MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by motoboi | 2025-11-05 13:10:44+00:00
Excel is the “beast that drives the ENTIRE economy” and he’s worried about Brenda from the finance department losing her job because then her boss will get bad financial reports

I suppose the person that wrote that have not ideia Excel is just an app builder where you embed data together with code.

You know that we have excel because computers didn’t understand column names in databases and so data extraction needed to be made by humans. Humans then design those little apps in excel to massage the data.

Well, now an agent can read the boss saying gimme the sales from last month and the agent don’t need excel for that, because it can query the database itself, massage the data itself using python and present the data itself with html or PNGs.

So, we are in the process of automating Brenda AND excel away.

Also, finance departments are a very small part of excel users. Just think everywhere were people need small programs, excel is there.
by tim333 | 2025-11-05 13:11:17+00:00
I'm a Londoner who voted for Khan. There's a difference in that contrary to all the scapegoat stuff in the right wing press, Khan has had largely sensible middle of of the road policies. And where he has deviated from the average, on air pollution, it's been stuff I'm in favour of - I have desire to get sick/die from that.

Mamdani seems like a nice guy but some of his policies seem a bit bonkers - state owned retail outlets and the like.
by feintruled | 2025-11-05 13:11:21+00:00
Some missing context (pun intended) is that Augment code has recently switched to a per-token instead of per-message pricing model. This hasn't gone down particularly well, but that's another story. But it may well be that users drop back to older models in the expectation it will use less tokens.

Personally, I stopped using GPT-5 as it would just be tool call after tool call without ever stopping to tell you what the hell it was doing. Sonnet 4.5 much better in this regard. Albeit it's too verbose for the new token based world ('let me just summarise that in a report')
by krisoft | 2025-11-05 13:12:14+00:00
Okay. So you mean in general it would help in some cases. Not that in this case it would have helped.

> see UA1175

I'm familiar with the case you are mentioning. I'm also aware that they sent a jump seater to look at the engine. But did seeing the engine provide them with any actionable information? Did they fly the airplane differently than if they would have just seen the indications available in the cockpit?
by olucasandrad | 2025-11-05 13:12:16+00:00
For the past few weeks, I've been working on one of the coolest things I've ever pushed to production: a LeetCode-style platform for system design.

I've been writing about system design for a while now, and I genuinely love the topic (I talk about it weekly on my blog https://olucasandrade.com). I always wanted a tool to practice it without having to hunt down a billion references across the internet.

Every tool I found was either paywalled for the basics or completely abandoned. So, I built my own, and I have no intention of letting it go. I believe this project has the potential to build a really great community. That's why I decided to "open-source" the entire platform. It's 100% open on GitHub, and I'm already creating issues for the next planned evolutions.

How this can help you:

The idea is simple: just like LeetCode, you can submit your solution (with a diagram + textual explanation), and you can view and interact with solutions from others. No favoritism here—I truly believe there's no better way to prepare for an interview or just sharpen your skills.

I don't plan to fully "productize" this until I hit my first major goal, so feel free to play around as much as you want, and please let me know if you find any bugs.

How you can help me:

First and foremost, dropping a star on the repository (https://github.com/olucasandrade/systemstudio) is a huge boost. That alone is massive support.

But if you want to help on a deeper level, feel free to open issues or even pull requests to add new features or work on existing ones. Honestly, the potential of this platform is not something I have enough bandwidth to explore alone. Finally, spreading the word is also a big help. I want this to reach as many people as possible who need it.

Cheers!

The link to the app is: https://systemstudio.app If it gets some traction, I'll share the next steps for the roadmap.

#lesgo
by DSingularity | 2025-11-05 13:12:18+00:00
> A member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, speaking Monday at a meeting of lawmakers, justified the rape and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, shouting angrily at colleagues questioning the alleged behavior that anything was legitimate to do to "terrorists" in custody.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-idf-palestinia...
by e40 | 2025-11-05 13:12:41+00:00
I’ve had a few ProArt monitors and they aren’t very high quality, IME. I had high-pitched whine and blinking off/on issues, on several Mac models, from iMac to Air to Studio. Yes, I tried a variety of cables. The Apple Studio monitor, while insanely priced, has been flawless for me, sitting next to a ProArt.
by gosub100 | 2025-11-05 13:12:54+00:00
I see the inverse of that happening: every critical decision will incorporate AI somehow. If the decision was good, the leadership takes credit. If something terrible happens, blame it on the AI. I think it's the part no one is saying out loud. That AI may not do a damn useful thing, but it can be a free insurance policy or surrogate to throw under the bus when SHTF.
by Zigurd | 2025-11-05 13:13:01+00:00
The first assembler I had to look at was PDP-11 code. 68k is kind of like a 32 bit PDP-11, easy to see what's happening. One of my very first paid tech jobs was maintaining an ST506 driver written in 68k asm by game hackers using self modifying code for no specific reason other than that's how they roll.
by alephnerd | 2025-11-05 13:14:58+00:00
How would Ukraine reach ONG and industrial hubs like Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Yakutsk, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, or Omsk?

