MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Merinov | 2025-11-14 13:05:14+00:00
Thanks for testing! The whole card IS clickable actually, it has two click targets: Click anywhere on the card and it goes to the summary article page on europedigital.cloud (with translations, context, etc.) Click the "source" link and it goes directly to the original article

This way users can choose: read our summary/translations, or jump straight to the source. Tried to make it intuitive without cluttering the UI.

You're right about the sorting/filtering requiring JS though - it's client-side state. Could move that to URL params for better progressive enhancement.

Appreciate the detailed feedback, this kind of testing helps! :)
by Bender | 2025-11-14 13:05:38+00:00
I was doing some client work recently at a bank

Having worked for a bank I will add my jaded opinion. Throw logic out of the window. Banks have their own regulations, history and internal policies. Finding a job is hard right now so one may have to grin and just accept it. Don't think too much about it.

Ask them if you can use VMWare or VirtualBox in the virtual desktop and get a VMWare license assigned to you. It's clunky but something they might actually have and may save some headaches. If this is an option ask them which Linux ISO is permitted and where it is.

How common is this?

Very common for a bank especially for offshore or remote employees.

Also, curious what kinds of workarounds people are using?

Nobody outside of the bank will like this answer. Ask them what work around is permitted within the policy. If your questions are always without emotion and always centered around policy they may grow to like you and with time you may earn more trust than others making your job just a little easier.
by bitwizeshift | 2025-11-14 13:05:56+00:00
You definitely are not alone in feeling this way, it’s happening everywhere now and it’s driving me nuts too.

I have the same complaint at work, where coworkers are using it for writing pull request descriptions, and it pumps out slop buzzwords like “streamlined the documentation”. Like, you didn’t streamline anything, you ran prettier on a markdown file!

On top of this type of description being useless marketing jargon, the writing style risks to train future LLMs to devolve their writing styles further into this. More frighteningly, how long until the excess amount of LLM-generated slop text like this starts training future humans reading it? People tend to model how they speak off of what they hear and read, and it’s everywhere now.
by rsanek | 2025-11-14 13:06:01+00:00
Love that the "town" in yap.town in the title swaps to the language you're learning.

Few pieces of feedback:

* I would expect light/dark mode to follow system by default

* I'm not sure why I need to keep clicking "learn one more new card" after nearly every card I learn

* AI grading is actually done quite well, but is a little slow for the normal "flow" I'm used to when doing cards in Anki.

Think this is great overall though, feels actually unique in a crowded space. Best of luck!
by _phnd_ | 2025-11-14 13:06:45+00:00
Many IT departments aim for SpaceX-level process engineering—elaborate architecture reviews, multi-year transformation roadmaps, and platform teams—despite serving relatively small user bases. The result is slow decision-making, meeting overload, redundant tools, and organizational friction that slows delivery, even when the technical work itself is solid.

The alternative might be a “drone-first” approach: simple, standardized processes that prioritize speed, clarity, and measurable outcomes. Focus on quick wins, eliminate unnecessary approvals and redundant teams, and adopt a meeting rhythm that tracks decisions and follow-ups in the very next session. It’s less about frameworks and more about efficient, adaptive execution.

Is a drone-first mindset the right way to streamline internal IT teams, or are there trade-offs we’re overlooking? Curious what others have tried.
by acro-v | 2025-11-14 13:07:29+00:00
Just another day I was asking a question how long will it be until we stop looking at AI-generated code - and most replies were in the 5+ years out. I think most - me included - apparently still think in terms of prompt generation and getting that single prompt to LLM to be perfect to do the job.

In the meantime, apparently, with the rise of the agents, that future is already here, and there are some who already harnessed such power. See the video: the author explains their process, and claims that he had not looked into the code for 6+ weeks and only works with the MD specs now.

When preparing recipes for agents - they build entire workflow around managing context, and make them 3-fold: "research, plan, implement", and then he goes into details how they avoid slop and keep mental alignment for developers to keep up with the changes.

