MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tarsinge | 2025-11-12 08:43:45+00:00
I have been using DDG for years and even with Google quality having plunged it is neither better nor less expensive (nor the default when non technical users just type in the search bar of their browser). Yahoo has shown that even with immense brand recognition people will still switch if the alternative is really better. And if Google was 2x more expensive than DDG they’d switch too.

Regarding Microsoft it’s not as easy to switch as going on another website, OpenAI doesn’t have that ecosystem lock in.
by kakco001 | 2025-11-12 08:45:23+00:00
As someone who loves hiking and wild food foraging, I used to live in constant fear of accidentally picking toxic mushrooms. That all changed when I discovered MushroomCheck. The moment I uploaded my first mushroom photo, I was impressed by how intuitive the interface was – no complicated menus or confusing terminology. The AI identification was remarkably fast, providing not just the species name but also detailed safety information. What really won me over was the multi-angle identification feature. When I uploaded photos showing the cap, stem, and gills of a suspicious-looking mushroom, the system correctly identified it as a toxic Amanita and immediately flagged the danger. The toxicity analysis feature has become my safety net, automatically assessing potential risks and providing emergency response procedures. The field collection guidelines helped me understand proper harvesting techniques while protecting the ecosystem. As a beginner, having expert consultation available gave me the confidence to explore more while staying safe.
by ferrouswheel | 2025-11-12 08:45:49+00:00
I bought a lifetime gold license to Mediamonkey 3, 15 years ago.

I have since gotten Mediamonkey 4 and Mediamonkey 2024.

Unfortunately I don't like the 2024 refresh, but I can use it if I want to. I would also be completely happy if they just did maintenance/bugfixes on the original version.
by duskdozer | 2025-11-12 08:46:36+00:00
I definitely agree that some people are too fixated on "not changing history". I've never mentally had any problem with this and do it all the time because I think it makes things much clearer and easier. If you're restricted from ever amending or rebasing, I understand why you hate it.

I'm having a hard time understanding the issues you're having with reset and the workflow. It sounds to me like you just need to do something like "commit 'WIP A'/'WIP B'/'WIP C'" and fixup them as desired. Things like https://github.com/sjurba/rebase-editor make it a lot faster to do this. It wouldn't be too hard to make a small script/alias to do something like "modify commit A with <staged>, stashing the rest, rebase B->C on top of A, unstash", and assuming they aren't touching the same lines significantly, it wouldn't conflict much. But this could be way oversimplifying what you want.
by warp | 2025-11-12 08:47:37+00:00
I think of stickers as partly a theft deterrence mechanism. I expect a thief is more likely to steal a laptop with no stickers, because naively I assume the resale value is higher (no idea if that's actually true).

Losing developer productivity for a few days because a new laptop has to be provisioned, shipped and set up is also not cheap, so I feel there is some value to your employer in you making it slightly less likely for your laptop to be stolen at a conference or coffee shop.
by clan | 2025-11-12 08:47:52+00:00
Sounds like Basilica of San Clemente[1][2]. One of the many many many "hidden" gems of Rome. Highly recommend visiting it!

Or you can go on a virtual tour[3]

[1] https://www.basilicasanclemente.com/eng/

[2] https://maps.app.goo.gl/zpXpQuxQLUvE5TLA9

[3] https://www.basilicasanclemente.com/eng/a-virtual-tour/
by yanhangyhy | 2025-11-12 08:48:07+00:00
he is very smart. but Mark is not. Ever since Wang joined Meta, way too many big-name AI scientists have bounced because of him. US AI companies have at least half their researchers being Chinese, and now they've stuck this ultimate anti-China hardliner in charge—I just don't get what the hell Meta's up to(And even a lot of times, it ends up affecting non-Chinese scientists too.). Being anti-China? Fine, whatever, but don't let it tank your own business and products first.
by nuccy | 2025-11-12 08:49:21+00:00
I would actually consider sticking the opposite "Nuclear power? Yes, please!" (Same for solar, wind, geothermal of course). Is there a sticker for pro-nuclear power movement?

P.S. There's a nice recent video to have a glimpse into nuclear power plant safety in action: https://youtu.be/v0afQ6w3Bjw
by PetitPrince | 2025-11-12 08:49:36+00:00
The Swiss Weather Office official app has a crowdsourced photo gallery:

https://www.meteosuisse.admin.ch/services-et-publications/ap...

