MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-26 22:54:47+00:00
But none of that matters.

If LLMs can one shot a mostly working patch of some sort for your use case, and you can't be assed to take the effort to go through it and make sure it's rock solid and up to spec, then do not submit a PR with that code because that's stupid, and literally any other human being with a claude subscription can also one shot a mostly working patch for their needs

AI PRs are worthless, because if they are that good, nobody needs to share anything anymore anyway! If they aren't that good, they are spam.

The reason people keep committing giant LLM PRs is that they are deluded and morons, and somehow believe that both their ideas are magically important, LLMs trivially turn those ideas into quality output, and somehow nobody else can do that as well.

It's just ego. Believing that only YOU can contribute something produced by a machine that takes natural human language as input is asinine. Anyone can produce it. And if anyone can produce it, nobody needs YOU to submit a PR.

If you prompted an LLM to produce code, then so can the maintainers of the project. Why are you so full of yourself that you think they require you to generate a PR for them? Do you think OSS programmers don't know how to use LLMs?
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-26 22:54:55+00:00
You can decide what's a sin, I'm just saying that fast exclusions really do eat into the watch options.

Though when I go look at the last big bunch of LTT videos I don't see any lies? Scotty Killmer I can find some lies pretty fast. "New Law Will Put You in Jail for Driving Your Car" for example.
by phren0logy | 2025-11-26 22:55:05+00:00
The recent direction of MacOS has been a good excuse to try out a few new linux distros. As someone who was away from linux for a while, the degree of UI customization continues to be both amazing and a little overwhelming, but it feels more polished than before. Taking a look at Niri and hyperland, it's hard to feel satisfied with the UI of MacOS.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-26 22:55:26+00:00
An app can use the VPN API to intercept network traffic. This is all done with plenty of security popups (one to inform you an app is trying to register as a VPN, the another popup when it's first activated, and the while it's active there's a permanent notification that says "your connection may be monitored" with a quick button to kill the VPN).

The API is supposed to let apps do things like "route intranet/corporate app traffic over a VPN, let other traffic go through", but you can just as easily use it to drop traffic destined for certain addresses (such as ad servers), or to drop all traffic for specific apps. It's also possible to make decisions like "let this app connect to the internet on wifi but not on data".

It should be noted that system applications (phone OS, Google, sometimes carrier apps) can bind to specific network interfaces bypassing this API entirely. This means you can't use this API to 100% block internet access to preinstalled apps, even though apps will need to explicitly implement networking code to bypass such firewalls.

It should be noted that Google doesn't really like apps abusing the VPN API like this, in past because of the massive privacy risk. Google cut a bunch of these apps from Google Play, though there's not much they can do about APKs you download from F-Droid or github.
by lelandbatey | 2025-11-26 22:55:42+00:00
Complaining about the UI color and button layout of an game _engine_ is a bit like comparing aircraft carriers by the color of the rug in the control room. What about the built-in tools for organizing and connecting assets, format support, how user input is handled, the batteries-included ways to model game state, and all the ways of interconnecting all those things in the code the engine provides? Does anyone have interesting comparisons/notes around those subjects as it relates to the S&box engine?
by noisem4ker | 2025-11-26 22:56:49+00:00
They fixed that. I can definitely connect remotely in an unattended way as long as I'm logged in locally.

These might have something to do with it:

https://develop.kde.org/docs/administration/portal-permissio...

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/krdp/-/merge_requests/102
by _aavaa_ | 2025-11-26 22:56:49+00:00
> The person's time is worth $0/hr

The time dedicated to getting physical activity is also worth 0$/hr (or even negative at a gym)

> The person is not disabled

What point are you actually trying to make here? That just because some can't bike that the argument is invalidated for the rest of society?