They can try and leverage deep sabotage such as the truck drone attack from a couple months ago but such operations aren't scalable, and would draw ire from Asian countries if it hit their investments - especially given that China is one of Ukraine's largest trade partners and has control over vast swathes of Ukraine's industrial capacity from pre-2022 FDI via OBOR.
by antocuni | 2025-11-05 13:15:15+00:00
hello, author of the blog post and author of SPy here.

> how can you reliably import libraries?

the blog post specifies it but probably not in great level of detail. Calling python libs from spy will go through libpython.so (so essentially we will embed CPython). So CPython will import the library, and there will be a SPy<=>CPython interop layer to convert/proxy objects on the two worlds.
by not-a-cat | 2025-11-05 13:17:10+00:00
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by 8fingerlouie | 2025-11-05 13:17:11+00:00
There's a reason i specifically mentioned finance, where the end and start of a month is a lot more busy than the middle of the month, as in factor 10+.

People receive paychecks, pay bills, buy stuff, with holidays (christmas, x-mas, etc) being even busier.

Load does not even out, and when you have 3 million customers or more, the load is not really insignificant. Nor can you just delay it, or rely on eventual consistency.
by rijavecb | 2025-11-05 13:18:00+00:00
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by basfo | 2025-11-05 13:18:09+00:00
AWS is built for production. It’s complex because it’s designed to create robust environments that can scale almost infinitely, that’s why half of the internet runs on AWS. But to make the most of it, you need to understand how it works and why it’s built that way. That’s why being an “AWS expert” is practically a job description on its own, thats why cloud engineering teams exists, platforms, SRE, etc.

For quick and dirty app deployments, though, other vendors like Heroku probably do a better job.
by daliusd | 2025-11-05 13:20:00+00:00
Well if you do it once then yes, but if you automate this process it is different. E.g. I do this with YouTube videos, because watching 14 minutes video or reading 30 seconds summary is time saver. I still watch some videos fully, but many of them are not worth it.

So in summary I think it was just part of automated process (maybe) or it will become one in the future.
by kakacik | 2025-11-05 13:20:18+00:00
30% on mobile platforms if generally frowned upon as source of massive overcharging compared to actual costs (since its a massive revenue & income stream for their owners), but somehow for Steam its fine because... they also generate keys? Or what should be the magical justfication.

No its not fine, its a cash cow milking customers. Valve may be better than their competition but they are not saints (same company basically inventing addictive lootboxes mechanism, albeit not in its worst possible form), its a for-profit company that has tons of profit. I am not saying 15% is OK or X% is OK, but 30% is too much in 2025.

Maybe they should have tiers ie 0-10% for first 5k sales, 20% above 100k etc. There are many options to be nicer to customers & developers.
by hliyan | 2025-11-05 13:20:26+00:00
If by service, you mean the cloud machine -- I mean a plain vanilla machine running an OS of your choice (e.g. Windows or Ubuntu). Switching to another service provider means taking your file backups + reinstalling your software on the new machine.

Developers already know how to do this with EC2s, Droplets, Linodes, Azure VMs etc. The process just needs to be more average-person-friendly.
by fred_klatt | 2025-11-05 13:21:22+00:00
So-called lighter or smaller electric motors with today's technology limited by a "passive-rotor" is the result of legacy packaging geometry, which will have the same result if equally applied to contestants. Only SYNCHRO-SYM has an active-rotor in the same package geometry that eliminates the geopolitical harm of rare-earth magnets but delivers 2x the performance in the same legacy package geometry.
by francisdsfdsf | 2025-11-05 13:22:09+00:00
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by warkahot | 2025-11-05 13:22:23+00:00
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by DanielHB | 2025-11-05 13:22:42+00:00
The EU has this concept of gate-keeper platforms which seems more appropriate

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_...

