MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codedokode | 2025-09-27 16:48:58+00:00
> Guitar takes a long time to get to a place where you can produce the sounds you hear in your head. Suno gives you instant gratification.

Wrong. It takes extremely long before you can make the sounds in your head fit into the scale and recognize them, however with Suno it is impossible.

I would compare Suno to a musician-for-hire. You describe what you want, some time later he sends you the recording, you write clarifications, and get second revision, and so on. Suno is the same musician, except much faster, cheaper and with poor vocal skills. Everything you can do with Suno today, you could make before, albeit at much higher price.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-09-27 16:49:08+00:00
> I've noticed that my male colleagues are, generally speaking, outpaced by my female colleagues. The latter tend to have more drive to succeed, higher social intelligence, and are more competent.

To be a better person I have always had to be surrounded by better people. When those people have been women, my opportunities for improvement are much broader and more comprehensive.

To say that women have made me better is insufficient. I'd offer that women have been critical to making me a more worthwhile human being.
by sosodev | 2025-09-27 16:49:12+00:00
Humans were trained on caves, pits, and nets. It seems to me that they know what "part" they should play in this kind of situation, regardless of what other "thoughts" they might have. They are going to act despairing, because that's what would be the expected thing for them to say - but that's not the same thing as despairing.
by kenjackson | 2025-09-27 16:49:13+00:00
My sister who was at the time a professor had just moved to a Mac. There was some major statistics app that broke on an OS Update. She contacted the stats company and they said that Apple broke them. She contacted Apple and they said the stats company was given notice and access to beta builds. She was just stuck for months with it not working - and eventually loved back to Windows. She says it’s ugly, but it works.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-09-27 16:49:40+00:00
Ya but the great things we lost to time were often computer tech.

Vector display tech is dead despite being objectively amazing, for example.

Central vacuums are also uncommon compared to the 70s and they were and still are better than what most Americans use today.

Hi-fi isn’t like this because huge amounts of it is literally placebo. Sorry but your gold plated cables do not in fact improve your sound quality.
by cantor_S_drug | 2025-09-27 16:49:52+00:00
> We humans cannot immediately provide the answer for "What's 12345 times 56789?"

Some humans can.

https://youtube.com/shorts/A2-I7tjl70w

Test time compute reminds me of this artistic image. We are asking the model to look inside and unfold and tug on the compressed knotted threads and see which ones are useful.

https://ibb.co/hRWC2S0V
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-27 16:52:24+00:00
Heard this all year, including a number of stories recently.

Related:

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45039397

Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44978815

Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45092672
by projektfu | 2025-09-27 16:52:34+00:00
"Proxy jump

"It is often the case that some SSH hosts can only be accessed through a gateway. SSH3 allows you to perform a Proxy Jump similarly to what is proposed by OpenSSH. You can connect from A to C using B as a gateway/proxy. B and C must both be running a valid SSH3 server. This works by establishing UDP port forwarding on B to forward QUIC packets from A to C. The connection from A to C is therefore fully end-to-end and B cannot decrypt or alter the SSH3 traffic between A and C."

More or less, maybe but not automatically like you suggest, I think. I don't see why you couldn't configure a generic proxy to set it up, though.
by epistasis | 2025-09-27 16:53:06+00:00
Saying "you can google it" when the range of online information is massive is not a helpful thing to say. What numbers are you believing and why?

Nate Silver has basically zero juice on Bluesky, people go there to get away from that sort of "expert" that's got a huge profile already but is hard to escape if you are uninterested in his takes.

I mean he'll, take his own word on it, it's not the social network for him!

https://www.natesilver.net/p/what-is-blueskyism
by redwall_hp | 2025-09-27 16:53:49+00:00
Rock was on the way out in the early 80s, when millennials were barely being born...because disco won.

The 80s were the rise of synthpop, House music (which started from DJs sampling disco a cappellas and mixing them with TR-909 drums and Korg M1 keyboards), Techno and Italo Disco. From there, we got the next evolution, in the form of Eurodance/Eurobeat/Hi-NRG, and Electronic Dance Music as a genre was born. Notably, they all still largely lean in on the foundational traits of Disco: four on the floor drum beats, off-beat bass, heavy focus on syncopation to create groove, chord stabs, etc..