Compared to that - I now realize that what I originally built (an AI helper for a terminal: https://github.com/acrotron/aye-chat) is on the "naive" side: prompt until you either get it right from AI or give up and try from the beginning - and with this context generation approach explained I think I will start moving to the agent-based implementation while keeping control plane still in the terminal: current implementation works on smaller code bases but with this approach should be able to cover larger ones as well.

With these techs developing so fast - I think it's just a matter of keeping up with the news - and be aware of what's being done successfully, and unfortunately that's not always easy to do. This one specifically - to let go of code reviews and learning how to work with spec files only - will require mentality change, and it will be a psychological barrier to overcome.
by speak_plainly | 2025-11-14 13:08:24+00:00
All of Microsoft’s products seem like they are all trying to be everything for everyone. Instead, people want more focus. The entire experience of Windows is a mess. How many terminals does an OS need? Or settings and control panels? Or all the legacy stuff? Just start from scratch and think simple, secure, and fast…. Otherwise you get trapped and bound to endless reasons for doing stuff and no focus and end up with Windows 11.
by CrackerNews | 2025-11-14 13:08:38+00:00
The first link is about consciousness. The second link is that language is not thought. The third link is that intentions as "discrete mental states" may not be found in the brain.

This does not necessarily disprove the existence of an world model, and these papers are not directly dealing with the concept. As shown with how LLMs work, the world model (and how the brain thinks) may be more implicit rather than explicit philosophical/psychological constructs within the neural net of the brain.

As opposed to neural nets and LLMs, neuroscientists and the like have no way of taking out a human brain and hooking it up to a computer to run experiments on what our neurons are doing. These software are the next best thing at the moment of determining what neurons can do and how they work.

Perhaps there is a dialectical synthesis that can be made of your position that I interpret to be something like "there does not exist discrete cartesian states within the brain" with how neural nets learn concepts implicitly through statistics.
by antiloper | 2025-11-14 13:09:13+00:00
X11 isn't going anywhere because distros will ship XWayland for a long time to ensure compatibility with existing X11-only applicatin.

xorg-server is gone from the linux desktop. Gnome and KDE use wayland shells by default, and that's what users get when they download a Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/whatever ISO.
by Merinov | 2025-11-14 13:10:05+00:00
Interesting perspective. Can you elaborate? Like: You'd prefer no images at all (text-only)? Or the AI-generated style doesn't work for you? Or something else?

I added them because plain text feels bare, but I'm curious what would work better. Real screenshots? Article-pulled images? Or just skip visuals entirely?

Honest feedback helps, thanks!
by gabrielgio | 2025-11-14 13:10:11+00:00
I don't know the implementation details but I can't really complain about the state of wayland today. It used to be annoying to get working many years ago (worse because I had a nvidia gpu). But today I drive a nigthly build of niri, run it by just spawning an dbuss session and everything works. Bluetooth audio, screen sharing, fractional scaling, no tearing, no font blurring. Every utility I needed has been created and works quite nicely (e.g.: wdisplay). I can even play video games with HDR support.

I have a more stable experience with wayland today than I had with x11. Which to be fair was not only because of wayland but because desktop linux as a whole has made a lot of progress in the last years
by killerstorm | 2025-11-14 13:10:49+00:00
I've been using Gnome for years, but, honestly, it just isn't good: seems like it's optimized for very basic use. Something as simple as adding launcher to a panel now requires an extension.

