MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crazygringo | 2025-12-26 13:37:05+00:00
> Are you saying that I'm saying that there are no pixels in the document?

I genuinely don't know what you're saying.

> Like, do you think that I think that scanners have come to operate on pure platonic forms and no longer use the concept of pixels? That would be really cool, wouldn't it.

Yes, because that is absolutely a thing. That's what Adobe ClearScan does, converting pixels to smooth vector outlines. Zoom in, and zero pixels in OCR'd text. That's not the case in this file though.

> I have yet to see someone show the original scribbles or ink marks that these OCR layers were generated based on. That's what I meant by "destructive".

I still genuinely don't know what you mean. The original scribbles and ink marks are a physical piece of paper. The MRC layers are generated from the scan and don't destroy anything, they only separate. The resulting layered bitmap is identical, pixel-for-pixel. My best interpretation of what you're saying is you want a higher-resolution scan? But why? Again, nothing "destructive" has happened except maybe reducing the resolution. But "destructive" is not a word people usually use for that.

> so you might want to just cut your losses and stop trying to educate me and let me be uneducated in this matter

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. I am genuinely happy to help you understand, but if you really don't want to then obviously I won't spend any more time replying. But if you're going to publicly throw suspicion on the validity of the birth certificate, I feel it's important to correct the record here on HN simply for other people who might read this exchange.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-26 13:37:31+00:00
>incorrect low glucose readings over an extended period

I use the G7 and the directions say to always use a finger stick to celebrate the unit, especially at high and low
readings.

Did these people also not see and endocrinologist to get things like A1C?

Diabetes is very unforgiving as you get older or are a fragile diabetic. If they were just dependent on the CGM alone then it's likely a lot of other mismanagement was already occurring.
by Sporktacular | 2025-12-26 13:37:37+00:00
Ah yes, the gateway drug straw man. Poster didn't say it causes that consequence, just that it normalises it. Just like video games normalise violence, gay porn normalises being gay etc. Doesn't mean it should be banned, but it does shift the winds about what is acceptable. And that is a worthy discussion when it comes to images of child exploitation.
by aabiji | 2025-12-26 13:37:56+00:00
The most interesting books I read this year were:

Acting class - I found this book surprisingly compelling. It made me reflect on my own search for connection and identity, and how easily it is to be misled and manipulated when you've got no one close.

Earthlings - The book's plot gets really horrific (don't let the cover fool you). However, it did make me think about social norms and taboos a little differently.

1984 - It was my first time reading the book, and man, looking around and seeing bits and pieces of the surveillance mentioned in the book in real life is kind of terrifying...

Grapes of Wrath - It's definitely the most heart-wrenching book I've ever read. Watching the Joad family get absolutely devastated by the monster that is unchecked capitalism is so sad :(

Skunk works - Really good book on the development of Lockheed's stealth planes. However, I did wish I got more technical details.

I would love to see some more book recommendations :)
by goku12 | 2025-12-26 13:38:15+00:00
You are just repeating the same unpopular debunked arguments that the industry makes out of vacuum. Why does anybody have to know the internals of any system to get the advantages of reparability and serviceability? What were independent service personnel for? Did everyone know how to open and repair watches, cars, refrigerators, etc? Did that stop them from getting the benefit?
by yuriks | 2025-12-26 13:38:18+00:00
For 1, I think it's hard to make a distinction between swapping an object, vs. swapping/mutating all of its fields such that it becomes equivalent to a different object.

For 3, some objects only need to be pinned under certain circumstances, e.g. futures only need to be pinned after they're polled for the first time, but not before. So it's convenient to separate the pinnability property to allow them to be moved freely beforehand.

I don't quite understand the usecase you have in mind for 4.
by Rperry2174 | 2025-12-26 13:38:18+00:00
I've noticed a lot of these posts tend to go codex vs claude, but as author is someone who does AI workshops curious why Cursor is left out of this post (and more generally posts like this).

From my personal experience I find cursor to be much more robust because rather than "either / or" its both and can switch depending on the time or the task or whatever the newest model is.

