MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cma | 2025-09-12 16:02:05+00:00
You still don't get the 4X increase on those pixels. You get it compressed down to a blended by coverage estimation of elements within the pixel. With a 4x higher res display instead of 4x MSAA or 4x SSAA you get more info in that area because you preserve more spatial aspects of the elements of it, instead of just coverage aspects.
by roody15 | 2025-09-12 16:02:06+00:00
Older male got some Tadalafil from the doctor and not covered by insurance. Cost 530$. Told them i will not be using insurance and did an RX code and the prescription was 11$.

The system is beyond silly in pricing.

Another prescription had a 10$ copay since it was just a generic drug. Again I requested please don’t run through insurance and the rx price was 4$.

I did a deep dive into understanding how prescription pricing works in the US, long story short it is insanely way too complex and for profit private health care insurance is not good for the health of the population.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-12 16:02:38+00:00
NATO has many times the industrial capacity Russia has. Fater 3 years of war Russia has adapted to war production but if NATO decides to do the same Russia will be outclassed quickly.

These are war game scenarios, though, as in reality it is highly improbable that Russia would start a conflict with NATO because they know they cannot compete. This doesn't mean NATO should not keep its game up, of course.
by jmyeet | 2025-09-12 16:02:38+00:00
Bitcoin is a perfect microcosm for the tech sector in what happens when people who don't know how something works and refuse to understand it, try to replace it.

Every aspect of the modern financial system exists for a reason. It evolved over time to deal with problems. Things like reversible transactions are a feature not a bug.

Bitcoin is where all the gold bugs went who lamented the end of the gold standard. Most of these people didn't understand that at no point in history was the US dollar 100% backed by gold (or silver, originally). Never.

What backs the US dollar isn't gold or oil or anythihng else we dig up out of the ground. It's long schlong of the US military.

I've also said that crypt currency exists only because the government hasn't shut it down. All it would take is a policy change from the US government to say banks who have access to the US financial system cannot trade in Bitcoin and it would be over. Yes you could still have wallets (at least until the government starts going after Bitcoin farms, which again it could do) but what would you do with those coins?

Bitcoin is not, never has been and never will be an escape from the perils (some real, many imagined) of fiat currencies.
Show HN: Free AI Business Name Generator and Domain Avalibility
by egldmila | 2025-09-12 16:02:50+00:00
Hey everyone!So here's the thing - I've been building side projects for about 3 years now, and honestly, the most frustrating part wasn't coding or design. It was finding a damn good domain name.Last month I had this perfect name for my new app. Spent like 2 hours checking if it was available across different TLDs, going back and forth between tabs. By the time I decided to buy it... gone. Someone literally registered it while I was thinking about it.That was my breaking point lol.I ended up building NameGator (namegator.net) - it's basically an AI-powered domain name generator that checks availability across 30+ TLDs instantly. No more tab switching, no more losing domains while you're deciding.But here's the thing - I'm still working out some bugs and would love if you guys could break it for me. I mean, really try to break it. Weird search terms, crazy combinations, whatever comes to mind.The tool suggests business names using AI, then immediately shows which domains are actually available. It's been super helpful for my projects, but I know I'm probably missing edge cases.What's the most frustrating part of domain hunting for you? And if you do try breaking my tool, let me know what happens!
by switchbak | 2025-09-12 16:02:58+00:00
“as a project, it looked fun” - if that’s the rationale, I think it’s fine. The rest of it feels like a post-hoc rationalization though.

I’m not a super fan of this, and I kind of hated windows 3.x, so I might not be the target market. But I also hate many of the trends in modern website design, so maybe I’m just an old crank.

There could be a subset of this that is accessible, compatible, and doesn’t reinvent a browser in a browser. I might end up liking that better than the status quo - so I appreciate the experimental spirit!
by CharlesW | 2025-09-12 16:02:58+00:00
There are MCPs that work with the macOS Accessibility stack, like https://github.com/steipete/macos-automator-mcp, https://github.com/ashwwwin/automation-mcp, https://github.com/mediar-ai/MacosUseSDK, and https://github.com/baryhuang/mcp-remote-macos-use.

