MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aorth | 2025-11-05 15:39:48+00:00
Ah, so this is removing libxslt. For a minute I thought XSLT processing was provided by libxml2, and I remembered seeing that the Ladybird browser project just added a dependency on libxml2 in their latest progress update https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2025-10-31/.

I'm curious to see what happens going forward with these aging and under-resourced—yet critical—libraries.
by Devasta | 2025-11-05 15:40:04+00:00
"The reality is that for all of the work that we've put into HTML, and CSS, and the DOM, it has fundamentally utterly failed to deliver on its promise.

It's even worse than that, actually, because all of the things we've built aren't just not doing what we want, they're holding developers back. People build their applications on frameworks that _abstract out_ all the APIs we build for browsers, and _even with those frameworks_ developers are hamstrung by weird limitations of the web."

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612696#34622514

I find it so weird that browser devs can point to the existence of stuff like React and not feel embarrassed.
by prophesi | 2025-11-05 15:40:17+00:00
You only need to pass the app review once, then you're free to deploy over-the-air updates for as long as you'd like. Though you'd need to use a framework like React Native, Ionic, Flutter, etc which supports it. Essentially anything where you can change app code without making any changes to the underlying native code (as that would require going through the app review process again to publish those changes).
by Ezhik | 2025-11-05 15:40:32+00:00
Specifically from a HOBBYIST perspective, what bothers me about the App Store is not even the 30% thing, but just... the pain of it all. The rejection horror stories, the "Apple told me to change my app's entire model" stories, the "I can't put this little gadget specifically for me and my family on the App Store" problem, and so on and so on. There's really no home but the web for silly little things.
by ch4s3 | 2025-11-05 15:40:41+00:00
> what should I hate about it?

The prices are usually higher than private stores, the merchandising is worse, the selection is usually bad, and they're generally just a miserable shopping experience. Compare them to a nice wine and liquor store in states where those are allowed and the difference is quite apparent. They also never have staff that know anything about the products which is just a shitty DMV like experience.
by cmurf | 2025-11-05 15:40:50+00:00
The entire event was over in less than a minute, and during that time there’s only one thing pilots are working on: maintaining what little control they have, and gaining as much altitude as possible without loss of control.

This is consuming all mental processing, there are no spare cycles.

This wasn’t a salvageable situation by having more information after the engine separated. If a sensor could have provided a warning of engine failure well before V1, that would be helpful.

I expect the questions will focus on what information existed that should have resulted in aborting the takeoff. Not what information was needed to continue.
by Normal_gaussian | 2025-11-05 15:40:54+00:00
camelcamelcamel is the best for amazon items - choose a stick, look at the graph.

There is a bit of annoyance as items come in and out of stock (ie. out of stock often means inaccurate price); so its often better to find a product on amazon and look here.

8GB SODIMM stick https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0C7Z4HJ8L?context=se...

regular 2x16GB pair https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07RW6Z692?context=se...

I have a script watching on some items on overclockers and crucial, including RAM. So for those by graph I really meant "eyeballed an email search".
by geoffeg | 2025-11-05 15:40:56+00:00
Airframes have a limited lifetime, partially defined by takeoffs and landings (and pressurization cycles). Cargo planes experience fewer cycles than passenger airlines since cargo carriers' aircraft usually only make a one or two flights a day, whereas passenger aircraft a flown back to back as frequently as possible. Historically, cargo carriers would buy used aircraft and convert them, but that's changing.
by Apreche | 2025-11-05 15:40:56+00:00
Reminds me of this story from 2021

https://hackaday.com/2021/10/06/atari-st-still-manages-campg...

I have also met some people who worked at large old insurance companies. They originally used old mainframes and TUI, and the companies still exist. They told me of various things that were done. Of course migrations happened. And interfaces were built so that modern systems could speak with the old, sometimes via terminal emulator. And of course, some old systems still in use far beyond their time.
by d-us-vb | 2025-11-05 15:41:35+00:00
You won't be bringing your own graphics card to RadiantOS. According to one of the pages, they want to design their own hardware and the graphics will be provided by a memory-mapped FPGA.

