MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gerdesj | 2025-12-27 23:20:54+00:00
I seem to recall that I used Windows 2 on a RM Nimbus 80186 at school around 1984. It was for CAM.

Nowadays one of my customers has a sodding great machine that boots DOS 6. To get data files to and from it I use Samba with all the safety catches switched off (on one side only) as a go between.
by tbrownaw | 2025-12-27 23:21:04+00:00
> My understanding is that, in many ways, government agencies are more constitutionally protected speech-wise than private entities

That's government employees.

If an employee of a normal company goes to a bar after work and trash-talks their boss, they can get fired for it.

If an employee of the government does the same, they (probably) can't.

This only covers speech that's not the of the job, and only things that are of "public concern" whatever that means.
by the_other | 2025-12-27 23:21:43+00:00
We get “weather warnings” here in the UK, too. To my ears, they sound “alarmist”, but I’m in London which has a relatively stable and comfortable microclimate.

Howvmever: it’s definitely the case that climate patterns have shifted. London used to get some snow, most winters. Since about 2015 it’s had almost none. The transitions from one season to the next used to be clear, now they’re vague. Our summers keep hitting higher and higher peaks.

Elsewhere in the UK we’re getting more rain. Flooding is increasingly common, and deeper, in several regions. Each year for the past 5 it seems to get a little worse. I hear insurance prices are changing to reflect it.

So, I think both things are true. There’s some alarmism, and also the climate is changing. The alarm seems justified to me.
by zahlman | 2025-12-27 23:22:29+00:00
> But also, you could probably be just as accurate by asking an LLM to order the options by popularity based on their best guess based on all the tutorials they've trained on.

> Or just scrape Stack Overflow for every instance of a command-line invocation for each tool and count how many times each option is used.

Even trusting the developer's intuition is better than nothing, at least if you make sure the developer is prompted to think about it. (For major projects, devs might also be aware that certain features are associated with a large fraction of issue reports, for example.)
by nawgz | 2025-12-27 23:22:50+00:00
Yes, you're right, I should google to make your arguments for you!

Listing a bunch of white house links and then 2 criticisms (edit: he got it up to about 6 criticisms of marijuana legislation, wow!) which aren't even really about the action but more about the general malfeasance of the administration is an extremely weak supporting argument behind "liberals criticize anything good Trump does the same way conservatives criticized anything good Biden did", because we can identify plentiful examples of naked hypocrisy around the criticisms of Biden - see the autopen debacle for one hilariously manufactured self-owning example.

It must really be quite trying to justify Trump's actions, I'm amazed you have failed to use any of that energy on introspection.
by dietr1ch | 2025-12-27 23:23:07+00:00
Yeah, but you pay the full fare with 1 person, half with 2 people, and it's free with 3+.

It's something that isn't straight obvious though. When I got there I also thought that people were just in violation of the people requirement.

I don't get the point of the occupancy reader if there's no hard-requirement of 3+ in the current zone. Maybe there are some stricter HOV-only lanes nowadays? I left the bay area in late 2023
by micromacrofoot | 2025-12-27 23:23:16+00:00
yeah evolutionarily we gained all this power to survive, now that we've got that figured out the drive to survive has been turned in its head

now we need to figure out a way to survive our survival instincts in the world of abundance and safety we have created

imo we have to conquer our own biology because we are too amped up as a species to choose temperance
by written-beyond | 2025-12-27 23:24:54+00:00
Toyota has adopted the flutter IVI shell in their newer cars. You could argue that it can also run on QNX but the real push behind it has been the growing interest and effort behind AGL.

