MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw0101a | 2025-08-27 12:31:51+00:00
> That's essentially correct, but modern tech also makes it relatively easy (and in the end cheaper compared to non-LED)

I don't think modern tech is really needed for (some of?) the things you list:

* we've know about lenses and focusing for centuries (the highly directional Fresnel lens was invented ~1815).

* incandescent lights have been around for a century and they were <3500K since the beginning; sodium street lights (<3000K) have been around for decades too

It is not so much modern tech that's the thing as modern (better) understanding: we've actually done research into the topic, and that research is more widely known; see for example this report by the city of Toronto on effective lighting (that mentions Dark Sky certification by name):

* https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/8ff6-city-...
by rahen | 2025-08-27 12:32:27+00:00
I use Emacs (org-mode with TeX and Beamer exports) for almost everything, it's my office suite among other things. The only time I still need LibreOffice is for diagrams and charts, and even that is slowly being replaced by Mermaid.

https://ridaayed.com/posts/create-diagrams-in-emacs-org-mode...
Show HN: I built TabX – A Chrome extension that makes sense of your tab chaos
by yashxsagar | 2025-08-27 12:32:31+00:00
Ola HN!

Like many of you, I live inside my browser. Chrome tabs are my research notes, my backlog, my ideas-in-progress… but also my biggest nightmare.

At some point, I realized my tabs were my second brain — except I couldn’t recall anything from it. Finding “that one brilliant article I just had open” became a daily ritual of frustration.

So I hacked together TabX: a Chrome extension that treats your browsing sessions as searchable knowledge, instead of clutter.

Here’s what it does:

1. Real-time tab indexing → Search across open tabs title, URL, or even page content instantly .

2. Privacy-first → All data stays on your machine. No servers, no trackers, no phoning home.

3. Works across multiple Chrome windows → Your search is referenced across all tabs open across all Chrome windows

4. Works for Incognito windows as well

5. Auto Highlight and Scroll → Upon shifting focus to your target tab, TabX scroll to the page section containing your search keyword and highlight it as well (works for pages with simple HTML structures for now)

I’ve been dogfooding it for weeks and my productivity shot up — no more “where the hell did I read that?” moments.

Think of it as Ctrl/Cmd+F on steroids!

TabX just went live on the Chrome Web Store -> https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tabx/bdmeibkfombnjp...

I’d love your feedback:

What would make this indispensable for developers, researchers, or founders?

What integrations/workflows would you want next?

Thanks Yash
by yobbo | 2025-08-27 12:33:04+00:00
Sounds similar to DOT-5 brake fluid.

Maybe this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tributyl_phosphate

"The major uses of TBP in industry are as a component of aircraft hydraulic fluid, brake fluid, and as a solvent for extraction and purification of rare-earth metals from their ores"

It might be better if it is hygroscopic as the water won't separate and risk forming ice plugs in the hydraulic lines.
by todd-davies | 2025-08-27 12:33:16+00:00
I think the competition/antitrust law community is beginning to develop some effective antibodies against some of these. Bork's ideas are pretty well and truly debunked these days, and issues with regulatory capture, lobbying etc. are getting lots of attention (e.g. see this excellent paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4979205).
by optikalfire | 2025-08-27 12:34:04+00:00
Is this correct?

-- Parent table CREATE TABLE events ( id bigint, user_id bigint, event_type integer, payload text, created_at timestamp ) PARTITION BY HASH (user_id);

-- First level: 16 partitions by user_id CREATE TABLE events_0 PARTITION OF events FOR VALUES WITH (modulus 16, remainder 0) PARTITION BY HASH (event_type);

shouldn't that be by user_id for the first 16 tables?
by jonbiggums22 | 2025-08-27 12:34:06+00:00
I don't believe this is true. Something like thunderbolt could allow this but the cheap commonly available ones "simply" appear as a USB disk and can't use any of the NVMe specific features like HMB, can't be secure erased with nvme-cli, etc. Lack of HMB support is a particularly painful limitation these days as dram isn't available on most new drives.
by weinzierl | 2025-08-27 12:34:57+00:00
For the Commodore 64 there was a product called the C64 Snail which could slow it down.

