MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by winlundn | 2025-11-12 23:47:53+00:00
Oh yes, it /is/ the f!@#ing hardware. The core FreeBSD developers have taken their sweet time to add support for WiFi on anything IoT running FreeBSD. In other words — FreeBSD's core developers usually will not listen to users asking for such things unless maximum pressure gets applied in every separate instance. Disclaimer: I'm not a FreeBSD user. Apart from the halfway decent distros which use FreeBSD as their core OS, the FreeBSD developers in charge of FreeBSD itself will not add a GUI installer for some old school reason that really, only they would know of. One issue coming directly from this constraint is that if you run BSD through a VM — either on Linux or Windows it is rather difficult if not impossible to get past 1024 x 768 resolution without going through some major hoops. FreeBSD does not do a thorough job supporting VirtualBox instances, generally speaking. BSD is meant more for the back-end "bare metal" servers.
by Jordan-117 | 2025-11-12 23:48:09+00:00
As in "lacks running water," meaning you have to dispose of a building's worth of piss and shit at street level multiple times per day. And if it's a residential building, that means no water for bathing, cooking, drinking, etc. (You could ship in thousands of gallon jugs per day, but that's a logistical nightmare.)

Like a world without elevators, urban life without plumbing very quickly becomes unsustainable in buildings above a certain size.
by alwillis | 2025-11-12 23:48:13+00:00
> Most people I know are not installing too many casks

I did a wipe and install of Tahoe like 2–3 weeks ago and used a Brewfile [1] I've had for years to install ~30 casks via Homebrew, including from the App Store, not to mention 50-60 formulas.

As of today, I have 44 casks.

[1]: https://docs.brew.sh/Brew-Bundle-and-Brewfile
by gausswho | 2025-11-12 23:49:01+00:00
Syncthing could do that, if the software is designed to store locally.

Ever since I put the effort into Syncthing across my all devices (paired with restic on one of them for backup), I can't help but see how cross-device functionality and cloud this are the Sysco hash potatoes that balloons Big Corp services' profit margins.

Not saying it's easy to set up. But when you get there it's so liberating and you wish all software was bring-your-own-network.
by skeaker | 2025-11-12 23:49:33+00:00
Monochrome is rough, but I think pixel count is a few orders of magnitude less important than being able to actually use the damn thing. The Vision Pro has been out for over a year and I haven't seen a single notable application that takes advantage of the hardware, and it seems that that's largely in part due to it being nigh impossible to develop and run software on it.
by gerdesj | 2025-11-12 23:49:49+00:00
Wifi isn't quite solved on any platform. It is also quite hard to decide what solved really looks like!

My wife and I have identical HP laptops. Her's runs Arch (as you do), with KDE and mine runs Kubuntu 25.10 at the mo. Both use NetworkManager.

I look after both.

Randomly after wake up from suspend, wifi may or may not still be working. When I say random, I mean after a kernel update or the wind changes direction. I think wifies lappy is OK now because I seem to get a lot less "support" calls for the last few weeks.

To be fair, there are a lot of moving parts from a lot of bits of Linux involved in a modern distro these days.

When I say hard to decide what solved looks like: if Samba or SSSD crap out, is that wifi's fault or the kernel/driver? This is exactly what Windows has had to solve over the years and I do note things like credential managers and mounts that manage to survive disconnects being bolted on to Linux.

All that scrappy stuff needs to be passed on to the BSDs too. Getting a laptop with file systems that come and go, with a dickey clock tick and networking that comes and goes and VPNs and all the rest.

Getting all of that to work is quite a job.
by toast0 | 2025-11-12 23:51:08+00:00
The sysctls affect all non-root users. If you have them set, you have to do all the admin work as root.

If you have them unset, you can login to the server as you, see what your service user is up to, and only have to do interventions as the service user or root depending.

If you don't want your service to see what else is going on on the server, you can put it in a jail and not allow jailed processes to see out; not a bad idea to do that anyway, although it does mean starting the service needs root when it likely wouldn't otherwise (you can drop the high priviledged port to 79 and then your service can listen on port 80 without root)
by colechristensen | 2025-11-12 23:51:21+00:00
In the world of LLMs the new version of "open source" is LLM makers using prompts which are then used in training leaking your code into the next version of the model therefore distributing your code for "free" minus your payments to the LLM maker.

