MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by c0nsumer | 2026-01-11 17:23:37+00:00
I actually had a 5K iMac that I sold when I got the Mac mini. As I was deciding on the display I looked at doing that, but I wasn't super keen on the unfinished look. And IIRC it was going to cost about $250 in parts at the time. I was able to get the ASUS for about $700 and sell the iMac for ~$300. So it was really only about $150 more to not DIY it and have a more finished final package.

It is a really neat looking project, I just determined it wasn't for me.
by arter45 | 2026-01-11 17:24:57+00:00
>As Bert says, you can get a long way if you know what you are doing.

Of course, but... how did you actually do this?

I mean, do you just run an application on a PC and just keep it on 24/7 with power saving disabled? What do you do if you need to expose your application to the Internet? Did you do this in HDD times and, if so, did you use standard PC HDDs?

I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just curious about your experience, because what I've seen wasn't looking good.
by wrsh07 | 2026-01-11 17:25:41+00:00
As far as I can tell it addresses the mechanisms proposed by the parent comment.

If the claim is specifically about reduced stimulation during sex, that's a different claim. I'm simply saying the initial explanation seemed like bullshit

In general, if a claim is easy to verify, someone has verified it, but the US is also somewhat prudish so making the research more explicit might make it less likely that the research happens in the states. If there is an existing study that says this claim is correct, feel free to link it.
by UncleEntity | 2026-01-11 17:26:13+00:00
I'm kind of curious about the things you're seeing since I find the best way is to have them come up with a plan for the work they're about to do and then make sure they actually finish it because they like to skip stuff if it requires too much effort.

I mean, I just think of them like a dog that'll get distracted and go off doing some other random thing if you don't supervise them enough and you certainly don't want to trust them to guard your sandwich.
by zahlman | 2026-01-11 17:26:22+00:00
I sympathize with your view on a philosophical level, but the consequence is really a meaningless semantic argument. The point is that prompting the AI with words that you'd actually use when asking a human to perform the task, generally works better than trying to "guess the password" that will magically get optimum performance out of the AI.

Telling an intern to care about code quality might actually cause an intern who hasn't been caring about code quality to care a little bit more. But it isn't going to help the intern understand the intended purpose of the software.
by free652 | 2026-01-11 17:26:27+00:00
>This is just false. Amdgpu is an in tree kernel module and has been forever. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/gpu/amdgpu/index.html

You are arguing and arguing and shifting goal posts as we go.

The facts are:

* I am running the latest amdgpu video driver.

* AI 395 wasn't released yesterday, but a year ago.

* (My original point) Many different permutations of hardware / os / kernel / drivers / window manager / etc.

I highly doubt that installing Ubuntu 25.10 will fix the issue. Can you provide that guarantee? No. Then we can stop talking.
by martin-t | 2026-01-11 17:27:02+00:00
I think it would be most interesting to find ways to restrict bad usage without crippling the positive impact.

Douglas Crockford[0] tried this with JSON. Now, strictly speaking, this does not satisfy the definition of Open Source (it merely is open source, lowercase). But after 10 years of working on Open Source, I came to the conclusion that Open Source is not the absolute social good we delude ourselves into thinking.

Sure, it's usually better than closed source because the freedoms mean people tend to have more control and it's harder for anyone (including large corporations) to restrict those freedoms. But I think it's a local optimum and we should start looking into better alternatives.

Android, for example, is nominally Open Source but in reality the source is only published by google periodically[1], making any true cooperation between the paid devs and the community difficult. And good luck getting this to actually run on a physical device without giving up things like Google Play or banking apps or your warranty.

There's always ways to fuck people over and there always will be but we should look into further ways to limit and reduce them.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford

[1]: https://www.androidauthority.com/aosp-source-code-schedule-3...
by tialaramex | 2026-01-11 17:27:41+00:00
Howard Hinnant's original move proposal for C++ is from 2002. And by then even the destructive move (the more useful operation and the semantic provided in Rust) was well understood.

Hinnant said they couldn't find a way to do destructive move and have the C++ inheritance hierarchy. To me it's obvious what loses in this case, but to a C++ programmer at the turn of the century apparently C++ implementation inheritance ("OO programming") was seen as crucial so C++ 11 move semantics are basically what's described in that proposal.
by kbutler | 2026-01-11 17:27:45+00:00
More current discussion:

I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574707

One of these years is going to be the year of the Linux desktop!

