MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-30 02:05:13+00:00
Cloudflare Radar note:

> Widespread #Internet disruption observed in #Afghanistan as the Taliban orders a shutdown of fiber optic Internet services. This follows similar localized shutdowns earlier this month. Traffic dropped >60% at ~11:30 UTC.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/af?dateRange=2d

Proton VPN: https://x.com/ProtonVPN/status/1972689632757252389

Netblocks: https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/115288230006300457
by vitaflo | 2025-09-30 02:06:09+00:00
I found it very odd that their study basically says that people who currently drink 7-14 drinks per week have the lowest chance of dementia even lower than the “never drinkers”.

While I somewhat understand that those who are heavy drinkers (>40 drinks per week) would have a greater dementia risk, and that current low/no drinkers may have been heavy drinkers in the past so would also increase their risk, how does the 7-14 DPW group having a much lower risk than the “never drinkers” in this study make sense given what they’re trying to say here?

If any amount of alcohol intake increases risk then all the cohorts should carry a higher risk then the never drinker group but it does not.
by dateutli | 2025-09-30 02:06:22+00:00
I'm working on Listening Facts[0], a music habits visualization tool based on your top tracks. Inspired by Receiptify and every day nutrition facts labels[1].

It started out as a Spotify oriented project but due to their recent API changes[2] I ended up focusing more on a Last FM integration. This wasn't that bad as their API provides more details such as play count per song. I've also added an Apple Music integration.

I posted about it[3] on Last FM's subreddit and I was pleasantly surprised to see that a lot of people shared their labels on the comments and seemed to like it.

I'm currently working on language detection, I think it'd be cool to get a language breakdown of the songs you listen to and for that to be part of the displayed items within the label. Something along the lines of EN- 80%, ES- 15%, FR - 5%

I've also tried getting Adsense on the website but I keep getting denied on "Low Content Value" grounds. I tried some alternatives but the quality of their ads was ridiculous (stuff like "your device has a virus, click here to clean it up")

[0] - https://listeningfacts.com/

[1] - https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-education-resources-mater...

[2] - https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Upda...

[3] - https://www.reddit.com/r/lastfm/comments/1mnk5wj/listening_f...
by blooalien | 2025-09-30 02:07:25+00:00
> "Boring sounding and unfamiliar stuff like the research I'd like to do would not succeed."

"Boring sounding" to anyone who don't have a "passion" for that particular area of science as you must if you're wanting to research it. The (hard) trick is to get your crowdfunding request in front of the specific eyeballs that will understand (and be excited by) your motivations and interests enough to want to finance advancing that research.
by bartread | 2025-09-30 02:07:26+00:00
Yeah, I'm not a Swift expert by any means - this is literally something I spent a few days on - but this in particular:

> One is that Swift has changed massively since it came out and huge swathes of examples and articles and such online, that LLMs are trained on, are out of date and thus pollute the training set.

100% jibes with my experience. The amount of times it would generate code using a deprecated API, or some older mechanism, or mix an older idiom with a newer one... well, it was constant really.

And a lot of Googling when I was fixing everything up manually drew me toward this same conclusion: that high quality, up to date information on Swift was in relatively short supply compared to other languages. Couple that with a lower volume of content across all Swift versions and you end up with far from great training data leading to far from great outputs.

> Apple developer docs are largely sequestered behind JavaScript that makes them hard for scrapers to parse.

Yeah, and honestly - even if there's a solution here - the documentation isn't that great either. Certainly not compared with .NET, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, etc.

If I were a vibe coder I'd certainly avoid Swift like the plague.

