MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-23 23:26:40+00:00
A yellow vinyl wrap plus fabricating a couple of cones for the ends of the wiener to morph it into a banana sounds a heck of a lot cheaper than fabricating a fiberglass banana shell from scratch, I think you’re onto something here! I’ll start the GoFundMe and work on procuring a lightly used wiener mobile, GP will be cruising in a banana mobile by next summer :)
by leakycap | 2025-09-23 23:27:03+00:00
I have earned multiple paid certifications a year non-stop for 24 years, mainly because a perk of working with one of my clients is unlimited payment for certification tests if you can pass two pre-tests above 94%

So each quarter I push myself to learn a new area and get a certification

Over these 24 years, these certifications have gotten zero recognition and have never come up when interacting with any other client

I don't know what industries care about certs, but I have never found the certifications themselves to be worth anything beyond the pride it might bring you to have earned it and whatever you learned in preparation.

No employer, client, or even colleague has ever brought up certifications that I can recall... All of this to say, if you do decide on a course of study, do it to actually learn and build the desired skill. The test/cert is not going to provide any other value in today's market.
by vincent-manis | 2025-09-23 23:27:09+00:00
These work in both X and Wayland, even though they are an X feature. X/Wayland will consult the standard file, but will also consult a file ~/.XCompose. A number of people have created files with extended compose sequences, of which https://github.com/kragen/xcompose is possibly the best-known. If you install or change ~/.XCompose, you must restart your session (log out and back in again) for it to be recognized.

I used to bind the Compose key to Caps Lock, but I've recently decided that Right Alt is a better choice.

Another commenter mentioned WinCompose, which I have used very successfully with Windows 11. On a Mac, you might try https://github.com/Granitosaurus/macos-compose, which is quite usable, provided you install Karabiner Elements for the remapping.
by NGRhodes | 2025-09-23 23:28:19+00:00
I look forward to trying:

Enhance 224 to 176. Enhance. Stop. Move in. Stop. Pull out, track right. Stop. Center and Pull back. Stop. Track 45 right. Stop. Center and stop. Enhance 34 to 36. Pan right and Pull back. Stop. Enhance 34 to 46. Pull back. Wait a minute. Go right. Stop. Enhance 57 to 19. Track 45 left. Stop. Enhance 15 to 23. Gimme a hard copy right there.
Show HN: Thehomeschoolingcompany.com, fast, easy, personalized learning
by garberchov | 2025-09-23 23:28:23+00:00
Former homeschooler here. Built this to solve the problem of one-size-fits-all curriculum that doesn't match how individual kids actually learn. Algorithm analyzes learning preferences and interests, then dynamically generates lessons with appropriate media (videos for auditory learners, diagrams for visual, etc.). Projects form sequences that build on previous concepts rather than isolated assignments. Added parent dashboard for progress tracking. Free during beta - looking for feedback on the approach.Retry
by lkey | 2025-09-23 23:28:24+00:00
Conspiratorial thinkers are more likely to believe that Osama Bin Laden was already dead and is still alive rather than the official narrative that he was killed on the day reported. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235449075_Dead_and_...

In general, you can't argue or 'fact' people out of beliefs they were not argued into. The best you can do is give them a safe place to land when disconfirmation begins. Don't be too judgy, no one is immune to propaganda.
by j1elo | 2025-09-23 23:28:32+00:00
Yep, sorry in my mind I was going to mention it (with "even if it's only me seeing private code like this" or something similar) and later forgot after some edits to fix the formatting...

Anyway, I hope it doesn't get lost that this comment was only meant to be half informative, half public statement, and half a light joke :)
by infamouscow | 2025-09-23 23:28:40+00:00
I'm open to alternative perspectives on this matter, but lawlessness isn't a meaningful term, at least in the the USA where this would preside, jurisdictionally.

It appears the maintainers involved had a personal or ideological conflict with DHH and overestimated their influence within the project. Their current prominence seems tied to things not unfolding as they hoped.

