MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krick | 2025-12-07 02:25:34+00:00
Cannot properly evaluate now. I never really use it without a cable for too long, and by now the battery must have slightly degraded too. Anyway, it never was Macbook-level, I guess, and it's an oldish model, so you should check actual reviews for current models that you are interested in, there always was plenty of them for ThinkPads (at least, the last time when I looked for a new laptop).
by kevinherron | 2025-12-07 02:25:35+00:00
One model/configuration will never work because developers are awful, picky customers.

You’ll lose 90,000 of your 100,000 with one or more little nitpicks.

Probably 50% right off the bat because you chose a keyboard with or without a numpad.

Another huge chunk because you chose the wrong screen (Retina resolution? Low resolution? Refresh rate?)

Too bad, because I want this. Or at least the version of it I have in my head :)
by dcre | 2025-12-07 02:25:37+00:00
In my experience, LLMs have been quite capable of producing code I am satisfied with (though of course it depends on the context — I have much lower standards for one-off tools than long-lived apps). They are able to follow conventions already present in a codebase and produce something passable. Whereas with writing prose, I am almost never happy with the feel of what an LLM produces (worth noting that Sonnet and Opus 4.5’s prose may be moving up from disgusting to tolerable). I think of it as prose being higher-dimensional — for a given goal, often the way to express it in code is pretty obvious, and many developers would do essentially the same thing. Not so for prose.
by qingcharles | 2025-12-07 02:25:38+00:00
Mine is unchanged since I switched from DOS (Borland) to Windows (Visual C++/Visual Studio) development in 1995. If I sat 1995 me down in front of my PC it wouldn't take more than a couple of mins to figure everything out. He'd be confused about all the AI panes on the dev apps, though, I suspect.

(I've also never had a window tiled in my life; every window maximized at all times to avoid noise)
by gogyjay | 2025-12-07 02:27:09+00:00
We spent many months restoring audio from hundreds of old and new device firmware and service dumps. This was a massive undertaking to preserve audio history.

The result is now the world’s largest archive of original system sounds:

65,000+ cleaned and normalized audio files. 170+ brands: From classic Nokia and Sony Ericsson models to modern Xiaomi and Samsung devices. All Types: Ringtones, notification tones, camera sounds, and power-up/power-down jingles.
by kittikitti | 2025-12-07 02:29:36+00:00
I've had people accuse me of using AI for code that I created before 2019, and they just doubled down when I pointed it out on public version control. The industry is full of toxic people and developers who just put others down. I hope there's a way out because I'm not going to stop coding even if I tried. It might be years before these people get promoted until they don't review code and all the AI hate caused by fear among the general public is gone. This business cycle is going to be very miserable.
by iterance | 2025-12-07 02:30:53+00:00
Cold take: honestly, just let users learn how to use your software. Put all your options in a consistent location in menus or whatever - it's fine. Yes, it might take them a little bit. No, they won't use every feature. Do make it as easy to learn as possible. Don't alienate the user with UI that changes under their feet.

Is "learning" now a synonym of "friction" in the product and design world? I gather this from many modern thinkpieces. If I am wrong, I would like to see an example of this kind of UI that actually feels both learnable and seamless. Clarity, predictability, learnability, reliability, interoperability, are all sacrificed on this altar.

> The explosive popularity of AI code generation shows users crave more control and flexibility.

I don't see how this follows.

The chart with lines and circles is quite thought-leadershipful. I do not perceive meaning in it, however (lines are jagged/bad, circles are smooth/good?).
by rblion | 2025-12-07 02:31:45+00:00
No, I live on Kauai and Maui before this. The Hawaii Tourism Authority runs ads on the radio for 'sustainable travel' and they want fewer people here paying more to curb overtourism and crowding, damage to parks.

I agree with them. I posted this to just see what others thought.

