MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anthonypasq | 2025-12-03 19:55:07+00:00
> Call me crazy, but maybe mass transit doesn't need to make money to be useful.

This is such a heinous non-sequiter i dont even know where to begin. Government services take money to operate. Government services are paid by taxes. In a democracy, you need to make people agree that they want to pay taxes for particular services.

The 60% of massachusetts residents who dont live in teh greater boston metro area do not want to pay for a service they dont use, so it is nearly politically impossible to raise the budget of the MBTA.

So if you are a massachusetts state legistlator you have a couple options. you can allow the MBTA to continue to deteriorate while also going over budget every year (current state) or you could increase the fare to compensate for the actual cost it takes to run the service, or your third option, which is to decrease the amount of money that goes to an already deteriorating public service.

edit: 50-55% of car related infrastructure costs are paid by gas taxes, tolls, excise taxes etc. currently <30% of the mbtas budget is covered by fares.
by brightball | 2025-12-03 19:55:08+00:00
Yea, I believe the human miles without crash is something like 496,000, Tesla emergency intervention alone increases it to about 2 million and FSD is sitting at 6 million.

My biggest gripe with FSD is typically that it's too safe in a few situations where I would have gone a little sooner at an intersection.

EDIT: https://www.tesla.com/fsd/safety

Miles Driven Before Major Collision

699,000 - US Avg

972,000 - Teslas Driven Manually (no active safety features)

2.3 mil - Tesla Driven Manually (active safety features)

5.1 mil - Tesla Driven with FSD (supervised)

Miles Driven Before Minor Collision

229,000 - US Avg

308,000 - Teslas Driven Manually (no active safety features)

741,000 - Tesla Driven Manually (active safety features)

1.5 mil - Tesla Driven with FSD (supervised)
by robocat | 2025-12-03 19:55:16+00:00
Natural gas production has peaked: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=66564 (see second graph)

Planning gas turbines doesn't help much if gas prices are about to increase due to lack of new supply.

New Zealand put in peaker gas turbines, but is running out of gas to run them, so its electricity market is gonna be fucked in a dry year (reduced water from weather for hydro):

• Domestic gas production is forecast to fall almost 50 per cent below projections made just three years ago. • In a dry year, New Zealand no longer has enough domestic gas to [both] fully operate existing thermal generation and meet industrial gas demand.

https://www.mbie.govt.nz/dmsdocument/31240-factsheet-challen...
by vablings | 2025-12-03 19:55:32+00:00
I do think a large portion of the huge price for this equipment is that it is very niche and only a few mfg's eg keysight/agilent make this kind of stuff.

Im sure if the DMA market goes way of the RAM bus sniffing its will be a year or two before mass produced products are on the market that can sniff the traffic without much reduction in signal quality and maximum data rate.
by pixelatedindex | 2025-12-03 19:56:19+00:00
It’s not jealousy, it’s equality. If insider trading is illegal, then it should be illegal for everyone and Congress should be no exception. They have even more opportunities and insider knowledge, about many more companies than I do. It absolutely affects how they govern, they tend to be more corrupt because they don’t have to abide by the same regulations that a civilian does.
by Legend2440 | 2025-12-03 19:56:45+00:00
One problem is that, even though it is turing-complete, many practical operations are very difficult. Patterns tend towards chaos and they tend towards fading out, which are not good properties for useful computation. Simply moving information from one part of the grid to another requires complex structures like spaceships.

You might have better luck with other variants. Reversible cellular automata have a sort of 'conservation of mass' where cells act more like particles. Continuous cellular automata (like Lenia) have less chaotic behavior. Neural cellular automata can be trained with gradient descent.
by stevenalowe | 2025-12-03 19:56:52+00:00
“By banning outdoor camps and pouring resources into one campus, critics framed the state’s efforts as using coercion to move marginalized individuals to some place where they are less visible, and unable to leave of their own free will”

Sure, they want to round up people off the street and concentrate them in prison-like camps, but no idea where the Nazi comparison came from
by philistine | 2025-12-03 19:57:19+00:00
> At least right now, there isn't a competitive x86 chip

