MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adrian_b | 2025-09-10 08:18:06+00:00
There is no doubt that the body of the vertebrates posterior to the head is rotated in comparison with that of most animals, so that what is up in other animals is down in vertebrates and vice-versa. Evidence for this has been known and it has continued to accumulate for about two centuries.

Where there is uncertainty is about what has happened to the head.

According to the supposition presented in the linked article, most of the head has preserved the same orientation as in most other animals, either because it never took part in the rotation of the rest of the body, or because later it has made an additional half-turn rotation, which has brought it back to the initial orientation. Among these 2 alternatives, I think that the first is more plausible, because in that case the environment would have retained a constant orientation with respect to the principal senses, even if the posterior body rotated.

While this theory supposes that most of the head of the vertebrates has the original orientation, also all competing theories must accept that at least a few parts of the head either have never participated to the body rotation, or a subsequent rotation has brought them back in the original position, e.g. the mouth.
by queenkjuul | 2025-09-10 08:18:34+00:00
Same. I mostly just don't believe people when they say they get good results. Or i guess, i think my definition of "good results" must be very different than other people's.

My manager uses cursor and Claude for everything. I can always tell. He pretends like he wrote it himself even, but he obviously didn't. I end up rewriting big chunks of it, or finding all sorts of baffling quirks during review.

Idk, I'm just not at all willing to settle for "good enough," which means Claude doesn't really save me any time. If I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it right.

It's a good rubber duck, and it's good for scaffolding new projects (arguably), and it's good at converting code from one language to another or for generating a one-off bash script or something. That's about all i can get out of it.
by obscurette | 2025-09-10 08:18:47+00:00
Every cultural/policy/etc change in society has huge delays. Especially in education - changes you implement have an impact 10+ years later. Culture, even if it's dying, dies slowly. Here in Estonia where I live at the moment educational systems is falling completely apart – overworked and bullied teachers escape from schools in unprecedented rate, there is 20% less teachers than there is a need etc. But Estonia is still in top of the PISA. Why? Because this culture of personal responsibility and valuing education is still alive in the generation of todays parents. But it's certainly dying here as well.
by sssilver | 2025-09-10 08:20:06+00:00
> The fact that the most enthusiastic adopters of non-yellow emojis seem to be non-white people, while white people tend to be more on the ‘I was fine being yellow’ side… just suck it up and pick a color.

I come from a country where almost nobody is white, and pretty much everyone is happily using the yellow emojis.

As a not-white person I hate the skin colored emojis. I find them to be a ridiculous waste of human thought, effort, and time.
by weinzierl | 2025-09-10 08:20:39+00:00
"TikTok does not have the same diversity of content as YouTube."

Maybe this is true but it is also easy to get the impression because of algorithmic differences.

I think YouTube quite aggressively tries to find a global optimum for your viewing preferences and for that constantly throws a certain fraction of random content at you to test if you like it. At the same time there is high inertia for active engagement to influence your feed.

TikTok is completely different. Once you are locked into your niche it tries to keep you engaged there as much as possible but never strays into other niches by itself. If you actively search for content outside your niche it is quick to adapt.

So, if you are just a lurker on TikTok it is very easy to get the impression that content diversity is low there.
by fragmede | 2025-09-10 08:20:43+00:00
> Who gets to be sleep deprived?

The live-in nanny. A high-paid lawyer and a sr software engineer together make, let's presume they make $500k/yr combined. They should take some of that money and hire someone else to do it for them. The question shouldn't be to compare one mom's job vs taking care of two children, there should be a team of professional adults taking care of a cadre of children. Amortized over that, the numbers look a bit better.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-10 08:22:36+00:00
>Not sure why you rebutting my post or why it is getting downvoted. I just answered the question that asked of list of 5 people who went to jail for corporate crime. I never commented they go to jail every time they deserve(or even most of the time for that matter).