"Companies providing at least one of the ten core platform services enumerated in the DMA are presumed to be gatekeepers if they meet the criteria listed below. These core platform services are: online intermediation services such as app stores, online search engines, social networking services, certain messaging services, video sharing platform services, virtual assistants, web browsers, cloud computing services, operating systems, online marketplaces, and advertising services. One company can be designated as gatekeeper for several core platform services."

"There are three main quantitative criteria that create the presumption that a company is a gatekeeper as defined in the DMA: (i) when the company achieves a certain annual turnover in the European Economic Area and it provides a core platform service in at least three EU Member States;(ii) when the company provides a core platform service to more than 45 million monthly active end users established or located in the EU and to more than 10,000 yearly active business users established in the EU; and (iii) when the company met the second criterion during the last three years.

The DMA defines a series of specific obligations that gatekeepers will need to respect, including prohibiting them from engaging in certain behaviours in a list of do's and don'ts."

The arguments there match the Steam platform in my opinion, but it is likely Steam already fulfills the existing obligations of the act. Seems a fairly good approach to things, if you are a dominant player you get burdened with extra rules and scrutiny.
by tim333 | 2025-11-05 13:23:12+00:00
Yeah likewise interested as a Londoner.

The thing that annoys me the most is that by scapegoating Khan they avoid fixing the problems that are the responsibility of others. Like knife crime - the tories cut 1/3 of the police force, crime went up in London but also in the rest of the country but the papers are all lets slag Kahn for it which is jolly fun I guess but doesn't stop the stabbings and phone snatchings in a way that the central government which controls the laws and budgets could do.
by jackjeff | 2025-11-05 13:23:30+00:00
The problem is that these private companies have taken a disproportionate place in public discourse. You are absolutely right that freedom of speech does not guarantee the right to post anything on YouTube (someone else's website). In fact YouTube has the right (protected speech) to censor you and refuse to let you post long as they don't do in a discriminatory way (for instance, only "white people" can post would be discriminatory/illegal).

The problem is that in practice, if you can't do YouTube, Facebook, Tiktok, INsta, etc... your speech will not be heard by anyone. It's like if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, the fact that it makes sound is irrelevant. So effectively, it amounts to censorship, even though the government potentially had no hand in it.

Now imagine someone in Trump administration pressured Google with a juicy contract, or the prospect of an expensive lawsuit, and the quid pro quo was dumping these videos that annoy "our Israeli friends". This kind of "pay to play" is at minimum corruption. It may also fall of short of constitutional guarantees for free speech. Ironically, it is exactly the same thing a lot of members of the Trump administration have accused Biden of doing (exhibit: the so called "Twitter Files" etc... ), although I don't believe this went anywhere in federal courts (am I wrong?)

I honestly don't know what the answer is. But I would not be surprised if in 50 years time, some of these large companies get regulated as "utilities" and are no longer able to yank "videos" from their platform just because they feel like it. And every time they "abuse" their powers, I feel like we get an inch closer to that onerous regulation.
by marcuskane2 | 2025-11-05 13:23:42+00:00
> your personal (not hosted by a corp) website

I'm not sure that's enough. A few years ago there were some set of websites that wanted less censorship than the main corporate sites (or at least, a different set of censorship rules), I forget all their names now - voat, rumble, gab, parler, etc and people who didn't like the content they saw there just went upstream to cloud providers, app stores, registrars, payment processors, CDNs, ISPs and anywhere else in order to shut them down, cut them off or prevent access.

Tons of sites that failed to perfectly comply with American media conglomerate's interpretation of copyright have been forced offline, had their domain names seized, etc.

There was a period of time where the MPAA and RIAA were routinely suing random teenagers and grandparents for life-destroying sums of money because they used Napster to share a song they liked with a friend.

I think to maintain any sort of real open web, we're going to need some sort of new Tor network that can support billions of users anonymously accessing information which can't be deplatformed and can't result in people getting arrested, losing their jobs, their visas or their funding for saying things that the people in power don't want said.
by 7thaccount | 2025-11-05 13:23:46+00:00
That's a pretty specific example when there are a lot of good "spreadsheet people" out there who do a lot more than spreadsheets (maybe they had to write SQL queries or scripts to get those numbers), but commonly need to simplify things down to a spreadsheet or power point for upper management. I'm not saying you should have multiple people doing redundant work, but this style isn't entirely dumb.

