MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hnlmorg | 2025-12-06 13:26:53+00:00
Yeah, I do see what you mean.

I wonder if the unspoken “paradigm” shift is the distribution was vibe coded.

There’s a lot of contradictions on the landing page that would easily be explained by either kids writing it, or someone vibecoding the site.

Such as their claim that updates are a “single iso”, and also their claim about a single App Store, and they then go on to discuss flatpak and homebrew package management.

Or their claim to have redesigned the desktop from the ground up, while boasting they run KDE/Plasma.

And there’s also the claims that it brings something totally new while then going on to describe core Linux features.

Also the scripts running “non intrusively” yet that’s just what you’d expect any seasoned admin to do. This isn’t a headline feature unless you’re new to the game.

Good luck to the guys. I hope they enjoy the exercise. But this is definitely a hobby project cosplaying as a serious distro
by turnsout | 2025-12-06 13:26:53+00:00
Throughout time, people have complained that technology is ruining the world. Before AI it was the internet, and before that it was TV, nuclear power, and so on.

The quoted GP in the headline is correct. Life is just stressful. Previous generations understood this more, but my peers (Millennials) have an annoying tendency to complain that things are worse now than they ever have been, and their ADHD/anxiety is related to how "the world is now." It's BS. And it robs them of agency. Constant "happiness" should not be the goal, and the successful people Millennials admire are all living with stress and anxiety. It is normal.
by api | 2025-12-06 13:26:56+00:00
Don’t buy appliances with anything but a small screen. Any large screen on any appliance will be used to show ads. If not now then eventually.

It’s also a gimmick, and gimmicks on things like appliances and cars are red flags for poor quality. Appliances in particular are best when simple and designed for their function. “Feature” means “thing that will break.”
by whatthesmack | 2025-12-06 13:27:00+00:00
> Why can't we classify a level or something? For example "Autistic level 1" for Asperger's, "Autistic level 2" for barely verbal, "Autistic level 3" for non-verbel... Something like that

Congratulations, the DSM-5 must have heard you talking :) It does have levels for autism, and classifies the levels in terms of support required:

- Level 1: Requiring support - Level 2: Requiring substantial support - Level 3: Requiring very substantial support

> To lump both those together is insane.

I'm diagnosed with ADHD and also clearly on the spectrum. This life has been decades of confusion and--finally--answers & discovery. My time with my son--diagnosed as Level 1 autistic--and my time observing people in Level 2 and level 3 makes me realize that what you say about lumping everything together is spot on. I always feel like our diagnoses make life oh so difficult, but then I see what parents and guardians of Level 3 autistic people go through and have nothing but endless empathy.
by hodgesrm | 2025-12-06 13:27:04+00:00
> For your own personal sake, you may be selfishly wishing it’s as few people as possible. Eventually they’ll outlaw VPNs too and by then you’ll have little recourse. You can’t hide behind them forever, deeper change is needed.

It does not work that way in functioning democracies. This is like blithely raising people's electric bills in the name of preventing global warming. Noble aspirations but brain dead implementation that completely undermines the original goal. And fuels, one might add, the rise of political parties that just want to burn everything down.

Personally I went from more or less ignorant of these laws to completely outraged in the time it took to eat a couple of sausages.

Why don't we humans think this stuff through? Surely we can do better.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-06 13:27:09+00:00
There is a persistent and perhaps fundamental problem of balancing self optimization and social optimization.

A group of people are trudging through the desert with limited water arduously pumped from scattered wells. Do you ration water such that everyone gets equal amounts or such that those sweating the most get the most.

Solve this dilemma accounting for the fractal parameters that go into it, and you'll have a utopia.
by pas | 2025-12-06 13:27:12+00:00
it's not that simple, no?

users want to do things, if their goal depends on a complex chain of functions (provided by various semi-independent services) then the ideal setup would be to have redundant providers and users could simply "load balance" between them and that separate high-level providers' uptime state is clustered (meaning that when Google is unavailable Bing is up, and when Random Site A, goes down their payment provider goes down too, etc..)

So ideally sites would somehow sort themselves nearly to separate availability groups.

