MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cjbarber | 2025-12-06 15:49:57+00:00
The prescription here might be for people to be able to easily afford to live walkable to some of their family and friends.

Lots of things come from this: shared resources (less income need, less work stress), shared emotional support, shared childcare (less income need), etc.

Instead of single family homes (one family is not the atomic unit of the human species!) it should've been single community developments with 15 homes and a big shared backyard but still private for all the houses. And the landlord + all the tenants can select the residents based on their personal preferences and anyone can veto.

I think many challenges stem from the lack of this.

I don't know what the fix is though, because housing regulations seem difficult to change.
by dasil003 | 2025-12-06 15:49:57+00:00
That’s funny because I have seen this advice most needed in large projects, where things drag out because people keep having new ideas that they think will make it better. The insidious part is that certainly some ideas are good, the issue is that identifying the most critical changes is never definitive until you ship and see if it works.

(Obviously this advice can easily go horribly wrong in the hands of incompetent leadership, context matters, etc)
by mwexler | 2025-12-06 15:50:14+00:00
It's fascinating to see the mergers of 2 dead tech. This isn't emulation or archiving; it's something that only a few hundred people can even experience. Yet it's a fascinating journey. I'm not quite sure why I like it. The excessive detail? The passion and drive? I didn't expect to enjoy it, and those kinds of surprises are nice to stumble on.
by Timon3 | 2025-12-06 15:51:21+00:00
I'm not sure where some of these "contradictions" come from, as I e.g. can't find anything about them having "redesigned the desktop" on the page with those keywords. But for the rest, I don't see how they are contradictory - at least if you've spent a few seconds to understand them.

> Such as their claim that updates are a “single iso”

Updates literally are a "single image" (didn't see "iso" mentioned). Where is the contradiction?

> and also their claim about a single App Store, and they then go on to discuss flatpak and homebrew package management.

There literally is a single app store. Homebrew is not used to install apps, only for CLI tools. Flatpak is the single app store which users use to install apps (through Bazaar). Where is the contradiction?

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

Can you explain what exactly you're referring to?

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

This distribution isn't targeted at "seasoned admins", so why wouldn't they mention something relevant to their target group? No contradiction here.
by xethos | 2025-12-06 15:51:32+00:00
Because you only went to 2018. The article mentions 2014, and if we use your own DOT tool to build a table [0] from 2013 to 2023 (the latest year available), and filter to include large trucks and fatal collisions, we see... a ~42% increase in fatal accidents from 2014-2023

[0] https://cdan.dot.gov/files/files/e2451bc7-e1c3-4942-93f2-af6...
by omneity | 2025-12-06 15:51:37+00:00
Hello HN! I've been trying out some AMD gpus for Gen AI workloads lately and found the state of monitoring quite unsatisfying.

The best option out there, `nvtop`, has some very strict correctness asserts crashing it too often. With `picomon` I tradeoff some of that accuracy for increased reliability.

If your amd-smi version is incompatible, please open an issue and I'll be happy to fix that. Happy hacking!
by keepamovin | 2025-12-06 15:51:43+00:00
The article is a useful resource for setting up automated flows, and Claude is great at assembly. Codex less so, Gemini is also good at assembly. Gemini will happily hand roll x86_64 bytecode. Codex appears optimized for more "mainstream" dev tasks, and excels at that. If only Gemini had a great agent...
by GMoromisato | 2025-12-06 15:52:37+00:00
In general, advice like "move faster" is more likely to yield results than "move slower".

The world conspires to prevent action. Humans (like all lifeforms) are naturally lazy. We want to get the biggest benefit for the least expenditure of energy. There's always a voice in the back of our minds saying, "nah, don't bother doing that--it's too much work and it's not worth it."

Everything we see reinforces this voice. When we see hustle culture, we think, "that's cringe--I would never want to do that." And so we don't. When a startup fails, we think, "see, it's not worth it." And when a startup succeeds, we think, "well, they got lucky, and anyway they had rich parents, so they were bound to succeed."

