MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mullingitover | 2025-12-25 18:39:10+00:00
> The US has a constitution and courts. Companies win against the government all the time.

Again: a nonsensical statement, China also has a constitution and courts, Chinese companies prevail in lawsuits against their government[1][2].

Your turn, name some top-tier US companies which have gone against the party and the regime in the past year.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/1cddb8cc-a7ac-11e4-8e78-00144feab...

[2] https://chineseft.net/story/001076244/en
by qingcharles | 2025-12-25 18:39:44+00:00
Here's one I took from somewhere and optimized that is just a bookmarklet, so there's nothing remote:

data:text/html,<title>Notepad</title><textarea autofocus spellcheck=0 style="position:fixed;inset:0;padding:1em;border:0;font:monospace">

Your text actually survives a reboot in Chrome.

Can anyone think of a way to store the textarea value in the URL? I tried using JS to set a # but it's nonsensical in this context.
by dingdingdang | 2025-12-25 18:40:16+00:00
Yup, but 5 to 15% faster year on year is real progress and that's ultimately what the big user base of Python are counting on at this point.. and they seem to be getting it! Full disclaimer: I'm not a heavy Python user exactly due to the performance and build/distribution situation - it's just sad from a user-end perspective (I'm not addressing centralised web deployment here but rather decentralised distribution which I ultimately find more "real" and rewarding).
by BeetleB | 2025-12-25 18:40:25+00:00
My background was in grad level physics. Twice in my career I've actually gotten jobs that make use of my technical skills. Both times it was a big mistake. While the work was cool, the work environment was terrible (including pay).

Once you get used to being paid well for "easy" work, it's hard to put up with attitudes when you're getting paid less (or even the same) doing "hard" work. If you don't perform, your employment is at stake, and you'll realize there's value in having a job that you don't have doubts you can do.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-25 18:40:27+00:00
I feel as if 3000 definitely is one of the most highest rates

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=1&prefix=false&qu...

I checked and its the 47th most upvoted post in all of hackernews. (Btw each algolia page gives 30 articles so it could've been simpler for me if I didn't manually read till 30 :) but yea, hope it gives some context)

47th most upvoted story is wild but so true. I feel like although we might upvote AI and what not posts in HN which can casually reach 1000+ at times. Deep down what really sells us more isn't AI but rather a fever dream of sorts that one sells onions and maybe the freedom we attach to it
by matthewfcarlson | 2025-12-25 18:41:18+00:00
To be clear, the work the asahi folks are doing is incredible. I’m ashamed to say sometimes their documentation is better than the internal stuff.

I’ve heard it’s mostly because there wasn’t an m3 Mac mini which is a much easier target for CI since it isn’t a portable. Also, there have been a ton of hardware changes internally between M2 and M3. M4 is a similar leap. More coprocessors, more security features, etc.

For example, PPL was replaced by SPTM and all the exclave magic.

https://randomaugustine.medium.com/on-apple-exclaves-d683a2c...

As always, opinions are my own
by eptcyka | 2025-12-25 18:41:20+00:00
I care about being able to use the same password between the display manager, tty and lock screen auth. Yet, I cannot.

I think the original maintainers and developers of Xorg would be the best people to choose if it is worthwhile to continue working around X or do something else. Yes, X provided functionality that now WMs get to implement themselves - since the developers of Xorg worked closer to Gnome and Qt people, and Gnome and Qt people were OK with this, this didn’t feel like a horrible trade off. And given the diversity of Wayland window managers today, I don’t think it mattered all too much.
by lioeters | 2025-12-25 18:42:10+00:00
Apparently GUI frontend is not a subject or problem that interests him. He lives and thinks close to the metal, at a lower layer of abstraction. The software he writes for himself and others in that ecological niche, people who would take his codebase as an embedded library, command-line tool, or wrap it with an abstraction and user interface for their particular purpose, like browsers did with FFmpeg.

He has his favorite niche intellectual and technical subjects, where all his big and small projects are explorations of that space from various angles. It's a lesser concern whether the result has business value, or wider public appeal. He's more of a researcher and scientist.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-25 18:42:20+00:00
29% electric, 7% plug-in hybrid, 5% conventional hybrid, 33% diesel and 25% gasoline [1].

