MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ivape | 2025-12-08 18:53:37+00:00
Try to think about it like a bunch of merchants running to line up in front of you as fast as possible with anything that resembles a product you might buy. The only thing they were successful at thus far was recognizing that something needs to be in your terminal, and they ran as fast as possible to your terminal with anything to beat others to the front of the line. I suppose they are doing this with all their efforts. A universe where a C-exec said in no uncertain terms, "get anything out there", is the very universe we're in.

Apple is the only merchant not running to line up with anything at the moment.

IMHO, one company needs to make the bold move and make a fork of their OS that is AI native with AI native apps/workflow and phase out the old paradigm. It'll have to be two product lines, but I think the new OS will have uptake like we've never seen before.
by umanwizard | 2025-12-08 18:53:42+00:00
The beginning of the English word "fuchsia" is not pronounced like the German word Fuchs, so indeed the spelling does not match the pronunciation. This is independent of the fact that it comes from that word. Plenty of things in English (and, in fact, loanwords in every language) sound different from the words they're derived from; that doesn't mean trying to imitate the source language is the "right" pronunciation. If you pronounce fuchsia like "fuksia" nobody will understand you.
by balamatom | 2025-12-08 18:53:44+00:00
My wordmangling and mathsolving happen in that sort of logico/aesthetical space, too!

The twist about words in particular is they are distinctly articulable symbols, i.e. you can sound 'em out - and thus, presumably, have a reasonable expectation for bearers of the same language to comprehend if not what you meant then at least some vaguely predictable meaning-cloud associated with the given speech act.

That's unlike e.g. the numbers (which are more compressed, and thus easier to get wrong), or the syntagms of a programming language (which don't even have a canonical sonic representation).

Therefore, it's usually words that are taught to a mind during the formative stages of its emergence. That is, the words that you are taught, your means of inner reflection, are still sort of an imposition from the outside.

Just consider what you life trajectory would've been if in your childhood you had refused to learn any words, or learned them and then refused to mistake them for the things they represent!

Infants and even some animals recognize their reflection in a mirror; however, practically speaking, introspection is something that one needs to be taught: after recognizing your reflection you still need to be instructed what is to be done about it.

Unfortunately, introspection needing to be taught means that introspection can be taught wrongly.

As you can see with the archetypical case of "old and wise person does something completely stupid in response to communication via digital device", a common failure mode of how people are taught introspection (and, I figure, an intentional one!) is not being able to tell apart yourself from your self, i.e. not having an intuitive sense of where the boundary lies between perception and cognition, i.e. going through life without ever learning the difference between the "you" and the "words about you".

It's extremely common, and IMO an extremely factory-farming kind of tragic.

I say it must be extremely intentional as well, because the well-known practice of using "introspection modulators" to establish some sort of perceptual point of reference (such as where the interior logicoaeshtetical space ends and exterior causalityspace begins) very often ends up with the user in, well, a cage of some sort.
by UniverseHacker | 2025-12-08 18:53:46+00:00
I'm not sure. I figured out most of that from taking Wims online class, and through years of personal practice and experimentation. I found that I was able to pick up a lot more by watching Wims body language and actions in videos, that he never directly explains, but I am not sure everyone could pick those up.

Ultimately, Wim's stuff is mostly based on tummo and other Vajrayana/Tantra yoga practices, and you can find both books and in person teaching locally in most places that cover these things. Wim never even explicitly mentions this, but effectively what he is is a yoga master that has developed yet another new system of yoga. Before the 'Ice Man' stuff he had even developed and written about other yoga innovations he had come up with.

Another thing worth mentioning is that while Wim is truly a master at his own method, he tries to rationalize everything with a scientific backing, but he has absolutely zero understanding of what he is talking about, and it's all nonsense. I have a biomedical background, and have developed some of my own theories about how his stuff is actually working physiologically and psychologically, plus there is some academic research out there you can read both on his methods and Tummo itself- but ignore everything he says about that, he doesn't even understand the basics.

