MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IAmGraydon | 2025-09-12 22:41:10+00:00
One of the biggest platforms this happens through is Reddit, and they intentionally leave it wide open. You don’t even have to have an email address to register and start posting. Bots make these platforms a fortune, and they’re happy to sell out their country to foreign influence for a dime.

So yes, and I’ve been saying this since it started really getting bad in 2020, we need to completely cut enemies of the US off from our internet. There will obviously be attempts to proxy through western countries, so it needs to be strictly enforced, possibly with an identity requirement for participants.

For those against this, imagine a physical country where anyone can spawn thousands of faceless, nameless drones disguised as real people which are free to do whatever they want in society with zero risk of consequences. What would happen to that country? It would fall. As digital societies have now become larger than countries themselves, this is the very situation we’re dealing with. It’s not the utopia we hoped for, but it will be a dystopia unless action is taken.
Are U.S. Company Valuations over the Last 25 Years Justified?
by octor_stranger | 2025-09-12 22:41:30+00:00
How does Y Combinator companies, view the rise of China's startup scene and tech companies, from EVs to robotics, LLMs to chip design, especially considering they operate at a fraction of the cost compared to U.S. companies?

Do you think the massive valuations and capital raised by U.S. companies over the past 25 years are justified?
by virtue3 | 2025-09-12 22:41:54+00:00
Was not aware of the USA Freedom Act

details on it:

Reauthorization of Other Patriot Act Provisions: The USA FREEDOM Act extended two other provisions from the Patriot Act that were set to expire: "Lone Wolf" Provision: Allows for surveillance on individual terrorists who may not be directly linked to a foreign power. "Roving Wiretap" Provision: Enables surveillance to follow a suspect even if they change their communication methods or devices.

Everyone should be super clued in whenever the government chooses to classify something as 'terrorism' because of these provisions.

There appeared to be a lot of "good things" associated with this Act but also... as things go. Not great things such as above.
by jvanderbot | 2025-09-12 22:42:13+00:00
Boost is basically why I hate C++ but yes your point is entirely correct.

I write rust every day for a niche application that SHOULD be on paper completely trivial given advertised crates. But I constantly run into amateur hour math/correctness mistakes because nobody is using this stuff in daily user-serving production except apparently us. Some of this stuff should just be inexcusable.

One time I filed a bug report the maintainers response I got was "well I'm not familiar with X" where X was precisely what the library is advertised to do.

And yet they are fine rewriting the API every couple months.

This is early stage. The next wave of open source from companies giving back their work is going to be excellent.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-12 22:43:01+00:00
I would guess the intent is that it won the argument. In 2015 if you'd asked WG21 why you can't have this model of safety for C++ you'd be told it's a pipe dream and they only standardize things which can be realised.

Because we won the argument now that doesn't work. When you say "it's a pipe dream" you're either ignorant or a liar, so, in 2025 WG21 didn't say this can't be realised - when they were shown proposals to do exactly this - they said well, we think we can achieve the same goals via a different route which suits us better, we just need more time.

Whether you believe that or not is a different conversation, but Rust won the argument.
by phs318u | 2025-09-12 22:43:31+00:00
I honestly think that while technical constraints will eventually be solved, show me the insurance premiums for everyday citizen use (not specialised use cases), and I’ll tell you whether we’re ever going to see everyday flying cars like the Jetsons.

Personally, seeing how poorly many ground-based vehicles are maintained, I don’t fancy people buying and flying their own EVTOLs.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-12 22:43:39+00:00
> Folds are powerful. One can trisect or n-sect any angle for finite n.

Does that mean folding allows you to construct (without trial-and-error) an accurate heptagon, even though you can't with a straight-edge and compass?

Intuitively, that seems wrong, I would expect many of the same limitations to apply.
by froh | 2025-09-12 22:43:50+00:00
Finland is the world's first and only such facility so far.

the law to build it is pretty universal, the world has essentially agreed to not export nuclear waste.

associating the progressive innovative green party with blocking progress is an interesting turn, there was no progress in the topic for decades, and the reason is rather that nuclear waste is like toddler art: first no one wants to take it, trying to toss it is met with loud and hefty protest, and at the end nobody knows where to take it.

don't the alps have lovely granite areas for the Finnish model?
by andersmurphy | 2025-09-12 22:43:55+00:00
You don't need to rollback, because you have already checked the invariants and the system is a single writer.

