MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 14 | 2025-09-22 02:16:57+00:00
I am from British Columbia and camping is a very popular activity. Sleeping on a hard floor is not a problem at all. Sure most would probably prefer a mattress and some padding but even with limited gear usually one could at least roll up a t-shirt or a sweater and tuck that under your neck and head and get comfortable on a hard floor.

But unlike India British Columbia is a completely different climate. We can go from very comfortable sunny warm days to very cold nights. The last time I went camping it was May and the days were nice but the night dropped down to like 5c. I have teens and told them all to pack lots of warm clothes, told them it will be cold at night, made them bring extra blankets. But in the end they still did not have enough and in the middle of the night were so cold. So I gave them 2 of my blankets and some of my clothing. This left me absolutely freezing. I had to finally get up at 1am and make a fire. I struggled to warm up and even had to go start my car and put on the heat for a bit. I put a large rock on the fire and got it hot. I put the rock into a cast iron pan I brought and put it onto a couple sticks in my tent so it would not burn the floor. I had to keep that rock close to me all night and I still was cold and miserable.

So yes on a warm night, and we have those here in BC, a pad is not essential at all. But for the other 10 months of the year if you don't have the right gear you will be cold and miserable. Being directly on the ground is like sleeping on a cold water bed (yes I am that old). It feels refreshing at first but then you fall asleep and wake up with your core temperature stolen and cold.
by M4R5H4LL | 2025-09-22 02:21:10+00:00
Great work. I miss the speed we had before graphics card were a thing. Everything was literally 100x faster to render. I wish we could bypass graphics card entirely on modern Oses and computers but it looks like it’s not even possible anymore with EUFI. I would buy a card that works for TUI only, and with a large set of Unicode chars, and works on a 6K screen.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-09-22 02:21:20+00:00
I don't think it's going to make anybody smarter, but they may seem smarter than they really are, and realistically some will be way more capable of accomplishing what they want to do.

The truly stupid will also seem smarter than they really are, just like anybody else, which is bound to fool more people than before.

And some dangerous people will use it to seem much less dangerous than they really are, when perhaps there is better-concealed escalation.

So if people are not careful, the upside of nobody getting any smarter may not be well-balanced against a downside that nobody knows how low it could go.
by preommr | 2025-09-22 02:22:43+00:00
My personal conspiracy is that Golang is an epic prank.

Make a language that's really good in some ways and just horrible in other ways for no reason whatsoever.

So that when it's critics point out contradictory features like embedding, it's defenders can be the ultimate troll and say things like "but, actually, it's a simple language because it doesn't have while loops".

It's the best explanation I have for some of the cognitive dissonance surrounding the language design.
by tredre3 | 2025-09-22 02:22:46+00:00
I don't think this power bank uses 18650. You could fit 3 18650 in it, but the highest capacity 18650 out there is less than 15Wh and this advertises 77Wh. Even the tested capacity of 55Wh is higher than the before-loss 18650 capacity you could fit in it.

> This is a very poorly researched article

So, yeah, pot, kettle, all that.
by Sep142324 | 2025-09-22 02:23:16+00:00
Dynamic Tables are interesting for declarative streaming. In the ClickHouse ecosystem, you might want to look at materialized views combined with streaming engines.

For real-time transformations, there are a few approaches: - Native ClickHouse MaterializedViews with AggregatingMergeTree - Stream processors that write to ClickHouse (Flink, Spark Streaming) - Streaming SQL engines that can read/write ClickHouse

We've been working on streaming SQL at Proton (github.com/timeplus-io/proton) which handles similar use cases - continuous queries that maintain state and can write results back to ClickHouse. The key difference from Dynamic Tables is handling unbounded streams vs micro-batches.

What's your specific use case? Happy to discuss the tradeoffs.
by aidenn0 | 2025-09-22 02:25:20+00:00
Maybe it changed since you posted it, but right now the top 3 knives there by "Food Cutting Rank" are Japanese (Shun, Moritaka, Tojiro), with a Wuesthof coming in at 4th?

All of the Japanese brands I recognized were in the top 10 (out of 21) with the MAC being exactly in the middle.
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-22 02:26:10+00:00
Why does it needs a new name?

I had a good idea of what it did before reading the article, it is a long name but not Java-long, and none of the suggestions so far are clear to me, even after reading the article.

The only somewhat confusing part is the "twice", because it can be more than twice. But if you think about it, if it has been changed more than twice, it had to be changed twice at some point, so it is not totally wrong.
by Vegenoid | 2025-09-22 02:26:10+00:00
I see this attitude from far too many people who push for better cities. It’s not that it’s wrong, it’s that it doesn’t work. It doesn’t matter how correct you are, and how good your reasoning is - being smug, self-righteous, and insulting does not convince people.

