MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lproven | 2025-12-08 11:17:42+00:00
> I have no experience with alternative C libs. Can you share some example issues?

No precompiled Linux stuff runs. No Chrome, no 3rd party Electron apps work unless specifically ported. For me, no Slack, no Panwriter, no Ferdium.

Flatpak works, sort of, with restrictions. Snap doesn't.
by davidsojevic | 2025-12-08 11:18:42+00:00
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by user34283 | 2025-12-08 11:18:55+00:00
From OP's post;

> you could send a billion dollars to anyone in the world in a few seconds. That belief is powerful and I still ascribe to it.

I'm sorry, but that just seems idiotic. Ever heard about anti-money laundering or KYC?

It is not desirable to send a billion dollars internationally "to anyone" within seconds, and certainly not without checks and irreversible. The core idea was fundamentally unrealistic from the very start.
by zimpenfish | 2025-12-08 11:19:48+00:00
I was going to say "the FediMeteo people probably have some good ideas there because it's what they do" except it's already right there in the acknowledgements (Stefano Marinelli => FediMeteo).

A good read - https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-...
by rixed | 2025-12-08 11:20:23+00:00
> Many people invest for ideological reasons, myself included, and that's fine.

Sure, but I'm under the assumption that many people, yourself included, are conflating "buying some company stocks" with "investing".

To first order approximation, it does not benefit a company that you trade stocks on the market once they have been emitted, any more than it benefits GM if you opt to buy a second hand chevrolet.

So the support is symbolic only.
by albert_roca | 2025-12-08 11:20:31+00:00
GEOMETRIC BASIS: 1^2 + 2^2 = (sqrt(5))^2 w = 2 (Structural Constant) δ = sqrt(5) (Dynamic Constant) GRAVITATIONAL HIERARCHY: r_p ≈ w * (m_P / m_p)^2 * r_s r_p = w^2 * (ħ / (m_p * c)) r_p = w^2 * ƛ_p r_p ≈ 8.41235 x 10^-16 m Experimental: 8.4075 (64) x 10^-16 m [CODATA 2022] Discrepancy: 577 ppm PROTON MAGNETIC MOMENT: g_p = (δ^2 / w) * δ g_p = 2.5 * sqrt(5) ≈ 5.590 Experimental: 5.58569 [CODATA 2022] Discrepancy: 802 ppm NEUTRON-PROTON MASS GAP: ∆m = m_e * ((δ^2 / w) + w^2 * α) ∆m ≈ 1.29241 MeV Experimental: 1.29333 MeV Discrepancy: 711 ppm COSMOLOGICAL RATIO: Ω_Λ / Ω_m = δ Ω_Λ / Ω_m = 2.2360 Experimental: 2.2144 [Planck 2018] Discrepancy: < 1% -------------------------------------------------- TOPOLOGICAL ORIGIN: In a D = 3 universe, Mass scales as Volume (L^3): Linear scaling (r): r ~ m^(1/3) Surface scaling (A): A ~ r^2 ~ m^(2/3) w = (Surface exp) / (Linear exp) = (2/3) / (1/3) = 2 NULL HYPOTHESIS CHECK: If D != 3 => w != 2 => Predictions fail. Empirical data validates D = 3 topology.
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-08 11:20:41+00:00
Try wearing a dress shirt and a suit. It's incredible and I totally see how people used to wear that for work. You can sweat for hours in it, it just doesn't smell. It also (mostly) doesn't become dirty beyond something you can wipe away. It's really comfy and you stand straight. I am kind of sad it is now weird to wear that. But it is cool to have something real comfy to wear for festive days.
by i_am_proteus | 2025-12-08 11:20:45+00:00
Yes, this is true. Realistically, a "charging station" for a ship this size would have a large pierside structure to transform/regulate, and a very large cable array that would probably be moved to the ship via a crane. The connectors would almost certainly require manual fitup and the operation would require several personnel.

(Similarly, refueling a ship is substantially more complicated than refueling an automobile.)

