MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mattkrause | 2025-09-28 02:51:15+00:00
The bhangmeters on Vela satellites were to detect atmospheric detonations: they exploit some odd optical characteristics of the fireball.

They did have gamma, neutron, and X-ray detectors too but I’d guess those were also tuned to detect detonations rather than small background changes. That might not be feasible from so high up and it would square with the Velas’ role in discovering gamma-ray bursts.
by keeda | 2025-09-28 02:52:08+00:00
I think the point is about Uber's profitability and not necessarily about their business practices or ethics, and we should be careful not to conflate the two. It is absolutely valid to criticize the latter, but that (so far) seems mostly orthogonal to the former.

Now, it is totally possible that their behavior eventually create a backlash which then affects their business, but then that is still a different discussion from what was discussed before.
by ianbutler | 2025-09-28 02:53:14+00:00
> We'll finally be able to build a society for everyone.

I assure you this isn't the only blocker and its naive to think that [other_set_of_humans] will not try to consolidate power for themselves after you remove the current set.

Most people are not in it for their fellow man and whoever sold you this idea that billionaires are the only impediment to, or even blocking now, a better society -- lied to you.

By all means get rid of the billionaires, I don't particularly care; just don't be so surprised when it turns out that was just a side quest.

I think there are other avenues here that are probably better spent to make society better.
by franky47 | 2025-09-28 02:55:11+00:00
The reaction (removing the package) is also similar to an inexperienced developer when confronted to their first vulnerability report.

Assuming good intentions (debugging) rather than malice was at play, communication is key: drop the malicious version of the package, publish a fix, and communicate on public channels (blog post, here on HN, social media) about the incident.

A proper timeline (not that AI slop in the OP article) also helps bring back trust.
by armank-dev | 2025-09-28 02:55:53+00:00
I really like the idea of building on top of OTel in this space because it gives you a lot more than just "LLM Observability". More specifically, it's a lot easier to get observability on your entire agent (rather than just LLM calls).

I'm working on a tool to track semantic failures (e.g. hallucination, calling the wrong tools, etc.). We purposefully chose to build on top of Vercel's AI SDK because of its OTel integration. It takes literally 10 lines of code to start collecting all of the LLM-related spans and run analyses on them.
by rdtsc | 2025-09-28 02:57:39+00:00
Technologies are obsoleted at ridiculous rates during the war. Anyone still remember how HIMARS was supposed to win the war? Indeed it was absolutely fantastic at first, but everyone sort of stopped talking about it. It turns out Russians zoomed in on the weakest spot of these types of weapons - reliance on GPS. As soon as they started jamming that, the effectiveness of a whole slew of those types of weapons went way down. So now there is a whole rush to create anti-jammable GPS technology.

Same thing with drones. They are a game changer but then Russians figured out they can use drones too. Moreover, they were the first ones to field fiber optic drones. Those things are bonkers. As in, if someone told me "this defense company is creating fiber optic drones" I could have bet it's a corruption scheme as the idea just seems to implausible yet here it is, now both sides use them.
by steveklabnik | 2025-09-28 02:59:25+00:00
> I can’t link to a Bluesky post. I can’t use Bluesky from the browser.

What do you mean? Both of these things are trivial.

Here is a link to my most recent post on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/steveklabnik.com/post/3lztkahefs225

You can sign into bsky.app (or deer.social, or anisota.net, or...) in your browser and post just fine.
by baxtr | 2025-09-28 02:59:36+00:00
From this article:

Jaguar just posted a 97.5% sales collapse in Europe for April 2025. That’s 49 cars sold. Not 49,000. Forty-nine. Down from nearly 2,000 in the same month last year. Year-to-date sales across Europe are off more than 75%. Globally, Jaguar is selling fewer than 27,000 cars a year, an 85% drop from where they were in 2018.

Sounds like they had a lot of problems already.
by brooke2k | 2025-09-28 03:02:10+00:00
By chance I used this just a few weeks ago when I started learning to play Go. It's a pretty good resource!

