MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by machomaster | 2025-12-02 12:19:39+00:00
No. The original claim was "all the systems that subsidize health care for those less well off don't apply because you're wealthy. So you are bearing the full cost of extremely high quality health insurance in a western country.":

1. The quality is high.

2. The OP pays the full price.

1 is incorrect. The OP is paying a lot, but is getting the same subpar quality healthcare as everyone else. He differs with people without money in only one thing: the latter don't get the full access to the subpar health system. The system itself is the same and its general quality is well indicated by the core metric of the infant mortality.

The health system is subpar and there is absolutely no reason why such a system should cost that much.
by dcminter | 2025-12-02 12:19:57+00:00
I'm not claiming that there is no C or C++ out there. But it's such a nit pick when for most developers, no, their day-to-day work absolutely does not involve the creation of object files.

Sure, akshuwally, there are still C and C++ devs out there. Meanwhile a friend has just embarked upon a career as a pro COBOL developer. What of it?

Edit: Also, in the spirit of akshewally, I have just googled up this monster! My word, PHP and Java AND XML... it's like the unholy trinity of HackerNewsbane... https://php-java-bridge.sourceforge.net/pjb/
by kittikitti | 2025-12-02 12:20:07+00:00
This is a good article and although it does sound like yet another AI doomer piece, it at least tackled it from a unique perspective. AI winter is coming and it's going to be harsh for those who have never heard of an AI winter before the AI summer that started in 2017. This isn't a tulip-mania that's it's so often compared to. People find these concepts distilled down to one neuron and think they know what they're talking about. This AI winter is going to be harsh with economic catastrophes because of climate change and political instability. There might even be another nuclear scare. Will they blame AI for all their problems? Definitely.
by miningape | 2025-12-02 12:20:47+00:00
Loving this series! I'm currently implementing a z80 emulator (gameboy) and it's my first real introduction to CISC, and is really pushing my assembly / machine code skills - so having these blog posts coming from the "other direction" are really interesting and give me some good context.

I've implemented toy languages and bytecode compilers/vms before but seeing it from a professional perspective is just fascinating.

That being said it was totally unexpected to find out we can use "addresses" for addition on x86.
Show HN: Nexroo – From automation workflows to real products
by adriencloud | 2025-12-02 12:21:39+00:00
For the last 6+ months I’ve been building Nexroo, an automation platform focused on solving what I call the “last mile problem” of automation.

Most automation tools make it easy to build workflows (Zapier, n8n, etc.), but much harder to deliver them as something your users or clients can actually use. In real life, that “last kilometer” often turns into custom UIs, micro-SaaS wrappers, deployments, versioning, and lots of glue code.

Nexroo tries to fix that.

Build, Version, Ship anywhere with clean end-user experience
by lifestyleguru | 2025-12-02 12:22:09+00:00
Banks and fintechs turned really brazen with triggering invasive AML/KYC requests without any legal basis, even more invasive than tax offices. Nonchalantly freezing and locking funds and accounts. They oftentimes require the latest version of smartphone app working only on recent smartphones. I don't want my digital identity to depend on them.
by 0xEF | 2025-12-02 12:22:48+00:00
Running unlicensed versions of Windows has historically been pretty easy. Am I missing something with Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021?

With Windows 7, once the evaluation period ran out, you just had to deal with an annoying notification about your copy not being genuine, but it never stopped me from doing whatever I needed to do after installing it on dozens of machines over the years, at this point.
by aa-jv | 2025-12-02 12:23:29+00:00
While I agree with you that Germany doesn't have the intellectual prowess it once may have had, I don't think you can consider the Nobel prize a valid metric, personally. The Nobel prize has subverted itself many times over.

While German academia was rebuilding itself, American academia was chasing clout - one side effect being that the Nobel prize is more of a carnival attraction than an academic accomplishment.
by didgeoridoo | 2025-12-02 12:23:42+00:00
If I’m reading this correctly it sounds like it might a kind of beneficial graft-vs-host reaction?

