MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmmv | 2025-12-08 17:37:08+00:00
Thanks!

> I moved away from FreeBSD to Debian for hosting my things because the process/daemon management was too tricky.

It indeed is tricky. To be honest, I wasn't "put off" by it because I've been using BSDs and old-style Linux startup systems for almost 30 years now... but the lack of abstraction shows, and I don't think it's great.

The daemon(8) wrapper is neat to integrate pre-existing servers into rc.d, but I do not fancy having to deal with that "by hand" nor to create a shell script to manage my own service (related from a few years ago: https://jmmv.dev/2020/08/rcd-libexec-etc.html) nor to have something entirely separate to manage log rotation.

As much hate as systemd gets, I do think being declarative (and doing so in a DSL that's not a programming language) and having a true process "supervisor" is a better model. BUT, as I mentioned in this article, I also like the "no churn" of the BSDs because what I learned and refined over ~30 years is still similar to this day and that I won't be bitten by surprises.
by devinprater | 2025-12-08 17:37:09+00:00
Lol the Copilot app isn't even that useful on iOS for a blind person. On Android, you type something in, hit sent, and the app pipes the pure output of the AI, Markdown formatting and citation markup included, to the screen reader. That's at least something. I mean it's crumbs, yes, but we blind people are very, very used to crumbs.

On iOS, you type a message and send, and... nothing.
by pessimizer | 2025-12-08 17:37:37+00:00
Nah. Talking like an LLM would get you fired in a day. People are already suspicious of ass-kissers, they hate it when they think people are not listening to them, and if you're an ass-kisser who's not listening and is then wrong about everything, they want you escorted out by security.

The real human position would be to be an ass-kisser who hangs on every word you say, asks flattering questions to keep you talking, and takes copious notes to figure out how they can please you. LLMs aren't taking notes correctly yet, and they don't use their notes to figure out what they should be asking next. They're just constantly talking.
by c2h5oh | 2025-12-08 17:37:38+00:00
GDB supports it https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/AMD-G...

You also get UMR from AMD https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tomstdenis/umr

There is also a bunch of other tools provided: https://gpuopen.com/radeon-gpu-detective/ https://gpuopen.com/news/introducing-radeon-developer-tool-s...
by monerozcash | 2025-12-08 17:37:46+00:00
DPRK can certainly get however many IP addresses they want, DPRK just doesn't have that much infrastructure that they want externally accessible.

As far as I know, end-user traffic from within North Korea usually does not originate from those few IP addresses. Or at least not visibly so, they might be connecting to a proxy from a DPRK IP address.
by charcircuit | 2025-12-08 17:37:51+00:00
>But in reality, Samsung (and the other Android OEMs) cannot compete with Google and its unique control over hardware and software.

Yes, they can. We are talking about applying provided security patches to source code, and then releasing a new version of their OS. For patches that have existed for months. The time from patch to release should be on the order l of days from receiving the patches to having a validated OS release with the fix being sent to users. It's not the control of Android which makes Google possible to patch their Pixel branch of AOSP faster than Samsung can patch their own. It's that Samsung doesn't care about prompt security fixes so they don't allocate engineers to do the work.
Coast FIRE Calculator – When you can stop stressing about retirement savings
by cobrapi | 2025-12-08 17:37:53+00:00
I got mass anxiety about my financial plan for years. You know that feeling—spreadsheets that output a different retirement age depending on which assumptions you feed them, feeling behind some imaginary timeline.

Then I discovered Coast FIRE and it genuinely changed how I think about money.

The concept: there's a point where you've saved enough that compound interest alone will get you to your retirement number—even if you never contribute another dollar. Once you hit that number, you can downshift to lower-paying work you actually enjoy, take risks on a startup, or just stop white-knuckling every paycheck.

I couldn't find a calculator that let me actually play with the variables the way I wanted, so I built one:

https://practicalwebtools.com/finance/coast-fire-calculator

It runs entirely in-browser (no data sent anywhere—you can check the network tab). Wanted something I'd actually trust with real numbers.
by hashmap | 2025-12-08 17:38:09+00:00
> I would encourage you to learn about them as if they were just incredibly robust databases that even governments would struggle to take down. Surely you can think of something cool to build with that, which doesn't involve money.