It feels like the same way people often try to avoid "vendor lock in" in software world that Cursor allows freedom for that, but maybe I'm on my own here as I don't see it naturally come up in posts like these as much.
by phoronixrly | 2025-12-26 13:39:02+00:00
The lightest one? What about the display colour mismatch, which is literally one of the first things I calibrate away when I get a new laptop, even on macbooks? Imagine moaning about two displays from completely different manufacturers and production dates showing different colours...

Or maybe the auto-dimming feature which can be disabled by software?

Or the touchpad which is 'too sensitive when scrolling'....
by motoboi | 2025-12-26 13:39:06+00:00
The Count of Monte Cristo was published in serial form. Daily from 1844 to 1846.

That explains a lot the format, which tended to try to retain the audience.

Also, the author wrote in advance of the daily publication, but the book was written "live", answering to public perception and response. This is a reason why the book is so "good": the author had the chance to adjust the story based on data from sales and feedback from readers.

Of course Dumas was a great writer too, but this live writing, data based is probably why the book resonates so well with audiences.

So, as a joke, if you read count of monte cristo in 3 weeks, you did the equivalent of bing reading it.

This happens with soap operas too. 10 years ago, they lasted 1 year. They had an initial structure, the story, the characters, but responded in "real-time" to audience feedback.

For those willing to read the book, give yourself some time. Try to read it over a course of some years. Read a little, come back to it.

There are several famous books written in the same form, like Crime and Punishment or The Three Musketeers.

Oh, and also authors got payed by installment, so that explains the lenght lol
by twoodfin | 2025-12-26 13:39:33+00:00
What made git special & powerful from the start was its data model: Like the network databases of old, but embedded in a Merkle tree for independent evolution and verifiability.

Scaling that data model beyond projects the size of the Linux kernel was not critical for the original implementation. I do wonder if there are fundamental limits to scaling the model for use cases beyond “source code management for modest-sized, long-lived projects”.
by lmeyerov | 2025-12-26 13:39:52+00:00
I think it's important to separate vibes coding from Vibes engineering here. I create fairly strict plans, including updating the plan as it goes, and it's very clear that codex is poor at instruction following because I see it every time. At the same time it can go on its own in an undirected way.

The result is when I'm doing serious planned work aimed for production commits, I have to use Claude, but if it's experimental I don't care about quality but speed and distance, such as for prototyping or debugging, codex is great!
by systemtest | 2025-12-26 13:39:54+00:00
I work international (somewhat of a digital nomad) so perhaps I’m an outlier in my usage. I have an M1 MacBook Pro that I bought new at release. I can’t replace the memory or storage. But so far I didn’t need to do that.

In case it breaks, I walk to my nearby electronics store and purchase a new MacBook Pro. With Time Machine restore I am up an running within an hour. The M1 goes onto the pile of stuff to repair later. And this is where the international part plays a role, in nearly any city in the western world I can grab a new MacBook Pro within an hour.

My day rate is significant enough that downtime is expensive. Not working for a week waiting for Framework to send parts is not an option for me. I can get next day delivery for memory and an SSD through Amazon in most of Europe but that is still a day rate wasted.
by pranavm27 | 2025-12-26 13:39:55+00:00
I rabbitholed into that another essay of buying domain names. The author juggles ideas by domain name. I have one called Banadana Girl .in and I was like sell bandanas lol - gotta check now the TAM for bandanas in india with women as TM. Give me ideas folks. Do you know of a bandana expert?
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-26 13:40:21+00:00
> The usefulness of these devices has apparently gone away, people do not seem to be interested by these devices anymore those days.

While USB-C and DisplayPort have taken over most external displays these days, plenty of all-in-one USB docks still use DisplayLink. Not every device supports DP ALT mode, and some devices (like several of Apple's M chips) don't support more than one external display over DisplayPort, making it a necessity to fall back to alternatives like DisplayLink.
by Mossy9 | 2025-12-26 13:40:30+00:00
Humble Bundle has spoiled me and my ebook library has grown by around a 100 books this year...

