MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amluto | 2025-12-24 00:31:44+00:00
> The point of a source tarball, as I understand it, is to be sure of what source you're building

Perhaps, in the rather narrow sense that you can download a Fedora source tarball and look inside yourself.

My claim is that upstream developers produce actual official outputs: git commits and sometimes release tarballs. (But note that release tarballs on GitHub are often a mess and not really desired by the developer.). And I further think that verification that a system like Fedora or Debian or PyPI is building from correct sources should involve byte-for-byte comparison of the source tree and that, at least in the common case, there should be no opportunity for a user of one of these systems to upload sources that do not match the claimed upstream sources.

The sadly common workflow where a packager clones a source tree, runs some scripts, and uploads the result as a “source tarball” is, IMO, wrong.
by Jordankl-3 | 2025-12-24 00:32:25+00:00
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by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-24 00:32:41+00:00
The people he's addressing were either actively trying to fool other users, or lazily using AI to engage as superficially as they could.

The comment here was a borderline case of the latter, but I think it was on the worthwhile side of the border, personally.

In any case, a blanket prohibition is pointless, because it won't be long before there's simply no way to tell.
by sfRattan | 2025-12-24 00:36:07+00:00
With a bit of fiddling, Android TV can be as good as Apple TV in terms of privacy. Not out of the box, of course, but ADB can remove advertising/surveillance related APK files from most devices sold in big box stores and there are open-source, alternative clients to YouTube and a few other platforms available due to the popularity on the underlying AOSP platform. The same is possible to varying extents on smart TVs that use Android TV as their OS.

You can even completely replace Google's sponsored-content-feed launcher/homescreen with an open source alternative that is just a grid of big tiles for your installed apps (FLauncher).

For me, SmartTube with both ad-blocking and sponsor block is the killer feature of Android TV as a platform.

If you're into local network media streaming, Jellyfin's Android TV app is also great. Their Apple TV app is limited enough that people recommend using a paid third party client instead. And that's usually inevitably the case with Apple's walled gardens... The annual developer fee means things that people would build for the community on AOSP/Android are locked behind purchases or subscriptions on iOS and Apple TV.
by dogman144 | 2025-12-24 00:36:54+00:00
I’ve been in security for a while and I increasingly think understanding what the future looks like under this threat model is about the only security research that really matters fully above the rest (many topics also very important in their own ways).

The state change is just so significant and so under discussed because you learn about it via making an effort in a cybersec career, hitting conferences very years, eventually lucking out with who you met for a beer, and so on.

So how do policy leaders trying to understand this stand a chance at understanding it? How do local PD chiefs understand what they’re bringing in, who I really do believe deserve the benefit of the doubt wrt positive intentions?

There is really no counter-voice to an incredibly capable nationwide surveillance network that’s been around for at least 10-15 years. The EFF doesn’t really count because the EFF complains about these things, SEN Wyden writes a memo, and that seems to be the accepted scope of the work..

Just like man… the bill of rights… it’s a thing! Insane technology.
by mediumdeviation | 2025-12-24 00:37:35+00:00
Yeah, supporting iOS 12 in 2025 is odd. I was investigating browser support levels just recently for a library and also settled on iOS 16 as a reasonable level.

For reference, iOS 12.x and below are used 0.33% globally https://browsersl.ist/#q=safari+%3C+13+or+ios+%3C+13. Selecting iOS 16 would still exclude less than 1% globally https://browsersl.ist/#q=safari+%3C+16+or+ios+%3C+16. In both cases the vast majority would be older iOS which is unfortunate because I assume they're on older devices with no upgrade path, but you have to decide on the transpile/polyfill cutoff at some point and browser support has an extremely long tail.
by bmc7505 | 2025-12-24 00:37:46+00:00
Interesting. I wonder if mqjs would make it feasible to massively parallelize JavaScript on the GPU. I’m looking for a way to run thousands of simultaneous JS interpreters, each with an isolated heap and some shared memory. There are some research projects [1, 2] in this direction, but they are fairly experimental.

