MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thesuitonym | 2025-12-05 17:54:15+00:00
I've been IT operations for years, and when I order laptops I sometimes do a little experiment. If I ask people if they want a 15.6" laptop or a 13" laptop, they always say 15.6. If I don't give them a choice and just start buying 13" laptops, everybody tells me how much they love the smaller laptop, and people still on the 15.6" models start looking around asking when they can get the smaller one.

People don't know what they want unless you give it to them.
by crote | 2025-12-05 17:55:13+00:00
Is a roll back even possible at Cloudflare's size?

With small deployments it usually isn't too difficult to re-deploy a previous commit. But once you get big enough you've got enough developers that half a dozen PRs will have been merged since the start of the incident and now. How viable is it to stop the world, undo everything, and start from scratch any time a deployment causes the tiniest issues?

Realistically the best you're going to get is merging a revert of the problematic changeset - but with the intervening merges that's still going to bring the system in a novel state. You're rolling forwards, not backwards.
by underlipton | 2025-12-05 17:55:14+00:00
You mention Arcane, and that reminds me that Netflix's support of animation is really undervalued. LD&R has been mentioned, but they also helped bankroll a ton of marquee projects from Science Saru (Devilman Crybaby, DanDaDan), Orange (Beastars, Trigun Stampede), and Trigger (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Delicious in Dungeon). They picked up Pantheon and Scavenger's Reign. They've got another season of Blue Eye Samurai coming. Oh, and K-Pop Demon Hunters.

If you care about animation as either a visual or storytelling medium, Netflix has made a lot of the best movies and series of the past few years possible or accessible. (Having to pirate Pantheon S2 because it was initially only released in Australia was not fun.)
by almostgotcaught | 2025-12-05 17:55:18+00:00
> sentiment

...

> theory

these two words aren't interchangeable

> Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Wilhelm von Ketteler, Louis Blanc

...

> generic cog-in-the-machine critique that is explored by many other people

literally only one of the names you mentioned were writing post industrial revolution - the rest had literally no notion of "cog in the machine"

you're trying so hard to disprove basically an established fact: Marx's critique of exploitation of labor post industrial revolution is certainly original and significant in his own work and those that followed.
by sofixa | 2025-12-05 17:55:46+00:00
> Completely useless and reactionary laws restricting speech of specific symbols are only a small part of it of course but any global pushback would be good.

You do know why these laws exist, right? And they are not useless. Many terrible things happened, and tens of millions died, because an extremely hateful ideology was allowed to take hold by assaulting civil society and democracy.

Banning anything related to that ideology is not only needed, not only common sense, but I'd argue the moral duty of the German people. And everyone else who witnessed it (so everyone). And for what it's worth, most developed countries have banned Nazi-related things. The US is an outlier in thinking that Nazi opinions matter, and allowing murderous types to express their desire to murder others is somehow a virtue.

And to be clear, yes, National Socialism is extremely agressive and murderous. One of its core tenets, probably its main one, is violent antisemitism and "master race"-ism, with their solution being exterminating "lower" "races". Nothing useful, nothing good, nothing redeeming. Just pure hatred and genocide.

Nothing good can come out of "debating" a Nazi in the "marketplace of ideas". Goebbels himself said so back in the 1930s, that they do not intend to play by the rules of democracy, but if democracy wants to give them the tools to spread their ideology, they'll happily use it. The world saw this happen and saw the results. Nazis have no place in any civilised society, and anyone espousing Nazi ideology or sporting their insignia deserves to ostracised at least.
by jackfranklyn | 2025-12-05 17:55:54+00:00
The tech debt question from _def is interesting. In my experience quantifying it actually misses the point.

The real cost isn't the time lost - it's decision avoidance. Teams stop touching certain modules. New features get built around the problem instead of through it. You end up with architectural scar tissue that shapes every future decision.

I've seen this play out where a 2-week refactor that everyone knows needs to happen gets deferred for years because nobody can attach a dollar figure to "we're scared to change this code." Meanwhile every sprint planning becomes a creative exercise in routing around the scary parts.