Look at the pictures from 3AM onwards on the 12 of November: you'll have a nice overview of how the aurora looked like from Switzerland (it's a time sensitive app and they certainly don't keep the pictures forever).
by sally_glance | 2025-11-12 08:49:40+00:00
Interesting, I had a similar setup with smart bulbs, dumb switches and HA. My experience was that when the bulbs lose connectivity (Zigbee or Wifi in my case) you could maybe still turn them on but they would start flashing like crazy or use different colors (as indicators for their "reconnecting" state). Also Zigbee doesn't really love losing mesh nodes periodically, so turning the bulb completely off using the switch would cause the whole network to fall into broken states that had to be manually fixed from time to time.
by fouc | 2025-11-12 08:49:54+00:00
I used an HP-48G heavily in school.

Just now I tried out the RPN calculator apps on the phone and I've realized that the enter key to the left above the number menu forces me to use two hands if I want to operate the calculator fast.

I think it makes more sense to stick the enter button at the bottom right near the other arithmetic operations, then I can at least operate the calculator reasonably quickly with just one hand for arithmetic.
by enraged_camel | 2025-11-12 08:50:46+00:00
My hot take: laptops with stickers are simply mini-billboards and I resent that they are a thing. The owner doesn't even make money from it!

I'm fine with self-expression (like with tattoos, which can be super interesting and creative) but am broadly against people shoving their likes/dislikes on everyone's face. I don't have any laptop stickers or bumper stickers and don't wear branded clothing.
by gorgoiler | 2025-11-12 08:51:17+00:00
The astronomy face is superior as it calculates the altitude and azimuth of the selected object based on your programmed location and, of course, the current time:

https://www.sensorwatch.net/docs/watchfaces/complication/#as...

What would be even better would be to acknowledge that altitude is somewhat moot when all these objects are in the ecliptic plane — unsurprisingly Jupiter at Jovian noon is roughly where The Sun was at lunchtime! — and instead cycle through the azimuths of each object in the sky, in the order in which they are visible.
by CGamesPlay | 2025-11-12 08:51:24+00:00
I sympathize with not owning stuff, but I don't get this part:

> I bought the previous “lifetime” version of the app, but for WHAT, since I have to pay for the subscription to access the newest features.

Yeah, that's how "ownership" works. When you own something, nobody else changes it–for better or worse–out from under you.
by dwoldrich | 2025-11-12 08:52:12+00:00
True ownership of software requires the ability to tinker and repair via open or at least licensed source code. But source code almost never makes sense to release for commercial products that must grow to survive and requiring funding to do that.

In the little software business I have been working towards creating, my desire was to offer a educational product for aspiring programmers as a monthly subscription.

Then, once the subscription product is paying the bills and successful, create a single seat offline version of the software and sell that as a package with a book. The book would be a user's guide for the programming language with fun example programs to type in suitable for families and schools who don't have internet to connect to my site.

I have planned networking and sharing features for the online edition that the offline book edition wouldn't have, so there'd be an incentive to pay the subscription to get all that. Nevertheless, I feel an offline version should be made available with a perpetual license in case my company dies, taking the website and web-based programming environment with it and leaving people with nothing.
by ranger_danger | 2025-11-12 08:52:36+00:00
I'm the opposite. I like C++ but only until C++11. From that point onward, the rules got WAY more complicated, and there's only so much I can/want to hold in my brain at once, I just prefer simpler rules I guess.

Occasionally I do like to use auto or lambdas from C++11 but even then I have to remember more rules for initialization because braces were introduced.
by qsort | 2025-11-12 08:52:52+00:00
>> non-$$ logic [...] aside from misanthropy

> I hope AGI can be used to automate work

You people need a PR guy, I'm serious. OpenAI is the first company I've ever seen that comes across as actively trying to be misanthropic in its messaging. I'm probably too old-fashioned, but this honestly sounds like Marlboro launching the slogan "lung cancer for the weak of mind".
by thomasmg | 2025-11-12 08:53:20+00:00
Yes I know Java and the challenges with exceptions there (checked vs unchecked exceptions, errors). But at least (arguably) in Java, the methods (for checked exceptions at least) declares what class the exception / exceptions is. I personally do not think wrapping exceptions in other exception types, in Java, is a major problem. In Swift, you just have "throws" without _any_ type. And so the caller has to be prepared for everything: a later version of the library might suddenly return a new type of exception.

One could argue Rust is slightly better than Java, because in Rust there are no unchecked exceptions. However, in Rust there is panic, which is in a way like unchecked exceptions, which you can also catch (with panic unwinding). But at least in Rust, regular exceptions are fast.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-12 08:53:31+00:00
I grew up in south SJ and lived in the area for 39 years. I couldn't afford to buy a house where I grew up which wasn't particularly special, it was perpetually haphazardly crappy with uneven sidewalks, terrible roads, and unkempt yards. The core issues for the housing affordability problem are Prop 13, lack of new housing supply, and the gentrification by almost every rich person in the world buying up property and turning it into a Tulip mania. SF is even more insane with delusional and FOMO people obsessed with living there but without the funds or long term plan to afford living there.

