MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dangus | 2025-12-31 18:08:51+00:00
I don’t really see what’s relevant about crypto nonsense in this context. We are really talking about the overall economy especially in the tech sector.

Even if every cryptocurrency becomes worthless overnight, that doesn’t represent the market going to zero.

I see you’ve edited your comment with more doom and gloom. It’s easy to view everything as a bubble when you’re in a negative mental space.

> a) collapse of the real estate bubble, especially commercial real estate;

Any proof of this bubble? Housing construction continues to lag demand. Offices are largely RTO and Covid-era remote jobs are basically legacy and grandfathered. Every remote employee I know who was laid off in the past couple years had to get a hybrid/in-person job. You can’t just assume 2008 is going to happen again without some real data that shows real estate instability. Where are the poorly qualified borrowers?

> b) the ongoing IT crash that is only just getting started;

That’s one industry of many. One specific industry struggling doesn’t mean much.

> c) whatever damage the (current, red-flavored) orangutan in the White House manages to accomplish in his 3+ remaining years of hell;

Lame duck presidency, he can’t crash shit. Congress will be unfriendly next year and already isn’t even very supportive within his own party.

> d) fear of looming war;

In what universe is any impending war impacting the American economy? You mean the one where defense contractors are hiring and the US is selling weapons to the nations who are doing the fighting?

> e) economic fallout from COVID which is still ongoing and expanding (hint--many destroyed businesses and people out of work);

You are gonna need to explain this one and back this up with some numbers that make sense.

> f) a thousand other icebergs, minefields, and financial hazards confronting us in the near future?

Sounds like internal anxiety demons that are not tangible.

Look, I’m in full agreement that AI will face some kind of correction or crash, but predicting once in a century catastrophe is a losing game.
by Steve6 | 2025-12-31 18:08:56+00:00
Libertarians don't claim that they have "the solution to the world's ills". Just that the government is causing worse problems than it solves, and generally those problems can be handled by a free market.

We're already being taxed like crazy while that money subsidizes things almost everyone disagrees with. The libertarians believe that if people weren't taxed as much they could voluntarily spend money on things that are valuable to them. Some people would donate more and others wouldn't donate at all, and that's okay. I believe we would see a lot more voluntary donations without the burden of high taxes.

Claiming "libertarians haven't solved this yet" while continuing to take everyone's money is not a fair argument.

To stay on topic, this thread is about a private individual donating to a project he supports. That's something everyone should be happy about. And he did not do it as a political statement.
by kotaKat | 2025-12-31 18:09:25+00:00
So... they're trying to do a little bit of bare minimum "protect people from bullshit low-effort script kiddie attacks". Big deal?

There's enough "educational use only" denial-of-service attacks across the spectrum that some happy slappy dumbass will try to run. We've already had problems with bad actors with Flippers in convention spaces with the various Bluetooth spam attacks.
by neogodless | 2025-12-31 18:10:23+00:00
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46433480 A Second Year of Decline for Tesla's EVs (electrek.co) 1 day ago (2 comments)

Original headline: Tesla (TSLA) does something unusual ahead of Q4 delivery results

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436205 Tesla Compiles Downbeat Average Estimates for Its Vehicle Sales (bloomberg.com) ~1 day ago
by mbreese | 2025-12-31 18:10:26+00:00
I’m about the same. I’ve had one Java project going for over 10 years. It’s a collection of utilities that I use for work everyday that has grown substantially over the years. It is a CLI program that runs in my Mac, Linux servers and Linux HPC clusters. It is built with a fat-JAR concatenated to a shell stub in front that makes it effectively a single-file install. I also wrote a complete library for defining CLI programs. It is pretty easy to use, but it relies on reflection and annotations, so Graal has been difficult to get working (or was the last time I tried).

All of that to say, I’m also familiar with the problem.

For the past 3-4 years I’ve reached more for Go to my new CLI projects. Small differences in installed Java versions across clusters can be a problem, but for me the biggest issue is dealing with JVM arguments. I writing code for working with genomics data files. Sometimes these are large, and sometimes they are small. And I hate having to tell both my job scheduler (SLURM mainly these days) and the JVM how much memory to use.

