skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's massively closer than any other solution in this regard (nods to other Nix-inspired distros like Guix, Lix, etc.)

Honestly, I believe every software developer owes it to themselves to read the original Nix paper. It's quite digestible and lays out a lot of what it brings to the table. I came away from it wondering why it took so long to realize it... which is a property I've found true of every new important discovery.

https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf

If you want, you can even ask an LLM to sum up its main points for you. Or to sell it to you. =)

https://chatgpt.com/share/67ae1a08-7354-8004-8200-e956cb6b59...

I would like to say one thing about using Docker to "solve" this problem though: Once you think of builds in terms of functions, you realize that a Docker image is basically just the cached artifacts of a build that "just so happened" to work correctly. Consider a function that only occasionally produces a correct value: A Docker image is one of those values.
My complaint is not that this maintainer would be charitable in their reads or should stay on the project, but that they are unevenly being examined because they are not one of the greybeards.

If you don't want a maintainer, that's fine, but to claim it has anything to do with professionalism is dumb when this is seen as communication to admire.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linusrants/
> Eventually an American will independently reinvent the car bomb, or someone on the left will decide to take a gun to a building containing political representatives.

Personally, I'm surprised that the American right wing (including Trump himself!) didn't seem to stop being pro-gun even when two different people made an attempt at Trump:

https://www.nrahlf.org/articles/2025/2/10/nra-issues-stateme...

If that didn't change their minds, I don't think anything can. Literal Jesus could descend from heaven on the wings of Biblically-accurate angels and tell them "When I said 'thou shalt not kill', I didn't give you any exceptions for self-defence, for stand-your-ground, or for the death penalty." and my expectation at this point is they'd not only ignore it, they'd call him 'woke' for suggesting it.
I believe it's a microkernel, so in the sense that every driver is a separate userspace process, yes.
I am finally settled on aerospace.app which is close enough to i3 for me.
Now hammerspoon for some Automation :)
Right, but that gets into the exact argument that the team is making. When a thread is flagged, that means fewer users are going to open that thread and flag subsequent content or flamebait. It creates a lower moderation environment where those kinds of comments can thrive, which is evident in the same link I posted where you can see what I'm referring to.
I wish I realized what financial independence is earlier, even making good money I'm still poor/negative net worth due to my dumb decisions earlier on. Trying to be better this time around then I won't be so concerned/can just pivot.
Historically Firefox did have a GDI fallback for certain fonts specifically to address this user complaint, in order to make them look "right". I don't know when/if it was removed.

The pref name is 'gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families'. I believe it may have just enabled a GDI compatibility mode for DirectWrite, but I'm not sure if that uses the GDI rasterizer under the hood or not.
Then it is not trunk-based, it is still PR based. I would also wonder how bigger features would get developed, without littering it across multiple pull requests and feature flags to make sure the code still compiles.
The idea that graphite may contain in inclusions that are superconducting at room temperature is highly speculative (putting it mildly) and not an idea that is taken seriously in the condensed matter physics community.
The smartest people I’ve ever worked with to date were from physics grad school. Still remember the time my coworker was doing code profiling, decided he was unhappy that the exponential function from the standard library was too slow, and decided to write a Taylor series approximation that gave him the precision he needed and cut the run time in half. He also learned C++ in a weekend and was vastly better at it by the end of that weekend than most people I’ve met in industry. And these were just every day occurrences that made it a thrill to go to work. Working with talented people is a drug.

Some tips for younger people considering it: get involved in undergraduate research, apply to fellowships, shop for an advisor with a good reputation, start anticipating and preparing for an industry transition early, travel, date, and enjoy life!
>Tool selection has been a tough nut to crack, especially when the “toolbox” gets really big.

This really comes down to your tool design. It's more about crafting really high quality descriptions and examples versus worrying about any kind of prompting directly to the agent about usage. Make the tool highly self evident and the agent will naturaly use it.
AI will not replace software engineers.

But it will most likely lower their pay into "normal" engineering compensation territory.
> Oh, that's not a very high bar now, not being the last :)

Well, your argument was that it wasn't possible, so at least we both agree now that you were wrong there.

> they put the foundations of the high standard of living that you enjoy now.

Again, the crux of the argument is that I believe our institutions and governments are the reason we have high standard of living, not because there was three German companies who were innovative ~100-200 years ago.

