MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-11 17:49:08+00:00
> Investigate steganography. Otherwise they will just make using particular applications servicws illegal and selectively enforce it.

This isn't quite accurate. It's hard to ban things that are widely used.

Because of its design, it's very difficult to censor email. You could order some large provider to do it but then people could use a different one. You can get email for free from a provider in another jurisdiction. It's not that hard to start a new one. Trying to ban interoperability with mail servers in other countries would cut you off from the world. It creates a cost for a government that wants to do it, which is a deterrent, and even if they try it's hard to enforce.

That isn't what happens when everyone is using Facebook, because then a sufficiently major government can just order Facebook to do whatever authoritarian thing under threat of criminal penalties and there is no switching to another provider or operating your own Facebook server while still being able to communicate with the people using the existing system.

You want authoritarianism to have legal friction and technological friction against it. They're not alternatives to each other, they're checks and balances.
by duxup | 2025-09-11 17:49:20+00:00
I recall a study where researchers interviewed shooters and they determined what shooters like (focus on their manifestos, scenes of panic, etc), and what they don't like (talk about victims, communities coming together).

The idea being they could maybe discourage some folks who thought their actions would make them out to be a hero by limiting coverage to the things they like.

Now with social media and these sort of media and outrage rabbit holes ... not sure what the folks who do these things are watching.

Personally I've no interests in seeing the graphic stuff on the news, I've long since decided I'm better off not seeing it.
by datadrivenangel | 2025-09-11 17:50:13+00:00
Humanoid robots are notable worse than humans in many aspects that impact productivity. If a humanoid robot is ultimately 33% as productive as a worker in a developing country who gets a wage of $10k USD annually and works 8 hours per day every day, then then robot has to cost less than $10k annually all in to be a good replacement. Assuming a 5 year useful lifespan and $2k in maintenance per year, results in the robot needing to cost ~$40k before it can replace a human's productivity. And that is inclusive of training and setup, and I doubt we'll have robots that are capable of learning as quickly as average humans without dedicated specialists training them... which raises the cost.

In general, you can get a dedicated machine for most human tasks that is easily 10-1000x productivity if you have a few million in capital. There are tasks on the margin where human flexibility and dexterity that having a human operate a $10k sewing machine is going to be very very hard to replace.
by whymauri | 2025-09-11 17:50:18+00:00
This is now the 5th comment saying the same thing, so I'll respond. I'm aware of these and they were terrible. In a just world, they would get as much if not more media attention.

The difference is the public nature of the execution. That is what makes it more similar to, say, Colombia or Venezuela _to me._ Within the context of 'magical realism', it is the perspective and mass dissemination of the violence that heightens that feeling.

Going back to the original topic, there is a reason that most of 100 Years of Solitude's pivotal moments happen around the staging of public executions (and not so much the off-screen violence, of which there is some but it's not focal).
by cstrahan | 2025-09-11 17:50:20+00:00
I think a more charitable interpretation of TFA would be: "I Have Come Up With A Recipe for Solving PyTorch's Cross-Platform Nightmare"

That is: there's nothing stopping the author from building on the approach he shares to also include Windows/FreeBSD/NetBSD/whatever.

It's his project (FileChat), and I would guess he uses Linux. It's natural that he'd solve this problem for the platforms he uses, and for which wheels are readily available.
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by borroka | 2025-09-11 17:50:43+00:00
If you say that diet did not fix it, but then you lost ~90 lbs, which is a massive weight loss [(1) congratulations, 2) we are becoming used to people losing 200 lbs and 90 is a victim of weight-loss inflation], it looks like the problem was that the diet, which can be defined as a particular way of eating and/or caloric restriction, was not really a diet in the second meaning of the term.

Ozempic helped you lose weight primarily by making you stick to a diet, due to its suppressing effects on appetite.
by amalcon | 2025-09-11 17:51:23+00:00
Exactly. It resembles the Brian Thompson murder in this way: there's a small minority who think it was a good thing. However, they are very vocal online. You probably don't know anyone who believes this in real life, but it's easy to find online because that minority is so noisy.

Meanwhile, there is a group who condemn this and all murders. They largely believe the offenders in these cases should be prosecuted to deter similar actions. However, they can't find much empathy for the particular victim. This group is significantly larger. Members of this group are sometimes mistaken for members of the former group because of that noise.
by dang | 2025-09-11 17:51:26+00:00
Related:

Rise and Demise of RSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18896168 - Jan 2019 (123 comments)

The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18002503 - Sept 2018 (186 comments)
by Voultapher | 2025-09-11 17:52:02+00:00
Don't hold your breath.

