MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stefantalpalaru | 2025-08-29 18:22:16+00:00
> Unfiltered cigarettes must be worse for smokers than filtered cigarettes.

You'd think so, but no.

"Cigarette filters are believed by many to reduce the health risks of smoking. This article outlines the history of the technology of filters and discusses the impacts of these cigarette design features and their regulation. We conducted a literature review to assess the impacts of this technology. The results show that filters were initially developed for aesthetic purposes and later improved and marketed as a harm reduction technology. The most widely-used filters are those made of cellulose acetate with or without activated carbon. Despite smokers’ beliefs and advertising claims, filters have no health benefits and filter tip ventilation can increase the health risks of smoking. Filters can also make cigarettes more appealing and cause significant environmental impacts. Cigarette filters have no health benefits and lull smokers into a false sense of security and should therefore be banned." - ["Health without filters: the health and environmental impacts of cigarette filters" (2021)](https://www.scielo.br/j/csc/a/k7CJ3Wvq3yMLSmmmwT89cPw/?lang=...)
by insane_dreamer | 2025-08-29 18:22:25+00:00
Woah! And just as bad is the Tesla didn't even detect it had run a kid over. So you're also guilty of a hit-and-run. Hitting a kid running out from behind a car is something you could argue a human might have done as well depending on the circumstances. But the human would not have continued driving on as nothing happened (well not unless they're monster).
by grep_name | 2025-08-29 18:22:54+00:00
I was extremely bummed when setting up RSS for the glance app to find that a bunch of stuff I'd assumed would just have RSS feeds, do not. Mostly local things that post regular updates to pages that already look like feeds.

- Three local independent theaters

- Every local venue I checked in my city (admittedly only checked a few I was specifically interested in)

- The local dvd rental place (we still have one and it's neat. The announce their newer niche additions via an updating page)

- My local folk school that hosts events and has an updated news page with no feed

There were a few things I can't remember now that I was shocked to see regularly update pages with lists of updates that there is no way to subscribe to. I would have expected most of these sites to be built using some kind of automated tool that would just include rss or atom. I guess most of the offer email lists, which is a crappy way to get updates comparatively imo.

I'm probably going to use a combination of changedetection.io and rss-bridge to get updates from these sites, but like, seriously?
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-29 18:22:57+00:00
> Chainguns are a type of autocannon.

AIUI, chainguns are any externally electrically-actuated automatic weapons, including both single-barrelled and rotary designs, some of which are autocannons, and some of which are lighter (machine guns).

But, yeah, it makes more sense if GP intended to refer to belt-fed weapons, not actual chainguns.
by transpute | 2025-08-29 18:22:58+00:00
N100/N150 (unintentionally?) fueled a Cambrian explosion in mini PCs. It needs a few more years of OEM experimentation with form factors and ISV software stacks to identify new vertical markets, before trying to harvest high margin segments. It's too early and too successful to abandon the category now.

If they must have a $300 price point, offer one with many E-cores and zero P-cores. I wonder how long Twin Lake N150 will be sold, if there is no successor, https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/241636/...
by jimmar | 2025-08-29 18:23:41+00:00
> there is no information in a rejection.

The most helpful job interview I had was when the interviewer broke script and just leveled with me about how I wasn't presenting myself well. There was a shared connection (our alma mater) that must have convinced him to be straight with me instead of hiding how poorly I was doing behind a mask. The HR handbooks say that you should never let a candidate know why they were not selected, but that information can be extremely helpful.

If you're not getting offers, I strongly recommend that you find somebody you trust to do a mock interview. Let them critique your resume, cover letter, posture, awkwardness, lame handshake, etc.
by firefax | 2025-08-29 18:24:00+00:00
Dear lord, I certainly wouldn't want to be some kind of shadowy open source egregore making people unsafe offline... I don't think there's some kind of squad of Stallman level open source types who would Batman you away. That's a ridiculous idea and I'm sorry I made you think that!

