MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by belter | 2025-09-18 20:22:36+00:00
If you are quoting the guidelines quote this one also: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I would say, to see the USA moving into Nazism, in realtime, in my lifetime, is a pretty amazing intellectual endeavor to dissect.
by KronisLV | 2025-09-18 20:22:37+00:00
> Sure we don't play the most abusively unoptimized AAA games like RDR2.

Wait, RDR2 is badly optimized? When I played it on my Intel Arc B580 and Ryzen 7 5800X, it seemed to work pretty well! Way better than almost any UE5 title, like The Forever Winter (really cool concept, but couldn't get past 20-30 FPS, even dropping down to 10% render scale on a 1080p monitor). Or with the Borderlands 4 controversy, I thought there'd be way bigger fish to fry.
by Delk | 2025-09-18 20:22:51+00:00
> Supposing I did, the only hamburger menus I can think of contain lesser-important functions of each app

gEdit places almost everything in the hamburger menu; opening and saving files have dedicated buttons but for example find/replace is behind the burger, as is "save as". It may not matter much if you use keyboard shortcuts (ctrl+f is pretty common for find and I never try to look for it in the menu) but one might still expect a GUI to allow its features to be easily accessed without the use of a keyboard. I don't think the mix of a few dedicated buttons and a single hamburger menu is necessarily good for discoverability either.

The Image Viewer puts file management and image rotating in the hamburger menu. Oddly enough, other image editing options are available in a separate editing mode that's accessed via its own dedicated button. Also, although file management features are behind the hamburger menu, for some reason image properties are behind a dedicated button.

In both cases the only reason the hamburger menus aren't more populated is because there just isn't that much functionality in either app to begin with.

Evince (the document viewer) also puts almost everything in the hamburger menu -- although in that case, if a traditional menu bar were used instead of the hamburger, most of its functions would probably only be split between "file" and "view" menus or something along those lines.

I'm not sure if those apps are still Gnome defaults but they're some of the examples of what I'd consider somewhat poorly considered use of the hamburger menu.

Outside of Gnome, the new UI in JetBrains IDEs has switched to hiding typical menu bar menus behind a hamburger menu button. I honestly don't understand that decision at all: the menus are still the same, they just require an additional click to access, and since the selection of available menus is only revealed after clicking the button, you can only start scanning for the menu you're looking for after the reveal. While separate from free software desktop design, the new UI in those IDEs is another example of what I would also consider mobile-influenced degradation of desktop UIs -- and a particularly weird one at that.
by pimlottc | 2025-09-18 20:23:25+00:00
Moreover, most diagnostic terms simply describe symptoms. "Pharyngitis" sounds scary, but it just means you have a sore throat. Why does it hurt? It could be many different reasons, but the term just describes what you're feeling, not the specific reason. Having a condition doesn't necessarily even mean anything is wrong with you. "Bradycardia" means having an abnormally low heart rate, which is common in trained athletes. As long as it's not extremely low, it's not a problem.
by bediger4000 | 2025-09-18 20:23:48+00:00
Thank you for the opportunity to reply. With all due respect and civility, it sounds like Trump is really thin skinned, and does not remember last year, when we saw nothing but news media hammering on Biden's Age Problem. That's an example falsifying his premise, and therefore by the laws of logic, falsifying his conclusion.

I believe Washington Post did do 1 (one) Trump's Age Problem, as did the Philadelphia Inquirer. I acknowledge the coverage wasn't precisely 100% anti-Biden.

Now that we know Trump started with false premises, we have to ask why? We also have an obligation to point out the falsehoods politely.
by stopachka | 2025-09-18 20:24:08+00:00
> Can you say more about that? What kind of queries does it support? Sounds a bit like datomic or datascript. How do you tell the agent to use it?

Yes, we definitely take inspiration from datomic and datascript, as well as Tao (Facebook's DB). EAVs have a few good properties. First, it's more natural to do last-write-wins at the column level this way. Second, we get a real shot at creating a multi-tenant database.

