MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by littlecranky67 | 2025-12-01 12:33:32+00:00
Cobi is more of a model-building company. Their brick-builds are meant to resemble the real-deal just as a plastic model would. Lego (especially Lego Technic) goes deliberately more for a brick-style appearance. Cobi thus creates a lot of custom molded parts to avoid the brick-style look and more of a real-world approximation. I don't think they market creativity, or B-models/custom builds with their products.
by kalleboo | 2025-12-01 12:33:38+00:00
FreeBSD users definitely seem to have taken over the mantle of OS evangelicals from Linux users.

I tried using FreeBSD for two different projects (NAS and router) and it turned out to be unsuitable for both, for each one switching to Linux solved the problem. Despite having solved my problems, the FreeBSD faithful seemed to think that using FreeBSD in itself was supposed to be the goal, not to solve the task at hand.
by js8 | 2025-12-01 12:33:50+00:00
It's a protofascist phrase, part of the problems we have is people adopting this worldview, that life has to be hard in order to create "good men". It's used to defend rightwing social darwinism.

If anything, history goes the other way around. Fascism ("strong men") comes from good times, as a reaction. They create authoritarianism and discrimination ("bad times"), which slowly liberalizes and equalizes (gives rise to "weak men"). This makes situation better until another fascist takeover.
by happymellon | 2025-12-01 12:34:00+00:00
This change? IMHO Yes.

It was coming anyway, and it could have been any event that triggered it. The right event at the right time?

But as others here mention, the powers that be are unhappy that the population isn't siding with their position. The government is fine with dissent against Russia because they are "the enemy" in the narrative.
by sgarland | 2025-12-01 12:34:50+00:00
Nobody does 4 until they’ve had multiple large incidents involving DBs, or the spend gets hilariously out of control.

Then they hire DBREs because they think DBA sounds antiquated, who then enter a hellscape of knowing exactly what the root issues are (poorly-designed schemata, unperformant queries, and applications without proper backoff and graceful degradation), and being utterly unable to convince management of this (“what if we switched to $SOME_DBAAS? That would fix it, right?”).
by keepamovin | 2025-12-01 12:35:07+00:00
Indeed, but historical nuance bears remembering here. The UK has been authoritarian for much of its history: the monarchy; sentencing to prison thousands of miles away to be slave labor for colony building for stealing a loaf of bread.

Even while Europe is "Pan Western" it's still heavily differentiated. As [REDACTED TO PREVENT REFLEXT DOWNVOTES] says, "US is the central pillar of Western civilization." This is true in the sense that it embodies values closest to the Western ideal.

This is one of those conversations that in 2025 entering will get you on a GB border control blacklist, so I'm going to shut up now.
by a3w | 2025-12-01 12:35:19+00:00
Right, but we did have efforts to take over hardware security enclaves to deliver user data, instead of copyrighted company data, to user devices.

Tim Berners-Lee tries to make the internet a place where you can choose, what it "forgets". At least that were the news I got from the 2010s and early 2020s. As for how: DRM-like tech in the hands of users should allow for that.

So having privacy by design would be nice, and e.g. many messengers try to do "it is inconvenient to copy a message that someone send you that is marked as view-only-once-or-up-to-a-timespan, but of course, you can use an external camera, i.e. make more low-fidelity copies or even exfiltrate data".

Even F/LOS software can use/would be forced to use these proprietary enclaves or at least non-user accessible key stores. (As far as I understand hardware level DRM.)
Ask HN: What's the current go-to for replacing Spotify's "Discover Weekly?"
by ramon156 | 2025-12-01 12:35:29+00:00
I already have a setup with feishin and downloading music (and in some situations buying it from Bandcamp), but I mostly still use Spotify for discovering artists.

It's pretty solid, I'd say ~50% of the songs in there get added to my liked songs every week. There's just so many awesome underground artists that get little to no recognition.

Question is, what would be a replacement? I haven't tried a lot, but when I was setting up one I got stuck pretty early on.
by aylmao | 2025-12-01 12:35:29+00:00
I too think AI is a bubble, and besides the way this recklessness could crash the US economy, there's many other points of criticism to what and how AI is being developed.

But I also understand this is a design and web development company. They're not refusing contracts to build AI that will take people's jobs, or violate copyright, or be used in weapons. They're refusing product marketing contracts; advertising websites, essentially.

