in all the rest of their costs. It's crazy to me to see people balk at a $3 train fare to go into the city, "that's expensive!". Then when we calculate the cost for them to drive their oversized truck into town and back it's more expensive.
Show HN: DispatchGame Companion – Handy Tools for the Roblox Title
by aishu001 | 2025-11-05 12:51:57+00:00
Built https://dispatchgame.app/ for DispatchGame players tired of scattered tips—no sign-ups, just useful stuff: Mission walkthroughs (nail tricky objectives fast). Unit/loadout guides (optimize setups for progression). Fresh in-game event breakdowns (updated for this week’s challenges). Made by a fellow player—feedback on adding stats trackers or team comp tips?
by Hackbraten | 2025-11-05 12:52:08+00:00
The only thing the browser extension does for me is redirect me to an “Interactive challenge“ page, which in turn contains another “Verify if you are human” checkbox, which fails just like the one on the original page.

Edit: works now that I have CloudFlare’s add-on installed and also the user-agent-spoofing add-on disabled. Thanks!
by immibis | 2025-11-05 12:52:16+00:00
If anyone's curious about the ballpark cost, a carrier-owned (?) DC near me that publishes prices (most don't) advertises a full rack for 650€ per month, including internet @ 20TB/month @ 1 Gbps, and 1kW power.

Though both of which are probably less than you'd need if you needed a full of rack of space, which I assume is part of the reason that pricing is almost always "contact us". I did not bother getting a quote just for the purpose of this comment. But another thing that people need to be less afraid of, when they're looking to actually spend a few digits of money and not just comment about it, is asking for quotes.
by jijijijij | 2025-11-05 12:52:24+00:00
Dude, I am European. I only watch what's been forced onto me. But yes, I've listened to a few long form interviews as a challenge to myself. Not all of it, because it's unbearable deflective and unorganized, honestly. The longer he speaks the worse it gets.

I mean, even his supporters are constantly trying to "decipher" his messaging. He is constantly failing to recite basic facts correctly, and I don't mean the general lies, but you know stuff like basic geography/history knowledge and stuff. He doesn't come off as primary education pilled.

But sure, it's all fake news. He'll make the US great again and all. Any day now.

I wonder if you would challenge yourself the same with Mamdani or Obama, or somewhat unrelated: Hunter Biden.....
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-05 12:52:32+00:00
At one point there was the ASUS ProArt PQ22UC, but I don't think that panel was produced after that stopped selling.

If you go slightly bigger, there are the ASUS ProArt PA24US, Japannext JN-IPS2380UHDR-C65W-HSP, ViewSonic VP2488-4K, AG Neovo EM2451, and the UPerfect UColor T3.
Show HN: LogSieve – A Client-Side Log Viewer (No Back End, No Build Step)
by ilovetux | 2025-11-05 12:52:38+00:00
I built LogSieve as a small experiment: Can I build a small, completely client side application to parse and visualize logs.

It turns out the answer is Yes.

Drag and drop a .log or .txt file into the page, and it parses, filters, and visualizes entirely in your browser — no server, no upload, no dependencies. It supports text and regex filters, named-group field extraction, sorting, summary stats, and JSON/CSV export.

You can open it directly on GitHub Pages or just clone the repo and double-click it. Source: https://github.com/notesofcliff/logsieve

Built as a "one-problem" weekend project — it’s basically "just" 900 lines of HTML, CSS, and JS.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-05 12:52:50+00:00
I would assume any added latency is negligible -- the sensors + interpretation + rendering should be very fast.

But you've still got all the network latency including Wi-Fi latency on both ends. And you always need a small audio buffer so discrete network packets can be assembled into continuous audio without gaps.

So I wouldn't expect this latency to be any different from regular videoconferencing.
by disruptiveink | 2025-11-05 12:53:16+00:00
Cat's out of the bag there already. We all have general purpose computing devices in our pockets, locked down on purpose. Android used to allow you to gain admin rights but it's been getting more and more impossible to do so while still keeping most of your programs working. It's not only a cat-and-mouse game against "rooting detection" SDKs companies licence and plug into their apps out of a misguided duty of care, but it's especially bad with anything that uses Google's remote attestation lately.

Android is also about to lock down "sideloading", another "great" dysphemism for "installing software".

