MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JohnBooty | 2025-12-03 16:52:06+00:00
I expect better from HN, where most of us are engineers or engineer-adjacent. It's fair to question Arrowhead's priorities but...

too lazy

Really? I think the PC install size probably should have been addressed sooner too, but... which do you think is more likely?

Arrowhead is a whole company full of "lazy" developers who just don't like to work very hard?

Or do you think they had their hands full with other optimizations, bug fixes, and a large amount of new content while running a complex multiplatform live service game for millions of players? (Also consider that management was probably deciding priorities there and not the developers)

I put hundreds of hours into HD2 and had a tremendous amount of fun. It's not the product of "lazy" people...
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-12-03 16:52:20+00:00
they have incentive but what's the sustainable, actually-pays-for-itself-and-generates-profit cost of AI? We have no idea. Everything is so heavily subsidized by burning investor capital for heat with the hope that they'll pull an amazon and make it impossible to do business on the internet without paying an AI firm. Maybe the 20 juniors will turn out to be cheaper. Maybe they'll turn out to be slightly better. Maybe they'll be loosely equivalent and the ability to automate mediocrity will drive down the cost of human mediocrity. We don't know and everyone seems to be betting heavily on the most optimistic case, so it makes an awful lot of sense to take the other side of that bet.
by margalabargala | 2025-12-03 16:52:49+00:00
> We elect leaders - people with skills, knowledge, and expertise.

I admire your optimism but saying it doesn't make it so.

We elect people able to convince others they should be elected. Often that means they possess the ability to convince others they have the skills, knowledge, and expertise you describe.

If you think that's the same thing as actually having skills, knowledge, and expertise, well, I have bad news for you...
by lioeters | 2025-12-03 16:53:03+00:00
> An unauthenticated attacker could craft a malicious HTTP request to any Server Function endpoint that, when deserialized by React, achieves remote code execution on the server. ..Affected: next, react-router, waku, @parcel/rsc, @vitejs/plugin-rsc, and rwsdk.

Oof, that's bad. Good thing I've only used RSC for static site generation and don't run it on a production server.
by mbesto | 2025-12-03 16:53:11+00:00
Huh? You're talking about budgeted values for the payee, not the rate that an individual payer. I'm talking about the rate established for the payer, which is based on the value of your property. In absolute value terms I may pay more than my next door neighbor if my property is deemed to have a higher asset value. This would be no different if both my neighbor and I owned AAPL stock, but if I held more stock than him, I would owe more (theoretically) in taxes on that stock.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-03 16:53:34+00:00
> The problem they fixed is that they removed a common optimization to get 5x faster loading speeds on HDDs.

Not what happened. They removed an optimization that in *some other games* ,that are not their game, gave 5x speed boost.

And they are changing it now coz it turned out all of that was bogus, the speed boost wasn't as high for loading of data itself, and good part of the loading of the level wasn't even waiting for disk, but terrain generation.
by latexr | 2025-12-03 16:53:45+00:00
I’m a Zig outsider. I gathered the context from reading the conversation around it, most of it posted to HN. Which is why I also pointed out I may have incomplete information.

If one looks past the immediate surface, which is a prerequisite to form an informed opinion, Zigbook is the one who clearly looks bad. The website is no longer up, even, now showing a DMCA notice.
by cratermoon | 2025-12-03 16:54:17+00:00
Is "Microsoft Lowers AI Software Growth Targets as Customers Resist Newer Products" really "way different" than sales quotas? Or more to the point, a statement from Microsoft PR spinning it as "growth targets" doesn't prove they haven't also lowered sales quotas in some divisions.

Even if the Microsoft spokesperson is being completely honest, lower growth targets is still evidence of weakness in the AI bubble.
by pdimitar | 2025-12-03 16:54:17+00:00
Thank you, that was super useful.

When I said launchers, I meant more like f.ex. my own bespoke mini Golang program that lists rules inside its via Landlock's DSL and then launches f.ex. Firefox.