QNX hypervisor architecture allows companies to adopt AGL gradually bringing in the productivity benefits of stuff like flutter and Linux. QT is hell, their entire moat has been the automotive industry/highly embedded devices and seeing Flutter chip away at even a small portion of it gives a lot of hope for a better competitive landscape for more productive and performant embedded guis.
by rldjbpin | 2025-12-27 23:25:01+00:00
the title and core argument do not seem to align much. subject is git, but most discourse is around github. the role discussed is for serving packages, while the title refers to it as "database".

regardless of the semantics, git is not ideal for serving files. this has been more apparent in the ai world, where extensions such as git lfs has allowed larger file size.

but as seen elsewhere, network effects trump over any design issues. we can always introduce an "lfs" for better shallow fetching (cached? compressed?) and this would resolve a majority of the op's grievences.
Julia vs. NumPy performance: Strategy for For-loop?
by northlondoner | 2025-12-27 23:25:18+00:00
Lately, read about Julia Langs' preference in some quantum research. In general, for single shot computations like matrix and vector operations including linear algebra, the performance between Julia and NumPy is comparable due to NumPy's underlying C/Fortran code base. But for Monte Carlo methods for-loops are hard to avoid. Is there any strategy for For-loops in NumPy avoiding python overhead? Or migrating to Julia is a better choice? I am trying to avoid Rust as I see it as more system level language.
by scoofy | 2025-12-27 23:25:33+00:00
The vast majority of the tolling infrastructure no longer uses plazas. In California and in Texas, the tech exists to prevent you from even noticing. That's not deployed everywhere, especially in areas where they do rate-limiting, like the Bay Bridge, where they need you to slow down and stop when the bridge traffic gets too high, but most areas you wouldn't even notice.

This is also causing problems with people using fake plates and magnetized plates. There's an entire growing industry around it. We're going to have to eventually start requiring some kind of transponder that repeats your plate number for sensors that can't be trivially covered... or you know... just raise the gas tax.

https://youtube.com/shorts/HTVBMPGvZJw

https://youtube.com/shorts/lKXv_bA4lYs
by bell-cot | 2025-12-27 23:25:43+00:00
"developing a new anti-satellite weapon" seems a laughably overblown description, when the supposed weapon amounts to little more than a box full of BB's, with a couple sticks of dynamite in the middle to spread 'em out in orbit. If they had a suitable rocket ready to launch, then a good-enough warhead could probably be designed from first principles, fabricated, and launched within 24 hours.

But from a Russian PoV - considering such weapons, and leaking that fact, could be an extremely cheap and credible method of sabre-rattling.

(Vs. actually using such weapons against Musk's constellation would be a clear attack on America's interests and capabilities, and would draw a very harsh reaction. Outside of WWIII or WWIII-lite scenarios, it'd be a Bad Move.)
by phantasmish | 2025-12-27 23:25:44+00:00
New Jersey solved this: just put up signs saying “you’re on a toll road, go check what you owe and pay later”. No toll plaza!

Then when you forget, which you 100% will if you’re not dealing with it frequently, or just reasonably assume they’ll send you a bill—ta-da! First communication they send is a nastygram assessing an extra $50 for every toll you forgot to go beg to pay when you got home.

Ingenious way to screw non-locals, and no toll plazas needed!
by JCattheATM | 2025-12-27 23:26:13+00:00
> As an European I have to say, perhaps the American approach is better.

It's not better, it's just more attractive. The EU isn't the only country with regulations, every single other western country does, every single other first world country does.

The US allows greed to flourish at the expensive of it's people. That might be better for the people developing the tech, but it isn't better for society in the longrun.
by chunkmonke99 | 2025-12-27 23:26:35+00:00
No one really knows. But a few things I think about myself.

1). There are many many people there couldn't probably already write more lines of code than me and work for much much cheaper (in India or wherever). Same is true for you (probably). Yet you still have a job.

2). I have a friend that works as a Software and System Engineer for a complicated product that interfaces with the real world. He has to use Natural Language to create requirements that gets turns into code by natural agents down in the "Supply Chain". There are also integration engineers that work with the naturally intelligent agents that create the prompts/requirements to make sure things don't fail (then triage and root cause when they do)

3. Why not diversify your skills beyond code but also hardware, systems, soft skills, business etc etc.

No one knows the future sadly.
by nextstep | 2025-12-27 23:28:06+00:00
This is very nice. When I use ffmpeg recently I usually ask an LLM first but it often takes a few tries to get the exact incantation right.

