MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dspillett | 2025-09-17 09:35:14+00:00
> the poor availability was because they didnt make enough.

I mean, yeah, that is obvious. But for early products, especially when the level of demand is greater than expectations as it was for both the early Pi and PiZero variants, it is sometimes impractical to ramp up production and supply chains fast enough. If they had made a pile more before release and demand hadn't been that high they would have gone bust with a load of stock in warehouses.

> they blame supply chain issues around covid

You've got your timeline very compressed there. The first couple of Pi Zero variants (this thread started with “The original Raspberry Pi Zero was…”) and supply issues associated with them, were around quite a bit before the effects of C19 and the associated supply chain problems. The Pi Zero 2 was released during the time when the chip shortage and related problems were biting, but the previous version was released a couple of years before 2020 and the first version a couple of years before that.
by robocat | 2025-09-17 09:36:18+00:00
> hypertension is not contagious

Common causes of hypertension are "contagious". Summary:

spousal concordance: one partner’s chronic disease raises the odds the other has it too. If one spouse has hypertension, multiple studies suggest the other spouse’s risk is about 1.3 to 1.5 times higher than their cohort. Genetic causes can easily double risk over baseline cohort for children. However there is a strong environmental/lifestyle effect in children. Studies in Scandinavia show that children adopted into hypertensive households carry an elevated risk compared to the general population. A hypertensive parent with an adopted child nudges the child’s later-life risk by about 20–30% higher than baseline.
Show HN: Locovote – An open-source dashboard for exploring local government data
by amarder | 2025-09-17 09:37:56+00:00
I built this after spending hours wandering through government websites to compare Massachusetts towns while house hunting. Locovote aggregates school scores, tax rates, and municipal finances in one easy-to-navigate site.

Try it at https://locovote.com - no signup required. Built with Observable Framework. Would love to hear your thoughts.

GitHub: https://github.com/amarder/locovote
by machina_ex_deus | 2025-09-17 09:38:57+00:00
There's no murder of two million. There's at most, according to Hamas itself, 60,000 dead out of which 10,000 were hamas militants. This is a regular ugly war.

If Israel wanted to kill two million, they could've done it already.

It seemingly doesn't matter how accurate Israel tried to be, they call genocide either way.
by pjc50 | 2025-09-17 09:39:15+00:00
You can dismantle them from the outside, like Arendt, but "debating" them gives them a platform to Gish gallop their views to an accepting audience.

Fascism sounds great. It has terrific marketing. It's like cigarettes, awesome product apart from the bit where it kills people. Including people who never consumed the product.
by Sonam_AI | 2025-09-17 09:39:33+00:00
EmbedAnything is a minimalist, yet highly performant, modular, lightning-fast, lightweight, multisource, multimodal, and local embedding pipeline built in Rust. Whether you're working with text, images, audio, PDFs, websites, or other media, EmbedAnything streamlines the process of generating embeddings from various sources and seamlessly streaming (memory-efficient-indexing) them to a vector database. It supports dense, sparse, ONNX, model2vec, and late-interaction embeddings, offering flexibility for a wide range of use cases.

The best part of using embedanything is its modularity. You can change the model with HF links and vector databases by changing just one word.
by jangxx | 2025-09-17 09:39:52+00:00
You don't seem to understand what people mean when they say "AI is just fancy autocorrect". People talk about the little word suggestions over the keyboard, not about correcting spelling. And yes, of course those suggestions are going to be provided by some sort of ML model, and yes if you actually write a whole article just using them, it should be marked as AI generated, but literally no one is doing that. Maybe because it's not fancy enough autocorrect. Either way, this is not the gotcha you think.
by spacebacon | 2025-09-17 09:40:21+00:00
Rust is a strong pick in 2025. As a designer, I valued familiar frontend tools, but I built My Rust CMS with the RAYDT stack anyway (Rust, Axum, Yew, Diesel, Tower), which I coined. WebAssembly ensures fast performance, memory safety adds reliability, and my visual page builder streamlines editing. Still evolving, yet it’s built to last with minimal maintenance. React feels less necessary now.
by account42 | 2025-09-17 09:40:52+00:00
Those languages need a dedicated operator because they are loosely typed which would make it ambiguous like + in JavaScript.

