MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by havblue | 2025-11-26 15:13:30+00:00
While I agree that you can just mentally split the continuity and thus spare Newt from her fate, in doing so it means that the continuity after is meaningless. I did something similar with Star Trek Nemesis. It wasn't a great movie so I just rejected that Data died at the end. Everything else after is fan fiction and it's irrelevant whether there's some other android who carries his memories and returns.

I think there's a similar issue with Marvel after Thanos. Not as much that Endgame was a bad movie, just that the continuity was derailed and never grounded itself. Did Vision come back? Did Loki? Is the Fox Quicksilver canon now? Eh, who knows, the "real" state of the world has moved so much that it doesn't matter anyway.
by thwarted | 2025-11-26 15:13:34+00:00
"Automating agency" it's such a good way to describe what's happening. In the context of your last paragraph, if they succeed in creating AGI, they won't be able to exercise control over a robot army, because the robot army will have as much agency as humans do. So they will have created the very situation they currently find themselves in. Sans an economy.
by rsynnott | 2025-11-26 15:13:51+00:00
A 4GL is a "fourth generation language"; they were going to reduce the need for icky programmers back in the 70s. SQL is the only real survivor, assuming you're willing to accept that it counts at all. "This will make programmers obsolete" is kind of a recurrent form of magic tech; see 4GLs, 5GLs, the likes of Microsoft Access, the early noughties craze for drag-and-drop programming, 'no-code', and so forth. Even _COBOL_ was kind of originally marketed this way.
by Sharlin | 2025-11-26 15:13:52+00:00
Voyager 2 was the real beneficiary of the rare outer planet alignment, as it went on the famous Grand Tour, visiting all four of the giants. It did gravity assists at Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. [1] shows the rough velocity of V2 over time.

Voyager 1 was directed to perform a flyby of Titan, at the cost of being thrown out of the ecliptic and being unable to visit the ice giants like its sister. But this was deemed acceptable due to Titan's high science value.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voyager_2_-_velocity...
by prophesi | 2025-11-26 15:14:11+00:00
For sure. But the unofficial non-paid mods for Bedrock allow for gambling mechanics, so long as it's not linked to real world currency, which I still find problematic for a game marketed towards kids. Link I posted is from years ago claiming that featured servers in Bedrock almost all have gambling, and nothing has changed since then.

Java edition is a lot more wild west and next-to-impossible to enforce their EULA due to the nature of distribution and installation of Java edition mods.
by trashb | 2025-11-26 15:14:31+00:00
In general using natural language to feed into AI to generate code to compile to runnable software seems like the long way around to designing a more usable programming language.

It seems that most people preferring natural language over programming languages don't want to learn the required programming language and ending up reinventing their own worse one.

There is a reason why we invented programming languages as an interface to instruct the machine and there is a reason why we don't use natural language.
by saubeidl | 2025-11-26 15:14:53+00:00
I don't think a mere Federalization should happen. I think a unitary state is - as you said! - what we all signed up for and what we should get.

There's a reason the "ever closer" phrasing has been repeated over and over again - in the 1983 Solemn Declaration, the 1997 Maastricht Treaty, the 2009 Lisbon treaty etc etc.

Look at China's rise and our fall - a direct consequence of centralization and the lack thereof.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-26 15:15:10+00:00
Most of the repelling is happening on the anti-Rust side. The hate and vitriol has chased away Wedson Almeida Filho, Alex Gaynor, Hector Martin and Christoph Hellwig from the Rust in Linux project.

And it's happening here too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048336 makes clear that most of the commentary here is just plain wrong, yet it's not upvoted to top.
by random_round | 2025-11-26 15:15:37+00:00
Ingress-nginx is heading for end-of-life (March 2026). We built a small OSS CLI to make migrations easier: - Scans manifests or live clusters (multi-context, all namespaces) to find ingress-nginx usage. - Flags nginx classes/annotations with mapped/partial/unsupported status. - Generates Gateway API starter YAML (Gateway/HTTPRoute) with host/path/TLS, rewrites, redirects. - Optional workload scan to spot nginx/ingress-nginx images. - Outputs JSON reports + summary tables; CI/PR guardrail workflow included. - Parallel scans with timeouts; unreachable contexts surfaced. Quickstart: imk scan --all-contexts --all-namespaces --plan-output imk-plan.json --scan-images --image-filter nginx --context-timeout 30s --verbose imk plan --path ./manifests --gateway-dir ./out --gateway-name my-gateway --gateway-namespace default Binaries + source: https://github.com/ubermorgenland/ingress-migration-kit Feedback welcome—what mappings or controllers do you want next?
by aurareturn | 2025-11-26 15:16:59+00:00
Like, I mean, at a certain point it runs out of chances. If someone can show me compelling quantitive evidence that these things are broadly useful I may reconsider, but until then I see no particular reason to do my own sampling. If and when they are useful, there will be _evidence_ of that.

