MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WillPostForFood | 2025-11-05 08:22:05+00:00
It got dropped because the Republicans won congress in the midterms and didn't actually want to change anything about health care;

Right? So Republicans did not support it, or want it. It was just part of the Clinton Plan politics and negotiation. When Clinton failed, HEART totally disappeared.

recently Republicans have been trying to distance themselves from it

Of the 18 Republicans who co-sponsored it, none are still in politics, 14 of the 18 are now dead. Republicans today have literally nothing to do with it. It is getting silly to say a Republican today has any connection or responsibility for this proposal that never even came close to a vote, and not one current Republican has any connection to.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-11-05 08:22:07+00:00
> I am way more comfortable managing a system that is k3s rather than something that is still using tmux that gets wiped every reboot.

Thoughts on Tmux-resurrect[1] , it can even resurrect programs running inside of it as well. It feels like it can as such reduce complexity from something like k3s back to tmux. What are your thoughts on it?

[1]:https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect?tab=readme-ov...
Show HN: A new language for COBOL workloads, built on Go
by nsokra02 | 2025-11-05 08:22:13+00:00
We’re building an open-source language layer on top of Go, designed specifically for COBOL-style workloads: Native decimal arithmetic (COBOL-accurate) Record structures and copybook compatibility Batch jobs and transactional orchestration as first-class constructs Sequential / indexed file I/O baked into the runtime Compiles through Go for speed, concurrency, and cloud deployability Think of it as Kotlin for COBOL, or “COBOL on Go” familiar to mainframe engineers, powerful for modern developers.

Test Results so far: NIST COBOL-85 validation: 77.61% overall (305/393 tests) NC (Core COBOL): 97.89% (93/95) SM (Statements): 100% (13/13) RL (Relative I/O): 100% (26/26) IF (Intrinsic Functions): 100% (45/45) IC (CALL): 96% (24/25) Compliance tests: 100% passing Acceptance tests: 100% passing
by BoredPositron | 2025-11-05 08:22:24+00:00
I am glad china is subsidizing their models and releasing them open weight to pressure the US model providers. The value proposition at the moment is mostly tooling and that's easy to reverse engineer. That's probably why we see the switch to coding agent platforms. Not sure if it will work out in the end if we see base model stagnation like we have seen in the last releases.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-05 08:22:36+00:00
>and if half the country isn't on board

By that logic, we can never pass anything, ever. And that more or less is represented with congredd Grdidlock for the past 20 years. Is that a better outcome?

I see it as Sprint vs. Waterfall. Except Waterfall takes 8-10 years in policy to do and no one is in office long enough to finish the task. So we gotta pass in a lot of smaller tickets until we get there.
by PeterStuer | 2025-11-05 08:22:54+00:00
Not realy. Most developers would prefer one model that does everything best. That is the easiest, set it and forget it, no manual descision required.

What is unclear from the presentation is wether they do this or not. Do teams that use Sonnet 4.5 just always use it, and teams on Sonnet 4.0 likewise? Or do individuals decided which model to use on a per task basis.

Personally I tend to default to just 1, and only go to an alternative if it gets stuck or doesn't get me what I want.
by blitzar | 2025-11-05 08:23:20+00:00
GPT-5 usage is 20% higher on days that start with "S"

Nevertheless, 7 datapoints does not a trend make (and the data presented certainly doesnt explain why). The daily variation is more than I would have expected, but could also be down to what day of the week the pizza party is or the weekly scrum meetings is at a few of their customers workplaces.
by sebastos | 2025-11-05 08:24:02+00:00
How many times must it be explained that building luxury mansions still brings property prices down. Nobody ever voluntarily builds crappy low income housing. That’s never how development works. You let people build the new fancy buildings they want to build with all the margins and high prices. Then, when a bunch of rich people move in, that’s people that are no longer chasing all the other apartments. Eventually, way down the road, these swanky apartments will be tomorrow’s old and crappy ones in the neighborhood that’s not hip anymore, and low income people can rent them. This is how things actually work, and it’s fine.

