MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matt_s | 2025-12-29 02:09:25+00:00
> That type of content drives brand and product hype via views/engagement

Product hype might be hard with developer/tech types of tools. Devs have very good BS radar and "hype" is sometimes all there is in a lot of content. I see and hear a lot of the "build in public" being promoted as the way to do things with the "build an audience" mantra.

There is a huge hurdle to produce good video content, it takes a lot of time to record, edit and publish quality videos. Publishing quality videos can help get traction/views/subscribers but that doesn't mean it will translate into paying customers either. Do people really want to watch software developers code or talk about it? There has to be other ways to market a product.
by imglorp | 2025-12-29 02:09:38+00:00
On December 21, 2024, about 1830 eastern standard time (EST), multiple small unmanned
aircraft (sUA), experienced a loss of control and rapid descent while performing at a sUA light
show at Lake Eola, Orlando, Florida. The swarm of sUA, Uvify IFO, were operated by Sky
Elements LLC, doing business as (dba) Sky Elements Drone Shows. A minor child was
impacted in the face and chest by a sUA and was seriously injured. A postaccident inspection
revealed that numerous sUA impacted the ground and sustained substantial damage. The sUA
light show was operating under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 107
and a Certificate of Waiver and Authorization issued by the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA).
by mr_toad | 2025-12-29 02:09:57+00:00
> I'm imagining a sort of Logan's Run-like scifi setup where only people with a documented em dash before November 30, 2022, i.e. D(ash)-day, are left with permission to write.

At least Robespierre needed two sentences before condemning a man. Now the mob is lynching people on the basis of a single glyph.
by ceejayoz | 2025-12-29 02:10:28+00:00
> None of what you’ve mentioned is a requirement to become a “hugely expensive” CEO.

Again, no one said they're requirements. Just significant factors. You don't have to be white, you don't have to be male, you don't have to be from the developed world… but you do have to have some substantially lucky breaks somewhere.

A quadriplegic orphan of the Gaza War might become the next Elon Musk. But the odds are stacked heavily against them.
by ropetin | 2025-12-29 02:11:54+00:00
> Contrary to the national security threat machine’s picture of a country at war with itself, we all got along so swimmingly that the idea of a civil war or anything like it struck me as laughable, as did the notion that the statistically insignificant number of politically-motivated killings, though real, said anything at all about the vast majority of real-world Americans.

This line of thinking drives me crazy, especially from someone like Ken. Just because a bunch of privileged Americans were friendly with each other while enjoying an amazing time in nature doesn't immediately negate the very real problems going on in the US.
by pdpi | 2025-12-29 02:12:02+00:00
In my opinion, we do mocking the exact opposite of how we should be doing it — Mocks shouldn't be written by the person writing tests, but rather by the people who implemented the service being mocked. It's exceedingly rare to see this pattern in the wild (and, frustratingly, I can't think of an example off the top of my head), but I know Ive had good experiences with cases of package `foo` offering a `foo-testing` package that offers mocks. Turns out that mocks are a lot more robust when they're built on top of the same internals as the production version, and doing it that way also obviates much of the need for general-purpose mocking libraries.
by astral_drama | 2025-12-29 02:12:28+00:00
The current admin wants even cheaper money, which is likely to embolden well connected borrowers to pump up whatever they think will hold a bit of value. It was housing, which hit an equilibrium (can't milk it much more), then stocks, then gold and now silver and memory chips of all things.

I wouldn't limit this to PE, although they are feeding on cheap dollars too, but the general trend of big capital out competing mom and pop for future resources. We're all short on real goods (need to buy food, shelter, ram, etc... in the future) and big capital is putting the squeeze on our short position by bidding up real resources with cheap dollars. Regular folks cover at a loss, or we go bust, and that's the gamble we're being put in.
by marcosdumay | 2025-12-29 02:13:56+00:00
> You can buy a 1000MHz machine with 2 gigabytes of RAM and an 1000Mbit/sec Ethernet card for $1200 or so

Those are not "by process" capabilities and daemons were never restricted to a single process.

