MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by woodruffw | 2025-12-24 03:45:02+00:00
This is a great summary, although I think I'm more bearish on SBOMs than Andrew is: my experience integrating them so far (in both pip-audit and uv) has been that there's much more malleability at the representation level than the presence of a standard might imply, and that consumers have adapted (a la Postel) to this reality by being very permissive with the kinds of broken stuff they permit when ingesting third-party SBOMs.

(Case in point: pip-audit's CycloneDX emission was subtly incorrect for years, and nobody noticed[1].)

[1]: https://github.com/pypa/pip-audit/pull/981
by CGamesPlay | 2025-12-24 03:45:04+00:00
Georgian is really interesting. Very few cognates for non-modern words. Colors in Georgian are fun: you don't have "brown", you have "coffee-color" (ყავისფერი / ყავის ფერი); you don't have "light blue", you have "sky-color" (ცისფერი / ცის ფერი).
by guiambros | 2025-12-24 03:45:34+00:00
Yep, I have the same set up. Use GL router to connect to the hotel wifi, and all devices are automatically connected, without captive portal on each one.

Added bonus that I can use tailscale on the GL router to route remote traffic through my tailnet -- including devices where I can't install tailscale client (e.g. corp laptop).
by mycall | 2025-12-24 03:46:02+00:00
Linux is behind Windows wrt (Hybrid) Microkernel vs Monolith, which helps with having drivers and subsystems in user mode and support multiple personalities (Win32, POSIX, OS/2 and WSL subsystems). Linux can hot‑patch the kernel, but replacing core components is risky and drivers and filesystems cannot be restarted independently.
by brailsafe | 2025-12-24 03:47:52+00:00
I suppose it could be interpreted either way, but your interpretation probably makes more sense in context. In reports about housing cost in Canada, they tend to use both the median income to median servicing cost like you have, but also home price-to-income ratio which often is a multiple of annual income for whatever reason.

Further down in the thread there's mention of median housing cost to income ratio for programmers in the 90's, and in that situation it seems like the absolute total cost of a house was a fraction of annual income, so it could go either way, but it would be much tougher now for your annual salary to surpass the cost of a house unless it's severely in the boonies.
by mmooss | 2025-12-24 03:48:17+00:00
The evidence is that the causal arrow points the other way: The political movement attacks quality journalism - for example attacking reporting on election results, climate change, vaccines, and much more - and promotes disinformation.

That doesn't mean there isn't degredation in quality journalism, but I see no evidence that it's a cause of the reduction in trust. The reduction in trust is greatest in the political movement described above.
by Fhch6HQ | 2025-12-24 03:48:45+00:00
I may be missing something, but it is almost a guarantee that you would not receive a RA in this scenario? eduroam is using WPA2/WPA3 enterprise, so my understanding is that until you authenticate to the network you do not have L2 network access.

Additionally, eduroam uses certificate auth baked into the provisioning profile to ensure you are authenticating using your organizations IdP. (There are some interesting caveats to this statement that they discuss in https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7593#section-7.1.1 and the mitigation is the usage of Private CAs for cert signing).
by TyxonQ | 2025-12-24 03:50:39+00:00
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by pityJuke | 2025-12-24 03:51:23+00:00
> call of duty where they dynamically alter in game loot mechanics to get people to purchase in game items.

[Citation needed]

> I certainly dont think that Valve designed there systems to encourage gambling

Cases are literally slot machines.

> [section about third-party websites] I don't think Valve deliberately encouraged it.

OK, but they continue to allow it (through poor enforcement of their own ToS), and it continues to generate them obscene amounts of money?

> you guys are choosing to focus on the one company thats fighting against it.

Yes, we should let the billion dollar company get away with shovelling gambling to children.

Also, frankly speaking, other AAAs are less predatory with gambling. Fortnite, CoD, and VALORANT to pick some examples, are all just simple purchases from a store. Yes, they have issues with FOMO, and bullying for not buying skins [0], but oh my god, it isn't allowing children to literally do sports gambling (and I should know, I've actively gambled on esports while underage via CS, and I know people that have lost $600+ while underage on CS gambling).