This isn’t a problem in Go. So, that’s the language I gravitate to these days.
by elcritch | 2025-12-31 18:10:49+00:00
> 50 distinct issues? That's devastating. If these researchers found 50 issues, we all know there's more that 50 issues in the codebase.

That's rough but for a systematic search of a large system it seems reasonable. Theres a good chance that these 50 represent most the "easy" vulnerabilities if the researchers did a thorough job. In a way it seems more likely than if they found a smaller number.
by tracker1 | 2025-12-31 18:10:52+00:00
Before the recent post on Public Sans, I was unaware of the typeface myself... I think it's absolutely beautiful myself, I wish it were more complete for use outside US contexts. I like it a bit better than Robot Sans, which has been my go to for web content for about a decade.

That said, I feel the issues come to play with the differences between what is seen on a screen and what persists in physical print. I do wish they'd picked a better font in both cases... My own assumption about the Calibri switch was that it was the MS Office default, meaning one less step, but I guess that default itself has changed since.

My only preference would be for a typeface that has a free/open license for broad usage as a default. Also, given the nature of printed documents would probably lean towards at least some serifs to make reading easier, especially to better distinguish some of the more problematic characters.
by zahlman | 2025-12-31 18:11:22+00:00
> I still don't get what was so wrong about venv that anyone needed uv.

Pip is slow, far slower than it needs to be in almost everything that it does, regardless of being written in Python. It's "standard" but not part of the standard library (so that it can be developed independently), and was never designed to install cross-environment properly (the current best approach, since 22.3, is a hack that incurs a significant delay and expects everyone to move in lock-step with the CPython EOL schedule). It wastes disk space, both by re-copying packages into new environments (rather than hard-linking them as uv does) and by spawning copies of itself in those environments (the original work-around to avoid needing cross-environment installation support, which a few people have also come to rely on in other ways).

> If it is so good, ok, i get it, it might be - and all that good stuff needs to go back to python as python.

I like these threads because they encourage me to work on my main project.
by drnick1 | 2025-12-31 18:11:34+00:00
There is no obligation, but since they find the project useful and are making money from it, they want to make sure it is not abandoned. The best way to ensure that is to fund its development.

This also gives them direct access to the devs and can request new features or bug fixes that impact them to be prioritized. Everyone benefits. It's probably much cheaper to make a contribution than to do that in house and upstream the changes.
by thomashabets2 | 2025-12-31 18:11:53+00:00
I'm not saying we should phase Java out. But it's pretty clear to me that Java was a bad experiment in almost every aspect, and we should at least not add new use cases for it.

So no. No, please god no, no Java in the terminal.

More ranting here: https://blog.habets.se/2022/08/Java-a-fractal-of-bad-experim...
by nobodyandproud | 2025-12-31 18:12:37+00:00
I was a fan, user, then developer from the DOS days-pre Windows 3.0–to Windows 10 without a single gap.

When they threatened
Windows 10 EOL last year (?), that’s when I took a day to do a clean install of Mint and port my games and LLM tinkering over.

Because I knew MS was doubling-down on the user-hostile experience.

I thought I’d miss Windows but Steam, Wine, and Radeon made it delightful.

Windows is now only on my company-issued laptop. I predict that will also go away, as Windows 11 has introduced backdoors to circumvent company controls and install their BS.
by wtallis | 2025-12-31 18:13:01+00:00
That's what `uv tool install` does: it creates the wrapper and puts a symlink to it into ~/.local/bin (which you can add to PATH with `uv tool update-shell` if you don't want to do it manually). I don't recall pip doing anything helpful here; I think it still leaves it up to the end user to either add the venv's bin directory to their PATH or create the wrapper and put it somewhere already on the PATH. So it's a reasonable complaint that `pip install` has become less useful now that it resists installing tools outside of a venv but still lacks the replacement feature (which third party tools like uv and pipx do provide).
by somepiet | 2025-12-31 18:13:07+00:00
Hi HN,

I built this because I own a 3D printer and kept bookmarking designs. Most 3D print platforms are flooded with low-quality or very “maker-centric” content.

