MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FloorEgg | 2025-12-16 18:39:54+00:00
GGPs question doesn't make sense though. What does it mean for a technology to "come out".

Also what does three prove? Is three supposed to be a benchmark of some kind?

I would wager every year there are dozens, probably hundreds, of novel technologies being successfully commercialized. The rate is exponentially increasing.

New procedural generation methods for designing parking garages.

New manufacturing approaches for fuselage assembly of aircraft.

New cold-rolled steel shaping and folding methods.

New solid state battery assembly methods.

New drug discovery and testing methods.

New mineral refinement processes.

New logistics routing software.

New heat pump designs.

New robotics actuators.

See what I mean?
by fbcpck | 2025-12-16 18:40:10+00:00
per minute billing is hard to wrap around the head

On my larger organization, we have on average 20 to 30 *active* runners during business hours. Assuming 5 on the off-hours, my napkin math says it comes down to about 10 fully-utilized-runners per month, so about 864$/mo. For the size of my organization that is honestly totally acceptable.

This is assuming 0.002$ per minute of job being actively executed. If it turns out to be 0.002$ per minute of *runner being registered* on the control plane, it would increase quite a bit. We are still using the old HorizontalRunnerAutoscaler with actions-runner-controller, with quite a pool of prewarmed runners idling to pick up a job. It would be a strong reason to use the new RunnerScaleSet (to take advantage of the reactive webhook-based scaling) and keep a very lean pool of prewarmed runners.
by busolatom | 2025-12-16 18:40:24+00:00
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by mike_hearn | 2025-12-16 18:40:38+00:00
This thread started with a false dilemma: do we spend money on datacenters or "real infrastructure". It's only a dilemma if you assume governments should decide the answer, as ElevenLathe did.

Otherwise there's no need to choose between dictatorship or majority rule via democracy: everyone can spend money on the infrastructure they feel is more important, and there doesn't need to be any losers. Which is mostly how we try to do things in reality.
Show HN: Prose UI - Beautiful styling and components for Markdown prose (OSS)
by vrepsys | 2025-12-16 18:40:58+00:00
Hi everyone,

I built Prose UI while developing a visual editor for MDX (dhub.dev). The problem: every framework represents the same components differently - Docusaurus uses ::: directives, others use <Callout> JSX, etc. This makes it nearly impossible to build portable editing tools or content that works across frameworks.

Prose UI provides a standardized set of React components (callouts, tabs, cards, code blocks, LaTeX math) that work directly in MDX - with or without a framework. Use them in plain Next.js, Docusaurus, or your own setup. The goal is consistent syntax and behavior for portable MDX.

Built this to solve my own problem. Would love feedback!

Repo: https://github.com/vrepsys/prose-ui
by hearsathought | 2025-12-16 18:41:32+00:00
> I get the feeling most of the newer jobs that are going to be created are going to be in the blue collar fields and the US isn't geared for providing those.

What blue collar field/industry is expected to grow?

> I'm also not sure that people who have been conditioned to work white collar jobs will be happy to work in blue collar jobs.

A quick google search shows about 60% of workers are white collar and about 30% are blue collar. I suspect blue collar workers are not going to be happy with the influx of white collar workers competing for their jobs.
by oceanplexian | 2025-12-16 18:41:43+00:00
It's so ridiculously easy to vacuum and charge a heat pump it's kind of unnecessary.

I think I spent $200 in parts on Amazon and have done 4 heat pumps now. It's a vacuum pump, a scale, and a digital manifold/guage. Punch the numbers for subcool/superheat into a calculator and use the temp probes on the lines where they connect to the condenser and you can even skip the scale.
by sodality2 | 2025-12-16 18:42:06+00:00
It's definitely a push and pull; more are adopting it, but more are pushing back. The total amount is definitely still rising, though, but so is awareness.