Hmm: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Linux+desktop&...
by zamadatix | 2026-01-11 17:27:53+00:00
A separate app would be a lot more work. Not only do you need to publish separate apps on all of the platforms you still need to maintain that separate app (even if it's 100% locked to bug and security patching).

If I were to guess, it had less to do with being "too difficult" and more to do with "not being worth it". I.e. they have the numbers for how many people were watching the limited interactive content from years ago, they know whether they plan on having more interactive video content, and they know how much it is to maintain across different apps (and likely don't want to fragment their service availability to support something they identify as a declining niche). Just because they may be getting into games does not mean it makes sense to have support for other interactive stuff people hardly ever watch.

They tried something different, it didn't work out to be popular enough to bother with for the rest of time, and they moved on.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-11 17:28:01+00:00
> Clean heroin is one of the least problematic substances appearantly, less problematic and more "everyday friendly" than Methadon even.

Least problematic is too strong of wording. Consistent opioid use will take a large toll on the body and mind. A therapeutic level of dosing could possibly be better than severe chronic pain depending on the situation, but even chronic pain patients have to deal with a range of negatives and side effects that are only tolerable because they’re less bad than their severe chronic pain.

Chronic opioid use induces a lot of changes in the body and mind. The initial euphoria isn’t sustainable, as everyone knows, but long term use induces even further changes that predispose users to deeper depression and can even begin to augment pain signals.

Opioids are in a class of drugs that are unusually deceptive because users who more or less control their dosing will talk themselves into thinking they can do this forever without real negatives. They can go for years before the cumulative negatives become too obvious to ignore.

For addicts deep in cycles of rehab-relapse extremes, going to a maintenance program and achieving stability is definitely better than continuing the cycle indefinitely. However it comes with a high price relative to sobriety. I think it’s important to not downplay the effects of being on opioids for years and years.
by nickjj | 2026-01-11 17:28:06+00:00
> But then this sounds like a bug in that particular compositor rather than the driver(s)?

The NVIDIA GPU memory allocation issue affects all NVIDIA cards, at least based on that forum post where there's a good amount of people replying with similar issues with a large combo of cards + drivers.

You probably don't notice it because you rarely ever use all of your GPU's memory at once. Try running `watch nvidia-smi` and then open multiple copies of every hardware accelerated app you have available. Once you reach nearly the max GPU memory apps will either start crashing or fail to open and if you get semi-unlucky your compositor (including KDE on Wayland) will crash if it's the app trying to allocate resources to render the window. I've had plasmashell or kwin hard lock / crash many times with just a small amount of testing.

The expectation is the driver allocates those memory resources to system memory instead of denying the memory to the app. It works correctly in X11 or if you have an AMD card, in Wayland and X11.

The leak is separate and is compositor specific, possibly related to NVIDIA driver bugs (to some degree) but this leak wouldn't be experienced unless you used this compositor. This leak is the compositor doesn't release any GPU memory after any window is closed, so simply opening and closing apps will cause the leak. Combine this with the first problem and that's how you end up rebooting every few hours with a lower end GPU. AMD and NVIDIA are affected.

The post goes into all of these details and there's reproducible tests, and even demo videos showing the first GPU memory allocation problem in Plasma Wayland but not Plasma X11. It also links to all of the related GitHub issues that I could find.
by password4321 | 2026-01-11 17:28:35+00:00
I am not an expert but as long as the video is playable by the browser (x264 - Chrome apparently supports the most formats) and the same duration (05:12:14) it should work.

This is from 7 years ago but you can see if there's any helpful discussion attempting to use the initial release: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bandersnatch/comments/adnn2h/github...
by DetectDefect | 2026-01-11 17:29:06+00:00
> Do we want our fundamental computing environment to be ultimately under our control, or controlled by private interests with their own incentives?

The reality is a lot more nuanced than that. Should one live in a forest, devoid of any city services and company of other individuals, so that one may be under "own control"? This is the essential value proposition with Linux and it's no wonder many prefer the comforting institution of proprietary prisons^Wsystems.
by abelanger | 2026-01-11 17:29:31+00:00
Not harmful for now - "fork from checkpoint" would be perfectly fine for me at the moment. The main issue (as flagged in the post) is that setting up additional tooling can take a while!

