MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cleo-housing | 2025-11-13 13:51:36+00:00
Hi HN! I’m building Cleo Housing, a trust-based home-swapping platform for people who want to live between cities without paying double rent or dealing with random strangers on the internet.

Instead of Airbnb, Kindred, HomeExchange or cold marketplaces, you swap or sublet your home with people you share trusted connections with. Think of it a bit like how Happenstance lets you search your network to find warm contacts — but applied to housing. We surface “people in common”, shared communities, or overlapping networks to make the entire experience safer and more human.

Housing in Europe is broken. Airbnb is expensive, mid-term rentals are inconsistent, and many remote workers or couples live multi-city lives (working in one country and spending time with family in another country). But most people don’t want a complete stranger in their home. They do trust friends-of-friends, alumni, colleagues, and community members, and that layer of trust is missing in existing platforms.

The MVP is built with Front end development, backend on Supabase and landing page on Figma Make, and a lightweight social-graph matcher. It’s early and still rough around the edges, especially the matchmaking/trust part needs refining.

I’d love feedback on the product, the concept, the assumptions, or the tech stack. And if you travel often, live between cities, or have an unused room for part of the year, you’re very welcome to join as an early user: https://www.cleohousing.com

Happy to answer every question!

Alejandra
by ahachete | 2025-11-13 13:51:44+00:00
If I'm not mistaken, since 25.04 root-on-ZFS is available (as experimental) in the installer.

I still prefer to do root on ext4 and then a proper ZFS pool for all the mountpoints I want, where I can configure as I wish with encryption and compression. Primary reason is that I don't keep sensitive data on root, but I want a bootable system whatever happens. And this use case is perfectly supported, so it's more than enough for me.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-11-13 13:52:10+00:00
This includes over $1 million in direct payouts to 8 senators who were under LEO review for helping with the insurrection attempt of January 6th. All while nuking the hemp industry and refusing to stop ACA plan premiums from skyrocketing in any way.

This country is a brazen, open, corrupt oligarchy with an active distain for its people. I've genuinely lost any hope for recovery if the progressives need to completely overthrow their own party to even start resisting.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-11-13 13:52:15+00:00
> At a point, all you can do is apologise, offer compensation if possible, and plot out how you’re going to prevent it going forward.

I totally agree – You've covered the 3 most important things to do here: Apologize; make it right; sufficiently explain in detail to customers how you'll prevent recurrences.

After reading the post, I see the 1st of 3. To their credit, most companies don't get that far, so thanks, Checkout.com. Now keep going, 2 tasks left to do and be totally transparent about.
by phoronixrly | 2025-11-13 13:52:19+00:00
So EU mandates that security updates in either source OR binary form must hit all users in at most 4 months after they are first published, therefore Google started delaying releasing source code and will start delaying it even more?

A more correct expectation would be that now Google will start delaying all security updates (both binary and source) until all their important downstream vendors are able to release in time.

Even that is doubtful, as Google would have to take the reputational damage for an ongoing exploitation of a security issue.

The functional updates though might get slowed down.
by 4b11b4 | 2025-11-13 13:52:53+00:00
I'll respond to this bait in the hopes that it clicks for someone how to _not_ use an LLM..

Asking "them"... your perspective is already warped. It's not your fault, all the text we've previously ever seen is associated with a human being.

Language models are mathematical, statistical beasts. The beast generally doesn't do well with open ended questions (known as "zero-shot"). It shines when you give it something to work off of ("one-shot").

Some may complain of the preciseness of my use of zero and one shot here, but I use it merely to contrast between open ended questions versus providing some context and work to be done.

Some examples...

- summarize the following

- given this code, break down each part

- give alternatives of this code and trade-offs

- given this error, how to fix or begin troubleshooting

I mainly use them for technical things I can then verify myself.

While extremely useful, I consider them extremely dangerous. They provide a false sense of "knowing things"/"learning"/"productivity". It's too easy to begin to rely on them as a crutch.

