MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leakycap | 2025-09-23 16:25:46+00:00
> "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today initiated the approval of leucovorin calcium tablets for patients with cerebral folate deficiency (CFD) ... Individuals with cerebral folate deficiency have been observed to have developmental delays with autistic features (e.g., challenges with social communication, sensory processing, and repetitive behaviors), seizures, and problems with movement and coordination."

The wording, my emphasis added, certainly suggests this is a new med for CFD even though the title mentions Autism symptoms, not CFD

Search for the word autism in the release and tell me if you think this treats what they suggest in the title. It would be every other word if they believed it.
by miningape | 2025-09-23 16:25:52+00:00
Aside from the fact Pakistan is not a theocratic dicatorship, lets deal with your actual accusation:

> According to Western leadership, all Muslims are supposed to be barbarian religious fanatics who want a worldwide nuclear holocaust!

Thanks for telling me what I and every other westerner thinks!

As you have clearly stated, we can therefore easily conclude that all muslim countries (and by extension their people) are equivalent and all must therefore share the explicit ideological goal (enshrined in their constitution) to "fulfil the ideological mission of jihad" and hopes for "the downfall of all other [non-islamic] governments". [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Iran#Preamble

Just to be clear: all muslim countries (and people) are equivalent = obvious sarcasm. To believe that I'd have to be about as braindead as someone who believes that all citizens of western countries share the same values, goals, and ideologies as each other (and their governments).
by entrepy123 | 2025-09-23 16:26:00+00:00
Small Bets chat [0], an extensively modified fork of Campfire by 37signals (the group chat app in Ruby on Rails), is now FOSS, as announced at [1].

Changes added to the Small Bets edition of Campfire chat include those on this list: https://github.com/antiwork/smallbets/blob/master/campfire-m...

Notably, the rooms lists appears different in Small Bets chat vs. in the original Campfire, with the "star to pin favorite rooms" mechanism in the Small Bets fork.

Previously, 37signals recently changed the license of Campfire to be FOSS: https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire

[0] https://github.com/antiwork/smallbets/

[1] https://x.com/dvassallo/status/1970489062185185497
by skydhash | 2025-09-23 16:26:13+00:00
That is why I’m mostly using default tools. I like the idea of these tools, but autocomplete and fuzzy finding takes in aggregate more time than if I took a step back and actually configure my tools (shell alias and scripts, ssh config, git alias,…).

My current list of tools I install are:

- ripgrep. It’s just fast.

- fzf. For vim. I’ve never have a real use for it on the command.

- lf. Sometimes I want to quickly browse around a directory.

But more often than not, the core utilities work fine.
by marcosdumay | 2025-09-23 16:26:16+00:00
It's very rare that international relations get poisoned for generations without some ongoing work from both involved parties. Populations tend to forget things on the timeline of a decade or so.

The US can rebuild most of what they destroyed. It's gone now, and some of it they were already on the process of losing and can't get back. But no country is beyond reconstruction.
by lbrito | 2025-09-23 16:26:26+00:00
Having read stuff from DHH for a long time, this does not surprise me in the least. It just feels like he picked the right time, zeitgeist-wise, to fully come out of the closet.

I distinctly remember a specific Twitter comment, maybe 7ish years ago, that solidified my view on DHH as a person. It was a thread about remote work. Someone from South America commented trying to be nice to David, saying something like "you should work remotely from Chile, it has a great Ruby community" etc, to which his response was "I've no interest in living in a 3rd world country".

Notch-esque politics aside, that was mean-spirited, inconsiderate behavior which should not be applauded. From that day I strongly sensed that was who he truly was.
by Yizahi | 2025-09-23 16:26:28+00:00
Well, given typical speed limits in the city and most of the country roads, neither ICE cars not EVs can really utilize their torque or acceleration. Sure, you can go somewhere quiet on a weekend and rev up, but people commuting or driving for groceries don't really accelerate more than ordinary.