What is NOT fine is when you have banks and private equity bullshit chasing homes purely as an asset to flip. That’s the thing we need to curtail, because it’s just money laundering at the expense of the American homeowner.
by GoblinSlayer | 2025-11-05 08:25:16+00:00
>On May 5, 1993, Sun Microsystems announced Windows Application Binary Interface (WABI), a product to run Windows software on Unix, and the Public Windows Interface (PWI) initiative, an effort to standardize a subset of the popular 16-bit Windows APIs.

>In February 1994, the PWI Specification Committee sent a draft specification to X/Open—who rejected it in March, after being threatened by Microsoft's assertion of intellectual property rights (IPR) over the Windows APIs

Looks like that's what it was.
by kryptiskt | 2025-11-05 08:25:49+00:00
The Old New Thing is very much engineering. Any contemporary engineers who don't think they have anything to learn from the experience of the past as recounted in the blog are doomed to repeat the same missteps.

And much as one would hope that Raymond Chen's blogging is holding up any important Microsoft initiatives, I very much doubt that it's much of a distraction for a megacorporation.
by lisdexan | 2025-11-05 08:26:01+00:00
>My impression of him is he's basically a spoiled rich kid who's never worked a day in his life. That doesn't mean he's not allowed to be ambitious, but it does put into question his credentials as a genuine socialist. It's easy to hold popular opinions when they won't affect your lifestyle in any way.

Being a basically a edgy candidate from a Green EU party doesn't require a vow of poverty, nor an actual take-the-means-of-production Socialist for that matter. He's the son of a college professor and a filmmaker with award winning movies and docs with shitty box offices. Clearly extremely comfortable, but straight humble compared to "my daddy made me campaign manager" Cuomo.

I'm sure his proposals aren't optimal for his parents home equity.

> He has used the term "globalise the intifada"

He never said it. It just the ol' reliable "Mr Candidate, do you condemn the phrase 'I love kicking puppies'? No, saying that’s not the language that you use is not valid for some reason." I recommend to expand your news diet.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-11-05 08:26:20+00:00
If you have high volume traffic depending on time of month, ie finance around ultimo/primo, you might need to scale your performance to 5-10x your normal idle load.

If running on your own data center, or renting physical/virtual machines from ie Hetzner, you will pay for that capability overhead for 30.5 days per month, when in reality you only need it for 2-3 days.

With the cloud you can simply scale dynamically, and while you end up paying more for the capacity, you only pay when you use it, meaning you save money for most of the month.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-05 08:27:14+00:00
> NYC has a bigger population than the entire country of Ireland

New York City's economy [1], were it a country, would sit at No. 18 in the world between the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia [2].

The only EU members with economies larger than its are the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, France and Germany.

(New York City's budget [3] is bigger than the military budgets of every country on the planet except for America, China and Russia's [4]. On par with the budgets of Ukraine and the Philippines [5].)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_New_York_City $1.3tn

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

[3] https://council.nyc.gov/press/2025/06/30/2915/ $116bn

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-05 08:27:19+00:00
>Trump 2.0 is showing us what the president can do.

If a Democrat did any of the hundreds of actions performed this year, they'd be blocked by the SCOTUS, and then impeached by the House because they ignored the SCOTUS. And probably Convicted by Senate.

A democrat has not been able to do something as bold as blasting through the courts since FDR (and for that time, the term "democrat" may not even be the correct word to use), and that was under a depression with very popular support from the people. Imagine if congress flipped and fought as hard against SS as they did against the ACA. The Silent and Boomer generations would be in shambles decades later.
by eru | 2025-11-05 08:28:52+00:00
Hypothesis is pretty good, but it's not magic. There's only so many corner cases it can cover in the 200 (or so) cases per tests it's running by default.

But by default you also start with a new random seed every time you run the tests, so you can build up more confidence over the older tests and older code, even if you haven't done anything specifically to address this problem.

