MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BeetleB | 2025-11-27 00:19:39+00:00
> If you find your emacs to feel jank I highly recommend declaring "emacs bankruptcy" and starting anew with a fresh config.

My custom config is the reason to use Emacs. If I declare bankruptcy, I might as well switch editors.

eglot has performance issues. I'm not the only one who's noticed them. There's a whole page out there on config settings you can try to improve eglot's performance.
by junon | 2025-11-27 00:19:48+00:00
Have had some where the shower is just glass panels for the room to see (and no, it wasn't that kind of hotel).

Another hotel in a small town here in Germany where it had shutter-style doors and where the roof of the bathroom didn't go all the way to the actual ceiling, so you can hear everything.

Both in the name of aesthetic, clearly.
by nitwit005 | 2025-11-27 00:20:25+00:00
> "It's taking longer to launch, there is some more debt, but in the long run, millennials are actually doing better than Generation X and baby boomers," says Kevin Corinth, a senior fellow and deputy director of the Center for Opportunity and Social Mobility at the American Enterprise Institute and one of the paper's authors. "It's just taking them a longer time."

Not exactly the most persuasive arguement.

The most common complaint I've seen online is how far behind their parents people are. You can find meme images comparing their parents owning a home and having two kids, to them stuck in their parent's basement.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-27 00:20:27+00:00
The main problem, I think, is that if your stuff is by robots, for robots, you have no advertising leverage.

I think advertisers are fairly stupid and maybe don't realize that most eyes on their ads aren't eyes at all, and couldn't buy a hair dryer even if they wanted, because they have no hair. How Facebook is still a desirable advertising platform is beyond me.
by paulddraper | 2025-11-27 00:20:29+00:00
They are really concerned about interchange.

Walmart will have a negotiated deal with Amex.

Costco used to take exclusively Amex. So it is possible.

In any case, it’s not only the transaction cost but also the availability of an alternative. Forcing a different credit card network is different friction than forcing swipe vs tap. (Or using the Walmart app.)
by keithnz | 2025-11-27 00:22:27+00:00
the choices made on the keyboard layout seem weird to me, though I do like the left hand numpad. But the big esc? the Fn key up top right seems like it makes key chords with it kind of hard. No ins key? no prt scr? is that 3 ctrl keys? or is that a caps lock? arrow keys etc seem a bit far away from main keyboard...
by nozzlegear | 2025-11-27 00:22:41+00:00
> They shouldn't be strong arming [...] the entire automotive industry.

Yes they should, the automotive industry is much shittier. I have a 23 Chevy Bolt EUV with wireless CarPlay. Chevy/GM have been emailing and snail mailing me relentlessly trying to get me to pay for their $150 update to my car's navigation maps, which no longer work in my vehicle (presumably because they're out of date). This is quite the deal, according to their marketing materials, but I won't be paying for it because I've never used those maps thanks to CarPlay.

With all this emphasis they're putting on upselling these $150 map updates, it doesn't take a genius to understand why GM is no longer making vehicles with CarPlay or Android Auto.
by quickthrowman | 2025-11-27 00:23:20+00:00
It sounds like your local AHJ has adopted additional requirements above and beyond the Uniform Plumbing Code, this isn’t out of the ordinary but that seems excessive when a hot water recirculation pump on a time-of-day timer would be far more cost effective, it’s a $200 pump and an extra 20 feet of water supply line.

Does someone in local government own a plumbing contractor or plumbing supply company? That’d be my guess anyways.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-27 00:23:39+00:00
Right, the main reason media has value is because of scarcity. Generated media is almost worthless because there's seemingly infinite piles of it.

If a painting costs $20 bucks, and you can generate 1 million paintings, that doesn't mean you just made $20 million dollars. It means paintings no longer cost $20 bucks.
by ahmedhawas123 | 2025-11-27 00:23:56+00:00
100% this. Non participating providers a big reason patients have gotten massive bills when going to an ER or an inpatient setting, esp. in rural settings, where a non-pariticipating provider is part of your care and you end up with 5/6 digit bills for that one provider. This actually protects the patient and creates an incentive for health systems to care about it.
by preommr | 2025-11-27 00:24:15+00:00
I am not doing any of this.

