MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smallerfish | 2025-11-14 20:58:51+00:00
Who wants to read thousands of existing dotfiles?

But I'm primarily talking about the missing pieces that most tiling window managers have that you need to implement yourself, or the annoying bugs that are buried in github.

I need a lock screen; fine, hyperidle. How is it configured? Once it works it works.15 seconds with Claude or 2-3 minutes googling and implementing. Why the hell would you not use it?

QT apps have fuzzy fonts in Hyprland. Turns out that's because I was using 1.5 fractional scaling on my 4k monitor, which was information buried in some github that has barely any traffic, which Claude found while I was doing actual work.

The google meet PIP window strobes because who the hell knows why, but that too was solved by Claude finding the right github ticket and applying opacity 0.999 instead of 1.0 for that window specifically. Where is that documented in the hyprland manual?

The point is that tiling window managers _in my experience_ always have rough edges, and I've been dipping in and out of them for 20 years. Now that many people (I guess not including your good self) are using LLMs all day every day to move faster in producing code, you can apply the same tooling to bring the tiling environment up to the same level of quality that we're used to with the bigger DMs that have a lot more resources and eyes on them.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-11-14 20:58:56+00:00
Microsoft has learned nothing from the Clippy [0] debacle. For that matter, neither have most website makers who constantly want to obscure a large chunk of the page with an AI chatbot that you cannot make completely go away. We really need web browsers that just quietly delete anything with a high Z-index.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant
by mirekrusin | 2025-11-14 20:59:26+00:00
Sampling is already constrained with temperature, top_k, top_p, top_a, typical_p, min_p, entropy_penalty, smoothing etc. – filtering tokens to valid ones according to grammar is just yet another alternative. It does make sense and can be used for producing programming language output as well – what's the point in generating/bothering with up front know, invalid output? Better to filter it out and allow valid completions only.
by xp84 | 2025-11-14 20:59:33+00:00
I don’t think you’re wrong, but considering how imperfect humans are, it’s easy to make a mistake or two (or to basically inherit mistakes from parents, in many cases), and I think one of the problems is, it’s very, very difficult to claw your way back after that. It would be ideal if a small screw-up could be more feasibly repaired, but tbh I don’t know a fair and good way to do that that didn’t generate dependence and a bailout cycle.
by JCM9 | 2025-11-14 20:59:42+00:00
Coreweave has taken on a ton of debt to pay for everything they’re building. Investors can make money by lending Coreweave money and charging interest (aka a bond).

Separately, investors can buy a derivative product that is a bet that Coreweave won’t be able to pay this money back. This is a called a “credit default swap.” If Coreweave starts missing payments or can’t pay back the loan this instrument pays out.

The price of the instrument is linked to the likelihood that Coreweave won’t be able to repay the money. Given growing questions around their financial business model the price of these derivatives has been rocketing up over the last few months. In plain speak this means the market increasingly thinks Coreweave won’t be able to repay these loans.

Thats mirroring broader Wall Street sentiment these last few months that the math isn’t adding up on AI and all the spend committed isn’t mapping out against money likely to be available to pay for all that. Investors are increasingly making plays for the AI bubble popping and the price of these credit default swaps shooting up is one metric indicative of that downturn positioning.

The data on this is available in various financial data platforms and has been written about by financial news outlets.
by rekabis | 2025-11-14 20:59:43+00:00
If enough people are willing to pay, is it truly a dumbass business idea? Because I have seen plenty of premises that I would have WTF-ed over, and yet enough people are paying for it to keep someone gainfully employed doing it.

I think that is the real threshold: not how stupid it sounds, but rather how few people stump up the money to have it done.
by n1xis10t | 2025-11-14 20:59:50+00:00
Hi Doug! So I skimmed the article, and it seems like the gist of it is that you want search providers to make APIs available that give top n results without doing anything silly past that. Is that correct? And then the idea is that further ranking and processing is done client side.

How does this differ from what currently is available? I suppose right now you have to paginate instead of just getting 1000 results in one chunk. Oh, I don’t think perplexity’s search api even let’s you paginate, so I guess there’s that.

