MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Joker_vD | 2025-09-14 15:02:05+00:00
Well, yes, it did improve that particular area of software. Although for about 15 years that wasn't really problem for anyone who didn't self-host their blog on a potato attached to the Internet with a phone coupler and copper-wires; you can find comments at HN in the relevant discussions from the people who apparently serve about the same amount amount of (almost) static traffic she complains about while it costs them like $2 monthly or something. Now AI crawlers, those are quite a problem...

While I am personally glad that now there are less infuriatingly stupid network clients around (although, again, those never really amounted to all that much load), and probably adopting a rather caustic attitude at the authors of RSS clients was the only to force them to fix things, but even then: you can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a gun. Besides, there is some unspoken etiquette between the content servers and content readers; a server that e.g. bans you for exceeding rate-limits when you open the "Full blog archives" page and middle-click at 10 promisingly named links to read them one after another is just rude, personal opinions of the hoster notwithstanding.

P.S. Seriously, max-age=155520? Your server/ISP can't handle serving a ~190 KiB (when gzipped) file even once a day, it has to be almost 2 days? Get it off the public Internet then.
by sunscream89 | 2025-09-14 15:03:02+00:00
Showed signs of cracks in the modern conception of thermodynamics and entropy.

If we change our understanding by inverting the relationship of thermodynamics and “entropy”, we will discover thermodynamics is a footnote of entropy rather than the other way around.

Define entropy as “The existential phenomenon of potential distributing over the surface area of negative potential.” Potential is of any kind. Universal forces or the quantified qualified and interrelational fit the view of potential not state interactions. In existential reality (what when mean by Truth right?) the infinite expansion of space time is the rail for every model/system, not the end of the sheet or application under ideal self limiting circumstances.

If we now understand the fundamental entropic force of potential distributing over surface areas, we may work out that a peculiar feature of nickel atoms (of which there are more) affects the surface area distribution of effects.

Nickel atoms do a whole bunch of interesting things (such as spinning indefinitely where not interfered with where in everything else axial torsion will decay.) Other properties simplifying their “quantum dispositioning” (my words) making nickel ideal for fusion applications. Lots of mystery around the behavior of those nickel atoms!

Reconsidering the root force as potential distribution (not only state resolve itself) and potential based manifold surfaces (not state in linear Cartesian space time), we may be taken past the barriers of our referential frames.
by Fluorescence | 2025-09-14 15:03:02+00:00
> With support of the Privy council the King absolutely could remove a malicious but democratic government.

The power of the Privy Council lies in it's executive committee, known as the "The Cabinet" that thing chaired by the Prime Minister we call the democratic government. The rest of the privy council membership is mostly a bauble for past cabinet ministers with some royal flunkies and bishops and the like. It's mostly vestigial, like knightly orders, but with weird exceptions like it includes the supreme court for overseas territories.

This isn't to say such things can't happen but it would not be through a recognised legitimate procedure "with teeth" but as a constitutional crisis where precedence, tradition and law has gone out of the window and whatever side wins is through primitive power/confidence dynamics. There might be rulings of lawfulness in one direction or another but as a postfacto figleaf downstream of victory rather than as a real judgement.
by SamoyedFurFluff | 2025-09-14 15:03:07+00:00
We cannot for each immigrant do this estimation; that’s further bloating an already bloated visa and immigration system. You’d have legal appeals to under-estimations, etc etc. sounds like a nightmare. This is on top of economic studies that already exist that in aggregate immigrants have a good number of benefits to the economy, even when they initially need more resources invested. If you want actual data, the data is there.
by jll29 | 2025-09-14 15:03:15+00:00
The message buried in this article is far worse than the shutdown of Tables: Google cutting 50% of its inhouse R&D team.

Basically, to them, anything not AI is not worth researching on!

To stop all research in all areas except the one currently being on the top of the hype cycle is as silly as growing only one type of tree in your new forest - only to be sidelined by a bug that likes to eat that type.

