MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by perching_aix | 2025-12-05 18:20:51+00:00
That does exist, yes. And even in the US, there are categories of speech which are handled differently.

This is why mentions of "free speech" are inherently red herrings to me. It's an idea, a mirage, and a rather absolute one at that, especially under certain interpretations. It is something to get people ideologically motivated by and then used in my opinion. To me, it bears little difference to run of the mill marketing speak about agile and scrum, for example. Just like with code, the difference between idea and implementation is ever-shifting and never nil, sometimes intentionally so.

It is not helped by how someone can read the same situation very differently, which is the whole premise behind the "speech that you don't like" narrative in the first place, in the face of which loaded assertions fare really quite poorly: https://programmerhumor.io/backend-memes/ourblesseddepartmen...
by al_borland | 2025-12-05 18:21:10+00:00
It's a joint effort between Kevin Rose (Digg founder) and Alexis Ohanian (Reddit co-founder).

There is definitely some Reddit influence, but Reddit was also heavily influenced by Digg to start with. Listening to the users, it's hard to know which way it's going to go. There are a lot of people who don't want it to be the new Reddit and want to make sure the same problems aren't repeated. At the same time, some Reddit culture is coming over (with a bit of push back) and some people seem to want Digg to have all the stuff they liked from Reddit, which would end up as a Reddit clone.

I'm hoping it will be successful, as there needs to be a better Reddit alternative than what exists now and the Fediverse isn't getting the job done. Only time will tell.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-05 18:21:13+00:00
Like vertical integration isn't always bad 100% of the time, but this particular case of marrying distribution and production seems to serve minimal beneficial purpose and inevitably the main outcome is high levels of rents-collection and squeezing the people doing the actual creative work. There's pretty much nothing but up-side to forcing the two roles to remain separate.

It's probably got something to do with copyright. Like the way it interacts with markets makes this sort of arrangement net-harmful pretty much any time you see it.
by goku12 | 2025-12-05 18:21:29+00:00
Developing a restrictive feature at significant cost and imposing it upon the consumers isn't nearly what a reasonable person would consider as inherent or default. You can argue otherwise based on technicalities or arbitrary definitions and that's what these companies have been frustrating the consumers with. However, such gas lighting is the what justifies the hall of shame, skip lists and name and shame pages and websites like these. I'm hoping that they catch on in popularity because this sort of tactics deserve equally harsh disrepute.
by tekne | 2025-12-05 18:21:40+00:00
I’d say the practice of medicine is extremely primitive, and therefore shockingly sophisticated.

Imagine debugging a program with an architecture utterly alien to your intelligence, and a poorly understood highly nondeterministic instruction set.

Oh, and

- No core dumps. Very limited logging. And the most human-readable log functions have the disclaimer “everybody lies.”

- It’s persistent and distributed

- You cannot stop it or step it, and…

- You’re debugging running production code and if you break prod someone dies a painful death

I’m excited. We’re finally getting basic debuggers! Imagine what can be done!
by shadowgovt | 2025-12-05 18:21:41+00:00
Oracle is still the company that does database for everyone with money to spend, and the percentage of companies (and governments, and NGOs) that discover a meaningful percentage of their very purpose is "moving data around" only grows over time. Their market is essentially constrained to "entities that use computers and want to sort data," which may as well be unconstrained. And in spite of all the ways they can be criticized, they still compete at the top of their game; many cheaper or free alternatives are going to ask you to trade a lot of labor (and added risk of data loss and destruction).

In contrast, of the list of companies you highlighted,

- Apple makes hardware, which is lower margin

- Microsoft is under stiff competition (they are selling a product, an operating system, that is a commodity competing with free) and unlike Oracle is struggling to define why they should be the best choice (ads in the OS?!).

- Meta doesn't actually have a monetization strategy beyond ads that is revenue-positive, and the reliability of ads turns out to be dicey (Google built their nest-egg on ads earlier than Facebook, and even Google has been thrashing about to find tent-poles besides ads; they see the risk). In spite of that, Zuck is currently above Ellison in the Fortune 2025 rankings.