Also Wayland has some problem on my system (Thinkpad / Intel Xe) where it randomly just goes slow, this makes it an easy choice to try things other than Gnome.
by user3939382 | 2025-11-14 13:11:07+00:00
The “what’s the harm” here is the systemd conversation all over again basically. If you pipe everything through a single point of failure black box users have already lost, when you combine it binary blob drivers that shouldn’t exist it’s worse. Linux is doomed in achieving its most important goals which are user freedom, not someone’s idea of pretty UI imposed at the expense of that. If that’s what users want they should buy a Mac. If you want to get locked out of your OS for eye candy we have that.
by carefulfungi | 2025-11-14 13:11:58+00:00
Operating margin doesn't include interest or taxes; it is an incomplete ratio (but any single ratio will be incomplete) when comparing companies across industries with different capital expense levels, debt levels, and tax exposures.

This article compares the gross profit vs. net profit differences by industry.

https://www.venasolutions.com/blog/average-profit-margin-by-...
by czottmann | 2025-11-14 13:12:06+00:00
What makes you think this is slop?

Also, I think many people use the term "slop" and "AI was involved" interchangeably, but to me, they're not synonymous. To me, writing blog posts with the help of AI is fine (grammar checks, structural help etc.) while auto-generated content generation w/o human oversight is not.
by Mumps | 2025-11-14 13:12:35+00:00
If I'm reading your meaning correctly, about lifespans, I think the comparison isn't quite correct?

lifespan seems to be more strongly correlated by size, not squashed-nosed-ness.

Consider chihuahua, shitzu's (and crosses: bichon-shitzu, ...), poodle crosses, heck lagotto (lagotti?). All can live well past 15.

Versus GSPs, great danes, Irish wolfhounds, and so on, coming in closer to say 6-10 years.

I've never really heard argument on lifespan of pugs et al versus other dogs, though. More around (perceived) ugliness/prettiness, and their breathing issues.
by szszrk | 2025-11-14 13:12:47+00:00
Transition to Wayland opened so many user experience regressions. Many are solved today, or at least partially solved but...

There is still no possibility to have proper remote sessions when using Wayland. On any Window Manager and any distro. It's such a shitshow when you go into details. Nothing works, including third party tools (like NoMachine) and I could find no real hope for actual solutions being designed.

The best you can go with "remote session" on Wayland is viewing a desktop session that was already opened by someone directly on the computer. You can partially work around this by... setting your account to be automatically logged in with no password :D And even then it's a crippled experience.

A basic feature I used for the past 25 years and helped me to learn linux and offer safe space for others to learn it as well. To work around work computer limitations. To use your best hardware wherever and whenever you want.

I currently had to ditch both my favorite distro and WM because of that. But at least we can make screenshots nowadays, so I guess it could be worse.
by martypitt | 2025-11-14 13:13:12+00:00
Thanks!

I've finished up there now, so this is purely retrospective.

For them - the workaround (sadly) was -- a lack of testing.

I was really surprised that in a heavily regulated environment (this project faced off to a regulator) Integration testing (which has gotten really easy on the JVM thanks to stuff like TestContainers) just didn't exist.

That could be symptom of a broader lack of a test-driven culture though.
by indeed30 | 2025-11-14 13:13:29+00:00
I don’t think you can do anything sensible here without making much stronger modelling assumptions. A vanilla non-parametric bootstrap is only valid under a very specific generative story: IID sampling from a population. Many (most?) curve-fitting problems won't satisfy that.

For example, suppose you measure the decay of a radioactive source at fixed times t = 0,1,2,... and fit y = A e^{-kt}. The only randomness is small measurement error with, say, SD = 0.5. The bootstrap sees the huge spread in the y-values that comes from the deterministic decay curve itself, not from noise. It interprets that structural variation as sampling variability and you end up with absurdly wide bootstrap confidence intervals that have nothing to do with the actual uncertainty in the experiment.
by hamburga | 2025-11-14 13:14:52+00:00
>> This raises an important question: if AI models can be misused for cyberattacks at this scale, why continue to develop and release them? The answer is

> Money.

For those who didn’t read, the actual response in the text was was:

“The answer is that the very abilities that allow Claude to be used in these attacks also make it crucial in cyber defense.”