It wasn't a rebuttal of your comment so much as I saw it as an opportunity to show the double standard in play WRT the consequences of ripping off wealthy folks vs. destroying the environment and/or outright maiming and killing people.

I didn't downvote your post either. Although if I'd noted that you "Asked AI", I might well have done so. To be clear, that's not a jab at you personally. Rather, I come to HN to discuss stuff with the other users, not read LLM generated text. If that's what I wanted, I don't need to come here, do I?

Sadly there's more and more of that here, with many folks not even saying they used an LLM (I use that term because "AI" doesn't actually exist) to generate their comment. I appreciate that you did so. Thanks!
by madaxe_again | 2025-09-10 08:23:35+00:00
No, this is the Einstein/student model that has been proposed for improving LLM output quality.

Basically you have your big clever LLM generating the outputs, and then you have your small dumb LLM reading them and going “did I understand that? Did it make sense?” - basically emulating the user before the response actually gets to the user. If it’s good, on it goes to the user, if not, the student queries Einstein with feedback to have another crack.

https://openai.com/index/prover-verifier-games-improve-legib...
by vidarh | 2025-09-10 08:23:53+00:00
There are many different types of NPCs. Consider e.g. Minecraft villagers, that doesn't have a story-purpose, but do serve functions such as trading that could also be augmented by dialogue details.

But even for story-driven games, you can signal when you're "done" extracting story-related details in various ways, by e.g. prompt the NPC to include dialogue element A,B,C when it fits the conversation, keep track of which were output (you can make it output a marker to ensure it's easy to track even if the dialogue element has been worded differently), and have it get annoyed and tell you it doesn't have more to tell you or similar as the repetition adds up.
by dijit | 2025-09-10 08:24:37+00:00
Just checked and if I want an unscratched iPhone 13 Mini I'll be paying about $600 in Sweden. (That's for the places that have it, everywhere seems to be sold out that's cheaper).

That's for a used, 4 year old phone...

For a device that's "cheap to pick up", it's holding it's value more than any other iPhone.
by alerighi | 2025-09-10 08:24:49+00:00
Yes because inductive charging has a lot of losses, they are ~75% efficient, that means that you waste 1/4 of your battery capacity, and that is power that you also pay for in your electricity bill (for how it's small).

While a phone with removable battery, like it was normal back in the days, you just buy whatever number of batteries you want, when the battery is dead you replace it, and you instantly have a 100% charged phone in a matter of 10 seconds. It's surely better than a MagSafe, than a powerbank, etc.
Ask HN: Should I add comments to my website?
by nicbou | 2025-09-10 08:25:05+00:00
I have a website that tells people how to settle in Berlin and navigate German bureaucracy.[0] German bureaucracy is complex and opaque, so I need continuous reader feedback to keep my guides up to date.

I want to (re)introduce comments to the website because...

- I'm more likely to get notified if my advice is outdated

- Questions give me an idea of what confuses readers and what can be improved

- I want to bring discussions that happen in private Facebook groups back into public view, so that others may find them.

On the other hand, I have a few fears:

- Spam. It can be mitigated to an extent, but it's still an unpleasant problem to deal with.

- Moderation would add a somewhat time-sensitive task, and I avoid those like the plague.

- This turns a resource into a community, and managing a community is a far more delicate job.

- This is a static website under source control. Comments would be hosted in a separate place, and it might be a hassle to keep these two sources of truth in sync.

Can anyone chime in with their own experience?

[0] Example guide: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/freelance-visa
Why Job Seekers Are Moving Beyond ChatGPT for Resume Building
by cvnomist | 2025-09-10 08:25:27+00:00
When searching for a “ChatGPT resume builder,” you’re likely looking for an AI-powered solution that can quickly transform your resume to match specific job requirements. While ChatGPT has gained popularity as a general AI assistant, dedicated resume-building tools like CVnomist offer specialized features that go far beyond what ChatGPT can provide for job seekers.
by vidarh | 2025-09-10 08:25:35+00:00
You prompt the LLM to point out that the clue will be added as is to the conversation, but for the LLM to include a marker instead of the actual text to ensure that actual critical details are included unchanged.

