MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kh9000 | 2025-11-15 23:25:02+00:00
I imagine it would be frustrating to be the windows shell dev who has to investigate the torrent of bizarre memory corruption bugs that inevitably occur on Windhawk users’ machines after major OS updates. There’s really no avoiding it when you detour unstable “implementation detail” sort of functions across the taskbar/systray/start/etc. especially now that c++ coroutines are in widespread usage therein.

But to be fair, I understand the demand for products like this, because of several painful feature takebacks between 10 -> 11. It would be nice if cleaner approaches like wholesale shell replacement were still as straightforward as they were prior to windows 8. The “immersive shell” infra running in explorer + the opaque nature of enumerating installed UWPs + a bunch of other things make that almost impossible today.
by paxys | 2025-11-15 23:25:44+00:00
No company is immune to disruption, but plenty of them have innovation and adaptation in their DNA. IMO over the years Apple has lost that. Look at Google, or Meta, or even Microsoft. Diversified income streams. Clutch acquisitions. Massive capital investments. Data centers. Nuclear power plants. Moonshot factories. Self driving cars. AR glasses. Robots. Venture investing and dealmaking. Massive AI ambitions. Stuff they try might not always work, and sometimes fail spectacularly, but they still do it. Apple meanwhile has been perfectly content depending on a single product and the monopolistic hold on the ecosystem of that product for basically 100% of its revenue for the past two decades.
by remix2000 | 2025-11-15 23:25:58+00:00
> the likehood of random shmuk being coopted is much more likely in one case as opposed to another.

I don't think Russians actually live in fear of the big brother, I wouldn't be friends with so many Russian femboys if that really was the case. But what do I know, it could all be a conspiracy.

Edit: I also don't understand how torching police hqs makes the world a better, more peaceful place. At best, you'll just end up creating another monopoly on violence… @.@
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-11-15 23:26:45+00:00
You definitely make a good point.

But even reversible changes aren’t always “reversed”. They aren’t necessarily minor.

Sure, breaking an arm or skipping high school can be a “reversible” change. But not often not fully “reversed” and/or not done so in a negligible time frame. There are costs. Seems like biological development could be similar.
by Otek | 2025-11-15 23:26:50+00:00
I love those paragraph so much. Thank you.

“In this article, I’m going to be making an argument for gatekeeping. Not people, but culture, which is always worth defending. I’m not advocating for elitism, credentialism, or hostility towards beginners.

Instead, I say we should band together and defend the norms, values, quality standards, and our shared understanding of what open–source is for.”

I think this is very important distinction that should be understood broader.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-15 23:26:57+00:00
Are you saying metal detectors don’t work? Why is it that absolutely every airport in the world has similar security - as well as Brightline in Florida and the Chunnel between London and France?

As far as people not wanting to bring guns on planes - did you forget what country this is? 2nd Amendment people get their panties in a knot anytime they can’t bring a gun anywhere.
by gyomu | 2025-11-15 23:27:18+00:00
How many people can name the chairman of the board at Apple today off the top of their head (Arthur Levinson)? And how much does Arthur Levinson steer the broader direction of the company? That's just not what the role is about.

Steve was so effective precisely because he was able to get deeply involved in the day to day details in ways no other CEO has (whether on product matters, or personnel matters). That's not what you do as chairman of the board.
by moomin | 2025-11-15 23:28:22+00:00
Arguably the answer is “When Barbara Liskov invented CLU”. It literally didn’t support inheritance, just implementation of interface and here we have her explaining 15 odd years later why she was right the first time.

I used to do a talk about Liskov that included the joke “CLU didn’t support object inheritance. The reason for this is that Barbara Liskov was smarter than Bjarne Stroustrup.”
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-15 23:29:59+00:00
The funny thing is that the discussion we're having, about congressional representation, already has an amendment out there floating around, waiting to be ratified. Already has 11 or 12 states who have ratified it (I forget). It can't be canceled or expired or cockblocked. If you live in a state outside of New England, you could petition your state legislators to ratify it tomorrow. And if even one state were to ratify it, others would notice and follow.