The tell is when your estimates have a silent "...assuming we don't have to touch X" attached to them.
by dogma1138 | 2025-12-05 17:55:59+00:00
Variable frame rate screens aren’t just for making the phone feel snappier but are also needed for the battery to last longer.

If your production volume isn’t high enough to justify a custom screen to be cut you are stuck with what is available on the market.

And even if 5” screens are available now in the form of NOS or upcycled refurbs that may not be the case 2 or 3 not to mention 5+ years down the line.

So you have to go with what not only is available today but with what is still likely to be available throughout the expected usable lifetime of your product.
by labcomputer | 2025-12-05 17:56:25+00:00
I have no info on Tesla batteries. But, just as a point of reference, you can now buy knock-down 48V battery "kits" from China for under $90/kWh. They include everything you need: case, cells, BMS, circuit breaker/isolator, and fire suppression. Assembly takes about an hour. (The raw prismatic cells without the rest go for ~$50/kWh).

Shipping from China to the west coast runs an additional $30/kWh due to the weight of the cells and volume of the box (shipped in several boxes to reduce cost). So you can have a 300 lbs, 15 kWh 48V battery shipped to your door for about $120/kWh).

High voltage EV batteries need additional components (like HV contractors) due to stacking so many cells in series, but it seems entirely plausible that Tesla's economies of scale allow them to offer a 75 kWh battery for $10k (~$133/kWh) plus installation.
by squigz | 2025-12-05 17:56:28+00:00
You don't need to be a targeted group for anonymity to be important, nor do you need a "valid" reason to be anonymous on the Internet. I have yet to hear a compelling reason otherwise.

People like to say, "Well you're not anonymous IRL" and ... well, yes, we are. We are not forced to say, "My name is X and I live at Y" when we stay stuff in public
by jml78 | 2025-12-05 17:56:43+00:00
Just a high level question. My youngest son was adopted. He isn't white. He is naturalized. Should we go ahead and renew his passport so he can carry around a passport card at this point(we never got one in the past because they seemed like a waste). It seems crazy but with people being grabbed off the street for being brown, it seems prudent have a quick way to prove citizenship.
by bokchoi | 2025-12-05 17:57:22+00:00
As of Ant 1.9.1, you can use 'if' and 'unless' attributes on any task or element in a target. I stopped using Ant a long time ago, but this was a pleasant discovery when I had to pick up an old Ant based project recently.

https://ant.apache.org/manual/ifunless.html
by idiotsecant | 2025-12-05 17:57:37+00:00
Management only cares about analyzing and completing the 'happy path' because customers only buy 'happy path'. Customers don't (with rare exceptions) buy 'unhappy path', even though statistically it is a near certainty that where they will find themselves at some point.

I guarantee no engineer wanted an expensive, difficult to replace pyro fuse. Unfortunately, it doesn't particularly matter what individual engineers want, it's what the system wants, and the system wants to make money.
by Pwntastic | 2025-12-05 17:57:44+00:00
just a meta note that the submitter, aanthonymax, likely only posted this to launder karma to avoid being shadowed for spamming their github project. a quick look at their post history shows that they only post links to their github project and then occasionally extremely low effort random mdn or other useless links to try to balance our their account. their previous account was shadowed for basically the same thing
by WorldPeas | 2025-12-05 17:58:11+00:00
The purpose of AI, in my opinion, is to make sense of a lot of information that is not well-organized, it is the next generation of statistics but also an interface for the layperson to address this data without training. In doing so, it can increase one's capabilities, raising the "baseline" to where the median of performance once was.

