MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 09:34:38+00:00
... "with a certain type of genetic alteration in the tumor."

This genetic alteration is found in slightly more than 1/3 of patients.

I guess "Anti-inflammatory medication for 3 years after colorectal surgery reduces relapse risk for 55% of 38% of patients" doesn't have the same hopeful ring to it, but I'd prefer honesty.
by lioeters | 2025-09-19 09:35:38+00:00
It's a weird way to put it too, "our industry" and "our culture" enables "our corporations". They're not "our" corporations as a society, why should we be excited about their investments.

There's a cognitive dissonance between talking about capitalist entities that supposedly drive social and technological progress, and the repeated use of the collective "our" and "us". Corporations are not altruistic optimists aiming to better our lives.
by fifticon | 2025-09-19 09:38:30+00:00
I mourn that the scrollbar has been hunted to extinction, even on windows 11 desktop. Windows explorer slowly starts to behave like a web page app. If you enable many columns in the explorer file view, this design is bonkers: To navigate those columns, you need the horisontal scrollbar. But modern design lunacy dictates that this scrollbar must be INVISIBLE. So you have to guess where it should be, and wave your mouse around in that area, until the windows 11 geniuses decide to fade in and reveal that - oh My!, THERE WAS A SCROLL BAR THERE ALL ALONG. So, now naive you might think "OK, we both agree there is a scrollbar there now, so maybe we can keep it in view?" NOOOOHHH! as soon as you have used it to find your new columns, it must of course disappear again, so you must once again wave around your mouse in its general direction, next time you need it :-(.

A similar insanity happens with window borders in general, because heyaah, wow, minimalism is cool. So when you need to resize a window or, god forbid, drag it by its title bar(), that too is minimized into unrecognisability. To be clear, the problem here is, that you can't tell where window A ends and window B begins, because of design minimalism, so it is simply hard to discern where the drag-border is.

() which leads me to window title-bar anorexia: It has also become oh so popular to minimize and compact the windows title bar, so that there is no area left where your mouse can grab the window to drag it. Web browsers, among many other apps, are guilty of this. The intent behind is to avoid the "double windows top", where you have first the title bar, then the menu below that (they have been collapsed into one); but apparently no one thought about "but how can users then drag their windows?".. I guess we are not supposed to, because the app is supposed to be full-screen maxxed, on the tablet we are drooling on. Or if there is another way, I, director Skinner and Homer's dad did not get the memo.
by qcnguy | 2025-09-19 09:39:34+00:00
Apple has a similar project called Pkl which they use for their internal cloud configuration. http://pkl-lang.org/

It can be converted to JSON, yaml, and a bunch of other formats, and whilst it looks a bit like JSON it's actually a full blown functional programming language designed for creating config trees. The nice thing about Pkl is that it's got full IDE support and the standard library is patterned after Kotlin. So all the method names are very obvious and intuitive especially if you know Java or Kotlin. It has lots of features for validation like range types and so on, so you can get a lot of semantic checking before any config is emitted. It's the first config-as-language language I've seen that is actually good.

KSON looks more like an alternate syntax than a language, which is fine, but because JSON/YAML are just data structures sometimes you really want to do a for loop.
by oefrha | 2025-09-19 09:40:52+00:00
On Linux you get to have the “fun” decision of which UI toolkit to use, and pretty sure neither WebkitGTK nor QTWebengine support passkeys or ad blocking extensions anyway, and I doubt more obscure toolkits somehow have more featureful webviews. This might be one of the worst examples of why you should buy Linux. It’s a case of having good building blocks on macOS that are easy to implement but have some restrictions, vs having shitty building blocks (if at all) on Linux.
by BlueTemplar | 2025-09-19 09:41:06+00:00
Why would you expect Substack and Patreon to be any better ?

They are platforms too, and US-based too, and IIRC Patreon has already been caught at least twice engaging in censorship : against some right-wingers, and some porn.