If your question is about the general intricacies in graphics that usually have bugs, then I'd say they have a much better chance at solving those issues than other projects that try to support 3rd party graphics hardware.
by chollida1 | 2025-11-05 15:41:46+00:00
First, I appreciate the response.

However, nothing about any of those points indicate his performance has been horrific.

All that matters are his returns against his reference index. That's the only relevant measure.

EDIT I did manage to find his returns via chatgpt and the OP is correct that they haven't been great in some periods, but his last 5 year average is +85% which isn't bad, not great, but not bad.

He is also up about 10% over the past year, so not great and not terrible, he's mid as the kids say.
by blitzar | 2025-11-05 15:41:54+00:00
@michaeljburry - 2:04 PM · Nov 4, 2025 https://x.com/michaeljburry/status/1985709760272908614

Fake news! I am not 5’6” (not that there is anything wrong with that).

And journalists reporting on 13Fs, none more fake.
by browningstreet | 2025-11-05 15:41:57+00:00
I feel like you've squashed a 3D concern (automations at different levels of the tech stack) into a 2D observation (global concerns about automations).

Human determinism, as elastic as it might be, is still different than AI non-determinism. Especially when it comes to numbers/data.

AI might be helpful with information but it's far less trustable for data.
by mdhb | 2025-11-05 15:42:36+00:00
More about accepting that they are never going to vote for you to begin with and that you’re very literally wasting both your time and killing the support you do have in trying to reach them. They are entirely unrecruitable.

How many genuinely ex-MAGA people do you know? I think for most people that number is at absolute best a very low single digit number.

There are a whole bunch of people out there who are entirely disenfranchised who just can’t be bothered to vote however who could be inspired to do so and this thread is very literally about someone who went with that strategy and won.

I’m simply making the argument that you should spend your time there instead and keep your integrity in the process. People actually want something to believe in and a concept of fairness, affordability, justice and anti-corruption is an incredibly wide tent already. Stick with that.
by isodev | 2025-11-05 15:42:47+00:00
All this is rehashed common sense - what you as a seller of software probably will do anyway to appear legitimate. No part of the review process stops someone from circumventing any of those rules - all you need is for the app to behave during review.

Every technical safeguard is part of the operating system anyway, so that’s what’s really protecting you and it will still protect you when you install an app from another source. Just like computers have worked since forever.
by toprerules | 2025-11-05 15:42:52+00:00
In the case of XDP, the reason it's so much faster is that it requires 0 allocations in the most common case. The DMA buffers are recycled in a page pool that's already allocated and mapped at least queue depth buffers for each hardware queue. XDP is simply running on the raw buffer data, then telling the driver what the user wants to do with the buffer. If all you are doing is rewriting an IP address, this is incredibly fast.

In the non XDP case (ebpf on TC) you have to allocate a sk buff and initialize it. This is very expensive, there's tons of accounting in the struct itself, and components that track every sk buff. Then there are the various CPU bound routing layers.

Overall the network core of Linux is very efficient. The actual page pool buffer isn't copied until the user reads data. But there's a million features the stack needs to support, and all of these cost efficiency.
by dirtybirdnj | 2025-11-05 15:43:27+00:00
> You don’t quit a job until you have another one lined up. You do your work the best you can for 40 hours a week and leave. If you don’t get all of your work done and they fire you, at least you kept getting a paycheck longer. Don’t let your pride or frustrating keep you from exchanging labor for money to support your addiction to food and shelter.

I don't know what to tell you other than the only different course of action was to kill myself and I didn't want to do that. Repeated trauma in multiple workplaces has effectively robbed me of my career. It's not all the fault of the employers I had, but it's also not 100% my fault either. I struggle with self worth because I cannot understand what my value is anymore. The experiences I have keep telling me I am worth less and less. People are less willing to hire me, to pay me, to even listen to what I have to say.

