MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by geokon | 2025-07-25 10:32:40+00:00
EDIT: Arguably "insurance" is actually an artificial problem creates to justify the cards' fees. The intentionally didn't implement CC chips for the longest time, insisted on signatures, and now support insecure things like contactless payment - thereby ensuring theft/fraud still exists and necessitating insurance (for a very marginal increase in user convenience)

The only plus side I can see is that you can buy stuff from shady ass websites and sleep comfortably knowing you can do a chargeback later.
by uncircle | 2025-07-25 10:33:07+00:00
I do see the point of the author: HZD goes for a "realistic", high-fidelity 3D fantasy world, yet the lighting makes no sense in physical terms. The contrast and brightness shown in the picture are all over the place, and can only be an artifact of visualising a world through a computer screen which has a very limited dynamic range - it is immersion-breaking. The Resident Evil 7 picture below looks much better. The video I linked in another comment explains why: in the physical world, the stronger the light, the more washed-out the colour will become. HZD is a saturated, high-contrast mess with too much compression in the low light, because of a bad colour mapper in their pipeline.

One can claim HZD's look is an "artistic choice" and that's inarguable, but the author believes it's simply not enough attention to the tone mapping process, which is a very complicated topic that's not usually taken seriously in game dev compared to film production.
by n4r9 | 2025-07-25 10:33:07+00:00
Reminds me of that story about the casting of Patrick Stewart as Picard. Apparently Roddenberry originally had in mind a youthful, virogous figure much like William Shatner was for Kirk. So Stewart auditioned in a toupee to compensate for his baldness. An impressed Roddenberry realised that the toupee was pointless. Later when a reporter asked him why baldness hadn't been cured by the 24th Century, he said that society would be so advanced that no one would care anymore.
by sjw987 | 2025-07-25 10:33:31+00:00
Perhaps a newbie question, but since there's a lot of Graphene users here I thought it'd be best to get a human answer.

I have an old Pixel 5 which I stopped using because Google dropped Google Pay (tap to pay) on it. I moved to a new device (Pixel 9) for daily usage but still have the 5 laying around (due to low resale value).

At the time I moved, Pixel 5 was about 1.5 years (November 2023) beyond Android security updates. I still love the form factor (more than the bigger 9 I use now) and it has much more life left in it. I'd quite like to use this as a backup device for basic utility (camera, phone, SMS, basic read-only web use) and to take with me for runs and travelling.

Would installing GrapheneOS on this device likely make it more secure? Do Graphene releases work the same on all devices, or is it sort of device-by-device basis?
by fmajid | 2025-07-25 10:33:50+00:00
Aegis: TOTP 2FA code manager

SuperCards: stores shop loyalty card barcodes

KeePassDX: password manager

ReadEra: eBook reader

Magic Earth: another maps app

Vivaldi: power-user's browser

JuiceSSH: SSH client

Termux: like running a Linux term

AntennaPod: podcasts
by throwaway342334 | 2025-07-25 10:34:56+00:00
As a conservative, my position on genetic intervention is about ethics, human digniity, and the sanctity of life and not some kind of blanket opposition to treating genetic disorders.

I have no moral problem with a therapeutic intervention that improves a life by treating a debilitating disorder with no cost of life.

I will have moral problems when those ideals are inevitably twisted and loosened over time to not just treat disorders, but pick attributes like intelligence, strength, skin color, attractiveness, etc.
by other8026 | 2025-07-25 10:35:39+00:00
> You claim you know who did it.

No. Nobody claimed to know the actual identity of the person.

> Like the attacks he hallucinates from project

They're not hallucinations.

> I am confident in seeing signs of a mental disorder there and stating that publicly.

Not a doctor, but is confident in their diagnosis of someone they don't actually know after watching some YouTube videos.

> Complete Bullshit.