Diesel and gasoline infrastructure is complementary. Within the next 3 years, we should see EVs represent 50% of the Norwegian fleet. I’m watching to see at what threshold pumped-fuel infrastructure starts falling into a doom loop.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_N... April ‘25, passenger cars
by nativeit | 2025-12-25 18:43:27+00:00
I bought a 2013 Passat TDI, one of the dieselgate models, after they completed the recall repairs. I thought I was getting a great deal at the time. Unfortunately, the “fix” seemed to cause some other issues, at least in my case. I religiously used Liqui Moly certified low-ash oil, and kept up with the maintenance schedules. Even still, the turbo wore out at around 100k miles and had to be replaced, and then the new one was exhibiting the same symptoms only ~20k miles later, and would likely have eventually given up as well if the car hadn’t been totaled before it got to that point. Cold weather would cause it to run like dogshit until everything got up to operating temps, and then it would usually run fine the rest of the day. The fuel economy was also never quite as good as I expected, it always struggled to get better than 35mpg.

My mechanic told me that engine was really poorly suited to city driving, which was a lot of my activity, and short trips caused an inordinate amount of carbon buildup, which he cited as the cause of my cold weather performance issues. Anyway, I think it’s probably a great car for folks with a lengthier commute. I learned my habits and routines were likely murder to a TDI engine, but especially those dieselgate models.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-25 18:43:55+00:00
Hey good to see here!

I have a quick question if I may ask but your whole journey and even the article starts with the "I’M ADDICTED TO DOMAIN NAMES" / Addiction to domain names.

So I am wondering was there anything specific that caused this "addiction" (in a good way?) perhaps and has the addiction stopped after www.vidaliaonions.com/ or is it still continuing?
by beAbU | 2025-12-25 18:44:12+00:00
Any alien race that is actually able to travel all the way to earth with the intention of invasion, with enough resources to presumably make the trip back home with all the loot/slaves (why else would they invade?) will be so far beyond our human technical abilities that we stand basically 0 chance of survival.

I think it's absurd to justify killing one another in wars because it might one day save us from some hypothetical invasion.
by mullingitover | 2025-12-25 18:45:00+00:00
> and won.

They didn't win, the phone was broken into with the help of a third party (so ultimately Apple actually did give the government a backdoor, unofficially) so the court case was mooted. Apple never actually defied the US legal system.

> Now ask Jack Ma

Ask ABC about their FCC license when they publish speech critical of the regime[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_Jimmy_Kimmel_Liv...!
by rodrigodlu | 2025-12-25 18:46:19+00:00
Hey, Merry Christmas!

I did invest my time on more specific technologies, not following the mainstream, I accepted a 35% cut, but on smaller and promising small company that smells like startup, but it's actually an small business sharply focused on some types of customers. No VC funding.

I'm also a father of a daughter and I'm "training" her to understand that she needs to sell something that is not abstract.

As a computer scientist, I still sell implementations in form of code, but I dearly assumed many years ago that this (abstract product X concrete product) could be the difference to put food on my table - and now on my daughter's table - or not.

I'm far from highly successful because I'm still fighting this urge to just focus on code, but luckily that understanding above make me talk to any kind of person that is not a coder as well. Understanding business in general, meet concrete needs on different types of industries and so on.

I'm not from the US, so take that into account. I was near shoring to the US, now I'm doing that, but to the EU. I moved to a different market.

Also I'm fully invested in using AI a lot. With that I feel as a senior dev that indeed I don't need as many juniors as before, and I dearly miss having some junior dev to ask the "dumb" questions that I forgot to ask myself sometimes. AI still does not fill that role.

What helped me with AI is not caring as much about the number of LOC as before, as long I met the product's needs.

I hope you can find some comfort, keep your temper cool, so your daughter can feel that as well. That she has at least someone to hold and float.

