MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by westurner | 2025-09-24 22:43:58+00:00
Is there a name for resealing an aquifer at each layer? Rezonal isolation, Zonal isolation, Zonal Re-isolation?

/? Zonal isolation Wikipedia: https://www.google.com/search?q=zonal+isolation+Wikipedia :

> Well cementing, Completion, Squeeze job, Cement bond log, Casing (should prevent fluid from contaminating e.g. aquifer zones)

Orphan wells: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_wells :

> they estimate there are 29 million abandoned wells internationally

Orphaned wells in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphaned_wells_in_the_United_S... :

> According to the Government Accountability Office, the 2.1 million unplugged abandoned wells in the United States could cost as much as $300 billion
by jasoneckert | 2025-09-24 22:44:44+00:00
As someone who has used the Snapdragon X Elite (12 core Oryon) Dev Kit as a daily driver for the past year, I find this exciting. The X Elite performance still blows my mind today - so the new X2 Elite with 18 cores is likely going to be even more impressive from a performance perspective!

I can't speak to the battery life, however, since it is dismal on my Dev Kit ;-)
by BasilofBasiley | 2025-09-24 22:45:20+00:00
>SMS is banned. Really? I didn't know that. Can you point me to a document that states that? I'd greatly appreciate it.

>SafetyNet or Play Integrity

A few days ago I did inspect the NovoBanco (Portuguese) apk, and I did look for SafetyNet specifically. They didn't use it. But since I'm not that familiar with the android eco-system I couldn't really tell if Play Integrity was used instead. But I did find a LOT of HMS (Huawei Mobile Services) stuff, and some if it was definitely related to security.

I might take a look at it again tomorrow.

I was curious if I could sideload the app without logging into a google account, meaning without using google services, but all I did was a tiny bit of static analysis instead of actually trying it.

If you have any write-ups on crazy hacks for foss systems, again it would be awesome if you could share them and greatly appreciated. Cheers

Also, is using HMS a normal thing in android development? Last I checked Huawei was persona non grata in the west, at least when it came to hardware like network equipment and consumer devices. I was surprised when I saw HMS in the apk.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-09-24 22:45:35+00:00
> I'll posit a mechanism: when times are good, small organizations are born

Historically at least I think we can find many examples of the opposite, though perhaps these examples I can think are less around social activities and more around aiding business and society.

Many small organizations appeared due to hard times creating real problems that were solved by no one, and they had to step into the void. In the Prairies of Canada where times were very hard farmers and labourers created coop organizations to spread the risk around and help out each other.

For example not too far from me there's a Ukrainian old folks home which is associated with the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians. At one point pre WW2 prior to there being any sort of medicare this organization was a critical part of the social safety net for new Canadians and there would have been branches all across Canada.

After WW2 it was banned during the red scare but even after that when legalized again became much less relevant because its need in society has diminished as genuine social safety nets were created. Now it appears to focus on teaching Ukrainian dance.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-24 22:46:01+00:00
I didn’t say parents shouldn’t fly. I said if you want to be able to select yoir seat, pay just like other people do.

> Why should we accept increasing the relative cost of having kids?

So i now live 10 miles away from DisneyWorld, should my ticket prices also be more so your kids can get in free when we only have to pay for two adults? We were also able to downsize to a 1200 foot condo from a 3100 square foot house, we can spend our money on vacations instead of travel hockey like my friend.

What next? Should airlines have “kids fly free”?

> You might think that's acceptable or even good, but birthrates are declining and people don't seem interested in allowing immigrants to come in and fill the void so I'm not sure what the endgame here is.

I’m all for both low skill and high skill immigrants coming in where there is actually a shortage.

But play me the smallest fiddle because you don’t think you should have to pay for a ticket to reserve your seat requiring other people to move. See also, if you are too big to fit in one seat without encroaching on my space, you should also have to buy two seats - a policy many of the airlines have.
by godelski | 2025-09-24 22:46:04+00:00
Not all particulates are the same. Their site says they're injecting materials that are biodegradable and seed clouds. Such a thing should be fine, but also needs more physical testing.