Worse, it's easy to do things that feel like action but are really just time-wasters. Reading one more advice post. Organizing our workspace. Learning one more tool/technology/process.

Moving faster means don't wait. Act now.

"But I don't want to move fast and break things!" That's the voice again, preventing you from acting. Yes, moving too fast absolutely has risks, but not as many risks as moving too slow.

The only guarantee in life is that we'll be dead one day, and I for one want to get as much out of my limited time as I can. I'm not going to waste it waiting.
by grayhatter | 2025-12-06 15:53:50+00:00
> For example, if you ask a model something it doesn’t know, the drive to be helpful can sometimes overtake the drive to be honest. And faced with a hard task, LLMs sometimes cheat. “Maybe the model really wants to please, and it puts down an answer that sounds good,” says Barak. “It’s hard to find the exact balance between a model that never says anything and a model that does not make mistakes.”

"Wants to"

I find I have a weird take on this kind of anthropomorphism... It doesn't bother me when people say a rock "wants to" roll down hill. But in does when someone say an LLM "wants to"... equally I'm not nearly as bothered by something like the LLM "tries to"... It's a strange rule set for correct communication...

Anyways, please forgive that preemptive tangent. My primary point is

[ citation needed ]

I remember reading a paper praising GPT for being able to explain it's decision making process. This paper provided no evidence, no arguments, and no citations for this exceptionally wild claim. How is this not just a worse version of that claim? I ask that as a real question, so many people willingly believe and state that an LLM is able to (correctly) explain it's decision making process. How? Why isn't it better to assume that's just another hallucination? Especially given it would be nonfalsifiable?
by Tagbert | 2025-12-06 15:53:54+00:00
From the paper...

Why "experimental" HTML?

Did you know that 90% of submissions to arXiv are in TeX format, mostly LaTeX? That poses a unique accessibility challenge: to accurately convert from TeX—a very extensible language used in myriad unique ways by authors—to HTML, a language that is much more accessible to screen readers and text-to-speech software, screen magnifiers, and mobile devices. In addition to the technical challenges, the conversion must be both rapid and automated in order to maintain arXiv’s core service of free and fast dissemination.
by immibis | 2025-12-06 15:53:58+00:00
Not limited to healthcare btw. This is also how I feel about my public transport card, unlimited data on my cellphone plan, and so on.

I'll take a queue over bankruptcy any day. And these queues people complain about are triaged - if you're dying you skip to the front. The complaints about waiting hours are from people with broken arms, and at least they get seen and their arms get fixed, for free or a nominal price.
by ashleyn | 2025-12-06 15:54:14+00:00
Can't help but wonder if this was motivated in part by people feeding papers into LLMs for summary, search, or review. PDF is awful for LLMs. You're effectively pigeonholed into using (PAYING for) Adobe's proprietary app and models which barely hold a candle to Gemini or Claude. There are PDF-to-text converters, but they often munge up the formatting.
by Arainach | 2025-12-06 15:54:25+00:00
"What's your proposal" is a response to unhelpful griping.

Performance management does have to happen. If you aren't rewarding good performers with money and growth most of them will leave. Losing them is expensive. Hiring is expensive. To reward your high performers you need to be able to identify them.

"All of these options are bad" isn't useful if you don't have a better option.
by notnullorvoid | 2025-12-06 15:54:35+00:00
Wouldn't the implication of them being "opposite" be that in some sense they are mutually exclusive? I don't really see evidence of that. Your example of sensory input vs world model weight is a bit flawed, because both of those are extremely multifaceted. One can have extreme weight in sensory input in one sense but not others, as well as extreme weight on world model for certain aspects of life.
by harpiaharpyja | 2025-12-06 15:54:52+00:00
At that point the whole idea becomes quite removed from what most people would think of when asked to consider if the universe is a simulation.

