MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindcrash | 2025-11-10 20:00:15+00:00
Oh no, let's not. Let's not turn the Linux desktop into a locked down Microsoft or Apple shithole.

Because, IMO, it is one of the most beautiful features of the ecosystem. If you get tired of KDE, you can easily switch to GNOME on the same system and still keep all the things you care about. And if you decide that GNOME is not your thing you can easily revert back on the same system. And unless you are running Gentoo (wink, wink) that only takes a cup of coffee on modern hardware.

Better yet, if you get tired of both you can get something like Mango (https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/mangowc) or Hyprland (https://hypr.land/) and hack your own DE together, or if you really have spare time to shed you can pick up something like QuickShell (https://quickshell.org/) and build a DE pretty much from scratch all by yourself. That's how caelestia (https://github.com/caelestia-dots) came to be, which is also prominently showcased on the QuickShell homepage. It's just that beautiful (and useful too).

Speaking of useful, from someone who installed Linux for the first time way back then when CD-ROMs and Windows XP were still things and Slackware was the most popular distribution the UX of all desktop environments has improved a lot.

And that's actually a understatement. I'm currently migrating (for real this time, and for good) and also want to ween my parents off Windows 10 so I casually slapped a KDE Neon live CD on a USB stick in order to demonstrate that the UX in Linux has improved a lot over the years and is nothing to worry about.

After booting up from the stick I was absolutely blown away myself, because of how good it was. Hell, I can imagine if less people get freakish about Linux a lot of people will finally make the switch. The UX IMHO is so damn good compared to Windows 11 or current OS X for beginners to advanced users alike (in case of the latter meaning that if you want to customize your shell to oblivion within the borders of KDE's UX guidelines go right ahead, nobody is stopping you)

TL;DR: Nothing needs to be changed. The only thing what is required is that people learn there's more than macOS Big Sur or Windows 11, and that these alternatives are just as easy to use.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-10 20:00:27+00:00
I think the author's (pugworthy's) intent was to disincentivize doctors who take advantage of fee-for-service.

For example, a few years ago, I started getting Plantar Faucitis. (Basically, foot pain that happens in middle age.) My doctor sent me to a podiatrist, who basically told me to buy new shoes, use inserts, and stop walking around barefoot. That worked, BUT:

The podiatrist also pushed me to do a silicon injection (as in they offered it while they were pulling out the needle and pushing it into my foot), pressured me to come in monthly, and wanted to write a prescription for a painkiller that I didn't need and had side effects. It was clear they were trying to increase their patient load and services as a way to get more revenue.
by dizzant | 2025-11-10 20:00:35+00:00
Thank you for the many tool links! You seems to know this space well. I have come to pick your brain for more.

I have been searching for a while for good tools to split/regroup diffs in a patch series. hunk.nvim looks interesting. Do you know of similar/competing tools?

I frequently hit a problem where removing a spurious hunk from an old commit causes cascading conflicts in all subsequent commits. Are there tools to propagate hunk removal into the future without the manual conflict-resolution pain?

Thanks again!
by mike_d | 2025-11-10 20:00:57+00:00
> can anyone weigh in on the costs/complexity of a public DNS resolver implementing geo-fencing

I was a small part of the original team that built OpenDNS. I also operate a less well known public resolver now.

DNS is extremely latency sensitive. You have basically a 20ms budget to work with, which includes the time the request and response traverse the internet. It is also extremely high volume, a large public service like Quad9 could easily see single digit millions of requests per second.

There is nothing that technically prevents you from doing geofencing. Cisco has the money to absorb the costs of the additional overhead - but I could not. My first stab at the problem would be to simply shut down my servers in France to try to get out of the legal jurisdiction. I don't know if that would be sufficient without paying for a lawyer.

Quad9 absolutely has a valid argument here and it pushes more of our public infrastructure into the centralized hands of a small number of players because people like me can't afford to just run free shit on the internet anymore.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-10 20:01:01+00:00
Third party developers dropping support for OS versions that are, frankly, not even very old, is a scourge in software today.