When learning new programming languages, I go back to writing by hand and compiling in my head. I need that mechanical muscle memory, same as trying to learn calculus or physics, chemistry, etc.
by xzjis | 2025-11-13 13:52:56+00:00
This has absolutely nothing to do with that law, and even Google doesn't dare use it as an excuse for its behavior (as they did with GDPR by deliberately creating user friction that the European regulation did not require, and even partially forbids).

In reality, it's a purely political decision to curb the development of third-party ROMs, because the AOSP source code exists with all the merges and is distributed to vendors (like Samsung). However, it's not necessarily just to target GrapheneOS and LineageOS; it might also be to target the Chinese market, particularly Huawei, which uses this source code for HarmonyOS.
by Kbelicius | 2025-11-13 13:53:42+00:00
> Some systems (notably BattleEye) actually have Linux support, they just need to enable it, but there's no incentive for them to do so.

This isn't really true. As GP said, there isn't a kernel level anti cheat for linux. You can switch a flick on BattleEye to run on linux but it wont be a kernel level as it is on windows. So there is an incentive for them to not turn it on because it simply is the worse version than the windows one. As far as I know even on windows you get cheats even if it is kernel level. Meaning, allowing linux you'd probably be flooded with cheaters if you already get them on windows.
by hereme888 | 2025-11-13 13:54:12+00:00
Wherever we were grown, we have our head still sitting between our shoulders, buddy.

Democrats were trying to undo a prior GOP law and extend bigger Obamacare subsidies as well as extending the enhanced ACA premium tax credits ($350 billion over a decade), which would have funneled several hundred billion dollars in healthcare subsidies that could have been apportioned to illegal immigrants rather than Americans who need it. Read section 2141 rather than CNN articles.

It's widely known why Democrat politicians funnel money to them: votes.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-11-13 13:54:15+00:00
"Allow". This is the entirety of the problem. They are allowing things on my machine that I purchased with monies that I leased my soul for.

Anyway, I am already planning for a future in which Google does not feature as prominently as did until now. Small steps so far ( grapheneOS ), but to me the writing the wall is unmistakable. Google got cold feet over feedback and now they can allow things.

When negative publicity ends, they will start working towards further locking it in again. I am personally done with passively accepting it. It might be annoying, but it degoogling is a simple necessity.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-13 13:54:25+00:00
The problem is that the publishing industry seems to think their job is to print ink on paper, and they reluctantly admit that this probably also involves putting pixels on a screen.

They're hideously anti-tech and they completely ignore technological advancement when thinking about the scope of their product. Instead of investing millions of dollars in developing their own AI solutions that are the New York Times answer machine, they pay those millions of dollars to lawyers and sue people building the answer machines. It's entirely the wrong strategy, it's regressive, and yes, they are to blame for it.

The biggest bug I've observed in my life is that people think technology is its own sector when really it's a cross-cutting concern that everybody needs to be thinking about.
by vel0city | 2025-11-13 13:55:58+00:00
I mean, they don't have to be. You can often get a state ID card and a driver's license, but that's essentially redundant. More fees, more time, more paperwork. Things that require an ID just require some state or federally issued photo ID, so you can use a DL, a state ID, a passport, etc. When the extreme majority of adults are already needing a DL to get groceries why bother with another ID.
by bko | 2025-11-13 13:56:01+00:00
I am not making a moral judgement that wealth is success or should be pursued.

I am simply saying some people pursue wealth, like others pursue raising a family, excelling in a sport, starting a YouTube channel, whatever.

If they're successful at it, I assume they know something about the world.

Successful marriage and raising good kids: I assume you know something about psychology, the human condition, relationships

Sports: I assume you know something about training and hard work

YouTube: Marketing, trends, production

Starting a business and becoming a billionaire is another pursuit and if you're successful I assume you know something about the world. You're successful in the sense that you set out to start a business that made a lot of money and you succeeded. That is all.