Ah you're doing request response? sqlite/single writer fits much better with a CQRS still approach, so in my experience you move away from request/response to something push based. That being said even in a request/response model wrapping a request in a transaction is not a great idea. The minute you have anything that takes some time (slow third party) that transaction is going to sit open and cause trouble.
by Etherlord87 | 2025-09-12 22:45:38+00:00
Cool! Thanks for that; it makes perfect sense: if you convert the rotation to axis-angle, and then take that axis, obviously a vector rotated around the axis defined by itself won't change.

I just tested it:

from bpy import context as C from mathutils import Vector, Euler from math import radians as rad r = Euler((rad(5), rad(5), 0)) ob = C.object ob.rotation_euler = r ob.rotation_mode = 'AXIS_ANGLE' a, x, y, z = ob.rotation_axis_angle v = Vector((x, y, z)) print(v) v.rotate(r) print(v) print("--")

Can be done without using an object:

from mathutils import Vector, Euler from math import radians as rad r = Euler((rad(5), rad(5), 0)) v = Vector(r.to_quaternion().axis) print(v) v.rotate(r) print(v) print("--")
by robocat | 2025-09-12 22:45:52+00:00
> "greedy" insurance companies: any major improvements will have to come from employers or government

Pointless blaming employers or governments - their pockets aren't unlimited.

The problem is the greedy insured.

The insured only want the best when it comes to medicine and procedures.

Infinite want for important needs is hard to deal with (our economics cannot match our morals). Part of the reason for our roundabout ways of managing healthcare is so that budgets exist at all (nobody wants their healthcare options restricted). For public healthcare in New Zealand waiting lists are used to ration procedures, and expensive drugs don't get funded.
by SparkyMcUnicorn | 2025-09-12 22:46:09+00:00
A couple months ago I needed some info about a home/property. The county publishes a zip file of "geo data", and after downloading it I asked Claude Code how I can work with the files. It recommended QGIS, but I was lost when I opened it and searched GitHub to find this MCP server[0].

20 minutes later it had every piece of data I could possibly want placed onto the parcel on the map. It felt magical.

[0] https://github.com/jjsantos01/qgis_mcp/
by JonChesterfield | 2025-09-12 22:46:18+00:00
The papers and open source indicate that you can build stuff. That's not what it's testing for.

Will you put up with very long hours of insane grindy nonsense in the spirit of being a team player for a team that doesn't really remember what game they're playing?

Are you sufficiently in need of income to be fighting through this interview dance in preference to other things, such that once you join you'll be desperate to stay?

Those are extremely important questions, and a willingness to have spent a thousand hours memorising leetcode correlates strongly with the attributes sought.
by orwin | 2025-09-12 22:46:57+00:00
Interestingly, the same happened in Western France 10-15 years ago or so, when my father worked in construction, with detached polish and Romanian workers. The unions and workers worked really hard (with the help of journalists and judges) to find proof of illegal employment, found them, arrested the CEOs and RH responsible, put some in prison and fined them backbreaking amounts.

My father was not a direct part of that (he stopped working in construction late 2013 and the exploitation continued until 2014 I think, and was judged in 2016), but he hosted two polish workers (or maybe the same twice), as some of his old friends did. No one would've cheered because we're not idiots, we know who we have to struggle against.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-09-12 22:47:49+00:00
State level NIMBYism is what's happening with nuclear. The state decides we won't have that in our back yard in the case of Germany.

Fear uncertainty and doubt is the only thing blocking nuclear power.

The irony is that the fud has been spread by "environmentalists" and has only managed to keep fossil fuels around for the last 20 years greatly exacerbating our climate change predicament.
by aeonfox | 2025-09-12 22:48:10+00:00
> Like maybe someone other than Hyundai that makes electric cars?