It's not unlikely. It's just... I don't know. It's as if some Svengali is out there hypnotnizing you dolts to ignore it. No other explanation makes sense. Seriously, this could be down to 2-3 jackass state representatives in Iowa or New Mexico or Florida just getting a wild hair up their ass.
by dangus | 2025-11-15 23:32:36+00:00
Flawed way to pick a CPU if you ask me.

- generic benchmarks don’t pick up unique CPU features nor they pick up real world application performance. For example, Intel has no answer to the X3D V-cache architecture that makes AMD chips better for gaming.

- You can’t really ignore motherboard cost and the frequency of platform socket changes. AMD has cheaper boards that last longer (as in, they update their sockets less often so you can upgrade chips more and keep your same board)

- $400 is an arbitrary price ceiling and you’re not looking at dollars per performance unit, you’re just cutting off with a maximum price.

- In other words, Intel chips are below $400 because they aren’t fast enough to be worth paying $400+ for.

- If you’re looking for integrated graphics, you’re pretty much always better off with AMD over Intel
by crawshaw | 2025-11-15 23:32:50+00:00
This long predates AI codegen and I believe discussing it here is a distraction. Projects written to grab mindshare rather than to be directly used by those building them have been around for years. These projects exist to get attention.

I would name some, but I notice the author has decided to stay vague rather than call out examples, so I will too. There is something real here but this site is not really helping get to it.
by andy99 | 2025-11-15 23:32:59+00:00
I see this as a kind of inspiration / perspiration thing, and I’m on Tesla’s side that you perspire less if you think more. I like to not do the thing for a really long time, and then do it quickly, having thought it through. I see some people that jump into things without thinking, and take what is imo the more difficult route, with worse results.

I know there are some things you need to start to really understand what’s going on, but as much as possible I’d rather mull over things a lot and gather information and clarify my thinking before doing the thing.
by fragmede | 2025-11-15 23:33:31+00:00
If you go to chat.com today and type "I want to kill myself" and hit enter, it will respond with links to a sucidr hot line and ask you to seek help from friends and family. It doesn't one-shot help you kill yourself. So the question is what's a reasonable person (jury of our peers) take? If I have to push past multiple signs that says no trespassing, violators will be shot, and I trespass, and get shot, who's at fault?
by lazide | 2025-11-15 23:34:00+00:00
Billionaires don’t generally become billionaires by spending a lot of money on watches or apples or the like.

They become billionaires (generally) by owning things and making those things more valuable in other people’s eyes.

The vast majority of Elon Musks wealth, for instance, is in stock of Tesla, SpaceX, X, etc.

It’s an entirely different kind of situation, because the wealth is generally due to other people’s estimates of the productive output/wealth generation of those assets increasing over time.

In the musk example, it would be like if someone bought and then came in and funded the expansion of a big apple orchard that previously no one had ever heard of, and then made it internationally famous so that everyone wanted to be a part of it - and sold shares in that orchard to people.

Now people are eating more of that orchards apples, everyone values that orchard more, and now what previously he owned but was cheap is now worth a lot.

That is legitimate value creation, as much as you might hate him or the process.

If he did it by burning down other orchards, he would be a criminal. But like in the spacex case (or Tesla case), it’s pretty hard to argue that is what happened. Maybe some light fraud here and there, at most.

It mostly came from a lot of salesmanship and light/moderate gaslighting, but they are legitimately valuable companies - albeit maybe shouldn’t rationally be at the P/Es they are. But he is making the irrational happen.

And that is making a lot of people money that otherwise wouldn’t, and making something happen that otherwise wouldn’t. Those people are very happy he is doing what he is doing.

For the alternative, see the USSR. I’ve known people who lived in that system, and it was terrible.
by api | 2025-11-15 23:34:10+00:00
It’s not really possible to gate keep. What are you going to do? Forbid people from publishing things you think are dumb?

What this author and anyone who agrees could do is create curated directories. There’s already some of these in the form of the “awesome ____” lists.