Having all of this playing in your head 24/7 makes it impossible to view authority as anything but abusive and willfully ignorant. I know they aren't all like that... but then why does this keep happening to me?

I want to go back but I don't know how. It's more than just someone being fussy there is something seriously psychologically wrong, but outwardly I "look" fine so I must be faking it / doing it for attention.

I am tired of pandering to the people who refuse to see me.

> What you described is neither hostile or toxic.

I... didn't even describe the toxic work experiences I have had. The entire impetus to take the actions I did are not written in this post on purpose. I don't want to muddy the waters with conjecture and hearsay. Having been through a nightmare and being told "that wasn't toxic" is the kind of mindset that I am terrified of interacting with (being abused by) in the workplace.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-11-05 15:43:27+00:00
According to AI (so question it), The Mentor was 21 when he wrote this. There's something about the early 20s that makes many people believe that the world has deeper significance and scope than it really does. It can be a delusional time. This is also, coincidentally, when people who get schizophrenia often start to show symptoms. I'm not saying The Mentor has this particular affliction, I'm saying that the early 20s is a trigger that brings out a lot of things in people, which they later get over.
by Herring | 2025-11-05 15:43:45+00:00
Yeah I hope to never say this again, but I'm pretty sure Goebbels was right.

Germany took those lessons to heart. Speech and expression related to Nazism is heavily regulated and subjects you to imprisonment. Demonstrations/rallies are often banned. The Nazi party itself is banned. AfD is being monitored by intelligence agencies and might be banned in the future, etc. They do this defensively when groups demonstrate an "actively belligerent, aggressive stance" towards the democratic order. Because it's like pointing a gun at people in public - it's already violent even if you don't pull the trigger.
by simonw | 2025-11-05 15:44:09+00:00
If you are using XSLT to make your RSS or atom feeds readable in a browser should somebody click the link you may find this post by Jake Archibald useful: https://jakearchibald.com/2025/making-xml-human-readable-wit... - it provides a JavaScript-based alternative that I believe should work even after Chrome remove this feature.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-05 15:44:40+00:00
I've been trying to open my mind and "give AI a chance" lately. I spent all day yesterday struggling with Claude Code's utter incompetence. It behaves worse than any junior engineer I've ever worked with:

- It says it's done when its code does not even work, sometimes when it does not even compile.

- When asked to fix a bug, it confidently declares victory without actually having fixed the bug.

- It gets into this mode where, when it doesn't know what to do, it just tries random things over and over, each time confidently telling me "Perfect! I found the error!" and then waiting for the inevitable response from me: "No, you didn't. Revert that change".

- Only when you give it explicit, detailed commands, "modify fade_output to be -90," will it actually produce decent results, but by the time I get to that level of detail, I might as well be writing the code myself.

To top it off, unlike the junior engineer, Claude never learns from its mistakes. It makes the same ones over and over and over, even if you include "don't make XYZ mistake" in the prompt. If I were an eng manager, Claude would be on a PIP.
by Kephael | 2025-11-05 15:44:42+00:00
It's not the overall metro area GDP itself but rather per capita, the people in the Bay Area are simply much wealthier and higher income. This is also true in the Puget Sound region, but not to the same extent. This difference in population is why they don't have an interest in a Zohran of sorts. State run grocery stores and public transit are really not a concern to most people as their lifestyle is much different.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-11-05 15:44:54+00:00
> You're right - I mixed up cerebellum/cerebrum/cortex terminology. My bad. The cases I'm referencing are hydrocephalus patients with severely compressed cerebral tissue who maintained normal cognitive function. The point about structural variation not precluding consciousness stands.

Hmm, I don't think it would be dogmatic to call hydrocephalus-induced changes 'structural variation.' Structural variation would be the thickness of subcortical bands or something like that - something where if you take 100 people, you'll see some sort of canonical distribution around a population mean.

Instead, you're describing a disease-induced change (structural yes, but not variation but instead pathology).