What about algorithms? What about data management? What about operations research/planning? What about computability? What about formal languages and automata? Which such narrow thinking the top talent is unlikely to stay there (may be it will be good for universities? We'll see).
by bwfan123 | 2025-09-14 15:03:28+00:00
> Any advice for getting out of the introspection hole?

For me, it is activities that "stop" the thinker - which include exercise (running), listening to music, sports etc. What stopping the thinker does is to get out of the world-models that we are trapped in.

The issue with "thinking" is an up-front realization that not all problems can be solved with thinking. There are "higher-orders" of logic at play and it is vain of us to hope for a thinking solution in the same frame that created the problem. Now, this doesnt mean that thinking is bad - as thinking serves to clarify our world-models. Only that, it needs to be paused every-so-often for the cosmic-resonance to soak in the vibrations so-to-speak which then become conceptual fodder for our subsequent thinking and refining of the world-models.
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-14 15:03:45+00:00
American democrats aren't what is considered left wing in Europe. They're neoliberals which classes as moderate rightwing in Europe. Left as we see it in Europe doesn't really exist in America. Except perhaps some outliers Bernie Sanders.

I don't think the democrats should lower themselves to messaging like trump's though. In doing so they would give up their own worth. And copying your enemy is never a good idea because nobody can be better at it than the real thing.

I don't think the democrats are great (I'm European left wing) but I do absolutely think that Trump is running a scam on foolish people. He has even said so himself in the past.

The problem is also that the republicans manufacture issues. There are no issues with trans people. Most people wouldn't even know a trans person (which is also why it's such a good group to demonize, people don't often have friends in that group to dissuade them from hating). There's no issues with immigrants as such, the issue is more that some groups are very poor and turn to crime. This is not exclusive to immigrants. The actual solution is to make sure even poor people have opportunities that don't involve crime. But hey that's 'communism'. You can call it what you want but life is a lot safer here in Europe. But they're just riling people up in order to create a platform.

The thing is, you can't fix issues that don't actually exist. So this is a very hard situation to solve.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-14 15:04:08+00:00
Transnational political platforming, intervention, and support of extremists terrorists to takeover social democracies and replace them the ideological, totalitarian regimes friendly to North Korea, China, and Russia by twisting populist ethno-nationalist sentiment into essentially absolute power for a small subset of the ultra rich. The fundamental, hubristic miscalculation is that it's impossible to fool all of the people all of the time.
by chuckadams | 2025-09-14 15:04:12+00:00
> First, IBM didn’t make the most of its dominance. It did little to make the IBM version of the PC truly unique.

They tried, in the form of the previously mentioned PS/2. They just squeezed a little too hard. There was also the PCjr, which was riddled with enough technical flaws at a blistering price point for it to also end up a flop (Charlie Chaplin was also not exactly a great choice to sell to a market already trending younger). IBM might have eventually gotten it right, they just lost the will to keep trying. Their business model depended on landing corporate whales buying high-margin products and services; mere commodities were a plebeian concern beneath them.
Show HN: Train – AI Workout App for Smarter, Adaptive Fitness
by sumit-paul | 2025-09-14 15:04:16+00:00
Hi HN,

After years of experimenting with fitness apps (and probably too many spreadsheets), I’ve built something I've always wanted: a truly adaptive AI Workout Companion.

What is Train? Train is an AI-powered fitness app that adapts to you—your goals, your fitness level, and whatever equipment you have (or don’t have). Whether you’re at the gym, working out at home, or just getting started, Train drafts personalized plans, tracks your progress, and acts as a real-time coach.

How Train Stands Out: AI-Powered Coaching – Get tailored fitness advice, workout suggestions, and instant feedback as you progress.

Adaptive Plans – Your routine evolves as you do—whether your focus is strength, muscle, endurance, or weight loss.

Comprehensive Tracking – Effortlessly log sets, reps, weights, durations, and review your workout history anytime.

Personalization – Select goals, choose muscle groups to focus on, and Train will craft plans around your available equipment.

Modern Design – Clean, glass-like UI, smooth animations, dark mode for night sessions, and easy social sharing of workout cards.

