MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dreamcompiler | 2025-09-30 20:36:35+00:00
> The biggest thing that will change are the handling characteristics since they won't have to match that of a previous aircraft.

I'd expect the handling characteristics to be pretty similar to the 737. The biggest change will be to raise the whole aircraft a few more feet off the ground (i.e. taller landing gear), which will let the plane use large-diameter high-bypass turbofans.

The short landing gear on the 737 was the root of the chain that led to the whole MCAS fiasco.
by neilv | 2025-09-30 20:37:06+00:00
> I reported the findings to my manager [...] the whole project got shut down and about 200 people working on project lost their jobs. Myself included.

Good for you for reporting the threat. But I'm a little surprised that they let the messenger get killed along with all the other innocents.

I knew someone who whistleblew to C-suite, about misrepresentations they realized, on something that was then an existential threat to one of the top companies in its market. A series of layoffs and (IIUC) some M&A later, most of the employees were gone, but that one middle-aged engineer who warned C-suite (averting an even worse fate for the company) escaped all the layoffs, and was still there.
by bigfishrunning | 2025-09-30 20:37:25+00:00
I've been doing "Dreaming Spanish", which is a comprehensible input service, and using Duolingo as a self-test of sorts. Watching a lot of curated spanish-language content is very engaging, and I believe this method will work (for some definition of work), but it is nice to have duolingo as a fancy flash card system. I think duolingo by itself probably isn't very effective, but it serves as a motivator and i think it's useful as part of a more complete language learning strategy.
by ascagnel_ | 2025-09-30 20:38:02+00:00
This is one of the big reasons I've gravitated towards a reverse-chronological feed that takes you from the past to the present -- at some point you hit a natural end, which is a natural prompt to go do something else. I've picked up Reeder[0] as a feed reader, since it can aggregate a bunch of sources (chiefly RSS, but also Mastodon, BlueSky, reddit, etc) and presents it in such a timeline without pressure to read everything.

[0] https://reederapp.com
by CharlesW | 2025-09-30 20:38:10+00:00
> Speaking of pasta water, use less water for boiling past[a]…

Or skip the boiling completely: https://www.seriouseats.com/food-lab-no-boil-baked-ziti-reci...

"But who's to say that these two phases, water absorption and protein denaturing, have to occur at the same time? H. Alexander Talbot and Aki Kamozawa of the fantastic blog Ideas in Food asked themselves that very question, and what they found was this: You don't have to complete both processes simultaneously. In fact, if you leave uncooked pasta in lukewarm water for long enough, it'l absorb just as much water as boiled pasta."
Show HN: A visual AI interface for deep research/deep dives
by kanodiaayush | 2025-09-30 20:38:44+00:00
I feel like LLMs can help me understand anything. However, jumping between ChatGPT, tabs, and docs gets in the way of building real understanding beyond isolated summaries and questions. This is my attempt at fixing that — for lifelong learners, researchers, professionals and students.

Would love your thoughts on the interface, and whether this would be useful in your own work or otherwise.
by mjg59 | 2025-09-30 20:38:47+00:00
Boeing currently has an awkward gap between the 737 and the widebodies that was previously filled by the 757 - the 737 Max 10 (which still isn't certified!) only has about two thirds of the range of the A321XLR, and a slightly lower passenger capacity. Airlines that currently have 757 fleets and who need that range are going for Airbus instead, and Boeing just doesn't have an answer for it. So while, yes, any new Boeing design is likely to be fly by wire and composite and everything, it also seems likely that it's going to try to fit that market.

The 737 Max 7, the smallest of the Max series, is longer than the 737-200, the stretched version of the original design. A brand new design is going to be able to ignore that market (which basically doesn't exist any more, the Max 7 only has a handful of orders) and scale upwards to also be a 757 replacement. But it's also going to have basically no commonality with the 737, so it's going to have to genuinely be better than the Airbus product because existing Boeing customers aren't going to benefit from being able to move existing pilots to it without retraining or benefit from common maintenance plans and so on. It obviously should be better - the A320 program started over 40 years ago, it's not that much newer than the 737 - but given Boeing's myriad series of failures in recent years and how painful the 787 program was, it's not impossible that they'll fuck this up entirely.
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-30 20:38:51+00:00
>Landing gear is limited by physics and just making it taller won’t fix everything.