> I could see funding research into it

If they're on SBIR then it should be pretty small scale.

SBIR == Small Business Innovation Research. Phase I is up to ~$314k and pretty short term. Phase 2 is up to ~2M and a bit longer. I've worked on and won some NASA, DoD, and DARPA and these were usually around $150k and 6mo for Phase I and $750k for 2 years on Phase II (those were STTRs)[0]. So those maximums aren't always being handed out. (The first few Phase I awards I saw for 2025 were $140k and the first Phase II was <$650k)

So yeah, it's not much and they're not going to have a huge impact.

> It would likely be illegal if the amount weren't so small as to be useless.

... What? ...

=> @andyjsong <=

do you have a link to your proposals? I can't seem to find them by searching "make sunsets" or "makesunsets" on the SBIR award site[1]. Even "sunsets" isn't showing up and "sunset" is only showing Sunset Laboratory, Inc. That you?

Or are you just saying you applied and have no award? Good luck, these can be tricky to write but once you get the hang of it it isn't too bad.

[0] They've since bumped the numbers, but not a ton. You can go look at awards on [1] to see actual numbers.

[1] https://www.sbir.gov/awards
by evanjrowley | 2025-09-24 22:46:11+00:00
Today Qualcomm CEO stated[0] that the combination of Android and ChromeOS, e.g. Android Computers, will be available on Snapdragon laptops. Maybe these X2 CPUs will be in those laptops.

[0] https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/ive-seen-it-its-inc...
Show HN: I made an Airtable powered Drag-and-Drop Website Builder
by Ryanwalker64 | 2025-09-24 22:46:26+00:00
Hey HN,

1 year ago I shared the project I'd build, Shareables. A tool to connect Airtable to visual templates

Over the last year, I've been inspired by the use cases people have for Airtable. I've seen food truck directories, pet medical logs, you name it.

I'm excited to share the new Shareables designer mode, where you can create completely custom micro-sites (powered by your Airtable data) with a simple drag-and-drop editor, which lets you style to create unique designs and layouts for any use-case, business or personal

I would love for you to give it a go.

1. All you need to do is, head to www.shareables.ai and start designing 2. Connect your Airtable and customise it to fit your needs. 3. When you're ready, you can publish to your custom domain (or embed directly back onto your existing website)

If you have time, give it a go, and let me know what you think!

–Ryan
by astrange | 2025-09-24 22:47:16+00:00
What I remember is that there were a subset of people I was acquainted with online who when this started all /immediately/ started posting things exactly like the comment this is a reply to; "these people just don't respect women, you all need to sit down and listen to women and center women" kinds of things. They were all men; mostly straight men although some were bi, and all generally thought to be fine although known for being a little performative and mildly, as they say, horny on main a little too often.

Every single one of them later turned out to be a sexual predator. This is now known as the "softboi" or "male feminist". This kind of person is still out there and is dangerous as ever, so it's important to keep an eye out.

(None of these people were in tech; instead all my tech coworkers who were men and lived in SF also heard "we need to respect women", but being kind of autistic engineers took it too literally and didn't seem to know any women, so they seemed to think the right thing to do was go out and find a woman and literally just start respecting them. This didn't work out for them and they mostly ended up getting scammed by scammers who happened to be women.)
by zac23or | 2025-09-24 22:47:57+00:00
People are complaining about the price of games, about Microsoft giving up exclusivity on some games...

I've seen this happen in many markets. When no one uses the internet and annual growth is 1,000%, everyone tries to attract an audience. Free internet access, free email, etc.

Big budgets are very encouraging in growing markets (Sony surpassed Concord with a budget of 600 million, according to some sources). It's a gold rush.

When the market stops growing, everything free disappears and everyone tries to make money in every way.

Some numbers in the gaming market probably indicate the end of growth, so prices are starting to rise more sharply. The price of older consoles hasn't dropped, the end of exclusivity (having access to more people with the same game), you have to pay to access online games, etc. The idea is to squeeze every penny out of every player.

