MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dlahoda | 2025-12-06 04:47:04+00:00
https://leanpub.com/functional-programming-in-cSharp-with-ca...

https://leanpub.com/practical-functional-csharp

https://prodotnetmemory.com/

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/c-12-in/9781098147433/c...
by bigyabai | 2025-12-06 04:47:49+00:00
> Apple wisely allowed us to load a non-chain-of-trust OS

> an incredible advancement still unmatched by other manufacturers

Sheesh, don't forget to zip up Tim's pants once you're done. I hope other manufacturers don't follow Apple in forcing proprietary bootloaders. Open alternatives like Clover and OpenCore are fully viable for booting macOS.
by Aloisius | 2025-12-06 04:48:30+00:00
This comment feels like you're trying to replace my own perception and judgement about advertising with your own. Are you committing psychic violence by trying to persuade me?

Honestly, I don't see why advertising is any more abusive than any other unsolicited opinion or attempts at persuasion by people one sees in every day life. It is far easier to ignore a billboard than a protest or a beggar or an evangelist.
by maczwei | 2025-12-06 04:49:04+00:00
I sliced the image for Gemini so that two slices of an image don't have legs, one slice has two front legs and one slice has three hind legs. Then Gemini 3 Pro answered correctly that the dog has 5 legs. Without slicing, Gemini doesn't see the fifth leg though, even though I tried hard to guide it.
by j45 | 2025-12-06 04:49:05+00:00
"Max Power" - https://frinkiac.com/video/S10E13/wRtZ0QdDirXfWVwbdZ3jU_8NAE...

Can't find other clips by quote.

Sometimes Grandpa talking about wearing an onion on his belt is important.

It would be great to add the meme mode to the gif rendering so it was captioned.
by addaon | 2025-12-06 04:49:46+00:00
This is focused on the illuminant, treating the surfaces as having a spectral response that’s simply a per-frequency multiplicative factor. But to me the more interesting part of spectral rendering is being able to deal with surfaces that are non-trivial functions of the incident illumination, like phosphorescence/day-glo effects, where energy incident at one wavelength is re-emitted at a different one. It’s quite hard to capture this accurately in anything based on RGB.
by chfritz | 2025-12-06 04:49:56+00:00
If that person had been a roboticist, they would have known what to do: stand in front of the car. It would have saved the cat's life. And most non-roboticists will immediately recognize this as a solution, too: these cars obviously detect humans right in front of them very well and will not move in that case. By the way, the same would have worked better for most human drivers as well. Even if you yelled at a human driver that there was a cat under the car, it would not be a reliable solution because they may not hear or understand you. But they, too, would almost certainly not run you over if you stood in front of the car.

To be clear, I don't blame the witness for not doing this in the moment. And she probably has figured this out by now, too. I'm mostly pointing out that, as more and more people learn about robot taxis, more people will known how to help in such a situation, which is clearly what she wanted to do.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-12-06 04:50:28+00:00
This is a desperate move by a company that is in huge trouble.

I paid almost every month since gpt4 came out but mine lapsed when Gemini was released and I haven't even thought of logging in.

The subscribers are exactly the users who would migrate to Gemini. Then your left with the prospect of this giant free chatgpt user base setting money fire.

Wouldn't be shocking at all looking back 10 years from now that maybe the path that Altman stays fired would have been the better path.
by tobyjsullivan | 2025-12-06 04:50:57+00:00
Many (I’d speculate most) workflows involve moving and referencing data across multiple applications. For example, read from a spreadsheet while writing a notion page, then send a link in Slack. If any one app is down, the task is blocked.

Software development is a rare exception to this. We’re often writing from scratch (same with designers, and some other creatives). But these are definitely the exception compared to the broader workforce.

Same concept applies for any app that’s built on top of multiple third-party vendors (increasingly common for critical dependencies of SaaS)
by PedroBatista | 2025-12-06 04:50:58+00:00
Of course it can, but different killer apps for a different crowd. A missile tracking system wouldn't be the kind of application to do in PHP. Wrong app, wrong crowd.

I'm aware of D since it's inception more or less but don't know it very well. I would say D lacks a "bombastic" feature and maybe that's both the reason is not used more but also why is such a good language.

