MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lotharcable | 2025-08-26 17:20:24+00:00
One of the effects of ISG15 deficiency is a disease called "Type I interferonopathy".

Among the symptoms of this disease includes things like necrotic lesions and severe multi-systemic damages.

From what I gather the fact that these people are not more susceptible to viral infections was a surprise. Which probably relates to why the doctors in the parent article were investigating its possible anti-viral properties.
by microtonal | 2025-08-26 17:20:25+00:00
I have a ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 AMD (besides MacBook Pro M1 Pro) and with some powertop tweaks it lasts about 6-7 hours. Not as great as the M1 Pro, but generally good enough to work a few hours without power. The nice thing is that I loaded it up with 64GiB RAM and a 2TB SSD for cheap (almost infinite NixOS generations, yay!).

The MacBook has a better trackpad, stronger case, better battery life, far better display. But the ThinkPad has NixOS running perfectly (I had Asahi on my Mac Studio, but with the lack of Thunderbolt and not so great battery life I don't want to run it on a MacBook). At any rate, the Mac is going to be better, but I have to sacrifice a bit for tech-feudalism-free computing (Mac is slowly becoming more and more closed).
by esafak | 2025-08-26 17:20:30+00:00
Retouching is an art. To the pro, this is just another tool to increase efficiency. You pay them not just for knowing how to use Photoshop, but for exercising good judgement. That said, I imagine this will shrink the field, since fewer retouchers will be able to do the same work, unless the amount of work goes up commensurately. Will people get more retouching done if the price goes down? Not sure.
by Pooge | 2025-08-26 17:21:06+00:00
It's not directly related to your post, but Japan has a very significant Brazilian population that live in very specific parts of Japan. Toyota[1], and its prefecture Aichi, are known for having a Portuguese-speaking population and they are, of course, working as cheap labor in automobile industries. In fact, some signs on the road are written in Portuguese, too.

[1] Name of a city
by hluska | 2025-08-26 17:21:18+00:00
> But in non fiction a lot of this is done or you. You are given the order and a lot of the glue. The glue you are missing is probably relatively obvious ("why did they do this?") and you can get that information and include it, or you cant and there is nothing to be done about it ("the motive is unknown" etc).

I published a long time ago and ended up doing some deep reporting on a couple of issues. And honestly, it’s a lot closer to writing fiction than I would have thought going in. In ways, it’s actually a lot harder.

Starting out, I believed roughly what your quote said - that I could get into a deep piece and all the glue would be there. In practice, it’s a lot messier because you try to tell the truth related by witnesses with unpredictable self interests. So as you go through the process, you find multiple truths that can each be corroborated with other sources.

It’s a lot more like building with Lego. A piece could be the nose of a horse or the gutter of a house. It’s where judgment, ethics and good note taking practices come in. Witness problems are a big reason why journalists develop their own note taking style to code interviews - an outlining style gives the freedom to consider each fact as a piece of a larger build.

Edit - If it makes you feel better about writing fiction, I wouldn’t worry so much about plausibility. I wasn’t a great journalist but have heard (and verified) stories that the most creative minds would call impossible. Good characters can make the implausible into magic.
by onetimeusename | 2025-08-26 17:21:28+00:00
The other day when the US's stake in Intel was announced, people assumed it was a political stunt. I suspected it was because of national security interests. The CHIPS act probably didn't get the result US Defense wanted quickly enough. Some details that were glossed over include that there was a chip shortage a few years ago as a result of COVID and TSMC supply chain disruptions that led to a shortage in electronics and automobiles even. This started to look like a national security interest back then.

Second, there is an AI race going on. US intelligence is taking it very seriously and views supremacy of our AI as very important. Recently, the US was pushing NVDA to start using Intel's foundry. I assume it's for national security reasons.

Finally, a couple of details from the Intel deal that were not widely discussed is that the US is taking a passive seat[1]

The government’s investment in Intel will be a passive ownership, with no Board representation or other governance or information rights. The government also agrees to vote with the Company’s Board of Directors on matters requiring shareholder approval, with limited exceptions.