The only time anything close to busting kneecaps came during an internshipc I had at Firefox in the bay area years ago after a nearby homeless man declaring that he "loved firefox because firefox "doesn't murder the homelss". (You learn all sorts of things when you speak to the users!)

Me being me, I joking asked "Does Chrome murder the homeless?" (The Chrome team had recently moved into the same office building and begun poaching people while throwing pity parties on Twitter if no one showed up at their office because they made a stupid cake.)

Anyways, long story short there were some very fucked up Chrometerns that summer, and apparently there was a literal rumble when one of them instinctively ran towards Sutter Gutter when someone tried to beat them up for no reason. So it's just after last call, bunch of firefox shirts stumble out and... well I'm pretty sure we're past the statue of limitations, but a chrometern got his ass kicked, badly, and transferred down to Mountain View because they were very suddenly aware that homeless people are... people. They talk. And when you try to beat one of them up and get run off... now you're suddenly aware there's quite a lot of homelessness in San Francisco and maybe you were walking home safely because up until that point, you hadn't been an asshole to people.

Anyways, no, there is no Firefox gang, just a collection of people who happen to use a particular web browser. (And no, I don't work for Firefox)
by _mlbt | 2025-08-29 18:24:17+00:00
I'll admit, that one's just my opinion, since the community is very divided on this and there's no consensus.

I feel that the safety versus response time trade off is worth it for me. It could be from my military background, but for me a negligent discharge is one of the worst things I could possibly do with a firearm. I was also raised to never trust a safety and unload my gun when crossing fence lines while hunting.
by tracker1 | 2025-08-29 18:25:36+00:00
Same, a few years ago when I wanted to run my own email they were about the best option for a dedicated box with at least 32gb ram... enough for a mail VM and to take over what I had across several smaller DO and Linode cloud/vps servers. I should probably reach out as the current pricing has 64gb servers at the same price I've been paying for 32gb... not that I need it, but it could be useful... I also may expand from a /29 to a /28 IPv4 CIR. I have no idea how to properly configure IPv6 (default gateway? etc... the dashboard only lists the address range assigned)

I do wish there were better tutorials on configuring ProxMox to handle what I tried to configure... I had 3 nics, the public nic and 2 virtual devices... I had the CIDR block on one and an internal/nat config on the 3rd. Literally my first time using OpenAI, and even that felt like pulling teeth through the obvious errors. I finally got it all working, but 3 years out I'll probably have to work through it again... though with a bigger CIDR, will probably just omit the NAT or have a OpnSense VM to bridge them with less ipv4 constraint.

Mine has been around $130 USD/month, which is a bit more, but I'm in a US data center closer (network wise) to my physical location.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-29 18:25:56+00:00
Marginal improvements? Were you living under a rock for the past year?

Even o1 was a major, groundbreaking upgrade over 4o. RLVR with CoT reasoning opened up an entire new dimension of performance scaling. And o1 is, in turn, already obsoleted - first by o3, and then by GPT-5.
by edem | 2025-08-29 18:26:29+00:00
I have a DS 923+. These extremely old softwares you mentioned were always weird to me but everything worked fine so far. What I'm not happy about is the vendor lock in, and the abysmal virtualization / transcoding performance. I want a NAS that comes with a similar ease of use as the DSM, but can double down as a __very lightweight__ virtualization platform for my local test deployments and as a media PC that I can rely on. What would you suggest?
by KerryJones | 2025-08-29 18:26:47+00:00
I recently interviewed for Anthropic, 6 rounds, recruiter was great, said they were putting together an offer letter. I met one of the managers, then another came back from vacation... and then they decided not to give me an offer.

I asked for feedback, and the recruiter sounded frustrated (about the internal process), because they had a moving bar on what was wanted from the hiring managers. I know I hadn't completely aced one of the interviews (they had me do a second one), and apparently they thought it was good enough on initial review, but when coming back to review it again it was not good enough.

It seems like they are going through growing pains as a company.
by antonvs | 2025-08-29 18:27:05+00:00
If we accept his self-diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, it could make a certain amount of sense. Coupled with the common propensity for motivated reasoning - someone initially told him what he wanted to hear, and he believed it.