Given that tech is now a prime enabler of authoritarianism, I have no love left for SV or doe-eyed engineers lacking a conscience or ethical compass as to what they're actually doing or how they're helping and/or harming society. The Peter Thiel orbiters I met skewed towards Machiavellian creeps, as were about 1/3 of startup people whose "aura" screamed a-hole. There were way too many people I met who were only in software engineering and startups for a big pay{check,day} without much else in the way of curiosity, taste, hobbies, social skills, or critical thinking skills... so not many hacker+painters who could sell something or throw a good party too. The engineers just didn't seem to realize that if they're not also real owners then they're just the help and eagerly fired and replaced with cheaper substitutes. Worker-owned co-ops or meaningful equity or such an employee is wasting their life toiling for someone else who will throw them away and/or underpay them.

Oh well, the zeitgeist of the homebrew computer club sold-out and left the building 3 decades ago.
by GordonS | 2025-11-12 08:54:31+00:00
Yet so many Americans really do believe that China is the boogey man de jour, out to steal their freedom.

How many armed conflicts or foreign coups has China started or supported in the past 50 years? What about America? How many people has China executed with drone strikes in the past 15 years? And America?

It's absolute madness that people are buying into this war-mongering FUD.
by xuancanh | 2025-11-12 08:55:07+00:00
In industry research, someone in a chief position like LeCun should know how to balance long-term research with short-term projects. However, for whatever reason, he consistently shows hostility toward LLMs and engineering projects, even though Llama and PyTorch are two of the most influential projects from Meta AI. His attitude doesn’t really match what is expected from a Chief position at a product company like Facebook. When Llama 4 got criticized, he distanced himself from the project, stating that he only leads FAIR and that the project falls under a different organization. That kind of attitude doesn’t seem suitable for the face of AI at the company. It's not a surprise that Zuck tried to demote him.
by fulafel | 2025-11-12 08:55:19+00:00
There are other CVE numbering authorities you can report a vulnerability to and apply for a CVE, or appeal, but this does possibly have a chilling effect if the vendor's CNA refuses valid vulns. (Like with MS in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44957454 )

There's an appeals process: https://www.cve.org/Resources/General/Policies/CVE-Record-Di...

And of course CVE is not the only numbering system, there's OSV DB, GHSA, notcve.org etc.
by animal531 | 2025-11-12 08:55:43+00:00
I'm currently in the process of creating a piece of development software and needed a cross-platform GUI environment to do it with.

I first tried Maui because its seemingly so highly rated and recommended. It turned out to be a complete nightmare. Even just installing it didn't just work, I had to spend 2-3 hours just to get that going and then when trying some basic things for my UI it turned out to just not be supported.

The next on the list was AvaloniaUI and wow, it was the complete opposite experience. Installation was a breeze and with only a marginal bit of googling I managed to do all kinds of things such as making a top-most only borderless transparent window etc.

The interface in Visual Studio could be a bit better overall, but compared to Maui its light-years ahead.
by whstl | 2025-11-12 08:56:00+00:00
Just earlier this month I was at a recording studio and no ILok plugin worked because of a connectivity issue god knows where. Plugins that did cost a lot of cash for them and were in the advertisement material of the studio.

Now even hardware things that used to work for decades need apps. Some guitar pedals need apps to operate. The first generation of those has already become paper weight: after Digitech was bought by Samsung, all the app servers died.

Apps that need a server are never for my behalf, they are purely for creating a dependency. The real feature is allowing an actual backup of the data.

Streaming has the even worse issues. It promises to pay creators, but after listening to only two bands in a month, as an experiment, no visible fraction of the $10 didn’t went to neither of those bands. It probably went to some major label, of course.

I am 100% disillusioned on anything touched by tech and see piracy as a way to resist this crap. So far only piracy has been reliable in having things work as they should when they should.
by donperignon | 2025-11-12 08:57:17+00:00
Yeah, this really hits home. Everything’s turning into a subscription lately, even simple tools that should just run on your own machine.

That’s why we built ChannelVault (https://mestr.io/channelvault.html), as a desktop app (made with Wails + Go) to archive and search Slack workspaces locally for eDiscovery and backups. No SaaS, no recurring fees, no cloud dependency. It just runs on your computer and keeps your data with you. Trying to defy that general trend.