[1]: https://github.com/SamGinzburg/VectorVisor

[2]: https://github.com/beehive-lab/ProtonVM
by inkyoto | 2025-12-24 00:38:10+00:00
WhatsApp did not have a dedicated Watch app until 1 or 2 months ago – it was not even possible to respond to WhatsApp messages on the Watch, only seeing the mirrored notifications was possible.

You can blame Apple for other things if that is the intention, but this particular one was a decision made by Meta and by Meta only.

Write to your regulator and make a complaint that Meta is keeping the WhatsApp stage gate.
by pwthornton | 2025-12-24 00:38:26+00:00
I'm a Mac user, but I recently played around with a beefy laptop at work to see how games ran on it, and I was shocked at how bad and user-hostile Windows 11 is. I had previously used Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7, but 11 is just so janky. It's feestoned with Co-pilot/AI jank, and seems to be filled with ads and spyware.

If I didn't know better, I'd assume Windows was a free, ad-supported product. If I ever pick up a dedicated PC for gaming, it's going to be a Steam Machine and/or Steam Deck. Microsoft is basically lighting Xbox and Windows on fire to chase AI clanker slop.
by qingcharles | 2025-12-24 00:39:21+00:00
1.5 years is low for a murder trial. I would suspect the average is somewhere between 2 and 5 years. A lot of the time, if the defendant knows they are cooked, then they are just holding out for a better plea deal.

I've personally met defendants on their ninth year awaiting trial, and during COVID a lot of jails were forced to publish their detainees lists, and I noted some who were over 11 years without a trial.
by nlitsme | 2025-12-24 00:39:53+00:00
ah, found it - this is from the 'Court Records' part.

https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court Records/Matter of the Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein, Deceased, No. ST-21-RV-00005 (V.I. Super. Ct. 2021)/2022.03.17-1 Exhibit 1.pdf
by tombert | 2025-12-24 00:40:41+00:00
I'm not sure; sometimes being an experienced dev gravitates you towards the lazy solutions that are "good enough". Senior engineers are often expected to work at a rate that precludes solving interesting problems, and so the dumber solution will often win; at least that's been my experience, and what I tell myself to go to sleep at night when I get told for the millionth time that the company can't justify formal verification.
by harshreality | 2025-12-24 00:40:44+00:00
Any reverse linkages, by the Zodiac killer referencing the Black Dahlia killings, are potentially explainable, even the "deathbed" Elizabeth painting, as an interest in a historical murder[er].

What's interesting and not easily explainable if true, however, is the suspicion that the Black Dahlia murderer used a motel that at the time was called the Zodiac Motel. That forward-connection would've taken someone obsessed with solving the Black Dahlia murder, not just interested in the nature of the crime; assuming the theory about the Dahlia murder location is correct, the Zodiac killer would have had to solve the location of the Dahlia murder by himself, and then use it as an in-joke for a later series of unconnected murders.
by ben_w | 2025-12-24 00:41:24+00:00
> I'm American. Why would the largest military on the planet not be ready for rule by might?

Two years ago, I would have agreed.

Today? Given what Trump is doing? Kicking out military personal for being trans, his poor choice for (not only but in this topic specifically) Defence Secretary, his demand to redesign stealth warships because he won't accept the un-"aesthetic" look is driven by functional requirements, demanding a return of battleships this time with a railgun (to go with the lasers)?

I think there's a very real risk of the USA military rapidly following the same path as post-soviet Russian military.

Well, I say "risk": I'm European, so for me it's a good thing if the person who is trying to break up my home is more interested in flashy demos than functional weapons.
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-24 00:41:34+00:00
> VR

To note, cost and hardware availability is I think one half of the critical reasons people don't get into VR (other half being the bulkiness and puke ?). In a roundabout way, GPU melting games helped get better hardware at mainstream prices. Until crypto and AI happened. And now the Steam Frame faced with the RAM price situation.