Motivation Built-In – Stay on track with clear insights after each session and quick access to chat with your in-app coach.

Who’s it for? Beginners who want a guided routine Serious gym goers optimizing their progress Fitness enthusiasts who love tracking Anyone curious how AI can elevate their workouts

I built Train to solve my own frustrations as well as inspire consistency—and I’d love to hear your feedback and thoughts. Privacy-conscious by design, your data is yours (encrypted, deletable, minimal by default).

You can try Train on Android here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bufferlabs...

Looking forward to answering questions, learning how you’d use this, and connecting with fellow fitness/AI/product nerds!
by NoGravitas | 2025-09-14 15:04:29+00:00
The thing making it hard to make conclusions about the shell casings is that the groypers have co-opted a number of antifa slogans (via deep irony poisoning), in particular including "Bella Ciao" in a playlist of anti-Charlie Kirk "Groyper War" songs. I think the killer was probably a groyper, but there are certainly ample grounds for confusion.
Show HN: Supakey – let users bring their own Supabase to your app
by akanthi | 2025-09-14 15:04:52+00:00
Supakey lets users bring their own Supabase project to your app. You add “Sign in with Supakey” (OAuth). On first consent, Supakey deploys your app’s schema into the user’s Supabase (least-privilege, RLS on). From then on, your app talks directly to their database using app-scoped credentials—no central multi-tenant DB to run.

Why

Users keep control and portability of their data.

Developers ship simple apps without hosting and babysitting per-user data.

How it works

User signs up on Supakey and connects their Supabase project.

Your app uses “Sign in with Supakey” (standard OAuth).

On first consent, Supakey deploys your app’s schema into the user’s Supabase with RLS enabled and minimal privileges.

Your backend/frontend uses app-scoped credentials to read/write their DB directly.

Users can revoke access anytime; data remains in their project.

For users

Keep all your application data in your own Supabase.

Use any compatible app as long as you like; no vendor lock-in.

For developers

Don’t host or retain user data; reduce ops and compliance surface.

Perfect for simple CRUD apps, notes/todos, personal trackers, prototypes.

Security & privacy

Per-app schema with RLS by default.

Least-privilege grants; credentials scoped to the app’s schema.

OAuth consent + easy revocation; no central data copy.
by emorning4 | 2025-09-14 15:05:14+00:00
>>To avoid impedance mismatches the authoring notation must align exactly to and emerge from the underlying computational structure. <<

I thought that I was the only one that understood that the rules for transforming structures are emergent properties of the structure itself.

I'm not an academic, can you point me to where you encountered this idea of emergent notations??

Or anything regarding computational structures and web development. Such a thing seems like alien technology to me right now.
by mpweiher | 2025-09-14 15:05:19+00:00
Since the 70s, oil reserves only lasted for another decade.

"Current reserves" is a moving target: once scarcity raises prices, prospecting makes sense again. Uranium is incredibly cheap. Prospecting is not worth it as there are enough reserves to exploit in the foreseeable future.

Seawater extraction is starting to be competitive with mining. With that, even natural Uranium becomes essentially unlimited.

In addition, we currently throw away >95% of the energy potential of the Uranium we use. Why? Recycling is not economically viable, because raw Uranium is far too cheap (see above). So facto 20 of what we've used so far is just sitting in Castors. And fortunately not in deep geological repositories, out of reach.

And then there's Thorium, which is significantly more abundant in the crust than raw Uranium. And of the Uranium, only a small percentage is currently usable.

Fuel is simply not going to be a problem.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-14 15:05:44+00:00
What are these mythical Unix semantics?

Linking to Glibc? Sharing a roughly similar file system structure? Expecting bash to be there?

Because from where I stand the people that care about BSD have spent the past decade complaining it’s getting more and more complicated to port Linux software so I’m very curious to know what the common DNA is supposed to be.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-14 15:06:04+00:00
The original IBM PC was proprietary only in its BIOS. It was a mistake IBM regretted very soon and tried to fix with an PS/2 architecture, MCA bus, and even OS/2 operating system.