I don't think there will ever be a competitive x86 chip. ARM is eating the world piece by piece. The only reason the Steam Deck is running x86 is because it's not performant enough with two translations (Windows to Linux, x86 to ARM). Valve is very wisely starting the switch with a VR headset, a far less popular device than its already niche Steam Deck. The next Steam Deck might already switch to ARM looking at what they announced last week.

x86 is on the way out. Not in two years, perhaps not in ten years. But there will come a time where the economics no longer make sense and no one can afford to develop competitive chips for the server+gamers market alone. Then x86 is truly dead.
by yieldcrv | 2025-12-03 19:57:33+00:00
I've worked in several "agentic" roles this year alone (I'm very poachable lol)

and otherwise well structured engineering orgs have lost their goddamn minds with move fast and break things

because they're worried that OpenAI/Google/Meta/Amazon/Anthropic will release the tool they're working on tomorrow

literally all of them are like this
by trueno | 2025-12-03 19:58:03+00:00
ive found ghostty to be a pretty decent replacement for iterm2, some bugs still being worked out and i havent always had the best luck with the guake dropdown style terminal but all in all it's pretty nice. sort of miss the additional hot-key invoking options iterm2 had (i could double tap control or cmd to invoke) and ghostty is a lil more limited there, but overall its solid, doesn't feel bloated. iterm2's settings gui was a total tragedy. there was some xterm related issue i ran into ssh'ing into a vps but i can't even remember for the life of me what that was.

i didnt even consider that having to configure everything with a config file allows apps like this https://github.com/zerebos/ghostty-config to exist. neat
by craftkiller | 2025-12-03 19:58:25+00:00
That is why I bought a steam deck: to financially support Valve's Linux efforts. I barely play games anymore but thanks to the Wine devs, CodeWeavers, and Valve, I no longer have to listen to the knuckle-draggers claiming that "Linux sucks because it can't play games". In fact, now it is the opposite: Linux is outperforming Windows[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJXp3UYj50Q
by shadowgovt | 2025-12-03 19:58:31+00:00
It's c) "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). "I don't like how this content was generated" is a tangential annoyance. One might as well be complaining about "I don't like this author's poor grasp of English" without addressing what they're trying to say with the language.

(And the "I don't like" part of that trips over "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity." We've all heard the pros and cons arguments of AI-augmented output by now. Fighting the fight here is just adding noise).
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-12-03 19:58:41+00:00
>Or we can recruit lawmakers how we choose juries: randomly. Every two years we randomly select 435 individuals to

If anyone doesn't like that number (435), there's already a constitutional amendment to bump it up to 6000ish. It's been ratified by 12 states, so only 26 more needed. Call your state legislator today and ask why they're not ratifying it.
by BizarroLand | 2025-12-03 19:58:51+00:00
There's WinAeroTweaker, Win11Debloat, FlyOOBE, ChrisTitus App, and dozens more that don't cost a thing because they're basically a collection of powershell scripts and a wrapper.

It's a valid question. What does a paid app offer that these free and easier to get alternatives do not?
by mfperminov | 2025-12-03 19:58:57+00:00
Location: Belarus

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: 7+ years in android. have experience with most of modern Android libraries, frameworks, technologies including Jetpack Compose

Résumé/CV: https://mfperminov.github.io/resume/Mikhail-Perminov-Android...

Email: mperminov.work@gmail.com
by ebbi | 2025-12-03 19:59:04+00:00
I read somewhere that his replacement, Stephen Lemay, was close to Steve Jobs, which is promising in the view of reversing/remediating some of the issues that came with Liquid Glass. I follow an ex-Apple designer on Mastodon who did not have many positive things to say about Dye, so this feels like a net positive for Apple users. Fingers crossed.
Ask HN: Does anything beat Hetzner Storage Boxes for the price?
by opengrass | 2025-12-03 19:59:07+00:00
The lowest end BX11 has 1TB storage, free bandwidth, for €3.80 a month with VAT or $4.40. Object storage is a tad more and egress is billed, but you may setup Garage for your own S3 on any cloud.
by rsync | 2025-12-03 19:59:19+00:00
"... because good enough quality roads are so cheap ..."

