MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gpm | 2025-06-16 19:48:21+00:00
Gluing a few stories together (links included below where I'm not citing to your link) it seems like:

~2012 he was caught selling MDMA and marijuana, and went to prison

~end or 2015 or start of 2016 he was released on probation

[Edit: Added entry] December 2016 police responding to a domestic violence call enter his apartment to make contact with the alleged victim, and discover U-47700 (a synthetic opioid) https://www.courts.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt471/files/docu...

April 2017 the police find traces of carfentanil while executing a search warrant at his place - plausibly but not provably linked to some recent carfentanil deaths - and police announce they are searching for him. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/man-wanted-suspected-let...

May 2017 he ends up back in prison.

Aug 2017 he pleads guilty to possession of U47700 (a synthetic opioid) with intent to distribute https://www.wmur.com/article/defense-plans-appeal-of-search-...

Oct 2017 he's sentenced to 15-30 years on the above charge, he has not been charged with possessing the carfentanil (yet) despite the apparent evidence https://www.wmur.com/article/man-facing-carfentanil-charge-r...

The articles aren't clear on this, but given his own recounting I assume that a suspended sentence for Marijuana was un-suspended as a result of the new charges and he is serving that sentence first, or concurrently.
by 0xffff2 | 2025-06-16 19:48:22+00:00
Yeah, when I was a smoker (thankfully many years in the past now), I really only ever used bics. I went through phases with Zippos or butane lighters, but they were always maintenance heavy, unreliable and too expensive for something so comonly shared with others. On the flip side, no-name gas station lighters didn't last and were generally unreliable. Bics hit a huge sweet spot of being long lasting, reliable, _and_ cheap enough to be treated as disposable even though they weren't in practice.
by x0x0 | 2025-06-16 19:48:25+00:00
Oh man. Wework is the worst office I've ever worked in.

Those glass walls and hardwood floors are great to tour. Working in them though, w/o a single bit of sound-deadening anything gives you a new appreciation for cubicles and ugly carpet that actually absorbs sound.

Just wait until a woman wears heels and you can hear "clack clack clack" echoing up the straight hallways for 500 feet.
by ipdashc | 2025-06-16 19:48:39+00:00
I still find uses for iodine sometimes! Off the top of my head, a hotel basement with no cell service, and once on a flight. It's rare that it works, but quite entertaining when it does.

I think in one of those two (forget which), they just had udp/53 wide open (which works just like any VPN), but in the other, it had to do proper DNS tunneling. And to my surprise, it was entirely fast enough to be usable, which usually is not the case. I felt bad for probably bogging down their DNS server, but hey. (Kept it to a reasonable limit.)
by officeplant | 2025-06-16 19:49:22+00:00
I've had to build fire & gas detection systems for ~15 diary farm biogas operations in the last two years. It isn't even in our usual list of clients to work with, we just happened to have an oilfield client pass our name around and got calls for these systems a year or two later.

If our tiny company is getting requested to bid on life safety systems for biogas operations it must be a lot bigger of an industry than you believe it to be.
by filoleg | 2025-06-16 19:50:18+00:00
Yeah, pretty much the same for me.

Plus, Star Wars universe just felt way more interesting and fascinating to me than Star Trek as a kid.

Star Wars felt like knights and wizards and jet fighter pilots and heroic adventures in space, Star Trek felt like “adults doing boring adult things… but in space”. Not trying to dismiss ST, clearly it has a lot of appeal to tons of people, but it had zero appeal to me as a child.

It also helped that SW universe had some of my favorite games at that time, like SW:Demolition (vehicle combat genre, similar to Twisted Metal), Jedi Knight series, Knights of The Old Republic, etc.
by pesus | 2025-06-16 19:51:06+00:00
This is only anecdotal, but probiotic supplements absolutely had a large impact on my social anxiety. I can't remember for the life of me where I heard it, but I specifically looked for ones that with strains were "dirt-based" - PB-8 is the one I currently take. Looking back, I realized just how directly getting anxious was tied to having an upset stomach for me. The first week or so was a bit rough, but after that it's been smooth sailing. The supplements are so cheap that I think it's worth trying for a bit. Kombucha/other fermented foods may also have a positive impact.

