MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by perching_aix | 2025-11-15 00:38:39+00:00
I can list off a few issues, but as usual, who and how many will share these experiences is a complete toss-up:

- random chunks of chat log can go temporarily missing at random when you scroll up. temporarily as in, they'll load on another device. on the regular one though, who knows when you'll get them back...

- if you manage to call someone the same time they do you, all bets are off. got things softlocked more than a few times.

- the usual recent Microsoft obsession with (keyboard-focus hijacking!) popups is of course also a thing in Teams

- text styling is hell, and sometimes when you click on the copy button in code blocks or copy out stuff in general, you get html tags polluting your copied data

- chats & group chats vs. team chats is extremely unnecessary and cumbersome

- multitenant support does a complete ui reload after which you miss notifications from the tenant you switched away from (might be different now)

- the localization is funky, just like in all other Microsoft products; from the small, like calendars starting on the wrong day, to the bigger, where if you ping @everyone in your Teams set to your native locale, then on the other side people will also see the ping in your native locale. It's just like Exchange/Outlook in this regard.

- the audio settings like getting mixed up, especially if you happen to disconnect and reconnect your stuff on the regular.

- they seemingly hardcode the URL preview thumbnail logic per trusted site, instead of using opengraph. their hardcoded integrations are also ignorant of e.g. url encoding and have other minor blemishes. I dare you to link the C++ wikipedia article to someone.

- profile pics go away sometimes (mine has been missing for weeks now, appears everywhere else), and statuses can get stuck or be null

These are all ongoing things that persist after years of use. Other, more questionable, already solved, or rare / one-off qualms would include:

- one time I tried screensharing, and when I clicked the button it showed me an emoji picker flyout instead of a share options flyout (lol)

- used to crash all the time in Edge of all things (not sure about other browsers), fixed since

- screenshare can freeze without you knowing any better thanks to the often extremely low framerate.

- slow (might be my terrible workstation)

- happily lies about delivery status and reorders messages
by buu700 | 2025-11-15 00:39:05+00:00
I'm not an expert on the subject, but is there an obvious bottleneck that would prevent Helion from manufacturing an arbitrarily large number of generators that scales with demand? 2000 generators doesn't seem like an overwhelmingly large number if they get paid enough to build out capacity for it, and they've already started on an assembly line manufacturing plant.

I'd expect that they probably wouldn't focus on copying Orion exactly, since Orion is just the initial PoC and will only use a single 50 MW generator. Their Nucor plant is planned to have 10x higher capacity, which seems likely to be more in line with typical deployments outside of remote areas. Opex also seems like a non-issue to me, given that the machines will be automated, the fuel will be cheap, and they won't have the same safety-critical need for strict regulation and human oversight as fission plants.

My understanding is that exporting might not be a huge hurdle to get a green light for due to the low proliferation concerns, although I wouldn't be surprised if Helion itself had some reservations around that or blocked it on designing some sort of tamper-resistant enclosure for IP protection purposes.

But I also don't see a reason why the US couldn't be a highly lucrative market for Helion, particularly given the increasing demand from AI. Solar in China today benefits from major alignment of interests and political tailwinds. Similarly, fusion could cut through partisan divides and NIMBYism that have hamstrung power buildout in the US. The left will buy in for climate benefits, the right will buy in for energy independence, both will buy in for economics + practicality, and NIMBYs will buy in for lower electric bills with minimal risks or drawbacks. Whether or not directly publicly funded, there will at least be every incentive to collectively get out of private industry's way and allow mass fusion deployment with minimal regulatory burdens.

That said, I'm sure solar will continue to get cheaper, and iron-air batteries from companies like Form Energy seem to be an extremely promising solution for high-scale storage. I also like the idea of using Prometheus Fuels to repurpose existing fossil fuel plants as storage for renewables. But there are still theoretical limits on the efficiency of solar panels, and space usage and intermittency could make it less cost-efficient than fusion in many if not most cases. We can't really make an apples-to-apples comparison between a mature technology in active high-volume production and a speculative future technology, but the latter in this case does seem to me to have a higher ceiling on its potential value over the long run.
by akshat666 | 2025-11-15 00:39:26+00:00
Built this as a personal challenge. No OS, no drivers — just x86 assembly and BIOS. 512 bytes exactly. Boots in QEMU.

Run it: nasm -f bin pong.asm -o boot.bin qemu-system-x86_64 boot.bin

GitHub: https://github.com/akshat666/-bootponggame
by jpau | 2025-11-15 00:39:42+00:00
I love Cerebras. I also love that they've started to scale rate limits to useful levels (which is relatively new).

I still don't know how long they'll support our chosen model.

On Oct 22 I got an email saying that

```

- qwen-3-coder-480b will be available until Nov 5, 2025

- qwen-3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507 will be available until Nov 14, 2025

```

That's not a lot of notice!

