MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tsimionescu | 2025-04-13 16:52:34+00:00
The FCC-ee is an intermediate goal, which will probe similar collisions as the LHC but at higher precisions. It is also a direct successor as the LEP which was housed in the LHC tunnel, so in this sense it is very much about "moar energy" than the previous electron-positron collider that CERN had. They're also hoping against hope that maybe they'll identify some rare collisions and even dark matter at the energy ranges that they couldn't probe before (at the LEP) with such high precision (at the LHC).

Then, when the tech for it is ready, the FCC-ee will be replaced by the FCC-hh, which is the successor of the LHC and can probe energy levels that are completely unaccessible at the moment - at about 5-6 times the energy level of the LHC. This is the true goal of the FCC project, and the biggest reason for building such a huge tunnel in the first place. But this requires significant advancements in magnets and other components which won't be available for several decades. So, they're filling in that time with the FCC-ee.
by soupfordummies | 2025-04-13 16:52:51+00:00
Yeah, I agree that such a feature definitely does have its uses.

HOWEVER... that is a feature that you specifically purposely chose and then made active on your machine. That's NOT a feature that your OS pushed on you over and over and all you had to do was not remember to turn it off every month when it re-enabled itself. Because that's how Windows features like this have been implemented for the last several years.
by shippage | 2025-04-13 16:53:15+00:00
It's strange seeing posts about aphasia on HN every so often. When I was a teen, I suffered a stroke secondary to a TBI that had happened a few days before. As a result, I developed global aphasia and lost my internal monologue. I don't think in words anymore except when I'm either conversing with or thinking about conversing with someone else. To this day, English feels like a second language to me even though it's my native language, and I still have lingering anomic aphasia.

Some days are better than others, and it does affect my ability to code on worse days because I can't remember the names of even common API functions (thank goodness for IDE suggestions!), and if I'm in a lot of meetings in a day, I'm utterly exhausted by the end of the day from the mental effort of trying to tease out meaning from context when there are words in the middle of sentences that have no meaning for me. It's not really something I talk about, so only my husband and my doctor knows about it.

Probably the most annoying part, besides the embarrassment when I can't remember a common word, is the way my brain keeps wanting to file words in the same slot that doesn't work. So I see a word again, know that I used to know what it meant, look it up and for maybe 30 minutes if I'm lucky, I'll remember the word and its definition, but later that day, I'll have forgotten it again.

At least for me, it feels humiliating to forget even common words like "ice" or "screwdriver," and end up saying something unintelligible like, "Could you bring me the thing for the thing so I can do the thing?" along with vague gestures that my husband, to his patient credit, often understands.

In the end, I just have to quietly power through and do the best I can, and I suspect others in the same boat keep quiet about it, too, so I wanted to finally talk about it. To all of you, stay strong, be kind to yourself, and take the time you need to process information.
by graemep | 2025-04-13 16:53:28+00:00
I can understand that. My ex wife is currently after money from me after years of refusing to work (even when we really needed the money) - and I did more than half the work in looking after our kids too. Just to explain, divorce, child arrangements, and divorce finance are separate cases here.

We do not have tax breaks for being married here in the UK. There is one tiny advantage if one person does not have a taxable income, but is pretty small.

On the other hand I also (as I said in other comments) know women (and it is still almost entirely women) who have not got a fair deal financial because they were not married, but gave up work to look after the kids/be a home maker. That is just as unfair.
by the_snooze | 2025-04-13 16:53:43+00:00
I'm in the same boat. I want my computing tools to feel like a musical instrument: stable and predictable, very capable but requires skill and learning to use well, and serves me instead of drawing attention to itself. Let me get into a flow state and focus on the task at hand. Working in a terminal is that.

If UIs are constantly shifting or if there are popups telling you about a "cool" new feature, then that software feels less interested in serving the user and more serving its developers. I don't want the manic Silicon Valley hype-of-the-month when I have other more important things to do than fight with technology that's supposed to be helping me (and me exclusively).
by jmclnx | 2025-04-13 16:54:13+00:00
This is close to what I do, but my Window managers of choice is fvwm and cwm depending on screen size.

I dread the day we are forced to move to wayland, in that environment one is forced to use a Desktop Environment or a Tiling WM.

Luckily, the site works well in lynx. The colors under Firefox was atrocious for me.
by tsimionescu | 2025-04-13 16:55:54+00:00
> No one thinks new particles will be discovered.

Blatantly false. Plenty of FCC docs from CERN itself mention the possibility that new particles could be discovered, from dark matter to axions. They even think they could help gather data to guide searches for supersymmetric partners.