It's interesting how many people I meet from the tech world that move out here or vacation here often. I don't want to leave but would do some extended trips to places on my list for sure and always come back to one of the islands.
by berdario | 2025-12-07 02:33:40+00:00
> I doubt even someone as big as Samsung will be willing or able to develop their own alternative OS

Huawei pulled it out with HarmonyOS (I don't know how good/bad is it, and if it'll have staying power, but other companies are putting in the effort)

PS: btw, Samsung already had its own, non-Android OS with Bada (of course, developing a new OS is only the first step, getting it to be successful wouldn't be easy)
by dxm007 | 2025-12-07 02:33:50+00:00
all examples of price increases in that article, I could easily apply to my groceries, clothes, marketplace health insurance, restaurants, pet care costs and just about everything I buy everyday (surprisingly price of gasoline has been somewhat of an exception). In 2021 while i was consulting my monthly health insurance via NYS marketplace was $405/mo, the one I just got was $629/mo

So yeah... If what that article about "pricing out middle-class" is true, how about we increase its scope beyond Hawaii.

Let's just go ahead and say middle-class (and how about everyone who middle-class believes is below them) is priced out of life in general, including that Hawaii vacation.
by bsenftner | 2025-12-07 02:34:00+00:00
People don't learn history, and I'm not talking about the wars and battles BS that they use to glorify going to war. I mean real history: biographies of the lives of real and ordinary people. Not the history makers, the people that lived through and had the mind to record their lives for prosperity.

Case in point, this notion that the past as "more real" and the present "more fake"... the amount of fake doctors, fake medicine, religious revivals that were actually fleecing entire towns into destitution was out of control. The "wild west" it truly was, and the law was owning a gun because everyone was desperate.
by Magi604 | 2025-12-07 02:38:10+00:00
>If there is a lesson to this side quest, it’s certainly this: you can JUST go to the library (or do things, in general). The world is full of rooms like that sixth-floor reading room, and it’s up to you to walk into them. Work usually can wait, and you often come back more inspired to it when you’ve given yourself permission to wander. Just go on that quest!

People too often forget this.
by sunshinesnacks | 2025-12-07 02:38:37+00:00
I cut coffee for a year or so 10 years ago due to stomach issues, then slowly added fancy espresso drinks back, figuring that if I was only having coffee once a week, it might as well be fancy. I don’t seem to have stomach issues now with 1-2 lattes/cappuccinos a day.

Maybe it’s unrelated, all in my head, better beans, or the 3-4 oz of whole milk, but maybe give espresso drinks a try if you haven’t?
by perching_aix | 2025-12-07 02:38:58+00:00
> and only 16-bit color (4 bits per pixel).

The "high color" (16 bit) mode was 5:6:5 bits per channel, so 16 bits per pixel.

> So 153,600 bytes for the frame buffer.

And so you're looking at 614.4 KB (600 KiB) instead.
by storus | 2025-12-07 02:39:07+00:00
UTexas seems to be crushing it in the ML/AI space as they offer far more recent courses with deeper topics; for everything else OMSCS is probably a better choice even though it has a relentless pace of busywork making even easy classes draining. Stanford OTOH is like GT and UT merged together (both crazy difficult projects and a lot of math), but at 2x the pace. UT is way more relaxing than either, one can take 3 courses alongside a job and be fine, which is next to impossible at GT and Stanford. Conversely, if one wants to continue by doing research, Stanford and GT are much more useful due to ample opportunities to do so.
by bccdee | 2025-12-07 02:39:55+00:00
> Users get personalized interfaces without custom code.

Personalized interfaces are bad. I don't want to configure anything, and I don't want anything automatically configured on my behalf. I want it to just work; that kind of design takes effort & there's no way around it.

Your UI should be clear and predictable. A chatbot should not be moving around the buttons. If I'm going to compare notes with my friend on how to use your software, all the buttons need to be in the same place. People hate UI redesigns for a reason: Once they've learned how to use your software, they don't want to re-learn. A product that constantly redesigns itself at the whims of an inscrutable chatbot which thinks it knows what you want is the worst of all possible products.

ALSO: Egregiously written article. I assume it's made by an LLM.
by sundayqtrbk | 2025-12-07 02:40:18+00:00
Read this blog post from the same author https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2025-11-22/intel-is-listen.... I'm surprised that this narcissist Fellow wasn't shown the door by the company for 3.5 years.