Tech book recommendations: 'Secure by Design', 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications', 'Building Secure and Reliable Systems' and 'Fundamentals of Software Architecture'.

For scifi: 'Murderbot Diaries' and 'The Expanse' - both are just great entertainment
by tecoholic | 2025-12-26 13:40:31+00:00
Yeah! I am also surprised. I have a lenovo from 2015 that's gotten it's wifi card, power IC, RAM - all replaced at some point for very cheap across multiple cities in India. And all this is on a Ideapad. One of their budget "professional" laptops, not even a Thinkpad.

While I understand what Framework is doing and the repairability aspect, somehow this conversation always seems to make it seem Laptops are similar to Ipads or something. It's not.
by exasperaited | 2025-12-26 13:40:32+00:00
No courses on the 3D printing side really — I think I did go through one of the Prusa ones after getting enough free "meters" on Printables but I don't remember it telling me much I hadn't already learned. There is a blog post that has been posted here before that really covers almost everything important about design for 3D printing:

https://blog.rahix.de/design-for-3d-printing/

I really just ADHD'd the hell out of it, I suspect [0], and absorbed everything I read. I was in financial difficulty and things were expensive so it took me a couple of years to get me from "I'd like a 3D printer" to "this 3D printer is affordable but viable and even if I never learn design there are plenty of tools I can make with it that will save me money".

In that time I read everything I could about what I'd need to learn, convinced myself that I was not so clumsy and inept I couldn't maintain a printer. These days printers don't need so much mechanical knowledge to get started.

On the CAD side of things, I learned a bit of OpenSCAD, found it basically helpful to make one simple thing but also frustrating and disappointing, joined really useful non-public Facebook groups where people were working on similar things, decided to get properly into FreeCAD, and dug in with the Mango Jelly Solutions videos on Youtube (which actually are now organised into a course structure, but weren't really then).

The thing that motivated me mostly was having simple real things I wanted to make for a project I was working on (though my brain being what it is, I still haven't got round to that exact project...)

If you have a need for a thing you would like, and you're able to break it down into simpler projects, particularly if they are things you might find useful along the way, it's not very difficult to find the motivation to learn these two things.

The positive feedback loop is so strong, and 3D printing is such a concrete way to learn CAD and design because you get to hold your design so quickly: I designed this thing in CAD, I printed this thing, wow it works but I could improve this, I need to learn this new thing in CAD, I printed it, it works but… etc.

Pretty soon you find yourself staring at some real world object on your desk and modelling it in CAD for fun.

The really interesting thing is when you begin to understand that the design of things is fundamentally influenced by the tooling used to make them. When you grasp how 3D printing and injection moulding differ, for example, and start designing your own items with respect to the strengths and weaknesses of 3D printing, rather than just to look like an existing plastic part which was moulded, then you're really getting there.

[0] hilariously I am still not formally diagnosed. Though I'm pretty sure I could be diagnosed just based on these two comments.
by zmgsabst | 2025-12-26 13:40:39+00:00
Well, no.

Because authors do two things typically when they use an LLM for editing:

- iterate multiple rounds

- approve the final edit as their message

I can’t do either of those things myself — and your post implicitly assumes there’s underlying content prior to the LLM process; but it’s likely to be iterated interactions with an LLM that produces content at all — ie, there never exists a human-written rough draft or single prompt for you to read, either.

So your example is a lose-lose-lose: there never was a non-LLM text for you to read; I have no way to recreate the author’s ideas; and the author has been shamed into not publishing because it doesn’t match your aesthetics.

Your post is a classic example of demanding everyone lose out because something isn’t to your taste.
by BloondAndDoom | 2025-12-26 13:40:42+00:00
I’ve been looking for something like this and will try this. Looks great. I tried Amazon prime game stuff (forgot what it’s called) is not too bad but the selection of games are still not non-gamer friendly enough.

Party games need to pick and play, I’m long time gamer, if I want to play MP with other gamers I got million games, but I want to play with random people who never gamed aging from 9-60. Now that’s a challenge, not sure of the games you have this demographic.

