MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jkelleyrtp | 2025-12-05 20:33:57+00:00
I mean you can opine about how Rust isn't suited for browser development, but as someone building a browser in Rust, I think it's just fine. If anything, Rust has been really shining in this project since Rust was designed to build a web browser.

https://github.com/dioxuslabs/blitz

Also I think it's a little ridiculous to build yet another new browser in a new language when so many amazing pieces are just sitting around ready for someone to use. Come contribute, we're already much further along :)

https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz/pull/292
by 6510 | 2025-12-05 20:34:15+00:00
I just scroll over it. Only the newest 5000 items are preserved, by default I allow maximum 4 items per feed (some feeds more some less), titles must be at least 3 words long and I delete items if the title contains any of the badwords.

Now that I think of it, the mistake most people make is not having enough subscriptions. Some spot around 1000 feeds the experience changes dramatically. You can afford to be less interested in things as there is plenty more.

I think I find about one decent article per day for each 10 000 subs.

Disposing of crappy feeds isn't a lot of work and a word filter works really well because people want to stuff descriptive words into titles.

Business insider amused me. They are so good at writing good titles that practically non of their countless worthless publications make it though my word filter. What remains would have one think it is a reasonable website.
by not-so-darkstar | 2025-12-05 20:34:18+00:00
I don't think terminal multiplexers (even Zellij which claims not to be one) make the experience better. They make it worse, actually, because when you have a problem there's one more thing to keep track of: Your terminal emulator, your terminal multiplexer and your TUI.

A decent terminal emulator like kitty solves all of this.
by inerte | 2025-12-05 20:34:22+00:00
I used to work for a company where the SSO screen had a nice corporate happy people at the office type of image. 25mb. I was in Brazil on a crappy roaming 2g service and couldn't login at all. I know most of the work happens on desktop but geee.....

Oh speaking on mobile, I remember when I tried to use Jira mobile web to move a few tickets up on priority by drag and dropping and ended up closing the Sprint. That stuff was horrible.
by hellojesus | 2025-12-05 20:34:23+00:00
There was a podcast episode I listened to once, probably Darknet Diaries but maybe some other tech one, where the person being interviewed was an active community member in some bbs back in the day. Everyone decided to meet up to play dnd, and he showed up as a 13 year old kid when everyone else was 20+. They let him stay after cleaning it with his mom.

This is one type of connection that would be unlikely to form if superficial anonymity is lost. That kid probably would be off in some "safe" walled garden.

This doesn't even touch on more obvious forms of discrimination like gender, religion, etc.

And political affiliation / speech isn't protected in the US, so an employer could term you anytime for policy disagreement. Such a policy would destroy the exploration of ideas overnight, as outrage mobs would try to get any dissident sacked.
by gkoberger | 2025-12-05 20:35:08+00:00
I think when most people talk about the "AI bubble bursting", they mean a dramatic end to this notion that AI is the "next big thing". Much like how we had Web3 and NFTs and all those other things that were going to change how we interacted with the internet.

Sure, my BTC is up, but I can go weeks or months without interacting with a blockchain in any way, directly or indirectly.

Valuations of individual AI companies might (and will) drop, but we are currently experiencing the least amount of AI in our everyday lives that we (or our children) ever will.
by square_usual | 2025-12-05 20:35:38+00:00
Add another datapoint here if you'd like, got it in my late 20s this year. Fortunately I caught it very early and didn't have as bad of a case as many here seem to have had. My doctor said it's not uncommon to have shingles as a young person, and when I researched it more I found studies that agree with some sibling comments re: lack of exposure to people with chicken pox making it more common.
by carlosjobim | 2025-12-05 20:35:38+00:00
Service economy jobs are worse and pay less than factory jobs.

Factory work is much more productive so they have better margins to pay workers. And you always need people, because complete automation is not a good investment at all scales.

Yes, in an economy with higher salaries many service economy businesses won't be able to compete on wages and will be forced to shut down. Eating out might again become a once in a while thing instead of an everyday thing. That's fine. It's worth it in order to improve salaries and work conditions.

