MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AjaxTheCoder | 2025-12-02 00:15:25+00:00
Hey HN, I'm excited to share NerdSearch—a search engine I built that's specifically geared toward gamers and game designers.

After getting frustrated with general search results when looking up documentation for Godot, Unity, or a quick cheat code, I decided to build my own. Our goal is to surface the most relevant power-ups, cheat codes, epic loot, and dev docs quickly.

Core Features & Why We Built It: For the Game Dev: We are tuning our results to prioritize documentation, tutorials, and community discussions relevant to game development engines (like Godot, which is already a top search term on our platform!)

For the Gamer: Get quick access to cheat codes, walkthroughs, and news from gaming sites.

Transparency: We keep our stats public! You can literally see what people are searching for (yes, including the weird stuff).

Safety: We've recently enabled Safe Search, so you can filter out adult content if you want to keep your search squeaky clean.

The Fun Part (Try This!): Since the name is NerdSearch, we had to include an Easter egg. If you type the Konami Code (↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A) anywhere on the page, the site glitches out into a neon-drenched "nerd haven" mode, complete with a celebratory achievement!

We're in the early stages and actively crawling and tuning our results. We'd love to hear your feedback on the user experience and, more importantly, the relevance of the search results for your gaming and development queries.

What do you think? Try searching for your favorite cheat code or a Godot tutorial and let us know!
by protocolture | 2025-12-02 00:15:39+00:00
A few things:

My G11 carbon is tolerable, but I did have a motherboard replacement in mine mid cycle. Known issue with charging just giving up. I like my carbon, but its a lot of money.

I have a gen 1 carbon, a gen 7 carbon and a gen 11. I still think the G1 was best in a lot of silos. The keyboard especially.

The G11 is performing better than the G7 overall, the G7 had the shittiest case so far.

Recently did an analysis on price/performance across Dell, Lenovo and Surface for a customer, and the Lenovos came out at best quality but not price competitive. This was before EOFY however and vendor pricing might have turned over. I also got the impression that both Dell and Lenovo were halfway through launching new product lines, and certain features were only available in either new or old, not both.

The Dell Pro line of laptops seems quite bad, having deployed several. Seems like they are trying to take Latitude and split it into Bad and Worse categories. Cant praise a single thing on it, case feels worse, screens worse, everything just got soggier. But it has an Ultra sticker on it so YMMV.
by kenjackson | 2025-12-02 00:15:43+00:00
This is very impressive. That said, 1st person shooters seem like the less interesting type of game to create with an LLM nowadays. I'd much rather see a large world mystery game, for example. Think something like "All Her Fault", where you're the mom and you show up to pick up your kid and the game starts there -- and you need to find your kid. I would fine a game like that something that we probably couldn't do well w/o AI, but now, I think it might be doable.
by bsimpson | 2025-12-02 00:16:11+00:00
I didn't know there was a new version of Remix distinct from React Router until I read this post. I thought React Router v7 was Remix merging back in, and that the Remix brand was dead.

If they're looking to have a Remix v3 distinct from React Router, they probably shouldn't have

> The latest version of Remix is now React Router v7

at the top of all their docs.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-02 00:17:31+00:00
With $85/month service (AT&T unlimited premium with only a single line) and financing a $2,000 phone (The smaller storage version of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 at MSRP) over 18 months, you’d hit almost exactly that; you could so the same with a cheaper service and/or phone with some add-ons (e.g., while Apple Care is billed directly by Apple and so wouldn't be on a phone bill, insurance for non-Apple phones is often billed by carriers on phone bills.)
by 0x1ch | 2025-12-02 00:18:13+00:00
> Apple's HomePods ... for many years. I could write a blog of interesting Pod behavior. I thought having one or a pair in each room would be nice. No, more of them is not nice. Constant bizarreness.