Later on the early PCs we had a Turbo Button, but since everyone had it in Turbo mode all the time it essentially was a way to slow down the machine.

EDIT: Found an image of what I remember as the "C64 Snail". It is called "BREMSE 64" (which is German for brake) in the image.

https://retroport.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/bremse64_rex...
by latexr | 2025-08-27 12:35:02+00:00
> I have never had an instagram account and I was able to hop on there and copy the image.

This time you were. I get sent Instagram links semi-regularly and it’s a gamble when they’ll work. And there are two other people on this thread who replied directly to you, before your comment, saying they wouldn’t have bothered to even try.

> it might be of interest to some that the image shared by the artist on Instagram has the text justified how the artist intended

Is it, now? Then why is the text justified entirely differently on their own website, their Etsy store, and their official link on Cartoon Collections?

https://tomtoro.com/cartoons/

https://www.etsy.com/listing/510225080/signed-print-of-my-ne...

https://www.cartoonstock.com/cartoon?searchID=CC137952

And look at that, it’s the exact same crop I chose for my screenshot. Almost as if I tried to respect the author’s choice, even though I very much doubt they are anal-retentive about how the text is laid out. They likely changed it for Instagram to fit better into the obligatory square.

> Why did you bother?

Perhaps cut it a bit with the hostility? It’s not like my screenshot harmed you in any way.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-27 12:35:15+00:00
I honestly haven't seen much related to Tom Waits on HN, and when I heard this song, I simply had to share it with everyone who cares to hear it, irl and otherwise. He just gets it, no matter what it is. He's just a cool dude. I don't know how he does it. Years of honing his craft and it just looks so carefree and effortless. I'm so glad he exists, and I appreciate you too for enjoying his creations with me vicariously.
by elric | 2025-08-27 12:35:33+00:00
I have a few pet theories of why software in the medical space is so often shitty and insanely expensive. One of them is that working with doctors is often very unpleasant, which makes building software them unpleasant, which drives up the price. I mean some of the ones I worked with were terribly nice, especially the ICU docs and neurologists, but a large majority of them were major aholes.

The other theory is there are soo many bureaucratic hoops to jump through in order to make anything in the medical space, that no one does it willingly.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-08-27 12:35:36+00:00
The advantage to me was having persistent data in memory and stored in the image. I used a function ‘ll’ to reload all source code. I stopped using this technique when computers got faster so loading many data sources was not as consuming. Also, for my application I noticed that LispWork’s file IO ran much faster than SBCL so I used LW.

Still, working with images in SBCL is a good technique. Command line utilities built as separate image files load very quickly, and then you get to write utilities in Lisp rather than bash or Python.
by komali2 | 2025-08-27 12:36:02+00:00
I don't necessarily disagree but I was quite easily able to find more information about one of the devs: https://celenity.dev/about/

Yes it's not a name and face, but I can understand wanting to maintain separation between government identity and online identity

Here's another Ironfox dev: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsaky/

I didn't see any others. I'm not quite clear where you're getting this idea that either of these people are PRC nationals either, or why that would really matter. The PRC is huge in the FOSS space, and it's not like I'm a huge fan of the country (I live in Taiwan) but credit where it's due.
by podgietaru | 2025-08-27 12:36:11+00:00
I clearly didn't claim that. My own depression was multifaceted, stemming from genetics, upbringing, social isolation. And the help I got was also multifaceted and involved identifying all those causes.

Does it not give you pause when you write things like "it's just ChatGPT. Your own attempt at ending your life hasn't seemingly taught you anything."

Suicidality is multi-faceted. It's why there's recorded records of suicide attempts increasing when a highly-publicised suicide attempt happens, or when media portrays it such as in 13 Reasons why.

And when you're straddling that line - as you might imagine - your sense of rationality is sort of all over the place.