It's probably a good thing because far from your "secret sauce" so much programming work is companies doing the same very boring things over and over connecting pipes together and making extremely similar design decisions for mundane tasks.
by zbentley | 2025-11-12 23:51:47+00:00
Eh, you may be right, but there's a big difference between "they are going to forbid other OSes by placing a software restriction where they explicitly permit things now" and "they already effectively forbid other OSes by not publishing developer documentation for proprietary hardware"--that's a tall order, and not a bar that many other hardware manufacturers meet either.

Like, could they lock down the bootloader? Sure. But that's effort they'd have to put in for minimal benefit at the moment. Opening up their hardware would be a lot more effort for questionable benefits (to Apple).
by quiet35 | 2025-11-12 23:51:56+00:00
First, let me clarify that by no means I am defending Maestro Technology here, scammers should receive much more than just some bad publicity. But the quote from the article looks a little overdramatizing: "This is particularly disturbing because the intended duty cycle of these parts is intensive and we'd probably burn through the remaining writes on these SSDs in _less than two years._"

Let's calculate: DWPD for the D3-S4510 is 2, giving TBW = 2.84*2(DWPD)*365(days)*5(years) = 10366 TB, or around 10^10 MiB (9885787963 exactly). SMART attribute NAND writes tells 3068104*32 MiB written, which is around 10^8 MiB (98179328 exactly). So, there is 99% of the drive's resource still left, if we are talking about flash wear.

The second drive's NAND writes attribute is 356474, which is 11% of that of the first drive. And it's D3-S4610, which DWPD is 3, so the writes barely scratched the surface.

Again, I am not liking scammers who sell used drives a single bit, the overall situation is getting worse, it's way harder now to buy new genuine disk drives (and electronics in general). But let's just be honest, this particular case is not bad, rsync.net got lucky.
by 0x457 | 2025-11-12 23:52:03+00:00
> If you want fast WIFI today

Fast still means beyond 802.11g? (11n support is incomplete, last time I checked)

Because there is no corporate sponsor that needs good Wi-Fi drivers on FreeBSD, I doubt it will ever be better. I guess Sony, but it's all custom for them. I doubt there is anything to contribute back, even if Sony was open to that idea.
by tshaddox | 2025-11-12 23:52:59+00:00
HDCP is how modern digital displays (and digital display recorders) do it.

You might be thinking of Macrovision, which was integrated in a lot of DVD players and would embed pulses into the vertical blanking interval of the analogy video output. These pulses could be detected by compliant DVD recorders and used to refuse recording. The pulses would also cause playback defects in some older VCRs and TVs.

I remember connecting my first DVD player to an old TV via a VCR (effectively using the VCR as an RF modulator) and being plagued with the image brightness constantly lowering and rising. At the time, I fixed this by switching to a dedicated RF modulator. I now suspect Macrovision is what caused this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_Protection_System
by mkl | 2025-11-12 23:53:01+00:00
> Anthropic just borrowed 133 billion dollars from different investors in September

13 billion, not 133, and it was VC investment, not a loan: https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropics-valuation-more-t...

Anthropic didn't give a time frame for that $50 billion spend, but it's probably more realistic than OpenAI's $1.4 trillion spending plan.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-12 23:53:02+00:00
Open means open. Plenty of people make money in the open culture in way less obnoxious ways than NYT. What NYT does is crapping at the place where I am, but building a wall and charging for passage to a place that does stink little bit less. I don't mind them having such place, or even charging for access. What I mind is making mine actively worse. Do whatever you want and charge however much you want. But for the love of God don't advertise in my face using free space that I inhabit. My attention costs way more than your content. Don't be surprised that when you do I will disregard completely your wishful thinking about payment.

