MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by omoikane | 2025-12-24 22:56:25+00:00
From a privacy point of view, you might not want to use textarea.my since it includes some tracking bits at the end:

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by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-12-24 22:56:31+00:00
When I was a kid in the 80s scooters weren't a thing in my country, I never saw one, but they did appear in the comics I read (from the 50s-60s). I remember asking my parents about them, and they telling me that they were toys from their time but no longer existed.

Now of course they're very common, my son has one.
by tcdent | 2025-12-24 22:56:59+00:00
Social movements don't need to be quantifiably better to take off.

When the relevant audience is bored enough to be open to something new, it only takes a few influential people to tip the scales.

People don't want to be truly revolutionary; that takes actual risk. They want the appearance of being revolutionary with minimal downside and social reassurance.

(w/r/t GitHub there's already enough buzz in the right circles and it will likely happen this year.)
by Daviey | 2025-12-24 22:57:13+00:00
I got curious about how many wheelbarrows of cash $20bn actually is.

Two ways to think about it: weight vs volume.

By weight (assuming all $100 bills):

$20,000,000,000 / $100 = 200,000,000 bills

Each bill is roughly 1g, so total mass is ~200,000 kg

A typical builder’s wheelbarrow can take about 100 kg before it becomes unmanageable

200,000 kg total
/ 100 kg per wheelbarrow
≈ 2,000 wheelbarrows (weight limit)

By volume:

A $100 bill is ~6.14" × 2.61" × 0.11 mm, which comes out to about 102 cm³ per bill

200,000,000 bills × 102 cm³ ≈ 20,400 m³ of cash

A standard wheelbarrow holds around 0.08 m³ (80 litres)

20,400 m³ total
/ 0.08 m³ per wheelbarrow
≈ 255,000 wheelbarrows (volume limit)

So,

About 2,000 wheelbarrows if you only care about weight

About 255,000 wheelbarrows if you actually have to fit the cash in

So the limiting factor isn’t how heavy the money is; it’s that the physical volume of the cash is absurd. At this scale, $20bn in $100s is effectively a warehouse, not a stack.
by orthecreedence | 2025-12-24 22:58:11+00:00
I'm on a Framework 13. Aside from the wretched 4:3 screen size (which I knew in advance, it was a tradeoff, but my god I miss 16:10) I really do like it. No battery issues, the thing is incredibly fast. I've had the pleasure of repairing parts of it (screen, keyboard) and it has been super easy. The touchpad's button click could be a little more "tuned" (I miss physical separate buttons), but that's my only functional gripe.

But seriously, make a 14" 16:10 Framework please. I will buy a new one just for that.
by breckenedge | 2025-12-24 22:58:12+00:00
Four years ago I was a reluctant maintainer of a Cloudflare workers setup. At the time, my thoughts were “Cloudflare is not my app, yet because of these workers, it’s performing business logic, which doesn’t feel right. I want Cloudflare to just be a dumb shield preventing DDOS attacks.”

Now that I’ve used it for a few years professionally, my opinions are much more nuanced and hard to put into words. Cloudflare’s products are mostly pretty good, and the cost savings are very attractive. You just have to be willing to work at their level.
by achenet | 2025-12-24 22:58:55+00:00
attempt at humor:Okay so, would you rather your beloved great aunt's pacemaker fail because the software in it was written in C, and there's a use-after-free memory error, or because the software in it was written in JavaScript, and because someone used `==` instead of `===` a boolean that should have been `false` is `true`?
by heavyset_go | 2025-12-24 22:58:58+00:00
Hasn't been my experience with Lemmy and some closer knit communities on Mastodon. My interests are niche, though.

IMO if you were used to the smaller communities of the pre-social media internet, fediverse stuff feels familiar. You aren't going to get 256k upvotes like you will on Reddit, but you can have some interesting conversations.
by IshKebab | 2025-12-24 22:59:25+00:00
How often are you actually going to do that though? My desktop from 12 years ago has 16GB of RAM and Apple only just upgraded their base specs to 16GB.