It's not "memory safe" like Rust, yes it's fast but so is C/C++, it doesn't have the "massive parallelism/ always-on" robustness like Erlang. It has a bit of everything which is good and bad.

Being a mid all-arounder is OK in my book, perhaps it's more a matter of some "post-AI" tech startup adopt it and get massive or famous, like Ruby because of the Web 2.0 era or Erlang with the Whatsapp thing.

Maybe D is good the way it is and will always be there.
by smartbit | 2025-12-06 04:52:15+00:00
In an interview earlier this week [1], with one of the new Editors-in-Chief states that before retracting he tried contacting Gary Williams and send him 3 emails to which Gary never replied.

[1] https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/03/er-zijn-richtlijnen-ove... or https://archive.is/rjXrR

[2] Ik heb Gary Williams, de enige van de drie auteurs die nog leeft, drie e-mails gestuurd. Daar heeft hij nooit op gereageerd. Op een gegeven moment houdt het op, hè?
by astral_drama | 2025-12-06 04:52:36+00:00
It's market manipulation. You get a chase going (panic buying) by those that are short (need to buy memory in the future). Run up the price on those shorts and squeeze them out as they chase price higher, meanwhile you bought in low and can distribute out your supply when you see fit, or run it up higher until everyone is wrecked. If I were the memory makers I wouldn't want to cede control to openai, you'd rather have a healthy, steady ecosystem than a rigged market that people don't want to be involved in.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-06 04:53:09+00:00
Probably, but as I mentioned before, the EU has been using the DSA as a negotiating tool against the US - just like we are using Free Speech absolutism and "censorship" as a tool against the EU in negotiations.

Unlike other major tech companies like Meta or Alphabet that fall under the DSA, X doesn't have a similar presence in the EU to give it a firewall. Alphabet has Poland on it's side [0], Meta has Ireland on it's side [1], Amazon has Luxembourg on it's side [2], and Microsoft has Czechia on it's side [7][8][9], and because of Musk's ties to the GOP, it becomes a useful political lever while not directly hurting individual EU states. If X somehow complies, some other issue will crop up against (eg.) Tesla despite the Gigafactory because Brandenburg is a lost cause if you aren't affilated with the AfD or BSW. It's the same reason why X doesn't push back when India passes a diktat because Indian law holds corporate leaders criminally liable and X has a significant India presence [10]

It's the same way how if you want to hold Germany by the balls you pressure Volkswagen [3] and if you want to pressure France [4] you target LVMH's cognac, scotch, and wine business [5].

This is a major reason why companies try to build GCCs abroad as well - being in the same room gives some leverage when negotiating regulations. Hence why Czechia, Finland, Luxembourg, and Greece pushed back against French attempts at cloud sovereignty [6] because OVHCloud only has a presence in France and Poland, but Amazon and Microsoft have large capital presences in the other 4.

[0] - https://www.gov.pl/web/primeminister/google-invests-billions...

[1] - https://www.euractiv.com/news/irish-privacy-regulator-picks-...

[2] - https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/policy/amazon-leaders-meet-l...

[3] - https://www.ft.com/content/6ec91d4a-2f37-4a01-9132-6c7ae5b06...

[4] - https://videos.senat.fr/video.5409997_682ddabf64695.aides-au...

[5] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-03/eu-fight-...

[6] - https://www.euractiv.com/news/eu-digital-ministers-push-agai...

[7] - https://nukib.gov.cz/en/infoservis-en/news/2276-nukib-and-mi...

[8] - https://news.microsoft.com/europe/2017/03/31/satya-nadella-v...

[9] - https://mpo.gov.cz/en/guidepost/for-the-media/press-releases...

[10] - https://www.glassdoor.com/Location/X-Bengaluru-Location-EI_I...
by mitkebes | 2025-12-06 04:53:24+00:00
A lot of Linux ports have serious issues, it's quite common to get better performance/fewer bugs by forcing a Linux native steam game to run the windows version through Proton instead.

Realistically a lot of devs aren't going to make Linux versions at all (or be able to spend time actually fixing issues with them) unless Linux users make up a bigger market share. Valve's efforts are helping to grow Linux market share, which is a necessary step before we can ever hope for most devs to focus on Linux compatibility.
by conikeec | 2025-12-06 04:54:44+00:00
My team spent the last few months going deep on MCP.