If there is only one thing you take away from this discussion I hope it is:

Roadbuilding is fantastically, stupefyinlgy expensive. One can hardly believe just how expensive a safe, standards-based, high quality, durable stretch of asphalt is.

You know how you drive somewhere and then there are some cones set up and a lane of traffic is blocked off while two or three machines and a handful of guys repave a short section and then 20 seconds later the cones end and you're back up to full speed ? You just drove past millions of dollars of budget.
by nullbound | 2025-12-03 19:59:22+00:00
'If you could classify your project as "AI," you were safe and prestigious. If you couldn't, you were nobody. Overnight, most engineers got rebranded as "not AI talent."'

It hits weirdly close to home. Our leadership did not technically mandate use, but 'strongly encourages' it. I did not even have my review yet, but I know that once we get to the goals part, use of AI tools will be an actual metric ( which is.. in my head somewhere between skeptic and evangelist.. dumb ).

But the 'AI talent' part fits. For mundane stuff like data model, I need full committee approval from people, who don't get it anyway ( and whose entire contribution is: 'what other companies are doing' ).
by kg | 2025-12-03 20:00:20+00:00
EDIT: Removed part of my post that pissed people off for some reason. shrug

It makes a lot of sense that someone casually coming in to use chatgpt for 30 minutes a week doesn't have any reason to think more deeply about what using that tool 'means' or where it came from. Honestly, they shouldn't have to think about it.
by tinyhouse | 2025-12-03 20:00:26+00:00
Anthropic is a $1T company in the making (by 2030), already raised their last round at ~$200B valuation. Do you really think Amazon can acquire them? They already invested a lot of money in them and probably own at least 20% of Anthropic, which was the smartest thing Jassy did in a while. Not to mention, if Adobe wasn't allowed to buy Figma, do you think Amazon will be allowed to buy Anthropic? No way it's going to be approved.

> I don't see the pure "AI" plays like OpenAI and Anthropic able to survive as independent companies when they are competing against the likes of Google, and with Microsoft and Amazon happy to serve whatever future model comes along.

One thing you're right about - Anthropic isn't surviving - it's thriving. Probably the fastest growing revenue in history.
by redrove | 2025-12-03 20:00:45+00:00
I’ve been using this https://github.com/khairul169/garage-webui as a UI for Garage. It’s been solid.

After years of using Garage for S3 for the homelab I’d never pick anything else. Absolutely rock solid, no problem whatsoever. There isn’t ONE other piece of software I can say that about, not ONE.

Major kudos to the guys at deuxfleurs. Merci beaucoup!
by nickff | 2025-12-03 20:00:50+00:00
I was under the distinct impression that Seattle was somewhat divided over 'big tech', with many long-term residents resenting Microsoft and Amazon's impact on the city (and longing for the 'artsy and free-spirited' place it used to be). Do you think those non-techies are sympathetic to the Microsofties and Amazonians? This is a genuine question, as I've never lived in Seattle, but I visit often, and live in the PNW.
by Draiken | 2025-12-03 20:00:51+00:00
I mean, people are dumb.

Anti cheats are as much a marketing ploy as they're actual anti cheats. People believe everyone is cheating so it must be true. People believe nobody bypasses the FACEIT anti cheat so it must be true. Neither of those are correct.

Riot revels in this by marketing their anti cheat, but there are always going to be cheaters. And sooner or later we will have vulnerabilities in their kernel spyware. I much rather face a few cheaters here and there (which is not as common as people make it to be on high trust factor).

You think tournament organizers or pro players know the first thing about anti cheats? They buy the marketing just like everybody else.
by lukasb | 2025-12-03 20:01:06+00:00
I asked about the Peninsula campaign during the Civil War and it gave me an overview, a map, profiles (with photos) of the main military commanders, a relevant Youtube video ... rough edges but overall love the format.

Rough edges: - aspect ratios on photos (maybe because I was on mobile, cropping was weird) - map was very hard to read (again, mobile) - some formatting problems with tables - it tried to show an embedded Gmap for one location but must have gotten the location wrong, was just ocean
by knollimar | 2025-12-03 20:01:12+00:00
If I lease tools that triple your productivity for the same cost as your wage, how much more do I pay you?