(They are at least less able to manipulate speech through recommendations I guess...)
by cryptowatchlist | 2025-09-19 09:42:10+00:00
Hey HN, For the past few months, I've been working on a solo project to build a clean, no-nonsense crypto tracking app for Android. I was frustrated with existing apps that were either too cluttered, too slow, or tried to be a full-blown exchange. My goal was to build a simple, fast tool focused on research and discovery. The core of the app is a standard watchlist, but I wanted to solve a bigger problem: how people share crypto ideas. Usually, it's just a messy text list in a chat group. So, the main feature I built is a "shareable watchlist." A user can create a list of coins, add their own "Why" notes (their investment thesis for each coin), and then share a single link. Anyone with the link can open the app and follow that list in real-time. The Tech Stack / Interesting Bits: Frontend: Native Android (Java), using a ViewPager2 for navigation and RecyclerView with ItemTouchHelper for the swipe-to-delete. Backend: A simple Node.js/Express server that fetches, caches, and serves data from the Binance Futures and CoinGecko APIs. Database: Firebase Firestore for storing the watchlists (using a no-login, anonymous auth model to keep it frictionless). The Viral Loop: Instead of the now-deprecated Firebase Dynamic Links, I implemented the modern Android App Links standard. This involved setting up Firebase Hosting to serve the assetlinks.json file and creating a simple landing page for users who don't have the app installed. Getting the SHA-256 fingerprints and ProGuard rules to work for the release build was a classic developer headache but a great learning experience. The Legal/Safety Aspect: I wanted to build a community tool, not a signal service, so I made a few key decisions to stay on the right side of things: It's Non-Custodial: The app never touches user funds, private keys, or exchange APIs. No P&L Tracking: To avoid being seen as financial advice, the app and its leaderboard are strictly based on social metrics (follower counts), not financial performance. UGC Disclaimers: The app is clear that all shared lists and notes are user-generated opinions. My monetization model is a simple affiliate link to MEXC if users want a place to trade, but the core app is completely free. I just launched it on the Play Store and I'm really nervous/excited to see what happens with the sharing feature. I would love to hear any feedback from the HN community, especially on the technical implementation or any ideas for improving the viral loop. Thanks for checking it out! Link to the app on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.price.cryp...
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 09:42:35+00:00
I have an old work truck for moving things around the property - a 1999 Ranger.

It is rough, doesn't handle bumps or stopping nearly as well as anything modern, and has almost no features beyond a radio.

Driving a screenless vehicle is a more strikingly different experience than I would have imagined. Have you gone a day without your cell phone recently? It's a very similar "unconnected from one thing but much more connected to another" feeling.

I hope there are modern vehicles without tablets on the center console soon. Convenience isn't always the whole story.
by sebastix | 2025-09-19 09:42:51+00:00
Relays can federate. The point is that Nostr as a protocol is saying nothing about this and does not care either.

I'm running an indexer (a relay) which federates with other relay indexers. Similar how activitypub relays work. Any client can connect to indexer to help bootstrapping and find metadata around events. There are many ways to discover stuff from clients even without being connected to the same relay.
by seec | 2025-09-19 09:43:17+00:00
The moment the "mobile first" trend appeared, I knew it was wrong and we were certainly fucked for many things. Plenty of websites are just bad because of this nonsense. And since now most people don't even use a computer for their web browsing, most websites are bad for computer browsing by default.

The insanity of it is that many websites push their mobile apps to use them. So, you get shitty mobile sites that ask you to use their app on mobile and are bad on desktop because of the stupid development philosophy (including poor information density and oversized interface for big touch targets).

The whole point of the first iPhone web browser was that you could actually use most typical websites without any effort on their part and it was good enough. Because of the display size and navigation effort required it wasn't the most confortable but the more time passes the more I believe that was kind of the point and almost a "feature" in itself.

We got there because people are glued to their phone, and sadly it's not even a good tool for efficient web browsing (it's useful for quick information gathering but that's it).
by lloeki | 2025-09-19 09:43:31+00:00
I have had similar feelings about Sagrada Familia (which I saw from the outside but could not visit inside) as I have for the Strasbourg Cathedral.