There's Eugene and Springfield, OR; Cambridge, MA; a few in TX; Denver and Longmont, CO; Redmond, WA; Evanston and Oak Park, IL; etc.
by matty22 | 2025-12-16 18:42:23+00:00
You have not made that argument or given any details on why you think that might be the case. I know a lot of people interested in an EV pickup, but who aren't going to spend Rivian money on a vehicle. There are zero options for a $40k EV pickup truck. It's literally never been offered to any buyer in this country. So, we're both arguing with anecdata, but I'd argue for trying it before we say it can't work.
by gaigalas | 2025-12-16 18:42:46+00:00
> TL;DR GitHub is adding a $0.002-per-minute fee on all GitHub Actions usage, so the control plane is no longer free.

That's not true for _all GitHub Actions usage_.

https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-fo...

> Standard GitHub-hosted or self-hosted runner usage on public repositories will remain free.
by DaveZale | 2025-12-16 18:43:23+00:00
Sadly, Morgan Stanley suggests that the release of this information may result in invoking the "Osbourne Effect." Osbourne Computer, decades ago, released information about a great new future model. This resulted in customers refraining from buying the current Osbourne model, resulting in steep losses and bankruptcy. Not to say bankruptcy will happen to Rivian, but many customers may refrain from buying the current R1 model, and instead opt for the future R2 model, which may result in a bad quarter or two for Rivian. FWIW. Rivian seems to have amazing technology in the works, but investors may be in for a bumpy ride until a successful R2 rollout ... according to Morgan Stanley (which may be conflicted by their business with Tesla).
by leoc | 2025-12-16 18:44:24+00:00
I'm not an expert, but my hunch would be that a similar Big(ger) Science approach is also needed in areas like nutrition and (non-neurological) experimental psychology where (apparently) often group sizes are just too small. There are obvious drawbacks to having the choice of experiments controlled by consensus and bureaucracy, but if the experiments are otherwise not worthwhile what else is there to do?
by ArkhamMirror | 2025-12-16 18:44:26+00:00
There's a lot of potential for overlaps in features - e-discovery is one of the core concepts behind this platform, definitely.

Also, it's true that a lot of the existing tools that do similar things are anything but free.

I can imagine most or all of the things ArkhamMirror does are done elsewhere by other programs and tools. I don't know of any unclassified projects that do ACH better, but that's a pretty niche tool, and the government loves their 20-year-old software solutions.

Off-the-shelf programs designed for use by lawyers have layers of protections built in to make sure they are suitable for court-use. I don't make any claims as to the legal utilities of this program whatsoever. In fact, the ACH PDF report generated specifically calls attention to the AI-generated nature of the materials and warns against using any data generated or entered without human review and approval.

That said, you can make some pretty cool, non-legally useful, connections with tools like author unmask, where you feed the system docs by a known author and run them against docs written by an unknown or suspected alias to check for similar voice. During ingestion, the system automatically yanks all detected Regex data and puts it into a nice sortable, searchable list for you.

Legal e-discovery products are going to be highly polished, reliable programs designed to be used in a legal setting, while ArkhamMirror is designed to be used while you sit in your faraday cage in your hacker cabin in the woods with no Wi-Fi.