Good luck to whichever team he now joins and get ready to be shoved with his accomplishments reports.
by daemonologist | 2025-12-07 02:42:39+00:00
The old ones had hot-swappable batteries (a second internal battery - of decent size - kept the device going while you replaced the external one). I used to keep a couple of extra 50 Wh batteries in my backpack and therefore had excellent battery life. The power efficiency wasn't great though.

I now have a Z13 Gen 1 (AMD 6850U) running Fedora and the battery life is passable. It draws 7-8W at idle from a 51 Wh battery.
by gosub100 | 2025-12-07 02:42:53+00:00
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs/.fvwm2rc

Here is his fvwm rc. Given that it's fully documented, I will walk back my assumption that he can barely open a terminal. I researched it a bit and recalled an interview where he said something like "all I use X windows for is is to open a terminal in FVWM", so he clearly can customize it, but he prefers a minimalist setup.
by epistasis | 2025-12-07 02:44:08+00:00
What's more scarce is the factory capacity to build the batteries, and the scale of their supply chains. But even that is expanding by 10x every five years. We are currently building more than a TWh per year of batteries.

If there is demand for batteries in ships, it is going to be far smaller than for cars, which is currently 80% of battery demand (the rest is mostly grid storage). So ship batteries will at most slow the fall of battery pricing by a small amount.
by tomhow | 2025-12-07 02:45:18+00:00
I don't know where anyone gets the idea that the moderators or the community are such fearsome tyrants about this!

> people who point out obscure titles are downvoted in most cases, and eventually shadow-banned

Nothing like this happens! Nobody gets banned for pointing out anything about titles. People only get banned ("shadow" or otherwise) for serial abuse or trolling (and only after multiple warnings), or for spamming. Comments only get downvoted if more people disagree than agree with the title suggestion or the way it's suggested. It's no big deal. It's how opinions are expressed and debated on HN.

> The HN post is entitled merely "tunni.gg".

That's Tunnl.gg [1], and it would have been fine for the page's heading to be added to the HN title (that routinely happens when software projects on Github are submitted). It's also not terrible for just the project name to be there, because the name of the project (a variant of the word "Tunnel") hints at what it is. But we're not dogmatic about it, and anybody could have emailed us (hn@ycombinator.com) to suggest a better title we would have given it due consideration and replied appreciatively. We do that multiple times each day.

> You see plenty of similarly and intentionally obscure titles on HN daily. Try calling them out and see what happens.

“Intentionally obscure” isn't the right framing. Maybe we don't always want to clobber people over the head with obviousness. The joy of surprising discovery is an important part of the HN experience.

But the key principles – (a) respect the original work of the author/publisher and (b) don't mislead or disrespect the HN audience with clickbait or false information – have proven to be the most stable and defensible over time. There's still plenty of room for discernment in the way those principles are applied on a case-by-case basis.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46145902
by defrost | 2025-12-07 02:45:29+00:00
plausibly correlated with what?

This correlated with an earthquake - this is the event that should have triggered an inspection regardless.

> But when someone can generate plausible disaster photos of every inch of every line of a country's rail network in mere minutes?

In the UK (and elsewhere) a large percentage of track is covered by cameras - inspection of over the top claims can be rapidly dismissed.

> And as soon as your inspection finishes, they do it again?

Sounds like a case for cyber crimes and public nuisance.

It's also no different to endless prank calls via phone, not a new thing.
by jcranmer | 2025-12-07 02:45:40+00:00
USGS has a page on the history of Kilauea here: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/science/geology-and-h..., which also has some links on some of the eruptions in recorded history.

Probably the closest thing to what you're looking for is here: https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/kilauea-caldera-simplified..., which lists the age of the most recent lave flows as of 2008 (when Halema'uma'u started filling up again). The 2018 eruption caused another caldera collapse within the crater, enlarging Halema'uma'u and creating a new mini-caldera that's labeled as the "down-dropped block" in subsequent maps, e.g. https://www.usgs.gov/maps/october-5-2021-kilauea-summit-erup... ... although, since then, Halema'uma'u has erupted enough lava to more or less fill the entire down-dropped block, see, e.g., the most recent map: https://www.usgs.gov/maps/november-25-2025-kilauea-summit-er...
by pilingual | 2025-12-07 02:46:16+00:00
No doubt 25-35 y.o. or so could pull it off. Probably don't even have to be fully remote, just tell your laid back boss you want to work remotely for a couple weeks.