I don't think pursuing one is greater than the other. I'm glad people in the world pursue all these things. Personally I don't want my children to try to become billionaires (or athletes, YT stars for that matter). If they have talents in this space, it may be worth pursuing but it's a great sacrifice in all other aspects of life. But chasing it without the talent or unique insight into the world would almost certainly fail.
by slightwinder | 2025-11-13 13:56:12+00:00
> I don't think it's entirely the case. They are on franchises, but not the ones you think of

I didn't name any franchise. I only mentioned Battlefield to compare it with the mentioned Duck-Game, as they are both on Steam where everyone can see the numbers. I mean if we are talking about the real big numbers, then we would be with Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, LoL, which are all not on Steam; making number-checking a tad harder.

> Games like Battlefield are up there, but I don't think they're the games people mainly play over the years.

As a Franchise it seems moving Fifa, very popular, but also seasonal peaks. Each new version shoves in players for a while, until they are satisfied again. Though, I don't really play them, so it's just external observation.
by abanana | 2025-11-13 13:56:33+00:00
At school/college in the 90s, ring binders [1] were mandated by most subjects. Schools had piles of loose-leaf pre-punched A4 paper, but encouraged everyone to buy their own, which meant buying loosely-glued pads [2]. And dividers [3] helped to split your topics, subjects or university modules in the same ring binder.

Working in retail 1998-2004 (I've taken no notice of how much things may have changed since), the ring binders and paper pads were piled high and sold in huge numbers at "back to school" times. Full pallets of the paper in the window displays at Woolworths.

> Would you take each sheet out of the binder before writing?

If using the cheap crap paper sold by many shops, that could only feasibly be written one side, then yes I did, I'm left-handed so the rings were in the way! Right-handers generally didn't. I suppose the answer is "sometimes". I don't think it slides around. I find the same problem with a spiral binding - too difficult to write at the left edge, and no option there to move the paper away. A weird problem that at least we don't get with tablets.

You also mentioned earlier:

> the holes rip easily on thin note paper

Yep, tell me about it [4].

Also, an open ring-binder is wide. In school you'd sometimes have to tuck the end under that of the person sitting next to you.

But as cesarb said a few posts ago, they "allow one to easily re-order pages, and group them by subject." All options have their pros and cons, we just attach different weights to them.

Examples from a quick search: [1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005QZM9RQ - "pages designed for easy tear-out". [2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00COM8XW4 [3] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006O8AAZC [4] https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00F895JWW
by tomhow | 2025-11-13 13:56:59+00:00
OK, I can accept that you didn't know, and that you don't intend to cross the line, but that just indicates you're not aware of what's expected here and you need to learn, and to make an ongoing effort to stay well inside the bounds.

A line like “Whether it's slaves or illegals, it's still wrong” will always be classed as an inflammatory statement on HN.

> I never attack a person directly

That style of rhetoric in the reply is hostile to the parent; we often don't know how hostile our words can seem to the person on the receiving end of them; they don't seem so bad when they're just thoughts in our own mind.

> even though I have witnessed it being done and others have done it to me.

You should flag things or report them to us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate and act where needed.
by chaostheory | 2025-11-13 13:57:08+00:00
> But the price is hopefully low.

The main value of Meta VR and AR products is the massive price subsidy which is needed because the brand has been destroyed for all generations older than Alpha.

The current price estimate for the Steam Frame is $1200 vs Quest 3 at $600 which is still a very reasonable price given the technology, tariffs, and lack of ad invading privacy
by xzjis | 2025-11-13 13:58:28+00:00
Is it really that useful to have feature parity across all platforms? In Telegram, for some features, it just says "please open this message on your smartphone", and that's fine. If I had the choice, I'd prefer fewer features and lower resource usage over having access to the very latest functionalities, and you can offer the web version as a supplement for whatever is missing.
by wl | 2025-11-13 13:58:30+00:00
Mike McQuaid has been doing this a long time and there are more egregious examples in the past. I got off the Homebrew train when Little Snitch caught Homebrew phoning home without my consent and the response from him was, the developers have already decided to implement telemetry in an opt-out fashion and any pushback to that already made decision is "abusive" to the maintainers.