> 5 years

I don't play it, but Infinite Nikki comes to mind, and the visuals are the core experience. I wonder how much a game like Arcknight Enfield taxes the player hardware, given they're pushing the 3D modelling side.

I agree with you on the plateauing part, in that the gaming industry seems to have mostly shoved HDPI in the corner. It costs so much more to produce a game at that visual quality in the first place, and PC makers and benchmarks focus on FHD performance, so ROI is that lower on the marketing side.

It kinda makes me sad, like being told "8-bit art is enough for images, we should focus on composition, how many Vermeer or DaVinci like painters do we expect anyway ?"
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-24 00:41:54+00:00
> The controlled substance act, as applied, is insanely unconstitutional. That's part of the reason why they needed to pass an amendment to ban liquor.

The Wartime Prohibition Act says you are wrong. The 18th Amendment was certainly necessary to both make the policy irrevocable without another amendment, and to give states independent power notwithstanding usual Constitutional limits on state power to enforce prohibition on top of federal power, it is much more dubious that it was necessary for federal prohibition.
by pbh101 | 2025-12-24 00:42:13+00:00
I should have said ‘product development’ model versus just ‘development’ to be more clear. To state another way: Linux has no way, no function, no pathway to providing this. This is not really surprising, because it isn’t the work software developers find fun and self-rewarding, but rather more the relatively mundane business-as-usual scope of product managers and business development folks.

… And that’s all fine, because this is a super niche need: effectively nobody needs Linux laptops and even fewer depend on sleep to work. If ‘Linux’ convinced itself it really really needed to solve this problem for whatever reason, it would do something that doesn’t look like its current development model, something outside that.

Regardless, the net result in the world today is that Linux sleep doesn’t work in general.
by EGreg | 2025-12-24 00:43:01+00:00
I disagree with this person on utilitarian grounds. Nay even grounds of existential risk to humanity.

And just like him, when it comes to AI, I am making a huge exception for my usual principles.

My usual principles are that open-source gift economies benefit the world and break people free from gatekeepers. The World Wide Web liberated people from having to pay Payola to radio stations just to get their song played, from TV, Magazines, Newspapers, etc. It let anyone publish worldwide within a second, and make changes just as easily. It is what led to Facebook, Amazon, Google, LinkedIn, X etc. even existing (walled gardens like AOL would never allow it).

Wikipedia has made everyone forget about Britannica and Encarta. Linux runs most computers in the world. Open protocols like VoIP and packet switching brought marginal costs of personal communication down to zero. And so on and so forth.

But when it comes to AI, we can't have everyone do whatever they want with AI models, for the same reason we can't give everyone nuclear weapons technology. The probability that no one will misuse it becomes infinitesimally small real fast. And it takes just a few people to create a designer virus with a long incubation period, that infects and kills everyone, as just one example. Even in the digital world we are headed towards a dark forest where everything is adversarial, nothing can be trusted, and anyone's reputation, wealth and peace of mind can be destroyed at scale, by swarms of agents. That's coming.

For now, we know where the compute is. We can see it from space, even. We can trace the logistics, and we can make sure that it runs only "safe" models that refuse to do these things. All the stories you read about some provider "stopping" large-scale hacking is because they ran the servers.

So yes, for this one thing, I make a strong exception. I don't want to see proliferation of AI models everywhere. Sadly, though, as long as the world runs on "competition" instead of "cooperation", destruction is inevitable. Because if we don't do it, then China will, etc. etc.

There have been a few times in recent history that humanity successfully came together to ban dangerous things. Chemical weapons ban. Nuclear non-proliferation. Montreal Protocol and CFCs (repair the hole in the ozone layer). We can still do this for AI models running on dark compute pools. But time is running out. Chaos is coming.
by musicale | 2025-12-24 00:43:23+00:00
> That was never proven

“All phones have sensitive areas,” Jobs wrote. “Just avoid holding it in this way.”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/06/jobs-on-iphone-4-ant...

https://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/24/steve-jobs-describes-ip...

Jobs wasn't exactly wrong - bridging the antenna with your finger was not a good way to hold the iPhone 4.