This is also happening with streaming now.

The big risk is pushing too hard and losing the audience.

I have no idea what will happen, but I bet piracy will increase significantly in the coming years, and the industry will start trying to discontinue older games and eliminate cheap ways to play, forcing cloud gaming.

Mobile games are a different story; they're essentially a casino disguised as gambling, making money off of sick people (the whales).

Maybe Steam will be the last refuge from all this. Or it will become the same thing...
by cloverich | 2025-09-24 22:48:15+00:00
> > Medical experts urge caution over use of acetaminophen-based painkillers during pregnancy > Ingredient found in hundreds of pain-relief drugs, including Tylenol, may impact fetal development Sep 23, 2021

That was a good callout to provide justification for further analyses, such as sibling studies[1] which in turn do not seem to support the association. The biggest issue with your link is that the reason's you would take Tylenol in pregnancy are themselves risk factors for the associated conditions. In general it's pretty complex, which is why we have e.g. medical experts to help us contextualize as opposed to sensationalize it.

The biggest issue with most of these kinds of arguments is they aren't mad win bad faith. They start from e.g. wanting to support Trumps statements, and then source the links without context to justify it. Maybe that's not what this post is but it certainly feels like it.

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38592388/
by fbxio | 2025-09-24 22:50:03+00:00
This confirms what I believed for years. PH suffers from a fundamentally flawed incentive system that, by game theory, inevitably triggers a race to the bottom, forcing participants to cheat. Because if some cheat and you don’t, then you don’t rank. Cheating became a must.

The mechanism in which founders were indirectly forced by the platform’s reward system to spam and beg their networks for votes was surely great for PH’s traction, but the collapse was inevitable as it didn’t drive lasting value for platform participants.

The core idea that the products that rank high are those worth your attention only works if votes aren’t biased or manipulated.

So any alternative would need to get the incentive systems right so that actions are aligned with genuine discovery and long-term value creation, not short-term vote gaming.
by liquid_thyme | 2025-09-24 22:50:32+00:00
In the domain of natural sciences, throughout history, there have been periods of high and low rate of progress. All you have evidence for is that progress has slowed down and your own personal belief linking it to another event in history (among thousands of events) - But you haven't shown any positive evidence of something being lost (i.e. scientific data/research), besides arguing for it with words. Sorry, your so called reasonable inference doesn't seem reasonable to me.
by syrusakbary | 2025-09-24 22:51:13+00:00
FastHTML requires apsw (SQLite wrapper) even if you don't use it. We already compiled apsw to WASIX but it also requires publishing a new version of Python to Wasmer (with sqlite dynamically linked instead of statically linked).

We will release a new Python version by the end of this week / beginning of next one, so by then FastHTML should be fully work in Wasmer! (both runtime and Edge)
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-24 22:51:40+00:00
This is becoming a common pattern everywhere now.

Case in point (and sorry for bringing up this topic), LLM providers seem to be doubling down on automatic model selection, and marketing it as a feature that improves experience and response quality for the users, even though it's a blatant attempt to cut serving costs down by tricking users (or taking the choice away) into querying a cheaper, weaker model. It's obviously not what users want - in this space, even more than in video streaming, in 90%+ of end-user cases, what the user wants is the best SOTA model available.

At least with YouTube, I recall them being up front about this in the past, early in the COVID-19 pandemic - IIRC the app itself explained in the UI that the default quality is being lowered to conserve bandwidth that suddenly got much more scarce.
by goles | 2025-09-24 22:52:14+00:00
Your balancing the relationship you have with leadership to do what you are asked to do, just as you ask IC to do things they may want to do, with doing the best you can to maintain or improve the QoL for your team.

The author is right, the correct stance is... > “Yeah, 
this new policy sucks
 I don't agree with 100% of all decisions, I get it. It’s going to affect me in negative ways too.”

Then critically thirdly,

> "Lets work together to demonstrate why the new policy is a risk to the customer."

Everybody drives on the same roads to the office, everybody has to wake up early, everyone has KPIs they are trying to hit.

To get what you want the compelling argument is to the customer.