This is similar to a bakery next to the OpenAI offices refusing to bake cakes for them. I'll respect the decision, sure, but it very much is an inconsequential self-inflicted wound. It's more amoral to fully pay your federal taxes if you live in the USA for example, considering a good chunk are ultimately used for war, the CIA, NSA, etc, but nobody judges an average US-resident for paying them.
by withinboredom | 2025-12-01 12:36:51+00:00
They didn't provide any accounting from facts. Did farms usage of nitrates increase? We don't know. Are there more or less farms? All we know is that they assert the datacenter now exists and since then nitrates have increased. It doesn't account for all the variables nor provide a likely explanation for how this could be true; it is only a possibility of many.
by foldr | 2025-12-01 12:37:01+00:00
Indeed. Really the last thing HN needs right now is another overheated, low information discussion about the UK. But for whatever reason UK-bashing seems to have caught the popular imagination in recent times. (There are plenty of negative things that can legitimately be said about the present state of the UK, to be clear, but this sort of low quality reporting shouldn’t be getting attention here.)
by hagbard_c | 2025-12-01 12:37:01+00:00
Nope, I do not want the UI to be tailored to left-handed people, I want it to abide by whatever standards there are so I know where to find whatever element I happen to need. I'll learn how to use the right-handed version because that is what I will be confronted with in this right-handed world. I'm in the minority and I don't expect the world to accommodate me. I'm left-handed and I will use whatever tools I can get my hands on to the fullest of my ability.

Accessibility is a different matter, not related to handedness - being left-handed is not considered to be a handicap. Adding accessibility features does not mean the team needs to include people with whatever handicap those features are tailored to though, they just need to gather enough input from people who need these features so they know what to implement. This does not mean the team should not include someone who happens to be blind (etc.), if that person is willing and able to contribute he's as welcome as anyone else.
by boxerab | 2025-12-01 12:38:11+00:00
the article remains laughable because it is biased agitprop quoting a single unpublished pre-print paper with no attempt to provide any counter arguments in favour of the site. Have you actually visited ? I took a look at the articles on white nationalism and National Socialism and found them quite informative. Nothing "hateful" that I could see.

Now visit the Wikipedia articles on "Drug Liberalization", Communism, Roe v Wade, abortion to see the left wing bias in favour of drug legalization, white-washing Stalin's crimes, against reversal of Roe v Wade, and in favour of abortion.
by baconbrand | 2025-12-01 12:38:58+00:00
It doesn’t imply any of that at all.

There certainly is a huge army of people ready to spout this sort of nonsense in response to anyone talking about doing anything.

Hard to know what percentage of these folks are trying to assuage their own guilt and what percentage are state actors. Russia and Israel are very chronically online, and it behooves us internet citizens to keep that in mind.
by b00g13bored | 2025-12-01 12:39:51+00:00
This Xennial cannot help but notice the zeitgeist mirrors the emotional abstract of the Reagan 80s.

See Roger and Me, Michael Moore's first film. Economic downturn, workers facing uncertainty as the already opulent thrive.

Coincidentally GenXers that would have come of age at the time are middle managers and decision makers in corporate land.

CEO that jacked up Epipen prices. Insurance CEO that got got. Musk and Thiel. The original emo Smashing Pumpkins generation that grew up in a cocaine fueled era of news full of desperation and despair. Easy for them to tolerate and accept then as their brains nursed on it.

Good luck getting them to feel bad: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/style/gen-x-generation-di...
by fidotron | 2025-12-01 12:39:53+00:00
The UK is speedrunning the fight to combat totalitarianism by becoming totalitarian. Of course the crucial difference between the groups, for now, is who gets to be the authority.

It really does feel like a hopeless situation. In one camp the woolly liberals being fuzzy as ever thinking if only everyone could sing happily together everything will be great (again?), and on the other those wanting to open pandora's box of fascist delights, without any sight of quite what is inside before you get to the bottom, somehow believing nothing in there will turn on them in the process.
by xtiansimon | 2025-12-01 12:40:04+00:00
> “…long championed democracy…”

Just occurred to me, before the free internet both dissemination of opinions and access was restricted. Now we have unprecedented access, and there are obvious strains and regression. Makes you wonder what we missed from the times before the internet.

To be sure, this legislation sounds draconian: “This expansive framing blurs the line between political dissent and subversive threat. Intent becomes a political judgement, inferred from beliefs, causes and associations rather than conduct.”
by JKCalhoun | 2025-12-01 12:40:26+00:00
Is the ChatGPT not Electron based? I ask because I often see something to the effect of "Electron crashed" come up on Mac OS. I feel like I've seen it when launching the MacOS ChatGPT app?

Anyway, generally it is nice on MacOS. If the text (chat) field has focus though I have to click twice for some reason in ChatGPT's responses to get to where I can select/copy text. Odd.

So, sure, it could be better (more native?).
by 8organicbits | 2025-12-01 12:40:51+00:00
CA compromise feels like an exotic attack, beyond what "everyday people and small businesses" should worry about. There's no solution to CA compromise offered because the intended audience is not getting hacked in that way. If your concern is that high risk individuals need different advice, I agree, but the letter also makes that clear they are not the focus.