Similar approach, different era end hence execution and style. During my stay in Barcelona I could not help but draw comparisons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg_Cathedral

> The construction of the cathedral, which had started in the year 1015 and had been relaunched in 1190, was finished in 1439

"finished" is arguable because it still misses one spire ;) but that's now part of its character.

> Standing in the centre of the Place de la Cathédrale, at 142 metres (466 feet), Strasbourg Cathedral was the world's tallest building from 1647 to 1874 (227 years) [..] Today it is the sixth-tallest church in the world and the tallest extant structure built entirely in the Middle Ages.

From clair-obscur lighting inside to outside horror vacui vs a clean and geometric interior, it is a cathedral of contrast, whose architecture is not just a thing in itself but also extends to the area it is sat in, e.g the streets around and the plaza channel the "devil's wind", a nearly constant airflow running around the exterior that symbolically cannot enter the cathedral, which gives an immediate impression of calm as you enter.

It also houses since 1352 an astronomical clock reminiscent of the Antikhytera mechanism, and notable for having a Copernician (heliocentric) orrery since 1547; the confluence of science and clergy is yet another contrast.

Surrounding - and generally in the whole city - buildings are tall-ish but much less than Barcelona, making the Strasbourg Cathedral absolutely towering, whether you stand in front of it or from dozens of miles away.
by digitalbase | 2025-09-19 09:43:41+00:00
I've been working on a Quora/StackOverflow alternative (on top of Nostr).

https://asknostr.site/

I hope this demonstrates how a distributed social protocol can solve many use cases and the advantage to the end-user:

- do not get rugpulled by (VC backed) companies that own your data

- receive zaps/money by contributing

- data is truely available to everyone (but signed by author)
by b800h | 2025-09-19 09:44:46+00:00
Very funny, but this could be used for both intentional and unintentional Black-hat SEO. My theory goes:

1. Create dodgy looking URL 2. AI in Gmail spots link, blocks it. 3. Blocked link is spidered for more information automatically 4. Link resolves to website 5. Website black-listed

So I'm not going to use it!
by kubinashi | 2025-09-19 09:44:55+00:00
Thanks for the comment! Honestly, one big reason I’m thinking about this is because it seems like most of current AI development is running into a wall—huge models, tons of hardware and energy, but still no real “human-like” intelligence or flexibility. I really think we need to try new approaches, like making a simple, curiosity-driven “brain OS” for AI, that can work on smaller machines and is closer to how people actually think. No plans to destroy humans—just hoping for something more sustainable and creative!

Would love to hear your thoughts, or anyone else’s ideas!
by numpad0 | 2025-09-19 09:45:18+00:00
- The smaller group says they see TONS of $thing,

- the larger group says they see NONE of $thing,

- both are looking at the EXACT same thing.

-> The disagreement is in the definition of $thing.

It can't get clearer. How else would you explain it? Either you're lying(I guess not), or your definition is way off, or those secret underground organizations made some mistake and their secret Facebook group illegal content leaked out(no such thing on Nostr). By far the most likely scenario is that you're grouping from traffic cones to boxes of oranges to parrots in a forest into the exact same category of offensive contents by standards that nobody else could even understand.
by rendx | 2025-09-19 09:47:23+00:00
> I'm somewhat okay with "developing" because the term is easier to understand: some countries are less developed than others. Plus the terms are fluid. If a country becomes developed enough then they switch labels.

"Developing" what, and to what end? The term itself sounds absolute, where in fact it implies a relative order, but doesn't give away what (arbitrary) properties you include in the comparison.

Take Gross National Happiness or the Happy Planet Index, for example. You could very well call countries with a low but slowly rising GNH "developing countries". USA is 122/152 in the HPI, which sounds about right, and probably not "developing" but declining.