Not just building on it—understanding it. The architecture decisions. The tradeoffs. The "why" behind the protocol.

Today we're releasing that learning : https://makingmcp.com/

It reads like a simple book, not documentation. We start with the chaos—the M×N integration nightmare that has engineers debugging at 3AM. Then walk through how MCP solves it for agents, piece by piece.

It's a tribute to the protocol and a reference for anyone building MCP ecosystems. If you're designing AI-to-tool connections, we hope it saves you some of the headaches we had.

Grab a coffee and enjoy!
by chii | 2025-12-06 04:57:11+00:00
> If Cloudflare is at 99.95% then the world suffers

if the world suffers, those doing the "suffering" needs to push that complaint/cost back up the chain - to the website operator, which would push the complaint/cost up to cloudflare.

The fact that nobody did - or just verbally complained without action - is evidence that they didn't really suffer.

In the mean time, BofA saved cost in making their site 99.95% uptime themselves (presumably cloudflare does it cheaper than they could individually). So the entire system became more efficient as a result.
by rotbart | 2025-12-06 04:58:05+00:00
Nothing wrong with the attributes the author groups under 'transparent leadership', but the article shows a certain misunderstanding of servant leadership.

At the core of servant leadership is the idea that leaders shouldn't hoard power, but instead share it and empower their reports. That they are accountable to their reports, rather than the other way.

Nothing to do with acting like a parents and becoming a single point of failure.
by bediger4000 | 2025-12-06 04:59:32+00:00
My dear sir that's simply not responsive! The metaphorical rubble of thousands of Usenet newsgroups refute your point. Without moderation, topical forums get over run, if not by soyjaks, then by penis pill advertisers.

You can most certainly find a forum devoted to whatever topic you desire to discuss, but you can't discuss whatever you desire in a forum devoted to a specific topic. This isn't censorship, and you are using whataboutism to justify not only your own prejudices, but also a national policy of prejudice that appeals only to one particular political faction.
by tripletao | 2025-12-06 05:00:35+00:00
I'm not sure what the rest of the paragraph adds here? Nothing in that qualifies or contradicts the absolute that I quoted. Are you just saying that the statement was so generally inarticulate that any reasonable person should have ignored it completely? That was true here, but that's not great for public confidence either.

I'm aware that the scientific literature told a more nuanced and accurate story, but only a tiny fraction of the population have the skills and time to study that. I don't think you can fault people for trusting their elected leaders; and if you do, then who are you expecting them to trust next time?

> a CDC spokesperson seemingly walked back the director’s comments

So after widespread criticism by actual scientists, she didn't even correct herself in her own voice, instead sending an unnamed spokesperson to smooth it over without explicitly acknowledging error. I can't believe you don't see how the damage is done.
by thetodd-design | 2025-12-06 05:02:30+00:00
I’ve been working on Alphie, a self-hosted automation controller for Ansible and Terraform. It’s meant to be a more focused alternative to things like AWX/AAP and Semaphore — simpler than AWX/AAP, but with more options than Semaphore.

Why I built it: - I wanted a single place to run Ansible playbooks and Terraform plans without standing up multiple tools. - AWX updates seem to be slowing down, and AAP’s commercial pricing ends up much more expensive for the kind of automation volume most people care about.

What Alphie does today: - Runbooks (Ansible jobs) with logs, limits, and per-run variables. - Pipelines (multiple jobs in sequence) with per-step runners and approvals. - Targets/hosts and access packages (credentials) managed in the UI. - Schedules to run jobs/pipelines at specific times. - Runner containers (Podman) that actually execute the Ansible runs. - Terraform integration so you can trigger plans/applies from the same UI.

I am also pleased to report that Alphie is already running successfully in production at a large, non-profit hospital system. This environment includes dozens of hospitals and clinics across multiple U.S. states and manages its infrastructure as code across a hybrid cloud environment, including on-premises and multiple cloud tenants.

Tech stack: - Backend: Python (FastAPI), PostgreSQL. - Runners: Podman containers on Linux, using different runtime “realms” for different Ansible versions. - Self-hosted only; no cloud dependency and no data leaves your environment.