There are also warrants being given whose status is based on Intel's foundry. That suggests the foundry was the interest all along.

[1]: https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1748/...
by LorenPechtel | 2025-08-26 17:21:38+00:00
Only 17%??

Last time I was job hunting I found that 80%+ of postings were either dupes or bogus. Very vague description of the job? I'm going to keep seeing it for a long time, clearly they are not actually filling the role. Very specific, odd set of requirements, they're going through the motions but they've already picked the person and the ad is designed to match only that person.

I think they're going about this backwards. Leave the ad up, but they are required to amend it with external hire/internal hire/H-1B when the position is filled. Let people see what has happened in the past. And all jobs must be associated with some entity and indicate how long that entity has existed.
by soraminazuki | 2025-08-26 17:21:54+00:00
> ~/Library/Preferences is likely the more correct location on macOS

It really, really isn't. That's where the macOS defaults system stores its data and shouldn't be hijacked for anything else. There's gazillions of files in there, most of which aren't grouped by directories. It's primarily meant to be accessed programmatically. It'll be painful and error-prone to manage CLI configs in there.

macOS is a unix, and there's no reason to make CLIs work partially like a Cocoa application. Breaking compatibility with other unices isn't worth it, especially when dotfiles work on macOS just like it works elsewhere.
by jjk166 | 2025-08-26 17:22:12+00:00
The problem is if you have overbuilt infrastructure, it doesn't just magically go away. You either need to pay to get rid of it, pay to maintain it, or deal with the consequences of letting it decay. Further, with an aging population, the decrease in their ability to pay for this infrastructure doesn't neatly balance out with a declining need for infrastructure. The retiree in poor health is more reliant on public transit, more reliant on healthcare, etc, while they both have less money to directly pay for those services, and contribute less to the economy as a consumer of manufactured goods or as an investor.

There is nothing special about any population number, it's how quickly and in which direction your population is changing that matters.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-08-26 17:22:29+00:00
They both have strong labor unions and/or collective bargaining agreements the USA does not have. That is to say socialist-coded policy is what is helping here, not capitalist ones.

Their benefits are almost purely from the strength of the working class, hence workers having it better there.

In France, the percentage of employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement, which is very high (around 95-98%)

In Germany, about 50% of workers are directly covered by collective bargaining agreements (CBAs)

In 2024, the union membership rate in the United States was 9.9%, representing 14.3 million workers, while 16.0 million workers were represented by a union under a collective agreement, accounting for 11.1% of the workforce.

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If American workers want a better life they need CBA's and unions, not protectionist tariffs and buying chunks of random tech companies.
by raincole | 2025-08-26 17:22:38+00:00
If rich countries' sustanibility depends on poor countries staying poor, it creates a huge incentive for the rich countries to destablize the poor countries and keep them poor.

Just like the US once destablized its southern neighbors to keep them exporting cheap fruits, if the only thing that keeps the US's pension system from exploding is cheap workers from the neighbors, it'd want them to keep exporting cheap labor.

Of course one might argue rich countries will do that anyway so it's not a concern. It's just icing on a poisoned cake.
by chronotis | 2025-08-26 17:22:52+00:00
There are some efforts to do exactly that, though overall I'd observe that the general level of technological sophistication / early adopter-ism is pretty low in the politician cohort. There are tools for developing campaign plans, direct mail messaging, text campaign content, etc.; we used AI social media ad generation tools to help fill our content pipeline. We developed some internal tools to assist with direct mail fundraising letters to PACs / labor unions / etc.
by fsiefken | 2025-08-26 17:22:55+00:00
Thank you for doing this, it also has a nice microform feel when browsing. I remember that in the pre internet days I went to the library to find the microfiche in the drawer en folder of the newspaper I wanted to read. I forgot how I loaded it into the machine, but perhaps it was easier then putting a usb stick in a computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6P9FhSkd0I

I wonder what's the reason for the decline in length over the years and why the peak size years seem to be '82-'83.