[edited to add links and quotes]

https://fcc-cdr.web.cern.ch/reports/EPPSU18_FCCint.pdf

> In addition to the dark matter examples given before, Volume 1 documents the extraordinary sensitivity to less-than-weakly coupled particles, ranging from heavy sterile neutrinos (see Fig. 5, right) down to the see-saw limit in a part of parameter space favourable for generating the baryon asymmetry of the Universe, to axions and dark photons.

https://fcc.web.cern.ch/physics

> Future searches at lepton and proton colliders would further constrain any viable scenarios and put progressively tighter bounds to SUSY candidate particles. Searches could profit from data collected at the FCCs as they will allow better discrimination of the Standard Model backgrounds but also deliver more information for event reconstruction.
by strcat | 2025-04-13 16:56:19+00:00
The changes are overstated and it really changes very little for GrapheneOS. See https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21315-explanation-of-recent....

Android already published the full source code for Stable releases but barely anything for Beta releases. They didn't publish anything for upcoming releases with support for new devices. AOSP main branch received most changes through the Stable releases being merged into it. Most components were developed internally. Certain components were developed publicly in AOSP so they had to repeatedly merge back and forth between the internal and public main branches.

GrapheneOS would benefit from having early access to the monthly, quarterly and yearly releases as Android OEM partners do. The only benefit of having access to the main development branch would be the ability to backport more fixes than they do along with doing it earlier. We occasionally backported fixes from AOSP main for the few components developed publicly through it, which is what's going to be mostly going away. It was a big help to us as access to the upcoming quarterly and yearly releases would be. Monthly updates are too small for it to really matter but it'd still help.

Also worth noting the monthly security patch backports (Android Security Bulletins) are a separate thing from the new OS release each month. Those are backports of many of the High and Critical severity patches to older Android versions, often a month or two after they were released in the actual OS releases each month which are the monthly, quarterly and yearly releases (it's one of the 3 each month, with 3 quarterly releases and 1 yearly release per year although Android 16 is coming earlier this year instead of a 3rd quarterly release).
by FretLabs | 2025-04-13 16:57:04+00:00
Hey HN, I just launched FretLabs - a web application I've built to make guitar scale practice more engaging and productive. It started as a personal project to give a little structure to my freestyle sessions and has since evolved considerably. If you're familiar with Chordify, it's like that but for scales.

Features:

- 10,000+ song catalog (growing daily), or upload your own MP3s

- Automatic key signature and song section boundary detection

- Dynamic 3d fretboard with customizable scale options/controls

- Left-handed mode, support for 4, 6, and 7 string guitars

I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or answer any questions!
by bayindirh | 2025-04-13 16:57:05+00:00
Somebody lost a ton of Bitcoin miner system motherboards [0][1].

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by tocs3 | 2025-04-13 16:57:10+00:00
As a Christian leaning person (agnostic, not the most popular position but it is mine for better or worse) This sort of worries me. I wish every one the best but it sounds like a way to gain worshipful followers.

Matthew 19:24

"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
by bornfreddy | 2025-04-13 16:57:22+00:00
I'm with GP on this one. I am also on a phone without 3.5 mm jack and have wireless headphones because of that. It sucks. With wired (3.5) headphones thing just worked. With wireless, I have to think about headphones' battery level. I can charge from an independent source, but that is a problem when I'm moving (but yes, powerbank would work). I can also use wired headphones through USB-C, but this is a problem in a different setting - the phone better be full or I won't be able to charge it at the same time because the port is used.

I'm sure there are valid technical reasons for removing the 3.5 jack, and I have adapted my headphones to the new situation, but man do I hate it.
by strcat | 2025-04-13 16:57:30+00:00
The changes are overstated in the media and has little impact on it. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43674145. We would benefit a lot from early access to quarterly and yearly releases but that hasn't ever been public and the AOSP main branch only provided the most recent changes for a few components, and not any of the ones we actually need most.
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-04-13 16:57:37+00:00
You only talk about why it can't be done :D.

Modern apps could show the current stock of stations.

Batteries could be modularized. So X car might need 4 pieces. Y car needs only 3 etc.

Bring in standards about car battery spacing etc.

If the station runs out of batteries, just use the backup option, meaning, charge the battery in the car.

Anything else needs addressing? :D
by bluGill | 2025-04-13 16:57:53+00:00
Missels are expensive. Jammers can be farther away than a cheap drone can reach.

Jammers often move. Your missle often cannot manovure well enough to hit. jammers often turn off - if you missle is detected they turn the jammer off and move it. They are often running more than one jammer so getting one to turn off isn't going to matter.
by kmeisthax | 2025-04-13 16:58:08+00:00
Good GUI apps have shittons of keyboard shortcuts to achieve the same result. The ideal is that the qualified operator keeps their hands on the keyboard for anything that isn't an actual pointing operation. For example, in a video editing app, you can rough-cut with a handful of keys[0] for setting in and out points, jogging through the source material, and inserting into the current active timeline. The keyboard isn't a mere text input device, it's a large-ish macro pad with a huge number of redefineable keys, and it will always be faster to press a button with a known location versus opening a menu and clicking an option by name.