I'm not trying to diminish EV capabilities btw. I'm just saying that "tire scare" is waaay overblown in media.
by xbmcuser | 2025-09-23 16:26:38+00:00
Personally I don't get some of the power investments by US tech companies. UAE last year signed a project agreement where it would get 1 GWH 24 hours a day from solar and battery project for around $6 billion . Prices for batteries are down a lot further now. So even with adding more battery and solar from more reliability they could build out solar and battery plants with where cost for electricity can be under $0.10/kwh
by BeetleB | 2025-09-23 16:26:47+00:00
It's (likely) simpler with zoxide + fzf.

I use autojump, which is a lot like zoxide (possible predates it). It stores all the directories you've visited in an SQLite DB (along with the rank for each). I wrote a shell keybinding that presents me with fzf, along with the directories I've visited, in rank order.

With just a few keystrokes, I can visit any directory I've ever visited, really fast. It doesn't need to be the top ranking directory for my query.

I can't live without it now.
Show HN: Detecting Doomscrolling with Computer Vision
by andrewrn | 2025-09-23 16:26:48+00:00
Hi HN. I built this computer vision pipeline recently to detect when I am wasting my life away on my phone. I've been wanting to dip my toes into computer vision and this ended up being a really fun project that works surprisingly well.

Uses YOLOv11 for pose estimation and object detection as well as OpenCV.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-09-23 16:27:08+00:00
I don't think the rank on a list that includes stuff like SQL injection and path traversal tells you much about what language features are worthwhile in the C/C++ replacement space. No developer that works on something like Linux or Chromium would introduce a SQL injection vulnerability unless they experienced severe head trauma. They do still introduce use after free vulnerabilities with some regularity.
by pavon | 2025-09-23 16:28:05+00:00
To answer my own question. No state prohibits subletting. Maine law gives renters the right to sublet, New York limits the reasons landlords can refuse subletting, and all other states leave it up to the landlord (with differences in details, such as the default if the lease doesn't explicitly prohibit or allow it).

However, many states and/or cities do limit the number of unrelated individuals living together, and this applies whether they are all on the lease, subletted, or even in one's privately owned home. A brief search shows different areas have limits of no more than 2, 3, 4 or 5 unrelated individuals.

I've just happened to live in places that allow 4 or 5 unrelated individuals, and never rented a house with more than that many bedrooms/roomates.

It is crazy to me that in some parts of the country it is fine to have 7 family members living together (easy to do in a multigenerational home), but letting 3 friends live with me in the same size house that I own is illegal.
by Arnavion | 2025-09-23 16:28:05+00:00
>You can't build and application with the specialized thread-per core or single-threaded runtime thing if you wanted to because of pervasive incidental complexity. [...] It's frustrating and I go out of my way to avoid Tokio because of it.

At $dayjob we have built a large codebase (high-throughput message broker) using the thread-per-core model with tokio (ie one worker thread per CPU, pinned to that CPU, driving a single-threaded tokio Runtime) and have not had any problems. Much of our async code is !Send or !Sync (Rc, RefCell, etc) precisely because we want it to benefit from not needing to run under the default tokio multi-threaded runtime.

We don't use many external libs for async though, which is what seems to be the source of your problems. Mostly just tokio and futures-* crates.
by lapcat | 2025-09-23 16:28:10+00:00
> Market share is relevant to your argument because it determines the standards that determine engine complexity.

I talked about two different things, (1) what is and (2) what should be.

(1) "The web standards bodies are a joke now because of the dominance of these few companies over web browsers". (2) "the web standards should be so simple that a little indie developer could write a full-fledged web browser."

You appear to be criticizing (2) by assuming (1), but (1) is the opposite of (2). The latter is an ideal, not the sad reality.

> Linux is a perfectly great mainstream desktop option

Linux is not a mainstream desktop option, because consumers can't walk into a computer retailer and buy a desktop running Linux. That's why Linux has a practically nonexistent consumer market share.

Of course techies can run Linux, though I wouldn't call Electron apps "great" by any measure.

> In your world, somehow every platform vendor stops making web browsers, and we might have a bunch of browsers with 0.1% marketshare. How? Ludicrous.