I don’t think search companies are likely to do stuff like this to make ranking experiments easier on us. Have you read this article: https://archive.org/details/search-timeline
by zem | 2025-11-14 21:01:30+00:00
my favourite xmonad feature (that distinguished it from the other tiling WMs I've used) is the ability to have empty workspaces. that way I can maintain a persistent mapping of applications to workspaces, with muscle memory for the keybindings to switch to various apps. (also a nice trick I picked up from someone else's config file was to have a "scratch space" desktop with a key binding that either moved to it or moved back to the desktop I came from)
by jameslk | 2025-11-14 21:01:30+00:00
I want it, but I have ideas in mind that aren’t just a chat window bolted to a browser.

Once upon a time there was a popular Firefox extension called Firebug. Everyone loved it because it made web dev so much easier. Devs helped drive the adoption of Firefox because they preferred the easier dev experience over IE6, which meant websites were built for Firefox over IE.

We’re facing a new paradigm for dev with AI. Where’s the rebirth of Firebug built for this new experience to help drive adoption again? Make web dev much easier on Firefox and more devs will flock to it.
by Goronmon | 2025-11-14 21:01:51+00:00
I miss that kind of media discovery, our modern always-online world tends to smother serendipity.

I don't really miss the time of having to choose games this way. If you lucked out it was great, but you were also potentially putting down upwards of $50+ bucks in 1995 dollars on a game that you might end up really disliking.
by adrianww | 2025-11-14 21:01:54+00:00
I've spend 2 years in firefighting as a core platform product manager and since nobody had a system to show me or advice to give me on how to deal with the service desk of that challenging domain, I've put all my knowledge and experience into a framework that I'm sharing with everyone for free.

If I've had something like that when I started, I could've saved a lot of engineering effort, time, company $ and spare clients the time to report problem that could've been solved months ago. Hope it works for you too!
by technothrasher | 2025-11-14 21:01:58+00:00
"One variation of the test is to provide the person with a blank piece of paper and ask them to draw a clock showing 10 minutes after 11. The word "hands" is not used to avoid giving clues."

Hmm, ambiguity. I would be the smart ass that drew a digital clock for them, or a shaku-dokei.
by tavavex | 2025-11-14 21:02:17+00:00
To me it's still insane that education (the implied reason for your debt? correct me if I'm wrong) is so absurdly expensive in the US. Mind you, I'm saying that from another country where education isn't free, but most people will never be able to have anything remotely approaching six figure debt. You presumably work in a professional field, judging by your salary, yet you have an enormous anchor that's been dragging behind you for all your life. In some ways, the high-lower-class person that has a poor salary but isn't indebted might have it better than you.

I wonder how much society would change if that system of student loans was reformed to offload the burden from young people, how much more growth there could be if these people weren't stuck in debt.
by like_any_other | 2025-11-14 21:02:54+00:00
> As soon they became a competitor there was a problem

Was there? It seems to me trade and offshoring continued even after they became a competitor. And then continued after they strong-armed Western corporations to invest in China [1], destroyed Western corporations through espionage [2,3], or through subsidy-enabled dumping prices and preferential treatment [4,4.1], after they extracted groveling apologies from Western firms [5], and after they started operating literal police stations on Western soil [6], while turning Western countries into subordinate receivers of orders [7,8].

I guess you were hoping your framing would guilt people into not seeing the threat?

[1] Apple CEO Tim Cook "secretly" signed an agreement worth more than $275 billion with Chinese officials, promising that Apple would help to develop China's economy and technological capabilities - https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/07/apple-ceo-tim-cook-secr...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33758673

[3] https://globalnews.ca/news/7275588/inside-the-chinese-milita...

[4] https://www.dw.com/en/from-solar-to-evs-how-china-is-overpro...

[4.1] EU: Anti-dumping probe into China solar panels - https://apnews.com/general-news-e16007adf4bd468d9acf849734d2...

[5] Mercedes-Benz apologizes to Chinese for quoting Dalai Lama - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mercedes-benz-china-gaffe...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_servic...

[7] FIPA agreement with China: What's really in it for Canada? - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/fipa-agreement-with-china-wha...