Every other plane is higher than the 737. The only reason the engines needed to be pushed forward on the 737, is that the 737 was built back in the day to be lower to the ground for easier operations at poorer airports, with things like stairs and baggage.

The 737 doesn't need to be as short as it is anymore because the vast majority of them now fly to airports with jetbridges and modern bag handling equipment.

The A320 is not as short as the 737 despite serving the same market, and can handle bigger engines.

But the entire problem stems from wanting to abuse the 737 type rating even further. If they were fine with a new type rating, they could put the engines pretty much wherever they want, put nice tall landing gear, etc.
by inerte | 2025-09-30 20:38:56+00:00
Just yesterday I learned "This summer, two Dramione fics turned rewritten novels became New York Times bestsellers" - https://slate.com/culture/2025/09/alchemised-senlinyu-harry-...

100% sure we will see people re-doing movie parts. Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Edit
by doga007doga | 2025-09-30 20:39:04+00:00
Hi HN,

A few of us have been running a Discord for founders, indie hackers, and side-project builders. It’s grown to about 822 members so far, and we’re aiming for 1,000 members!

It’s a place where people:

Network with other founders, Share what they’re working on, Ask for quick feedback on pricing, marketing, or other tech choices and Post updates and swap notes with other builders.

If you’d like to join in, here’s the invite: https://discord.gg/juMHyzhW

Curious to hear how others here manage online communities. If you run one yourself, what worked (or didn’t) in keeping it useful?
by sweetjuly | 2025-09-30 20:39:32+00:00
> avoid the hardest and most essential skill: translating from your language to the other.

The hardest and most essential skill, second only to: not translating from your language to the other :)

(or maybe it should be the other way around; translating is useful but a really hard crutch to kick. Keeping it around will make it hard to keep up while speaking/listening and make reading a slog)
by defrost | 2025-09-30 20:40:13+00:00
> Daily Mail articles are usually highly accurate ...

Six decades of personal exposure to The Daily Mail and UK tabloid gutter press says otherwise.

Leaving aside its questionable history as a paper founded by an admirer of Mussolini and a supporter of Nazi Germany, its questionable present having remained in ownership by family within which the apples remained firmly attached to the tree, The Daily Heil has a business model predicated upon clickbait, outrage, deliberately misleading and emotionally loaded falsehoods and the entire gantlet of fake news predating modern social media, mobile devices, the world wide web, and the internet.

eg: Woman, 63, 'becomes PREGNANT in the mouth' with baby squid after eating calamari (2012)

~ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2159692/Woma...

I question whether in fact you've read the rag in question, your comment has the hallmark of deliberate trolling.
by edent | 2025-09-30 20:40:24+00:00
Unsurprisingly, the regulations require that providers take adequate steps to verify identities.

In the UK, that usually means being certified by https://accscheme.com/registry/ or similar. Just saying "I asked some random provider to verify" isn't going to cut it.

Incidentally, $5 is around 10x more expensive than most providers.
by ajross | 2025-09-30 20:40:57+00:00
Sure, because it's not my logic!

The founder in the linked article thought that she was on the right side of the line. She wasn't. You personally might think you're too smart to[1] fall afoul of this kind of thing and that all your cheating[2] will be non-prosecutable.

But quite frankly most "criminally liable" misrepresentations to investors aren't prosecuted (basically none of them are), so the fact that this one was is more a statement about the influence of JP Morgan and the mind of this one prosecutor. And blanket statements that absolutely none of Uber's shenanigans were prosecutable seem laughable. Crimes abound.

The point wasn't to nitpick about crimes and penalties. It was that this crime happened in the context of a culture that structurally encouraged it, and we would all do well to recognize that instead of nitpicking fake reasons why it would never happen to us.