The article focuses on threads because processes had more kernel level problems than threads. But it was never about processes limitations.

And by the way, process capabilities on Linux are exactly the same as machine capabilities. There's no limitation. You are insisting everybody uses a category that doesn't even exist.
by ryandv | 2025-12-29 02:13:57+00:00
People are fucking retards. We're seriously voting videos embedded onto fucking reddit that cite other youtube videos as references to the front page of HN?

Fuck the internet. Expect an informational dark age where anybody with half a brain cloisters away into closed communities to protect themselves from idiocy and infocontagion. There's literally no use speaking to drooling idiots, who should simply be held in the utmost contempt.
by songeater | 2025-12-29 02:14:47+00:00
>> is this really music you're making?

Well I do believe it is "music" but whether it's any "good" I guess idk! I do enjoy the process though and believe there would be others who would as well.

Album here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3e6k9eiGUlOBcoI2yd3DrM
by osiris970 | 2025-12-29 02:14:47+00:00
What's immensely frustrating is so much of this conspiracy shit, comes from the U.S. as well. A population where the median is living better every year, and better than 90% of the world. It's mind boggling, people don't understand how good they have it.

I'm not against progress, obviously make things better, but the perspective is important.
by satvikpendem | 2025-12-29 02:14:50+00:00
My mistake, I should have said vast majority of companies, not equity in companies, are privately held.

If you're seeing it in the media, of course it's confirmation bias. Do you think it makes a good headline to say that a firm bought a company, grew it over 5 years, then sold it? Yet that's what happens in the majority of cases. Those in the media are the exceptions that prove the rule.
by stefan_ | 2025-12-29 02:15:12+00:00
For good measure, a bunch of this is funded through money taken directly from the electorates taxes and given to a few select companies, whose leaders then graciously donate to the latest Ballroom grift. Micron, so greedy they thought nothing of shutting down their consumer brand even when it costs them nothing at all, got $6B in Chips Act money in 2024.
by jharohit | 2025-12-29 02:15:24+00:00
sharing a few books I recommended in my annual list (recommend reading!)
https://rohitjha.com/blog/reading-highlights-2025/

Non Fiction:

- Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang (2025)

- How to Live an Extraordinary Life by Anthony Pompliano (2024)

Fiction:

- The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester (1956)

- Consider Phlebas (Culture Series #1) by Iain M. Banks (1987)

- The Way of Kings (2010, Stormlight #1) & Words of Radiance (2014, Stormlight #2) by Brandon Sanderson
by sfn42 | 2025-12-29 02:15:44+00:00
I use test containers and similar methods to test against a "real" db, but I also use mocks. For example to mock the response of a third party api, can't very well spin that up in a test container. Nother example is simply time stamps. Can't really test time related stuff without mocking a timestamp provider.

It is a hassle a lot of the time, but I see it as a necessary evil.
by analogpixel | 2025-12-29 02:16:26+00:00
> Problems Noted So Far

- Menu bar is not visible in windowed mode, can be accessed wth ALT+F and arrow keys

- Program needs to be fullscreen, non fullscreen window cannot be controlled/resized and mouse location data is innacurate

- Multiple Windows are a struggle because the program is fullscreen

- Sometimes the program becomes uncontrollable, even in fullscreen mode, the work around is press ctrl + , to open settings and then close settings, then the fullscreen program becomes controllable again

- Max for live doesn't work or works inconsistently, your millage may vary

-- source: https://github.com/BEEFY-JOE/AbletonLiveOnLinux

Once you run the installer, and have a broken version of live running, you then have to install the Jack bridge to get audio working, after that you can install https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge to try and get some of your plugins working.
by yunnpp | 2025-12-29 02:16:42+00:00
It's not AI, here's why: (yup, LLM-style pun intended)

