MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bpt3 | 2025-12-01 21:13:32+00:00
I said this elsewhere, but I would anecdotally agree as a landlord.

Everyone is paying for the costs to evict a non-paying tenant in jurisdictions where it can take 12+ months to regain control of a unit.

More friction = more costs, and more regulation = more friction.

I'm not advocating for gutting renter's rights either, but it's not a coincidence that the places with the highest rents also have the most protections for renters.
by int_19h | 2025-12-01 21:14:01+00:00
I remember reading an article that argued that it was basically a matter of being path dependent. The earliest steam engines that could do useful work were notoriously large and fuel-inefficient, which is why their first application was for pumps in coal mines - it effectively made the fuel problem moot and similarly their other limitations were not important in that context, while at the same time rising wages in UK made even those inefficient engines more affordable than manual labor. And then their use in that very narrow niche allowed them to be gradually improved to the point where they became suitable for other contexts as well.

But if that analogy holds, then LLM use in software development is the "new coal mines" where it will be perfected until it spills over into other areas. We're definitely not at the "Roman stage" anymore.
by ForceBru | 2025-12-01 21:14:02+00:00
When it's a competition among individual producers, we call it "a free market" and praise Hal Varian. When it's a competition among countries, it's suddenly threatening to "disrupt American AI markets and efforts". The obvious solution here is to pour money into LLM research too. Massive state funding -> provide SOTA models for free -> dominate the market -> reap the rewards (from the free models).
by saghm | 2025-12-01 21:14:11+00:00
From a quick search, it sounds like ACL metadata is stored in a way that's specific to NTFS. Given that Wine prefixes don't tend to have their own partitions, I'm guessing that if Wine supports them, they just store the info in a config file (similar to how the registry is implemented via text files stored in the root of the prefix) and then looks up accesses from there.

Wine probably isn't something you'd want to use if you're concerned about actually enforcing full Windows security rules. Even if you were able to enforce access to files when executing within Wine itself, the wine prefix will still usually just be a bunch of 644-permissioned files sitting on a Linux filesystem that can get used like any other; the entire wine prefix is just a regular directory with regular files from the external perspective of the wider system, and nothing stops anyone from doing whatever they want that they could do to any other file with the same permissions.
by replwoacause | 2025-12-01 21:14:36+00:00
I'm afraid of what the future will look like 10+ years down the line after we've gutted humans from the workforce and replaced them with AI. Companies are going to be more faceless than they've ever been. Nobody will be accountable, you won't be able to talk to anyone with a pulse to figure out a problem (that's already hard enough). And we'll be living in a vibe coded nightmare governed by executives who were sold on the promise of a better bottom line due to nixing salaries/benefits/etc.
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-01 21:14:39+00:00
It's also important to keep in mind that reforming the US healthcare + insurance system was always going to be an evolutionary, multi-stage process, because of its complexity.

You shouldn't change all the parts in an engine to different specifications at the same time.

The ACA therefore blended structural improvements (insurer admin cost caps, standardized benefits, no prior condition exclusions, guaranteed access, etc.) with lubrication (individual mandate) in an effort to move the whole morass forward.

The worst part about the ACA is that neither party tried to pass ACA Pt 2, that went further. (And yes! That could have been a Republican effort too!)

The previous system was broken. The current system is less broken. It's possible to create an even less broken future system.

The real ridiculousness is anyone campaigning on status quo and/or 'it's impossible to improve things.'
by stevenwoo | 2025-12-01 21:15:19+00:00
I sympathize and was in the same situation albeit a much easier market in hindsight. I came to Bay Area in 1999 and after finally facing the reality of the market after a couple of years, bit the bullet and bought something. The prices were/are so outrageous compared to my former residence in Austin the sticker shock and hyper competitive real estate market at the low end - every SFH I could comfortably afford was going to require significant amount of work to make palatable to someone who did not want the inside aesthetic of the 1950-1970s and still each had multiple bids, with cash bids above asking with no inspection always winning, I imagine this has only gotten worse at entry level with the elevation in total compensation for certain fields.
by lisbbb | 2025-12-01 21:15:23+00:00
I hate it when Trump or whoever touts all the jobs created because I'm sure most of those jobs are of the low-wage variety and aren't really helping anyone. It doesn't matter if a bunch of part-time, crap jobs get created while high paying roles are headed to India or just disappearing.

The government does nothing but lie to our faces.