As an image format alternative, there's avif and webp, but png has the advantage it was in existence during in the lasts BYTE years (1996-1998). "The full specification of PNG was released under the approval of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on 1 October 1996, and later as RFC 2083 on 15 January 1997"

The funny thing is, when I search I can't find mention of the GIF/PNG discussions or PNG introduction, while I do find mention of things like WebNFS, OLiVR/VDOLive (wavelet video) and FIF (fractal image format). Perhaps it was out of scope?
by seaal | 2025-08-26 17:23:04+00:00
Using SUPER+F for toggling fullscreen and SUPER+TAB to switch workspaces is basically the same workflow - it's just so much easier to customize Hyprland to be the exact way you want and Omarchy is a wonderful foundation for it. I found it had much better defaults and more intuitive customization than the Hyprland Hyprperks setup https://account.hypr.land/pricing

>Balatro wouldn't launch under Hyprland

Just tried it, worked without issue using Proton-GE https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-26 17:23:14+00:00
Now I have never played runescape but have heard of this legendary game in references.

For some reason, my mind confused runescape with neopets from the odd1sout video which I think is a good watch.

Scams That Should be Illegal : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyoBNHqah30
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-26 17:23:15+00:00
Dozens of junk emails per day. I don't think it has anything to do with being American.

I used to try to manage it with filters and unsubscribing and such, but at some point I realized I go years at a time without receiving emails from a human. My actual usage pattern was that I only looked at it when I expected an email from a machine, in which case it'd either be in the top 5 or so messages, or it'd be the first hit or two for a naive search.

Now I just let it fill up with shit, because who cares? I basically never open it without a specific message in mind, anyway. Trying to manage it was a total waste of my time.
by incomingpain | 2025-08-26 17:23:31+00:00
She's autistic and there's a subset of society who have subconscious bias against autistic people.

The research out of the UK was fascinating. They had a video of autistic people and non-autistic people, not doing much of anything. Nothing verbal. Then the tested person simply answers, gut feeling questions about the person. "does this person seem trustworthy" etc etc.

They showed a minority of people have the ability to identify autistic people without verbal; and have negative judgements against them with remarkable accuracy and they are completely oblivious to the bias.
by mattlutze | 2025-08-26 17:23:37+00:00
That's an unsupported assertion.

Lots of non-Ukranian Europeans still want to move to the US for example, because there's an idea that in skilled jobs you can make more money in the US.

Likewise, India isn't "kept" in poverty nor is the country at war, but the opportunity for economic prosperity elsewhere is a strong driver for migration. And when India surpasses the US or Europe in economic prospects, the trend will reverse and enterprising people will flock to e.g. Hyderabad and New Delhi.

Economic prosperity, until we do away with capitalism, probably won't ever be homogeneous. Where there's a potential across a circuit the electrons will flow.
by margalabargala | 2025-08-26 17:23:48+00:00
I'm talking about things like T-mobile's starlink texting. The only hardware requirement is supporting eSIM, which Fairphones 4 and later do. It uses standard LTE.

The sole blocker preventing someone with a Fairphone 4, 5, or 6 from sending text messages via satellite is that they are not on Android 15.
by ezst | 2025-08-26 17:24:31+00:00
How does that work? You've got to tap the touchpad to trigger the initial click, don't you? For some reason, I really HATE tapping a touchpad (let that be an Apple or otherwise), it breaks my flow, I suppose? (like, you have to pause at the cursor's location, lift, tap twice to initiate a dragging event, then finally move on) whereas on the ThinkPad I daily drive I do all the cursor movement/scrolling with my right hand and the selection/clicking with my left thumb on the physical key that sits on the top of the touchpad sensitive area. That makes click&drag workflows super efficient, I find.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-26 17:24:50+00:00
> Apple’s 2016 stand wasn’t forgotten.