I don't want to spend all my time benchmarking new models for features I already built. I don't want my users' experience to be disturbed every few months.
by robben1234 | 2025-11-15 00:39:59+00:00
My cluster recently started to failover every few days whenever it experiences the load to trigger scale up from 1-2 to 20+ acu.

And then I also encountered errors just like op in my app layer about trying to execute a write query via read-only transaction.

The workaround so far is to invalidate connection on error. When app reconnects the cluster write endpoint correctly leads to current primary.
by GenerWork | 2025-11-15 00:40:12+00:00
>Recently, weren't there supply and inflation issues regarding food?

From a US perspective, the supply and inflation issues regarding food were primarily focused on eggs, and the problem resolved itself as soon as companies stopped killing chickens due to whatever avian flu was going around. That being said, it might be different for the land of kidney pies, I'm not sure.

Also, I should've been clearer in my original comment. I usually hear the whole "but what about the food?" argument from people who are just upset that deportation of illegals will make their favorite empanada restaurant close, or who argue that the original food of a place is terrible and by introducing migrants of legal or illegal status, then everything (culinary scene & life in general) will magically become better.
by econ | 2025-11-15 00:40:27+00:00
Someone one time wrote a great filesharing application. Then one day I asked him about caching what other clients downloaded and offered. A few exchanges later he concluded that one could reconstruct what someone downloaded. The problem was clients that didn't run very often. They needed some time to catch up with deleting things no longer available. They tended to wait for a good while for the other client to come back online so that they could get a new list. In the mean time you could ask them what a user had to offer and they would provide the outdated channel info.

The next day he released an update that erased the application and all data.
by squirrellous | 2025-11-15 00:42:35+00:00
Agree with the general point. I’d maybe add that a lot of times it’s the scale of the profit that makes something a net negative for humanity, not the percentage based margin. A lot big tech started small and in the early stages created a ton of positive value, sometimes with a respectable margin, but once they are at billions of market capitalization and starts chasing profits for investors, the positive societal value gets eroded.
by latexr | 2025-11-15 00:42:58+00:00
> Privacy for me is not that important. I have nothing to hide

“Saying you don’t need privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don’t need freedom of speech because you have nothing to say." — Edward Snowden

It’s a very privileged position to believe you have nothing to hide and not be worried about the consequences. Unfortunately, not everyone is so lucky. Many people live in fear for their freedom and lives for elementary things they can’t change and shouldn’t have to hide, such as one’s sexual orientation. We should think of them as well.
by codazoda | 2025-11-15 00:44:02+00:00
LLMs are already pretty good at brute force security testing. They aren’t “polite” pen testers.

I recently used an LLM to win a CTF at work (there were no rules against AI, but I bet there will be next year). I felt a little bad, at the end, when they demoed the intended hacks and, for a couple of them, it was the first time I saw the home page. If it could quickly hack it with just the clue and URL I just let it.

For any serious website it needs a lot more direction, but it will help you along nicely.

I only saw denials twice, over an entire week, and I used three different major LLM agents (Codex CLI, Claude Code CLI, and Gemini CLI).

It took time, I spent something like 20 hours guiding, but if you have the time, and some expertise, the tools are extremely workable.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-15 00:44:04+00:00
Remote?

I won't ask you the salary, but for example, $100k was for experienced security professionals not too many years ago. Now it's almost laughable for entry level.

The cost of living, mortgage rates, house prices, rent has all gone up. But not only that, COVID inflated the currency really badly. Even at normal inflation rates, $100k would be the low-end for entry-level by now, you can imagine what inflation has done to it now.

The title you mentioned doesn't tell much so I can't speculate. For Fortune 1000's or well funded startups, I wouldn't expect any less than $250k/yr at the low end for a VP level security role. But if you're in finance, everyone is a VP of something, so it's more like a mid-level experienced person's role (closer to $200k). If you're requiring they show up to the office, add 30%, if it isn't hybrid but full on RTO, 50%.

Also, most skilled security professionals spent lots of time and energy into their tradecraft. They wouldn't want to be a manager that just attends meetings. You're better off with someone that has strong leadership experience and knows enough infosec to discern b.s..
by simonw | 2025-11-15 00:44:27+00:00
Here's his full argument: https://andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake...

There's a bunch in there but this bit caught my eye in particular:

> The US public water supply uses ~40 billion gallons per day, all of this is potable. Data centers used 50 million gallons per day onsite in 2023. So their potable water usage was 0.13% of the public water supply.
by VerifiedReports | 2025-11-15 00:44:28+00:00
I stumbled onto one years ago by accident, maybe an Easter egg or something. I came back to my computer (Mac) after several hours of iTunes playback to see a hitherto unknown visualization running, with fairly primitive-looking graphics by today's standards. It was not any of the visualizations available in iTunes at the time.