- AI is ghost money (behind the scenes, a lot of companies paying themselves essentially)

- SpaceX is in a tiny market ultimately (each launch costs a fortune; a handful of customers want to put things in space)

- Tesla suffers strong competition. In spite of the above, Musk is currently the top of the Forbes ranking.

- Amazon is... Actually wildly successful and Bezos is #3 on the Forbes ranking. I think the only reason Bezos might not be higher is he spends his money.

No, it's often the quiet ones nobody talks about that are the real leaders. Lions don't have to roar to be noticed.
by cogman10 | 2025-12-05 18:21:57+00:00
It was a presentation on AV1 before it was released. I'll see if I can find it but I'm not holding my breath. It's mostly coming from my own recollection.

Ok, I don't think I'll find it. I think I'm mostly just regurgitating what I remember watching at one of the research symposiums. IDK which one it was unfortunately [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@allianceforopenmedia2446/videos
by dpark | 2025-12-05 18:22:06+00:00
> People still do this while home alone, you’re attacking a straw man.

Maybe? You’re making blind assertions with no data. I have no idea how frequently the average person sits in front of their 60” TV by themselves and watches a movie on their tablet. My guess is not very often but again, I have no data on this.

> My point was large TV’s “have been out for decades they really aren’t a replacement” people owning them still went to the moves.

And we come back to the beginning where your assertion is true but also misleading.

Most people have a large tv in their homes today. Most people did not have this two decades ago, despite then being available.

The stats agree. TV sizes have grown significantly.

https://www.statista.com/chart/3780/tv-screen-size/?srsltid=...
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-05 18:22:10+00:00
Good. I can believe that a few people are principled enough, but principled people tend to be in a minority, regardless of the topic.

I am also a bit afraid of a future where the workload will be adjusted to heavy AI use, to the degree that a human working with his own head won't be able to satisfy the demands.

This happened around the 'car problem' too: how many jobs are in a walkable / bikeable distance now vs. 1925?
by frumplestlatz | 2025-12-05 18:22:19+00:00
It’s not surprising that it inspires ire, even if that wasn’t my intent.

It’s a politically charged subject, and I’m taking a polarizing, US-centric, anti-regulatory position towards free speech, on top of my suggestion of using NATO funding as leverage to advance US speech policy.

Plus, a lot of people feel a great deal of partisan ill-will towards X and Elon Musk, irrespective of any of these issues.
by bpt3 | 2025-12-05 18:22:22+00:00
Great retort, I actually laughed out loud.

I don't know how delusional you have to be to look at the conditions behind the Iron Curtain, where nations had to build walls to keep their citizens from leaving and a meaningful number of people were willing to risk death to get out, and say they were flourishing, but I'm glad I don't have what it takes to get there.
by aeyes | 2025-12-05 18:22:26+00:00
How hard can it be for a company with 1000 engineers to create a canary region before blasting their centralized changes out to everyone.

Every change is a deployment, even if its config. Treat it as such.

Also you should know that a strongly typed language won't save you from every type of problem. And especially not if you allow things like unwrap().

It is just mind boggling that they very obviously have completely untested code which proxies requests for all their customers. If you don't want to write the tests then at least fuzz it.
by lisper | 2025-12-05 18:22:42+00:00
It's much worse than "designed for cars." It's more like "not survivable without a car." It's the same with apps on my phone. I don't want to use them, but sometimes there simply is no alternative in today's world.

We may end up building a world where AI is similarly necessary. The AI companies would certainly like that. But at the moment we still have a choice. The more people exercise their agency now the more likely we are to retain that agency in the future.
by gvurrdon | 2025-12-05 18:23:04+00:00
Normally I have had very good experiences as well. My colleagues almost always speak very good English and even those who don't are understandable. Everyone is happy to conduct meetings (with many nationalities, as I work in a scientific field) in English.