I mean that these kinds of videos where he portrays people as crazy appeals to Kiwi Farmers. His verified account there, him participating there, and him making videos that do appeal to them all add up to me coming to the conclusion that they _SEEM_ to be made with the _intent_ to appeal to Kiwi Farms members.
by firasd | 2025-07-25 10:37:06+00:00
The OOD thing ironically helps a bit because sometimes AI can skim over regular timestamps and say two different times are the same etc. LLMs don't actually parse and calculate the timestamps after all. With AlphaDec it's very clear that two timestamps are different

Also I use a little preamble... here is what I send Anthropic's Claude Sonnet when it asks for the current AlphaDec over an MCP tool

// AlphaDec units (approx): Period = UTC yr (different length leap yr vs common yr) / 26 ≈ 14.04 days | Arc ≈ Period / 10 ≈ 33.7 hours | Bar ≈ Arc / 26 ≈ 77.75 minutes | Beat ≈ Bar / 10 ≈ 7.78 minutes. The final part of canonical AlphaDec is milliseconds offset within the beat. Period F, Period M, Period S, and Period Z always contain equinoxes/solstices. Truncating significant digits creates natural time groupings, eg 2025_M2 contains 'every alphadec in this arc' [ { "timezone": "UTC", "iso": "2025-07-25T00:47:09.219Z" }, { "timezone": "AlphaDec", "alphadec": "2025_O6B3_087680", "readable": "O6:B3" } ]
by pickledoyster | 2025-07-25 10:37:45+00:00
This is nice. A few thoughts:

It's sad to know that sobriety groups use addictive tech for check-ins.

> Replace scrolling with building - building out my RSS reader, my website, my personal link connections, my skills in using a static site generator, etc.

I've personally found that this approach is just not enough. Sure, I might be "building" something with distracting stuff just a click away, all the while I'm still sitting, staring at a screen, and, fundamentally, in denial that life is possible without the Web.

Took me a couple of years to come to this realization, I went through the whole schtick of getting off doomscroll portals by deleting accounts and using alternative frontends, using addons on my browser to limit and then block those sites, using screentime limits, removing apps, reducing colors on my phone, getting into static websites, web publishing, audio editing, etc. – all of this effort to end up here, commenting on a VC-backed forum during my working hours, because it requires me to sit in front of a screen.

It's like strapping yourself into the chair from A Clockwork Orange (and managing/maintaining each strap) just to pretend that, for many of us, this tech is not a clear net negative, and that those negatives don't come from all sides, i.e., it's not just particular apps or sites we use, it's the tech itself that makes us stationary, distracted, obsessed, overstimulated, etc.

There's something fundamentally wrong if I'm picking up my distraction device because of a "touch grass" notification, much like trying to fix radiation poisoning by trying a different isotope.

Then again, those that make a more radical shift and get off the web don't waste time publishing blog posts about their framework to get off the web. Of, for that matter, comment on said posts...
by moring | 2025-07-25 10:37:54+00:00
A bit late, but I'll try...

This assumes that Gear Set Alley is near you. At >3km you'd go by car and the "meet people on the way" breaks down. At >100km you'd rather call them and miss the wrecking yards and other factories nearby.

In China, Gear Set Alley may easily be 1000km from you. Or it may be <3km from you, if you're lucky. The point is that China, taken as a whole, has no advantage over EU or US in geographical proximity. Certain regions may have that advantage, but that is totally possible in every country on earth (beyond a certain, very tiny minimum size).
by bboozzoo | 2025-07-25 10:39:18+00:00
> Same as how a fetus will inevitably develop into an adult and be fully conscious, if nothing goes wrong.