Why is it so popular for someone in tech to assign everyone else the task of thinking up something useful to do with technology x they think is cool?

> It's not an overstatement to say that distributed ledgers are as big of an advancement for human coordination as democracy was.

Ok, if that's really your thinking then you need to lay out: here's an impossible-to-ignore thing we can do with this, and this is how, and this is why this wouldn't be possible without this thing.
by ENadyr | 2025-12-08 17:38:12+00:00
Meshcore seems like a much better choice for messaging in dense-node environments. I tried to set up a Meshtastic network for my Burning Man camp this year, and since default builds have historically been crippled by retransmits, we made a concerted effort to give camps their own frequency slots.

While that ensured campmates could communicate, it unfortunately isolated us from the wider network—you had to choose one or the other. Also, regarding the UI: if you think Meshcore is bad, Meshtastic is worse. I spent most of my time teaching people how to navigate the clunky, overcomplicated, and inconsistent mobile apps. I’ll likely try building a custom app on top of Meshcore for this year.
by pstuart | 2025-12-08 17:38:23+00:00
I worked for a blockchain startup and left with PTSD (I was asked to leave).

They had started as yet another ICO and when that didn't work, pivoted into a financial space that actually was a great pitch for blockchain.

They were a small company and when I came aboard they had nothing viable, I helped them rearchitect it to something that could work, and the lead ops guy translated it back to the original broken architecture.

That guy was crazy, and claimed that everybody there was spook adjacent (ex NSA, etc) and that our tech was vital to some secret need. They all drank the koolaid.

I do like the concept of blockchain as a "commons" of data, but stil think that cryptocurrency is a colossal scam.
by anal_reactor | 2025-12-08 17:38:53+00:00
Maybe let's try to rectify the discussion. I think that current generation of LLMs displays astounding similarity to human behaviour. I'm not trying to dismiss issues with LLMs, I'm trying to point out the practicality of treating LLMs as awkward humans rather than programs.

Yes, I hate people. But usually whenever there's a critique of LLMs, I can find a parallel issue in people. The extension is that "if people can produce economic value despite their flaws, then so do LLMs, because the flaws are very similar at their core". I feel like HackerNews discussions keep circling around "LLMs bad", which gets very tiresome very fast. I wish there was more enthusiasm. Sure, LLMs have a lot of problems, but they also solve a lot of them too.

It's the dissonance between endless critique of AI on one hand and evergrowing ubiquity on the other. Feels like talking to my dad who refuses to use a GPS and always takes paper maps, and doesn't see the fact that he always arrives late, and keeps citing that one woman who rode into a lake when following GPS.
by SirMaster | 2025-12-08 17:39:01+00:00
No it wouldn't have.

I bought 10 bitcoin for about $1000 in late 2013. It's currently worth about 900K and was a peak of about 1.2M.

$1000 in NVDA shares in late 2013 was about 35 cents per share, so about 2850 shares. That's currently worth 521K with a peak of 590K.

And why? Because in 2013 I thought there was a greater potential for bitcoin blowing up substantially due to the new concept of blockchain and what it could potentially do, or at least the hype around what people perceived that it could potentially do. Compared to what I thought the potential for NVDA to do.
by nolok | 2025-12-08 17:39:22+00:00
It's basically the reason this bubble not only exists but has a chance not to pop : there is so much stock value in it that the big tech all want to keep feeding it, and they're sitting on so much cashflow they can afford to do it

It's absurd, but that's where it is. And a company like OpenAI basically hangs on it, because they have obligation almost ten time their revenue and the only way this does not deflate quickly is if others keep feeding it cash.
by dogman144 | 2025-12-08 17:39:24+00:00
If you work in cybersecurity, I’d table many views in this thread and just understand it’s the place to be to cut your teeth in fairly hard security problems and make money along the way. If 1980’s security culture seemed cool with a new BoF everyday and Bill Gates himself calling you a bad word for doing it, and toss in advanced threat actors, a sec career in crypto isn’t too far off of that. Of course company by company variations apply and the above could include explaining EDR to small teams with absurds amounts of funds tied to a private key in a .txt.

