MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tw04 | 2025-08-20 21:13:43+00:00
This is just silly on so many fronts. It’s completely useless in even partially inclement weather. It doesn’t work at night. They don’t actually show it tracking “stealth” craft with other aircraft or even birds in the picture (at least for the portion of video I was willing to watch).

Even if this does spot them, so what? You aren’t mounting this onto a rocket to shoot them down. Knowing a plane is approaching 30 seconds before it gets to you is almost completely useless unless you’ve got a fireman’s pole into your bomb shelter and the plane happens to not be carrying bunker busters as a payload.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-08-20 21:13:46+00:00
I've been using AI extensivly the last few weeks but not as a coding agent. I really don't trust it for that. Its really helpful for generating example code for a library I might not be familiar with. a month ago, I was interested in using rabbitmq but he docs were limited. chatgpt was able to give me a fairly good amount of starter code to see how these things are wired together. I used some of it and added to it by hand to finally come up with what is running in production. It certainly has value in that regard. Letting it write and modify code directly? I'm not ready for that. other things its useful for is finding the source of an error when the error message isnt' so great. I'll usually copy paste code that I know is causing the error along with the error message and it'll point out the issues in a way that I can immediatly address. My method is cheaper too, I can get by just fine on the $20/month chatgpt sub doing that.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-20 21:13:47+00:00
Like I said, it’s surface area. It’s much larger in the case of the web since there’s any number of scenarios in which a user’s browser can be coaxed into running code that exploits a vulnerability that bypasses permissions and isolation (which is always possible by virtue of the browser being a privileged app, whether there are known exploits or not).

This sort of thing can happen with installed apps too, but the likelihood overall is far lower, especially if selecting judiciously.

The overwhelming majority of web apps don’t need filesystem access or similar special functionality, and thus users aren’t forced to install them.

In my personal experience, if my interest level in an app is so low that I wasn’t willing to install it, I was never going to use it in the first place either because the app wasn’t compelling enough or I didn’t have any actual need for it.
by em-bee | 2025-08-20 21:14:09+00:00
devtools for it are utterly broken

right, that's a big issue too. when the xsl breaks (in this case when i use <xsl:apply-templates select="$nav-menu-items/item">) i get an empty page and nothing telling me what could be wrong. if i remove the $ the page works, and the apply-templates directive is just left out.
by shkkmo | 2025-08-20 21:14:14+00:00
The explanation of how the estimate is made is more detailed, but here is the referenced conclusion:

>> So (11508 websites * 2^16 sha256 operations) / 2^21, that’s about 6 minutes to mine enough tokens for every single Anubis deployment in the world. That means the cost of unrestricted crawler access to the internet for a week is approximately $0.

>> In fact, I don’t think we reach a single cent per month in compute costs until several million sites have deployed Anubis.
by pier25 | 2025-08-20 21:14:31+00:00
I've been using Android for years but for reasons recently switched to an iPhone.

I gotta say Android is superior in a number of things like call and SMS spam.

Also typing on iOS is a frustrating experience. I type "Im" and the iOS keyboard won't offer "I'm" as a correction option. I've even tried using the Google Keyboard on iOS and the multilingual predictions are just not as good as on Android.

I would have preferred to get a Pixel but Google doesn't distribute their physical products where I live.
by JohnFen | 2025-08-20 21:14:34+00:00
Work-life balance keeps my life from becoming worse than mediocre, but I suppose that assessment depends on what you're wanting to get out of life.

> When you front-load success early, you buy the luxury of choice for the rest of your life.

This is just FIRE. The odds of it being successful are pretty low, but certainly not zero. It's more risk than I'd be willing to take on, but for those who are willing to try it out: my best wishes to you.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-20 21:16:33+00:00
>Proper unlock with FaceID is so damn convenient. I don't know for sure, but suspect going back to a fingerprint would really bug me.