It was purely a hypothetical scenario. The point of the hypothetical scenario was to explain why market share shouldn't be relevant to standards (as I also explained at the beginning of this comment).

> And proprietary browser plugins, really?

They were in fact not all proprietary and are not necessarily proprietary.

What's wrong with modularity? Some software vendors can specialize in HTML/CSS, some in video, etc.

> Again I don't think you've thought it through.

You can disagree with me, but these continuing, unnecessary, personal, condescending comments are in violation of the HN guidelines. Please stop.
by shagmin | 2025-09-23 16:29:05+00:00
I'm in a zip code that spans two cities and I can think of other ways it gets complicated in different scenarios. There are places where I can throw a ball across multiple zip codes, sales tax jurisdictions, municipal lines, county lines, etc., with varying degrees of overlap.

The problem I've anecdotally seen with autocomplete is there's another property with the same street address as mine but in a different city and different zip code (granted only last digit is different IIRC) about ~15 miles away and on more than one occasion it's caused a few mix-ups.
by WolfeReader | 2025-09-23 16:29:06+00:00
Murphy seems like a neat person. I'll check out her book.

I sense a bit of AI in this obit. Most tellingly, a suspicious emdash after Chipotle is a definite flag.

The way the author describes post-death events in the past tense, non-hypothetically, indicates that someone other than Murphy had a hand in its authorship.

(Would an author really write "Check it out, it’s called “F Off Cancer” by Linda Brossi Murphy"? That's not even the title of the book!)
by bpt3 | 2025-09-23 16:29:10+00:00
Property owners absolutely are entitled to stop efforts around them to increase housing supply or density, and I say this as someone who also has done similar work to you.

If a community wants to remain SFH-only, that is their right, even if other people who can't afford to live there or would just like to see higher density would really like them to change their mind.
by taylodl | 2025-09-23 16:29:21+00:00
I reject sections 5.2 and 7.2 of the article.

There are alternative explanations for the apparent phenomena of wave function collapse and Many Worlds is just one. Another is that the observer itself is a quantum system: a set of entangled particles represented by a shared eigenvector. When a particle interacts with this system, it becomes entangled and overwhelmingly likely to align with the same eigenvector. This gives the appearance of wave function collapse, but in reality, the particle has simply been absorbed into the observer’s wave function. The wave function hasn’t collapsed - it’s evolved through entanglement. This is the core issue I have with 5.2: it treats collapse as a physical event rather than a probabilistic outcome of entanglement.

As for 7.2, it begins with the premise that collapse is real - a notion that’s been philosophically and technically challenged for decades. The "shut up and compute" attitude dates back to the 1930s and reflects a pragmatic stance: treat collapse as a computational tool, not a physical truth. This approach led to the electronics revolution, where quantum mechanics was used to build real-world systems without resolving metaphysical debates. Collapse was never a confirmed physical process - it was a useful abstraction for prediction and engineering.

So which is it: wave function absorption via entanglement, or Many Worlds? Without further empirical evidence, Occam’s Razor favors entanglement. It explains the observed phenomena without multiplying realities and remains consistent with quantum field theory’s treatment of observers as quantum systems.
by the_other | 2025-09-23 16:30:06+00:00
> we might have a bunch of browsers with 0.1% marketshare. How? Ludicrous. And proprietary browser plugins, really?

Such a market works for cars (kinda), vacuum cleaners, hifi, golf clubs, burgers, synthesisers, sofas, buildings, DIY tools, dresses, shoes.

We also had more browsers back in the 00s, and into the early '10s.

So, yes. Really.
by hearsathought | 2025-09-23 16:30:07+00:00
> I'm not sure why anyone should expect the South to escape criticism for defining itself on racialized chattel slavery;

North had "racialized chattel slavery" as well.

> having Jim Crow, lynching, etc.;

The rest of the country had lynchings, race riots, discrimination as well.

> continuing into the modern day to wish to rename things in favor of treasonous Confederates;

"Treasonous". They certainly weren't treated like traitors after the civil war ended.