The HIV-free transplanted immune system sees the original immune system as alien, and proceeds to wipe it out at the cellular level. This presumably takes the HIV with it, even if the new immune system is not itself resistant.

I guess this means that quiescent HIV is not at a stage in its lifecycle where it can reinfect cells if its host cell is destroyed. My hilarious mental model of infectious HIV virions floating inside a CD4+ T-cell like angry bees inside a balloon is clearly mistaken.
by jpfromlondon | 2025-12-02 12:23:55+00:00
I'm disappointed you went with FI, the L28 is wonderful, if I was you I'd be tempted to swap the EFI for carbs, I expect the carbs for the L's 24 and 26 would suit?

Any word on how much the Nismo head will be, the OS Giken one is absolutely eye-watering.
by billy99k | 2025-12-02 12:24:29+00:00
"Forcing people into working conditions in which they are uncomfortable is only going to harbour resentment towards the company and if you are in a country where workers actually have real rights you will have a hard time firing them."

They are forcing them back into the office, which was pretty much the norm pre-covid. Having hard to fire employees isn't a good thing for the company or the well-being of other employees, when dealing with a bad employee.

If you want to work from home forever, contract with a company, and put it in your contract. This is what I've done for over a decade now.
by movedx | 2025-12-02 12:26:36+00:00
You don’t learn in production. We’re talking about running production workloads here, not a localised lab. You can learn just fine locally with or without docker and other tooling that “eases” deployment of software. But when it comes to production it’s best to have a solid idea of what you’re doing and what a real production system requires.

Sadly, when people learn locally with “docker compose up” that becomes their baseline, their reality, and they believe everything else is taken of for them. Actually, you’re still running a process that’s bound to a network port (but with extra steps, because you used a container), and the entire ecosystem around that still needs to be secured.

That’s what’s been lost as of late :-(
by packet_parser | 2025-12-02 12:26:40+00:00
Location: Munich Remote: Yes (also hybrid in Munich) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Bash, Networking (many things; BGP, MPLS/SR/TE, EVPN, ISIS, QoS, PPP/L2TP, Multicast, and more), Docker & k8s, GitLab CI/CD Email: hncontact@pm.me

19 YOE designing, testing, building, operating, and automating networks. From tiny 3 PoP mini ISP networks, to thousands of PoPs and tens of thousands of devices, and multi-continent global routing; I’ve worked on a wide range of networks over the years. I attend and speak at conferences, engage in the IETF, and help to organise industry events.

Back in the days the automation side was all Perl/BASH/Expect, for the last 5 years it’s been all Python and Ansible. My spare time projects were in C, now I’m using Rust.

I’ve most recently been working on network architecture, BGP analysis, and product development, but I love all areas of networking. My current role requires that I be pulled in to help fighting operational fires almost constantly with no sign of improving, despite my efforts to improve things, I’m not adding value here any more so time to move on.
by rramadass | 2025-12-02 12:27:18+00:00
Keep digging the hole; it lets people see and realize your agenda.

To repeat myself;

All that you have posted are totally irrelevant to the topic under discussion. The only possible reason for it is if you have a personal instigatory agenda ...

That is exactly what a "troll"/anonymous coward" does. It is the accepted nomenclature in the Interwebs for such behaviour.
by pardon_me | 2025-12-02 12:27:53+00:00
This is the root of it. The control paired up with the current state of society.

Technological advancements in modern times appear to only benefit very few numbers of individuals. The 1960s excitement was a time when we imagined it would benefit everyone more from it--not necessarily equally, but at least life not getting worse! Now we just see ourselves being replaced and struggling more, with the "lucky" ones in precarious employment.

Whilst wealth inequality is already creeping towards record levels in the West, with potential wars are on the horizon, civil war being encouraged, and tech stocks appearing to be in a bubble alongside P/E ratios of corporate stocks at high levels like we saw before other financial disasters, it's hard for anyone to be excited about the near future.