Software engineers are such a small part of the labor market to not be a sector to consider. They are definitely nowhere near being a majority of workers as you imply.
by sallveburrpi | 2025-12-05 20:35:50+00:00
I think we would agree on a lot of things over a beer or beverage of your choice.

I also think that we as a (globalised?) culture have decided that money trumps everything.

But I don’t think that it’s the “fault” of single sociopaths or big companies; it’s some inherent flaw in human intelligence - we’re just not equipped to make smart long-term decisions or deal with a vast alien intelligence such as “the market”.

Scrooges tale just resonates strongly - why else would it be still so popular that basically everyone know it - we just aren’t able to stop this machine and it will grind on until our species is wiped from the planet.

Not that it matters too much for you and me - but a thousand years more of this? I can’t imagine what that would look like.

Edit: you ever read “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair? I don’t think being greedy above all morals is a new thing, it’s always been there. We just “scaled up”
by kelnos | 2025-12-05 20:35:51+00:00
> I have seen estimates that a majority* of programmers (my own field) lie somewhere on the spectrum*

That seems incredibly unlikely today, and doesn't at all match with my experience. Obviously I am not qualified to diagnose someone with autism, but the idea that more than 50% of my colleagues, past and present, are on the spectrum... that just doesn't pass the smell test.
by tempfile | 2025-12-05 20:36:08+00:00
This argument is absurd.

If someone comes up to me and asks for food, I am not obliged to give it to them.

If I say to them, "I will give you food, on the condition that I can punch you in the face", and they decline to be punched in the face, do you really believe "nothing wrong has happened"? That I, applying an unethical condition, did nothing wrong?

If someone else says "You must not make punching someone in the face a precondition of giving them food", does that create a "right to food"? Of course not.
by hinkley | 2025-12-05 20:36:12+00:00
We still have two holidays and associated vacations and vacation brain to go. And then the January hangover.

Every company that has ignored my following advice has experienced a day for day slip in first quarter scheduling. And that advice is: not much work gets done between Dec 15 and Jan 15. You can rely on a week worth, more than that is optimistic. People are taking it easy and they need to verify things with someone who is on vacation so they are blocked. And when that person gets back, it’s two days until their vacation so it’s a crap shoot.

NB: there’s work happening on Jan 10, for certain, but it’s not getting finished until the 15th. People are often still cleaning up after bad decisions they made during the holidays and the subsequent hangover.
by daseiner1 | 2025-12-05 20:36:24+00:00
true inflection point of the already prolonged withering away and inevitable death of one of America’s great art forms.

yes i’m aware of the proud film traditions of france, italy, england, & japan (among others). nevertheless the paradigms of popular film are uniquely homegrown.

netflix is not in the film business. they are in the streaming business.

yet another example of the rape aka “enshittification” of culture. why share an experience together as a public in front of the silver screen? much easier to sit alone on our fucking couches while we doomscroll and dick around.

shameful.
by WalterBright | 2025-12-05 20:36:41+00:00
It doesn't always work, that's for sure. I suspect one of the things the admissions committee did was try to filter out the cheaters. Explaining how the honor system worked was part of the freshman orientation camp (held on Catalina Island).

One reason it did work is the students liked being trusted, and they did not like anyone that would threaten the system, and would turn them in.

BTW, that was 50 years ago. I have no information on how the honor system is fairing today.
by SXX | 2025-12-05 20:36:41+00:00
Hey, I just made simple test on 5 minute downloaded YouTube video uploading it to Gemini app.

Source video title: Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Opening five minutes of gameplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbt7ZYdUXn8

Prompt:

Please describe what happening in each scene of this video. List scenes with timestamp, then describe separately: - Setup and background, colors - What is moving, what appear - What objects in this scene and what is happening, Basically make desceiption of 5 minutes video for a person who cant watch it.

Result on github gist since there too much text:

https://gist.github.com/ArseniyShestakov/43fe8b8c1dca45eadab...