It's always difficult to get a true read on what people believe, and that goes double for very powerful or wealthy people, who have professionals devoted to their image management.

Which, not coincidentally, is also where the idea of Musk as an "amazing, brilliantly intelligent man" comes from. After all, he doesn't have any sort of history of published work or intellectual breakthroughs to support that.

He seems to be good at investment, and at a certain kind of hype-based marketing, including of himself (up to a point.)
by nickff | 2025-08-29 18:27:33+00:00
I think the level of care is only one factor, and often not the one that prevents new entrants. I work at a small electronics manufacturer, and can tell you that in my industry, the biggest regulatory obstacles have nothing to do with our quality levels or production processes. In any case, according to a number of the commenters on this article, the PE providers have already lowered their level of care.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-08-29 18:27:33+00:00
"Essential" in contexts like this typically means "for this topic, here's what would be considered a strong foundation without diving into the weeds".

Friedman and Wand's Essentials of Programming Languages isn't 'essential' for everyone, even for programmers, it represents the 'essential' parts of programming language theory. If you read and understand that book you can have a serious conversation with anyone on that topic.

Similarly Essential Statistical Inference would imply a book that teaches you everything you need to know about statistical inference to do meaningful work in that area.

So the claim here is, assuming you want to understand Coding theory, then you'll be in a good place to discuss it after you read this book.
by jitl | 2025-08-29 18:28:02+00:00
IndexedDB is a standard and can be implemented however the user-agent sees fit. Chromium source tree has an implementation on LevelDB and an implementation on SQLite; I'm not sure how they pick the appropriate backend. Firefox and WebKit both appear to use SQLite as the backend.

WebSQL was a clunky API, but not as clunky as IndexedDB which is truly yucky and very easy to get wrong in modern apps that use promises.
by whimsicalism | 2025-08-29 18:28:08+00:00
i don’t doubt that it went through a review process but:

> Authentication for that world isn’t “ask Cloudflare for a hall pass.” It’s verifiable chains of delegation and request-level proof: open, portable, and independent of any one company. > The pattern is consistent: when the commons defines the interface, innovation compounds; when a vendor hands out permission slips, it stalls.

these are GPT tells. sure they have false positives, but i’m sure if you put this through any of the probabilistic detectors they would tell you this is almost certainly LLM-generated text.
by qwerty456127 | 2025-08-29 18:28:28+00:00
What we need is stop fighting robots and start welcoming and helping them. I se zero reasons to oppose robots visiting any website I would build. The only purpose I ever tried disallowed robots for was preventing search engines from indexing incomplete versions or going the paths which really make no sense for them to go. Now I think we should write separate instructions for different kinds of robots: a search engine indexer shouldn't open pages which have serious side-effects (e.g. place an order) or display semi-realtime technical details but an LLM agent may be on a legitimate mission involving this.
Ask HN: Writing Custom Instructions for the AI
by tacone | 2025-08-29 18:28:34+00:00
Hello HN, with the advent of AI coding, I'm starting wondering if people will switch from writing coding guides and guidelines for humans to writing them specifically for LLMs.

Vscode and other editors already let you insert custom instructions either globally or on repository basis. But as of now, everybody writes their own.

Will people begin to share their own? Will we see specialized websites with pre-made template instruction files for download? Does any website or awesome list exist yet?
by psychoslave | 2025-08-29 18:28:55+00:00
20 years ago (gosh!) at a French University, in the frame of an English course we made a odious flashy pink VB application called "script generator", where you just had to select the kind of movie (action or more action), how many people would die on screen per minute, and that kind of ridiculously sarcastic choice, and you would get your Hollywood script in a second. That was all fake of course, then. Pure valley spirit I guess. But sure this is the kind of thing you not only can see in advance, but even moke in anticipation.
by quectophoton | 2025-08-29 18:28:59+00:00
Yeah, my main worry here is how we define the unwanted traffic, and how that definition could be twisted by bigcorp lawyers.