I don't even understand how the innovations of those companies are related to the quality of life in Sweden, for example, but I think we've lost the thread in this discussion a while ago so maybe better to not continue at all.
The industrialization of coding is not a new thing though, all sorts of tooling and standardisation could be described in the same terms. An LLM is just another gizmo that may or may not make the assembly line move faster.
Irrelevant. It's greater than the AI's percentage.
Wow, that's amazing! I had somehow never heard of this before despite being into numeral systems. Thank you for sharing!
Unless you insist that open source means "there can be absolutely no limits whatsoever on the use of the source code" (which is not an unreasonable position), then they still fit into many people's sense of open source - they can do anything they would want to do with it.

The people I know who have added clauses like this do not believe they are breaking the spirit of open source; I'm not here to insist that they are right or wrong.
I dislike the company, I like the product - I have built several small apps on the platform and nothing has ever been "no code" as they like to advertise, but hot damn was I able to throw together something useful for the business in less than a day and have people using it as quickly. As an engineer I find it incredibly valuable for making these low-to-medium value LOB apps that don't justify the man-hours to build, deploy, and fight tech debt for a full-stack web application, at least when factoring in the tradeoff for license costs.
"Why is everyone trying to replace software engineers?" – Is this an oxymoron?

Companies will always look for ways to save money, and headcount is usually the biggest cost
If you don't use Linux it will end up as a dead project, no one is going to use redox.
Just the low brow, chum bucket stuff

I think, as software devs, we sometimes kid ourselves with respect to how many of us are working on low brow, chum bucket stuff.

Most of us are not working on GPU based real time physics engines. What most of us do is, well, not rocket science. Even people working in "hard" areas are not really doing the "hard" work. Most game engine developers are using libraries, they aren't developing shaders. Most AI developers are, in actuality, TF or PyTorch monkeys, not real AI experts.

I think devs who move to writing code in areas where problems have not yet been solved will still be necessary. But yeah, not sure devs pushing out another web app will be all that necessary over the next decade.
>Adept at prompting and reviewing code instead of writing code.

Don't you need to write your own fair share of code (especially bad code) to judge what gets shipped? LLMs solve the problem of "producing code," but I don't think it necessary follows that LLMs solve the more important problem of "delivering value."

If you're Organization X and are in partnership with Organization Y to produce an integrated solution, an LLM might know how to call some bespoke API between the orgs. But you probably need to have skilled humans to know those APIs' inevitable weirdnesses: unintentional rate limits, resource-constraint edge cases, race conditions, etc.
[Putting my dusty Linux Distro Maintainer Hat on]

First of all, I wholeheartedly applaud Marcan for carrying the project this far. They, both as individuals and as a team proper, did great things. What I can say is a rest is well deserved at this point, because he really poured his soul into this and worn himself down.

On the other hand, I'll need to say something, however not in bad faith. He needs to stop fighting with the winds he can't control. Users gonna be users, and people gonna be people. Everyone won't be happy, never ever. Even you integrate from applications to silicon level, not everyone is happy what Apple has accomplished technically. Even though Linux is making the world go on, we have seen friction now and then (tipping my hat to another thing he just went through), so he need to improve his soft skills.

Make no mistake, I'm not making this comment from high above. I was extremely bad at it, and I was bullied online and offline for a decade, and it didn't help to be on the right side of the argument, either. So, I understand how it feels and how he's heartbroken and fuming right now, and rightly so. However, humans are not an exact science, and learning to work together with people with strong technical chops is a literal superpower.

I wish Hector a speedy recovery, a good rest and a bright future. I want to finish with the opening page of Joel Spolsky's "Joel on Software":

Technical problems are easy, people are hard.

Godspeed Hector. I'm waiting for your return.
Thank You. Nice. Fennel lang
This is absolutely not the history I have lived through.
A few questions.

First, maybe Linux just is bound to always be a C only project. Linus Torvalds infamously dislikes C++, its sorta odd he didn't shut down Rust for Linux in the first place. Redox is on its way...

Second, there are multiple types of compensation. I think the author was probably looking to be compensated in validation from others. Maybe if Linus Torvalds, replied to his email the author would be more inclined to continue.

However, I can't be mad at someone for deciding how they want to spend their time. You only have so many hours in the day.

Would be cool if Qualcomm hired Marcan and worked with an OEM to roll out a series of Arm Linux laptops. That's what we ultimately want.
Hey :)

Creator of MeetingBaas here

We're actually thinking of open-sourcing our bots too!
Every time each one of these actions finally appears in front of a court, it is almost always stopped in whole or part.

There's a growing list I don't have handy but easy to google

I get part of the strategy is exhaustion and make sure no-one wants to ever work for federal government again but what exactly happens when they run out of agencies to destroy and refuse court orders to restore?
That link is still 90% garbage I didn’t ask for.
> Sometimes I wonder, may be we could remake twitter with Rails again to see how well it goes.