> It was buried under the next headline.

> But it’s still true.

Yeah right. Just in 2017 they started backdooring Chinese iCloud servers for the CCP: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/business/apple-china-data...
by ctippett | 2025-08-26 17:24:52+00:00
Interesting take. I'm a programmer, but learned Photoshop in the early 2000s and had a blast making and editing images for fun. Sure, the generative models today can do a far better job than anything I could come up with, but that doesn't detract from the experience and skills I picked up over the years.

If anything, knowing Photoshop (I use Affinity Designer/Photo these days) is actually incredibly useful to finesse the output produced by AI. No regrets.
by ecshafer | 2025-08-26 17:25:11+00:00
How many workers do we need? TSMC has 80k workers all in. 15-24 there is about 3 million US NEETs. I think that we could have a 10 year plan to get 80k people with EE/CE/NanoTech Eng/ChemEng/etc degrees. Make college free, or hell even a stipend for people to pursue "Critical Careers", heavily fund Phds in the same areas for US Citizens, and we will see workers with the skills.
by jkool702 | 2025-08-26 17:25:43+00:00
also re: BATS

Im aware of it, but have never ended up actually using it. Ive heard before the sentiment you imply - that its great for fairly simple script...but not so much for long and complicated scripts. And, well, the handful of bash projects that Ive developed enough to have the desire to add unit testing for are all range from "long and complicated" to "nightmare inducing" (lol).

Its on my "to try" list one day, but I have a sneaking suspicion that timep is not a good project to try out BATS for the first time on.
by didibus | 2025-08-26 17:25:52+00:00
And to add to my other comment, I don't think it came to mean that out of stupidity either.

As far as I know, and correct me if I'm wrong, there isn't a mathematical term for an approximate tight upper bound that's based off vague criteria of "fast enough".

In practice, people needed a way to say something like, let's not waste time getting all precise here, what's the approximate close-ish tight bound that's obvious, alright, that will work, let's use it.

Big Thetha implies proving the lower bound, and generally specifying the exact upper bound. So it was a worse term to use to describe the above, I think people settled on BigO, because you end up with some upper bound, and not necessarily the tightest one, but you lend on a tight-enough upper bound that it serves your practical purpose of choosing an algorithm to use in your application.

And so it became BigO, all for a lack of a better word, and eventually that became common parlance in those circles.
by dang | 2025-08-26 17:26:09+00:00
We've banned this account for posting flamebait and ignoring our requests to stop.

Your comment may have been making a good point about the paper, but you can't drop an "also very rapey" in there. That's like tossing a molotov cocktail on your way home from the grocery store. Groceries are fine; firebombs are not.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44991147 (Aug 2025)

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by d1sxeyes | 2025-08-26 17:26:59+00:00
> Considering how little mining power mobile devices have and how anyone would figure out pretty fast there's a problem with heat / battery issues from it idk if that's really realistic these days. Hard to keep this one hidden while also profitable

I mean, check out HiddenMiner, ADB.Miner, HummingBad, WireX…

I agree that this is an overreaction, but the problem is real, and the fact you don’t know anyone who knows they’ve had a malware infection doesn’t mean that that is reality.
by sunscream89 | 2025-08-26 17:27:26+00:00
I haven’t watched her recent stuff though I always have enjoyed what I have seen. From time to time she is linked over a prominent issue.

She said something trans rights activists scorn, that sex operations on children cannot be a moral intervention of children gripped by gender dysphoria.

I don’t know what else she’s on coals over.

Since she went “private” venturing her stuff is all over the place and people can get tired of this one personality always chiming in.

I could see her charms turning to cringe in some situations.
by acoard | 2025-08-26 17:27:39+00:00
Yes, the type system basically replaces a degree of unit tests. You no longer need unit tests that are basically just type checking. And it's more comprehensive too. It's much easier to have incomplete test coverage without knowing it than an invalid type system. With such a type system, the app will fail to compile. Of course, you still need unit tests for many other things, but the type system does remove a class of them.