Also, ignore everything he says about putting breath pressure up in your head/ears- absolutely never do that, as it can cause tinnitus, and the methods work fine without it.
by dm03514 | 2025-12-08 18:53:51+00:00
Oh yes!! I've seen this a couple times. I am far from an expert in tributary so please take with a grain of salt.

Based on the tributary documentation, I understand that tributary embeds kafka consumers into duckdb. This makes duckdb the main process that you run to perform consumption. I think that this makes creating stream processing POCs very accessible. It looks like it is quite easy to start streaming data into duckdb. What I don't see is a full story around Devops, operations, testing, configuration as code etc.

SQLFlow is a service that embeds DuckDB as the storage and processing brains. Because of this, we're able to offer metrics, testing utilities, pipelines as code, and all the other DevOps utilities that are necessary to run a huge number of streaming instances 24x7. SQLFlow was created as a tool that I wish I had to for simple stream processing in production in high availability contexts :)
by themafia | 2025-12-08 18:54:42+00:00
> How the creator economy destroyed the internet

Let's put the blame where it belongs. Monopolistic companies destroyed the internet.

> This is the media ecosystem we live in now — a supercharged shopping system that thrives on outrage, dominates the culture, and resists any real scrutiny because no one’s really in charge

That's the media ecosystem you've lived in your entire life. The internet, as always, just scaled up what we already had.
by Marsymars | 2025-12-08 18:54:46+00:00
I guess it depends on what kind of investor you are.

If you're holding MS stock long-term, and you plan to gradually shift away from equities as you near retirement and then gradually liquidate your holdings to fund your retirement, juicing the stock in the short term does nothing for you.

If you're holding short-term, then you also need to sell the stock after it gets juiced, so that you can move your capital to not-yet-juiced stocks.
by saubeidl | 2025-12-08 18:55:00+00:00
As somebody doesn't consider himself a capitalist, wouldn't it be fair to say it is "the most efficient" in precisely one thing: capital reproducing itself?

And if so, why is that necessarily a good thing? Why should that be our goal as society as opposed to things like minimizing child mortality, increasing literacy rates, making sure we don't have a ton of our fellow humans living on the street in misery etc etc - things that make the lives of our fellow humans better? Why is capital growth the metric we have chosen to optimize for? Surely there's better things to optimize for?

Excuse the polemic, but infinite growth with no regard for anything else is the ideology of a cancer cell - and to me that is increasingly what it feels like when we are wasting all these resources on a dying planet just to make numbers go up.
by Scubabear68 | 2025-12-08 18:55:09+00:00
I moved largely away from Microsoft products in 2010 personally, and 2015 or so professionally. Just came back to them last year for a client.

What I am seeing are two really disturbing patterns: 1) really, really bad stuff that has been there for decades is still there, weighing everything down, for "backwards compatibility", and 2) a lot of horrible fluff and nonsense everywhere.

#1 is pretty self-explanatory, as I am editing docs in Word I am finding my muscle memory circa 1999 or so still works with it due to all of the formatting bugs that still exist.

#2 I saw with Windows 11 and the crazy adverts everywhere, seemingly random UI choices, half-broken or implemented tools and applications, and now random UI buttons thrown everywhere.

The 1-2 punch is devastating and makes using Microsoft products 10x more depressing than it was 10-15 years ago, and it wasn't a happy fest then either for me.

So to me, AI is just "more of the same" with Microsoft. It is more random shit thrown on the wall to see what will stick.
by mindslight | 2025-12-08 18:55:19+00:00
Well, that's a start.

I'm placing blame on the present administration for its presently ongoing actions, which could be stopped in the present. There's little reason to talk about Obama unless we're doing some detached post-mortem about the slow process of our country being destroyed. But as to the present actions - even if you want to characterize them as part of a slow slide longer arc, that still implies that the current incarnation is the worst yet.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-08 18:55:35+00:00
People with immense wealth, connections, influence, and power demonstrably struggle to not surround themselves with people who only say what the powerful person already wants to hear regardless of reality.