My relative came to me to make a small business website for her. She knew I was a "coder". She gave me a logo and what her small business does.

I fed all of it into Vercel v0 and out came a professional looking website that is based on the logo design and the business segment. It was mobile friendly too. I took the website and fed it to ChatGPT and asked it to improve the marketing copy. I fed the suggestions back to v0 to make changes.

My relative was extremely happy with the result.

It took me about 10 minutes to do all of this.

In the past, it probably would have taken me 2 weeks. One week to design, write copy, get feedback. Another week to code it, make it mobile friendly, publish it. Honestly, there is no way I could have done a better job given the time constraint.

I even showed my non-tech relative how to use v0. Since all changes requested to v0 was in english, she had no trouble learning how to use it in one minute.
by victordg | 2025-11-26 15:17:06+00:00
I had been wanting to play around in a project with dense user interfaces and Bloomberg terminal aesthetics and, so an investment dashboard seemed like a good fit.

It aggregates market indicators that have been known to generate contrarian buy/sell signals. CNN Fear & Greed, Bank of America SSI, AAII Investor Sentiment Survey among others.

A few technical details:

* vibe coded ~70% of it — the parts that not were either UI polish that was faster to do directly or points of the data scraping pipeline where Claude got stuck

* architecture: vanilla JS frontend + Python/Flask backend + background jobs that run an AI data extraction pipeline (Perplexity Sonar / Exa for search + GPT-5)

* runs on render.com as web service + two cron jobs that run the data update process and send daily email notifications

At some point I did try Codex for a few PRs that were never merged and I re-did instead with Claude.
Show HN: GetZlib – Verified Z-Library Links, Apps, and Tor (Auto-Updated)
by ruguo | 2025-11-26 15:17:07+00:00
Hi HN,

I built GetZlib (https://getzlib.com ), a small static site that keeps a verified, auto-updating list of working Z-Library links — including official domains, TOR addresses, and app download pages.

The problem: most mirror lists online are either outdated, SEO spam, or full of ads/popups. So I made a cleaner version.

How it works

Next.js 15 (mostly static pages)

Cloudflare Pages for hosting

Scheduled Worker (cron) checks links daily

Results stored in KV → rendered as JSON → served statically

TOR links validated through a bridge

No tracking, no client JS (except analytics)

That’s basically it — a minimal “single source of truth” for Z-Library access.

Looking for feedback on:

More reliable ways to check onion links

Whether link history / uptime charts are worth adding

Better architecture for long-term link verification

It’s a small side project, but I'd love ideas from the community. Thanks for reading!
by anyonecancode | 2025-11-26 15:17:45+00:00
I think you have to assume that faster-than-light travel is both possible and economical. At that point, far-flung supply chains across the galaxy really aren't any more surprising than the far-flung supply chains across the globe of our current reality. When distance becomes less economically relevant, other factors (like labor availability and costs, regulations, ease of access, security, etc) become more important.
by entrox | 2025-11-26 15:17:48+00:00
Yes, it works basically everywhere you'd interact with a local file or directory.

For example, you open a remote dired buffer with C-x C-f /ssh:host:/dir/. Afterwards, opening a file or navigating to a directory will open it remotely as well. You can also use project functions or magit seamlessly. I have plenty of bookmarks remotely etc.

Fundamentally, you just prepend "/ssh:[user@]host:" to any path or file operation and things will magically Just Work (tm).
Show HN: I built an open source, code-first Intercom alternative
by frenchriera | 2025-11-26 15:18:26+00:00
I spent the last 3 months working on an code-first Intercom alternative.

I think with AI, smaller teams will be handling bigger loads of customers.

Each product being different, each support should be as well, or at least adapted.

Support should expendable, living in your codebase, easily testable and changeable.

Code first means your LLMs can update, upgrade and help you with your support too.

It comes as a NPM package, lives in your React code and soon, even your AI agents tools will be centralised with the rest of your code.

Of course it comes with a beautiful dashboard from where you can talk with your visitors and monitor everything in real-time.

Curious to get your feedbacks on that?
by Aurornis | 2025-11-26 15:18:26+00:00
> Hackers have historically derided any website generators or tools like ColdFusion[tm] or VisualStudio[tm] for that matter.

A lot of hackers, including the black hat kind, DGAF about your ideological purity. They get things done with the tools that make it easy. The tools they’re familiar with.

Some of the hacker circles I was most familiar with in my younger days primarily used Windows as their OS. They did a lot of reverse engineering using Windows tools. They might have used .NET to write their custom tools because it was familiar and fast. They pulled off some amazing reverse engineering feats.