Are there specific, modern examples of CA compromise being used to target low-risk individuals? Is that a common attack vector for low-risk individuals and small businesses?
by RickJWagner | 2025-12-01 12:41:19+00:00
It’s odd that you complain about untraceable transactions in Trumps favor, but hold Biden blameless in spite of amazingly obvious corruption.

The icing on the cake is Bidens conviction on tax evasion and gun charges ( against a Democrat! The irony is too rich ). Of course Joe Biden issued a pardon, so Hunter did not go to prison.

(1) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-guilty-verdict-tax...

Yet you see crimes only on one side. The crimes of the Biden family are invisible to you. How does your brain do it?
by jackfranklyn | 2025-12-01 12:41:28+00:00
Completely agree - it's essential complexity either way. The mutation approach just spreads it across time (when did this value change?), while the immutable approach spreads it across space (which step produced this value?).

The immutable version is probably easier to debug in practice since you can inspect each step's output independently. The "6 places" complaint was more about cognitive load during debugging than actual difficulty - you're jumping between files instead of scrolling through one. But that's a tooling/IDE problem, not an architecture one.
by nerdsniper | 2025-12-01 12:41:54+00:00
> No more spying issues.

This isn't possible. And this explains why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFw4F2AyaP4

We can only minimize the amount of extra information given to the client, not eliminate it. And at high enough skill levels, even 1-2ms of extra information will always be actionable, even by humans (not just bots).
by Almondsetat | 2025-12-01 12:42:19+00:00
>Tim Berners-Lee tries to make the internet a place where you can choose, what it "forgets". At least that were the news I got from the 2010s and early 2020s.

Tim Berners-Lee created the web, not the internet, which is what chat apps use. Also, unless you can provide some direct quotes about it being designed for "forgetting" stuff, I have no idea where these "news" you got came from.

>As for how: DRM-like tech in the hands of users should allow for that.

If it's in the hands of the users, i.e. open source, it can be disabled at any moment, which is exactly what my reply already addressed.
by stavarotti | 2025-12-01 12:42:24+00:00
An underrated and oft understated rule is always have backups, and if you're paranoid enough, backups of backups (I use Time Machine and Backblaze). There should be absolutely no reason why deleting files should be a catastrophic issue for anyone in this space. Perhaps you lose a couple of hours restoring files, but the response to that should be "Let me try a different approach". Yes, it's caveat emptor and all, but these companies should be emphasizing backups. Hell, it can be shovelware for the uninitiated but at least users will be reminded.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-12-01 12:42:52+00:00
lol i doubt it i've been f5'ing this cause i'm curious but i genuinely don't know. Prince Andrew? Jeffrey Epstein? Israel? Palestine? Hamas? Saudi Arabia? Quatar? Trump? Tories? Reform Party? Gurkhas? Rape Gangs? (I can't think of anything more...)
by mort96 | 2025-12-01 12:43:12+00:00
What I see in freedesktop is a loose association of people trying to make the best libre display server ecosystem they know how to make, and they've collectively come to the conclusion that they're able to make better software by starting from scratch than by patching away at the X11 code base from the 80s. And otherwise it's just a boring standardization committee for protocols.

It sounds like you're seeing something much more sinister for some reason, and I don't understand why.
by philipallstar | 2025-12-01 12:43:17+00:00
It can be, but that would be wrong.

In 1096AD, while the Mayans were plunging daggers into their sacrifices' chests, England was busy opening Oxford University. What sort of fool would think that somehow all the engineering and scientific advance that would allow England to reach around the world and establish an empire could possibly have been caused by that empire?
by blandflakes | 2025-12-01 12:43:29+00:00
I also work at a company that used to do a lot in Scala, and have seen the decline firsthand. Who's anecdata is better?

I think a lot of posters make the mistake of saying "$otherLanguage has it worse." That's irrelevant! If otherLanguage is an incumbent, they can afford to have it worse. I don't think it's debatable that sbt harmed adoption in the first place and continued to represent a barrier to Scala's adoption for years, and it doesn't matter how good maven is or isn't.

The degree to which is certainly always going to be up for debate; as mentioned before, there are many factors, but sbt was not a nonfactor.
by kasabali | 2025-12-01 12:43:39+00:00
Small but a crucial correction:

By XFree86, you meant X.org.

XFree86 was the first X11 implementation used by linux distributions from 90's and 00's. Then, in mid 2000's FreeDesktop guys forked it as X.org and convinced all linux distributions to switch to it.

...(now comes the rant part)...

...only to declare X11 as old and unmaintainable and announce Wayland just a few years later.

Also note that they twisted the situation very well to their benefit as part of Wayland's PR campaign saying "X11 developers are the ones who's developing Wayland", making people believe as if they've been developing it for decades even though they've been only working on X.org for the last few years. Unfortunately this myth still persists to this day. Whole Wayland thing was actually a textbook case of CADT [0] looked retrospectively but they fooled us all masterfully at the time.