The point is that the imperial West defines what is "good" and "bad", and from that point of reference uses terminology that implies an absoluteness; as another example, as if "long life" is a universal goal of humanity, when in fact other cultures prioritize community over individuals. (There's no point in valuing a "long life" when you believe in reincarnation.)

To discriminate between developed and developing countries also means you assume some countries are somewhat "finished" where others can play "catch up", which is not how global economies actually work: Capitalism requires winners and losers.

I come, rob your house, take away most of what you have, and call you "savage". I then give you "development aid", telling you how to spend it and make you dependent on my services and "assistance", calling you "developing". How does that feel? Are we interacting on eye level, or am I looking down on you?
Have you tried floot for vibe-coding? What was your experience?
by ShayanSpiel | 2025-09-19 09:48:47+00:00
Floot recently made it to YC. Looking pretty exciting.

What was your experience with it?

I find it really easier and faster than most AI App Builders out there.

No errors at all. Built-in databases and AWS hosting.

And you can launch your MVP fast.

Their claim is, it's for serious app building. Curious what was your experience?
by adrian_b | 2025-09-19 09:49:06+00:00
AMD Hawaii GPUs in their professional variant (FirePro), which were cheap, unlike the "datacenter" GPUs of today, and the more recent Radeon VII had much better FP64 performance per $ than GTX Titan.

Moreover, there were claims that the memory errors on GTX Titan were quite frequent. On graphics applications memory errors seldom matter, but if you have to do a computation twice to be certain that there were no memory errors affecting the results, that removes much of the performance advantage of a GPU.
by staticelf | 2025-09-19 09:49:25+00:00
Sweden has a website called "dumpen.se" which tricks and publishes pedophile that are trying to abuse children.

The leftist media hates this website because they are doing an effective job. They are calling them all kinds of things.

When people are effective in tracking or publishing about pedos, there are always a lot of people saying you are the problem, not the pedos. I wonder why. There are a lot of pedos out there (just look at dumpens work it's kinda obvious) and they are of course using services that are anonymized and decentralized like any other.

Usually they are also very active online and attack people that try to cut their illegal actions online. Just look at my original post, it is downvoted. I just wanted some kind of action towards cutting pedo content and it is frowned upon by these people.
by jcattle | 2025-09-19 09:50:56+00:00
Your analogy is not quite appropriate. An upside down mug is "wrong". The mug looses its meaning and you have to turn it around to use it as a mug.

That's not the case with a map. An "upside down" map is just as valid as a right side up map.

The fact that it is upside down is not supposed to mind blowing, it's the fact that it isn't upside down at all. We are just used to it being represented this way up, but there's nothing in the physical world which prescribes north to be up.
by SXX | 2025-09-19 09:51:20+00:00
At $1 / month having 50GB end-to-end encrypted storage and hide-my-email is reasonable in case your choice is better privacy over controlling your own mail domain.

Photos sync to iCloud is terrible slow though compared to Google Photos - syncing 100GB take days and 500GB takes forever. At least it end-to-end encrypted with Avanced Data Protection. But yeah if you multi-TB photo archive buying large storage options of iCloud make no sense simply because it's impossible to use.

I'd better use self-hosted Immich.
by rollcat | 2025-09-19 09:51:43+00:00
> Do you really want half your testosterone-fueled 18-28 year old males unable to attract a mate? There'll be continuous fighting to kill of the excess males.

This is nonsense. Non-monogamy is relinquishing exclusivity. If a man can have multiple women, but a woman can't have multiple men, it's just a different form of oppression.

Monogamy is possessiveness, and possessiveness is what drives violence.
by andyjohnson0 | 2025-09-19 09:51:54+00:00
I have a Random House audiobook version of the trilogy read by Brad Pitt. His Spanish pronunciation isn't great (although better than mine) but I enjoy his quiet voice and slightly careworn delivery. It's abridged, though, and I wanted to read the whole work.