What I need is one checkbox in Google ecosystem (and/or my browser) that says "Never show links to paywalled content". Give me that and all my beef with NYT and similar garbage factories is gone in a blink of an eye.
by yndoendo | 2025-11-12 23:53:41+00:00
You are correct that Win / Windows and Super are the more common name for the key. KDE actually calls this key Meta. [0] [1]

[0] https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/khelpcenter/fundamentals/kbd...

[1] https://tutorialtactic.com/blog/kde-plasma-desktop-shortcuts...
by fracus | 2025-11-12 23:54:18+00:00
I've been using Linux instead of Windows for over a decade now. If Linux exploded in popularity I would be afraid enshitification and monetization would kick in super quickly. FOSS can't dominate the market. The market won't allow it. They will find a way to exploit it. This is just a fear based on generalizations. Perhaps it is misguided.
by johnea | 2025-11-12 23:54:28+00:00
I just find this whole thing so frikin' hilarious!

"virtual children"? WTF is that even?

Is it sort of like playing with barbie? except you don't even have the barbie doll?

Any people able to participate in this delusion, are children, regardless of age.

The lost in cyberspace adult-age children are setting themselves up for the greatest consumer exploitation ever experienced in human history...
by emilevauge | 2025-11-12 23:55:21+00:00
We have been building an ingress Nginx compatibility layer in Traefik that supports the most used ingress Nginx annotations. You should definitely give it a try as it makes Traefik a drop-in replacement to ingress Nginx, without touching your existing ingress resources. Your feedback will be super useful to make it better

https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/master/reference/routing-conf...
by fragmede | 2025-11-12 23:55:23+00:00
It's not a question of being technical enough. It's actually a question of being too technical. You're here, which for me garners youa base level of respect if only because I've had the creators of certain subjects of discussion have responded directly to me grousing here.

Because you're technical, the iOS restriction that code must be signed seems insurmountable, because it is. But if you know less about computers, you'd find bitrig or swift playgrounds or Pythonista. And knowing even less, you get into building web apps. For what people want to do and create; they don't know frontend from backend and are just getting their feet wet, a phone does alright.

Could it better at it? Absolutely, no question about that! But so could everything else in life. It depends on where on the spectrum you exist, A laptop is better than a phone for writing code for a lot of reasons, but when we're looking at the bigger picture, a phone is better than nothing.
by SparkBomb | 2025-11-12 23:56:08+00:00
Retroarch is already on Steam as well as other emulators.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1118310/RetroArch/

Even if you didn't want to use the Steam versions. Steam OS is essentially a customised Arch Linux and you can install stuff as you would on other Linux distros e.g. via packages and flathub. Basically it is a regular computer underneath. That is why I am very excited about this Steam box.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-install-ext...
by kragen | 2025-11-12 23:56:09+00:00
The piss and shit problem is real, but not nearly as bad as you're imagining; I've written a bit based on my extensive shit-related experience and shit-related human history in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45908441.

Burning Man recommends 6 liters of water per day per person for bathing, cooking, drinking, etc.: https://burningman.org/event/preparation/playa-living/water/ But that can generally be cut in half when you're anywhere other than one of the world's driest deserts in the middle of summer. This means you need to bring in your own weight in water roughly once a month; if there's no elevator, and you can safely lift 25% of your own weight, you can lug it up the stairs once a week. If there's an elevator, you can probably bring the water up the elevator every month or two.

About a third of that water has to eventually go back down in the form of piss, which is not a major problem if you have sealable plastic bottles to store it in. There's always the risk of an unpleasant accident with that approach, of course, but that's rare.

So I don't think there's ever a building size where a lack of indoor plumbing makes urban life unsustainable. If you're strong enough to walk up and down the stairs every day, you're strong enough to carry water up the stairs once a week. If there's an elevator that you can ride carrying two children, you can also ride it carrying water, once a month. Throughout history, and today in poor rural areas, most people have always had to carry their water much farther than that.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-11-12 23:56:18+00:00
> At the point that Google's "bunch of cheap computers" was new

It wasn't even new, people just don't know the history. Inktomi and HotBot were based on a fleet of commodity PC servers with low reliability, whereas other large web properties of the time were buying big iron like Sun E10K. And of course Beowulf clusters were a thing.