But C++ doesn't have that problem. Sure, a separate operator would have been cleaner (but | is already used for bitwise or) but I have never seen any bug that resulted from it and have never felt it to be an issue when writing code myself.
by juliendorra | 2025-09-17 09:41:28+00:00
I think it’s a myth that people consumed less information just a few decades ago. Remember that newspapers used to have at least two daily editions (morning and afternoon). And of course radio has had continuous news flashes for a century.

This is similar to the myth that people communicated less before the messaging apps: they were glued to their phone for hours, sent telegrams and even sent very short letters (delivered same day!) to just say "thanks for the lunch that was very nice" (I found some in my grand-parents’s papers)

Our (social) communication appetite has always been quite insatiable.
by drougge | 2025-09-17 09:43:57+00:00
I have a related complaint about modern consoles: They are frequently unreadable, because they just have to use all the pixels. I booted Debian (IIRC) on a laptop with a 13" 4K screen and got something like 426x135 characters. No chance for me to read them, but there sure were a lot of them. My eyes aren't the best, but I think most people would find that unreadable.

Defaulting to 80x25 (or anything else reasonable) in an almost infinitely ugly font would be a vast improvement.
by tovej | 2025-09-17 09:44:05+00:00
This is full of dishonest talking points so I will only address some of them to show others just how dishonest they are. Saying Palestinians aren't part of a nation is some racist bullshit.

You're denying Palestinians their nationhood even though Palestinians have had a national identity for longer than Israel has existed. Just to humour you, Palestine has multiple world famous national symbols, like the Jaffa orange, the keffiyeh, and the Dabke. All older than Zionist plans to take over the region.

The Palestinians haven't moved to Palestine recently, they've mostly been moved _out_ of Palestine, or moved into Gaza by Israel from elsewhere in their homeland. People whose families have lived in Palestine for generations are denied their right of return by Israel, even though this was rules a condition in UN resolution 194. Why would we even be talking about a right to return if Palestine isn't their homeland? The people whose homelands are elsewhere are the Israeli settlers.

I will agree that the region was jewish thousands of years ago. Nobody alive today is reaponsible for that, and the Palestinians are also descendants of the jewish people who lives there at the time. The Nakba happened in 1948, and the state of Israel that was founded on the back of those crimes still exists and is still responsible. Just as an example, Tel Aviv university is built on the rujns of the village of Sheikh Munis, and some of its dorms are built on the village's graveyard (source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/high-court-tau-can-build-dorms...). This is acceptable to Israeli society because they view Palestinians as subhumans.

What is happening is so incredibly obvious to anyone with a brain who has at least a speck of humanity in them. Which is why it is so devastatingly horrifying that some people are cheering Israel on as it wipes out an indigenous population, and when our political system is doing absolutely nothing to stop them.
by kergonath | 2025-09-17 09:44:19+00:00
> Fortran - It could just be me, but IDEs struggle with it. If you have any global data it may as well not exist as far as the IDE is concerned, which makes dealing with such projects very hard.

You really should not have global data. Modules are the way to go and have been since Fortran90.

> CMake - I'm amazed it works at all. It looks great for simple toy projects and has the power to handle larger projects, but it seems to quickly become an ungodly mess of strange comments and rules that aren't spelled out - and you have no way of stepping into it and seeing what it's doing. I try to touch it as infrequently as possible. It feels like C macros, in a bad way.

I like how you wrote my feelings so accurately :D
by tmnvix | 2025-09-17 09:44:21+00:00
Worth having a listen to Aaron Good, author of 'American Exception' being interviewed by Jeffrey Sachs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXvuOG33zLs

Some of the gist of what he talks about:

Just as there is an 'underworld', there is also a corresponding and related 'overworld'. Essentially organised crime, corporations, and security services cooperating in nefarious ways (often usurping - though not always violently - the power of states).

