MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by originofstorms | 2025-11-16 14:58:48+00:00
Hi! Idiomorph maintainer here. Congrats on the release! It's very, very cool to see how Morphlex is tackling some of the trickier subtleties of DOM morphing. We're in the R&D phase for the next version of Idiomorph, so its awesome to see how you're pushing things forward. I can see some overlap, like with `isEqualNode` (cheers to D* for cluing me into this API). But some of your ideas seem totally fresh, like your approach to solving the reordering problem. I'm looking forward to investigating whether any of these ideas would make sense in Idiomorph, and over all, I'm very pleased to see energy being put into making turn-key SSR more viable!
by wallflower | 2025-11-16 14:59:52+00:00
Generally speaking, just do work on your work computer. There has been at least one judicial ruling that holds that anything you do on employee owned equipment or networks can be monitored. Save the HN and social media for your phone. Don’t ever connect your personal phone to your employer’s WiFi. If you need your office email on your phone, ask for a work phone or use an old phone.
by franga2000 | 2025-11-16 15:00:04+00:00
If the author intended a function to be overridable and designed the class as such, none of this is a problem. I never need to look inside the parent class, let alone the entire hierarchy.

On the flip side, if the author didn't want to let me do that, I really appreciate having the ability to do it anyways, even if it means tighter coupling for that one part.
by rkagerer | 2025-11-16 15:00:07+00:00
long-term solution

How about a reputation system?

Attached to IP address is easiest to grok, but wouldn't work well since addresses lack affinity. OK, so we introduce an identifier that's persistent, and maybe a user can even port it between devices. Now it's bad for privacy. How about a way a client could prove their reputation is above some threshold without leaking any identifying information? And a decentralized way for the rest of the internet to influence their reputation (like when my server feels you're hammering it)?

Do anti-DDoS intermediaries like Cloudflare basically catalog a spectrum of reputation at the ASN level (pushing anti-abuse onus to ISP's)?

This is basically what happened to email/SMTP, for better or worse :-S.
by pbronez | 2025-11-16 15:00:12+00:00
I wonder if it’s possible to implement anti-cheat as a USB stick. Your GabeCube or gaming PC would stay open by default, but you could buy an anti-cheat accessory that plugs into a free USB port. Connecting that device grants access to match making with other people who have the device.

There are several products that rely on a USB device like this for DRM solutions. It’s probably much easier to unlock static assets than validate running code, but I don’t have insight on the true complexity.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-16 15:00:55+00:00
As for point one they are much less reliable because they are intermittent. I'm skeptical of how much cheaper renewables are. I haven't noticed energy prices declining recently. Correct me if i'm misinformed. I'm slightly confused by point 2. What are you saying, because soviet technology is getting sunk a lot we should stop bothering with having a navy?

Either way you are giving way to much credit to the power of the UK military industrial complex.
by twodave | 2025-11-16 15:01:22+00:00
Sounds like either someone with very young kids or else someone with a dismissive/naive parenting style. For kids born since the mid-80s “hiding the porn” has been a lot harder than locking magazines in a closet. It’s not a matter of if, but when. And however you feel about porn, it’s infinitely more important to help your kids feel safe talking to you about it than to try and prevent them ever seeing it. Kids who don’t feel safe or tolerated will lie almost 100% of the time, at which point you can no longer help them. I say this as someone whose parents would rather have believed I wasn’t watching porn and therefore didn’t make the effort to normalize talking about sex at all. My wife and I do limit our kids’ access to the Internet quite a bit, but we aren’t naive to the fact that they’ll all see something at some point either.
by xnyan | 2025-11-16 15:01:59+00:00
You need specific software that can cost thousands of dollars if obtained legally, but it's not really the bad part. Essentially anything on the CAN bus has to have it's cryptographic signature put on the ECU's whitelist of approved signatures, or it cannot be used. This can only be done with the blessing of BMW, who sells the privilege to 3rd party repair shops.