The Homebrew maintainers are not trustworthy. Don't use their software. If a fork was going to be feasible, it already would have happened.
by nthypes | 2025-11-13 13:58:39+00:00
For me it's about the value-to-token ratio feeling off, as I stated in another comment.

> What bugs me most is that many of those 340M tokens feel wasteful? Like the LLM will use 50k tokens exploring dead ends before finding a solution that could have been expressed in 5k tokens. The productivity gain is real, but it feels like I'm paying 10x more than what should be "fair" for the actual value delivered.
by lapcat | 2025-11-13 13:58:41+00:00
> leftist discourse

You jump to political labels awfully fast, based on a mere two sentences.

> pretending not to understand things

I'm not pretending anything. I also don't think I'm misunderstanding here.

> thus making discourse impossible.

You replied to me, so apparently discourse is possible.

Let me add to the discourse: I think our fundamental difference is that you view massive wealth accumulation as success, whereas I view it as failure.

It's reasonable for any person to want material goods, e.g., food, clothing, shelter, even entertainment, as well as some measure of security. However, at some point, a normal person is satisfied with their personal wealth. If you're never satisfied, always need more, more, more without limit, that's a psychological problem, and possibly a social problem too.
by Normal_gaussian | 2025-11-13 13:58:53+00:00
The experience of using a custom build is terrible.

The best experience you can get atm is to use Steams big picture mode, and that doesn't give you pause/resume, and you will sometimes need to use keyb & mouse to solve issues, plus you need to manage the whole OS yourself etc.

Valves SteamOS which already runs on the Steam Deck gives you all the QoL that you expect out of a console. Pause / resume with power button press, complete control via controller, fully managed OS.

What's missing are "in experience" native apps like Netflix/AppleTV/etc. as well as support for certain games which are blocked on anti-cheat.

My wife is a research scientist who uses linux with her day job, but she isn't interested in dealing with any nonsense when she's relaxing at the end of the day. The Steam Deck has been a wonder for her - suddenly she's playing the same games as me with none of the hassle. The Steam Machine will suddenly open a bunch of my friends and family up to PC games as well.

It won't be long until you can put SteamOS on any machine you make yourself, but the Steam Machine will serve as reference and "default" hardware for the majority.
by caminante | 2025-11-13 13:59:38+00:00
> In the 2010s there was a sort of emancipation for trans people, and you could see them more and more often being openly involved with open source software

It was "your" claim about others and in general ("you could see"), i.e., not mine or your anecdotal awareness.

> I would be open to proof of the opposite.

It's on you to prove LGBT, especially T, weren't already over-represented (versus typical population) in open source prior to the 2010s.
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-13 13:59:41+00:00
Something I haven't seen discussed at all is HDCP compliance.

Of course, games don't need that - I'd say that every game studio is aware that without streamers, you don't sell games, and streamers can't stream when HDCP gets in their way.

But for the use case of a home theater? PS4 and 5 as well as some Xbox varieties can do 4K Netflix [1], no issues. Installing Windows, I'd guess that's fine too. But Steam OS? Nope. Anything too "open" gets the boot, including Android if you dare root your device, Widevine L1 refuses to work as the TEE doesn't reveal the keys if it detects an unlocked bootloader.

[1] https://help.netflix.com/de/node/23888

[2] https://help.netflix.com/de/node/23889
by murugaviki | 2025-11-13 13:59:52+00:00
A speculative, semi-humorous model of the universe as a software project. From unstable alpha builds (dinosaurs, rogue asteroids) to the “first cognitive release” bugs (prophecies, visions), to a fully locked-down maintenance mode where consciousness is sandboxed. A thought experiment blending simulation theory with software development metaphors.

https://open.substack.com/pub/overthinkingvoid/p/universe-si...
by evelant | 2025-11-13 14:00:06+00:00
My prolog anecdote: ~2001 my brother and I writing an A* pathfinder in prolog to navigate a bot around the world of Asheron's Call (still the greatest MMORPG of all time!). A formative experience in what can be done with code. Others had written a plugin system (called Decal) in C for the game and a parser library for the game's terrain file format. We took that data and used prolog to write an A* pathfinder that could navigate the world, avoiding un-walkable terrain and even using the portals to shortcut between locations. Good times.
by simoncion | 2025-11-13 14:00:44+00:00
> I like to joke that we already had dark mode on Window 95.