[1] The ironic analogy to hubris in security analysis isn't lost on me

[2] Because again in this world All Founders Cheat a Little Bit. We all know it.
by matt-p | 2025-09-30 20:40:59+00:00
Definition of 'Revenue in the UK' is a bit debatable though isn't it?

I sell a advertising package from my US HQ based self serve advertising portal to a British company who use the service to advertise to customers in the UK. Ok - kinda UK revenue. How about 'To advertise to customers in the US' well it's getting highly debatable.

What about I sell advertising packages to a US company from my US HQ but someone in the UK views and advert on my site and therefore generates me 0.001¢ - debatable.
by mcv | 2025-09-30 20:41:03+00:00
> I’ll probably get downvoted

Always happy to oblige.

But honestly, I find this sort of upfront self-victimization annoying and not conducive to honest debate.

> Wikipedia’s volunteer editor community leans heavily left wing politically.

I think they lean heavily towards verifiable facts. In some countries, those may be the same thing, but I don't think that's universally the case.
by __jonas | 2025-09-30 20:41:21+00:00
That is what I mean yeah, I’m not saying it’s fabricating sources from training data, that would obviously be impossible for news articles, I’m saying if you give it a list of articles A, B and C including their content in the context and ask ‘what is the foo of bar?’ and it responds ‘the foo of bar is baz, source: article B paragraph 2’, that does not tell you whether the output is actually correct, or contained in the cited source at all, unless you manually verify it.
by remix2000 | 2025-09-30 20:41:24+00:00
I wouldn't expect an Apple product to last that long… This is from my personal experience and also family members who tried Apple, so your mileage may vary, I just wouldn't trust it.

Ignoring that though, if work machine means an Excel machine, then it's probably overspending IMO. If work machine means workstation, then you'd probably rather want one of the >1.6k models with more working memory… or just don't go Apple.
by josephg | 2025-09-30 20:41:47+00:00
> IMHO, this policy is a transparent effort to forcefully alter the content policy of US companies.

I don’t see it that way. US companies have an atrocious record wrt user privacy and security. The Europeans don’t want their citizens data being bought and sold by online providers. And that’s a reasonable demand! Either clean up your act or leave Europe & the UK. If US companies don’t want to obey UK laws, they can’t do business in the UK. It’s just like farmers can’t sell produce in the UK if they don’t meet British health standards.

Consider the inverse: imagine if another country ran a porn site which blatantly hosted underage content (CSAM). Under your view of the world, would the us govt be ethically entitled to tell the site to clean up its act or it’ll get blocked from the US? That sounds fine to me. I’d be shocked if they were even given a warning about that. But how do you square that circle? Wouldn’t that be a “transparent effort to forcefully alter the content policy of another country”?
by yakshaving_jgt | 2025-09-30 20:41:53+00:00
> Not trying to defend anyone, just looking for objective evidence.

Fair.

## guide dogs

> [PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk] regards the use of Seeing Eye dogs as an abdication of human responsibility and, … is wholly opposed to their use. She has had at least one dog taken from its owner.

- https://archive.is/6IIo1

## medical testing

> Medical research is immoral even it it's essential

> Even If Animal Research Resulted In A Cure For AIDS, We’d Be Against It

- https://consumerfreedom.com/press-releases/153-even-if-anima...

## animals as pets

- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ingrid_Newkirk

- https://www.naiaonline.org/articles/article/quotes-from-the-...

## Bonus fun story

- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/17/peta-sorry-f...

---

I could go on, but I think you get the picture. The utter insanity of PETA is actually very well documented, so if you have an evening, grab a bottle of wine and go down that ~rabbit~ hole.
by smallerize | 2025-09-30 20:42:07+00:00
LeVar Burton is nowhere in this. In 2017 his company "RRKidz" rebranded to "LeVar Burton Kids", and stopped using the Reading Rainbow trademark. https://www.vulture.com/2017/10/levar-burton-now-allowed-to-...

WNED owns Reading Rainbow, and they are doing production on the new show. Kidzuko is an online platform owned by Sony Pictures.
by snailmailman | 2025-09-30 20:42:17+00:00
When google switched off uBlock origin, it took less than a week for my grandmother to call me in a panic because she clicked on a malicious Facebook ad.