There are some hardware workarounds in some cases like spoofing auth with a 3rd party device permanently attached to the CANBUS, or desoldering and manipulating the chips used by the ECU for storage, but it's a massive hassle.
by cmiles74 | 2025-11-16 15:02:16+00:00
The report itself reads like a humblebrag at best, marketing materials at worst. I have to agree with the OP: taking this report at face value requires that you trust Anthropic, a lot.

Their August threat intelligence report struck similar chords.

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/b2a76c6f6992465c09a6f2fce282f6...
by rincebrain | 2025-11-16 15:02:46+00:00
Yes, in theory.

But there's not a huge market (and therefore, FOSS dev time spent on it) for emulating AArch64 on x86 the way there is x86 on AArch64, so if your options are to build your own AArch64 emulation for x86 (or drop a fortune into an existing FOSS option), or building something based on AArch64 and using the existing x86 emulation implementations, one of these has much more predictable costs and outcomes today.
by BeFlatXIII | 2025-11-16 15:03:14+00:00
> But the feeling of effort doesn’t mean that you’re Actually Trying.

That's why I go out of my way to dunk on people who treat “try things” and “hard work” as useful advice. What you work hard on matters. If they wanted respect, they ought to have had the honesty to admit they do not have specific advice for you (or lack the time to help).
by ronef | 2025-11-16 15:03:30+00:00
Going to sound weird but with both my hats on I super appreciate this perspective. I can only speak to some areas of Nix and Flox obviously and I know folks are looking into doing this to your point a whole lot better. Zooming in way more into solving for us that just want to run and fix it fast when it breaks.

Also, think it's a huge ecosystem win for FreeBSD pushing on reproducibility too. I think we are trending in a direction where this just becomes a critical principle for certain stacks. (also needed when you dive into AI stacks/infra...)
by Zigurd | 2025-11-16 15:03:34+00:00
Freedom of movement is the relevant right. That's why you may need a certification to operate a vehicle above a certain level of dangerousness. But you can't be denied that certification unless you have done something that makes it impossible for you to be a safe operator of that vehicle. Vehicles for commerce are treated differently. Your mileage may vary but that's the theory of those laws in most places.
by steveklabnik | 2025-11-16 15:03:44+00:00
> declare binaries in your Cargo.toml, for example. It also, AIUI, requires a specific source layout - binaries need to be named `main.rs` or be in `src/bin`.

It does not. Those are the defaults. You can configure something else if you wish. Most people just don’t bother, because there’s not really advantages to breaking with default locations 99% of the time.
by elviejo | 2025-11-16 15:03:54+00:00
In Eiffel we have multiple inheritance. It's such a powerful tool. And a natural way to model the world. For example if you think of your typical OOP book You have Vehicles with engines * cars that move on roads * planes that move on air * and boats that move on water.

But then comes an aqua-plane and it breaks your inheritance tree!

But with multiple inheritance is the most natural thing to have a plane that is also a boat and a car.

In Eiffel we favor the appropriate tool that better represents the world.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-16 15:04:04+00:00
Rust also has some nice language features. Even unsafe rust doesn't have the huge "undefined behaviour" surface that languages like C++ still contain.

If I were to write a toy JS runtime in Rust, I'd try to make it as safe as possible and deal with unsafe only when optimization starts to become necessary, but it's not like that's the only way to use Rust.
by jellyfishbeaver | 2025-11-16 15:04:20+00:00
Are there really any other managed Spark/full data platform providers that come close to the level of ergonomics and maturity of Databricks? I agree some of their features are half-baked and you can turn on some dangerous cash faucets if you don't have a very diligent administrator, but I have not come across anything that our developers (fresh grads up to seasoned Spark veterans) liked as much as Databricks.
by Polizeiposaune | 2025-11-16 15:05:26+00:00
LLM's generating text referencing nonexistent up API's or machine instructions seems to me to be exactly like LLMs generating text referencing nonexistent legal cases or generating fictional text referencing nonexistent people.

They've been fed enough real text in each of these various styles that they can parrot the shallow surface style without reference to the internals.
by dahart | 2025-11-16 15:05:26+00:00
> making his photos limited edition is a fantastic weay to put the pressure on to actually buy

FWIW, limited edition printing is absolutely standard practice for working artists who use media that can be easily or mechanically replicated, including photographers, printers, and digital artists.