Personally, my favorite tutorial I went through was The Interactive Way to Go (https://way-to-go.gitlab.io)

Also notable is Sensei's Library (https://senseis.xmp.net) which is a very old and unbelievably thorough wiki on everything Go. It's a cool place to browse even if you don't play.
by MadVikingGod | 2025-09-28 03:03:42+00:00
So will this make EA less evil or more? They have shepherded so many great IPs, but also have been on the forefront of sleaze practices. There has to be plenty of money just squeezing those IPs or using the talent in making new things, but I have the feeling that we are going to see more of the same thing with super micro transactions.
by MangoToupe | 2025-09-28 03:06:30+00:00
> Healthcare spending is now 4x higher than military in the US (across the whole economy, not just government). So it’s hard to claim the problem is we’re prioritizing the military over healthcare.

I don't think that's a hard claim to make in other terms than % of gdp—I can't imagine many americans want to devote that much of our gdp to it when other countries manage a high degree of care with much more efficiency. But we seem to have largely talked ourselves out of democratic control of such matters, somehow, for some reason, repeatedly over the last 70 years or so.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-28 03:08:44+00:00
> How is that not the case now?

The protocol allows servers, rather than users, to ban other servers. Servers should be only the dumbest of pipes.

> Are you suggesting that since ActivityPub isn't perfect, it should be discarded?

I'm saying that by the time something like this has billions of users the protocol is going to be a lot harder to change, so you should fix the problems without delay instead of waiting until after that happens and getting deja vu all over again.

> Threads tried to do so and failed miserably.

Threads tried to do that all at once.

The thing that should be in your threat model is Gmail and Chrome and old school Microsoft EEE. Somebody sets up a big service that initially doesn't try to screw everyone, so it becomes popular. Then once they've captured a majority of users, they start locking out smaller competitors.

The locking out of smaller competitors needs to be something that the protocol itself is designed to effectively resist.
by estearum | 2025-09-28 03:13:25+00:00
Trump has a singularly cultish hold over a rather loose coalition of Americans. With the GOP fully bought in, none of the Constitutional safeguards are actually operable.

The good news is he’s old and unhealthy. He’s likely to die rather soon, and IMO I’d be very shocked if JD can hold the coalition together.

JD is already disliked by the economic populist right and the white nationalists.

There will be GOP infighting paired with the Democrats almost certainly holding Congress after 2026, and the whole thing will get bogged down.

After 2028 we can put a bunch of these people in prison for the crimes they’ve been bragging about on Twitter, and get to work rebuilding our government.
by vorpalhex | 2025-09-28 03:13:34+00:00
Taking an entity private is expensive and typically only done if you intend to change the direction the entity is heading in a way that shareholders won't accept.

Accelerating EAs enshittification seems like it wouldn't require taking them private.

Rather it seems like the investors intend for a change in direction. What that is remains to be seen, but I read this as hopeful, not harmful.
by rtpg | 2025-09-28 03:13:38+00:00
I think the idea there is that generally speaking doctors get rebated on some sort of defined cost schedule. They'll get $40 from the insurance company for some basic kind of visit, and that is "fixed"...

I don't live in the US and when I did wasn't paying doctors very often... but my impression was that even if the rebate schedule is fixed they could "just" ask for more/less, and the rebate schedule is defined by the insurance company (so the insurance company can increase their costs through this schedule, leading to ways to make profit elsewhere!)

I could be totally offbase, I've always thought the Obamacare profit percentage cap to be a fake constraint.
by abduhl | 2025-09-28 03:14:24+00:00
This is just your gambling addiction showing itself. There may not be any potential gains in value after the transaction. In fact, most take privates result in massive up front losses for the new owners.

