MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jajuuka | 2025-11-10 16:58:29+00:00
Absolutely. I have an older unmanaged switch that is still getting updates MANY years later. I've been consistently impressed with TP-Link. I even picked up a WiFi 7 router with all this talk of banning them. Just feels like politicians removing players from the market so the companies they can invest in do better since they are the only choice available.
by Razengan | 2025-11-10 16:58:50+00:00
> Even worse nowadays on YouTube itself

YouTube is the epitome of "echo chambering": When you open YouTube from a hotel or Airbnb in other countries, god, you will see a flood of the most clickbaity videos from that country only, or whatever's been targeted for that IP/area watch the most, sometimes with lewd/suggestive thumbnails and just horrible

You know what's really dumb though? How they're an ads company and try to spy so much shit about you, but if you watch just 1-2 Russian videos then you'll get Russian ads for a while..
by exasperaited | 2025-11-10 16:58:57+00:00
But perhaps all that matters is, does a band support more connections than there would be apartments or businesses in range? For some people in dense apartment complexes, 5Ghz evidently does not. But if 6Ghz supports twice as many, that might be a limit that gets hit by vastly fewer "localities" like that.

(Student wifi hotspots in a large lecture theatre, that's another problem entirely!)
by stego-tech | 2025-11-10 16:59:38+00:00
It’s wasteful on its face when not combined with regulation and incentives to shift stuff off of Wi-Fi. 6GHz has practical applications in the AR/VR space, which is why I’m in favor of giving it to Wi-Fi. Ultimately though, we need the industry to stop being lazy and start really agitating for ethernet in construction and devices as the norm, not Wi-Fi.
by HEmanZ | 2025-11-10 16:59:55+00:00
And where is that document? I can claim this document is from wherever if there is no way to find that document.

Sorry this just reads way too much like fiction and if I have two hypotheses about its origin:

1. Real court document that I can’t find the source for and have to trust a random substack is telling me is real.

2. AI generated conversation for views.

I’m inclined to the second these days.

But if it’s real: the fact that guys real life conversations read like satire is telling…
by Fileformat | 2025-11-10 17:00:00+00:00
Huh? How would a static site generator serve both RSS and the HTML view of the RSS from the same file?

To be extra clear: I want to have <a href="feed.xml">My RSS Feed</a> link on my blog so everyone can find my feed. I also want users who don't know about RSS to see something other than a wall of plain-text XML.
by mmooss | 2025-11-10 17:00:11+00:00
That's not how, in physical reality, the world works. The question is not 'what is needed' but 'what adds value'.

If you walk into a room where a full crew of people are painting the walls, you don't add any value by picking up a paintbrush yourself - you may even get in the way. You need to find something valuable to contribute.

In our real world, many things that are needed are already well provided for: They are so cheap and easy to produce, that making more doesn't add value (and consequently earns little income). Making t-shirts is very cheap and easy; you provide little value by doing it yourself and consequently you won't be paid much for it. Another example is water: Potable water is absolutely essential to life - the most essential thing. But it's already well provided for and therefore we don't invest substantial resources in producing it. We'd be a very poor country if we made t-shirts and potable water, and deservedly so - we'd be adding little value to the world.

We add value to the world by doing hard things that others can't do: Designing chips, designing airplanes, writing software. Science is hard. Those add a lot of value - and you get paid well for it.

We're not starting from a world of nothing - maybe like 10,000 years ago - and adding things to it. Then t-shirts and especially potable water would be essential. We're starting in the world as it is now. Manufacturing, for many products, was valuable and hard in early-to-mid 20th century; when Henry Ford first did it, it was hard and extremely valuable. Now lots of people can do it and we add little value by doing it ourselves, and we won't get paid well either.
by dlcarrier | 2025-11-10 17:00:59+00:00
I presume that email address is for when you want to ask something of Hacker New, not to ask something about Hacker News.

For example they probably didn't want posts like "Hey Hacker News, why don't you call for the revival of emacs and the elimination of all vi users?" and would rather you email them so they can ignore it, but they also don't want email messages asking "How do I italicize text in a Hacker News comments, seriously I can't remember and I would have done so earlier in this comment if I could?" and would rather you ask the community who could answer it without bothering anyone working at Y Combinator.
by gruez | 2025-11-10 17:01:00+00:00
>For what it is worth, at least on iPhone you can still use the bus/train pass feature in Wallet even when the battery is dead.

AFAIK that only works for NFC passes? For passes that are just qr/bar codes I can't imagine how that'd work if the battery is actually dead. The "use bus passes when battery is dead" feature only works because there's dedicated low power circuitry to power the NFC hardware, which obviously doesn't exist for the display.
by scoofy | 2025-11-10 17:01:15+00:00
I'm not someone who thinks all laws should be followed blindly. When human rights are on the line, yes, we have an obligation to resist. Some people think enforcing immigration law is a violation of human rights.