Volumes is a small, curated gallery of well-designed 3D printable objects (lighting, storage, desk accessories, home objects). It doesn’t host files or sell anything — everything links to the original source.

This is very early and intentionally simple. I’m mostly curious whether others are missing a more design-focused way to discover printable objects.

Feedback very welcome.
by senfiaj | 2025-12-31 18:13:49+00:00
So "Fifteen Most Famous Transcendental Numbers" isn't the same as "Fifteen Most Famous Numbers that are known to be transcendental"?

I might be OK with title "Fifteen Most Famous Numbers that are believed to be transcendental" (however, some of them have been proven to be transcendental) but "Fifteen Most Famous Transcendental Numbers" is implying that all the listed numbers are transcendental. Math assumes that a claim is proven. Math is much stricter compared to most natural (especially empirical) sciences where everything is based on evidence and some small level of uncertainty might be OK (evidence is always probabilistic).

Yes, in math mistakes happen too (can happen in complex proofs, human minds are not perfect), but in this case the transcendence is obviously not proven. If you say "A list of 15 transcendental numbers" a mathematician will assume all 15 are proven to be transcendental. Will you be OK with claim "P ≠ NP" just because most professors think it's likely to be true without proof? There are tons of mathematical conjectures (such as Goldbach's) that intuitively seem to be true, yet it doesn't make them proven.

Sorry for being picky here, I just have never seen such low standards in real math.
by summa_tech | 2025-12-31 18:14:18+00:00
To some degree, this is a consequence of the nature of the field you're working in:

* if the physics is so completely understood that you can confidently predict something will work from your sofa, and give an error-free recipe to build it, you indeed can invent from theory... but how deep can this invention be if the problems of the field are completely solved?

* if you are working in a field at the edge of human understanding, you cannot have the confidence in your ideas without having tested them experimentally; a theoretician makes at most a minor contribution to the actual inventions being realized, because he's producing - most likely somewhat wrong - hypotheses.

This latter kind of "theoretical" inventions are heavily subject to survivorship bias. Fifteen competent theoreticians make different predictions - all according to best, though incomplete, model of the world; a successful experiment validates exactly one of them, and we end up exalting the lucky winner as the "inventor".
by igouy | 2025-12-31 18:14:29+00:00
March 7, 1988 — "Smalltalk/V 286 is available now and costs $199.95, the company said. Registered users of Digitalk's Smalltalk/V can upgrade for $75 until June 1."

https://books.google.com/books?id=CD8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA25&dq=d...
by constantcrying | 2025-12-31 18:14:32+00:00
That is correct, but the article explicitly addresses this point and argues that the evidence points to Lilienfeld producing a working transistor.

"Later, some people claimed that Lilienfeld did not implement his ideas since "high-purity materials needed to make such devices work were decades away from being ready,"[CHLI] but the 1991 thesis by Bret Crawford offered evidence that "these claims are incorrect."[CRA91] Lilienfeld was an accomplished experimenter, and in 1995, Joel Ross[ROS95] "replicated the prescriptions of the same Lilienfeld patent. He was able to produce devices that remained stable for months."[ARN98] Also, in 1981, semiconductor physicist H. E. Stockman confirmed that "Lilienfeld demonstrated his remarkable tubeless radio receiver on many occasions".[EMM13]"

For many things (computers, rocketry, aerospace, etc.) and different reasons, Germany in the years around the second world war, was a pretty bad place to get international credit for your accomplishments.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-12-31 18:14:40+00:00
Is it Win11 Pro? I'm wondering if it's different than Win11 Home.

A friend of mine got a new PC as a present and it had Win11 on it. Found out it was Win11 Pro. I turned it on without it connected to my router, used the Shift+F10 trick to bypass OOBE and setup a local account, and ran a debloat script, and things seemed OK. The debloat script had removal commands for a lot of default apps and I think only the Xbox ones were on there. I believe Recall is not active. It has 16GB of RAM, 6 cores/12 threads, and Win11 didn't seem sluggish. I used a .reg file to disable the new context menu.

It was an upgrade from her old Surface Go 2 which came with Win10 on it, had only 8GB of RAM and was super sluggish after upgrading to 11 even after debloating. But this was Win11 Home since the original Win10 was Home edition too.