Authors example, there aren't enough desks. We'll do it, but this is the level of support we can provide customers. This customers project is going to become at risk based on if we do this because of these reasons. We'll go in, but in order for us to deliver what we do at home we need to be accommodated to provide the same thing on time, I've done an estimate on what we'll need do you want me to expense it?

It's not about changes hurting you, the change hurting your team, it's how it's going to hurt the customer.
by dogman144 | 2025-09-24 22:52:58+00:00
My very loose sense on this was developed after a lot of perspective shifts via fortunately living in a lot of different spots in the US.

I think these small orgs are still around, are needed and I wish they were easier to find, but feels like finding them filters through:

- If it’s useful, it involves coastal tech people so to speak, and you can wade through many unknown gates to include “community” that’s actually sponsored marketing: often seems to be small group digital communities on Signal with shared thematic backgrounds of the members. Pair these with meeting people IRL when you can via travel and find time, it’s quite a useful network that’s all built digitally at first.

- If it’s fulfilling but low stakes, and peer-oriented: a lot of this is in infosec still via hacker culture, but overall I think you have to get outside of your economic class and bubble to find it generally, esp if you’re a tech person. In tech and similar careers, every “small group dinner” under the hood feels like 6-7 men making $550tc and trying to hit 650tc, or a group trying to attract those people. Dodgeball league for young professionals or not, career management feels very often in the background. It doesn’t feel authentic, or at least feel safe, because it likely isn’t.

Groups of people still do go fishing together, hiking together, cities sponsor makerspaces, community centers offer wood working classes, small group s get together to dicusss ideas, people have standing brunches… but it’s really hard to find this stuff in authentic contexts if first you’re not looking for it over some time, second you can’t suffer through being into the things you’re into alone, until you find someone doing the same, and third *if you city or area doesn’t have a moat to keep out, or at bay, modern, massively networked economies and what I think it tends to incentivize - the small org is in the cheap but functional community center, that is sponsored by a city that cares about it, that is advertised via the community radio station, that is in a city not under water by angry people at the exploding CoL…

I found 1 city out of 6-7 that still offers the latter input, and it to me feels is the lynchpin.
by lucgommans | 2025-09-24 22:53:00+00:00
Or if you need records other than A/AAAA, like MX for delivering email: https://anyz.one

e.g. 10.2.3.4.anyz.one will refer the recursive resolver to query 10.2.3.4 for the answer to the query. You can also buy a domain and configure it to do that, but this is quicker

Disclosure: I wrote anyzone
by learnwithjai | 2025-09-24 22:53:25+00:00
the most important thing for me is the system of record which is the CMS. and the secondary system of record: Canva, Google Slides, Figma. you don't zero shot a deck. but you gamma helps in the supply chain for mid-level automations and landing the initials set of commits towards a medium-scoped project.

for commercial usage:

1. brand kit is non-negotiable for adoption 2. data: must hydrate accurate data, keep meta-data to audit via claim extraction

feature request:

1. visual direction (slides are too cute, they need layers: https://youtu.be/pUau6gmdoI4?si=BeEFkbV1lzMMjE2w) 2. audio direction 3. media support: youtube, loom

visual and audio branding are essential because production-level quality is what sustains watch time on assets. if you can automate things like colorgrading, painting a soundtrack, curing audio, etc that would be amazing.

also, i went to high school with norbert (also on eng). great job y'all! keep going!
by cactusplant7374 | 2025-09-24 22:54:52+00:00
> I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me here.

I'm telling you that Firefox is going to be out of business soon because users favor ad blocking and blocking trackers. That is the trend. Firefox isn't growing anymore.

> Honestly I have more questions looking at the Brave "transparency" report, as it seems to have more information about users than Firefox...

Metrics can be transmitted without revealing the user. This is well known.

You can't suggest anything. I am done with this conversation.
Show HN: Free Visual JSON Schema Builder (Generate, Validate and Export)
by ubergeekady | 2025-09-24 22:55:47+00:00
I built a free JSON Schema Builder that works entirely in the browser — no signup required.