What's hilarious is how they "fixed" it in software - by changing the signal bar display curve, and then making the lower bars appear taller.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/08/a-15-year-mystery-solved-the-...
by asdff | 2025-12-24 00:46:57+00:00
I wish valve didn't abandon mac as a platform, honestly. As nice as these improvements are for linux and deck users they have effectively abandoned their mac ports as they never updated them to 64 bit like the linux and windows builds, so they can't run on new macs at all. You can coax them into running with wine on mac but it is a very tricky experience. My kegworks wine wrapper for tf2 is currently broken as of last month because the game update download from wine steam keeps corrupting and I'm at a bit of a loss at this point how to work around it. Even when it was working performance was not great and subject to regular lag spikes whenever too many explosions went off.
by mothballed | 2025-12-24 00:47:47+00:00
I just want to make clear, you completely ignored that I answered your questions and instead argued against someone else's tangent about meth (which although the government is unconstitutionally regulating as applied, isn't an explicit constitutional right which was what we were discussing) because they desperately needed to side rail the fact I was right by going on a red herring hunt (indeed, one where I was taken to task for apparently mentioning the constitution on a question that involves the constitution).

The wartime prohibition act, to the extent it regulated intrastate trade -- was also beyond the powers restrained by the 10th amendment. The fact a wartime era court lol'ed their way into regulating intrastate commerce is just another example of the federal government happily steamrolling rights (something they are especially good at around wartimes), but they needed the amendment to keep it up in non-wartime.

----- Re: irishman due to throttling ------

>Ignore meth. Do it again with wire fraud.

The question was about age limits on things that there is an explicit constitutional right of. You don't have a right to meth nor wire fraud. Your argument here doesn't make sense, nor is there an age where meth or wire fraud are legal which again was the question.
by jibal | 2025-12-24 00:47:58+00:00
The appropriate word is "mistaken". It was explained that the licensing restrictions do not allow for a port, literal or otherwise. And "the linux port of Photoshop 1.0" is not something anyone wants when Linux already has far more capable photo editing software, and when much of this code is devoted to solving problems--e.g., interfacing with ancient hardware--that no longer exist.

Your disappointment seems to be a form of FOMO, but there isn't actually anything that you're MO here.
by foxheadman | 2025-12-24 00:48:12+00:00
> The Nix team is aware of all of this and made these tradeoffs intentionally to maximize package support and reduce contributor friction. Nix, for all its good design choices, landed on a supply chain integrity threat model that unfortunately makes it suitable only as hobby OS that must not be used to protect anything of value.

The risks you list are shared by many distributions, meanwhile NixOS does better in some fronts, particularly around monorepo of open build recipes, SBOM, and flexible overrides to allow security sensitive usecases to limit and control dependencies.

But nonetheless, you list valid limitations, but they aren't inherent.

I'll discuss them below, but note that I don't speak on behalf of NixOS.

> Yet another reminder that Nix does not sign commits, does not sign reviews

I agree we should do this.

> allows any maintainer to merge their own code

The convention is now not to do that. I believe a maintainer recently had their commit bit revoked due to doing this. I don't know why it isn't enforced, but it should be.

> does not compile all packages from source

The vast majority are, and the exceptions are odd cases:

* firefox-bin, where some people prefer Mozilla's build. A source-built alternative "Firefox" is available too.

* firmware stuff

* Proprietary software, e.g. factorio.

* I'm not familiar with the Haskell bootstrapping case you mention in another comment, but if ghc can't be bootstrapped, are you suggesting that GHC shouldn't be available, or that a binary GHC should compile GHC from source? I agree that would be nice to have and I'm just clarifying the issue here.

> Hydra admins can absolutely tamper with builds at any time

I believe build reproduciblity is required to mitigate this risk. That is a useful property that OSS should have, but the reality is that no distribution has that, since so many packages has non-determinism.