When I say it, it's not a joke! :D

> But the new dark mode stuff in explorer doesn't use uxtheme anymore.

I'm only familiar with Windows 10, and in that version Windows Explorer seemed to conform to the system color scheme just fine. Did Microsoft break that at some point in the past three, four months, [0] or did they royally fuck the dog in Windows 11?

For me, the *maddening* color-scheme-nonconformance was Task Manager. No matter what I did, it was *white*. It made it substantially unpleasant when you wanted to check a performance something-or-other in a dark room.

[0] Ever since I learned just how well video games work on Linux (via Steam), I've not booted into Windows. It's so nice. Folks report that there are launchers to run games in the Epic Game Store, but I've not yet bothered, so I can't provide first-hand info.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-13 14:00:47+00:00
> preserve their business model of writing about things that happen and selling the publication. To me it seems reasonable they'd want to keep doing that

Be very wary of companies that look to change the landscape to preserve their business model. They are almost always regressive in trying to prevent the emergence of something useful and new because it challenges their revenue stream. The New York Times should be developing their own AI and should not be ignoring the march of technological progress, but instead they are choosing to lawyer up and use the legal system to try to prevent progress. I don't have any sympathy for them; there is no right to a business model.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-11-13 14:00:55+00:00
You are 100% right, a rope likely isn't going to tell you anything. There's one of those differences I mentioned which makes comparisons useful. We could probably name a few differences!

So, what makes you think comparing the 2 tools is invalid? You just compared them yourself, and I don't think you were being disingenuous.
by JustExAWS | 2025-11-13 14:01:08+00:00
Well, I’m 51. I’ve had 10 jobs in my career including one at BigTech. I never grinded leetCode or even had a serious coding interview [1]. But from my time at BigTech I know interns I mentored and who got return offers were making more straight out of college than I made at 45 working as an enterprise “senior” developer in the burbs of Atlanta before I got into BigTech.

I was perfectly happy making $150K living in a 3200 square foot house I had built in the “good school system” in 2016 for $335K.

> I’m saying maybe you don’t have to join them. Get out of the mindset. Find jobs that value your time

Companies “value your time” by paying you to exchange labor for money. All other things being equal, I would rather trade my time for more money than less.

I have made the trade off in the last couple of years now that I’m out of BigTech to value working remotely and stress free over BigTech compensation. But let’s not blindly pretend that you aren’t making the trade off by refusing to post the game.

[1] A remote interview opportunity/job fell into my lap working at AWS Professional Services. My speciality was cloud + app dev. But the interview process was all behavioral. I’m not suggesting trying this route.
by orbital-decay | 2025-11-13 14:01:24+00:00
Is that a more convoluted way to say that a next thing predictor can't exhibit complex behavior? Aka the stochastic parrot argument. Or that one modality can't be a good enough proxy for the other. If so, you probably have to pay more attention to the interpretability research.

But actually most people should start with strong definitions. Consciousness, intelligence, and other adjacent terms have never been defined rigorously enough, even if a ton of philosophers think otherwise. These discussions always dance around ill-defined terms.
by woliveirajr | 2025-11-13 14:01:42+00:00
I'm pretty sure Brazil doesn't have a law saying that Google must forbid sideload. I'm sure that government (be it President, Central Bank etc) doesn't pressure Google about it.

I'm sure some private actors (for example, banks) would love that smartphones are as tight as possible (reason: [0]). Perhaps the same reason applies to Google [1]. But no, "Brazil" isn't demanding that from Google.

[0]: consider that some virus (insecure apps, for example) could somehow steal information from bank apps (even as simple as capture login information). The client might sue the bank and the bank might have to prove that their app is secure and the problem was in the client's smartphone.

[1]: the client, the bank etc might complain to Google that their Android is insecure