My point is increases in productivity can be caused by capital investment, not totally attributable to the worker. That money has to come from somewhere.

Ideally there's a fair balance. This isn't it but you can't look at the number you referenced blindly.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-12-03 20:01:17+00:00
There's a reason humans invent colourful language and epithets. They always do, in all languages. Because it's useful! I have never liked the mob of people that think we should all be super diplomatic corpospeakers who hedge everything and who think that not doing so is "offensive" or "unprofessional".

Agreed with you and OP. More to the point, the final rewrite leaves out any meaningful why. Perhaps they could/should be more diplomatic about their distaste, but leaving it out all together leaves quite the elephant in the room.

Then again the front end rewrite (which GitHub was crowing about for quite a while) and doubling down on AI nonsense got me to stop using GH for personal projects and to stop contributing to projects hosted on GH.
by kg | 2025-12-03 20:02:17+00:00
I know of at least one bigco that will no longer hire anyone, period, who doesn't have at least 6 months of experience using genai to code and isn't enthusiastic about genai. No exceptions. I assume this is probably true of other companies too.

I think it makes some amount of sense if you've decided you want to be "an AI company", but it also makes me wary. Apocryphally Google for a long period of time struggled to hire some people because they weren't an 'ideal culture fit'. i.e. you're trying to hire someone to fix Linux kernel bugs you hit in production, but they don't know enough about Java or Python to pass the interview gauntlet...
by tasspeed | 2025-12-03 20:02:30+00:00
textbook way to NOT rollout AI for your org. AI has genuine benefits to white collar workers, but they are not trained for the use-cases that would actually benefit them, nor are they trained in what the tech is actually good at. they are being punished for using the tools poorly (with no guidance on how to use them "good"), and when they use the tools well, they fear being laid off once an SOP for their AI workflows are written.
by root_axis | 2025-12-03 20:02:44+00:00
As far as I'm aware, transitive dependencies are counted in this number. So when you npm install next.js, the download count for everything in its dependency tree gets incremented.

Beyond that, I think there is good reason to believe that the number is inflated due to automated downloads from things like CI pipelines, where hundreds or thousands of downloads might only represent a single instance in the wild.
by philistine | 2025-12-03 20:03:11+00:00
> As many people as were employed as artisans?

Counterintuitively, yes! Automation unlocked the birth of a worker class that could now afford the products made by automation, producing a virtuous spiral of growth. AI is breaking everybody's social compact. The workers' labour is used as training with nothing given back and the owners' consumers are unemployed giving you no market for your goods.
by SecretDreams | 2025-12-03 20:03:18+00:00
> My former coworker—the composite of three people for anonymity—now believes she's both unqualified for AI work and *that AI isn't worth doing anyway*. *She's wrong on both counts*, but the culture made sure she'd land there.

I'm not sure they're as wrong as these statements imply?

Do we think there's more or less crap out now with the advent and pervasiveness of AI? Not just from random CEOs pushing things top down, but even from ICs doing their own gig?
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-12-03 20:03:21+00:00
Argubaly, the complexity issue is not only the protocols themselves but also the fact that thanks to the companies pushing HTTP/2 and 3, there are now multiple (competing/overlapping/incompatible) protocols

For example, people passing requests received by HTTP/2 frontends to HTTP/1.1 backends
by glitchc | 2025-12-03 20:03:35+00:00
Reading through your post, it's likely the noise sourced from the network cable is coupling into your headset cable. Check how close those cables are to each other If you're using a USB port at the back for your DAC, try switching it to the front. The noise can also come from the power supply which couples into the motherboard's ground plane and shows up on all USB ports.
by ActorNightly | 2025-12-03 20:03:36+00:00
From a functional pespective, it would provide somewhat identical performance to existing systems with a lower cost due to less dependence on compute and more dependence on storage. It would also allow more on-prem solutions.

However the issue with "funding" isn't as simple as that statement above. Remember, modern funding is not about value its about hype. There is a reason why CEOs like Jenson say that if they could go back in time, they would never start their companies knowing the bullshit they have to walk through.