If it's too loose and similar to "wanted traffic is how the authors intend the website to be accessed, unwanted traffic is anything else", that's an argument that can be used against adblocks, or in favor of very specific devices like you mention. Might even give slightly more teeth to currently-unenforceable TOS.

If it's too strict, it's probably easier to find loopholes and technicalities that just lets them say "technically it doesn't match the definition of unwanted traffic".

Even if it's something balanced, I bet bigcorp lawyers will find a way to twist the definitions in their favor and set a precedent that's convenient for them.

I know this is a mini-rant rather than a helpful comment that tries to come up with a solution, it's just that I'm pessimistic because it seems the internet becomes a bit worse day by day no matter what we try to do :c
by firefax | 2025-08-29 18:29:13+00:00
I was applying for a job and they refused to let me enter the # as how to call me, then the mintsim acted up so I ended up using a relative's landline, which is not even a landline anymore because the copper got ripped out.

I don't recall which job used the software, but it was some type of HR software that ingested CVs and dispenses pain and/or nothing. (Dark joke).

Anyways, sorry in all seriousness but all I can say is it was HR software for a job application and that surprised me since I basically got taught it's pretty normal to list a voip # especially if you can get a cool one with some sick digits :-)
by lenerdenator | 2025-08-29 18:31:03+00:00
It sort of provides insight.

The argument is that there exists a combination of states and tolerances when a P320 is loaded and cocked that could, theoretically, allow the striker to impact the primer forcefully without a complete and full trigger pull, one where you don't feel the break. This could either be while the finger is on the trigger (maybe a police officer pointing it at someone who has a weapon while commanding them to drop the weapon, for example) or not (in a holster).

Inserting that screw is meant to simulate a tolerance stacking issue wherein the pistol's components don't line up together in such a way as to prevent the striker from slipping past the sear.

Is it wonky? Of course. Could you probably do it with other pistols? Probably. Are there police officers and servicemen/women who need a convenient excuse for their negligent discharges? Yes. Should a real investigation occur? Also yes.
Show HN: Readn – Feed reader with Hacker News support
by thangqt | 2025-08-29 18:31:32+00:00
This feed reader can fetch and display discussion threads from Hacker News and Lobste.rs, making it convenient to follow both articles and the conversations around them. It’s a fork of the original Yarr project, whose author considers it feature-complete and is no longer accepting feature requests.
by tracker1 | 2025-08-29 18:31:42+00:00
Been using Google Voice since it was Grand Central, definitely one of my favorite features... I usually keep it open as my first browser tab when I'm in front of the computer (even work).

I do wish they'd add support to drag/drop or copy/paste images though. That's about the most cumbersome interaction. It was much better when Google Hangouts was fully integrated.
by Bukhmanizer | 2025-08-29 18:31:48+00:00
I would also guess that in at least >50% of cases your application is never given a fair shot for random reasons. I remember when a company that I was working at was doing intern interviews, they would almost always run out of time to do interviews (this was back when interviews were in person), so they would pick 2-3 schools that they had time to get to (proximity * prestige was the factor there) and everyone else got a blanket rejection.

Maybe it’s because my school wasn't on that list, but I remember feeling like if I got rejected like that I would very much feel like I wasn’t good enough. But it was essentially random.
by empiko | 2025-08-29 18:31:52+00:00
Especially true in today's hiring environment. They probably have hundreds of qualified people lined up for that position. One company recently reached out to me asking me to submit a CV, considering me a good fit for their position. In the end, they rejected me, but they mentioned that they got 1400 applications. If you don't have a personal connection to get you in, it's basically a lottery.
by edm0nd | 2025-08-29 18:31:57+00:00
>This should be applied to emails too. The regular person send what, 20 emails per day max ? Say it costs $0.01 per mail, anyone could pay that.

This seems flawed.

Poor people living in 3rd world countries that make like $2.00/day wouldn't be able to afford this.

>But if you want to spam 1,000,000 everyday that becomes prohibitive.