I've approached Kent two weeks ago and offered to help upstream changes into the kernel so he wouldn't have to interact with any of the kernel people ... he claimed without being able to explain why that having a go-between couldn't possibly help and that if he couldn't dictate the kernel release schedule he wouldn't want to ship the software anyway. And then proceeded to dunk on btrfs.
by collingreen | 2025-09-11 17:52:26+00:00
I've seen this jargon around and use it myself but now that you ask I'm not sure where I first saw it.

tl;dr - good faith requires you to understand and do your best to represent the other side, not cherry pick sneaky "wins"

When I use the term my intent is to frame the opposing argument as strongly and clearly (and fairly!) as possible so that you can make your own point strongly and fairly. The critique of a "strawman argument" is a metaphor about arguing/fighting a training dummy instead of an actual enemy, usually by addressing only part of an argument or by ignoring context or using logical fallacies like motte and baily or false dichotomies. The idea is that it's very easy to look like your point wins when you fight the scarecrow; if it's actually a good argument face it off against the knight in armor actually fighting back.
by Tade0 | 2025-09-11 17:53:53+00:00
I happen to know a person who experimented with eating dried caps and I don't think there exists a process that actually makes them harmless. Unless of course you're isolating muscimol, but I don't think that should count as eating the fungus.

While liver damage is mitigated by the fact that the organ in question regenerates, nerves don't.
by mandevil | 2025-09-11 17:53:55+00:00
Moore's Law was primarily a tool for arguing with finance guys to let you borrow the enormous amount of money to build the new fab- see, this law says that if you don't let us raise the money, then the other company will- see this straight line? It's inevitable, so give us the money.

We could have chosen that scale of investment in battery technology, certainly, but the finance guys said that it wasn't profitable to invest that much in it. China was willing to invest into this field for national security reasons (the threat was of the USN cutting off oil traffic in the Indian Ocean, well beyond the range of the Chinese military). Semiconductors themselves were the result of (US) national security investment- the Minuteman ICBM guidance system was the first large scale use of IC semiconductors.

Given how quickly battery technology has advanced- and how profitable it has been to build these factories- I think the evidence is that the finance guys were wrong about the profitability and importance of battery research/construction, and the national security investment jump-started the whole thing, just like with semiconductors.
by darkamaul | 2025-09-11 17:53:56+00:00
I’ve been configuring my Framework laptop with NixOS for a few years. The original premise of a reproducible OS was really appealing, but I’ve definitely run into drawbacks. The main one is that everything seems to take forever if you’re not using Nix every day, you lose the “muscle memory”quickly.

Also, while LLMs are great for coding, they’re still not very good at writing Nix.
by jsbisviewtiful | 2025-09-11 17:54:38+00:00
I had never seen one in the wild until I made a new friend recently, who has one of the foldable Samsung devices. My initial impression was that it is clunky, way too thick/large for comfortable pocket storage+running and it looks cheap for how much it cost... and last week my friend said he got his first ever dead pixel of any of his devices on the foldable phone. Take that opinion and info as you will.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-11 17:55:06+00:00
While I am not in favor of censorship, I do wonder if this is a responsible statement to issue at a time where things can spiral to something worse.

At the same time, the exact words they used may not cover the problematic comments I saw, which were more coded:

> "Glorifying violence or harm violates Bluesky's Community Guidelines. We review reports and take action on content that celebrates harm against anyone. Violence has no place in healthy public discourse, and we're committed to fostering healthy, open conversations," the social media platform wrote in a post.
by johnklos | 2025-09-11 17:55:24+00:00
The story is confusing in that they don't link to the actual project, which you can only get to by visiting the Github link, then going to the developer's projects page, then finding nano11.

I'm not sure, but I think nano11 is even more aggressive than tiny11builder's "tiny11coremaker.ps1":

https://github.com/ntdevlabs/nano11
by srcreigh | 2025-09-11 17:55:24+00:00
> i.e. to store distinct N=2^32 elements, you need N log(N) = 2^32 * 32 bits, but to store N=2^64 elements, you need 2^64 * 64 bits

N is the number of bits, not the number of elements, so no.

It is helpful to use N=# of elements, since the elements are often fixed/limited size. If elements aren't a fixed size, it's necessary to drop down to # of bits.
by maxlin | 2025-09-11 17:55:35+00:00
You could go up to the mic and debate him, there often was a long back-n-forth. I don't think you've seen any long form clips of said debates, saying what you're saying, and you've been misinformed.

I'm absolutely not being disingenuous and you throwing out an insult like that without any elaboration at the current time doesn't bode well on you.
by arpitagarwal | 2025-09-11 17:55:37+00:00
Thanks for your comment, not sure what you're trying to imply, but don't you think DoorDash or Airbnb would be significantly more valuable if it told you what restaurants/Airbnbs your friends like as well? As compared to reviews from strangers.

