MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by troupo | 2025-12-28 18:57:08+00:00
> But Linux definitely isn't "just as bad" as MacOS, it's already better

Is this better Linux in the room with us [1]?

My main gaming computer used to be Windows until this year when Windows has gone completely to shit. So first I ran Omarchy for a few months, and now running CachyOS because it's better for gaming.

Yeah... Even with things going to shit MacOS is still a better proposition (at least I have a working sleep and restore, and the OS remembers which windows need to be open next time you restart/go out of sleep, and in which locations). Though I haven't upgraded to Liquid Ass yet.

[1] Let's count the number of "oh, you chose the wrong distribution" and count the number of different Distirbutions people will come up with that are 100% guaranteed to not have issues.
by bobnarizes | 2025-12-28 18:57:16+00:00
Building https://floxtop.com, a native Mac app that organizes your files.

It looks inside each file to see what it’s about, then moves it to the right folder for you.

Everything happens on your Mac, so nothing leaves your computer. No clouds, no servers.

It works in 50 languages (including English, German, French, Spanish, Swedish) and with images (OCR and object recognition), PDFs, Microsoft Office, ePubs, text, Markdown, and many other file types.

For messy folders anywhere on the Mac, Floxtop can help.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-12-28 18:58:16+00:00
> I like Nick Shirley, and I don't think he does bad faith reporting.

This seems to be where we're at then. Is your position that the specifics of Shirley's activities (reported by Reuters) are

1) things that did happen or
2) things that didn't happen?

Reuters ref: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pro-trump-influencers-fire-...

I'm not big on gotchas btw. I'm obvious with my intent because it's productive.

Disclosure that I am a recovering conservative.
by yunnpp | 2025-12-28 18:58:50+00:00
The website has come a long way, a good reminder for Santa to drop a donation.

Computer graphics needs more open education for sure. Traditional techniques are sealed in old books you have to go out of your way and find; Sergei Savchenko's "3D Graphics Programming Games and Beyond" is a good one. New techniques are often behind proprietary gates, with shallow papers and slides that only give a hint of how things may work. Graphics APIs, especially modern ones, make things more confusing than they need to be too. I think writing software rasterizers and ray tracers is a good starting point; forget GPUs exist.

Also, slight tangent, but there doesn't seem to be any contact method here other than Discord, which I find to be an immediate turn-off. Last time I checked, it required a phone number.

The donations page could use a link directly from the homepage too.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-12-28 18:59:04+00:00
> Windows is horrible and Linux is just as bad

I will civilly contradict you about both MW11 and about Linux.

MW11 is rather good for usability. The failures at this point are the egregious telemetry, the spyware misfeatures (e.g. Recall), and the AI slop being squeezed into everything including Notepad for pity's sake.

Linux with Wayland is sweet. Gnome and KDE now use Wayland by default and they are celebrated for their usability. I personally have taken a leaner approach by opting for Sway (tiled) and labwc (floating) depending on the current task.

TL;dr _ Get with the times, Linux is great. Windows UX is actually rather good, but the leadership of MSFT continues to be ghoulish.
by BeetleB | 2025-12-28 18:59:21+00:00
I have a love/hate relationship with deathbed advice.

I still go around quoting: No one at their deathbed says "Man, I wish I had spent more time at the office!"

On the flip side, I've noticed the older one is, the longer their list is of "things that don't matter." (e.g. Don't focus so much on wealth, career, etc). It was years before I realized that I've encountered very old people who say "None of it matters", and that perhaps they are not giving sage advice, but are merely changing preferences as they age.
by shimman | 2025-12-28 18:59:43+00:00
Weird comment, I'm a web dev that has been using react for 10+ years and I prefer using native browser features whenever possible. I'd honestly avoid hiring framework specific devs because the skills required are never about just one single framework.

Also this is just all JS + HTML here, let's not act like it's impossible to learn the most popular frontend tool at the moment.
by tombert | 2025-12-28 19:00:27+00:00
I had the 2019 Macbook Pro i9, so I think a function to determine thermal throttling could be written very simply:

function isThermalThrottling() {
return true;
}

Seriously, I loved that computer for the most part but I was a little annoyed that I paid a lot of money for the i9 CPU just to get worse performance than the i7.
by ulrashida | 2025-12-28 19:00:36+00:00
Feels like people on their deathbed are allowed to express their thoughts, trite/trivial or not. When you are literally dying the last thing on your mind should be whether some blogger deems your thoughts valuable or cheap.