My best wishes and I hope that 2026 could bring better luck.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-25 18:46:20+00:00
Very interesting page, left me with a lot of mixed feelings after I read it. First, it seems like the biggest issue was not onion futures per se, but manipulating the market. It seems like banning onion futures was just a band-aid while ignoring the true cause. Second, if it really is the case that onions' perishable nature caused the problem, why not at least extend the ban to all similarly perishable products? Again it seems like they attacked the symptom rather than the root cause. But those criticisms aside, I kind of love that the government back then was willing to shut down shady money making schemes from finance bros. That would never happen in America today, so that part was pretty cool.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-12-25 18:46:40+00:00
> one should celebrate the birthday of the most influential and awesome man in the history of mankind.

Perhaps, but - and take this with as many grains of salt as you like, since I'm an atheist - I've heard decent arguments that he was not born anywhere near December.

Plus, everything associated with Christmas as Americans celebrate it has virtually no bearing on the actual events of his birth and/or life, except I suppose the gift-giving.
by pansa2 | 2025-12-25 18:49:20+00:00
> I would also say there’s generally less impetus to optimize CPython

Nonetheless, Microsoft employed a whole "Faster CPython" team for 4 years - they targeted a 5x speedup but could only achieve ~1.5x. Why couldn't they make a significantly faster Python implementation, especially given that PyPy exists and proves it's possible?
by pmdr | 2025-12-25 18:49:47+00:00
IRC, email and XAMPP solved messaging a long time ago. Derivative products built on these protocols should have solved the chat problem for most orgs, but we got complacent and thus vulnerable to nickle and diming by the likes of Saleforce and Microsoft. Now rug pulls by faux-opensource projects that basically want free labor for their commercial project so they can sell it to bigger fish.

It's not people wanting to make more money that I despise. Fine, make your commercial version ten times better, I don't care. But the practice of crippling your opensource offering by removing features or adding limits is evil and shameful.
by doodlesdev | 2025-12-25 18:50:19+00:00
I've seen a few Brazilians (like me) lurking around sometimes, so certainly there are people from LatAm. I'd wager the distribution of countries that read Hacker News and the distribution for people who comment might be slightly different. The distributions linked in another comment seem somewhat unreal to me, but perhaps I'm just imagining every English-speaking person on the internet as an American LOL.

Also, the other comment regarding the time zones is absolutely real. It's a fun experiment to check out Hacker News at unusual times of the day and observe the differences in content and especially in the comments section.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-25 18:51:04+00:00
> The value proposition of user serviceable equipment is the same as the value proposition for open source for software. It gives you the FREEDOM and the ABILITY to make the changes you want to make IF you want to make them.

This is true to an extent, but I think that's greatly overselling it when phrased that way.

90% of my customization is either during the initial purchase, or it's a RAM/drive upgrade, and I don't need Framework for that. It's only a small portion of customization I lose out on. And in some ways I actually have more ability to customize outside of Framework, for example they only offer two GPU models.
Show HN: Fluid design is dead, tried building a product that honors speed
by acrylicrel | 2025-12-25 18:51:43+00:00
Tried building a startup that honors speed and fluidity in motion.

It's a concept called "AI Islands" that I'm working on, hoping to build it into the next interaction layer after point and click GUIs.

Currently supports search + AI for any data.

I would really appreciate if you would try it out!
by ellis0n | 2025-12-25 18:52:33+00:00
Three years ago I found myself in a difficult situation and at Christmas I asked HN for help. Several people sent me invitations and work appeared right away, so I went off to pay my bills. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34121905

My situation was very tough and the job was tough too, so I wasn’t able to reply to everyone by email right away, circumstances worked out that way.

Now things have improved and I want to say a big thank you to everyone who came to help, the HN community, Dang and the team for the support.

Merry Christmas and I wish humanity to survive in the age of AI!

PS: Your invaluable support made it possible to improve my startup https://acpul.org and I have created an open letter for those who would like to join in developing the best programming environment in the world: https://www.acpul.org/blog/Open-Letter
by DougN7 | 2025-12-25 18:53:05+00:00
I’m beginning to doubt very much that will happen. AI/LLMs are already based on 99% of all accessible text in the world (I made that stat up, but I think I’m not far off). Where will the additional intelligence come from that SalesForce needs for the long tail, the nuance, and the tough cases? AI is good at what it’s already good at - I predict we won’t see another order of magnitude improvement with all the current approaches.
by epicprogrammer | 2025-12-25 18:53:07+00:00
You got me. Yes, I am part of the Blankline team.