But Microsoft and the companies that made PC clones did everything to keep this "mistake" alive.

In fact, the openness of the PC platform is a historical accident. Other proprietary personal computer manufacturers (like Apple, Commodore and Atari) also never planned to create an open platform either. The closest thing was the 8-bit MSX platform, which was a Microsoft thing for the Japanese market, and it was very soon outdated.
by btreecat | 2025-09-14 15:06:04+00:00
> The problem with social media (and all media) is opinion-based censorship, causing group-think. And the chaos of replies that are uncategorized.

All people are biased. It's impossible to also avoid bias needed to filter out the firehose of data.

What your describing is often a form of moderation.

> Different opinions do matter. But due to the algorithms, the most emotional responses are promoted. There is no way to promote facts or what people think are facts.

This is tuneable. We have tuned the algos for engagement, and folks engage more with stuff they emotionally react to.

People could learn to be less emotionally unstable.

> So most discussion will be extremely emotional and not based on facts and their value. This is even true in scientific discussions.

I think your over fitting. Moderation drives a lot of how folks behave in a community.

> Combined with group-think, these emotions can grow and lead to catastrophic outcomes.

Group think is also how we determined mamales are mamales and the earth isn't the center of the universe. Sometimes a consensus is required.
by pseudocomposer | 2025-09-14 15:06:15+00:00
I dunno. Have you used Elm? I hadn’t until recently, but after getting past the learning curve, I honestly can’t recommend any more safe/painless framework for a web FE. It hasn’t been updated in a while, but to me this is a feature, again: its surface area is thin enough that there haven’t been any security issues in the same code for half a decade, and code from that long ago still works today.

I maintain a React app on the side, and a few other projects, and would still recommend it just due to developer availability, but there’s a saying among some of the Elm folks I know: “Good React code in 2025 looks like good Elm code from 2015.”

(To be fair: teams, and devs new to FP [myself included] will create complexity monstrosities in any paradigm, but Elm’s strong FP setup means huge subsets of those monstrosities won’t ever compile, and usually offer a clearer path for later cleanup.)
Stoop (the newsletter app) is shutting down
by DataDaemon | 2025-09-14 15:06:23+00:00
e-mail from Tim: Hello,

Stoop (the newsletter app) is shutting down. All email to @stoopinbox.com addresses will stop being delivered after October 31, 2025, and the app will no longer be functional.

Truly thank you for using Stoop and I'm sorry we couldn't keep this going.

--- Very sad, do you know any alternatives?
by Mordisquitos | 2025-09-14 15:06:27+00:00
> 4. Madrid, Metro de Madrid, ~300, 605, ~0.50

> [...] Madrid has a dense network too (≈0.50), though well behind Paris.

As a native of Madrid, I must point out that using the nominal surface area of the municipality of Madrid (~605 km²) is misleading for these purposes due to the Monte del Pardo [0] and Soto de Viñuelas [1], two fenced off forest areas covering around 180 km² between them. The impact of these areas on the nominal surface area of the city is visually obvious when you compare the outlines of Madrid and Paris administrative areas:

+ Madrid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5326784

+ Paris: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7444

As a result, the relevant surface for estimating the density of Metro stations in Madrid should be at most ~425 km². While one may arguably also want to exclude the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes from the surface area of Paris, even the "de-Pardo'd" surface area of Madrid still contains significant non-urban areas such as the Casa de Campo forest, large non-built-up areas, and even most of its airport.

(In any case though, after this pedantic "well ackshually", I must also point out that a few Madrid Metro stations actually fall outside of its municipal limits. I would get out more, but I live in a town without a Metro)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_de_El_Pardo

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soto_de_Viñuelas
by OutOfHere | 2025-09-14 15:06:33+00:00
I advise always tightly wearing a "3M Particulate Respirator 8577, P95, NIOSH APPROVED, with Nuisance Level Organic Vapor Relief" mask while in flight. An N95 won't do it, and a P95 without the carbon layer won't do it either.

Even then, obviously it won't help with carbon monoxide. Only the oxygen mask could. I would stick to Boeing planes for now to lower the risk since it's greater in Airbus planes.