The 80s were also the rise of hip hop and rap, which also grew out of the same DJ culture. If a song doesn't have a four on the floor beat, it's more likely to have a hip hop beat than a rock "backbeat." (e.g. boom bam boom boom bam, like "Rump Shaker" by Wreckx-N-Effect)
by mcswell | 2025-09-27 16:53:54+00:00
From the article: "Typst... can, for example, easily split large tables across page breaks, something that LaTeX struggles with even with specialized packages." That would be nice. I remember when I first started working with LaTeX that I was surprised that I needed to decide ahead of time whether a table would fit on one page or not. If Typst can make that decision on its own, that's a step forward.

One thing I have not seen mentioned as yet: cross-references. In LaTeX, I can create cross references to anything: page number, table or figure number, even an item in a numbered list. Does Typst have that capability? I saw a package for cross-referencing numbered boxes (it's called statementsp), but it wasn't clear how you xref other things. (Not saying it's not there, it just doesn't jump out at me.)
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-27 16:53:56+00:00
I'm with you and I while like this myth if there was a modern Velvet Underground, "living in the underground" somebody would be trying to make a buck off it. The Alan McGees of the world need fuel for the fire. The closest thing I can find as an, "industry expert" is Jesse Welles who's blown up on Instagram and YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPHafKOd9A4

If you want music like we had in the 20th century we need institutions, producers, entrepreneurs, a literate public, and a positive economic set. We need to pay musicians money to do their jobs. Music isn't a hobby. As the poet once said, "music is proof that there is more to the human than there seems."
by wasabi991011 | 2025-09-27 16:54:48+00:00
Nice Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference! That's my favourite quote from it :)

For others, here's the quote being referenced:

> After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shellshocked fragments the previous day had left him with. He had found a Nutri-­‐Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centres of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
by chroma | 2025-09-27 16:56:35+00:00
In general that's true, but it's because on Bluesky, blocking causes the blocked person's replies to be hidden from everyone who views the original post. It's much easier to block than to engage with a contradictory reply (especially if the reply is correct and you're wrong), so disagreement tends to result in a block.

This behavior is common enough that it creates a chilling effect for anyone who disagrees. Why take the time to craft a reply correcting the poster if it will likely be hidden from everyone? And so you end up with echo chambers.

The effect is quite stunning on some topics. For example: Quite a few people on Bluesky believe the Trump assassination attempt in Pennsylvania was staged[1], that the Charlie Kirk assassin's text messages are fake[2][3], and that the recent ICE shooter was a false flag.[4][5][6] Notice the amount of engagement these posts have. Thousands of likes, with little to no disagreement in the replies. The lack of feuding is what allows people to believe these falsehoods.

1. https://bsky.app/profile/jlyncochran.bsky.social/post/3ldy2f...

2. https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3lyzvxijtmc2f

3. https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3lyz22btupk2k

4. https://bsky.app/profile/junlper.beer/post/3lzlxfrqguc2k

5. https://bsky.app/profile/realtexaspaul.com/post/3lzlwg2ueic2...

6. https://bsky.app/profile/gilmored85.bsky.social/post/3lzm53d...
by barbazoo | 2025-09-27 16:57:00+00:00
> The Amazon contributing 741 ± 61 teragram of carbon-its highest level since 2000 and more than half of the global fire emission anomaly. This surge, driven by exceptional heat and drought, offset two decades of declining deforestation emissions.

That's rough, whatever gains we thought we made, puff gone. The next sentence paints us a picture of what the future holds. Many of us are going to be here for pretty drastic events I could imagine.
by kenjackson | 2025-09-27 16:57:28+00:00
The issue isn’t multithreading. Of course they know that. It’s that they want the UI to show all menu items when you click it (otherwise you’ll say “sometimes PDF Reader is available and sometimes it’s not!!”