I badly want better urban design in the US, focused on walking, biking, and public transit - but we have to understand and deal with the fact that good people are raised in a very different environment, and that it truly is quite difficult in a great many places that people live to simply change your lifestyle to one without a car. You have to meet people where they are. Show them a better way, and be understanding when they resist and say it won’t work, because they have only known a different way.

I have seen many people who are receptive to these ideas, but have been so put off by the insulting attitude of many notable proponents (like NotJustBikes) that they are wary of engaging with it.

You are justified in your anger at the situation. I get angry all the time at the risk, pollution, expense, and lack of amenities that I must bear due to the car-centric design of America. Still, that does not make hostility an effective strategy. We will make change by showing a better way, not by denigrating and insulting.
by kjs3 | 2025-09-22 02:27:12+00:00
Isn't that a power transfer problem? By that, I mean wouldn't the money spent to invent (they don't exist) these 'mini-reactors' be better spent optimizing the transfer and storage capability of solar, wind, geothermal and tidal power generation to non-optimal locations? I mean, sure, I probably want a nice chunk of fissionables at McMurdo Station, maybe someplace like Svalbard, but as a general solution it seems a poor investment.
by mbreese | 2025-09-22 02:28:22+00:00
I like to think of it as the game within the game. There’s “the game” with the set of rules and lines, etc. But then there’s “the actual game”, where you can watch the strategy, the skill, and that’s at a completely different level. Similarly, once you can watch a football/soccer game and appreciate how someone is moving on the field without the ball, then I think you’re just starting to understand the game.

To me, that’s the technical aspects of soccer — watching the strategy play out, aside from where the ball is, or what the score is.
by godelski | 2025-09-22 02:28:24+00:00
> On the simplest level, a whistleblower is someone who reports waste, fraud, abuse, corruption, or dangers to public health and safety to someone who is in the position to rectify the wrongdoing. [0]

You'll find variations in wording but the definition is fairly consistent. If you go look at the requirements to be a *protected* whistleblower (as opposed to just a whistleblower) then it's that you have to have made an effort to report the issue to someone with the power to resolve it. The specifics can vary by job, so I don't know if she is protected or not. IANAL

So, you'll still be protected as long as you took the right steps. These usually include oral reports btw. There's no condition that prevents you from writing some tell all later. In fact, it's not that uncommon. Especially given that if you're a whistleblower you might end up making yourself unemployable. So personally I'm fine with making money from a book deal and speaking deals. Their time is still as valuable as anyone else's, right? What matters is if procedure was correctly followed. IMO it's like people making money filming themselves doing charity. Yeah, I'm not sure that's the greatest thing but at the end of the day the charitable actions are performed, right? May not be the ideal case, but I'd rather someone do something good for the wrong reasons than for them not to do good ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'll also add that there's many whistleblower programs that will pay you to blow the whistle. Usually it'll be in the form of a percentage of the fine issued against the offending entity. The IRS offers 15-30%[1].

[0] https://www.whistleblowers.org/what-is-a-whistleblower/

[1] https://www.irs.gov/compliance/whistleblower-office
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-22 02:28:32+00:00
Yep. To put it simply - just because Jewish people were driven out of their land in the past doesn’t mean it isn’t their land still. They’re the indigenous people of the entire region, to the extent one survives (Canaanites > Israelites > Jews). And it’s obvious - there are so many old Jewish ruins (like the temple the Al Aqsa mosque is literally built on) that are at least a thousand years older than when Islam was even invented (very recently - 7th century).
by GeometryKernel | 2025-09-22 02:29:04+00:00
And first video. 6 of 78 in just a couple of tens of seconds.

This is not futuristic. ECC will be coming to an end. And a novel cryptographic architecture must be built.https://x.com/CTibedo/status/1969801950578594246

https://x.com/CTibedo/status/1969801950578594246
by nelox | 2025-09-22 02:29:11+00:00
The “40,000-year-old writing” headline is a bit ahead of the evidence. What researchers have actually found is that Ice Age caves are full of recurring abstract marks — dots, lines, Y-shapes, grids — that show up across sites and cultures. That’s fascinating on its own, because it suggests early humans were tracking things and passing on symbolic systems.

A recent paper argued those dots and Ys might form a kind of lunar calendar tied to animal life cycles. That’s where the headlines about “the earliest written language” came from. But specialists in Paleolithic art have already pushed back pretty hard: the associations are often mis-read, the counts don’t fit neatly, and there’s no sign of syntax or actual language encoding. At best it looks like a notation system or proto-writing, not “writing” in the Mesopotamian sense.