Mastodon is written in Ruby on Rails (:
There's something to say here about getting the paid opportunity to spend several years thinking deeply about a problem without distraction. You'll make more money working at a startup or big tech churning out features each sprint, but usually you'd be very lucky to get a day or two to explore tangential ideas before the next project deadline in comparison.

Some people aren't optimizing for money so it's not best to compare on those terms.
State Department Revises Plan to Buy Armored Teslas
Sure, here's two:
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60235

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/is-government-too-big-ref...

Every publication I've looked at has the overall spending for federal employee salaries as around 280 billion. The total budget is around 6 trillion.
Counter point though- what if it was trained on your specific code base? Wouldn't it be able to then help with those given nuances?

The code base I have I would love to be able to just give some AI free reign and learn the structure since a lot of it is fairly repetitive; I know it would be so easy to say "hey add X just like Y" and it would be able to do it easily.
Works much better on greenfield projects. Brownfield requires the LLM to have ingested your codebase and all the libraries you're using. That's why tools such as DeepSeek are exciting because that potentially opens up the door to much better brownfield development - which is where the real value lies!
TFA directly recommends this, as well as other good alternatives.
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This looks like posidrive, not Philips.
What are you talking about? Wired, Verge, 404 suddenly find themselves covering life-or-death stuff for the US, and they're doing a great job.
They keep claiming to find “fraud” but to me it just looks like spending on things they don’t like.
You know, though, it would probably be possible to develop a pretty fast "deterministic" execution environment if you just limit execution to a single thread, still not resorting to full emulation. You'd still have to deal with differences between CPUs, but it would probably not be nearly as big of an issue. And it would slow down builds, but on the other hand, you can do a lot of them in parallel. This could be pretty interesting if you combined it with trying to integrate build system output directly into the Nix DAG, because then you could get back some of the intra-build parallelism, too. Wouldn't be applicable for Nixpkgs since it would require ugly IFD hacks, but might be interesting for a development setup.

Perhaps it's an area worth researching.
Trump's State Department Could Spend $400M on 'Armored' Teslas
It does say "This is a developing story, please check back for updates."
I have an EE degree. Pleasure to meet you.
The solution that would liberate Google and not generate confusion and hostility would be for Estonians to use a European mapping service. Better yet, an Estonian one.
Creator of MeetingBaaS here (sorry for the double ping), you actually start lower than $1 / hour, rather $0.69 / hour and that scales down quite fast

Unfortunately cloud infrastructure has a cost :/
It's a valuable product. Salesforce knows this, and prices accordingly, which is why everybody hates salesforce but still pays them.
> It would make Macs more attractive as developer machines, and I don't see how it would disadvantage them.

The only development they want is development inside XCode. Anything else is a hard no.
Im pretty sure he specifically said the cancer was trying to inter-op 2 languages in a code base and not Rust. Even went on to say that he thinks Rust is good and recommends people implement new Greenfield projects in it.
well my dev teams are using Flyway. So, I may not be reasoning correctly. You’re right, a copy-paste can happen quickly. I will modify the code according to your remark.
Exactly, self driving for example on paper seems like an easy task to automate, you only need to make a decision for the upcoming 2 seconds, and still sucks at it, because it needs 100% accuracy, 90% is fatal and useless
This place is full of wannabe technofascists.
> Everyone sees writing a book as borderline undoable

I would think the opposite. Surely everyone thinks they could write a book?
Oh look this has already been flagged.

I think it’s important to recognize that HN is most likely supportive of the Trump/Musk regime. Remember that Gary Tan wanted to run the same playbook in the city of San Francisco.

Please keep this in mind when posting here.

Finally, depending on where we end up, I wonder how history will remember HN.
Everything is being normalized, or salonfähig if you like that word.
Kind of like the EU overreach on privacy. Whether it’s for a good cause or a bad one, these sorts of overreach are to be opposed.
I think that they are having a good think about what they are doing, but I believe that, in cutting key agencies that protect consumers from corporations, their personal goals are simply not aligned with the goals that would be helping the country.
> focusing on AI, automating different internal processes, and centralizing data from across the federal government.

So billions are going to be wasted with nothing to show for it in the end.
I'm not sure about why they are upset with the issue of upstreaming the changes into the kernal.

They want to upstream drivers for a device that the creator of clearly has no interest in allowing others to use outside of their walled garden. The knowledge around it is from a massive , albeit impressive, RE effort.