I can maybe understand sunsetting support if the OS made a huge backwards-incompatible step change, but macOS and iOS updates don't tend to be that kind. The differences (for developers) between Catalina and Mojave are minuscule. Retaining support for Mojave should be close to zero effort on the part of the developer. There should be no difference in maintenance burden between building an application that runs on Mojave and Catalina, and building an application that runs only on Catalina+.
by WalterBright | 2025-11-10 20:01:36+00:00
I have astigmatism, meaning my eyes are egg-shaped. This means the glasses are shaped so that the view is "correct" only if my eyes face forward. If I look to the right or the left, the view is warped.

Normally, the brain adapts to the warping, and it also means (as I didn't notice before the doc told me) that I have a tendency to turn my head rather than turn my eyes.

But with the "warp" constantly changing, the brain cannot adapt to it and it calculates the wrong trajectory for a flying object.

Hence my utter failure at hitting baseballs and tennis balls.

The doc opened by saying "you must be bad at baseball!", guessing correctly, and then explained all this to me. He also said I must suffer from severe headaches because of it, and accused me of lying about it when I denied it(!).

Contact lenses solve the problem by moving with your eye, but I tried them and didn't like the nuisance of contacts. (This is not an issue if you have only near or far sightedness.) I could get Lasik eye surgery, but I don't even want to take a small risk of damaging my eyes.
by jen20 | 2025-11-10 20:01:50+00:00
To be clear, Apple and Google both have huge UK presence. I don't know the extent of Google, but Apple has offices with thousands of people working in them. Compliance with what the UK wants in this regard is not optional.

What the original poster does is completely misplace blame under the guise of "clever" writing - blame should be assigned squarely on the idiotic policies of the UK government.
by Izikiel43 | 2025-11-10 20:01:51+00:00
> do you expect people across the border wait a decade to get their turn for an immigration interview only to be turned down, when they can just cross the border?

Well yes, that's what following the law means. They can't complain about it, it's not their country, and they don't have a say on the rules.

In a similar vein by your logic, if you are in a hurry, why should you obey traffic laws when you can just run a red light or a stop sign right?
by saberience | 2025-11-10 20:01:54+00:00
Of course they wouldn’t announce acquisition and a license change at the same time but this is obviously the beginning of the end.

See Hashicorp and Elasticsearch for the same old story.

Luckily these kinds of products are a dime a dozen, ie zero technical complexity and there are so many similar projects already out there. Hell you can even vibe code this kind of project.
by Rotundo | 2025-11-10 20:01:56+00:00
Organizing files is a difficult problem.

For me, grouping by extension would not help. That only serves to bundle my shopping lists with my project plans and tax forms (all .doc), or the cool online picture I saved to get mixed in with my holiday photos (both .png).

I'm not sure how the even begin solving this. Perhaps this is one of the rare instances where AI could help. But only if it works completely local and offline.
by otterdude | 2025-11-10 20:02:34+00:00
I am continually baffled by the "logic" behind laws and the justice system.

If corporations are people, then how can they be bought or sold considering the 13th amendment?

How can money be speech, if the constitution allows congress to regulate commerce, but prohibits it from abridging speech.

It just seems like in a common law system we're forced to live with half-assed arguments that corporate lawyers dreamed up while golfing with the judges.
by madaxe_again | 2025-11-10 20:03:03+00:00
Actually, it isn’t even possible in all cases.

I literally have just got home from a Ryanair flight where they provided me with no option but a paper boarding pass for my daughter.

It’s essentially a result of a crazy hack they’ve implemented to support families who have Ryanair prime.

You can only name adults as Ryanair prime members, and when you book through a Ryanair prime account, you can only book for the named members. There’s a maximum of two per account, as it’s intended for couples. The kids, aged 2-16, you have to make a “linked booking”. You don’t get boarding passes through the app or email - the only option is to go to a customer service desk and have them print you a paper boarding pass.

Also… digital boarding passes are an open standard - IATA BCBP. You can go make your own.

https://www.iata.org/contentassets/1dccc9ed041b4f3bbdcf8ee86...
Show HN: Deepfakecheck.com – AI deepfake detector (25 free scans for launch)
by rodyoversloot | 2025-11-10 20:03:06+00:00
Hi HN,

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For this test launch I will manually increase the free scans to 25 (instead of the usual 3) after sign up so you can test it thoroughly for free and give feedback. Please be patient while I check the signups as much as possible and manually increase the credits from 3 to 25 (usually within minutes) unless I am sleeping :)

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Love to know what you think! Thanks for checking it out.

