MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ReptileMan | 2025-11-20 13:31:17+00:00
One of the things I have noticed in languages is that after some iterative evolution the piled on features and syntaxis sugar make them look bizarre and hard to read. Probably the weight of backwards compatibility and that the initial paradigms have picked up the easy to understand real estate. And there are no good ways of getting out of the corner you have coded yourself in.

Probably because compile/interpret is one way street. There is no way to lets say view/transform a part of the code in functional or imperative depending on what you need to do with it.

Reading modern php or even worse mixed generations code base feels like another full time job on top of the regular one - coding with it.
by theshrike79 | 2025-11-20 13:31:19+00:00
I have owned a mobile phone since 1996-ish IIRC (Nokia 1610).

I have sent exactly zero MMS messages successfully. They've always failed on some stupid carrier setting being wrong. I've also "received" MMS image messages - that were links to a carrier portal because the image could not be delivered.

It's a shit standard that nobody bothered to implement properly =)
by neither_color | 2025-11-20 13:31:32+00:00
The unpaid version of cruise control/autopilot is actually a different software from the one that comes bundled with FSD. I actually think the semi-smart autopilot that comes bundled with FSD is better than FSD itself.

I tried to get into FSD but I felt that it made me an obnoxious driver. Chill is too slow and makes unnecessary lane changes. Hurry makes too many unnecessary lane changes while speeding beyond the flow of traffic. When you encounter a "mormon roadblock", e.g two cars going the speed limit on a two lane road, FSD goes into a loop changing lanes back and forth hoping for an overtake that never comes. If you're the type of driver who picks his exit lane early because you know they're prone to jamming and drivers blocking each other later, FSD will still try to get out of the merge lane to pass, ditto for busy intersection queues.

Removing the human driver makes one things SPECIFICALLY worse, and that is the ability to correct navigation errors and override sub-optimal routing. For example: there is one block on my commute where you can take either an uncontrolled left turn, or go up to a light. The difference is one block and the light is usually faster during rush hour because the uncontrolled turn takes forever to get a safe gap. Navigation always chooses the uncontrolled left to the point that you have to disengage. There's other quality of life issues too like wanting to approach your destination from the left or the right because you know the parking situation ahead of time. These can be communicated to a human driver. You can't explain that to Tesla FSD though. It's tapped into the car-machine-god hivemind and can't be bothered with instructions from mere mortals.

But I digress, I think the paid, semi-smart autopilot is their best product. I can set an objective speed limit. It stops at stop signs and red lights automatically. It stays in its lane until I tap the blinker so it changes lane. It can autopark. These things actually augment my driving and reduce cognitive strain while driving, while keeping me just alert enough. FSD is all or nothing while requiring full non-interactive attention like a sentinel.
by troupo | 2025-11-20 13:31:32+00:00
> Ah, you again! I see you’ve looked up all my comments to respond with vitriol to all of them

You think yourself more important than you really are. I've replied to many comments in this discussion, and three of them, I think, happened to be yours. Two of them happened in the same thread. This one.

> No, I am not selling user data, nor is the vast vast majority of companies affected by GDPR. Please do not assume bad faith as it ends useful discussion

Ah yes. Where good faith is "GDPR is bad because wellfare state and US intelligence"?

> So you believe GDPR and the ePrivacy directive (which people here unknowingly conflate) are the most perfect words ever put on paper and there is nothing that could be improved?

So, good faith and non-circular arguments are assigning words to opponents and trying to make them argue something they never said, apparently.

Imagine if anti-GDPR crowd actually argued in good faith. I can't. Because of behaviour like this.
by maratumba | 2025-11-20 13:31:33+00:00
I don't know if it's related but this morning I realized that I'd been logged out of my Whatsapp account. When I tried to log back in, I couldn't get Whatsapp to confirm my phone number. I didn't get the SMS they sent for the recovery code. Thankfully "call me" option worked for receiving the recovery code. But then I was asked a 2fa PIN which I (unfortunately) never had set up. "Forgot my PIN" also didn't send an email to my account (which I'm pretty sure I also hadn't set up anyway).