But maybe that's unnecessary because I hear that Flatpak has a big database of such rules already. I'll find out in the future.
by flohofwoe | 2025-12-03 16:54:24+00:00
VSCode? Even if some peeps don't like it out of principle because it's an Electron app, it's undeniable that it is extremely popular (...and is actually a lot more lightweight and snappier than 'real' IDEs like VStudio or Xcode, or the various Java-based IDEs).

Also indirectly: DirectX saved Linux gaming ;)
by Gracana | 2025-12-03 16:54:33+00:00
If you're a bit handy, you can assemble a line filter using a part like this https://enerdoor.com/products/fin27/ for a heck of a lot cheaper than you can buy a filtered power strip.

You may also be able to solve the problem with a simple common mode choke, either the clip-on type, or a toroid that you wrap the cable through a couple-few times. https://palomar-engineers.com/rfi-kits/acdc-power-line-choke...
by p0w3n3d | 2025-12-03 16:54:37+00:00
Chris Sawyer's work known to me is mainy Transport Tycoon and TT Deluxe (which are now implemented in opensource repository, and I think it even has its own free graphics by now. But the original graphics, and MOSTLY music is great, you can even listen to it, remastered with live instruments on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSFsrmLhC00
by DaveZale | 2025-12-03 16:54:51+00:00
Many solutions will be implemented. A lot can be done locally in rural areas, the old fashioned way, by having local farms grow some for the local community, not just for the commodities markets, for example.

Waste can be minimized. This year I donated several huge boxes of backyard potatoes to local food banks, and I learned a little about their supply chain. They make weekly trips to Walmart to snag unappealing produce, which would otherwise be deposited in the dumpsters. Discontinued or overstocked items are included too.

But changes in shopping habits can make the dollar go further. The loaf of white French bread or baguette for $3 may be very tasty and be consumed in a single meal, but the $6 loaf with 21 grains that weighs 1-1/2 pound can last all week and provide all the daily fiber you need in just a few slices!

Let's face it, half the food in the American supermarket is junk calories in brightly colored packages, heavily advertised to children to hook them young. It's not easy to quit comfort foods. Who doesn't like an oily, crunchy, salty snack designed for addiction?

Maybe this will be an opportunity to critically examine our eating habits, cook more of our own food, maybe grow some in the backyard, or support local farmers by buying direct and cutting out the wasteful middlemen?
by loeg | 2025-12-03 16:55:34+00:00
In an online services company, a perf team can be net profitable rather than a "cost center." The one at my work routinely finds quantifiable savings that more than justify their cost.

There will be huge mistakes occasionally, but mostly it is death by a thousand cuts -- it's easy to commit a 0.1% regression here or there, and there are hundreds of other engineers per performance engineer. Clawing back those 0.1% losses a couple times per week over a large deployed fleet is worthwhile.
Show HN: ApiRealTest Beta – Test APIs Through Real User Scenarios
by sumanthchary | 2025-12-03 16:55:54+00:00
ApiRealTest tests APIs through actual user interactions, not just technical requests.

Problem: APIs work in Postman/Insomnia but break in production when users send real data - emojis in chat messages, oversized files, malformed JSON, edge cases.

Solution: Interactive testing interface simulating user behavior:

Quick Test Playground:

OpenAI, Anthropic, Stability AI, Google AI, Hugging Face

Paste API key → Click test → Results in 10s

text $ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-..." https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions → 5 lines of code and headers

ApiRealTest: Select platform → Paste key → Click "Chat" Testing Modes:

Chat: Test conversational APIs (emojis, rapid messages)

Files: Upload images/docs (size limits, security)

JSON: Syntax-highlighted editor with validation

Forms: Key-value pair builder

Analytics: Response times, error rates, payload analysis.

Status: Beta - core features work reliably. UX polish in progress.

Pricing: Free (10 tests/day), $9/mo unlimited, $29/mo teams.

Tech: React + Tailwind + Supabase + Lovable.dev (~10 days to MVP).

Demo: https://api-real-test.lovable.app

Feedback welcome on usability, missing features, pricing.