Being able to unlock my password manager with the fingerprint, rather than putting in the vault password every time was great, but my iPhone got too old for the other apps I needed and now I'm stuck typing in a gibberish 30-char password every time I need to use it on my phone. When are we going to get under-the-screen fingerprint sensors?
by watwut | 2025-08-20 21:16:45+00:00
> Fast growing plants have less mass, they are less dense, and if they are edible, they're less delicious and nutritious.

I suspect you made that up. Mint grows fast and tastes great. Watermelon grows super fast and tastes super great. And plenty of slow growing plants are plain inedible.

It is not even clear what you mean by "nutritious dense". But, my family used to grow both vegetables, fruits and even potatoes/herbs. Speed of growing and how nutritious or tasty they are does not seem all that much correlated to me.

> When you let your brain draw circles on an idea, you start to prune its illogical parts.

You will prune them even gaster and more reliably when you see own thoughts written.
by Someone | 2025-08-20 21:16:56+00:00
Unlikely, but not unheard of. Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares is from 1640. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_theorem_on_sums_of_... says:

“Fermat usually did not write down proofs of his claims, and he did not provide a proof of this statement. The first proof was found by Euler after much effort and is based on infinite descent. He announced it in two letters to Goldbach, on May 6, 1747 and on April 12, 1749; he published the detailed proof in two articles (between 1752 and 1755)

[…]

Zagier presented a non-constructive one-sentence proof in 1990“

(https://www.quora.com/What-s-the-closest-thing-to-magic-that... shows that proof was a bit dense, but experts in the field will be able to fill in the details in that proof)
by strange_quark | 2025-08-20 21:18:05+00:00
I'm not even making predictions on whether AGI is possible or not, but the valuations of these companies hinges on AI being able to replace a large portion of human labor. I think we are teetering on the edge of a huge bubble pop unless some other company releases something that's not just another chatbot that does slightly better on some benchmarks that nobody outside of the industry has ever heard of.

What I'm trying to say is that the stock market mostly runs on vibes at this point. And when you have the CEO of the leading model company hyping up a release people have been anticipating for 2 years by tweeting out images of the death star, saying that it made him feel useless, etc. etc., and then it turns out to be a cost-cutting exercise and causes a massive uproar amongst its most loyal users, I think the market is going to adjust to reflect the bad vibes.
by serf | 2025-08-20 21:18:20+00:00
I don't care that they use anime catgirls.

What I do care about is being met with something cutesy in the face of a technical failure anywhere on the net.

I hate Amazon's failure pets, I hate google's failure mini-games -- it strikes me as an organizational effort to get really good at failing rather than spending that same effort to avoid failures all together.

It's like everyone collectively thought the standard old Apache 404 not found page was too feature-rich and that customers couldn't handle a 3 digit error, so instead we now get a "Whoops! There appears to be an error! :) :eggplant: :heart: :heart: <pet image.png>" and no one knows what the hell is going on even though the user just misplaced a number in the URL.
by skydhash | 2025-08-20 21:18:28+00:00
> Agentic AI right now is shockingly good at figuring out what your code should be doing and writing tests that test the behavior, all the verbose and annoying edge cases,

That's a red flag for me. Having a lot of tests usually means that your domain is fully known so now you can specify it fully with tests. But in a lot of setting, the domain is a bunch of business rules that product decides on the fly. So you need to be pragmatic and only write tests against valuable workflows. Or find yourself changing a line and have 100+ tests breaking.
by dt3ft | 2025-08-20 21:18:35+00:00
With an iPhone, when you click on an input field, the on-screen keyboard pops up, and you can type right away.

On an android (latest samsung flagship), the keyboard shows up but is frozen for a second before you can type.