[I see the irony as I ask strangers for reviews lol]
by userabchn | 2025-09-11 17:55:57+00:00
I maintain a package that provides some PyTorch operators that are written in C/C++/CUDA. I have tried various approaches over the years (including the ones endorsed by PyTorch), but the only solution I have found that seems to work flawlessly for everyone who uses it is to have no Python or PyTorch dependence in the compiled code, and to load the compiled libraries using ctypes. I use an old version of nvcc to compile the CUDA, use manylinux2014 for the Linux builds, and ask users to install PyTorch themselves before installing my package.
by Animats | 2025-09-11 17:55:58+00:00
Yes, although not at that scale.

- Several products from the Lockheed Skunk Works, including the U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft and the early stealth aircraft.

- Russian titanium submarines

- The original US spy satellites, the CORONA program.

- At the moment, China building aircraft carriers. They're built in shipyards that also build container ships, and it's hard to tell from the air which hulls are military.
Show HN: Story to Manga – Paste a story, get a manga
by xtrkil | 2025-09-11 17:56:09+00:00
I’ve been hacking on a fun side project: Story to Manga

The idea is simple:

Paste a short story.

Choose a style (manga or comic).

Get back panels with consistent characters, settings, and mood.

It analyzes your text, builds character references, storyboards the panels (dialogue, camera angle, mood), and then generates full manga pages. The hard part—and what makes it actually usable—is keeping characters consistent across panels.

We’ve used it to turn micro-stories, hackathon recaps, and silly inside jokes into legit manga chapters. It’s still early, but fun enough that we thought HN might enjoy playing with it.

Star our github here: https://github.com/victorhuangwq/story-to-manga
by fullshark | 2025-09-11 17:56:13+00:00
There's really no alternative for growth in a world retreating from globalization. All this capital wants to go somewhere and get a return and they see no where to go. The physical world is too difficult to innovate in and LLMs / genAI tools are clearly useful and getting better even if they maybe are plateauing.

This isn't the peak. Who is going to sell these equities and why? Where would the money go instead and why?
by an0malous | 2025-09-11 17:56:23+00:00
> That's like saying hash tables will fix cloud computing monopolies.

No it’s not because there’s nothing about hash tables that enables peer to peer collaboration over centralization. CRDTs do because you don’t need a “master” or “central” source of truth anymore.

> They're not even the missing piece in decentralized infra either.

Then what is?

I didn’t say they were anyway though, that’s why I mentioned network infrastructure as another constraint.
by bsghirt | 2025-09-11 17:56:24+00:00
Why is the exact device the problem?

20 years ago everyone on suburban trains would be looking at a newspaper, magazine or book throughout their journey. Then they would watch a couple of hours of TV at home. Why is 'looking at a phone' such a problem, when most of the looking replicates those activities, with much of the rest being basic utilities which didn't exist previously - consulting a map, ordering food or shopping, looking up timetables or schedules?
by danans | 2025-09-11 17:56:27+00:00
> Instead, they said "you cannot solve everything ever, and everything has tradeoffs", along with "because if you try, you run out of money no matter what".

> This seems like a fair statement. Would you care to address that?

Sure. That's like saying fire is hot and water is wet. The fact that tradeoffs obviously exist doesn't mean we can make meaningful changes to improve things.
by bccdee | 2025-09-11 17:56:39+00:00
A better point of comparison would not be a question like "what is 2+2," but "what is 4?" There's a superficial, circular answer ("What is 4? It's 2+2"), and there's a more complex and rigorous answer which doesn't look good on camera ("What is 4? Well, numbers are a social construct used to communicate and analyze etc etc, Peano arithmetic blah blah").

These questions also admit "straightforward" answers ("what's 4?" raises 4 fingers "this many") ("what's a woman?" points to a woman "one of those"), but these don't really answer the deeper question being asked. They gesture at a preexisting category and demand that it be recognized without actually explaining the nature of that category or its boundaries.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-11 17:56:59+00:00
A bit of a tangent, but the biking stuff is not relevant. What matters is your caloric consumption. Biking 25 miles, depending on your weight, is going to burn something like 1300 calories. For some contrast, a 2L bottle of coke has about 800 calories. So treat yourself to a big serving of Coke after (or during) the biking, maybe a fast food burger or whatever, and it's like you're not even biking at all in terms of caloric effect. This is also true with 'sports drinks' which are also loaded with calories which can be really easy to chug when doing cardio intensive work.

And this can easily happen because biking 25 miles is going to send your appetite skyrocketing. This is why working out to lose weight is probable one of the worst ideas imaginable. Working out is a critical part of staying in good health, but it simply has to be paired with a good diet, permanently. In other words you can't work away a bad diet at the gym (or on a bike), it just doesn't work.
by superkuh | 2025-09-11 17:57:25+00:00
Feeds in general, and RSS in particular, are far from dead. But one thing that could kill them quite suddenly is the rise in javascript/etc dependent ostensible "anti-bot" or "anti-dos" MITM services/front-ends.