No shade intended - my stuff's not nearly as pretty or as well-put together as a decent off-the-shelf e-discovery program and I'm not trying to imply that it's better in any way, it's just differently aligned.
by alnwlsn | 2025-12-16 18:44:44+00:00
May not meet your particular definition of small, but my portable printer is a Voron 0.2. The frame is sturdy enough that you can attach a handle to one corner and just carry it around with you, at least for a while. It's not particularly lightweight. But it is small (fits completely inside the build volume of my other printer), and being fully enclosed within the frame, seems more durable than the likes of the other tiny printers (Lemontron, A1 Mini, etc.)
by ThierryAbalea | 2025-12-16 18:45:57+00:00
My take as a cofounder of Shipfox, a company working on alternative GitHub Actions runners (same space as Depot, Blacksmith, Namespace). The price update itself wasn't very surprising. GitHub-hosted runners historically carried a significant premium given the underlying hardware, which isn't particularly well suited for CI workloads that are often CPU-intensive. Lowering prices there makes sense and better reflects real usage. Pricing self-hosted runners also feels logical from GitHub's perspective. Until now, GitHub Actions generated little direct revenue from self-hosted usage, despite still providing orchestration, Actions Marketplace, etc. Given how widely self-hosting is used, it's hard to imagine that remaining free forever. For users of GitHub-hosted runners, this is clearly good news. For teams running self-hosted runners, the impact can be noticeable. For example, if your infrastructure previously achieved a per-minute cost about half of GitHub's hosted 2 vCPU rate (a conservative assumption), adding a $0.002/min fee effectively moves the total from ~$0.004 to ~$0.006 per minute, roughly a 50% increase. In setups that were much cheaper than hosted runners, the relative increase is even higher. That said, most teams don't self-host purely to save money. Performance, hardware control, and security or compliance requirements are usually the main drivers. This change doesn't remove those benefits, but it does change the cost equation and likely forces a reassessment.
by jabl | 2025-12-16 18:46:01+00:00
> Sign of a rich and very developed country.

You need to find another reason. Looking at IMF 2025 GDP per capita figures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... ):

Norway: $92k

Denmark: $77k

Sweden: $62k

Germany: $60k

UK: $57k

Finland: $56k

So yeah, Denmark and particularly Norway are a bit richer than the others, but the others are in the same ballpark.

If I had to bring up some particular reason, gas grids are more or less non-existent in the Nordics, and electricity is cheaper than in central Europe or UK.
by tourmalinetaco | 2025-12-16 18:46:03+00:00
It’s not even really a problem of the Internet necessarily; it’s rather a symptom of the growing political divide in Western society. Things are “simple” now because we’ve reached the point where nuanced discussion is pointless. In Europe you can be jailed for going against the Accepted Opinions™, and we’re seeing a rise in politically motivated attacks. There is no logical solution to emotionally backed rhetoric like we’ve seen with the Turtle Island terrorists; you can’t debate ethics with someone who wants you dead.
by tptacek | 2025-12-16 18:46:12+00:00
I'm Oak Park (I helped write our ALPR General Order and the transparency reporting requirements that formed the case for killing the contract because it wasn't addressing real crime).

Oak Park is 4.7 square miles. All our surrounding munis have rolled out more ALPRs after we killed ours.

Further: because of the oversight we had over our ALPRs before, they weren't really doing anything, for something like 2 years. OPPD kept them around because they were handy for post-incident investigation. We effectively had to stop responding to alerts once our police oversight commission ran the numbers of what the stops were.

Which is to say: our "de-Flocking" was mostly cosmetic. We'd already basically shut the cameras down and cut all sharing out.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-12-16 18:46:26+00:00
Being within range of a charging station doesn't mean you can charge, it means you can get there. So yes, in a crisis, it means you could charge without risk of being stranded. But looking at most of the places I've been on that map, it would require me to go out of my way, often times an 1hr or more, to charge.

For gas this isn't a problem because gas stations are not just within a certain radius of me, they are on my route. But in your map, one of the towns I'm frequently in would require a 75 mile detour to charge, which doesn't really work.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-12-16 18:46:27+00:00
Actually.. Wikipedia to the rescue!

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

Highest approval rating 1. Mark Carney — 67% (June 2025) 2. Jean Chrétien — 66% (September 1994) 3. Justin Trudeau — 65% (September 2016)
by jerf | 2025-12-16 18:46:38+00:00
"Sega broke ground in the late 90s with one of the first digital game distribution systems for consoles."