> The person doesn't need to carry anything that can't fit in a backpack

The person has never heard of baskets or cargo bikes

> The weather is clemant enough

The weather is blamed rather than the poor infrastructure

> The journey is short enough

Short enough for what? Also a repeat of the first point.
by hammock | 2025-11-26 22:57:10+00:00
Anything dealing with the signaling systems of the body (GLP-1 agonists, DP-XX binders like Keytruda, IL-XX binders like Humira, etc and even HRT) all fall under this bucket. We have a great understanding of some effects of some signaling systems and we use that understanding to our advantage. But the fact is these signaling molecules and receptors do a lot, more than we know, and in overlapping and complex ways, that we are always finding “new indications” and “new side effects” with roughly equal frequency.
by vablings | 2025-11-26 22:57:15+00:00
It does seem insane to me that there isnt a process to catch the panic, unwind back to a reasonable place in the call stack, load the last known good configuration and continue execution as normal. You would go from having a global 2 hour outage to a warning on a dashboard that can be investigated in a timely manner rather than blowing up half the internet
by lucb1e | 2025-11-26 22:58:10+00:00
> after this was announced, other companies started making their own deals in a panic, further driving demand.

Oh ffs it's like the toilet paper thing. I was amazed how long that continued despite credible sources saying there is no shortage, just insane demand from the loonies that don't believe it would return to normal instantly if they would just stop buying more and more extras because "see, it's out again!"
by rbartelme | 2025-11-26 22:59:58+00:00
> Life's two most fundamental properties are homeostasis and reproduction. > The loss of these two combined with its parasitic nature makes this cell a form on non-life.

This is a decidedly Eukaryote-centric take. Homeostasis in higher mammals is a complex network of genes -> RNA -> proteins -> metabolic pathways

Reproduction is also far more simple in organisms with binary fission cellular division.

A more appropriate scientific term would be obligate commensalism vs. "parasitic". That actually encapsulates their need for metabolic precursors from the host, but allows for tRNA, rRNA, origin of replication, etc...present in the organism's genome.
by phatskat | 2025-11-26 23:00:10+00:00
I think the grid syntax is really off-putting - it’s one of the few places of “typical” CSS I tend to avoid unless something really calls for it. In my experience, it feels like the people most familiar with grid display, the syntax, and using it, are more on the design side than the programming side - most of my frontend peers who use it tend to misuse it when flex would work fine and be less rigid for their goals
by danpalmer | 2025-11-26 23:00:41+00:00
> Why would a pharma company give away the upside to a commoditized intelligence layer?

Why would a commoditized intelligence company give away the upside to a commoditized silicon company?

It still amazes me that Nvidia is worth so much, they're just one slice of the value chain, from mining, through chip fabrication, through to chip IP, through to technology stack, training, inference, and product integration.

I understand the reasons why, it's mostly lock in with CUDA and isn't really about unique chips, and I think the market sentiment on this is changing, but still it's crazy to me.
by mcmoor | 2025-11-26 23:00:46+00:00
For electric vehicles, in third world countries the most obvious bottlenecks are pricing and infrastructure. However despite that, I'm quite surprised by how fast adoption actually is even when it's not as fast as first world countries.

For bikes, we already have TON of powered bikes. I can actually see electric bikes opening the eye of Americans on the wonder of scooters.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-26 23:00:51+00:00
I work for a very large company that has a mostly SSR monolith written in PHP.

Modern PHP is a joy, and it's much faster these days, but performance is still a problem. It was chosen over 25 years ago, and I'm sure they thought the same thing about never getting the amount of load they eventually got.

Modern PHP is virtually indistinguishable from dotnet, with some php-isms sprinkled on top. They should've chosen dotnet all those years ago.
by nubskr | 2025-11-26 23:01:01+00:00
Hey HN! recently I've been working on Walrus, a distributed message streaming engine that combines high-performance log storage with Raft-based coordination.

What makes it different:

- Segment-based sharding with automatic load balancing – Topics split into ~1M entry segments, leadership rotates round-robin on rollover. No manual partition management. - Lease-based write fencing – Only the segment leader can write. Leases sync from Raft metadata every 100ms, preventing split-brain without coordination on the data path. - Sealed segment reads – Old segments stay on the original leader after rollover. No data movement, reads scale with replicas. - Simple TCP protocol – Connect to any node, auto-forwarding to the right leader. Commands are just PUT topic payload and GET topic.