I'd say thi is quite accurate.
by roncesvalles | 2025-12-05 20:36:48+00:00
Just my opinion, but I think USMCA dying is massively unlikely. Already there is some resentment in the Republican base for souring ties with Canada (e.g. bourbon producers, tourism) and I do see Canada-US ties moving in an upward trajectory in the recent months. The USMCA is also used by US citizens to work in Canada. And considering how watered down the H1B changes have been, I don’t think this administration has an appetite for materially pissing off coastal hi-tech. At most we’ll see tightened category adjudications.
by switchbak | 2025-12-05 20:36:59+00:00
Just try harder. And if it still breaks, clearly you weren't trying hard enough!

At some point you have to admit that humans are pretty bad at some things. Keeping documentation up to date and coherent is one of those things, especially in the age of TikTok.

Better to live in the world we have and do the best you can, than to endlessly argue about how things should be but never will become.
by burningChrome | 2025-12-05 20:37:37+00:00
This is completely misleading.

Even a cursory google search will give a rather long list:

- Giving Pledge: Ellison signed the Giving Pledge, committing to donate the majority of his wealth to philanthropy. Recently, he announced plans to donate 95% of his $373 billion fortune, focusing on science, healthcare, climate change, and AI research.

- Ellison Medical Foundation: Invested nearly $1 billion in biomedical research on aging and disease prevention before closing in 2013

- Lawrence Ellison Foundation: Supports research on aging, health, education, sustainable agriculture, and wildlife conservation.

- Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine (USC): Established with a $200 million donation to advance cancer research and personalized therapies

- Ellison Institute of Technology (Oxford): A for-profit philanthropic initiative tackling global challenges like healthcare, food insecurity, climate change, and AI. A new campus worth $1.3 billion is planned for 2027

- Significant funding for Oxford University through EIT partnerships, including scholarships and research programs.

- Lion Country Safari Acquisition: Purchased the 254-acre wildlife sanctuary in Florida for $30 million through his foundation, ensuring continued conservation efforts.

- Larry Ellison Conservation Center: Opened in California to rehabilitate and breed endangered species

I'm not a huge fan of his or how Oracle has conducted business, but his giving represents billions to charity, not exactly fitting for the "dung beetle" label people are so quick to apply to him.
by poutrathor | 2025-12-05 20:37:37+00:00
please rework your color gradient text on the landing page of Wanderfugl. On dark mode it is rendered as a rectangle of gradient. My dark mode is handled by Dark Reader the firefox addon. It breaks the flow of presentation.

Also, at the bottom, the beta is opened but it closes the November 15th, so it's close and open at the same time :) (else it's November 2026?)
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-12-05 20:38:33+00:00
Since I think it's interesting to highlight the jagged intelligence, I have a simple word search puzzle [0] that Nano Banana Pro stills struggles to solve correctly. Gemini 3 Pro with Code Execution is able to one-shot the problem and find the positions of each word (this is super impressive! one year ago it wasn't possible), but Nano Banana Pro fails to highlight the words correctly.

Here's the output from two tests I ran:

1. Asking Nano Banana Pro to solve the word search puzzle directly [1].

2. Asking Nano Banana Pro to highlight each word on the grid, with the position of every word included as part of the prompt [2].

The fact that it gets 2 words correct demonstrates meaningful progress, and it seems like we're really close to having a model that can one-shot this problem soon.

There's actually a bit of nuance required to solve this puzzle correctly which an older Gemini model struggled to do without additional nudging. You have to convert the grid or word list to use matching casing (the grid uses uppercase, the word list uses lowercase), and you need to recognize that "soup mix" needs to have the space removed when doing the search.

[0] https://imgur.com/ekwfHrN

[1] https://imgur.com/1nybezU

[2] https://imgur.com/18mK5i5
by quesera | 2025-12-05 20:39:07+00:00
> I think you might be overestimating the curiosity of the average person.

Oh absolutely. But I like to optimize for the others. :)

Also, the audience for consideration here is pretty ... rarified. 0.0% of people in the world, to a first approximation, have heard of Zig. Those that have, are probably pretty aware of powers-of-two math, and maybe curious enough to wonder about a value that seems odd but is obviously deliberately chosen.

> Is it a woe of modern times? Or has it always been this way?

