MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jibal | 2025-09-10 17:17:00+00:00
> Such needless condescension, jibal.

THAT comment is condescending--talk about ideas, not people. I condescended to no one ... my issue is the state of computer science education.

> On the contrary, there is no sign bit. You asked for 128

I didn't ask for anything. The subject here was the value range of the i8 type.
by mceoin | 2025-09-10 17:17:16+00:00
For now we're pretty obsessed with the spreadsheet interface, but we do think of Sourcetable as a spreadsheet-based application platform, so there multi-modal plans in the future.

For now, one fun experience is loading the app on Mobile and just talking to your database. It's the same as talking from a desktop but can feel far more natural and the form factor let's you get quick business answers on the go.
by abound | 2025-09-10 17:17:37+00:00
> What did you not find fast about gitea/forgejo?

They're plenty fast, but it's hard to match the speed of terminal tools if you're used to working that way. With Soft Serve, I'm maybe 10 keystrokes and two seconds away from whatever I want to access from a blank desktop. Even a really performant web application is always going to be a bit slower than that.

Normally that kind of micro-optimization isn't all that useful, but it's great for flitting back and forth between a bunch of projects without losing your place.

> So you run tailscale in your git server container so it gets a unique tailnet ip which won't create a conflict because you don't need to ssh into the container?

Pretty much. It's a separate container in the same pod, and shows up as its own device on the tailnet. I can still `kubectl exec` or port forward or whatever if I need to access Soft Serve directly, but practically I never do that.

> TBH, I think it's tailscale I'd like a light/fast alternative to!

I've never noticed Tailscale's performance on any clients, it "just works" in my experience. I'm running self-hosted Headscale, but wouldn't expect it to be all that different performance-wise.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-10 17:17:38+00:00
I haven't.

It's part of discussions around hypothetical futures where everything is self-driving and the vehicles communicate with each other to form dense convoys on places like freeways where there aren't pedestrians.

I certainly haven't heard any mainstream suggestions that self-driving taxis ought to drive faster than humans in spaces they share with human drivers and human pedestrians.
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-10 17:18:05+00:00
I think that science museums being places for kids is a good thing. The are the ones who benefit the most. If you want science for grownups, you have conferences. Also, that it is for kids doesn't make it impossible to enjoy as an adult, especially if it is about things you are unfamiliar with.

Now, if you go to a science museum and think "only a kid can enjoy that". Then the problem is not that it is a place for kids, it is that it is just bad. It is a thing Disney understood very well, its classics may look like they are for kids, but they are actually enjoyable by everyone, and it is a big reason for their success.

As for art museums, the problem is that they are usually just exhibitions, and to be honest, that's boring, especially if you are a kid. That's unlike a science museum where they actually try to teach you science. It is only interesting if you are already well into that kind of art, and most kids aren't (yet?).

History museums are kind of a middle ground as they can do the double duty of teaching history (mostly for kids) and showing off artefacts to people who are already into that (mostly for grownups).
by CyberDildonics | 2025-09-10 17:18:06+00:00
I tried to ignore this matter but people over internet just keep poking

Did you really think naming something MisraStdC, then posting it to the internet, then rationalizing it wouldn't be noticed?

It's not even your name or a standard.

It really looks like you are trying to name it something that people would find from searches then somehow walk it back and come with a story after.
by apparent | 2025-09-10 17:18:07+00:00
For me, it comes down to two things. First, I do not want to have to charge every night since I use my watch as a silent vibrating alarm, and I track my sleep. It seems like Apple has basically overcome this hurdle, now that you can charge while you shower and basically get by.

The other issue is that I don't want to have to bring Yet Another Dongle™ every time I go away for a weekend or short business trip. Most of my trips are ≤ 4 days, so if AWs could reliably go that long (including battery degradation over time) then I'd consider getting one.