Unless it dies in pain and suffering hours, days, months or a few years after birth due to a defect that we already know can never be cured or fixed by other means. Somehow societies that are least interested or capable in providing any aid to these traumatized families revel the most in their suffering.
by AngryData | 2025-07-25 10:39:33+00:00
To me that just sounds like a huge excuse for cops who are rarely ever shot at in real life. The majority of cops never even have a reason to draw or fire their gun their entire career. Being a cop isn't even a very dangerous job, and all but a handful of cop injuries on the job are due to car crashes that they themselves initiated. A random residential framer has a far higher chance of injury and death than cops in even known dangerous and highly criminal areas.
by hansmayer | 2025-07-25 10:39:38+00:00
It matters as its not about a vague notion of a "level of quality". It's about reading about a personal experience written by an actual person. It's about not insulting the intelligence of one's readers by throwing up a wall of LLM-text and signing oneself, it's about not being intellectually and morally dishonest by kinda mentioning it, but only half-way through the text. The comparison with Spielberg is almost there, but not there yet, as the director does whatever it is the directors do - not outsourcing it to some "Kiro". The right comparison would have been if the AI created the next sequel of E.T., Gremlins or whatever it was that Spielberg became famous for. Who cares? I want new and genuine insights that only another human can create. Not the results of a machine minimising the statistical regression error in order to produce the 100th similar piece of "content" that I have already seen the first 99 times. I have a feeling that none of the ghouls pushing for the AI-generated "content" have ever tryly enjoyed the arts, whether 'popular' or 'noble'. Its about learning something about yourself and the world, trying to graps the author's struggles during the creation. Not about mindless consumption. That's why it matters.
by blub | 2025-07-25 10:40:27+00:00
The problem Rust has is that it’s not enough to be memory safe, because lots of languages are memory safe and have been for decades.

Hence the focus on fearless concurrency or other small-scale idioms like match in an attempt to present Rust as an overall better language compared to other safe languages like Go, which is proving to be a solid competitor and is much easier to learn and understand.
by seszett | 2025-07-25 10:40:28+00:00
> I meant between Ukraine, RUssia and EU.

> Yugoslav wars started in 1991 and ended in 2001. Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. Are these wars not "European" enough?

Well, Ukraine, Russia and the former Yugoslavian republics that had wars are not part of the EU, or were not at the moment they had their wars. And even though all neighbouring countries trade with the EU, their economies are much less interdependent than those of the EU countries because of the lack of free trade and freedom of movement.

So this supports the idea that the EU does prevent wars rather than invalidating it.
by jajko | 2025-07-25 10:40:28+00:00
Plenty of mass school (or other) shootings were done by legal firearms, using legally bought ammo.

I get what you say, but if folks are smart they should be concerned by any firearm, legal or not. Its trivial in US to obtain one if your record is still clean, you can be a proper psycho weirdo and still get it.

The people afraid of doing psychotests to get a gun which can kill tens of people easily in skilled hands... I'd say they are afraid for a good reason. Its like being afraid of driving test to get the license to drive.
by lazide | 2025-07-25 10:40:35+00:00
No, this is a very real manufacturing and design issue that SIG insists doesn’t exist, despite numerous well documented cases. See [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L7RXrneHlzfjrewMFIeeyc-nel3...] for one exceptionally well documented case.

In this situation, the FBI was able to duplicate the ‘spontaneous firing of a chambered round’ by pressing down slightly on the slide with nothing else going on.

SIG needs to get their head out of their ass, or they are going to burn the whole company to the ground.
by fmajid | 2025-07-25 10:40:56+00:00
You won't get the full set of security measures (those require newer Google Tensor chipsets with ARM Memory Tagging Extensions, so Pixel 8 and later), but it's still going to be far more secure than any Android or even iPhone.

Regarding NFC payments, the apps themselves refuse to run on non-vanilla OSes due to spurious security concerns and Google's maneuvers behind the scenes, but there are reports that Curve Pay works, at least in the UK.
by indigane | 2025-07-25 10:42:05+00:00
> [A]pps you install from F-Droid are signed by F-Droid rather than the developer.

Having recently gone through the F-Droid release process, I learned that this is not necessarily the case anymore.

F-Droid implements the reproducible builds concept. They re-build the developer's app, compare the resulting binary sans signature block, and if it matches they distribute the developer-signed binary instead of their re-built binary.

This is opt-in for developers so not all apps do it this way. I'd sure like to know how common this is, I wonder if there are any statistics.
by Yeul | 2025-07-25 10:42:05+00:00
I live in the Netherlands a country with a huge drug cartel problem and still civilians don't carry guns.