And as far as I know, google's early ethos didn't come as some far sighted strategy, but just the practical reality of Page and Brin building the first versions of their search engine on borrowed/scavenged hardware as grad students and then continuing that trajectory.
by foresto | 2025-11-12 23:57:20+00:00
As someone who has been building my PCs for decades, I have to admit seeing some appeal here:

It's apparently small, quiet, capable, and easy.

I'll keep building my own, but most people don't, and the value of saved time and reduced hassle should not be underestimated.

If comparing this device to other pre-built systems, consider that this one is likely to be a first class target for game developers, while others are not.
by op00to | 2025-11-12 23:57:50+00:00
This is the MAGA playbook: make an allegation, produce no evidence, then claim the lack of evidence proves the cover-up. It’s two fallacies at once.

1. Unfalsifiable claim.

2. Reversed burden of proof.

If fraud is real at meaningful scale, you show it. You don’t assume it, declare the system rigged, and treat every failed audit or court case as part of the conspiracy. That’s not analysis. It’s a closed loop designed to protect the claim from scrutiny.
by mcastle | 2025-11-12 23:58:56+00:00
This is true for many modern-style debates on podcasts on television, but my goal is for Logosive to elevate debate to truth-seeking again.

One debate format I'd like to see on Logosive is asynchronous debate, similar to the Federalist Papers, where the debaters submit their positions and rebuttals to each other as written statements, over the course of weeks. I think this format could align with more of a truth-seeking type of debate, and Logosive can already support this format.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-13 00:00:02+00:00
Just pirate the games instead of using key sites, they're full of chargeback scams that often end up costing developers more money than piracy. Those ten bucks you save really aren't worth the trouble of losing your account over.

With how often Steam games are on sale, you may ass well wait a little longer and buy directly through Valve.

The beauty of PC is that you can also buy games through GOG and Epic if they offer a better price.
by jltsiren | 2025-11-13 00:00:10+00:00
Coordination problems become easier when there is a pressing need to solve them.

If pennies are phased out, companies need to figure out how to do business without pennies. If they can't find a legal way to continue business, they will tell the relevant legislators that the laws should be changed. If the legislators don't see a reason to change the laws, the companies will probably stop doing business in that jurisdiction. If the legislators still don't see a reason to change the laws, then the outcome is probably what the local residents wanted.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-11-13 00:00:37+00:00
I think stores will adjust their prices pretty quick if they cannot even aquire pennies to give as change. So no law should be needed.

you may need to stipulate a grace period during which stores are still obligated to take pennies, to slowly shake them out of circulation without every American needing to visit a bank for cashing in. But its also possible that isn't needed either.

In the 2nd half of the phaseout you may need a proper marketing campaign to remind people to cashe in before expiration. (common when other countries update their physical currency). But that is probably the job of a different sitting president anyway so whatever.

Heck, is this actual something that congress have say over? It wouldn't surprise me if this was actually up to the federal reserve to decide, and they seem on board.
by queenkjuul | 2025-11-13 00:01:11+00:00
Most ridiculous one for me so far:

- downloaded json file from my own GitHub account

- double click to open in VSCode, Apple says no

- try the usual tricks (holding alt and right clicking, i guess), no

- drag and drop file into Code, no

- right click>get info, lo and behold: the entire file contents displayed in the Get Info preview pane for me to copy

I'm actually getting a Windows laptop to do some testing on and i might just abandon Mac for the most part after that. Eating up five minutes of my day to figure out how to edit a file i created myself is just too much sometimes
by SparkBomb | 2025-11-13 00:01:31+00:00
Gaming on Linux is hit and miss, depending on the distro you use and your desktop environment. Some games should be launched with gamescope if you are using Gnome/GDM

To have HellDivers run in borderless window on Debian 14. It required me to manually compile gamescope (wasn't that difficult but Valve's instructions are out of date), and use the backports on Trixie to upgrade the kernel to 6.16, and update wireplumber and pipewire (sound was flakey on some games). Kernel 6.16 performs much better than 6.12 just generally.