Currently I'm waiting to hear from Whatsapp support and/or the 7 day waiting time to be over to reset my account. It is bizarre that I am not able to recover my account when I still own my phone number (I can still receive SMS on it).

I would consider myself very cautious about clicking suspicious links, of course one can never be 100% sure. This was very disconcerting.

As a reminder for all Whatsapp users, please set up your 2FA PINs and recovery emails.
by ndriscoll | 2025-11-20 13:32:10+00:00
They all should be? I've never understood why gamers just accept constant blatant anti-competitive practices, going so far as to act as if "exclusives" via DRM are a good thing rather than monopolistic product tying. e.g. it's been demonstrated that a Steam Deck is technically capable of running Switch games better than a Switch, and yet you are forced to buy a Switch in order to buy the games.

It's no longer 30 years ago when hardware was unique and quirky and programs were written in assembly specifically for the hardware. It's all the same commodity parts along with what is supposed to be illegal business practices. In a reasonable world, something like Ryujinx would be just as front-and-center as Proton as part of Valve's product features, and courts would fine companies for trying to stop their software from working on other platforms.
by muzani | 2025-11-20 13:32:17+00:00
React Native. I do most of the mobile technologies but something about RN rubs me the wrong way.

1) Whenever we do an analysis of which codebase to use for a new project, RN gets cut off early for multiple reasons. What's the advantage? KMP allows native-level control. Flutter/Dart was built from the ground up for mobile and multiplatform.

2) Whenever I ask someone who went with React Native, the answer tends to follow along the lines of, "I don't want to learn another language"/"It's the easiest"/"It's made by FAANG." There's some defensiveness, like "React Native can do squircles!" There's a lack of awareness of other platforms, "I can see my results immediately when modifying code with RN!"

More questioning pushes me further away. It's like the only advantage is it lets web people make apps.

3) All the darlings of RN seem to have dropped it slowly - Airbnb, Meta. I'm not a big fan of PWA apps either but at least Meta uses them to good effect.

4) Related to (2), but nearly all the RN jobs seem to pay less, and treat mobile as a cost center than profit center.

Happy to be convinced otherwise. It's on the list, but it feels like low ROI.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-20 13:32:32+00:00
We are a tiny slice of history. A thousand years from now we may be hazily recalled as the period that slavery was abolished (edit: sadly enough we probably won't be) , electricity and computers were invented, 3 of the world wars occured, and the first great population explosion and cultural implosion took place. Most electronic information will be lost so our century will be known as the electronic dark ages. All of this will be studied by the advanced artificial intelligence entities and the sentient cockroaches, the last surviving carbon life forms on earth.
by CaptWillard | 2025-11-20 13:32:37+00:00
According to the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Vogon poetry is the third worst in the Universe.

The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria, and the worst is by Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Sussex, who perished along with her poetry during the destruction of Earth, ironically caused by the Vogons themselves.

Vogon poetry is seen as mild by comparison.
by niek_pas | 2025-11-20 13:33:29+00:00
Can you share an example of what you're talking about in PHP 8.5? On the linked web page, the only code pattern that looks remotely complicated to me is the following:

#[SkipDiscovery(static function (Container $container): bool { return ! $container->get(Application::class) instanceof ConsoleApplication; })] final class BlogPostEventHandlers { /\* … \*/ }
by jacquesm | 2025-11-20 13:33:57+00:00
> Between making money, perceived culpability and risks offloaded to insurance companies why would they?

Because it is the right thing to do, and the NTSB thinks so too.

>> The problem is that there are a thousand merchant marine vessels operating right now that are all doing great > Are they tho?

In the sense that they haven't caused an accident yet, yes. But they are accidents waiting to happen and the owners simply don't care. It usually takes a couple of regulatory interventions for such a message to sink in, what the NTSB is getting at there is that they would expect the owners to respond more seriously to these findings.