Also, even with Hypothesis you can and should still write specific tests or even just specific generators to cover specific classes of corners cases you are worried about in more detail.
by aleks224 | 2025-11-05 08:29:37+00:00
So this would be the first stack overflow after the Morris' fingerd one (well, first one that's widely publicized):

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/1995/Feb/109

> we've installed the NCSA HTTPD 1.3 on our WWW server (HP9000/720, HP-UX 9.01) and I've found, that it can be tricked into executing shell commands. Actually, this bug is similar to the bug in fingerd exploited by the internet worm. The HTTPD reads a maximum of 8192 characters when accepting a request from port 80.
by eesmith | 2025-11-05 08:29:53+00:00
> NYC status quo (like freezing the rent).

The platform page points out how the status quo was recently broken: "Eric Adams has taken every opportunity to squeeze tenants, with his hand-picked appointees to the Rent Guidelines Board jacking up rents on stabilized apartments by 12.6% (and counting)–the most since a Republican ran City Hall."

Sure sounds like Adams made a controversial change to the status quo to me.

The position is "As Mayor, Zohran will immediately freeze the rent for all stabilized tenants".

I read that as want to return to status quo ante Adams.
by setopt | 2025-11-05 08:30:35+00:00
> latency-in-zoom kind of becomes an attribute of the medium and you learn to adapt.

To some degree but not fully. When you adapt your brain is still doing extra work to compensate, similarly to how you don’t «hear» jet engine noise after acclimating to an airplane but it will still tire you to some degree.

I had Zoom and Teams meetings daily during Covid, and personal FaceTime calls almost daily for a while. I still get «Zoom fatigue» if a call goes on for over an hour, if I need to talk face to face during the call (i.e. no screen sharing, can’t disable video and look at something else, etc.) I’m fine if I don’t look at people’s faces but rather people’s screen sharing.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-11-05 08:30:35+00:00
Biometrics are identification means (including DNA).

They can be used to uniquely identify you, but they're not secret. You literally leave fingerprints and DNA everywhere you go, and obtaining your biometrics is not as hard as guessing your password.

Biometrics should be used for identification, for authentication along with other means (passwords, PIN, device keys, etc), and never for authorization.
by deepsummer | 2025-11-05 08:30:47+00:00
I recently had the same realization and moved all my functions to a simple stand-alone server. Besides the normal AWS costs, what scares me most about AWS is the possibility that someone could try to DOS me, leaving me with a huge AWS bill, because there is no real way to limit AWS spending.

The main reason why I keep coming back to cloud providers is databases. I don't feel comfortable setting up a high-availability db setup, and I don't want the responsibility of managing backups. But if you go to, say, Hetzner, you won't be able to use a cloud database in the same network.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-05 08:31:27+00:00
>It was keeping the money in pockets of billionaires and corporations while talking about promise of potential change by the most charismatic president ever.

Are you talking about Obama or Trump?

> US president is still the most powerful political position on the planet. They can do stuff you know.

And this is why people don't trust republicans. They are all "checks and balances" and "Constitution" until the dictatorship they want is upon them.

Biden try to forgive student loans. The courts blocked him. They clearly cannot just "do stuff you know". Not without risk of impeachment for executive overreach.
by threatofrain | 2025-11-05 08:32:05+00:00
If you want something simple then you could use Redis Streams, and if you want a more mature solution you could use BullMQ, which is pretty solid and well liked. Knowing what you're doing in BullMQ is reading some docs.

Do I really need to discuss why BullMQ is non-trivial software, or Redis Streams with consumer groups?

And I asked but you didn't answer. How am I supposed to discover the ergonomics of your custom Redis or BullMQ replacement? Do I read your hand-written docs?
by lordkrandel | 2025-11-05 08:32:43+00:00
I really think what sets us apart are taxes, political support, and capital investment. In Europe it's almost impossible to do a "startup", to get founded, lose money, grow and then become profitable. No one, not even YC gives you money here. If you're able to go to San Francisco, beat the US people there, and come back build something in Italy, where every single power (social and political) is designed go drain and suck all the juice you have - then you are in the 0.00001% of people who got very lucky in life.
by kakacik | 2025-11-05 08:33:24+00:00
There is something special about backpacking more remote parts of Indonesia. I love it to the core, although its highly incompatible with having small kids for many reasons, but anytime I can cut off a week or two to have most chores covered by family and wife approves, I go for it like there is no tomorrow. Did one trip to Togian islands in Sulawesi archipelago this summer after 6 year hiatus, can't recommend it enough.