I do not think it is a reasonable position to consider deportaion of folks overstaying visas as "a violation of human rights" in the vast majority of cases. Where we are breaking up families with young children is where I would draw my line, and that is certainly happening, but again my concern here is with the escalation that is nullification.

I simply think that if I were to go to, say, the UK and decided to not board a flight home and make a life for myself that I could be forcibly deported... and the Labour Gov't in the UK does forcible deportations:

https://londondaily.com/uk-government-reports-record-deporta...

I think the ideal solution is to create a system where overstaying a visa is practically impossible. This way people could not find them in a situation where they've established a life that would make leaving especially painful. However, since it has proven to be too practically difficult to negotiate comprehensive immigration reform for various reasons, the American left -- a left that I consider myself a part of -- has gone in the complete opposite direction for most of my lifetime. We have established an overt nullification policy that effectively facilitates folks ignoring immigration law. Now we have to deal with immigration enforcement we don't like, and it will be very difficult for us to protect young children losing a parent because we've decided that we want to effectively facilitate all folks here illegally, not just those who have found themselves with young families.
by tracker1 | 2025-11-10 17:01:32+00:00
I'm a bit mixed on things as well... I like some of the technical solutions that are coming from the more woke organizations, but I really don't like the abuses under their Code of Conduct or war against the non-woke. Such as activists inside Gnome calling to reject funding from Framework because they're also funding Omarchy and Hyperland.

It's a bit silly, but serious all the same IMO.
by encom | 2025-11-10 17:01:40+00:00
England has been speedrunning the dystopian surveillance police state for a while now, through numerous governments. Voting is pointless.

Same (but different) in Denmark where politicians vote to give themselves more money[1], snoop on everything[2], violate our constitution unpunished[3], delete evidence of corruption[4], open the borders[5], etc. etc. etc. I used to care - a lot - I really did. But I'm done.

[1]https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/ny-aftale-politikeres-loen... [2]https://www.justitsministeriet.dk/pressemeddelelse/i-dag-tra... [3]https://www.information.dk/indland/2020/12/jurister-ja-grund... [4]https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/politisk-flertal-presser-m... [5]https://integrationsbarometer.dk/tal-og-analyser/INTEGRATION...
by tekla | 2025-11-10 17:01:41+00:00
Government student loans made college prices effectively a made up number. If you can just make up a number and anyone can afford it because they're backed by the government, why wouldn't you just make the number go up?

Of course you can also juice up the numbers by lowering standards so that people who don't understand numbers or basic math above a 6th grade level take on these loans without actually understanding what they are doing.
by xnx | 2025-11-10 17:01:47+00:00
> Why not build the thing as a monolith and split parts out when you actually have scaling problems, instead of solving theoretical problems?

I sometimes think programmers are the last people who should be writing software.

The personality type that likes writing code is the exact type that likes tinkering around the edge and working on hypotheticals instead of addressing the problem at hand.
by tmilard | 2025-11-10 17:02:05+00:00
I wanted to give anyone the magic power to make himself an FPS game of their place (appart, museum,ect...). Still not perfect but it's light and my 3D editor is simple enough for anyone. - No coding. - And no need for Unity or Unreal.

==> Here is a photo of the Editor : https://ibb.co/FC9Hzj2

==> website with an example of a FPS visit https://free-visit.net

Please be honest, tell me why I don't have traction.
by panick21_ | 2025-11-10 17:02:32+00:00
Iran in 1970s certainty wasn't a British client state, that's a dumb fucking claim. If anything they were a US client, not a British one. And even the claim that they were an US client is pretty weak. They were a pretty strong regional power back then and while they were clearly allied with the US, they had their own politics and strategies.

Analysis that looks at countries like Iran simply as tools of Superpowers is reductive Cold War area analysis that has gigantic blind spots.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-10 17:02:39+00:00
I think updating dependencies is maybe the most important point. Different microservices can have different versions of libraries and frameworks, as long as their APIs return and do what they should, other microservices don't need to care about what version of some library is used. Being able to update dependencies for a smaller amount of code at a time can make all the difference between "no, that will be too much work right now" and "it's doable".

But, if you have a modular monolith, it will be easy to split it up into separate services, whether microservices or just services. It will be a good test to see how modular your system/monolith really is.
by NalNezumi | 2025-11-10 17:02:41+00:00
The thing that most surprises me in these emails are that those two people care about housing price or student debt, or millennials in general.

And cynical me can't brush of the feeling that this is satire or that I need to read between the lines.