To clarify: without being able to simulate the universe from within the universe itself (i.e. needing to resort to some "outside" higher-fidelity universe), then the word "simulation" becomes meaningless.

We could just as easily refer to the whole thing (the inner "simulation" and the outer "simulation") as just being different "layers of abstraction" of the same universe, and drop the word "simulation" altogether. It would have the same ontology with less baggage.
by emptysongglass | 2025-12-06 15:55:16+00:00
After Chat Control and Germany's precedent for arresting meme-posters, Europe (yes UK included) is fast-tracked to become a totalitarian surveillance state. People should be terrified of how rapidly our civil liberties are being torn down.

I don't know what the answer is anymore as it seems all our democratic processes defending us from these erosions of our liberties have simply ceased to function.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-06 15:55:48+00:00
This is sort of like saying there are lots of kids in the local community college shop class if you want to spin up an F1 team.

The knowledge of making 2008 era chips is not a gating factor for getting a handful of atoms to function as a transistor in current SOTA chips. There are probably 100 people on earth who know how to do this, and the majority of them are in Taiwan.

Again, China has literally stolen the plans for EUV lithography, years ago, and still cannot get it to work. Even Samsung and Intel, using the same machines as TSMC, cannot match what they are doing.

It's a dark art in the most literal sense.

Nevermind that new these cutting edge fabs cost ~$50 Billion each.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-12-06 15:56:46+00:00
I'm a hater of drip coffee as it almost always contains under-extracted (outside of cone) and over-extracted (middle of cone) coffee. You're correct about the importance of brew temperature, although I take issue with the strange units you use.

For me, full immersion brewing is the best as it's far easier to control than expresso - you can fine-tune the water temperature, the grind size and the brew time until you get coffee that astonishes people. Personally, I'm a big Aeropress fan, though I don't know why so many people make horrible coffee using french presses. I think most french press coffee I've drunk has had far too little coffee or too much water in the brew.
by testing22321 | 2025-12-06 15:56:47+00:00
My mum was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. Almost three years of radiation, chemotherapy, trail drugs, appointments etc. free transport and accommodation at the major city four hours away when required. Insane prescription drugs that seriously raised the eyebrows of the pharmacist every month.

Never paid a cent, never had a single call or piece of paper for logistics or payment or any of that bs.

She was a teacher her whole life, middle class, no private insurance ever.

It can be, and is, phenomenal in countries that do it right.

Aim higher.
by Barbing | 2025-12-06 15:57:42+00:00
>Did you know that 90% of submissions to arXiv are in TeX format, mostly LaTeX? That poses a unique accessibility challenge: to accurately convert from TeX—a very extensible language used in myriad unique ways by authors—to HTML, a language that is much more accessible to screen readers and text-to-speech software, screen magnifiers, and mobile devices.

Challenging. Good work!
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-12-06 15:57:45+00:00
Ubuntu is basically windows. I can give you that it is stable, but if you are actually arguing that there is not difference between those ( no 'magic solution' ) edit: , then I don't buy the argument. I think you may be missing the point I was making.

edit: I re-read my previous post. It is possible it is not clear, there is a level of ease and stability that comes 'image based' distros. I am putting quotation marks, because I am almost wondering if this is the equivalent of leather warm seats in the car. You don't think you need it or want it, because car warms up just fine so its not needed. And yet.. when you try use it once, you are hooked.
by stragies | 2025-12-06 15:58:19+00:00
Why did you not just login to the device, and switched off "Broadcast to multicast", or changed the destination address?

Edit: Some brands of Network-KVM use this, so that you can control the target device from another device, like e.g. an App on a tablet. That way you don't have to stand next to the target device in the noisy and cold machine room
by tialaramex | 2025-12-06 15:58:51+00:00
I don't think so?