1. Uses "I"

2. Look how many times it switches verb tenses here:

"One day I was debugging an issue in map generation and it was time-consuming [...]. To make debugging faster, I’ve written a unit test, hoping to cut down on the turn-around time since Unity takes 15+ seconds just to crunch new DLLs [...]. When I ran the test, it finished in 40 seconds."
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-12-29 02:16:48+00:00
Virtually none of the definitions in the ICD or DSM are entirely correct: that doesn't mean they're not useful. For example, you stop meeting the literal diagnostic criteria of many conditions if they're being treated adequately, but that doesn't mean you no longer have those conditions. Someone on antiretrovirals with no detectable HIV viral load still has HIV, and still needs to take the antiretrovirals. No competent doctor would diagnose them as "cured". Yet, they would not meet the diagnostic criteria described in the ICD-11:

> A case of HIV infection is defined as an individual with HIV infection irrespective of clinical stage including severe or stage 4 clinical disease (also known as AIDS) confirmed by laboratory criteria according to country definitions and requirements.

and rarely they may never have met these criteria. This is HN, so a computer analogy might be more helpful: ask a non-technical friend to read through some of the POSIX.1-2024 spec, then ask them to explain the signal handling, or the openat error codes.

(Edit: pointless confrontational passage excised. Thanks for the criticism.)
by Larrikin | 2025-12-29 02:17:20+00:00
Kotlin is a thoughtful language that is a joy to write.

Java was stagnant and ripe for being kicked off the top.

Scala was the hack that showed why Java was starting to suck but Scala suffered from no direction. Every single idea a PhD ever had was implemented in the language with no thought other than it seems cool to be able to do that too. Which is why all the Scala codebases fell apart, because you could write anything, anyway you want, and it was impossible to maintain without extremely strict guidelines on what parts of the language you were allowed to use. Also the build times were atrocious.

Kotlin designers evaluated language features across the ecosystem and chose what made sense to make Java better when it came out and now has easily surpassed Java. They are still thoughtful in what they choose to add to the language and it is now very powerful. However they smartly imitate Python by having clear guidelines on what choices you should be making when writing code so that other developers can easily dive in.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-29 02:17:39+00:00
> Virtually all statements referring to boomers collectively that aren't purely statistical are pejorative--ageist bigotry.

It's not ageist to have complaints against a specific generation, not the one before, not the one after, with those complaints sticking to that generation as their age changes.

(Whether those complaints are right or wrong on a statistical level is a different issue.)
by gnabgib | 2025-12-29 02:17:42+00:00
They've been saying it a few months

First Murder-Suicide Case Associated with AI Psychosis (42 points, 3 months ago, 35 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45088651

OpenAI investor suspected to fall into ChatGTP-induced psychosis (51 points, 5 months ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44598052

In Search of AI Psychosis (214 points, 4 months ago, 235 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45027072

Ask HN: What's Going on with AI Psychosis? (9 points, 5 months ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44855226

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed After Spiraling into ChatGPT Psychosis (63 points, 6 months ago, 89 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44405464

Let's Talk About ChatGPT-Induced Spiritual Psychosis (95 points, 6 months ago, 89 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44285426
by wahnfrieden | 2025-12-29 02:18:08+00:00
Yes I've also just started adding sub-word lookups for ranges inside of the headword and for words appearing in the definitions. I hope to launch that together with Yomitan dictionary support. There is a lot packed into this next update...

Here is a look at the new learning status screen, too: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1209908367821373500... Overall navigation should be much easier to understand in this update.

And the new ebook bottom navigation, when it is not hidden: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1209908367821373500... (I will later move the scrollbar into the "..." menu like Apple Books to further minimize)
by neuralkoi | 2025-12-29 02:18:11+00:00
Start with the low hanging fruit: your family.

There was a period when I put space between myself and my main friends which resulted in loneliness, but I found this created a new space to connect with my siblings who were really interesting and had grown in ways I hadn't noticed.

Also, as Charlie Munger always said: "Invert! Invert! Invert!". Try doing the opposite of what you normally do. This requires of course paying attention to what you normally do (or don't do). Instead of waiting for others to reach out to you, for example, you might instead approach them.