It becomes obsolete in literally weeks, and it also doesn't work 80% of the time. Like why write a mcp server for custom tasks when I don't know if the llm is going to reliably call it.

My rule for AI has been steadfast for months (years?) now. I write (myself, not AI because then I spend more time guiding the AI instead of thinking about the problem) documentation for myself (templates, checklist, etc.). I give ai a chance to one-shot it in seconds, if it can't, I am either review my documentation or I just do it manually.
by stephen_g | 2025-11-27 00:26:47+00:00
Whether the room has a door on the bathroom or not, business travellers should be getting separate rooms... Over dozens of trips, the only time I've ever shared was a two-bedroom apartment when I went with a colleague for a conference (one had an ensuite so we had separate bathrooms as well as separate bedrooms with doors).

I wouldn't be OK with going on trips (or sending people I manage on trips) where two people had to sleep in the same room, I wouldn't consider that acceptable...
by foxglacier | 2025-11-27 00:27:09+00:00
I agree but only because that's the standard for our culture so somebody not doing it is probably being disrespectful which means it becomes offensive to others because it normally only comes from people with some sort of negative feeling or inconsiderateness for those around them. In some cultures, noisy eating is the proper way and shows you're enjoying the food. Same goes for clothes, toilet sounds, etc. It's a lot more repulsive seeing a human poo on the street than a dog even though it's not fundamentally very different.
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-27 00:27:12+00:00
Right now, using web portals is indeed better than installing apps, but this does not have be the case. In fact, it should be the other way around.

You only need to make two changes to make your native app a better choice than your web portal, even for privacy:

1) Make your app open-source, and remove all the tracking.

2) Don't make a web portal. Your website should just be a website that displays information, not 5 MB of JS+WASM with a load of security issues.
by NaOH | 2025-11-27 00:27:19+00:00
Previous and related:

Hong Kong's Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs on (For Now) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080549 - May 2025 (65 comments)

Bamboo Scaffolding in Hong Kong - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42820011 - Jan 2025 (3 comments)

Why Hong Kong uses bamboo scaffolding, and meet the spider-men who climb it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42665355 - Jan 2025 (2 comments)
by doubled112 | 2025-11-27 00:28:39+00:00
I mostly agree with all of this as somebody who did a lot of riding.

I used to be in much better shape, probably because I usually used a bike to get places.

I’m going to allow anybody disabled to get to where they need to be the easiest and safest way possible without any judgement.

I much prefer a rack on the back of the bike than a backpack. I’ve taken a 12 pack of Coca Cola bottles home on my bike plus my normal cargo. No problem.

I used to ride in -30C and snow. Fenders and a jacket will keep you pretty dry.

20km/hr is considered a normal pace. It was usually slower to take a bus and people still did that.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-11-27 00:28:41+00:00
The libc could easily add support for such a thing but I doubt they'd care enough to. They'd probably see it as adding complexity for zero gain.

I submitted an issue to the GCC bugzilla about renaming certain symbols generated by compiler.

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113694

I don't know how to implement it and nobody else cared enough to.
by hyperhello | 2025-11-27 00:28:49+00:00
The original post was about how he was angry that his friend was messing around with his phone during a movie. Why does this bother him? He feels his friend was not respecting the integrity of art, that he is missing important things in life, that meaning and value is lost as his friend treats his screen time as a flood of dopamine.

What I was trying to tell him (really just talking into the social media void) is that it's all meaningless anyway. When you're young you care, but as you mature, that feeling of the perfectness of your screen time becomes a childish thing. It is much like the difference between two lousy fast food burgers, the metaphor he partially understood but reduced to "they are both lousy" which wasn't my point.