Caveat: I have never been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, so things may different in that case.
by pm215 | 2025-06-16 19:51:17+00:00
Yep -- the DDC link which is the comms part of VGA/HDMI/DVI is basically an i2c link, and that's how the OS queries the EDID in normal operation.

As the article notes, the rpi has an i2c controller wired up to those hdmi port pins, because it needs to be able to read the EDID over the DDC.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-06-16 19:51:19+00:00
socket.io has a lot of optimizations that can help scale message broadcast to many connected users, and also handles things like client disconnections, delivery confirmation, etc.

It is not unnecessary, and you probably could build something that does the same things in a day or two, but I'd be surprised if it was something that scales as well to >100,000 simultaneously connected people
by bananapub | 2025-06-16 19:51:39+00:00
Just in case you were thinking of wasting time on reading it, they put a helpful summary at the top:

> How a simple YAML configuration built for Claude Code and Playwright MCP transformed our testing workflow and made automation accessible to everyone on the team

Side note, in what order did it happen? Did Medium go from “one of the nicest publishing platforms on the web” to “pop up infested search-engine-spamming garbage” before or after all the garbage blog spammers started using it?
by keybored | 2025-06-16 19:52:20+00:00
Or a proxy for how many Americans work on the code. Maybe search the mailing list for occurrences of “inappropriate”.

Not that this not-Yankee has much of a need to swear in public to feel Free.

> , but I definitely don't drop swear words into documents that unknown people might see. That's just basic professionalism.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44291560
by gwbas1c | 2025-06-16 19:52:36+00:00
> A cruise ship has people with nothing to do wandering around

The major point of a cruise is that there is constantly something to do. It's wall-to-wall entertainment, 24-hours a day.

My 2-year-old was too excited to sleep on a Disney cruise, so we just walked around and found character photos at 10PM. She was too shy to take her picture, so I got my picture taken with her hiding her face on my shoulder.

(FWIW: A cruise is also the kind of vacation that you need to bring some offline entertainment with you. I caught up on reading when I had to stay in the cabin with a sick child.)
by dr_dshiv | 2025-06-16 19:53:42+00:00
We need more scientific societies. Modern peer review is super modern. Go back to the origins of science and it was all about a real community—setting high standards and having just a few people decide what to publish. It wasn’t trying to be “objective” — it was just high standards, determined invisibly by the members of the society. “Should we publish this?” asked the society.

Alas, scale ruins everything. Nevertheless, I strongly believe “science is friendship”
by smaudet | 2025-06-16 19:54:29+00:00
> the vast majority of websites these days fully fledged applications

Many apps do exist on the web. Not many of them are very good, PDF is a bit case in point - web struggles to fully implement PDF read/write (partly a complexity thing, partly I'm sure a tactic non-compete with Adobe).

Even more sites still exist that aren't apps, even if a few big sites have stolen people's imaginations...

So two reasons why you don't really want your PDF in the browser (I don't mind much if I'm never going to look at it again but otherwise no I don't want it in my browser).

Even if the first two weren't true, there's still just the fact that, no, PDF is local, web is not. I don't need an internet connection for one, and I don't need to worry about one messing with the other. Sounds like a strange thing to worry about, but browsers do crash, and more importantly browsers are often filled with tabs. You can have many PDFs open but you don't need to keep them all in memory...
by pbiggar | 2025-06-16 19:54:56+00:00
Yes, the next version will be able to set up locally - you'll be able to install a single Darklang binary and run any darklang program without any further steps. See the explanations on https://darklang.com homepage.

The issue with the hard connection between the editor and language is that each change becomes a massive undertaking. Making a language improvement was much much much simpler than making the editor change to support it.
Show HN: Zuhal – A Fast and Accurate Email Validation Service
by shirazshaikh | 2025-06-16 19:55:21+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on Zuhal, an email validation service designed for developers and marketers who need to ensure their emails reach real inboxes.

Zuhal checks for syntax, domain validity, MX records, disposable addresses, and deliverability risks — all via a simple REST API or bulk upload.

I built this because I faced deliverability issues with email campaigns and wanted a tool that’s fast, accurate, and affordable.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or suggestions for improvements. Also curious about how you handle email list hygiene in your projects or companies.