EDIT: Also, having the LLM botch a clue occasionally could be a feature. E.g. a bumbling character that you might need to "interrogate" a bit before you actually get the clue in a way that makes sense, and can't be sure it's entirely correct. That could make some characters more realistic.
by bapak | 2025-09-10 08:25:35+00:00
You can hate Apple for it, but the phone costs $1000+ because people will buy it. Apple has been proven right year after year since 2017 (iPhone X)

You can still do everything you mentioned on a $150 phone, which exists in parts of the world. If anything, one could complain that the $150 phone still takes pictures worse than an iPhone 5
by lynnharry | 2025-09-10 08:26:29+00:00
I checked has-ansi. What's the reason that this library would exist and be popular? Most of the work is done by the library it imports, ansi-regex and then it just return ansi-regex.test(string), yet it has 5% of the weekly downloads of ansi-regex. ansi-regex also has fewer than 10 lines of code.

I don't know anything about the npm ecosystem, what's the benefit of importing these libraries compared to including these code in the project?
by pndy | 2025-09-10 08:27:58+00:00
I was talking with my friend who's living in the middle of East Midlands and she was surprised that we have a micropayments platform here in Poland. She left before it become a common thing to pay for variety of goods physical or virtual with 6-digits temporary codes generated by banking app. I guess there's nothing similar like this in the UK? She couldn't tell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blik?useskin=vector
by mvdwoord | 2025-09-10 08:28:21+00:00
I was so confused by this when it first happened to me....

Watching quite some youtube content, and more than willing to pay any content provider for a worthy dose of content... I refuse to hand youtube any money and will happily play the adblocker cat and mouse and use clunky scripts to remove shorts. Starting to archive the most interesting channels myself. Thanks yt-dlp.
by eimrine | 2025-09-10 08:28:35+00:00
They do have karma! Once upon a time I have insulted some bot account by the most insulting word possible (some foreign analog of f-word) and a lot of interesting thing happened in the same day and still happens during maybe one year. I become shadowbanned on most of my favorite big channels (chat posts in streams are visible to only me). Also most of my comments in comment section under videos become visible only if press "sort by" then "recent", this action is not just sorting comments but it recounts the number of comments and reveals comments of persons like me!

I believe there are positive cases of karma when a person becomes moderator.
by legacynl | 2025-09-10 08:28:53+00:00
> Further more, consumers don’t care

Well, I'm a consumer, and I certainly care. But I get your point that a lot of people just want a machine that allows them to browse for 10 hours without needing to be charged, and don't really care about anything else.

But do you also get my point? that on some level the chips/hardware are so different that it's like comparing apples to oranges?
by mogreator | 2025-09-10 08:29:38+00:00
TowDow is an open-source, cross-platform application for small and mid-sized teams to manage tasks, projects, and processes together. It works on Linux, Windows, Android, and maybe one day on macOS and iOS.

Got 2 nice feature : Completion proof: require evidence (photo, file, form) before a task can be marked as done.

Flow control: define steps in a process and prevent overload by unlocking tasks only when prerequisites are complete.

Be aware still in beta.
by mort96 | 2025-09-10 08:30:01+00:00
I was extremely interested in a small phone back when the 12 Mini came out, but I didn't dare to buy it without seeing how it feels. This was during the height of the COVID lockdowns, so I couldn't go to a store and feel it in person. Ended up buying the regular iPhone 12, since that seemed like the safer choice to buy blind.

When it was time for another phone upgrade in the iPhone 15 era (because phones really don't change enough anymore to warrant more frequent upgrades than that), there was no mini option anymore. I wonder if others were like me. The Mini came out at a time where people were hesitant to try a new form factor because they couldn't try it in stores.
by Ja10th | 2025-09-10 08:30:08+00:00
Work follows us everywhere.

→ Phones buzz during dinner

→ Laptops stay open late into the night.