To clarify the confusion: D2 is the beta engine currently on our website. D3 is the new architecture in these papers. We developed D3 specifically to solve the context limits we hit with D2.

I posted these papers 'anonymously' because I wanted to see if the D3 research (specifically the Trajectory Vectors) stood on its own merit without the bias of a 'Show HN' launch. That was a mistake, and I apologize for the cloak and dagger.

The good news: We are officially releasing the D3 update tomorrow, as per our internal schedule. The papers were just the pre-read. You'll be able to test the 'Flash-Gated Consensus' yourself in 24 hours.
by neuro-os | 2025-12-25 18:53:53+00:00
Update: MultiLang‑ASM v0.3 released
Thanks for all the feedback.
This update brings a huge amount of progress:

• Full Quickstart guide (5‑minute kernel boot)
• Multilingual kernel examples (ES + 中文)
• Makefile + CMake integration
• 10‑page Wiki with Kernel Tutorial
• Reproducible examples in /examples/
• Cleaner structure and better onboarding

Repo: https://github.com/cyberenigma-lgtm/MultiLang-ASM
Quickstart: https://github.com/cyberenigma-lgtm/MultiLang-ASM/tree/main/...

If you want to see the full evolution, I’ve documented everything in the Wiki.
by beAbU | 2025-12-25 18:54:25+00:00
Very few people have the privilege of working in a field that is meaningful in the way you describe, and if you try to chase that you will probably set yourself up for disappointment.

Work for me is the thing I need to do so that I can afford the things I enjoy doing, such as hobbies, time with family, etc.

If your current job is absolutely soul crushing and terrible, by all means make a move. But more importantly, find the things you enjoy doing that's not work, and find the time to do those things.
by jemmyw | 2025-12-25 18:55:14+00:00
> They spend all of the their time between yard work

I do find it a tiny bit offensive the idea that kind of thing is boring because it's not your hobby. I live semi rural (not America) and gardening became a hobby, there are garden shows etc.

Everyone has the same amount of time to fill every day. When it comes to "things to do" I don't really see one optional lifestyle as more fulfilling or hollow than another. I could live in a city, which would open more options, more than I could possibly consume, but at the same time it would also constrain my resources so I wouldn't be able to do as much of one thing.. or have a big garden and a studio for painting.
by NotGMan | 2025-12-25 18:55:21+00:00
>> Ultimately, anecdotes are an unreliable way to determine potential benefits and harms with respect to health claims.

Really? So if some medical treatment is what potentially caused me harm, but big pharma doesn't want to do a study on it or didn't do it yet, and the doctors claim with utmost certaininty that the harm came from somewhere else always then I'm 100% wrong?

What happens when hundreds of people start reporting the same thing? Is that still anecdotal evidence because each individual N=1 is treated as independent, since they are not part of the medical establishment but Joe Average?

Is the fact that glyphosate is causing issues to humans anecdotal? It was for a long time, because those smart man of science kept dismissing it.

Now we know that glyphosate is potentially harmful to human gut bacteria since it acts as an antibiotic due to distrupting the Shikimate pathway in human gut bacteria. The long standing theory, by the "experts with studies" was that glyphosate cannot harm humans since humans don't have the Shikimate pathway. Alas, our gut bacteria do.

Despite all the ancedotal reports by people in the USA, who could not eat wheat-products in the USA due to having some strong reaction against them, but magicaly, when going to Europe, they were able to eat them.

How many decades of anecdotes and how many ruined lifes were needed to finaly convince the "smart men in science" that perhaps everything we know about glyhosate safety was actually wrong, despite having studies claiming it was safe?

Thanks god that more and more people see people like the author of this article as idiots, parts of the intelligista community. Midwit meme is the appropriate reponse to people like him.