Be okay with the fear of rejection. When we are kids we make friends so easily because we haven’t yet learned to protect ourselves from rejection.

An interesting exercise I had to do recently as part of a teambuilding exercise: offer a hug to 5 random strangers. I promise this will teach you something about yourself, and about others.
by zahlman | 2025-12-29 02:19:02+00:00
I'm reading this thread on an 11-year-old desktop with 8GB of RAM and not feeling any particular reason to upgrade, although I've priced it out a few times just to see.

Mint 22.x doesn't appear to be demanding any more of my machine than Mint 20.x. Neither is Firefox or most websites, although YouTube chat still leaks memory horrendously. (Of course, download sizes have increased.)
by slyall | 2025-12-29 02:20:17+00:00
The point is that 90% of the news is unimportant. Often you can read a weekly and that is enough

A politician said something and other politicians reacted. Usually unimportant unless it was backed by a law or something. If it was important then the weekly will cover it.

Main Character of the day on Social media. unimportant

A crime happened nearby. Unimportant

A celeb did something. Unimportant

Something happened to random person. Unimportant

Sport result. If you follow that team you already know, if not then not important.

Seriously go to the front page of the New York times or some other outfit and count the stories that you needed to read today.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-12-29 02:20:54+00:00
As an American Gen X, I don’t think very exciting things happened in our youth. We were kind of rich, kind of broke, we had recessions but not upheaval, not hardship, not a society that was more similar to North Korea is today liberalizing at a rapid clip. I could be romanticizing it as an outsider, but I think Chinese Gen Xers have much better stories to tell than we do.
by bdcravens | 2025-12-29 02:21:29+00:00
Some of these ideas are possibly terrible, but just a brain dump:

I'd pop your head into random events in college, even if it's groups you don't feel align with you.

Try some courses that tend to require higher levels of interaction (like theatre)

I wouldn't join a fraternity, but that's a way some connect with others.

Turn yourself into a billboard, wearing T-shirts for things you like (bands, geeky things, etc). A "cool shirt" comment can start a conversation.

Start smoking. Ok, don't do that. But when I was in school it gave me a reason to congregate in the smoking section of campus. Terrible idea, but it did help me meet some people that almost 30 years later I still consider friends.

> What am I supposed to do? Be lonely and without any kind of company and human connection my entire life?

You won't be. I'm 48 now, and while I'm somewhat well adjusted, when I was your age, and even a bit older, I was such an introverted outcast. Still am, I just learned how to communicate better over time and more or less relate to people where they are, even if we are different. We all grow at different rates. That doesn't help your sense of loneliness today, but as you discover yourself and who your "tribe" is, those connections will form and grow, even if it seems impossible today.
by zephen | 2025-12-29 02:21:40+00:00
> I've never understood that to mean that every possible abstraction would be zero cost, but that the language itself provides abstractions that are zero cost.

To me, "zero cost abstractions" means that you should use the language, because even the fancy abstractions it provides are free. Which presupposes that the language designers _believe_ that abstractions _and_ performance are both _important_.

Judging by all the puff pieces on the language, I don't think I'm alone in this belief of what the average Rustacean holds to be true.

> I'm not sure how you could avoid having external libraries ever implement an abstraction with a cost.

But the point is that the exact same external library code has a _lower_ cost if called from the non-abstract horror of a language C, and the (partial) fix for that is really ugly looking low-level Rust crap that that took a _long_ time to figure out and is the exact opposite of an abstraction, and the full fix is not even known yet.

Yes, we all know that abstractions sometimes obscure what is really going on, but the tradeoff is that the code is shorter and prettier, and easier to understand at a higher level. That's... not what is going on here.
by shagie | 2025-12-29 02:21:45+00:00
To the "the grandfather of all luminance coefficients" ... https://www.earlytelevision.org/pdf/ntsc_signal_specificatio... from 1953.