Otherwise simply having a lot of uncorrelated downtimes doesn't help (if we count the sum of downtime experienced by people). Though again it gets complicated by the downtime percentage, because likely there's a phase shift between the states when user can mostly complete their goals and when they cannot because too many cascading failures.
by dspillett | 2025-12-06 13:27:23+00:00
> "No worse than streamed" is a far cry from a quality high-bitrate 4k UHD physical release.

Fair point, especially for people with eyes good enough (or screens huge enough) to get the benefit (so, not me!) and who are paying attention enough to notice anyway (so, not a great number of the viewing public).

It is worth noting that "no worse then streamed" generally, even if taken from a streaming source, it's going to be better than most viewers will get streaming because those capping the stream for redistribution are far more likely to have jumped through all the hoops needed to get the best streaming has to offer (paying for the best streaming has to offer, is usually not sufficient).
by Scandiravian | 2025-12-06 13:27:37+00:00
I can see your point that it can be daunting to have all the pain upfront. When I was using Ubuntu on my servers it was super simple to get things running

The problem was when I had to change some obscure .ini file in /etc for a dependency to something new I was setting up. Three days later I'd realise something unrelated had stopped working and then had to figure out which change in the last many days caused this

For me this is at least 100x more difficult than writing a Nix module, because I'm simply not good at documenting my changes in parallel with making them

For others this might not be a problem, so then an imperative solution might be the best choice

Having used Nix and NixOS for the past 6-7 years, I honestly can't imagine myself using anything than declarative configuration again - but again, it's just a good fit for me and how my mind works
by KronisLV | 2025-12-06 13:27:47+00:00
It's also entirely possible that life is indeed just messed up in a way that human brains didn't evolve for and can't deal with - all the societal changes, breakdowns of close relationships and communities (e.g. the disappearance of the 3rd place in addition to work and home), as well as most people being stuck in an endless stressful rat race that they will not ever escape due to the state of the economy and the moneyed interests, alongside the daily stress and social media making things worse. All the injustice out there, maladaptive behaviors, normalization of hate and borderline tribal "us vs them" mentality at pretty much every turn (genders, politics, race, everything). Might be a consequence of being too exposed to information out there and not ignorant enough, but go figure.
by nis0s | 2025-12-06 13:28:10+00:00
Let’s also shed light on what behaviors neurotypicals usually have a problem with that they cast as negatives in high-functioning autists:

1) Not being mindful of hierarchy

2) Not being mindful of socially determined rules, that is rules which are not codified in any official language of conduct

3) Not wanting to socialize, or wanting to socialize differently

4) Trouble with emotional regulation, possibly due to social issues

Tell me, which of these points, and there are many more, point to this being an individual’s problem?

For high-functioning autists, the problem is other people.

People need to realize that they’re not great to deal with on average, and if someone chooses to not engage with you, don’t take that as an insult. Maybe you’re all better off not interacting with each other, but that doesn’t imply causing someone financial, emotional or physical harm just because they’re autistic.

Society both explicitly and implicitly punishes high-functioning autism.
by vouwfietsman | 2025-12-06 13:28:20+00:00
Indeed, again you are right. I've gone through the same motions as you trying to understand why the webdev people make this so complicated.

For your specific question here: NUMA & cpu cores don't suffer from the P in CAP: network partitions. If one of your CPU cores randomly stops responding, your system crashes, and that's fine because it never happens. If one of your web servers stops responding, which may happen for very common reasons and so is something you should absolutely design for, your system should keep working because otherwise you cannot build a reliable system out of many disconnected components (and I do mean many).

Also note that there is no way to really check if systems are available, only that you cannot reach them, which is significantly different.

Then we've not even reached the point that the CPU die makes communication extremely fast, whereas in a datacenter you're talking milliseconds, and if you are syncing with a different system accross data centers or even with clients, that story becomes wildely different.
by carlmr | 2025-12-06 13:28:30+00:00
This is also why I kind of hate it when rich people say that money doesn't make you happy. It's true, it doesn't but if you don't know how to pay for your next meal or worse your kids next meal, or you're sick and can't afford good care, then money does make all the difference.