Notably, these maintainers were removed with the stated reason that they were dangerous to the project. There hasn't been evidence or arguments presented to counter this characterization.

The reality is that no company wants to deal with this kind of disruption. In the past, ZIRP and tax incentives made such issues tolerable, but those days are over.

If their concerns about a hostile takeover were valid, wouldn't the logical response be to stay involved and work to regain influence? Instead, their actions suggest less focus on the project's well-being and more on frustration over contributing significant effort for minimal reward, while using their roles to push personal or political agendas.
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-23 23:29:40+00:00
I'm religious, but I don't see it that way. When a man and a woman are faithful to each other and having a family together, then that is it: they are married.

Actions have a value which are seven thousand times more worth than words, so the covenant with God is automatic in that situation even if the people are ignorant and have never heard of God.
by Aloisius | 2025-09-23 23:30:08+00:00
Just a mistake, I imagine. Probably just typed the pattern out starting with the last number they wrote, which unfortunately was invalid.

> I was looking at ticket 984,946,605. When I type in 1 higher, 984,946,606, no ticket is found. ... So the ticket after 984,946,606 is actually 984,946,610
by sterlind | 2025-09-23 23:31:08+00:00
it was an extreme time, but yes, probably the most authoritarian action I've seen social media take.

misinformation is a real and worsening problem, but censorship makes conspiracies flourish, and establishes platforms as arbiters of truth. that "truth" will shift with the political tides.

IMO we need to teach kids how to identify misinformation in school. maybe by creating fake articles, mixing them with real articles and having students track down sources and identify flaws. critical thinking lessons.
by toast0 | 2025-09-23 23:32:09+00:00
> 'fire lanes' (I assume that's like a bus lane but for fire engines, in places that's common enough for whatever reason, like right by a fire station?)

Fire lanes are not express lanes for fire engines. They're more like reserved parking for fire engines only. Typically the curb is painted red, and you'll see markings 'no parking - fire lane'. I think of these showing up in parking lots everywhere you're not allowed to park.

Most of the parking violations are about the same level of fine. There's tiers, really big fines are for using disabled placards inappropriately, pretty big for blocking disabled parking, then blocking busses, abandoning vehicles, defaced license plate, no registration, blocking bike, then kind of everything else.

Fire lanes fit in the everything else, but they probably get more enforcement, so the low per instance fees add up if you are highly likely to be ticketted if you park in a red zone.
by SMAAART | 2025-09-23 23:32:45+00:00
Can someone help me make some sense of the 10 gigawatts of compute?

Colossus data has 230K GPUs (150,000 H100 GPUs, 50,000 H200 GPUs and 30,000 GB200 GPUs) [source https://x.ai/colossus]

Energy usage: up to 150 megawatts of electricity per day [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)]

So, when SamA talks about 10 gigawatts of compute does he mean per day or GWH (Gigawatts-hour)?
by skydhash | 2025-09-23 23:33:26+00:00
No ones like programming that much. That's like saying someone love speaking English. You have an idea and you express it. Sometimes there's additional complexity that got in the way (initializing the library, memory cleanup,...), but I put those at the same level as proper greetings in a formal letter.

It also helps starting small, get something useful done and iterate by adding more features overtime (or keeping it small).
by LeafItAlone | 2025-09-23 23:33:37+00:00
>I am working on a project with ~200k LoC, entirely written with AI codegen.

I’d love to see the codebase if you can share. My experience with LLM code generation (I’ve tried all of the popular models and tools, though generally favor Claude Code with Opus and Sonnet). My time working with them leads me to suspect that your ~200k LoC project could be solved in only about 10k LoC. Their solutions are unnecessary complex (I’m guessing because they don’t “know” the problem, in the way a human does) and that compounds over time. At this point, I would guess my most common instruction to this tools is to simplify the solution. Even when that’s part of the plan.
by asadotzler | 2025-09-23 23:33:44+00:00
Why. Why is Google obligated to publish your content? Should Time Magazine also give you a column because they give others space in their pages? Should Harvard Press be required to publish and distribute your book because they do so for others.

