MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jt2190 | 2025-11-09 15:53:28+00:00
Some interesting context from the podcast:

> A lot of people are coming to eBay from a link that someone shared or from a search engine... This whole "amortized cost savings" you get from a Single-Page App (SPA) you don't necessarily get with eBay. Or people might go to eBay and open up ten [browser] tabs... If that's ten SPAs you're opening you're not really saving that much.

> At the same time in 2012 people are coming out with React, Angular... the question was "can we just use these tools?" and the answer was "kinda no"... Initially React was considered but the things we needed right out of the gate was streaming [sending as much HTML as... available without waiting for services responding with loaded data for the specific page]... With streaming you can send out stuff to the browser and have the browser [start] showing content to user without having to wait for your slowest service. At eBay there are a lot of services... Essentially if we were to adopt React or Angular the fact that there wasn't streaming would essentially mean that we're throwing away two seconds or so... which is not acceptable.
by mayswind | 2025-11-09 15:54:16+00:00
ezBookkeeping is an open-source, self-hosted personal finance app. It's lightweight, privacy-friendly, and easy to deploy (just one Docker command).

What's new in v1.2.0:

1. New language support: Korean

2. OAuth 2.0 / OIDC login: Authenticate via Nextcloud, Gitea, GitHub or any OIDC provider

3. Enhanced statistics & analysis:

3.1 Added overview Sankey chart for category analysis 3.2 New inflows / outflows / net cash flow charts for trend analysis 3.3 Added asset trend chart

4. Better API access: Create and manage API tokens directly in the Web UI

Many other improvements and bug fixes, see full changelog: https://github.com/mayswind/ezbookkeeping/releases

GitHub: https://github.com/mayswind/ezbookkeeping

Live demo: https://ezbookkeeping-demo.mayswind.net
by Uehreka | 2025-11-09 15:54:22+00:00
> Immigration Enforcement

You make it sound so reasonable when you say it like that. But here’s the thing: If you’re gonna die on the hill that “simply enforcing immigration laws” requires invading cities and detaining people without due process, everyday people are going to come to the conclusion that it might not be worth it. It’s wild how far you guys thought you could get with that phrasing.

Like at this point, y’all have done the Abolish ICE people a huge favor. It was much easier to call them anarchist weirdos when many people had never even seen an ICE officer much less had their lives affected by their activities. But now… well, unless conservatives do in fact succeed in ending elections (which I rank unlikely) I give it a >50% chance that ICE is abolished within 10 years.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-09 15:56:55+00:00
In the hands of a tyrant all laws can be arbitrary/ignored because that is a key part of what makes them a tyrant.

Almost every part of government is in isolation a single point of failure to someone with a tyrannical streak, it's why most democracies end up with multiple houses/bodies and courts - supposed to act as checks and balances.

So this law wouldn't alter the outcome in the slightest.
by blibble | 2025-11-09 15:57:08+00:00
> We take no shortcuts.

I mean... they are

isn't that the point? not as if "AI" leads to higher quality is it

> Certain more esoteric concerns about AI code being somehow inherently inferior to “real code” are not based in reality.

if this was true why the need to point out "we're not vibe coding", and create this process around it?

fork and move on
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-09 15:58:23+00:00
> whilst the poor get undercut and left out; natives can no longer make a living off sectors that were perfectly fine before

Might sound harsh, but so what? You can’t make a living connecting telephone calls either, used to be a perfectly fine job.

If you can’t make a living doing job x, the demand isn’t there and the supply will automatically reduce. If there is more demand than supply, wages will inevitably increase at some point.

This feels a lot like taxi drivers complaining that they can’t make a living in an era of deregulation. And again, so what? A couple of taxi drivers previously subsidised by the government through artificial supply constraints lose while the rest of society wins.
by prmoustache | 2025-11-09 15:58:23+00:00
In my experience unless you upgrade on the exact date of the new Gnome release most of those extensions get updated within a month or 2 of the release.