In the longer term, docker is nice from a reproducibility + CI perspective, and a docker build is already something can easily work with and track in my system.

One thing I've heard but not verified with other sandboxed execution providers is that startup times for custom images can be quite slow, so it could be a potential differentiator given Fly's existing infra.
by mindslight | 2026-01-11 17:29:57+00:00
Wow. I wrote a pretty substantive comment so you could see we have some common ground and I'm not just a "fAr lEfT wAcKo", but apparently that's "not productive".

If you want to be done, sure, be done. I think we could have converged much quicker if you hadn't been leading with these kind of abstract-oblique points that demand adding nuance, but then avoiding the nuance. And also I've got to say, this last comment is a whole bunch of retrenching at "nobody can know" FUD.

But at any rate, let us make no mistake: this incident is most certainly about our freedom of speech, which includes the freedom to criticize government agents in ways they may not personally appreciate.

I did finally just watch a video of the run-up of where they surround the car. She was stopped across the street like an asshole, blaring her horn, and seemingly mocking/heckling the agents. Vehicles were going by her just fine (including some ICE vehicles), just as you'd expect in regular city traffic. But being an asshole is not illegal, and what she was doing looks to be exactly first-amendment protected activity - heckling ICE agents because she disagreed with what they were doing.

Even if there is something there that ICE can legally stretch into a federal crime, it certainly doesn't rise to the level of necessitating a high stakes boxed-in gun-drawn escalation that induces a fight or flight response. And given that the killer had previously fucked around and found out about moving vehicles six months prior, his positioning and subsequent reaction would seem to be highly deliberate and likely even premeditated.

Renee most certainly could have done many things differently, and I wish she had. But government agents also have a duty to execute their roles in good faith to minimize harm regardless of whom they're dealing with and what they've done. What they did here was the complete and utter opposite, making them entirely responsible for her death.
by ivankra | 2026-01-11 17:31:05+00:00
Nonsense. I've been running Linux just fine as my daily driver on Macbook M4 for a year. Besides battery life (VM is kinda heavy on it) and some minor issues (fewer than you'd think, especially with Vulkan landing in UTM today) it's the best Linux laptop I've owned ever so far. I like macOS as much as the next Linux user here, but it's fairly decent as a hypervisor. If anything, at least it comes with UI unlike Intel ME.
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by xyzadam | 2026-01-11 17:31:16+00:00
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by Wowfunhappy | 2026-01-11 17:31:44+00:00
> I think there is a section of programmer who actually do like the actual typing of letters, numbers and special characters into a computer, and for them, I understand LLMs remove the fun part.

I've "vibe coded" a ton of stuff and so I'm pretty bullish on LLMs, but I don't see a world where "coding by hand" isn't still required for at least some subset of software. I don't know what that subset will be, but I'm convinced it will exist, and so there will be ample opportunities for programmers who like that sort of thing.

---

Why am I convinced hand-coding won't go away? Well, technically I lied, I have no idea what the future holds. However, it seems to me that an AI which could code literally anything under the sun would almost by definition be that mythical AGI. It would need to have an almost perfect understanding of human language and the larger world.

An AI like that wouldn't just be great at coding, it would be great at everything! It would be the end of the economy, and scarcity. In which case, you could still program by hand all you wanted because you wouldn't need to work for a living, so do whatever brings you joy.

So even without making predictions about what the limitations of AI will ultimately be, it seems to me you'll be able to keep programming by hand regardless.
by bachmeier | 2026-01-11 17:32:12+00:00
> Viewed through the lens of digital autonomy and citizenship, the question isn’t simply “Is Linux perfect?” but rather: Do we want our fundamental computing environment to be ultimately under our control, or controlled by private interests with their own incentives?

As a user of Linux as my main desktop OS for more than 20 years, a user of Linux far longer than that, and a promoter of FOSS before that was a term, this has always been the question. Most of the world does not care. I suspect that is more true today than ever before. There are now adults that grew up in the age of social media that have no idea how local computing works.