Companies and people with $ can easily pay this with no issues. If it costs $10,000 to send 1M emails that inbox but you profit $50k, its a non issue.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-08-29 18:32:03+00:00
Having worked in the valley, I've seen what critical feedback meant in many companies there, and it removes all usefulness of the info because there is a ceiling of what is socially acceptable to say; therefore, you can't know how bad or urgent things are.

Everything is ASAP. They are super excited about everything. And nothing you do is wrong, it just could be improved or they like it but don't love it.

You don't know if something is important, basically.

Just like Louis CK said, "if you used 'amazing' on chicken nuggets, what are you going to say when your first child is born?". But in reverse.

Personally, I'd rather work with someone who would tell me my work is terrible if it is.

In Germany, you can't even legally say somebody did a bad job at your company in a recommendation letter. Companies created a whole subtext to workaround that, it's crazy.

Some things are just bad. You should be able to say it is. Not by saying it could be better. Not by using euphemism. It's just something that needs to go to the trash.

In fact, I don't trust people who can't receive this information, even if not packaged with tact (which you should attempt to, but life happens). If you can't handle people not being perfectly polite every time, I can't help but feel I won't be able to count on you when things get hard.

That must be the French in me talking.
by privatelypublic | 2025-08-29 18:32:29+00:00
Looks like zpempenfish is right- most apps are inappropriately asking for the wrong permissions.

I feel the issue here is apple not enforcing developer guidelines(unless I'm misremembering here too). However, that frequently requires people making a stink. I suspect Apple's legal team has decided not to make an issue off it because of the Epic lawsuit- where public opinion is largely against Apple... even though Apple told Epic to pound sand over issues Epic has paid the FTC _HALF A BILLION DOLLARS_ and counting... to settle. See: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/12/...

And to forestall "but apple's cut." Reality check: google's policy is substantially identical, and amazon appstore's was "we'll take 30%, but give 20% back in expiring AWS credit." I'm sure ya'll will let me know of other app stores' policies.
by SirMaster | 2025-08-29 18:33:05+00:00
Really?

6.1 Electrical Characteristics

The maximum power requirements for the LSI SAS 9200-8i HBA under normal operation are as follows:

 PCIe 12.0 V = 0.74 A

 Power

— Nominal = 7.92 W

— Worst Case = 13.20 W

Seems like it uses just a little more than 1 large capacity HDD.
by jijijijij | 2025-08-29 18:33:17+00:00
Not competent, but a VPN user. Mullvad has some obfuscation features built-in. They also got good documentation/guides, I think.

https://mullvad.net/en/help?Feature=censorship-circumvention

https://web.archive.org/web/20250807131341/https://mullvad.n...

https://archive.ph/XvcMg
by jitl | 2025-08-29 18:33:32+00:00
Ah, I understood "native application in some targets" to mean you're writing application code in languages other than JavaScript/TypeScript; not that sometimes you're React Native and sometimes you're Web/DOM but you're always TypeScript.

Notion always* has a webview component, even in native apps, but we also have a substantial amount of "true native" Swift/Kotlin. We can't use Replicache/Zero today because our native code and our webview share the SQLite database and both need to be able to read and write the data there; if we use Replicache that would make our persisted data opaque bytes to Swift/Kotlin.

*There's many screens of the Android/iOS app that are entirely native but the editor will probably remain a webview for a while yet.
by andrewla | 2025-08-29 18:33:52+00:00
I'm an enthusiastic Cantor skeptic, I lean very heavily constructivist to the point of almost being a finitist, but nonetheless I think the thesis of this article is basically correct.

Nature and the universe is all about continuous quantities; integral quantities and whole numbers represent an abstraction. At a micro level this is less true -- elementary particles specifically are a (mostly) discrete phenomenon, but representing the state even of a very simple system involves continuous quantities.

But the Cantor vision of the real numbers is just wrong and completely unphysical. The idea of arbitrary precision is intrinsically broken in physical reality. Instead I am off the opinion that computation is the relevant process in the physical universe, so approximations to continuous quantities are where the "Eternal Nature" line lies, and the abstraction of the continuum is just that -- an abstraction of the idea of having perfect knowledge of the state of anything in the universe.