Page 5 has:

Eq' = 0.41 (Eb' - Ey') + 0.48 (Er' - Ey')
Ei' = -0.27(Eb' - Ey') + 0.74 (Er' - Ey')
Ey' = 0.30Er' + 0.59Eg' + 0.11Eb'

The last equation are those coefficients.
by iseletsk | 2025-12-29 02:21:50+00:00
As a founder/CEO who started as a programmer, I have been running my second company for 15 years. I am not great, but I got the company to be sizable and profitable.

1. I will take five automated CEOs. If I can split my company into five distinct companies (one per product), it would be amazing. We are splitting the company into two to streamline focus on different/incompatible industries, and I am dreading the process of finding another CEO. It is very, very hard.

2. I know a lot of CEOs. It helps. I didn't know a single one when I started. It is no more a cult than my programmer's peer group was.

3. Did I tell you how hard it is to find a good CEO? It is VERY, VERY hard. Think of hiring a great product guy with agency to do whatever needs to be done, with people skills to attract talent, a sales drive, and a willingness to deal with finance & legal. Oh, and I am in the tech field, so I need him to be very hardcore technical. Your mileage might vary, but this is who I need. Anyone who has that is running their own companies. Oh, and the person has to have a proven track record. I cannot let someone unproven ruin the company and well-being of hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of customers.

4. I don't believe CEOs are special in any way other than that most other professionals are special. There are probably some underlying qualities, but they're all so different.

5. Some CEOs got there because they were lucky, but they didn't stay there for long because of luck. It is very, very simple to screw up as a CEO.

6. Growing someone within an organization to become a CEO is very hard. We are trying - giving some people more and more responsibilities, trying to involve them in more and more aspects of the organization. The filter is - repeatable success. You don't have to succeed all the time, but you have to succeed most of the time. Most people don't want the pressure, aren't interested in certain aspects, or are unsuccessful more often than they should.

7. Boards are not a cult as well; they don't have CEO's back. Boards are represented by investors (pension funds, wealthy individuals, etc.) - they will oust the CEO if the company's performance suffers. They are willing to pay a lot to the CEO because ... it is so hard to find a good CEO.
by tbrownaw | 2025-12-29 02:24:16+00:00
> Anything that removes the power of CEOs and gives it to the worker should be highly encouraged.

The only thing that will do this is if workers are the resource bottleneck.

> Economic democracy is the final frontier of human empowerment and giving workers then means to have democratic control over the economy can only unlock more human potential, not less.

This already exists. It's called free enterprise and freedom of association.

Unless of course you mean that nobody can own or expend resources without (nominally) everybody agreeing... which has also been tried, and failed horribly.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-12-29 02:24:29+00:00
LoraWan based peer to peer chat application

If you're out in the field, a rugged area with no reception you still need to communicate with the others in the team. Lora's very long range. There's no reason not to add a Lora based chat application.

I have experienced this on a recent rugged hike where we really could have done with local, non mobile based network communication.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-29 02:24:44+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Water_Tunnel_No....

https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dep/downloads/pdf/water/drinking-...

https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/in5lm7/cross_section_s...

Potentially related:

Discussing Waterworks, Stanley Greenberg's Photos of NY's Hidden Water System [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46416871 - December 2025

(Tunnel 3 will deliver 1B gallons/day and has a 200-300 year expected service life)
by jackson_mile | 2025-12-29 02:25:07+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a dedicated landing page and tool to utilize the new Kling 2.6 Motion Control API.

The main problem with existing AI video tools is the "stochastic" nature of movement—you prompt "running," and the AI guesses the physics. Kling's new update allows you to upload a reference video (e.g., a person doing a backflip) and apply that exact motion vector to a target image (e.g., a robot).

I wanted a cleaner interface to experiment with this specific "acting transfer" workflow without the clutter of the main generation platforms.

Key features enabled in this tool:

Support for full 30s continuous generation (no stitching).

Handling of complex limb occlusions (hands crossing bodies).

Simplified parameter tuning for "Creativity Strength".

Feel free to break it and let me know what you think.