MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ndiddy | 2025-12-05 15:58:25+00:00
Apple took the basic concept of a GUI and mouse-driven interface from Xerox, but the Lisa/Mac are far from a direct copy of what was demoed at PARC. Smalltalk didn't have a file browser, didn't have pull-down menus, didn't have desktop icons. It didn't even have window controls. If you wanted to move a window, you had to click on the window title, then select "move" from the pop-up menu, then click where you wanted the window to move to.

Besides just the graphical UI, Apple also implemented a lot of novel technical concepts. For example, Smalltalk windows couldn't redraw themselves when they were partially obscured. Apple didn't know this restriction existed, so Bill Atkinson in their Lisa group invented regions as a way to let partially obscured windows only repaint portions of themselves. Meanwhile Xerox's own solution for this restriction for the Star (their commercialized version of the GUI research) was to ban windows from overlapping at all.

Overall modern desktop GUIs have much more in common with the Lisa/Mac than the Lisa/Mac have in common with Smalltalk.
by eddieroger | 2025-12-05 15:58:26+00:00
Frame it as the safety of the vaccine, not the efficacy of it. If it was about efficacy, it would lead with the 25% lower risk because of COVID safety. But, these days, there are people who think vaccines are dangerous just because, so saying that taking the vaccine or not has equal mortality puts that to rest (or at least does for those who find science real).
by alkonaut | 2025-12-05 15:58:37+00:00
I don't know what exactly "seed sharing" means (and the article doesn't describe it fully) but merely owning anything communally, or owning property - which includes the right to transfer it - seems like obvious human rights.

What's actually a human right and what isn't will depend on who you ask, but just "Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others." seems to be applicable (UN Charter §17)? It doesn't feel like "random thing I think is important is a human right" at all?
by denysvitali | 2025-12-05 15:58:50+00:00
The article mentions that this Lua-based proxy is the old generation one, which is going to be replaced by the Rust based one (FL2) and that didn't fail on this scenario.

So, if anything, their efforts towards a typed language were justified. They just didn't manage to migrate everything in time before this incident - which is ironically a good thing since this incident was cause mostly by a rushed change in response to an actively exploited vulnerability.
by aapoalas | 2025-12-05 15:59:20+00:00
I low-key hate myself for this, but I went and preorder. I've been waiting for SFOS to come to my Xperia 10 IV but that seems to still be in beta, and after quite a few years it'd be hard to switch over ask well... But I have to try support Jolla as they've been my go-to phone OS maker for the last 10-15 years.
by vips7L | 2025-12-05 15:59:23+00:00
I started this thread criticizing Go. I think it’s a terribly verbose language that has ignored all language dev of the last half century. It’s why I continue to write Java.

However, I don’t think that shields Java from its inability to make the language better. We still don’t have checked nulls and at this rate, even though there’s a draft JEP, I am not sure we will get them within this decade. The community still blindly throws unchecked exceptions because checked exceptions have received no investment to make them easy to work with.

The point of this thread is that people do want that. They want a natively compiled language (by default), that has checked nulls, errors represented in the type system, and has a GC.
by pragma_x | 2025-12-05 15:59:59+00:00
FWIW, you can make software that runs on Harvard architecture chips. They feature distinct address spaces for ROM and RAM. It's been a while, but it's how Atmel/Microchip AVR micros work.

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

That said, I'm unaware of any programming language (outside assembler) that takes that split to heart in a higher-level way.
by joecool1029 | 2025-12-05 16:00:04+00:00
> Those do exist, they’re called cell signal boosters.

No, those are different. They are describing a femtocell. I still have one site with a T-Mobile one. It basically VPN’s to T-Mobile’s network core through the cable ISP, uses GPS to check its location for licensed spectrum, and then broadcasts its own LTE signal. It does not boost/repeat the signal of a nearby tower, it runs its own.
by gnv_salsa | 2025-12-05 16:00:19+00:00
Unless you have an old Roundup bottle, you don't have glyphosate in it. From the Bayer website:

"The active ingredients found in our Roundup Lawn & Garden products in the U.S. are: fluazifop-p-butyl, triclopyr TEA salt, diquat dibromide and imazapic ammonium. These ingredients have been used safely and effectively in many different weed-control products from a variety of companies for decades."