Additionally if non breakage and stability is a must for you the long term support distros such as debian, ubuntu LTS or an rhel derivative such as Almalinux are available.

While obtaining and using newer software was annoying on long term support distros in the past, tools such as flatpak, toolbox and distrobox have made it super easy now so you can run a super stable system+desktop basis that doesn't change in 10 years alongside bleeding edge apps.
by dpark | 2025-11-09 15:58:57+00:00
This is just circular arguing.

> it’s not manageable to be offline all the time here

> it is if you’re all offline together

> but everyone doesn’t want to be offline with me

> just be offline by yourself; what’s the big deal? <— you

The big deal is all the stuff called out above. My kids school, child care, my work, pizza delivery, everyone has built up infrastructure that assumes virtually always online.

If it works for you to just not be online anymore, cool. But it’s not trivial for many people to make this change.
by mrbuttons454 | 2025-11-09 15:59:56+00:00
I started with Red Hat 6 (not RHEL) as a kid, because it was what was included with the book on Linux that I was gifted. Some time around 2000, I was given some retired beige powermac G3 desktops, and I switched to Debian for its PowerPC port. I've been with Debian ever since.

So maybe pick something with the realization that they may stick with it for decades. :)

I also kept Windows on dual boot so I could play UT99 with friends. The social aspect is also important. My son is comfortable using our Debian machines, but also has Windows on his primary desktop so he can play Roblox and Minecraft Bedrock with school friends. I wouldn't want him to lose that.
by rkomorn | 2025-11-09 16:00:27+00:00
I left A^3 (or Acubed, groan) 5 years ago, to relocate overseas, so I don't know how it's been since. There was definitely a bit of a "Silicon Valley knows best" attitude that I didn't buy into (because the people I met at Airbus were pretty damn sharp ... while I felt very overpaid, but anyway).

There was always some talk of maneuvering around other groups who wanted our project or wanted to beat us to the punch or whatever, which felt a bit pointlessly unproductive to me, so I did my best to ignore it and try to just deliver.

I did get to meet some cool people, though, including Grazia Vittadini, so I can't complain.
by freejazz | 2025-11-09 16:01:21+00:00
>They disagree with search engines being fair use?

No, with LLMs being fair use. I'm not going to respond to the rest of your post which is a paranoid and pejorative screed based on the fallacy that copyright is predicated on copying being hard or intensive when that was never the case. Copying was always easy. Its the creative part that is hard and why copying was made illegal.
by zer00eyz | 2025-11-09 16:01:25+00:00
> You want a live internet? Don't critique. If you want a no javascript version make one. If you have a better solution do it. If you have insight into the problem share it.

Go back to internet in 1999... There weren't a lot of text boxes to type into that got your content out. It required a bit of work (html, so not a lot) to get something out there!

Much like an amusement park with a sign that says "You must be at least this tall ----" the old internet was "You must be at least this smart/motivated".

Discoverability was also harder. Much much harder. Even if you did publish it might not ever be found, or seen, or used.

Today typing in a text box, and adding to a conversation (like this one) that someone else is going to read changed where the bar is.

To that end there are still plenty of focused communities that are less tribal, less emotional, than your average social media post. These remain great sources of not only information but community as well.

I find the places focused around work (like HN) and my hobbies to be the most interesting and engaging -- less "critical" and more thoughtful.
by roncesvalles | 2025-11-09 16:01:28+00:00
All I'm saying is: if you drive to the airport and get on a flight, the drive to the airport wasn't more dangerous than your flight on the plane.

This is intuitive and obvious and yet is somehow beaten out of us by "quick facts" that we accept blindly touting commercial aviation as some kind of miracle. It's still a miracle but not quite to the degree that people believe. Hurtling through the sky at 0.8 Mach in a metal tube will always be more dangerous than rolling down a highway in a metal cage at 70 mph.