Criminals shoot eachother and occasionally they shoot law enforcement if they are really dumb. Normal people when there is a shoot out just hide until the incident is over. You'd have to be stupid to get involved. More guns do not equal more safety- especially not because your average wannabe Rambo can't shoot for shit.
by blub | 2025-07-25 10:43:59+00:00
Many FAANG & co engineers are overrated. If every new hire is introducing concurrency bugs in a Golang codebase, refactor, do better review and maybe use concurrency questions instead of leetcode.

I’ll take tptacek’s word over most FAANG type on such topics if we’re doing appeals to authority. The guy is very practical, unlike the Rust community which is incredibly focused on theoretical correctness instead of real-world experiences.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-07-25 10:44:07+00:00
One game that actually puts a lot of effort into this is X-plane. They use physics based rendering and with recent updates they have done quite a bit of work on this (clouds, atmosphere, natural looking colors and shadows, HDR, etc.

There's a stark contrast here with MS Flight Simulator which looks great but maybe a bit too pretty. It's certainly very pleasing to look at but not necessarily realistic.

One thing with flying is that visibility isn't necessarily that good and a big part of using flight simulators professionally is actually learning to fly when the visibility is absolutely terrible. What's the relevance of scenery if visibility is at the legal minimums? You see the ground shortly before you land, a few feet in front of you.

And even under better conditions, things are hazy and flat (both in color and depth). A crisp, high contrast, saturated view is pretty but not what a pilot deals with. A real problem for pilots is actually spotting where the airport is. Which is surprisingly hard even when the weather is nice and sunny.

An interesting HDR challenge with cockpits is that the light level inside and outside are miles apart. When flying in the real world, your eyes compensate for this when you focus on the instruments or look outside. But technically any screenshot that features a bright outside and clearly legible instruments at the same time is not very realistic but also kind of necessary. You need to do some HDR trickery to make that work. Poor readability of instruments is something X-plane addressed in one of their recent updates. It was technically correct but not that readable.

X-plane rendering has made some big improvements with all this during the v12 release over the last three years.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-25 10:44:12+00:00
I wouldn't want to pay 20% extra for US-made chips. The US threatened to invade a close ally and started trade wars for absolutely no reason. Paying extra to give the US even more economic power seems like a lose/lose situation to me.

I'd rather see America hooked on the same supply as everyone else to make sure they stop China from invading Taiwan. Our shared weaknesses force governments to cooperate, which is a win in my book.
by vtbassmatt | 2025-07-25 10:45:14+00:00
I have another reply in this tree talking about outcomes and independence being much worse not even all that long ago. I won’t repeat it all here but it squares with what you observed in an older neighbor growing up.

Also: did they tell you they were miserable or felt stuck in Groundhog Day? If not, then it’s not a safe assumption. AFAIK many caretakers and family members report satisfaction with their lives despite the added complications. (Maybe your neighbors really were miserable, and if so, just know it’s not the norm anymore.)

The early genetic testing for Down syndrome is pretty accurate now. If it’s still a major worry for you about having kids, get the testing done early enough to terminate. I strongly hope that no one terminates out of ignorance about the realities - both positive and negative - of Down syndrome, but have no problem at all with informed choices.

People with Down syndrome aren’t “downs” or “downs patients”, though. It’s easy to dismiss this as language policing or, as another thread hinted at, performative. But the words we use and how we view the world are part of a feedback loop on each other. Synecdoche-izing people as merely a medical diagnosis colors whether society treats them as full members or not. And unlike, say, the Deaf or autism communities, it’s not currently a subculture or something that many people with Down syndrome identify as.

As an internet stranger, I’m asking folks to consider using “person with DS” instead of “DS patient/person/etc”.
by fn-mote | 2025-07-25 10:45:44+00:00
> how could the US possibly dislodge them without destroying the thing they want to protect?

I would instead assert that it is very likely that the US would destroy the fabs rather than allow China to gain control of them through an act of aggression.

The doctrine of mutually assured destruction has been around a long time. The international players are familiar with it.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-25 10:45:58+00:00
Note that this post is of course about high internal dynamic range specifically and the necessary tonemapping that then follows for presenting an SDR image, not about how modern games do actual HDR (but then that should be pretty similar on a high level to the extent I understand anyways).