On a side note (I’m not a web developer), why would a command line tool like this be written and distributed using node.js? Seems like an unnecessary risk to use JavaScript for a basic (local) command line tool. Couldn’t this be written more simply in like Rust or something?
by EthanHeilman | 2025-12-27 23:28:21+00:00
Science works better with collaboration. If China and Europe have to take up the slack from a self-inflicted wound to US research, science as a whole suffers. There is far more science to do than scientists and when science funding gets canceled the number of scientist decrease.

After the US canceled the SSC, Europe built the LHC. The LHC isn't a one for one replacement of the SSC, but it would probably not have been built if the SSC had been built. What scientific projects would Europe have built instead? What did we lose?
by JCattheATM | 2025-12-27 23:28:23+00:00
The people that blame capitalism are often wrong...they attribute to capitalism what is actually the fault of a lack of regulation. Capitalism has a ton of advantages that a socialist system would not have, the negatives are easy enough to deal with but while the rich rule the world, there is little interest.

Wealth and income limits for individuals and companies are a start. No one needs to be a billionaire, and they sure as hell didn't earn it.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-12-27 23:28:25+00:00
They say much worse things about me! Donald Trump, the leader of the MAGA people, released a Christmas greeting calling me scum (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1157772703684...) - I've never done that and would never do that to even my worst political opponents. I don't understand why people persist in drawing this false equivalence. Are you in a media bubble where you don't see the things Trump says and does?
by tomhow | 2025-12-27 23:29:03+00:00
HN is for curious conversation, not ideological battle. The guidelines are clear about this and HN is only a place where people want to participate because we have those guidelines and uphold them every day.

If you know in advance you're going to be downvoted, you're conceding that you're not willing to bother trying to engage in this discussion in the spirit of curious conversation. Bludgeoning people over the head with your points, each prefaced with the word "fact" in all-caps is not curious conversation and is not the intended use of HN.

We want this to be a place where difficult topics can be discussed and heterodox positions can be presented, but that can only happen if people make an effort to be conversational and persuasive rather than belligerent.
by bdangubic | 2025-12-27 23:29:25+00:00
re-read your own comment and then question just how silly the argument you are making is. starting from the bottom, you are saying it was better before when President made an effort to lie about shit they did.

then you are talking about counting dollar amounts as if we have access to bank accounts and shit to check these “dollar amounts” to see who stole more (we don’t but I am sure you can find some stories about some made up numbers and go “here, Trump this, Clinton that, Trump > Clinton - boom)

And my fav, the “degree and magnitute” is the shit, that is also something we can scientifically measure LOL. I am left-leaning centrists, most of my friends are right-leaning and for the AOC is more corrupt than Trump so you know, whatever world you live in will define “degree and magnitude”
by tzs | 2025-12-27 23:30:52+00:00
(I'm including in this replies to both the comment immediately above and your comment two levels up from that)

> Well they kind of are, in that the real perps are not them but folks like the Koch family who fund entire think tanks and counter programming to serve their narrow interests.

The Kochs also fund Nova on PBS which has produced and continues to produce a large amount of in-depth scientifically accurate reporting about climate change.

> People as a whole are not experts in every possible area, nor is everyone universally smart

But there are experts and there are smart people who write about what they experts say. Someone doesn't have to be either an expert themself or smart themself to realize that they should try to find what those experts and those smart people think in important areas so they can better choose politicians who will handle policy in those areas correctly.

A heck of a lot of voters put in less effort looking into competing claims of rival Presidential candidates than they do to check out the claims of rival manufacturers when they want to buy an air fryer.

Yes, the politicians that do bad things should be blamed, but I'm also going to blame the people who voted for them if the politicians said they would do those things and even a little research by the voter would have turned up that those things are bad.
by stavros | 2025-12-27 23:32:09+00:00
Yeah, I think the article conflated a few points: I think the issue the author was having was that he thought that decentralized social networks were meant to be decentralized communication platforms, when they were meant to be decentralized content delivery platforms.