What real user inputs broke your APIs in production?
by vzaliva | 2025-12-03 16:56:01+00:00
Let me be blunt: this looks like a tantrum. Bugs exist, and they're sometimes fixed more slowly than we'd like, but given the size of the GitHub ecosystem this is probably just one of many outstanding bugs. Blaming AI is baseless - not that it couldn't be true, but the conclusion seems to be drawn from a single issue.

What does this mean for the Zig project? I haven't heard of Codeberg, they may be great, but for a popular open-source project I'd expect a proper discussion before deciding to move or weighing the pros and cons of different hosting options. From what I'm hearing, Zig is technically excellent but seems to lack level‑headed, mature leadership. That's not unique: many open‑source projects started by brilliant engineers struggle as they grow and need a new leadership structure. That transition can be painful and could even harm adoption.
by cj | 2025-12-03 16:56:02+00:00
> The only system which will work in the US is one in which the ultra wealthy have an incentive to provide funding to the public system, and that seems like you’d need to force them to be on the public system too.

In my state, I pay $15k/year in school taxes, yet I have no children. I pay $1000/year in property taxes to support my city's library, yet I don't have a library card. People are taxed for lots of things they don't actually benefit from. I don't think we would need to force rich people to use the plans. If they want to buy medical services from private doctors, sure we can let them.

The issue then becomes more about allocation of resources (how many doctors are available to be seen on the public system vs. only available to self-pay customers) rather than the issue being about how to collect taxes.
by frellus | 2025-12-03 16:56:03+00:00
We need to stop thinking like this for sure. Good advice is good advice, regardless of where it comes from.

The key lesson kids need to learn is to avoid debt and live within their means. Now-a-days every business has decided there is more revenue in pushing their individual debt platforms rather than their products. Go into the Gap, and the staff is heavily incentivized on pushing "Gap Cards", but not on actual product sales.

I won't get into a religious debate on if all debt is bad, but it is a fact that without financial awareness this is the #1 problem facing households today, spending above their means and having "bad" debt dragging down their wealth building.

At an early age I pointed out to my kids, as we went through a store cashier, the signs about "get a <x> card for savings" and brainwashed them that those are traps. They are now in college, everything is cash flowed, and they will not have a credit card in their name (in fact their credit is locked).

"But how will they be able to afford a house and get a loan if they don't have a credit score?!" -- by saving and investing their money instead of spending it with pieces of plastic. Loans can be given with manual underwriting. Cars can be bought with cash following simple rules.

Aside from all that though, just teaching AWARENESS and intentionality from a personal finance class will carry on beyond the class. Having awareness of spending (i.e. "Can I afford this?"), followed by intentionality ("I'll save $500 for the next three months and then buy it, instead of paying payments. I can wait!"), followed by planning (i.e. budgeting), and you have someone who is going to be successful and build wealth.
by coredog64 | 2025-12-03 16:56:17+00:00
> For health insurance, it should be a simple subsidy for those who can't pay out of pocket. Some industries must be regulated, even in a capitalist free-market country. Health care, prisons, law enforcement, defense contractors, banks to name a few. Regulated as in centrally price-controlled.

Maybe not now, but 10-ish years ago that was the French system. Very poor people get outpatient care that is free at the point of service. Everyone else gets highly regulated private insurance with a strong market component. Emergent/inpatient care is provided by hospitals that aren't part of the insurance system.

There are definitely some trade-offs there, but I wouldn't be opposed to such a system in the US.
by icecube123 | 2025-12-03 16:56:22+00:00
Yea, I always laugh when folks talk about how expensive they claim bandwidth is for companies. Large “internet” companies are just paying a small monthly cost for transit at an IX. They arent paying $xx/gig ($1/gig) like the average consumer is. If you buy a 100gig port for $2k, it costs the same if you’re using 5 GB a day or 8 PB per day.
by margalabargala | 2025-12-03 16:56:40+00:00
The goal isn't to make it impossible to do insider trading, it's to set some controls and have consequences when they aren't followed.