Right now, only the AWU even approaches this, and only in low-power mode. If it weren't a thousand dollars, I'd consider it. But between the low-power requirement and the pricing, it's just no contest in my book. I'm getting a new Pebble, which offers a month of battery life at 1/3 of the cost.
by goku12 | 2025-09-10 17:18:13+00:00
> Why do you need a search index on your self hosted git server

The search index doesn't have to be on your server, does it? What if there is an external (perhaps distributed/replicated) index that you could submit the relevant information to? Or if an external crawler could collect it on your behalf? (some sort of verification will also be needed.)

There are two reasons why such a dedicated index is useful. The first is that the general index is too full of noise. That's why people search projects directly on Github. The second problem is that the generic crawlers aren't very good at extracting relevant structured information from source projects, especially the information that the project owner wants to advertise. For example the readme, contribution guidelines, project status, installation and usage information, language(s), license(s), CoC, issue tracker location, bug and security reporting information, keywords, project type, etc. Github and sourcegraph allow you to do precise searches based on those. Try using a regular search engine to locate an obscure project that you already know about.
by adrian_b | 2025-09-10 17:18:28+00:00
As explained in the article, the Korean companies did not come to USA due to their own free will, but because they had been blackmailed by the US government to invest billions in USA.

However, after making the forced deals, USA has not provided the work visas that are needed for the completion of those projects in time, compelling the Korean companies to use visas of an incorrect kind.

I see here only trust broken by the Americans, not by the Koreans. In recent years, everybody all over the world has learned with dismay that any deal made with USA is more or less worthless, because USA may not comply with it or change its terms at any time.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-10 17:18:53+00:00
> Every time I go through an intersection I worry what happens if someone runs the red and smashes into our side.

Something like this is a lot more rare than harassment on public transit. And not exactly avoidable. So it isn’t worth thinking about. But on public transit you have to maintain constant vigilance just to avoid the many bad situations that could come your way. You’re very exposed and vulnerable. The crime rates on transit are after everyone puts in the effort to avoid being a victim.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-09-10 17:18:59+00:00
These things are actually fairly small problems.

The parts that absolutely require JS can't be reliably linked to and nobody indexes that stuff. Most apparent SPA:s serve a HTML alternative if you don't claim to be a web browser in the UA.

Cloudflare and the like are also fairly easy to deal with as long as your crawler is well behaved. You can register the fingerprint and mostly get access to cf:ed websites.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-10 17:19:01+00:00
> they are not a solution to transport problems, or to traffic jams

Nor to world hunger.

> companies will enshittify them beyond measure

A hypothetical applicable to every mode of transit, private and public.

> don't think this was even uttered by any of these companies

Things can be true without being in a corporate press release. (Also, you're the one who originally argued these services' "entire social context is 'never encounter another human as you go from A to B'." If not being in a press release is an argument against one, it 's an argument against the other.)

Though, in this case, it has been said: "Waymo gives you your own personal space to focus on more meaningful things" [1].

[1] https://waymo.com/rides/
Show HN: dnssec-server – open-source DNS server with built-in DNSSEC in Node.js
by colocohen | 2025-09-10 17:19:33+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on an open-source project called *dnssec-server*. It’s a modern authoritative DNS server written entirely in Node.js, with built-in *DNSSEC*, *ECS (EDNS Client Subnet)*, and *DNS-over-TLS* support.

I started this because I wanted to enable DNSSEC in my own projects, but noticed how few domains actually use it (<15% adoption worldwide), and I couldn’t find a simple solution in the Node.js ecosystem. Most existing tools felt too heavy or not developer-friendly.

Current features: - DNSSEC signing built-in - ECS surfaced in the API (`req.ecsAddress`, `req.ecsSourcePrefixLength`) - DNS-over-TLS on port 853 - Pure JavaScript, simple API

Still early: - Zone file parsing/migration is TBD - Performance hasn’t been benchmarked at scale yet

Links: - GitHub: https://github.com/colocohen/dnssec-server - npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/dnssec-server

I’d love feedback from the community — ideas for missing features, pitfalls you see for production, or any crazy self-hosted use cases you’d try with this.