In languages like Java their version of the Billion Dollar mistake doesn't have arbitrary Undefined Behaviour but it is going to blow up your program, so you're also going to need to track that or pay everywhere to keep checking your work - and since Rust doesn't have the mistake you don't need to do that.

Likewise C# apparently doesn't have arbitrary Undefined Behaviour for data races. But it does lose Sequential Consistency, so, humans can't successfully reason about non-trivial software when that happens, whereas safe Rust doesn't have data races so no problem.

Neither of these languages can model the no-defaults case, which is trivial in Rust and, ironically, plausible though not trivial in C++. So if you have no-defaults anywhere in your problem, Rust is fine with that, languages like Go and Java can't help you, "just imagine a default into existence and code around the problem" sounds like cognitive load to me.

Edited: Fix editorial mistake
by goekhanski | 2025-12-06 15:59:11+00:00
I've been using this for roughly a year on my work machine. I love the automatic updates: flatpak, brew and the system image get updated automatically. Usually once a week I get the stable update. I don't have to care because it's just a reboot (same for major updates, e.g. Fedora 42 -> 43). I love this. I had to do some workarounds, but not too much. I mostly work with Firefox, kubectl, k9s, helix and occasionally VSCode (either venv or in a devcontainer).
Ask HN: How do you handle private DNS for dev/staging environments?
by kenonet | 2025-12-06 15:59:27+00:00
We have multiple environments like (dev, staging, prod) and I'm tired of managing DNS for internal services. Current options all suck:

Public DNS entries → security risk

VPN + custom DNS → overkill, IT bottleneck, everyone complains

Editing /etc/hosts → obviously doesn't scale

I want devs to just access api.dev.company.internal without:

Asking IT to configure anything Running a full VPN Manual host file edits Exposing endpoints publicly

Am I missing an obvious solution? How do you handle this at your company?
by nottorp | 2025-12-06 15:59:38+00:00
Let's see:

1. It lacks systemd and apt.

systemd is so resource hungry that i'm sure they removed it to reduce the RAM bill. Apt... why install apt if the distro has a different means of updating?

2. While these are useful for debugging and development, they are also hacking tools that can be dangerously exploited.

This is purely fear mongering. Even the shell could be a "hacking tool that can be dangerously exploited". Let's remove the shell too.

There are some legitimate complaints in the article, like the use of the same key on all installs. The rest looks more like fear mongering and security theater.

Including the microphone. What were they supposed to do, desolder it manually and add $10 to the price of each device?

I don't see the article complaining that a PiKVM has so many unused peripherals when used as a KVM. To go in the spirit of item #2, the usb ports could be used as "dangerous hacking tools" so you should desolder your usb ports from a Pi used as a KVM, right?
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-06 15:59:40+00:00
Europe has billboards too. Perhaps not everywhere, and not as bad as some other places, but it does exist, and it is infuriating. I don't think I've seen them flash intentionally, but nobody seems to be too interested in fixing broken LED bulbs.

I even saw a "you should be looking at the road" ad on one of those billboards.
by jader201 | 2025-12-06 16:01:07+00:00
I know this is the sort of story HN would love to be true (and to be clear, I think ads on appliances are Black Mirror level stuff), but this — like most things on Reddit — is made up. [1]

This story, while fun to discuss, should be flagged, and not on the FP of HN.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46171868
by keepamovin | 2025-12-06 16:01:20+00:00
I think this is a clean line of thought. Pan-American US is certainly a strong play, seems missed oppportunity to have delayed it so long.

Africa is a dice roll here, something could emerge from there that challenges everyone. China might not find them such obedient tribute states, clearly. China ousts Russia, yep, and while divergent, they could unite, but it seems low probability despite history. I see Europe eventually aligned with Russia despite present appearances. Shared interests, history and culture. The more Putin flexes identity/nationalism, the more they drift from Asia, I think. But the story of Russia is way bigger than Putin, and eventually they may reject him and become something else.

