MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by marcusb | 2025-11-08 12:33:07+00:00
? My comment had nothing to do with Starlink.

Your first example I was referring to - which you've now edited out of the article[0] to be more generic - stated:

> When Deutsche Telekom customers want to watch YouTube, that traffic flows directly from Google's network to Deutsche Telekom's network at a Frankfurt exchange point—maybe four or five router hops, minimal latency, no intermediaries. It's elegant. It's efficient. And it's exactly what Vodafone is abandoning.

Later:

> Deutsche Telekom pioneered this model in Germany, and the results have been catastrophic for customers. Not "slightly annoying" or "a bit slower"—genuinely, documentably terrible.

0 - original here: https://web.archive.org/web/20251107180616/https://coffee.li...
by intended | 2025-11-08 12:33:27+00:00
It’s even worse when you think about what happens when it’s NOT English + NOT mainstream content.

I really wish someone could tell me that either

1) Yes we can make a system that enables functional and effective customer support (because this is what this case is about) no matter the language

2) No we can’t because it’s fundamentally about manpower which can match the context with actual harm.

Whatever I suspect, having any definitive answer to this decides how these problems need to eventually be solved. Which in turn tells us what we should ask and hope for.
by waste_monk | 2025-11-08 12:34:28+00:00
I appreciate the attempt, but have never seen the point personally.

That is, many physical media collectors do it to have nice box sets to display, or in an attempt to have off-line copies of media, but I have never met anyone who goes to the effort of ensuring long-term readability - which is understandable, it is a huge hassle. Unless you are copying the content to new physical media every so often it will eventually rot and become unplayable.

For example, for optical media the expected lifetime is only a couple of decades depending on the type of media [1]. I believe commercially pressed DVD and blueray are somewhere around 10-20 years.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/con... , see table 2.
by dandanua | 2025-11-08 12:34:50+00:00
I wouldn't say so. The first years of the largest war in Europe since WWII have shown that a leaderless EU is incapable of making important decisions crucial to its own survival, as a fallen Ukraine would have led to a divided EU where many countries would be governed by authoritarian fascist regimes, such as the one in Hungary led by Orban.
by pzo | 2025-11-08 12:37:47+00:00
Valdi seems very similar in concept to React Native but Meta being the biggest competition to them you unlikely gonna depend on that even if better. Same reason ByteDance (Tiktok) doing Lynx.js (also similar to Valdi and React Native and also based on React).

The only FAANG scale companies that adopted React Native are Microsoft and Amazon because they aren't directly competing with Meta.
by squigz | 2025-11-08 12:37:48+00:00
> to some degree

This is the key part, isn't it? There's a large degree of difference between "these garden magazine readers might enjoy these gardening ads" and "based on our profile of you collected over 15 years and including every single bit of private data we can acquire about you, we think you might like..."

Personally I think any advertising targeted at children should be banned, but I guess that's probably too extreme.
by tmtvl | 2025-11-08 12:37:53+00:00
I've had a pretty good experience with OpenStreetMap to replace Google Maps. For YouTube it depends on your needs. If it's just entertainment there's Nebula, Odysee, Nicovideo, Twitch, Dailymotion, et cetera. For more educational content the alternatives can be a bit hit-or-miss.

That said, YouTube has been auto-dubbing videos using an algorithm that overdubs English spoken by people with an accent, which I consider discriminatory (if not outright racist), so I'm trying the various alternatives now. In a few months I think I'll have more of an opinion about them.
by dlisboa | 2025-11-08 12:38:21+00:00
> The usual response to this complaint in the Ruby/Rails community is that optimizing for nanoseconds, or even milliseconds doesn't matter when the same operation also involves multiple database queries or API calls

The problem with that logic is that it’s pervasive: people have that same attitude everywhere even if no IO is being done. That’s how we get multi gigabyte processes.

The whole language (and Rails) also pushes you towards a less efficient path. For instance you’re probably iterating over those six plans and inserting them individually in the DB. Another approach would’ve been to accumulate all of them in memory then build and perform a single query. That’s not something people really consider because it’s “micro” optimization and makes the code look worse. But if you miss out on hundreds of these micro optimizations then you get a worse system.

In a general sense optimizing Ruby is indeed futile: any optimization is dwarfed by just choosing a different language.

I say all this as someone who has worked with it for two decades, I like the language, it’s just laughably inefficient.
by zbentley | 2025-11-08 12:39:07+00:00
How are perl5’s BEGIN blocks equivalent to comptime? It’s been awhile, but I recall BEGIN blocks executing at require time—which, in complicated pre-forking setups that had to be careful about only requiring certain modules later during program execution because they did dumb things like opening connections when loaded, meant that reasoning about BEGIN blocks required a lot more careful thought than reasoning about comptime.

