MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nosianu | 2025-12-27 19:55:05+00:00
Which may already be a sign of ability to pay? Not that I will argue against the right of US Americans to have a country that gets more and more divided by "class" defined by money, an interesting if not very ethical experiment for sure.

The very well-known in Germany satiric news website "Der Postillion" had an interesting provocative piece just yesterday (German, but auto-translate takes care of that): https://www.der-postillon.com/2023/12/weihnachtsmann-ungerec... -- "Schlimmer Verdacht: Bevorzugt der Weihnachtsmann die Kinder reicher Eltern?" ("A disturbing suspicion: Does Santa Claus favor the children of wealthy parents?")

Being able to get to places by car is one of the most basic needs in the US. I think it leads to cementing the monetary status quo and monetary class affiliation when that becomes even more dependent on how much money one can spend on it. A nicer car being more expensive is fine in that regard, it does not get you from A to B much or any faster than the cheap one. Being able to choose roads or lanes that will take you there much faster is different.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-27 19:55:22+00:00
Image thumbnails are slow to load for me, my ADSL is not great, but many sites load better than that.

I collect ero images but find OnlyFans offputting and feel the same way about the images and text that get surfaced on your site, personally I wouldn't want to stick with it. That said, the UI is slick.

A text search for "cosplay" turned up 0% relevant images from my point of view, multiple searches I tried turned up the same girl in the #1 slot frequently so I think in terms of blending relevance vs popularity/quality you aren't emphasizing relevance. ("Cosplay" tag is just as bad, I only start to hit if I add another filter for an Asian country)

I did upload a pic of an S-rank cosplay model and did get other cosplayers so that seems to work.

I was hoping I could pick a girl from the search results and find similar girls but it wasn't clear how to do so.
by mstep | 2025-12-27 19:55:43+00:00
according to this video [0] the frequency was 84.2. that-s not unplausible.

a known problem in cutting vinyl records are sudden bursts of high volume frequencies around 100 hz, that have the potential to make the needle skip with a normal amount of weight on the tone-arm.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3RGeaxksY
by Spivak | 2025-12-27 19:56:15+00:00
Yes. This is The Family and Medical Leave Act.

> An employer is prohibited from discriminating or retaliating against an employee or prospective employee for having exercised or attempted to exercise any FMLA right.

You can fire someone after they come back but you will need to show receipts. Your employer also doesn't pay you when you take that leave so it would be a strange way to game the system.
by mrkeen | 2025-12-27 19:57:00+00:00
That will be the case when Alice stands close to where C happens, and Bob stands close to where D happens.

It's a little trickier to imagine introducing cause-and-effect though. (Alice sees that C caused D to happen, Bob sees that D caused C to happen).

I think a "light cone" is the thought-experiment to look up here.
by whoknowsidont | 2025-12-27 19:57:46+00:00
Necessary public infrastructure that is paid for with tax dollars is not a public good?

And just in case this fact is being lost / forgotten: Toll roads are primarily, originally funded through tax dollars but are disingenuously structured in a way these bozos can go "see, it's not actually tax dollars" (it is). The same exact dollars that should be used to build fully public, free roads are instead used to privatize public infrastructure.

There has never been a time where a toll raid has failed and the losses were treated as private. The bonds magically get repaid (to the right people, of course).

It's all tax dollars in the end, one way or another.
by andrewaylett | 2025-12-27 19:57:47+00:00
Not everyone in my team wires up their pre-commit hook to run the pre-commit tool. I use JJ, so I don't even have a pre-commit hook to wire up. But the tool is useful.

The key thing (that several folk have pointed out) is that CI runs the canonical checks. Using something like pre-commit (the tool) makes it easier to at least vaguely standardise making sure that you can run the same checks that CI will run. Having it run from the pre-commit hook fits nicely into many workflows, my own pre-JJ workflow included.
by andsoitis | 2025-12-27 19:58:05+00:00
> Yeah, that's nonsense.

Assuming you're right, why do you suppose so many publications get it wrong?