Seems this is important to think about a lot more: "I think the west vs the rest divisions that have structured the geopolitical world since WWII might be significantly reorganized with China at the helm. What that means for us normies out here just trying to live life, I have no idea."
by madars | 2025-12-06 16:01:30+00:00
On Reddit, author says "The preview is shown at 20fps for a 3x scale image (90x90 pixels) and 50fps for a 1x scale image. This is due to the time it takes to read the image data from the sensor (~10ms) and the max write speed of the display.", and adds that optical mice motion tracking goes to 6400 fps for this sensor but you can't actually transmit image at that rate.

https://old.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/1olyu7r/i_made...
by d_burfoot | 2025-12-06 16:02:43+00:00
Do quant traders use Mathematica? I would guess this would be a great use case for a tool that lots of people love. Pretty language, huge boatload of built-in tools, high powered mathematics, great visualization capabilities. Quant firms should be able to live with the price tag. I assume they have a compiler that can produce fast executables for HFT.
by saagarjha | 2025-12-06 16:02:52+00:00
It's worth noting here that the author came up with a handful of good heuristics to guide Claude and a very specific goal, and the LLM did a good job given those constraints. Most seasoned reverse engineers I know have found similar wins with those in place.

What LLMs are (still?) not good at is one-shot reverse engineering for understanding by a non-expert. If that's your goal, don't blindly use an LLM. People already know that you getting an LLM to write prose or code is bad, but it's worth remembering that doing this for decompilation is even harder :)
by antiframe | 2025-12-06 16:03:14+00:00
I bet the local community plows the roads but not the bike infrastructure, though? I get why, people probably drive more than bike.

But, in Canada, there are local communities that plow bike infrastructure and locals bike in their deep winter.

It's a chicken or egg problem of building infrastructure for users and users demanding infrastructure. It's not some fact of nature that it's impossible. Different communities have different priorities. So, necessity is a bit strong of a word.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-12-06 16:03:29+00:00
Its possible I misunderstood your perspective. To me it seemed that you were saying that agricultural products must be proved to be safe before usage. That would essentially be the opposite of today's requirements which are better stated as proving them not to be harmful. It would of course result in extremely negative outcomes, like starvation and death.

Others in this thread state that this is what they want directly, so i may have inadvertently strawmaned you.

Certainly we can find middle ground between the two approaches, and probably should.

Again, its possible I misunderstood your stance. If so mea culpa.
Ask HN: Best place to be a founder outside of the US?
by garbawarb | 2025-12-06 16:03:37+00:00
I've been living in the US on a nonimmigrant work visa for a few years and I'm thinking of my next moves. I'd like to start a startup, but my whole immigration status is tied to working for my employer and nobody else, including myself. I like living here, and it's clearly the strongest place in the world for tech, but it's too disheartening to stay here long-term with no prospect of even getting an immigrant visa beyond a long, long process in which many things can go wrong and you need to start from scratch. With all the news about immigration restrictions, I think a lot of non-American entrepreneurs and professionals are starting to question whether the US is the best place for them.

Despite everything, the US (especially San Francisco, New York, and Seattle) is by far the best place to start a startup. It's the only place where it's deeply ingrained in the culture to take big risks, to aim for the sky, to think in terms of billions instead of just millions. Most crucially this relates to funding, where the deepest-pocketed and most risk-tolerant investors (angels, VCs) are in the US.

But as the US becomes more unfriendly for foreign entrepreneurs, I don't see any other country picking up the torch and nurturing the same startup-friendliness that the US has to attract ambitious people. China and Israel feel like the only countries with a nearly equally-healthy startup scene, but I expect those are hard places to live in for someone with no ties to the country. But where else would a person go? Toronto? Europe? (I'm a Canadian/EU dual citizen so these are appealing to me.) Dubai? Singapore? Thailand?
by MartinDawson | 2025-12-06 16:04:25+00:00
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