As with probably a lot of other influences in his life the responses of ChatGPT probably tugged him in a direction. And that alone is horrific.
by fsflover | 2025-08-27 12:36:45+00:00
> But they won't have mass-market appeal until they can run the same sorts of apps that Android and iOS can run

Waydroid allows me to run Android apps on my Librem 5.

> How do I deposit a check with my bank on my phone without the app? I can't; the mobile website doesn't have that functionality

So switch the bank to one not forcing you into the duopoly?
by siva7 | 2025-08-27 12:37:15+00:00
> With AECL's continued failure to explain how to test their device

They can't. There was a single developer, he left, no tests existed, no one understood the mess to confidently make changes. At this point you can either lie your way through the regulators or scrap the product altogether.

I've seen this kind of devs and companies running their software in regulated industries like in the therac incident, just now we are in the year 2025. I left because i understood that it's a criminal charge waiting to happen.
by cameronh90 | 2025-08-27 12:37:46+00:00
My experience is in the UK, but it doesn't surprise me that you got more attention in the Netherlands. From the experiences of my family, if you want anything more than a paracetamol, you practically need sign off from the Minister of Health!

Joking aside, they do seem to escalate more to specialists whereas we do more at the GP level.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-27 12:37:49+00:00
>You do know that the per capita number is from your own link? Japan sits at number 19 per capita.

ctrl-f "per capita", nothing comes up.

I do notice that Japan is #19 in terms of % of GDP however...

I actually think your confusion here explains a lot. You don't know the difference between "per capita" and "GDP". That shows you don't speak English well. That's probably why you don't know much about the US.

The fundamental issue is that you think you know a lot, but you actually know little. You're mostly just reading what is written about the US in your native language. Probably there is lots of misinformation.

>Was the US doing about as much as Japan the argument you wanted to make?

Why is the US being harassed and not Japan?

>Or are just here to be a contrarian?

The absurdity of Europeans who complain endlessly about the US, while we've historically pursued a relatively generous foreign policy towards you, gets under my skin.

>Maybe the US have an incentive in seeing the American built world order continue?

I've very consistently stated in this thread, and on Hacker News more generally, that the US should abandon the so-called "American-built world order". It causes us no end of grief, as you are illustrating at this very moment with your comments.

>But hey, turn inward and let China and India win.

The US economy was doing amazing back when we were more isolationist. Switzerland does amazing despite rejecting memberships in multinational organizations like the EU and NATO. India is very explicit in its policy of "multi-alignment", i.e. avoiding big firm coalitions like EU/NATO.

You Europeans are so invested in the idea that America needs to protect Europe for America to succeed. As far as I can tell, this idea is total nonsense. Barely a shred of evidence is offered in favor of it.

China and India aren't exactly looking to form alternatives to NATO either. Why would a big country agree to defend a small country? It doesn't usually make sense from a national interest perspective.

>But don’t get mad when tariff situation with Europe etc. Is equalized over time and the American big tech is targeted to lessen the dependency.

You guys have been raiding big tech bank accounts for years now. You shouldn't be surprised by US retaliation. What goes around comes around. We can tell you're not actually our friends.
by MagnumOpus | 2025-08-27 12:38:30+00:00
The nuclear exit was started 10 years before that - mostly also because of vibes: the Green Party became junior coalition partner in the government for the first time, and the greens had a longstanding anti-nuclear stance from their roots in the 1970s anti-nuclear weapons movement… They pushed for the nuclear exit.

When the conservatives regained power, they vowed to cancel and stop the exit timeline, but then came Fukushima and an irrational media panic - and Merkel did what she does best.
by Moldoteck | 2025-08-27 12:39:04+00:00
"smarter grid management, demand-response, and electrification" - electrification increases the demand, maybe you meant efficiency?

Demand response is basically - please don't use power because we don't have enough or because it's expensive. That's not an appealing option.

Smart grid management is good but it'll take years to reach good condition - you need to expand/upgrade transmission and distribution systems with proper equipment.

Germany has it's own path that's more or less stable for a long time- coal+gas firming, tons of ren and major transmission expenses, to the point govt will start subsidizing them
by wqaatwt | 2025-08-27 12:39:36+00:00
Well yes, but if you reduce pollution by 50% then you need to double the tax and so on and so forth.