Hideous AI-slop-weasel-worded passive-voice way of saying that reason to develop Claude is to protect us from Claude.
by mark-r | 2025-11-14 13:15:10+00:00
That was disappointing. I expected from the title that it would cover modern use cases. When's the last time you needed to use a web-safe palette?

It's still useful if you're trying to display a 10-bit-per-channel image on an 8-bit-per-channel display, but the gain isn't nearly as dramatic. And the need doesn't come up very often.
by bborud | 2025-11-14 13:15:13+00:00
I don't think you have chosen the correct physical model for insulation. Insulation is about thermal resistance, not minimizing mass.

Your body is continuously producing heat. What matters for staying warm is how fast you lose that heat, not how much “extra fabric” you have to warm up. The thermal mass of clothing is tiny compared to the thermal mass of your body so it isn't numerically relevant. The limiting factor is heat loss to the environment.

In clothing insulation comes from dead air space and preventing convection and conduction. Down jackets are warm because they trap a large amount of air in place and create a very gradual temperature gradient. That is, it spreads the temperature drop out over a thick, fluffy layer, so the inner surface stays close to skin temperature and the outer surface closer to ambient. The result is a much lower heat flux for the same inside–outside temperature difference. (A better mental model of this is that you have two boundary layers separated by a gradient that keeps ΔT low at each boundary layer. We know that heat flux is linearly proportional to ΔT)

Of course, clothing adds another dimension of complexity that is critical for comfort and survival: it has to deal with how your body actively regulates temperature: by perspiration. That is: you have to manage moisture too. And quite possibly a lot of it if you are active.

Wet fabric has higher thermal conductivity. Worse still, if it is dense and gets stuck to your skin you get very efficient direct heat transfer. The thing we want to avoid.

Think about why it is important to have a good thermal paste layer between CPU and heatsink. Now imagine you place the heatsink on a 0.1mm layer of aerogel. Do you think the latter configuration will cool the CPU efficiently?

When metabolic heat production drops that wet, conductive layer becomes a heat sink and you chill rapidly. In cold environments this can happen fast and be lethal.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-11-14 13:15:36+00:00
You can sugarcoat it the way you wish but the US did militarily invade Western Europe and really never left (same as Japan and Korea). The argument that it is for Europe's own good sounds dangerously close to Europeans' arguments justifying their own colonialism...

I don't think that the US had, or has, any more "long-term strategy" than Europe did. They just have the advantage of a single huge mass, and isolation/safety from direct threats. They still managed to have their Civil War, which is actually their most damaging war.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-14 13:15:39+00:00
Sometimes I wonder how people walk through life so shielded from anything. You've seen another man naked for the first and only time, and it's "seared into my memory"?

I've been in locker rooms for 40 years, and have seen someone touch themselves in a sexual manner once, across 40 years. I've seen more people masturbating in public streets than in any locker rooms. Pretty crazy how people can go through life with so different experiences.
by faizshah | 2025-11-14 13:15:56+00:00
I had to do something like this for a few TB of json recently. The unique thing about this workload was it was a ton of small 10-20mb files.

I found that clickhouse was the fastest, but duckdb was the simplest to work with it usually just works. DuckDB was close enough to the max performance from clickhouse.

I tried flink & pyspark but they were way slower (like 3-5x) than clickhouse and the code was kind of annoying. Dask and Ray were also way too slow, but dask’s parallelism was easy to code but it was just too slow. I also tried Datafusion and polars but clickhouse ended up being faster.

These days I would recommend starting with DuckDB or Clickhouse for most workloads just cause it’s the easiest to work with AND has good performance. Personally I switched to using DuckDB instead of polars for most things where pandas is too slow.
by pjc50 | 2025-11-14 13:16:17+00:00
It's a bad day for anti-conspiracy theorists when there's a dump of Epstein emails which are basically all "hey guys any news on the conspiracy? would you like some underage girls to go with that?"