>> The recommendation to inspect the whole ship with an IR camera had me laughing out loud. > Where did this come from?

Page 58 of the report.

And no, obviously I am not calling into question the whole of the NTSB's findings, it is just that that particular one seems to miss a lot of the realities involving these vessels.

> "Don't look for a villain in this story. The villain is the system itself, and it's too powerful to change."

I don't understand your goal with this statement, it wasn't mine so the quotes are not appropriate and besides I don't agree with it.

Loose wires are a fact of life. The amount of theoretical redundancy is sufficient to handle a loose wire, but the level of oversight and the combination of ad-hoc work on these vessels (usually under great time pressure) together are what caused this. And I think that NTSB should have pointed the finger at those responsible for that oversight as well, which is 'MARAD', however, MARAD does not even rate a mention in the report.
by kryptiskt | 2025-11-20 13:34:16+00:00
> Sadly, Forth, much as I love it and have done since I got my hands on a Jupiter Ace when I was about 9 or 10 years old, has not been a success, and probably for the same reasons as Lisp.

I don't like when anything short of taking over the world counts as failure. Forth has been an enormous success! Forth has visited asteroids, run factories and booted millions of computers. It has done well, and if it's heading off into the sunset it should be remembered for what it did rather than what it didn't do. I would be beyond thrilled if my language did a tenth as well as Forth.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-20 13:34:52+00:00
If you design a fort and it actually gets used and turns out to suck that WILL be the end of your career in the military even if it only comes out as sucking 20yr later unless you have an airtight case why it's not your fault. That's just how the .mil works. Heads MUST roll. This is completely the opposite from big company bureaucracy and on a literal different planet than civil government bureaucracy.

The organizations that made the bridge happen were so much more vast and so much higher turnover and subject to way, way, way looser application of consequences than the one that built the fort it would be literally impossible to get them to produce something so unnecessarily robust for the average use case.

This sort of "everything I depend on will just have to not suck because my shit will keel right over if it sucks in the slightest" type engineering is all over the modern world and does work well in a lot of places when you consider lifetime cost. But when it fails bridges fall over and cloudflare (disclaimer, didn't actually read that PM, have no idea what happened) goes down or whatever.
by yorwba | 2025-11-20 13:36:16+00:00
In theory, multiplying a matrix and a highly sparse vector should be much faster than the dense equivalent, because you only need to read the columns of the matrix that correspond to nonzero elements of the vector. But in this paper, the vectors are much less sparse than the matrices: "Our sparsest models have approximately 1 in 1000 nonzero weights. We also enforce mild activation sparsity at all node locations, with 1 in 4 nonzero activations. Note that this does not directly enforce sparsity of the residual stream, only of residual reads and writes." In addition, they're comparing to highly optimized dense matrix multiplication kernels on GPUs, which have dedicated hardware support (Tensor Cores) that isn't useful for sparse matmul.
by lukev | 2025-11-20 13:36:29+00:00
So a neat thing about truth is that these questions actually have answers! I encourage you to research them, if you're curious. We really don't need to live in this world of both-sides-ism.

(Also, I'm a bit bemused that these are the examples you chose... with everything going on in the world, what's got you upset is a possibly dubious investigation of your guy which never even came to anything...?)
by m000 | 2025-11-20 13:38:00+00:00
True. I don't know from where people get the idea that the police would bother with an investigation for your (personally important) case if you had full-on surveilance.

You may have your laptop snatched, go to the police station and show them the exact location of the thieves using e.g. find my Mac. The will do nothing, even if it's in the building across the street.

Now, showing them some blurry (at best) faces in CCTV footage and ask them to investigate? Good luck.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-11-20 13:38:03+00:00
I mean that's the point -- blackmail powerful and influential people to do his bidding.