Maritime engineers and workers can get this job done.
by KellyCriterion | 2025-12-08 11:21:02+00:00
There was a great article in a German magazine some month ago, they are listing very detailled how cash tracking works and who is involved and which process step: https://netzpolitik.org/2025/reise-eines-zwannis-diese-gerae...

Its really interesting, feel free to use your favorite LLM to translate it :)
by eviks | 2025-12-08 11:21:17+00:00
You're right, unfortunately, don't have a good iced-specific list, so left it out, but here a few things: startup is blazingly slow (one of the big issues of all those awful electron apps which the native frameworks can supposedly avoid), https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/issues/2455 https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/issues/615.

Or high memory use, another fatal flaw of all those electron apps https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/issues/820

Or window can't be centered (while this is basic, it's in a bit of a blame-the-broken-Wayland niche https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/issues/1287)

Or lack of accessibility https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/issues/552

Or poor keybinding support (though in the case of iced I see it's somewhat improved in this release with some IME support and non-latin https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/pull/3134, so don't know exactly what's left broken)

The there are non-runtime issues like lack of documentation
by digi_wares | 2025-12-08 11:21:25+00:00
I built this because writing the same content differently for LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, etc. was taking too long.

Paste a URL → AI reads the page → Generates platform-specific posts.

Stack: Next.js, Claude API, Upstash Redis, Vercel.

Free to try (3 generations). Would love feedback on output quality.
by kypro | 2025-12-08 11:21:53+00:00
I'm kinda surprised at how many people I know who have gotten VPNs as a result.

Just a couple of weeks ago I was talking with a 12 year old in my family and he was showing me the free VPN apps him and his friends are using to get around the gov censorship.

Basically all my friends are using VPNs now too, but I suppose I have more tech literate friends so many that's less surprising.

But in general I get the sense if you're <50 and spend a decent amount of time online, you're probably using a VPN. It's kinda difficult to use the internet in the UK without one.
by pron | 2025-12-08 11:22:24+00:00
First, the number of projects still on 8 is low, and almost all of them are legacy projects with little to no evolution.

Second, modules' encapsulation is not what caused the migration difficulties from 8 to 9+, evidenced by the fact that it wasn't even turned on until JDK 16: https://openjdk.org/jeps/396. From JDK 9 through 15, all access remained the same as it was in 8. The reason a lot of stuff broke was the JDK 9 was the largest release ever, and it began changing internals after some years of stagnation. Many JDK 8 libraries had used those internals and had become dependent on them not changing - though there was no promise of backward compatibility - because there was no encapsulation.

Finally, the market clearly wants things like projects Loom and Panama and Valhalla, things that wouldn't have been possible without encapsulation (at least not without breaking programs that depend on internals over and over). It's like people complaining about the noise and dust that installing cable ducts causes and say, "nobody asked for this, we just asked for fast internet!"
by city17 | 2025-12-08 11:23:38+00:00
Lovable was able to one-shot it (except for the top margin): https://spacejam-pixel-perfect.lovable.app/

All I did was give Lovable a single prompt: "with pixel perfect accuracy recreate this website: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/"

Edit: Commenter below may be right.
by workfromspace | 2025-12-08 11:24:28+00:00
Wdym by custom filters?

Maybe that's what you ask: NextDNS has:

- 50+ blocklists ready to use (including Easylist, Adguard, HaGeZi, Energized). You enable the ones you wish to use

- Many privacy options you can enable, including Disguised Third-Party Trackers (TIP), CNAME flattening

- Many security options you can enable, including Cryptojacking, Google Safe Browsing, IDN Homograph attacks, Typosquatting, dynamic hostnames

- Ready-to-use application-based and category-based allowing/blocking

- Custom blocking options such as allowlists, denylists, blocking certain TLDs, custom rewrites

It also has:

- Option to "Bypass Age Verification"

