MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by knlb | 2025-09-26 23:48:30+00:00
Another vote for the Glove 80: I used the Kinesis Advantage 2 for 10 years (after a few initial signs of finger pain developing), then tried the new 360; and recently got the glove 80 so I could easily travel with it and fell in love with the keyboard.

It definitely doesn't feel as solid as the Kinesis or ergodox (which I used intermittently as well) but is the most comfortable keyboard I've used, the LEDs are actually useful (for showing battery life and bluetooth connections), and there are enough keys (including function keys); I don't like having to reason about layers at all, I want to be able to smoothly transition to my laptop's keyboard in a pinch).
by tim333 | 2025-09-26 23:48:31+00:00
>The UK must surely have satellites or drones that can spot boats of migrants coming in via France

You don't really need that - you can stand on the beach and watch.

The issue is more with the laws - we have human rights laws where you can claim asylum and a very slow and expensive legal system where almost no one actually gets send back. What the government should do is change the laws to something that agrees more with common sense.
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-26 23:49:24+00:00
No.

In late 2022, my wife and I got rid of everything we owned that wouldn’t fit in 4 suitcases including our cars (we have since bought one new one) and sold our house and traveled around the US and Mexico. Anything our younger (adult) son wanted to put in the house he was renting with two of his friends that were like our sons they could have.

Everything else got thrown away.

That same year we bought a unit in a 2/2 1230 square foot furnished condotel[1] in state tax free Florida since I pivoted to cloud consulting in 2020 and saw that I would be working remotely for the foreseeable future.

The condotel unit is not a time share. We own our unit and all of the standardized furniture and a fully stocked kitchen as far as utensils, plates, pots and pans, etc. that comes with it. But that also means two things. We can’t stay or keep our things here more than 180 consecutive days because of zoning and sometimes we leave for months at a time and it gets rented out as part of the hotel reservation system and we get half the income to cover our mortgage our expenses.

Every time we move out we assess what can we get rid of.

Either way, we have to pack up all of our personal belongings. Everything I keep has to earn its spot. I’m aggressive about getting rid of anything - including old tech either trading it in, getting it recycled, or giving it to someone else.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/condotel.asp
by andai | 2025-09-26 23:49:35+00:00
Let me illustrate this with a more poetic example.

In 2015, I was working at a startup incubator hosted inside of an art academy.

I took a nap on the couch. I was the only person in the building, so my full attention was devoted to the strange sounds produced by the computers.

There were dozens of computers there. They were all on. They were all wasting hundreds of watts. They were all doing essentially nothing. Nothing useful.

I could feel the power there. I could feel, suddenly, all the computers in a thousand mile radius. All sitting there, all wasting time and energy.
by arcanemachiner | 2025-09-26 23:50:16+00:00
For those with more time than money, you can build an open-source Advantage 360 clone for around $100 USD:

- https://github.com/wizarddata/Ergo-S-1

I'm not the creator, but I do have a repo with a purchase list that shows what stuff to buy from AliExpress:

- https://github.com/arcanemachine/Ergo-S-1-Extras

It takes about 10 hours to put together. You'll also need some nerd tools: access to a 3D printer, soldering iron, etc.
by hashta | 2025-09-26 23:50:35+00:00
It’s literally called "SimpleFold". But that’s not really my point, from your earlier comment (".. go through all the complexities first to find the generalized and simpler formulations"), I got the impression you thought the simplicity came purely from architectural insights. My point was just that to compare apples to apples, a model claiming "simpler but just as good" should ideally train on the same kind of data as AF or at least acknowledge very clearly that substantial amount of its training data comes from AF.