And anyways, shareholders are paid a premium on today’s stock price (which theoretically reflects the current value of future profits, or at least the market’s view on it) in order to compensate for the exact loss you mention.
by rolph | 2025-09-28 03:16:13+00:00
are you familiar with the war of independence.

genocide is not a solution either. when those that have been given consent to govern act in a manner that is an assualt against the people, the people are the last line of defense in such a situation, that is what 2A is about, enabling the people to have at least a long shot at regulating the militia that has been assimilated by a tyrant.

violence is not a solution until pacificm is a death sentence. every living thing on this planet has a right to defend itself and its posterity from attack. that doesnt mean laying down to be culled.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WvOZs3g3qIo

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Y6ikO6LMxF4
by 80hd | 2025-09-28 03:16:39+00:00
Sure

https://suno.com/song/5be7dd78-8af8-40a4-bb79-9dd5a9e8b71b https://suno.com/song/24f88c40-8459-4f67-8d51-30298d6b9d00 https://suno.com/song/b0c6f4a6-4523-4b39-bbbd-24a0d39a8b6c
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-28 03:16:58+00:00
Well, that monitor has a just a regular old monitor with two USB C ports and a mini HDMI port. I am connecting it with a regular USB C to USB C cord. There is no reason you can’t use a standard USB C to HDMI cord to connect the phone to your Studio Display.

What work would you start on your phone that doesn’t either have an app on your Mac where everything is synced via cloud services and/or there isn’t a web app where you can’t start on one and keep going on another?

I can already use GSuite (work and personal), Office365 (personal subscription), and iWorks across my Mac, iPhone, and iPad using apps and/or the web and things automatically sync and of course notes, calendar, mail, messages, Slack, etc are synced between everything.

My personal Trello board is synced between all of them and even my third party podcast app - Overcast - has an iPhone, iPad, Mac and web interface that syncs.
by doom2 | 2025-09-28 03:17:49+00:00
> Spend some time not just driving through them, and one may be surprised to find plenty of diverse and interesting people that live full lives with rich family and social bonds

I would argue that this could also be said to people (mainly from more rural parts of the US) who like to disparage large cities. If we're going to lecture city dwellers about how they talk about places like Indiana, maybe it's worth encouraging Hoosiers to go east or west and experience the vibrant neighborhoods and offerings of large coastal cities rather than just assuming they're cesspools of crime and poverty just because they heard a politician say places like Portland, Oregon, are "war ravaged"
by frenchtoast8 | 2025-09-28 03:18:41+00:00
I recently learned Go for the first time and I have played almost 50 games of 9x9 on Online Go Server so far. I’m finding it a lot of fun but it has been very humbling.

I learned chess in 7th or 8th grade and was easily able to get to about 700 Elo on chess.com after barely learning the rules, which is about the 60th percentile on the site. I only play a couple games a year now but can still hold my own against 1200 Elo opponents, which is in the 90th percentile.

I feel like I have put in just as much effort into learning Go. I bought a book and have been doing exercises. But I’m still in the 0.1 percentile on the site! (Yes, that’s not a typo.)

I’m sticking with it because it’s fun and that’s all that matters. But I definitely have a lot to learn.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-09-28 03:20:19+00:00
It would be nice to have more diversity in models of ownership and profit-sharing widely used in the market. Like Meta's split between voting shares and non-voting shares which lets them keep control of the company but let shareholders participate in the economic gains. There could be other models, like what if any single person could only own X shares and voting shares were only allowed to be bought by/on behalf of individuals not companies. Maybe models of ownership where the executives don't have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit and instead have more latitude on how they choose to run it.
by spudlyo | 2025-09-28 03:20:32+00:00
I maintained some backend Linux dialup PPP infrastructure at a company called ConnectSoft back in the late 90s who sold clip-art and fonts "online" via dialup, as well as selling a reasonably popular Windows Email client. I had a number of phone lines at home, and would occasionally use the Linux EQL[0] driver to bind together up to 4 PPP sessions using 56kb modems. There is nothing you can do about lousy modem latency, but the bandwidth felt very luxurious and futuristic at the time.

[0]: https://docs.kernel.org/networking/eql.html
by juliushuijnk | 2025-09-28 03:20:36+00:00
Like what would happen, if the army/FBI came and would lock up Newsom on charges of espionage for China.

Or if his plane would be shot out of the sky. Who would oversee the investigation? Who would accept that outcome?

Out of that a state of emergency can be called, postponing elections indefinitely.