That said, much of the feedback in this thread applies to working in it imo, as the other side of keeping these companies and their treasuries not hacked and capitalized is it exposes you to a lot.

That said, I’ve done big tech too, and the nonsense in crypto just has a couple less rungs of management insulation than the rest of tech. The rest of tech lives with the consequences of asinine decisions over 4-5x quarters and in crypto you live with it month to month. Pick your poison on preferred version of nonsensical tech instability.

There’s a twitter comment that covers what I’ve come to think - natural state of crypto is just a more direct instantiation of what’s going on everywhere else, crypto just doesn’t hide it (sort of). Hard not to believe that with tech selling “trade in your IRA!” as if that’s not offering a beer to my 20 yr sober Uncle Bob, in terms of products that are cancerous for “the people.” So I see nothing in crypto that’s not reflected everywhere in tech and civics right now.

The crypto tech or integrations to pay attention to - btc, atomic swaps cross-chain, trading firms, whatever finserv is testing for payment and settlement infra. All of these have deep building, are functional and funded. Wouldn’t bet against it over a career.
by Whoppertime | 2025-12-08 17:39:45+00:00
https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statement... When Biden increased the tariff on Chinese EVs from 25% to 100%, and doubled the rate of tariffs on Chinese solar cells it seemed clear to me what was going on. It's not about cheap electronic vehicles with these people. They don't want poor people to drive. Let them eat cake has become let them drive Tesla's. If the cheapest GM or Ford EV is $60,0000 and the cheapest Chinese EV is $30,000 well that 100% tariff solves that problem. It's coastal elites who want more prestige.
by robertlagrant | 2025-12-08 17:39:45+00:00
OWASP's Amass Project. I'm not quite sure what it does based on the docs, so I thought if I posted then a kindly soul might enlighten me.

From the docs:

> OWASP Amass is an open-source, versatile attack surface intelligence framework designed to comprehensively map an organization’s footprint. Built for flexibility and depth, Amass combines advanced data collection, network mapping, and OSINT capabilities to deliver detailed insights into physical and digital assets.
by ericmcer | 2025-12-08 17:40:09+00:00
> I wasted years of my life in crypto

Yeah you are a software engineer. That means like 80% of your work will probably get minimal traction for a few years before burning into nothing. 8 years on crypto, probably a ton of people interacted with things he created and now it will dwindle to nothing and be replaced by the next hot thing. Sounds like a win imo.
by zubiaur | 2025-12-08 17:40:24+00:00
I've found myself reading a bit of the rePalm posts for the last few night. Funny thing is that I find myself to have read and re-read that stuff for hours now, a bit at a time, re-reading some of the most interesting bits, and doing cursory research on the (many) things that are over my head.

That is hours reading. D must have spent so much more time writing, and doing it so very clearly and in such an organized, and even entertaining way.

And then there is the time figuring this crap out and making it work. I just... D is on league of his own, he is like a one-man hardware company. Having that level of skill must be so gratifying. He is a virtuoso of his craft.

Dude casually mentions stuff like... (paraphrasing) Palm OS expect this and that behavior that most kernels don't implement. So I wrote my own.
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-12-08 17:40:26+00:00
Well, the major problem Microsoft is facing is that its AI products are not only shoddier than average, which is nothing new for them in many categories, but that this time the competition can actually easily leapfrog them.

Like, I have a 'Copilot' button prominently displayed in my New Outlook on MacOS (the only platform where the app-with-that-designation is sort-of usable), and it's a dropdown menu, and it has... zero items when expanded.

I asked my 'Microsoft 365 Bing Chat AI Bot Powered By ChatGPT<tm>' about that, and it wasn't able to tell me how to make that button actually do something, ending the conversation with "yeah, that's sort-of a tease, isn't it?"...