I’m not trying to knock the work, I think it’s genuinely cool and a great engineering result. I just wanted to flag that nuance for readers who might not have the time or background to spot it, and I get that part of the "simple/simpler" messaging is also about attracting attention which clearly worked!
by aborsy | 2025-09-26 23:51:14+00:00
I feel like the nobel prize might have been a bit too much here. The fact that the effect was cosmic background radiation was of course huge, no question. But the discovery was accidental, and used an exclusive expensive equipment not available elsewhere. They didn’t design the equipment or an experimental methodology. It seems they simply observed what the antenna captured. They had all those great physicists at Bell Labs and Princeton to talk to.
by jbay808 | 2025-09-26 23:51:41+00:00
Interesting to see this on the HN front page. On the subject of methane pyrolysis, it turns out if you look at the Gibbs free energy calculation, about half of the energy of methane combustion is released from the formation of water, and the other half from the formation of carbon dioxide. That suggests that if you can be efficient with conserving the heat of pyrolysis, you can make a methane power plant that starts with a pyrolysis step to separate out the carbon atoms in an oxygen-free environment, and then burn the remaining hydrogen to power the cycle, and the end result would be a zero-emissions natural gas power plant. It would require twice as much gas to run, but if you can find a good value-added use for the carbon, it could potentially still be cost effective.

This would probably be much more efficient than doing pyrolysis to extract the hydrogen for use in electricity generation somewhere else, because you don't lose the substantial stored heat energy in the process of cooling that hydrogen back down.

And I can't help but wonder if fossil fuel companies might suddenly start endorsing aggressive zero-emissions targets if there's a way for this to double the demand for their products, rather than eliminating it.
by Arrowmaster | 2025-09-26 23:51:58+00:00
Thumbs are one of your stronger fingers. In contrast the pinky is by far the weakest but we have dedicated it to almost every modifier and outlying key. I currently use an Elora from SplitKB so I can't speak to the Moonlanders thumb cluster, but if you find one you like it's a massive difference in how much usage you can get out of your thumbs while typing.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-26 23:52:14+00:00
3+3=2 in a modulo 4 ring.

You say "who cares about that?" OK, 3+3=2 in a data field represented by only 2 bits. At least some of us here have actually run into such things.

[Edit to add: And if you don't care about it in 2 bits, you at least need to know about that it can happen in 32 bits.]
by gbear605 | 2025-09-26 23:52:15+00:00
I don’t know the story, but I’m not surprised. I led an effort to switch my company to Auth0 recently and they’re… bad. They have very poor support for anything even barely outside of normal, and when things are working correctly they not very good.

But when you have a requirement to move to a third party SaaS service, I suppose Auth0 is maybe the best of a bad bunch.
by conqrr | 2025-09-26 23:52:37+00:00
Future of software as Agent and Code don't go well together in my experience. Future is bleak if this is the future.

Nothing against producing code that's AI but code reviewable easily by humans, This is ideal in fact. But having a ton of AI slop that's unreadable by humans is not maintainable. There's of course applications like internal tools, or short lived software where this is useful no doubt.
by ASalazarMX | 2025-09-26 23:53:13+00:00
Your website gave me a vibe coded impression, but I thought I was being overly paranoid. I'm glad you confirmed it, it seems the clues that give that feeling have some grounds in reality.

It's very interesting how current IAs seems to generate simplistic websites with similar quirks on the first iteration. I guess it's intentional since simple is a good start point.
by Svoka | 2025-09-26 23:53:50+00:00
I love my moonlander. I bought it on release and it is best computer accessory I know of. I extensively customized the software. My favourite is controlling cursor with keyboard, I have one hand mode, etc.

One note — when I purchased the Moonlander their "The Platform" wasn't available. I bought it couple month ago and it improved experience even more.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-09-26 23:53:52+00:00
I loved and love mailing lists, except for their capacity for ensuring everyone's email addresses are out there in the open for everyone else, including the scammers and spammers. I still use them (very few! and almost none of them are "tech ones"). I have a dedicated email address for them, which is disposable but doesn't look the part. I do wish, though, that many more groups would adopt mailing lists.