I suspect it's always been this way. People are busy, math is hard, and little games with numbers are way less engaging than games with physical athleticism or bright lights.
by ghusto | 2025-12-05 20:40:07+00:00
For me it's because it's because most things are faster, easier, and don't change (what you learn retains it's value, and doesn't become worthless when the new hotness arrives). So for me it's the other way around; everything should be in the terminal, with a GUI for that one time you need it (`open .` on Mac to open Finder).
by allears | 2025-12-05 20:40:36+00:00
Capitalism (at least our form of it) requires consumerism. Consumerism requires advertising. You may think it's just an annoyance, but it's the foundation of our economy. A dissatisfied consumer wants more; a satisfied consumer doesn't.

Making as much money as possible off consumers is considered the highest business goal. Of course that leads to developing expertise in manipulating them.
by danny_codes | 2025-12-05 20:40:41+00:00
I don’t know about that.

Europe and China are both working on reusable rockets. Blue Origin is doing the same.

Access to space is a national security thing so all big countries will fund their own alternatives.

Assuming the US continues to alienate its allies, I assume spaceX will be limited to the domestic market in 5-10 years. Why buy from the US when you can buy from more reliable players
by nickff | 2025-12-05 20:40:45+00:00
The UK has a 'Digital Services Tax', which is effectively an internet ad tax: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/introduction-of-t... You could also argue that corporate taxes do tax ads, as they're applied to advertising-based companies, though these taxes usually don't 'target' ad companies. Corporate taxes are passed on to customers, employees, suppliers, or investors; usually one of the first three (and most often the first one), as that list is in increasing order of 'captivity'.
by tczMUFlmoNk | 2025-12-05 20:40:48+00:00
You may wish to search for "readability at Google". Here is one article:

https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/readability/

(I have not read this article closely, but it is about the right concept, so I provide it as a starting point since "readability" writ large can be an ambiguous term.)
by jodrellblank | 2025-12-05 20:40:49+00:00
It's amusing but it's not true. From Wikipedia:

> In 1992, Ellison shattered his elbow in a high-speed bicycle crash. After receiving treatment at University of California, Davis, Ellison donated $5 million to seed the Lawrence J. Ellison Musculo-Skeletal Research Center.

> In 1998, the Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center opened on the Sacramento campus of the UC Davis Medical Center

> In 2007, Ellison pledged $500,000 to fortify a community centre in Sderot, Israel, against rocket attacks

> In 2014, he donated $10 million to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.

> In 2017, he donated $16.6 million donation to support the construction of well-being facilities on a new campus for co-ed conscripts

> In May 2016, Ellison donated $200 million to the University of Southern California to establish a cancer research center: the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC

> Between 2021 and 2023, Ellison invested $130 million in the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and has pledged a further $218 million since then
by VikingCoder | 2025-12-05 20:41:14+00:00
I have an absolutely bizarre desire to download all of these, and then rip them apart, scene by scene, and then estimate pose, facial pose, gender, etc. Do facial recognition, so I know where the same actor is in all of the scenes...

And then to take a movie like The Matrix, or Star Wars, and then recreate it, shot for shot, as closely as I can, using clips from Public Domain movies.

Especially if I can pick, like, "this actor in this public domain movie, or movies, would be a good Neo, or Luke." And it turns out that he's in enough shots, and poses, that I'm able to remake all of that character's scenes, from Public Domain footage of this other actor.
by xp84 | 2025-12-05 20:41:34+00:00
I'm not sure Netflix execs spend much time worrying about cultural cachet like that. They care about popularity and virality but I think they'd be 100% contented to make 100 reality shows like the one I affectionately dubbed "Sluts Island" that each make them $10 million than make one Sopranos-type show that makes them $500 million and 57 Emmys.
by ericmay | 2025-12-05 20:41:36+00:00
Let's start with this question:

> For instance what do you think the chances of a healthy 20 year old male with 0 comorbidities of dying from COVID are?

Much more likely than dying from the vaccine.