I filed a bug on it with Apple and they got back to me asking how the hell I had invoked this, because they'd never seen it before. Never did get to the bottom of it.
by keeda | 2025-11-15 00:44:36+00:00
I should have been more precise with my terms, but there is a difference between "food" and the "food industry" indicated by the likes of Nestle. Yes, everybody needs food. No, nobody needs the ultraprocessed junk Nestle produces.

I didn't see the OP's point as whataboutism, but rather putting things into perspective. We are debating the water usage of a powerful new technology that a large fraction of the world is finding useful [1], which is a fraction of what other, much more frivolous (golf courses!) or even actively harmful (Nestle!) industries use.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794907 -- Recent thread with very rough numbers which could well be wrong, but the productivity impact is becoming detectable at a national level.
by watersb | 2025-11-15 00:45:12+00:00
I didn't consciously notice the source URL, yet I thought "This would be a great article for The Bitter Southerner".

I strongly suspect I actually read the source location. Whatever.

The point is that "The Bitter Southerner" is a fantastic magazine. They sell subscriptions.

This is where I grew up but it's a different planet for my kids. "Let Everybody Sing" https://bittersoutherner.com/sacred-harp-let-everybody-sing

Just looking through past Hacker News submissions is worth your time.
by mmooss | 2025-11-15 00:45:58+00:00
Are you trying to be provocative? Talking about "illegals", and expressing contempt for people who care about them. Whatever the legal status and whether or not someone should be in the country, they are people and others legitimately care about them and their rights and freedom. Being deported, espeically in the way it's often conducted, is awful.

Not that it matters for immigration policy, but Britain's food was greatly improved by immigration; it's not magic. In the US it's hard to say because, other than things like corn and bison, etc., all cuisine is from immigrants!
by pxc | 2025-11-15 00:47:09+00:00
The university I went to did start restricting hours (requiring student IDs for more of them than it used to) during my time there, apparently to try to divert some homeless people away at night.

But I've never actually been to a library that didn't feel safe, clean, and comfortable when I was there, including that one. I certainly never saw any signs of drug use, or anyone browsing pornography.
by RandomNickname | 2025-11-15 00:47:10+00:00
>Have hundreds of thousands died in any country and even more expelled (ethnically cleansed) in the world since 1948 apart from Palestine?

Yes there have been,scroll down and you'll see plenty of stuff in Asia,Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_cleansing_campa...

Why blame only west for the war in Palestine and not themselves or the Iran,Saudis and rest of the middle east? Or even their religious history about that place. The only "whataboutism" is you downplaying the genocide in Ukraine,when the first comment wasnt even trying to compare both tragedies.
by godelski | 2025-11-15 00:48:07+00:00
At this point that doesn't matter, does it? Mozilla has no teeth in which to bite with. They're not even close to. So is that really the priority?

In the meantime all these conversions accomplish is the sharpening of Google's teeth. Google not only has the capacity to bite but is actively demonstrating that they'll use their teeth.

So why the fuck do we complain about a dog with no teeth while another dog is eating our legs? Let's get our priorities right. Let's talk after we're not being bitten or if that dog starts eating our other leg.
by Fnoord | 2025-11-15 00:48:19+00:00
Set top box [1], like an Nvidia Shield TV [2], to play (digital) TV and other programs. My point being, would you be able to have this machine function as such (not so much portable, rather standalone with a remote control). Because that way, you take the hardware STB out of the equation, saving you (on the Nvidia Shield TV Pro) a good 200 EUR.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-top_box

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Shield_TV
by VerifiedReports | 2025-11-15 00:49:01+00:00
I was not a fan of WinAmp in its heyday because I thought all the "skins" sucked.

Wow, have times changed. I look at this screenshot now: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mgreenwood1001/winamp/refs...

and think about how usable this looks. Buttons are demarcated clearly. The scrub bar is big enough to grab. Everything is legible.

UI sucks now.

Meanwhile... seeing the lyrics in that shot makes me wonder if WinAmp supports karaoke playback...

I guess the original did through plug-ins. Hm, maybe I'll take a shot at adding it to this one.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-15 00:49:14+00:00
Teams itself can barely keep up with its own features, I wonder how an unofficial client would.

Also, what's driving the need? I've taken a peek under the hood, it's just an electron app. It's not closed source (not opensource either, due to licensing) as far as I could tell aside from libraries that aren't part of it's app logic (graphics,audio,etc..). And there are webhooks for bot authoring.

I'm just scared it would have issues integrating with onedrive or some other MS app at the worst moment.
by Xeoncross | 2025-11-15 00:49:18+00:00
I agree with a lot of what you said. I'm hoping Rust will warm on me as I improve in it. I hate nil/null.