I would note that the public conspiracy theorists tend to be "exactly wrong", though. Claiming that everything is a conspiracy, without evidence, except the things that have documentary evidence about the conspiracy.
by cubefox | 2025-11-14 13:17:10+00:00
LandSpace, the company behind Zhuque-3, might be the most advanced Chinese rocket startup.

They said they are even designing a larger rocket with 10m diameter, which is more than Starship (9m). My question is though where they are planning to get the required money from. Unlike the organization behind the Changzheng ("long march") rockets, which is already developing a 10m rocket as well, LandSpace is not state funded. And they don't have a billionaire at the top like Blue Origin and SpaceX.

On the other hand, they were only founded in 2015, and it's impressive what they have achieved since then, no doubt with quite limited funds. They also have some experience with designing methane engines.
by ismailmaj | 2025-11-14 13:17:27+00:00
I’m guessing the argument is that LLMs get worse for problems they haven’t seen before, so you may assume they think for problems that are commonly discussed in the internet or seen on github, but once you step out of that zone, you get plausible but logically false results.

That or a reductive fallacy, in either case I’m not convinced, IMO they are just not smart enough (either due to lack of complexity in the architecture or bad training that didn’t help it generalize reasoning patterns).
by yubblegum | 2025-11-14 13:18:36+00:00
I think you are overmodulating the conclusions bit here. It is more than just "attempts".

Possibly the difference in our views here have to do with what degree of (collective mind) control is of sufficient utility to various interested parties. Does one need to "run" the world or "100% control everything". I doubt it. I am thinking of the analogy of shifting the course of rivers here, where the (collective) river ends up behaving in the expected manner, and (individual) water molecules are (relatively) free to do wheelies or flow the other way or whatever remains possible within the overall boundaries of the river and its 'set course'.
by squigz | 2025-11-14 13:18:53+00:00
If it's a known avenue of identification, one would think a state-sponsored group would have policies in place to combat that sort of fingerprinting. All of that would also be trivial to spoof/plant so as to distract from the real source.

> That's why they talk about high confidence.

I don't think "Just trust us" is good enough, not when there are various groups - the companies reporting these hacks included - with incentives to blame China.
by GuB-42 | 2025-11-14 13:18:54+00:00
X11 desktop environments are dying, but it doesn't mean that X11 is dead. XWayland is still a thing so you can still run your X11 apps on Gnome.

The big reason why I want to keep X11 besides backwards compatibility is the ability to run GUI apps remotely, even from a server that has zero graphical capabilities. But these do not really apply to desktop environments. If you want to remote a full desktop rather than individual applications, there are better options (VNC, RDP, ...).
by pjc50 | 2025-11-14 13:19:03+00:00
This sort of thing turns up very regularly in US politics, from the Comstock Laws to the Communications Decency Act. The late 90s even had a requirement to use easily breakable encryption (48-bit RSA) which big tech companies generally obeyed. And a worse proposal (the "clipper chip") which was never deployed.

Authoritarianism is not limited by your birthplace, it can turn up anywhere. And when it does people are often really enthusiastic about it.
Show HN: We built a subtitle generator that auto-detects real speaker names
by howardV | 2025-11-14 13:19:04+00:00
Hi HN! We built a subtitle generator that solves some real pain points we encountered while working with video content.

*The problem:* Most subtitle tools give you "Speaker 1, Speaker 2, Speaker 3" labels, require manual cleanup of filler words, and have no way to handle sensitive content that shouldn't be exported.

*What we built:*

- *AI Speaker Detection*: Automatically suggests real names from self-introductions ("Hi, I'm John" → suggests "John"). Works for both English and Chinese.

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We're especially proud of the Chinese language support – it's surprisingly hard to find good subtitle tools that handle Chinese filler words and name detection properly.

Would love to hear your feedback, especially if you work with multilingual content or handle sensitive information that needs redaction.