MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lionkor | 2025-12-02 11:02:33+00:00
So people who, for example, spend a lot of time maintaining a couple widely used legacy FOSS apps would lose to someone generating modern looking AI slop?

I don't think you can win the screening process by automating it away. People are ultimately what drives every aspect of your org.

Neglect the screening process by automating it away, and you'll end up with an org full of posers.
by physicsguy | 2025-12-02 11:03:44+00:00
I don't think it's unfair at all, stuff like BoE independence was planned prior to the election and implemented quite quickly.

The planning reforms of Labour have been held up largely by their own MPs. I don't particularly care about it but House of Lords reform seems to have been abandoned. Their 'charter for working people' has been largely unworkable and they're arguing internally an enormous amount. Lots of these don't have a huge amount of bearing on them based on the economy at all, they're largely cost neutral to the government itself.

Instead we've had (a) more bungs to pensioners via the triple lock which they're too scared to deal with at nearly a 5% increase this year (b) getting rid of the cap on benefits for more than 2 children, which is terrible optics for everyone working who can't afford more than two kids and doesn't get any support (c) a rise in employer NI which has hit hiring and pay rises massively for anyone working (d) a rise in employee NI to pay for all of this via stopping salary sacrifice, which only hits private sector employees.
by MattJ100 | 2025-12-02 11:03:50+00:00
Prosody dev here. Good to know this is useful :)

One of my favourite small features we added in the latest release is a 'prosodyctl check features' command which will validate that your configuration is up to date with current best practices in various ways.

Although we like to curate the default configuration with care, people tend to keep their existing configuration file when they upgrade (we generally recommend this, as we aim for backwards compatibility). The new command makes it easier for folk who upgrade to ensure they are still getting the expected experience as the recommendations evolve.

Obviously that has to be somewhat opinionated. One thing many people appreciate about Prosody is that you can customize it however you want to, even if it's not following the mainstream. E.g. if you really don't care about synchronizing to multiple devices, you can totally disable that message cache. Don't need audio/video calls? Fine!
by anthonj | 2025-12-02 11:03:55+00:00
I don't get how this works in practice. I am not wealthy, I don't even own an house. But I have a decent salary and buy some stocks occasionally.

Most of my stocks are kinda volatile, so by paying taxes on unrealized gain I am taking much higher risk for owning them every year I don't sell. I would literally be paying taxes on money I don't own yet and could easily lose at the first mayor market upset.
by eru | 2025-12-02 11:03:56+00:00
The way I remember it, it was about the transistor count in the commercially available chip with the lowest per transistor cost. Not transistor count per constant dollar.

Wikipedia quotes it as:

> The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year. Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least 10 years.

But I'm fairly sure, if you graph how many transistors you can buy per inflation adjusted dollar, you get a very similar graph.
Show HN: I replaced my portfolio's hero with a Terminal to filter non-tech leads
by andresrl | 2025-12-02 11:04:23+00:00
Hi HN,

I run a small web engineering boutique and I was struggling with a high volume of unqualified leads (mostly looking for cheap WordPress maintenance).

Instead of adding a CAPTCHA or a long form, I decided to rewrite my site from Elementor to Nuxt 4 and turn the Hero section into an interactive CLI (TechTerminal.vue).

My hypothesis: If a user can't handle a simple terminal prompt or doesn't find it "cool", they probably aren't the CTO/Founder target I'm looking for.

I also implemented:

Real-time Latency Calculator: Pure frontend logic (Vue 3 Composition API) to estimate revenue loss based on load times.

Viability Scanner: A state-driven wizard to qualify projects pre-call.

Stack: Vue 3, Nuxt 4 (SSR), Tailwind, and deployed on a dedicated server (scoring 99/100 on Lighthouse).

It's been a fun experiment in "Engineering as Marketing". Would love to hear your thoughts on the code or the UX approach.

Code snippets or implementation details are available if anyone is curious about the terminal parser logic
by throwawayffffas | 2025-12-02 11:04:43+00:00
> But let’s get back to programming. For me, a side project must satisfy specific requirements:

> It must have high educational value > It must be complex > It must be monetizable > I have to feel it

This boils down to 3 items, educational, complex, and feeling it. You want it to be complex in order to "feel" it. My advice, eliminate the feeling it requirement. You will never feel like pushing something through the finish line, because doing so requires doing some boring stuff, "Work". Instead introduce discipline, working on things you do not want to work on because you want to complete what you started.
by jmkd | 2025-12-02 11:04:46+00:00
This excellent article is about user interface mechanisms and their physical metaphors, a pretty small subset of interaction design, despite the author's attempt to define the term.

More broadly, interaction design inhabits the elusive void that occurs between people, products, services and environments.