I had started a small cinema/lit club/group and got some good traction as well. But everyone wanted to bring in the latest group chat toys, online meet toys. I had proposed (the async) mailing list (private; I had hoped I'd find one), and it was shot down immediately, IIRC, by everyone else.
by breatheoften | 2025-09-26 23:53:58+00:00
It takes more than just misaligned incentives to get a banking crisis -- you have to have structural corruption preventing the transfer of the loss gradient back to the "misaligned" decision makers. It's somewhat disingenuous (or overly innocent) to reimagine the pathways which power structural corruption as "innocent ignorance in the face of bad incentives".

The real world has "actually bad" actors -- not just misaligned incentives.
by namibj | 2025-09-26 23:54:16+00:00
Don't calculate the amortized (over a reasonable 30 years if you also ignore inflation and major maintenance/refurbishment costs) capex of the proposed Dallas red line northern extension, seen in a per-passenger-mile figure..... (I got 54ct per passenger mile just in capex (well, a capex-based view on the cost of having the track there and operable; costs from direct wear and tear of running trains and electricity and the trains themselves are additional)...)
by gokmenbekar | 2025-09-26 23:55:41+00:00
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by 9x39 | 2025-09-26 23:56:07+00:00
>I do think it’s courteous for people to make an effort to integrate. But it should also be their decision, not ours.

If I choose not to integrate, and to instead practice particularly illiberal approaches to women, for example, is that still my decision? If my culture uses rape and acid to control women, may I continue?

I'm picking on a particularly onerous difference between Western and MENA peoples that's been a flashpoint in the UK, from what I can see.

If immigration was purely unfounded scapegoating, and we all could simply talk about our heritage and share new foods in these borderless economic zones that used to be countries, why would there be articles like these popping up:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/05/disputed-or-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvnnj301l3o

Another debate probably reduced to a single bit of information between participants. Class based analyses on immigration are probably more telling, but there doesn't seem to be much available.
by tarwich | 2025-09-26 23:56:35+00:00
This. How can you know you hacked EVERY phone. I have friends with flip phones (no screen). There must be at least a small amount of optimistic thinking here.

IMHO someone was likely given a task such as "disseminate the message to 100% of the population" and they found a way to claim they accomplished the task (with reasonable credibility).
by snailmailman | 2025-09-26 23:57:52+00:00
As much as i like the idea of these split keyboards that are more ergonomic, I can’t get over the idea of missing keys and having to use chords or new combinations of hotkeys. I use nearly every key of my 104 key keyboard. Literally pause/break and scroll lock are the only ones I don’t use; and I’ve remapped those to be volume controls. If anything, i’d like even more keys for macros and dedicated shortcuts.

But so many keyboards cut that number down so drastically. I use home, end, delete, page up/down, all the time not to mention the number pad as a whole, and all the Fkeys.
by gerdesj | 2025-09-26 23:58:06+00:00
Grand daughter is rocking a customer cast off laptop. I was asked for help when the first lock down for covid was announced in the UK. I slapped on Kubuntu and an OpenVPN connection back to my home pfSense router on it, so I could manage it. All a bit slapdash but best I could do at the time.

That was 2020. Six months ago, I find out she is still using it and its a "bit slow". I update it from 18.04 to 24.04 via ssh over an OpenVPN connection on the box itself. Its still in use and is still attached to both one of my home OpenVPN servers and my work Mesh Central.

I've also recently repurposed another Win10 but can't do Win11 laptop to someone so they can do some courses.

I think I'm doing all right with supporting the next cool kids.

I'm still stressing though 8)
by bahmboo | 2025-09-26 23:58:26+00:00
Seems like a good time to highlight this video from Grin Technologies and their experience with ebikes over the years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j92Gt4VviSQ

Summary Statement: He summarizes the results of the "sabotaging" attempts by saying, "we just couldn't for the life of ourselves get a nonprotected modern lithium battery to do anything" [02:40:27], in terms of causing a fire. (referring to 18650s)

There are certainly problems out there with cells but it was a surprising statement from someone with a ton of real-world experience. Also they are a very conscientious company so they don't deal with dodgy stuff if they can avoid it.
by rcxdude | 2025-09-26 23:59:35+00:00
I'm talking about situations where you have nontechnical users that need to connect to the device, neither the client nor the device have necessarily an internet connection, and the connection is often via a local IP address. None of your proposed solutions are appropriate for that situation. And basically all I'm asking is that the connection be at least encrypted (meaning that eavesdropping is not enough: you need to construct a man in the middle), even if it's not presented to the user as secure.