As far as housing goes, if we do managed to deport 20 million non-citizens, that should at least help some. Oh yeah, yeah, it's so inhumane to disinvite all those folks whom the NGOs and mega-church charities took advantage of and trafficked here. Every one of those people had dollar signs on their backs for someone else. Now we have an affordability crisis caused by government fiat printing and these never-ending scams moving people around the globe. Good times.
by ok_dad | 2025-12-01 21:15:42+00:00
Yea, that's one game that's more fun to watch than play I will admit, so mostly I'm a "pro rust watcher with over 300 hours watching rust" (this is a bit of an in-joke, sorry) who sees the annoyance and lack of fun people have when they get destroyed by cheaters. I did play one wipe, and spent 25 hours over 3 days in the game, so I chose to quit right there instead of doing that on a regular basis.
by StealthyStart | 2025-12-01 21:15:46+00:00
This is the real cause. At the enterprise level, trust outweighs cost. My company hires agencies and consultants who provide the same advice as our internal team; this is not to imply that our internal team is incorrect; rather, there is credibility that if something goes wrong, the decision consequences can be shifted, and there is a reason why companies continue to hire the same four consulting firms. It's trust, whether it's real or perceived.
by 6510 | 2025-12-01 21:15:58+00:00
Similarly, if you told people in the 80's that it would be the opposite in the future no one would believe it either.

Not even the developers are very technical in the future!

Woah, really? And they still manage to write good software?

Of course not, if good software would be standing next to their bed at 4 am they would scream who are you what are you doing here? help! help! Someone, make it go away!
by jawns | 2025-12-01 21:16:39+00:00
The headline makes it seem like every role in the company needs to switch to full-time in-office.

But anyone who was hired in a remote role is exempt.

This order only applies to in-office workers with assigned desks.

He's basically saying that they can't expect to have a hybrid work schedule, although not so strict that they can't ever work from home.
by cowboyscott | 2025-12-01 21:16:45+00:00
> the change applies to employees in US offices with assigned desks and is part of a broader push to make Instagram "more nimble and creative" as competition intensifies.

I don't think RTO or fewer meetings is going to reverse or even slow Instagram's slide down the enshittification chute. I recently returned to the app to connect with some friends and local communities, but the density of ads and dark patterns is pushing me away. IMO Instagram and Facebook in their twilight (which will still last another decade or so), where the path forward has more to due with extracting the remaining value from their existing users rather than outcompeting the alternatives.
by jrm4 | 2025-12-01 21:17:13+00:00
Right, but lets keep that analogy going, it's a good one.

One can envision perhaps a future where, e.g. the majority of people (everywhere) don't drive cars because of public transport + Waymos.

In that world, issues surrounding "humans driving" take on a completely different flavor and relevance. Safety matters less, preferences of interfaces can matter more, etc. etc.

And I suppose it feels like the programming equivalent is around the corner, if not already here.
by ViktorKuz | 2025-12-01 21:17:24+00:00
More and more developers are switching to local LLMs - and the 1 reason is simple: security. Your data never leaves your machine. Zero risk of leaks. Meanwhile, we’ve seen dozens of high-profile incidents with cloud providers dumping private chats and prompts in the last 12–18 months alone. And you still have to pay premium for that “privilege”. At the same time, modern local models are basically on par with cloud ones. Qwen2.5-14B, Llama-3.1-70B Q4, or even 32B-class models now run on consumer hardware and deliver quality that’s within a few ELO points of GPT-4o-mini or Claude-3.5-Haiku — often beating them on specific tasks. This isn’t about “Chinese models suddenly winning”. This is about the future belonging to local optimization: quantization, speculative decoding, CPU offloading, MoE on a single GPU, etc. When you own the entire stack, you get speed + privacy + cost that no cloud provider can ever match. The tide has turned.
by devnavigator | 2025-12-01 21:17:32+00:00
This 3D rendition shows how modern web applications can integrate Agentic AI directly within their architecture to enable intelligent, goal-driven behavior. The AI Agent sits between the backend and data layers, dynamically interpreting user intent, retrieving relevant information from databases or vector stores, and reasoning with large language models to generate contextual responses or automate tasks. This embedded design allows the application to go beyond static rule-based logic, making it adaptive, conversational, and capable of autonomous decision support across the entire web stack.
by Intralexical | 2025-12-01 21:17:43+00:00
"Google's magic calculator" was probably just a wrapper to GNU Units [0], which produces:

$ units You have: (1073741823/(600/inch))**2 / A4paper You want: Definition: 3.312752e+10

Equivalent tools: Qalc, Numbat

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36994418
by rossaaron | 2025-12-01 21:17:49+00:00
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by SilverElfin | 2025-12-01 21:18:33+00:00
It’s not just the use against protest groups but selective use of it, that makes this extra bad. From the article:

> The risk is magnified by the racist and colonial legacy of Britain’s intelligence and policing institutions, whereby ‘loyalties’ and ‘foreign influence’ are racially coded terms. It is clear who the state thinks may constitute an agent of ‘foreign power’. Hall acknowledges the risk of “putting certain nationalities under the spotlight or appearing to question their loyalties”, but this is brushed over by the alleged extraordinary threat of national security risk.