Ok granted my new desktops have 128GB, but that's massive overkill so I can have like 12 VSCode's open. For normal people 16GB has been the sensible amount for at least a decade.
by daviddever23box | 2025-12-24 22:59:43+00:00
Problem is, display profile support for Wayland has been, at best, spotty until recently - and, there should be multiple accurate targets available.

My factory-seconds F13 (using 11th-gen Intel, still the best in terms of power savings) shipped with the older glossy display, which had a known, disclosed-as-cheaper LUT issue at lower brightness settings. After a couple of calibration rounds, it is spot-on and my go-to PC laptop.

Decent keyboard, too.

Problem is, things are more expensive in Europe (compared to the US) for zero good reason, so the F16 will always be at a proportional disadvantage compared to the F13.
by andrewflnr | 2025-12-24 23:00:40+00:00
> Not a necessary precondition, it can happen through cultural pressure (also something passed down by the generations in tribes). I don't recall previous poster requiring it happen through gene expression.

I feel it was implied in the vision of competing tribes, which hasn't really been how it works for a long time. But still, whatever the trait transmission mechanism, I don't think the supposed out-competing of non-conquest-oriented groups necessary for their hypothesis actually happened at scale. Humans content to "chill out" have existed for all of recorded history.
by bityard | 2025-12-24 23:01:10+00:00
I often go to YouTube to find teardowns and repair instructions. One thing I have run across is this niche where some guy out gal repairs something very slowly, over the course of an hour or two, with the mic gain cranked way up even though they say absolutely nothing the whole time. When I look at the channel, all the videos are the exactly the same and they have very high subscriber counts. I genuinely can't imagine who is watching these and why. But they must make a ton of money on the ad revenue.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-12-24 23:01:43+00:00
So Google are trying lots of things to improve their search results but don't have the ability to out-think the spammers? That sounds like what you're saying?? Any evidence?

It seems like they know how to improve (their offerings were way better in the past for me) but have moved to optimise for advertising revenue. IMO they've gone too far, they'll crash out of search in the next couple of years and won't be able to backtrack fast enough to keep their users.

Then they won't have cash to burn to fund the other [moonshot?] projects.

It feels like when VCs buy a company, coast on the name whilst stripping away all that made that name bankable; then they eventually run it into the ground, latch on to the next victim and on, and on. Except here Google are leeching off themselves.
by MarsIronPI | 2025-12-24 23:01:52+00:00
I think the people criticizing would be potential customers who are voicing the issues that are preventing them from purchacing one. For example, I would criticize the lack of a trackpoint equivalent. And in fact, I'm not purchasing one because it doesn't have a trackpoint. If they listened to my complaint, I'd be much more inclined to buy one. (Not right away — I'm not on the market for a laptop right now — maybe 3 years down the line.)
by squibonpig | 2025-12-24 23:02:49+00:00
I don't know enough about El Salvador's politics to know whether the mass imprisoning brought down the gang murders and improved stuff on the street, but why, once you've got people trapped and unable to do harm, can't you go back through them using officials you audit for gang influence or whatever and have individual trials? Instead, they did a farcical hundred-person-at-a-time show trial for the people they imprisoned, so who knows what portion were guilty. What it makes clear to me is that there's no interest here in identifying the innocent or guilty, but plenty of interest in keeping the undistinguished mix caged up like dogs in a kennel for the rest of their lives. What excuses do you make for that?
by boroboro4 | 2025-12-24 23:03:05+00:00
From the comment below:

> Groq raised $750 million at a valuation of about $6.9 billion three months ago. Investors in the round included Blackrock and Neuberger Berman, as well as Samsung, Cisco, Altimeter and 1789 Capital, where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner.

Makes it very hard not to think of this as a way to give money to the current administration.
I know, this sounds conspiracy theory grade, but 20b is too much for groq.
by hu3 | 2025-12-24 23:03:11+00:00
I don't know how proximity pairing works in Apple land. My wife uses Apple devices.

But between my Android phone and my contractor issued Windows laptop, the $20 headphone I use just works. It connects to both of them because of multi-pairing.
If one of the devices is playing, say, a Youtube video, the other doesn't take over the sound even if I start playing music there. And if I pause the Youtube video in one device, the other is free to play sounds.