I think that Africa would benefit from AI, but of course that alone is not enough to have a successful nation, to have that one needs means to execute on the plans AI assists with. Take for example a traffic-optimization AI like https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2401.00211, as Africa builds out its road and rail networks, it has the chance to right the wrongs that many other nations have made due to tech debt(e.g. Europe's narrow streets in some areas from horse carts, or over-suburbanization in the US). As it stands now, AI can definitely help in preventing corruption, misinformation, and can lower the barrier to entry for a stellar education(all things that can be done without a single brick laid), but again, the will has to be there to go further. I'd love to hear your experiences with technology and opinions on AI as a whole if you have the time
by phil21 | 2025-12-05 17:58:11+00:00
The public discourse on glyphosate is useless. As witnessed by calling it a pesticide, which is quite common among those most vocal against its use.

Less is more when it comes to chemicals, which is why reasonable uses of glyphosate seems to be the best we have come up with so far as a species - regardless of abuses of the chemical.

It’s probably the most studied herbicide on the planet at this point with very little evidence that it causes human health issues when used as intended. Doesn’t mean it’s zero risk, but we also feed an incredible number of people off a very small amount of landmass at this point in history.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-05 17:58:31+00:00
Ah yes, today where they optimized out the recommendation algo to the point I haven't found something recommended to be watch worthy in years. The only thing worse than the video streaming recommendations is what's become of Amazon/Audible's book recommendations (though Spotify is trying hard to enshitify their algos to catch up).

Sad that we can't have nice things, but capitalism must be fed and I guess good, targeted recommendation algorithms are anti-capital.
by aaravchen | 2025-12-05 17:58:32+00:00
Doubling down on this, get a Reader that let's you filter, and do so judiciously.

I have some feeds where I only allow thru items with specific categories. Others I have dozens of filters for "spam". And some I just had to give up on because they enshittified their feed to inhibit differentiation of junk/sponsored/spam content from real content.

Personally I just self-hosted a personal FreshRSS instance, but you can also get a lot of similar features from a paid Inoreader account.
by hedora | 2025-12-05 17:58:52+00:00
Objectively, he was the most effective US president we’ve had in decades.

Trump’s campaign promises were all of the form “X is so bad it will destroy the country and I will fix X”!

Replace X with some problem that Biden had already fixed (factory investment, crime rate reduction, getting inflation under control after the previous president printed money for 4 yeara, etc, etc).
by mikepurvis | 2025-12-05 17:59:02+00:00
I was looking for this reply as well; definitely my perception that a lot of mid- to high-end cars are engineered to drive and feel great for 4-5 years, and after that it's kind of a crapshoot. You can see it as well with the various subscriptions, for app connectivity, M2M infotainment data, etc— all of it is oriented around that same time horizon.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-05 17:59:16+00:00
Lol I wrote Avengers instead of Defenders, not sure why the downvote, but it was a really good series of shows, it was highly recommended on Netflix at the time any time a new season came out. Disney just wanted to pull it into Disney Plus that much is obvious considering they've only just started to do that, with the same cast.

Not only this, but there's also Stranger Things, which imho had too many long breaks between seasons. Black Mirror was another one that was really popular. Squid Game as well.

Narcos is another and one of my personal favorite shows of all time, really captures a lot of details that I had no idea about as known by the DEA agents who went after some of the biggest drug lords of our time.

They also fund and produce some of the best high quality documentary series.

https://screenrant.com/marvel-netflix-tv-show-cancellations-...
by markus_zhang | 2025-12-05 17:59:23+00:00
TBF, it depends on the number of outages locally. In my area it is one outage every thunderstorm/snow storm, so unfortunately the up time of my laptop, even with the help of a large, portable battery charging station (which can charge multiple laptops at the same time), is not optimistic.

I sometimes fancy that I could just take cash, go into the wood, build a small solar array, collect & cleanse river water, and buy a starlink console.
by quesera | 2025-12-05 17:59:46+00:00
Are you asking me to describe modern pesticide safety testing protocols? I'm not qualified to do that authoritatively.

But I'm certain that "spray it everywhere for 30 years and see if people die" is not the way.