It's arguable that Israel is particularly interested and involved in this 'overworld'. See the early history of the CIA, FBI, Meyer Lansky and the mob, Epstein, the reach and effectiveness of Mossad relative to other similar organisations, etc.

Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like, but I believe that most significant western leaders have probably been compromised in some way by 'overworld' influences. Look at what happens to 'the wrong type of candidate' that gets too close to power. Jeremy Corban was thoroughly and dishonestly scandalised by a campaign instigated and supported by Israeli interests. Why? The complete bandwagon type behaviour of mainstream British press of the left and right in that campaign is very reminiscent of the way recent mainstream media coverage reports on Gaza - it looks coordinated and in unison.

Of course, I'm probably wrong. Just trying to make sense of the madness I see around me.

TLDR; My theory is that Israel has corrupted our media and politicians through a nexus of nefarious actors that Aaron Good refers to as the 'overworld'.
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-09-17 09:44:22+00:00
I wonder whats the best SATA SSD (M.2 2280) one could get now?

I have an old Asus with a M.2 2280 slot that only takes SATA III.

I recall 840 EVO M.2 (if my memory serves me right) is the current drive but looking for a new replacement seems not to be straightforward as most SATA is 2.5 in. Or if its the correct M.2 2280, its for NVMe.
by phtrivier | 2025-09-17 09:44:39+00:00
Do you mean in this context [1] ? It would not be NSO, and not clearly targeted _from_ the Italian Government (though it would be a plausible explanation)

I can't find allegations of usage of Pegasus in Italy per se (yet, might not have looked enough), as there are for other countries [2].

Not an expert, so I might have missed some instances. And by definition, those things are hard to track.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgmzdjw24yo

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...
by anovikov | 2025-09-17 09:45:28+00:00
Payroll taxes of course don't come from the rich, they don't make money as salaries. And their consumption is quite limited so they don't pay much VAT either.

Money in Scandinavian countries is coming from the middle class. The rich are a lot more entrenched there than they are in the US, to the point of becoming almost invisible, because almost all wealth stretches generations since before current draconian taxes were put in place. These people in fact, introduced this system for their own benefit: to pull the ladder.
by dayvster | 2025-09-17 09:46:04+00:00
I wouldn't necessarily put it like that no. I'd say all languages have features that fit certain situations but should be avoided in other situations.

It's like a well equiped workshop, just because you have access to a chainsaw but do not need to use it to build a table does not mean it's a bad workshop.

C is very barebones, languages like C++. C#, Rust and so on are not. Just because you don't need all of it's features does not make those languages inherently bad.

Great question or in this case counter-counter point though.
by ignoramous | 2025-09-17 09:46:40+00:00
> That reality is incompatible with a state bent on extermination ... Civilian deaths are tragic, but tragedy is not the same thing as a systematic plan to wipe out a people.

Same energy.

"We could have killed all the Jews in Germany yesterday, but we did not do it. The demonstrations in Franconia were, in general, disciplined, clear, and farsighted." - Julius Streicher, in a speech the day after Kristallnacht.

> If Israel's goal was exterminating Palestinians, explain why it has repeatedly supported two-state proposals that Palestinian leadership rejected.

"The behavior of the Führer and the Reich in these days of continuous Polish and English provocations were remarkable. No other nation would have been as patient. It would have done what the Führer finally did on 1 September much earlier."
Show HN: I Open-Sourced the Future of Search
by Ale0407 | 2025-09-17 09:46:49+00:00
Hey HN

I am a bit researcher, I love searching and scraping the web.

But I find that most research tools like Perplexity, search engines and Deep Research features in LLMs miss the personalization component of the search

I get a lot of answers that do not match my goals .

That's why I decided to write this manifesto and draft a simple AI search Assistant to represent my ideal of the Future of Search.
by bonoboTP | 2025-09-17 09:47:24+00:00
Yes, and a standard dashcam/bodycam on every person's head. Right now you can see when a person is recording you, they are holding up their phone. With this, it's just a tap on the glasses (or auto-record and tap to preserve the last X minutes).