Once you're down to deciding between one interface mechanism or another you've abstracted the bigger, more important picture relating to what and why the interaction is taking place, or even if it should.

Just a reminder to zoom out every now and then.
by breppp | 2025-12-02 11:04:58+00:00
maybe these tech companies do not subscribe to your notion of modern day gestapo (an organization that was involved in killing 10+ million people in horrible ways) or a "genocide" that is minuscule in comparison to american bombings in Japan, which were similarly in the context of war and actually targeted civilians

Maybe your use of these hyperboles are just an artifact of speech deficiencies of our social media engineered reality?
by egorfine | 2025-12-02 11:05:38+00:00
I have been using MacBooks for the last 20+ years (back then they were called PowerBooks). A couple of days ago I have got a top spec Dell G5 15 5500 and I needed to upgrade the SSD. Oh. my. god. I did not realize the world of PC laptops is that much broken. This Dell has such a dismal quality of everything it's not even funny. Like, I am prepared and ready to pay premium price for premium computer, but why won't Dell create one for me? Do all Windows people need a computer that's shit?
by fg4 | 2025-12-02 11:05:53+00:00
The Creative Communication Award has published its 2025 winners, selected from submissions across 27 countries. The awards cover branding, digital media, typography, online experiences, apps in health and education, photography, book design, exhibition design, and other areas of communication practice.

An international jury evaluated projects based on originality, clarity, and execution. Highlights include work in virtual reality, public sector apps, experimental type design, social campaigns, and immersive exhibition identities.

What might interest designers and technologists here is the range of projects that blend communication design with emerging tools and contexts, for example: • VR based storytelling • transport and health apps designed with strong UX foundations • experimental kinetic and analog typography • digital installations and festival identities • platform driven social media campaigns

Full list of Best of Best and additional honorees is available at the link. This edition offers a useful snapshot of current directions in communication and design, especially where technology, narrative, and cultural context intersect.
by Broken_Hippo | 2025-12-02 11:05:56+00:00
If this is your take, you've missed the point. I said there is no reason good bits can't be adapted to one's society. it isn't that one system will work for everywhere or that it'll even look the same. Some things are unique to Norway, but other things definitely are pretty widespread.

You see this with healthcare in different places: Details change and sometimes it is lacking, but lots of places offer healthcare to its citizens that is low-cost to free when you need it. There is a lot of variation in what countries can do. Some places are poor but still manage to a point. Some places just refuse, like the US - heck, the US has oil and could have funded things for its citizens and keeps bragging about being rich, but they aren't gonna use it for the immediate welfare of its citizens.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-12-02 11:06:29+00:00
Did you mean to reply to someone else? I agreed with Disney paying more. My issue is with small time authors being unable to afford the fee and people wanting to license the content just waiting out each 14 year term out to see if the author will renew instead of simply licensing it. The example I gave is the Lord of the Rings.

The proposed system doesn’t affect Disney that much, but it will negatively affect small timers.
by permo-w | 2025-12-02 11:06:39+00:00
this doesn't really negate or address the fact that the sample you're basing your position upon clearly doesn't account for the content that you couldn't tell was made using AI

I only gave AI coding assistants as a secondary example as to why AI obviously isn't something that people are suddenly going to realise they don't need, and you're over-focusing on it because clearly you have an existing and well-thought out position on the topic, but it's completely beside the point

this thread is about AI generated text content online
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by DontForgetMe | 2025-12-02 11:07:02+00:00
I remain amazed by the lack of attention given to this.

Regardless of one's position on the 'everything online is Russian propaganda, Russian bots or misinformation - invest in sickles and hammers, comrade / wtf just use basic common sense and the internet is as safe as it ever was' continuum, such universal enthusiasm for a Russian-owned, Russian-controlled search engine should generate a little more counter-argument, at the very least.

Absolutely no mention of Google, Bing, Startpage, DDG, or even Mojeek search engines usually pass online without somebody detailing the problems, flaws, or why they're not as good as the alternatives. Usually, at least 20% of the comments will be overtly critical, with at least 1 person passionately arguing that this search engine is going to destroy life as we know it / funds genocide / is an abomination unto God.

On open forums and spaces where a variety of users and tastes are represented, that minimum level of criticism usually applies to absolutely everything from movies to toothbrushing techniques to kids' TV to low-carb breakfasts. If more than 3 people care enough about something to discuss it, at least 1 of those people will hate it and feel the need to enunciate why.

Except Kagi. Kagi must enjoy the highest praise-criticism ratio of anything I've ever seen on the web, including concepts like sunshine and heaven and the eradication of polio.