So the consensus is: yes, Ice Age people were doing more with symbols than just decorating caves — but no, we haven’t pushed the invention of writing back 35,000 years. The earliest real writing systems still show up in Sumer and Egypt ~5k years ago. These cave signs are another reminder that symbolic thought is very old and very human — but we shouldn’t confuse notation with language.
by namibj | 2025-09-22 02:29:23+00:00
Actually the same rule as for RADAR also applies to LIDAR: single pulse has better energy efficiency, but requires untenable peak power at any vaguely-state-of-the-art signal quality/reception performance levels.

The reason is that you can time-gate the noise out that would otherwise be hitting your correlation accumulators if you have a vague idea of the supposed delay/ToF for the pulse.

However, once you add mechanical scanning, at least for systems with not that many orders of magnitude between range resolution and maximum detection range, you can use systems like mode-locked lasers that for example have around 0.1% native duty cycle, circumvent the issue of peak power through the aperture/scanning 's spatial focusing (each pixel only needs a managable amount of energy, and delivering that in a single pulse won't require unreasonable peak power levels), and still get all the energy-efficiency benefits of single-pulse ranging vs. spread-spectrum/correlation ranging.

The only but major downside is the requirement of mechanical scanning.
by ashishbijlani | 2025-09-22 02:29:37+00:00
Plug: I've been building a tool to detect software supply-chain cyberattacks: https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj

Packj uses static+dynamic code/behavioral analysis to scan for indicators of compromise (e.g., spawning of shell, use of SSH keys, network communication, use of decode+eval, etc). It also checks for several metadata attributes to detect impersonating packages (typo squatting).
by condiment | 2025-09-22 02:29:56+00:00
What makes node supply chain attacks so dangerous is the CI/CD pattern whereby all dependencies are downloaded from the internet every time a build is created. NPM attacks move fast.

I previously worked in an environment where our ci servers weren't internet-connected. One of the things we did get get node builds to work was we had 'node_modules' for our projects in a separate repository that got joined with our source code in CI to complete a build. When a developer added a dependency, they had to update this repo from their local version. It was annoying to have to synchronize two repositories, but this ended up being a forcing function for the development team to adopt several of the suggestions listed here. When you see a PR with a massive diff for a small dependency change, eyebrows raise and the team starts conversations about how to improve things.
by trjordan | 2025-09-22 02:29:56+00:00
This is a very HN sort of sentiment. How can I be persuasive without being gross?

I had a bit of a moment when I first became a PM. (I've done a bunch of things, engineering / sales / founding, but PM only sort of recently.) I realized that my job was to wake up in the morning and pick fights. Or more diplomatically: to tell people they were doing the wrong thing, and they should be doing a different thing, in a way that made them want to listen to me more in the future, not less.

That's the job. In fact, in almost every job, that's the job.

Impact happens when you reach people and they behave differently because of you. That's nothing to be ashamed of. If you do it authentically and with good intent, it's one of the best things you can do with your time.
by rawgabbit | 2025-09-22 02:30:10+00:00
My needs are simple. I typically share my screen and walk people through what I see. I switch between Zoom and Teams and am trying to give a demo at the same time.

As I am talking and clicking at the same time, little things throw off my train of thought. 1) I wish the share screen icon is bigger than the other icons so I can find it quicker 2) I wish the share screen pop up menu is smaller. When I share screen this additional pop up menu appears and it always blocks what I am trying to demo.
by deanmoriarty | 2025-09-22 02:30:23+00:00
It’s going to take me a lot more to switch to Android, but yeah iOS 26 is not good. Some new UX paradigms are actually useful, like the ability to swipe over controls instead of having to press buttons, or the control bars shrinking during scrolling, but all could have been achieved without the major styling change.

I’m old enough to remember the Windows 98 -> XP -> Vista regressions and inconsistencies in UX, and I expect Apple to be headed that way.
by callc | 2025-09-22 02:30:35+00:00
Physical sharing is inherently limited. You can only share with some many friends, burn so many CD copies.

Purely digital files are so cheap to copy that cost is negligible.

Recreating “physical share” functionality in digital space takes work ($$) for $company and directly leads to less sales.

I think a good moral reasoning would be to think of it like ticket sales. You pay to get in. The event organizers take on risk and expense to run the show. Rebroadcasting is like sneaking people in.
Show HN: Querdex – A Crowdsourced Search Engine
by ehatti | 2025-09-22 02:32:09+00:00
It's pretty apparent that Google and other search engines are much less useful than in the past -- searches are dominated by the same 5 big websites, along with SEO content, AI slop, ads, etc. To address this I'm experimenting with a new kind of search engine where indexing is crowdsourced rather than algorithmically scraped, so when someone adds a page to the index they're doing it because it genuinely helped them!