Having said that, did you develop all of the games yourself? I’ve done some game dev but haven’t touched it for a while, I’m curious if AI actually speeds up the development of this kind of small games? Any experience on that? I love some aspects of game dev but it gets super tedious if you want a certain experience, would’ve been great to get AI to do that :) (i did Godot). I heard good things about unity+AI
by rozenmd | 2025-12-26 13:41:10+00:00
I love my thinkpad, wrote up my experience with the Thinkpad T480 last year:

https://maxrozen.com/replacing-my-macbook-m1-with-thinkpad-t...

and a quick buyers guide here:

https://maxrozen.com/getting-your-own-good-enough-laptop-for...
by andai | 2025-12-26 13:41:17+00:00
For conversational use, which is the main way these things are used, I personally found Claude to be the best.

Claude Sonnet is my favorite, despite occasionally going into absurd levels of enthusiasm.

Opus is... Very moody and ambiguous. Maybe that helps with complex or creative tasks. For conversational use I have found it to be a bit of a downer.
by kristopolous | 2025-12-26 13:41:23+00:00
I was actually writing, been doing it full time for months. I've spent probably over 1,000 hours ...

Not trying to make any money, just feel compelled to do this.

A fiction story about how personal computers have dismantled society over 40 years... it takes place in 1983 and involves a vulnerable opportunistic time traveler who's getting more than he bargained for.

Here's some quotes to give you a feel:

"The smartphone is the electrical stunner in the slaughterhouse of society"

"You’ll be able to access any TV or radio station in real time, around the world, talk to people overseas in high resolution video with live translations for free and be bored by it"

"In the future the hermetic spaces of solitude will be breached as we build a global village. The private will become public and, ironically, the public will become private as the streets empty of experiences taken indoors, inside of bedrooms, beneath our screens of glowing grace."

It's intentionally meant to be ambitious, brutal and challenging. And hopefully insight will materialize from the dust of forgotten dreams.

If you are interested in reading it, just hit me up
by jqpabc123 | 2025-12-26 13:41:23+00:00
It seems like things are flipping. In the spirit of Christmas

It seems like things are flipping in the spirit of fascism.

There is very little that is "Christian" about a lot of the policy being implemented nowadays.

And Christmas is just another example.

As has been done in the past, "faith" is serving as a tool of control and manipulation and acquiescence.
by mrkeen | 2025-12-26 13:41:59+00:00
>> I sorely miss it in Python, JS and other languages. They keep me guessing whether a function will mutate the parent structure, or a local copy in those languages!

No mention of references!

I don't care about references to foo. I don't care about facades to foo. I don't care about decorators of foo. I don't care about memory segments of foo.

"Did someone eat my lunch in the work fridge?"

"Well at least you wrote your name in permanent marker on your lunchbox, so that should help narrow it down"
by kllrnohj | 2025-12-26 13:42:20+00:00
Framework as a company is only 5 years old, but they've already done several generations of upgrade parts (including webcam, keyboard, display, mainboards, etc...) and have large availability of repair/replacement parts. So unless their parts are uniquely bad in that they randomly fail after 5 years, it seems pretty clear that they are delivering on the long term ownership goals?
by crazygringo | 2025-12-26 13:42:35+00:00
> Except of course that I didn't make any claim requiring statistics, while you did.

You're criticizing Apple for not having a Del key. Presumably this is based on the idea that people mostly want a Del key. Which would need to be based on statistics, just as much as my claim that they mostly don't.

The only alternative would be if you thought Apple's "infantile refusal to put a (real) Delete key on their laptops" was their refusal to cater you just you personally. I'm assuming you're not that much of a narcissist?

> And yet... I'm the one who DID supply statistics, which you ignore...

I didn't ignore anything. I already responded directly to what you said about market share, and explained how it's irrelevant and why. Irrelevant numbers aren't any better than no numbers at all.

> ...in your maniacal histrionics.