That would be the last step. Not seeing many steps in between that need to be taken, or that can prevent it.
by nis0s | 2025-09-28 03:21:04+00:00
I am not sure where you’re getting that figure, but the total is 2T, which is primarily due to interest rates and social welfare spending.

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/report/deficit-tracker/

If you look at the previous years when Trump hadn’t enacted his agenda, then the difference between current deficit levels seems primarily due to interest rates.
by rtpg | 2025-09-28 03:21:28+00:00
> Often, the objectors feel as though it's the responsibility of the other side (usually the leadership) to afford them with some sort of power of their own.

reading this story, it sounds like leadership was also just bad. The toilet story is just odd!

> Keen to thwart any further opportunistic toilet-users, Scarlett had a new policy. Staff were to personally escort anyone who asked to use the toilet to ensure they didn’t steal any stock or snoop around the staff area.

Like this just is weird, right?

A lot of these stories (and stories like what happened with DHH and basecamp a couple years back) seem to have an important crux: leadership who might be lacking certain management abilities. These fights end up getting framed as "about politics" but "management making me babysit people who go to the toilet" feels just like more basic of an issue.

To me a more competent manager would just say "toilet's not for customers" and be done with it.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-28 03:22:26+00:00
Force always remains the last line of self defense, and history has proven it works when all other non violent, peaceful options have been exhausted [1]. This doesn’t require you agree with that, nor is anyone advocating for force other than self defense here. Laws only matter if respected and enforced objectively and in good faith, and they should matter in this context. Whether you acted in good faith when defending yourself will hopefully be decided by a jury of your peers, if needed, versus a kangaroo court or other rigged evaluation.

I see in other comments you’re not suggesting people be armed. I always suggest one be armed and have training, because words have no value when your safety is in jeopardy, and your safety is your responsibility; no one else will assure it for you.

Lawyer. Passport. Locksmith. Gun. (A Talk About Risk and Preparedness) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33509164 - November 2022

[1] (American Revolution, Civil War, etc)
by pazimzadeh | 2025-09-28 03:23:06+00:00
It really depends on the organ. Kidneys stand out as the most successful organs for transplantation, even in allotransplantation (between humans) so it makes sense that they are working well in xeno as well.

Kidneys are not as vascularized as some other organs (heart or lung) which probably helps a lot.

Heart and lung xenotransplantation are still a ways off and a lot of basic research is still needed to make them work.

My mom worked with eGenesis on pig xenotransplantation, particularly lung.

Here are some links if you'd like to donate to the International Xenotransplantation Association:

https://donate.tts.org/agnes/

https://tts.org/74-ixa/889-ixa-in-memoriam-agnes-marie-azimz...
by commandersaki | 2025-09-28 03:23:40+00:00
It’s definitely sad and weird. Times and people have changed.

Yeah, I grew up tinkering with Linux since 1994; was good times. I've changed.

For whatever reason the community now is filled with a weird mix of corporate bootlickers who want to give the largest corporations money while they take away our freedoms and they simultaneously want to make known their entitled behavior by claiming individual developers and small businesses should only ever give away their software for free.

A bit after the turn of the millennium I became legally blind and I also needed to eat. Apple was able to serve my needs with their accessibility tools and keep me fully functional without additional costs beyond the hardware and base software, and still to this day. Nothing had come close back then nor now. While I appreciate Stallman's ideals and how he wouldn't use assistive technology if it isn't free software, I can't succumb to those artificial restrictions. The reality is that I would have been much worse off financially, being self-sufficient, going through studies, progressing in my career, etc. if it wasn't for Apple's accessibility tech. So yeah I'll own the whole corporate bootlicker nonsense, and it's why in later years of my life I now invest in Apple, because they deliver usable solutions to real problems to the vast population rather than cater to an insignificant population with piddly ideals.

It must be nice if your only issue with tech is that you need it to go brrrrrrrr.
Show HN: FashionCanvas – an infinite AI canvas for fashion design
by nottherealsanta | 2025-09-28 03:24:17+00:00
a web app where fashion designers can sketch, remix, and iterate with AI on an infinite canvas.