Here’s the site: [https://zuhal.io](https://zuhal.io)

Happy to answer any questions!
by fuzzfactor | 2025-06-16 19:55:24+00:00
This was the traditional solvent for cleaning up and removing excess ink in print shops all over the place.

Often still known by its archaic name Benzol when I was growing up. In high school, walking by the student print shop you could smell it way down the hall at all times. The chem labs were not nearly as bad because they had better ventilation to begin with.

Plus before my time benzene had also been prized as high-octane motor fuel for early cars back when it was obtained for sale naturally by removal from aromatic crude oils in some refineries. This was not such pure benzene however the significant percentage of impurities at the dispenser acted with an "antifreeze" effect and it handled no differently than regular gasoline below 32 degrees F.

Pure benzene freezes at about 40 degrees F, and that pure of a hydrocarbon ended up being too expensive to burn anyway.

IIRC it can really make a lawn mower cut taller grass than premium gasoline, and scientifically it does have about 100 antiknock rating so it's no surprise.
Show HN: I built a workflow for photorealistic person generation
by markolo | 2025-06-16 19:55:32+00:00
Most LoRA trainings for person specific generation hit quality issues that make results look artificial. The breakthrough came from rethinking how lighting and expressions are handled during training and adjusting generation parameters.

Here are some examples:

- Corporate photo in office: https://imgur.com/a/kUQtMZr - TedX speaker: https://imgur.com/a/KOC6eCy - Rockstar performer: https://imgur.com/a/B2YaUHj - Sunset portrait: https://imgur.com/a/d4rEANW

Using Flux as base model. Has aynone pushed realism to this level in image generation?
by cmclaughlin | 2025-06-16 19:55:37+00:00
This comment took me on a walk down memory lane...

The shortage of asparaginase (brand name Erwinaze) was very stressful during my daughter's recovery! This was in 2021.

She had allergic reactions to two other medicines, and Erwinaze was identified as an alternative. We ended up getting a batch of Erwinaze, but she was allergic to that too. She ended up getting it on a slow drip under full hospitalization instead of a relatively quick visit at the infusion center.

If anyone else is in a similar situation, this patient advocate might be able to help:

https://www.angelsforchange.org/
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-16 19:55:56+00:00
I'd note that "retarded" can be a technical term which is not an insult or swear word which means "delayed" (e.g. "tardy") In an internal combustion engine you could have "advanced" or "retarded" spark timing for instance.

It's an amusing area where denotations are the same in French and English but the denotations are different. [1] All over Quebec you see convenience stores called "Couche-Tard" (Sleep Late) which can provoke a double-take like seeing a sign for a restaurant called PFK with a picture of Colonel Sanders.

[1] An ad for a breakfast sandwich, coffee and hash browns can be advertised as "L'Ensemble Quotodienne" a phrase made of everyday words in French which are $20 words in English.
by refulgentis | 2025-06-16 19:56:24+00:00
I find it somewhat amusing that I woke up to this post at ~9 AM, and was surprised at the crowding-out of discussion about the article, by people sort of half-groping at a straw or two they picked up, trying to make a definitive case on his...goodness? morality?...based off the straw they're holding.

It is now 4 PM, about to clock out for the day because I gotta wait for CI run thats >30m. I come back here and it's still going on. This is #3 comment I see when I open HN, ensuing thread takes up two pages scrolls on 16" MBP.

It's bad of me to write this because, well, who cares? Additionally, am I trying to litigate what other people comment?

The root feeling driving me to express myself is a form of frustrated boredom -- rolling with that and verbalizing concretely, a bunch of people writing comments with the one thing they're hyperfocusing on their record to drive a conclusion on their value as a person/morality, and then people pointing out that's not some moral absolute, asking for links, discussing the links...

...well, it's all just clutter.

Or YouTube comment-level discussion, unless we're planning on relitigating every case he's been involved in.

This all would be better if it the kangaroo court stuff was confined to a thread with all of the evidence against him, so we didn't have a bunch of weak cases, or if people didn't treat this as an opportunity to be a drive by judge. Article def. ain't about his crimes, and he ain't saying he's innocent or an angel.