[8] Posters depicting Hong Kong protests removed by Massey University within 12 hours - https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/116723925/posters-depicting...
by dukeofdoom | 2025-11-14 21:02:59+00:00
Sorry I don't. Guy looked kind of like Dan Gilbert but somewhat like a Bill O Riley personality. Maybe 2012 or 2013 interview. Possibly 60 minutes. It was in major network. I tried searching it too but couldn't find it. I remember watching an interview about an attractive female pilot that was flying to Epstain Island and can't find that interview now either. So I'm thinking maybe it got scrubbed
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-11-14 21:03:02+00:00
Yeah, it must suck to get brutally JDAM'd (along with your whole family [0]), sniper-droned (seeking to main and kill [1]) and mown down by "gaza humanitarian foundation" machine-gun fire (while queueing for food) [2] in Palestine, just for disagreeing with israel's position that your land now belongs to them. If you're lucky, you won't be thrown into one of israel's rape-and-torture-camps [3][4].

But anyways, great submission and great work. Remember though, your cell phone signals will earn you a JDAM, because you might be a terrorist for using a cell phone. So stay on the move.

Warning: links are very disturbing:

0: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

1: https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/nx-s1-5195171/witnesses-say-i...

2: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/08/1165552

3: https://theintercept.com/2024/08/09/israel-prison-sde-teiman...

4: https://www.btselem.org/publications/202408_welcome_to_hell
Ask HN: Has anyone phased out Azure B2C without breaking user flows?
by andy89 | 2025-11-14 21:03:17+00:00
I’m looking at different approaches to gradually move users off Azure B2C. One example talks about handling user creation on the new system only when the user logs in again, instead of doing a full export.

Has anyone tried this? Does it hold up in production or does it break with inactive users / missing claims?
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-14 21:03:26+00:00
It's quite the tale of poor decisions isn't it?

Microsoft could have made Windows privacy respecting, continued investing in WSL, baked PowerToys into the OS, etc. and actually made one hell of a workhorse operating system that could rival the mac for developer mindshare. They could partner with Google and/or Samsung and make some deep Android integration to rival Apple's ecosystem of products. Make Windows+Android just as seamless and convenient as mac + iOS.

Instead they opted for forced online accounts, invasive telemetry, and ads in the OS instead of actually trying to keep and win over the very enthusiasts that help ensure their product gets chosen in the enterprise world where they make their cash.

Now they're going to scrap the concept of Windows as something you interact with directly all together and make it "Agentic" whatever the hell that means.

I don't think their bet is going to pay off, especially if the bubble crashes. I think it will be one of the biggest blunders and mistakes that Microsoft will have made.
Ask HN: Are Agents Just Hype?
by spacemnstr42069 | 2025-11-14 21:03:28+00:00
I have spent the last few days trying (and failing) to find real cases where AI agents actually scale in production. Outside of coding agents and dev-productivity tools, I am struggling to see anything that looks like a genuinely scalable agent system.

Most of what people are calling “agents” today are basically deterministic workflows with one or two LLM calls glued together. That is not an agent. That is a at best API pipeline.

So I am genuinely curious: are there any real examples of agents handling large, messy, multi-step workflows at scale? Not demos, not toy projects, not VC decks.
by TheKidCoder | 2025-11-14 21:03:58+00:00
Kinda - Hand waiving over the question of if an LLM can really "look" but you can connect Cursor to a Puppeteer MCP server which will allow it to iterate with "eyes" by using Puppeteer to screenshot it's own output. Still has issues, but it does solve really silly mistakes often simply by having this MCP available.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-11-14 21:04:15+00:00
Breaking tasks into innocent subtasks is a known flaw in human organization.

I'm reminded of Caleb sharing his early career experience as an intern at a Department of Defense contractor, where he built a Wi-Fi geolocation application. Initially, he focused on the technical aspects and the excitement of developing a novel tool without considering its potential misuse. The software utilized algorithms to locate Wi-Fi signals based on signal strength and the phone's location, ultimately optimizing performance through machine learning, but Thompson repeatedly emphasizes that the software was intended for lethal purposes.