For web page elements, you could drive the browser via `do JavaScript` or use a dedicated browser MCP (Chrome DevTools MCP, Playwright MCP).
by lenerdenator | 2025-09-12 16:03:26+00:00
In that case, yeah, I could see aerial drones being a response.

It's not an altogether different concept from the V1 Buzz Bomb. Those were easy enough to blow out of the sky if you were in a WWII prop fighter.

I wonder how effective heavy machine guns would be against one. What's its service ceiling? It's running on a gasoline motor so it can't be that high.
by mikestorrent | 2025-09-12 16:03:33+00:00
Thanks, that's a very succinct way of putting my original idea.

It was well put in (one of the) the ending(s) of Evangelion, where the protagonist Shinji learns that gravity, a constraint that removes a degree of freedom, also gives him freedom by providing a surface upon which he can walk; without the constraint, he would actually be less free.
by chmod775 | 2025-09-12 16:04:05+00:00
It's not remotely capable enough. There's a reason you never see one of these things cut something soft like a tomato into even slices (or at all).

Their extremely clumsy fingers/hands can pretty much just open and close. I have doubts they could even fasten a screw using any kind of screwdriver, given the hardware's overall lack of precision and degrees of freedom in their digits.

They have about enough degrees of freedom to grip most things, but not enough to manipulate (such as rotate) something like a screwdriver they are already holding. Some sources claim they can be precise to within around 1 newton with their grip force - this does not include the additional error introduced by the rest of the robot the hand is attached to. This is relevant if they're holding something that is also pressed against a cutting-board. Best case for them is simply holding an object without having to exert further control, since they have some sort of clutch mechanism that decouples the motors and essentially locks their fingers in place. That gets rid of the shaking you'd otherwise see when they have to exert continuous motor effort. You do not have that luxury when you are manipulating something soft, such as when cutting a tomato, or when you're trying to turn a screwdriver in your hands.

We can deduce they are at least an order of magnitude off human precision, likely multiple. These things are not going to cut tomatoes into something you'd put onto a sandwich or burger, then sell to customers, any time soon.
by coldfoundry | 2025-09-12 16:04:13+00:00
Wow, thats pretty bad. Reminds me of the old Paypal Invoice scams where scammers would upload the paypal logo as the invoice logo (which appears top left) and essentially “bill” the user. The scammer the adds inside the invoice note a paragraph explaining “Your money is being held due to currency exchange issues”, which gives basic reason to the “monetary deduction”. It got me as a kid, was quite slick for the time. Thought these scam-methods would be at least flagged these days before going out.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-12 16:04:23+00:00
1. "insulated from" <-- "ad blocker"

2. "exposed by" <-- so-called "modern" browser

When #2 is not used, there is no need for #1

That is, #2 creates the need for #1

If stop using #2, then "ads" problem is solved
by fern_ | 2025-09-12 16:04:27+00:00
There is something to be said for being senior in a way where the people interviewing you are junior enough that they don't necessarily have the experience to necessarily "click" with the nuance that comes with said problems.

That being said, from a stoicism point of view, the interview ends up becoming a meta-challenge on how you approach a problem that is not necessarily appropriately framed, and how you'd go about doing and/or gently correcting things as well.

And if they're not able to appreciate it, then success! You have found that it is not the right organization for you. No need to burn the door down on the way out, just feel relief in that you dodged a bullet (hopefully).
by jamestimmins | 2025-09-12 16:04:30+00:00
That's very exciting to hear! I'd be delighted to be wrong about that.

Edit: Although, just to clarify, I didn't really mean that I think I won't change as I get older. Moreso that if growing a mustache or getting involved in international diplomacy was going to be in my future, I'd likely have some indication of that by now.
by nunez | 2025-09-12 16:04:39+00:00
100%. it was very hard (but not impossible) to compete against vmware in the virtualization space before the Hockening™; vSAN, vSphere and NSX were very very nice and super easy to use. nutanix succeeded more often than not.

orgs now are kind-of scrambling for alternatives. great for nutanix. better for the CSPs. also great for red hat (my employer) since we have openshift virt, which is based on kubevirt but is much easier to use and works nicely with the rest of the ecosystem.
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-12 16:05:48+00:00
>If you look at how weed was legalized, it required a referendum

It only required a referendum in some states because most US states are controlled by Republican governors and legislatures who openly defy what their own constituents want without fear of being voted out, because republicans vote republican no matter what. Republican voters will say "I want to legalize weed", their elected representative spouts literal DARE propaganda about weed that republican voters KNOW is false since they literally smoke weed (illegally, how about that), but they STILL re-elect those politicians, because it's more important to not have a democrat in office than to actually get what you democratically voted for.