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by zgk7iqea | 2025-11-10 20:03:13+00:00
Very interesting, thanks.

One point from one of the linked threads I find particularly puzzling:

> I think the issue with XSLT isn't necessarily the size of the attack surface, it's the lack of attention and usage.

> I.e. nearly 100% of sites use JS, while 1/10000 of those use XSLT. So all of the engineering energy (rightfully) goes to JS, not XSLT.

XSLT is a finished standard. Not everything needs to evolve. If the implementation works and is safe, what speaks against keeping it?
by webdevver | 2025-11-10 20:03:58+00:00
the people are a lot stupider than the politicians. sorry but it needs to be said.

as for the MPs, theyre ok. not as stupid as most think. they are very self-interested and not in the business of 'rocking the boat'. strongly prefer managed decline than any risk taking that could result in things going sideways.

its easy to critique but truthfully the UK is structurally in a dead end (well ok, maybe not... but it does feel that way). but things could be a lot worse, and many don't appreciate that reality. having clean tap water and paved roads is pretty damn good for a country held up by fintech and scraps of last century's industry.

people calling for reforms have no idea what they're in for. Thankfully Reform was deployed together with Nigel Farage, God bless him, rolled in to do narrative control and provide a safe and controlled sponge for dissent. That guy is a 'fixer' for UK political radicalism - every time the crowd starts to have funny ideas, he magically appears and slowly but surely everyone goes back to their £32k/year jobs. I think he's 'retired' from politics thrice now.

truthfully, nobody does politics better than the Brits. but then again, they invented this game to begin with!
by dylan604 | 2025-11-10 20:04:00+00:00
> The question here is if a public/government agency pays a private company to setup cameras in public, for the benefit of the public, then should that data collected by those cameras not also be public?

This is how NASA operates with the data/images collected from the tax payer funded operations it runs. There is a period of exclusivity allowed for some projects to allow the people to work with the data, but anybody can go down load high res imagery once it has been released.
by daveguy | 2025-11-10 20:04:22+00:00
Wow. Cross-tile performance was 0-2%. That's the challenge where you select all of the tiles containing an item where the single item is in a subset of tiles. As opposed to all the tiles that contain the item type (static - 60% max) and the reload version (21% max). Seems to really highlight how far these things are from reasoning or human level intelligence. Although to be fair, the cross-tile is the one I perform worst on too (but more like 90+% rather than 2%).
by hasperdi | 2025-11-10 20:04:25+00:00
AMD 395+ is more bang for the buck IMO.

GMKtec EVO-X2 vs GX10 vs MacBook Pro M4 Max

Price: $2,199.99 / $3,000 / $5,000 CPU: Ryzen AI Max 395+ (Strix Halo, 16C/32T) / NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB200 Superchip (20-core ARM v9.2) / Apple M4 Max (12C) GPU: Radeon 890M (RDNA3 iGPU) / Integrated Blackwell GPU (up to 1 PFLOP FP4) / 40-core integrated GPU Memory: 128GB LPDDR5X / 128GB LPDDR5X unified / 128GB unified Memory bandwidth: ???GB/s / ~500GB/s / ~546GB/s SSD: 1TB PCIe 4.0 / 4TB PCIe 5.0 / 1TB NVMe GPU advantage: Similar (EVO-X2 trades blows with GB10 depending on model and framework) Network: 2.5GbE / 10GbE / 10GbE (via TB) Direct cluster: 40Gb (USB4/TB4) / 200Gb / 80Gb Portable: Semi (compact desktop) / No / Yes Free Mac included: No / No / Yes Free monitor: No / No / Yes Linux out of the box: Yes / Yes / No CUDA dev environment: No (ROCm) / Yes / No
by nice_byte | 2025-11-10 20:04:41+00:00
the only good git GUI that exists is Fork. Unfortunately, it doesn't run natively on Linux, although some people have had luck running it under Wine.