A dude that buys all houses around him just to get privacy and "fuck off" others (Zuck) cares about housing? A guy that think Greta is antichrist and think anyone that blocks AI advancement is antichrist, somehow thinks "we should look at why millennials choose socialism" as a thought process?

A more realistic, "what they mean" interpretation of this emailing is:

"FB product have influence over millennials (Instagram) and Boomers (Facebook). Boomers are dying out, so we should double down on our grip over millennials and tune the algorithms so we can manipulate them more than ever. We should lobby and push out the boomers and set millennials in the position of institutional power, and no other cohorts, so that we have a direct pipeline of controlling the public discord and communication between this generation "
by EvanAnderson | 2025-11-10 17:02:44+00:00
I wonder how many games are impossible to preserve because of the copyright system and apathy on the part of rights-holders.

As an example: I look forward to the day when the license to the "No One Lives Forever"[0] franchise gets sorted out. Through acquisitions and divestitures the ownership to the rights for the game and its sequel have been "lost".

I suppose eventually it'll fall into the public domain, society will collapse, or the heat death of the universe will occur. At least one of those is an eventuality, I think.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Operative:_No_One_Lives_Fo...
by jonhohle | 2025-11-10 17:02:49+00:00
A tool for “grep”ing MIPS binaries[0] to find duplicate code (functions, segments, sections) primarily to aid in decompiling.

It does some neat things to match instructions while avoiding location dependent references, then creates a hash that can be used to used to search binaries in linear (or faster!) time.

Still a WIP, but being used on at least one decomp project.

0 - https://github.com/ttkb-oss/mipsmatch
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-10 17:03:15+00:00
My opinion: if LLM's speed you up, you're doing it wrong. You have to carefully review and audit every line that comes out of an LLM. You have to spend a lot of time forcing LLM's to prove that the code it wrote is correct. You should be nit-picking everything.

Despite, LLM's are useful. I could write the code faster without an LLM, but then I'd have code that wasn't carefully reviewed line-by-line because my coworkers trust me (the fools). It'd have far fewer tests because nobody forced me to prove everything. It'd have worse naming because every once in a while the LLM does that better than me. It'll be missing a few edge cases the LLM thought of that I didn't. It'd have forest/trees problems because if I was writing the code I'd be focused on the code instead of the big picture.
by LexiMax | 2025-11-10 17:03:29+00:00
I find it difficult to argue with its success.

Python underwent one of the most poorly conceived backwards incompatible version updates of any language. I believe that it did irreparable damage to Python's position as an application making or web stack language.

Yet today, it is still one of the most popular languages out there. I believe you can place this popularity at the feet of its outreach programs, which parlaid into being able to find new niches which it is currently thriving in.
by oracleclyde | 2025-11-10 17:03:30+00:00
I am totally against this. Sorry, but back in the day when Myers-Brigg was all the rage, companies did the same thing, using it as a pre-screening tool, which the authors at the time explicitly said shouldn't be done.

Using AI to evaluate someone's background and resume are fine, but it should NEVER be used to make decisions a HUMAN should be doing. Sorry, this isn't controversial for me, even though I am an AI advocate and engineer.

You most likely shafted many qualified candidates in your first round. I hope the people you hire don't regret working for you.
by sq_ | 2025-11-10 17:03:38+00:00
I feel for the families with their reactions to people diving to the wreck, especially the fear that it could become a tourist attraction, but people being so upset at the various submersible and diving teams is curious to me.

Of course, you can't know the true intentions of the teams, but they all seem to have gone down there with great respect for the ship as a gravesite.
by tantalor | 2025-11-10 17:04:11+00:00
> Hi, I'm Heather Burns — yes, that one.

Ok, I was going to ask, but taking "yes, that one" seriously I suppose confirms the author is the actress Heather Burns best known for playing the best friend role in a string of successful romantic comedies.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122688/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Burns

Kind of weird to be reading some blog post about tech privacy from such a well known actress.

Am I missing something?
by mmooss | 2025-11-10 17:04:38+00:00
Actually, the most powerful country in the world by far is the United States, and other than China, other Western countries that have followed this "myopia".

> rare earths

Rare earths are not a manufacturing product, but a natural resource. That's not an applicable example here.

Also, China is more dependent on the rest of the world than vice-versa; China has power, but certainly hasn't brought anyone to their knees - when has that happened?
by jcranmer | 2025-11-10 17:04:44+00:00
Sorry, no. IEEE 754 is correctly implemented in pretty much all modern hardware [1], save for the fact that optional operations (e.g., the suggested transcendental operations) are not implemented.