[0]: https://www.polygon.com/2019/5/7/18534431/fortnite-rare-defa...
by kingofsunnyvale | 2025-12-24 03:52:28+00:00
Lately, I've been playing around with giving the API to claude-code to perform a sort of automated analysis of HN; this is what it says:

Analysis: Why Bezos Has Less Negative Sentiment

The Numbers

| Person | Negative Sentiment | Total Mentions |
|------------|--------------------|----------------|
| Bezos | 18-26% | ~169 |
| Zuckerberg | 35% | ~201 |
| Sam Altman | 38-43% | ~501 |
| Musk | 39-45% | ~1,119 |

Bezos has roughly half the negative sentiment of the others AND is discussed 6-7x less than Musk.

Your Hypothesis is Correct—But There's More

1. Bezos is largely "retired" from controversy

He stepped down as Amazon CEO in 2021. When he's mentioned on HN, it's mostly:
- As a reference point for billionaire wealth alongside others ("Bezos/Musk/Ellison-type...")
- Historical Amazon criticism ("Legacy of Bezos", "Day Two")
- Generic billionaire tax discussions

2. The others are making active, controversial decisions RIGHT NOW

The co-occurrence data reveals what each person is discussed alongside:

| Person | Top Co-occurring Topics |
|------------|---------------------------------------------------|
| Musk | Trump (61), Tesla, Twitter, DOGE (22), SpaceX |
| Altman | OpenAI, ChatGPT, AGI, AI hype |
| Zuckerberg | Facebook, Meta, Trump, censorship |
| Bezos | Amazon, Gates, other billionaires (as comparison) |

3. Current actions generate current anger

Looking at the negative comments:
- Musk: "conman and liar", DOGE failures, political interference
- Altman: "Scam Altman", AI resource hoarding, nonprofit betrayal
- Zuckerberg: Censorship decisions, "kissing Trump admin's ring", Meta's social harm
- Bezos: Mostly legacy Amazon issues or generic wealth criticism

Conclusion

It's not just that Bezos "seeks publicity less"—it's that he's not actively making decisions that affect the HN community. The others are:

- Musk: Running Twitter/X (where many HN users are), advising Trump on government cuts
- Altman: At the center of AI development that directly impacts tech workers
- Zuckerberg: Making platform moderation decisions affecting global speech

Bezos owns a newspaper and a space company but isn't making daily choices that intersect with tech workers' lives. He's transitioned from "active villain" to "historical reference."
by wlesieutre | 2025-12-24 03:53:00+00:00
My first 4K screen was a 24" computer display and let me tell you, the difference between that and a 24" 1080p display is night and day from 1-2 feet away. Those pixels were gloriously dense. Smoothest text rendering you've ever seen.

I didn't use it for gaming though, and I've "downgraded" resolution to 2x 1440p (and much higher refresh rates) since then. But more pixels is great if you can afford it.

It's one thing to say you don't need higher resolution and fewer pixels works fine, but all the people in the comments acting like you can't see the difference makes me wonder if they've ever seen a 4K TV before.
by esperent | 2025-12-24 03:53:35+00:00
> I was hoping to offer users the choice of sync solutions (Google Drive, for instance).

This would be a strong differentiating feature for me. It's something that I feel open source tools should focus on more - data ownership, that is. Save the data in an easy to store/copy format (Sqlite db, for example), and provide as wide a range of backup options as possible. Make sure this is all clearly described in the read me as a hook to get people using it, and also to get other people involved in building it with you.

EDIT: and btw I love the name Stronk!
by cyberax | 2025-12-24 03:53:50+00:00
> Russian grammar is inflectional, yes, but that's about the only difficult part of the language.

That's saying that getting to the lunar orbit is the only difficult part in landing on the Moon. The whole complexity of inflectional languages is in the inflections. It's also why Slavic (or Turkic) languages form such a large continuum of mutually almost-intelligible languages.