Oh, well, and I actually also have a dedicated Copilot button on my new Lenovo laptop powered-by-Windows-11. And, guess what, it does exactly nothing! I can elect to either assign this button to 'Search', which opens a WebView2 to bing.com (ehhm, yeah, sure, thanks!) or to 'Custom', in which case it informs me that 'nothing' meets the hardware requirements to actually enable that.

So, my question to anyone in the Microsoft C-suite: have you ever tried to, like, actually use, like anything that you're selling? Because if you would have, the failings would have been obvious, right? Right??
by theiz | 2025-12-08 17:41:19+00:00
Or do things that actually work. Why, for example, can I not translate a PowerPoint using Copilot in Powerpoint? Why do I need to save it, then upload it into ChatGPT, translate it, then download it again, and open it in PowerPoint for further editing. But at the same time get all kind off nonsense I don't want pushed at me in Windows, like that MSN news clickbait crap.
by vscode-rest | 2025-12-08 17:41:22+00:00
Somewhat concerned that the only options considered were sharing track with the existing freight/passenger trains. This section is notoriously slow and unreliable already. I’d much prefer some new metal laid down that is specifically dedicated to high speed travel. Anyone know if that was considered and subsequently shot down elsewhere?

Full report is here: https://hsr.ca.gov/programs/environmental-planning/project-s...
by zahlman | 2025-12-08 17:41:29+00:00
> Ask women software engineers if they ever feel alienated.

I have, on multiple occasions. The general summary of what I have learned from doing so, is that they find it cringe to ask, and appear annoyed by the suspicion that they're getting roped into someone else's political battle.

> That's the reason why some communities like the python community do outreach for minorities in tech.

No, they do it because it aligns with the cultural values of the people in charge. (As it happens, it also aligned with GvR's values when he was in charge.)

> I'm a white man, and I have never felt "alienated" in so-called progressive spaces.

... You don't feel alienated when people in your vicinity openly use pejorative language to refer to groups that you belong to (and don't have a choice about), or decry politicians or even pundits that dare to validate your grievances as extremists? You don't feel alienated when it's proposed that your grievances are inherently invalid because of that group belonging? You don't feel alienated by being repeatedly told that said group belonging makes you inherently incapable of "empathy" for various others, even as that same "empathy" is demanded of you? You don't feel alienated by the cultural assumption that a desire for more progressive income taxation, or cleaner energy, dictates a raft of social policies? You don't feel alienated by the entire body of in-group jargon that associates your group membership with negative qualities, or the opposition to language unilaterally deemed to reflect your "privilege" regardless of actual etymology?

If you haven't experienced these things, please let me know where to find the "progressive spaces" you frequent. I don't think I've seen one since at least OWS.
by hirsin | 2025-12-08 17:41:46+00:00
Only one of those things is a state enforced requirement (the deed) and everything else are system requirements that do not get solved with bitcoin. What mortgage company is going to loan you a million dollars ("in btc" whatever) without figuring out if you're a good risk? That's not the currency of choice making you get cross examined, it's the nature of the thing you are trying to do.

Maybe the suitcase of anonymous cash bit is easier but only because you're doing that to dodge taxes... In which case feeling like a criminal might be a bit on point.
by nerdponx | 2025-12-08 17:42:05+00:00
A lot of other companies are in the business of selling data, too. It's not like Uber is uniquely evil for doing this. I'd argue that selling aggregated metrics is comparatively innocuous compared to what Meta does with fingerprinting, shadow profiles, etc. and also compared to what credit card companies, banks, credit rating agencies, ISPs, etc. can do.
by big-and-small | 2025-12-08 17:42:14+00:00
I trust Google ad monopoly to keep my data actually secure. They have a great track record of not sharing their datasets with anyone because this gives them an edge pushing ads down people throats. Google is honest about what they doing. Google also not going away anytime soon so they also not going to sell off their datasets to highest bidder.

And I don't trust Sam Altman and AI.com at all since their whole thing was built on lies. They could start regaining the trust by changing their company name.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-12-08 17:42:21+00:00
This is a narrow and incorrect view of morality. Correct morality might increase or decrease, call for extreme growth or shutdown, be realist or anti-realist. Saying morality necessarily petrifies is incorrect.