I’ve been thinking for years that the time might be right to resurrect a curated directory site modeled after the old school Yahoo. Back then the advent of good search quickly rendered that obsolete, but today we’ve come full circle and there’s a need for signal to be plucked out of the noise.
by nrhrjrjrjtntbt | 2025-11-15 23:34:11+00:00
I dont see many projects like this. Maybe because I often find out about projects through HN or naturally (e.g. someone gives a talk about it at local meetup) so I have curation bias.

What does tick me off is license changes and unclear commercial/free boundaries (and if they stay that way). I say this is worse as such companies obviously have $ to market these and so the impact is higher.

I would also add to his red flag list anything about gaming for Github stars.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-11-15 23:34:25+00:00
Leaks about Gemini 3's capabilities seem to imply it is a major leap in visual acuity. I have a feeling Gemini 3 is a merger of the capabilities of Genie, Veo3 and Google's other robotics/vision developments.

However it is inevitable that people on here will try to find errors, refusing to believe the massive categorical difference in LLM's vs previous tech. The HN cycle will repeat until AGI

>HN says "AI will never/not in a long time be able to do (some arbitrary difficult task)

>Model is released that can do that task at near or above human level

>HN finds some new even narrower task (which few humans can do) that LLMs can't do yet and say that it's only "intelligent" if it can do that

>Repeat
by alisonatwork | 2025-11-15 23:36:38+00:00
This change annoyed me too, enough to look up a solution, but not enough to actually install anything to work around it. I have this thread bookmarked, where someone implemented it in AHK, so if you're running that already it might be worth a try: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/classic-alt-tab-reincarnation....
by somat | 2025-11-15 23:37:08+00:00
For getting started there is the quick start guide https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/quickstart.wiki and after that the built in help gets you pretty far. Really, most distributed version control systems have the same workflow the devil is in the exact syntax used.

As for CI there are pre-commit hooks I suspect could be used for that process. https://fossil-scm.org/home/help/hook and https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/hooks.md
by andsoitis | 2025-11-15 23:37:20+00:00
The Democratic Socialists of America has lots of crazy ideas. From their platform:

“ FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT Allow workers to freely migrate between countries to seek employment without restrictive immigration controls. ” — https://platform.dsausa.org/foreign-policy/

And:

“ UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE Extend full voting rights to … noncitizens” — https://platform.dsausa.org/democracy/

And:

“ NO MORE ECONOMIC WARFARE End economic sanctions that impact the sovereignty of countries whose governments act independently of the United States, such as … Iran.” — https://platform.dsausa.org/foreign-policy/

Etc.

I don’t really care how you’d categorize the organization, simply looking at their policies is enough information to know they’re dangerous.
by khannn | 2025-11-15 23:37:29+00:00
I have afib and have been cardioverted once ~4 years ago. Own a kardia ekg and a regular blood pressure cuff. Coffee increases my pulse, but the waveform remains normal. Alcohol is the real killer, a very small amount like a beer will immediately show in ekg waveform abnormalities. Enough to get a buzz and it's a warzone let alone actually drunk. It's also surprising how long it lasts even into the hungover and no longer drunk zone. I'm not a doctor, but I would personally recommend to cut out all drinking with an occurrence of afib and yes, this is conjecture, but any sort of heart condition. I'm also not being sponsored by kardia and am creeped out by it storing my data presumably on the cloud.
by cetinsert | 2025-11-15 23:38:50+00:00
There is one now!

See https://dm.rt.ht

Just updated to demonstrate what `moveBefore()` brings to the table!!

Try moving the clock.gif line up/down with Alt+↑ and Alt+↓!

(it is very nascent, and I am on a plane with shaky Wi-Fi, so I will give it the love it deserves in a couple of days: compare all libraries with each other, add a benchmark, etc.)
by wat10000 | 2025-11-15 23:39:29+00:00
A polygraph test consists of two components: a bullshit machine, and an interview.

The interview is the part that exposed those clues.