But his behavior was a little too immature for me, with the brinksmanship and oh-so-daring insults to my intelligence, so I probably got sidetracked in my response and it wasn't very good.
by famouswaffles | 2025-11-27 00:29:06+00:00
>If OpenAI hits jackpot with a "simple" product, it could be easily replicated by a bigger company in the way Meta quickly copied Stories from Snapchat or TikTok to make Reels. It's already happened with Chat; the LLM is hard to compete against but the actual product, a web/app chat interface, was quickly copied by other companies with LLMs.

IG reels never became as popular as Tiktok and did basically nothing nothing to peel users away from Tiktok. For a long time, it was a meme that IG reels were just copy pasted tiktok content. Similarly, Meta's LLMs are used so little they honestly don't even register, despite being stuffed into everything they own, apps with billions and billions of users. Gemini is doing well but it's still a very very distant 2nd, despite being automatically downloaded and nudged in android phones, a platform with billions of users. Microsoft is by far the biggest player in consumer laptops, with edge and bing being the default options. So why can't they come even close to chrome and google ?

Time and time again, we've been shown. You can copy all you want, you can even shove it into the faces of your billions of users and find use for it. Doesn't mean you'll beat the market leader. You'll rarely beat market leaders just by copying them.

ChatGPT is the 5th most visited site on the planet. No other Consumer LLM service is remotely close, regardless of how many billions of users the entrenched players are shoving their copies into.
by duxup | 2025-11-27 00:30:00+00:00
I'm inclined to agree, although I have to wonder where the money is going. Seeing plenty of BIG budget shows and movies where the dialogue and writing are just dreadful ... I gotta think those shows and movies could have outbid for better talent, but they just chose not to when it came to the creative team.

I'm thinking of productions like Star Wars Acolyte where the story and writing were just dreadful ... and they spent an enormous amount of money on it.
by its_ethan | 2025-11-27 00:30:03+00:00
Who is claiming that using a streaming site is piracy? No one is saying that lol

What the guy was saying is that circumventing payment to watch a movie = pirating, and it seems like you're saying that's not the case. It seems you're saying that people saying "pirating" are referring circumventing payment and distributing, which is not at all what the majority of people mean by pirating.

Pirating != distribution for the vast majority of how people use that word - it means consuming the media without paying for it.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-27 00:30:03+00:00
No, they don't, the value of AI isn't the AI itself, it's purely the output.

If someone else can achieve the same output as OpenAI at a similar price, they are completely toast. There is absolutely nothing tying you to ChatGPT because ChatGPT doesn't matter, only what it produces.

Amazon was in a (similar) situation, but not quite, because they offered a unique experience. But I strongly believe that if Sears just kept their catalogue for another decade, Amazon would not exist.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-11-27 00:31:30+00:00
> I'd imagine that most couples would still want to be able to close a door when they're on the toilet.

Right?

My wife and I don't use the toilet in front of each other. Even when we lived in an apartment with only 1 bathroom. You gotta use the toilet while one is showering? You can hold it.

Even when I'm home alone and don't expect her to come home any time soon, I close the door. I just feel so exposed with the door open. Even when I lived alone, I'm pretty sure I would close the door.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-27 00:31:39+00:00
I'm pretty sure we are in an apple vs android situation, where you give lifetime apple users an android phone, and after a day they report that android is horrid. In reality, they just aren't used to how stuff is done on android.

I think many devs are just in tune with the "nature" of Claude, and run aground easier when trying to use gemini or Chatgpt. This also explains why we get these perplexing mixed signals from different devs.
by willguest | 2025-11-27 00:31:39+00:00
My idealistic part says that a combination of AI-driven technical orchestration (much more than just coding) and orbital/langrange manufacturing facilities could, perhaps, get somewhere in the not ridiculously distant future (centuries rather than millenia)

A more pragmatic me would point out that the required energy and materials needed would mean we would need breakthroughs in space-based solar capture and mining, but this is still not New Physics.