(An option to get some authentication, and one that I think chrome have kind of started to figure out, is to allow a PWA to connect to a local device and authenticate with its own keys. This still means you need to connect to the internet once with the client device, but at least from that point onwards it can work without internet. But then you need to have a whole other flow so that random sites can't just connect to your local devices...)
by jmogly | 2025-09-27 00:00:13+00:00
This is a fascinating idea, imagine a company spins up a super complex stack using llms that works, becomes vital. It breaks occasionally, they use a combination of llms, hope and prayer to keep the now vital system up and running. The system hits a limit, say data, code optimization, or number of users, and the llm isn’t able to solve the issue this time. They try to bring in a competent engineer or team of engineers but no one who could fix it is willing to take it on.
by lotophage | 2025-09-27 00:00:50+00:00
I struggled with the Moonlander although it is a wonderful keyboard.

I mapped it to a Colemak layout varient when I first got it. I was constantly discovering key combos that didn't quite work for whatever reason and made tweaks to the layout or the shortcuts in various editors. Forever tying my brain in knots learning and relearning mappings and combos. Then I'd frequently jump on other peoples computers/laptops to help out with small things and have to switch back to the old mode of thinking.

It ended up being a productivity sink rather than a boon. I don't know whether I would have crossed some inflection point if I had persevered, but there was always this fixed cost of tweaking shortcuts when using new software that was more burdensome than with a plain qwerty keyboard.

Maybe I was too ambitious and should have avoided the Colemak-esque layout, but I haven't managed to summon the stamina to give it a fair go again. I still use one half of it for gaming though. It's really sweet for that.
by Rochus | 2025-09-27 00:02:12+00:00
> Then tried to generate interesting music, failed spectacularly.

You can upload music and let suno arrange it in different styles. I'm a musician myself and am also interested in "interesting" music. I made experiments with my own music and was positively surprised by the "musicality" and creativity of the generated arrangements (https://rochus-keller.ch/?p=1350).
by tverbeure | 2025-09-27 00:02:37+00:00
64'er magazine is what forced me to learn German as a teenager (which is not super hard if you're a native Flemish-Dutch speaker.) The quality and technical complexity of their project-of-the-month was always stunning, and explained with amazing detail.

One of their projects was a video genlock PCB that replaced the 1MHz crystal clock with one that was generated by a PLL (and slightly lower than 1MHz) so that the PAL output of the C64 was synchronized with an incoming video signal that was converted to RGB, selectively mixed with the C64 output, and then sent out as PAL again.

It's how I learned about the existence of PLLs. :-)

Another one of their projects replaced the 6502 firmware of the 1541 floppy drive with a database engine so that database queries were executed on the drive instead of on the C64 CPU.

Amazing stuff.

Edit: the block diagram of the genlock interface: https://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=12851.
by namibj | 2025-09-27 00:02:38+00:00
Make the argument why the bus company that provides bus-based transportation near one's home/work should spend marginal income on fancy emerging technologies instead of on higher-quality service (or lowering ticket prices if somehow service quality has reached an upper limit)? Sure if the state or feds want to pay the extra costs to get such technology out there into production, make them an offer as the local bus company how much they'd have to chip in for you to deploy that.
by jychang | 2025-09-27 00:04:15+00:00
Exactly. You're ill equipped to answer the question because you don't know. Qwen is terrible at explaining what the difference is, between the models that they serve on their API.

It's such a simple question: "For someone who does not want to run the model locally, what is the difference between these 2 models on the API?" and yet nobody can answer that question.
by rdtsc | 2025-09-27 00:04:48+00:00
> Memory isn’t just a passive recording device: our brains decide what matters, and emotional events can reach back in time to stabilize fragile memories

So they are saying … attention is all you need? :-) If it’s surprising or shocking enough you’ll pay very close attention to it and remember it.