(Btw, this isn't a knock on Swift itself: as a language I didn't mind it, although I did notice when debugging that the Objective C underpinnings of many APIs are often on display.)
by getnormality | 2025-09-30 02:09:19+00:00
In statistics, sample efficiency means you can precisely estimate a specified parameter like the mean with few samples. In AI, it seems to mean that the AI can learn how to do unspecified, very general stuff without much data. Like the underlying truth about the world and how to reach one's goals within it is just some giant parameter vector that we need to infer more or less efficiently from "sampled" sensory data.
by jsdwarf | 2025-09-30 02:10:04+00:00
pptx-tools, a collection of cli tools for interacting with Powerpoint presentations. Covers use cases that PowerPoint doesn't support. Currently in the making:

* pptx-grep - find text across multiple powerpoints, yield file/slide no and text excerpt of match

* pptx-dump - dumps extended info about a powerpoint, such as number of slides, applied master slides, used fonts etc.

* pptx-lint - allows to define validation rules for pptx based on content and/or formatting. E.g. presentation must not contain word "TBD", all text must be formatted in Arial etc.
by linuxhansl | 2025-09-30 02:10:12+00:00
The cynical part in me wants to say: "Because it worked so well the last time!"

Did Boeing implement internal and process changes to justify this? That's an actual question, if they did this step would make sense.

I want to trust Boeing to do the right thing when it comes to safety. As is, I still prefer Airbus when I get a choice.
by tavavex | 2025-09-30 02:11:25+00:00
> just look at America right now when the president decided the norms established by a bunch of dumb dead people don't matter.

The current administration isn't taking the US in some completely random direction, they very knowingly exploit the unquestioning reverence for old-time America to their advantage. Thanks to originalism, the US has its best shot at going back in time by being able to shake the foundations of modern laws. The conservatives' best chance at snapping away some of the civic rights that were granted in the 20th century isn't actual policy proposals, its reinterpretations of old laws and rulings.

The US has never been as concerned with what dead people wanted as it is now, because dead people can't speak for themselves, and the US admin will exploit it by putting words in their mouths through reinterpretations of old writings. It's the strongest argument, because it lets them get away with not arguing anything important, but rather rely on the near-religious love for all things "old America" and then justify that this is what the people would have wanted, this is true freedom as they envisioned it. They aren't moving away from their legacy, they're weaponizing it with full knowledge of just how unshakable the civil religion is.

While all countries have their beloved figures, I can't think of any place quite like the US where so much air is wasted arguing not on the merits of things, but what someone thinks these dead people would've thought about in the past. Being able to tie your proposal to the founders in some way is a very strong argument for you, regardless of anything else. There is a difference between revering the mathematicians that discovered fundamental truths that we're building on to this day or writers who have laid the groundwork for modern culture, and thinking that (undoubtedly influential and intelligent) politicians from over two centuries back have had godlike foresight to set the one true course for all of society forever, and that questioning or altering any of their decisions is completely unacceptable.
by markus_zhang | 2025-09-30 02:12:44+00:00
On a related topic - has anyone tried to move the build process of a very old Linux version, say Linux 0.92/0.12 to modern toolchains on modern computers? I believe the original build process requires gcc 1.4.0 and other programs such as `as` which are not available on modern systems.

The target is to be able to build Linux 0.12 using modern gcc and run it in QEMU, or preferable on a true 80386 machine. AFAIK, modern gcc still supports this architecture, so in concept this should be possible. There might be a LOT of changes in source code to be made, though.

The idea behind is to obtain a very old Linux that can be built easily on modern systems, with modern C support, and gradually add my own stuffs using the same tools, so that I don't limit myself to very old toolchains.

Edit: The reason to pick Linux 0.12/0.92 is because 1) It is kinda complete (without network I believe) but not too complex (I believe the loc is under 20K), and 2) It is not a toy OS and can run on real hardware (a 80386 machine), and 3) we have an excellent book for it: https://download.oldlinux.org/CLK-5.0-WithCover.pdf
by protocolture | 2025-09-30 02:12:48+00:00
>At MIT, I taught big classes with lots of students, so maybe that helped. I came here in an Uber this morning and asked the guy what street we were on. He had no clue. He said, “I just follow it.” (‘It’ being the GPS—Ed.) And that’s the issue—there’s human intervention, but people can’t figure out how to help when things go wrong.