Also, and this is very important, at the time the vaccine was developed and released to the general public it was even more unknown what the fatality truly would be. We weren't totally sure as a species how the virus might mutate... maybe it would become more deadly? Maybe it would kill young people specifically even if they were otherwise healthy? Maybe by not getting the vaccine with less risk to you as the healthy 20 year old means you get COVID-19 and get "long COVID" (which I'm not sure is a real thing anyway, but I digress) and sure you didn't die but now your life sucks some.

The problem with "the other side"'s line of reasoning is that there was a specific concern with "risk" of the COVID-19 vaccine that didn't translate into practical reality and wasn't being assessed relative to the broader risk of getting COVID-19 itself or other general risks we undertake everyday.

Another way you can slice this up is, well, there's no risk of getting the vaccine, but getting sick sucks so even one day of being sick is well worth getting a shot for just to not get sick. "What about the risk" there's no real risk. If you think there's a risk, the risk is higher for getting COVID or whatever.

It all comes back to this perceived risk of COVID-19 vaccines (thank you to China, Russia, Iran, etc.) and improper assessment of risk.

Relative to getting COVID-19 there was no risk. Relative to the dumb risks people take everyday it is even less risky. The only difference is people are sitting around reading about it on social media and being stupid.
by iamnothere | 2025-12-05 20:42:01+00:00
I would also like to see this happen, but the developed world as a whole seems to be moving away from single working parents. Even across very different cultures. I’d like to see a change, but I’m not sure how it could happen.

The closest thing we have is the stay at home working parent, which has grown after COVID. This is a lot better than neither parent being at home, but unless it’s a very easy job, they still won’t be able to supervise much. I also think some of these newer “email jobs” are facing competition from overseas workers and AI. Unless politicians learn to find value in having a stay at home parent, and supporting that through policy, these jobs may go away as quickly as they arrived.
by Svoka | 2025-12-05 20:42:15+00:00
I was using C++ and C for decades, and I do a lot of embedded programming for fun. I switched completely to Rust about half a year ago. Friction went away very fast. Fun thing is that looking at my old C code now I see so many pitfalls I was oblivious about, just because I started to use Rust.

I mean, Rust does have a learning curve, but its complexity is overexaggerated imo. Yes, you have to learn something new, but how it is a problem?

I don't understand why pick language because it looks familiar and you don't have to change how you think. For me that is basically a problem with Zig - I can do everything Zig does in C++, having decades of libraries and infra while Rust actually contributes to the end product.
by ruuda | 2025-12-05 20:42:16+00:00
> We did have three bugs that would have been prevented by the borrow checker, but these were caught by our fuzzers and online verification. We run a fuzzing fleet of 1,000 dedicated CPU cores 24/7.

Remember people, 10,000 CPU hours of fuzzing can save you 5ms of borrow checking!

(I’m joking, I’m joking, Zig and Rust are both great languages, fuzzing does more than just borrow checking, and I do think TigerBeetle’s choices make sense, I just couldn’t help noticing the irony of those two sentences.)
by daft_pink | 2025-12-05 20:42:31+00:00
But the Market has shifted, Mac is increasing in marketshare and that shift is even higher on expensive laptops, where people get expensive upgrades.

Two or three years ago, I bought an XPS 15 with minimum memory specs and immediately maxed the RAM to 64gb and threw in a 2tb nvme drive. Last year I purchased a M3 Macbook Pro and made no upgrades. I don’t expect to go back to PC, because the Mac performance is so great and the power managment actually works.

When I threw my XPS 15 in my bag, it often comes out of my bag with no battery. The Mac not only gets awesome battery life, but it doesn’t randomly discharge when closed and sleeps properly.
by homebrewer | 2025-12-05 20:42:39+00:00
I use IDEA for most things and barely touch the mouse. It has its problems (like terrible performance), but it's a good example of a GUI done right.

Everything can be controlled through the keyboard, typing into every window does fuzzy search of its contents (and that window might contain a list of code symbols, a list of database tables, a list of search results, or many other things).

Every action can be bound to a key combo of your choice. Every interaction with the GUI can be stored as a macro, edited and replayed.

And so on, and so forth.