The same is true for templates, or macros—all of which are distinguished by being computed in a single pass (you don’t have to think about them later, or worry about their execution being interleaved with the rest of the program), before runtime start (meaning that certain language capabilities like IO aren’t available, simplifying reasoning). Those two properties are key to comptime’s value and are not provided by perl5’s BEGIN blocks—or probably even possible at all in the language, given that it has eval and runtime require.
Ask HN: CRM/ERP – Free Open Source
by kosolam | 2025-11-08 12:39:28+00:00
I started by asking AI/googling then went on to check. Stuff like odoo or espocrm is crippled opencore software where they actually rip out essential parts from the free offering in order to force monitization. So I couldn’t find any modern crm or erp that’s open source and isn’t crippled or looks/feels like the 90’s. I would love to hear what people actually use. Looking for free, open source, modern. Not opencore crippleware, not saas!
by intended | 2025-11-08 12:39:33+00:00
> But also, do you seriously think there is a massive amount of competition at the scale of a 330k subscriber channel for people to bother pulling off this kind of attack for two videos on bypassing Windows 11 account and hardware requirements

Enough to cause this behavior. I don’t know if theres a mathematical or organization law or something, but it seems like theres always a way to abuse review mechanisms for large communities / sites.

Never enough manpower to do review for each case. Or reviews take a long time.
by leandroherenu | 2025-11-08 12:39:35+00:00
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by BinaryIgor | 2025-11-08 12:40:18+00:00
"But now, AI writes most of the code, and the thrill of crafting something from scratch has quietly faded."

Bold claims! 1. Sometimes it's faster to code with AI, sometimes it's slower - I wouldn't say you can back up the statement like "AI writes most of the code". And I would argue that it will always be the case, unless we have AGI 2. I don't know about the faded thrill; we will always create things that work on the computer and programmers will always have the advantage there. The nature of creating is changing slightly, which in any case was always true - punch cards, assembly, C and then higher level languages. Change is the nature of this craft. You must embrace it to stay relevant and enjoy it

Some of its is mentioned in the article, but it claims and language are definitely exaggerated a bit.
by awesan | 2025-11-08 12:41:27+00:00
A lot of comments here kind of miss the point, but that's to be expected because you can only really get it when you have the experience. Like hearing a description of a painting will not give you the same emotion as looking at it yourself.

Zig has completely changed the way I program (even outside of it). A lot of the goals and heuristics I used to have while writing code have completely changed. It's like seeing programming itself in a new way.
by thelinuxkid | 2025-11-08 12:42:15+00:00
One my computer science professors would call the more ingenious and brilliant algorithms "sexy" and it would make all of us in our class sigh with excitement and passion.

Will the era of AI make the artistic side of programming more relevant or will it deem it unnecessary?

Does programming need to be brilliant, sexy, passionate in order for innovation to thrive?

Doea the the artistic side of programming have important repercussions in humanity and innovation such as Guillermo del Toro describes here in relation to images? (Of course programming doesn't need to make you cry, although it can, but crying in the case of programming would be "fueling innovation)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQH2E4OkZdT/?igsh=aW91MnlrcGo...
by moralestapia | 2025-11-08 12:43:09+00:00
Off topic but related.

A week ago I went to a launch party for a product that's supposed to "revolutionize design" (a web app w/ an OAI prompt).

No demo, only like two pictures of the actual product. Founder spent like half an hour giving a speech about the future, etc...

"All of you here will get access to it in a couple weeks."

Couple weeks go by ... I "get access". It's a .dmg, 1) What, I open it, it's not even an app, it's an installer ..., I install it, the app opens up and it's a giant red button that takes you to a website to create an account ...

These guys are completely lost.
by dragonelite | 2025-11-08 12:43:17+00:00
Having spend a year tinkering in zig and it's absence of features has made me want to drop c#/java professionally and pick up Golang. Its quiet annoying when you see a codebases written in C#/java and you can tell in which year/era it was written because of the language features. The way of writing things in C# changes like every 4 years or so.

There's a certain beauty in only having to know 1~2 loops/iteration concepts compared to 4~5 in modern multi paradigm languages(various forms of loops, multiple shapes of LINQ, the functional stuff etc).
by o_mavych | 2025-11-08 12:43:27+00:00
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by rpdillon | 2025-11-08 12:44:13+00:00
I'm not sure what you think is so harmonious about it. I think there are gobs of iPhone users that wanted a free store, created Cydia, had it shut down, and have been fighting ever since with tools like AltStore to try to restore their own ability to install software of their choosing on their phones. Simply searching any search engine for "build and install iOS apps locally" results in gobs of discussions where people are trying to figure out how to actually get control back of their device and work around all of Apple's restrictions.