People deploy these solutions across their entire domain without thinking about it and then suddenly all the feed readers cannot access the feeds. I have about 1800 feeds in my feed reader and if the number of bad default cloudflare deployals keeps increasing at the rate I'm seeing by 2026/27 none of my feeds will be acessible at all.
by henrydark | 2025-09-11 17:57:36+00:00
I've given the following exercise to developers in a few workplaces:

What's the complexity of computing the nth fibonacci number? Make a graph of computation time with n=1..300 that visualizes your answer.

There are those that very quickly reply linear but admit they can't get a graph to corroborate, and there are those that very quickly say linear and even produce the graph! (though not correct fibonacci numbers...)
by msteffen | 2025-09-11 17:58:02+00:00
There's this: https://bench.vortex.dev/, which links to https://github.com/vortex-data/vortex/tree/develop/bench-vor.... I haven't tried pulling the repo or anything but it seems like they might be runnable?

Of course I don't know what benchmarks or performance metrics they might have for the db layer, but it is something.
by btreecat | 2025-09-11 17:58:05+00:00
I still think of the lessons learned from a root traverse bug I accidentally coded into one of our internal apps as a jr dev.

You could change the URL of the image, and get any file off the system to download as long as the service account had read access.

Invaluable XP, and really glad everything was behind AD authentication and internal users were trustworthy enough and operating in a network isolated context.
Show HN: Journal – A minimalist journaling app with emotion tracking
by hogypitersan | 2025-09-11 17:58:08+00:00
I have a short term memory and i have no passion to writing but i want to learn to write something, so i need my note as my second brain, but i need not only note app, i want to freely to write something from my mind, and set some to-do list, so i decide to create one web application that fit to my requirement.

And here is my final product that you can try and maybe give me some feedback.

This is a free application. Access https://paperly.id for detail
by lizknope | 2025-09-11 17:58:40+00:00
When I was a kid in the 1980's and early 90's the mall was the place to go and hang out. Go to the food court, arcade, shoe stores, Spencer's gifts.

Google "malls that ban teenagers" and you will find a lot of articles. I have been to a few places that have signs "Anyone under 18 must be chaperoned by an adult."
by b112 | 2025-09-11 17:58:56+00:00
Nonsense. The Earth used to be a boiling lump of magma at once point before it cooled, but guess what -- humans can't live on liquid rock. Warmest or coolest is irrelevant over the lifetime of the Earth. What matters is "modern humans".

Global warming is indeed real. Effective change doesn't have to cost a dime. An example is forcing people to buy electric cars at some point. The government spends nothing, people just buy new cars when their old cars expire, now people are driving new cars. Solved.

(you may notice that incentives are gone in most countries now)

And if the weirdos would stop trying to crush every tiny part of carbon emissions, dams provide an immense amount of cheap, clean power once built. We can even make concrete using low-emission methods. Regardless, dams are far better than coal or gas (yes they are random anti-concrete weirdos), so moving on a path to 'better' is laudable and helpful.

(Yes, anti-concrete weirdos are either useful idiots or secret lobbyists. Why? Well, my city puts more concrete into new basements in a single year, than go into a dam that lasts 50 years. Yet I only hear people blather on about dams, which would save immense pollution from coal, the worst polluter it would replace. Also, I've now out-conspiracied the conspiracy guy I'm replying to.)

Power plants expire, whether gas, coal, etc, and instead of revamp you slowly build new, and expire the old.

None of this has to cost. There is no cabal to enact global warming related change.
by Atlas667 | 2025-09-11 17:58:57+00:00
You say its "progressive academia" but unless people are reading sociology research papers the way nearly all people come upon this is through mass media.

Is it now your theory to say that "progressive academia" controls mass media?

Or do you think its fine to say that somehow viewers themselves control mass media?

The truth is advertisers and shareholders control mass media.

Your statement also hinges on the assumption that america was united, at least on racial issues, and is now trying to be divided.

Back to the media. Your argument also uses the same rationalization as anti-DEI folks who blame a diversity-conspiracy when in reality it was just corporations (capitalism) trying to appear cool and understanding for more shareholder value. Every minority knew it was mostly a marketing gimmick by corporations (i knew).

The analogy here is that you take something the media did for money and externalize it as a social-sciences conspiracy.

The biggest mistake the masses do is thinking what the media and corporations do for money actually represents the will of the masses. That is the culture war.

The fact of the matter is that there is a racial-default bias within mass media and little plastic toy companies (lego) due to historical contexts. There's also racial tip-toeing to avoid being seen as racist due to company reputation and shareholder value. You are focused on the latter.