It's seamless and intuitive.

I should try also pairing to my Linux workstation. If that works too I would be impressed.
by ysleepy | 2025-12-24 23:04:18+00:00
How about no.

Cloudflare is a cancer interjecting itself into all sorts of communication I'd rather have directly with the other party, like my bank, email, blogs, health providers etc.

Gatekeeping the broader internet from people in poorer countries, people using VPNs etc.

I predict they will be the first pushing DRM blobs instead of html/js and killing the open web.
by pmkary | 2025-12-24 23:05:38+00:00
I actually put in the time and searched many times. Again and again. I'm more confident of his guilt than of innocence. The very fact that he even walked past Epstein devalues his work altogether. I don't need to hear of his guilt, just the fact that he required Epstein's help with his finances makes him no one to talk about the elites in power.
by IshKebab | 2025-12-24 23:05:51+00:00
> I'm clearly very misaligned with their politics now

Are you? Or is it just that they are capable of working with people who have different political views to them? DHH is clearly right wing but I don't think it's abhorrent to work with right wing people full stop.

And yeah I've read the supposedly awful things he's written. I don't agree with them but they aren't that bad. I am centre-left for what it's worth (in the UK, which is probably just left in the US). But I also have the ability to understand other people's viewpoints.
by trinsic2 | 2025-12-24 23:06:01+00:00
I think the farther allow non-free implementations of technology to go, the harder it will be to bring us back from the brink.

We sacrifice our freedom now, because of convenience and feature sets thinking everything is going to work out in the end. In 25 years I think we are all going to look back on this moment and wish we didn't make the choices we did, myself included.
by colmmacc | 2025-12-24 23:06:21+00:00
The transition to 7200 VXRs as core routers really hit a tipping point around 2000. They could handle millions of entries in the FiBs and really led to a relief in pressure. Subsequent devices had to match that.

On the IPv6 side; by 2002, nobody was really experimenting with A6 records any more, and EUI64 was needless. Both were parts of IPv6 designed to facilitate "easy" renumbering, so that single prefixes could be replaced with larger ones. But the ISPs weren't complaining any more about table size.
by averne_ | 2025-12-24 23:07:16+00:00
Not really. https://codecs.multimedia.cx/2022/12/ffhistory-fabrice-bella...

>Fabrice won International Obfuscated C Code Contest three times and you need a certain mindset to create code like that—which creeps into your other work. So despite his implementation of FFmpeg was fast-working, it was not very nice to debug or refactor, especially if you’re not Fabrice
by Philadelphia | 2025-12-24 23:07:51+00:00
We never had anything different, though. Computers always became so obsolete after a while that there was no longer any point in trying to upgrade them. I think I got eight years out of my 1997 Power Mac G3, including a CPU upgrade to a G4, RAM upgrades, hard disk upgrades, a video card, and USB expansion, but then the new machines coming out were just so much better that throwing money into more upgrades was just tossing it into a black hole.
by viccis | 2025-12-24 23:08:23+00:00
>You could say that LLMs are the first technology where the medium actively invites confession.

I don't think LLMs really constitute a medium by McLuhan's definition. A medium is an extension of man, and LLMs don't extend so much as they replace. An LLM is closer to a secretary or similar force multiplier than an extension of oneself.
by WorldPeas | 2025-12-24 23:08:30+00:00
Pardon my being under-informed, but does anyone know why Civic Center, the Presidio, the Park, and the Golden Gate were all dark the longest? Was there some separated municipal circuit they were on that was restored last as it was more complicated? Entered the thread thinking there would be more discussion on the actual architectural mishaps of the grid here rather than those of Waymo alone.
by ck2 | 2025-12-24 23:08:54+00:00
we are still using leaded gas

it's been spraying down from prop plane exhaust and engines flying overhead

anyone living around airports is being poisoned

extra TWENTY-FIVE YEARS NOW since cars (as long as the TSA has existed)

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/leaded-gas-wa...
by kergonath | 2025-12-24 23:08:58+00:00
> Which of actual AfD policies are actually far right?