These companies owe you nothing that's not in a contract or a requirement of law. That you think they owe you hosting, distribution, and effort on their algorithm, is a sign of how far off course this entire discourse has moved.
by godelski | 2025-09-23 23:33:50+00:00
There's a few things like this but I'll give a pass because how new it is. Were this a mature project I'd be upset at incompetence, but given how young it is I think it's too early to be harsh.

Plus, they're very open about what they're doing and prioritizing. As another commenter said, it's coming soon. For the rest, open feature requests, you might have needs that others didn't think of or even realize they needed
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-23 23:34:56+00:00
My only guess is that this refers to graphical rendering support. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/

I both see enormous value mixing text and console, and also worry that TUI will overcomplicate and add even more unnecessary embellishment than it already is trending towards? Semi grump opinion. But it feels weird introducing a new canvas.

I do like the idea of graphics being online in a terminal session. Not a captive app experience in a text/graphic UI, but just cli commands that can have some more visual output too.
by krapp | 2025-09-23 23:34:56+00:00
>A lot of people will say all kinds of craziness, and you just have to let it ride so most of us can roll our eyes at it.

Except many people don't roll their eyes at it, that's exactly the problem. QAnon went from a meme on 4chan to the dominant political movement across the US and Europe. Anti-vax went from fringe to the official policy position of the American government. Every single conspiracy theory that I'm aware of has only become more mainstream, while trust in any "mainstream" source of truth has gone down. All all of this in an environment of aggressive skepticism, arguing, debating and debunking. All of the sunlight is not disinfecting anything.

We're literally seeing the result of the firehose of misinformation and right-wing speech eating people's brains and you're saying we just have to "let it ride?"

Silencing people alone doesn't work, but limiting the damage misinformation and hate speech can do while pushing back against it does work. We absolutely do need to preserve the right of platforms to choose what speech they spread and what they don't.
by lerno | 2025-09-23 23:35:23+00:00
I find some of Rust dev reactions to this article pretty embarrassing. As if memory safety was some holy grail only provided by Rust.

Here is a bunch of more memory safe languages that are more popular than Rust: Python, Java, JS ... should I continue?

But wait, there's more. Can Rust verify that arbitrary in-data is valid, like having contracts statically checked at compile time? It can't, and so then by the same logic as some people calling non-Rust languages "gibberish" for not having a borrow checker, should we call Rust "gibberish" because it can't check those invariants at compile time like C3 can do?

No?

Then get off that high horse.

And by the way, my great fear is that we'll get more adoption by Rust while at the same time Rust is unable to improve the compile times. C++, Swift and Rust, the three horsemen of infamously long compile times.

The borrow checker isn't the main problem, just like C++'s problems isn't complex template messages – it's that both takes so long to compile. Time you could spend reading and testing the code. Long compile times inhibits refactoring and cause bugs to stay unfixed.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-23 23:35:38+00:00
I think apsurd interpreted Lammy’s post as a complaint, like the firefighters are too gleeful.

Then apsurd is pointing out that there’s no reason to complain, and they shouldn’t waste time with remorse.

I don’t think Lammy actually meant it as a complaint, though, which ended up making apsurd’s correction confusing.

Anyway, I think everyone in the thread agreed: park in front of the fire hydrant and nobody feels bad but you as you get your window smashed. Broad anti-fire consensus.
by malux85 | 2025-09-23 23:35:46+00:00
In my early career NZ traffic cops used to walk around with a Bluetooth printer strapped to their belt, that would print the tickets.

I purchased a long range (I think 400m) Bluetooth dongle and with a bit of bash scripting we could continuously sweep the local area and then go out and move our cars, we tried pairing to the printers too but they had passkeys and we couldn’t, but they still had whatever broadcasting was active so we could at least detect them.
by michaelt | 2025-09-23 23:36:56+00:00
I can see how it would be in China's interest to make sure there was an LLM that produced cutting edge performance in Chinese-language conversations.

And some uses of LLMs are intensely political; think of a student using an LLM to learn about the causes of the civil war. I can understand a country wanting their own LLMs for the same reason they write their own history textbooks.