According to the article the quality of the pool matters. If you want a neighborhood feel, the challenge is to come up with 8-40 people who are going to jive. Devon noted that (at least one) FoaF experience didn't work out. I think it is great if you have the social sense to select such a chill group but I'd be surprised if many people could accomplish organizing a successful large group.
by sroerick | 2025-12-07 02:48:04+00:00
I bought the StarLabs tablet, and it was... Okay.

The tablet itself has been good. The firmware support is good. The charger died, and the keyboard case is on its last legs. I had to solder the pins back on to keep it working. It's an acceptable keyboard case, but the 'a' key doesn't work super well. Still a decent product, particularly for a Linux convertable, but definitely not something I would give my dad.
by toss1 | 2025-12-07 02:49:02+00:00
iirc, Pompeii was a pyroclastic flow [0], a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter with speeds between 100-700 km/hr and temperatures up to 1000°C. So, probably something like that, but a lot bigger, faster, and arriving faster from further away.

I was surprised how long the camera lasted getting buried. It'd be a not good end.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroclastic_flow
by defrost | 2025-12-07 02:49:05+00:00
It's not a new story, nor has it highlighted a new weakness - people have had the ability to claim tracks are covered in stone or by a dead cow for a good many years now.

Tracks have cameras to rapidly discount big claims, in this specific case there was an actual earthquake which should (and likely did, the story doesn't drill down very deep) have triggered a manual track inspection for blockages and ballast shifts in of itself.
by jedbrooke | 2025-12-07 02:49:53+00:00
> Consumer electronics naming is very simple. Make a good product with a simple name. “iPhone”, “comma”, “Z Fold”. Then every year or two, add one to the number of that product. If it’s a small refresh, you can add a letter after the number. “2 3 3X 4” “4 4s 5 5s 6 …” “2 3 4 5 6 7” Why is this so hard for companies like HP?

Oh man I feel this every time there’s a games console launch. I still have no idea what the latest Xbox is called but Sony gets it right with “Playstation <N>”

Apple loses some points here since every macbook from like 2007 until 2020 was just called “Macbook pro” with no year officially in the name so you have to be really careful when eg looking at used listings for macbooks. But since the M1 it’s been good with M<1-5>
by nis0s | 2025-12-07 02:49:54+00:00
Okay I did, now let’s enumerate some similarities and differences.

Here’s the setting: A is gay, and B is hetero. Both exist in a secular, democratic society where the majority religion has a damning view about being gay, but there are anti-discrimination laws in this society, and there’s a subculture that’s welcoming to gay people.

A lives a normal life, and has a mix of positive and negative experiences, but is otherwise never bullied, abused, harassed or emotionally or physically harmed on a personal level due to being gay, but has seen gay people be bullied and harmed on social media. A can move to a new town, and no one would know that A is gay, or maybe even care about that if they did find out because there are allies and other gay people. A can change jobs and not worry about being discriminated against because there are laws that protect against discrimination based on identity. A can make friends in A’s subculture or with allies.

B lives a normal life, but has an overwhelming negative experience when B starts getting bullied by C and D (two new people for this scenario). C and D take a personal interest in B, and want to make B’s life a living hell because B rubbed them the wrong way, let’s say. C and D use their network of friends to do the following: 1) they hack into B’s personal phone and computer to get private information, 2) they use that information to steal B’s secret cooking recipes and start selling a best selling chef’s book under their own names from those recipes, 3) they find out who are B’s friends or enemies, and use that information to either socially isolate B from their circle by saying socially negative things about B, or by using gossip from enemies to drive new people away from B, 4) they pretend to be “concerned citizens” and email B’s employers about B’s character, 5) every time B starts something new, they try to get into that new thing to undermine B, or somehow disadvantage B on a personal level, at the same time helping other people like B, 6) they use their network to spread gossip about B, and undermine B’s work or achievements. So B cannot make friends or relationships of any kind, and does not have a support network. B cannot find employment of the kind B likes, and cannot move to a new town because it won’t make a difference since B is being targeted on a personal level.