Yet when I tell people they preferred Windows and not Linux you can tell who’s more focused on ideological purity than actual achievements because eww Windows.

> Please do no co-opt the term "hacker".

Right back at you. To me, hacker is about results, not about enforcing ideological purity about only using the acceptable tools on your computer.

In my experience: The more time someone spends identifying as a hacker, gatekeeping the word, and trying to make it a culture war thing about the tools you use, the less “hacker” like they are. When I think of hacker culture I think about the people who accomplish amazing things regardless of the tools or whether HN finds them ideologically acceptable to use.
by astroflection | 2025-11-26 15:18:35+00:00
Carl Sagan's reflection on the Pale Blue Dot( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot ) image seem relevant:

"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. "
by throwaway290 | 2025-11-26 15:18:36+00:00
> HTML files are executed as programs by a browser and displayed as a document by a text editor. JS files, too. I could go on

This reveals fundamental misunderstanding what is HTML and JS. "program" being different from "document" doesn't preclude some documents to have embedded programs within. however it doesn't turn a document into a program and doesn't mean markup language becomes programming language. there is still clear separation between hypertext markup and executable JS code
by caymanjim | 2025-11-26 15:18:48+00:00
This isn't a wild theory or a novel one. It's well-established that endogenous retroviruses alter DNA and are inherited. In addition to the primary genome being modified this way, all mitochondria are symbiotic organisms inside plant and animal cells, with their own DNA, and are vital to life. Same thing for chloroplasts in plants. And then there are gut bacteria, which are vital to life, symbiotic, and directly influence evolution and the genome.
by lxgr | 2025-11-26 15:19:01+00:00
> hackers have always rejected bloated tools [...] Hackers have historically derided any website generators

Ah yes, true hackers would never, say, build a Debian package...

Managing complexity has always been part of the game. To a very large extent it is the game.

Hate the company selling you a SaaS subscription to the closed-source tool if you want, and push for open-source alternatives, but don't hate the tool, and definitely don't hate the need for the tool.

> Please do no co-opt the term "hacker".

Indeed, please don't. And leave my true scotsman alone while we're at it!
by Gagarin1917 | 2025-11-26 15:19:06+00:00
The companies who now have piles of cash because they eliminated a huge chunk of labor will spend far more on new projects, many of which will require tradesmen.

Economic waves never hit one sector and stop. The waves continues across the entire economy. You can’t think “companies will get rid of huge amounts of labor” and then stop asking questions. You need to then ask “what will companies do with decreased labor costs?” And “what could that investment look like, who will they need to hit to fulfill it?” and then “what will those workers do after their demand increases?” And so on.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-26 15:19:08+00:00
I just want to reiterate that in Germany getting convicted of gang raping a 15 year old (and stealing her phone and purse and filming the rape) is something which gets you probation. Yes, the crime was proven, there was no doubt about the guilt.

In this context putting the entirety of the population under the suspicion of facilitating child rape is completely and utterly deranged.
GPT-5.2-codex-rewardmaxx-ultra-think and products from AI labs
by akira_067 | 2025-11-26 15:19:21+00:00
Model naming has seemingly been an issue recently, especially with OpenAi, and so I wanted to take a moment to discuss this.

Researchers consistently are, well, researchers. Their goal is to do research, not to name your model correctly. The product team on the other hand does have the job of naming models correctly. One of the biggest issues right now it seems is that the product team, engineering team, and research teams at most of these companies are separated.

Take a look at claude code for example. They hired a bunch of devs, despite the claims of "claude code building itself". They have 2 product people that bounced around between companies, and the product is becoming so insanely bloated that I'm not sure what theyre focused on.

OpenAi is in a similar boat. The generality of the tools they are shipping, and the understanding that they should ship a general coding model on top of the rest of the "gpt" models is crazy from a consumer perspective. They have such general tech AND have a profit incentive to monopolize the stack. This led to the responses api which is significantly more stateful and painful to use as an end user. It really only serves to provide openai with more lock in.

As these features get baked into the apis (including things like caching reasoning blocks etc.) we are going to see more and more product scope increase and more and more confusing products as they try to bake more unrelated features into single products.
by nyrikki | 2025-11-26 15:19:25+00:00
> You’re also missing an important factor: Many drives now reserve some space that cannot be used by the consumer so they have extra space to work with. This is called factory overprovisioning.

This has always been the case, thus why even a decade ago the “pro” drives were odd sizes like 120g vs 128g.

Products like that still exist today and the problem tends to show up as drives age and that pool shrinks.

DWPD and TB written like modern consumer drives use are just different ways of communicating that contract.

FWIW I’d you do a drive wide discard and then only partition 90% of the drive you can dramatically improve the garbage collection slowdown on consumer drives.

In the world of ML and containers you can hit that if you say have fstrim scheduled once a week to avoid the cost of online discards.