Compared to inflections, everything else in Russian is simple. The word formation using prefixes and suffixes is weird, but it's not like English is a stranger to this (e.g. "make out", what does it mean?). The writing system is phonetic with just a handful of rules for reading (writing is a different matter).
by Terr_ | 2025-12-24 03:53:50+00:00
> I think hustle-culture and the vision being pushed on my timeline is a corrupted one.

A satirical video which I think captures some of the frustration: "The Hustle" by Krazam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U

> Machine Head - Derek Hobbs 1995

For anyone else a little nerd-sniped, the ASCII art head is 54,505 bytes, <=300 chars wide, 182 lines tall, using 20 distinct characters... But then I get hung up on what an equivalent picture could be, since the characters aren't just levels of greyscale intensity, but also contain internal detail that would then take more pixels to describe.

My original motive was something like: "If this were a PNG it would have only taken a much smaller X bytes."
by anonzzzies | 2025-12-24 03:55:22+00:00
You need to allow Play the play store and it's services and those will wall you in. Many times discussed here: many banking, gov, health apps around the world are banning anything not blessed by Google or Apple and installing on a non blessed system will not allow you to use them. My bank allows a modern and supported android or ios phone or a Windows laptop with a biometric card reader. Pretty much locked in and all banks are following.
by halfcat | 2025-12-24 03:55:25+00:00
> If we do not specify formally what we expect a tool to do, how do we know whether the tool has done what we expected, including in edge cases?

You don’t. That’s the scary part. Up until now, this was somewhat solved by injecting artificial friction. A bank that takes 5 days for a payment to clear. And so on.

But it’s worse than this, because most problems software solves cannot even be understood until you partially solve the problem. It’s the trying and failing that reveals the gap, usually by someone who only recognizes the gap because they were once embarrassed by it, and what they hear rhymes with their pain. AI doesn’t interface with physical reality, as far as we know, or have any mechanism to course correct like embarrassment or pain.

In the future, we will have flown off the cliff before we even know there was a problem. We will be on a space ship going so fast that we can’t see the asteroid until it’s too la...
by Gigachad | 2025-12-24 03:57:34+00:00
PDF is less like an image, and more like a web page where elements can be stacked on top of each other. You can visually obscure things by sticking a black rectangle over the top, but anyone who inspects inside the pdf can remove it or see the text in the source.

There would also be a mix of text documents, and image scans. The way to censor each is different.

Perfectly censoring documents, particularly digital ones is actually surprisingly difficult.
by PacificSpecific | 2025-12-24 03:58:14+00:00
This is my experience as well. It's been great to make an application that's small in scope, doesn't require access to my main project repo and is basically a nice to have value add for the client.

I was already quite adept in the language and frameworks involved and the risk was very small so it wasn't a big time sink to review the application PR's. Had I not been it would have sucked.

For me the lesson learned wrt agentic coding is to adjust my expectations relative to online rhetoric and it can be sometimes be useful for small isolated one-offs.

Also it's once in a blue moon I can think of a program suitable for agentic coding so I wouldn't ever consider purchasing a personal license.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-24 03:59:21+00:00
All nodes going down doesn't have to be common to make that much data loss a terrible design. It just has to be reasonably possible. And it is. Thinking your nodes will never go down together is hubris. Admitting the risk is being realistic, not something that makes the system useless.

How do filesystem level snapshots work if nodes might get corrupted by power loss? Booting from a snapshot looks exactly the same to a node as booting from a power loss event. Are you implying that it does always recover from power loss and you're defending a flaw it doesn't even have?
by heliumtera | 2025-12-24 04:00:33+00:00
It never was about code. What was the last time you said to yourself "I feel like grabbing some code right now!"?
Last time you struggled to accomplish something and then screamed "if only I had some code!!!!".
This sounds very, very stupid, doesn't it?
English is not my native language, but I find this wording very annoying.
People/business suffer for having needs unattended or requirements unsatisfied.
Latency too high? Have some code!
Database locked with long running query? Here, take some code!
You want to price exotic financial assets to calculate your risks? Have you tried to generate some code??
This is so strange.
I honestly do not think in terms of "code".
If your kid asked you about your job, would you say "I use the computer"?
by jeffparsons | 2025-12-24 04:02:21+00:00
Or in case some folks find the addition of a computer confusing here, if someone sends you a physical letter and they've used correction tape or a black marker to obscure some parts of the letter, and you scratch away the correction tape or hold the letter up to a light source to read what's underneath, have you committed a crime?