Eventually, he realizes that the technology could aid in locating and targeting individuals, leading to calls for reflection on ethical practices within tech development.

https://www.rubyevents.org/talks/finding-responsibility
by KaiserPro | 2025-11-14 21:05:25+00:00
> this is just another day at work.

But the point is this, it worked, it does work and will, if given developer time continue to work.

I now need to schedual in time to test the changes, then adjust the metrics and alerting that we have.

For no gain.

It just feels like kuberenetes is carbon fibre programming.
by verteu | 2025-11-14 21:05:28+00:00
> Absolute economic mobility matters much more

The US does poorly on this metric too: https://i.imgur.com/eYHUysQ.png [1] https://i.imgur.com/vLz5iUz.png [2]

(Note that the x-axis is "birth year.")

[1] https://equitablegrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/04282...

[2] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20200631
by 0x457 | 2025-11-14 21:05:28+00:00
My problem with launchers other than steam and galaxy from GOG: usually shitty and brings no value.

Paradox launcher is alright for example, it adds value in form of mod preset managment and ability to launch straight into saved game.

What ever is in dune: awakening" exists just to tell me about their other games and as a result make game launching longer than it needs to be. Not only that it adds A LOT of friction when I launch it via Remote Play with a controller.

Point is: if you make a launcher make sure it adds any value and not just an advertisementr billboard.

As for store fronts: steam by far has the most functionality among PC storefronts.
Show HN: Movie Trailer Popup – Right-click movie titles to watch trailers
by naimurhasanrwd | 2025-11-14 21:05:30+00:00
I built this after wasting half a movie night copying movie titles and searching for trailers on YouTube.

The problem: I was browsing movies on a local streaming server that didn't have trailer previews. I'm not a movie buff, and with limited free time, I didn't want to waste it on a bad pick. The workflow was tedious: browse → copy title → search YouTube → watch trailer → repeat.

So I built this extension. Now you can right-click any movie title on any webpage and watch the trailer in a popup instantly. No tab switching, no searching.

It works even on sites that disable right-click (using Alt/Option + right-click), and has a manual search option via the extension icon.

Would love feedback, especially on: - Use cases I haven't thought of - Performance improvements - Feature suggestions
by Windchaser | 2025-11-14 21:06:11+00:00
> It's an externality like you discuss.

It's not even an externality? They just pay market price for water. You can argue the market price is priced badly (e.g., maybe prices are set by the state), but that doesn't make it an externality. The benefits/costs are still accrued by (and internal to) buyer and seller.
by fragmede | 2025-11-14 21:06:15+00:00
You use docker to create a thing on your laptop that you know is good and works, then you send the Dockerfile file in to the system and that thing is a static blob of bits. Ansible/puppet/chef/cfengine modify a live thing from one state to another. Sure, you can use qcow vm disk images and vm snapshots to achieve the same thing, but it’s a lot more cumbersome and feels slow and yuckier, and no one packaged it up into a neat little tool that got popular (which is to say, Vagrant is awesome but slow, so docker won out).
by speed_spread | 2025-11-14 21:06:16+00:00
Had Apple given their OS a proper name, I assure you people would use it. You shouldn't use the "OS" moniker as part an OS's name. It's redundant, like naming your child "Human Child Jimmy". Obviously people will take all sorts of shortcuts around it, which you will not have control over, leading to weird "HC/Jim" and the likes.

It's a bit like "U.S.A." not being a proper country's _name_. I mean, would you name you children "Coherent-Enough Assemblage of Bodyparts"? You keep that long-form stuff for the _description_ field! Somebody fucked up when they filled out the form, ain't no fixing it now.
by ge96 | 2025-11-14 21:06:19+00:00
My student loans weren't as bad $30K, the rest is from other things eg. CC debt/car loan (28% APR). I also help out my own blood-related family eg. I have given away over $100K over the course of a few years.

But mostly I'm dumb, buying things I can't afford. The six-fig jobs come and go also but in general I've had at least $75-$83K jobs aside from the couple six-fig jobs I've had. I only started to have that kind of money in 2019 to now. I spent 2023 working in a warehouse/my own fault that time I went down to the $50K range or so with side gig work added in to warehouse work.