A lot of our best science and technology emerged from bad intentions--war, accidents, control, private power struggles. A lot of our worst science and technology emerged from good intentions--charity, humanity, heroism, public works. It's a strange world. We have to contend with edge cases, the butterfly effect, and dynamic chaotic systems etc. These are some reasons for the potential "road to hell paved paved with good intentions".

The state of AI is unfortunately tragic to me. I've always loved, learned, used, designed, and then built technology. My life has largely revolved around it, and I'm witnessing another technological revolution. Yet the more I've learned about how humans use and control technology, the more I realized the truth:

Technology =/= progress.

We should all think extremely carefully about what we're contributing to. Progress is inevitable, but as designers, builders and preachers of the latest technologies, we have a small amount of power in society to help ensure resources cannot be secretly utilized against us. This small power is in our choice to use current offerings or encouraging others to, and whether we work for those who with to control us.
by debugnik | 2025-12-02 12:28:50+00:00
AFAIK Microsoft is not a Godot sponsor, if you mean in terms of money or time? The companies listed down in this page are Godot sponsors:

https://godotengine.org/donate/

As for advocacy, Microsoft's "Game development with .NET" page points first and foremost to Unity and their outdated, proprietary .NET toolchain; only by digging you get MonoGame/Godot/Stride listed. And if you dig for bindings, they'll first point you to a couple of open source DirectX bindings unmaintained for over 7 years.

I'd say they stopped caring about .NET specifically for game dev as soon as they abandoned XNA. Now they're doing the bare minimum that nets them Visual Studio licenses, which I'm not sure they care much about anymore after Copilot.
by dangus | 2025-12-02 12:29:05+00:00
OP needs to do some actual research on laptops before buying rather than just blindly buying used Lenovo and Dell systems.

Those brands aren’t really the end all be all like they used to be.

Based on the requirements that OP has I think they’d be really happy with a Framework system.

OP could also run Linux on the MacBook Pro M1 that they already own.

For laptop reviews, I’ve been enjoying Just Josh on YouTube, and he has a website associated with it. There’s also rtings.com

Another Lenovo model that’s getting acclaim as a solid premium laptop is the Lenovo X9 15 Aura Edition.
by piltdownman | 2025-12-02 12:30:41+00:00
Nice try.

In December 2024 Amnesty International denounced it as a Genocide, leading to Israel’s foreign ministry defaming the London-based group as a “deplorable and fanatical organisation”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/05/amnesty-intern...

Two prominent Israeli Humanitarian Organisations - B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel - identified it as Genocide in July 2025. Dr Guy Shalev, executive director of PHRI, said: "Silence in the face of genocide is not an option. We want to stress: confronting genocide is not only the responsibility of legal and political institutions. Confronting it demands urgent action from the global health community."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c776xkvz6vno

In September 2025, the world's leading association of genocide scholars, which includes a number of Holocaust experts (IAGS), has declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and that Israel's conduct meets the legal definition as laid out in the UN convention on genocide.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cde3eyzdr63o

In September 2025, the independent international commission of inquiry set up by the UN also concluded that “genocide is occurring in Gaza”. Legal analysis accused Israel of committing genocide in four out of five categories as defined by 1948 convention and cited ‘Direct evidence of genocidal intent’, saying that its offensive there has been waged “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/16/un-commission-...
by antonvs | 2025-12-02 12:30:56+00:00
Airbnb has ~$12 bn annual revenue, and is a counterexample to the idea that no companies can be "convinced to use DeepSeek".

The fact that it's customer service means it's dealing with text entered by customers, which has privacy and other consequences.

So no, it's not "pretty inconsequential". Many more companies fit a profile like that than whatever arbitrary criteria you might have in mind for "consequential".
by dijit | 2025-12-02 12:31:10+00:00
1) They’ve started again to crack down on black-market activation methods

https://windowsforum.com/threads/kms38-shut-down-windows-act...

2) It’s not legal, obviously. I’d always have a tinge of worry that if I join a Teams call or something then my employer is on the hook for me doing something naughty.