It will remember all your activities, help you find your keys and objects, remember what you bought when and if there's still toilet paper in your bathroom, etc. It will make helpful charts and statistics about your life, help to optimize it, notice if there is some product that it wants to advertise to you based on your activities etc. It's all going to be packaged and sold to ad networks. You will see AR ad objects floating everywhere, depending on what you do.
by alias_neo | 2025-09-17 09:48:06+00:00
I'm glad to hear at least one manufacturer is trying. I can't imagine myself buying a gaming laptop again, perhaps for my kids when they're old enough, but I stick to desktop now.

My main drive in choosing the MSI I did back then was the thinness and lightness, which was counter-productive to good cooling performance, mine had a GTX970M but was about 1cm thick; the bottom of the case got so hot it would burn you if you touched it after a while of gaming.
by ffsm8 | 2025-09-17 09:48:38+00:00
First time I hear such negativity about tomshardware but the only time I actually looked at one of their tests in detail was with their series that tests for burn-in for consumer OLED TVs and displays. But the other reviews I glances at in that contexts looked pretty solid from a casual glance

Can you elaborate wrt the reason for your critique considering they're pretty much just testing from the perspective of the consumer? I thought their explicit goal is not to provide highly technical analysis and niche preferences but instead look at it for John Doe that's thinking about buying X, and what it would mean for his usecases. From my mental model of that perspective, they're reporting was pretty spot on and not shoddy, but I'm not an expert on the topic
by shellkr | 2025-09-17 09:49:21+00:00
It is sad how history repeats itself.. how the country who should have been on the forefront of preventing genocide is actually the one who does it. Israel is even using similar reasoning for continuing the fight. Similar how the Nazis in Norway was furious over the resistance there.

I think a lot would have been won if the illegal settlements stopped and the apartheid like system ended. Hamas (and any other resistance) lives on the resentment created from that.

It think if Israel went back to the border of -67 and then did not try to expand its territories. It would with time resolve.
by eschatology | 2025-09-17 09:49:48+00:00
Hmm

I don’t see the state file as a complete downside. It is very simple and very easy to understand. It makes it easy to tell or predict what terraform will do given the current state and desired state.

Its simpleness makes troubleshooting easier: the state files are easy to read and manipulate or repair in the event of a drift, mismatch, or botched provider update.

With the solution proposed it feels like the state becomes a black box I shouldn’t put my hands in. I wonder how the troubleshooting scenarios change with it.

Personally, I haven’t ran into the scaling issue described; at any given time there is usually only one entity working with the state file. We do use terragrunt for larger systems but it is manageable. ~1000 engineer org.
by sfn42 | 2025-09-17 09:50:05+00:00
In some cases, sure.

I'm not saying the ideal frontend dev writes no JS. I'm saying they write as little as possible. Some times you need JS, nothing wrong with that. The vast majority of the time you don't. And if you do I'd say it's a self-imposed requirement (or a direct/indirect result of a self imposed requirement) most of the time.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-17 09:50:28+00:00
> In FPTP, this often ends up backfiring.

Every possible alignment of circumstances “backfires” in FPTP because FPTP is a fundamentally bad way to elect a legislature.

That’s not a problem of, e.g., salient political issues becoming partisan—representing a coherent position on salient issues is the only useful thing parties can do—it is a problem of FPTP.
by jbreckmckye | 2025-09-17 09:51:15+00:00
When you say looking at the source code, what do you mean here?

AFAIK the source for FF9 PSX (and all the PSX ff games) has been lost as Square just used short term archives

Also, FF9 does not run at a constant framerate. Like all the PSX FF games it runs at various rates, sometimes multiple at a time (example: model animations are 15fps vs 30 for the UI)

In terms of timers, the bios does grant you access to root timers, but these are largely modulated by a hardware oscillator

(Incidentally, the hardware timing component is the reason a chipped PAL console cannot produce good NTSC video. Only a Yaroze can support full multiregion play)
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-17 09:52:07+00:00
> or fears that Nvidia/Intel could find out things about the hardware that AMD wants to keep secret (the fears being Unfounded doesn't make the possibility of them being a reason any less likely)

When the fears are unfounded the reason isn't "Nvidia/Intel could find out things about the hardware", it's "incompetence rooted in believing something that isn't true". Which is an entirely different thing because in one case they would have a proper dilemma and in the other they would need only extricate their cranium from their rectum.
by killerstorm | 2025-09-17 09:52:21+00:00
I'd say "Orthodox File Manager" is a forced meme by the author of the article. (Note that he links to his older article, etc.)

