MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-12-24 23:15:59+00:00
Most of the price increase is coming from the ETS-system, or more well known as carbon trading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Emissions_Tradi...

Europe is an energy poor continent and the only method for long term industrial competitiveness are through renewables removing the for fossil fuels.

With renewables we’ve lowered the bottom of energy prices and with ETS we’ve raised the top end. Leading to maximum volatility as things shake out.
by ultrarunner | 2025-12-24 23:16:26+00:00
I don’t think that an unleaded fuel is 100% ready to go, but you’re absolutely right that the FAA is a huge reason why. My plane is certified for 80/87 (a fuel no longer produced) but the paperwork involved means I’ll just keep burning 100LL for the foreseeable future. With all the engine damage that incurs.
by jiggawatts | 2025-12-24 23:16:38+00:00
... yes.

If it was 16K lines of modular "compositional" code, or a DSL that compiles in some provably-correct way, that would make me confident. A single file with 16K lines of -- let's be honest -- unsafe procedural spaghetti makes me much less confident.

Compiler code tends to work "surprisingly well" because it's beaten to death by millions of developers throwing random stuff at it, so bugs tend to be ironed out relatively quickly, unless you go off the beaten path... then it rapidly turns out to be a mess of spiky brambles.

The Rust development team for example found a series of LLVM optimiser bugs related to (no)aliasing, because C/C++ didn't use that attribute much, but Rust can aggressively utilise it.

I would be much more impressed by 16K lines of provably correct transformations with associated Lean proofs (or something), and/or something based on EGG: https://egraphs-good.github.io/
Ask HN: What happens when AI doesn't need human tools?
by SuboptimalEng | 2025-12-24 23:17:36+00:00
Right now many companies are in cost-cutting phase, so here is an AI thought experiment.

50% less white collar jobs -> 50% less productivity SaaS apps needed (slack, gmail, notion, jira, msft word, many more...)

Once company downsizes -> businesses that depend on said companies "growing in size" also lose.

AI doesn't need Slack, Jira, etc. That's just how we humans communicate. But AI can work directly with databases and store data more efficiently.

What now?

(FWIW, I do think AI is very useful. I use it daily to help me with engineering work. No arguments there.)
by anonym29 | 2025-12-24 23:18:01+00:00
+1

Obligatory resource:
https://0xacab.org/dCF/deCloudflare

Any single US entity trying to MITM such large swatches of global internet traffic is inherently dangerous to global freedom. they're a single point of failure for national security letters and secret gag orders that can compel them to perform targeted censorship, backdoor all sorts of software via HTTP distribution channels, assist in US disinformation operations by rewriting third party content, etc. They could be logging literally every plaintext HTTP request and response passing through their servers and leaving it wide open in some noSQL database for hackers to go steal from someday - users have no way to trust that Cloudflare is even competently qualified to protect what they collect, and there's nothing stopping Cloudflare from blatantly lying about what they collect. This wouldn't be as big of an issue if they weren't collecting your social security / national insurance number, name, age, date of birth, address, contact information, credit card details, usernames, passwords, and every other piece of data under the sun on sites that sit behind CF, including government websites and websites that function more or less as public utilities.

Cloudflare poses an impossible to overstate threat to your right to privacy, your right to freedom of speech, to democracy itself, to say nothing of the threat they pose to the free and open web. They are very nearly as large of a stain on what was arguably one of the crowning accomplishments of the human race (the internet) as the largest evil corporations on the planet - Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Meta (Facebook), etc.
by jstummbillig | 2025-12-24 23:18:45+00:00
That's fun and somewhat ironic, considering how speeding Quake up became it's own art form. Shoutout to Rocket Jumps, Bunny Hopping and Quake done Quick.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeDxelsLhikFHC8QnrcgQcg
by OKRainbowKid | 2025-12-24 23:18:47+00:00
So what? That changes nothing about their policies and views.

Ernst Röhm was one of the most powerful people in early Nazi Germany and famously gay. And still, the NSDAP brutally and systemically persecuted queer people.

You act as if hypocrisy, bigotry, moral flexibility and opportunism weren't core "virtues" of far right populists.
by idontwantthis | 2025-12-24 23:19:21+00:00
Also the fact that hardware is pretty stagnant and upgrades aren’t that important anymore for most stuff. I bought an Acer in 2012 and over the next 5 years I upgraded the RAM from 4 gb to 8gb and swapped the hdd for an ssd. Those were enormous upgrades! Then I bought a MacBook Pro with 16gb and an ssd and didn’t need another computer until this year (still didn’t NEED one but I found a good deal on a 4 year old MBP).
by squibonpig | 2025-12-24 23:19:51+00:00
> The zombie intuition comes from treating qualia as an "add-on" rather than as the internal presentation of a self-model.