(given how Microsoft has decided to “upgrade” my local account to a Microsoft account before when logging in to outlook)
by Joker_vD | 2025-12-02 12:31:11+00:00
Honestly, x86 is not nearly as CISC as those go. It just has a somewhat developed addressing modes comparing to the utterly anemic "register plus constant offset" one, and you are allowed to fold some load-arithmetic-store combinations into a single instruction. But that's it, no double- or triple-indexing or anything like what VAXen had.

BINOP disp(rd1+rd2 shl #N), rs vs. SHL rTMP1, rd2, #N ADD rTMP1, rTMP1, rd1 LOAD rTMP2, disp(rTMP1) BINOP rTMP2, rTMP2, rs STORE disp(rTMP1), rTMP2

And all it really takes to support this is just adding a second (smaller) ALU on your chip to do addressing calculations.
by mcny | 2025-12-02 12:31:19+00:00
My assertion is much weaker and therefore much easier to defend — even if you agree with copyright, patents, trademarks, and so on, it is not to out advantage as individuals to support grouping them into one umbrella term as it muddies the waters.

Trademark and service marks are a whole different ball game from copyright. To group them together confuses everyone and is therefore only beneficial for those who wish to fish in troubled waters.
by myrmidon | 2025-12-02 12:31:44+00:00
This is a good point, but a lot of ressources have a fixed or limited supply (arguably all of them); if wealth inequality increases, the poor fraction of the population will have a harder time competing for those.

Consider urban housing as an example (specifically price development in terms of median income, and how the supply side reacts to wealth distribution by "overdelivering" luxury appartments from the average citizens point of view).

Increasing inequality is also problematic because it fosters rent-seeking behavior which is self-reinforcing (because this siphons income from the poor side of your distribution to the wealthy one).

It might well be better to be less wealthy in a society with lower spread.

You could also argue that most wealth right now is accumulated/grown by "extracting" a bit of the value from the work of others. Consider Valve (the game distribution platform) for a very obvious example: They make something around $50M per employee in revenue. Are their employees working ten times harder than average game developers (by literally any reasonable metric)? I'd argue that their company became very good at extracting value from the whole market, instead. Absurd wealth does not come from doing lots of work yourself, it comes from taking a little bit from lots of people.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-02 12:32:17+00:00
Not in a democracy where the population age histogram gets top heavy and the old vote themselves more and more of the young’s income, explicitly via taxes and implicitly via backstopping asset prices at the expense of the currency’s purchasing power (since wage increases lag asset price increases).

The old need a way to maintain a socioeconomic order where they can continue to get labor from the young, but demographics are going to make that harder and harder.
by chrismorgan | 2025-12-02 12:34:56+00:00
> the defaults advocated by letsencrypt are horrible

You’re completely misinterpreting the linked document. See what it says at the start:

> Most of the time, this validation is handled automatically by your ACME client, but if you need to make some more complex configuration decisions, it’s useful to know more about them. If you’re unsure, go with your client’s defaults or with HTTP-01.

This is absolutely the correct advice. For Micronaut, this will guide you to using TLS-ALPN-01, which is better than HTTP-01 if the software supports it. But for a user who doesn’t know what’s what, HTTP-01 is both the easiest and the most reliable, because, as they say, “It works with off-the-shelf web servers.” Typical web servers which don’t know about ACME themselves can be told “serve the contents of such-and-such a directory at /.well-known/acme-challenge/” which is enough to facilitate HTTP-01 through another client; but they don’t give you the TLS handshake control required to facilitate TLS-ALPN-01.
by zerosizedweasle | 2025-12-02 12:35:05+00:00
I don't know if you've seen the movie Elysium. But the premise is that most of humanity lives impoverished filthy existence on Earth, while a tiny class of elite live on a space station in orbit. This is what people in the United States fear about AI. It's why the United States has the greatest rates of AI loathing of all countries in the world. They're afraid of that inequality.
by nineteen999 | 2025-12-02 12:35:26+00:00
> Courts don't work by saying, "oh, but everyone is doing it! Not much we can do now."

No, but they do recognise when their case registrations are filling up in a way that they cannot possibly process and make adjustments. Courts do not have an infinite capacity.