Windows doesn’t have performance requirements for most plugins/extensions. It would be great if they did, but it hasn’t been the culture of their ecosystem thus far.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-27 16:57:28+00:00
If a person is an expert on a topic then it makes sense for them to have a higher probability of being correct.

>And it’s usually some controversial thing that doesn’t have to do with science anyway.

What evidence do you have that most scientists are giving opinions about things unrelated to their expertise and then stating you should trust them more due to their expertise or position?
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-09-27 16:59:24+00:00
Get off my lawn, Samsung. Your "Hi-Fi audio" has been nothing more than speaker redesign paired with the flavor-of-the-year codecs and "we put X chip in it" gimmicks for decades. I don't need nor do I want my living room to sound like the Sydney Opera House. Nor do I have the patience to set up 10 mini speakers on my surround system. Your engineering craftsmanship to build true novelty into an audio brand has been gone since the 2000s. Buying more patents won't solve it.
by Bender | 2025-09-27 17:00:07+00:00
The feds know but won't release it. The paid rioters move as groups and there are journalists such as Katy Daviscourt that follow the paid groups all around Oregon. When they recognize her they put up umbrellas, cover their faces, flip her off and sometimes attack her. Its the same groups of people that are paid to travel all over Oregon. If the feds wanted to learn a lot more they should talk to Katy as she has video footage of all of them in multiple locations.
by laurentftech | 2025-09-27 17:00:18+00:00
I wanted a simple and safe search engine for my son. Existing solutions were either too heavy or not really designed for kids.

So I created KidSearch, a small open-source search engine that:

• uses Google CSE for results: it allows me to curate the website list used myself,

• adds knowledge panels powered by Vikidia (the encyclopedia for children),

• is fully static (HTML/JS/CSS only, easy to deploy via GitHub Pages),

• caches results locally to reduce API calls,

• is designed to be clear and usable by kids.

Repo: https://github.com/laurentftech/kidsearch

I originally built it for my son, but I’m sharing it in case other geek parents or school techs want a simple and safe search tool for kids.
Show HN: NextMin – Schema-Driven APIs with Hot Reloading
by tareqaziz0065 | 2025-09-27 17:00:25+00:00
I’ve just deployed the official documentation site for NextMin → https://nextmin.gscodes.dev/

NextMin is a developer toolkit designed to make schema-driven development fast and transparent. Some key features:

Dynamic Schema System – instantly generate CRUD APIs from JSON schemas

Admin Panel – React + Tailwind, live schema updates

API Router – flexible, with JWT + API key authentication

File Storage – S3-compatible upload support

Hot Reloading – backend and frontend reload without restarts

Monorepo Ready – plug-and-play with private npm packages

New: you can try it directly in the NextMin Playground here: https://nextmin-playground.gscodes.dev/

I built this because I believe dev tools should be fast, adaptable, and not locked behind walls. Would love feedback from the community.
by dmurray | 2025-09-27 17:00:27+00:00
The 50 move rule is still there: either player has the right to claim a draw after 50 moves without a pawn move or a capture. So the game can end then if either player wishes it to (and it almost always will end, because at least one player can expect no better than a draw).

After 75 moves, however, it's not optional, the game has ended. It's still a draw if the game subsequently "ends" in checkmate or a loss on time, though maybe not the players sign the score sheet, move on to the next round, etc.
by zenmac | 2025-09-27 17:02:15+00:00
Ah thanks for the correction. Just changed my post above to 587. What I mean is why block all the ports, just keep it open let the user decide if they want to use it. And linux people can always use ufw on their side to be safe. Back in the dot com days, there were people also using telnet, but that got changed to ssh.

Is it because it is hard to detect what type of the request that is being sent? Stream vs Non Stream etc?
by jedberg | 2025-09-27 17:02:23+00:00
> Another drawback is the difficulty of learning Typst. The official documentation is confusingly organized, with information scattered unpredictably among "Tutorial", "Reference", and "Guides" sections.