Not to be negative but the "obstacles" to adopting Linux were never actually obstacles most of the time. Fifteen years ago my mother started using Linux as her main OS with no training. I gave her the login information, but never had a chance to show her how to use it, and she just figured it out on her own. Everything just worked, including exchanging MS Office documents for work.
by Uncorrelated | 2026-01-11 17:32:27+00:00
I've been working on an iOS camera app to take natural-looking photos with reduced post-processing. The goal is take photos that look like what you see.

I just updated the RAW pipeline and I'm really happy with how the resulting photos look, plus there's this cool "RAW+ProRAW" capture mode I introduced recently.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unpro-camera/id6535677796

I initially released it early last year and have been using it as my main camera app since, but I haven't mentioned it in one of these threads before. Unfortunately this post has come just a bit early for my most recent update to be approved; there's some nice improvements coming.
by thom | 2026-01-11 17:32:49+00:00
I installed Bazzite on a slightly esoteric machine, a 16" dual-screen Asus laptop. It's not really my cup of tea as a distribution, either philosophically or practically, but it has some specific patches for Asus hardware and as a result it seems to work better in every way than Windows. Every couple of months I'm annoyed for a moment by all the immutability stuff and the package system, but for both work and play it's running perfectly.
by beached_whale | 2026-01-11 17:32:59+00:00
Throwing move is super weird too. I believe that it was a mistake to not treat user move like C++11 destructors and default to noexcept(true) on them. But it is what it is.

On the other hand, writing special member functions at all(move & copy constructor/assignment, destructor) is a smell for types that don't just manage the lifetime of an object(unique_ptr like things). People should not generally be writing them and being open to the mistake of getting noexcept wrong.
by martin-t | 2026-01-11 17:33:10+00:00
> The totalitarian government wouldn’t care about your license anyway.

I see this a lot and while being technically correct, I think it ignores the costs for them.

In practice such a government doesn't need to have laws and courts either but usually does because the appearance of justice.

Breaking international laws such as copyright also has costs for them. Nobody will probably care about one small project but large scale violations could (or at least should) lead to sanctions.

Similarly, if they want to offer their product in other countries, now they run the risk of having to pay fines.

Finally, see my sibling comment but a lot of people act like Open Source is an absolute good just because it's Open Source. By being explicit about our views about right and wrong, we draw attention to this delusion.
by bhewes | 2026-01-11 17:33:26+00:00
I have Windows only audio and 3d software. I ended up with a windows VM with GPU passthrough on Linux. It sits on its own m2 drive for the rare occasion I need to dual boot. So Windows has been become legacy software for me. (IClone and CC).

And Steam Deck is there.

But I think the desktop interface is legacy for anyone under the age of 25, I get a kick out of watching them navigate a desktop.
by Avicebron | 2026-01-11 17:33:45+00:00
I'm going to second seanmcdirmid here, a quick trick is to have Claude write a "remaining.md" if you know you have to do something that will end the session.

Example from this morning, I have to recreate the EFI disk of one of my dev vm's, it means killing the session and rebooting the vm. I had Claude write itself a remaining.md to complement the overall build_guide.vm I'm using so I can pick up where I left off. It's surprisingly effective.
by groundzeros2015 | 2026-01-11 17:33:50+00:00
C++ does have reasonable defaults. You never have to worry about move if you are using standard containers or unique_ptr.

But eventually those escape hatches come bite you and you need to worry about.

Complexity is inherent to the system. Wrapping it in a nice interface doesn’t make it go away.

—-

The problem I see is move semantics are a real thing in programming languages where types can own resources.

Most languages just choose not to handle them well or limit their feature set. For example swift tries to use copy on write to avoid it

So eventually feature creep happens and you get borrowing/move.
by bitwize | 2026-01-11 17:34:52+00:00
> We recently got a PR from somebody adding a new feature and the person said he doesn't know $LANG but used AI.

"Oh, and check it out: I'm a bloody genius now! Estás usando este software de traducción in forma incorrecta. Por favor, consulta el manual. I don't even know what I just said, but I can find out!"
by LarsKrimi | 2026-01-11 17:35:42+00:00
Because there's absolutely no infrastructure where noone lives. For good reason

The mineral dream is a dream for a reason. Americans have tried. The Chinese have tried. The Danes have tried. None have made a profit, and none have kept up operations

But I'm sure the US will be able to do it this time. Afterall the US has someone with an acute sense of realism in absolute power
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