I keep hearing things like it's not possible to disable stuff in Win11 Home and I'm sure Win11 Home has more default apps and stuff enabled. I don't keep up with it. This is the only Win11 system here and other than my worklife I'm all Linux.
by pixtur | 2025-12-31 18:15:02+00:00
It's actually pretty good at creating and rendering linear animation clips and syncing to soundtracks (e.g. music videos). You then can export the animation as mp4 or image sequence.

You can also use "TimeClips" to do non-linear editing.

Another use-case might be small interactive installations or info-systems. It has basic support for fetch REST-apis and parsing data. Other inputs might be sensors like MIDI or OSC.
by teknopaul | 2025-12-31 18:15:10+00:00
Covid proved this generalisation is not a truism.

USofA was probably the only place that actively resisted the global effort.

I think people do want a better world.
Greed is not universal.
Most countries that grow a middle class find most people prefer to stop work. I.e. there are not that many infinitely greedy humans. And they can be taxed.

Despite neocon economic theory, most people aren't selfish. And those that are, are often happily rewarded with a plaque in their honor or a medal.

Just look at the length Trump goes to for an award.
by thinkcontext | 2025-12-31 18:16:06+00:00
I think this loses the forest for the trees. That is, a single tree rotting isn't what matters its how long the ecosystem the tree is part of lasts. Consider a square kilometer of denuded land turned back into a forest. You can think of the forest as a temporary storage for carbon, its stored in the trees, soil, animals, insects, etc in that square kilometer. Individual trees may die but on average if the forest remains in good health there will be a number of tons of carbon kept out of the atmosphere.
by quesera | 2025-12-31 18:16:11+00:00
Photos are an interesting idea. I'm one of the freaks who does not carry their phone on their person at all times, so it would be less convenient for me (until I join the 20th C at least), although more convenient for the rest of the household... So we'll see. :)

One of the things that I really appreciate about the Weck and Ball jars are their uniformity. You can get different lids for different purposes (air-tight, water-tight, with straw-hole, flexible, etc). The lids are cross-compatible for most jar shapes/sizes within the brand, but not cross-brand of course. This is OK because we use them for very different purposes, usually. They also stack well, the lids can be reused indefinitely and put through the dishwasher without worrying about rust or deformation, can be easily replaced if lost or damaged, etc etc. They're also more durable than the single-use-intended retail packaging jars. I'm sure this sounds a bit silly, but it does honestly make a difference, for my brain at least!

Of course they are not free, and I never would have made the change if it wasn't required for canning foods from the garden. But after making the switch, I've always been happier for it. YMMV!
by ajross | 2025-12-31 18:16:43+00:00
People buying gold speculatively as an inflation hedge is exactly the opposite of gold being a source of stable value, though. Gold is "inflating" far, far faster than currency (edit to clarify: far faster than currency-valued goods; gold "interpreted as" a currency is deflating catastrophically), you just pointed it out!

There are a shocking number of gold-happy nerds on this site who are going to be shocked and horrified the next time it crashes (which is has, and will again). The nonsense the largely-partisan smarter-than-thou media you're watching is feeding you is nonsense, and at some point you're going to discover that via great suffering.
Ask HN: How long before the first civilian cargo flights are AI piloted?
by givemeethekeys | 2025-12-31 18:17:08+00:00
Is it 2026? Within 2 years? 5 years? 10 years?

I can understand how passenger flights will take a while longer - but would cargo flights that don't have nearly the safety concerns would be AI piloted much sooner? If so, how much sooner?
by tracker1 | 2025-12-31 18:17:33+00:00
It seems to me that you'd need to create something with a different name that supported more appropriate weight settings for screen and modern printing.

That said, as soon as you head down this path, more variance will occur and in the end you'll have something even more different than just accounting for what happens to the text on news paper print.

I might have suggested Roboto Serif or another OFL (or other open licensed) font face myself.
by marcosdumay | 2025-12-31 18:18:08+00:00
The most famous steam engine bubble in the 19th Century:

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

Those popped all over Europe during the entire century, with the last one popping at the 1890s. For some reason, people focus only on this large one on the UK.