I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know what the law has to say about this. But I do have at least a small handful of brain cells to rub together, so I know what the law _should_ say about this.
by cyberax | 2025-12-24 04:02:22+00:00
> Stress is a bit of a rarer aspect, most words can be disambiguated with any stress placement

The difficulty is that the stress pattern is not fixed and needs to be memorized, and it often changes the inflection of the word. E.g. "домá" means "houses", while "дóма" means "at home". Another tripping point is that the stress placement is almost always different in Russian when compared to English.

I'm volunteering as an English teacher for Ukrainian refugees, and one of my rules of thumb is: "If an English word looks similar to a Russian word, then the stress is likely on a _different_ syllable". It works surprisingly well.
by techwizrd | 2025-12-24 04:04:19+00:00
That makes sense for code or technical text, but it is less relevant for car UIs. In an infotainment system you almost never see ambiguous strings where O vs 0 or I vs l matters. Everything is highly contextual, short, and glance-based. These fonts are tuned for distance, motion, glare, and quick recognition, not for reading arbitrary identifiers. If it tested poorly in real driving conditions that would be a real problem, but judging it by programmer font rules feels like the wrong yardstick.
by brailsafe | 2025-12-24 04:04:38+00:00
I think the parent sufficiently qualified their take to mean how much an average person could realistically expect to make in inflation-adjusted dollars. Whether "exceptional" engineers were pulling numerically similar salaries or not seems like a bit of a strawman. Thankfully, the day-to-day conditions of cube farms in grey-space aren't as common today, but it's not wildly different for a majority of people. Trade the cube for a standing desk, and it's often still the same grey office in a tower somewhere working on something boring. After inflation and accounting for cost of housing, the numerically higher salary doesn't mean a whole lot, especially so since it's often theoretical money and not vastly changed tax brackets. Our needs as people haven't changed; we don't suddenly need a Porsche that we can afford instead of a house that we can't. Some things have become much cheaper in inflation-adjusted dollars, which is great, but if they didn't, we simply wouldn't have the money for them.
by charcircuit | 2025-12-24 04:06:15+00:00
In my experience just look up any niche community you are a part of that has a controversies section. You'll be able to see inaccuracies due to these articles being written by people outside of the community. Sometimes inconsequential drama will be the only thing the article is about since otherwise your community is not noteworthy enough. It's a shame since it can hurt the communities reputation due to how highly ranked wikipedia pages can be.
by sheikhnbake | 2025-12-24 04:07:33+00:00
Bump stocks are also extremely rare when it comes to violent crime. I would also say they're the tip of the ice berg when it comes to modifying AR's. I'm gonna take a guess that you aren't overly familiar with firearms, but I say bump stocks being legal are a non-issue because a much simpler and cheaper modification to 90% of AR-15's will make them automatic rifles. The modification can be accomplished with a bit of wire coat hanger, or about 15 cents worth of plastic.

And I say draconian in the context of existing American gun laws.