This type of abuse of powers is already becoming normalized in America. For example, Governor Abbott of Texas and other politicians from right-leaning states have explicitly condemned Sharia Law and Islam, and are taking various actions to marginalize those communities. The recent incident with an Afghan national has further radicalized the right.

I can see how Sharia Law has no place in a democratic constitutional republic, but Christianity shares many of the same issues as Islam in terms of supremacist tendencies. And many on the right have no issue openly claiming that America is a Christian nation, and advocate for puritanical integration of their religion into law. This gets no condemnation from the right, and I doubt they’ll use their powers to stop the push for theocracy.
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by int_19h | 2025-12-01 21:18:55+00:00
Yes, the time-honored strategy of keeping the poi holloi fed and entertained just enough to prevent riot, but not anymore.

Long-term, it usually fails because the elites become too greedy and too complacent because they haven't seen what a large scale riot looks like, and try to squeeze too much. Then things blow up somewhere and there's a mad scramble to prevent it elsewhere by making concessions (witness all the improvements in labor rights in the West after the Russian revolution).
by dtdynasty | 2025-12-01 21:19:09+00:00
For some games like dota 2 cheats only make them marginally better at the game but much more frustrating to play against. The most common cheats are map hacks and instant action scripts both of which can be useless without the game knowledge for correct play. But both of these cheats make playing against them frustrating but they wouldn't rise to the top.
Show HN: My pushback against ANPR carparks in the UK
by keooodev | 2025-12-01 21:19:09+00:00
In my area I have 8 ANPR car parks within a 10 min radius that are free to park in, but you need to remember to enter your registration plate if not you are hit with a £70+ fine. This is easy to forget for older people. People who are with the kids. ect ectt. so I have made an app that sends a push notification after you enter one.Its free. I will add pro features in the future to keep it alive and server costs. Im in the process of populating the car parks but users can still add there own in the local area if they want
by nrhrjrjrjtntbt | 2025-12-01 21:19:11+00:00
Can you drop more info here on how it works. Before we go through sign up process.

Sounds quite easy to come up with such tasks. E.g. prove collatz conjecture. or write an O(log N) worst case sort. So there must be some boundaries.

The pay clearly isnt by hour so how is it worked out?
by Gys | 2025-12-01 21:19:43+00:00
> Testimonies/memories/personal experience can certainly secure a conviction in a human court of law.

I am certain that if I go to the police blaming someone of something bad then even if my story is very very detailed, without any other (!) evidence the other person will not be convicted.

> Where we draw the line?

By requiring more evidence :) Just as an example: it is funny that despite camera’s being ubiquitous nowadays, all video evidence of aliens, big foot, ghosts, etc is very limited and always vague.
by richardgill88 | 2025-12-01 21:20:11+00:00
https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/ is a great guide to Nix with Flakes.

This was the Nix config that helped it 'click' for me: https://github.com/eh8/chenglab that mentions this guide.

I based my own config off of it https://github.com/richardgill/nix
by jlokier | 2025-12-01 21:20:25+00:00
> $1700 per month pays off a $350k loan in 17 years, does it not?

No, it does not. You forgot the interest. Let's call it 6%, close to the current US average.

The interest by itself comes to more than $1700 a month!

Paying $1700 per month, you'll never pay off $350k, even with a 1000 year mortgage.

To pay in 17 years, you'd need to pay $2741 (plus fees) per month. Most of that will be interest at first, but it tapers down. If you want to start out not paying mostly interest, you'll need to pay at least $3500 (plus fees) per month.
by epolanski | 2025-12-01 21:20:29+00:00
React is a mess, Ivy league engineers building messy, slow, sloppy, inaccessible, full of memory leak websites should be a clear sign this is not a technology that fits most use cases.

In react's devs defense, they've said multiple times you should not use it if yours is a website and not really really an app on html, but people keep thinking their website is different and keep producing abominations like the new GitHub.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-01 21:20:45+00:00
> This is using open source in a bit of different spirit than the hacker ethos, and I am not sure how I feel about it.

It's a bit early to have any sort of feelings about it, isn't it? You're speaking in absolutes, but none of this is necessarily 100% true as we don't know their intentions. And judging a group of individuals intention based on what their country seems to want, from the lens of a foreign country, usually doesn't land you with the right interpretation.
by RankingMember | 2025-12-01 21:21:14+00:00
> I don't think RTO or fewer meetings is going to reverse or even slow Instagram's slide down the enshittification chute.