I live on a culdesac, and theres no instructions I could give uber drivers to help them find my house, when uber added a random roadblock on our street.

I tried guiding them by voice, but none of them read street signs. Its crazy. They just rock up to the dot and complain. Issue being, the dot was the closest accessible street, so one street in either direction.

One guy made the same wrong turn twice before cancelling.

I hate taxis, but at least taxi drivers can be expected to have some basic local knowledge.
Show HN: Cap'n-rs – Rust implementation of Cloudflare's Cap'n Web protocol
by brian_meek | 2025-09-30 02:13:00+00:00
Last week Cloudflare released Cap'n Web [1], a schema-free capability-based RPC protocol. I built capn-rs this week - a Rust implementation with full wire protocol compatibility. Links:

GitHub: https://github.com/currentspace/capn-rs Crates: https://crates.io/crates/capnweb-server API docs: https://docs.rs/capnweb-server

What's working:

Wire compatibility verified via integration tests against TypeScript reference Multi-transport: HTTP batch, WebSocket, WebTransport (HTTP/3) Complete IL (intermediate language) expression evaluator Promise pipelining with dependency resolution Comprehensive test coverage

The interesting design challenge was mapping Cap'n Web's record-replay .map() semantics to Rust's type system while maintaining ergonomic APIs. Cap'n Web records operations on placeholder values to build execution plans - in Rust this became a clean builder pattern with type-level guarantees. Built this as an experiment with Claude Code for porting complex protocols. The AI handled mechanical translation well, but architectural decisions (especially around async/await patterns and lifetime management) required human judgment. This is early days - I'd especially appreciate feedback on API ergonomics and any edge cases I might have missed. Also happy to discuss the protocol design or the AI-assisted development experience.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45332883
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-30 02:13:37+00:00
> Most of us have had an education that is on par with a lot of American colleges and universities, but without the crushing cost.

> Get rid of all immigrant workers and the industry will collapse, because your graduates need to pay off a huge debt that immigrants don't have.

You went to university because you decided (in expectation) the present value [1] of the future earning were worth the college fees and the opportunity cost of getting a university degree. So, don't complain about the debt: by your decision you computed that this decision was worth it. The only thing that you need to complain about is yourself that you did a wrong calculation for such a life-influencing decision of going to college.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_value
by hypeaccount | 2025-09-30 02:13:47+00:00
All of the top 10 Google search results are third-party articles that link to my website. However, my actual website doesn’t even appear in the top 40 results.

As a result, I’m losing sales — people keep telling me they can’t find my site directly. The only current solution seems to be paying Google $5–$10 per click to show up in search.
Show HN: Hosts Manager – Cross-platform CLI for /etc/hosts
by astrochicken | 2025-09-30 02:13:54+00:00
Description: Stop manually editing /etc/hosts files! Hosts Manager brings a modern, interactive interface to hosts file management with an intuitive TUI, category organization, and team collaboration features.

Key Benefits: Interactive TUI - Navigate and edit entries with vim-like controls Smart Categories - Organize by environment (dev/staging/prod) Quick Switching - Move entries between categories instantly Enterprise Security - A- security rating with comprehensive hardening Cross-Platform - Works seamlessly on Linux, macOS, and Windows Team Ready - Export/import configs for team collaboration Zero Downtime - Atomic operations with automatic backups Perfect for developers, DevOps engineers, and teams managing multiple environments. No more hunting through text files or breaking production with typos. Maker Comment: "As a developer constantly switching between local, staging, and production environments, I was frustrated with manually editing hosts files. I built Hosts Manager to solve this with a beautiful TUI, smart categorization, and rock-solid security. The interactive experience makes hosts management actually enjoyable - you can move entries between categories, create new ones on the fly, and everything is backed up automatically. It's the hosts file manager I wish existed when I started coding."
by rs186 | 2025-09-30 02:14:38+00:00
I think it matters what "support" means.