(and the idea that "drug crimes" implies "hippie selling weed or psychedelics" so calling them "drug crimes" is hiding the ball...where does that come from? Its especially dissonant b/c you indicate the mere fact he sold an opiod is so bad that this guy is...bad? irredeemable? not worth discussing?...so presumably you care a lot about opiods, so presumably you know that's whats driven drug crime the last, uh, decade or two?)
by stego-tech | 2025-06-16 19:56:27+00:00
I dig the concept! K8s is an amazing technology hampered by overwhelming complexity (flashback vibes to the early days of x86 virtualization), and thumbing through your literature it seems you’ve got a good grasp of the fundamentals everyone needs in order to leverage K8s in more scenarios - especially areas where PVE, Microcloud, or Cockpit might end up being more popular within (namely self-hosting).

I’ve got a spare N100 NUC at home that’s languishing with an unfinished Microcloud install; thinking of yanking that off and giving Canine a try instead!
by anonymars | 2025-06-16 19:56:44+00:00
I can't take this kind of pressure

I must confess one more dusty road

Would be just a road too long

Worthless

IYKYK. A few touches:

- "I just can't / I just can't / I just can't seem to get started" mimics a car trying to turn over

- Pairing the wedding and the funeral
by jeffbee | 2025-06-16 19:57:55+00:00
Another reason against inflating sampling rates on errors is: for system stability you never want to do more stuff during errors than you would normally do. Doing something more expensive during an error can cause your whole system, or elements of it, to latch into an unplanned operating point where they only have the capacity to do the expensive error path, and all of the traffic is throwing errors because of the resource starvation.
by qwertox | 2025-06-16 19:58:35+00:00
I wish the owners of Komoot would have done this.

They sold the company because they didn't see a future of growth, and the employees were notified of the sale of the company just a couple of days before.

The new owner then fired most of the employees, it's an Italian "tech company" (Bending Spoons) which already bough companies like Evernote, Brightcove or WeTransfer, and has nothing to do with the outdoors.

Komoot was the best outdoor-community app in Germany and very popular in Europe, made mostly for hiking and biking.

You can see in this really moving video, made by the employees after they got fired, how much they loved their team:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLJkK4Wn1HI
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-16 19:58:43+00:00
> Why would someone in corporate IT responsible for this not ask Claude to write a script that does this on a much more frequent basis

Because they have nine trillion bugs in their booking system that have been on backlog since 1910.

According to this source [1] (of dubious quality, granted) Royal Caribbean's entire IT department is about 140 people headed by an electrical engineer.

[1] https://rocketreach.co/royal-caribbean-cruises-ltd-it-depart...
by gwbas1c | 2025-06-16 19:58:44+00:00
Just need to point out: A cruise is a ^%$^#$ expensive vacation. For me, part of vacation is focusing on the moment, place, and people that I'm with. Cruises have plenty of entertainment onboard, so if you feel the need to do something like this to save a buck, maybe take a deep breath and try to take advantage of what's already there for your entertainment.

If I ever take advantage of this hack... It'll be to download an extra book or two to my Kindle. My wife and I took a honeymoon in a remote area and mostly used our devices to take pictures and read books while at a beach.
by keane | 2025-06-16 19:59:05+00:00
The BIC Cristal pen was listed by Jerry Seinfeld as one of his 10 essential items that he can't live without in an interview with GQ. He says he always finishes the pens, never loses them, and that he called BIC to (successfully) find out why the cap has a hole in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL2sr99Sv18&t=157s

He claims the BIC has quintessence, a quality he says he has been devotedly tracking since reading the 1983 book Quintessence : The Quality of Having It by Betty Cornfeld and Owen Edwards: https://archive.org/details/quintessence00bett
by ecshafer | 2025-06-16 19:59:14+00:00
> he recalled that when starting his residency at the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia in 1970, the survival rate for the sick children was only 30 percent

Jesus, 30 percent survival rate of children. I couldn't image working in that kind of situation and not be emotionally destroyed.

> Going from a 30 percent to an 80 percent cure rate, I'd say we are getting there

Your father is a literal hero.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-06-16 19:59:18+00:00
I have spent quite a lot of time updating code to not generate garbage because the ostensibly super fast GC was infact demonstrably not super fast!