In my view it's been well down that chute since shortly after its acquisition by Facebook. Facebook bought them as a hedge as young people left the FB platform and, for a time, it's worked to keep users under the Meta umbrella, but as with everything Zucc touches, the end-user experience has been in a state of steady degradation.
by 0xWTF | 2025-12-01 21:21:58+00:00
Children do the same thing intuitively: parents continually complain that their children don't listen to them. But as soon as someone else tells them to "cover their nose", "chew with their mouth closed", "don't run with scissors", whatever, they listen and integrate that guidance into their behavior. What's harder to observe is all the external guidance they get that they don't integrate until their parents tell them. It's internal vs external validation.
by Const-me | 2025-12-01 21:22:28+00:00
I find WSL 1 incredibly useful. C++ and .NET compiler toolchains, ssh and scp clients, and many other command-line Linux tools are working flawlessly for me despite the fake emulated kernel lacking some of the APIs. When I develop anything related to Linux be it embedded or servers, I use WSL1 a lot.

I find WSL2 pretty much useless. When I want Linux inside a VM I use VMware which is just better. VMware has tree of snapshots to rollback disk state, hardware accelerated 3D graphics (limited though, I think only GL is there no Vulkan, but it’s better than nothing), can attach complete USB devices to the guest OS, can setup proper virtual networks with multiple VMs, and the GUI to do all that is decent, no command line required.
by renewiltord | 2025-12-01 21:22:41+00:00
These things are more a factor of aggregate risk handling. As an example, if you have tuberculosis it is possible even in the US for the country to mandate that a doctor watch you take the treatment. Totalitarian? Authoritarian? A tool that could be used to force someone to have to show up to where a state-controlled authority could confirm that they are? Yes, all of these things could be words you could assign to that.

But societal combined risk is commonly handled in this way. In the US, if you employ someone you have to report that you paid them to a central federal government. Way to track someone? Surveillance state? All words you could use.

And the government previously restricted gambling and so on. The question isn't "why would a bad government do these things?". The question is "would a benevolent government do these things?" and "if so, why?". And the answer is quite straightforward, I think:

Someone in the government has observed that there is a great deal of cyber crime in India. A fairly uneducated population, with very high smart-phone penetration (85%+ apparently), and a large number of fraudulent actors that their federal government is unable to enforce against. So they're attempting to attack the problem where they can.

This is ultimately India. They don't need insidious "app on your phone" / stingray / any other sophisticated solution. The local politicians can manipulate local authorities to get your cell tower association data and SMS. And if they want your comms devices they will rubber-hose the secrets out of you.

Someone I know worked at a big FAANG. He's Indian so went back to Bangalore to see his ailing mother. One day he took an auto-rickshaw while wearing his FAANG sweatshirt. The driver took him to a makeshift jail where he, police officers, and a magistrate conspired to threaten the guy with prison unless he paid $10k. $10k is nothing to a FAANG engineer, so he paid up, was brought in front of court on some lesser charges and then had to pay a small fine (much less than $10k). And then he flew back to the West Coast and never returned to India. Trying to reason about this kind of place using the perspective of the West is meaningless.

I think it unlikely they're trying to use this as cyber-surveillance. India simply does not have the infrastructure necessary to do that at scale. And they have the infrastructure for the rubber-hose, and Indians wear their identification on their sleeve, so to speak. Names point to ethnic groups and castes. Primarily endogamous marriage means if you want to perform violence against groups you can simply spread out from one member of the family unit being visibly of that group.

Using an app to get access to someone's data there is sort of like using Heartbleed to get root on a machine on which you are in /etc/sudoers with NOPASSWD.
by k12sosse | 2025-12-01 21:22:41+00:00
In Canada meta pushed back (by not letting you link to or summarize recognized free press news sites) due to laws designed to encourage sharing revenue with news organizations for copying their content and posting it without their consent. The result has been a total vacuum of truth, and the platform is literally a anti-vax, agarthan racists wet dream when you open it up as a new user. It's ripe for replacement. I can't believe it's lasted this long.
by folkhack | 2025-12-01 21:22:46+00:00
Yep! And, I send that exact message/email all the time in good faith. But, even with that - if someone just wants to talk, trying to nail them down on a topic can be _seen_ as obstructive, even though it's productive. Unfortunately, lots of people who schedule meetings just want to talk with not much outcome.

I'm being pedantic, but my experienced inverse of these slides is that meetings are the "social" part of work. It really really depends on the company, the leadership, the people. But, sometimes - it's more in your professional interest to talk about + market the work vs. actually doing it.

Ultimately, we agree :)