Seriously. The only 'real' criticism I ever see of Kagi is like 'I personally don't like it because I don't think a search engine is worth more than $19.99' or 'unfortunately I need x feature', and it's always followed by a reply saying 'Ah, well Kagi is now available for $19.50' or 'you'll be thrilled to know that x feature can be enabled in Kagi by following these steps'.

And the occasional 'I don't use it because it seemed a bit wierd and wasn't worth it' comment languishing on the outskirts of the discussion.

So yeah. I do not expect this comment to stir much discussion, mainly because it's like 24 hours after the main debate and is on a pretty low-impact thread on hacker news from an uninspiring new ish account. But also because Kagi critical comments are written in sand, whatever the discussion or authority or audience.

That should make people more suspicious.
by mjburgess | 2025-12-02 11:07:07+00:00
HN has become per-thread view-enforced. It's pretty obvious now what the "correct" views are for any given thread, any dissenting comments are downvoted to death. When the next thread comes along, the opposite view might be the "allowed one". There's a particularly egregious amount of veiled partisanship behind a lot of posting too.

This could be a group think phenomenon, or it could be botting. Hard to say. I'd say in at least a few cases, it's someone with access and interest into bot downvotes landing on a thread and using that to suppress dissenting views.
by froobius | 2025-12-02 11:07:39+00:00
I couldn't see any citations or references in that video or its description. It presents it as him solving the problem himself, but I'm sure other people have written about solving the Game of Life in reverse with SAT solvers prior to this...

Edit: here's a paper on it from 2006, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-76928-6_...
by gwd | 2025-12-02 11:08:53+00:00
It's basically a compromise. Many people hate the current situation (90 years for works-for-hire, life + 70 for people), and would love to return it to something like 14+14. But is that realistic? The money behind not doing that is massive, and I think most of the population have been conditioned by forever copyright to a degree that there will never be populist support for it.

But there might be populist support for releasing old stuff that nobody's using. More people would agree, for instance, that it's preposterous that some game from the 80's can't be sold because nobody knows who owns it (but those who think they might own some part of it threaten to sue).

And who knows, once people get used to the idea that copyrights aren't naturally forever, they'll be more amenable to the idea that they should be something more reasonable.
by ffsm8 | 2025-12-02 11:09:02+00:00
And gitea is once again a fork from gogs that happened with some controversy in the beginning.

The gitea project has a lot more features such as CI and SSO at this point, gogs continues to be a viable alternative if you actually only want a git server with an UI like GitHub was in early 2010s - and are on resource constrained hardware
by leshenka | 2025-12-02 11:09:52+00:00
That's true, it opens a splash screen. But if I remember correctly even if you dismiss it it opens a corresponding AppStore section. Which was kinda annoying but that's it.

In more recent developments of this story, looks like Russian authorities saw a success of EU's push for alternative stores and now want Apple to allow that in Russia too [1,2]. Sadly, the motivation is twofold: a. let authorities publish their spyware (Max messenger) and b. let sanctioned companies publish their apps (sberbank). I haven't heard a single word about caring for user freedom.

P.S. just for laughs: Since it's currently (almost)impossible to install alternative appstores, stores and online marketplaces selling iphones now label them as "defective" [3]: below title "Имеется недостаток товара: невозможно установить и использовать RuStore" = "Defect: impossible to install and use RuStore"

[1] (ru) https://www.ixbt.com/news/2025/07/07/apple-rustore-iphone-ip...

[2] (en) https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/27/an-app-store-ultimat...

[3] https://re-store.ru/catalog/10117MAX512ORGN/
by thinkharderdev | 2025-12-02 11:10:38+00:00
> The problem is I still have some of their clothes I bought 10 years ago and their quality trumps premium brands now.

I'm skeptical of this claim. Maybe it's true for some particular brand but that's just an artifact of one particular "premium brand" essentially cashing in its brand equity by reducing quality while (temporarily) being able to command a premium price. But it is easier now than at any other time in my life to purchase high-quality clothing that is built to last for decades. You just have to pay for that quality, which is something a lot of people don't want to do.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-02 11:11:05+00:00
I have not purchased any laptop recently so I do not know about what is true right now.

However, whenever in the past 20 years I bought a laptop, for a given amount of money there were always laptops with better quality than any Apple model.

Moreover, while the Apple computers are fine for the general population, there are also users like myself, for whom the Apple products lack adequate computational performance. My laptops typically used Intel Xeon/NVIDIA Quadro combos that were much faster than anything sold by Apple and 4k screens and very good keyboards. Apple has a poor reputation for keyboards.

If I bought a laptop right now I would probably choose something with Ryzen 395, which easily beats any Apple CPU for the things in which I am interested, like computations with big integers and FP64 array operations. The very good single-thread GeekBench results of the Apple CPUs are not at all representative of the CPU performance in other kinds of workloads, where the Intel/AMD ISA still provides features not yet available in the Arm-based CPUs.