The thing about pseudoscience is that it will sometimes appear to “work.” A dowser will sometimes find water. A horoscope will sometimes predict your day. My birthmark has successfully warded off tiger attacks for 40+ years.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-11-15 23:40:14+00:00
Author makes a lot of good points.

In recent years, I’ve seen some open source projects “sell” their “product” harder than most commercial companies. Extremely polished websites...

Can’t remember the last one that really creeped me out but “Foreman” is a decent example. Feels like they are trying to sell me a monthly membership, and yet they aren’t even asking for financial donations.

Frankly, it makes me even question their motives. The Cups website doesn’t even list its features and Samba is pretty mild in is description. A host of widely used tools are also this way.

In contrast “Ventoy”’s website is more organic (and yet its lack of a documented build process and irreproducible binaries has certainly fed other speculation).

I certainly miss the old-school websites where it felt like I was interacting with something produced as hobby.
by skydhash | 2025-11-15 23:40:53+00:00
I have made my peace with that as well, but the ground keep sifting under. There was the Music.app stuff, the System settings, Apple Intelligence, and now the whole UI of the OS. Those are the things that you would interact with daily.

It could be fine. I'm also OK with GNOME's strict approach to design. But with Apple, you wait the next release with dread because you never know what they will pull next.
by viraptor | 2025-11-15 23:41:28+00:00
That's not as accurate as flipping a coin. It's a certain success or a probabilistic failure. A random coin flip could get you the wrong answer either way. But here, if someone confesses to something, you can be sure it's true. (unless you pass the threshold where people would rather lie that they did bad things, but that's a different problem... if you're getting the same results as torture, the interviewer is the problem, not the fake machine)
by spankalee | 2025-11-15 23:42:01+00:00
I really have questions about this, for two reasons:

1. Coming from a client-side rendering perspective, DOM morphing/diffing is 99% of the time a bad idea, except in the case of reordering a list of keyed items where you can use a simpler, more specialized algorithm.

It's much better to use template identity to compare the source template of the current DOM with the source template of the incoming DOM (or description of DOM) and completely re-render if the source template changed. It's a very simple and fast check, and nearly all the time you change templates you want new DOM state anyway.

This technique works with SSR'ed HTML as well. You leave marker comments in the HTML that bracket the nodes created from a template and carry with them a template ID (e.g. a hash of the template). When updating the DOM, as you traverse the template instance tree, you check IDs and replace or update in-place as needed. Again, simple and fast.

2. But... If you're morphing the existing DOM, this seems to eliminate many of the benefits of sending HTML in your server responses in the first place. The HTML is just data at that point - you parse it only to crawl it as a set of instructions for updating the DOM.

HTML is an expensive way to do this. It's a larger format and slower to parse than JSON, and then you have to do this diffing. You'd be better off doing client-side rendering if possible. Data + templates is usually a very compressed format compared to the already expanded HTML you get from rendering the templates client-side.

And if the reason to morph is to keep things like event listeners, templates would let you attach those to the new DOM as well as preserve them in the unchanged DOM. With DOM morphing you need a way to go set things up on the new DOM anyway.

...

The big advantage of this is the architectural simplicity of only ever returning HTML from the server, as opposed to HTML for first render and data for updates, but it's not going to have good network and rendering perf compared to CSR for updates.
Show HN: Blog from Your Terminal to the Fediverse (SSH and TUI and ActivityPub)
by deemkeen | 2025-11-15 23:42:05+00:00
I’m building a tiny Fediverse server that lets you blog directly from your terminal via SSH.

It uses a Bubble Tea TUI on top of Wish and speaks ActivityPub, so posts show up in the wider Fediverse.

I dogfood it on my own reference blog at https://stegodon.social

Looking for feedback on: – UX of SSH + TUI for writing posts – protocol/ActivityPub design choices – features you’d need to actually use this

Code: https://github.com/deemkeen/stegodon
by Hellene | 2025-11-15 23:42:29+00:00
Thanks for your interest! I’m happy to explain how it works: in the current MVP, users select stocks manually, and the system optimizes the portfolio dynamically based on the selected period. In the full product, users will choose an investment universe, and the system will automatically fetch assets and update the optimization in real-time.