All the Arkham games work perfectly. Doom Eternal has some weird latency in the mouse and aiming doesn't feel right.

I could never get my Xbox One bluetooth controller behaving with Linux. I ended buying a 8bitdo Xbox style controller which works perfectly. It is much better made than the Xbox controller and roughly the same price.
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-13 00:01:42+00:00
You seem to be confusing two different things: What is easily or natively expressed in the language, and what can be expressed in the language.

You can create a logical equivalent of the cut operator in Fortran if you wanted to, but there's no native mechanism or operator to rely on. The languages possess the same computing "power", the difference is not in what they can compute which is your claim with "there are things you can't express in Fortran but you can in Prolog" (utter nonsense). Anything you can get a Prolog program to do, you can get a Fortran program to do (and vice versa).
by jsunderland323 | 2025-11-13 00:02:00+00:00
I don't think I'm really the best person to defend the practice of recurring revenue but I would rather be transparent that we collect a monthly fee for some features than vanity launch as a one time fee product to hacker news only to pull the rug on my customers a year later.

To be clear, we are not charging you for up to 10 prompts a day with flash or any of our IDE or inspector stuff. We respect your offline privacy and never upload anything that you don't explicitly ask us to use. We open sourced the dev server so that other folks can build JSX inspectors to keep us in check.

> What happened to installable products where you pay for a version and then you use that version.

We're a two person company with a lot of bugs and important IDE features that still need to be built out. You want auto-version updates right now. When we are in a more stable place development-wise I would love to put out a hard cut that folks can pin to.
by pksebben | 2025-11-13 00:02:10+00:00
> victims of the drugs

Think about that statement. How are you defining 'victim' in this case? From what I can see, 'victim' here roughly equates to 'willing purchaser of goods'.

I believe in Freedom as a fundamental right - 'freedom' in this context being 'whatever you want to do that doesn't unduly impact anyone else'. If you want to shoot yourself in the foot, well, it's your foot - have fun with that. This concept that the 'Drug War' is something that we've ever done for the benefit of our people is laughable.

Even running on the assumption that 'drugs're bad, mmkay?', there are still holes big enough to drive a truckload of opioids and vodka through (both legal substances that have each put more folks in the ground than all controlled substances combined [0][1]). So if we are protecting the poor helpless confused masses from themselves, why is it that we have decided to let them kill themselves with those particular things? What makes the legal stuff special? The concept is ridiculous at it's face.

> It's a military operation.

I must have missed the declaration of war congress approved on 'unknown and unaffiliated watercraft'.

> Anglosphere

wut.

> taxpayers who want some semblance of results for their tax dollars

As a taxpayer, I am unhappy with these results. I would like to return them, please.

0 - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db457-tables.pdf

1 - https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/facts-stats/index.html
by scotty79 | 2025-11-13 00:02:43+00:00
I have no idea why are you dissing query languages. Software that makes those work is immensely complex and draws on a ton of CS math concepts and practical insights. But maybe you don't understand that.

I'm using SQL to do SQL things. And I'm sure when I somehow encounter the 1% of problems that prolog is the right fit for I'd be delighted to use it. However doing general algorithms in Prolog is as misguided as in SQL.
by Quothling | 2025-11-13 00:03:11+00:00
Cool I didn't know about it's AOT, but it looks very... well hobbyist. Anyway, "Go is more explicit and more verbose" is a feature, but that's a matter of personal taste.

I worked with C# for a decade, I'll likely never work with it again if I can help it. Not because it's bad, it's better than it's ever been. But because I really dislike the way they include their batteries. It leads to long debugging and refactoring sessions when tired people have written what is not their best work on years worth of thursday afternoons. I think people who like implicit frameworks must have been good enough to work in places that had better quality than the places I've worked.
by thinmalk | 2025-11-13 00:05:11+00:00
We had a coffee shop that tried to do it. Listed prices included taxes, and the total prices were in nice whole numbers (IE, $2 for a cup of coffee, $5 for a latter, $8 for a sandwich, etc.). But regulators stopped them and they had to go back to listing the prices without the sales tax.

It's frustrating how much needless friction gets put into the system.