I feel this and I’m guessing iOS is a lot more closer to the hardware, while android runs on top of Java, so there is more to process. Maybe its just me.
by otterley | 2025-08-20 21:19:26+00:00
Speaking solely on my own behalf: I don't know a single person at AWS (and I know a lot of them) who wants to mislead customers into spending more money than they need to. I remember a time before Gateway Endpoints existed, and customers (including me at the time) were spending tons of money passing traffic through pricey NAT Gateways to S3. S3 Gateway Endpoints saved them money.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-08-20 21:19:33+00:00
I think a lot of people are missing the sarcasm here. that said, I agree that its absolutely horrific. yesterday I saw a video where a girl who couldn't have been more than 9 or 10 years old carrying water was hit by an idf strike. Poor kid was basically rendered into chum. The fact taht this stuff is going on right in front of our eyes and our government is complicit in is horrific.
by PoignardAzur | 2025-08-20 21:19:50+00:00
> A notable feature of MLT is the storage of pre-tessellated polygon meshes directly within the file. This approach allows the computationally intensive triangulation step during runtime (online tessellation), often considered a major bottleneck in modern GPU-based map rendering, to be offloaded to the tile generation phase (offline tessellation). This is accomplished by utilizing an additional IndexBuffer stream that stores the triangle indices of polygons, along with an optional Triangles stream when a complete reconstruction of the features is necessary.

Given the emergence of GPUs vector renderers like Vello and Rive, I wonder if this the best format choice for the long term?
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-20 21:19:52+00:00
Ah, I could've sworn that it worked in some version of the page that I tried as I iterated on things, but it could be that the browser just froze on my previously working page and I fooled myself.

Adding xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common" to your xsl:stylesheet and doing select="exsl:node-set($nav-menu-items)/item" seems to work on both Chrome and Librewolf.
by Lammy | 2025-08-20 21:20:09+00:00
On Android I 'member having to set some special metadata (`ANDROID_LOOP=true`) to make it loop cleanly: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36906015

Not sure if this issue persists because I'm boring and am still using the same ringtone I made back in 2011 :v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNSHhrYsudI

gbsplay -qqq -o stdout "Gameboy Camera (1998)(Nintendo).gbs" 48 48 | \ sox -t raw -r 88.2k -e signed -b 16 - -t wav - | \ oggenc - -t "Trippy-H" -a "Hirokazu 'Hip' Tanaka" -l "Pocket Camera" -c "ANDROID_LOOP=true" -o Trippy-H.ogg
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-20 21:20:12+00:00
>Is it necessary in the US to prove ill intent in order to sue for repairs?

As a general rule of thumb: you can sue anyone for anything in the US. There are even a few cases where someone tried to sue God: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuits_against_supernatural_...

When we say "do we need" or "can we do" we're talking about the idea of how plausible it is to win case. A lawyer won't take a case with bad odds of winning, even if you want to pay extra because a part of their reputation lies on taking battles they feel they can win.

>because when I accidentally punch someones tooth out, I would assume they certainly are entitled to the dentist bill.

IANAL, so the boring answer is "it depends". reparations aren't guaranteed, but there's 50 different state laws to consider, on top of federal law.

Generally, they are not entitled to pay for damages themselves, but they may possibly be charged with battery. Intent will be a strong factor in winning the case.
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-20 21:20:22+00:00
> During my first year working on Step Up Social, I averaged 3½ hours of sleep a night and had about 12½ hours every day to focus on business. The physical and mental toll was brutal: I gained 80 pounds, lived on Red Bull and struggled with anxiety.

That's not trading your work-life balance for success, that's just trading your life. Period. 80lbs extra weight (probably already overweight before gaining that if a typical person from the US) and a diet of Red Bull is a great way to take years off your life.

They go on to say they hire people for cleaning, grocery delivery, etc. Hire someone to do meal prep. Hire a trainer. Don't turn into a typical US citizen (> 40% of US adults are obese). Good diet and exercise also helps with anxiety. Addressing anxiety will help you be more successful. A trade off of maybe a few thousand a month (not even, but for someone who rides in helicopters instead of drives this is affordable) and no more than 6 hours a day (4-5 extra sleep, an hour of exercise), you could be successful and not obese and anxious.
by multjoy | 2025-08-20 21:20:33+00:00
>Police have never had at-will access to any personal data and communications they desired.

Wiretaps, postal interference.

None of it was routine, but the tactic for dealing with serious criminality was still there.