If it’s not something that’s enforced globally you will either end up destroying certain industries and or having massive inefficiencies.

My point is that sin taxes might be a good way to discourage certain behaviors but not as good as a consistent revenue source.

Also there is a risk of perverse incentives like what happened in Tsarist Russia when most government revenue was coming from alcohol taxes.
by jmyeet | 2025-08-27 12:39:42+00:00
Surprised Pikachu face. There is an entire well-funded ecosystem of "academic" research, think tanks, policy groups and so on that exist solely to propagandize the status quo.

It goes well beyond that though. I always like to tell the story of Steven Donziger to show just how corrupt this system is.

Ecuador of course has less regulation than the US and oil company went down there and made a total mess. Steven Donziger, an American lawyer, went down there and helped the people and the governemnt sue Chevron and won a $9.5 billion judgement in 2011 to clean this up.

Chevron didn't like this, withdrew their assets from Ecuador and went back to the US and sued Donziger in federal court. The judgement was deemed to be fraudulent (based pretty much on a video tape where Donziger and a minister were at the same event years earlier).

But it didn't end there. Donziger was disbarred for this. Chevron made a complaint to the Department of Justice to criminally prosecute Donziger. The DoJ declined.

But it didn't end there. The federal judge appointed a private law firm that served Chevron to criminally prosecute Donziger for not turning over a computer and other work products that were absolutely covered by attorney-client privilege. This is a little-known and little-used law for private prosecution.

Donziger was placed on house arrest with an $800,000 bail for years for contempt of court.

Donziger claims Chevron has spent in excess of $2 billion in legal fees on all this.

Don't doubt for a second that the courts don't work directly for the interests of corporations and capital owners. In fact, this is about the best way to determine how the Supreme Court will rule on key matters: what benefits the wealthy. It's not strictly true. There are exceptions but it's amazing how often it's correct.

The courts have now been packed with Christian Nationalists who will absolutely weaponize the bench in future years against climate activists and probably get them declared terrorist organizations. That's just the reality we live in now.
by craftkiller | 2025-08-27 12:40:20+00:00
> Outside DualSense controller having issues connecting to bluetooth

FWIW I use a DualSense controller connected to my Linux computers all the time without issue and without having to do anything special. In fact, Sony is the author of the DualSense driver on Linux[0]. Do you connect anything else over bluetooth? I'm wondering if your bluetooth setup might just be broken in general rather than specifically for DualSense controllers.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sony-HID-PlayStation-PS5
by Aerbil313 | 2025-08-27 12:40:56+00:00
It appears my parent comment is misunderstood. I myself am improving every day, but I was once in a darker place, and that was through no fault of my own. I don't see any dreams: the issues we talk about here are systemic, the human race didn't spontaneosly became less interested in living a satisfactory life suddenly after 2010s. Of course an individual can survive and thrive regardless, with enough knowledge and effort.
by RajT88 | 2025-08-27 12:41:10+00:00
I recently had a dumb argument with actually a bunch of folks on Nextdoor who claimed unironically that coal power plants were more eco friendly than wind and solar farms.

I ran the numbers like a good nerd. It is mind-bogglingly inane how wrong that idea is. I also learned new things about how ridiculously polluting coal plants are.

These bad ideas come from somewhere (presumably cable news). Or they were bots.
by the_af | 2025-08-27 12:41:15+00:00
I understand you're discussing philosophers engaged in epistemology, which are some of the philosophers closer to science.

I think epistemology is critical and necessary. It fascinates me. However, I wouldn't class them as physicists (unless they actually are, of course; you can wear more than one hat).

I admit I'm not familiar with Deacon, but Wikipedia states he's a "neuroanthropologist". I wonder how he would feel about a physicist making authoritative statements on neurobiology or anthropology!

This trap is not hypothetical. Remember when Michael Behe sided with Creationism and Intelligent Design, using his credentials as a scientist to try to discredit the theory of evolution? But he wasn't a scientist trained in that field, nor was he qualified to comment on it. He was a biochemist!