None of the people who responded to me yet have refuted this.
by saghm | 2025-11-09 16:01:31+00:00
Sounds more like an argument against the cameras at all, which in turn is an argument for keeping the footage public; as hard as it is to get most people to care about surveillance, hiding the recordings would only make it harder. Any remote possibility of something like this eventually is going to start with people being uncomfortable with it, and that's not going to happen if we aren't forced to confront the full implications of it.

Plus, there's the usual concerns of how easy it is to craft narratives by showing only bits and pieces of what happened. If law enforcement is going to be using this footage as evidence for arrests, it's definitely better that that people can have their lawyers review the public record for footage that might paint things in a different light. Sure, prosecutors should theoretically be required to share potentially exculpatory evidence with the defense, but there's no shortage of known instances where that didn't happen, and the system should not be set to to make the availability of information even more unbalanced than it already is
by apgwoz | 2025-11-09 16:02:09+00:00
The onus is on you here… but, I think I know where you’re going with this. In terms of number of email addresses people have and use, vs number of usernames people have and use, you might be right that some people have 1 or 2 email addresses and many usernames.

Email masking has become easier to use, and many people use `+addressing` to uniquely tie their email to the service for spam prevention / tracking, which would make stuffing harder.

In these cases, email would be much more unique and a better protection against stuffing. HOWEVER, it’s not obvious how Email verification protocol would work for these types of things.
by emchammer | 2025-11-09 16:02:39+00:00
I contacted SGI in their later years when my department had a little extra budget. Knowledgeable guy on the phone tried to talk me out of buying one of their workstations. They really were only interested in selling to a certain type of customer. Innovative, flashy, and desirable products for a hot minute, but that company was managed to death. Apple beware.
by Bender | 2025-11-09 16:04:44+00:00
Verified this is a thing. I asked it where I am and how it figured that out. It said it does not have access to my device’s GPS, IP address, or any other identifying information.

I then asked it for specific food locations near me and it listed them with pictures and the name of the town. I was never prompted to provide location information which my browser will prompt me if it is requested. My cookies are only from today. I have never visited the site before today. Linux workstation with arkenfox

I have never logged in or created an account on ChatGPT which I will not do until the potential assassination of whistleblower Suchir is resolved. The wikipedia page is missing a lot of factual data and contains misinformation. conflicts with pictures taken by his mother including the sabotaged surveillance system, blood in multiple rooms and a struggle in the blood, bloody wig, bullet trajectory down from in front and above, text messages and food order, covered in multiple interviews with pictures.
by general1465 | 2025-11-09 16:05:16+00:00
That's for some reason a thing for a lot of Americans. For them there is no distinction between Social Democracy (As in Europe today) Socialism (As in Eastern Block 1945~1989) and Communism (Target which Socialist governments in Eastern Europe were aiming for)

It is actually a paradox that communism or in modern words post scarcity society has high probability of being built through AGI, because when you drop 90%+ population out of possibility to be employed due to intelligence lower than chip running AGI, then you either need to give them money as UBI or make basic services free as was main aim of communism.
by Grazester | 2025-11-09 16:05:50+00:00
My address is the same. Someone with my name thinks their email address is firstlast@gmail.com

Its annoying especially since we have the same bank and they are not very good at paying their credit card on time. I therefore get their bank emails. Initially It will always have me confused as weight wait. I don't have any balance on my credit card. Was this fraud?
by caminante | 2025-11-09 16:07:47+00:00
> And I'm challenging the notion that complaining or voicing dissatisfaction could do that in any European country.

'any' ?

See "cooperative problems" [0], the EU-wide "duty of loyalty" for (not relevant directly here for internal complaints, but paints a bright line), and countless posts on socials of EU people getting let go for complaining in the workplace.

If this doesn't challenge your perception, then we're wasting time.

[0] https://businessindenmark.virk.dk/guidance/employment-and-di...
by odogwu200 | 2025-11-09 16:08:30+00:00
Americans owe $1.65 trillion in car loans. The average payment? $745/month. The average term? 7 years.

Cars lose value. Banks win. And drivers stay trapped in cycles of negative equity.