By the time this came on to the scene the idea was already 14 years old. Intellivision was doing it in 1980: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayCable

The idea blows people's minds if they think of a TV channel as just a channel for delivering TV, but the concept is not that hard if you realize it's just a way to broadcast data, most of which happens to be television video signals. The problem is making it cost-effective for a console to have an amount of RAM normally associated with a cartridge. For most of console gaming's lifespan cart size completely outclassed RAM size so storing a full cartridge image in RAM was expensive for what was generally the low end of the market. Plus the RAM you could stick in the receiver put a firm upper limit on how large a cart you could broadcast, and in an era still undeniably ruled by Moore's Law the size of the more desirable carts tended to outrun the RAM put in these things so they tended to become rapidly unable to keep up with the cart sizes.
by physicles | 2025-12-16 18:46:39+00:00
> sometimes the people you are working for are incapable of reasoning about planning artefacts or understanding how the system will look or operate simply from a document

I’m wrestling with this now. Over my career I’ve seen a strong correlation between good writers and good software engineers, but not everyone fits this mold. Shorter cycles and more chances for communication and feedback are helpful here.
by ActorNightly | 2025-12-16 18:46:46+00:00
Lol?

Even before LLMs, most coding problems really are a test of efficient pointer manipulation. You either move a pointer to character in words, pointer to data in array, or traverse n-node linked lists.

This level of pointer manipulation is rarely ever needed these days, as things like sorting, searching, and parsing are all handled by functions. An LRU cache is literally a function decorator in Python.

What I care more is if someone can understand that network calls take time, that data processing is fast, and how to optimize that pipeline. Threading is not a requirement, they can do it with async as well, or even without async with just smart scheduling.

The core of the problem that makes it LLM proof is that the problem doesn't disclose anything about network latencies or data structure. So standard iterative solutions from LLM usually end up taking longer because they get stuck waiting on a single network response. And so you can clearly tell who understand the core operations at hand, versus someone who just memorized a bunch of patterns and/or using LLMs.
by mothballed | 2025-12-16 18:47:30+00:00
I live in a very liberty minded county. The kind of place with no building codes and pretty much no police. All our cameras on county/municipal property were voted disabled.

So the feds just put their flock cameras anywhere they had a little piece of federal property, and there is no way to vote those ones off. They have little patches that cover the highways and some main thoroughfares. It's everywhere.
by lrvick | 2025-12-16 18:47:39+00:00
At least one (and I assume all) manufacturers of network hardware have backroom code sharing deals with the NSA, and likely only highest leadership and a single release engineer knows about it.

I personally know a trustworthy release engineer that described in detail they were the person that had to send all new source code for each release to an NSA owned FTP server.

Does that mean Apple is actually doing this too? Hard to say, but when there is no accountability it is best to operate under the assumption the worst is happening. Particularly given Tim Cook is very publicly sucking up to the president every chance he gets.
by belter | 2025-12-16 18:47:46+00:00
>>Morgan Stanley suggests that the release of this information may result in invoking the "Osbourne Effect." Osbourne Computer, decades ago, released information about a great new future model. This resulted in customers refraining from buying the current Osbourne model, resulting in steep losses and bankruptcy.

Sadly that did not work for Tesla, and the promises of FSD next year...for the last 10 years...
by dpark | 2025-12-16 18:48:04+00:00
I don’t know where you live but around me I see people carry trees on top of their cars all the time at Christmas. It’s not complex. You put the tree on the car. You open the doors and tie the tree. You get in and close the doors. You don’t drive with the windows down because why would you? And why would highway patrol pull you over? I’ve never even heard of anyone getting pulled over for carrying a tree or anything else.

Is it more convenient in the back of the truck, though? Sure. I didn’t say otherwise.

I will say that buying a giant truck with poor visibility and 2.5x the kill rate of a sedan so that you can haul a tree once a year is nonsense. It’s a shitty tradeoff and a much smaller truck would do exactly the same job. But little trucks don’t sell like giant trucks because people are not actually buying them for their utility.
by YC3498723948732 | 2025-12-16 18:48:16+00:00
The first conservative MP to defect said that the caucus has a "frat party atmosphere"[1]. The last MP to defect used to be CIO at Royal Bank of Canada. My suspicion is that the conservatives are being run internally like a boys' club revolving around PP and the Liberals are having no difficulty peeling off MPs who went in expecting a professional workplace. Disaster.