It's only when the amount of anecdotes become overwhelming large that the "experts" are finally kicked in the face and forced to ackowledge their mistakes.

Not that it makes them any humbler. When the next time the same situation happens the story will repeat itself.
by jampa | 2025-12-25 18:55:43+00:00
After years of lurking, I made some posts this year here. Here is what my Google Analytics and Substack traffic from HN shows:

51% US

5% United Kingdom

4% Germany

3% Australia, Canada, India

The rest are primarily European countries, with Sweden, Denmark, France, and Spain leading the way.

* Most people here use ad blockers. I imagine this data is incomplete and would reflect the mobile portion of the users. I don't log IP addresses.
by Zacharias030 | 2025-12-25 18:56:03+00:00
I recently switched a bunch of friends from a project-oriented whatsapp chat to self-hosted mattermost, because I wanted permanent storage for messages and attachments, and threads, and did not want to pay slack in perpetuity.

I feel that this idea is now in jeopardy, if I understand the 10k message history is the limit correctly.

And there I thought I had a solution to slowly bring over project channels, family related things etc. that was as reliable as "my linux box will be reachable on the public internet" and I am willing to manage that it does.

Seems I was wrong, but I don't know which other software has better future proofing.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-12-25 18:56:31+00:00
I haven't seen any proposed attack vectors where they are insufficient primary defense when using SameSite Lax as long as you don't do any sensitive state change operations on non-mutative methods like GET.

I feel like people are just parroting the OWASP "they're just defense in depth!" line without understanding what the actual underlying vulnerabilities are, namely:

1. If you're performing a sensitive operation on a GET, you're in trouble. But I think that is a bigger problem and you shouldn't do that.

2. If a user is on a particularly old browser, but these days SameSite support has been out on all major browsers for nearly a decade so I think that point is moot.

The problem I have with the "it's just defense in depth" line is people don't really understand how it protects against any underlying vulnerabilities. In that case, CSRF tokens add complexity without actually making you any safer.

I'd be happy to learn why my thinking is incorrect, i.e. where there's a vulnerability lurking that I'm not thinking of if you use SameSite Lax and only perform state changes on mutable methods.
by chiefalchemist | 2025-12-25 18:56:41+00:00
> The focus is on what can be automated and what costs can be reduced. What often gets overlooked is the broader value a person brings through context, judgement, and the countless invisible contributions that support a thriving workplace.

Zoom out just a bit. It’s in the name: Human Resources.

The doorman fallacy is a what happens when humans are treated as something to be commoditized and optimized. It’s running head down directly into the embrace of the false god that there’s comfort and safety in fragile.

AI is being used to reduce and over-simplify because growth and expanding is difficult, less predictable, and ultimately more risky. However, being risk adverse will eventually increase risk.
by i_don_t_know | 2025-12-25 18:56:44+00:00
> Does it make sense to change direction at this point? I envy PhDs working on self-driving cars and rockets and AI.

You don’t need a PhD to work on rockets. Well, you might depending on what you want to do.

There are a lot of software opportunities at rocket companies from test systems, real-time measurements, operator interfaces, flight simulation, and various other internal supporting software.

You might be interested in and have the right experience for, for example, operator interfaces and various internal dashboards and database applications. That might be your entry into the field and you can try to branch out from there into other areas.
by Zacharias030 | 2025-12-25 18:56:47+00:00
I recently switched a bunch of friends from a project-oriented whatsapp chat to self-hosted mattermost, because I wanted permanent storage for messages and attachments, and threads, and did not want to pay slack in perpetuity.

I feel that this idea is now in jeopardy, if I understand the 10k message history is the limit correctly.

And there I thought I had a solution to slowly bring over project channels, family related things etc. that was as reliable as "my linux box will be reachable on the public internet" and I am willing to manage that it does.

Seems I was wrong, but I don't know which other software has better future proofing.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-25 18:57:00+00:00
That's something I've run into myself. I just recently finished the Enterprise Lego set, and it was fun to build... but I doubt if I will ever take it apart and rebuild it. There were 30 bags in that set, and I don't much fancy the prospect of trying to sift through all the pieces at once rebuilding the thing.