Only once have I encountered a problem. A colleague berated me in front of others for speaking "difficult English" and accused me of doing this on purpose to cause trouble for them, instead of speaking proper international English like everyone else did. But, I am a native English speaker with an RP accent and we were all in England at the time, working for a British organisation. I was simply speaking normally and otherwise had no issue with this colleague, whose English was very good. I don't recall their having been any misunderstandings between us before.
by letmeinhere | 2025-12-05 18:23:12+00:00
> In June 2025, WBD announced plans to separate its Streaming & Studios and Global Networks divisions into two separate publicly traded companies. This separation is now expected to be completed in Q3 2026, prior to the closing of this transaction. The newly separated publicly traded company holding the Global Networks division, Discovery Global, will include premier entertainment, sports and news television brands around the world including CNN, TNT Sports in the U.S., and Discovery, free-to-air channels across Europe, and digital products such as Discovery+ and Bleacher Report.

So no, I don't think this gets in the way of Ellison taking over the rest of TV news; if anything it seems like it smooths the path.
by ratrocket | 2025-12-05 18:23:20+00:00
Similar to a sibling comment, and perhaps not really applicable (since this isn't a company making something people can buy...), but the MNT Reform is amenable to fitting a custom/ergonomic keyboard also (I hadn't seen the Framework in the sibling comment, it looks very cool!).

I don't know how to link to it directly, but midway down this article there's a picture and some more links of an MNT Reform (apparently completely home-built) with a very cool, "thumb-centric", column staggered ergo keyboard:

https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-07-01-july-update.htm...

(search for "More great mods from the community..." heading if interested)

I would very much like to have a keyboard like either of those on my laptop. The stares you'd get when in public!!
by Sevii | 2025-12-05 18:23:23+00:00
No LLMs are not 'search'. Search as in google or a database query is deterministic. Are there results for x query? If there are we can return them. If there aren't we can't return anything.

LLMs do not work that way. LLMs do not have a conception of facts. Any query you make to an LLM has an output. The quality of that output depends on the training data. For high probability output you might think the LLM is returning the correct 'facts'. For low probability output you might think the LLM is hallucinating.

LLMs are not search. They are a fundamentally different thing from search. Most code is 100% deterministic. The program is executed exactly in order. LLMs are not 100% deterministic.
by gopalv | 2025-12-05 18:23:33+00:00
> produce something as high-quality as GoT

Netflix is a different creature because of streaming and time shifting.

They don't care about people watching a pilot episode or people binge watching last 3 seasons when a show takes off.

The quality metric therefore is all over the place, it is a mildly moderated popularity contest.

If people watch "Love is Blind", you'll get more of those.

On the other hand, this means they can take a slightly bigger risk than a TV network with ADs, because you're likely to switch to a different Netflix show that you like and continue to pay for it, than switch to a different channel which pays a different TV network.

As long as something sticks the revenue numbers stay, the ROI can be shaky.

Black Mirror Bandersnatch for example was impossible to do on TV, but Netflix could do it.

Also if GoT was Netflix, they'd have cancelled it on Season 6 & we'd be lamenting the loss of what wonders it'd have gotten to by Season 9.
by aseipp | 2025-12-05 18:23:52+00:00
The CIX CP8180 uses UEFI (it is intended to boot Windows which requires it) but the boot flow can, I believe, use either ACPI or device trees, based on a boot setting. The ACPI boot flow has the advantage that any normal Linux distro should work, while the device tree variant I think has more hardware enablement.

The upstream story due to this is kind of a mixed bag, though. I think they also still use out-of-tree NPU drivers, etc. Device trees and other updates are still flowing upstream. I think the next Mesa release will support the Immortalis GPU series though, so that'll hopefully polish off a big remaining problem with ordinary distros.
by morkalork | 2025-12-05 18:24:06+00:00
Can I hop in here and ask: As someone who hasn't done any systems programming in a decade, what would be more interesting to learn on the side, Zig or Rust? I've been in the Python world and seeing tools like uv and ruff, makes me biased towards Rust but Zig seems to be attracting a lot of hype recently?