With EAVs you can either query them with datalog, or use SQL CTEs. Fun fact, on Instant's backend, we use a datalog-like langauge as intermediary representation, which ends up converting to a SQL CTE.

Technically, you can make query on these as you can on a traditional SQL DB.

To interact with all this, users (and in proxy agents) use a graphql-like language, called InstaQL. It's like if GraphQL was represented as plain javascript objects.

Here's the system prompt, which shows these off:

https://gist.github.com/stopachka/a6b07e1e6daeb85fa7c9555d8f...
by tadfisher | 2025-09-18 20:24:09+00:00
They are for rarely-used actions. The corollary is that frequently-used actions are surfaced directly in the header bar instead of buried in menus. This is almost universally good. I say "almost" because content creation applications have so many actions that a menu bar sometimes makes sense; I'm thinking in particular of Inkscape with three sides of the window occupied by icons and a bizarre hamburger icon in the bottom of the right panel for some reason.
by dogleash | 2025-09-18 20:24:17+00:00
Yo. Free speech absolutist checking in.

Sick of people racing to chirp that we're nowhere to be found. I'm too detached to doomscroll. Just saw the news now.

Honestly, I'm tired of all of the snide remarks from both teams acting like you’re not equally guilty of opportunistically showing up for free speech.

And you have the balls to make comments like this as I'm already dealing with the fact Jimmy Kimmel should have been canceled years ago for literally any other reason. At least when I'm defending detestable speech the number of people pretending it's meritorious is tiny. But now I have to hear his comedy praised? Fuck my life.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-09-18 20:24:23+00:00
If USA loses college football or NFL broadcasts, there will be major riots. I'm not joking. NFL just hit new highs for broadcast ratings at 20.7 million. I can't imagine how the USA would otherwise process losing out on broadcast sports overnight. Networks can call his bluff instantly with sports in their pockets. The riots could even be sponsored by DraftKings.
by cherioo | 2025-09-18 20:24:31+00:00
I think the intel 7nm is unrealistic. If true intel wouldn’t be “behind”

According to Wikipedia intel 7nm density is ~62 MTr/mm2. I cannot find the source wikichip page mentioned in your reference post.

FWIW, I am not in the semi industry and all my info are from Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_nm_process https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_nm_process
by eranation | 2025-09-18 20:24:32+00:00
I love learning new things, Khan academy got me all the way through college, and I use ChatGPT / Claude to help me study papers regularly. I got frustrated really fast. Here is an example:

https://learnyourway.withgoogle.com/scopes/1KNlGW5E/immersiv...

It starts with just this sentence, followed by a quiz on that sentence:

> When we are born, we inherit our genetic makeup and biological features. However, our identity as human beings develops through interactions with others in society. Many experts in both psychology and sociology have described the process of self-development as a key step to understanding how that "self" learns to function within society.

Followed by the quiz:

> Question 1: Based on the provided text, what is a key difference in focus between psychology and sociology regarding self-development? A) Sociology is concerned with inherited traits, whereas psychology is concerned with societal norms. B) Psychology studies societal functions, while sociology studies individual identity. C) Psychology focuses on genetic makeup, while sociology focuses on social interactions. D) Both fields exclusively study the biological features inherited at birth.

I thought D makes the most sense, as nothing in the immediate text provides a more granular answers. But it's not D. It made me question my intelligence, maybe I misread the sentence, maybe I needed to read something else? Oh there is a button for the entire PDF, but then isn't the purpose of it to break down the PDF into chunks and ask me questions on what I'm reading?

I'm sure this is a fixable bug, but I was looking for the "provide feedback" button, there is none.

This would be very frustrating to a student.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-18 20:24:40+00:00
> Though it doesn't address the issue of waste

Either you eat the cost of the externality or you accept that countries that can will end up dominating the industry, and hold entire sectors like automotive or semiconductors hostage. This is what China did and what Vietnam [0] and India [1] are attempting to do as well.

It's like packaging for grid batteries - someone has to do the dirty work because manufacturing is inherently dirty.

The only rule that matters even in a "rules based order" is might makes right.