Further, the state of affairs has steadily gotten worse over the years as Apple tightens their restrictions, adds more barriers to running apps of your choosing, and having agency over what programs you can actually run.

This is a war on general purpose computing. And sure, there are gobs of people who don't care, but there are many who do, and they're fighting for the rights of all of us. My own mother-in-law who spent thousands of dollars on Kindle books didn't understand that she couldn't ever read any of those books using anything other than Kindle, and that she could never give them to somebody else to read (like my son who doesn't have an Amazon account). These people making these decisions are not well-informed. They assume they're not being screwed over, but they're in for a rude awakening.

We are rapidly moving to a world where there are no options for people to run software of their choosing on mobile devices. And we already know that the mobile manufacturers operate at the behest of the US government. This is not a pattern that I think is going to serve us well in the coming decades.

At some point, you have to figure out who your mobile devices are working for.
by jessriedel | 2025-11-08 12:46:09+00:00
I have normal vision. I wouldn't say completely identical when they are side-by-side, but they are very close. It's effectively impossible to discriminate them when they are not side-by-side, which for this plot is very important.

The author's mistake was this: "[my colors] are equidistant in the hue circle". The problem is that the hue circle (at least under the parameterization scheme he used) is not uniform over discrimination, i.e., the ability to discriminate two hues is not invariant under displacing them an equal amount along the circle. (I presume this is one of those situation where it's misleading to think about three primary colors on equal footing because of quirks of human vision biology.)

First, the author could have chosen 7 hues at max-saturation that were easier to discriminate than this. But more importantly, he should have used the other color axes: saturation and brightness. dark red (~maroon) and light red (~pink) are a lot easier to discriminate, even when not next to each other, than the two shades of green he used.
by thelinuxkid | 2025-11-08 12:46:34+00:00
One my computer science professors would call the more ingenious and brilliant algorithms “sexy” and it would make all of us in our class sigh with excitement and passion.

Will the era of AI make the artistic side of programming more relevant or will it deem it unnecessary?

Does programming need to be brilliant, sexy, passionate in order for innovation to thrive?

Does the the artistic side of programming have important repercussions in humanity and innovation such as Guillermo del Toro describes here in relation to images? (Of course programming doesn’t need to make you cry, although it can, but crying in the case of programming would be “fueling innovation)
by jadamson | 2025-11-08 12:47:19+00:00
> Ah yes, he just took Rosy's pictures (she doe snot deserve her full nale)

I took that as an accusation of misogyny and I'm unclear how else it could be interpreted. Watson named her as Dr. R. E. Franklin, so it can't be him that was being impugned.

Please also note the frothy inability to type - have I replicated that?

> don't deem worthy

Deem worthy of what?

You are demonstrating my point perfectly. You have no interest in what these women did (or did not) do, what their achievements actually were (and they certainly had them), they're simply a totem that you elevate beyond reason as proof of what a Very Nice Guy you are.

> as if you have them written down on an enemies list

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4141622/
by arp242 | 2025-11-08 12:47:34+00:00
Maybe being ginger is connected to IQ. Or maybe a particular ear shape or toe length or something is correlated. It's possible I suppose. But no one is looking in to that because everyone understands it doesn't really matter as not everyone with a high-IQ ear shape will be smart. You still need to judge them as individuals.

Even if there is a connection between skin colour and IQ (which there is not, as far as I know) you'd still need to judge people on their individual merit. It's all about "on average, black people have a lower IQ". Even if true, you can't do anything meaningful with that in any liberal merit-based democracy. White people from rural Alabama might also score lower on IQ tests than white people from NYC. When pressed, even the racist assholes posting in this thread will admit that James Mickens is way smarter than the average white programming/computer scientist (never mind funnier). He certainly is smarter than me and I'm white enough to get sunburns in Ireland.

I would say the entire focus on connection between race and IQ is almost entirely prejudice because it just doesn't matter. Barring than the occasional well-intentioned misguided soul, if you dig in to all the people focused on it then it rarely takes long to find some genuinely racist things well beyond their so-called "just looking at the objective facts".
by jig_forty | 2025-11-08 12:47:50+00:00
They can and do but it's much less reliable. Births and deaths are systematically recorded, and fertility rates are shaped by comparatively stable factors like education levels, access to family planning and gradual cultural shifts. Mortality rates follow similarly predictable trends.