Upload your own images or pick from starters, Drag them around like polaroids, connect them with edges, and branch off new designs.

Edit with prompts or quick sketches → AI generates variations right on the canvas.

It’s like a moodboard + AI lab for fashion.
by didibus | 2025-09-28 03:25:52+00:00
I mean, if you're rich, you can also cross the border and pay US prices. Or hop to Dubai and get it done same day.

I've lived in both Canada and US and to be honest, I never found it was much better in the US for how much you pay, and for which so many people simply can't even afford it. With the exception being urgent care and routine things definitely have less wait time in the US. But most major thing seem comparable, like maybe a little faster in the US, but like I said not to the proportion of how much more you pay. And the treatment itself, quality, how you are cared for, basically the same.

I'm glad to hear it's better in Europe!
by tw04 | 2025-09-28 03:26:04+00:00
And yet while (legitimate) science can universally agree continuing to burn fossil fuels will cause unimaginable chaos for planet earth, half the planet doesn't seem to care about the impending collapse.

So while in my personal vacuum this is awesome, when I stop to consider the situation for 30 seconds I can only think: huh, we might have been able to find a new cure for humanity that isn't going to matter when having "a profession" (like doctor) is no longer relevant to our inevitable hunter/gatherer lifestyle.
by natch | 2025-09-28 03:28:13+00:00
It goes to the issue of whether they are a reliable source of information or not. To spell it out, if WHO is captured by countries (China in this case) that stand to gain or lose if the information goes one way or the other, then we need look no farther to know that their information is not reliable.

FYI Taiwan is East Asia, not Southeast Asia. Perhaps you were thinking of Thailand.
by estearum | 2025-09-28 03:28:16+00:00
Trump Junior doesn’t have what it takes either.

There is something legitimately wrong with Trump’s brain that makes him capable of this cult dynamic. It is a generational talent/curse and no one around him replicates it.

Voters don’t care about Pam Bondi, JD, Miller et al going to jail. Different factions of the MAGA cinematic universe care about different subsets, and would be more than happy to throw the others to the wolves.

Only Trump himself manages to hold it all together.
by quotemstr | 2025-09-28 03:28:57+00:00
What does it mean to "have" "it"? You might have assembly. That's an "it" that you can "have". Plenty of people derive meaning from it. Some people, like the retro gaming people, even use the assembly as the "form preferred for modification" if they don't have the original source. How is inferring the intent of, say, dense uncommented C or dense CUDA much different?
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-28 03:29:18+00:00
1. I said "Where does it say he doesn't have to [enforce a law] if it violates the Constitution?"

2. You pasted the 10th amendment - This says the federal government has the powers specified by the constitution and any power not mentioned are for the states unless prohibited

3. Then I asked you how this related to the president not enforcing laws he believes are unconstitutional and you said "If the "United States [government]" doesn't have the power, POTUS in his official capacity doesn't."

What power?
by rtpg | 2025-09-28 03:29:31+00:00
Same, used to work at a place that used to use ghostscript + chromedriver and went to Weasyprint.

Weasyprint is quite wonderful, fast, and you can file upstream tickets and get good clarity on what's going on.

And you're writing your templates in CSS + HTML, which generally flows well.

At the end of the day the problems are rarely "CSS + HTML vs Latex vs Typst", but more just about making decisions about how you want something to be laid out when you have dynamic input.

"What should happen when I have a huge blob of text here" is often a non-trivial question. "What should I do on a page break here" is a non-trivial question. And they often involve having to, at the high level, make decisions. People whine about CSS, sometimes you just gotta read the spec and figure things out (rather than stop at your intuition for how certain fields work).

Nice thing about CSS + HTML is you can open up your output in a browser and futz about with it very easily.
by k310 | 2025-09-28 03:30:47+00:00
What a change from the stories of rich folks snapping up bunkers for the zombie apocalypse!

Survivors of nuclear annihilation will have all the data in the (former) world and "time enough at last" to use it.

For what? I can't imagine.

Twilight Zone pic.

https://entertainment.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/20...