In mathematical terms money might not be sufficient to make you happy, but it's a necessary condition indeed.
by voisin | 2025-12-06 13:29:33+00:00
I think it is far to keep working if you love what you are doing. To filter, there should be an absolute cap on wealth at a few hundred million dollars. This would eliminate the incentive to manipulate politics in favour of yourself, but if you want to keep working you should be doing it for society via charity or taxes on anything additional that is earned.

Have a nice ceremony and present a medal for winning capitalism.
by sieste | 2025-12-06 13:29:53+00:00
In my uni, students often don't even need a medical diagnosis to get certain accommodations.

This has created a kind of symbiosis between the wellbeing officers who make careers off of many students needing accommodations, and fit and healthy students who get academic advantages from being "diagnosed" disabled.

There are obviously students with genuine needs, and the wellbeing people are usually very nice and extremely empathic and caring. So you end up looking like a cruel asshole when you try to point out the perverse incentives within this system.

It's perfect.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-06 13:29:57+00:00
Billionaires are a convenient distraction for the upper middle class.

The wealthiest group of people (on the whole) is the 70-95th percentile.

If we were to have the toppling of "the rich" that brought about meaningful change to the "poor", it would necessarily include the toppling of the ~$200k income households.
by mrkeen | 2025-12-06 13:29:58+00:00
It's not unassuming. Rust is superior to many other languages for making this risky behaviour visually present in the code base.

You can go ahead and grep your codebase for this today, instead of waiting for an incident.

I'm a fairly new migrant from Java to C#, and when I do some kind of collection lookup, I still need to check whether the method will return a null, throw an exception, expect an out+variable, or worst of all, make up some kind of default. C#'s equivalent to unwrap seems to be '!' (or maybe .Val() or something?)
by esperent | 2025-12-06 13:30:08+00:00
Life being non-stop stressful for a majority of the population is not a personal illness, it's a societal illness. Although societal illness can definitely lead back to mental illness which is a very personal affliction.

I do agree that it shouldn't be the job of GPs to prescribe away mental illness though, any more than they should be telling you what eyeglasses to wear. Those jobs should go to psychiatrists and optometrists, respectively. The GP should merely refer you to the specialist.

It does beg the question though, since society is so clearly sick and appears to be getting worse in many countries, whose job is that to fix? The obvious answers are either "politicians" , or "all of us". But politicians seem just as afflicted as the rest, or even to be adding to the sickness in many cases. And saying we all need to come together to fix it might be a truism but is basically useless.
by alexfoo | 2025-12-06 13:30:40+00:00
Also the NHS ADHD/ASD services are completely overrun. Waiting lists for children can be more than 5 years long.

In order to cope with this the NHS has spun out much of the ADHD/ASD assessments through the Right To Choose program (well, in England at least, Scotland/Wales/NI are on their own), which means that private companies are being paid by the NHS to make up the shortfall. Ref: https://adhduk.co.uk/right-to-choose/

Some people say some of the private companies are too lenient with their diagnoses. Some people say that the NHS is too strict with their diagnoses. I'm sure the real answer is somewhere in the middle.

As you say, the sharp rise in diagnoses is probably more due to people become more aware, with less stigma attached, and having better access to assessment.

Shit like _Rain Man_ almost 30 years ago or, more recently stuff like _The Good Doctor_ really don't help though, as those just reinforce the negative stereotypes of Autism.

ADHD also has a strong genetic component with heritability around 75% according to various studies. My parents (undiagnosed but one definitely ADD+ASD) have 1/4 children diagnosed (and another 2/4 almost certainly undiagnosed, one neurotypical), and 6/10 grandchildren diagnosed (the other 4 are neurotypical).

Who knows, in 20 years time mainstream schools could have switched from 20% SEND and 80% neurotypical to 80% SEND and 20% neurotypical.
by hylaride | 2025-12-06 13:30:56+00:00
I get what he's trying to say, but the danger is people (especially management) getting the wrong impression. The risk of "move fast is good" is that it becomes hustle culture where people rush under deadlines and eventually burn out. There are plenty of occasions where slowing down and being thoughtful is beneficial. Often stopping focus is what gives eureka moments as the other side of the brain starts churning once new input ceases. There's a reason the cliché story of your best ideas happen on the toilet or in the shower are a thing.