Build JSON schemas visually

Paste JSON and auto-generate schemas with type inference

Export as JSON Schema, TypeScript interfaces, Python classes, etc.

Validate sample data in real time

Why: writing schemas by hand is tedious and error-prone. This tool tries to make the process faster and less painful.

Feedback welcome — I’d love to hear what features would make it more useful in real workflows.
by electroly | 2025-09-24 22:57:21+00:00
It should be along these lines:

- Install Ubuntu distro in WSL2.

- Create an ssh key pair on the Windows side using ssh-keygen.

In Ubuntu:

- Install Docker engine using Docker's apt-get instructions for Ubuntu.

- Add the ssh public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.

In Windows:

- Run "wsl hostname -I" to get your WSL2 hostname.

- Test "ssh user@wsl-host", using the WSL2 hostname. It should work without prompting for a password.

- Unzip docker.exe somewhere.

- In your user environment variables, set PATH to include the directory with docker.exe, and set DOCKER_HOST to "ssh://user@wsl-host", using the WSL2 hostname.

That should be it; you should now be able to run docker normally from your Windows user, using file context from the Windows side.
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-09-24 22:57:57+00:00
I'm shocked at how often people flip-flop their arguments when discussing private entities censoring speech. It's frustrating because it feels like the only speech allowed today is right-wing commentary. When Democrats were in power, it seemed like only left-wing commentary was permitted. It's baffling that, despite our education, we're missing the point and stuck in this polarized mess.
by jsheard | 2025-09-24 22:58:04+00:00
They do the same thing on the Play Store, for example I just searched for Firefox and the first result is a sponsored spot for Opera. Does Apple do that on the App Store?

A funnier example: searching for Amazon gives Temu as the first result. Searching for Temu gives Shein as the first result. Searching for Shein gives Shein as the first result! ...but only because they outbid everyone else for the ad spot on their own name, resulting in Double Shein: https://i.imgur.com/0buR8Hq.png
by nerdsniper | 2025-09-24 22:58:11+00:00
GHB is “technically” safer than alcohol at target doses, but dosing range is narrower than alcohol and negative effects of overconsumption are more severe. So safer in theory, but generally more dangerous in practice.

There’s something to be advocated for recreational drug users to replace the usual “maximum effect dose” of drugs they do occasionally (MDMA, cocaine, etc) with the equivalent of “two beers worth” of their drug of choice. But generally recreational drugs destabilize brain chemistry for 2-8 weeks regardless of dose - less is better of course, but people also shouldn’t think its okay to use it more frequently just because they’re doing a smaller dose - the side effects will be less but recovery will generally still take about as long.

I often tell my friends that less is more. Some have started to come to understand that to be true for them.
by Neywiny | 2025-09-24 22:58:44+00:00
I find their table of advertised vs actual capacity to be misleadingly negative. They only discharged to 3v. 2.7 could be viewed as more standard. 2.5 is not unheard of. For example, the vapvell 4000 they said was around 3000. They even have a note that says that isn't a reasonable capacity estimate. And yet they still put the percentage and the number. As if they've falsely advertised. However, if you go to vapcell's graphs on their website, it all tracks. Feels out of scope for the report and shouldn't have been done
by mikewarot | 2025-09-24 23:00:17+00:00
Repairing old electronics and test equipment down to the component level with a friend of mine who's been doing it since the 1950s.

You'd be surprised how many times it turns out to be connections that look ok, actually aren't. I've seen bolted ground lugs that were open circuits. I've learned to despise silver mica capacitors.

Oh, and with vacuum tube based gear, letting some smoke out doesn't necessarily kill things dead. The smoke does help localize the problem though.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-24 23:00:22+00:00
They can afford it because the market rightfully bets on such trained models being more useful than upstream sources.

In fact, at this point in time (it won't last), one of the most useful applications of LLMs is to have them deal with all the user-hostile crap that's bulk of the web today, so you don't have to suffer through it yourself. It's also the easiest way to get any kind of software interoperability at the moment (this will definitely not last long).