Basically if you like tropical jungle and beaches/coral diving its Indonesia as #1. If you like culture (and sensory) shock and people its India. If you love mountains its Nepal.

There is way more out there of course, often a mix of above (ie India has all of it in droves and much more, but its a proper continent size-wise). I always come back physically tired but mentally permanently enriched and a slightly different person, this style is simply so intense compared to a more casual spending of holidays.

But compatible with small kids it isn't... even though I met few families with small kids it seemed properly selfish from parents - no real doctor or even medicine for 200km/overnight ferry around, kids struggling in equatorial humid jungle without AC, although it must be a very forming experience for them too.
by chneu | 2025-11-05 08:33:43+00:00
Not only are Americans dumb, they're incredibly ego driven and stubborn. That means Americans always think they're right. Everyone else is doing it wrong.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.

I'm American. If you don't buy into the insane status-symbol ego culture, it's daily insanity of excess consumption and selfishness.

The worst part is no one wants to hear this. There's a crazy culture of "Saying anything is mean". We shove our heads in the dirt all the time.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-05 08:33:53+00:00
That’s the definition of throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Is ISO as an organisation imperfect sometimes (as in the docs case) sure?, it’s composed of humans who are generally flawed creatures, is it generally a good solution despite that?, also sure.

They’ve published tens of thousands off standards over 70 plus years that are deeply important to multiple industries so disregarding them because Microsoft co-opted them once 20 odd years ago seems unreasonable to me.
by rhdunn | 2025-11-05 08:33:53+00:00
A 4090 has 24GB of VRAM allowing you to run a 22B model entirely in memory at FP8 and 24B models at Q6_K (~19GB).

A 5090 has 32GB of VRAM allowing you to run a 32B model in memory at Q6_K.

You can run larger models by splitting the GPU layers that are run in VRAM vs stored in RAM. That is slower, but still viable.

This means that you can run the Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B model locally on a 4090 or 5090. That model is a Mixture of Experts model with 3B active parameters, so you really only need a card with 3B of VRAM so you could run it on a 3090.

The Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B model could also be run on a 4090 or 5090 by splitting the active 35B parameters across VRAM and RAM.

Yes, it will be slower than running it in the cloud. But you can get a long way with a high-end gaming rig.
by gigatexal | 2025-11-05 08:34:24+00:00
You people can’t be serious, right?

Ok so I build my data lake on s3 using all open tech. I’m still paying for S3 for puts and reads and lists.

Ok I put it on my own hardware. In my own colo. you’re still paying electricity and other things. Everything is lock in.

On top of that you’re beholden to an entire community of people and volunteers to make your tech work. Need a feature? Sponsor it. Or write it and fight to upstream it. On top of that if you do this at scale at a company what about the highly paid team of engineers you have to have to maintain all this?

With snowflake I alone could provide an entire production ready bi stack to a company. And I can do so and sleep well at night knowing it’s managed and taken care of and if it fails entire teams of people are working to fix it.

Are you going to build your own roads, your own power grid, your own police force?

Again my point remains. The vast majority of times people build on a vendor as a partner and then go on to build useful things.

Apple using cloud vendors for iCloud storage. You think they couldn’t do it themselves? They couldn’t find and pay and support all the tech their own? Of course they could. But they have better things to do than to reinvent the wheel I.e building value on top of dumb compute and that’s iCloud.
by madaxe_again | 2025-11-05 08:34:31+00:00
It could be that, yes.

This is classic turbulent/laminar behaviour, driven by Reynolds number - the volume, the flow rate, the shape of the vessel.