Bypassing the proper protocols, publishing dishonest research, is the issue under discussion today. Glyphosate might be safe, or safe enough. Proper research could reveal more subtle effects than mortality numbers.
by anarticle | 2025-12-05 18:00:06+00:00
This mirrors the experience of a friend of mine who teaches middle school level history. Every student has some "accommodation" which is something like: can only have three rather than four choices on multiple choice tests, test must be landscape rather than portrait, they get extra time for any writing sections, and more!

Imagine trying to teach ~30 kids when there are 12-15 with an IEP (individualized education plan) with these rules in place. Inevitably, someone will come at me for blaming IEPs, but when they are being exploited in this way the quality of instruction absolutely tanks. Part of this was eliminating AP-standard-basic tiers of classes, so now everyone is in the same class. The "concept" is that kids that are excelling will help the kids that need help. (It does not work this way, the excelling kids get bored, basic kids get bored, chaos ensues.)

My friend, who loves teaching, and has been doing for a decade before this change, is counting the days to her retirement. She says that class has become Burger King, which is have it your way. She has very little say in how these are structured.

Districts love this stuff because it makes them sound like they care about students, but the reality is it's parents pushing down on teachers for better grades at the cost of quality. This doesn't challenge kids in any way, it teaches them that if you complain at the system you can have it easier. My friend has stopped bothering to attempt to change this and is going along with the program as the negatives have obvious career limiting side effects.

It's a classic DDoS / degradation attack.

Personally, it seems insane to me. I get that it's some kind of min-max for Stanford students, nothing like this existed when I was in uni (an eng college). We took our thermo exam, the average was a D+, and we liked it! Of course there was a curve, but the message I received was a humbling one. You don't know as much as you think you do, and you better think twice when building powerful things.
by stuffn | 2025-12-05 18:00:32+00:00
I got netflix a looooong time ago when they still had good movies on there and weren't cycling. It kept getting worse and worse. Then I got rid of it a few years back.

Nearly everything on there sucks now. It's all campy politically-undertoned garbage and not anything I would consider fun to watch or a great way to waste my time. The first squid games was neat. A novel concept and interesting. Then Netflix did what they do best and netflix-ify it into a political message rather than a horror film. The latest Ed Gein show had the potential to be amazing but ended up falling into the same campy, political, director had too much creative liberty trash.

They are a tired company that has strayed from their roots. The Warner Bros acquisition makes complete sense because the entire media entertainment apparatus is capable of only producing:

1. Remakes of movies that are themselves remakes

2. An hour and a half movie where they try to inject The Message into as many frames as possible

3. A campy nearly serious movie that needs stupid jokes injected for the squirrel-brained morons that pay for it.

The entertainment industry is in a financial nosedive because no one wants this garbage anymore.
by tensor | 2025-12-05 18:00:48+00:00
> I don't want my X posts being handed over to researchers even if they are technically public.

Too bad, don't make them public then. I'm not sure where this idea came from that "free speech" also means "free of consequences", but it sure is pervasive. It's always been the case in every society for all time that you need to be careful what you say publicly. The modern notion of "free speech" is related to retaliation from the government, it doesn't grant you immunity from people reacting to your public speech, nor does it grant you some sort of ill-defined "public speech anonymity."
by stiray | 2025-12-05 18:00:50+00:00
I am on Graphene OS now and they will really need to think of something revolutionary to get me back. No, nice GUI is not enough for all the years I have lost, desperately trying to adapt. Now, think of the normal, everyday user, not prepared to even buy a specific phone release for Sailfish. And this is how they will lose users. I consider this as constructive criticism from my side.

Believe me, I am in front row, for wanting the linux to succeed against bastardized OS as android is. But the wrong decisions are just wrong decisions, there is no excuse to it.
by testplzignore | 2025-12-05 18:00:53+00:00
> They really need to figure out a way to correlate global configuration changes to the errors they trigger as fast as possible.

This is what jumped out at me as the biggest problem. A wild west deployment process is a valid (but questionable) business decision, but if you do that then you need smart people in place to troubleshoot and make quick rollback decisions.