By releasing the weights they they can get free volunteer help, win hearts and minds with their open approach, weaken foreign corporations, give their citizens robust performance in their native language, and exercise narrative control - all at the same time.
by em-bee | 2025-09-23 23:37:19+00:00
you are missing one key aspect: high latency. i am in a rural area with bad internet access. especially bad latency. every request to hackernews for example takes seconds. even if it doesn't make sense for hackernews to be offline. updating new messages, posting replies, upvotes, downvotes. etc, would all work better if they happened in the background, so that i don't have to wait for them.

that's why local first also makes sense for server bound applications. it's not offline first, but by moving online activities into the background, all my interaction with the site would be snappy and smooth, and i could read and comment and move on to the next action without waiting for the browser to reload the page
by Fade_Dance | 2025-09-23 23:37:31+00:00
A bit of a tangent, but I laughed hard at the lampoon of this in the latest Aunty Donna sketch: https://youtu.be/aq0rCxLOVhU?t=215

I've always suspected this was mostly nonsense, although not entirely. Even more ridiculous are the blue tinted "gamer glasses", which completely alter the color rendering of the monitor while you are pumping yourself full of adrenaline in video games as you prepare for bed...
by timmg | 2025-09-23 23:37:58+00:00
It's interesting how much "they are a private company, they can do what they want" was the talking point around that time. And then Musk bought Twitter and people accuse him of using it to swing the election or whatever.

Even today, I was listening to NPR talk about the potential TikTok deal and the commenter was wringing their hands about having a "rich guy" like Larry Ellison control the content.

I don't know exactly what the right answer is. But given their reach -- and the fact that a lot of these companies are near monopolies -- I think we should at least do more than just shrug and say, "they can do what they want."
by wombatpm | 2025-09-23 23:37:58+00:00
You would think. I was a TA for numerical methods for undergrad engineers. Saw lots of bright students who understood the material but could debug their code. Several grad students started a 1credit seminar course on Fortran fundamentals. We worked those students like dogs, but when they took the numerical methods course they came back and thanked us because they knew how to get their code to compile and how to use the admin graphics package.
by Jensson | 2025-09-23 23:38:28+00:00
> No one owes you distribution unless you have a contract saying otherwise.

The common carrier law says you have to for for some things, so it makes sense to institute such a law for some parts of social media as they are fundamental enough. It is insane that we give that much censorship power to private corporations. They shouldn't have the power to decide elections on a whim etc.
by jychang | 2025-09-23 23:38:42+00:00
They still suck at explaining which model they serve is which, though.

They also released today Qwen3-VL Plus [1] today alongside Qwen3-VL 235B [2] and they don't tell us which one is better. Note that Qwen3-VL-Plus is a very different model compared to Qwen-VL-Plus.

Also, qwen-plus-2025-09-11 [3] vs qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507 [4]. What's the difference? Which one is better? Who knows.

You know it's bad when OpenAI has a more clear naming scheme.

[1] https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com/?tab=doc#/doc/?...

[2] https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com/?tab=doc#/doc/?...

[3] https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com/?tab=doc#/doc/?...

[4] https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com/?tab=doc#/doc/?...
by rzerowan | 2025-09-23 23:39:12+00:00
Well we do have the precedent of HPE/Autonomy in the UK [1], which ruled that the process is essentially fraud. Whether there will be a prosecution in the current corporate environment remains to be seen. Essentially though the roundtrip revenue inflation was already ruled illegal.

[1]https://www.corpdev.org/2025/07/23/hp-awarded-945-million-in...
by wvenable | 2025-09-23 23:40:09+00:00
> But I think we have to realize silencing people doesn't work.

Doesn't it though? I've seen this repeated like it's fact but I don't think that's true. If you disallowed all of some random chosen conspiracy off of YouTube and other mainstream platforms I think it would stop being part of the larger public consciousness pretty quickly.

Many of these things arrived out of nothing and can disappear just as easily.