Now tell me, are these two circumstances the same? One is societal indifference/discrimination, and the other is targeted bullying, stalking and harassment. If you say, yes, then explain how.

If you don’t understand, then put this scenario in ChatGPT and ask who is experiencing more stress, or is it the same level of stress.
by ridgeguy | 2025-12-07 02:49:57+00:00
Decades ago, my wife and I visited the Big Island during a fairly sedate eruption. We drove down Chain of Craters Road, got to see a tiny lava flow (talking like a couple feet of glowing honey), but were wanting more. In the distance, we could see a huge steam column where a lava stream was reaching the sea. We asked one of the ever-attendant Park Rangers if we could walk over there. He said no.

But then he said - we close at 5pm, and there are no gates. OK, we can take a hint.

We drove to Hilo and bought cheap tennis and flashlights, then scurried back down Chain of Craters after 6. As the sky darkened, we walked towards the steam column. The rocks beneath our feet showed incandescent glows deep in the cracks, and we started to smell burned rubber from our cheap tennis. Eventually, we came to the lava outfall.

We watched nearly an hour as a river of molten rock cascaded into the ocean. We used our water bottles on our shoe soles, turning back when we ran dry.

I now understand that we were stupid - apparently the park loses a few tourists to shelf collapse each year - but we lived, and the memory is a treasure. Thank you, Mr. Ranger.

And yes, it's like being on a different planet - like being on our own, maybe 4 billion years ago.
by aspenmayer | 2025-12-07 02:50:16+00:00
See also depictions of vaguely European historical trappings in anime, especially as in Miyazaki’s works, a variety of shojo manga and anime since the 70s, and many isekai settings.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Djo_manga

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

“Representations of Europe in Japanese Anime: An Overview of Case Studies and Theoretical Frameworks”. Mutual Images Journal, no. 8, June 2020, pp. 47-84, https://doi.org/10.32926/2020.8.ara.europ .

An especially interesting quote from the above:

> According to Frederik Schodt, Jaqueline Berndt, and Deborah Shamoon, the European settings, depicted in the 1970s shōjo series took the role of a remote idealised elsewhere with a strong exotic appeal, radically different from Japanese society and reality, where the recurrent conventions of the shōjo narratives were developed. Some of these themes, like the deconstruction of the feminine subject and the development of transgressive romantic stories (which contain incests, infidelities, idyllic and allusive sexual scenes or homosexual relationships), were hard to conceive in the Japanese society of that moment, which enabled the European setting with a range of creative possibilities due to the depiction of foreign cultures (Schodt, 2012 [1983]: 88-93; Berndt, 1996: 93-4, Shamoon, 2007, 2008). Such a use and depiction of Europe fits with what Pellitteri has coined as the “mimecultural” scenario of anime, a mode of representation present in those anime series that adopt contents, settings, and other visual elements from different cultural backgrounds to develop their original narratives and plots (2010: 396). [italics added for emphasis]

The concept of “mimecultral” aspects of anime and manga is not new to me, but that phrasing itself is, and it reminds me of Dawkins’ conception of memes.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-07 02:50:32+00:00
> In case of a blog, it's separated from the professional life.

I mean, it might be, but a lot of bloggers don't do this.

> Your supremacist colleague may even then work with non-white people and find them nice and competent!

I feel like maybe you're not understanding what, exactly, white supremacy is.

> I'm sure that many white supremacists are pro-free speech, having experienced censorship.

Right, no, the ideology is fundamentally anti-free-speech and anti freedom in general. Believing some humans are inferior and deserve less rights just works like that.

You don't have to defend white supremacists, they're doing just fine politically and socially. Better than the people they believe inferior, I'd say.

> You clearly aren't.

Yeah yeah whatever, go explain to someone else how oppressed white supremacists are.