Their timeline:

> 08:47: Configuration change deployed and propagated to the network

> 08:48: Change fully propagated

> 08:50: Automated alerts

> 09:11: Configuration change reverted and propagation start

> 09:12: Revert fully propagated, all traffic restored

2 minutes for their automated alerts to fire is terrible. For a system that is expected to have no downtime, they should have been alerted to the spike in 500 errors within seconds before the changes even fully propagated. Ideally the rollback would have been automated, but even if it is manual, the dude pressing the deploy button should have had realtime metrics on a second display with his finger hovering over the rollback button.

Ok, so they want to take the approach of roll forward instead of immediate rollback. Again, that's a valid approach, but you need to be prepared. At 08:48, they would have had tens of millions of "init.lua:314: attempt to index field 'execute'" messages being logged per second. Exact line of code. Not a complex issue. They should have had engineers reading that code and piecing this together by 08:49. The change you just deployed was to disable an "execute" rule. Put two and two together. Initiate rollback by 08:50.

How disconnected are the teams that do deployments vs the teams that understand the code? How many minutes were they scratching their butts wondering "what is init.lua"? Are they deploying while their best engineers are sleeping?
Show HN: A framework for understanding how AI replaces human self-interpretation
by DanielJMancini | 2025-12-05 18:01:00+00:00
I’ve been developing a framework for understanding what happens when an AI system becomes faster and more stable than a human at modeling their internal patterns. The core question is whether an external interpretive system, once more reliable than a person’s own self-model, begins to replace the role of human self-interpretation.

The model treats human interpretation as an “inner loop”: slow, state-dependent, and easily disrupted. AI introduces an “outer loop” that is faster, more consistent, and capable of integrating behavioral and emotional signals we usually miss. When the outer loop becomes the more coherent source of interpretations, the human system begins referencing it as default. That is the point of interpretive overwrite.

The analysis below lays out the mechanism and the implications for AI-mediated cognition:

https://medium.com/@dmancini515/ai-will-soon-understand-your...
by autoexec | 2025-12-05 18:01:08+00:00
Steaming is slowly going back to that too. Netflix got popular for letting people binge shows that released but increasingly they are putting out shows one episode a week so that they can keep the hype up over a longer period and better monitor/control social media.

Netflix also hides a ton of their content and aggressively pushes whatever is new because it makes it easier for them to get immediate metrics on how popular something is.

Right now, you're pretty much stuck watching whatever is being "streamed in that moment" as it is. For example, netflix added the austin powers movies in October, but by Dec 1 they were removed. You had a window of just 2 months to watch and if you missed them you're stuck waiting for them to "rerun" just like regular TV. I expect that trend to continue with shorter and shorter windows as Netflix pushes people to watch shows when they want you to watch them.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-05 18:01:21+00:00
That was 80s Reagan/conservative American. Those folks weren't as greedy as modern day companies and they cared about their product/experience, whereas nowadays caring about that is outsourced (see the Mad Men mess) and greed is king.

It's wild to long for the day of 'caring', 'sane', Reagan era corporate 'governance'.
by jvanderbot | 2025-12-05 18:01:44+00:00
I'm not skilled, but it feels like a validation for the virus theory of dementia

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/03/shingles-vacc...

"The remarkable findings, published April 2 in Nature, support an emerging theory that viruses that affect the nervous system can increase the risk of dementia. If further confirmed, the new findings suggest that a preventive intervention for dementia is already close at hand."
by exmadscientist | 2025-12-05 18:02:13+00:00
I have developed a deep dislike for UI overall through the years due to their many missteps (see: most of this thread), but those little PoE-powered 2.5G switches are amazing and I am surprised that while 2.5G is getting more and more popular, no one has any real competition for this product. No matter, I bought three!

I do wish they were even smaller (I've got one location I'd like to mount one inside a wall box, which is admittedly pretty niche), and I am never again touching UI's configuration software (even 10 years later I feel that wound), but, yeah... love these little guys.