This could be the "next generation" ChromeOS that are exclusively available on new/recent Chromebook devices, while Google keep updating the "legacy" ones with only security patches. From what I can tell, Google never explicitly promised that every supported Chromebook can get the latest feature updates. The only said "updates".

Of course this is pure speculation and I'd love to be proven wrong.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-09-30 02:14:55+00:00
Also... One of the more dangerous things that can happen with Claude is this: it goes to implement your K means clustering (or whatever) and runs into difficulties, and actually builds something else, but calls it K-means, or slips it by you in a long conversation ("This is getting complicated, so I'll just..."). And it's only if you actually know the algorithm and review what it did that you can be confident in really publishing the work it produced into the public sphere.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-09-30 02:15:19+00:00
Claude Code is so much better than anything else.

If Claude Code was a car it'd be the ideal practical vehicle for all kinds of uses.

If OpenAI Codex was a car, it'd be a cauldron with wheels.

The reason I say this is CC offers so many features: plan mode, hooks, escape OR ctrl-c to interrupt it, and today added quick rewind. Meanwhile Codex can't even wrap text to the width of the terminal; you can't type to it while it's working to queue up messages to steer it (you have to interrupt with Ctrl-C then type), and it doesn't show you clearly when it's editing files or what edits it's making. It's the ultimate expression of OpenAI's "the agent knows what to do, silly human" plan for the future - and I'm not here for that. I want to steer my agent, and be able to have it show me its plan before it edits anything.

I really wish the developers of Codex spent more time using Claude Code.
by tim-fan | 2025-09-30 02:15:22+00:00
Hey, cool to see!

I'm running a similar but smaller project (5k MAU), my oldest map is central London in 1561

https://onamap.me/maps/London1561/

I got into it because I was interested in the technical challenge of registering GPS to maps which are very warped compared to reality, like very old maps or illustrated tourist maps.

My home page is here for more: https://onamap.me/

I also came across this similar project a while ago:

https://www.verbeeld.be/2024/11/17/using-gps-in-the-year-156...

Good luck continuing to build out the project!
by hopelite | 2025-09-30 02:15:54+00:00
That is just one of the issues, administrative bloat and drag; not even to mention that it is very likely that those kinds of administrative burdens are what crushes innovation and, more importantly to the established players, competition. It is why it is known that the established large players often encourage administrative hurdles and red tape because they are established and in many cases they can just pass on the cost of administrative burdens to the consumer.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-30 02:16:11+00:00
Suspension of a politician or president’s account is clearly election interference. It is not acceptable in our society on a values level but it should also be illegal because it’s effectively a donation to the other side. The more fundamental problem is that large social media platforms and infrastructure providers like AWS are utilities and should be highly regulated so they behave like a public utility and also broke up for anti competitive reasons to the extent possible. But we seem to be allergic to regulations that make sense - and ironically, Republicans in particular are blindly anti regulation.
by westurner | 2025-09-30 02:16:49+00:00
Open standards for modern software management include: schema.org/SoftwareApplication , W3C Verifiable Credentials, Sigstore, SLSA, and OCI Artifact registries which already support signatures.

There are various tools which sideload APKs over HTTPS without any checksum or signature (e.g. from GitHub releases instead of from for example an OCI Registry) which are as reckless as curl | sh.

Couldn't bash and zsh run in a container2wasm WASM container that, in a browser tab without install, gets its own SELinux security context like all apps since Android 4.4+?

Does ls -Z work in Android Terminal (or termux, or the ChromeOS term)?

Students and Family Link accounts are currently denied access to containers on Chromebooks.