Whether typechecking or unit tests is "better" is really a question of taste.
Show HN: Ubon – a solution for the "You're absolutely right" debugging dread
by sangsattawat | 2025-08-26 17:27:56+00:00
I used Claude Code heavily while trying to launch an app while being quite sick and my mental focus was not at its best. So I relied 'too much' on Claude Code, and my Supabase keys slipped in a 'hidden' endpoint, causing some emails to be leaked.

After some deep introspection, and thinking about the explosion of Lovable, Replit, Cursor, Claude Code vibe-coded apps, I thought about what's the newest newest and most dreadful pain points in the dev arena right now. And I came up with the scenario of debugging some non-obvious errors, where your AI of choice will reply "You're absolutely right! Let me fix that", but never nailing what's wrong in the codebase.

So I built Ubon for the last week, listing thoroughly all the pain points I have experienced myself as a software engineer (mostly front-end) for 15 years. Ubon catches the stuff that slips past linters - hardcoded API keys, broken links, missing alt attributes, insecure cookies. The kind of issues that only blow up in production.

And now I can use Ubon by adding it to my codebase ("npx ubon scan .", or simply telling Claude Code "install Ubon before commiting"), and it will give outputs that either a developer or an AI agent can read to pinpoint real issues, pinpointing the line and suggested fix.

It's open-source, free to use, MIT licensed, and I won't abandon it after 7 days, haha. My hope is that it can become part of the workflow for AI agents or as a complement to linters like ESlint.

It makes me happy to share that after some deep testing, it works pretty well. I have tried with dozens of buggy codebases, and also simulated faulty repos generated by Cursor, Windsurf, Lovable, etc. to use Ubon on top of them, and the results are very good.

Would love feedback on what other checks would be useful. And if there's enough demand, I am happy to give online demos to get traction of users to enjoy Ubon.
by Nexxxeh | 2025-08-26 17:28:06+00:00
Please excuse any perceived tone in my reply. I'm furious but not at you, and I've re-drafted this several times and I can't even tell what tone it conveys any more. I appreciate your thoughtful response and you're likely right in that they've likely ticket a box or walked past a sign or whatever, as we always used to for photos and video. And you've explicitly noted you're not commenting on the morality of it.

I'm certainly not saying you're wrong. Although you might be, if the specific country has laws around deepfakes that don't explicitly specify they need to be sexually explicit to be illegal.

Or if you're not allowed to bury ridiculous stuff in small print.

I've just checked the terms and conditions of entry for the next venue I'm going to, and you're right that buried in the T&Cs of entry is:

>By entering the Venue you agree to your actual or simulated likeness being included for no fee within any film, photograph, audio and/or audio-visual recording to be exploited in any and all media for any purpose at any time throughout the world. This includes filming by the police or security staff which may be carried out for the security of customers or the prevention of crime. However, you may object to such use by specific request to privacy@livenation.co.uk .

The signage for the above venue did not make this clear last time I was there. I wonder if that was the case for the venues involved?

But there's no way people walking in the venue can reasonably be expected to have given informed consent to the artist producing deepfakes of them.
by fluoridation | 2025-08-26 17:28:12+00:00
>This would strip out tons of MOV instructions which was proven with AMD64 to have a decent impact on performance.

Sure, but the topic is optimizing power efficiency by removing support for an instruction set. That aside, if an instruction isn't very performant, it isn't much of an issue per se. It just means it won't get used much and so chip design resources will be suboptimally allocated. That's a problem for Intel and AMD, and for nobody else.
by ks2048 | 2025-08-26 17:28:28+00:00
> And where is the example of a successful govt run business?

If you look at the list of largest companies by revenue [1], 4 of the top 6 are state-owned. (I'm not saying I support this move by Trump - and natural resources are probably different than technology, etc.. But just to answer the question).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...