There's a really simple solution that you may not have considered:

1) don't put your vibe-coded source code in a public git repo, keep it in a local one, with y'know, authentication in front of it;

2) regularly ask your agents to review the code for potential copyright infringements if you either want to release the source or compiled code to the public at any point.

As long as you've followed best practices, I can't see why this is really going to become an issue. Most copyright infringements need to start with Cease & Desist anyway or they'll be thrown out of court. The alleged offender has to be given the opportunity to make good.

So "Claude, we received a C&D for this section of code you stole from https://.../ , you need to make a unique implementation that does not breach their copyright".

You will be surprised how easily this can be resolved.
by mollusc-engine | 2025-12-02 12:36:04+00:00
> Courts don't work by saying, "oh, but everyone is doing it! Not much we can do now."

They kind of do. If you fail to bring legal action to guard your intellectual property, and there’s a pattern of you not guarding it, then in future cases this can be used against you when determining damages etc. Weakens your case.

Downvoting won’t make it untrue lol.
by pardon_me | 2025-12-02 12:36:08+00:00
I'm sure there are bots on here as much as astroturfing.

Partly is seems to be how quickly an article has comments leaning to one side or another. Once a few of these comments get off the ground, it's hard for voting on HN to reflect the discussion these days.

It does appear that more users from Reddit etc. are not just using HN these days, but commenting. The quality of posts and comments has definitely decreased, in line with the quality of content on blog posts decreasing.
by corimaith | 2025-12-02 12:36:52+00:00
>> they're more often than not held at a disadvantage by domestic governments

I think you misunderstood this. When domestic competitor arise against American tech, the domestic government tends to explicitly favour those competitor against American tech, placing the latter at an disadvantage.

You can see India or China or Korea or SEA where they have their own favored food delivery apps and internet services. Even in the EU the local LLM companies like Mistral are favored by local businesses for integration over OpenAI. Clearly American tech hasn't actually displaced serious domestic competitors, so the rare earths comparison fails when the USA in contrast is far more willing to let local businesses fail.
by rs186 | 2025-12-02 12:36:54+00:00
Microsoft is just relying on the feedback they collect from Windows Insider Program (a.k.a. program for volunteers beta testers) to fix bugs before a new version is released widely.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsinsider/

Once upon a time, you were able to get a free Windows 8 license if you join that program. And yes, when I was young and naive and couldn't care less about random things breaking, I joined the program, just like when I used to root Android phones and flash ROMs every other week.

(On the other hand, corporate IT almost certainly only roll out updates half or one year after they become available, when these bugs are likely already fixed.)
by viraptor | 2025-12-02 12:36:58+00:00
They are not alarming without some significant context. At the very minimum, what was the health status of the people who died? People at high risk of heart issues would be more likely affected. But also COVID itself causes heart inflammation, especially in young people, so the interesting ratio is really the chance of death from Covid vs chance of death from vaccine.

10 out of 96 can be either alarming or an amazing positive outcome. Without more context, it's not actionable and mostly irrelevant.
by HPsquared | 2025-12-02 12:37:10+00:00
Yes indeed, but they still use wings, fly in the air and so on.

Artificial neural networks have very little in common with real brains and have no structural or functional similarities besides "they process information, and they have things called neurons". They can perform some of the same tasks though, like how a quadcopter can perform some of the duties as a homing pigeon.
by kachapopopow | 2025-12-02 12:37:29+00:00
For anyone that does not want to switch to linux LTSC is a good alternative to avoid issues like these:

https://github.com/massgravel/massgrave.dev/blob/main/docs/w...

I recommend IoT Enterprise LTSC and you can use https://get.activated.win to activate it.

If you are using it in a business setting it's $30/month per license (there are unfortunately no non subscription licenses for windows 11 IoT).

Alternatively you can install AtlasOS and disable automatic updates and rely on maintaining a strong firewall or/and switching every application to run sandboxed using sandboxie for security. Take note that for an average person you can run without updates as long as your computing device never leaves your home and your local network / networks you trust, use external tool for driver updates.