Thanks!
by ics | 2025-09-10 17:19:41+00:00
If only Microsoft could make it part of Windows by default instead of those lucky users who discover what PowerToys needing to submit their request to corporate IT and enduring either incredulity or dumb jokes about the naming.

Gatekeeping as "power user features" is silly, it's 2025 and many of these features have been built-in on other operating systems for a decade or more.
by darkamaul | 2025-09-10 17:20:18+00:00
Really informative read, I agree that Homebrew’s naming conventions can be frustrating at times, but overall it’s such a great tool.

I hadn’t realized it was this simple to spin up your own tap for distributing tools. How does this compare to using language specific tools (like uv, for example)? Is it better because that’s easier for folks not within the ecosystem ?
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-10 17:20:23+00:00
> What are the odds those voluntary packages are worse than whatever contract & law specific in the case of layoffs.

Roughly zero, if the scale as a layoff would be sub-WARN Act level, because it is unlikely that the impacted employees had any contractual severance guarantee or any legal entitlement to any notice of termination of employment or pay in lieu (they might be less than the firm’s historical practice for similar roles, and having an excuse to characterize it as voluntary provides a bit of PR cover for that, but that's not a legal or contractual guarantee.) At-will employment is the rule, rather than the exception, for private, non-uniom employment in the US.
by mothballed | 2025-09-10 17:20:26+00:00
I suppose even if you sub in "goal to cause death/injury" vs "recklessness that could reasonably be expected to produce injury despite not being the goal" and it would still hold true.

Personally I think it's contentious whether drunk driving etc injuries can be considered "intentional" even if they are expected and reckless. When I think of intentional injuries, I'm thinking of ones where the perpetrator has that as their preferred outcome, something I don't think applies to most drunk driving injuries.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-10 17:20:51+00:00
In my case, YouTube has figured out that I love Pokemon videos where the streamer does really silly things with old Pokemon games (like resetting the emulator 9001 times to find a shiny in order to have a full on Shiny only pokedex, including the starter pokemon. In my case I don't care how long the videos are though.
by firefoxd | 2025-09-10 17:20:57+00:00
I've banned shorts from my house [0]. The more you watch it, the more your attention span gets scrambled. If a joke doesn't land in 15 seconds, you skip it. If the video that just started doesn't reach its climax now, you skip it.

There's actually a format for movies now, where a short scene is shared with the contrast cranked to 11, and background music. And it pays off in under a minute. Shorts is short for climax, and everything over a minute is boring.

[0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/shorts-climax
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-10 17:21:09+00:00
IMO, the geyser exhibit in the Exploratorium is one of best demonstrations I've seen in a museum. Far more impressive than a tesla coil, and contains a really good explanation of how it works (unlike the vast majority of tesla coil exhibits).

Sure, a tesla coil is flashy and a pretty awesome (in the biblical sense) demonstration of man's harnessing of electricity, but they don't really tell you much about how electricity works. A simple snap-together circuit with a battery, some wires, and some incandescent light bulbs does a much better job of that.
by alistairSH | 2025-09-10 17:21:29+00:00
Two thoughts...

Is it actually true that car accidents are far more rare than harassment on the subway? I don't take public transit enough to comment (there is none here).

Car accidents have a much higher likelihood of maiming or killing me. Even if they're more rare, I would posit (but don't have numbers) that the total cost to society (including property damage) is MUCH higher.
by theogainey | 2025-09-10 17:21:30+00:00
I have personally made several interactive displays/exhibits for work. Yeah there are plenty of poorly made ones out there, but speaking from experience a good one truly does turns a museum into something a child is excited to visit. There is a reason why children's museums are made the way they are. Even children that are interested in learning, want to play. A great digital experience at a museum does wonders to bridge the gap between a regular museum and a children's museum. If a child has fun at a museum they are going to want to go back. If they keep having fun and keep wanting to go back, eventually they are going to start paying attention to substance of the museum. I agree great physical experiences are missing from many museums, but I'll happily continue to trick children into wanting to learn any way I can
by tracker1 | 2025-09-10 17:22:28+00:00
What is "vanilla Linux"? Ubuntu+Gnome, Mint+Cinnamon, Fedora+KDE, Arch+COSMIC ..?