Putin didn't think Russia could take Ukraine in 3 days with literal celebration by the populace because he only works with honest folks for example.

Rich people get disconnected from reality because people who insist on speaking truth and reality around them tend to stop getting invited to the influence peddling sessions.
by elicash | 2025-12-08 18:55:58+00:00
How about this sarcastic and brutal bit, on his podcast (end of July):

"But maybe instead of firing him, they start selling pizzas out of the back of Apple stores and Alan Dye can run that and do the graphic design on the boxes. Do the menus. I think Alan Dye could kill that with his Levi's experience, right?"

That's rougher than anything he has said post-firing, in my opinion.
by atomic128 | 2025-12-08 18:56:10+00:00
The majority of the criminal activity on the Tor darknet is mediated by hidden services listed by that scanner. You can visit those services (using the .onion URLs) and see that Monero (XMR) is the preferred cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is sometimes used for hosting, etc., but Monero exists to avoid Bitcoin's security weaknesses and the criminals are well aware of this advantage.
by mjr00 | 2025-12-08 18:56:11+00:00
It's funny that I heard exactly this when I graduated university in the late 2000s:

> A large percentage (at least 50%) of the market for software developers will shift to lower paid jobs focused on managing, inspecting and testing the work that outsourced developers do. If a median software developer job paid $125k before, it'll shift to $65k-$85k type outsourced developer babysitting work after.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-12-08 18:57:09+00:00
No, I am framing it as a cultural and civilisational clash and shift. This is what matters here and it is visible everywhere in Western Europe.

> and it's unrealistic (and immoral IMHO) to insist that only certain ethnicities or religions are welcome in certain places.

That's an important issue. I don't think it is unrealistic or immoral because it is not immoral to want to preserve your people and culture. It's not a question of absolute (outright ban) but of proportion.

Anyway, this is something that cannot be discussed on HN, or actually most places. Debate on any non-trivial issue or any deviation from the herd has become impossible.
by 0xffff2 | 2025-12-08 18:57:11+00:00
For what it's worth, I am an active developer of space flight software. This might be true somewhere, but it's not true anywhere I've ever encountered. The contortions required to avoid using the stack would be insane and cause far more bugs than it could ever prevent. I'm pretty confident asserting that this is simply not a thing. Even heap allocation is very often allowed, but restricted to program initialization only. Furthermore, these rules are relaxing all the time. I am aware of at least one mission currently in space that is flying the C++14 STL with no restrictions on heap allocation and exceptions enabled. Unmodified `std::map` is currently flying in space with no ill effects.
by brudgers | 2025-12-08 18:57:12+00:00
Ok, I'll byte...

Nvidia's business is cored on selling hardware to price insensitive customers. Those customers are price insensitive because the value created with Nvidia's GPU's is a non-fractional multiple of their capital cost and the capital cost of the GPU's is a fraction of the capital cost of the overall infrastructure.

And this is really important: if you maintain your margins, higher prices mean more net revenue. 30% of $2500 is less than 30% of $3000 while logistic and marketing and development costs are the same.

The retail market is price sensitive but is not the core of Nvidia's business. Large price insensitive customers are what drives development direction and what goes into retail is condensed from the exhaust fumes.

As a customer for RAM fabs, Nvidia drives the direction of RAM development without capital expenditure on infrastructure and R&D. It also mitigates the investment risks from political changes and disruption caused by technological breakthrough (the inertia of obsolescent RAM fabs driving design decisions).

Or to put it more simply, the age where near-leading-edge GPU hardware was readily accessible to consumers are past. The leading edge is increasingly military-industrial scale...with all that implies. Good luck.
by motoboi | 2025-12-08 18:57:18+00:00
This is what move fast and break things looks like in a enterprise the size of microsoft.