If we don't want to do it, then we need to cultivate partners who can - but the only countries who are not China and open to eating the externalities are Vietnam and India, which is why South Korea and Japan depend on them after China weaponized REE imports to both in 2016 (THAAD) and 2012 (Senkaku) respectively.

[0] - https://en.mae.gov.vn/Pages/chi-tiet-tin-Eng.aspx?ItemID=811...

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45093322
by bigbadfeline | 2025-09-18 20:24:42+00:00
TL;DR

Some guy who thought himself smart, was almost fooled to sent $2K to scammers pretending to help him fix a bogus Zelle scam.

The call came from a number listed as belonging to Chase and with the caller ID of Chase.

The interesting part: after the scam-call the scam-target decides to go, IN PERSON, to the very Chase branch with the phone number from which the scam-call came. The scam-target's lists his explicit purpose for the visit: "Did the bank know what was going on, with fake calls seemingly coming from their office?"

The bank knew, but nobody touched upon how the number was spoofed and why that is possible. If anything, people should be warned not to trust the caller ID and number that appear on their phones until some technical solution to spoofing is found.
Show HN: I made AquaShell, a scripting and automation environment for Windows
by foxiel | 2025-09-18 20:24:45+00:00
Being inspired by old third-party scripting environments such as AutoIt or AutoHotkey, I've developed my own scripting environment for Windows. I've always been fascinated by creating an own programming language and I made the syntax in a way it feels more like something that contains a personal flavor.

The language matured over the years and I both use it for administration and automation tasks, but also for fully scripted applications as well.

On the homepage, you'll find various production scripts as well as links to scripted applications.

The scripting environment is free and open-source software, released under the MIT license.
by conartist6 | 2025-09-18 20:24:54+00:00
Just for the sake of example I'm one of the people who would be a candidate to take over development, but same as anyone else I have little desire to be stuck maintaining unnecessarily complex functionality. Instead I've chosen to work on reimplementing XML and its utilities from the ground up without making the same errors that made XML so miserable to users and implementers both...
by eth0up | 2025-09-18 20:24:57+00:00
The concept of smart tools and appliances has always been nightmarish to me. I don't want a smart wrench, stove, toilet or drill. The intelligence should be in the handler of these items, and the design itself.

I know things can be designed and programmed to do amazing things, some of them admirable. I don't need any of them. I just wonder if there will always be a choice. When I need a computer, I'll use a computer. I don't ever want to read the news on my spatula, or edit a video with my toaster.

This shit should be beaten, severely, back whence it came.
by sonicvroom | 2025-09-18 20:25:18+00:00
> The personalization pipeline

All of this hurts. GenAI cannot replace people grounded in reality. Especially not teachers and mentors. The effects will be nauseating to anyone who cherishes the development of human beings and minds in general.

Teaching and mentoring is a two-sided thing. The mentor, if adequately tutored or capable himself, learns more than the student. I understand that this is something "we" hope to achieve for AI but it's so insanely dumb to do it this early, it almost makes me angry. Almost. These people are just doing their jobs. So, as usual, I'm calling their bosses dumb fucking pathetic shitheads of idiot trash who fucking cost our kind sooooooo much fucking potential it almost makes me angry.

Sorry, gotta keep the anger at "almost", max. Can't be angry at lack of levels of consciousness or awareness. It's beyond genetic, a decision of "culture" and conformity; back to topic:

Teaching is one of those mythical edges that hone themselves. And I don't mean just the skill, I mean the entire category, the concept, the inter-generational action that happens on absolutely all levels. GenAI in education, applied anything below "correctly" on the scale of civilization, in any interval/integral, is taking XP points off a higher dimension that is exclusive to us in the kingdom of animals.

Don't fuck this up. Don't listen to your bosses. Quit. Found your own companies. I can't put it in words, yet. I don't have the peace of mind. But it's too damn important not to mention it. Every dimwit with access to drugs and hookers can make fuck-you money. For himself and others. FUCK THAT.
by AlexandrB | 2025-09-18 20:26:07+00:00
> Their speech was never in jeopardy, they just didn’t like its consequences.