I could perhaps be convinced that modern GC are super fast. But in hindsight your blog post is intended to preach to the choir and not change the minds of non-believers. If you ever write an apologetic I will gladly read it. It needs to be a holistic analysis of memory operation cost across all threads.
by smurpy | 2025-06-16 20:00:08+00:00
Here is the three original Postscript Books. They are the classic way to learn PS.

The Blue Book (Tutorial and Cookbook) https://archive.org/details/postscriptlangua0000unse

The Red Book (Language Reference) https://archive.org/details/postscriptlangua0000unse_l1h3

The Green Book (Language Design) https://archive.org/details/PSGreenBook
by drewcoo | 2025-06-16 20:01:29+00:00
> 100 years ago the US wasn't that different than India today in terms of exploitation of poor laborers.

100 years ago there was a period of prosperity in the US following WWI.

100 years ago there was much stronger unionization for Americans both in factories and on farms.

The high tech infrastructure 100 years ago was electrification, US cities being wired up and almost all rural (where most Americans lived and worked) areas not. You might argue for the phone but rural phones took longer than electricity to deploy. The high tech infra today is Internet and rural Indians are much more connected than century-ago Americans.

Conditions are very different in important ways. I'm intentionally leaving out race/caste comparisons, which are valid but will also lead to massive downvotes.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-06-16 20:01:33+00:00
This is amazing. The trust of peer review as a stamp of quality among academics is dwindling, and distrust of science among the population is growing (within the increasing politicisation of some areas of research). Transparent peer review raises the bar for both academics and enhances the potential trust in the process.

This is desperately needed as AI could further deteriorate the quality of science if the publishing process is not made more strict. This represents a significant step forward in rigorous science. I hope other publications follow suit.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-06-16 20:02:03+00:00
> some (e.g. BOOM, Xiangshan) are developed in Chisel with limited support from industrial electronic design automation (EDA) tools

Isn't translating between languages something that LLMs should excel at? I mean I'm sure it's more than just pasting it into ChatGPT but if the design has been validated and it's understood, validating the translated version should be several orders of magnitude easier than starting from scratch.
by moomin | 2025-06-16 20:02:06+00:00
We used LLMs to reinvent Cucumber but worse.

Playwright tests are fine, but you need to think about the design or you end up with a mess. Using a steps file is one way to do it, but just employing coding discipline is another. Don’t expect to be able to slap 1000 lines of scripting code together and ignore everything you’ve already learned about structuring code.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-06-16 20:02:17+00:00
In Spain it's just called "Bic Naranja" ("Bic Orange") and those of us over 40 or so typically remember the ad slogan which perfectly described their different functionality: "Bic Naranja escribe fino, Bic Cristal escribe normal" (Bic Orange writes thin, Bic Cristal writes normal). Rather lame but to the point and memorable :)
by daotoad | 2025-06-16 20:02:18+00:00
This little piece reminds me of a conversation I had about the power of modern mobile phones.

Given a modern flagship phone, what year was that phone equivalent to total world computational power?

For example, based on TFA, a Pi5 represents a around a thousand Cray 1 systems in 1977. Based on that seems likely that a single Pi5 outstrips total world supercomputer capacity in 1977.

We tossed some numbers around, but the rough consensus was that the were likely to have the 60s covered and most of the 70s as well. Given that this was a decade ago, I expect that we could move forward a few years.
by sophacles | 2025-06-16 20:02:43+00:00
Nonsense. You are making the assumption that laughing is always voluntary, and only to communicate that you find something amusing. Both parts of that are false - for example many people will laugh instinctively as part of a fight flight response when the perceive danger from others to communicate "hey im with you and not scared, don't hurt me more". People who hate veing tickled because they feel defenseless will still laugh when tickled, for one concrete specific.
by cormorant | 2025-06-16 20:03:58+00:00
> Heck, even establishing plain http ... connections is tricky on phones now.

I had no idea. I guess this refers to app-store rules? Related to https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/applicat... and https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/preventin... ?

Or is it even hard to browse to http webpages? (No problem on iOS that I see.)