Performance: The underlying storage engine hits ~1.2M writes/sec (unsynced) and ~5K writes/sec (fsynced), competitive with Kafka and faster than RocksDB in benchmarks.

Correctness: Includes a TLA+ spec verified with TLC covering write fencing, rollover mechanics, and cursor advancement.

The repo has both the distributed system (distributed-walrus/) and the standalone storage engine library (walrus-rust on crates.io).

Would love feedback on the architecture, especially around the lease synchronization approach and sealed segment design!
by serf | 2025-11-26 23:01:52+00:00
>Once you have access to the developer preview, please use developer docs and discord to figure stuff out. Yes, I hate that every community is moving to discord and no-one uses forums anymore too, but it's the way the world is.

that cute snide comment won't somehow ensure that all of your community discussion isn't lost to discord-rot in a few short years.

keep your fate in your own hands..

(unless you just don't care)
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-11-26 23:02:02+00:00
Are you always this insufferable when you speak, or do you just talk down to people trying to honestly engage with you as a matter of policy?

And no, I am not agreeing with you. Your statement is incomprehensible. Yes, the Whopper and Big Mac both suck to a degree where they are interchangeable. Home Alone 1 and 2 are not interchangeable at all. They have things in common, they have strengths and weaknesses, and I guess if I was in the mood to watch one, and only two was available, I wouldn't be heartbroken about it, but both have enough going on that they both deserve their own existence as well.

And Mario and Predator is just.. I have no idea what you mean. As someone who has experienced both the urge to watch Predator and play Super Mario, no, one is not remotely a substitute for the other. That's just wacky.
by cheald | 2025-11-26 23:02:21+00:00
Stable Diffusion 1.5 is a great model for hacking on. It's powerful enough that it encodes some really rich semantics, but small and light enough that iterative hacking on it is quick enough that it can be done by hobbyists.

I've got a new potential LoRA implementation that I've been testing locally (using a transformed S matrix with frozen U and V weights from an SVD decomposition of the base matrix) that seems to work really well, and I've been playing with both changes to the forward-noising schedule and the loss functions which seem to yield empirically superior results of the standard way of doing things. Epsilon prediction may be old and busted (and working on it makes me really appreciate flow matching!) but there's some really cool stuff happening in its training dynamics that are a lot of fun to explore.

It's just a lot of fun. Great playground for both learning how these things work and for trying out new ideas.
by jsheard | 2025-11-26 23:02:25+00:00
They're pretty upfront about the reason - their anticheat supports Linux, but enabling it would make it much easier to cheat because it's not nearly as effective on there, and they decided the cons outweigh the pros.

Apex Legends went through the same issue when they enabled Linux support, cheaters swarmed to Linux en-masse because it was so trivial to evade detection even with free/public cheats, and after a year or so the devs threw in the towel and blocked Linux again.

They're not doing this out of spite, they'd be happy to take your money if there were no downside, but unfortunately it is a trade-off for games which are sensitive to being ruined by cheaters. At least for now.
by phantasmish | 2025-11-26 23:02:27+00:00
Horror, action-horror, and comedy-horror are in a really great place and have been for a while. Drama’s doing fine. Comedy’s been a bit weak for many years IMO. All the good ones I can think of are comedy/something—like, Red Rocket is very good and quite funny but also… damn dark and leans drama often enough that I’m not sure just “dark comedy” covers the difference between it and a straight comedy, it’s more a dark-comedy/drama. Or, uh, is The Art of Self Defense a comedy? Like… sorta? I can think of a couple alright ordinary comedies but nothing that stands out.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-11-26 23:03:30+00:00
Human beings are human beings.

For profit products are for profit products, that are required to compensate if they are derivative of other works (in this case, there would be no AI product without the upstream training data, which checks the flag that it's derivative).