Not only the NASA one I linked to but also Wikipedia for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray

Or the European Space Agency: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cluste...

You will forgive me if I take their assessment more seriously than yours, but I'm open to correcting my understanding.
by doubled112 | 2025-12-27 19:58:07+00:00
I firmly believe this is because it'd be incredibly socially unacceptable to do so.

Most of the parents I'm close to are in the "wow, this actually kind of sucks" category.

Against what I hear about parenting, I'm mostly left feeling unsatisfied and unfulfilled, but I'm against leaving them without a dad. Maybe it'll come later.
by m463 | 2025-12-27 19:58:12+00:00
Thing is, I suspect the taxing is inefficient. I would guess guessing 1% of it goes to mitigating traffic, pollution and road damage.

I think most people will just be burdened by it.

I think taxes would be a more efficient way of collecting these fees, and ensuring they go to fund mass transit in a way that traffic/pollution/road damage was mitigated directly and the people were still served.
by bigyabai | 2025-12-27 19:58:28+00:00
The poor industry, self-selecting for high-quality SDKs that macOS won't sign. Wouldn't they be upset if Apple ends up hurting themselves?

As rare as Apple is to admit it, there is this mercurial thing called "competition" that haunts the free market. OpenCL would have had an excellent chance if Apple took it as seriously as Nvidia took CUDA. But they didn't, it was thrown over the fence and expected that everyone else would do the work. While Nvidia was shipping Linux and BSD-native CUDA drivers, Apple was just distributing loose specs and begging the OpenCL working group to stop rewarding their competitor. Not for a lack of funding or motivation, Apple lost because they were butthurt.

OpenCL was DOA the moment Apple stopped treating Nvidia as a proper threat. Everyone else in the industry supported CUDA and was fine with it.
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by QuiEgo | 2025-12-27 19:58:53+00:00
I have no idea what to do for a browser now.

Safari as of MacOS 26 is buggy as hell, and I don't care for its new UI at all.

Firefox seems to be going in a direction I don't want to follow.

Chrome is openly user hostile.

All of the various forks have problems - they just seem like ways to extract money from you (e.g. they just send the data to MSFT instead of GOOG, they push you to some crypto thing), or they have serious limitations (e.x. no access to extension marketplace without hacks, abondware, slow to get security updates)...

I'm honestly at a loss for an option I want to use.
by woodruffw | 2025-12-27 19:58:55+00:00
It is, in fact, signed by the author. It's just a PKI, so you intermediate trust in the author through an authority.

This is exactly analogous to the Web PKI, where you trust CAs to identify individual websites, but the websites themselves control their keypairs. The CA's presence intermediates the trust but does not somehow imply that the CA itself does the signing for TLS traffic.
by zahlman | 2025-12-27 19:59:01+00:00
There's been a branch for it (https://github.com/psf/requests/tree/hatchling) for a little while apparently; I guess they won't merge it until absolutely necessary for the 2.33 release. But that is still just over a year after I offered (https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/6775).

... Ah, I got confused for a bit. When I first noticed the `pyproject.toml` deficiency, it was because Requests was affected by the major Setuptools 72 backwards incompatibility. Then this year they were hit again by the major Setuptools 78 backwards incompatibility (which the Setuptools team consciously ignored in testing because Requests already publishes their own wheel, so this only affected the build-from-source purists like distro maintainers). See also my writeup https://lwn.net/Articles/1020576/ .
by hinkley | 2025-12-27 19:59:28+00:00
Yes that definitely happens. People orbiting Polaris would be seeing two supernovas explode at different times than us due to the speed of light. Polaris is 400 light years away so the gap could be large.

But when you are moving you may see very closely spaced events in different order, because you’re moving toward Carol but at an angle to Doug. Versus someone else moving toward Doug at an angle to Carol.
by bigyabai | 2025-12-27 19:59:31+00:00
I don't have to believe anything, I just look at the S&P 500 and see the same old stuff. Nvidia is enjoying the shovel shortage, but none of the gold-rushers have discovered anything better than CUDA. Nothing new under the sun.