Yeah, these have quite the DIY / Jailbreak following I've noticed. They look like neat little devices for music and HA stuff, but I've read similar stuff to your comment.
by samuelknight | 2025-12-02 00:18:37+00:00
My startup builds agents for penetration testing, and this is the bet we have been making for over a year when models started getting good at coding. There was a huge jump in capability from Sonnet 4 to Sonnet 4.5. We are still internally testing Opus 4.5, which is the first version of Opus priced low enough to use in production. It's very clever and we are re-designing our benchmark systems because it's saturating the test cases.
by keybored | 2025-12-02 00:18:37+00:00
Why are people in the (presumed) West particularly afraid of the propaganda of a Middle Eastern country? Is the intelligence/propaganda unit there so good that they can program minds from a different continent better than Western oligarchs? This has got “Russia stole American democracy with millions worth of FB ads” vibes to it.

But if there is an easy technical implement to avoid some propaganda then good on them I guess. Why not. One less thing to worry about.
by squidsoup | 2025-12-02 00:19:12+00:00
Relay (and hence GraphQL) does solve some problems that have no immediate solution with REST - over/under fetching (data masking, fragment colocation in components) and automatic cache normalisation, but they are mostly problems you would only have at scale with disconnected frontend teams working on a product. The typesafety you get from a compiler and an automatically generated schema is nice too.
by throw4847285 | 2025-12-02 00:20:17+00:00
I have a feeling, though I lack proof, that opinions about meetings are strongly correlated with temperament. Specifically, extraversion as defined in the Big Five. I suspect that people low on extraversion are overrepresented on this site, and those people tend to hate meetings most.

To be clear, I think the reason why temperament is important is that if you put a gun to everybody's head, they actually agree on the ideal type of meeting, though they will quibble about the details. The amount of quibbling reveals that the real issue is more emotional than practical. Some people, by nature have a much higher tolerance for imperfect meetings, and even enjoy an unstructured conversation to recharge their social battery. Some people very much do not, and are correct that this is a waste of their time, and if they don't get anything out of it, they shouldn't have to take part.

I'm in the camp where I don't mind meetings at all, but I can be empathetic to people who hate them. Plus, Zoom meetings feel like methadone anyway. Real in-person conversation feels both better and more productive, but don't let the bosses hear me say that. They don't need any more ammo for forced RTO.

Anyway, somebody should do a study.
by Chris_Newton | 2025-12-02 00:20:22+00:00
I can only speak anecdotally, so it’s entirely possible that I’ve just been unlucky with this particular box, but I’ve seen a few quite serious issues going back over the past few years since I switched to NixOS as my primary OS.

Not so long ago there was some sort of problem with Hydra builds for a recent version of Node. That seemed to result in trying to build the whole thing locally on every update, taking a huge amount of time and then typically failing there as well.

I’ve seen things with Nvidia drivers vs Linux kernel versions as well. We did have a specific reason for choosing Nvidia for that particular workstation, but otherwise, I’d agree with popular advice to get AMD if you’re building a Linux box, just based on the frequency and severity of Nvidia driver issues we’ve seen here.

I’ve seen a few issues with Ubuntu upgrades over the years as well, and wouldn’t necessarily rate that much higher for stability. That’s always surprised me because IME Debian Stable is the gold standard — something I’ve trusted with our production servers for well over a decade now, from unattended upgrades to several major new releases, and barely seen a flicker of a hint of anything breaking in all that time. To be fair, I haven’t used Debian much on workstations, so I don’t know whether the kinds of issues I’ve experienced with NixOS and Ubuntu would have been more common if I had.
by hedora | 2025-12-02 00:20:33+00:00
Desktop Linux kind of peaked 20-25 years ago with Debian. Ubuntu was a win for a few years after that, but it’s been a long slow slide since.

FWIW, Devuan is good enough to keep me from switching to a BSD, but I guess the vandals that work at the big corporate distros are starting to delete X11 support from applications even though Wayland still hasn’t hit feature parity.