- Option to keep logs (in EU, Swiss or US) or not

- Free to use up to 300,000 queries / month

- Multiple profiles for different clients

- Supports virtually all browsers and all OS, desktop and mobile, either via its official app, configuration profile (iOS), or IPv4, IPv6, DNS-over-TLS/QUIC, DNS-over-HTTPS
by komali2 | 2025-12-08 11:24:34+00:00
Yes! I've been thinking for a while that crypto/libertarianism borrows a lot of language from anarchist philosophy, but redirects that energy towards an environment that's even more capitalistic than our liberal democracies. Which is the opposite of the supposed values of these crypto libertarians, but because libertarianism is a schizophrenic ideology that tries to combine capitalism with anarchism, it of course goes the way of all libertarian projects and turns into a nightmare (at least this time there's no bears).
by komali2 | 2025-12-08 11:25:33+00:00
> Using a cryptocurrency (originally) meant basically opting out of the governmental violence-as-a-service for cryptocurrency/-token purposes and taking care of this aspect by yourself.

Cryptocurrency was a hidden blade. People were drawn in on the promise of avoiding the things they don't like about capitalism, but then cut by a more unregulated version of the same.

If you're going to dismantle all of the institutions of liberal democracy and capitalism so you can send a billion dollars to somebody, why not just go ahead and get rid of money while you're at it?
by paganel | 2025-12-08 11:27:19+00:00
You're turning the "poors" into slaves, into slaves to the Government that is keeping them (the "poors") on the Government's payroll. I'm not "mixing" anything, so if we can please leave that condescending tone behind that would be best.

> who are net recipients would stop complaining or voicing their opinion

Why? You're asking why the "poors" will have second thoughts about openly criticising the hand that, literally, feeds them?
by skepti2 | 2025-12-08 11:27:49+00:00
But Ada had for a number of years a mandate to require its usage [0]. That should have been an extreme competitive advantage. And even then, C++ is still used these days for some US military projects, like F-35. Though I don't know whether the F-35 is successful or not, if it is not, that could be an argument against C++.

Ada is almost non-existent outside its niche.

The main companies arguing for Ada appear to be the ones selling Ada services, meaning they have a horse in the race.

I barely have any experience at all with Ada. My main impression is that it, like C++, is very old.

[0]: https://www.militaryaerospace.com/communications/article/167...

> The Defense Department`s chief of computers, Emmett Paige Jr., is recommending a rescission of the DOD`s mandate to use the Ada programming language for real-time, mission-critical weapons and information systems.
by Fnoord | 2025-12-08 11:28:07+00:00
I knew someone who ran it with inittab about 3 decades ago, and I very much doubt they were the only one. Emacs could be used as a full-blown OS long ago. It just depends on your needs.

Also, the psychotherapist was one of a kind ;)

Personally, I could live with tmux or zellij as PID 1. Because from there I can do everything, except GUI. Might as well use Sway then to achieve virtually the same.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-12-08 11:28:41+00:00
I don't know what to tell you. We used 'Russians' and Soviets interchangeably during the Cold War, even if it was technically inaccurate.

I'm not sure if anyone remembers the song 'Russians' by Sting anymore, but that's a good example.

This is like someone correcting me for saying 'an LP' instead of 'a vinyl' despite my being an analog native :)
by amluto | 2025-12-08 11:29:49+00:00
With a secure enclave or an HSM, there's a secret, but the users do not have access to the secret. So, if you have a workflow that needs to, say, sign with a given private key, you would get an API that signs for you. If you need to open a TLS connection with a client certificate, you get a proxy that authenticates for you.

I suppose I would make an exception for license keys. Those have minimal blast radii if they leak.
by simonask | 2025-12-08 11:29:58+00:00
I'm no expert, but the narrative is that it really depends what you need them for. And keep in mind that joining the jet fighter programme also means joining the development of it, enacting a certain amount of influence through your funding. For example, it is conceivable that a sufficiently upgraded Gripen tailored to our needs would be just as effective (which aren't really dogfighting, as I understand it), and cheaper.

Anyway we're all just crossing our fingers that the US is just temporarily insane and will eventually come to its senses. What else can you do.
by FieryMechanic | 2025-12-08 11:30:38+00:00
> I fail to see how a warning doesn't achieve the same thing while allowing you to iterate faster.

In almost every code base I have worked with where warnings weren't compile errors, there were hundreds of warnings. Therefore it just best to set all warnings as errors and force people to correct them.