Google disabled the Adblock, Facebook let the ad run on their site, and Microsoft hosted the malicious site on their cloud provider. Shoutout to Microsoft for taking the site down within the hour after I reported it- more than I can say for any of the blatantly illegal or scam ads I’ve seen on YouTube. but still, 3 big tech companies that could have definitely stopped this is they really wanted to.
by eduction | 2025-09-30 20:42:36+00:00
And you’re suggesting that if the US does it it is ipso facto a good idea? Strange reasoning.

This is also apples and oranges. Running credit cards involves knowing exactly where people are located. You do in a real sense “decide” to do business with people in a given country.

Not every website does that. Some just serve posts to all comers. Some allow people to upload an image. Deducing where those people are from is non trivial. When I blog something I’m not “deciding” in any meaningful sense to “serve” people in country X.
by SapporoChris | 2025-09-30 20:43:04+00:00
Ah, thank you. I found the details here.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/startup-ceo-charlie-jav...

“Javice perpetrated a $175 million fraud—repeatedly lying about the success of her startup company and even hiring a data scientist to create fake data to back up her lies. For that, Javice has been sentenced to 85 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay over $300,000,000,”
by joshmn | 2025-09-30 20:43:16+00:00
Former federal inmate here who was recently released from prison a month ago today (I did 18 months): The big deal here was the loss amount, which can be construed any number of ways whether we like it or not. This will jack up the points and tilt the scale for the sentencing guidelines, and believe me they are archaic.

After all is said and done, Charlie Javice will be hanging out at a prison camp—probably down there with Holmes and Maxwell, because it's cushy—and do no more than 4 years on the 7 assuming she completes all her programming requirements.
by bsenftner | 2025-09-30 20:44:04+00:00
Dude, this generation of AI video models are just starting to have basic camera production terms understood, and then it is exactly like LLM generation: it's a pull of a slot machine arm; you might get what you want, but that's "winning" and the slot machine only gives out winners one in every 100 pulls. Every possible thing that could not be right happens.

For example, I'm working with a walking and talking character at this time using multiple AI video models and systems. Generated clips any length longer than 8 seconds risk rapid quality loss, but sometimes you can get up to 12-19 seconds without the generation breaking down. That means one needs to simulate a multiple camera shoot on a stage, so you can cut around the character(s) and create a longer sequence. But now you need to have multiple views of the same location to place your character(s) into - and current AI models can't reliably give you a "different angled views" of an environment. We just got consistent different views of characters, and it'll be another period until environments can be generally examined from any view. BUT, that's if people realize this is not in the models yet, and so far people are so fascinated by the fantasy violence and sexual content they can make nobody realizes you cannot simply "look left and right" in any of these models and that even works with consistency or reliability. There are workarounds, like creating one's entire set and environments in 3D models, for use as the backgrounds and starting frames, but that's now 3D media production + AI, and none of the AI tools generate media that even has alpha channels, and a lot of similar incompatibilities like that.
by hn_throw2025 | 2025-09-30 20:44:34+00:00
I saw an interesting video that mentioned a study. Even though 10K steps a day is considered an arbitrary amount, this study found that level of activity counteracted inflammation.

https://youtu.be/bDGA82wts2g?t=2015&si=lmZeD_KE1F7TvOPA
by tptacek | 2025-09-30 20:44:57+00:00
That's going a bit far; a good mental model is that every kernel LPE is a sandbox escape (that's not precisely true but is to a first approximation), and kernel LPEs are pretty routine and rarely widely reported.

A good heuristic would be that unless you have reason to think you're a target, containers are a safe bet. A motivated attacker probably can pop most container configurations. Also, it can be counterintuitive what makes you a target:

* Large-scale cotenant work? Your target quotient is the sum of those of all your clients.

* Sharing infrastructure (including code supply chains) with people who are targeted? Similar story.