Why many comments in this thread indicate that at least the consumer laptops made by Dell have a poor quality nowadays, I still have a rather old Dell Precision mobile workstation (sold with Linux) with excellent quality that no Apple laptop ever approached. Of course, such a mobile workstation has poor battery lifetime, incomparable with that of an Apple laptop, but for my needs this is a really minor inconvenient in comparison with its advantages.
by impossiblefork | 2025-12-02 11:11:17+00:00
That is the same source as I read, but

>Real estate investors, both individual and institutional, bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025.

is, as I view things, what I said. You may say that individual real estate investors are not typically large capital owners, but that's a definitional thing, or a matter of assessment that isn't interesting to debate.

No matter how you choose to define it, investors buying homes are buying a substantial fraction of the homes on the market (1/3) and presumably have a substantial effect on prices.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-12-02 11:11:46+00:00
I like it because Peter S. Beagle definitely didn't get screwed over enough in this world, in this other better world he would take it good and proper.

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/law/the-last-unicorn-author-pete...

Aside from that your way to help big corporations make sure they could keep their prime pieces of worthwhile IP just is, something else, let's put something in so big corporations can continue screwing people over if they think it is worthwhile, but the people who made something probably won't be able to afford to keep control, unless their last name were Rowling obviously.

finally, as always have to point out that while the argument about the purpose of copyright that is the stand of the U.S is not that which holds in the rest of the world, and as such it seems unlikely to translate to other countries - specifically EU ones - lowering their copyright rules and thus seems unlikely to have any practical effect since Media is an international business nowadays.
by kvemkon | 2025-12-02 11:11:55+00:00
Using digital chips instead of some novel analog approach is even greater waste.

> China's AI Analog Chip Claimed to Be 3000X Faster Than Nvidia's A100 GPU (04.11.2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38144619

> Q.ANT’s photonic chips – which compute using light instead of electricity – promise to deliver a 30-fold increase in energy efficiency and a 50-fold boost in computing speed, offering transformative potential for AI-driven data centers and HPC environments. (24.02.2025)

https://qant.com/press-releases/q-ant-and-ims-chips-launch-p...
by Libidinalecon | 2025-12-02 11:12:19+00:00
The best is the instrumentals on David Bowie's Low IMO.

I know people love Music for Airports but I think it is incredibly boring compared to what Eno did with Bowie.

Beyond that the first few albums by The Orb are top notch.

Balam Acab - See Birds and Wander/Wonder are incredible.
by gwd | 2025-12-02 11:13:43+00:00
At some point I looked into it, and if the laws were what they are today, Disney wouldn't have been able to make Alice in Wonderland (1951) without paying Lewis Carroll's (d. 1898) estate until 1968. The Little Mermaid (1989) was safe though, since Hans Christian Andersen died in 1875 (so his copyright would have expired in 1950).
by maxldn | 2025-12-02 11:13:44+00:00
While I don’t disagree, I think it’s worth noting that the Netherlands has a pretty good level of social housing. Not perfect, but I think it’s 26% based on the stats link in the parent. Also rent controls. Although these also tend to reward people who have been in the system longer (which _might_ be by design, but that’s just like my opinion)
by XzAeRosho | 2025-12-02 11:13:49+00:00
This is the job a junior developer may deliver in their first weeks at a new job, so this is the way it should be treated as: good intentions, not really good quality.

AI coding needs someone behind to steer it to do better, and in some cases, it does. But still hasn't left the junior phase, and while that doesn't happen, there's still the need for a good developer to deliver good results.
by qwertox | 2025-12-02 11:13:59+00:00
Great article, it lead me to the `icmplib`[0] Python project, which has a `privileged` option:

When this option is enabled, this library fully manages the exchanges and the structure of ICMP packets. Disable this option if you want to use this function without root privileges and let the kernel handle ICMP headers.

[0] https://github.com/ValentinBELYN/icmplib
by 0xblinq | 2025-12-02 11:14:10+00:00
The reason is simple.

These guys are really, really obsessed with download counts. They brag a lot about that in twitter every time they have a chance.

What they want to reuse is the package name.

So now they launch whatever bullshit they are playing with now under the “remix” package and the next day they’ll say “look… we have N thousands downloads per second!!! We are so successful”

They did this multiple times. And will keep doing it because they are obsessed with this.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-02 11:14:44+00:00
A recent HN submission has 300 comments, many talking about the stability about various distributions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095585

I'm personally partial to Arch Linux, haven't had an issue with upgrades since I moved to it in ~2017, which was the last year I let Ubuntu's dist-upgrade break my work computer.