> Unless you're working with barbarians who commit code that complies with warnings to your repo and there is 0 discipline to stop them.

I work with a colleague that doesn't compile/run the code before putting up a MR. I informed my manager who did nothing about it after he did it several times (this was after I personally told him he needed to do it and it was unacceptable).

This BTW this happens more often than you would expect. I have read PRs and had to reject them because I read the code and they wouldn't have worked, so I know the person had never actually run the code.

I am quite a tidy programmers, but it difficult for people even to write commit messages that aren't just "fixed bugs".
by dsego | 2025-12-08 11:30:45+00:00
You can use single bin DFTs and not FFTs? Basically use precomputed twiddles for a specific frequency. FFT is only fast because it reuses operation across multiple frequencies, but if you need a specific frequency instead of the whole spectrum, then a single-bin DFT makese sense, right?

https://github.com/dsego/strobe-tuner/blob/main/core/dft.odi...
by Dilettante_ | 2025-12-08 11:30:54+00:00
I'm gonna first of all disagree with the notion that our entire democracy rests on control of the financial system, secondly point out that you seem to make some wild leaps about how decentralized currencies work, and thirdly ask how the hell you're getting the idea that early adopters would need to be "cashed out at a profit many times exceeding inflation"(Participation in the new system is the point of adopting it, how is this unclear).

Finally:

We, the people, make the rules.

If you truly believe that, you are (and I realize this is not the level of discourse I should strive for on HN) beyond redemption.
by kergonath | 2025-12-08 11:31:25+00:00
That is almost entirely backwards.

> For Flash vs iPhone case, it was indeed mostly politics.

It was politics in the sense that Flash was one of the worst cause of instability in Safari on OS X, and was terrible at managing performance and a big draw on battery life, all of which were deal breakers on the iPhone. This is fairly well documented.

> iPhone was released in 2007 and app store in 2008. iPhone and iPad did not support then popular Flash in their browsers.

There were very good reasons for that.

> Web apps were not a thing without Flash.

That is entirely, demonstrably false. There were plenty of web apps, and they were actually the recommended (and indeed the only one) way of getting apps onto iPhones before they scrambled to release the App Store.

> Flash ecosystem was the biggest competitor and threat for the App Store at that moment.

How could it be a competitor if it was not supported?

> iPhone users stopped complaining

It was not iPhones users who were complaining. It was Android users explaining us how prehistoric iPhones were for not supporting Flash. We were perfectly happy with our apps.

> and in 2011 Adobe stopped the development of mobile plugins.

Yeah. Without ever leaving beta status. Because it was unstable, had terrible performances, and drained batteries. Just what Jobs claimed as reasons not to support it.

> Adobe was in a unique position to dominate the apps era, but they failed spectacularly.

That much is true.

> Plugins were slow but this was mostly due to hardware at the time.

Then, how could native apps have much better performance on the same hardware, on both Android and iOS?
by ben_w | 2025-12-08 11:31:28+00:00
> If you feed it enough flat-earther content, as well a physics books, an LLM will happily tells you that the earth is flat, and explain you with lots of physics why it cannot be flat.

This is a terrible example, because it's what humans do as well. See religious, or indeed military, indoctrination. All propaganda is as effective as it is, because the same message keeps getting hammered in.

And not just that, common misconceptions abound everywhere and not just conspiracy theories, religion, and politics. My dad absolutely insisted that the water draining in toilets or sinks are meaningfully influenced by the Coriolis effect, used an example of one time he went to the equator and saw a demonstration of this on both sides of the equator. University education and lifetime career in STEM, should have been able to figure out from first principles why the Coriolis effect is exactly zero on the equator itself, didn't.

> A human will learn one or the other first, and once the initial learning is made, it will disregards all the evidence of the contrary, until maybe at some point it doesn't and switches side entirely.

We don't have any way to know what a human would do if they could read the entire internet, because we don't live long enough to try.

The only bet I'd make is that we'd be more competent than any AI doing the same, because we learn faster from fewer examples, but that's about it.