Well this is specifically a battery plant. So any local competitors with battery products have a vested interest. Or makers of gasoline cars. Or oil refineries, or any company in the supply chain that sells fuel for motor vehicles. Battery plants can also manufacture cells for grid storage, so that includes gas drillers, nuclear, etc. and their whole supply chain. That's just off the top of my head. I'm sure there's more vested interested than that.

> Who had the president's ear

Specifically I said 'the administration'. Governments are large institutions that are famously impressionable by corporate interests, especially so—and particularly now—in the US where many of the safeties are off in comparison to other modern western democracies.

> a few months ago?

Regulatory capture happens over a much longer timeframe.
by thelastgallon | 2025-09-12 22:48:22+00:00
"The market floor price can fall as low as -€500/MWh. Yes, you read that correctly, bids can be submitted with negative prices. Subsidized renewables and must-run assets (such as nuclear) usually bid at that price to ensure their production.

What is incredible is that in the last five years, around 11 GW of additional capacity has been added that bids at negative prices during the day."

Which means they should pay electric car owners for absorbing that energy.
by favflam | 2025-09-12 22:48:36+00:00
So the US government does a dog and pony show of ASMR chaining and perp walking Korean engineers constructing a factory vital to our economy and national security?

And this after the admin starts a tariff war against treaty allies for not building factories in the US? Very schizo.

This whole situation is complete insanity and is completely the fault of this administration and the maga movement.
by K0balt | 2025-09-12 22:48:43+00:00
Long live the em-dash!

I frequently am accused of using LLMs to write my prose, something that I not only eschew, but also believe is morally corrupt and intellectually dishonest.

I’m not above spellcheck, grammar checkers, or even LLM driven evaluation of articles, but my thoughts, word choices, and structure are always of my own design.

I use the em-dash where it is appropriate.

I find that people accusing writers of using AI typically disagree with the premise of the text, and use the “AI” character assault as a method of dehumanising the author and dismissal of their work. The assertion is very rarely made in good faith, but rather is used as a weak attempt to discredit an idea without actually refuting the premise or even examining the argument.

Shame on whoever argues in this way, it’s weak, unproductive, and intellectually lazy. It’s fine to disagree, but if you aren’t willing to act in good faith, just keep your thoughts to yourself. You’re only going to discredit your own point of view if you touch the keyboard.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-12 22:49:36+00:00
That site has basically good content with awful ads, competitive sites tend to have less bad ads but poorly written content that is formatted like puke. That site contributes a lot to what my RSS reader shows me, at least 70% of the time I substitute a link to the paper if it is open access [1] or if is a syndicated story [2] I go to the original or another syndicated site, etc. It is not just me, phys.org and other sites in it networks are some of the most submitted sites to HN.

What can I say? Freedom isn’t free.

[1] usually that means the phys.org title is “Scientists came to an important conclusion” but the original article’s title is “We measured something”

[2] AP wire stories also get syndicated on local news sites that “look like puke” but might support RSS, PR sites from national labs and universities may or may not “look like puke” but they never support RSS (wouldn’t even bother asking the folks who do PR at my Uni they are as likely to answer my email from my work email as the profs who write articles about how “food at the food bank is as good as any other food” when I ask them “why do these canned peaches from the food bank have a prop 65 warning?”
by pydry | 2025-09-12 22:50:12+00:00
>No one has/had political will to help Ukraine win

All of the main neocon actors (e.g. lindsay graham) say this. The idea that western military resources are unlimited is a neocon article of faith.

It's weird coz it is possible to count the number of e.g. shells and air defense missiles manufactured and stockpiled and it is plainly obvious that it is not enough and was never enough. That is why Ukraine losing was inevitable.

>Imagine USA to send lend-lease weapons with strings attached: do not use against Hitler's troops

Imagine the USA supplying weapons to a leader who is actually just like Hitler while he is committing a genocide.

You dont have to imagine too hard.
by andsoitis | 2025-09-12 22:50:26+00:00
There’s a difference between having product ideas rooted in compelling hypotheses on the one hand, and random ideas you throw against a wall and see what sticks.