I think the solution will come from exponentially advancing self-assembling machines in space. These can start small and, given the diminishing cost of getting things to space, some early iterations of the first generation could be mere decades away. There are several interesting avenues for self-assembling machines that are way past napkin-sketch phase. Solar arrays are getting bigger and we have already retrieved the first material from an asteroid.

The quality and reliability of AI agents for processes orchestration and technical reflection is now at a stage where it can begin to self-optimise, so even without (EDIT) a "take-off" scenario, these machines can massively outperform people in manufacturing orchestration, and I would say we are only some years from having tools that are good enough for much larger scale (i.e. planetary) operations.

Putting humans there is a whole other story. We are so fragile and evolved to live on Earth. Unsurprisingly, this biological tether doesn't get much of a look-in here. Just being on the ISS is horrible for a person's physiology and, I am guessing there would be a whole host of space sicknesses that would set in after a few years up there or elsewhere. Unless we find a way to modify our biology enough so we can continually tolerate or cure these ailments, and develop cryo-sleep, we're probably staying local - both of these are much more speculative that everything above, as far as i can tell.
by chatmasta | 2025-11-27 00:32:01+00:00
Really? It's one of my main discriminators. The quality of the bathroom is the highest signal indicator of the quality of the hotel. I look for a stone shower basin, a rainhead, a bath tub, or at a least glass shower door... if it looks bolted onto a plastic box, I'm not staying there.

If they're cheaping out on the shower then I'm not going to trust the mattress is clean or the linens are soft.
by orwin | 2025-11-27 00:32:40+00:00
Democracy worked well here. The executive wanted more power (once again), the parliament refused, twice, despite _a lot_ of lobbying and pressure from the executive branch. Good job to the tech industry for counterlobbying (i'm not saying that often i swear), good job us for mobilizing, and also la quadrature and other NGO privacy watchdog for mobilization that allowed the EU parliement to resist somewhat, and forced a compromise that will any overreach tentative in the hand of judges.

What europe needs to be careful of is that the EUCJ keep its power. I _know_ people on both side of the political spectrum dislike judges (because they defend the status quo for the left, and the rule of law for the right) but multiple time this past 3 years i've seen mediatic assaults on EUCJ and ECHR that expend their political power again and again and again. We have to keep executive power from limiting judiciary power. Already executive branches are powering through legislative in a lot of country (France, UK, US, and EU which isn't a country but have similar institution), we absolutely have to keep the third branch as a check against government overreach.
by ryan_lane | 2025-11-27 00:33:24+00:00
As a foreigner living in Japan, I'd like to take the opportunity to let you know that it's not ethnocentrism, but that Japan is for the most part quite xenophobic, and racist. It's common to hear Japanese folks make fun of other people's accents in what should be obviously extremely inappropriate settings, like at work, for example. The fact that you consider this ethnocentrism furthers the point that xenophobia and racism is commonplace, and that you feel that it's on foreigners to accept it.

If you're nitpicking a foreigner's accent pitch, think about how it would make you feel if they nitpicked your english pronunciation. My wife points out when I make mistakes in Japanese, but I ask her to do so. If a coworker or stranger were to do so, it would be embarrassing, and that's the difference that matters.
by knollimar | 2025-11-27 00:34:28+00:00
Well the article talks about a surprise billing law which already protected the patients, but why should insurance companies (and thus you through premiums) have to pick up the cost?

I want to be able to put pressure on hospitals to accept a whole set of insurance and I'm glad insurance companies are doing so.

There SHOULD be a guy saying "we should make sure his providers are all in network" at the hospital and not just make the insurance company write blank checks to anesthesiologists.
by al_borland | 2025-11-27 00:35:06+00:00
It blows my mind that sockets on the nightstand aren’t standard by now.

I just stayed at the Westin in Rome, supposedly a 5 star place, but I don’t think it’s been updated in 30 years. I had to move the nightstand and unplug a lamp, so I could plug my phone in next to the bed. So go get my phone socket I had to lose the lamp. It didn’t even have an alarm clock on the nightstand; there would have been nowhere to plug it in. Maybe they expect everyone to get a wake up call, but the phone was across the room too.