The middle man scheme you mention would be illegal under OP's idea. So prosecute everyone involved. The more people involved, the harder to hide it.

Your argument is basically "it doesn't make sense to have murder be illegal because the law won't prevent the bullet from flying."
by lenerdenator | 2025-12-03 16:57:09+00:00
I'd be more interested in how much of that $5 trillion finds its way to shareholders.

Most people generally don't have a problem with the idea of being charged a fee for a healthcare service. They have a problem with a system that grossly inflates that fee so that people who had nothing to do with the service get paid at the expense of people who are ill or injured. And of course, with the people in the system who are heavily incentivized to make sure that those dead-weight actors get as much money as possible.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-03 16:57:27+00:00
From Facebook/Meta: https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2025-55182

> A pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability exists in React Server Components versions 19.0.0, 19.1.0, 19.1.1, and 19.2.0 including the following packages: react-server-dom-parcel, react-server-dom-turbopack, and react-server-dom-webpack. The vulnerable code unsafely deserializes payloads from HTTP requests to Server Function endpoints.

React's own words: https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/03/critical-security-vulnerab...

> React Server Functions allow a client to call a function on a server. React provides integration points and tools that frameworks and bundlers use to help React code run on both the client and the server. React translates requests on the client into HTTP requests which are forwarded to a server. On the server, React translates the HTTP request into a function call and returns the needed data to the client.

> An unauthenticated attacker could craft a malicious HTTP request to any Server Function endpoint that, when deserialized by React, achieves remote code execution on the server. Further details of the vulnerability will be provided after the rollout of the fix is complete.
by silisili | 2025-12-03 16:57:32+00:00
It is, but under "life, medical, and health" insurance, and only based on the employer not function. Any contractor like say, maintenance, janitorial, cafeteria, etc for the building would not be counted. People who work at hospitals doing nothing but insurance related work would also not be counted. That makes it hard to say definitively how many jobs would actually be affected, in my opinion.
by _pdp_ | 2025-12-03 16:58:16+00:00
I don't have time to look into it right now (def later)!

However, I was curious to see if github copilot can reverse engineer it based on the latest commits and seems that what it is saying aligns with both advisories. It pointed out that it has to do with circular reference handling which sounds to me something that can be easily overlooked.

While this analysis might be completely off, the simple fact that I could get even this information without much efforts is mind-boggling. With better setup it might be able to get more.

With AI now being common place, coordinated timely disclosure is even more important considering the stakes. It is theoretically possible to get an exploit working within minutes. Considering that we see one of these major vulnerabilities annually (and it seems to me around the same time of the year) a bad actor can easily capitalise on the opportunities when presented.
by superkuh | 2025-12-03 16:59:34+00:00
By stopped getting bigger I mean people still think 4TB is big in 2025. Just like 2010 when 3/4TB was the max size for consumer storage devices. u.2/u.3 is not consumer yet, unfortunately. I have to use m.2 nvme to u.2 adapters which are not great. And as you say, low number of consumer cpu+mobo pcie lanes has been restricting from the number of disks side until just recently. At least in 2025 we can have more than 2 nvme storage disks again without disabling a pcie slot.
by financetechbro | 2025-12-03 16:59:37+00:00
I think it’s bold to assume that car manufacturers are happy importing X,000 cars a year. Their ultimate objective is to sell as many cars as humanly possible. A “release valve” for the automotive lobby is just a way for them to infiltrate a region so they can entrench themselves into citizens psyche by using manipulative marketing tactics, building a coalition from within. I am from the US and I don’t think Europe should allow the import of any large non commercial vehicles
by AlexandrB | 2025-12-03 16:59:41+00:00
A lot of this stuff is in the realm of "lol" or even "lmao". There's a consistent failure to consider human nature and economic incentives woven through this essay. Probably the most objectionable stuff is in section 2 "Neuroscience and Mind" because the definition of "mental illness" itself is prone to all kind of historical and societal biases. Who gets to decide what a "normal" brain is? Is it the AI? Does the owner of the brain have any say here? Would a psychopath actually volunteer to be "treated"? Ultimately the danger is that "normal" will just mean "what's best for economic productivity". This is not a good or moral definition and is not founded in any kind of ethical reasoning.
by loeg | 2025-12-03 16:59:44+00:00
SSDs did not "stop getting bigger a decade plus ago." The largest SSD announced in 2015 was 16TB. You can get 128-256TB SSDs today.