It's like people reading Radical Candor (which I quite like) and concluding that being an asshole is ok.
by ofalkaed | 2025-12-06 13:31:08+00:00
In my one encounter with them I sent them a message detailing the issues I was experiencing along with what I had done to remedy the problems and the results. They emailed me asking for clarification on one point (my fault, I used ambiguous language). Their response to my clarification was that I had done everything they would have asked me to do and they would send me a new computer. Whole thing took 3 days from start to new computer at my door step. It was a good experience.
by slickdifferent | 2025-12-06 13:31:34+00:00
I think it's mostly just a privacy issue. The idea that your every movement is being recorded by the government is Orwellian, especially when they try to hide its existence, lie about its capabilities, and you have no say in the matter (referencing NSA metadata monitoring). The average person thinks their ring camera is like their coffee maker, an individual piece of technology they own and control. If it were released that everyone's ring cameras were being fed into some NSA program running facial recognition to track citizens movement I'm sure they would be upset about that too.
by RickJWagner | 2025-12-06 13:31:37+00:00
Here is a speech about illegal immigration from President Obama. He describes the problems caused by excess immigration. He also describes how he was stepping up efforts to stop illegal immigration and to deport those already over the border.

Do you think Obama was wrong, and was he evil in your eyes? Remember, he used ICE exactly the same way Trump is using ICE. ICE leadership is even the same team Obama used.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/1...
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-06 13:31:43+00:00
* Trucks are slower than personal cars.

* Pauses are required.

* Some roads cannot be used by some vehicles and/or cargo, especially in the Alps. Same with tunnels.

* Some countries ban trucks from their roads on certain days and hours, so a day off whether you want it or no.

* Sometimes your employer tells you to avoid some extra expensive road even at the cost of longer driving time. (Europe has a myriad of toll systems.)

* The cargo for the return journey is usually not ready on the same day, might well take five.
Show HN: FastAPI Matrix Admin – Zero-config secure admin panel with cyberpunk UI
by rasinmuhammed | 2025-12-06 13:31:48+00:00
Hi HN,

I built FastAPI Matrix Admin – an admin panel for FastAPI with a Matrix-style cyberpunk UI.

Live demo: https://fastapi-matrix-admin-demo.onrender.com/admin/ GitHub: https://github.com/rasinmuhammed/fastapi-matrix-admin

What makes it different:

1. One-line auto-discovery: admin.auto_discover(Base) registers all your SQLAlchemy models automatically. No config files, no manual registration.

2. Zero Node.js: Pure Python. No npm, no webpack, no build step. Tailwind via CDN, HTMX for interactions.

3. Unique Matrix theme: Terminal-style green/black aesthetic with neon glows. Most admin panels look generic – this one stands out.

4. Production-ready : Async SQLAlchemy 2.0, Pydantic v2, CSP middleware, CSRF protection, type-safe.

The project started as "fastapi-shadcn-admin" trying to copy shadcn/ui, but I realized the Matrix theme was becoming the actual differentiator, so I rebranded.

Tech stack: - Backend: FastAPI + SQLAlchemy (async) - Frontend: Jinja2 templates + HTMX + Alpine.js - Styling: Tailwind CSS (CDN) - Security: itsdangerous for signing, CSP middleware

I'd love feedback on: - Is auto-discovery actually useful or too magical? - Does the Matrix theme help or hurt adoption? - What features would make this production-ready for your use cases?

Thanks!
by mark_l_watson | 2025-12-06 13:31:53+00:00
I enjoy reading Peter’s ‘Python studies’ and was surprised to see here a comparison of different LLMs for solving advent of code problems, but the linked article is pretty cool.