May we all get to enjoy those final moments free of the need to perform on stage and express those things we truly wish to pass on to those will hear them.
by itishappy | 2025-12-28 19:01:16+00:00
I don't think they assume our emissions trend from the last 50 years will continue unabated.

Regardless, after digging into it a bit to find a better source for you, it turns out that my number was wrong anyway. Turns out the sea level rise for the contiguous US is expected to be quite a bit higher than the global average. I had no idea!
by nozzlegear | 2025-12-28 19:01:31+00:00
> I think this update is finally ending that for some people.

For some people in the HN social sphere, maybe. My sisters have had iPhones since they were first released in the naughties. They used to make fun of me for using Android and then Windows Phones (I'm on iOS now). The notion that my sisters would ever switch over to Android is risable; they don't care about phones "making advances" or having "security commitments." They care about iMessage, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat.

There are no other phones that are not iPhones for them. The blue/green gap is real.
by jasode | 2025-12-28 19:01:47+00:00
Fyi... this blog article also mentions another article, "The Deathbed Fallacy".

HN discussed that a few months ago and the most upvoted commenter happened to have a terminal illness and disagreed with some of it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43944467

He recently passed away a few months ago in August 2025. That's one of the few HN threads I bookmarked because I agreed with what he wrote.
by spwa4 | 2025-12-28 19:01:55+00:00
Unless Palantir has code that overrides US laws (the US CLOUD act specifically), they are a US company and there is zero protection from anyone in the US that has (secret or not) subpoena power. Yes, secret subpoena power exists. That includes the NSA, Congress, police, investigative judges, US youth services (yes, really), state legislatures of all states, including some territories, the White House and thus Trump, the list goes on and on and on and on.

Including organizations like NSA and CIA that have already shown they use these powers, classify everything secret, while lying about it even to the US Congress.
by mobile_hive | 2025-12-28 19:02:12+00:00
I designed this HIVE CENTRAL in 10 minutes on my mobile – no team, no funding, no laptop.

This is just a small demo of one of my many designs. This is working code, running on Termux.

AI builders and safety researchers who are spending billions, holding conferences, and writing papers – listen up:

You may have been doing PhDs on alignment for years, but you couldn't imagine the architecture I designed in 10 minutes while traveling on a bus.

And yes, those who call AI "dangerous" – I've built a protective shield that surpasses even your imagination. That armor is so advanced that even a superintelligent AI can be put inside it, but it can't get out or take control.

This HIVE CENTRAL is just a demo.

I don't write code. I'm an extreme-level designer and architect. The code is simply a translation of my blueprint.

Full code in the link. Run it, understand it, then tell us how you feel.

Only serious people should reply – don't waste time.

– mobile_hive

Maine mobile pe 10 minute mein ye HIVE CENTRAL design kiya – no team, no funding, no laptop.

Ye sirf ek chhota demo hai mere kai designs mein se. Working code hai, Termux pe chala hua.

AI builders aur safety researchers jo billions kharch kar rahe ho, conferences kar rahe ho, papers likh rahe ho – sun lo:

Tum log years se alignment pe PhD kar rahe ho, lekin wo architecture nahi soch paaye jo maine bus mein travel karte hue 10 minute mein design kar diya.

Aur haan, AI "dangerous" bolne waale log – main ek suraksha kawach bana chuka hoon jo tumhari kalpanase bhi aage ki cheez hai. Wo kawach itna advanced hai ki superintelligent AI bhi andar daal do, bahar nahi nikal sakta, control nahi cheen sakta.

Ye HIVE CENTRAL uska sirf demo hai.

Main code nahi likhta. Main extreme level ka designer aur architect hoon. Code to bas translation hai mere blueprint ka.

Full code link mein. Run karo, samjho, phir batao kya feel hua.

Serious log hi reply karein – time waste mat karo.