But for people just using Claude in YOLO mode, "security" is not really a top-of-mind concern for me, so much as "wrecking my dev machine".
by addaon | 2025-09-30 20:45:54+00:00
> Isn't that something that's more the responsibility of the airlines, who decide how many seats are put in a plane, following the limits of the aircraft?

For pitch, yes. For width, no —- you run into quantization pretty quickly. The difference between sardines and standard economy is less than the difference between 3+3 and 3+2 — it’s not really feasible for most traditional airlines to choose a different number of seats across than the design point. And for a 3+3 setup, adding 6” to fuselage diameter makes a noticeable difference to (wider) passengers, which the airlines can’t really take away.
by josephg | 2025-09-30 20:46:19+00:00
Yeah. We had a chance to invent our own governance on the internet. But we abdicated, and made the internet a free for all. As a result, national governments have stepped in to provide the governance we didn’t program in. And they do it - of course - in an inconsistent, ad hoc way.

There was a period a couple hundred years ago when it was all the rage internationally to write constitutions. Lots of countries got constitutions within a few decades, and almost no constitutions have been written since then. I wonder sometimes how the internet would be different if it were implemented in an era or culture in which people believed in that sort of thing.
by drnick1 | 2025-09-30 20:46:27+00:00
I also redirect port 53 traffic, and in addition filter traffic to "well known" public DNS servers like 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9 and many others (lists can be found on GitHub), but this is ineffective against ads and telemetry served from hardcoded IPs.

Overall, it's just easier not to connect "smart" devices to the Internet at all. I prefer to use a Linux HTPC instead of a smart TV for example. It is completely under my control and I am not restricted to apps approved by Apple or Google, asked to log into anything or to accept ever-changing terms and conditions.
by jnsie | 2025-09-30 20:46:52+00:00
I think it's important for those responding about their Duolingo experience to include the tier that they are using. Specifically, I wonder if the conversations with AI, and the "explain this" feature in Duolingo Max change outcomes? I'm new to Duolingo, chose the max tier, and feel that I'm learning quite a bit specifically because I am having simple conversations in French daily (albeit with an AI that seems to me to have questionable hearing at times). I haven't used it long enough to provide insight or even judge the platform, but for those using the more expensive tier(s) I wonder your thoughts...
by shermantanktop | 2025-09-30 20:46:58+00:00
It’s a bar that every Duolingo user is hopping over while a bunch of procrastinators are making excuses about why they haven’t started yet.

Duolingo is not a complete solution and I don’t think they or anyone else claims that it is. What it solves fantastically well is the zero-to-habit transition.
by jcgl | 2025-09-30 20:47:12+00:00
> A famous amateur player and advocate for the game once went through all the game records of Go Seigen in order to digitize them. This means having to pore over hand-written diagrams looking for the next number in the sequence of moves. Obviously this is easier if you can guess where to look. But, if you guess them all correctly, then you are playing just as well as the old master! After spending a good few months on the task, he was a significantly better player!

I'd never heard of this!! Who're you talking about?
by instagib | 2025-09-30 20:47:27+00:00
On my llm, I have a prompt that condenses down to:

For every line of text output, give me a full MLA annotated source. If you cannot then say your source does not exist or you are generating information based on multiple sources then give me those sources. If you cannot do that, print that you need more information to respond properly.

Every new model I mess with needs a slightly different prompt due to safeguards or source protections. It is interesting when it lists a source that I physically own and their training data is deteriorated.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-09-30 20:48:04+00:00
The US will bail out Boeing, if necessary.

There are only two¹ major manufacturers of commercial airliners: one in the US and one in the EU. Both are essentially state backed. Both blocs want to have their own manufacturer, for strategic reasons, and they won't let it go under.

1. There will probably be three in a few years, since China is building up Comac.
by bkandel | 2025-09-30 20:48:43+00:00
From https://www.cochrane.org/evidence/CD004816_statins-primary-p...:

> Of 1000 people treated with a statin for five years, 18 would avoid a major CVD event which compares well with other treatments used for preventing cardiovascular disease. Taking statins did not increase the risk of serious adverse effects such as cancer. Statins are likely to be cost-effective in primary prevention.