Note that a standard pulse oximeter could continue to falsely show good oxygenation when having carbon monoxide poisoning, so do not trust it then if it shows a high value.
by Lu2025 | 2025-09-14 15:06:50+00:00
> I don’t think that culturally IBM ever really felt that the PC was a true IBM product

This makes perfect sense. In the early 2010s I worked with what remained of IBM development and was surprised at the dysfunction, complete lack of manufacturing culture and engineering approaches. I couldn't believe that this culture could produce a successful product. Guess what, it actually didn't.
by bendigedig | 2025-09-14 15:08:46+00:00
If you're well off economically, then maybe.

But outside of the freedom in how you spend whatever money you are able to 'earn', I'd argue that the Western model of life (i.e. work) is pretty damn authoritarian. It's entirely possible that people in the past felt that they had more freedom than they realistically do now.

edit: To the coward who down-voted me without deigning to engage in debate, here's some evidence that when empires (like the west) collapse it can improve the lives of the 99%: https://aeon.co/essays/the-great-myth-of-empire-collapse
by orwin | 2025-09-14 15:09:08+00:00
Or for individuals. I;ve never realized how US-like my country was becoming until DJT and his second administration. I'm probably one of the most US-pilled person my age in my country (I follow US football more than soccer, i hang out on US forums and discords, i used to follow US news every day, i've spent a month between Ohio and WV, and another between California, Nevada and Colorado, it's the foreign country i've spent the most time in overall) and even I realized how subserviant and culturally acclimated to the US we became. Von der Layen and her "negociation" did not help the sentiment, i guarantee, but i think it's how much even national news talked about the US that made me realized we have to cut ties.

I've moved, in 6 month, from a pretty pro-OTAN, "liberal" point of view toward an anti-OTAN, anti-Atlantist position, and i think i'm right. I now would even vote for an anti-atlantist right wing party rather than for the left of center, pro-US party i've voted for before (well, since an anti-Atlantist left wing party exist, and despite its radicality, i will probably vote for them, but i'm now a single-issue voter, and my issue is how omnipresent the US is in our culture).

DJT made me realized i'm part of the problem, and now i can take steps to fix it.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-14 15:09:16+00:00
The genericizing of aesthetics is far more cost than benefit. This is a completely false claim: "reducing barriers to entry" if the barrier includes the progression of creativity. Once the addict of AI becomes entranced to genericized assets, it deforms the cost-benefit.

If we take high-level creativity and deform, really horizontalize the forms, they have a much higher cost, as experience become generic.

AI was a complete failure of imagination.
by bwfan123 | 2025-09-14 15:09:30+00:00
I have been wondering if there is a way to tie this into the zettelkasten method. ie, to clarify and reflect with this sort of journaling. There are only about 100 or so ideas that each of us can deeply understand from first principles and apply on a daily basis. If only each of those could be journaled via this method, and then categorized.
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-09-14 15:09:34+00:00
>Well, considering all other countries mentioned here are just hiring native people who worked in US. Indians are not hiring Chinese, or Europeans or any other than natively Indians. Same for Chinese or others. So nativist policy can for those countries but not US is strange.

Context is not neutral. "We want to hold onto the labor we produce" works for labor exporters in a way that it doesn't work for labor importers.
by scarygliders | 2025-09-14 15:10:03+00:00
Ah, brings back memories of being a Silicon Graphics Customer Support Engineer based in London and the Home Counties, back in the late 90's and early 2000's.

Indy, Indigo, then later the Octanes, and others I can't quite remember the name of off-hand.

The video post-production companies in SOHO - I saw the CGI being rendered for Event Horizon...

The "IBM Stiction Problem" as it was called. Batches of IBM hard drives that worked fine for months - right up until the machines were powered off - which then entailed an on-site visit. The stifled gasp from the customer as I remove the old drive and give it a stern tap on the desk, to get it unstuck so I could clone it to the replacement. ;)

Enjoyed that job immensely, except for the driving around London bit.