> people who don’t appear to understand the strategic play of pure AI companies

Get a load of this guy. Strategy in isolation is worthless; Russia has excellent strategic deterrence that is utterly useless for deterring Ukraine. Pure crypto companies had strategic foresight, but none of it was worth a damn when they had to compete with each other on merit.

The strategic play is perfectly well-understood. The tactical side is not, so far Nvidia is the only company that has gone to war and won.
by krapp | 2025-12-27 20:00:26+00:00
Saved you a click: the whole "alpha wolf/lone wolf" thing, which was never true for wolves[0], and unnecessarily became a template for modern masculinity in the concept of the "alpha male" and related hierarchy[1]. It also inadvertently brought the world the Omegaverse, which I leave as an exercise for the reader.

This is the kind of thing people are talking about when they talk about "toxic masculinity" btw.

[0]https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-myth-of-the-a...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_and_beta_male
by regenschutz | 2025-12-27 20:01:14+00:00
Very interesting! I tried holding down on the image to open the context menu and open it in a new tab. In the context menu, I could see a bright and vivid thumbnail of the image, but when I clicked "Press image in a new tab" it showed the same washed out image as on the web page. Interesting!

(I'm running Brave Mobile if that matters. I'm curious if the thumbnail is rendered differently on other mobile web browsers as well?)
by ZuzuDuck | 2025-12-27 20:01:18+00:00
Exactly this. The "let me just set up the room real quick" that somehow takes 5 minutes every time.

Jira integration is definitely coming — it's on the Q2 2026 roadmap. One-click import so you pull your sprint backlog straight into a voting session.

Curious — when you were adding items manually, was it mostly typing story titles from scratch, or copy-pasting from somewhere?
by Someone | 2025-12-27 20:01:57+00:00
It doesn’t hav eto make money ever on us for it to be worth it to them.

If you’re a Python shop, compare

- writing uv and keeping it private makes package management easier for your own packages

- writing uv and opening it up, and getting all/most third party libs to use it makes package management easier for your own packages and third party packages you use
by wredcoll | 2025-12-27 20:03:16+00:00
I'll quote from myself:

> [1] The best the fairly obvious house republican "investigation" into joe biden could manage was some vague statements about his son getting paid for having the last name biden, which may or may not be illegal, but certainly seems unethical, but more importantly, ISN'T THE SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Like, it is so incredibly obvious that words fail me that the president being corrupt matters A LOT MORE than his son being corrupt. Like, a lot a lot a lot more.
by scuff3d | 2025-12-27 20:03:56+00:00
I suspect this is fairly common. The reality is most developers don't need a lot of the features a language provides.

Python for example has a ton of stuff that can be done with classes using sunder methods and other magic. I'm aware of it, but in all the years I've been writing Python I've never actually needed it. The only time I've had to directly interact with it was when trying to figure out how the fuck OpenAPI generates FastAPI server code. Which fairly deep into a framework and code generation tool.
by websiteapi | 2025-12-27 20:04:42+00:00
I wonder how the startup scene will adjust to this if it becomes mainstream. can employee contracts be modified to force compensation even in this case? seems difficult to write one up without weird second order effects.

if this does end up being something that is legal and successfully circumvents anti trust, does it mean antitrust actually is a failure in practice?

2026 hasn't even begun and more shenanigans are in flight.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-27 20:04:43+00:00
My point was that even for people that benefit, the benefit is greatly reduced.

Let's dig in to why it's useful to be able to replace parts on a car. If we analogize the extra flexibility of the Framework to being able to replace all these parts in the engine bay, that sounds really cool, until you realize there are no third party options for the core components and Framework only makes a couple versions. It's still useful in a few circumstances, but it's not this massive unlock of freedom. You can't have a fully customized engine, and the best way to get an engine tailored to your tastes is to abandon the weak after-the-fact customization and go find something that you like from the start.