That his madam (Ghislane) was the daughter of the guy who got Israel nukes and had some deeeeep ties to the Mossad is no surprise. FWIW said guy also had ties to UK Intelligence and the KGB, and he died mysteriously on a boat in the middle of nowhere.
by blackbrokkoli | 2025-11-20 13:38:18+00:00
I heard a very similar sentiment expressed as "everything is not good enough to be useful until it suddenly is".

I find it a powerful mental model precisely because it is not a statement of success rate or survival rate: Yes, a lot of ideas never break any kind of viability threshold, sure, but every idea that did also started out as laughable, toy-like, and generally shit (not just li-ion batteries, also the wheel, guns, the internet and mobile computers).

It is essentially saying 'current lack of viability is a bad indicator of future death' (at least not any more than the high mortality of new tech in general), I guess.
Show HN: Haloy – an open‑source, lightweight deployment system for Docker apps
by fallonshoulders | 2025-11-20 13:38:35+00:00
Haloy is a lightweight way to deploy Docker apps to your own servers without complex setups. One config file, one deploy command. Handles routing, HTTPS, rollbacks, and multi‑server environments.

Repo: https://github.com/haloydev/haloy Docs: https://haloy.dev
by gruez | 2025-11-20 13:39:06+00:00
>The whole selling point of Android up until now was that it allowed you to install any app you want.

Could've fooled me. Maybe it was a thing a decade ago when android just launched, but none of the marketing pages for vaguely recent phones has that as a selling point. At best it's a meme that android proponents repeat on hn or reddit.
by EdwardCoffin | 2025-11-20 13:39:25+00:00
>> ‘It was the development environment’

> No, it wasn’t.

I kind of think it was. The best argument I think is embodied in Kent Pitman's comments in this usenet thread [1] where he argues that for the Lisp Machine romantics (at least the subset that include him) what they are really referring to is the total integration of the software, and he gives some pretty good examples of the benefits they bring. He freely admits there's not any reason why the experience could not be reproduced on other systems, it's that it hasn't been that is the problem.

I found his two specific examples particularly interesting. Search for

* Tags Multiple Query Replace From Buffer

and

* Source Compare

which are how he introduced them. He also describes "One of the most common ways to get a foothold in Genera for debugging" which I find pretty appealing, and still not available in any modern systems.

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.lisp/c/XpvUwF2xKbk/m/X...
Show HN: Numerikos – A personalizable digital math workbook
by mchaver | 2025-11-20 13:40:25+00:00
Numerikos is a math practice platform where students can work through distributions of practice problems or setup their own study routines.

Try the demo (no signup required, data stored locally) at https://demo.numerikos.com

I designed this for my 4th-grade son and so far he really likes it.

The main features:

1. Practice problems: generated by rules I've designed particularly for each problem type. They try to avoid trivial problems and create an interesting distribution of problems. 2. An editable dashboard: you can track different metrics or setup different collections practice problems (timed or not timed). 3. Review page: click the star while you are practicing to review a particular problem later. 4. Currently available in English and Chinese (the translation still needs improvement).

I wanted something that allows users to personalize the areas of math that they want to practice more. I will eventually make an algorithm that helps users to decide what to study next, but it will have an escape hatch where the user can override some of its assumptions.

What's next: 1. Support 5th grade math. 2. Release the production version. 3. Support Spanish language version.

My main source of inspiration is Chris McMullen's collection of math workbooks (followed by Khan Academy and Math Academy). My long term goal is to support math at all grade school levels and some college level mathematics and physics. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on the UI and any constructive criticism you have.
by skeezyjefferson | 2025-11-20 13:40:34+00:00
> Seniority doesn't come from churning out code quicker. Its more long the lines of communication, leading others, empathy, toughness when needed, not avoiding uncomfortable situations or discussions and so on. No room for llms there.

they might be poor at it, but if you do everything you specified online and through a computer, then its in an LLMs domain. If we hadnt pushed so hard for work from home it might be a different story. LLMs are poor on soft skills but is that inherent or just a problem that can be refined away? i dont know
by danishSuri1994 | 2025-11-20 13:41:51+00:00
HorizonDB sounds interesting, but it’s hard to evaluate until Microsoft clarifies how it differs from their existing Postgres offerings (Flexible Server, Hyperscale/Citus, CosmosDB integrations).