"We have been very transparent about the new formulation of Roundup Lawn & Garden products and are no longer producing glyphosate-based Roundup products for the U.S. residential lawn and garden market. While Bayer no longer produces or sells glyphosate-based Roundup products – which are also EPA-approved – some quantities may remain on store shelves until remaining stocks are sold. "
by adzm | 2025-12-05 16:00:44+00:00
VP9 is more on the level of H265 really. VVC/H266 is closer to AV1. It's not an exact comparison but it is close. The licensing is just awful for VVC similar to HEVC and now that AV1 has proved itself everyone is pivoting away from VVC/h266 especially on the consumer side. Pretty much all VVC adoption is entirely internal (studios, set top boxes, etc) and it is not used by any major consumer streaming service afaik.
by mortsnort | 2025-12-05 16:00:46+00:00
Stupid and smart are stupid terms. There are many, many dimensions to intelligence and a lot of tech elite are too "stupid" to not recognize that being a really "smart" at coding doesn't mean they're really "smart" at everything.

I'd guess Elon and Linus's character sheets are more closely aligned on the same dimensions of intelligence than Linus would like to admit.
by NoahJiang | 2025-12-05 16:00:47+00:00
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by cmrdporcupine | 2025-12-05 16:00:48+00:00
These Snapdragon X processors have some drama around not having decent Linux support, right?

EDIT: Sorry, not SnapdragonX - apparently I can't read.

Also, who is "MetaComputing" and can I trust them with my money? Something about the big "Web 3 Integrated Devices" branding on their landing page makes me less than enthusiastic. Otherwise I'd be hovering over 'buy'
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-05 16:00:52+00:00
A big part of the reason I keep my Paramount+ subscription month-to-month despite mostly just watching Star Trek on it is that they sold me a pretty good annual plan discount.

Annual plans are a big factor in the stickiness of Amazon's efforts. Especially with Amazon's dark patterns around trying to make people forget they pay it (and making it hard to cancel).

It is curious there aren't more explorations in increasing stickiness. Though admittedly cable's biggest trick (long term contracts) is maybe thankfully out of reach for most of the streamers.
by vharish | 2025-12-05 16:00:53+00:00
Living rooms are not that big to start with. I don't think you actually asked anyone's opinion on this! :D

Small TVs are not comfortable to watch. No one I know is okay with getting a smaller TV and moving their sofa closer. That sounds ridiculous. If there's any comfort to this capatilistic economy, it is the availability of technology at throw away prices. Most people would rather spend on a TV than save the money.

As for the theatre being obsolete, I do agree with you, atleast to some extent. I think everyone is right here. All factors combined is what makes going to the theatre not worth the effort for most of the movies. It's just another nice thing, not what it used to be.

Also, the generational difference too. I think teen and adolescents have a lot of ways to entertain themselves. The craze for movies isn't the same as it used to be. And we grew old(er). With age, I've grown to be very picky with movies.
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-05 16:01:02+00:00
Nokia, Spotify, StarOffice, Telekom, Telefónica, Vodafone, Siemens, Bosch, Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Skoda, Volvo, Opel, Alstom, ASML, Hetzner, etc.

There are tons of small hosters here, because it's a competitive market. As for companies building a website for you, there are hundreds of them even in my city.

> most of Asia

If we are talking about actual production of (consumer) electronics, than Asia, beats the rest of the world, including the USA.

> World leader in redesigning bottle caps though.

Yeah, I find that stupid as well. So what you can just take them off.

> Oh, and cookie banners.

Malicious compliance to a law that isn't even specific to cookies. The US companies do that as well. So I wouldn't say that invention is EU specific.

> economic power either

EU GDP $21.097 trillion nominal, $29.240 trillion PPP vs. $30.616 trillion for the US. On the other side EU's Gini coefficient is labeled as low, while it is high for the US. China has $19.399 trillion nominal and $41.016 trillion PPP with a Gini coefficient labelled as medium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_China
by basscomm | 2025-12-05 16:01:38+00:00
> I've made a ton of attempts to build my giant collection of subscriptions but always just burn out on maintaining it.

RSS subscriptions aren't like Pokemon. You don't have to catch them all. One of the major selling points of RSS is that you can subscribe to sites that update infrequently so you get notified when they have a new update instead of checking the site manually and being disappointed that it hasn't updated in three weeks or whatever.

Adding a bunch of sites that update hundreds of times a day is a great way to DDOS your own attention span
Ask HN: What can I use for a credit card form to get subscriptions?
by xena | 2025-12-05 16:01:44+00:00
I'm trying to figure out how to implement a website that lets people sign up for the unbranded version of Anubis with credit cards in such a way that it will generate all the invoices in any format people could possibly want. What options are there to do this?

Ideally, I want something that lets me connect a Stripe merchant account so I get payouts and tax forms for my bank account. I also need EU-compliant invoices.