Here in Maine, we passed a referendum to legalize weed. It passed. Lepage spent the next 4 years of his Governor term refusing to implement it, entirely. Like he just criminally defied the will of the public. As soon as Mills took office, the state built up a framework for recreational weed and IMO it's pretty good compared to other states, which is probably why we have literal Chinese gangs growing illegal weed all over the state :/

You see the same thing in every Republican state that allows citizen referendums. The public passes a referendum, and the republican politicians of the state just utterly defy it, and they do not get voted out

Democrat politicians respect citizen referendums, even when they are stupid and against democrat policies, like in California where Uber is not an employer because that's how the people voted.
by nextos | 2025-09-12 16:06:13+00:00
FWIW, the OP's problem is not linear. It's an integer programming problem.

A trick if you can't do a custom algorithm and using a library is not allowed during interview could be to be ready to roll your own DPLL-based solver (can be done in 30 LOC).

Less elegant, but it's a one-size-fits-all solution.
by jsbisviewtiful | 2025-09-12 16:06:42+00:00
Speculation on my part based on other sources I've read, but likely related to water sources being contaminated in general. Curious to know however how additional filtration did not clean out these chemicals.

I am so tired. No matter how hard people try to keep this stuff out of their bodies, the lack of regulation and lack of enforcement --or even regulation and enforcement being way too late-- makes the act of simply keeping chemicals out of ourselves impossible. The chemicals are everywhere.
by lucideer | 2025-09-12 16:07:10+00:00
The EU law is good for consumers & bad for advertising companies. In response to this, advertising companies have made the web a significantly worse user experience.

You can reasonably argue that if the EU had not taken action to reduce advertising companies' ability to abuse customer rights, then advertising companies would not have retaliated, & therefore the web would be a less annoying experience. You cannot reasonably argue though that this is some isolated one-sided situation where ad companies are devoid of culpability.

Your entire comment essentially amounts to ignoring an elephant in the room to sell a narrative that one "side" bears 100% of responsibility for the outcome.
by arjie | 2025-09-12 16:07:20+00:00
This is funny. The site https://github.rustfoundation.dev now only contains a single image that is the buff doge vs cheems meme.

Chad Rust Devs

vs.

Virgin NPM Devs Falling For Phishing

Amusing. You have to ignore SSL to get the image since the site has HSTS enabled.

A coincidence is that today I got a "two factor code from Coinbase. If you did not request this, call this number". Ho ho ho. Yes, I will call your number, Coinbase.
by cantor_S_drug | 2025-09-12 16:07:23+00:00
> stupid people did stupid things and then doubled down on stupidity as they went along.

You might like this review of the movie Civil War. Very well thought out review.

Alex Garland's CIVIL WAR has a clear and simple meaning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWBzZJxhQtY
by irthomasthomas | 2025-09-12 16:07:29+00:00
I realize my SpongeBob post came off flippant, and that wasn't the intent. The Spongebob ASCII test (picked up from Qwen's own Twitter) is explicitly a rote-memorization probe; bigger dense models usually ace it because sheer parameter count can store the sequence

With Qwen3's sparse-MoE, though, the path to that memory is noisier: two extra stochastic draws (a) which expert(s) fire, (b) which token gets sampled from them. Add the new gated-attention and multi-token heads and you've got a pipeline where a single routing flake or a dud expert can break vertical alignment halfway down the picture.