I miss when software felt like something you actually owned, not rented month to month.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-12 08:58:03+00:00
> what value does the bureaucratic process add if it's the first thing that gets shitcanned when good results in good time matter?

This is like asking what good do reserves do if you spend them down in a crisis.

The bureaucracy aims to keep waste and corruption to a minimum during peacetime. In war, the aims change--you're now not only ramping up production, but the penalties for fucking with a war are typically more drastic than lining one's pockets during peacetime.
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by CheeseFromLidl | 2025-11-12 08:58:45+00:00
Very true. I’d like to add that it appears to be common on chinese sites to use micro-payment systems. You want the modified code / device driver / pinout / datasheet or rom dump? Please pay 3 cents.

On the Russian fora I’m often hitting a wall with unfamiliar chip IDs in their schematics. But when looking up smd markings they often have a nice photo of the part in situ.
by nrawe | 2025-11-12 08:59:11+00:00
I agree with some of the points here, but I roundly disagree.

Agree with: people are employed to do a job, they should be empowered to get on and do it with minimal supervision, escalation, and distraction (particularly from "PR Theatre"). Also agree that sometimes unity of vision and focus time can yield exceptional results.

However, this doesn't work unless you can work every part of a system with a high-level of alignment with vision and commercial context to make good decisions and you test mercilessly. I know, have worked with, and still work with, an "entrepreneurial developer" type who can do that, but over time their "isolationist" approach leads to misaligned features that are usually anathema to good by the end of the startup phase.

Additionally, the ability to work with that level of alignment and autonomy simply doesn't describe the majority of the developers on the market and who really just want to be given tasks in their area of skill. Are they acceptable for a startup? Probably not. But in the SME context that's fine because collaboration fills the gap.

Also, while there is a lot to be said for T- and V-Shaped engineers, I-Shaped engineers are much more common and that's not a bad thing because – if one can get a designer, fe, be, and operator collaborating _effectively_ – you can still get good results.
by rickdeckard | 2025-11-12 08:59:25+00:00
On Hardware side the support for 5.x is not bad, Nordic Semiconductor for example is quite fast in adding support to their stack, and the updated stack is available for most (if not all) of their chipsets.

That said, even if a company which already launched its product would upgrade their stack to a newer version, it's unlikely that they would spend the money and resources to re-certify for a newer BT-version unless there's an explicit need for it. They rather treat this as a maintenance release of the existing certification...

So it might be that there are more devices with 5.4 BT-stack out there than it seems...
by ch_fr | 2025-11-12 08:59:37+00:00
It's wonderful to see that more attention has been given to the video sequencer and the compositor lately.

While a lot of it is still sluggish and cpu-bound, some recent additions such as all the texture nodes we have in the shader tab have massively increased the range of capabilities. Blender as a more viable (even if not the most powerful) NLE is greatly appreciated.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-12 08:59:53+00:00
> ban on windowless bedroom is at least partly about fire safety. A window provides an escape route for low floors, or a means for firefighters to rescue the occupants

New York City's fire engines can't reach its skyscrapers' top floors. Not saying you can achieve similar resuls with office-to-residential conversions. But windowless bedrooms aren't a non-starter because of fire safety, they're a non-starter because they make wealthier residents uncomfortable.
by shelled | 2025-11-12 09:00:14+00:00
I worked in BT almost a decade ago for 4-5 years. My first job. I had never worked close to the hardware. It was nice. Even though the work was not assembly-level close to hardware. Then the rot hit. I saw BT had been there more or less for decades and in one way or another it was going to remain there. The big bad world of backward compatibility and having to support older devices out in the wild was so crucial (as per the companies' POV and I am not judging it either way) that I realised I do not want to keep copying and pasting one line for a driver fix from one code base to 373 for different devices. Given it could have been improved with CI/CD and better source control (maybe!) but it was just not worth it.

Then the rest of the software world hit hard, and I saw, yet again, that the grass is green and that at least the world of BT had epic job safety, slow but stable growth, and best of all - no rush to fix something in the next 37 mins or millions of ad revenue will be lost.

But I see, as I had guessed, not much has changed "more or less" :)

I blame Apple as well, or both Apple and SIG for not making adoptions faster. But then Apple had nothing to worry about when it came to backward compatibility. So "Apple-rest" never really happened in a meaningful way, and whatever happened happened quite late.

(By the way there are more details on SIG portal if one is interested. Here are some https://www.bluetooth.com/bluetooth-core-6-2-feature-overvie... and https://www.bluetooth.com/blog/just-released-bluetooth-core-... and maybe follow from there)