> being literal economic deadweight that benefits from an influx of tax dollars from Blue states (Yankee states, and "Left Coast" )

Can't complain when they weren't allowed to leave...

> even while voting against "s0cIALism" and constantly denigrating Yankee and Left Coast cities and states.

What?
by jmull | 2025-09-23 16:30:26+00:00
I think the problem the practical programmer has with a statement like this is the implication that only certain languages require some basic understanding and a bit of discipline to avoid CVEs.

Rust's model has a strict model that effectively prevents certain kinds of logic errors/bugs. So that's good (if you don't mind the price). But it doesn't address all kinds of other logic errors/bugs. It's like closing one door to the barn, but there are six more still wide open.

I see rust as an incremental improvement over C, which comes at quite a hefty price. Something like zig is also an incremental improvement over C, which also comes at a price, but it looks like a significantly smaller one.

(Anyway, I'm not sure zig is even the right comp for rust. There are various languages that provide memory safety, if that's your priority, which also generally allow dropping into "unsafe" -- typically C -- where performance is needed.)
by basisword | 2025-09-23 16:30:27+00:00
>> houses of multiple occupancy. It's a great idea where you take a home that in the 1980s would house a family and split it into 5 flats where each person can rent 10-20 square metres each

This isn't correct. When a house is split into multiple flats, they're individual flats rented out under separate agreements and not a HMO.

A HMO is when that house is rented to a group of people who are unrelated to each other (i.e. not of the same 'household'). They are generally jointly and severally liable (under an AST). They each have a bedroom and share kitchen/bathroom/common areas. HMO's have stricter health & safety regulations. For example, doors must be the automatically closing fire doors that you get in public buildings.
by bhouston | 2025-09-23 16:30:35+00:00
"The agency said on Tuesday that last month it found more than 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards that could have been used for telecom attacks within the area encompassing parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut."

Isn't it costly to acquire that many SIM cards? Or maybe they were inactive until they were associated with an account? So it was just to keep allowing for a rotating set of SIM accounts?

Are we going to find out that all these cellphones were used to run bots on X or similar?
by TulliusCicero | 2025-09-23 16:30:58+00:00
> [ Insert set of news clips of various billionaires and their billions that they've gotten ever more of ]

Yeah, I figured you wouldn't have an actual response.

We were talking about grocery stores. Feel free to show me the massive profit margins that grocery store companies have on their products that they apparently are all massively overcharging us for. That's your thesis, so it shouldn't be hard to find the data.

> I mean, I'm going to take issue with these

A reminder that what you said was:

> NEVER. In my LIFE. Have I seen this in action.

> Literally every single category of product that I buy is more expensive now than when I was a kid.

So I provided multiple examples against your "NEVER" that you immediately shrugged off. I'd be lying if I said I was surprised.

> not to mention the cost of all computers have fallen

Wait, so you just lied before? Why?
by physicsguy | 2025-09-23 16:31:00+00:00
We have this system in the U.K. largely and it hasn’t really fixed the problem, because now even these house shares are incredibly expensive. In London you can be looking at well over £1000 per month for a bedroom and access to a shared kitchen and bathroom. Licensing is required for what are here called HMOs (houses in multiple occupation) to make sure that properties are safe. But increasing the remit of licensing has meant people selling up the rental properties too because the market isn’t bearing the additional cost of complying.

Basically the solution is to density and build more housing in areas of high demand but it’s not unusual to hear of people arguing that this won’t fix the problem and that the answer is rent controls and additional restrictions and taxes on landlords.
by BuildTheRobots | 2025-09-23 16:31:05+00:00
Not just swappable, but in a lot of corporate laptops with a locked down CMOS, the swappability is still one of the shortcuts that a user level user can change in the BIOS.

I thought Ctrl being in the right place on the new keyboard would be nice - sadly it seems to be the worst Thinkpad keyboard I've ever used... not even sure why, but all the spacing just seems slightly but very noticeably wrong.
by teraflop | 2025-09-23 16:31:17+00:00
I guess I can begrudgingly accept that this is an example of "defense in depth" but it doesn't seem like a very good one given how easily it can be bypassed. Like, you could equally well add "depth" by taking every password prompt and making it prompt for two different passwords, but of course that doesn't add any real security.