I found lazygit specifically so bad to the point that I was better off typing in git commands into the terminal manually like some sort of caveman. Somehow, lazygit has found a way to make git even more confusing and user hostile than it already is, which is a significant achievement.

Using it was a harsh reminder of what people running emacs or vim for the first time have to go through.

This idiotic ui paradigm where you have to actively learn to use what should be simple software by memorizing commands and shortcuts needs to die off. It's mind bogglingly inefficient and disrespectful of user's time.

Just think about it - I've literally never had to open Fork's manual (I am not even sure it has one) whereas in lazygit it is utterly impossible to do the most basic things without referring to the manual. Why do we collectively keep tolerating these shitty tools?
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-10 20:05:01+00:00
Yeah, I agree with that, and a more accurate description than mine.

The people in those roles are being mismanaged/misutilized rather than the job itself being bullshit.

I've seen the bloating first hand though, and you're right, that's usually what leads to those jobs. Some department over hires to pad the resume of some middle manager, and now you have a team that's severely over staffed to the point each individual contributor has maybe 2 to 3 hours of actual work to do in a day.
by Izikiel43 | 2025-11-10 20:05:02+00:00
> Biden has deported vastly greater numbers and a higher share of crossers, but it has not deterred people from crossing.

ICE and Trump seem to be enough deterrent now, considering how the land encounters have reduced.

> The logistics are such that once arrivals exceed the deportation machine’s capacity, people will find out and even more will come.

This explains the huge ice funding increase.
by jjk166 | 2025-11-10 20:05:35+00:00
That's not at all the reason.

Encyclopedias are tertiary sources, compilations of information generated by others. They are neither sources of first hand information (primary sources) nor original analysis (secondary sources). You can't cite encyclopedias because there's nothing to cite. The encyclopedia was not the first place the claim was made, even if it was the first place you happened to read it. You don't attribute a Wayne Gretsky quote to Michael Scott no matter how clearly he told you Wayne Gretsky said it.
by _wire_ | 2025-11-10 20:05:50+00:00
It is a proudly proclaimed tenet of U.S. conservatism (Republicans) that liberty includes the freedom of bias and to promote bias for personal, business and political ends. This includes freedom of bigoted policy and exclusion of others on racist principle. There's a hyper-Hegelian ideological gesture made by conservatives that intolerance of their bigotry is a form of discrimination against white Christians which endangers their privilege and majority. This gesture generates a surprisingly high degree political resonance in the U.S.

As to the matter of structural bias in the 4th estate relating establishment political objectives and policy, the national press is a complex instrument of great power, so of course it will play bias to the hilt, and occasionally its management will become roiled by "controversy" over the positions of the levers of machinery of opinion.
by modeless | 2025-11-10 20:05:58+00:00
"High light levels" makes it sound like you could just replace 50 watt bulbs with 100 watt bulbs indoors to fix the problem. It's not like that at all. Sunlight is dramatically brighter than indoor lighting, far more than people realize. It would be impractical to replicate sunlight brightness indoors for many reasons: energy consumption, the cost and size of the fixtures, the immense heat it would produce, and generally because it would be uncomfortable to have light sources that bright in close proximity to you.

And again I am skeptical of claims that it is just one factor like brightness alone. There is other research about spectrum and distant objects in view that also shows effects. So even if you did use 100x brighter lights in your house there's no guarantee you would fix the problem.
by soared | 2025-11-10 20:06:27+00:00
This looks like a think tank problem more than an NVIDIA problem. If you work at a think tank, and you do research, and public companies are capable of doing harm to your career - your think tank is a weak facade that will give up its core ideals and bow to corporate overlords.

Think tanks should think, and not give a shit what other people think. Unless they’re partisan aligned, and will give up “thinking” to tow the party line. In which case it’s just veiled political influence hiding behind a moniker, which is really what think tanks are. So I’m thinking now - nonstory. Everything is working as intended.
by bamboozled | 2025-11-10 20:06:33+00:00
Detail missing and being a confidently wrong are two different things though ?