The Recorded Books recordings of The Road and No Country for Old Men narrated by Tom Stechschulte are very good too.
by adwn | 2025-09-19 09:52:20+00:00
> I don’t think all of it is shallow, especially given the format: the book is mostly a prose re-writing of the author’s own peer-reviewed anthropology scientific papers.

That's not the issue. The replication crisis is the phenomenon that many scientific results and conclusions which originate from serious, peer-reviewed research, couldn't be replicated by other researchers, and sometimes not even by the original scientist. This is especially concerning because many results with strong statements – unintuitive ones as well as bias-confirming ones – turned out to be non-existent [1]. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with "shallowness" or "cocktail-party takes", although the strength of the purported effects, combined with pop-science simplifications and reductions, lend themselves well to such memetically spreading factoids.

[1] The "softer" sciences tend to be much more affected by this than the "harder" sciences.
by jon-wood | 2025-09-19 09:53:04+00:00
If Google had simply stuck at what they used to be, a solid search engine with some unobtrusive ads plus some other ancillary services, they could have sustained that more or less indefinitely. What can't be sustained is the endless growth that the stock market demands. If you dare to say "you know what, this is probably enough" you'll be immediately punished by the market.
by adocstudio | 2025-09-19 09:53:11+00:00
For our software Merlin Project, we needed reliable documentation from day one. Over twenty years we tried different stacks and learned what holds up.

We did not begin with AsciiDoc. We began where most teams start, in Word. It gave us quick wins like immediate formatting, tracked changes that non technical stakeholders understood, and a low barrier to entry for subject matter experts. It failed the moment documents became manuals with variations. Styles drifted across files, cross references broke during edits, and every export to PDF became a manual ritual. Producing two consistent outputs, web and PDF, was unreliable and slow. Long documents were also harder to version, and diff reviews focused on layout noise instead of substance.

Next up was LaTeX, which we used for Merlin 2. We respected its typesetting quality and the control it offers over layout. For a thesis or a single book, LaTeX shines. For a living documentation set with frequent updates, non technical reviewers, and a need for fast HTML alongside branded PDF, it slowed us down. Authors who were comfortable in text had to spend time on layout quirks. Reviewers could not easily preview the exact output without a build step, and small edits sometimes spiraled into formatting fixes. LaTeX rewarded experts but raised the floor too high for everyone else who needed to jump in quickly. We even had a teammate who promised a banger documentation in LaTeX and delivered exactly that. It was excellent. Then he left. No one wanted to take over the toolchain and the little fixes that kept it humming. The docs started to fall behind, and over time they deteriorated.

We tried Markdown next. We liked the simplicity and the fact that developers could contribute in plain text with clean diffs. For short guides this was perfect. As requirements grew, we needed tables with real structure, stable cross references, callouts, and a way to reuse content across versions. PDF in particular was brittle. We could get a PDF, but not a predictable one that matched our brand every time. The ecosystem fragmentation also showed. Dialects multiplied, extensions conflicted, and onboarding turned into learning a tool stack rather than writing.

AsciiDoc solved these recurring issues. We gained first class cross references, attributes, includes, and conditions. We kept documents modular so diffs became meaningful rather than walls of rewrapped text. HTML and PDF builds became deterministic once we standardized the toolchain, and designers could set a single theme to govern both outputs. At some point we even decided to take the experience to another level on Apple devices and create our own AsciiDoc text editor that relies on a single stylesheet for all output formats and needs no terminal for exporting. But that is a story for another time. The point is, we truly fell in love with the power and simplicity behind AsciiDoc.

We wanted structured writing that non experts can join, predictable builds for both web and PDF, and reviews that concentrate on content. AsciiDoc gave us exactly that and much more.
by rhetocj23 | 2025-09-19 09:53:17+00:00
I think youre underestimating the effort necessary to simplify.

Most humans I have encountered, particularly the book smart ones, are absolutely horrible at this. It really takes a concerted desire to be disciplined and focused to do it well. Unsurprisingly Jobs spoke a lot about the idea of focus and being disciplined, as being the foundation for his success.