If you would like to change the laws, ok. But simply breaking them and saying 'but the machine is like a person' is still... just breaking the laws and stealing.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-11-26 23:03:53+00:00
> The median wage earner in the US working one job is not homeless.

Median wage goalpost is up the field from the typical wage goalpost. The latter is the most obtainable income range, the sort that folks could once earn and stay housed.

source: I once supported my young family on a typical wage

Past that, homelessness and wage earning are generally at odds with each other. This is for a for a number of pronounced reasons, obvious and not. One of the less discernible reasons is that being unhoused makes employers uneasy; I once lost a job when my boss learned I was homeless.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-11-26 23:04:17+00:00
The point wasn't merely about remembering something, the raised survivorship bias is moment in time when something becomes a cult classic[0]. Box office numbers don't matter much there, as these cult classics all bombed at the office:

- Blade Runner (1982)

- Brazil (1985)

- Donnie Darko (2001)

- Fight Club (1999)

- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

- The Thing (1982)

The question should be wether we can still create the same kind of cults like we did in the 90s.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cult_films
by martinald | 2025-11-26 23:04:18+00:00
I'm not sure. Amazon isn't usually hugely price competitive nor does it have stuff I can't find elsewhere.

What it does have is very high convenience (I'm signed in already, and I know the checkout process by muscle memory). To be fair it also has excellent customer support, but I'm not sure I would go out of my way just for that (I return a handful of purchases a year out of 100+).

These go away with 'agentic commerce', at least in theory, because the agent/MCP/API does this for the user.

The other advantage it has is excellent logistics, but that's more of a benefit for Amazon than the user IMO. Lots of small ecommerce sites can have 'excellent' logistics, because they are much smaller. The only unique thing Amazon has in the UK at least is same day delivery, but I believe they lose a fortune on that and really try and push you away from it. This may vary where you are but in general next day delivery works great in the UK from most sites (DPD/RM Tracked 24). Gets a bit hairy with 'economy' delivery from Evri or Yodel tho.
by beej71 | 2025-11-26 23:04:33+00:00
There's probably something in here about our personal tastes changing, as well. I used to really enjoy going to the movies and would go frequently to see all kinds of stuff. But now it hardly seems worth it knowing that I'll probably be bored by whatever it is. Now I go to the theater maybe three or four times a year. I always bring a book on airplane trips now because, despite having more selection than ever, I don't want to watch anything that's on there.
by hdjrudni | 2025-11-26 23:04:46+00:00
I don't know if big companies even know how to make web apps. Honestly. Which is extra insane to me because there's so much investment in web technologies. On my team at $BigTech there's like 1 or 2 people out of 30 people on our team that knows web, the rest are mobile. I'm a web guy but I refuse to touch our web-app because they butchered the tech stack and I don't have the energy to deal with that BS. We still have an mobile-web version distinct from the 'desktop' version because.... I don't know why, whoever wrote it never learned about responsive web design and we never bothered to move out of the stone ages because if people want to use the app on their phone, they should download the native app of course! And by "native" I mean we built our own half-baked framework so that we could cross-compile for Android and iOS.

Also I don't think these people know how capable PWAs are. There's very little you can't do in a web-app that you can do with a native app.
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-26 23:05:40+00:00
This is almost certainly what's going on right now in the retail market. OTOH it's also a semi-rational response to volatility and uncertainty as to future wholesale prices, due to, e.g. the projected build-out of future AI datacenters. As with any durable good, whenever the price might be expected to rise in the future, people will want to hoard stockpiles and the expected price rise will be brought forward to the present.
Show HN: LedgerApp – Fast team expense tracker built with Next.js and Supabase
by planner24 | 2025-11-26 23:05:54+00:00
I built LedgerApp to solve a problem I kept running into: tracking shared expenses with my team was always more complicated than it needed to be.