Anyway, I think qwen3-coder was uniquely trained on this - so it's not a fair comparison. Here are some other qwen3 models:

Model: chutes/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B

/~\ ( * * ) ( o o o ) \ - / \ /\ / \ / \/ /|||\ /|||||\ /||||||||\ ( o o o ) \ W / \___/

Model: chutes/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

/\_/\ ( o.o ) > ^ < / \ | | | | \ / '-'-'

Model: chutes/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507

.-----------. | [] [] | | | | __ __ | | | || | | | |__||__| | | | '-----------'

Model: chutes/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

__ / \ / \ / \ / \ /__________\ | o o | | __ | | \____/ | | | | ________ | | \ / | | \____/ | | | |____________| ___________ / \ / \ | _______ | | | | | | | ___ | | | | | | | | | | |___| | | | |_______| | | | |_______________|

Model: chutes/Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

.-. / \ | o o| | > | | ---| \___/

Model: chutes/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507

_________________________ / \ | _ _ _ _ | | / \ / \ / \ / \ | | | | | | | | | | | | \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ | | | | _ _ _ _ | | / \ / \ / \ / \ | | | | | | | | | | | | \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ | | | | SpongeBob SquarePants | |_________________________|
by bee_rider | 2025-09-12 16:07:30+00:00
Insurance companies can’t really work as things that change the expected value of the service they insure, it just doesn’t make sense. They exist to cover massive unlikely risks. I don’t blame insurance companies for being annoying services with negative expected values (that’s just inevitable).

But, whoever decided to start marketing things like low deductibles and out-of-pocket costs as a premium service, that person bears a lot of blame. They are the one that decided customers shouldn’t see most of their healthcare costs.

The ideal that actually lets customers see pricing info is: a health savings account, a high-deductible insurance with no cap, and then as a cost savings measure the insurance company can incentivize yearly check-ups.

Mixing in employer insurance also caused a skew, because it makes people see their employer insurance as a perk. A perk should be something you actually experience. Employers should dump money into your HSA, and subsidize a gym/healthy snacks for their campus instead (some do, of course).
by tim333 | 2025-09-12 16:07:41+00:00
I think they go up to like 5000 feet so within anti aircraft gun range but you'd need a lot of such guns to cover the long Ukraine border and they are not cheap. Drones may be more practical.

>the Skyranger, a twin radar-guided 30mm gun turret made by Rheinmetall, making this the natural choice for the German Army. The gun system costs around $12 million https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2025/09/10/why-so...

and ammo is about $600/round apparently.

EDIT:

They used to go 5000 ft or so. Now " fly between 2,000 to 5,000 meters to evade small arms fire, while the high-altitude reconnaissance drone Shahed 147 can reach 18,288 meters (60,000 feet). "
by reaperducer | 2025-09-12 16:07:47+00:00
I noticed there is zero mention of burnout in the article, which is exactly what every one of these founders will get if they keep pushing at the crazy pace they are going at

Or just pretend that you, and the people you ape, aren't taking drugs to keep yourself going.

As much as I dislike a certain high-profile African-American rocket launching car salesman tech bro, at least he doesn't hide his addiction.
by xyzelement | 2025-09-12 16:07:47+00:00
This super-resonates, especially the bit about our actions being a reflection (and being limited by) how we see ourselves and the world in it, the very basic understanding of reality.

For example - I gained a bunch of pounds since my 3rd kid was born - I am busy at work, I try to help my wife as much as I can, the other kids leave no space to work out, whatever. All very realistic and reasonable. And yet I have a neighbor who just had their 3rd kid, he's got a similar caliber job, and I see him running every day. We both "value" being fit, we both understand the connection between exercise and health, we face a similar "objective" reality and yet this is an example where clearly he somehow understands it and himself in it, differently than I do. So for example - consistent with the article - my neighbor probably sees himself as "someone who exercises" and moves the other things around in his life to make it happen. I see myself as someone "who'd like to exercise" - a weaker level of identity that means I don't reshape my reality to make it happen.

Or here's another example - the average religious Jewish couple living in Brooklyn has an average 6.6 kids. A secular couple living in the same zip code is statistically likely to have just about 0 kids. And while there're indeed a million reasons why having kids is very hard today, the religious couple goes into it knowing "we're future parents" and make it happen, the secular couple goes into it "we see the problems facing us" and doesn't make it happen. Same to my exercise example, your interpretation of reality and your role in it, has outsize impact over what externally might seem like identical objective reality.