That’s the system AristoCarWare is breaking. Instead of buying or leasing, you subscribe — drive the car you want, swap when you reach a mileage cap, and walk away debt-free.

We partner directly with dealerships to turn idle inventory into recurring revenue — no banks, no long-term lock-ins, no hidden fees.

It’s freedom on four wheels. Because cars were made to move — not trap you in debt.
by dpark | 2025-11-09 16:09:07+00:00
“I wish I could have CPS take away their children and put them in foster homes” is a pretty messed up thought to have in response to seeing a kid looking at a phone. It seems pretty reasonable to call that out.

> Your reply was next to meaningless

We’re on a discussion forum. “Here’s how I feel about what said” is basically the point.
by a-dub | 2025-11-09 16:09:09+00:00
i suppose the ideal would be a working device to browse the internet, a usb stick and a pointer to the arch install wiki.

turning things on their head, i got started myself with coherent floppies borrowed from a friend and then later slackware linux downloaded off some ftp site i read about on usenet.

i have vague memories of downloading mint for the atari st and maybe something about it's c compiler, but not much.
by saghm | 2025-11-09 16:09:41+00:00
In addition to the potential for agreements about sharing info from the server side that the sibling comment points out, there's also presumably nothing stopping the owners of the private cameras from voluntarily sharing footage with law enforcement. It's not completely implausible that the owners have them up to be able to defend against false allegations about what might have occurred in view of the cameras, but this doesn't seem nearly as likely a motivation as physical security, and barring them having some sort of private security force that they feel confident in dealing with any incidents they're unhappy with, the intent is probably to sometimes share footage with the cops.
by quinns_tech | 2025-11-09 16:09:42+00:00
Hey HN! I built this for my weekly poker games because I was tired of chip counting arguments.

TECH STACK: • Pure vanilla JavaScript (no frameworks, ~25KB total) • PeerJS for P2P multiplayer (no backend needed) • WebRTC for device sync • Service worker PWA • Hosted on GitHub Pages WHY NO FRAMEWORK: Wanted to keep it dead simple and fast. No build step, no dependencies, just open the HTML file and it works. MULTIPLAYER ARCHITECTURE: The interesting part was implementing peer-to-peer state sync without a central server. One player hosts, generates a 6-char room code, others join directly via WebRTC. All game state syncs in real-time across devices with 50ms debouncing. CHALLENGES: • Handling disconnections gracefully • Keeping poker betting logic accurate (min raise rules, side pots) • Making WebRTC reliable across different networks Open source on GitHub: https://github.com/quinnrallen-hub/pokerchips-site
by haunter | 2025-11-09 16:09:52+00:00
>We shun most of this as faddish and low quality. Fortnite and Battlefield are replaced with OpenMW and Veloran.

My parents didn't let me read Song of Ice and Fire Harry Potter (and do a lot of other contemporary culture things) when I was younger because they said they are pop culture fad. Only haute culture literature in this household! I've had a good childhood but I also missed out on a lot of good things because parenting decisions like this.

And Fortnite is actually an awesome game, it's the mugen we were all dreaming for.
by antisthenes | 2025-11-09 16:09:57+00:00
ADHD is in part an adaptation to being bombarded with information in the Internet era.

I'm sure it's a legitimate disorder in the most severe cases as well, but like most psych quackery, there are way too many doctors and patients (80%+) too eager to self-diagnose and put people on a prescription and call it a day.

Doctors get money from pharma and people get to use their "disorder" as a convenient excuse for everything. That's what we call incentive alignment in economics.
by cxr | 2025-11-09 16:10:06+00:00
Credential stuffing happens when a user signs up on one Website B with account information matching the information they used when setting up their account on Website A, and the operator of either Website A or Website B can use those credentials to access the user's account with the other operator.

If websites authenticate with username and password combo chosen by the user, then credential stuffing is neutralized if the user avoids re-using the same combo, effected by the user selecting at least one of a different password or the selection of a different username.