The feeling of FOMO that it instills is indeed one reason, that benefits the artist, but the main reason limited editions are used is to add value to the art through scarcity, and this reason benefits you the buyer. People don’t want to be the first to find and buy something unique only to have it get so popular that all your friends and neighbors go buy the same thing, right?

The story of uniqueness is important. There’s a very real perception that art that can be reproduced indefinitely and is always available is cheap and not really fine art. Limited editions prints are trying, even if half-heartedly, to compete with painters and sculptors who produce something unique every single time. I say half-heartedly as a digital artist who prints limited editions, not as an insult. There is a slight degree of having cake and eating too. Limited editions are usually sized near the estimated sales limit, or such that the artist can move on to selling other work without feeling like they lost a big opportunity.

Limited edition print runs do lower the price of a print, but not as low as the cost of printing. If an artist does editions of size 1, they need to make enough money to live, and $90/print won’t do it if you only sell one. You can spread the profit across a run and give a group of people something for a low price instead of giving one person a high price.
by plqbfbv | 2025-11-16 15:05:39+00:00
If anybody wants to read a comic with the perspective of someone that went through one of these places and spent the years after fighting against them, I stumbled upon this one a few years ago: https://elan.school/

I am not in any way affiliated with the author, it's just one of the few books with real content that I've read in a long time.
by smakt | 2025-11-16 15:05:45+00:00
I found this guy also when the modems ruled the Earth. I was so blown away, like "when did this future happen?". Mind you, he had a lot of backing from some university (or corporate) if I remember correctly. It was another America, with Steve Wozniak pranking FBI agents and buying real Treasury-issued rolls of legal tender and giving it away at parties and many other shenanigans. Wozniak or this guy would have been shot in today's America. Those were wonderful years, with Hypercard roaring (yes, most stacks were amateurish and bad, I know). The technology was saner and funnier. I remember recording AIFF clips on my Mac and using ResEdit to replace the explosions and sound effects in games with my own recordings and I hardly knew BASIC; classic Macs were amazing. Have not had that much fun in a long time. Computers came with real manuals. Today computers come with a booklet in bible paper in 45 languages that says "Dear user, don't eat this phone".

There was something in the air. When I was in elementary school someone thought it would be a good idea to show 11 year olds nothing else that David Lynch's Dune. We had a projection room bigger than many present-day theaters. Like 2500 kids there watching Dune, uncut. I was properly blown away. Started me on a lifetime of loving SciFi. Computer labs at school where I could sneak off hours didn't help either...

Recently downloaded The Computer Chronicles. I want to go back to that world.

Last I read about him he was trying to make an autopilot for a sailboat. Motorized winches, radar, etc, all homemade. Sailboats and hard: a log in the middle of nowhere makes a hole in your fibreglass bathtub and you go down quickly.
by blfr | 2025-11-16 15:05:50+00:00
This is ozempic territory: a technical solution to your own shortcomings is most effective.

I have solved all my issues with doing house chores with wireless headphones, tablet, and youtube @ 2x speed. Sure, it means that I can't load my dishwasher until I find something half-decent to listen/watch but once I do find it, I have 10-50 minutes of just pure closing. Dishwasher loaded, countertops empty, new load of laundry, dry clothes in the closet, gym bag packed, trash taken out. Frankly, kinda enjoy it now.
by noelwelsh | 2025-11-16 15:07:01+00:00
Do you think "My mum was a 17-year-old free spirit - so she was locked up and put in a coma" could perhaps be the words of the person they interviewed? Could this perhaps by why it is written in the first-person? Where in the article does the BBC claim she was an "ordinary free-spirited girl"?

What do you believe the purpose of this article is? Do you think it is advancing a policy agenda, in which case which policies is it advocating for? Or is it perhaps just documenting what happened and the impressions of those effected by what happened?
by BeFlatXIII | 2025-11-16 15:08:26+00:00
> Each attempt teaches you something, so to make good art, you have to make a lot of bad art first. Paper is cheap and making bad art is fun once you move past perfectionism.