It's mostly break things and little moving fast.

But the idea is that it's AI or death, so some broken buttons seems of less importances than the buttons itself being there, because the button working is a problem involving several teams, so no one is actually responsible, but the button being there is some team problem, and hell yeah they solved in the first sprint.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-08 18:57:30+00:00
I don't think it's anti-phishing. If it is, then it's a broken rule. I have registered FastMail as my mail server properly with my DNS (MX record, I think) and also done the other authentication stuff. This is not a case of merely setting the FROM field, as many people do. You can set the FROM field of a message to anything if your mail server allows this. The receiver might reject this, but it is/was a common way to configure your mail client in the past because of stuff like email forwarding. Lots of people use 3rd party mail providers whose servers are not under the same domain as the mail being served. I think most people with custom domains do not run their own mail servers, and thus point their MX entries at a 3rd party mail provider just like I do.

I don't know why this stuff would be rejected. I went through several debugging steps online and didn't get anywhere with it. Every tool said I had set it up correctly.
by adolph | 2025-12-08 18:57:30+00:00
I had the thought that maybe the Australian airline had started a book side business, a la Stripe, but no, the airline is actually Quantas. Still seems like an imprint to follow.

Launched by Thomas Lin, the founding editor of Quanta Magazine, in partnership with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Quanta Books is an editorially independent subsidiary of the Simons Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences.

https://www.quantabooks.org/
by arghwhat | 2025-12-08 18:57:30+00:00
That's still one OS. Customization is mostly userspace "system" apps that they swap out and maintain, but reused across all their phones with some small variation. Hardware enablement will differ between models, but that's just the cost of doing business.

Can be a pain to move the whole suite to a new major (porting all their inhouse apps, getting all the hardware enablement from vendors updated to match, ...), but we're not dealing with a major upgrade here.

A security patch is "just" a matter of taking the last release, applying the diff, build, qa, release. No customization.
Show HN: EZTest – open-source alternative to TestRail/Testiny
by philipmoses | 2025-12-08 18:58:26+00:00
Hey HN,

We are building EZTest, an open-source test management tool designed to replace legacy tools like TestRail.

The Problem: There’s basically no modern open source test management tool out there. The ones everyone uses like Testiny orTestRail are glorified Excel sheets with a hefty subscription fee. They charge $20 per user per month but barely do anything worthwhile. At this point, the best LLMs cost the same, so the pricing makes no sense.

Ah ha moment was when we realised we could either pay $20 to Claude & Copilot and have a working MVP in a month or pay $19 to Testiny per user per month forever.

The Solution: EZTest. A modern open source test management tool build with Claude Code and Copilot. It’s a simple, lightweight test and defect management tool you can self host and actually rely on. Nothing fancy. Just the basics done right.

We are currently in Alpha and I am looking for brutal feedback on the product, features and the UX. We are building this out of Chennai with the goal of creating truly sustainable FOSS business projects.

Repo: https://github.com/houseoffoss/eztest Demo: http://eztest.houseoffoss.com (you can directly login with demo credentials)

I’ll be in the comments to answer questions about the stack and roadmap.

Roast away xD

Philip.
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-12-08 18:58:29+00:00
I've found that looking at some people's approach towards tech as a new religion helps me to understand their irrational/criticism-free opinions of them - also helps me understand that I'm not going to change their minds on any of it, and limits my desire to debate it with them.

The religion of the Social Graph/global connectivity, the religion of the Cryptocurrency, the religion of AI (and the separate religion of AGI). People's fixation on UBI leans religious too. All promised transformation into better lives for people around the world, but none have managed to achieve it. We'd really be better off shipping hundreds of containers of solar panels to the global south than pretending some quantity of code we write will have as big an impact.
by derf_ | 2025-12-08 18:58:30+00:00
Buffett has repeatedly said that Berkshire's size means it will no longer be able to deliver outsized outperformance. He also says that most people should invest in index funds. It is perfectly reasonable to just buy the S&P if that aligns with your financial goals.