I actually did a hydrodynamics project around this 20 odd years ago as a first year undergrad - one thing I noted was that I had to open valves slowly - any sudden acceleration could dramatically alter the threshold at which one would transition from laminar to turbulent flow, and you could only get back to the laminar regime by entirely stopping the flow, and bringing it back up, slowly.
by rob74 | 2025-11-05 08:34:56+00:00
According to other sources (German: https://muenchen.t-online.de/region/muenchen/id_100983050/mu...) some experienced surfers also say that the water level has been unusually low since the reopening (1.40 m and has since dropped to 1.21 m instead of the usual 1.50 m), which of course influences the flow. So some issue with the weirs regulating the flow is suspected - if it's "only" this, it might be quick to fix...
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-11-05 08:34:58+00:00
>When you have to argue semantics by defining a new term ("it's not rent control, it's rent stabilization") that's a pretty good sign that you've fucked up and you're trying to hide it.

It's not "defining a new term."

In New York City, "Rent Control" is the official name of a specific program/set of laws and "Rent Stabilization" is the official name of a different specific program/set of laws.[0]

And since we're talking about New York City housing laws/policies and that Mamdani is proposing a rent freeze for units in one of those two programs, being specific about it isn't semantics at all.

The all-encompassing term that you thought you were using a gotcha on is "rent regulation."

Please! Put some knowledge on, your ignorance is showing. Sheesh!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_regulation_in_New_York

Edit: Added ">" to identify the section I quoted.
by yanhangyhy | 2025-11-05 08:36:25+00:00
The biggest safety risk in Southeast Asia is exactly this issue. I’ve always wanted to travel around the entire region — Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia all have magnificent Buddhist temple complexes. Unfortunately, the telecom fraud industry there is extremely dangerous, and there are frequent reports of people from China going missing after traveling there. Relatively speaking, the safer countries right now are Malaysia, Vietnam, and Singapore. Thailand, because of this problem, has already lost a large number of Chinese tourists.
by austin-cheney | 2025-11-05 08:36:31+00:00
My current employer found me while I was laid off. I was rapidly promoted into management. This job is for a defense contractor about enterprise API management.

Before this current job I was a JavaScript developer. JavaScript for employment is like elementary school teacher in the public school system when compared to the US education system. Sure there are many elementary school teachers that are absolutely amazing, but most will never hold the same intellectual capacity as a tenured university professor.

My learning from this is if you wish to do more then don’t find yourself in a place where you are competing with entitled children.
We built a internal tool that Claude refused to help us with
by AZargaryan | 2025-11-05 08:36:49+00:00
Claude Sonnet 4.5 refused to help us straight up: “I’m not going to help build this tool regardless of how you frame it….”

This rarely happens; there is usually a SaaS tool for everything… but in this case, we needed to build a bit of a controversial internal tool.

We’re a remote-first company, and last year, we let go of around 1/3 of our team. Honestly, we did it too late.

It wasn’t due to budget issues or AI rendering them redundant.

They didn’t output enough… We had a conundrum. Were the tasks we gave them too complex, were they dumb, or were they just not working?

We implemented some backend activity tracking software and, surprise, surprise. These underperformers were not putting in the hours.

One actually had two jobs.

This tracking tool was only for Slack activity tracking, and since we’ve built our own internal tracker that aggregates data across HubSpot, email, Notion, Slack, GitHub, and more.

So I thought I’d see if you think it’s as controversial before we launch it.

odinsees.ai
by PetitPrince | 2025-11-05 08:37:18+00:00
On the other hand blood samples degrade over time depending on how you store it. This makes DNA sequencing more difficult and/or impossible. Presumably the ROI (in a non-dystopian society) of storing those sample long-term doesn't make sense, especially if the primary usecase is screening for diseases (a random PDF from the Association of Public Health Laboratories says biomonitoring/biothreat samples are stored 1 year https://www.aphl.org/AboutAPHL/publications/Documents/ID_Spe... ).

So yes a collection of blood sample is technically also a collection of DNA sequences, but it has an expiry date (a short one compared to the lifespan of an individual!) contrary to a DNA sequence that's pure data.