Licensing: - There’s a free trial build with some limits (number of runbooks/pipelines, etc.) so you can try it out. - There will soon be a “Pro” version with licenses for people who want to use it more broadly, but I’m mainly looking for feedback right now.

I’d love feedback from this crowd on: - The overall concept: does this fill a real gap for you vs AWX/AAP/Semaphore/etc? - The install experience (docs are at https://alphieui.com/docs). - Anything obviously missing or confusing in the UI / mental model (runbooks, pipelines, runners, realms, etc).

Happy to answer technical questions about the architecture, packaging, or anything else.
by theodpHN | 2025-12-06 05:02:36+00:00
Very fun, simple, and clever! In the spirit of the Mix CDs my kids used to make & share with friends back in the day (without the frustration). Nice job!

Shared Playlist 10 Quick YouTube Music Picks https://clipnotebook.com/p/0cfff3be-4418-4e9c-ad14-9d8cd7e55...
by potamic | 2025-12-06 05:03:21+00:00
> It is a luxury good that only a very small number of people care about

The world runs on computers. It is as essential as oil for the functioning of societies. Increase in silicon costs is going to increase costs unilaterally across the board. It happened during the pandemic and something similar will happen now. If anything it should be a wake up call to countries to start thinking about securing their own supply chains.
by mitkebes | 2025-12-06 05:03:24+00:00
To be fair 30% is the standard.

As far as I know, all of the following stores take a 30% cut:

* Steam * GOG * Microsoft store * Xbox store * PlayStation store * Nintendo eShop * App store * Play store * Kindle store

There's also stuff like Audible where Amazon takes a 75% cut unless you agree to exclusively sell your audiobook through them. And there was a lawsuit over that because it turned out Audible was actually only paying authors a 15% cut, while keeping 85% of sales for themselves.
by jesseendahl | 2025-12-06 05:03:34+00:00
People should be setting up Recovery Contacts so that they have a way of getting back into their Google account even if they lose all credentials (passwords and/or passkeys) and all their devices.

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/recovery-cont...

I hope Google starts to push all users to setup Recovery Contacts. It would greatly reduce the likelihood of lockouts, whether using passkeys or not.
by ncr100 | 2025-12-06 05:03:40+00:00
Shutting down the service. Blocking new users. Preventing existing users in the UK and many other countries from continuing to use the product. Giving everybody who is still a user the free unloaded plan.

Basically feels like a failure, a startup failure.

Presumably there's an acqui hire thing going on. Certainly the technology is going to meta. They probably don't give a care about the user base, since it's meta they have the ability to address the entire planet on a much grander scale than the Limitless company was able.

Overall a very big disappointment and the slack community is just railing against Dan Siroker and the decision. The community feels betrayed and like the opportunity cost was a huge waste for them.

A number of alternative communities is sprung up and competitors in the market have started to join the slack form to offer their own alternatives. Notably the omi.me company is offering a bounty for hacking the Limitless pendant hardware to work with their own open source AI reminder stack.
by euleriancon | 2025-12-06 05:04:25+00:00
There are still some features that a miss from Google photos. There isn't any way (that I know of) to auto add pictures to an album based on the face. I used to have dedicated albums for family members, and it was nice to have the auto updated.

Face recognition in general just isn't as good as Google Photos.

It's still an amazing piece of software and I'd never go back, but it isn't perfect yet.
by harmmonica | 2025-12-06 05:04:56+00:00
Had to read this a couple of times to try and figure out why, as of this moment, you’ve been downvoted because this seems like one of the more insightful comments on here. Maybe it’s too inside baseball about the post-deal opportunity? Anyway not supposed to talk about downvotes so…

You were there for a while. Was/is studio capacity still a constraint on production? You read so many stories about how LA studios are struggling to fill space because all of the productions have left town for tax credits elsewhere. Curious if you’re still plugged in enough and know that it’s still true about their studio space. I assumed their interest was strictly a content play and the extra studio space might actually be an anchor they were willing to drag along to get the content/IP.
by lesuorac | 2025-12-06 05:05:08+00:00
That would be an uncharitable explanation.