1: https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/is-pierre...
by MarkusWandel | 2025-12-16 18:48:26+00:00
As an ESL immigrant, as it happens, I agree with this! Agree with sticking to a "Canadian" spelling. You'll prise the "u" in things like "colour" out of my cold, dead fingers, but just as Canada is a cultural melting pot, so is the language and spelling and the "z" in "utilize" belongs there. We're not British here, we're not 'murricans. This is Canada.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-16 18:48:27+00:00
Making the pyramid arbitrarily long and sharp will arbitrarily diminish the heat conductance through the pyramid, so the farther from the pyramid base, the colder it will be and the less it will radiate.

So no, you cannot increase too much the height of the pyramid, there will be some optimum value at which the pyramid will certainly not be sharp. The optimum height will depend on how much of the pyramid is solid and which is the heat conductance of the material. Circulating liquid through the pyramid will also have limited benefits, as the power required for that will generate additional heat that must be dissipated.

A practical radiation panel will be covered with cones or some other such shapes in order to increase its radiating surface, but the ratio in which the surface can be increased in comparison with a flat panel is limited.
by LocalH | 2025-12-16 18:48:38+00:00
Amiga also had explicit close buttons very early, Mac-style (and also had full pre-emptive multitasking in its very earliest days, which happened in 1984). I've seen pre-release screenshots of revision 24.24 of Workbench that had them (for reference, v1.0 of WB was approximately revision 30, 24.24 was in the era of the Velvet prototype where the system couldn't fully bootstrap itself)
by causal | 2025-12-16 18:48:41+00:00
No it's not. There is no shortage of tech problems to solve and there are no tech jobs that AI can do alone.

AI is sucking up investment and AI hype is making executives stupid. Hundreds of billions of dollars that used to go towards hiring is now going towards data centers. But AI is not doing tech jobs.

These headlines do nothing but increase the hype by pointing towards the wrong cause entirely.

Edit: You cannot square these headlines https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46289160
by QuantumGood | 2025-12-16 18:48:56+00:00
A "fine" or "tax" is not necessarly regulation, in that it can be avoided, as in paid for by other actions, or gamed. Regulation should be though of as an input to cause a result in a scenario. Work backwards from the desired result, accounting for gaming the system, to attempt a regulation action. Of course, politicians are motivated only to provide something, not to make it effective.
by amarant | 2025-12-16 18:49:12+00:00
Getting acquired by Microsoft is a death sentence for any product.

The only variable is how long after acquisition before they gut it. It's almost never right away. GitHub was acquired 7 years ago, but it started showing symptoms perhaps 2 years ago.

With this I think it's clear the wound was fatal. GitHub will stumble on for a few more years with ever-decreasing quality, before going the way of Skype.

So, I guess we're all migrating to gitlab? Or is it time to launch gittube? Githamster?
by ActorNightly | 2025-12-16 18:50:11+00:00
Im all for it. Software job markets are inflated. Id be 100% willing to take a lower salary if that meant a reduction of all salaries across the board. Younger people need to be going into things like EE or MechE instead of CS in hopes of getting a six figure job out of college, living in downtown highrises, while working on something that is essentially funded by ads.
by hinkley | 2025-12-16 18:50:13+00:00
Am I right in assuming it’s not the amount of payment but the transition from $0 to paying a bill at all?

I’m definitely sure it’s saving me more than $140 a month to have CI/CD running and I’m also sure I’d never break even on the opportunity cost of having someone write or set one up internally if someone else’s works - and this is the key - just as well.

But investment in CI/CD is investing in future velocity. The hours invested are paid for by hours saved. So if the outcome is brittle and requires oversight that savings drops or disappears.
by fainpul | 2025-12-16 18:50:14+00:00
I don't mean these Flock cameras, I mean what you refer to as "boring rooftop weather webcams". Some of those show people fairly close up and even if you can't recognize your face in the stream, you will recognize the place and realize that it's you, standing there right now in that video stream.

Just search for "<your city> webcam" and see what you can find.