On the bright side, the last time I tried it, steam ran OK in a FreeBSD vm, except the VM had no video accelerator. That’s the main application keeping me on Linux.
by sfRattan | 2025-12-02 00:21:38+00:00
Until the last few years, most features added to software I use haven't:

...had functionally nondeterminstic, unpredictable results in response to how I use them.

...written in long-form English text with confidence and no guarantee of factual accuracy.

...coaxed children into codependent pseudo-relationships with ML models or encouraged suicide.

AI isn't a new feature; it's a new category. And the people who don't understand why some of us don't want it everywhere don't understand that distinction, or else are financially motivated to ignore it and gaslight everyone about the categorical boundaries crossed.

I use LLMs and diffusion style image generators... Where I understand the model I've chosen, can control it locally, and have enough tacit knowledge to double check the outputs before I go ahead with something. I don't trust Mozilla to ensure any of those things anymore. They've long since burned that credibility.
by rsync | 2025-12-02 00:21:44+00:00
"Healthcare shouldn't be a market. That's why you're paying $40k."

I see your drill down to fundamental issues and I raise you:

Pregnancy is not a sickness. Hospitals are for sick people.

If we reserved hospital birth for women and children with actual medical problems we would allocate resources much more judiciously.

An added benefit: not exposing otherwise healthy (and capable) women to an almost universally disempowering and disenfranchising birth-industrial-complex that seems designed to engender fear, self-doubt and pathological outcomes.
by jeeeb | 2025-12-02 00:21:52+00:00
Superannuation is not a tax. It’s a compulsory retirement saving/investment scheme.

However to calculate total income taxes you do need to include the 15% tax on superannuation contributions.

If your pre-tax take home salary is $100k AUD, then your total salary package is 111.5k including the 11.5% compulsory employer superannuation contribution.

You’ll pay regular income taxes + 2% Medicare levy on $100k and your $11.5k super contribution will be taxed at 15%.

So your total income tax including the Medicare levy (but assuming you don’t pay the Medicare surcharge or claim any deductions) will be $24,513. Giving an effective tax rate of 20.2%

There are no state or local income taxes in Australia so that’s it for personal income taxes. However states do charge payroll tax on most companies payroll (e.g. 4.85% on annual payroll over $1M in the state of Victoria for companies in the Melbourne metro area).
by williamDafoe | 2025-12-02 00:22:11+00:00
I'm had 15 months of daily usage (8+ hours per day) of an Asus S16 and it's been pretty great. I haven't been lugging it around very much - mostly just using the 10 cores at my desk to run minikube and WSL and Windows and also gaming on it and I upgraded the SSD to 2GB. I was a longtime thinkpad bigot (T41, T42, T60, T430, T460s) but their near-complete shunning of AMD CPUs has been a FAIL. This laptop had some MediaTek WiFi issues and STILL doesn't always come out of sleep, but the 16" oled is fantastic, it's thinner and lighter and FASTER than a macbook air, I love the build quality and ceraluminum ceramic coating, and it plays just about any 3D game you can think about ... The 31 watt power limit clips all the performance off the hx370 / 890m GPU (32GB RAM) so I went with the hx365 / 880m GPU (24GB RAM). The low amount of RAM is my only complaint.
by Amezarak | 2025-12-02 00:22:29+00:00
Mozilla did lose their way. It happened because they abandoned their core users: you. People who loved Firefox so much they practically forced it on everyone around them.

Google released Chrome with a massive advertising campaign, reaching even to television. They put ads for Chrome on the world's biggest web properties. It was packaged in installers. Not to say it wasn't a good browser - but it wasn't obviously better than Firefox. This marketing campaign bought them a ton of marketshare.

Mozilla's response, instead of sticking by Mozilla evangelists, nearly all of whom were power users, was to decide that the browser was too complicated for its users. It needed to be more like Chrome. It needed to be the browser for the proverbial grandma. So they axed features (like Panorama), configurability, and extensibility, alienating everyone who really cared. Only they didn't have the marketing heft of Google, so they didn't get Grandma, either.