Also smells have a very strong recall factor. You smell the same unique smell and it immediately takes you back to the time and place. At least that’s how it works for me.
by jraby3 | 2025-09-27 00:07:42+00:00
It suggested a significant increase in fiber which I wasn't really paying attention to, based on numerous studies showing it would have a positive impact on my ldl and non HDL cholesterol (my triglycerides and HDL good cholesterol are very good).

It also suggested eating more fatty fish like salmon 3x per week. And substituting good fats for saturated fat, which is obvious but still very motivating.
by Lunamare | 2025-09-27 00:08:49+00:00
The way I thought about it was that I would gladly pay $500 to have a reduction in RSI symptoms, let alone prevent them beforehand. Not to mention the potential loss of enjoyment & employment from pain during computer use.

And as such, I'm an extremely satisfied Advantage 360 Pro user. The Adv 360 + a mouse side-grade massively reduced pains in my hands/wrists to the point where I don't notice any issues 99% of the time, even with heavy (7+ hour) computer use and quite a lot of FPS gaming.

Though note that there are several keyboards with split layouts + tenting (the two most important aspects for relief) that cost a fraction of the Adv 360; $200-300 of the price tag is for features, build quality, it being pre-built, and ease of programmability.
by Waterluvian | 2025-09-27 00:08:50+00:00
When you’re weak you have you act strong.

Reminds me how at some point the U.S. was so strong that it didn’t even have to show up to dick swinging contests anymore. No military parades and the like, which feels antiquated and kind of embarrassing when you see the Russians or North Koreans doing it.

Though the Americans are into military parades again… hmmm…
by rovr138 | 2025-09-27 00:08:53+00:00
I have a Kinesis advantage pro. I bought it 11 years ago (in 2 months). When you look at it over the time it’ll last.. it gets easier to swallow. It also solved a lot of issues for me.

In that time, I’ve had 3 desks, 5 computer chairs, and 7 computers.
by aidenn0 | 2025-09-27 00:09:41+00:00
The federated nature of e-mail is degrading. Most recent example: My kid just registered with CCCApply (the central website for California Community and City colleges).

It took a while. Finally after calling support I found out that the e-mail you get your confirmation code to doesn't work with most e-mail providers (they said custom e-mail domains hardly ever work, Yahoo e-mails never work, Outlook is iffy) so please register with a gmail address (and they offered to help me sign up for gmail if I didn't have it).

An older example: According to a Macy's CS rep, Macy's won't deliver their e-mails to domains registered with godaddy (the actual e-mail provider apparently doesn't matter, but in this case it was Microsoft). My mom has an account with them that she can't access, because she needs to receive an e-mail to login, and she needs to login to change which e-mail address is associated with it.
by orbital-decay | 2025-09-27 00:10:43+00:00
Games people love usually have a large portion of spontaneity behind their success. This is hard to faithfully capture even if that's your intention, and remasters are usually done on a tiny budget for profit by people who often aren't even familiar with the OG game, which doesn't really help.

There are exceptions though, and also there are some remasters that are not faithful but are good on their own.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-27 00:11:34+00:00
Good point. It requires disassembly, and if you're not comfortable with that it is a lot harder to get a good idea on this. But there are plenty of videos and photos online of various disassembled packs from high volume manufacturers.

Quality cells are a relatively small group of brands so that should be easy enough to check for, and you'll know looking at just one side of a cell group whether or not it was put together half decently or whether it is messy.

Stuff to look for: loose balance wires, bad welds (welds that don't penetrate so they're loose), pointy edges of connecting strips that touch the plastic insulation of the cells, insufficient spacing between the cells, insufficient insulation near the welds.

For one-off purchases this won't help, but if you are a reseller or larger purchaser then it definitely is a good idea to tear down a pack and inspect.