Moving the Overton window on this has been so successful, that even people in our industry happily accepted the much maligned dysphemisms of "jailbreaking" and "rooting" for what used to be called "local admin rights" and look upon such access as if it's only something pirates, criminals or malware spreaders would want to do.

I say this as someone who is running an Android phone with a kernel with some backported patches applied and compiled by myself. The fact that I can do it is great. The fact that the entire industry is trying to make it as frustrating as possible for me to do this under the guise of false premises such as "security" is disheartening.
by jackjeff | 2025-11-05 12:53:38+00:00
The article has a very long list of alleged Israeli violations of international law and human rights. Here's a quick summary.

Genocide in Gaza. It is described as a "genocidal campaign" implying systematic targeting of a national, ethnic, or religious group, prohibited under the 1948 Genocide Convention. This is what the ICC is investigating now.

War Crimes:

- Killing of Palestinian civilians, including children and families.

- Killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a violation of the Geneva Conventions protecting civilians and journalists in conflict zones.

- Destruction of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, possibly constituting collective punishment or unlawful destruction of property under the Fourth Geneva Convention.

- Intentionally starving civilians by blocking humanitarian aid into Gaza, explicitly prohibited under Article 54 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions and cited in ICC arrest warrants for Israeli officials.

- Torture of Palestinian detainees by Israeli forces, a violation of the UN Convention Against Torture.

The article also alleges complicity from the US authorities and corporations (YouTube, Google, MailChimp).
by estimator7292 | 2025-11-05 12:53:52+00:00
Dominant and successful, yes. Monopoly, no.

It take more than simply being the best or most successful business in a sector to be a monopoly. Being a monopoly is an active choice you make as a business by intentionally engaging in anticompetitive behaviors.

Valve isn't putting any pressure on anyone in this sector. There is still competition, but Valve has simply been more successful than everyone else. Mainly because the alternatives are so, so much worse like EA and co who are actively malicious and predatory.

Valve hasn't done anything to pass an antitrust sniff test.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-11-05 12:54:34+00:00
Not only was it a bubble but we actually had the internet. We didn't have to use our imaginations and build for the technology yet to be invented and we still had a massive damaging bubble.

Even beyond that, the Soviet Union had just collapsed. The US had a balanced budget and 10X less debt. Globalization was just getting started. China was nothing compared to what it was today. It was the absolute most stable time of my life. Basically the opposite of 2025.

"This time things are different because AI blah blah blah".

When you boil it down, all bubbles are based around the idea of using your imagination to image how "this time it is different".

The people who don't think this is a bubble are not seeing that their imagination is a bug and not a feature here.
by didgeoridoo | 2025-11-05 12:54:39+00:00
We recently made a fairly large donation to a children’s hospital to support a specific research program. They directly told us that the highest-impact way to deploy the funds would be to pay lobbyists to try to get earmarks injected into federal bills. Like, >10x expected ROI.

Not all lobbying is straight-up mustache twirling. But it definitely left a bad taste in our mouths.
by jonstewart | 2025-11-05 12:54:46+00:00
In C++ there’s the Boost Interval Container Library, which has an excellent API: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/libs/icl/doc/html/inde...

Unfortunately it’s implemented on top of std::set/std::map and I’ve had problems with heap blow up on large maps. This project looks like it uses 32 bit indices into a vector for backing store.
by hliyan | 2025-11-05 12:54:50+00:00
I wonder if the future should simply be a cloud version of a personal computer. Rather than subscribing to a lot of SaaS where your data distributed across various platforms, you "purchase" a cloud computer (could be a tiny SOC + disk, or a VM), install software on it (licensed, not subscription based), and store all your data on it, as good old-fashioned files only you and your programs can access. Including your video library, part of which you can choose to expose to the outside world through a public IP. When your cloud PC needs more memory or CPU, you upgrade, just like you do your physical device.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-05 12:55:08+00:00
There are a few displays like that, although quality will differ on your criteria of course. Many of them are marketed as "portable monitors", some specced for gaming, others for artists, some built to be cheap.

ASUS ProArt PA169CDV, UPerfect 184T01, Lipa AX-60 (and AX-60T), UPerfect UFilm A17, UPerfect UGame J5, and two portable screens by Verbatim, just to name a few.
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-05 12:55:17+00:00
> Me and a friend were just chatting how annoying it is monitors stalled out at 4K. I think I got my first set of 4k monitors ~15 years ago (!) and there's been no improvements since then apart from high end pro monitors resolution wise.