> LLMs don't have an inner representation of the world and as such they don't have an opinion about the world.

There is evidence that they do have some inner representation of the world, e.g.:

• https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02996

• https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18202
by nl | 2025-12-08 11:31:50+00:00
The reason Palantir is valued as highly is because it is a Peter Thiel company, and he also owns the Vice President of the United States.

The thesis is "The current US administration is making enormous profits from their powerful positions. Whether of not I agree with this, I want some of that money too".

I'm not sure why this isn't mentioned because it's the number one factor driving the price.
by epolanski | 2025-12-08 11:32:50+00:00
Private equity has rarely done good for investors too.

With the boom of popularity of ETFs in the last decades it has been increasingly hard for active fund managers to justify their costs by investing on public markets where benchmarks are visible and public.

Thus they removed themselves from the benchmark entirely and moved to private equity where there's no benchmark and returns are very hard to gauge.

Analysis shows that:

- The overwhelming majority of PEs lose money.

- Annualized return of PE in UK has been 2.1%, this doesn't even match parking money in short-term bonds.

- PE performance is extremely murky, as their gains are virtual and whether you exit profitably is heavily dependent on your timing

- The entire sector is ripe with corruption and little regulatory oversight. PEs keep ballooning their holdings valuations by essentially trading companies among themselves. So fund A sells Acme to to fund B at twice the valuation, and will return the favour by buying Foobar at inflated valuation. This all obviously requires access to cheap credit. Many startups are approached by PEs that have already lined up to sell the startup to another PE after few years guaranteeing everybody (from founders to all the PE managers) nice profits, up to the last sucker stuck with the bill.

The only ones that have profited out of PE, beyond the managers working there, are those that invested in the PE itself, meaning buying shares of the fund itself.
by tranq_cassowary | 2025-12-08 11:32:50+00:00
Doesn't really make sense in a conversation about security (the HN post was referencing security).

Traditional desktop OSes (Windows, MacOS, traditional Linux distros) are just at an entirely different level than modern mobile OSes (Android OSes, iOS) and ChromeOS. They also often run on less secure hardware, especially compared to a Pixel.
by massysett | 2025-12-08 11:33:07+00:00
Emacs says it is “self-documenting.”

Years ago it was remarkable for software to have docs built-in as Emacs does.

Then for many years it was standard for software to have help files, and it seemed anachronistic for Emacs to loudly proclaim it is self-documenting.

Now in the Web and LLM age, much software doesn’t even try to have built-in help or even much documentation, and it’s again remarkable that Emacs is self-documenting, especially the part of Emacs that users can program.
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-08 11:33:37+00:00
> as there are no containerized nuclear reactions that I know of.

Even if you built one, as some people have proposed designs, it doesn't get you nuclear reactors you can just stack up on a ship or something. Containerized reactors could be convenient for getting a reactor to a remote site where it's needed but once there you'll have to provide substantial shielding for it; usually the way this is meant to be done in these proposals is digging a big hole and/or putting up earthen berms around it. And those earthen berms will be subjected to a lot of neutron radiation, so you need a plan to deal with the site after you run this reactor for any substantial amount of time; the whole site will be radioactive.

There's really no getting around this, and most of the people pitching container-sized nuclear reactors are hoping investors don't realize it. The amount of shielding that you could ever hope to place in an ISO container isn't anywhere near enough.
by yunohn | 2025-12-08 11:34:10+00:00
Sorry, which web shops demand governmental ID? I have never had to provide them mine in any of the countries I’ve lived in.

If your concern is the webshop finding out your address, well I’m unsure how you solve this when you buy with crypto, but again ship to your home. If you have an alternative place to get it delivered for privacy, might as well do that with fiat transactions the same way.
by thrdbndndn | 2025-12-08 11:34:10+00:00
I won't "defend" Microsoft in this case, but I am always annoyed by phrases like "world's biggest billion-dollar businesses... bablah".

Their size or past misbehaviors shouldn't be relevant to this discussion. Bringing those up feels a bit like an ad hominem. Whether criticism is valid should depend entirely on how GitHub Actions actually works and how it compares to similar services.