Edit: Claude told me the other day told me my entire building might have to be demolished due to a slightly bow in my newly poured stem wall, I uploaded a photo etc and it was liked, “yes this is a serious structural issue blah blah blah” , the inspector came to look at it and literally laughed that I was worried about it.
by ecocentrik | 2025-11-10 20:07:46+00:00
There's not that many controversial topics at any given time. One of Wikipedia's solutions was to lock pages until a controversy subsided. Perma-controversy has been managed in other ways, like avoiding the statement of opinion as fact, the use of clear and uncontroversial language, using discussion pages to hash out acceptable and unacceptable content, competent moderators... Rage burns itself and people get bored with vandalism.
For devs/engineers naysaying LLM tools, which ones have you tried?
by kaydub | 2025-11-10 20:08:23+00:00
I see a lot of this sentiment online, that LLMs write garbage code or that they're a net negative for devs/engineers.

In my experience, it's been the opposite. I've personally had huge productivity gains. Code quality is decent, it typically aligns with whatever stage of the project I'm on (for instance, greenfield/PoC it might build out a bit of a monolith, but later when I switch out to modularizing and making the codebase scalable it does a fine job at that too).

I've used it for a ton of stuff now and so has my staff. Migrating between frameworks or upgrading to new patterns are both way faster and easier than I or any of my ICs could do it on our own. Hell, I even use LLMs to interact with JIRA at this point (write scripts to pull epics/tasks, create child tasks, etc then have the LLM process what it gets from JIRA and update accordingly, all interactively).

One thing I will say, I find the best value in the CLI based tools (claude code cli, gemini cli, openai codex). The IDE integrated tools just felt like a slightly nicer autocomplete/intellisense and would fall flat on any bigger requests.

Organization wide, I've noticed a few other anecdotes too. Juniors have no issue using an LLM, but since they don't know what they don't know it can get them running in circles on some stuff (Like no junior engineer, don't rebuild that whole module because you assumed it should be on a certain branch). Mid level engineers seem to echo the sentiment I see online most often, that they're great engineers and the LLMs are bad (I personally witnessed one change their tune on this once we forced them to use claude code instead of relying on IDE LLM integrations). And Senior+ engineers either fully embrace it and love it or they'll use it on occasion or for specific tasks (Maybe the latter are those super-ninja 10x engineers we've always talked about).

So my question, specifically for those of you that don't find LLMs useful and think they're worse for productivity: * What tools did you try? * What kind of work did you use them for? * How did you prompt the LLM? * How long did you give it a chance?
by basscomm | 2025-11-10 20:08:59+00:00
> font, color, and others are no longer in HTML5 spec.

Sometimes browsers are asked to render HTML documents that were written decades ago to conform to older specs and are still on the internet. That still works

> JS is not there just for client side static DOM rendering. Something like Google Maps or an IRC chat would be a much poorer experience without it.

Of course they would. That's most of the point. You can do a lot more damage with JavaScript than you currently can with XSLT, but XSLT has to go because of 'security concerns'
by ryadh | 2025-11-10 20:10:01+00:00
Interestingly, LibreChat has a broad range of applications already and we'll continue to support them. The investment area we want to tackle in priority is around the analytics use-case specifically.In that space, I don't see an SSO-tax scheme unfolding tbh, it's really about better visualizations, semantic layers and anything that can improve the quality of the insights produced on top of analytics data
by habibur | 2025-11-10 20:10:07+00:00
I think it's ok. When wikipedia arrived, everyone was up in arms that people are learning from something that's open for anyone to edit.

But it rectified itself.

The same thing happened when Internet arrived. "Don't believe anything you read on the Internet."

I guess the reaction was same when printed media arrived.

But the thing is, things get better over time.
by BrenBarn | 2025-11-10 20:10:49+00:00
I'm always boggled by the logic of thinking that somehow having big companies going around doing harmful actions to people is "good for the economy" or "keeps us competitive". If having strict AI regulations means AI companies leave Europe, that's good! I wish we could do the same and get them to leave the US. These big AI companies are bad. We shouldn't want them, we shouldn't try to attract them, we shouldn't provide any conciliations or incentives. The sooner and more completely they're eradicated from any jurisdiction, the better. Forcing that kind of toxic waste out of your country should be perceived as a win.