Multiple reasons.

The first one being yield - yes you can get 8K screens, but the larger they get, the more difficult it is to cut a panel with an acceptably low rate of dead/stuck pixels out of a giant piece of glass. Dead pixels are one thing and bad enough, but stuck-bright pixels ruin the entire panel because they will be noticeable in any dark-ish movie or game scene. That makes them really darn expensive.

The second reason is the processing power required to render the video signal to the screen, aka display controllers. Even if you "just" take regular 8 bit RGB - each frame takes up 33 million pixels, so 796.262.400 bits. Per frame. Per second? Even at just 30 FPS, you're talking about 23.887.872.000 bits per second - 23 gigabits/s. It takes an awful, awful lot of processing power just to shuffle that data from the link SerDes around to all the control lines and to make sure they all switch their individual pixels at the very same time.

The third is transferring all the data. Even if you use compression and sub-sampling, you still need to compress and sub-sample the framebuffer on the GPU side, transfer up to 48 GBit/s (HDMI 2.3) or 77 GBit/s (DP 2.1) of data, and then uncompress it on the display side. If it's HDCP-encrypted, you need to account for that as well - encrypting and decrypting at such line speeds used to be unthinkable even two decades ago. The fact that the physical transfer layer is capable of delivering such data rates over many meters of copper cable of varying quality is nothing short of amazing anyway.

And the fourth is generating all the data. You need absurdly high definition textures, which requires lots of VRAM, lots of regular RAM, lots of disk I/O, lots of disk storage (your average AAA game is well beyond 100GB of data at-rest for a reason!), and then render power to actually render the scene. 8K has 16x (!) the pixels of regular FullHD (1080p).

What's stopping further progress? Other than yield and simple physics (similar to microchips, the finer the structures get the more difficult and expensive it is to make them), the most pressing issue is human visual acuity - even a human with very good vision can only make useful sense of about 74 of the theoretical 576 megapixels [1]. As we already established, 8K is at 33-ish megapixels, so the usual quadratic increase would already be far too detailed for 99.999% of humans to perceive.

Yes, you could go for intermediate sizes. 5K, 6K, weird aspect ratios, whatever - but as soon as you go there, you'll run into issues with video content because it can't be up- or downscaled to such intermediates without a perceptible loss in quality and, again, a lot of processing power.

[1] https://clarkvision.com/articles/eye-resolution.html
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-11-05 12:55:34+00:00
I watched the video, but may have missed this, but shouldn't the testing have shown that the powder was substantially better?

Or did they not test the "putting some powder into the prewash" thing and so it was just "powder released all at once" vs "tablet released all at once".

Even there I'd expect some mild improvement from the powder mixing more easily than a plastic wrapped tablet (though maybe if the content inside is liquid this factor is reversed?).

Does this mean the big corps do have some chemical advantage that cancels out the crappy delivery mechanism?

Or does it mean that a mechanical spray prewash step isn't meaningfully improved by chemicals in most circumstances?

I was more alarmed by the wrappers being plastic. I had assumed they were some clever biodegradable thing but they're not.
Show HN: Clash Royale Wordle – 4 Fun Modes to Guess Cards
by linkshu | 2025-11-05 12:55:52+00:00
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by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-05 12:56:09+00:00
You are massively downplaying the scale of the attack. Iran sent hundreds of missiles in a go. They had something like 1500 launchers so that was a major portion of their capabilities. Perhaps everything they could muster.

By the end the attacks tailed off, because they simply ran out of launchers and missiles. True their strikes got more successful as they started avoiding central israel, but it was more like a 5% hit rate instead of 1%.

At the end of the day the attacks led to a couple of dozen deaths instead of the predicted 500 to 2000. Irans entire command structure had been battered and they were desperate for an exit, even though it's true that Israel would have been unable to sustain the war for too much longer. In the end israel was able to shrug off everything that Iran could throw at it, at the same time as severely degrading their capabilities. I think a more accurate conclusions is that you need to combine air defence with intelligence and offense in order for it to work.

That 70% figure sounds wrong. I've seen wildly different numbers online. One thing is certain that hundreds of interceptors were fired. I would be surprised if just 2 thaad systems did the lions share of the work. That certainly doesn't match up to the claims of the IDF, and if it was true the Americans wouldn't stop boasting about it.