I did pay $3K for an MRI one time, well not yet it's on a defaulted card.

Oh and loneliness eg. I spent $1.2K at a strip club one time.

It's crazy how you go up in levels though like in 2016 I was living on $20K+ a year, now it's $100K+ a year
by Muromec | 2025-11-14 21:06:32+00:00
The usual stuff.

- members of opposition of the wrong kind (as defined by incumbent);

- journalists investigating the government;

(if the incumbent is brazen enough, those above can be and already are selectively targeted with paid exploits)

- political opponents of the wrong kind (aka the extrimists, which kinda overlaps with #1);

- actual enemy combatants (aka the terrorists), spys and traitors;

- organized crime of the day with unwarranted delusions of grandeur (R. Taghi, his antics and aspirations to kill the Dutch PM);

- immigrants and immigrants to be of the wrong kind and people who smuggle them;
by trallnag | 2025-11-14 21:06:39+00:00
This shady approach of trying it again and again is so disgusting to me. Just be upfront about. If you will do it anyway at some point, just fucking do it. It's not like other countries like China that are much further than we are in this regard are in constant turmoil over it. I guess we won't be either.

Instead we take a moral high ground over Russia banning and blocking what are basically non-compliant messaging platforms and pushing Russian citizens to Max, which is controlled by the government. All the while these legislations in Europe will lead to the same end result.

How am I supposed to to argue against chat control in Russia when we are doing it too, just with a different twist.
by vkou | 2025-11-14 21:06:55+00:00
> I've gotten myself out of so many binds by being able to repurpose something out of the junk pile

When you have money, you can just buy the thing you need, instead of hoarding five metric tonnes of crap that you'll never use.

If you haven't used something in the past 5 years, you can almost certainly toss it.
by UltraSane | 2025-11-14 21:07:04+00:00
"they might have a right to resist "

How do you define this?

Killing Israel soldiers.

Or killing hundreds of civilians at a concert and parading the dead body of a young woman around like a hunting trophy like Hamas did on Oct 7 2023?

The main problem is that Palestinians think they can defeat Israel with force but they can't.
by quickthrowman | 2025-11-14 21:07:12+00:00
You can buy insurance on a bond defaulting, it’s called a credit default swap. One party sells a credit default swap and another party buys the credit default swap.

The price of a credit default swap is essentially the probability that the borrower defaults on its bonds (misses an interest payment) which would mean the person who sold the credit default swap would owe money to the holder of the credit default swap.

The price of a credit default swap increasing means the market is pricing in a higher probability of Coreweave defaulting on a bond. Oracle credit default swaps have also increased in price lately.
by discoutdynamite | 2025-11-14 21:07:14+00:00
My second favorite Johnny story is how he did the math for the explosive lenses on the atom bomb, overnight. What we now call partial derivatives, was not yet rigourously proven and studied, but he signed off on it, and it worked. For the sake of the contention in the article, I am distinctly thinking of Grigori Perelman as almost an echo to this phenomenon. He felt his contributions were useful but not miraculous, and himself almost ordinary, that he was being recognized more for sake of national/racial partisanship.
by cardanome | 2025-11-14 21:07:32+00:00
> I don't expect them to do nothing, I expect them to come to a deal

Well that is what they did. People like you told shite like "The war ends if they release the hostages".

They agreed to the first step of the peace plan. They released the hostages. They are keeping the truce. (Israel claims they killed a few soldiers but that seem to be a lie, they probably died from explosive that were already lying around).

So what did it gain them? Israels keeps murdering them. People are still starving in Gaza because Israel refuses to let food in.

> committing murder, rape and hostage taking

This is what Israel has been doing for decades. We just call the hostages prisoners.

While the Palestinians have treated their hostages as well as they could even when Gaza was starving, the bodies of the dead political prisoners Israel gave back were so mutilated from systemic torture that not even family members are able to recognize them.

As for the accusation of the resistance committing systemic rape, that is just racist propaganda. Same when they justified the lynching of black people in the US with saying they raped white women. We would have video evidence if something like that had happened.