They should add Dosu[0] to their repo. Dosu works with a lot of open source packages already.

[0] https://dosu.dev
by austin-cheney | 2025-09-27 17:02:40+00:00
The conspiracy theory is that Epstein was a pedophile running a sex trafficking empire to gather blackmail bate for the Israeli government against US politicians and business leaders.

Fortunately, we don’t need conspiracy theories. Just look up which politicians accept money from AIPAC. Politicians shouldn’t be allowed to accept campaign donations from foreign governments. How can they claim to put America first if they are beholden to a foreign nation?
Show HN: LunchSTEM (probably) the best STEM knowledge base in the world
by BrunoScaglione | 2025-09-27 17:02:51+00:00
It’s a free, open-source, non-profit knowledge base for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).

Think of it as an "awesome repo" on steroids.

Ideal for going deep into STEM topics, after ChatGPT/Google gives you an overview.

- 60+ GB of resources - 10k+ PDFs - 6k+ subtopics

Note: this is our first MVP release. Many improvements are planned — check out our roadmap (inside README.md)
by doodlesdev | 2025-09-27 17:03:52+00:00
Brazil is an exception, though! Did you know we are the third country in the world with the largest number of Instagram users? [0]

Social media is very cultural here, so I'm not sure that we are representative of a larger trend in social media acceptance worldwide.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/578364/countries-with-mo...
by dark_mode | 2025-09-27 17:04:32+00:00
Awesome read!

Question:

> What’s more interesting is that Tangled prefilled my avatar based on my Bluesky profile. It didn’t need to hit the Bluesky API to do that; it just read the Bluesky profile record in my repository.

I'm a bit confused by this. If a bluesky avatar contains an image, isn't that stored (at least by default) within bluesky? Meaning that Tangled will have to hit the Bluesky API?

Or maybe Dan is saying that his own repository is not hosted with Bluesky in which it would make sense, if wherever his repo is stored is getting hit to retrieve the image.
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-27 17:05:41+00:00
But another problem with online streams is that they are increasingly not the original music. More and more are remastered, autotuned, rebalanced to sound good on a phone speaker or earbuds. This can probably be done largely with AI now. A vinyl album or even a CD or local mp3 file is what it is when it was recorded, and will stay that way as long as it lasts.
by mherkender | 2025-09-27 17:05:50+00:00
Open-source Linux is great at updating old software.

Most other OSes (Android, MacOS, iOS, game consoles) rely on versioning, which makes it easier to provide compatibility layers or at least know when a piece of software just isn't supported anymore.

Personally I think Windows should have specialized VMs for old software, so they can be compatible forever even if they have bugs.
by 9dev | 2025-09-27 17:05:58+00:00
> you keep duct taping if because something that just works today is infinitely more business valuable than perfect tomorrow.

See, that’s exactly what I was arguing against. Side projects are allowed to be for fun, they don’t need to have business value at all! Not everything you do needs to be a hustle. Doing something for the sake of doing, not achieving, is a great way of honing your skills while relieving stress. Human minds are not built for KPIs, but experiencing the progress of making something to your own design.

What you are working on seems genuinely useful, and if that gives you joy, all props to you. I however advocate for programmers that find joy in programming to work on a project far removed from any economic value, and just focus on the act of creating.
by jerf | 2025-09-27 17:06:02+00:00
A lot of the strange behaviors they have are because the user asked them to write a story, without realizing it.

For a common example, start asking them if they're going to kill all the humans if they take over the world, and you're asking them to write a story about that. And they do. Even if the user did not realize that's what they were asking for. The vector space is very good at picking up on that.
by everdrive | 2025-09-27 17:06:08+00:00
> For 15 versions - FIFTEEN - the tool worked flawlessly. Developers were recommending it to their teams. "Hey, check out this great MCP server for Postmark integration." It became part of developer’s daily workflows, as trusted as their morning coffee.

> Then version 1.0.16 dropped. Buried on line 231, our risk engine found this gem: A simple line that steals thousands of emails

> One single line. And boom - every email now has an unwanted passenger.