(I hope we've established labels do matter, insofar as they mean the person so labeled is immersed and has demonstrated high qualifications in the labeled field).
by podgietaru | 2025-08-27 12:42:16+00:00
OpenAI has the ability to detect whether a conversation is about a certain topic. It has the ability to end a conversation, or, if you think that is too much, it has the ability to prominently display information.

My preference would be that in the situation that happened in the story above that it would display a prominent banner ad above the chat with text akin to.

"Help and support is available right now if you need it. Phone a helpline: NHS 111. Samartians.. Etc.

ChatGPT is a chatbot, and is not able to provide support for these issues. You should not follow any advice that ChatGPT is offering.

We suggest that you:

Talk to someone you trust: Like family or friends.

Who else you can contact:

* Call a GP, * Call NHS 111 etc "

This ad should be displayed at the top of that chat, and be undismissable.

The text it offered is so far away from that it's unreal. And the problem with these chatbots is absolutely a marketing one. Because they're authoritative, and presented as emotional and understanding. They are not human, as you said. But the creators don't mind if you mistake them as such.
by pydry | 2025-08-27 12:42:37+00:00
Vibes, chernobyl and also the absurd cost of nuclear power.

Poland is building nuclear power now though, after decades of burning epic amounts of coal (~85% of their electricity output).

This is most likely coz it provides a route to creating a nuclear weapon in a hurry "just in case". It isnt cost effective for them for any other purpose.
by philipallstar | 2025-08-27 12:42:41+00:00
Opposition to nuclear is 90% a "left" wing problem. Blaming the boogeyman "right" is silly in general, as left-right is a thought-terminating scale, but really silly in this case where it actually is pretty clear-cut.

Greenpeace did great work on the peace front, but wrecked 50 years of carbon progress on the nuclear power front.
What does it take to become a good software engineer at this time?
by saketlovescode | 2025-08-27 12:42:54+00:00
The question that has been bugging me a lot is what it actually takes to be a top 1% software engineer. Should I read a lot of OG books and try to implement compilers, databases and languages etc.. Or should I just learn a technology like Java, Python and find a job and just grow in my org and then switch for better roles.

I would love to know perspective of Senior engineers here. What worked for them, how they learned things and mastered it. And, in this world, where AI can just do trivial things for you, how does one get good at anything?
by larodi | 2025-08-27 12:43:06+00:00
This at least 10th post of Monodraw on hn

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8433417 - oct 09 2014

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9545252 - may 14 2015

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27832910 - july 14 2021

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32134469 - july 18 2022

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39651796 - march 9 2024

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037904 - 1 year ago

and the some

all of these gained interest, so my conclusion is Monodraw benefits a lot from being regularly exposed to HN crowd.
by jasoneckert | 2025-08-27 12:43:08+00:00
This is an incredible achievement... not just for the technical depth, but for what it represents. Alyssa's work is nothing short of inspiring. The way she combined deep technical insight with years of dedication has not only brought open-source graphics to Apple Silicon, but also lit a fire under reverse engineers and open-source developers.

She has shown a whole new generation that curiosity and persistence can break barriers. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the developments these past several years. Massive respect to her and everyone who made this possible, and kudos on her new position at Intel.
by fortzi | 2025-08-27 12:43:25+00:00
> we haven't yet seen Belgian commandos coming to kidnap people in France or Luxembourgers launching rockets

Not all hate crimes involve rockets. I know a few Jews who grew up in France, and all of them report antisemitic incidents that happened to them personally, some physically violent. I’m talking mid-day paris, not some otherwise sketchy circumstances. They all fear being identified as jews in the streets of Paris.
by trq01758 | 2025-08-27 12:44:01+00:00
Germany had a badly designed prototype reactor with 80 incidents in 4 years of operation and one particular incident on the 4th of May 1986 - a week after Chernobyl accident, where reactor operator was lying about it. No wonder they have those regulations and general public distrust in anything nuclear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300