→ Vacations turn into times filled with checking emails.

For many workers, it seems impossible to take a break, and this “always on” culture is quietly hurting productivity in businesses.

Research says the opposite: people who take time to unplug actually do better at their jobs. A study from Harvard Business Review found that employees who regularly disconnect are more engaged, creative, and resilient.

We just published a guide on how to take breaks from work without feeling guilty and create healthier habits for long-term success.

You can read it here: https://www.thehowto.forum/posts/how-to-disconnect-from-work

Because finding balance isn’t just a nice idea; it’s a smart plan.

How do you personally switch off from work at the end of the day?
by alerighi | 2025-09-10 08:30:55+00:00
A lot of creators that started with a YouTube channel nowadays have moved a lot of content to social media platforms like TikTok or Instagram reels. To me YouTube risk to be replaced (or it has already been replaced) by short videos, because a lot of people is no longer interested in watching a 20 minutes long video nowadays, especially new generations tend to spend a lot of time on just TikTok.
by eviks | 2025-09-10 08:33:16+00:00
But the currently encoded sub/supersripts counter that general view?

> agree as there is tons of useful formatting that one could want

So? Should we stop adding emojis just because the potential is infinite?

> And if we do Latin alphabet, then should we also do Greek? Cyrillic? Arabic?

Add a combining prefix/suffix and you wouldn't need to do encode every single char from those alphabets. But also the general answer exists: whatever is commonly useful.
by Frieren | 2025-09-10 08:33:20+00:00
People cannot deal with today's complexity.

I have seen the argument: all my games in Steam, all my movies in Netflix, all my videos on YouTube, etc.

To have to pick and choose between different apps makes everything more complex, and it is too much for the average user that has other things to worry about.

All this is really bad for capitalism, as it creates monopolies that no competition can fight against. It concentrates power and eliminates competition.

E-mail is still alive because it is the one place that one can get registration messages, invoices, goverment communications, etc. It is based on a standard so I can use my own provider but interact with all the rest of the world without caring what do they use. This is the future of the web.

For example, I should be able to download any movie app an see all the movies from Sony Pictures and Disney, and Ghibli, and all of them. Once purchased, I should be able to see all of them in the same app. The standard offers interfaces so I can choose one provider that connects to the world. Prices are the same on all apps, but they can differentiate themselves thru localization, recommendations, etc. This is feasible but it requires strong regulatory intervention as current monopolies are the best option to maximize profit and eliminate competition.

Ads are also perfectly fine to finance on-line videos. It is the tracking and invasive privacy practices what is dystopian and horrifying. Most of the revenue of YouTubers comes anyway by paying users (Patreon, etc.) or external traditional ads (NordVPN, SkillShare, etc.) that still ask for metrics for the channel but are not individually targeted.

Standards over platforms is the only possible future, but it will require to topple down the current status quo and that is what is difficult to do.
by a_t48 | 2025-09-10 08:33:21+00:00
This is a fairly "common" technique for doing multiplayer randomizers. Typically on a smaller region, but you end up with some sort of scratch memory being used as a buffer for messages sent back and forth between the emulator and the network layer (or your flash cart's RAM and the network layer, in the case of FXPakPro!). It's super useful.
by reify | 2025-09-10 08:33:29+00:00
I always find it fascinating how the use of words (spin) can take something, like a pretty little box of electrical impulses, manipulated with a few lines of code, into something amazing called a brain.

Given enough time I could make this little box into the next god, with my extremely intellectual choice of words, even though there is no evidence that the little box can even think, feel or experience life as we know it.

Thinking, in the human sense, now there is a real thing.
by MangoToupe | 2025-09-10 08:33:35+00:00
I think the obvious benefit of a debugger is the ability to introspect when you have the misfortune of investigating the behavior of a binary rather than source code. In the vast, vast majority other instances, it is more desirable (to me) to encode evidence of investigation in the source itself. This has all the other benefits of source code—you can persist it, share it, let ai play with it, fork it, commit it to source control, use git bisect, etc.