Related: I really liked Blender's text-searchable menus and I wish every GUI app had searchable menus. It's faster than hunting through a static hierarchy. In fact, one of the few criticisms I have of the 4.x era Blender UI is just that it's mildly harder to invoke search.

[0] Which is how linear video edit consoles worked before modern NLEs, mind.
by goosedragons | 2025-04-13 16:58:36+00:00
How do these tariffs help the vast majority of Americans? Maybe in a half a decade-decade time they can get a job in some factory as a tech??? Except there's so much uncertainty and so much tariffs even on raw material that it doesn't even make sense from that perspective.

Raising prices on everything is not going to help the majority of Americans. Taxing the rich might have but half the rationale for these tariffs is tax cuts for the rich.

There is no plan or logic to this.
by inglor_cz | 2025-04-13 16:59:15+00:00
"the sea drone threat is enormous - but those aren't civilian assets"

Absolutely. Ukraine was able to push Russian surface fleet into Russian ports using sea drones. If Taiwan builds a fleet thereof, the Chinese blockade fleet will face Armageddon.

I saw an interview with a former naval radar guy, who claimed that the natural state of the sea produces so many small false blips that a smartly built sea drone of certain size is basically impossible to distinguish from those.
by _9u0i | 2025-04-13 16:59:32+00:00
Great question — we're still in the pre-MVP phase, but client interoperability is a key part of our architecture.

[name-redacted] includes a compatibility ECC layer designed specifically to support existing Ethereum wallet infrastructure (like MetaMask) with minimal friction. In practice, the idea is that users can connect via standard RPC by setting the appropriate networkID, just as they would for an Ethereum testnet or L2.

Under the hood, [name-redacted] uses a hybrid cryptographic design: post-quantum signatures (e.g., Dilithium) are primary, but ECDSA remains fully supported for compatibility. This ensures existing wallet libraries, signing tools, and dApp frameworks can interact with our chain during the transition phase.

Regarding smart contract compatibility: our VM is not EVM, but the API design is meant to be semantically close. We're aiming for Solidity-like interoperability via WASM (Ink! / CosmWasm compatible), so existing contracts would need light adaptation, but core logic and interfaces can be reused.

We're releasing more details on our architecture soon — your interest means a lot!
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-04-13 16:59:47+00:00
Yeah, the film could have had more content about the real/artificial animals though it did feature a bit with the snake scales and the owl.

Also agree about meeting the other agency though I can imagine that would have complicated the plot a bit (disclaimer - I haven't read Androids for many years and can't remember the details of that scene).

I just think that Mercerism was a superb concept - a participatory religion. I suppose it wouldn't have really driven the story forwards in the film whereas almost every scene in the film was doing that.

Incidentally, here's PKD's short story about Mercerism: https://sickmyduck.narod.ru/pkd092-0.html
by bhaak | 2025-04-13 16:59:59+00:00
But the original terminal was also already using a side channel. You used them to connect to a remote piece of hardware and weren’t running anything locally. In that sense ssh itself is also a side channel.

I also don’t know why you consider manipulating the system clipboard a side channel. The terminal emulator provides a way of manipulating the clipboard but that is just convenience.

Any program can access the clipboard and a TUI program can do this as well. I have a grepalike that inserts a search match into the clipboard for convience. Somewhat ironically most of the time that match gets pasted back into the terminal.

I would actually like to have a network wide clipboard system. There are solution for that but I haven’t yet found any that isn’t too unwieldy.
by adsharma | 2025-04-13 17:00:10+00:00
Much of the stdlib is written in C.

What happens when you use @compile on a function that calls into stdlib directly or indirectly? How do you deal with existing extensions, GIL etc?

If you accept that 100% of legal python is not accepted, you have to write down exactly what is accepted.

Example: https://github.com/py2many/py2many/blob/main/doc/langspec.md
Show HN: Navigator Mode (Like Claude Code) for Aider
by tekacs | 2025-04-13 17:00:35+00:00
Hullo folks!

Over the last two days, I've built out support for autonomy in Aider (a lot like Claude Code) that hybridizes with the rest of the app.

It's just implemented as a mode, so you can start Aider with `--navigator` or `/navigator` and ask it to do things.

It's fully able to...

- test out all of its tools, reverting its edits after it makes each one (https://asciinema.org/a/eqnvZ57O7nVWkpc15NYO1tMHx)

- rename just the relevant parts and publish itself to PyPI ( https://asciinema.org/a/9JtT7DKIRrtpylhUts0lr3EfY)

- ship new tools and features in itself

- work in long form akin to Claude Code, in all the ways that that tool does (though I haven't added MCP yet, though someone else has a PR out for that: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/pull/3672)

I love Claude Code but I really wanted something like this to be open source and tinker-able -- and because Aider is so wonderfully built, I felt that it's nicest to have this functionality in a tool that has had lots of other thought put into it already. Huge thanks to Paul Gauthier (HN user anotherpaulg) for Aider.