Edit: Thank you all for your responses!
by TeMPOraL | 2025-12-05 18:24:07+00:00
They're clever with that, by offering subscriptions to various producers and other streaming platforms within Amazon Prime video UI. The Amazon subscription is very cheap, but then you end up sub-subscribing to SkyShowtime and MGM and Apple Video to get access to your favorite space shows, and suddenly it's cable 2.0.

Wouldn't be so bad if the player didn't suck. You'd think video streaming chrome would be a solved problem by now, but it's not, and somehow we're regressing on this front.
by labcomputer | 2025-12-05 18:24:07+00:00
> I’ve only asked a small number of contractors, but every one I’ve asked wished they could buy a smaller, lower, practical work truck with decent capacity

And if you ask Reddit, everyone says they want to buy a brown NA station wagon with a manual... yet nobody actually buys those cars when dealers stock them. This is what economists call "stated" vs. "revealed" preference.

Nissan discontinued the last small long bed, small-cab compact pickup last year. Now you can only get it as a two row. They had a monopoly on this supposedly lucrative market segment that contractors claim to want... yet it was discontinued because nobody was actually purchasing that configuration.

Even for full-size pickups, GM revealed less than 10% of the product mix is single-row long bed.

It's not some conspiracy. People. Aren't. Buying. Them.
by thewebguyd | 2025-12-05 18:24:08+00:00
Definitely a nightmare.

Where I work just acquired new property and are deploying a new site. It took 9 months, from date of first contact, before the ISP could come out, bore under the road, and run fiber to our building from two poles away. And that's just a short ~500 feet underground run.

I couldn't imagine the amount of permitting and logistics involved in trying to bury an entire run across town.
by TheFuzzball | 2025-12-05 18:24:58+00:00
> To flip it, why would I use unbound without pi-hole? What's the win I haven't seen (or even looked at or considered?)

In my experience, the fewer moving parts the better.

I run Unbound on my OPNsense router, and it uses the same blocklists as Pi-hole and the stats page (blocked domains, DNS requests, etc) are the same afaict.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-12-05 18:25:17+00:00
It is perfectly reasonable for the doctor to have "a gallbladder" to deal with--there are few failure modes and a standardized response to them. In specialized fields you will find professionals describe situations in terms of a baseline and any deviations from said baseline--just about completely unintelligible to anyone who doesn't know those baselines. To describe a patient as "a gallbladder" is saying it's a standard presentation of the problem. And doctors are not supposed to identify patients if not necessary.
by perching_aix | 2025-12-05 18:25:34+00:00
There already exists extensive examples of in-platform content geo-fencing. YouTube is infamous for this. What prevents Twitter from employing a similar strategy?

I further disagree that the legal system should be turned into a swiss cheese of enforced and unenforced laws, although I will admit, that is entirely a principled preference on my part. I strongly believe that bad laws should (ideally) be repelled, not worked around.
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-05 18:25:42+00:00
I lived in Prague, whose center is medieval and the neighbourhoods around it pre-1900, and even though what you say is true (fewer people drove everywhere), the streets were still saturated to their capacity.

It seemed to me that regardless of the city, many people will drive until the point where traffic jams and parking become a nightmare, and only then consider the alternatives. This point of pain is much lower in old European cities that weren't built as car-centric and much higher in the US, but the pattern seems to repeat itself.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-12-05 18:25:42+00:00
> - Static site blogs lack interactivity: people can't comment on your blog. You have to post a link to Twitter or HN (here!) and interact with people over there.

This is not really an issue at all, more like a feature. Posts that provoke discussion or are otherwise interesting get HN discussions. Posts that don't get traction also don't require a comment field. Free moderation and signal boosting.

I'd also recommend putting an email address on the website (but not your main address). That also tends to promote high-quality engagement with readers directly.
by toast0 | 2025-12-05 18:26:15+00:00
> Look at the farms that have the houses of that era standing on them and you'll soon notice that they are all mansions.

TLDR: survivorship

The typically large farms with nice houses were making reasonable money, and in a lot of places, only the house remains of the farm. My old neighborhood was a large farm, subdived into about 1000 postage stamp lots around 1900; the owner's house got a slightly larger lot and stuck around as your mansion.