There are a few other instances where the interaction offers notable benefits—bugs in the compiler, debugging assembly, access to registers, a half-completed runtime or standard library that occludes access to state so that you might print it. If you have the misfortune of working with C or C++, you have the benefit of breaking on memory access—but I tend to file this in the "half-completed runtime" category. There are also a few "heisenbugs" that may actually prevent the bug from occurring by using print itself; but I've only run into this I think twice. This is also possible with the debugger, but I've only run into that once. The only way out of that mess is careful reasoning, and i recommend printing the code out and using a pen.

I also strongly suspect that preference for print debugging vs interactive debuggers comes down to internal conception of the runtime and aesthetic preference. I abhor debuggers—especially thosr in IDEs. I think they tend to reimplement the runtime of a language a second time, except with more bugs and a less intuitive interface. But I have the wherewithal to realize that this is ultimately a preference.
by throwaw12 | 2025-09-10 08:35:01+00:00
Things which might be contributing to the RTO in my opinion:

1. Showing up. Practically speaking, when you're at home, you can do whatever you want (sleep, watch TV, work sometimes), while delivering stellar result for the company, but when you're in the office there is a chance you will deliver your stellar results and additionally contribute more, because you literally can't watch TV and take a nap.

2. Some leaders thrive in the presence of others. This is how they get their energy, receiving compliments about how awesome they are, noticing how people are respecting them while they walk around the office and so on. If one of them asks their team to return to the office, similar leaders might envy them when they boast about how much cooler their meetings feel now with five people in the room and sharing their meetings on the LinkedIn.

3. Work style of leadership. If you have noticed VP+ and C levels usually try to get to know each other on a personal level, they attend each others personal events. They work in this way, and they expect to see those same people in the office, because for them, their current network for work and life is same. So they like to see their 'friends' in the office as much as possible. Then naturally, these leaders translate mandate to their reports without context (e.g. their reports don't attend their personal life events, and they are not in their friend network)
by Almondsetat | 2025-09-10 08:35:03+00:00
This seems like a very strange perspective. Nebula is for specifically following content creators you really like and enjoy their videos earlier and at a better quality (plus some exclusive content).

Why would you particularly care about the title is that's a videomaker you follow anyway? Why would you care about seeking times? Are you jumping constantly in an ad-free and sponsor-free video you specifically subscribed for? Why miss the comments? Is it a video sharing platform or social media?
by freehorse | 2025-09-10 08:36:10+00:00
I already carry a power bank with me when I know I will stay long away from home. So in some way, one does not need to pay apple for that. I also know people who carry some monster phones with them with huge batteries that last for several days, but I would rather carry a power bank than forcing the extra weight in my pocket.

Also, with android you have more options to optimise for battery life (eg low refresh rate and resolution) that are great if this is what you want to optimise (and did this for some time), but apple would never sell an iphone like that, and also ime these are becoming rarer in the android market too. If the sole alternative is just bigger batteries, I would rather not have this bigger battery attached to the phone all the time even if this is suboptimal for some other reasons.
by edg5000 | 2025-09-10 08:36:20+00:00
This. Email and text is one of those things were you are not stuck to a single provider. Anything closed and proprietary is a problem. I'd say this is also the case for banking. Banks often require Google Play or iOS, severely constraining the user. Governments somehow need to put a stop to this, especially in the EU where we are becoming a US colony due to all our IT being in the hands of US companies. We need to take back control!
by bilekas | 2025-09-10 08:36:40+00:00
> "This is MacBook Pro levels of compute in an iPhone, perfect for GPU-intensive AI workloads."

Am I just an old man screaming at cloud here or is it unnecessary for a phone to be focused on GPU intensive tasks ? Impressive as it is and all.

> iPhone Air features an eSIM-only design that saves space internally, helping enable the unbelievably light and thin form factor.

Also this is frustrating..