There are definitely many open questions with this model, and I'm aware it's been tried before, but I believe has a lot of promise and I believe we can create a truly searchable internet with it :) please try it out, submit some indexes for sites that you care about, and let me know what should be improved!

P.S: Mobile layout is currently a bit funky, fixing that at the moment :-)
by anigbrowl | 2025-09-22 02:32:53+00:00
They're absolutely comparable, notwithstanding their being different. One could just as well argue that it was a lot easier for the military to do drone strikes or call in CAS on the Taliban with zero risk of political blowback. You remind me of someone who was seriously arguing with me in 2004, telling me the Iraq war would not turn into a quagmire because Iraq was arid desert whereas Vietnam was semi-tropical and forested.
by ajdude | 2025-09-22 02:33:16+00:00
OP give more context in one of the child comments:

> Our founder asked me "Is there anything we're sending over the API that might clue someone in when someone signs up? Are we sending a createdAt field or something?" and I said "No, but we do have a timestamp in one of the IDs..." -- well, we removed the field and this behavior stopped soon after.
by dismalaf | 2025-09-22 02:33:40+00:00
> those guys

Who do you think are "those guys"? Talking Musk? NASA? All the people who have dreamt of traveling the stars the last 100 years?

Remember, we landed on the moon before Elon Musk was born. He's also not the first to talk about landing or living on Mars.

And it's not to hedge against us destroying the planet. It's to hedge against an asteroid or other occurrence we can't control.
by walleeee | 2025-09-22 02:34:21+00:00
Modern life can simultaneously be full of subtle stresses not inflicted on an inhabitant of a previous era and free of many of the worst traumas possible in that era.

Catastrophizing is unhealthy, yes, and is amenable to therapy. It's also true that social control in a modern world functions through a thousand channels all woven into an apparently gentler but no less effective apparatus than old fashioned methods.

The apparent conflict of narratives here serves to divide. These points of view can in truth be reconciled. What is needed is to try to illuminate the issue from whichever perspective is most appropriate for a given context. It is wise to council resilience and fortitude to someone who is leaning into a self indulgent tendency, in one situation. Equally important in another situation is to refuse the malevolent or careless the freedom to blame the victims of their schemes for inadequate capacity to acclimate to an environment engineered against them.
by pstuart | 2025-09-22 02:34:59+00:00
Bespoke behemoth power plants may have the advantage size in the ability to generate power but they seem to be impossible to bring in on schedule and under budget.

Small Modular Reactors should upend that hegemony through mass production but so far still can't compete. SMRs would be perfect for converting every single existing coal fired plant and allow our power generation to go carbon free in record time.

I'm pro-renewables but believe we need as many energy options as possible.
by toast0 | 2025-09-22 02:35:18+00:00
Recognizing Palestine as a state is an act of diplomacy that certainly has no specific benefit for the people of Palestine.

But it makes incursions into Palestine by Israel explicitly of an international nature. Palestine is and has been considered occupied territory, but without recognizing Palestine as a state, what soverign country's territory is occupied?

Perhaps now that there is a recognized country whose territory is being occupied, the recognizing countries may oppose the occupation in more specific ways. Perhaps, the same sorts of protestations without specific action as in years past.

Real (positive) change for Palestinians would start with Israel withdrawing from the occupied territories[1], and that needs more than a declaration of statehood, but a declaration of statehood may be a tiny step towards that goal.

[1] It's not strictly required, but I suspect it's more likely for Israel to withdraw than it is for Israel to radically change how they interact with the occupied territories.
by squeaky-clean | 2025-09-22 02:35:30+00:00
"what-changed-twice" tells me exactly what the command does. "squash-what" tells me nothing, why is the program name asking me what to squash, and then why does it not squash? The only inaccuracy I can think of in the name is that it's technically "what-changed-more-than-once." But if something has changed thrice, by definition it's also been changed twice.
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-09-22 02:36:59+00:00
Wow, you think Bernie and AOC are the limits of the spectrum at that end?

> So as much as you were trying to suggest the problem is on my end, the problem is with you and your narrowminded (and frankly, one with a racist tenor because surely you would not have said that comment to my face) reply, eli_gottlieb. It's too bad you're actually a postdoc, if I were an evil SJW or Democrat (or whatever politics it was you were insinuating) I'd be cancelling you through your own institution or something.

Oh yeah, you're asking ChatGPT for kritiks. Fuck off.