Each distro, platform and desktop manager and related apps are relatively different, though all work pretty well on modern hardware. I'm currently running PopOS COSMIC alpha with the 6.16-4 kernel via mainline. It's been pretty good, though there have been many rough edges regarding keyboard navigation/support in the new apps.
by hypeatei | 2025-09-10 17:22:30+00:00
"no tax on tips" was a pandering move to the mostly financially-illiterate populace that still don't understand progressive tax systems. Singling out certain types of income makes no sense and is very unfair. I wouldn't be surprised if this actually ends up resulting in less tip income over the long term due to people going "wait my income is taxed but theirs isn't, why should I tip as much?"
by sfink | 2025-09-10 17:22:42+00:00
This covers part of the problem, the part where your tests are enough to indicate whether the changes are good enough to keep. In that scenario, relying only on fast-forward merges is good enough.

One trickier problem is when you don't know until later that a past change was bad: perhaps slow-running performance tests show a regression, or flaky tests turn out to have been showing a real problem, or you just want the additional velocity of pipelined landings that don't wait for all the tests to finish. Or perhaps you don't want to test every change, but then when things break you need to go back and figure out which change(s) caused the issue. (My experience is at Mozilla where all these things are true, and often.) Then you have to deal with backouts: do you keep an always-green chain of commits by backing up and re-landing good commits to splice out the bad, and only fast-forwarding when everything is green? Or do you keep the backouts in the tree, which is more "accurate" in a way but unfortunate for bisecting and code archaeology?
by kridsdale1 | 2025-09-10 17:22:44+00:00
I really soured on the whole “wow can you believe this crazy science fact” targeted for adults kind of media when Instagram and Subreddits like “I Fucking Love Science” got massively popular. Which of course led to them enshitifying, then being worthwhile conduits for propaganda.

“SCIENCE FACT! Republican voters are known to be morons who don’t want to learn anything! Like and subscribe!”
by geye1234 | 2025-09-10 17:23:25+00:00
I don't remember the big Kensington museums being like that when I was a kid. There was a kids' section or two, but the rest was clearly for adults (and has stuck in my memory just as much, if not more than, the kids' sections).

Seeing the real Apollo 10 (I don't remember which module) sticks very clearly in my memory.

I also rode on a "heritage" train recently, and what struck me the most was that the interior decor of the passenger cars looked as though it had been designed for and by grown-ups.
by MisterTea | 2025-09-10 17:23:25+00:00
I was in Spain last month and what stood out is that walkability requires mom and pop stores as well as more integrated neighborhoods with small commercial shops mixed into residential. Small shops seemed to be the majority in the city centers. The only large store I saw was a Lidl. They have largeish indoor markets that are more like a mini mall of individual shops like a butcher, produce, baker, cheese, even restaurants and bars. And these are located in a neighborhood center serving the surrounding community.

The thing that kills walkability in the USA are the hyper scale stores and malls where everyone wants a mega store that has everything - one stop shops. They are too big to fit in small neighborhoods so they have to be built in a commercial district or large strip mall. And since they are big and house many shoppers at once they need big parking lots. Then they need big streets to feed those big parking lots. These big ass stores DEMAND cars and are very much a part of the problem.

If you want more walkability then incentivize lots of small shops over single giant shops. I would also argue that neighborhoods that are all residential for blocks and blocks are another problem so zoning should force a minimal commercial allotment to ensure walkable neighborhoods.
by tim333 | 2025-09-10 17:23:49+00:00
There's the guidelines

>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, ... unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Russian stuff being shot down in NATO countries is kind of new?

Also there are two unflagged Qatar stories if that's that you were thinking of? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45187486 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183124
by cedws | 2025-09-10 17:23:58+00:00
IMO the way we need to be thinking about prompt injection is that any tool can call any other tool. When introducing a tool with untrusted output (that is to say, pretty much everything, given untrusted input) you’re exposing every other tool as an attack vector.