What about most of them? Just look at who they are teaming with in the European Parliament. Or what they say about themselves. That should give you a hint.

> I am ignoring this link since its main source is Corrective, propaganda outlet funded by the German regime.

Right. It’s just what (((they))) want you to believe.
by toast0 | 2025-12-24 23:09:07+00:00
> I'm just wondering what technologically happened to make universal /24 advertisements fine. I assume it's just that routers got better.

Routers had to get better (more tcam capacity) because there wasn't much choice. Nobody wants to run two border routers each with the table for half the /8s or something terrible like that. And you really can't aggregate /24 announcements when consecutive addresses are unrelated.
by meltyness | 2025-12-24 23:09:54+00:00
In security-eze I guess you'd say then that there are AI capabilities that must be kept confidential,... always? Is that enforceable? Is it the government's place?

I think current censorship capabilities can be surmounted with just the classic techniques; write a song that... x is y and y is z... express in base64, though stuff like, what gemmascope maybe can still find whole segments of activation?

It seems like a lot of energy to only make a system worse.
by brw | 2025-12-24 23:10:36+00:00
Blacksky's AppView did get a mention in his 2025 predictions review[1], but perhaps it's not exactly considered "self-sustainable" yet? I haven't kept up with it in a while either so I'm also not sure on whether it is or isn't.

[1] https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/20/my-open-social-we... (at the very bottom)
by tptacek | 2025-12-24 23:10:52+00:00
I think it's hard to overestimate how much Matrix is doing this on hard mode, in circumstances where they can't iterate or clean things up as they go, because they deliberately set themselves up to have a heterogenous installed base almost from the jump. Seen in that light, what else could they end up with but a ball of mud? Since I think that's basically priced in, I think the right thing to do is try to read between the lines and home in on the "good parts" of the design, rather than reflexively rejecting the whole thing because there are "bad parts" they'll never be rid of.

That, or adopt a "nothing federated can be good" stance. I'm sympathetic to that!
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-12-24 23:11:24+00:00
Will be interesting technically to see what develops from this. NVLink? Full CUDA feels maybe doubtful but who knows. Nvidia CUDA Tile feels like more of a maybe, their new much more explicit way of making workloads.

This does feel a bit sad for sure, worrying whether this might hold Groq and innovation back. Reciprocally, perhaps kind of cool to see Groq get a massive funding boost and help from a very experienced chip making peer. It feels like an envious position somewhat, even with the long term consequences being so hazy. From the outside yes it looks like Nvidia solidifying their iron grasp over a market with very limited competitive suppliers, but this could help Groq, and maybe it's not on the terms we think we want right now, but could be very cool to see.

I really hope some of the rest of the markets can see what's happening, broadly, with Nvidia forming partnerships all over the place. NVLink with Intel, NVLink with Amazon's Tritanium... there's much more to the ecosystem, but just connecting the chips smartly is a huge task, is core to inter-operation. And for all we've heard of CXL, UltraAccelerator Link (UALink) and UltraEthernet (UET) it feels like very few major players are taking it seriously enough to just integrate these new interconnects & make them awesome. They remain incredible expensive & not commonly used, lacking broad industry adoption, and reserved for very expensive systems: there's a huge existential risk here that (lack of) interconnect will destroy competitors ability to get their good chips well integrated and used. The rest of the market needs more clear alarm bells going off, and needs to be making sure good interconnect is available on way more chips, get it into everyone's hands ASAP not just big customers, so that adoption & Linux nerd type folks can start building stacks that open up the future. The market risks getting left behind, if NVLink is built in everywhere and the various other fabrics never become common-place.
by gldrk | 2025-12-24 23:11:25+00:00
If you are not going to implement X11 drawing ops and XRender (which I, and many others, still use heavily), what's even the point? Any 'modern' program that only does client-side rendering already supports Wayland. AFAIK GTK 3 doesn't even support DRI on X11 unless you somehow trick it into using the abandoned OpenGL Cairo backend, but that's not modern enough apparently.
by theodric | 2025-12-24 23:12:47+00:00
There are weirdos out there. I am looking for a bulkier and more hackable laptop! I bought a ThinkPad P14s Gen5 AMD which has turned out to be a flimsy, plastic (not magnesium like the Intel units), disappointing piece of shit with frequent (but known) GPU crash issues, which I bought because I had a certain moment when I needed a computer and the Framework 16 was still on last-gen hardware, which felt silly to buy so close to an inevitable upgrade. I wish I had, though. Not much difference between an 8840HS and a 7840HS, but a huge difference between even a fairly upgradable ThinkPad like the P14s and a Framework.
by sho_hn | 2025-12-24 23:12:59+00:00
Pretty interesting approach to make an X server that is essentially "Wayland-like" (merging display server/compositor by default, isolated apps by default, no remoting of GLX, dropping legacy protocol features to the point of breaking compat with the core protocol, etc.). Not sure who this is for, but by itself it looks like a fairly reasonable set of choices.
by kankerlijer | 2025-12-24 23:13:35+00:00
Well, I'd be interested to hear what some of those nuances are, personally. I primarily work in highly regulated industries and air gapped environments. I probably bother to do things that are considered a bother by most, like stick with k8s for most deployment scenarios. I play with CF on my home network and I just don't get it outside of ddos protection and fast delivery. It seems like a nightmare to maintain in the long run. What am I missing?
by IshKebab | 2025-12-24 23:14:19+00:00
So what? Are you suggesting that Apple would have switched to RISC-V?