The problem you run into is that the compiler generally does not implement the IEEE 754 model fully strictly, especially under default flags--you have to opt into strict IEEE 754 conformance, and even there, I'd be wary of the potential for bugs. (Hence one of the things I'm working on, quite slowly, is a special custom compiler that is designed to have 100% predictable assembly output for floating-point operations so that I can test some floating-point implementation things without having to worry about pesky optimizations interfering with me).

[1] The biggest stumbling block is denormal support: a lot of processors opted to support denormals only by trapping on it and having an OS-level routine to fix up the output. That said, both AMD and Apple have figured out how to support denormals in hardware with no performance penalty (Intel has some way to go), and from what I can tell, even most GPUs have given up and added full denormal support as well.
by colechristensen | 2025-11-10 17:05:01+00:00
I assume the driver code just isn't in mainline linux and installing the correct toolchain isn't always easy. Having it turnkey available is nice and fundamentally new hardware just isn't going to have day 1 linux support.

You're free to lift the kernel and any drivers/libraries and run them on your distribution of choice, it'll just be hacky.
by ReflectedImage | 2025-11-10 17:05:07+00:00
So originally software development used micro-services rather than modules. A lot of software developers get this wrong and think modules were first. They were not. The software developers just grew up during the module fad caused by the personal computer before everything circled back around to micro-services.

The purpose of OOP was to replicate the benefits of micro-services in single user environments. A class corresponds to a service type and an object an physical instance of the service.

So why did Monoliths/modules fail? Some pretty simple issues, incomplete isolate between the modules, memory corruption and performance issues easily propagate between the "isolated" modules.

But the main killer is compile times. Monoliths/module based programs require massive compile times that grow quickly with the size of the program.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-11-10 17:05:11+00:00
Gyromorphs seem to be Fourier transforms of quasicrystals.. if that makes them less mysterious

[fig 2a] panels show near-perfect agreement between the real (resp. reciprocal) features of gyromorphs and the reciprocal (resp. real) features of quasicrystals.

https://arxiv.org/html/2410.09023v1

Another paper of the week on experimentally discovering quasicrystals (& now, also gyromorphs

https://arxiv.org/html/2506.18473v2
by bunderbunder | 2025-11-10 17:05:13+00:00
My annoying critique of this article is that I don't think the author made their case strongly enough.

I've discovered that their taxonomy at the opening of the article ("single unit of deployment - monolith, multiple units of deployment - microservices/services") is a bit optimistic. Because, when it comes to making things unnecessarily complicated, human ingenuity knows no limits.

I've now worked on a project that somehow managed to be monolithic despite having multiple units of deployment. We weren't good about contract/API change management, so in practice it was rare that you could separately deploy "independent" services.

And I've also worked on a project that had a single unit of deployment but was somehow still more microservice-like. Everything was packaged into a single giant Docker image that contained the binaries for all the services. (You'd pick which one a container was running with run-time configuration.) But they were well-modularized and services from different versions of the image could talk to each other just fine, so in practice working on it often felt more like successful microservice implementations in development and production. It's just that getting things from development to production was an unholy nightmare because the CI pipeline for that "mono-image" was such a monstrosity.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-11-10 17:05:26+00:00
It's all downstream of lack of investment.

The workers weren't productive because they weren't getting better tools. They weren't out there smashing the new machines to stay in the past, they weren't bought in the first place. So how is this the workers' problem that they somehow created?

The problem is the company ownership didn't invest and let those that did pass them by.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-10 17:05:30+00:00
Note that only about 1/3 of this critique (the last example, and with slightly different actual syntax in place of the preferred syntax) of "conventional programming languages" applies to the #1 language on the Tiobe index, which does, in fact, use and instead of && and or instead of || but uses ":" instead of "then" in if statements.
by WhitneyLand | 2025-11-10 17:05:50+00:00
GX10 vs MacBook Pro M4 Max:

- Price: $3k / $5k

- Memory: same (128GB)

- Memory bandwidth: ~273GB/s / 546GB/sec

- SSD: same (1 TB)

- GPU advantage: ~5x-10x depending on memory bottleneck

- Network: same 10Gbe (via TB)

- Direct cluster: 200Gb / 80Gb

- Portable: No / Yes

- Free Mac included: No / Yes

- Free monitor: No / Yes

- Linux out of the box: Yes / No

- CUDA Dev environment: Yes : No
by Fileformat | 2025-11-10 17:06:28+00:00
Well, I do agree with you, but...

1. This is pretty difficult for someone who doesn't know about RSS. How would they ever learn what to do with it?

2. Browsers don't do that. There used to be an icon in the URL bar when they detected an RSS feed. It would be wonderful if browsers did support doing exactly what you suggest. I'm not holding my breath.

I'm not looking to replicate my blog via XSLT of the RSS feed: that's what the blog's HTML pages are. I just don't want to alienate non-RSS users.