What options are there? I'm in the middle of building my own admin panel that integrates with Stripe via Clerk, but I figure that y'all know something that's better here.
by vorpalhex | 2025-12-05 16:01:55+00:00
And frequently they are simply contradicted by broadly available evidence.

Do the following exercise.

In whatever your main field of work is, the thing you are qualified in, go look up and track "fact checked" things. Keep a little tally in your notes of whether the fact checker is entirely correct, somewhat correct, or wrong.

Even on cybersecurity stories, and it's not as if there is a major journalist group pushing for the hackers and scammers, the fact checked stories are simply frequently incorrect. You can confirm this through legal filings or post-analysis in older stories.

It is, as far as I can tell, just a job done badly. The fact checkers aren't evil or malicious, just not good and confused about basic things.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-05 16:02:01+00:00
I mean, it's a concern, but there are numerous other odd things in the findings that would not be caused by ground contamination such as the amount of stardust contained in these samples versus other asteroid samples, or the huge amounts of clay/water created minerals found so far.

There are plenty of other articles on the isolation procedures they've taken so far to this point including putting off opening the container for months because of a stripped screw.
by electroly | 2025-12-05 16:02:07+00:00
> in return for giving Xerox the _opportunity_ to invest in Apple, wow

You're being sarcastic but this would have been the most lucrative thing Xerox ever did in its entire corporate life, by far, if it had held onto the stock. This was a really good deal in hindsight. Indeed, it would have been better to liquidate Xerox and put all the proceeds into Apple stock; I don't think anybody argues that Xerox could have made as much hay as Apple did with the technology, even in the best of scenarios. It couldn't have known that at the time, of course.
by andix | 2025-12-05 16:02:28+00:00
I think in the US there are even public 5G frequencies that can be used. In most of Europe you would need to buy an expensive license to do that.

Private 5G networks usually need internal eSIM cards, you can't just let public devices roam into the private 5G net.

Benefits of 5G over WiFi: much better roaming between APs, higher distances, and better congestion management if there are hundreds of devices connected to a cell.
by ceejayoz | 2025-12-05 16:03:40+00:00
> If the results of this specific study were the opposite, would you behave any different than a skeptic?

This study supports all the other bits of evidence in the same direction; it's consistent with what we know.

Similarly, I'd be somewhat more dubious about even a very well constructed study that declares "there are no people in New York City" than one that found some people there.
by DeepSeaTortoise | 2025-12-05 16:04:11+00:00
You can also use just heat. Like a long propane torch or one of the newer electric infrared ones. It doesn't need a lot of heat, a short burn (like a bit less than a second) is perfectly sufficient to make them wilt within a few days.

Weeds are the flora equivalent of VC-hype-startups. All growth, no substance and no plan B. They pop-up everywhere, with seemingly infinite growth resources and hope you'll despair and do nothing.

Just going around plucking leaves from everything that looks like you won't like it for a few weeks twice a year works wonders.

Basically regulatory capture for your lawn. No need to help along your darlings (in the beginning), just make everyone else play with stupid rules. And once things start going down the drain, it's time for subsidies (fertilizer) and public contracts (pre-germination).
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by proberts | 2025-12-05 16:04:20+00:00
As usual, there are countless immigration topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won't have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll do the same in my answers!

Previous threads we've done: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts.
by andy99 | 2025-12-05 16:04:32+00:00
No it doesn’t. I’m not trying to make a point about vaccines, just that the study is a population study and so shows benefits on average to a population.

If the vaccine killed 1/100 people (again I don’t believe this but it’s the internet) but made the other 99 immune to dying over the 4 years, it would look really good on average even if it was directly responsible for the deaths of 1%.
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-05 16:04:33+00:00
In fairness, the previous bug (with the Rust unwrap) should never have happened: someone explicitly called the panicking function, the review didn't catch it and the CI didn't catch it.

It required a significant organizational failure to happen. These happen but they ought to be rarer than your average bug (unless your organization is fundamentally malfunctioning, that is)
by rckt | 2025-12-05 16:04:37+00:00
It would be great if all these companies contributed to a some kind of a unified modular platform like Project ARA. I see a lot of new devices, but they all do their own stuff. They produce hardware for their software, the end result is the same as with big brands. Most of these devices are usable while they are supported by these companies. Some of them allow installing custom Android roms, but not many.