Ive also had my fair share of experiences in trying to get startups off the ground - for example, back around 2018, I was working on a system that would take your existing AWS cloud setup, and move it all to EC2s with self hosted services, which saved people money in the long run. I had proof of concept working and everything. The issue that I ran into when trying to get funding to build this out into a full blown product/service that I didn't realize is that being on AWS services for companies was equivalent to a person wearing an expensive business suit to a sales meeting - it was fact that they would advertise because it was seen as industry standard and created "warm feelings" with their customers. So at most, I would get some small time customers, while getting paid much less.

Now I just work on stuff (and yes, I am working on the issue at hand with existing models), and publish it to github (not gonna share it cause don't want my HN account associated with it). If someone contacts me with a dollar figure Im all game.
by dbg31415 | 2025-12-03 20:03:40+00:00
I hit a similar issue on my MacBook Pro. Whenever I watched YouTube or streamed Spotify while playing a game, the audio broke into little "clipping chirps" and static.

For me the culprit was Game Mode. I still don't really know what it does, but disabling it fixed everything. None of my games come close to stressing the CPU, yet Game Mode was throttling anything that wasn't the game. It was also on by default, which felt like a design miss.

For MacOS, a better approach would be to check what's happening on the second monitor or at least avoid throttling apps that aren't being displayed. Assuming the game deserves all system resources and that the user doesn't want to watch or listen to anything else is a bad bet.

Anyway, the good news is the fix on a Mac is simple once you know where to look. (=
by danabramov | 2025-12-03 20:03:42+00:00
Server Components is not really related to SSR.

I like to think of Server Components as componentized BFF ("backend for frontend") layer. Each piece of UI has some associated "API" with it (whether REST endpoints, GraphQL, RPC, or what have you). Server Components let you express the dependency between the "backend piece" and the "frontend piece" as an import, instead of as a `fetch` (client calling server) or a <script> (server calling client). You can still have an API layer of course, but this gives you a syntactical way to express that there's a piece of backend that prepares data for this piece of frontend.

This resolves tensions between evolving both sides: the each piece of backend always prepares the exact data the corresponding piece of frontend needs because they're literally bound by a function call (or rather JSX). This also lets you load data as granularly as you want without blocking (very nice when you have a low-latency data layer).

Of course you can still have a traditional REST API if you want. But you can also have UI-specific server computation in the middle. There's inherent tension between the data needed to display the UI (a view model) and the way the data is stored (database model); RSC gives you a place to put UI-specific logic that should execute on the backend but keeps composability benefits of components.
by kg | 2025-12-03 20:04:30+00:00
Great write-up. This is basically spam but I want to specifically thank the author for pointing out their solution, because it's directly applicable to one of my own projects and I'm going to do it tonight!

> There’s no need to download the whole texture each frame, just the part of the picking texture that’s under the mouse. So I implemented that and it worked and buzzing is gone. As a bonus, now it’s also not visible at all on the GPU trace.
by constantcrying | 2025-12-03 20:04:37+00:00
It can be simultaneously true that AI is a world changing technology, with drastic consequences for how we live our lives and it is a massive financial bubble, built on extremely overconfident bets.

This exact scenario happened with the dotcom bubble. Inarguably Internet services drastically changed everyone's daily lives, yet the buildup of Internet infrastructure was based on excessively optimistic predictions, leading to a bubble.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-03 20:04:40+00:00
Oh I see. Yeah, perhaps slightly for the syntax. I suppose Java's idiom of naming classes (its only user defined types) with capital letters stands out as more similar and so in Java our growable array of geese is ArrayList<Goose>, in Rust it's Vec<Goose> but in C++ std::vector<Goose> or perhaps std::vector<goose> if we're copying the style of the standard library.

It doesn't feel like very much, but now that you spell it out I guess I do see it.
by mingus88 | 2025-12-03 20:04:44+00:00
My DL expired this year. I renewed it with an online web form, so I was not able to upgrade it to real ID

I have a passport, and apple wallet recently enabled support for US passports, so I personally don’t see myself going to the DMV until I absolutely must

But as long as it’s possibly to renew without realID, I think most people will take that option