It's basic human nature that simply hearing things repeated over and over embeds it into your consciousness. If you're not careful and aware of what you're consuming then that becomes a part of your world view. The most effective way to bring people back from conspiratorial thinking (like QAnon) is to unplug them from that source of information.
by tensor | 2025-09-23 23:40:51+00:00
They're actually right in that there are several attempts to create automated labs to speed up the physical part. But in reality there are only a handful and they are very very narrowly scoped.

But yes, potentially in some narrow domains this will be possible, but it still only automates a part of the whole process when it comes to drugs. How a drug operates on a molecular test chip is often very different than how it works in the body.
by sterlind | 2025-09-23 23:41:10+00:00
we're viewed as a social contagion. trans kids see that trans people exist, and realize they can transition too. their parents see their sweet little angel becoming something they don't understand, something that viscerally disgusts them, and the mama bear instincts activate. they steel themselves to purge our degeneracy in the name of protecting their children.

at least that's my take.
by dang | 2025-09-23 23:41:19+00:00
We've banned this account for egregiously and repeatedly breaking the site guidelines, including by posting flamewar comments and personally attack other users. That's abusive, and you've been doing a lot of it. Not cool, regardless of your political persuasion.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
by westurner | 2025-09-23 23:41:23+00:00
"RPM 6.0.0 Release Notes" (2025) https://rpm.org/releases/6.0.0

"RPM 6.0 Released With OpenPGP Improvements & Enforces Signature Checking By Default" (2025) https://www.phoronix.com/news/RPM-6.0-Released
by rsanek | 2025-09-23 23:41:25+00:00
Great write-up. I especially liked

> I find the common advice of “write your own cards” misplaced: you pay the opportunity cost of not reviewing all the cards you don’t make.

This perspective of cost is a nice way of putting it. The other side to me is that writing your own cards can, but does not necessarily, improve retention on its own. Much of card creation is still mostly manual formatting, copy-pasting, etc.

My own solution to this has been to build an 80-20 version of what was demo'd in the "AI canvas" part of the video. I drop in a source (pdf, epub, etc), and an LLM prompt creates cards. I just use Anki Connect to directly add these cards to my collection.

Would be interested in seeing the Rember system prompt for card creation, and hearing what LLM is being used. I've seen wildly different results from changing my own prompt (and from using different models).
by hash872 | 2025-09-23 23:41:40+00:00
Re: 1- one certain protection of the state that they benefit from is the US Constitution, which as interpreted so far forbids the government to impair their free speech rights. Making a private actor host content they personally disagree with violates their right of free speech! That's what the 1st Amendment is all about

2. This has already been adjudicated and this argument lost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murthy_v._Missouri

3. What market is Youtube a monopoly in?
by duskwuff | 2025-09-23 23:41:46+00:00
You are wrong about this part:

> The FCC is allowed to enforce a certain morality.

As I said previously, the FCC is bound by the First Amendment. They do not have the power to restrict speech, whether on grounds of "morality" or otherwise.

Obscenity is not considered speech as far as 1A is concerned, so the FCC is able to ban it. I disagree with this categorization, but it is what it is.
by leakycap | 2025-09-23 23:42:14+00:00
That's kind, thanks - I'm thinking of stopping at 100 certifications and letting a few I've kept up/renewed over the years expire.

When I first started, my favorite series were from Microsoft - excellent courses and I learned concepts. CompTIA is my least favorite, the exams don't seem to require deep knowledge.

Lately, the only exam I've taken where the prep really taught me a lot was Red Hat Certified Engineer which will help as automation works its way into everything
by pfannkuchen | 2025-09-23 23:42:15+00:00
I think the feeling of silencing comes from it being a blacklist and not a whitelist.

If you take proposals from whoever and then only approve ones you specifically like, for whatever reason, then I don’t think anyone would feel silenced by that.

If you take anything from anyone, and a huge volume of it, on any topic and you don’t care what, except for a few politically controversial areas, that feels more like silencing. Especially when there is no alternative service available due to network effects and subsidies from arguably monopolistic practices.