Whereas migration flows are heavily influenced by sudden events that are difficult to anticipate, like economic crises, political instability, wars, natural disasters and so on. The data is less complete too, for example unauthorized border crossings will not be recorded officially in cases where these are undetected.
by rajman187 | 2025-11-08 12:48:05+00:00
They’ve filed a S1 [1] last year when attempting to go public. It showed something like a $60M+ loss for the first 6 months of 2024. The IPO didn’t happen because the CEO’s past included some financial missteps and the banks didn’t want to deal with this. At the time the majority of their revenue came from a single source in Abu Dhabi, as well

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2021728/000162828024...
by pavlov | 2025-11-08 12:48:47+00:00
I’m not quite sure what’s the takeaway here:

‘One conversation that stuck with me: I was telling Kevin how my two lead investors had both interviewed a key product hire for the company. One was positive and one was in the middle. Kevin said to always be “strong yes” or “strong no” if I could help it. I still hire according to this philosophy today.‘

Is the idea that you should ask for strictly binary yes/no feedback from interviewers, and only move forward if there’s a “strong yes” consensus from this process?
by theandrewbailey | 2025-11-08 12:49:14+00:00
> I feel badly for all of the people who may have held off on a 9800X3D purchase because of this Passmark that we thought wouldn't work.

I'm considering a new build soon, but RAM prices are out of control, like they've more than doubled since June! (Damn AI bubble...) I guess I'll have to get by with my Ryzen 1800X a bit longer.
by zimpenfish | 2025-11-08 12:49:22+00:00
Sure and then you can tell me about Marion Donovan, Nettie Stevens, Vera Rubin, Lise Meitner, Alice Ball, Margaret Knight, Elizabeth Magie, Margaret Keane, Candace Pert, and the hundreds of others.

(Bonus points if you know even 3 of those without looking them up)
by Doxin | 2025-11-08 12:49:39+00:00
As someone with a medium amount of social anxiety: for the love of god, arrange for excuses for me to talk to people. I cannot just walk up to people and start a conversation. If your party does not have reasons to talk to people I will not and just end up feeling like a third wheel.

I'm sure there's plenty of people who are naturals at parties, but for those who are not it's very nice if the deck gets stacked in favor of new interactions.
by drysart | 2025-11-08 12:50:07+00:00
Notarization doesn't blanket block all access to private APIs; but the notarization process may look for and block certain known accesses in certain cases. This is because notarization is not intended to be an Apple policy enforcement mechanism. It's intended to block malicious software.

So in other words, using private APIs in and of itself isn't an issue. Neither is it an issue if your application is one that serves up adult content, or is an alternate App Store, or anything else that Apple might reject from its own App Store for policy reasons. It's basically doing what you might expect a virus scanner to do.
by tmtvl | 2025-11-08 12:51:15+00:00
As someone who's been bouncing back and forth between Arch and Tumbleweed for a while now I had a very different experience. The transition from KDE 4 to KDE Plasma 5 was terrible, plasmashell would crash all the time, tons of stuff would break between updates, and I had to switch to running awesome for a while (which is fine, awesome is pretty great). The transition from Plasma 5 to Plasma 6 was basically 'these 2 KWin scripts don't work any more' and everything else was fine.
by JimDabell | 2025-11-08 12:52:02+00:00
You’re right. It’s explicitly about not caring about the code:

> There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.

— https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383
by BinaryIgor | 2025-11-08 12:52:25+00:00
Interesting article, but isn't the main HTMX use-case mostly where you want to make server do most of the work, that is Remotely? As you literally render its responses directly - HTMX pages and fragments - instead of doing HTML -> JSON -> HTML gymnastics. Using paradigm of this kind to build local/client-first apps sounds weird.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-11-08 12:53:09+00:00
If those people expect to continue to live on after they retire, then all the products and services they rely on in that stage of life will be performed by the children of their peers, the ones who had them at enormous personal and financial cost. They are externalizing the costs of there being people to make the economy work in their old age to others so they can take more trips. In fairness, if you don't have kids you should have to pay higher taxes (enormously higher in fact to get close to making up the difference). Those taxes get re-directed to childcare for those that need it. Fair?
by gcanyon | 2025-11-08 12:53:32+00:00
Gathering all the metaphors (I know) here for reference:

- "All toupées look fake. I've never seen one that I couldn't tell was fake." [1] - All CGI in movies looks fake. It jumps out at me every time I see it." - All WebView apps suck. Every one I've seen has a bad obviously-web-derived UI.

re: that last one though -- I'd at least acknowledge that WebView apps are roughly at the end of the early-2000's era of CGI: not exactly "The Rock in The Scorpion King" bad, but generally not at the level of Avatar or Les Misérables.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250878
by pjmlp | 2025-11-08 12:53:38+00:00
Nah, that is what pedantic folks without English grammar knowledge keep complaining about, instead of actually discussing better security practices in both languages.

It is a bikeshedding discussion that doesn't help in anything, regarding lack of security in C, or the legions of folks that keep using C data types in C++, including bare bones null terminated strings and plain arrays instead of collection types with bounds checking enabled.