skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it starts to be interesting because wasm modules are so lightweight it opens interesting ways of orchestration.

Each node can easily have copy of every deployed module.

Having modules locally means you can skip network and just call functions in memory directly.

Startup time is also tiny.

Scaling by replication is so efficient that it becomes a whole new thing (on demand, extremely high upper limits, write easy serial code everywhere and scale it for concurrency).

etc.

The whole thing is lightweight and performant enough that it could as well be part of OS.

Looks like early days of the future and like people say has potential of dethroning docker.

K8s will probably eventually have first class support for wasm but it may not dovetail so much with their current setup.

If they don't keep up somebody else is going create wasm orchestration that takes advantage of that and this wasm-native orchestration seems to be doing just that.

Ie. this "link" type looks like wasm linking, it's a bit like dynamic linking of libraries for native apps.
I trust the quality control of the Linux kernel devs a lot more than the semantics of a language.
What is this innate need to have “passion” for a job?

I was a hobbyist programmer from 1986-1992 programming in Basic and assembly. But after that, it became a means to an end - to support my need for food, clothes and shelter while doing other things that I enjoyed. I went to college, enjoyed the college life and got my degree.

I spent 1998 - 2012, hanging out with friends, teaching fitness classes more as a social outlet than a second job, had a bad 4 year marriage in between.

I got remarried in 2012, stop teaching, started taking my career more seriously while raising a 9 and 14 year old (step sons) and when the youngest one graduated in 2020 and after COVID lifted, my wife and I hang out after work, we travel and she pursues her hobbies and I pursue mine.

There has never been one day that I thought “I can’t wait to get home after spending all day on computers to spend more time on my computer”
..not "dead meat when it was produced." For example, I have a rack somewhere with TrashMacs from 2019 running Debian. The effort to maintain LINUX on that hardware is well worth it in 2025 because those systems provide relevant functions (mainly due to their ECC memory and ability to run unmodified industry-standard software for Xenon processors).

I probably should have written something simple like "m1..m4 will age like Chromebooks" but I have a lot of simultaneous tasks going on.

BTW, thanks for not downvoting and I apologize for accusing you of doing it. Let's chalk it up to Apple employees (who, from my perspective, are a type of lost souls). Never be afraid to say what you need to say!
The marshmallow test without a control for whether the child is hungry and/or how recently they've been fed is worthless.
Dont hate the player, hate the game :))

The USA system is made this way. There are other systems in the world (namely the scandinavian countries) that don't allow individuals to accumulate that amount of wealth.
Why not a text editor?
This isn't the first time a new language is proposed for the kernel though.

At some point there was some brief discussion for C++ in the kernel and that was essentially immediately killed by Linus. And he was essentially right.
And yet you went out of your way to include your name in your HN username. Even with what little power and money you have, your vanity shines through.

No, I'd imagine if you had $200B we'd see your name everywhere.
Overall, this whole situation seems entirely weird to me. All this stuff such as Unix, Linux, and C ecosystem was build by C programmers and maintained for decades mostly voluntarily, while most of the industry pushed into other directions (with a gigantic influx of money). It is completely amazing that Linux become so successful against all the odds. Certainly it also then had a lot industry support, but I used it already before most of this and witnessed all the development. But somehow, C programmers are now suddenly portrayed as the evil gatekeepers, not stepping aside fast enough, because some want to see change. In the past, the people wanting to see something new in the open-source community would need to convince the community by building better things, not by pushing aggressively into existing projects.
LibreOffice is such a great software, not just among open source but software in general.
> The Church did not build its empire on restricting that

Masses were often held in Latin, printed material was typically written in Latin and Greek, and access to translated texts was frequently prohibited or admonished. They tried hard to silence those like Wycliffe who made the Bible more readily available to the masses, and he was posthumously denounced as a heretic by the Church. They absolutely wielded information as a tool of oppression.

This is not a hill to die on, the historical facts are clear despite the efforts of the Church.

> What the printing press did was rapidly increase the amount, type, range and speed of information spread

Sure, but that's not the only thing it did.
Maintainers can't yank out code if that leads to feature, performance or user space regressions.
Meaning of this code has not changed since Rust 1.0. It wasn't a language change, nor even anything in the standard library. It's just a hack that the poster wanted to work, and realized it won't work (it never worked).

This is equivalent of a C user saying "I'm disappointed that replacing a function with a macro is a breaking change".