Can't you say the same about the Jimmy Kimmel situation? He's not in jail, he's free to speak, his employer just didn't want to back him up on it.

All of the arguments used to excuse cancel culture ("right to speech not to a platform", "it's a company censoring you, not the government", "freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences") are now being leveraged by the right. Why did anyone think it would go any other way? Was the assumption that the left would own the cultural zeitgeist forever? This whole approach to politics was folly.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-09-18 20:27:41+00:00
Excellent response, thank you. Ive finally understood the difference between "Desktop Environment" and "Windows Manager".

Calling this stuff "side-show" very much resonates with me. I set this stuff up once when I install i3wm on a new system, and it works well. The problem is when I want to do something that Id never foreseen, there I go into googling for the bash command I need, and that I find annoying.
by annoyingcyclist | 2025-09-18 20:27:46+00:00
I've been slowly migrating logins off of a @gmail.com email and onto an email at a domain that I own/control for this reason. It's tedious and feels a little like an overreaction (presumably the odds of this happening to individual users are pretty low). On the other hand, the thought of some faceless fraud algorithm deciding that I should no longer have access to the credentials I use to log in to my bank, investment accounts, DMV, etc and having no real recourse beyond posting on HN and hoping that a sympathetic employee reads is pretty scary.

(I didn't want to actually host my own mail stack, so I just have a custom domain set up with fastmail and point the MX to them. Their UI is great and a breath of fresh air compared to gmail. I guess they could in theory decide to lock me out randomly too, though I trust them to have actual customer support and can just point the MX somewhere else in the worst case)
by grues-dinner | 2025-09-18 20:28:05+00:00
This is just God's way of telling you that a screen on a fridge is still a stupid idea.

If you really, really need to have your fridge manage your sell by dates somehow or give you recipes based on what it thinks it has in it (and hopefully the cupboards have the other items) or whatever the tech-brained-fuck you think it'd will do for you, the communications tool in your hand highly optimised for manual input and with a web browser that's not embedded shitware seems a sensible interface.

Or just buy an insulated box with no electronics other than that which controls the light and temperature. And the simpler and more robust that is, the better.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-09-18 20:29:02+00:00
I think your mileage will vary by subject and level.

If you’re a complete novice reading a niche graduate level textbook on Tolstoy’s critique of the Russian war effort in War and Peace, you’re going to get some wild hallucinations, and you’ll have no idea how to determine fact from fiction.

If you’re reading a high school textbook about the history of pre-revolution Russia, the models will have pretty comprehensive coverage of every concept you’re likely to come across.
by anonfunction | 2025-09-18 20:29:18+00:00
I built it because it was tiresome to save the pdf, open a new window, add it and give a prompt.

Simply replacing the domain arxiv.org with asxiv.org does all that for me now.

Also it links to pages in it's answers and scrolls the pdf to it on click, allowing to view the pdf side by side with the chat.
by JohnMakin | 2025-09-18 20:29:35+00:00
Having now worked with terraform for 8 years, I could not agree more. Now, also because of having worked with terraform for 8 years and seeing how that's played out, I've heard and become tired of the whole "superset of json, transcribable to YAML, whitespace is not significant (which has never been a gripe of mine ever, not sure why every product cares so much about that)" promise of a silver bullet, and you very much face the same exact problems, just in different form. Terraform (HCL, to be specific) in particular can become fantastically ugly and verbose and "difficult to modify."

Configuration is difficult, the tooling is rarely the problem (at least in my experience).
by OptionOfT | 2025-09-18 20:29:40+00:00
I still have my map as going in the direction I'm going. Being from Europe wind directions don't matter. The roads don't care.

Then the 3d view came out, and that got my preference, and I'm always hoping one day the clouds will represent actual weather.

Anyway, the first car I got when moving to the USA got one of those direction things in the mirror, and I actually started to force myself to think in those terms. It removes a lot of ambiguity when explaining things, for example: you then turn left is more ambiguous than you then turn West.
by stevepike | 2025-09-18 20:29:43+00:00
This is very true. It can be a real fire drill if it turns out you need to go up a major version in some other dependency in order to get a security fix. It can get even worse in JS if you're on some abandoned package that's pinned to an old version of some transient dependency which turns out to be vulnerable. Then you're scrambling to migrate to some alternate package with no clear upgrade path.