I would rather have visibility into the size of the reserve space through smart, but I doubt that will happen.
by TheDong | 2025-11-26 15:19:44+00:00
Blogspam to try and sell their product. Just read the mailing list post instead and ignore this, it adds nothing. https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2025/q4/138

They don't clearly say the most important thing up-front which is "If you do not run untrusted images, then these vulnerabilities do not impact you, but you should still of course update asap"
by Trasmatta | 2025-11-26 15:19:49+00:00
> What is this "devaluation"?

The part where writing performant, readable, resilient, extensible, and pleasing code used to actually be a valued part of the craft? I feel like I'm being gaslit after decades of being lectured on how to be a better software developer, only to be told that my craft is pointless, the only thing of value is the output, and that I should be happy spending my day babysitting agents and reviewing AI code slop.
by petercooper | 2025-11-26 15:20:21+00:00
"Generally, the more weight people regained, the more their cardiovascular and metabolic health improvements reversed."

You don't say ;-) I lost 50 lbs and have kept it off for the past year while maintaining great BP. But I'm under no illusions GLP-1 medications don't have dangers and cause problems for many. It should be handled on an individual basis like any serious medication.

That said, is someone losing a lot of weight then gaining half of it back worse than them just staying where they were? I don't know the answer to that one.
by cesarb | 2025-11-26 15:21:34+00:00
> However, cooperation from the operating system is necessary, as the constant-time execution mode may need to be enabled by setting certain CPU-control bits in protected registers (e.g. IA32_UARCH_MISC_CTL[DOITM]).

The way ARM does this is way better, since it doesn't need help from the operating system: user-space can directly set and clear the DIT bit. Operating system cooperation is necessary only to know whether that bit exists (because the ID registers are not directly readable by user mode).
by Johanx64 | 2025-11-26 15:21:44+00:00
"Normal" people will just buy the game if it's good.

So it's irrelevant if it uses AI or not. Ie. it's not a sales pitch and not part of decision making process when making the purchase.

There are increasingly more games that use some form of AI generated content, voice lines or otherwise, and nobody could care less, except the people outlined above.
by tete | 2025-11-26 15:21:44+00:00
To be fair I think if there is any kinda okay use of GenAI is being able to get some images and such without needing the money to hire an artist.

Maybe that allows for way more niche games.

In other words: It's the whole package. If I get something unique, and the dev used some "AI" for translation or to make some avatar image for a character I am happy this game is allowed to exist.

If I see a AAA studio putting out the hundredth iteration of the same old game, of some franchise that used to be good and interesting in the 90s and then doesn't even bring actually new art to the table it's a huge disappointment.

But here we are. EA cannot even manage to fix their basic bugs (like players running into nets or a new kickoff for less than a second) after a dozen of new expensive releases.

Non-indie games have largely been a complete farce for decades now.
by skydhash | 2025-11-26 15:21:47+00:00
I’m glad you listed the manual example. Usually when people are solving problems, they’re not asking the kind of super targeted question in you second example. Instead it’s an exploration. You read and target the next concept you need to understand. And if you do have this specific question, you want the surrounding context because you’ll likely have more questions after the first.

So what people do is collecting documentations. Give them a glance (or at least the TOC), the start the process to understand the concepts. Sure you can ask the escape code for setting a terminal title, but will it says that not all terminals support that code? Or that piping does not strip out escape codes? That’s the kind of gotchas you can learn from proper manuals.
by Version467 | 2025-11-26 15:22:33+00:00
That, plus he's quick enough to come up with good follow-up questions on the spot. It's so frustrating listening to interviews where the interviewer simply glosses over interesting/controversial statements because they either don't care, or don't know enough to identify a statement as controversial. In contrast, Dwarkesh is incredible at this. 9/10 times when I'm confused about a statement that a guest makes on his show he will immediately follow up by asking for clarification or pushing back. It's so refreshing.
by lxgr | 2025-11-26 15:22:44+00:00
Please, not the old "AI is the new crypto" trope.

Various people have been wrong on various predictions in the past, and it seems to me that any implied strong overlap is anecdotal at best and wishful (why?) thinking at worst.

The only really embarrassing behavior is never updating your priors when your predictions are wrong. Also, if you're always right about all your prognoses, you should probably also not be in the HN comments but on a prediction market, on-chain or traditional :)
by rAum | 2025-11-26 15:22:46+00:00
Long ago, I used to work at some bank, where SVN branch merging was always super painful and instead of solving people problem, there was holy, e-mail based system running on our common dev machines.

After recieving properly formatted email, script was executed to apply git merge between svn branches. In case of merge issues, the email was sent back with feedback. If everything was okay, a proper sign-off blessing by one of the technopriests as late check was applied and merge concluded.