Ever since then they've been panicking and grasping at straws and shoving in shovelware like Pocket in obviously vain attempts to regain what they had. And they never will, until they make people like you and me LOVE Firefox again.
by ryan_lane | 2025-12-02 00:22:50+00:00
> Another great point. In my experience, the very best language lessons are from casual interactions when a stranger makes a correction to my foreign language when replying me, but not in a derogatory manner. Most of the time, you can tell they are trying to be subtle and give you a helpful hint.

I disagree with this. I never want a stranger to give me a correction on my language skills. Unless they've been asked to help, they're being rude, even if they don't mean to be rude and even if they aren't being derogatory.

I go back to the point about "how would you feel if someone corrected your english pronunciation". Maybe they're doing it to be helpful. Maybe the rest of your pronunciation is pretty spot on, and they're helping you correct a single word. It's still embarrassing (and embarrassing someone is rude!). Maybe it isn't for you, but it is for most people.

I already have a teacher, and I've asked friends and family to correct me, but I don't want a stranger correcting me.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-02 00:23:46+00:00
>The Republican Party is essentially merged with a media conglomerate.

>They found a free market way to pervert the marketplace of ideas.

I'm not going to argue with you that the Republican Party has no friendly media. But 80% of the media has a Democrat bias, to the point of shamelessly calling Republicans Nazis. Don't get me started on Hollywood, which is also overwhelmingly biased toward Democrats. The fact that you are oblivious to this is depressing.

>Either way, the best answer and data gathering in one place is in that boring ass book.

I appreciate that you think the book is a good one, but I can just turn on the news and see the biases of each individual outlet on display. I don't need to read a boring ass book complaining about biases from a biased perspective, when I can simply look at what each media agency puts out and figure out what their agenda is. I think you aren't pessimistic enough about the state of the media, because you're ascribing a monopoly on bias to a group that decidedly does not own it. Where was all this skepticism over the last, oh, 10 or 20 years?
by robot-wrangler | 2025-12-02 00:23:58+00:00
> When you're using the BEAM (any language - there are a few now) there's this amazing sense that you're using something that was _designed to be operated_. You can instrument anything. You can trace anything. You can see the live state of anything. You can restart anything. It's a holistic _system_ for building systems, not just a language.

Well said. Question for elixir fans or the haters, what's the perception re: current blockers for widespread adoption? Years ago, it was nothing more or less than third-party libs and frameworks. That must be better by now, or there's a short-list of what's missing?

Somewhat of a tangent, but TFA doesn't mention python and I would think for rubyists this is (still) the elephant in the room. It kind of won to the extent they target the same niches and same audiences, for better or worse. I know it's kinda naive, but I was really hoping elixir would get all of the ruby crowd excited, and they'd move the best parts that they can't live without into elixir. Why didn't they / don't they? Is it all about OOP? Or if rails is the killer app, would a rails "skin" for phoenix not go a long way towards scratching the itch?
by astafrig | 2025-12-02 00:24:22+00:00
Making privacy some end-goal that PMs cut to meet targets is how you end up with Google redefining privacy to mean "only we have access to every aspect of your life, now and in the future".

If Apple takes the position that the UX has to fit in around the privacy requirements, so what? Privacy is a core pillar of their product identity—a built-in hallucinating compliments machine isn't.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-02 00:24:26+00:00
The downturn of the economy, as a whole, is very real while simultaneously we are doing "just fine".

The "just fine" part is that our stock market is doing quite well, and those who are already wealthy greatly increased the velocity of their wealth. The flip side is that everything is too expensive, including labor, and we have to cut corners to make line go up. Most companies, by this point, have been more or less stripped for parts in pursuit of growth. Most are stagnating or experiencing negative growth now, because obviously, except a key few.

And those key few are pretty much holding everything together. Speculatively. Based off of the promise of growth without labor.