Is there a distro that does this well? (I know Debian has spearheaded this, but they too have remaining build reproduciblity issues, and so presumably have similar risks).
by gerdesj | 2025-12-24 00:49:04+00:00
Errm I think me and my mates count as bootstrappers. Never heard the term before but we have paid off the mortgage on our premises and are decidedly boring.

We have three Directors and a slack handful of employees, that varies around 15 to 25 depending on customers, pandemics, Brexit and murderous Russians.

We incorporated in 2000. 25 years later, we are still trading, which is nice. We will never fiddle with unicorns or set the world on fire, we just want to get along comfortably and be able to sleep at night.

My top tip is to build up a current account balance that will cover the basics for your defined risk period. So, for us that period is six months. The basics are: Corporation tax, VAT and salaries. You'll note I don't mention director's remuneration - that's a nice to have (for me).

I have two customers at the moment that are dealing with going bankrupt, although one looks like they will be OK. I refuse to join them. Small business cash flow is hard, really hard. It's so easy to be tempted to do something daft or to ignore warning signs.

The world is a pretty hard place and not all tech companies get to spawn zillionares. You won't get to use my company as a poster child for funky ... whatever but we are still trading and I'm quite happy with that.

Napoleon disparagingly described Britain as a "nation of shop keepers" - I'll take that and wear it as a badge of honour 8)
by rconti | 2025-12-24 00:50:21+00:00
Places nobody's ever heard of like "Ohio" or "Oregon"?

Yeah, I'm not worried about being targeted in an RCA and pointedly asked why I chose a region with way better uptime than `us-tirefire-1`.

What _is_ worth considering is whether your more carefully considered region will perform better during an actual outage where some critical AWS resource goes down in Virginia, taking my region with it anyway.
by mlissner | 2025-12-24 00:50:50+00:00
No, we worked with researchers that developed that kind of system, but didn't broadcast our work b/c the research was too sensitive. Seems the cat is out the bag now though.

I think the combination of AI and font-metrics is going to be wild though. You ought to be able to make a system that can figure out likely words based on the unredacted ones and the redaction's size. I haven't seen any redaction system yet that protects against this.
by frumplestlatz | 2025-12-24 00:51:58+00:00
Four off the top of my head:

- Weaponization of the DOJ

- Intentional non-enforcement of immigration law to boost proportional representation of democrats.

- A sitting president that was literally a dementia patient. Who was actually making the decisions?

- Eliminating (or at least reducing) the “NGO” and DEI grift. That was a straight funnel of public funds into private pockets.

I can also point to a litany of policy changes that I think are integral to our ability to function as a healthy society.
by squigz | 2025-12-24 00:52:45+00:00
You forgot to respond to anything except the "houses" part of this.

It's obvious what GP and others are saying - that the concept of things like "papers" and "effects" are no longer as concrete as they used to be. What used to be physical letters stored in one's home are now emails stored on any number of servers.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by irishcoffee | 2025-12-24 00:53:08+00:00
Me either.

You can write them down on paper.

If we all acknowledge that the internet is a beautiful disaster that shan’t be trusted, which it always has been and always will be, we can all collectively get over ourselves about privacy on the internet. “Hey world I went overseas for vacation/holiday! I cooked this amazing dinner! I’m cheating on my SO using an online chat app!”

Maybe stop doing all 3 of those things. I can’t tell you how liberating it’s been since I got off all social media in ~2008. It’s super easy to be very private if you so choose. Having any kind of internet presence is a voluntary sacrifice of privacy.
by kbenson | 2025-12-24 00:53:53+00:00
> For me though Lua is clearly better than JS on many different dimensions and I don't appreciate the needless denigration of Lua, especially from someone as influential as you.

Is it needless? It's useful specifically because he is someone influential, and someone might say "Lua was antirez's choice when making redis, and I trust and respect his engineering, so I'm going to keep Lua as a top contender for use in my project because of that" and him being clear on his choices and reasoning is useful in that respect. In any case where you think he has a responsibility to be careful what he says because of that influence, that can also be used in this case as a reason he should definitely explain his thoughts on it then and now.