>Historically, you and I have always had options and methods of keeping our personal info and our private comms out of the reach of police, govs and other powerful actors. It was good for us and promoted a healthy society.

No you haven't. It is only until very recently that iPhones (less so android devices) have been basically uncrackable (notwithstanding NSA/GCHQ level tactics that aren't going to be used for criminal investigations) and, coupled with end to end encryption, you have a communications system for which their is no practical method of compromise.

It is very good for the citizen, but you cannot argue for it without also acknowledging that it is incredibly advantageous for the criminal. It is without precedent in human history.

I'm not saying that the police should be able to backdoor everything useful, because that's nonsense. What I'm pointing out is that once you realise that your suspects understand how to use signal and how to use a VPN and how to maintain some sort of operational discipline (and this isn't a high threshold), then your crimes become incredibly hard to solve even with a perfectly executed investigation and this is reflected in the clear-up rate.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-20 21:21:27+00:00
>Who installed the corrupt post-colonial governments?

Ugh, mostly the British and the French though I supposed Ike got conned into helping the Brits with one of them.

>Who destabilized middle eastern countries to create an opening for those governments to take power?

rofl, everyone, but mostly their neighbors

>Who funded the groups who ended up taking power?

Same answer as above.

But I get it, reality is complex and "murka bad" is simple. If you want that narrative stick to latin america.
by jakub_g | 2025-08-20 21:21:36+00:00
I'm afraid you might be right.

Former user of 3a, I upgraded to 6 but it was way too big and heavy, and had a weird mass balance.

I'm now on 8 and it has perfect size and weight IMO (using it with a recommended Spigen case).

Looks like 10 is +17g heavier than 8 and 1-2 mm bigger. Not as big as 6 but almost as heavy.

https://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=13979&idPhone2=...
by gbear0 | 2025-08-20 21:23:04+00:00
I've had a similar desire for a code modelling system for decades, so I've given it A LOT of thought, and there has been a lot of older research into Zoomable UIs and Semantic Zoom. Code Bubbles (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/alm-summit-2011/code...) is the closest I've seen to the idea, but doesn't cover the scope I want.

Biggest challenge to me is the UX and navigating the relationships between entities (systems, components/modules, classes, functions, read/write memory, etc) requires a lot of design effort around how they work together consistently at all levels. Conceptually, your view is a set of boxes that are a filter/group-by over a lot of entities at some level, and you want to explode only some of those entities. eg. say you want to zoom into a micro-service's component level, but still see external APIs, which could be a single box per API or boxes for each endpoint. So the control you need over the way zooming works and the 'lens' over relationships filter/group-bys can easily become very complex; probably a good research project itself though!

I do think it's possible to build a good interface that would allow viewing from global cloud scale systems and right into the code through multiple paths, like design patterns/components or git repos with files/folders, but I'm not sure how nice it's going to be to use. There's a reason UML modelling didn't stick around. And I'm not sure there's enough of a business case to fund it, but I'll definitely keep hoping to see it some day.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-20 21:23:05+00:00
...I'll admit I wasn't entirely sure if this could be a Show HN or not, I might have chosen wrong!

However, the guide includes a ton of software I made, which can absolutely be tried out—Aqua Proxy, updated QuickTime components, SIMBL plugins, etc—by anyone with compatible hardware.

I'm sorry you don't have the right hardware. :( You could use a virtual machine but there's really no point. But I don't think this in itself should disqualify a Show HN submission, right? Otherwise, the only thing people could submit would be webapps!
by fluoridation | 2025-08-20 21:23:12+00:00
A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation says that USD 0.1 would be about 700 Wh, so, give or take, a high-performance desktop processor running full tilt for over four hours.