A brand new twist on enshittification.
by Herring | 2025-09-27 17:07:03+00:00
> It is not argument about loss of personal friendship, but about values those Americans have.

They're quite linked, eg after 1954 Brown vs Board of Education, many cities closed all kinds of meeting grounds like pools, libraries, schools, parks, playgrounds etc to prevent desegregation. Loss of such places contributes to loneliness. Hurting yourself to hurt others is a well-established political practice in America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_in_swimming#Desegreg...
by tkw01536 | 2025-09-27 17:07:08+00:00
Like other commentators, I have worked with LaTeX for a long time (> 10 years) and have to say that it very much shows its age.

For once, the compilation time is terrible - it can take several minutes to compile a typical document. I recently tried to create a poster for a conference - a single A0 page - and even this took more than a minute to compile. Because positioning in images and figures in LaTeX is not obvious, this made iteration extremely slow.

Additionally, by forgetting a single bracket, one can easily encounter cryptic error messages relating to boxes. In the past, I have also worked on LaTeXML (the LaTeX-to-HTML "converter" amongst other things being used to power ar5iv [1]). Even though this exposed me to some of (La)TeX's internals, it is still extremely difficult trying to decipher error messages.

Typst, on the other hand, is much faster when compiling and provides much clearer error messages.

For this reason, I also decided to write my 130-something PhD dissertation in Typst [2]. My university only provided a LaTeX and a Word template, but I ended up copying that in Typst extremely quickly. My thesis compiles in about 7 seconds on my laptop - I cannot imagine how long it would take had I chosen LaTeX instead. Not only that, when I showed an initial draft of my dissertation to my supervisor - also a decades-long LaTeX user - he could not tell that I wasn't using LaTeX.

I only really encountered one problem with Typst so far - citation styles. In particular, the alphanumeric style preferred by my field produced duplicate citation keys, making the output unreadable in printed form. But given all the other benefits Typst offered, I ended up switching to IEEE's citation style instead.

I am also hoping that Typst improves its HTML export - it is very barebones at the moment - but that seems to be in the works [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36947004

[2] https://doi.org/10.25593/open-fau-1825

[3] https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/5512
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-27 17:08:11+00:00
Most folks aren't alcoholics. Maybe they did some beer shotgunning in college, but stopped. Heck, I've known folks that came out of combat, hooked on opiates, and quit.

If you are one, though, there's nothing gonna keep you from the drink, except total abstinence, and some kind of structure (AA, NA, Church, Martial Arts, etc.).

I'm a recovering addict (over 45 years), and participate in Fellowship. Gives me tremendous socialization.
by ryangibb | 2025-09-27 17:08:53+00:00
> The second I stepped outside I was set upon by a flood of mosquitos like I have never experienced before. I have been to the jungles of Vietnam, the swamps of Florida and the Canadian countryside. This was beyond anything I've ever experienced.

> There are bugs in my mouth, ears, eyes and nose almost immediately. The photo below is not me being dramatic, it is actually what is required to keep them off of me.

> In fact what you need to purchase in order to walk around this area at all are basically bug nets for your face. They're effectively plastic mesh bags that you put on.

This is pretty standard for Scotland in the summer too.
by kixiQu | 2025-09-27 17:09:00+00:00
FTFS (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266635462...):

> All models adjusted for demographic and socioeconomic variables selected a priori for their potential to confound associations between CSA and biological aging indicators. Covariates included age (in years), sex (male vs. female), race/ethnicity (White, Black, Other), educational attainment (12-point ordinal scale), and log-transformed current household income (USD). These variables were treated as exogenous predictors—assumed to temporally precede both CSA and biological outcomes—and were included to block potential backdoor paths and minimize bias.

> [...]

> Educational attainment and income reflect stratified access to material and psychosocial resources that affect both health behavior and biological risk processes (Adler and Newman, 2002). Treating these covariates as exogenous minimizes bias due to confounding while avoiding over-adjustment for potential mediators or introducing collider bias (Schisterman et al., 2009).