On the flipside sometimes you get lucky and being on an old version of a package means you don't have the vulnerability in the first place.

libyear is a helpful metric for tracking how much of this debt you might have.
by clifflocked | 2025-09-18 20:30:08+00:00
I feel as though you are measuring tokens/s wrong, or have a serious bottleneck somewhere. On my i5-10210u (no dedicated graphics, at standard clock speeds), I get ~6 tokens/s on phi4-mini, a 4b model. That means my laptop CPU with a power draw of 15 watts, that was released 6 years ago, is performing better than a 5090.

> The 5090 is 10x faster but only 6-8x the price

I don't buy into this argument. A B580 can be bought at MSRP for 250$. A RTX 5090 from my local Microcenter is around 3250$. That puts it at around 1/13th the price.

Power costs can also be a significant factor if you choose to self-host, and I wouldn't want to risk system integrity for 3x the power draw, 13x the price, a melting connector, and Nvidia's terrible driver support.

EDIT: You can get an RTX 5090 for around 2500$. I doubt it will ever reach MSRP though.
by dzuc | 2025-09-18 20:30:34+00:00
> The notion that north should always be up and east at the right was established by the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy (90-168 AD). "Perhaps this was because the better-known places in his world were in the northern hemisphere, and on a flat map these were most convenient for study if they were in the upper right-hand corner," historian Daniel Boorstin opines. Mapmakers haven't always followed Ptolemy; during the Middle Ages, Boorstin notes, maps often had east on top--whence the expression "to orient."
Show HN: IAB Taxonomy Mapper – Convert Taxonomies Using Ollama
by Beefin | 2025-09-18 20:30:46+00:00
I built a free and open source tool to make working with the IAB content taxonomies less painful.

Converts IAB Content Taxonomy 2.0 → 3.0 automatically

Runs fully local, no data leaves your machine

Multiple methods supported (BM25, TF-IDF, embeddings, LLM re-ranking)

Simple demo UI + CLI available

pip install iab-taxonomy-mapper

Why? Agencies, adtech, and publishers often need to upgrade taxonomies, but mappings aren’t always 1:1. This tool provides ranked candidates and options, saving hours of manual work.

GitHub: https://github.com/mixpeek/iab-mapper Demo: https://mxp.co/taxonomy

Would love feedback on whether this is useful in your workflow and ideas for what to add next.
by bdamm | 2025-09-18 20:30:53+00:00
The BBC piece is an interesting attempt at garnishing attention. The reporter provides the google maps link to show how large and disgusting the process is. But it is actually a very small lake, if you compare it to things such as oil extraction. Take a look at the oil sands of Fort Mcmurray, Alberta; and at the same zoom level as the reporter uses, you'll see this is absolutely massive and diminishes the "massive" rare earths waste lake by orders of magnitude: https://www.google.com/maps/@57.0304073,-111.55372,6025m/dat...

I don't think it is good, but let's be reasonable in comparing environmental harm.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-09-18 20:30:59+00:00
Arrow points up, map is displayed with a slight perspective.

If there is no perspective, then at the very least, the car is about halfway between the middle of the screen and the bottom of it. I care far more about what's in front of me than what's behind me.

What I really hate is that the nav in my Tesla will typically show a perspective view while navigating, but as I approach a turn, it changes to a top-down view and zooms in, often to the point where the actual turn is no longer even on the screen, so I don't know where I'm actually supposed to go anymore.
by kingstnap | 2025-09-18 20:31:15+00:00
> Only testes and ovaries are clearly distinguishable

Is it just me who reads these kinds of things and just cringes. Always some nonsense along the lines of "well its not binary so therefore it's a spectrum".

You have obviously measured a biomodal distribution, not a guassian. That is in fact is direct evidence of distinct groups, not evidence of the contrary.

I'd also argue bimodal is not erasive terminology, but that's neither here nore there.