[0] https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
by fidotron | 2025-12-01 12:43:44+00:00
> It’s ironic how the West has long championed democracy, demanded freedom of speech, and called for human rights from everyone.

What's really remarkable is how completely the illusion that this is what they were doing lasted in those countries. Some authority somewhere is cursing letting plebs on the Internet for destroying this.

Ask a latin american and see if they think that's what has been going on.
by supitsj | 2025-12-01 12:44:35+00:00
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by wowczarek | 2025-12-01 12:45:07+00:00
All hail the mighty Wombats!

The "completely drunk" comment made me chuckle, too familiar... poor choices, but good times!

This is more about OpenBSD, but worth mentioning that nicm of tmux fame also worked with us in the same little office, in a strange little town.

AJG also made some contributions to Postgres, and wrote a beautiful, full-featured web editor for BIND DNS records, which, sadly, faded along with him and was eventually lost to time along with his domain, tcpd.net, that has since expired and was taken over.
by viraptor | 2025-12-01 12:45:16+00:00
> Nope, I do not want the UI to be tailored to left-handed people

> I'm left-handed and I will use whatever tools I can get my hands on to the fullest of my ability.

I'm not sure I can get you to look beyond what you yourself can do, but try to consider these groups: older people who will not learn precise right hand movement anymore, people with temporary or permanent right hand injury, people with no right hand, people with missing right hand fingers, etc.

And consider what do you actually lose from your side if the UI can be tailored to dominant-left-hand usage.
by kortilla | 2025-12-01 12:46:18+00:00
Nope, SREs keep applications running on a platform. Lots of metrics, tools to deploy apps in whatever rollout process the company has, etc.

In small companies, sysadmin might be a duty of the SRE team, but they definitely diverge if you have a large on-prem deployment or work with bespoke VMs in the cloud.
by dijit | 2025-12-01 12:46:25+00:00
keep telling me my lived experience, please. I have no idea how I lived before you told me what happened in my live.

If there was discrimination it was because you didn’t contribute, or you opened the discussion. Doxxing in the 90s wasn't a meaningful risk, and social networks were small and largely isolated.

the condescension here is palpable. as if you know more? thanks for your sacrifice: enlightened one.
by muixoozie | 2025-12-01 12:46:33+00:00
Pretty sure I saw some comments saying it was too inconvenient. Frictionless experience.. Convenience will likely win out despite any insanity. It's like gravity. I can't even pretend to be above this. Even if one doesn't use these things to write code they are very useful in "read only mode" (here's to hoping that's more than a strongly worded system prompt) for greping code, researching what x does. How to do x. What do you think the intention of x was. Look through the git blame history blah blah. And here I am like that cop in Demolition Man 1993 asking a handheld computer for advice on how to arrest someone. We're living in a sci-fi future already. Question is how dystopian does this "progress" take us. Everyone using llms to off load any form of cognitive function? Can't talk to someone without it being as common place as checking your phone? Imagine if something like Neuralink works and becomes ubiquitous as phones. It's fun to think of all the ways Dystopian sci-fi was and might soon me right
by happymellon | 2025-12-01 12:48:16+00:00
Attack is a strong word for throwing a can of paint.

After the 2024 riots there were mass arrests and prosecution, but only talk about reviewing groups as to whether they should be proscribed.

Why does a member throwing a can of paint get you classed as a terrorist organisation, while organising riots that involve throwing molotov's and causing serious injury not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_riots
by blandflakes | 2025-12-01 12:48:19+00:00
It frankly doesn't matter in which markets C# isn't an option - if you're in one of those, well... then obviously don't consider C#. That doesn't somehow indict C# as a language which better makes it possible to write concurrent code. For a very large proportion of the population, you're picking a language and running some services on a cloud provider or machine you control.

The problem I'm citing in Java is not the performance, it's the semantics and having to explain what an InterruptedException is to every generation of programmers, including those who came before me. If you think virtual threads somehow do anything about what's difficult about concurrency on the JVM, we're talking on different wavelengths. Structured Concurrency is the TINIEST of baby steps and doesn't really do anything to change the experience, and it's only just now in preview, in the most recent LTS JVM? Hardly a solution.

It doesn't matter whether the JVM is developed with Kotlin in mind, as long as Kotlin continues to offer a better way to leverage what the JVM does have to offer. It's not some killer argument that Kotlin somehow can't be useful if the host platform isn't specifically developing their roadmap (especially because you can... just write Java, if you need it?).

Scala's demise likewise has nothing to do with whether the JVM is supporting Scala, and any suggestion that Java's language features have eliminated Scala's value proposition are similarly misplaced.