I suspect, but could be wrong, that in OpenAI’s case it is because they believed they will reach AGI imminently and then “all problems are solved”, in other words the ultimate product. However, since that isn’t going to happen, they now have to think of more concrete products that are hard to copy and that people are willing to pay for.
Show HN: VibeDbg – Cconversational, LLM-Powered AI Assistant for WinDbg
by amithegde | 2025-09-12 22:50:33+00:00
Transforms debugging with WinDbg into a conversational, LLM-assisted experience. Instead of memorizing cryptic commands, you can interact with the debugger using natural language: such as show me all the handles opened by this process, list enabled token privileges etc.

It includes:

A native WinDbg extension for command execution

An AI-driven MCP server that bridges debugging tasks with powerful language models

Integrated support for WinDbg features like breakpoints, memory views, and the dx visualization command

Any improvement suggestions?
by mikelabatt | 2025-09-12 22:50:53+00:00
Nice article, thank you. I love UTF-8, but I only advocate it when used with a BOM. Otherwise, an application may have no way of knowing that it is UTF-8, and that it needs to be saved as UTF-8.

Imagine selecting New/Text Document in an environment like File Explorer on Windows: if the initial (empty) file has a BOM, any app will know that it is supposed to be saved again as UTF-8 once you start working on it. But with no BOM, there is no such luck, and corruption may be just around the corner, even when the editor tries to auto-detect the encoding (auto-detection is never easy or 100% reliable, even for basic Latin text with "special" characters)

The same can happen to a plain ASCII file (without a BOM): once you edit it, and you add, say, some accented vowel, the chaos begins. You thought it was Italian, but your favorite text editor might conclude it's Vietnamese! I've even seen Notepad switch to a different default encoding after some Windows updates.

So, UTF-8 yes, but with a BOM. It should be the default in any app and operating system.
by xyzelement | 2025-09-12 22:51:24+00:00
Here's the reality. If I REALLY wanted to make 2 hours for exercise a day, I could: 1. Eliminate all digital distraction, which I am sure adds up to more than an hour every day. 2. Specifically, if I turned off my phone in the evening, I could go to bed at least an hour earlier and thus wake up an hour earlier to work out. 3. I could negotiate an arrangement with my wife that creates an hour for me - I haven't even tried. 4. I could look into hiring a babysitter for an hour a day.

Each of those things is "a sacrifice" of something but on a conscious level I am happy to sacrifice digital distraction or the cost of a babysitter for an hour. The fact that I haven't jumped to do this (but my neighbor, perhaps, has) is what I am talking about.
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-12 22:51:55+00:00
Interpreting as "why would the media stop holding people in power accountable"...

Because it's cheaper and lets it survive.

The unspoken undercurrent is that Google and Facebook ate the ad spending that used to fund journalism, without replacing its function.

Google and Facebook don't fund journalism at scale -- that's why their profit margins stay at 23% & 40%.

Without revenue, reporters don't get paid, high quality reporting doesn't get done, and newsrooms grovel for any source of margin.

Which currently seems to be {minimal cost "journalism"} + {catering to power in exchange for access}.
by bobosola | 2025-09-12 22:52:06+00:00
Fabulous software. I used it to create LIDAR map tiles from free UK government LIDAR data of my local area (Hampshire, UK) at https://solentmaps.uk. When used as a layer placed under standard map tiles, you can see all sorts of long-hidden historical artefacts under modern deep foliage. The ruins of a long-forgotten WW1 hospital near me can be clearly seen under the modern day trees. Fun stuff to play with.
by thatfrenchguy | 2025-09-12 22:53:25+00:00
> However, in order for applications for permanent residency to be successful, companies must certify their inability to find a suitable American candidate to take the position they’re looking to fill with a foreign national