> for example, through misconfigured deployments, command injection, [...] or overly broad privileges.

Seems to me like it would be more useful to build something into your deployment process that verifies that permissions are set correctly.

I don't really buy that `mount -o ro` is inherently more prone to being misconfigured than `kekkai verify` or whatever.

> supply chain attacks

This wouldn't actually do anything to stop or detect supply chain attacks, right? Even if one of your dependencies is malicious, you're not going to be able to spot that by checking a hash against a deployment that was built with the same malicious code.

> good implementations isolate the baseline and reports (e.g. write-only to S3, read-only on app servers), which raises the bar considerably.

I don't see how that raises the bar at all. The weakness is that it's easy for an attacker to bypass the verifier on the app server itself. Making the hashes read-only in whatever place they're stored isn't a barrier to that.

> For example, PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) explicitly requires this.

This seems like the best actual reason for this software to exist. But if the point is just to check a compliance box, then I think it would make sense to point that out prominently in the README, so that people who actually have a need for it will know that it meets their needs. Similar to how FIPS-compliant crypto exists to check a box but everyone knows it isn't inherently any more secure.
by nsagent | 2025-09-23 16:31:18+00:00
I don't think this is any better of an argument.

Maybe yours is a more apt analogy, but as a very competent driver I can't tell you how often lane assist has driven me crazy.

If I could simply rely on it in all situations, then it would be fine. It's the death of a thousand cuts each and every time it behaves less than ideally that gets to me and I've had to turn it off in every single car a I've driven that has it.
by jonhohle | 2025-09-23 16:31:21+00:00
I didn’t read it that way. Algorithms select for optimizing engagement. People whose brains have not fully developed are incapable of reliably distinguishing fiction presented as fact vs reality, especially when there is intentional deception. Combine those and you get engaging content that can influence a portion of the population with limited defense mechanisms against it.

This is also why minors can’t sign contracts, why broadcasts television used to only show more mature content after prime time, and all of the other ways children have historically been protected.

This isn’t about capitalism among equal parties.
by alistairSH | 2025-09-23 16:31:31+00:00
at some point custodial parents need to step up and do what's necessary to collect the money owed to their children even though it's a painful process

Can't squeeze blood out of a rock.

I've seen cases where the non-custodial parent just quit their job and moved every time the custodial parent attempted to collect. Or, just flat our refused to earn any income - they literally preferred to be impoverished to assisting in child-rearing expenses.

At some point, it's overall easier to pretend that non-custodial parent doesn't exist and move on with your life.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-09-23 16:31:48+00:00
> given the fact that we cannot reproduce many findings in our own field (computer science)

Sounds like we should be less generous to CS findings, not more generous to other fields. (And yes, we should be skeptical of findings in CS as well.)

> given the hardware to do so is limited to such few entities...

That said - what research is happening in CS that needs specific hardware? The theoretical stuff can still happen on chalk boards, and interesting algorithmic or technical advances tend to propagate quickly precisely because someone will reproduce them.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-23 16:32:01+00:00
> If a community wants to remain SFH-only, that is their right

This is an opinion, not a right codified in statute, and state laws can be enacted to override local planning ability to prevent upzoning. People who live in their community are entitled to affordable housing (again, my opinion, maybe not yours). Property owners leave, property owners die; the path to success is to simply continue to grind against the nimby machine.

https://www.yimbylaw.org/
by leakycap | 2025-09-23 16:32:28+00:00
I was in my 20s when I first got cancer, and was lucky enough to be sent to MD Anderson

I'd been keeping a Palm Treo in my pocket for years at that point, and the tumor I had originated near that pocket - so I asked my MD Anderson doctors if it could be related

This was in the 2000s, but the doctor touched my hand and said "the only thing we know for sure reduces the risk of most cancers is eating more vegetables in your diet"

I'm not a doctor, but I do listen to them