The small farms that were within the means of more people tended to have shanty houses and those have not persisted. If the farm is still a farm, it's likely been subsumed into a larger plot.
by zkmon | 2025-12-05 18:26:17+00:00
>> There is a lack of deep value

There is nothing called deep value. Stock market rises on speculation of other people's buying patterns, not company fundamentals.

Where are deep values? Politics? media? academia? human relations? business? What do you mean by deep values? We can't even look beyond one year ahead.

Modern human behavior is highly optimized, to bother only about immediate goals. The other day, I was reviewing a software architecture and asked the architect who the audience/consumer for this document is. She said it is the reviewers. I asked again hoping to identify the downstream process that uses this document, and got the same answer, a bit sternly this time.
by jama211 | 2025-12-05 18:26:28+00:00
This is why I hate it when people are judged (like the article writer is doing) for doing what their job requires of them and not “taking pride in their work” - the thing is, the workers generally don’t own the work, the business does. If the business wants something a certain way, and if they act to punish you for trying to push back, why fight them? It’s not our company. We’re cogs in a machine, if they treat us like that then what do they expect?

This article has a stink of self importance that rubs me the wrong way.
by iamnothere | 2025-12-05 18:26:45+00:00
It’s only recently that free speech could result in government-backed NGOs and government-cozy media collaborating to have a private citizen nationally tarred and feathered, fired from their job, and issued death threats within hours of what they thought was a semi-private conversation. This is absolutely a new state of affairs.

In the past, news would travel—but slowly—and minor news about local citizens was not normally considered newsworthy in non-local markets unless it was extremely unusual and entertaining.
by dudeinhawaii | 2025-12-05 18:26:50+00:00
This is the complete wrong way to do this. I say this as someone who does work in this area of leveraging LLMs to a limited degree in trading.

LLMs are naive, easily convinced, and myopic. They're also non-deterministic. We have no way of knowing if you ran this little experiment 10 times whether they'd all pick something else. This is a scattershot + luck.

The RIGHT way to do this is to first solve the underlying problem deterministically. That is, you first write your trading algorithm that's been thoroughly tested. THEN you can surface metadata to LLMs and say things along the lines of "given this data + data you pull from the web", make your trade decision for this time period and provide justification.

Honestly, adding LLMs directly to any trading pipeline just adds non-useful non-deterministic behavior.

The main value is speed of wiring up something like sentiment analysis as a value add or algorithmic supplement. Even this should be done using proper ML but I see the most value in using LLMs to shortcut ML things that would require time/money/compute. Trading value now for value later (the ML algorithm would ultimately run cheaper long-run but take longer to get into prod).

This experiment, like most "I used AI to trade" blogs are completely naive in their approach. They're taking the lowest possible hanging fruit. Worst still when those results are the rising tide lifting all boats.

Edit (was a bit harsh) This experiment is an example of the kind of embarrassingly obvious things people try with LLMs without understanding the domain and writing it up. To an outsider it can sound exciting. To an insider it's like seeing a new story "LLMs are designing new CPUs!". No they're not. A more useful bit of research would be to control for the various variables (sector exposure etc) and then run it 10_000 times and report back on how LLM A skews towards always buying tech and LLM B skews towards always recommending safe stocks.

Alternatively, if they showed the LLM taking a step back and saying "ah, let me design this quant algo to select the best stocks" -- and then succeeding -- I'd be impressed. I'd also know that it was learned from every quant that had AI double check their calculations/models/python.. but that's a different point.
by steveklabnik | 2025-12-05 18:27:09+00:00
Rust, as a language, has no allocator.

The standard library provides a global allocator. The collections in the standard library currently use that allocator.

It also provides an unstable interface for allocators in general. That's of course useful someday, but also doesn't prevent people from using whatever allocators they want in the meantime. It just means that libraries that want to be generic over one cannot currently agree. The standard library collections also will use that once it becomes stable.