What it does:

- Log expenses in under 15 seconds (amount, category, date, receipt)

- Real-time per-person balance calculations

- Automated "Settle Up" calculator that minimizes transactions

- CSV/PDF exports for accounting

- Free for teams up to 3 members

Tech stack:

- Next.js 15 with App Router

- Supabase (Postgres + Auth + Storage)

- Stripe for subscriptions

- AWS SES for emails

- TypeScript throughout

What makes it different:

Most expense trackers are either too simple (spreadsheets) or too complex (enterprise software). I focused on speed—the form is minimal, balances update in real-time, and the UI is mobile-first.

Free tier: Up to 3 team members, unlimited expenses, basic dashboard. No credit card required.

Paid tiers: Features like CSV export, Settle Up calculator, and advanced charts, slack integrations etc.

I'd love feedback from the HN community, especially on: - The balance calculation logic (currently splits equally) - The UX flow for adding expenses - Any features you'd find useful for small teams

Try it free: https://ledgerapp.team
by jquery | 2025-11-26 23:06:03+00:00
The same statistic for trains is a few hundred deaths per "passenger-light-year". Or 0.004 fatalities per 100 million miles. [1]

[1] https://www.transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.dot.gov/files/2024-10/...

Some back of the envelope calculations give me roughly ~40,000 deaths per passenger-light-year if you travel by car instead of train.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-11-26 23:06:40+00:00
> which backward-propagates through time-symmetric quantum evolution to create detectable perturbations in the present states,

That's not how quantum physics works. You might be misunderstanding delayed-choice. If you do think it works this way, I encourage you to show a mathematical model: that'll make it easier to point out the flaw in your reasoning.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-26 23:07:03+00:00
The real RCA (IMHO) is not simulating outages in production as part of reliability engineering.

Whatever process was stuck in a loop, crashed, or whatever service (db, dns,etc..) was unavailable, that outage scenario can be simulated. Changes can have an automated rollback requirement.

My take away is that CF has single points of failure they're aware of, and for business reasons, they've decided to not have a redundancy/failover.

> ...and formally verified code, this bug would not have happened.

That's what I mean, "we should have caught the bug" , yeah, but that isn't reliability engineering. You assume there will be bugs/outages and prepare for them instead. What happens if the entire DB entered a weird state and was spitting out valid results with incorrect values? What happens if it accepts connections and just stalls?

You prepare for bugs that don't yet exist, you fix bugs that do exist.
by aylmao | 2025-11-26 23:07:28+00:00
Most people don't get to pick how much money they have, their employer does. Most people don't choose and how much the car they want costs, a company does. Most people have very little say on laws and regulations, but billionaires have friends and family in government.

If billionaires were less greedy and paid more, more people could choose environmentally friendly options. If billionaires were less greedy and sold environmental options for cheaper, more people could choose environmentally friendly options. If billionaires cared about the planet, they could use their influence to pass laws for the good of the planet.

Instead you have corporations holding salaries down and squeezing margins from their customers. How's someone making the median salary in Bolivia ($3,631/yr) supposed to buy anything but the cheapest gas-burning car?

You got corporations going full cartoon villain too with disinformation campaigns, lies and bribes/lobbying to impede anything regulation that would cut into their profits. Exxon wants to keep selling gas, and the's a lot they can do (and have done) to keep you without any options but gas [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evy2EgoveuE
by andrewshadura | 2025-11-26 23:07:53+00:00
My understanding it's a reference to Steve Coogan, who played Alan Partridge, who in one episode sees a friend called Dan, and starts shouting his name, but Dan doesn't react. Alan proceeds shouting: Dan! Dan! DAN! and eventually gives up. This scene was later parodied in a BBC programme about animals, where one animal shouts Alan! Alan! ALAN! and then realises the name's wrong: STEVE!
by array_key_first | 2025-11-26 23:08:23+00:00
It's not pedantic at all: if I look away and mute, which is perfectly allowed, versus use an ad blocker, what's the difference?

The outcome for me is identical. I don't see an ad, and I won't buy something.

It's the same reason why DVR recording was never piracy. It's the same thing as if I watched the show, except the DVR does it.