We're now in a different regime; we don't expect just any disease to reduce consciousness, so it stands to reason that hydrocephalus would not necessarily reduce consciousness.
by theptip | 2025-11-05 15:45:09+00:00
Also not an expert :) I thought plasticity is an O(hours-days) learning mechanism. But I did some research and there is also Short Term Plasticity O(second) [1] which is a crucial part of working memory. We'd need that. But it seems it’s more of a volatile memory system, eg calcium ion depletion/saturation at the synapse, rather than a permanent wiring/potentiation change (please someone correct me if this isn’t right :) ).

So I guess I’d just clarify “read only” to be a little more specific - I think you could run multiple experiments where you vary the line of what’s modeled in volatile memory at runtime, and what’s immutable. I buy that you need to model STP for thought, but also suspect at this timescale you can keep everything slower immutable and keep the second-scale processes like thought working.

My original point still stands - your subjective experience in this scenario would be thought without long-term memory.

1: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computational-neuroscie...
by throwup238 | 2025-11-05 15:45:10+00:00
Both of the lumberyards in my city are still running on DOS (or DOS emulation) for their systems, along with quotes printed on dot matrix printers (and no online price sheet). They’re so low margin and old school, I don’t think they get tech upgrades more often than once every two human generations except for new capital equipment, which sucks most of their surplus.
by isodev | 2025-11-05 15:45:45+00:00
It also makes it very difficult to censor. There is 1 YouTube and thousands of ActivityPub servers and relays that would happily carry all posts through the fediverse regardless if they seize one or two hosts. There are other options as well - that was a bit my point that Medium/X/Bluesky/YouTube - these are designed to harvest engagement in exchange for content. They’re not good for news and certainly not good as an archive.
by freespirt | 2025-11-05 15:45:51+00:00
Abstract

This article examines the November 3, 2025, motion passed by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council formally opposing the UK Labour government's proposed Digital ID infrastructure. Through analysis of council proceedings, political discourse, and policy implications, this study explores how local authorities are positioning themselves as institutional counterweights to centralised identification systems. The motion, proposed by Councillor Millie Earl and passed by a 23-15 vote, is a significant instance of local democratic resistance to national policy frameworks still in developmental stages. This research investigates the constitutional, political, and practical dimensions of such preemptive local opposition, examining both the substantive concerns raised about civil liberties and the political instrumentalists of the Digital ID debate within multi-party council dynamics.
by 7thaccount | 2025-11-05 15:46:37+00:00
I assume they know but don't care. Either way, that is a bad choice. I think "Rad" would be a good name, but maybe they already are using that for something else.

Edit: where did you see it's called "R"? It looks like they call the system language "Radiance" : https://radiant.computer/system/radiance/
by tern | 2025-11-05 15:47:01+00:00
This is the most maddening topic I've experienced in recent times. My guess is it's the ghost of ww2. Anything that looks or smells like a definitive reduction of a human being to numbers is to be opposed, regardless of utility.

What you are choosing, instead, is the management of the phenomenon you're trying to avoid by corporations—more or less emergent feudalism.

Consider the options: a corporation knows everything about you vs. no entity knows any information about you except for whether you're eligible for the service being provided, and that you exist. The former is the current state of affairs. The latter, I think, is a better state of affairs.
by brazukadev | 2025-11-05 15:47:26+00:00
Meu amigo, eu estou te dando uma dica pra você perceber que o que você criou (4 commits) não é nada revolucionário, até por que foi feito por IA. Se você quer testar que alguma criação sua funcione, coloca no mercado e tenta vender. A sua primeira venda, aqui no HackerNews, não foi nada interessante.

Eu não estou gastando meu tempo pra te falar isso pq "brasileiro é incapaz de acreditar ou entender o que outro brasileiro pode", estou fazendo isso exatamente pra te dar um toque de realidade. Enfim, entenda como quiser, se você não aprende por conselho, vai aprender por experiência. Boa sorte.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-11-05 15:47:29+00:00
As a society we've proven over and over again that we're unable to solve these problems that require coordination against greed. We've pulled the smartphone out of Pandora's box.