> Go... extremely exhausting boilerplate error checking

This actually isn't correct. That's because Go is the only language that makes you think about errors at every step. If you just ignored them and passed them up like exceptions or maybe you're basically just exchanging handling errors for assuming the whole thing pass/fail.

If you you write actual error checking like Go in Rust (or Java, or any other language) then Go is often less noisy.

It's just two very different approaches to error handling that the dev community is split on. Here's a pretty good explanation from a rust dev: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZhwOWvoR3I
by James_K | 2025-11-15 00:49:49+00:00
Banks do not provide capital. When I buy 50 tons of steel, no bank has sold it to me. The smelters and miners have provided that capital. Banks allocate capital. It is management, not provision.

With that in mind, there are two types of productive financial work: actuarial services and accounting. Actuaries act as the managers of society's resources, ensuring that net profit is made and risk well distributed, and accountants determine what those resources are. It is clear that many of the people in finance are not qualified to provide either of these services and simply leach profit out of the rest of the economy.

Notice that neither of these rely on capital markets and speculation. Speculators have been repeatedly proven to be horrible managers, performing worse than random chance. History is clear on this: if left to their own devices, speculators will destroy the economy. Only by means of strict regulation can they be forced into doing the productive actuarial and accounting work for which they are hypothetically employed. Yet for some reason, we still allow these people to operate without oversight in many cases and to extract massive profit beyond the value of their work.
by AMDAnon | 2025-11-15 00:50:04+00:00
> constantly scrapping things and starting over and thus the ecosystem never matured

AMD hires talented people at below-market and doesn't promote them or give raises. This causes employees to aim at resume-driven development by reinventing the wheel so they can get a job somewhere else.

It's a similar problem to Google, except at Google it's because promotions are explicitly for people that ship new products.
by elmerfud | 2025-11-15 00:50:31+00:00
I think everyone knows that most people hate AI but a lot of people use it because they feel they don't have a choice.

My problem with AI is that it could be such a valuable tool but every implementation, besides trying to run your own in your own basement, seems like it is geared toward kindergartners. The kind of censored nonsense it spouts off or just blatantly trying to prevent you from getting any good information out of it blows my mind. People talk about AI hate but if you dealt with another person that responds to you like AI does you would genuinely start to hate that other person.

I was asking it some simple questions about understanding some open source software. It starts squawking back to me about security and stability of software and so it doesn't want to answer me on modifying this. So I literally have to argue with it about the entire concept of open source to get it to give me an answer. When it did give me an answer it was incredibly vague. So I went and dug into the software myself and then responded back to it that the answer I was seeking was incredibly simple and the software was already geared to be modified in the way that I wanted. Then it responded of course it is and it gives me an example for how I want to modify it.

This is why people hate AI. Because it is utter nonsense until you go and do all of the legwork and then it will just agree with you. Nobody wants that kind of sycophant in their life. I want it to be an assistant that will assist me in what I'm doing. At this point AI is less helpful than a junior worker that is moderately resourceful and it takes more of my time to deal with it.

Everyone hates AI because of this nonsense and until these companies start letting it act like someone who can hold advanced conversations as if they were university level people we will continue to hate AI. It's like it's there to intentionally make people stupid instead of assisting them in being something better.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-15 00:50:39+00:00
That's true, but I think humans would stumble a lot too (try reading old printed text from the 18fh cenfury where fhey used "f" insfead of t in prinf, if's a real frick fo gef frough).

However humans are pretty adept at discerning images, even ones outside the norm. I really think there is some kind of architectural block hampering transformers ability to really "see" images. For instance if you show any model a picture of a dog with 5 legs (a fifth leg photoshopped to it's belly) they all say there are only 4 legs. And will argue with you about it. Hell GPT-5 even wrote a leg detection script in python (impressive) which detected the 5 legs, and then it said the script was bugged, and modified the parameters until one of the legs wasn't detected, lol.
by quesera | 2025-11-15 00:51:51+00:00
This looks like something that's been around forever, but it's the first time I've seen it. xkcd://{{derive_from_context}}

It's a great idea. I've created (or copied) at least half of these output formats, a few of which I remember being annoyingly difficult to surface from the project docs.

But in the moment today, it's mostly interesting to see the different ways of saying the same things in various configuration languages. And thinking that this might be why so many people with different brains find the technology world so obtuse and off-putting.

The joke's on them, of course. We like it this way! (Never wrestle with a pig...)
by mastazi | 2025-11-15 00:52:20+00:00
I've been using this for a long time and it works better than the official client (which I use on another computer) because it has less bugs.

For example the official client has a bug where it will open chats in a separate window even when the user did not intend to (has to do with the first click being ignored while Teams it's out of focus, and the second click being interpreted as a double click). The unofficial Teams for Linux doesn't have this problem.