In addition the LLMs themselves are vulnerable to a variety of attacks. I see no mention of prompt injection from Anthropic or OpenAI in their announcements. It seems like they want everybody to forget that while this is a problem the real-world usefulness of LLMs is severely limited.
by Roguelazer | 2025-09-10 17:24:27+00:00
I think this is ignoring a lot of prior art. Our deploys at Yelp in roughly 2010 worked this way -- you flagged a branch as ready to land, a system (`pushmaster` aka `pushhamster`) verified that it passed tests and then did an octopus merge of a bunch of branches, verified that that passed tests, deployed it, and then landed the whole thing to master after it was happy on staging. And this wasn't novel at Yelp; we inherited the practice from PayPal, so my guess is that most companies that care at all about release engineering have been doing it this way for decades and it was just a big regression when people stopped having professional release management teams and started just cowboy pushing to `master` / `main` on github some time in the mid 2010's.
by catigula | 2025-09-10 17:24:44+00:00
No, that isn't possible.

Note that my post was designed to be agnostic. Leaking a psy-op, or leaking the extensive, close-up details of UAP phenomena which we do have (president Obama himself said there are confirmed unknown phenomena, taking him at his word on this topic), is still a Snowden style leak, especially if they continue to do this dog and pony show in congress and elsewhere.

There's also not a nuclear physics Snowden, or F-47 Snowden, do you think there's nothing to leak?
by orbital-decay | 2025-09-10 17:24:55+00:00
In this very thread you can see really smart technologists largely praising this. Those aren't random Joes, and they have pretty convincing arguments - it really does improve security (and for some people, physical safety). Apple always makes very convincing points and plausible cases which are truly hard to argue against, when it takes away any kind of control from the users for their own good.

This doesn't change the fact that you're being gradually locked up, though.
by lawlessone | 2025-09-10 17:25:04+00:00
>In any case, by those elements alone, he knows 100x about "white American struggles" than the average champion of the poor at the Met Gala and the New Yorker.

Doesn't that kinda make his current actions worse? The "met gala" people can claim ignorance, he understands struggling and still screws over the struggling.
by drak0n1c | 2025-09-10 17:25:11+00:00
That mechanism usually goes the other way in these escalations - all it takes is one of the school librarians being a stubborn ideologue, not stocking classical literature (effectively censoring) and filling shelves with anti-capitalist pop lit and low-brow Tumblr graphic novels with obscene sexual depictions. It reaches the point where it's obvious to anyone walking into the library, replete with colorful signage on frontal shelves dedicated to narrow progressive fads. The kids post about it or check it out, parents notice. The librarian is named and shamed. Then, sadly, the library overall loses support in addition to the librarian.

The root cause is unfortunately lost in the ensuing battle between library-defending parents and library-critiquing parents, but the ultimate fault in this situation lies in the needless and self-destructive politicization of librarian training and the lack of standards for younger librarians. They seem to lack the common sense that loud politicking is not exactly befitting of a library, nor beneficial for their ulterior motive of gradual ideological persuasion. Another sad case of politicking and safe-space-signaling ideation being prioritized over preserving institutions and professional integrity.
by constantcrying | 2025-09-10 17:25:17+00:00
It is not as easy as that. The nature of EInk displays allows them to be usable without a backlight LCDs need backlights constantly, any analysis which doesn't take this into account is irrelevant.

In any case, it is not clear that, even if EInk Displays are somewhat worse in power consumption, they aren't a superior display technology.
by ajross | 2025-09-10 17:25:23+00:00
> Yes, the article's insistence that anyone would have fallen for the phish, and that anyone who disagrees is simply "wrong," is unfortunate

I think that's overstated. This phishing attempt had some obvious red flags that many people here would have noticed, sure. So not everyone is going to fall for this phish.

But the principle is better expressed as "Everyone will fall for a phish", somewhere. Even you. Human engineering is human engineering and we're all fallible. All that's required is that someone figure out which mistakes you're likely to make.