You can buy 16-32TB consumer SSDs on NewEgg today. Or 8TB in M.2 form factor. In 2015, the largest M.2 SSDs were like 1TB. That's merely a decade. At a decade "plus," SSDs were tiny as recently as 15 years ago.
by duped | 2025-12-03 16:59:46+00:00
I would presume that some tier shaped market will arise where the new cards are used for the most expensive compute tasks like training new models, the slightly used for inference, older cards for inference of older models, or applied to other markets that have less compute demand (or spend less $ per flop, like someone else mentioned).

It would be surprising to me that all this capital investment just evaporates when a new data center gets built or refitted with new servers. The old gear works, so sell it and price it accordingly.
by MikeNotThePope | 2025-12-03 16:59:55+00:00
Here's my hot take: politicians should be paid a lot of money, and in return they should be subject to limits on how they can invest, if they can invest at all. Remove the incentives that cause corruption and attract talent. I think it's a bit naive to say that public servants need to be earning a meager salary. Underpaid people don't stay in their roles very long.
by JohnBooty | 2025-12-03 17:00:18+00:00
Are you a working software engineer?

I'm sure that whatever project you're assigned to has a lot of optimization stuff in the backlog that you'd love to work on but haven't had a chance to visit because bugfixes, new features, etc. I'm sure the process at Arrowhead is not much different.

For sure, duplicating those assets on PC installs turned out to be the wrong call.

But install sizes were still pretty reasonable for the first 12+ months or so. I think it was ~40-60GB at launch. Not great but not a huge deal and they had mountains of other stuff to focus on.
by tlarkworthy | 2025-12-03 17:00:34+00:00
?

Its like GET <namespace>/object, PUT <namespace>/object. To me its the most obvious mapping of HTTP to immutable object key value storage you could imagine.

It is bad that the control plane responses can be malformed XML (e.g keys are not escaped right if you put XML control characters in object paths) but that can be forgiven as an oversight.

Its not perfect but I don't think its a strange API at all.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-12-03 17:00:39+00:00
If you compared Pelosi to other investors in San Francisco, you wouldn’t see much of a difference. Anyone who has gone heavy into tech in the last couple of decades has outperformed the market at considerable risk of going broke if there was a tech bust. Compare Facebook or Google to an index fund, especially before index funds decides to go heavy into FAANGs.

People who make/have more money also have more appetite for risk and also in general make more returns. Even without insider trading, being able to take a lopsided position on tech with the expectation that if it loses you still have a comfortable life, that is how the rich become richer.
by IgorPartola | 2025-12-03 17:00:45+00:00
You can, sort of, sometimes. Copyleft is still based on copyright. So in theory you can do a new license as long as all the copyright holders agree to the change. Take open source/free/copyleft out of it:

You create a proprietary piece of software. You license it to Google and negotiate terms. You then negotiate different terms with Microsoft. Nothing so far prevents you from doing this. You can't yank the license from Google unless your contract allows that, but maybe it does. You can in theory then go and release it under a different license to the public. If that license is perpetual and non-revokable then presumably I can use it after you decide to stop offering that license. But if the license is non-transferrable then I can't pass on your software to someone else either by giving them a flash drive with it, or by releasing it under a different license.

Several open source projects have been re-licensed. The main thing that really is the obstacle is that in a popular open source or copyleft project you have many contributors each of which holds the copyright to their patches. So now you have a mess of trying to relicense only some parts of your codebase and replace others for the people resisting the change or those you can't reach. It's a messy process. For example, check out how the Open Street Maps data got relicensed and what that took.