I like RISC-V (it's my job and I'm very involved in the community) but even now it isn't ready for laptops/desktop class applications. RVA23 is really the first profile that comes close and that was only ratified very recently. But beyond that there are a load of other things that are very much work in progress around the periphery that you need on a laptop. ACPI, UEFI, etc. If you know RISC-V, what does mconfigptr point to? Nothing yet!

Anyway the question was why would anyone switch from one proprietary ISA to another, as if nobody would - despite the very obvious proof that yes they absolutely would.
by lbyaus | 2025-12-24 23:14:34+00:00
$949 in Domain Sales Over the Weekend

Over the past weekend, we sold two domain names, generating $949 in sales.

Gryd.app - $250

The first domain was Gryd.app, a creative spelling of the word "grid." We originally priced the domain at $499, but the buyer made an initial offer of $129. We price all of our domains at amounts we believe allow indie makers to purchase easily without negotiations, though we do allow prospective buyers to make offers and invite negotiation. Even though we believe our names are reasonably priced for indie makers, we also recognize that we serve buyers from all over the world, and even a name priced at $499 might be beyond someone's budget. Negotiations continued over a day or so before we finally agreed on $250.

Composure.app - $699

The other domain sold was Composure.app, which went for $699 with no negotiations—the buyer simply purchased it outright as a "buy now" transaction. Neither domain has been developed yet, which isn't surprising since it sometimes takes a while before founders put a domain to use. We'll definitely keep an eye on these domains to see what gets built and will report back if and when they launch.

Quick Turnaround: Delivyr.com

Delivyr.com, the domain we sold in October for $499, was instantly put to use. However, the buyers were already established and operating on Delivyr.io, which explains the quick turnaround in usage.

If you're looking for quality brandable domain names all priced under $1,000, check us out at FlyingStart.co.
by bikenaga | 2025-12-24 23:14:42+00:00
Abstract: "3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object, made its closest approach to Earth on 2025 December 19. On 2025 December 18, the Breakthrough Listen program conducted a technosignature search toward 3I/ATLAS using the 100 m Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope at 1-12 GHz. We report a nondetection of candidate signals down to the 100 mW level."
by nabbed | 2025-12-24 23:15:40+00:00
I am lucky that most of my career happened before linkedin/X, so I never developed the urge or the instinct to broadcast my supposed successes to my network's timelines.

In my 20s, I wasn't immune to the need to promote myself: everyone in our team was supposed to write up his/her achievements each week and we would discuss these write-ups at our weekly meeting. I would use that opportunity to blow my own horn. I hope, however, I never crossed over into cringe-land like you see now.

Now I just program for fun: I don't do it on anyone else's schedule or to promote myself, because I don't expect to be paid.