Rust had actual changes that broke people's code. For example, any ambiguity in type inference is deliberately an error, because Rust doesn't want to silently change meaning of users' code. At the same time, Rust doesn't promise it won't ever create a type inference ambiguity, because it would make any changes to traits in the standard library almost impossible. It's a problem that happens rarely in practice, can be reliably detected, and is easy to fix when it happens, so Rust chose to exclude it from the stability promise. They've usually handled it well, except recently miscalculated "only one package needed to change code, and they've already released a fix", but forgot to give users enough time to update the package first.
Would it make you feel better if you told your dog there was a pill in the peanut butter? I don't think that would stop them from eating it.
I wouldn't say it's what makes the ultra-rich possible, but it certainly makes things easier for them.
Foreign aid is (was) 1% of the US budget
It doesn't hurt the government, though. The first order effect is new tax revenues they don't have to source elsewhere.
I am by no means a religious person (ex-Christian, in fact), but 1 Timothy 6:10 seems applicable here.

> For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Tatas made money by selling opium to China and other not so noble things. Ratan got adopted into fortune he did not create that fortune.
imagine if any Saas could be built using AI for ~$1.
Android would still come with the kernel development caveats which is where Asahi is having the most trouble. Android's HALs help abstract the userspace portion of drivers, but if you need to be in kernel space you're still stuck dealing with Linux. You could stick to just doing forks of the LTS releases, but then you're choosing between less-frequent-but-bigger merge conflicts every couple years vs. small-but-constant merge conflicts continuously.
We installed it, tried it, and paid for a license.

Then we learned about the password recovery mechanism, the non-logging of useful things, and the support system.

I recommend it highly to certain people, but not people I like.
There's something about Rust that draws Zealots (or draws out zealotry in people). It's not at Haskell's level, but there are several culty elements for the fanatics: secret knowledge, being 'chosen' or set aside from the ignorant plebians, and an unshakable belief in a form of rapture when the language will inevitably win when everyone realizes the superiority of monads/memory safety.
It's not about the money, it's for fun and/or belief in the mission.

I agree with you for someone that has a miserable client-service job, such as an investment banker that is still slaving away so he can keep up with the Joneses.

But Musk, Zuckerberg, Ellison can do whatever the fuck they want. They don't need to take shit from anyone, and they get to build products and shape the world.

Musk, for example, wants to get humans to Mars. To the extent he cares about money anymore, it's in service of that goal, which does require a LOT of resources.
Race isn't a biological concept, but a social one, and it unfortunately has very real impacts.
>"Now she's 13, knows it all, and doesn't want to be picked up anymore. And I tell you, I wish I never had a smartphone at all."

Geez this hits hard. I've been pretty aware of it though, so I try to spend as much time with my daughter as possible without smothering her. I tell my wife almost daily that she's going to regret not getting off her smartphone and spending more time with her when she could. I'm not some soothsayer, but it seems pretty obvious to me.
Perhaps the issue there is in electing a government that wishes to crush critics by creatively interpreting the law, and not the existence of IRBs.
I only worry about organizing the things that cannot be forgotten, like customer communication and feature requests. For customer communication I use Intercom, and for features I use Linear. I also use Linear to plan out the product roadmap and organize my thoughts on why I am building certain features.

Everything else is a bit chaotic because there is so much to do. In the morning I take care of any customer communication that happened overnight, and always prioritize taking care of the customers first throughout the day. That way nothing is forgotten and if you answer customers quickly you can usually resolve matters quickly instead of them dragging on for multiple days.

For features, I prioritize anything that is blocking my sales pipeline, then features that were requested by customers, and after both of those are taken care of I focus on the larger long-term projects.

If there is any time left over, that is where the marketing takes place. This usually only happens once or twice a year for a day. Not saying it's right, but it is the reality. I always have big plans for marketing, but just need to get that new large system pushed first to really tie the messaging together.
I used the first version of Phind for some time and loved it. As Perplexity and ChatGPT got better, I started shifting more of my traffic back to them. Excited to see y’all still in the race and giving competators a run for their money. I appreciate your focus on developers as an audience, might give you an edge over tools serving a broader base.
I was imagining high speed 4 wheel drifting and momentum preserving gymkhana turns.
Whoa, okay I really like how it can generate diagrams on the fly to explain complex workflows.
Some people didn't know they had a bird flu infection, study suggests
I thought this meant the website was a failure... and looking at it, I think its due to become one.
OP said "As long as this is not delivered"

There is nothing to deliver that would satisfy this argument. Pretending like the disagreement is about a failure of the R4L folks to do "enough" when in fact there is nothing they could do is toxic behavior.

If you go back digging in the LKML archives, Christoph's initial response to Rust was more of a "let's prove it can be useful first with some drivers"

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YOVNJuA0ojmeLvKa@infradead.org/

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YOW2auE24e888TBE@infradead.org/

That has now been done. People (particularly Marcan) spent thousands of hours writing complex and highly functional drivers in Rust and proved out the viability, and now the goalposts are being moved.