Haven't you sort of smuggled a divide back into the discussion? You say "internal presentation" as though an internal or external can be constructed in the first place without the presumption of a divided off world, the external world of material and the internal one of qualia. I agree with the concept of making the quale and the material event the same thing, (isn't that kinda like Nietzsche's wills to power?), but I'm not sure that's what you're trying to say because you're adding a lot of stuff on top.
by defrost | 2025-12-24 23:20:39+00:00
It's common across the globe, eg:

In 2023, 69.8 million litres of avgas were sold in Australia, releasing 39 tonnes of lead into the environment, predominantly around airports.

* https://bfpca.org.au/lead/

With any luck that will be curtailed "soon":

The LEAD Group proposes the earliest possible date, certainly well before 2030, for leaded AvGas phaseout in Australia and looks to Europe for the mechanism of phasing it out.

The lead additive for leaded fuel is called tetraethyllead (TEL).

Leaded AvGas has a phaseout date of 2025 in the European Union because TEL has a 2025 sunset date in European Union countries.

* https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/docume...
Show HN: JadeStage [I built the platform I wish existed ]
by dialloDojo | 2025-12-24 23:21:32+00:00
Tired of opaque algorithms deciding what you watch? jadeStage flips the script.

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Built with vanilla JS, it's an MVP focused on proving less is more.

We're interested in feedback on whether this model resonates and what you would like to see in the next versions.

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by alimw | 2025-12-24 23:22:00+00:00
This is what I read in your comment: that Trump "forced NATO to increase military spending to 5% of GDP". Are you talking about the US there? No, tautologically, you are talking about those parts of NATO that Trump forced to increase military spending to 5% of GDP. So what is controversial about my observation that you used the term NATO to stand for a NATO without the US?

My point was that by doing so you yourself add weight (a very little weight) to the thesis of the grandparent that, at least in people's perceptions, the US has left NATO. It wasn't just a nitpick, but at the same time I did not intend to join this side or that side in some mad argument that is playing out in your mind. I freely admit that at this point I am not reading all your output.
by aschobel | 2025-12-24 23:22:55+00:00
For coding I don’t use any of the previous gen models anymore.

Ideally I would have both fast and SOTA; if I would have to pick one I’d go with SOTA.

There a report by OpenRouter on what folks tend to pay for it; it generally is SOTA in the coding domain. Folks are still paying a premium for them today.

There is a question if there is a bar where coding models are “good enough”; for myself I always want smarter / SOTA.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-24 23:23:00+00:00
Agreed, my point was that the leash was there so most likely if the news gets released to the public, it means that they must have definitely used "that leash" a lot privately too so the news might/does have a deeper impact than one might think but it can be hidden.

So like even now although I can trust chinese models, who knows for how long their private discussions have been happening and for how long chinese govt has been using that leash privately and for chatbots like glm 4.7 and similar.

I am not sure why china would actively come out and say they are enforcing tough rules tho, doesn't make much sense for a country who loves being private.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-24 23:23:21+00:00
> but I can’t help but be frustrated by the constant lack of understanding of the core value proposition of framework both in this post and in many comments here on hn.

On the contrary, I think a lot of people completely understand the value proposition. It’s just that once you evaluate it against all of the tradeoffs and other priorities, it reveals that upgradeability is not as valuable as the other priorities. Most consumers aren’t single-issue voters who purchases hardware based on a single axis of features.

With Framework laptops specifically I’ve started to feel like “but it’s upgradable!” is becoming a tired rebuttal to any discussion of the tradeoffs you take one when you buy one of these machines.

In theory I enjoy an upgradeable machine, too. But in practice I’m not willing to give up much now in exchange for the possibility of maybe upgrading part of it later.

This is a classic example of revealed preference in product design. When you ask people in a vacuum if they want features like upgradeability, swappable batteries, or tiny phones that fit in your pocket the answer is always “Yes, obviously!” Then when the product comes to market and people have to vote with their wallets they survey the options and pick the laptop that’s light and highly integrated, the phone with a built-in battery that’s compact and sturdy, and the phone with a screen big enough to not feel cramped. This leaves a vocal minority trying to tell everyone else that they’re making the wrong choice or they have their priorities wrong, but the simpler answer is that these products are best reserved for the minority of people who prize singular design goals like upgradeability options to such an extreme that they’re willing to compromise or ignore everything else.
by acjohnson55 | 2025-12-24 23:23:51+00:00
The article addresses that at the end:

> And this has to be at the White House specifically because location determines oversight. When infrastructure is part of the Executive Office of the President, when it exists at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, it can be classified under executive privilege. The East Wing sits directly above the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, the bunker where Dick Cheney sheltered during September 11th. By demolishing the entire East Wing, you create space to expand that existing secure facility, integrate new infrastructure, go deeper underground. All protected by the classification that covers anything related to presidential security.
by tekacs | 2025-12-24 23:24:39+00:00
Fun seeing HN restart to switch to the Christmas theme, in three steps:

https://share.cleanshot.com/vJZv6k03 (restarting the server)

https://share.cleanshot.com/qFyM347P (online but temporarily readonly)

https://share.cleanshot.com/kW8kY7mp (back online!)
by fancyfredbot | 2025-12-24 23:25:04+00:00
Sorry! Actually I am glad to be reassured that the comment I replied to is still considered egregious. The sentiments being expressed in that comment seemed genuinely similar to those of US secretary of state Marco Rubio when he revoked the US visas of two European CEOs from the "Centre for Countering Digital Hate" and the "Global Disinformation Index" today. The reason he gave was "Extraterritorial overreach by foreign censors targeting American speech". Perhaps that act was egregious too. But in this context a comment which accused Europeans of meddling in US affairs and threatening to kick them out did seem plausible.

Of course the comment I replied to went much further than kicking people out of America and into crazy land with a suggestion that we kick Europeans off the internet! This should have been a give away... Again I'm sorry and will refrain in future.
by Sesse__ | 2025-12-24 23:25:40+00:00
> you have no control over buffer sizes on all the boxes between you and the receiver

You certainly do; the amount of data buffered can never be larger than the actual number of bytes you've sent out. Bufferbloat happens when you send too much stuff at once and nothing (typically the candidate to do so would be either the congestion window or some intermediate buffer) stops it from piling up in an intermediate buffer. If you just send less from userspace in the first place (which isn't a good thing to do for e.g. a typical web server, but _can_ be for this kind of video conference-like application), it can't pile up anywhere.

(You could argue that strictly speaking, you have no control over the _buffer_ sizes, but that doesn't matter in practice if you're bounding the _buffered data_ sizes.)
by YorickPeterse | 2025-12-24 23:26:02+00:00
> I don't really know what the "creaking screen" is about though. IMO the F16 screen and hinges are a higher build quality than the F13. I had to upgrade my F13 hinges to the 4kg hinges to keep it from bouncing and moving.

I think the comment was referring to the noise of the spacers, unless the author also thought it was in relation to the display. So to clarify, the display makes no noise whatsoever and neither do the hinges. The noise shown in the video is specifically about the trackpad and keyboard spacers.
by osigurdson | 2025-12-24 23:26:04+00:00
Is it artificial though, really? You buy whatever is available now and it eventually becomes obsolete and you have to buy a new one. Maybe there is some kind of multi vendor collusion going on but it doesn't seem that likely.

Where I think repairability really makes sense is in things that don't materially improve and should last 30 years (e.g. appliances).
by mananaysiempre | 2025-12-24 23:26:38+00:00
Not at all, no. I gave that example because, first, even in a profoundly capitalist country (whatever that means) the military itself is not particularly motivated by profit; and second, because it’s one of the few bureaucratic organizations that will not (be allowed to) collapse under the weight of its own inefficiencies and so easily grows much larger than is othetwise typical.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-24 23:26:42+00:00
As opposed to taking the part out of a Framework laptop, shipping it back to the repair center for weeks, and then reinstalling it when it comes back?

Or if time is of the essence, ordering the brand new part to skip the repair process and then installing it yourself when it arrives later?

Contrast this with the amount of time my coworker spent hauling his laptop charger everywhere and obsessively topping up his laptop battery while traveling because the battery drain during sleep was a problem at that time. This added extra wear and tear on the battery, of course, but I guess he could replace it himself?
by baobun | 2025-12-24 23:27:11+00:00
I concede I had a bit of second thoughts after posting the comment you replied to.

After all, hindsight is 20/20 and at the end of the day a major part of our work is making (appropriate) abstractions. Picking good terminology is sometimes hard. I guess to point out that the message shouldn't be read as "all abstractions bad (stop trying)" but to be more conscious about them and to restrain from piling new "magic" on top of a tower of old apocrypha.
by fittingopposite | 2025-12-24 23:27:55+00:00
Thinking about the same. Anyone experiences with Zulip vs Matrix/Element? Both seem to be the only true and mature foss solutions
Dabbled with both a bit and so far felt that Zulip is a bit more polished and communication friendly. Use case is for a small startup (around 10 people and growing).
Thoughts?
by SuboptimalEng | 2025-12-24 23:27:55+00:00
That's exactly my question.

If there are fewer engineers, then there will be fewer dev tool companies, and fewer managers, etc. meaning fewer Slack, Gmail, MSFT, Zoom subscriptions, etc.

Companies are showing good profits, but if every company downsizes, then every company loses... right?