So on a Chromebook the same curriculum is limited to JupyterLite in WASM which almost works offline in a browser, instead of a local repo2docker container or a devcontainer.json (because there is no money for students to have server resources (like shells, CI, GitLab+k8s resource quotas) other than their provisioned computer).

container2wasm: https://github.com/container2wasm/container2wasm :

$ c2w ubuntu:22.04 out.wasm
by NSPG911 | 2025-09-30 02:18:06+00:00
rovr, a terminal file explorer because there just isnt enough competing using the textual framework, i have proper mouse handling thanks to it, that i noticed was missing in superfile, or just wasnt nice to use in yazi im taking a look at asyncio to replace threads in the program to hopefully help performance https://github.com/NSPC911/rovr
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-30 02:18:35+00:00
People are really reaching. Bad governance didn't spring into existence the moment Trump stepped into the oval office. It's really very silly and doesn't lend itself to productive discourse. You end up oversimplifying problems for one thing or expanding them to such an immense size by linking it to every other political issue it basically negates the usefulness of any direct discussion on the topic. We may as well just make daily threads about things and people we hate, with people contributing new insights as to how terrible they are in a self supporting loop while any useful comments and threads fall through the cracks.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-09-30 02:18:51+00:00
This is purely a result of politics 'busting into the room' where previously it only had the door wedged open a bit so it could hear what was going on.

And politics is sticky and smelly, so once the stain of politics has touched a topic, it's a long term taint. Better get used to it, because politics isn't very discerning and has been getting pretty handsy of late.
by ramses0 | 2025-09-30 02:19:11+00:00
I was tasked with adding daylight savings (and time-zone) support to an internal monitoring system.

At first I grumbled mightily because I couldn't see the point to it, but after I'd plumbed everything through, I could definitely see the data points snapping in and out of alignment when turning on and off the DST adjustment.

Assume a "moderate" ~45° slope or sine wave... typical diurnal traffic pattern. When shifting by 1hr, that's either 1/24 or 1/12 (call it 5-10%) of "deferred peak traffic"... definitely detectable even with moderate sensitivity.

DST support gave us back confidence in alerting over an abnormally large time range too! Most alerts were set up with a 10-week lookback, discarding both the highest and lowest weeks, so DST changes twice per year potentially threw off alerting for up to 4 months!

I have no doubt that I could detect DST with damn near anything, let alone some crazy calibrated laser inferometer machine!
by rtpg | 2025-09-30 02:19:14+00:00
Is there maybe something more banal here? Like the google robot looking at your website and not seeing content so assuming it's not ranked?

I would scour the Google Search Console to see if there's just something off about your pages. Totally could not be this, but it could be!

Seems surprising if you have a bunch of third-party links that you wouldn't rank higher.
by agotterer | 2025-09-30 02:19:17+00:00
In 2023 a friend and I started a monthly dinner club with the goal of eating around the world without getting on a plane. We gather once a month at a restaurant on Long Island for a meal focused on a theme or region of the world. The meals are around 10+ courses and include a drink. We work with the restaurant to craft a menu that is as close to authentic to the region as possible.

Our first dinner was with 13 friends and has since grown into a group of just about 1,000 members. Last year we generated around $140k for local restaurants on off nights (dinners are on Tues and Wed when business is slow).

Now we are working on evolving into more of a lifestyle brand for people who love food. I'm currently working on our clothing line and new site, which we quietly launched a few days ago (there's still a few odds and ends to finish): https://www.deadchefssociety.com. Would love any feedback!
by tavavex | 2025-09-30 02:20:49+00:00
It's the same reason why people are okay being carded, but not okay with submitting their ID digitally to be recorded and retained forever.

Meeting people in public has an obvious, logical bound. Being recorded does not. When you pass by someone in public, you're one of a thousand - passers-by see you once and then never again, they don't permanently remember you or what you did, no one but the people who know you care in the slightest.

When you get recorded, the data now exists forever, backed up in several places and basically impossible to get rid of. Most importantly, you can't ever know what will happen to this data in the future once it's there. Unlike meeting people in public, the internet doesn't forget. If in 20 years, someone puts up a service that let people upload a picture of your face and have it return a dossier with every bit of video you've ever appeared in, you have no recourse or say in the matter. It's "public data" after all, right? Basically equivalent to just being in the public!