20-25 years ago when this kind of file managers were all the rage for power users I was in a Fidonet/Usenet discussion group with the most fanatical of these users, often sysadmins, plugin devs, etc. I don't think "orthodox" was used as a term - sometimes it was used as an epithet, maybe, sort of a joke.

But I guess Dr. Nikolai shows us that if you are really committed to introduced a term you can do it, eventually :D
by basisword | 2025-09-17 09:52:46+00:00
I think navigating European roads is a massive step more difficult than US cities. They've got wide lanes and a really strict grid layout generally. At least in the European cities I'm familiar with we have much narrower lanes, residential areas with parking turning 2 lanes into 1, old towns, and layouts that are completely unpredictable. Maybe I'm wrong but I think this is the bigger hurdle than regulation.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-17 09:54:09+00:00
"Not understanding or reasoning" is anthropocentric cope. There is very little practical difference between "understanding" and "reasoning" implemented in human mind and that implemented in LLMs.

One notable difference, however, is that LLMs disproportionately suck at spatial reasoning. Which shouldn't be surprising, considering that their training datasets are almost entirely text. The ultimate wordcel makes for a poor shape rotator.

All ARC-AGI tasks are "spatial reasoning" tasks. They aren't in any way special. They just force LLMs to perform in an area they're spectacularly weak at. And LLMs aren't good enough yet to be able to brute force through this innate deficiency with raw intelligence.
by gwd | 2025-09-17 09:54:42+00:00
> Pattern matching questions on a contrived test is not the same thing as understanding or reasoning.

Do submarines swim? I don't really care if it gets me where I want to go. The fact is that just two days ago, I asked Claude to look at some reasonably complicated concurrent code to which I had added a new feature, and asked it to list what tests needed to be added; and then when I asked GPT-5 to add them, it one-shot nailed the implementations. I've written a gist of it here:

https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/4889253

Seriously just even read the description of the test it's trying to write.

In order to one-shot that code, it had to understand:

- How the cache was supposed to work

- How conceptually to set up the scenario described

- How to assemble golang's concurrency primitives (channels, goroutines, and waitgroups), in the correct order, to achieve the goal.

Did it have a library of concurrency testing patterns in its head? Probably -- so do I. Had it ever seen my exact package before in its training? Never.

I just don't see how you can argue with a straight face that this is "pattern matching". If that's pattern matching, then pattern matching is not an insult.

If anything, the examples in this article are the opposite. Take the second example, which is basically 'assemble these assorted pieces into a rectangle'. Nearly every adult has assembled a minimum of dozens of things in their lives; many have assembled thousands of things. So it's humans in this case who are simply "pattern matching questions on a contrived test", and the LLMs, which almost certainly didn't have a lot of "assemble these items" in their training data, that are reasoning out what's going on from first principles.
by 747fulloftapes | 2025-09-17 09:55:13+00:00
The receiving IR remotes with an SDR by connecting an IR photodiode across the antenna input sounded like nonsense to me. I googled and could it be you meant people using the IR receiver feature of the RTLSDR's? It may still require connecting a photodiode, but to a different set of inputs.

https://medium.com/@rxseger/receiving-ir-signals-with-rtl-sd...

As to connecting a photodiode to the antenna input, I don't see how that would work, but that may well be due to my limited understanding and imagination.

Do you mean using the photodiode in a photovoltaic mode? Also, presumably you'd have to bypass the tuner and hook to the direct sampling pins on an RTLSDR? Even with direct sampling, wouldn't the 38kHz of IR remote modulation get filtered out by the DC blocking?