I am not sure if I believe in objective reality or not. If I do, then people who succeed (eg my fit neighbor, the religious parents) prove what the actual reality is, or whether we each live in our own subjective realities where X is possible for someone as part and parcel of how they are but not for someone else. And when you reframe your reality fully (what religion calls repentance) then you actually do alter it.
by genewitch | 2025-09-12 16:08:24+00:00
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/report-cards/2022

I'm not sure that democrats enact/write less laws. If they don't enact (or write) less laws, i cannot see how the aggregate number of laws reduces.

This, apparently, is a "hard" statistical (research) problem, even though i've seen reporting on this exact subject, along the lines of "number of lines in bills written by each party" or similar. but the top 2 are democrats. I think "enacted" is a different metric, but i'm still pretty certain that democrats lead on "enacted" legislation, at least in the last 25 years.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-09-12 16:08:40+00:00
That's an exceptionally well crafted phishing email and landing page. It looks so real! Even the URL looks legit - github.rustfoundation.dev (the real URL is rustfoundation.org).

Btw, if you go to https://rustfoundation.dev right now it says in meme format: Virgin npm devs falling for phishing (sleepy doge) vs Chad Rust devs (shredded doge).

As chad as Rust devs supposedly are, something tells me at least a few of them are going to fall for this attack.
by Atlas667 | 2025-09-12 16:08:51+00:00
I'm not retreating into a wider claim. The civil rights issues were literally about "american" not meaning all of us legally.

That is my example for prior usage of the word "american" being biased. It was so biased that people willfully forgot the law and the constitution. Why does it not suffice?

Here is one more I recall:

“When I say all Americans — I mean all Americans...” President Truman when ending segregation in the army

I could keep looking up examples but I feel these are fundamental enough.

Yes african american emphasizes it, there was a need to do that. I wonder why?

Also I should add that I specifically dont give a damn about emoji color. I always leave default yellow cause i rarely use em anyways.
by Lord-Jobo | 2025-09-12 16:08:54+00:00
My experience with 5 Samsung phones over 10ish years, last one being 2019:

Great hardware that nearly always impresses. Very infrequent hardware issues compared to its main competitors (in the android space).

Extremely annoying software experience. Locked bootloader aside, as I recognize that's only an issue for a very small group. But the software goes through these intense hills and valleys where you can go a long time without updates, with bugs, with bloat, with problems. Then a burst of updates that seem to address many of those issues, then it just slides back into the shit. And the amazing hardware is dragged down in this cycling, to the point where the phone will feel old at an accelerated rate. I've hard that exact complaint about apple and a few other android manufacturers many times but only Samsung has genuinely given me that experience.

It's very unfortunate. If they unlocked the bootloader I could bypass the software issues myself and have damn near the perfect phone.
by andrewla | 2025-09-12 16:08:58+00:00
This is pure click bait that relies on a deliberate misreading of a 2023 notice [1] that tries to imply that "self custody" is being attacked in any form.

All that this is saying is that the government will try to track money movement to pursue criminal activity, including, unfortunately the criminal activity of moving money in a way that looks sketchy. This is something that we have decided we have to live with.

[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/23/2023-23...
by qnleigh | 2025-09-12 16:09:09+00:00
Yes, especially if the interviewee said something like 'this may not be asymptomatically optimal, but if it's not a known bottleneck, then I might start with constraint solver to get something working quickly and then profile later.' Especially if it's a case where even the brute-force solution is tricky.

Otherwise penalizing interviewees for suggesting quick-and-dirty solutions reinforces bad habits. "Premature optimization is the root of all evil," after all.
by cobbzilla | 2025-09-12 16:09:53+00:00
In a few cases, I really liked the company and what they were doing, got along wonderfully with the hiring manager. Then bombed their leetcode BS.

So when I say I’d politely tell them why they’re fucked, it’s actually out of a genuine desire to help the company.

But you’re right, I’m also thankful that they showed their red flag so visibly, early enough, and I’m happy to not move forward!