So, that's kind of where we're at right now.
by ipeluffo | 2025-12-02 00:24:29+00:00
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by hyeomans | 2025-12-02 00:26:07+00:00
Location: Mexico Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No

Technologies / Stack: Golang, Node.js with TypeScript, React, backend APIs, REST and GraphQL, Docker, cloud environments.

What I am looking for: Part time or flexible hours work. I enjoy backend development, API design, web applications, and full stack work when needed.

Website: https://hyeomans.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hector-yeomans

Why me: • Strong experience with Node.js and TypeScript for backend and full stack development. • Practical experience with React for modern frontend projects. • Proficient with Golang for building reliable and efficient services. • Focus on clean architecture, testing, and maintainable code. • Consistent, self directed, and comfortable collaborating asynchronously.

Feel free to reach out. I am happy to talk about how I can help with your project or team.
by anosidium | 2025-12-02 00:26:25+00:00
Location: London, England, UK Remote: Yes — also open to hybrid or office-based roles Willing to relocate: Yes, depending on the country Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, AppKit, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, Core Data, Combine, Swift Concurrency, Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Model–View–Controller (MVC), Model–View–ViewModel (MVVM), Accessibility, Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Mac OS X, OS X Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YOy2r2KhHYSo86TtVUtB7xQwrJxA0HeG/view?usp=drive_link E-mail: Please refer to my CV

iOS and macOS developer with a strong focus on native development for Apple platforms. Actively building and maintaining personal projects whilst staying up to date with the latest in Swift, Apple frameworks and industry trends.

Currently developing a macOS Mastodon client, Oliphaunt — more details, screenshots and feedback are available here (https://github.com/anosidium/Oliphaunt-App). Previously built HacKit (https://apps.apple.com/app/id1549557075), a macOS Hacker News reader, which has been well received for its simplicity and adherence to platform design language. (https://github.com/anosidium/HacKit-App)

Open to freelance or full-time roles. Particularly interested in working on meaningful software that makes a positive impact — whether as part of a small, focussed team or a larger organisation with a clear and thoughtful product vision.
by lap5j | 2025-12-02 00:26:36+00:00
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by BeetleB | 2025-12-02 00:26:37+00:00
> My wife and I paid $470/month last year, $618/month next year, for a gold insurance plan than has a $3400 deductible

That's really nice - are there state/government subsidies involved?

I work for a top tier company and my premiums are not that much lower than yours.

When I checked the public market's insurance options, getting a $3000 or so deductible was a lot more expensive than yours if one is not low income (i.e. not subsidized).
by satvikpendem | 2025-12-02 00:27:12+00:00
> Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in _artificial intelligence_ concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

You are free to define AI differently but don't be surprised if people don't share your unique definition.
by dworks | 2025-12-02 00:27:18+00:00
Qwen 3 Coder Plus has been braindead this past weekend, but Codex 5.1 has also been acting up. It told me updating UI styling was too much work and I should do it myself. I also see people complaining about Claude every week. I think this is an unsolved problem, and you also have to separate perception from actual performance, which I think is an impossible task.
by bsimpson | 2025-12-02 00:27:27+00:00
The tension is that there's a big chasm of utility from those things until you're compete-with-Google-Search levels of good. I feel like I heard there was an Amazon UX study that said weather, music, and alarms/timers are all people use Alexa for. And even with the best LLM, that's probably all you want out of a smart speaker.

A whole bunch of assistants have gotten way worse in the last decade by chasing features at the expense of utility. I don't care about whatever new feature my speaker has, but if it fails to play a song or check the weather, I'm PISSED.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-02 00:27:53+00:00
So the 4D chess move in April '25 was importing a boatloads of Gucci, car parts and jamón ibérico [1], undercutting the competition, stiffing CBP and then mailing in a gilded copy of the SCOTUS opinion saying you owe fuckall?

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/5-biggest-price-hikes-tied-10...