I used to travel with a little power strip, but stopped since I never actually used it. That place needed one badly.

It did have bathroom door though, so it had that going for it.
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-11-27 00:35:06+00:00
I just want out. I don't know how to put this but at the deepest level what's happening right now is making me sick. So many people below the poverty line barely making it by and then you have this stuff and Wallstreet Bets. Michael Saylor tops them all. Decadent and depraved. S&P at all time records and SNAP benefits not being renewed. I hate it here.
by pogue | 2025-11-27 00:35:51+00:00
Why does Microsoft keep releasing models trained on synthetic data? Is it possible their contract with OpenAI won't let them do anything else?

I would think Microsoft, of all companies, would want to be working on their own LLM behind the scenes, even if they're relying on OpenAI for the bulk of their work.

Meta seems to be the only US company releasing big 'open source' models, while Chinese companies continue to release many completely open source LLMs.
by ossa-ma | 2025-11-27 00:37:27+00:00
Kinda useful, especially tip 15 and tip 26.

There needs to be a lot more focus on the observability and showing users what is happening underneath the hood (especially wrt costs and context management for non-power users).

A useful feature Cursor has that Antigravity doesn't is the context wheel that increases as you reach the context window limit (but don't get me started on the blackbox that is Cursor pricing).
by deaux | 2025-11-27 00:37:33+00:00
Koreans barely use Wikipedia so understandably that contains very little. They use Namuwiki, which is the much better link in this case (warning, machine translated): https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EC%9D%B4%EC%A4%80%EC%84%9D/%EB%85%BC...

Are there any other countries in the world that use a different wiki than Wikipedia as their main wiki, except for those where Wikipedia is banned? Korea seems like the only one.
by gorgoiler | 2025-11-27 00:37:52+00:00
I was hoping to see a flip up 12” x 4” screen. A bunch of devices have been showing up recently with this particular format of OLED. Here’s one that may or may not be vaporware, but which links to a couple of other devices with the same screen, so presumably something is shipping:

https://liliputing.com/kernelcom-is-a-compact-mini-laptop-wi...

Alas, this is more of a BBC B / Amiga format nostalgia fest, from the homeland of the hipster dads, Central Shoreditch.

This device could certainly add real value though if the OS / hardware integration gets nailed. That is, after all, where the Raspberry Pi really shone brightly: defining a standardised and working platform.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-27 00:38:27+00:00
The downside of statins are more or less made up by people who want to convince you that you can prevent heart disease by taking their magic supplement (which isn't like other supplements, this one really works!)

Either that or out-of-touch fitness people who push overly restrictive diets and workout plans. Which work, but actually no they don't, because nobody with a sane mind would want to stick to them. And now you're back at square one but you also have a disdain for food and exercise.
by mothballed | 2025-11-27 00:38:37+00:00
There's actually no plumbing code (checks) for my house. I could drop my poop right out the back of the house and pull my water through lead pipes from a mosquito swamp into my sink. As long as it is immediately heated it is fine. It is literally the only requirement.

My permit explicitly says they will check absolutely nothing but how far the house is from the property line and that I have immediate hot water.
by c0balt | 2025-11-27 00:39:22+00:00
> TikTok [..] had no competitors and network effects

TikTok, or rather ByteDance, acquired Musical.ly as a competitor to absorb the user base and jump start their network. Their also have been a lot of short-form video platforms before (e. G., Vine) and during TikToks growth (Instagram reels, YT Shorts).
by dgaudet | 2025-11-27 00:39:58+00:00
it has become unfortunately common in marriott hotels in the (western) US, specifically the current generation of residence inn; and i think i've seen it in new towneplace suites as well. it's entirely a form over function decision: you end up with cool air wafting in while you shower, and you end up with a wet bathroom floor (including a soaked floormat).

the same hotels have a kitchen sink tap which has hot/cold selected on the vertical axis, with no indication of which direction is hot/cold.

form over function. so annoying.