So, what happens now? (To the economy, lets say.)
by gldrk | 2025-12-24 23:28:12+00:00
It talks about trimming 'legacy' features and specifically says they are omitting 'font-related' operations. That obviously means no useful core X11 application will work (unless you count xlogo and xeyes). Whether the XRender glyph cache mechanism is included is unclear. It also says only DRI is *currently* supported, but maybe that's incidental?
by pessimizer | 2025-12-24 23:28:52+00:00
Yes, it's weird to be predicting the future when you can't predict the past. It's been negative over the entire year; the only growth it ever had was between Trump's election and inauguration: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

In recent months, however, I've been surprised to see that it has stabilized somewhat. There might just be this core group of people who are there for good. That would normally indicate staying power for me, except for the fact that they took VC and spent money on the thing, and they want growth. Normal people are repulsed by Bluesky. They're also repulsed by Twitter, but at least interesting stuff happens there.
by zamadatix | 2025-12-24 23:28:58+00:00
I only said the value is not that high, not that it's not valuable at all. Paying a premium up front and on the upgrade to swap out the CPU + Motherboard (also forcing the GPU on certain Framework models) eats heavily into that limited value vs just buying lower cost laptops that aren't as modular.

Regarding the RAM, again, you don't need to pay for a Framework to do be able to do that. Same for the SSD. These are probably the two most reasonable components to upgrade, and it's not novel to have options to do so.

That full upgradeability actually doesn't make sense in the end is my exact point/realization I had trying it out. You can get somewhat upgradeable laptops where it makes sense already, and compromising every which way to be more upgradable is a hugely diminishing return.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-24 23:29:05+00:00
Daytime TV was a backwater even 20 years ago.

When I was doing business development I would watch TV at the gym during the day and see ads aimed exclusively at a demographic that didn't have any money of it's own to spend so it was all medicare fraud and personal injury lawyers. That didn't reflect the diversity of the viewers but it was the economic equilibrium in that it was the most profitable group, personalized advertising changes that dramatically.
by ymck | 2025-12-24 23:29:16+00:00
I'd say that it's probably not a play against open source, but more trying to remove/change the bottlenecks in the current chip production cycle. Nvidia likely doesn't care who wins, they just want to sell their chips. They literally can't make enough to meet current demand. If they split off the inference business (and now own one of the only purchasable alternatives) they can spin up more production.

That said, it's completely anti-competitive. Nvidia could design a inference chip themselves, but instead the are locking down one of the only real independents. But... Nobody was saying Groq was making any real money. This might just be a rescue mission.
by DivingForGold | 2025-12-24 23:29:43+00:00
Indeed, as justincormack comments: ”It is not structured as an outright acquisition to avoid US Gov't anti trust scrutiny, but effectively it probably is”. “Non-exclusive” ? Ummmm, yeah, right, sure. You can probably bet there is an private understanding that Groq will no longer offer it's “top of the line” best technology to competitors of Nvidia. Some may see this as a clever, “slight of the hand” attempt for Nvidia to maintain it's perceived dominance & lead in GPU-TPU development.
“Non-exclusive” does not in any form or fashion spell out that all Nvidia's competitors can and will obtain the very top, cutting edge Groq technology as Nvidia will obtain . . .
by Aurornis | 2025-12-24 23:30:19+00:00
> they're only barely portable,

Maybe for a very small person or someone who strictly travels light? But I’ve never had any problem with 15” or 16” laptops even while traveling internationally.

> and you lose a lot of the power and flexibility you'd get with a desktop

This isn’t really true any more unless your desktop is a gaming monster or full of multiple drives or something. I can have a 128GB RAM laptop with ultra fast CPU on the go now and it’s not a problem.
by brw | 2025-12-24 23:31:48+00:00
On that note there's also https://tangled.org built on atproto which (kind of?) solves that. You have one identity (on a PDS somewhere, optionally self-hosted) which you use to interact with any tangled repository (including self-hosted ones).

With its support for self-hosted CI runners it could perhaps also be a good alternative for people looking to move now that GitHub has decided to charge for those.
by joshmit | 2025-12-24 23:31:49+00:00
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by cyberax | 2025-12-24 23:32:32+00:00
Buildkit is still a separate system, unlike the old builder. So you get that extra step of importing the result back.

And since it's a separate system, there are also these strange limitations. For example, I can't just cache pre-built images in an NFS directory and then just push them into the Buildkit context. There's simply no command for it. Buildkit can only pull them from a registry.

> Buldkit is far more efficient than the old model.

I've yet to see it work faster than podman+buildah. And it's also just plain buggy. Caching for multi-stage and/or parallel builds has been broken since the beginning. The Docker team just ignores it and closes the bugs:
https://github.com/moby/buildkit/issues/1981
https://github.com/moby/buildkit/issues/2274
https://github.com/moby/buildkit/issues/2279

I understand why. I tried to debug it, and simply getting it running under a debugger is an adventure.

So far, I found that switching to podman+podman-compose is a better solution. At least my brain is good enough to understand them completely, and contribute fixes if needed.