For the same reason, if it weren't for digital cameras, I never would have taken enough pictures to become competent enough to enjoy photography.

I am also all ears about anyone chiming in with an effective way to deal with shopping problems. Sometimes, I've found that what it takes is Gemini to restate what I already knew to be the conclusion but without my mental processing of trying to falsify it (Gemini, unlike real humans, doesn’t get overloaded and shut down when I ask rapid-fire advice questions).
by hnthrowaway0315 | 2025-11-16 15:08:29+00:00
I guess it is just because 1) They can, and 2) Everyone wants some data. I think it would be interesting if every website out there starts to push out BS pages just for scrappers. Not sure how much extra cost it's going to take if a website puts up say 50% BS pages that only scrappers can reach, or BS material with extremely small fonts hidden in regular pages that ordinary people cannot see.
by pwdisswordfishs | 2025-11-16 15:09:03+00:00
The hardware does not compare favorably to a 2024 (current, in other words) Mac Mini.

Consider what the Steam Machine requires sacrificing:

- fewer USB-C connectors

- larger physical footprint

- can't buy and take it home today

It's hard to do an apples-to-apples comparison between the chips, but where one is better than the other on some dimension, it's offset by some other. They're approximately comparable.

Now, what's the price of the Mac Mini? $598.92

When people are talking about price points that have a higher margin than even Apple's devices have, you have to stop and consider whether people who are tossing around numbers like $750 with a straight face are actually trying to be rational but failing or they are just totally yielding to getting caught up in the hype.
by luckylion | 2025-11-16 15:09:51+00:00
It helps separate principled people from others. Some will say "countries must never be invaded, occupied, or annexed", others will add "... if it's done by Israel, but I'll absolutely ignore/support it if it's done by Turkey, Russia, China".

And the latter group is fundamentally not principled, they are biased to the core, and this is an easy way to tell them apart.

It's like people who are against capital punishment vs people who are against capital punishment when it affects them & their friends.
by skydhash | 2025-11-16 15:09:52+00:00
With emacs, you can just use “customize” (for options) and “M-x” (for commands) and never care about anything else. Yes, it’s not as visible as vscode, but it’s very much the same thing.

But once you learn elisp, then you have the power of a full VM at your disposal and not wait for a plugins to exist and hopefully implement your workflow. And adhoc integration (like having ticket number in comments be clickable) is not easily feasible.
by frou_dh | 2025-11-16 15:10:41+00:00
If you consider the pipeline for new employees in big tech, I doubt many of them have experience of (or much interest in) true native Windows app development. They have probably been marinated in web-style development and so that's what they are good at and indeed prefer to do.

In a way, the blame lies with Microsoft (and not e.g. Meta) for failing to keep new generations interested in its native frameworks.
by elesbao | 2025-11-16 15:10:49+00:00
Anthropic's report miss a fundamental information: did the attack was started by an inside person ? outside ? can I use my claude to feed these prompts and hack the world without even knowing how to get other companies source code or data ? That's the main PR bs, attribute to chinese group, don't explain how they got there, if they had to authenticate to anthropic platform after infiltrating the victims network, and if so where's the log. If not, it means they used claude code for free, which is another red flag.
by hiddencost | 2025-11-16 15:10:52+00:00
I'm considering moving my desktop to SteamOS, not just for gaming (web browsing, streaming from my jellyfin server). I have a laptop for embedded programming (and anything I do that needs serious compute I run on a cloud VM), I have dedicated hardware for Home Assistant.

I want to quit windows, but I'm always disappointed by running Linux that isn't backed by a company. I think Valve might be one of the companies I trust the most.

I kinda wonder if someone will start selling productivity tools on steam...
by apwheele | 2025-11-16 15:11:05+00:00
I used quarto for my book as well and have a write up, https://andrewpwheeler.com/2024/07/02/some-notes-on-self-pub...

One nice thing about Quarto, is that I could have different fonts and formatting niceties for the epub vs PDF version (which the PDF version is the one I use to sell a paperback copy).