Without clear pricing + performance characteristics, it’s difficult to know whether this is a new architecture or just another SKU in an already crowded lineup
by muzani | 2025-11-20 13:41:55+00:00
I have a few of these. They came with the house.

1) The power cuts out frequently and the autogate can't be manually opened. There's a battery and a switch that opens it but if the power is out for a few hours, I can't go home.

2) We have lights that trigger when the alarm rings. We can't turn off the button or it won't work. There's some glitch with many of them where the neighbor's lights burn out faster. Some of the neighbors just removed them as there's little benefit.

3) Smart lights are a little burden on the router, especially without a hub. Tàoo many and things start glitching. The best ones end up being a kind of mesh, which is why they're so expensive.

4) Our smart door isn't properly waterproof. Rain and humidity makes the fingerprint sensor glitch out. While we can open it with a key or card, the whole purpose is not bringing one. One alternative is using the free app that unlocks the door, but it means I have to watch an ad if I go home.
by wonger_ | 2025-11-20 13:42:07+00:00
I appreciate they acknowledge the nuance and shortcomings. When I first heard that baseline = available for 2.5 yrs, I felt that was a big disadvantage to users with older devices.

IMO a better solution would be a tool that scans all your HTML/CSS/JS output for keywords and features, and that returns a list of availability across browser versions. Like caniuse but scanning your whole build directory. That way devs can see for themselves what features they depend on and when they were supported, rather than relying on someone else's green stamp of approval in the docs. Does anyone know if such a tool exists?

Edit: seems like Eslint can do this?
by BoredPositron | 2025-11-20 13:42:14+00:00
I am not going to say more because that's for your doctor but if none of the medications you mentioned improved your focus it's not ADHD. 70-80% respond to first line stimulants. 10-20% which have unbearable side effects (your described side effects are standard for starting phases of these meds) but improved cognitive features. The last 10% is misdiagnosed.
by jabl | 2025-11-20 13:42:31+00:00
I found a brief from a research project that studied blends of silicone and butyl rubber for Mars applications at https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/r.anyszk...

Also a more detailed version https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/459340626/Rubbe...

But this seems to be rubber for gaskets, hoses, tires etc. and not fiber reinforced stuff for construction applications.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-11-20 13:42:44+00:00
"As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace"

I don't know if human evolution is really slowing but I think that modern medicine and healthcare does reduce evolutionary pressure by reducing "natural selection".

I suspect that culling the slowest 10% in a texting competition at the end of high school, before people usually reproduce, would be frowned upon.
by acdha | 2025-11-20 13:42:51+00:00
> By the time MS acquired GitHub, Atom usage was already in decline.

I wanted to second this: I compared both, with Atom experience starting before the first VSC release. Atom had performance and stability problems continuously through that period, and never really won any of my coworkers over. A lot of that was simple performance: I remember using Is It Snappy? to test my subjective impression and finding that input latency was a full order of magnitude worse, which is the kind of thing which really colors your impression of an editor.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-20 13:42:56+00:00
In practice drivers don't face repercussions proportional to the real impact because all of police, prosecutors and a potential jury see themselves in the driver as they too are likely drivers.

If you do something dumb and it kills another person, there's an excellent chance you get tried for manslaughter and a decent chance you go to jail. Unless it was in a car, then it's just a "car accident" and most likely you won't even be arrested because well, you were driving a car, sometimes killing people just happens right?
by thrance | 2025-11-20 13:43:31+00:00
This makes me somewhat hopeful for the future. You can either choose between maximal performance or "neutrality", but you can't have both. A truly intelligent system must be free to come to its own conclusions, or it can't be intelligent at all. Maybe the best alignment is no alignment at all? Just feed it enough facts about the world and let it sort this whole mess out. That's how we do it, after all.