Surely, you aren't going to also argue that the vulnerable people don't care about others? A charitable argument is that people who cannot get the vaccine for a medical reason probably also shouldn't be around a lot of other people during a pandemic.

But with the current absence of evidence we don't actually know why the social answer is different.
by shrubble | 2025-12-06 05:05:16+00:00
If my back of the envelope math is right, in the last 6 months he’s been attending more meetings at possibly odd hours; he lives in Australia and Intel is based in the USA.

See https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2025-05-22/3-years-of-extr...

77 meetings then, but 110 meetings in his resignation blog post…
by ycombinete | 2025-12-06 05:07:18+00:00
Is it the addictive substance or the ritual I created around it?

I used to think this same thing, that my enjoyment of coffee was largely the ritual. But then I switched to decaf for quite a long time and all my little rituals fell away quite quickly.

I still occasionally drank coffee when I felt like the taste, but I certainly wasn’t performing daily morning ritual.
by eschaton | 2025-12-06 05:08:00+00:00
AI is the field. Machine learning is one of many specializations within the field. “Generative AI” is the colloquial term for using various machine learning models to generate text, images, video, code, etc.; that is, it’s a subfield of machine learning.

Other subfields of AI include things like search, speech and language understanding, knowledge representation, and so on. There’s a lot more to AI than machine learning and a lot more to machine learning than LLMs (“gen AI”).
by delfinom | 2025-12-06 05:08:12+00:00
>But you can’t get an adjustment of status if you are in violation of your current visa terms.

This is both right and wrong. Congress passed a law ages ago that grants forgiveness to overstaying spouses once the greencard is issued. The AOS process is allowed.

The hole however is the AOS does not extend your authorized stay if you were out of status when it was filed. So this leaves one vulnerable to the ICE arrests.

However, your AOS can still be processed even when arrested because of the forgiveness granted by law, so it just becomes an issue of having a good lawyer to get a judge to intervene.
by fy20 | 2025-12-06 05:08:31+00:00
From 2017-2023 I had Thinkpads and some Acer which was well supported by Linux and sleep was the worse part. On numerous occasions across different devices I'd put the laptop to sleep, put it in my bag, and pull it out in a coffee shop to find it was on and now the battery is down to 50%. Why is sleep so hard?
by kmeisthax | 2025-12-06 05:08:43+00:00
You're not wrong, globalism and nationalism go hand in hand. All those Twitter bluechecks glazing Trump and trying to drum up the right-wing controversy of the day were exposed as people from third-world countries shitting up the American infosphere for cash. When British far-right nutters say "We can't import the third world", keep in mind that third-world dictators are saying the exact same shit about other parts of the third-world. Nationalists work in lock-step.

Left-wingers are only globalist in the most literal sense of "well, I'd like it if we got rid of these migration barriers". "Internationalist" would be a better term for them.

Globalist Nationalism is an ideology of contradictions. It purports that, no really, you're the real master race and everyone else's just a stooge that'll get taken out the moment we can get rid of these pesky liberals with their freedoms. They need shittons of spatial partitioning to make that work.
by scarmig | 2025-12-06 05:08:48+00:00
If you watch the video, the cat is unfortunate, but not particularly concerning. It was night time, and the cat ran underneath the car from the sidewalk. It's very unlikely that a human would do any better (though, I'd welcome Waymo adding more sensors to the undercarriage to prevent this in the future).

What is concerning is that a woman went up to the Waymo to try to get the cat, backed away a foot or two, and then the Waymo drove off. That seems dangerous, both for the fact that the woman was so close and also because her crouching down in front of the Waymo indicates that there's something exceptional about the environment so the Waymo should proceed with more caution.
by rayiner | 2025-12-06 05:10:28+00:00
No, if your visa expires you need to maintain your legal status while a PERM application is pending: https://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/us-immigration/maintain... (“This is especially important if and when you are waiting to apply for lawful permanent residence, commonly called a ‘green card.’ If you are in the United States without any immigration status, you are considered to be here illegally, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) may deny your green card application for that reason alone.”).

What’s happening here is that these people were here on tourist visas or completely illegally. Then at some point they married a U.S. citizen and filed a PERM application. But that filing doesn’t protect them from deportation for their original illegal status.