Perhaps you don't just need to read the HN guidelines again, but bookmark them and re-read before each comment you post. Also maybe check the dictionary, since you don't seem to know what those words mean? They don't just mean someone who disagrees with you.
by conradludgate | 2025-12-26 13:42:50+00:00
Common wisdom is that pinning is a property of the place, not the reference or the type.

A type that might require stable pointers, like async{}, might want to be movable prior to use, so you don't want the type to require the value be pinned immediately. Or if you do, you need a construction like pinned-init that offers `&pin out T` - a pinned place that can be written to on initialisation of the type.
by bsenftner | 2025-12-26 13:42:54+00:00
I'm creating a college / corporate seminar level class with a 3D animated host and instructor. Each lesson begins with a brief animated intro, which the student then reads their lesson afterwards, and then there is a chatbot that understands that lesson that engages with the student afterwards. The course will have about an hour of 1-2 minute videos in the end, and because they are an animated "professor" it is then possible to create other ethic versions, and other language versions easier than otherwise. And for the curious, that hour of final in-use video will be sourced out of somewhere around 8 hours of final video; these video AIs are fine and dandy for short content, but when working on longer form media the consistency issues grow to Godzilla sized and really become the most consistent issue: trying to keep the likenesses of the characters, and the environment from drifting over time.
by doom2 | 2025-12-26 13:43:05+00:00
I want to learn two languages in 2026:

* CW (also known as Morse code) - I'm not able to have an amateur radio station at home, so I have to work portable/QRP. Given current band conditions, CW is one easy option to make contacts

* Learn a "low level" programming language, likely C - I never had any kind of formal CS education and kind of fell into the field, initially doing web development and then data engineering. Most of my career has been dominated by Python with a smattering of Java and Scala. Maybe this year will be the year I learn something a little lower down the stack!
by gregsadetsky | 2025-12-26 13:43:35+00:00
Embroidery!

I'd love to develop an art/tech practice and make custom embroidery pieces, maybe even daily - ie make up some words for a new t-shirt or hat every day?

Speaking of, I also learned during my initial research into this world that a lot of embroidery software seems... expensive/not competitive/a bit arcane? So I'm wondering if I'll get into all of this and start writing & releasing open source software..? Time will tell!

If anyone has played around with entry-level (or pro) machines, and has tips/tricks, I'd be super grateful! Thanks. I'm considering an entry level Brother SE700.
by haritha-j | 2025-12-26 13:43:42+00:00
I didn't want to take any risks wrt the egpu support because with an egpu there's already a whole lot of unknowns, so wanted to play it safe with proper TB support. It's a bit of a niche requirement though, so I get that other people may not care. But aside from that I just wanted a basic cheap and light laptop. I got an Acer for £500 on sale with a 2nd gen intel chip. Despite the hate intel gets, their 2nd gen chips are actually really good in terms of battery life.
If I spec a comparable laptop right now on Framework, it's around £1400, even for 1st gen intel. Plus the Acer came with a lovely OLED screen, which the framework doesn't seem to have, as you mentioned.
by jdblair | 2025-12-26 13:43:57+00:00
I'm also a laptop weirdo and I've had a Framework 13 with the Ryzen 7 motherboard since May of 2022. I run Ubuntu (currently 25.10) on it.

Its a good laptop, but not a great laptop. Its very light and compact (very important to me), and its been reliable, at least since the AMD GPU driver issues were resolved. The matte screen is fine, battery life is adequate, and the CPU meets my needs as a hobby developer.

Overall, I'm happy with it and I expect to use it for many years.

Its biggest issues are the touchpad (it's a diving board design, so you have to always click in the bottom 1/3 of the pad) and the quality of the case. The case flexes slightly if the computer is on an uneven surface, or if you are holding it in one hand by the corner while typing/mousing with your other hand, and this can cause the mechanics of the touchpad to jam. I've trained myself to tap instead of click, but that's me adapting to bad hardware.

I wish the case were more solid, even though I know this would add to the expense, size and weight. I expect to eventually replace every part of this laptop except the case, so I would appreciate more durability.