– mobile_hive
by lordnacho | 2025-12-28 19:02:18+00:00
The cynic in me thinks that people on their deathbed are about as well considered as people are in general: if you ask most people about some ordinary thing, and life regrets are indeed such a thing, they will give you a canned response that is the zeitgeist regurgitated, and they can't explain why they think what they think, or any related opinions they might have thought instead.

Of course nowadays we have memes to help us completely avoid thinking at all. Ask someone what is best in life, and see how far you get!

Only rarely does one get a considered response. That would be a response that

1) Acknowledges existing thought on the issue. "Socrates mentions regret..." "The mongols thought the open steppe was very important for the good life"

2) Adds personal experience. This can be totally banal, since we don't all live exceptional lives. "I met a girl at the bakery in 1975..." But being banal doesn't mean you can't use the experience to reflect on what regrets actually are, and whether you agree with some POV.

With someone on their deathbed I guess it can be a bit jarring to subject them to the full Oxford tutorial grilling, so I can understand why it can end up being a bit bland.
by nabla9 | 2025-12-28 19:03:45+00:00
What a crazy clickbait title way to write an article.

The news: Data centers are installing gas turbines to generate electricity from natural gas.

Jet engines are gas turbines. Power generators and jet engines of certain size are just different variations of the same turbine. They can burn jet fuel or natural gas with just light tuning.

For example:

Pratt & Whitney FT4 is aero-derivative from Pratt & Whitney J75/JT4 turbojet.

Rolls-Royce Marine Olympus gas turbine used by many marine vessels is aero-derivative from Rolls-Royce Olympus (Concorde, Aero Vulcan).
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-12-28 19:03:49+00:00
I'm not the biggest fan of Liquid Glass, but I regularly use Android via single-use tablets and dev test devices and I think I dislike Material 3 Expressive even more. M3E feels weirdly awkward and unrefined and it's a struggle to come up with a color scheme that looks right. It would be a constant irritation if Android were my daily driver.
by fweimer | 2025-12-28 19:04:27+00:00
Note that those 13.1 TFLOPs are FP64, which isn't supported natively on the MacBook GPU. On the other hand, local/per-node memory bandwidth is significantly higher on the MacBook. (Apparently, SGI Altix only had 8.5 to 12.8 GB/s.) Total memory bandwidth on larger Altix systems was of course much higher due to the ridiculous node count. Access to remote memory on other nodes could be quite slow because it had to go through multiple router hops.
by misiti3780 | 2025-12-28 19:04:40+00:00
Dwarkesh - AI + some history

Lex = AI + some history

Dishcast - politics + books

Sam Harris - everything

All In - tech news

Tyler Cowen - random good shows

Pirate Wires - news (coming back I heard)

Joe Rogan - famous interesting guests at least once a month

Ben Shapiro - if you want to hear the opposite of what you're reading in the NYT (Surgey Brin approved)
Show HN: A simple, open-source screen-time manager for Windows parents
by spamsch | 2025-12-28 19:05:06+00:00
I built a small open-source app to help parents manage screen time on Windows. My kid needed screen time control but I did not want to use Google Link or create a separate child account or install some software. I wanted something local, simple, and transparent.

This tool allows parents to:

- Define allowed screen-time windows
- Automatically lock the session when time is up
- Run entirely locally (no cloud, no account, no installation required)
- Be controlled via Telegram

It’s written as a lightweight Windows app and is intentionally minimal. The goal was reliability and clarity rather than feature depth.

Happy to answer any questions. Contributions welcome.
by LexiMax | 2025-12-28 19:05:42+00:00
> Here, I would argue that we can effectively prove that hanging indentation is vastly more parallel to natural language than braces.

I see where you're coming from. However, I would counter that in the use cases you've shown, as well as all of the use cases I've seen in the real world, there are important differences between them and Python.

1. Hanging indentation is most often used in things that are small in scope, where you can easily see both the start and the end of the list. Python blocks can grow without bound.