Because Aider's already an amazing platform even without the autonomy, it's very easy to interleave the rest of Aider's functionality with navigator mode. That means... web UI, watch mode (just leave a `# make this darker ai!` comment and Aider will do it) voice input, `/ask`, `/code` and `/architect`.

It works well with a variety of models, but I've found Gemini 2.5 Pro to be the strongest that I've tried, followed by 3.7 Sonnet. Fair warning, akin to Claude Code it can be expensive to run. I'm working on various ways of cutting that down at the moment.

Still lots to improve, but I'm using this all day every day at the moment, so I'll continue to update. :)

I never self-post, so this is an oddity for me, but folks have been asking after things like this, so I figured a quick post made sense.

---

So that people can try it out, I had it upload itself to PyPI as `navigator-mode`, until (and if!) the PR is accepted. Still use the `aider --navigator` command to run it!

After that I was paranoid, so I ran another session where I asked it, "We published this to PyPI. Can you check the distribution of navigator-mode and check that we didn't leak any secrets?"

It dutifully checked `pyproject.toml`, then went after `MANIFEST.in`, scanned a bunch of files and was able to confirm that (hopefully!) I didn't.
by lxgr | 2025-04-13 17:00:59+00:00
Apparently there are two options: An existing Internet connection, or actually receivers transmitting back to the broadcast tower – which sounds crazy, but the specification [1] says it can work over up to 100 kilometers with line-of-sight...?

Then again, thanks to modern modulation techniques, digital steering etc., battery-powered smartphones can talk to satellites 36 thousand kilometers away these days as well, so maybe this is just a thing now? The spec also does mention receive repeaters for complicated non-line-of-sight propagation scenarios.

[1] https://www.atsc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/A323-2024-04...
by parineum | 2025-04-13 17:01:02+00:00
Isn't the point of a title to get someone to read the book (and not be disappointed by it's contents)?

I get you don't want to name a crime novel like a self help book but the title of the book is really just going to get me to pick it up off the shelf and read the back, not assume the narrative style and complete plot of the book.

Book titles are click bait and always have been.
by inglor_cz | 2025-04-13 17:01:30+00:00
"More importantly, neither side realised the impact that drones would have."

The Ukrainians absolutely realized that, and I saw a lot of reports about Ukrainian drone operators in 2022 already. It was just after the Nagorno-Karabakh war, where Turkish-made drones were a significant factor in Azeri victory.

There was something else at play. The supply chain had to be built up, plus the Russians were/are quite strong at radioelectronic warfare. Overcoming Russian jamming was a serious uphill battle.
by transpute | 2025-04-13 17:02:10+00:00
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by Nifty3929 | 2025-04-13 17:03:31+00:00
I'm very hopeful about this game, but afraid it might be closer to rougueLITE than roguelike.

I played two days yesterday, and it started to dawn on me that there must be resource accumulation day to day. Some items cost 10's of coins (as much as 80), while in one day I was only seeing just a few. And really only one easy puzzle so far involving a couple of colored boxes.

So is the puzzle to just keep playing through, accumulating resources to buy what you need until you make it all the way? Or does the true puzzle reveal itself to you as you play through a few times? Maybe the things you buy/activate are one-time unlocks that give access to new parts of the puzzle, without making the puzzle itself easier?

Anyway, I love puzzle games such as Myst, and I'm a new fan of rougelikes (but not roguelites) - so I really want this game to work out.
by the_af | 2025-04-13 17:04:48+00:00
The article is interesting, but I think it conflates two things:

"Things that never happened in the real world, and have been either created synthetically or with visual trickery"

- Man jumping into the void.

- Stalin's edited photos (Stalin didn't walk without Yezov at his side).

- North Korea's photoshopped/cloned hovercraft.

- The Cottingley Fairies, Loch Ness monster, "saucer" UFOs: visual trickery or props employed to simulate the existence of beings or vehicles that don't exist in the real world.

- Pope with jacket is of course completely faked with AI.

And

"Things that happened, but are staged or misrepresent reality/mislead the viewer".

Examples:

- The UK soldiers abusing a prisoner. The claim was probably false (in the sense in this particlar photo these weren't British soldiers) but it's true they were soldiers from some country abusing a prisoner. To my knowledge no-one claimed the photo was staged, just that it was misrepresenting the situation.

- Capa's Falling Soldier photo. This actually happened, it's just that it's likely staged.

They are not the same thing, and require different levels of skill!

AI facilitates creating anything, especially completely synthetic and fake. You don't even need to go to the location to take a photo and edit it.