If instead of a username, an email address is required to register, that generally results in one less degree of freedom; rather than being able to create a username with Website B that differs from the username they created on Website A, absent the use of a wildcard/catch-all mailbox or forwarding service (which are not straightforward to set up, and almost nobody has one), the user is required to disclose an existing email address.

(It also increases the surface area for attacks, since the malicious website, now knowing the user's email address, can attempt credential stuffing with the user's email provider itself.)

You can balk at whether or not these are negligible differences, but it's non-zero. Therefore, all other things held equal, then strictly speaking it is more robust.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-11-09 16:10:13+00:00
You're looking at the wrong designers. Tufte and Vignelli had great collateral and were appropriately restrained in design elements they used. I don't know if I saw Rams or Esslinger's web sites, but I saw printed material they produced. Definitely on the "restrained" side.

As to why younger designers insert their busy selves in designs? I have a history of making tools. I learned early that good tools allow the user to think of the tool as an extension of the self. When you hammer a nail, you don't think about the hammer, you think about where the nail is (or maybe where your thumb is.) When you twist a wrench, you (hopefully) think about how much torque you're delivering, not about how finely crafted the wrench is.

But there is a school of thought that everything must be a delighter. You must make your tools so finely crafted your users can't ignore them. I blame Steve Jobs (or maybe people mis-interpreting Jobs exhortation to make insanely awesome products.). I think Jobs and Lowey and Issingler were talking about the experience of the artifact being awesome, not every visual aspect of the tool. If making something flashy detracts from the use of the tool... That's not insanely awesome, imho. But I think this is something you learn over time and you're rewarded at d-school for ostentatious demonstrations of design concepts.

In short ... There's a lot of bad design out there because there are a lot of insecure inexperienced designers out there who work cheap and customers who wouldn't know good design if it bit them on the ass. (Not that design frequently takes an ass biting form.)

And remember... If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like your thumb
by agumonkey | 2025-11-09 16:10:40+00:00
I found the culture in forth very interesting

- optimizing the code density (threaded interpretation) - the dynamicism was said to allow for numerical optimization not possible in math libs / fortran long ago (see J.V.Noble papers, I'm not knowledgeable enough to confirm his claims but i assume they hold some ground) - the bare-metal repl feel is also special, as freeing as poking basic on old hardware but with the freedom of lisp in a way

forth sits in the thinking-altering languages land firmly imho
by cess11 | 2025-11-09 16:10:54+00:00
Debian, XFCE. It'll be easy to use through point-and-click, decent hardware support, and the local nerds will almost certainly be able to reverse any software issues.

Kids commonly enjoy drawing, so it's likely a good idea to install Krita, which I'm not so sure is in the repos and might require a bit of imposition of hands.

Libreoffice will be installed by default, one might want to switch it out for something else for whatever reason.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-09 16:11:12+00:00
> what's your issue with LibreOffice?

I'm sharing observations about seeing other people, including casual computer users, forced into using LibreOffice. It becomes the software experience they hate the most. They associate Linux with LibreOffice and want it all gone so they can go back to getting work done on mac or Windows like everyone else they know.

Your comment is a good example of the disconnect between average computer users and the LibreOffice fans:

> The only issue I have with it is when you need to open documents made in MSOffice. Otherwise, it does everything MSOffice does and faster with less cloud/AI crap. Reminds me of MSOffice during XP era

Collaborating with other MS Office users is a key part of many people's jobs. Having poor MS Office compatibility isn't just a footnote, it's a showstopper issue that will make these people's jobs harder every single day. Making people's job harder and take more time is a great way to make them hate something.

As for not having cloud features and having an old style XP era interface: These are also points that are only positive for a specific type of computer user wants computing to return the earlier, simpler era of computing they fondly remember. For everyone else, that "cloud crap" is a helpful feature for getting their job done and that XP era interface makes it feel like they're stuck using outdated software. I understand you don't use or like the new features, but average people who use this software in their jobs might actually benefit from the new features and new interface.