2. Hanging indentation in real life doesn't require perfect alignment. Python does.
by healsdata | 2025-12-28 19:05:51+00:00
I really enjoyed the "Michael Hobbes Podcast Universe" this year. He's a reporter who is now making entertaining podcasts debunking claims in the media/zeitgeist. I appreciate that he takes a pragmatic approach -- to paraphrase something he said: "There's probably an impact on kids having so much screen time, but this data you're citing doesn't show what you're claiming."

If Books Could Kill: https://www.ifbookspod.com

Maintenance Phase: https://www.maintenancephase.com

You're Wrong About: https://yourewrongabout.com (Hobbes retired from this one around Oct 2021)

There's a similar podcast where he's also made an appearance:

In Bed With The Right: https://open.spotify.com/show/7JirL3UVKjyy5MTy8PouHh
by desmoulins | 2025-12-28 19:06:36+00:00
This is really interesting, from what the first part describes, the design and operation of "factory 404" has a lot in common with similar facilities built in the US and Russia. The US built the Hanford/Richland site in the desert of eastern Washington, and Russia built Mayak/Ozyorsk in an isolated part of the Urals. They're all versions of this project to build a self-contained 'utopia' city in the wilderness, dedicated to secret work on nuclear technology. There's also the same social tension between highly skilled workers, transient unskilled workers, and the military/political leadership. (For anyone interested, Plutopia by Kate Brown is a good read on the subject)

I wonder if this site in the Gobi ended up having the same problems with radioactive contamination from accidents and unethical experiments that Hanford and Mayak had?
by FarmerPotato | 2025-12-28 19:07:50+00:00
The LLM flipped from “scorched earth” to “ bad governing” as the sofa faded from its context window.

The metaphor says maybe “extreme cleanliness is like war”, second pass war is bad governing…

Don’t engage with it.

At this point, you’re arguing with an LLM, not a coherent storyteller. The events your question refers to have been downgraded in the context window.

It’s like the game of twenty questions where the LLM doesn’t have a persistent secret object, it’s just simulating consistency.
by Spivak | 2025-12-28 19:07:50+00:00
> Run postgres on a $5 VPS and have everybody accept it as single-point-of-failure

Oh how times have changed. Yes, maybe run two $5 VPSs behind a load balancer for HA so you can patch and then put a CDN in front of it to serve the repository content globally to everyone. Sign the packages cryptographically so you can invite people in your community to become mirrors.

How do people think PyPI, RubyGems, CPAN, Maven Central, or distro Packages work?
by Tiktaalik | 2025-12-28 19:07:54+00:00
I'm essentially parroting the (settled and not at all controversial) consensus view of the urban design profession so there's no real end of citation.

Though there are few clear cut real world examples to point to because land use is one of the most highly politicized things and it is rarely exposed to real market forces.

It's a great thing to have arguments about because whenever you can point some examples, people will always nitpick at why it's not real (eg. Tokyo is affordable and dense thanks to low regulation and the market, but people will point at the relatively poor Japanese economy etc).

But from basic geometric principles it makes sense that automobile oriented infrastructure is ultimately unsustainable and more expensive because of the constraints of the real world.

Ultimately the issue one runs into is that a car is a box several feet wide by several feet long (6.7x17.4) for an F150. That's a lot of space both parked and on the road. So if everyone buys one (and largely drives around themselves) it's clear that one quickly fills up the size of the road. The cost of expanding roads is very expensive, disruptive, and occasionally impossible. And then it doesn't even really work in remarkably improving traffic because due to Induced Demand, it reprices driving cheaper, which encourages more people to drive, which refills the road again. Everyone's time is being wasted sitting in these large boxes that cost tens of thousands of dollars.

So the core problem is that cars are enormously space inefficient. The system simply doesn't scale and eventually reaches break down.

You simply have to give up and can't grow the city any further. So you have to push people out to other cities.

But if we think of moving people instead of cars, there's a lot more space efficient opportunities since people are very small.

So you look at things like a bicycle, whose costs are relatively near nil, a protected bike lane that is also effectively near nil (put some jersey barriers on an existing road) and you can move that same person for much less. Obviously the problem is that they can't go very far but a combination of different modes for different uses and you have a system that can actually scale.

Build compact mixed use neighbourhoods that one can walk and bike to for local needs, buses for inter neighbourhood, and trains for intra and inter city long distance travel.