Personally, I'd prefer something like an expansion of how XMPP works. By default you only see what people in your contact list have sent you, and anything else is marked "dubious", and it's up to you to read it or not. I think it's a mistake that email servers have been given the responsibility to filter unwanted traffic. Email servers should have only ever simply passed along whatever they received (excluding excessively large messages, of course).
by nuancebydefault | 2025-08-20 21:23:21+00:00
Belgium: the only handwriting i can do properly is cursive (each word is a connected string of curly letters). I often cheated on the capitals because they are a bit grandose curly in cursive. We wrote notebooks full with cursive in different languages, that's how most languages were thought. My 12yo kid was thought exactly the same hand writing but he has to write less because the usage of fill-in books in stead of empty notebooks.
by neilv | 2025-08-20 21:24:06+00:00
I wonder how much they will have to protect against recklessness of the e-bike owners? For example, against the end user sourcing substandard cells, and combining them in inadvisable ways.

I don't have a good profile of e-bike owner behavior about maintaining their own equipment, but what I can say is fewer than 1/5 of e-bikes will stop on red at a 3-way intersection near me (when cars are stopped in the parallel lane, and pedestrians are crossing).

We also see a lot of riding on sidewalks, at speed, to bypass red lights and traffic on a major street here.

That said, the e-bike riders are often wearing helmets as they plow through pedestrians, so maybe their recklessness only extends to the safety of others, and they'll be conscientious about not lighting a lithium battery fire between their own legs.
by raadore | 2025-08-20 21:24:45+00:00
What is the end use of this product? I’m a commercial printer. I discourage clients from printing business cards. It’s an archaic form of networking. A paper based card is a waste of resources, both natural, chemical and labor. As a pcb board even more so. Please. If you have a mobile phone ask the person for their number and text them your info. Now you have a meaningful connection.
by text0404 | 2025-08-20 21:24:47+00:00
> But I get it, reality is complex and "murka bad" is simple.

You just agreed that the Western world is largely behind the blowback, so why are you still dismissing it? Yeah, it's complex and largely predicated on the interests of the West, to the detriment of the citizens of the ME. Do you have something to add?

Edit: I see you're editing your response to address the points in this post. I'll wait till you're done to respond again.

> If you want that narrative stick to latin america.

You're again agreeing with me but trying to make it seem like you're not? Yeah agreed, the history of Western intervention in Latin America is horrific. You should see what they've been doing in the Middle East!
by mingtianzhang | 2025-08-20 21:24:48+00:00
Exactly — thanks for the insightful comments! The goal is to generate an “LLM-friendly table of contents” for retrieval, rather than relying on vector-based semantic search. We think it’s closer to how humans approach information retrieval. The table of contents also naturally produces semantically coherent sections instead of arbitrary fixed-size chunks.

- Corpus of documents: Yes, this approach can generalize. For multiple documents, you can first filter by metadata or document-level summaries, and then build indexes per document. The key is that the metadata (or doc-level summaries) helps distinguish and route queries across documents. We have some examples here: https://docs.pageindex.ai/doc-search

- Question-agnostic indexing: The indexer does not know the question in advance. It builds the tree index once, and that structure can then be stored in a standard SQL database and reused at query time. In practice, we store the tree structure in JSON, and also keep (node_id, node_text) in a separate table. When we get the node_id from the LLM, we look up the corresponding node_text to form the context. There is no need for Vector DBs.

- Handling large tables of contents: If the TOC gets too large, you can traverse the tree hierarchically — starting from the top level and drilling down only into relevant branches. That’s why we use a tree structure rather than just a flat list of sections. This is what makes it different from traditional RAG with flat chunking. In spirit, it’s closer to a search-over-tree approach, somewhat like how AlphaGo handled large search spaces.

Really appreciate the thoughtful questions again! We’re actually preparing some upcoming notebooks that will address them in more detail— stay tuned!
by hinkley | 2025-08-20 21:24:51+00:00
When Slashdot was falling apart, RSS was becoming a thing. I just started paying attention to where the articles I liked were coming from, and started pulling their feeds. Yeah, sometimes I would go find the conversation and participate, sometimes I'd even read the article a few hours earlier and had time to ruminate on it. Once in a while I even scooped the usual posters.

I spent less time being dumb with other dumb people on the internet, which was nice. Nicer, at least. That kinda feels like something we lost.