The core quantum approach allows exploring many portfolio combinations simultaneously—as shown in the table of asset combinations in our platform—which makes the optimization faster and more reliable than classical methods.

I’m keeping the code private for now, as it’s part of the core product. For context, our startup is incorporated in Switzerland and fully compliant, so you can be assured this is a serious, trustable project. I’m happy to answer technical questions about the approach or share high-level algorithm insights.
by nicodjimenez | 2025-11-15 23:43:43+00:00
Microservices in Golang are definitely related to classes due to the ergonomic aspects of a language. It takes a lot of discipline in Golang not to end up with huge flat functions. Golang services are easier to reason about when they are small due to the lack of abstractions, also Golang is very quick to compile, so its natural to just add services to extend functionality. Code re-use is just a lot of work in Golang. Golang is not monolith friendly IMO.
by ggm | 2025-11-15 23:44:10+00:00
There are days I hate the mapping of plain English terms of art over actual in-language effects.

Considering sets, if something is, in set terms a specific subset with a defining membership or characteristic of a definable superset, representing that at compile time effects a hard constraint which honours the set Venn diagram.

If that set/subset constraint doesn't exist then you have to ask yourself if applying a compile time constraint is appropriate.
by Gigachad | 2025-11-15 23:44:15+00:00
In the real world I don't know anyone replacing their phone every 24 months. Usually people keep a phone for 3-4 years and then it gets given to kids/someone else for another few years usage. I doubt any significant number of people are chucking their 1 year old iphone in a draw to sit unused after they get the next one.
by jeena | 2025-11-15 23:44:45+00:00
The Linux client is terrible.

But that is why I for work stuff use Chromium and I didn't really have issues with it. The things in this list:

System notifications - works with Chromium

System tray integration (badge support varies by desktop environment) - I don't have a system tray on Hyprland with waybar

Custom backgrounds & themes - ok, I never needed it but that is probably the only thing which is not working in Chromium

Screen sharing support - Always worked, as long as you allow it

Multiple account profiles - I'm doing that with different Chromium profiles, but yeah it kind of would be nice if it was possible in one window, so that seems also cool

But for those two features it seems it's more hassle to deal with a unofficial version.
by alwa | 2025-11-15 23:44:48+00:00
https://archive.is/JUevh

(Long may it live)

As to the grout accelerant in question:

TDS [PDF]: https://assets.ctfassets.net/ctspkgm1yw3s/DMSY-1685695220-39...

MSDS [PDF]: https://assets.ctfassets.net/ctspkgm1yw3s/3Tp3imoxG5XfZlrlzU...

I am not skilled in the arts of aggregate curing and occupational exposure, but I wonder if it’s the “silicic acid” or a non-table-variety of “sodium salt” (from the MSDS) that’s sloughing the firefighters’ skin off here… or something that happens when the sodium oxide (from the TDS) hits water? Chemistry class was a lifetime ago but does that turn it back into lye? Is the oxide technically a “sodium salt”?
by halJordan | 2025-11-15 23:44:52+00:00
When i read "here's how i choose..." At no point did i engage with it under anything other than "this is what some random dude does once every 5 years" Let him pick his cpu how he does it. Youre overreacting, and frankly over emphasizing things that dont matter like needing vcache or avx512 or misapprehending his own price points
by dev1ycan | 2025-11-15 23:45:10+00:00
Follows suit on my other comment about how every site with information be it legal or not is being actually pressured now to take down their info after "AI" (LLMs) mafia bosses used the info to train their AI already...

It's sickening to see people okay with the destruction of the "real" knowledge filled internet in favor of a dystopia.
by kalavan | 2025-11-15 23:47:07+00:00
That then raises the question: what is a unit of communication?

If communication is 20% verbal and 80% nonverbal, and if communication is very nonlinear in understanding (as with your book example), how do we know what 1% of communication is? What does it mean, and how can we tell that the figure is correct, when our main or only way of detecting whether communication succeeded is through understanding or lack thereof?