Only with this approach can you can continue to scale a city and continue to have a large city that is functional.
by mpyne | 2025-12-28 19:07:55+00:00
OK, you live in the one and only city in the entire USA that is dense enough to make the subway a better option.

I live in the DC area which has an excellent Metrorail system, and it is still nowhere near close enough to being able to replace the average trip by car unless you in DC proper.

Now imagine how much worse things would be in Houston.
by senfiaj | 2025-12-28 19:09:13+00:00
Yes, HTML & CSS alone won't replace JS. Of course, for complicated form validation HTML is not sufficient. But IMHO it's very important to provide basic functionality in HTML / CSS as much as possible / reasonable. Moving the functionality to HTML / CSS can potentially improve the SEO.

As for positioning, there is an experimental feature @position-try. Here I made a small demo where it handles overflows.

https://waspdev.com/articles/2025-06-29/css-features-web-dev...

But yeah, that's kind of limited if you need nice animations or some other complicated thing. Although it's fun.
by gaigalas | 2025-12-28 19:10:08+00:00
If I see a human copying me, I know for a fact at least one person was impacted by what I do. Even if that person never acknowledges me publicly, or forgets I even exist, I know for a fact that what I did meant something.

Scrapers gobble everything up. Good, bad, memorable, non-memorable. Doesn't matter. I don't know, maybe one day I'll make a small piece of code that changes how an AI behaves (profoundly, by being in the training data, not superficially when used in the prompt). However, that hasn't happened yet. I also think it's unlikely to happen.

I know this isn't what you were going for, but it's good enough for this discussion to estabilish a critical difference. I don't even have to touch consciousness or anything like that to argue within those lines.
by BiraIgnacio | 2025-12-28 19:10:19+00:00
The best ones I've discovered in 2025 - not necessarily the best ever

The David Frum Show - https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/the-david-frum-show/
Overthink - https://overthinkpodcast.com/
Singletrack - https://www.youtube.com/c/SingletrackPodcast
The Glenn Show - https://glennloury.substack.com/podcast
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-28 19:10:57+00:00
I'm not sure I'd call our current geopolitical status stable in any way. Multiple major wars, historic superpowers losing their absolute minds, fascism rising, even discontent in the EU.

This is an artifact of the instability of our current times. USD reserves are falling because the US is no longer a stable country offering a stable currency. Plus we keep demanding more tarriffs in effect reducing the real value of a US dollar.

Stability would appear as more confidence in USD, not less.
by sersi | 2025-12-28 19:11:00+00:00
Oh the fact that there has been some positives from the cultural revolution (by having educated people sent to the farm and rural area) doesn't stop the fact that the cultural revolution was a net negative for the country. How many works of arts have been destroyed due to it? How many people suffered?
Nothing is ever white or black but it doesn't mean that we can take a small positive outcome and use that to justify atrocities.
by robwwilliams | 2025-12-28 19:11:00+00:00
Agreed. In my opinion, too much strange embodied experience in this engaged and engaging Part 1.

If I told you stories from my childhood as an 10-year old child of an undercover operative in West Germany in 1962-1963 I think many would claim “fiction”. If I did not have my sister as an independent memory backup, even I might have doubts. She was lucky and unlucky and had a big brother.
by underlipton | 2025-12-28 19:11:04+00:00
Neither of those are topics that are particularly complex, though.

And I realize that I'm taking the bait, but it's worth noting that the flip-side of the oversimplification of complex topics in modern news media is the affordance of notions of complexity to issues that are fairly cut-and-dry, when applying known and well-accepted standards to them. Solving housing issues in the US? Complex, though news media would have you believe that the answer is simply, "Build more." Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza? Simple, though biased experts spend enormous amounts of energy spinning extant circumstances that are readily accounted for in most definitions of genocide. Tariffs? Very well understood. Ending Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Apparently a bit more difficult than flooding the country with weapons and finger-wagging at Vladimir Putin until he stops being bad.

Note also that this isn't predicated on the existence or non-existence of social media as an influential force. It's simply a matter of whether or not the corporate and political interests that steer public discourse find it useful to complicate or simplify a news story.