Looks like the market just gets more fragmented without any improvements towards better sustainability/reusability. The only thing that really caught my attention recently was Pilet, a handheld Raspberry Pi. That's a really cool thing, that gives mobility while maintaining functionality.
by this_user | 2025-12-05 16:04:49+00:00
The question is perhaps what the shape and status of their tech stack is. Obviously, they are running at massive scale, and they have grown extremely aggressively over the years. What's more, especially over the last few years, they have been adding new product after new product. How much tech debt have they accumulated with that "move fast" approach that is now starting to rear its head?
by rvz | 2025-12-05 16:04:53+00:00
> Instead, it was triggered by changes being made to our body parsing logic while attempting to detect and mitigate an industry-wide vulnerability disclosed this week in React Server Components.

Doesn't Cloudflare rigorously test their changes before deployment to make sure that this does not happen again? This better not have been used to cover for the fact that they are using AI to fix issues like this one.

Better not be any presence of vibe coders or AI agents being used to be touching such critical pieces of infrastructure at all and I expected Cloudflare to learn from the previous outage very quickly.

But this is quite a pattern but might need to consider putting the unreliability next to GitHub (which goes down every week).
by lesuorac | 2025-12-05 16:05:03+00:00
Honestly, the thing I find more interesting is the "Social Deprivation Index" where vaccinated individuals were 21% "most social" and 19% "least social" while unvaccinated individuals were 15% "most social" and 27% "least social".

There are obvious negative and positive ways to interpret this but I don't actually know the correct one.
by vandyswa | 2025-12-05 16:05:11+00:00
To me, it feels like most feed readers are made by people who don't use RSS, and just exercise their feed reader on a few feeds. I seem to be at 211 feeds with (currently) 13,000 cached entries, organized across a couple dozen categories.

A reader where you'll click into the body under a headline only 1-5% of the time is a totally different beast.
by shermantanktop | 2025-12-05 16:05:11+00:00
These are two businesses, both under the Sony name: content production and content distribution. Very likely they are two different divisions with different P&Ls.

Every “streaming service” is a distributor. Some of them are also content producers.

Content production is also a bizarre mini world of VC-type funding and shell/temporary production corporations. Some companies lean heavily into that, some do a more traditional in-house studio model, some do both.
by denysvitali | 2025-12-05 16:05:21+00:00
This is the kind of comment I wish he would ignore.

You can be angry - but that doesn't help anyone. They fucked up, yes, they admitted it and they provided plans on how to address that.

I don't think they do these things on purpose. Of course given their good market penetration they end up disrupting a lot of customers - and they should focus on slow rollouts - but I also believe that in a DDOS protection system (or WAF) you don't want or have the luxury to wait for days until your rule is applied.
by notabee | 2025-12-05 16:05:45+00:00
The longstanding existence of religions and the continual birth of new cults, the popularity of extremist political groups of all types, and the ubiquity of fortune-telling across cultures, seem to stand in opposition to your assertion that people hate being manipulated. At least, people enjoy belonging to something far more than they hate being manipulated. Most successful versions of fortune-telling, religious conversion, and cult recruitment do utilize confirmation bias affirmation, love-bombing, and other techniques to increase people's agreeableness before getting to the manipulation part, but they still successfully do that. It's also like saying that advertising is pointless because it's manipulating people into buying things, and while people dislike ads it's also still a very successful part of getting people to buy products or else corporations wouldn't still spend vast amounts of money on marketing.
by munchbunny | 2025-12-05 16:06:25+00:00
> It also hammers home the idea that you need backing and buy-in from key players in the workforce before everyone else will follow.

Yup, this is the key issue and what makes it primarily a people problem. Technical solutions don't work if the main problem is getting buy-in to spec/build/adopt one, unless you're willing to build a lot of things you end up throwing out. So instead the bulk of the high risk work is actually negotiation between people.
by philipallstar | 2025-12-05 16:06:25+00:00
> They all had their chance. They blew it.

This is so silly. It's like saying "Sweet manufacturers all had the chance to sell the same sweets, and they blew it. So I just nick most sweets." Just say "I don't like paying for things and can get away with this, and my ethics only work in public or when I'm forced to obey them." And then we're done.
by andix | 2025-12-05 16:06:35+00:00
Do they work for 5G? I think just amplifying the signal (like 2g signal boosters did) would mess with a lot with all the fancy RF tricks that make 5G fast, stable, low-latency and quite low on package loss (5G has impressively low package loss on the IP layer).

For most use cases WiFi should be the better solution. VoWiFi works well for calls. Should be enough for home and office use.
by nine_k | 2025-12-05 16:06:57+00:00
> more to the story

From a more tinfoil-wearing angle, it may not even be a regular deployment, given the idea of Cloudflare being "the largest MitM attack in history". ("Maybe not even by Cloudflare but by NSA", would say some conspiracy theorists, which is, of course, completely bonkers: NSA is supposed to employ engineers who never let such blunders blow their cover.)