Even to a user that really values freedom, Framework doesn't properly deliver at this point in time. The Framework freedom is so restricted that in most ways you get more freedom by considering all the non-soldered-RAM laptops from other brands as valid options too.

Edit: And I don't mean this as an indictment of their small company, they're trying, but right now the impact is limited in many ways.
by mxxc | 2025-12-27 20:05:02+00:00
it's the same idea, done slightly differently because with fedora you can start from their own atomic images and change them a bit. the setup is much easier and probably more robust because it feels less like a hack. ironically, my intermediate step between silverblue with layered packages and vyy was similar: https://github.com/myyc/silverpurple/ – using bluebuild instead of containerfiles.
by supermatt | 2025-12-27 20:07:13+00:00
The bait and switch was around the “free” license for non-commercial use. They got lots of people using it and porting software to it, and then they revoked that free license.

Then they did exactly the same thing again a few years later.

And now, for the 3rd time, they are offering a “free” non-commercial license.
by evilduck | 2025-12-27 20:07:36+00:00
I don't think this makes it much worse because that's hard to do, it's already terrible. Getting screwed by startup founders has been the status quo for at least 15 or 20 years now.

If you're just a worker then demand fair market wages, work healthy hours, and treat your useless class of shares as already used and discarded scratch off lottery tickets.
by ameliaquining | 2025-12-27 20:07:54+00:00
If by "pretty much every Linux distro depends on PGP being pretty secure" you're referring to its use to sign packages in Linux package managers, it's worth noting that they use PGP in fairly narrowly constrained ways; in particular, the data is often already trusted because it was downloaded over HTTPS from a trusted server (making PGP kind of redundant in some ways). So most PGP vulnerabilities don't affect them.

If there were a PGP vulnerability that actually made it possible to push unauthorized updates to RHEL or Fedora systems, then probably IBM would care, but if they concluded that PGP's security problems were a serious threat then I suspect they'd be more likely to start a migration away from PGP than to start investing in making PGP secure; the former seems more tractable and would have maintainability benefits besides.
The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before
by IDKhowTo | 2025-12-27 20:08:45+00:00
File from https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%201.zip

1251.06mb, Hash 6d23adffac9736b8e46fd195b64000cb

https://web.archive.org/web/20251219213848if_/https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%201.zip

1261.36mb, Hash c54a12403fbb352113aa544934b5d156

What has changed?
by simcop2387 | 2025-12-27 20:09:58+00:00
The Pi 3B doesn't have UEFI support, so it requires special support on the distro side for the boot process but for the 4 and newer you can flash (or it'll already be there, depending on luck and age of the device) the firmware on the board to support UEFI and USB boot, though installing is a bit of a pain since there's no easy images to do it with. https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi4

I believe some other distros also have UEFI booting/installers setup for PI4 and newer devices because of this, though there's a good chance you'll want some of the other libraries that come with Raspberry PI OS (aka Raspbian) still for some of the hardware specific features like CSI/DSI and some of the GPIO features that might not be fully upstreamed yet.

There's also a port of Proxmox called PXVirt (Formerly Proxmox Port) that exists to use a number of similar ARM systems now as a virtualization host with a nice ui and automation around it.
by F3nd0 | 2025-12-27 20:10:06+00:00
If I’m not mistaken, they only select a couple of features to work on every year—the ones they already agree on to begin with—and the high interoperability shown in the link only concerns those few select features.

For example, JPEG XL has been proposed for Interop a few times before, but never selected. Therefore, Safari remains the only major browser to support it so far.
Show HN: Dotenv-Diff – Recent Improvements
by casmn | 2025-12-27 20:10:13+00:00
Hi HN,

I posted dotenv-diff here a couple of weeks ago. Since then, I’ve made several improvements based on feedback and real-world usage.

The goal remains simple: statically audit how environment variables are actually used in a JS/TS codebase.