The problem isn't the decentralization, it's the choice of a goal. However, email, IRC, Matrix, etc all already exist, and are what the author wants, so I do see tbe article as a bit misguided.

I think what the author meant to say was "I thought ActivityPub was meant to be more like Matrix, but it's not, and I'm sad about that".
Show HN: I built opencode –> telegram notification plugin
by davasny | 2025-12-27 23:32:39+00:00
I had a problem with keeping focus on opencode terminal when it was doing tasks longer than ~30 seconds, so I built a small plugin that sends telegram notification to ping me when agent finishes.

Setup:

1. Send /start to the bot

2. Execute bash command that the bot sends you back. You can see source code of the script here [1] and the built plugin here [2].

3. Done! Whenever your agent finish, you will get message with project name, session title and duration of the agent work.

I decided to make it available to everyone on my free tier of cloudflare workers, but it's fully hostable on your own cloudflare accounts or even docker containers on custom infra with few minor changes in the code.

Development was done mostly by Claude Opus 4.5 and custom agents in opencode.

[1] https://github.com/Davasny/opencode-telegram-notification-pl...

[2] https://github.com/Davasny/opencode-telegram-notification-pl...
by criticalfault | 2025-12-27 23:33:14+00:00
if you ever come into a position that you could try or would like to try gnome, I would encourage you to do it. maybe you could eliminate that bad opinion of Wayland (or confirm it)...

yes gnome has a vision of how the desktop should look like and strong behavior of "my way or the highway", but maybe you get surprised how well it works. especially on fedora.

I assumed wrongly other people (you mostly) use gnome by default, which obviously is not the case. in that case I could see it as a problem since not everyone has red hat resources for desktop development.
by asveikau | 2025-12-27 23:33:32+00:00
I feel there is currently a bit of of internalized propaganda about protests being stupid or worse. Witness any cause which involves protesting by blocking the street. You get an army of internet trolls talking up the idea that this is somehow evil.

In the civil rights era, events like crossing bridges on foot were a key feature, done by people like Martin Luther King. In the modern era, if you see a protest on the golden gate bridge as an example, they'll be called terrorists and people will advocate for violence against them.
by pixelready | 2025-12-27 23:33:39+00:00
I believe this is the intended effect of maintaining some level of homelessness and unemployment in American policy decisions. Full employment and suffering reduction through a strong safety net are the correct moral imperatives, but they reduce the leverage of a central authority. You can see whose priorities win out.

I think there is a soft self-destruction happening among millennials and beyond in the US and similar societies. They have been so worn down by living in a system that refuses to invest properly in them that they are taking the fatalist route of simply refusing to participate in the building of a future.

Limited procreation, disengaging from politics or mindlessly bandwagoning demagogues, deaths of despair, etc… it’s not universal but the trend lines are certainly worrying.
by Rendello | 2025-12-27 23:34:07+00:00
That's one reason I don't like to drink. I can moderate myself (I don't like being inebriated at all), but some around me are active or recovering alcoholics. So why drink in front of them?

A recovering family member told me the location of every bottle of booze in the family home where we were, their type, and how full they were. In the fridge, the back of the cupboard, and in the basement under the laundry rack. Even though he'd stopped drinking! So, I don't even like keeping alcohol in the house anymore, especially if it's not locked up.
by snops | 2025-12-27 23:34:33+00:00
TFA does directly mention the NPU "Arm-China Zhouyi: 30 TOPS (Dedicated)"

"you cannot simply use standard versions of PyTorch or TensorFlow out of the box. You must use the NeuralONE AI SDK."

Neon is a SIMD instruction set for the CPU, not a separate accelerator. It doesn't need an SDK to use, it's supported by compiler intrinsics and assembly language in any modern ARM compiler.
by vel0city | 2025-12-27 23:34:36+00:00
27 isn't 35 no matter how many times you say it is.

> If your actual mileage is over 15625/year, then you're paying less than the equivalent.

The average is less than that by a decent bit, so more than half of US cars are paying more even with your unproven, contorted math based on some estimates done once in the 70s and never really looked into closely again.