> BRK-B's 5 year return is 2% per year more than SP500.

That said, 2% per year is generally considered a lot in diversified mutual fund / ETF land. You might not be able to charge hedge-fund level 2-and-20 fees for delivering that, but you could certainly charge multiples of what the low-cost indexers do (instead, Berkshire charges you approximately nothing). Now, Berkshire is a conglomerate, not a fund, and you could argue 2% is an appropriate risk premium for a single stock, even one as diverse as Berkshire (which is still less diverse than the S&P). But it is pretty impressive for something that is not a tech company. Those are the only things in the S&P that seem to be generating any returns these days (besides Berkshire, JP Morgan is the only other non-tech company with a market cap over $1tn, and arguably banks really are tech companies now, too).

> Apple is still 21% of BRK's publicly listed holdings

The public company investments are a minority of Berkshire's current value. The majority comes from wholly-owned operating companies and insurance businesses.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-08 18:59:15+00:00
You can easily transfer (or rollover) HSA funds from HealthEquity ti Fidelity. Do it at as many times as you want, but at least once per year should suffice.

You don’t even have to send anything to HealthEquity, if I recall correctly. Just send Fidelity the Transfer of Assets form and they do it all:

http://fidelity.com/toa

I would make sure all the funds in HealthEquity are cash though, just to make things easier and reduce error.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-08 18:59:49+00:00
I would bet like a dollar that the supposed em-dash usage (which I'm not convinced is an accurate take in the first place) would have come from an enterprising dev somewhere being like "Well, we probably don't need multiple tokens for hyphens" and coercing every dash type thing to just one hyphen like token.

But I'm also showing off my ignorance with how these machines turn text into tokens in practice.
Ask HN: Is it worth building a database GUI?
by mootoday | 2025-12-08 19:00:01+00:00
I'm considering to develop a database GUI based on either Tauri & Svelte or gpui.rs.

Why? For fun, but if it turns out to become a lifestyle business, even better :-).

No seriously, why? The database GUIs I know are either slow, pricey, or both. They also have so many features, it impacts the user experience.

I want a basic tool where I can view databases, tables, edit data. I also want to integrate a bring-your-own LLM key to ask questions about the database.

Does this resonate with anyone? Would you use it if it existed?
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-08 19:00:08+00:00
Isn't a bunch of it just bitcoin accounting tricks that were 9% of Tesla's profit in 2024?

https://fortune.com/2025/01/30/tesla-profits-bitcoin-crypto-...

Oh yeah, and government subsidies (making up 38% of profits in 2024)

https://news.sky.com/story/elons-playing-a-very-dangerous-ga...
by hazzadous | 2025-12-08 19:00:59+00:00
built a tool that analyzes who's starring your github repo. paste a repo url and you'll get charts on role and seniority, top languages and frameworks, companies represented, where stargazers are located, and an aggregate feed of their recent blog posts so you can see what your community is thinking about.

it pulls the repo's stargazers, looks at their public profiles, and returns everything as aggregate insights.

curious what would make this more useful, or what other slices of the data you'd want to see.
by Marsymars | 2025-12-08 19:01:22+00:00
> Name a major U.S. public company in recent years that has consistently prioritized improving its product over boosting short term stock price or extracting maximum profits.

Well in some perverse sense, I'd say Meta qualifies here. Zuck isn't beholden to other shareholders and is free to burn truckloads of money on worthless projects. The big asterisk is that for Meta, "improving its product" is effectively "creating the best digital cigarettes".
by _zoltan_ | 2025-12-08 19:01:26+00:00
Scanning Tunneling Microscope, high-temperature superconductivity - 2 Nobel prize right there.

Then laser eye surgery, magnetic storage, relational databases, UPC barcodes, DES, FFT, RISC, ...

yeah, almost nothing. /s

disclaimer: I work for IBM Research and I love every second of it.