Repo: https://github.com/Chrilleweb/dotenv-diff

Docs: https://dotenv-diff-docs.vercel.app/

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv-diff

Feedback always welcome :)
by dangus | 2025-12-27 20:10:15+00:00
The part I don’t fully understand is: could this non-acquisition eventually make the deal less than ideal for Nvidia?

Is it really a given that GroqCloud is going to be sunset and the company will die?

Couldn’t this company hire talent and continue to operate and maybe even innovate? Couldn’t Groq even hire back some employees from Nvidia? If any of them live in California there’s nothing stopping them and they have a bunch of cash from Nvidia. There are all kinds of loopholes for that like contracting arrangements.

Nvidia doesn’t really have exclusive access to any part of the company. They didn’t necessarily remove a competitor, though I’ll grant that they likely did in practice.

It’s potentially possible that the regulations did their job and kept a competitor on the market, though again I imagine this is my naevity speaking and that the most likely outcome is that Groq will wither.

I also don’t fully understand if the Saudis are getting cashed out or not. Are they really going to roll over and allow their Saudi AI data center to become worthless? I would think they have a lot of motivation after this deal to make sure Groq still operates and serves their goals.
by mingus88 | 2025-12-27 20:10:25+00:00
My path in the emacs/vi divide forked a lifetime ago, and emacs is so fundamentally different that it was never worth sacrificing the massive productivity vim gives me to dip back into emacs

But maybe that should change. I like vscode for when I need more IDE features than I care to cobble together with plugins.

I don’t need another subscription in my life. Especially for anything I rely on.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-12-27 20:10:33+00:00
Your entire rhetoric is nuts if you swap it out with other crimes:

"I prefer when we can just murder people openly in the streets with no consequences or even shame. It's hypocritical to say murder she be frowned upon and forced to be done in cover of night out of fear of reprisal."

No, what they're saying is that it has gotten so bad now that the crimes are being committed constantly and in the open with no fear or worry that anything bad will ever happen.

And you're over here being coy thinking you're so clever by ignoring the scale and long-term implications.
by zzzeek | 2025-12-27 20:10:36+00:00
> Maybe the strongest advantage of rust, on top of very clean and fast default behaviors, is that it attracts people that care about speed, safety and correctness. And those devs are more likely to spend time implementing fast software.

people who have this opinion should use Rust, not Python, at all. if Python code does not have sufficient speed, safety, and correctness for someone, it should not be used. Python's tools should be written in Python.

> The killer feature is, being a stand alone executable, it bypasses all python bootstrapping problems.

I can't speak for windows or macs but on Linux, system pythons are standard, and there is no "bootstrapping problem" using well known utilities that happen to be written in Python.
by qnleigh | 2025-12-27 20:11:10+00:00
What enabled this treatment to be used now? Gene editing techniques have existed for a long time, but there were many reasons why they weren't being used in humans, like concerns about off-target edits and heritability. The article mentions something about gold nanoparticles, but this aspect was developed over the course of a few weeks, and in any case these aren't new either.
What even is DevRel in 2025? Asking as someone who does it
by hakierka | 2025-12-27 20:11:19+00:00
I’ve been in DevRel for years. I love it. I love helping developers, teaching, building docs that don’t make you want to scream, seeing someone ship something because of a thing I explained.

But lately every conversation with a company hiring for “DevRel” feels like a different job entirely:

Some want a content creator.

Some want support without calling it support.

Some want sales without calling it sales.

Some want a one-person marketing department.

Some just want someone fun to put on stage.

I get that the role is flexible. It should be flexible. DevRel adapts to the product and the community. But if everything is DevRel, then nothing is?

And honestly, it feels like the industry has decided DevRel is optional again — something you bolt on later, once the product is magically perfect and already has a community.

Anyway — I’m trying to figure out where the companies are that still believe in developer experience, community, education, and real relationships… not just vanity metrics.

If you work somewhere like that, I’d love to hear from you. I’m currently on the market. But mostly I just want to know I’m not the only one wondering what the hell is happening with a position I spent 10 years perfecting.