R4L people are allowed to get upset about people playing lucy-with-the-football like this wasting their f***ing time.
It doesn't columnize.
Just curious if there are any women left on HN?
https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric-emissions

I think I overstated my case, its not as bad as I thought.
It must be said that from an outsider's point a view, in quite a few aspects it very much sounds like a cult.

Get an HN article about C++, and you can be certain the comment section is going to deteriorate at some point into a religious war mentioning Rust. Get an article about Rust, and there is going to be drama in the comments.

As a programmer that could potential consider Rust, it is off-putting.
Ellison no doubt genuinely thinks that such an effort is his highest calling, the best contribution he can possibly make to humanity's well-being.

In a more enlightened society, one not prone to misusing information to persecute one another, he'd arguably be right.
This is amazing. I paid for Phind many months ago for coding QnA. However, this is a much better product and even beats Perplexity, ChatGPT premium, etc. Congratulations to the Phind team!
EnCharge raises $100M+ to accelerate AI using analog chips
marcan wasn't even involved directly in the leadership crisis and made himself the martyr/scapegoat.

That's the entire problem.

He threw a shitfit after the situation was already being handled (not ideally, but handled), got the slightest bit of pushback from Linus and then threw all of his toys away but with high publicity.
Hopefully this gets merged into the kernel. I could use this, but don't want to have to maintain my own kernel builds.
> business decisions getting in the way of gamers enjoying games should never be something that is settled for.

That's between the game dev and his customer. None of a card dev's business.
In theoretical CS, I've seen Steps 4–8 called "the monad tutorial fallacy."

https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuiti...
"America is awesome for ambitious people" FTFY
If for whatever reason you want to think about what might happen if AI systems get smarter than humans, then extrapolation and speculation are all you've got.

If for whatever reason you suspect that there might be value in thinking about what might happen if AI systems get smarter than humans before it actually happens, then you don't have much choice about doing that.

What do you think he should have done differently? Methodologically, I mean. (No doubt you disagree with his conclusions too, but necessarily any "object-level" reasons you have for doing so are "extrapolation and speculation" just as much as his are.)

If astronomical observations strongly suggested a fleet of aliens heading our way, building a giant laser might not be such a bad idea, though it wouldn't be my choice of response.
You are implying that if you can communicate but have nothing backing it up that's worth 95%? If anything code can still be taken as is and understood by someone else. So to me it's always most important to be able to produce anything before being able to communicate.
it's like saying to people that they cannot add for example npu subsystem to kernel because they should first work for 10 years in other subsystems like filesystems on with they know little about.

sound absurd? just replace subsystems in above with C/Rust and the rest is the same.

Folks that maintain rust are responsible for rust code, if they won't deliver what is needed, their rust subsystem will fail, not C codebase, so it's in their own interests to keep things smooth.

my feeling is that some people think that C is the elite language and rust is just something kids like to play with nowadays, they do not want learn why some folks like that language or what it even is about.

I think the same discussion is when Linux people hate systemd, they usually have single argument that it's agains Unix spirit and have no other arguments without understanding why other thinks may like that init system.
Most people use Facebook primarily through text. Are Facebook users more thoughtful than the average person?
Reasonable assumptions would not assume you to assuming the US' top medical bureaucrat being a conspiracy theorist who denies the existence of HIV (and asserts AIDS is environmental and that anti-retroviral drugs are dangerous toxins).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#HIV/AIDS... ("Robert F. Kennedy Jr.#HIV/AIDS denialism")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Anthony_Fauci

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/rfk-aids-hiv-hh...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/opinion/kennedys-views-on...
Furthermore it's not just that it didn't look identical to the rest of the OS. There is in fact no culture for Windows apps to conform to the platform specific look and feel. A long time ago people were discussing inconsistent ClearType use in Microsoft's own apps like Office and Internet Explorer: it turned out that both Office and IE had their own settings for enabling or ignoring ClearType. In my opinion, that choice should belong to the OS and should never be given to app developers.
I just want a summary of search results with linked sources.
This article is just a mess. It constantly switches contexts between speed and data usage. In the paragraph about White House task force projections it implies they were wrong but switches between speed/data usage context to justify the claim. It also bounces between mobile and wired, which are obviously very different.

It's obvious that mobile data usage is constrained by available user time in mobile usage contexts. People use their mobile devices when they aren't busy doing something else and that time is limited. Most people are at the limit. Previous growth was driven both by adding more per user hours AND by adding new users. The author only showing data for overall bandwidth consumption masks the real drivers of the trends being discussed.