There's a 500B industry selling the phones, 2.5 trillion selling telecom services, trillions more selling social media, and most of the economy involves selling their products over the internet. Those are some HUGE incentives to maintain the status quo, or get people even more addicted yet.

I don't think our society is capable of answering that question and starting a Dune-style "Butlerian Jihad" and destroying all machines-that-think.
by rvz | 2025-11-05 15:47:36+00:00
> Destroying the open web instead of advocating to fix one of the better underutilized browser technologies for a more Profitable Google.

Google, Mozilla and Apple do not care if it doesn't make them money, unless you want to pay them billions to keep that feature?

> I will not forget the name Mason Freed, destroyer of open collaborative technology.

This is quite petty.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-05 15:47:37+00:00
It's still unpopular. The difference today is that the public is so thoroughly disempowered, that there is nothing you can do to change/resist it. Point me to the major political party, or even individual candidate, where "dismantling surveillance" is even a minor part of their platform. There are probably a single digit number of politicians in the entire country, from federal all the way down to local, who are against surveillance.
by righthand | 2025-11-05 15:47:39+00:00
I’m a modern developer and I see it as valuable. Why side with the browser teams and ignoring user feedback?

If “modern developers” actually spent time with it, they’d find it valuable. Modern developers are idiots if their constant cry is “just write it in JS”.

No idea what’s inaccurate about this. A billion dollar company that has no problem pivoting otherwise, can’t fund open technology “because budgets” is simply a lie.
by neilv | 2025-11-05 15:47:43+00:00
I had to look up what "Gnome Mutter" is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutter_(software)

> Mutter is a window manager initially designed and implemented for the X Window System, but then evolved to be a display server ("Wayland compositor"). It became the default window manager in GNOME 3,

Gnome alienated some developers around the time of GTK 3, and there have sometimes been regressions, and some opinionated unconventional design choices that everyone else was stuck with. (At the same time there was much positive benefits from the efforts.)

Even though I don't use the default Gnome desktop on most of my systems (I usually prefer XMonad or i3wm atop X11), I still end up using applications programs written to GTK and Gnome libraries.

Maybe this even harder push by Gnome on Wayland will drive even more effort into the alternative software, and continue to fuel the healthy competition that (for better or worst) the Linux desktop is stuck with.
by lelandbatey | 2025-11-05 15:47:53+00:00
Yes, new major airports (rare as they are) do try to acquire large areas of land, larger even than they think they need now, in anticipation of future expansion. However, for scenarios like this, there's limited utility to making the runway longer "just in case." They already pick runway sizes "big enough and then some" as the minimum to even bring planes of each size to an airport. So there is margin.

But no matter the margin, a plane can always crash on the wrong side of any fence. And people will always build right up to wherever you put the fence as closer to the airport is more convenient for everything airport related.
by moconnor | 2025-11-05 15:47:58+00:00
The landing page reads like it was written with an LLM.

Somehow this makes me immediately not care about the project; I expect it to be incomplete vibe-coded filler somehow.

Odd what a strong reaction it invokes already. Like: if the author couldn’t be bothered to write this, why waste time reading it? Not sure I support that, but that’s the feeling.
by immibis | 2025-11-05 15:47:59+00:00
Although it's sad to see an interesting feature go, they're not wrong about security. It's more important to have a small attack surface if this was maintained by one guy in Nebraska and he doesn't maintain it any more.

No, XSLT isn't required for the open web. Everything you can do with XSLT, you can also do without XSLT. It's interesting technology, but not essential.

Yes, this breaks compatibility with all the 5 websites that use it.
by yednap868 | 2025-11-05 15:48:03+00:00
Fair point and you’re right, human intros carry reputation, that’s the real trust layer we’re trying to rebuild in an AI first way.

Vance starts small - making intros that actually lead somewhere, and over time, builds his own kind of reputation based on outcomes. That’s the part I’m most excited about. Also, totally agree on data, Vance doesn’t store or sell any. Context purely comes from what users share - intent, story, timing not behavioural tracking.

Curious though - how would you imagine trust being built for something like this?