What would this be replaced by? Some kind of large SAP like system that costs millions of dollars and requires a dozen IT staff to maintain?
by Marshferm | 2025-11-05 13:24:04+00:00
Simply the disengagement and abandonment of syntax skills, which are mostly if not entirely non conscious, renders us little more than post hoc robots. This use of language is at the cost of intelligence, ie highly exposed to extinction.

Only an animal beguiled by the external, surface effects of its signal and lacking the feeling or sensation of that uncanny connection to the underlying mental states would be this stupid enough to embrace the synthetic half of “communication”. Us.

The idea that an entire industry wants to march us off the ledge operating half of our signal-load is stunning. It’s stupid on a whole new scale, never seen before.

AI could be considered the dumbest possible tech invention that offers the pretense of intelligence. Amazing comp sci departments approached the problem in a vacuum discarding the real underlying syntactical processes.

The problem was always: how do our muscles cohere these form transitions, not how can we operate the external outcomes as prediction. It’s not even reverse engineering. It’s breaking the tethered parts and scattering the arbitrary half in a synthetic soup.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-05 13:24:05+00:00
Almost everything else, besides any language that is copy-paste compatible with C, including systems languages that predate C for a decade, like JOVIAL, ESPOL, NEWP, PL/I and other ALGOL inspired systems languages.

Xerox PARC started with BCPL for their systems, but eventually created Mesa exactly for safe systems programming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(programming_language)

http://toastytech.com/guis/star.html

"The Mesa Programming Environment" - very first IDE for a systems language

https://www.digibarn.com/friends/curbow/star/XDEPaper.pdf

While Pascal as originally designed wasn't suitable for systems programming, and various dialects sprung out of it, with Object Pascal from Apple/Borland being the most famous one, by 1978 the first standard for Modula-2 was released, which was inspired in Mesa, after Niklaus Wirth spent a sabaticall year at Xerox PARC. Years later, through a similar experience, the evolution of Mesa (Cedar) would influence him to come up with Oberon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2

https://www.modula2.org/modula2-history.php

Then there was Ada, although too expensive to get compilers and high hardware requirements for 1980's computers.

Also all BASIC compilers in the 8 and 16 bit home computers had support for low level systems programming.

In recent programming languages, something like Zig would be the closest to what those languages were offering, in safety without having a GC of some form.

Naturally this takes cares of most C flaws, minus use-after-free, however due to their type systems, one tends to use heap allocations less than in C, although it remains an issue.
by alephnerd | 2025-11-05 13:25:29+00:00
Iran was in a de facto decade long state of war with troops, munitions, and significant capital going to theatres in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Gaza, Lebanon, Libya, and Sudan - just like Russia has been in Ukraine.

> Putin may not lose power, but may lose ability to keep the logistics of an invasion force

That is true and highly likely, but that isn't a win either, especially if Russia changes it's tune to turning Ukraine into an economic war of attrition, which seems to be the plan given their recent pivot to targeting Ukrainian energy and industrial infrastructure.

Since Russia can't drive troops into Kyiv, they are trying to destroy Ukraine's infra to such a degree that it would require a Herculean amount of investment from European capitals, which would be difficult to fully unlock due to Ukraine not being a part of the EU and face pressure from European nations own budgets for rearmament.

A frozen conflict with much of Donetsk, Luhansk, Crimea, and large portions of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson remaining under Russian control isn't a win for Ukraine, and longer term freezes Ukraine out of the EU and NATO because conducting an election during an active war with a nation that has previously meddled in their elections is unrealistic, but the EU can't make an exception for Ukraine due to internal votes along with the precedent it sets for other EU ascension members.
by jorvi | 2025-11-05 13:26:18+00:00
> You suggest to get rid of the icons ? what if they can be disabled in the config, will that fix the issue for you ?

Yes.

In general, its a good idea to not rely on someone having installed nerdfonts / fonts with glyphs. Or at the very least offer fallback.

You can usually get pretty far by repurposing Unicode symbols.

For example, from Bamum:

𖦤 Headphone 𖦥 IEM 𖤣 Mic ꚰ Warning 𖥉 Bluetooth (had to get a little creative)