Most people's only exposure to claims of objective morals are through divine command so it's understandable. The core of morality has to be the same as philosophy, what is true, what is real, what are we? Then can you generate any shoulds? Qualified based on entity type or not, modal or not.
by da_grift_shift | 2025-12-08 17:42:45+00:00
Is this guy going to make a slop repo for every new CVE in a high-profile product advisory so he can rack up some stars and put this shit on his resume? Jesus fuck.

This is just polluting the namespace and making it harder for blue teamers and incident responders to share IOCs.

His repos either lack a PoC and just contain a README with more emojis than facts; try to pass a public version checker off as a PoC; or invent a non-working PoC in the absence of technical details.

Bullshit asymmetry.
by ElevenLathe | 2025-12-08 17:42:48+00:00
I've been an ansi-term user for years (at least on unices, including Cygwin -- if I am forced to use vanilla w32 emacs without a *nix underneath, I will use eshell since I can do more in elisp-land without relying on the shitshow of Windows CLI utils). What are the benefits of eat vs ansi-term, in your opinion?
by zahlman | 2025-12-08 17:43:08+00:00
> There's ALWAYS another place you can do something. Always. Where you draw the line is arbitrary.

Yes, that's the point. If you're drawing a line that agentively impacts others, you are the one responsible for defending where it's drawn.

> There's no rulebook anywhere saying we can't do this in tech.

Nobody is telling you that you can't do these things (except where impermissible by law). They are telling you not to rope or pressure unwilling others into it.
by thesurlydev | 2025-12-08 17:43:14+00:00
For a while, the O'Reilly subscription was included in the $99/yr ACM membership. Then they stopped offering O'Reilly for a bit. Then they brought it back as part of the $75 skills add-on.

I feel like this is a little known secret (discount via ACM) that more folks should know about. Hopefully this post helps spread the word.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-12-08 17:43:21+00:00
Microsoft has this problem with most of its products.

It's not just AI, it's a market fit and quality problem.

They don't need to solve it, however.

Their strategy has been quite clear: make it barely usable so that is passes muster to auditors, integrate it with systems that corporations need, and sell them on the integrations.

Teams and Azure suck?

So what?

Big companies will pay for that, because it's integrated with their ldap, has an audit trail, gives them the ISO-whatever stamp, and lets them worry about something else.

That the users are miserable is almost never the question for the ones signing the checks.

In a world where box-checking is paramount, this approach is a winning strategy.
by 1313ed01 | 2025-12-08 17:43:27+00:00
I signed up many years ago when they had 50% off and then was allowed to renew at the same price. Made it very difficult to cancel, knowing that I will have to pay full price if I ever want it back, but one year I looked at how much I had paid in total for reading those books and decided to cancel anyway.

Great site though. I never used the app, but mobile browser support was not bad.

Paid for it to read computer books, and did a lot of that, but also discovered much else. They also had (have?) courses and paid video presentation. I noticed one series of videos I watched there would have cost more to watch legally than I paid for an entire year of O'Reilly.
by lateforwork | 2025-12-08 17:43:50+00:00
> Building great products

This is where they are failing.

> Plenty of SV is building below average products with exceptional talent.

Yes, you can hire exceptional talent and give them poor directions, resulting in poor products.

But to hire mediocre talent and still produce competitive products you must have an unfair advantage of some sort. The Windows and Office monopolies gave Microsoft that unfair advantage. But it is becoming clear that this unfair advantage does not extend to AI.
by thorn132 | 2025-12-08 17:43:58+00:00
200-300ms on Windows 11, with ~70MB of idle RAM usage.

> that's not a good baseline to cover the basics

I wasn't suggesting that everyone should join the discord and ask how to write 'Hello World'. There's an official (but WIP) book, unofficial guides, and many examples spanning basic to advanced usage for reference. An active discord is complementary to those. Having more learning resources is important for wide adoption, but that's not the priority in pre-1.0 development.

> startup much faster than the Qt(Pyside) and Electron apps they replaced, and run faster too

I forgot to mention, the iced apps have taken less time to develop more features with fewer bugs (and no segfaults).