Sources for how 19th Century imperialism had a lot of support from extend-and-pretend infrastructure bubbles are harder to search.
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-31 18:18:12+00:00
That's fine. Maybe you're holding it wrong, or maybe your work is too esoteric/niche/complex for newer models to be bigger productivity boosters. Some of mine certainly is, I get that. But for other stuff, these newer models are incredible productivity boosters.

I also chat with these models for long hours about deep, complicated STEM subjects and am very impressed with the level of holistic knowledge and wisdom compared to models a year ago. And the abstract math story has gotten sooooo much better.
by msmitty | 2025-12-31 18:18:15+00:00
This should be mentioned in the talk, if I recall correctly. We’ve assumed “compromised jail” as a starting point to highlight the discrepancy between “root in jail” and “root on host” that has appeared with the invention of jails. And how some subsystems that were made “jail-aware” over the years, don’t take this distinction into account enough, unfortunately. Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated!
by borski | 2025-12-31 18:18:19+00:00
This is the point.

It is solving for the wrong problem. An idiot with a Pi or Flipper Zero isn’t the actual threat any more than Star Simpson was.

And if you don’t agree the stupidity that Star was put through was absurd, then we simply won’t agree on the matter.

There’s a difference between security/intelligence and theater. Too many people mistake the two, because they’ve been trained by folks like the TSA to mistake theater for security/intelligence.
by 0xC0ncord | 2025-12-31 18:18:29+00:00
When I first installed Windows 11 about 2 years ago, I had a similar experience. One of the things I noticed quickly was that much of the preinstalled crap that comes with Windows 10 can be easily uninstalled from the Settings menu or Control Panel, no PowerShell tricks required. It felt like Windows 11 was actually less bloated than Windows 10 at the time.

But, going through the same process now I notice a lot more of the cracks. Windows 11 nags a lot more, whether it's about OneDrive or Copilot or whatever new thing Microsoft is trying to push. My same Windows 11 install from 2 years ago kept reinstalling and re-enabling the same crap I originally got rid of, and I feel like it's only getting worse.

In short I think Windows 11 was actually really good when it first launched, minus the UI quirks at the time. But, in classic Microsoft fashion, it was totally ruined and has woefully lost my trust as something I can depend on for even just basic computing.
by MadnessASAP | 2025-12-31 18:18:40+00:00
To clarify, it was an alignment of True, Magnetic, and Grid North. It was occurring at a point that happened to occur in England and was travelling slowly North for the past few years and now exists over water.

Magnetic North is the direction a compass points in a particular location and moves with shifts in earths magnetic field as well as local anomalies.

True North is parallel to the axis of Earths rotation and moves as earth wobbles and sways like a slightly unbalanced spinning top.

Grid North is perpendicular to lines of Longitude which is "fixed" to a given geographic reference frame. For the UK that would be OGSB36, GPS uses WGS84, other countries may adopt different systems.

All this means that an alignment of all 3 norths can occur at multiple places on earth or none at all.
by martylamb | 2025-12-31 18:18:57+00:00
I spent a long time caring about JVM startup time and CLI suitability (and wrote nailgun [0] over 20 years ago and jsap [1] shortly after specifically because of it), so it's pretty wild to see how far things have come. Modern JVM startup speed and GraalVM native-image have eliminated most of the old excuses. jlink+jpackage help a lot with distribution, and JBang takes it to another level. I've used JBang before but still learned some new tricks from this post. Honestly, it feels like what JNLP/WebStart should have evolved into.

I'm not convinced that requiring users to already have JBang installed is the best adoption strategy. But a native package that pulls in JBang if needed and drops a shim launcher/desktop shortcut seems like a natural approach and maybe a fun project.

On the TUI side, java could really use something as approachable and pretty as go's Charmbracelet [2]. Once developers regularly see compelling java TUIs in the wild, it'll change their perception.

The tooling is here, or at least really close. At this point, it's mostly outdated opinions holding java back in the terminal.

[0] https://martiansoftware.com/nailgun

[1] https://martiansoftware.com/jsap/

[2] https://github.com/charmbracelet