Additionally wrote a little script to auto-translate the contents from the markdown, so currently have the book available in Spanish and French as well.
by graemep | 2025-11-16 15:12:28+00:00
People will buy a Steam Machine who would not buy a Linux desktop.

The perception and the marketing are very different. it is small and looks like games console. This is something people will buy instead of a Playstation or a gaming PC. A lot of people buying it will not know what Linux is.

If you look at this page:

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

It does not use the word "Linux" at all and only mentions Arch and KDE right at the bottom of the specs.

> Linux has less problems than Windows now.

I agree, and it has been my experience for the last few years. I am not a gamer nor do I use any of the software you mention so its even better for me. I am very glad not to be using Windows 11 from what I hear of it.
by sunscream89 | 2025-11-16 15:12:39+00:00
It’s not the government, they are the tools. They are ordinary people participating in the apparatus of Man’s power.

I speak of the voices in their heads, the voices in all of our heads.

The occult Power Stargate programs and their undisclosed far more successful variants attest that a mainstream “harness” has been implemented bridging the mainstream government and the legitimization of this Power.

Bannon is not the government, Bannon just rooted our government.

Bannon knows all about the voices in our heads, and the human sacrifices who pay for them.
by rurban | 2025-11-16 15:12:45+00:00
Looks like Franzen didn't understand JR at all. JR is a novel without an author. There is no subjectivity given by any author. No descriptions, no voice over explanations, no thoughts. Only objective observations, only dialog ie what people say, not what they didnt say, just think. It's like a modern film without a Scorsese like voice over a narrative, which explains everything, instead of letting the observer come to his own conclusions. For literature it was a revolution.

And if you are in it it's very easy to read. You just to keep going on, because when you forgot who said what you get lost. There is no he said, she said. There's only subjects speaking, no author explaining. No double quotes.

My favorite book
by muzani | 2025-11-16 15:12:46+00:00
One of the best players I've met in a certain game gave me an article and it's stuck with me ever since: https://articles.starcitygames.com/articles/stuck-in-the-mid...

The gist of it is that the person who wins is often not the one who wants to win the most, it's the person who wanted to lose the least.
by tester756 | 2025-11-16 15:13:49+00:00
It's not crazy at all, especially since majority of programming is about digitalization of real world things/processed.

eBay, Tinder, Youtube, Robinhood, etc, etc.

Those are all real world things that are now represented in digital world and adjusted for that.

Also "world" doesn't imply "physical", but that's different matter.

And at the end of the day that was not wildly crazy, but wildly successful!

Such school of thinking enabled generations of software engineers who created all this digital world.
by epistasis | 2025-11-16 15:13:55+00:00
In 2025 storage is cheap too, it's just that there's no need for it until you already have a large amount of renewables.

2025 is the year that storage is really being deployed in a serious manner in the US, more than 18GW most likely:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65964

You can see on the map at the bottom of this page that almost all the batteries are in areas that already have high amounts of renewables:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64586

And the prevalence of batteries in Texas means that they must be cost effective, because all grid assets in Texas are from private investors risking their own capital, and there is zero incentive for batteries except for their profit generative capacity.
by mothballed | 2025-11-16 15:14:13+00:00
Lol this is the USA. I've been interrogated when a stranger drove past my rather remote property, in the middle of nowhere, and saw that my child was walking about 50 feet "by herself" on her own fucking property(I was actually watching her, just from further away, so I was able to intervene before they called CPS).

Welcome to America where you must watch the kid every second until they turn 18, except at the moment they turn 18 they must be booted from the house to figure everything out all at once with nothing more than a minimum wage job, a gun, and rents that reach the stratosphere.
by ronef | 2025-11-16 15:14:54+00:00
Yes, this hits the nail on the head. We’ve seen the same explosion in image size and rebuild complexity, especially with AI/ML workloads where Python + CUDA + random pip wheels + system libs = image bloat and massive rebuilds.

With the Kubernetes shim, you can run the hash-pinned environments without building or pulling an image at all. It starts the pod with a stub, then activates the exact runtime from a node-local store.