> In the real world, the total contrast ratio between the brightest highlights and darkest shadows during a sunny day is on the order of 1,000,000:1.

And this is of course silly. In the real world you can have complete darkness, at which point dynamic range shoots up to infinity.

> A typical screen can show 8 (curved to 600:1 or so).

Not entirely sure about this either, monitors have been pulling 1000:1 and 2000:1 dynamic ranges since forever, even back in 2017 when this article was written, but maybe I just never looked too deep into it.
by throwaway342334 | 2025-07-25 10:46:57+00:00
Yes, modifying genetics to select for "desirable" traits and remove "undesirable" ones is essentially modern liberal eugenics.

Just because something is labeled "eugenics" doesn’t automatically make it bad or good—outcomes depend on how ideas are applied.

Historically, eugenics didn’t have genetic tools, so efforts focused on social policies, like promoting abortion or family planning, to influence who could reproduce.
by conartist6 | 2025-07-25 10:47:01+00:00
I'm building a new kind of product: a DOM-first IDE that will define a whole new generation of UX-expanding tools for coding. Check out https://github.com/bablr-lang.

We're preparing a major release announcement.

If anyone knows anyone at Mozilla who might be interested in a thing like this, I'd still be eager to talk to them.
by consumer451 | 2025-07-25 10:47:03+00:00
Lots of good comments here. I'll just share two Cursor/Windsurf/whatever prompts:

> Let's create new feature XYZ. Use Postgres MCP to verify the schema of relevant tables instead of making assumptions.

> Use Supabase MCP to see if user@domain.com has the correct permissions to have the Create Project button present in the UI.

NOTE: only run Supabase MCP with the --read-only, doing otherwise will lead to a bad time.
by SkiFire13 | 2025-07-25 10:48:10+00:00
Getting every software into every distro is not feasible, it's a NxM problem. Sometimes this encourages the use of third-party repositories, which I would argue is even unsafer because it requires root access.

Flatpak is a nice suggestion but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work nicely for CLIs.

> "Back in the day" we cloned the source code and compiled ourself instead of distributing binaries & install scripts.

Isn't that the same thing with the extra step of downloading a git repo?
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-25 10:48:19+00:00
In the short term, chips would just be 5-20% more expensive in the US compared to anywhere else. They'd need to raise the tariffs a bit more, though, to make sure there's incentive to increase production to a level that can satisfy demand.

In the long term, it would provide the US with an independent source of chips, and eventually allow them to let go of any plants to protect Taiwan from China.
by zozbot234 | 2025-07-25 10:49:01+00:00
Except that Swift also has safe concurrency now. It's not just Rust. Golang is actually a very nice language for problems where you're inherently dependent on high-performance GC and concurrency, so there's no need to present it as "better" for everything. Nevertheless its concurrency model is far from foolproof when compared to e.g. Swift.
by viktorcode | 2025-07-25 10:49:53+00:00
Please watch this for yet another take on the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j68UW21Nx6g

The points are: game graphics is indeed suffering, but the problem is not being unlike films and photos, it's the opposite. The games should stop using film industry produced tone mapping curves and instead create their own, making a clean break.

Personally, I agree with the video.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-25 10:50:09+00:00
Just to carry this line of reasoning out to the extreme for entertainment purposes (and to illustrate for everyone how misguided it is). Even if you perform a task firsthand, at the end of the day you're just trusting your memory of having done so. You feel that your trust in your memory is justified but fundamentally that isn't any different from the deniers either.
by seanhunter | 2025-07-25 10:51:01+00:00
Betteridge’s law of headlines says that any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered with the word “no”.

Could a human enter a black hole to study it? No. Like obviously not.

Nevertheless, it’s a very fun and interesting article. Great quotes include:

This implies … that the black hole’s pull on a person will differ by a factor of 1,000 billion times between head and toe, depending on which is leading the free fall. … The person would experience spaghettification, and most likely not survive being stretched into a long, thin noodlelike shape.