Who is going to support it? Where is the demand for it? It would be different if Apple were to provide patches and drivers for their own hardware, at least then you know there is a vested interest in supporting the hardware from the people who know it better than anyone else and have the means to continue supporting it.

I applaud Hector and everyone else that contributes to Asahi, its genuinely a cool project and the progress they have made is insanely impressive given the lack of any official documentation about the hardware they are working on, but its one of these things that will remain in the realm of a cool curiosity much like running Linux on a games console.
> have more time to do what they like instead

With what money?
Fair bit of whiplash seeing my local metro system on one of the examples haha, Tyne and Wear metro FTW!
Widespread pre-emptive testing was not what Theranos tried. Defrauding investors that the technology existed for widespread, inexpensive pre-emptive testing even at small scale is what Theranos tried.

There is almost certainly gold in them hills if you dig deep enough and survey systematically enough, but Theranos started with precise coordinates, claiming they'd "found it", and demanded investors for a mine, while privately they were thinking "If we don't find it on the surface, who cares, we got paid, this is how VC works".
I've remailed Dang twice now (and I suggest you do the same), it needs to be addressed. Maybe the flag tool removed or throttled for a period of time.
It's paywalled. Someone posted a snapshot [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43037571
The thing that frightens me is that the objective here is the explicit inverse of Chesterton's Fence: In dismantling these agencies, the DOGE team's intent is to cause the exact cascade of dysfunction that Chesterton warned about.

Elon Musk (and the billionaire class he represents) doesn't want a functioning CFPB because it doesn't serve him (or them). It will take a little while for them to fully sabotage the IRS and DOE as well, but they're working their way up to it.
There's plenty of waste and fraud, as there was under Trump's first term and Biden's.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/12/17/...
This part of the post is being overlooked:

Then 2024 happened. Last year was incredibly tumultuous for me due to personal reasons which I won’t go into detail about. Suffice it to say, I ended up traveling for most of the year, all the while having to handle various abusers and stalkers who harassed and attacked me and my family (and continue to do so).

This is _not_ ok in any form, what the actual hell?
AI or Die
The benefit is intangible and honestly if they didn't have the opportunity to pursue a PhD they wouldn't leave the country. They would do what the 99% of people like them who are unable to pursue a PhD in their chosen topic do, work another job and publish a smaller body of work in a less prestigious setting. The fact of the matter is that those are not the 1,600 people who have the ability to earn a PhD in English or Literature, it's the ones who's interests and personal profile afforded them the opportunity.

Now to be clear, I'm not saying that this work is unimportant. Intangible benefits are (despite the name) very real and do benefit the nation. It's just a much more complicated than engineering PhDs making stronger forms of concrete or whatever.
> because his intentions with the "Hall of shame" are different from this quote.

Aha, I thought it was referring to the same "event"/context but it clearly didn't. Thank you for the correction.
When I was an undergrad I had an engineering internship with the army Corp of Enigineers every summer in the 1990s.

It was a very professional environment. I ended up going to the private sector after (they had a RIF (reduction in force)) the year I graduated. But the government employment pitch was more stability, less compensation, better work life balance.

Honestly the engineering process wasn’t too different. The government projects were strictly funded, and used these cost codes where you had to bill every hour to a project. This was a PITA. The quality of the engineering designs wasn’t different.

The government job had some inefficienies because of a lot of process. Eg we got a plotter running and wanted to try a few different pens, so we ordered a small sampling. It got held up while they looked for cheaper prices, a process that probably cost more than the pens my boss pointed out. but I can see why they would try that process for big ticket items. When I ended up at a big company it was frankly similar.

One of my first engineering jobs in the private sector was capping a landfill that went privately managed, then when the management left they found 5 drums on site. Any savings by having the government turn over that contract were wasted by having us deal with that (turned out the drums were all rusted out, the contents long gone).
I do not understand why we have not long ago adopted a national ID. This could be used for voting, for validating work eligibility, for potentially reducing whatever Medicare/Social Security fraud might actually exist, etc. Concerns for elderly, poor and otherwise disadvantaged people could be addressed by a relatively small amount of money to help those people acquire an ID. We would be lightyears better off than the current patchwork system of insecure social security cards, state driver's licenses, birth certificates and passports.

I can only conclude that there are too many people benefitting from the current stupid situation.
I'd suggest spending more time revisiting your calendar/remembering your current work, and/or finding what's not worth it any more. That way, you can either better say 'no' at the moment of new proposals, or make space for more important work as it comes up. Rather than have looming things that actually aren't as important as the mental space they've occupied.
wild, it's obvious to me even in miniature and even more at 1x size, and I don't even have my glasses on