It's also assuming the difference in weight. The closest hybrid I would have bought instead is only like 100kg lighter than my EV. And it gets like 40mpg, better than 35mpg.

It would also mean semi trucks should pay like 20,000x more in registration fees. Does this make sense?

> What's your annual mileage?

Less than 15k on that car (like most people), so even with your assumed math it's overpaying.
by xvector | 2025-12-27 23:34:42+00:00
Incredibly bothersome that these executives can rise so high and get paid so much despite having such terrible decisionmaking skills.

An injection to cure obesity is a small price to ask, as any person that has been obese will tell you. They could have determined this from a simple survey.

What was the human cost of their decision? Maybe an entire delayed decade of progress? How many people died, that could have been saved?

I would love to meet some of these executives and understand what they were thinking, and if they understand/regret the impact of their foolishness.
by cons0le | 2025-12-27 23:35:10+00:00
I'd love to lobby for "the right" to opt out of AI features.

When I google search "why is the sky blue" , it spins up an LLM. This is incredibly wasteful for simple, known answers.

When my friend googles the same thing, it spins up the LLM again. Google was a pioneer of search indexing, and now it seems like we don't attempt to index answers at all. They're spinning up an LLM every time because they're trying to run up the AI "adoption" metrics.

I'd love to be able to ask for simple things, like the address of the local restaurant 3 blocks away, without firing up a GPU in an AI data center.

I don't always want to "talk with" a computer. Sometimes I just want to "use" a computer. Maybe that makes me a fool. Or an old man yelling at clouds.
by xg15 | 2025-12-27 23:35:20+00:00
> Don’t ask about the code which line-breaks partial ligatures though.

Wondered about this. All the circular dependencies sound like you could feasibly get some style/layout combinations that lead to self-contradictory situations.

E.g. consider a ligature that's wider than the characters' individual glyphs. If the ligature is at the end of the box, it could trigger a line break. But that line break would also break up the ligature and cause the characters to be rendered as individual glyphs, reducing their width - which would undo the line break. But without the line break, the ligature would reconnect, increase the width and restore the line break, etc etc...
by neilv | 2025-12-27 23:35:34+00:00
Point taken, but as an aside, I'm just guessing that RMS was way too smart and knowledgeable to fall for Ayn Rand, for long.

Some people with no other frame (e.g., very insulated teenagers) might accept the given values she proposes (because, why not), but if you read when she tries to make a direct argument, it's clearly shoddy and manipulative, with confident big leaps of logic that she's trying to sneak past the listener.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-27 23:35:58+00:00
I’d be more impressed with something that could pump enough energy into a StarLink satellite from the ground to disable it during its orbit over ground Russia (or China) controls, but I’m unsure if we’re there yet, as 550km is a lot of distance to cover with directed energy considering the short period of visibility during a pass.

https://npolicy.org/coping-with-the-ground-based-laser-asat-...

https://theprint.in/defence/these-futuristic-chinese-space-d...
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-12-27 23:36:00+00:00
"It's how code is written" then you list like the 6 highest profile, highest investment premier software projects on Earth like that's just normal.

I'm surprised by how confident you are when you can only name projects you've never worked on. I wanted to find a commit of yours to prove my point, but I can't find a line of code you've written.
by marcosdumay | 2025-12-27 23:36:13+00:00
The article answers your question:

> The dollar’s share had already been below 50% before, in 1990 and 1991, after a long plunge from the peak in 1977 (share of 85.5%). This plunge accompanied a deep crisis in the US with sky-high inflation and interest rates, and four recessions over those years, including the nasty double-dip recession.

Or, in other words, at 1991 the US started recovering from the Oil Crisis and the subsequent fuckery. There's a dip in that number around the time the USSR felt, but it's just a small acceleration to the trend.

> Makes me wonder: is this just an artifact of the world being relatively "stable" right now?

Do you think the world is relatively "stable" right now?

Oh, and I'd check the data before believing usage in trade debt and crisis funding are going strong. Two of those are constantly making headlines for how they are decreasing, and "crisis funding" is basically another name for "reserve currency".