Peter and a friend of his wrote an article over a year ago discussing whether or not LLMs are already AGI, and after re-reading that article my opinion was moved a bit to: LLMs are AGI in broad digital domains. I still need to see embodied AI in robots and physical devices before I think we are 100% of the way there. Still, I apply Gemini and also a lot of open weight models to both 1. coding problems and 2. after I read or watch material on Philosophy I almost always ask Gemini for a summary, references, and a short discussion based on what Gemini knows about me.
by xtafnuihc | 2025-12-06 13:32:16+00:00
Are you serious? I really need some help with my site. I’m building a web-based “spinning game” controlled by a physical bearing ring: the ring spins, and the browser game reacts in real time (WebSocket input + visual UI). I’d love to get your thoughts on the technical side. Would you be interested in taking a look?
Artificial Womb Technology: Survey of 750 Researchers
by biostark | 2025-12-06 13:32:50+00:00
Hey HN, thought some of you might want to AMA, here's the context:

I wanted to know if artificial wombs would happen in my lifetime. I couldn't find a straight answer, so I started emailing researchers.

I’ve seen photos of lambs floating in plastic bags crop up constantly in these discussions. They're from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, it’s not an artificial womb. CHOP's device keeps the lamb submerged in fluid so its fragile lungs aren't exposed to air, and gives oxygen to its blood using the same machines we use for adults with lung failure. This works for a 22-week fetus, which mostly just needs blood and nutrients, but it doesn't give an embryo somewhere to implant and develop from scratch.

I looked into what it would take to support an embryo earlier than that, and it turns out the mother does a lot we don't know how to replicate in a lab. I emailed someone at CHOP and they confirmed as much, a few of their colleagues called it a 'pipe dream' in a 2023 paper. I figured I'd just keep emailing researchers.

I went looking for real forecasts on getting this to work end-to-end. Metaculus predicts ~2044, but the comments cite similar articles about embryo research. The most credible-looking was a 2021 NYT piece about mouse embryos developing for ten days, so I emailed Dr. Hanna's lab. What they're doing is growing embryos in a nutrient bath: the nutrients soak in from the outside, but only so deep, so the cells inside eventually starve. I asked whether we’d need an artificial placenta to solve this problem, but they said they're sticking with the nutrient bath method since it's good for making embryos to study.

Matt Krisiloff mentioned on Twitter that at least four startups were working on this, so I kept emailing around. Haven't heard of anything interesting yet, but a researcher at CHOP told me some of them are literally repackaging incubator tech and presenting it as the real thing.

I’m running a fact-finding mission now, since information on this topic is weirdly hard to find. I mapped out some of the problems we’d need to solve for artificial wombs to work and recovered contact details from people working on research that’s relevant. I ended up with around 750 contacts including embryologists, cultivated meat people who work on keeping tissue alive outside of the body, bioprinting researchers, that sort of thing.

I’ve had a few of my own questions answered in this way, so I figured I'd open it up to you. If there's something you've always wondered about, even if it feels basic, I'm happy to look into it.

What would you want to ask?
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-12-06 13:33:14+00:00
That's the crazy part. The people at the top seem to think they're better off if they can get another billion in the bank, regardless of the impact on the rest of society. But they, too, live in that same society that they are destroying.

They seem to think it's better to be a king in the Middle Ages than just a regular rich person in modern society. They forget that the lives of kings in the Middle Ages were absolutely terrible.
by monerozcash | 2025-12-06 13:33:27+00:00
Oh but I have! And it is brilliant.

I've got codex-cli with speech-to-text hooked up to (among other things) Home Assistant via MCP.

It'll do anything. I can literally tell it to play some music from a playlist and make the lights flash to the beat, and it'll just figure out how to do that.

Is it fast? Not really. Is it annoyingly slow for quick tasks like turning the lights off? Not too annoying anyway. Turning the lights on/off takes about 4 seconds from when I finish speaking.
by sevensor | 2025-12-06 13:34:43+00:00
From the comments on the article, it sounds like regulators have been largely neutralized, and there are lots of shady semi fictitious brokers out there.

> As of this morning:

> 1,164,093 motor carriers are listed as “Authorized for Hire.”

> 107,757 freight brokers are “Authorized for Hire.”

> And right now, 206 of them list 30 N Gould Street, Sheridan WY 82801 as their primary address.