I mean, you know, if you already have an employee working on H1B, why would you take the risk to hire someone else to replace them? The perm process is pretty broken in that way.
by talipozturk | 2025-09-12 22:54:17+00:00
I think we have so many of those nice open source libraries but the problem is not the library or the algorithm (hsnw or ivf derivatives).. the problem is figuring out the right distributed architecture to balance cost, accuracy (recall) and speed (latency). I believe no single library will give you all that. For instance if you don't separate writes (indexing) from reads (queries) and scale them separately then your indexing will either suck or your indexing will destroy your read latency. You won't be able to scale as easily either. I believe that is why AWS created Aurora and Google Cloud created AlloyDB to scale relational databases (mysql/postgresql) by separating the reads/writes, implementing a scalable storage backend and by offloading a lot of shared works (replication, compaction, indexing) to cluster of machines.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-12 22:54:33+00:00
It’s also the fault of the last administration, because when you bend the rules and your reign ends, you have no control over how the next regime is going to enforce the law as it stands. I do not disagree this is insanity, but this is the result of kicking the can on immigration issues for almost two decades. Congress must do its job, but refuses to. Is it not reasonable to both incentivize domestic manufacturing investment while also adhering to immigration visa regulations?

Hyundai has done something similar with children refugees from Central America previously in 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Alabama_child_labor_al...
by JonChesterfield | 2025-09-12 22:55:08+00:00
You might like a larger one in landscape in the middle, keeping the two 32" in portrait either side. Angled inwards.

I did not check the physical geometry so the side screens are taller than the center but whatever. 43" flat center, 32" either side. Felt strongly like a mistake when first set up but has grown on me.
by lproven | 2025-09-12 22:55:13+00:00
Crystal Quest was a legit all-time classic game. I remain amazed that, nearly 40 years after I first played it, nothing else has ever reproduced its precise control mechanics.

It's already 25 years or so ago but in the early 20-teens I fixed up a Mac Classic II and got it online on the Internet, running both System 6 and MacOS 7.6.1, both fully tricked out with every possible enhancement. A great learning and revision exercise, and still a lovely OS to work with in the 21st century.

But the most fun I had on it was playing CQ...
by sharadov | 2025-09-12 22:55:33+00:00
I am in my late 40s. I went through my own journey. This is not the first generation to do this. The difference being, they did it in private.

Not post every thought and idea as if they've figured out the meaning of life.

And I disagree, you don't need to share your thoughts for validation. Rather, you need to live them. Most roads taken will appear as mistakes, but they have their own teaching moments.

There is nothing better than lived experience.
by reaperducer | 2025-09-12 22:55:39+00:00
As someone who wears corrective lenses for astigmatism, I can guarantee that what you perceive as a straight line, assuming you are human, is not, until your brain corrects it and signals 'straight line' to you.

That is unrelated to astigmatism. In Art 101 class in college we explored this phenomenon. It's caused by the spherical nature of the human eyeball.

The exercise was to sit on the floor in the corner of a particular campus building that had a lot of long architectural lines and draw what you see without looking at the paper. If you drew straight lines, the prof knew you were thinking about drawing, and not just drawing what you saw.
by coppsilgold | 2025-09-12 22:55:42+00:00
> defines unused in some opaque sense where receiving but not sending emails is “unused”

"You are considered active if you log in and use our services once a year. Simply logging in to any Proton service on our web, desktop, or mobile apps at least once a year is enough."

<https://proton.me/support/inactive-accounts>
by thephyber | 2025-09-12 22:55:55+00:00
There are also lots of Republicans and right wing media figures who wrongly identified Democrats as “at war with the right.

Mental illness isn’t the only explanation. When people are indoctrinated into stupidity and no longer believe in truth or reality, it’s possible to convince them to both believe “I support police / military” while attacking police officers (several of the worst offenders of Jan 6).

Perceived desperation is a better explainer than some generic mental illness.
by strawhatguy | 2025-09-12 22:56:46+00:00
just looked at 2, using their own numbers, and it says 97% to 24/365, in a sunny area (Las Vegas), which is like an outage 43 minutes out of every day (24 * 0.03 * 60).

That's not what many would consider as 24/365, and certainly not "every hour of every day".
by kevinkoning | 2025-09-12 22:57:01+00:00
I can't help but pile on here. I have had a corporate license of ArcGIS but have used QGIS instead because it simply worked better to process the data I had. ESRI and ArcGIS have a long history of reporting errors with absolutely no helpful information. I swear half the errors are something like "Error 999999: Error executing function." Good luck debugging!!