But real talk, I'm not a gun nut. I'm a leftist that believes the working class should be armed and as a society we need to move towards a system that does mitigate violence. Gun laws alone won't and can't do that. And unless we have a national divorce, I don't see effective gun legislation happening.
by wangxin199 | 2025-12-24 04:07:46+00:00
Why I Built This
I had some gold jewelry sitting around and wanted to know what it was worth. Simple
right?
I searched for "gold calculator" and tried a few sites. Most of them looked outdated—like they hadn't been updated in years. Some had prices that were clearly stale. Others were just lead capture forms pretending to be calculators.
I couldn't find a tool that just worked: enter weight
pick karat
see value. That's it.
So I built one myself.
GoldCalc is what I wanted: clean interface
live prices
no nonsense. I added a few features along the way—multiple languages
different currencies
a dealer discount slider—but the core is still simple.
It's free. No ads. No signup required.
If you find any bugs or have suggestions
let me know. I'm always improving it.
by MobileVet | 2025-12-24 04:07:46+00:00
Took my PS5 Pro on a work trip. Was livid to find out the horrific 'browser' on the PS5 wasn't able to handle the captive portal login page. $700 gaming rig and it can't load a simple HTML page so I can enter my name and room number?! Ridiculous.

Thought about it for a few minutes and realized that the portal was likely just doing mac filtering. So I adjusted my MacBook Pro's MAC address to be the same as the PS5, went through the portal login and then powered down the MBP. Booted up the PS5 and I was online.

Damn it feels good to be a gangster.
by j-bos | 2025-12-24 04:08:48+00:00
Renters are one (large) category. No wasn't referring to mortgaged houses, iiuc those belong to the owner, the lender merely maintains certain rights to reposses in the case of a default.

I was more referring to the average US resident or American who agrees to broad terms and conditions with, their ISP, Microsoft 1 drive, Roomba of the year, microphoned smart TV, email provider, cell service provider, etc. Many of which are essential for navigating modern society.
by bugglebeetle | 2025-12-24 04:09:07+00:00
Almost nothing aside from children’s books is written exclusively in hiragana or katakana. You have to also memorize the variable readings of about 2000 kanji and many texts are nearly unintelligible without them. Pretty much everyone can memorize the former, but must struggle with the latter.

Both Korean and Mandarin are simpler in this regard (and the latter follows the same grammatical order as English).
by jibal | 2025-12-24 04:09:20+00:00
> The person he was responding to was claiming that "literally everyone creating media" is permitted to be used as a source on Wikipedia, which isn't true.

It's damned close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources

"A source is where the material comes from. For example, a source could be a book or a webpage. A source can be reliable or unreliable for the material it is meant to support. Some sources, such as unpublished texts and an editor's own personal experience, are prohibited."

> There are some issues that are niche enough that the only articles written by 'reliable sources' on them are articles written with ulterior motives.

Says you. But if you encounter such an article, you are free to improve it by making it NPOV ... and people do that all the time at WP. And if you can't find such material then you have no basis for your contrary beliefs.

You folks act like there's some cabal of editors with a unified ideological outlook, but this is the furthest thing from the truth. Whatever your ideological outlook, there's a large cadre of active WP editors who share it and are constantly trying to push articles in that direction ... but they have to be able to make their case, and even the most ardently biased editors learn that bad faith must at least be disguised.

> the problem still remains that Wikipedia is only as trustworthy/unbiased as the secondary sources it derives its content from

It's not a problem because there's a vast range of such sources (people talking here about "news media" as if that's all that's allowed as a source are clueless), and as a whole they are vastly more reliable than WP's critics, who basically whine that they aren't allowed insert blatant lies into WP just because they happen to believe those lies.
by tcherasaro | 2025-12-24 04:10:02+00:00
Reminds me when I was working on the video system for a mast on a sub-marine 20 years ago.

Customer had impossible set of latency, resolution, processing and storage requirements for their video. They also insisted we use this new H.264 standard that just came out though not a requirement.

We quickly found MJPEG was superior for meeting their requirements in every way. It took a lot of convincing though. H.264 was and would still be a complete non-starter for them.
by Fhch6HQ | 2025-12-24 04:10:30+00:00
This is an interesting point. As recently as mid-2023 us-east-2 was 3 campuses with a 5 building design capacity at each. I know they've expanded by multiples since, but us-east-1 would still dwarf them.

Makes one wonder, does us-west-2 have the capacity to take on this surge?