Mobile speed requirements are constrained by being a ~6-inch hand-held screen. You don't need 4K or ultra-res textures on a 6-inch screen.
Not even close to 100%, the reason that it feels like every major C codebase in industry is pinned to some ancient compiler version is because upgrading to a new toolchain is fraught. The fact that most Rust users are successfully tracking relatively recent versions of the toolchain is a testament to how stable Rust actually is in practice (an upgrade might take you a few minutes per million lines of code).
> Philosophical question: how is LLM-produced code that nobody has ever understood any different from human-written legacy code that nobody alive today understands?

- There is zero option of paying an obscene amount of money to find the person and make the problem 'go away'

- There is a non-zero possibility that the code is not understandable by any developer you can afford. By this I mean that the system exhibits the desired behavior, but is written in such a way that only someone like Mike Pall* can understand.

* Mike Pall is a robot from the future
> You said that a few days ago.... And a few before that... And a few....

Aha, so already they're studying induction.
Thanks for clarifying. I took a look as well, and the very first reply confirms your opinion and that of the GP's parent. Plenty of downvotes and comments that come after criticizing the maintainers, "I am not sure how @rust-lang/libs-api can look at 5400 regressions and say "eh, that's fine"."

Not sure why people are trying to cover this up.
With a guaranteed salary of $300k/yr and unlimited free time I could do whatever the fuck I want. I'd plant a garden, brew beer, work on fun home/shop automation projects, build cool car stuff. All while being paid handsomely to do so. And I'd travel, go sailing, go hiking, go snowboarding. But I have no delusions of grandeur about "getting humans to Mars" or whatever, that shit sounds stressful, and like a waste of life.
Offencive Codeberg Email
today, i checked my email and i got this email

[HARD N WORD] BALLS

and i thought this was some 5yr old but then codeberg said that they have handled it

it coming from truth/truth
A lot of political posts have gotten flagged lately, ostensibly for not being technology-related, but this one is explicitly about tech and software (and AI, no less). Can we get it restored?
Sure, it turns out there was no big Trump/Russia conspiracy. But there were a lot of signs of Russian interference in the elections that was certain worth an investigation -- which did its job and then submitted its report, like lots of other special investigations. When you think about it, it's much more of an important topic to investigate than whether Clinton got a blow job in the Oval Office. So I disagree that it was a "witch hunt" and therefore agree that Trump's labeling it as such was disinformation. Basically 90% (pulled that number out of the hat, but feels pretty close) of what Trump said while in office was incorrect, disinformation, or straight out lies. I mean, he's so far outside the normal distribution that there's no other president to compare him with. So yeah, I'd be training journalists to label Trump's speech as disinformation too.
Cite that this actually happens?

Note that “this person is a psychologist and is employed by Meta working on user research” is not evidence that supports the statement you made.
I wonder what a poorer version of your current self would say about what you are doing day-to-day.
I recently read a report that with latest tax rises by new government, UK is now taxing and spending (as percentage of GDP) the same as mainland European countries like Germany/France. Traditionally both have been been less (not as low as US I think).
Trump has been talking openly about starting DOGE during his campaign. People voted for it.
Windows machines already support Linux on the hardware level. Getting an Intel or AMD CPU to virtualize a Linux kernel is simple. Worst case scenario is an Nvidia GPU, but since you only need the compute drivers in WSL you avoid Nvidia's graphical issues. There isn't any work required since the OEMs already did it, the only thing required is Hyper-V.

Apple is selling a custom CPU core that has no driver support for anything but XNU with a BSD userland. It doesn't support UEFI, it depends on Devicetree bindings and would demand constant updating and support to render a "first class" Linux experience. Once again, anyone with a protracted interest in staying supported by upstream Linux should not be using a Mac and praying the community cares enough to make it good. Apple knows it's a novelty, and they're not going to take it seriously because that's just what they do. MacOS and the App Store is profitable, Linux is not.
I think it's a framing from somebody outside the US. The current US administration didn't just happen. When you could no longer compete under the terms you yourself set. You decided to elect a nationalist leader that would flip the table.

It's a framing that doesn't let the American public distance themselves from their own elected officials. He is your president.
Another great thing about PhD programs is you generally don’t end them with 6 figures in college debt from the degree. As long as you get the PhD in something that gives you a marketable skill, it’s not going to hurt too much vs all the MBAs and Lawyers I know with a ton of debt and just marginally increased career choices.
> Could you provide citations for some of the above? I’m interested in reading more about them

Sure. These are some off the top of my head, but I can get some more substantive stuff later

Morris Chang - https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/14/taiwan-tech-king-pe...

The development of Korea's Automotive Industry - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1984/10/07/s...

Tata's lobbying - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tata-m...