MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-22 05:19:43+00:00
I have no idea about the answer to this idea, but I did for a time know a dog that belonged to a friend, whose behavior profile across the board matched almost perfectly with how I'd imagine autism expressing itself in a dog. (the dog, not my friend)

That specific dog made me just assume it was a possible thing, though I never verified with any veterinary website. It's worth a deeper look though.
by man8alexd | 2025-09-22 05:21:03+00:00
> Programs, which allocate large amounts of memory without strict necessity to do so, are just a consequence of swap existence.

This. The ability to allocate large amounts of memory is due to memory overcommit, not the "swap existence". If you disable swap, you can still allocate memory with almost no restrictions.

> This is all handled automatically when you have swap enabled

And this. This statement doesn't make any sense. If you disable swap, kernel memory management doesn't change, you only lose the ability to reclaim anon pages.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-09-22 05:21:23+00:00
The practical effects of the tariffs have been substantially more muted than most people expected. A lot of supply chain folks were genuinely expecting shelves to run empty by June or July. I would emphasize that “muted” isn’t “nonexistent”, and a lot of metrics would be down if not for AI investment. But it seems that a lot of people are still interested in buying from and selling to the US even with a crazy dictator in charge.
Show HN: Alpacon – new approach to server access
by taeyeong | 2025-09-22 05:21:25+00:00
We are a small team building Alpacon, a platform designed to rethink how teams manage and secure server access. Instead of relying on outdated SSH workflows, our goal is to simplify access, improve collaboration, and reduce human error. To open up more conversations, we just launched a Discord community. It’s a space to: Share ideas and feedback about Alpacon Talk about DevOps, security, and automation Connect with others who care about modern infrastructure access If this sounds interesting, you’re welcome to join us here: https://discord.com/invite/wadWh8VsYB Looking forward to the discussions!
by jimmySixDOF | 2025-09-22 05:22:10+00:00
Docling from IBM and Markitdown from Microsoft are reasonably reliable if you didn't try them also take the extra step to get image summaries in plain text from a VLM it's useful of you want to feed final results to an LLM later. Or first try to skip all that with jina.reader or firecrawl llmstxt they will extract directly from the website so simple but sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.
by westurner | 2025-09-22 05:22:17+00:00
> Abstract: [...] We present a one-step chemical vapour deposition procedure aimed at retaining the precursor topology when incorporated into the grown carbonaceous film. When azupyrene, the molecular analogue of the Stone-Wales defect in graphene, is used as a precursor, carbonaceous monolayers with a range of morphologies are produced as a function of the copper substrate growth temperature. The higher the substrate temperature during deposition, the closer the resulting monolayer is to ideal graphene. Analysis, with a set of complementary materials characterisation techniques, reveals morphological changes closely correlated with changes in the atomic adsorption heights, network topology, and concentration of 5/7 membered carbon rings.

Does this make low temperature superconductors like trilayer and pentalayer rhombohedral graphene easier to make?
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-22 05:23:13+00:00
Perhaps they'd like another Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima instead.

It's ignorant people who complain about "regulations" as a monolithic, monochromatic evil MacGuffin that exist merely to stop progress rather than encompassing health and safety regulations written in blood and graves.

I remember my coworker who had to destructively flame test half of the wire nuts he sold to a nuclear energy concern by verifying they self-extinguished within X seconds. Rigor might be expensive, but lives, health, and peace of mind are worth more even if techbros and billionaires don't think so.
by nelox | 2025-09-22 05:24:06+00:00
Yes, the medical dark ages. Not the metaphorical kind either, but the kind where people die foaming at the mouth because their neighbor decided a rabies shot might cause dog autism. The CDC has apparently chosen the new strategy of “if we ignore it, maybe it will go away,” which worked wonders in the 14th century. Soon, every PTA meeting will double as a plague ward while Etsy sellers crank out crystal collars to protect your doodle from brain inflammation. The irony is perfect: the world’s richest country, armed with billion-dollar labs, yet losing a fight our grandparents solved with a needle and some common sense. When your local ER is triaging between toddlers bitten by strays and adults bitten by TikTok misinformation, maybe then people will realize the dark ages don’t arrive with torches and pitchforks. They arrive with Facebook posts and silence from the institutions that should have known better.
by physix | 2025-09-22 05:24:43+00:00
For what it's worth, I prompted GPT-5 Pro to produce a npm supply chain best practices guide, to see what it comes up with. I've not read it yet.

https://gist.github.com/pschleger/c1c36fbde003bea5eee7ce4291...

And a prompt to review a site I built for GitHub Pages, which I'll try this week.

https://gist.github.com/pschleger/8d5fcea6b96d8504ac58bb2f8d...
by bawolff | 2025-09-22 05:26:19+00:00
> six people have died from rabies nationwide since September 2024, a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesperson confirmed to CNN. In addition, the CDC is tracking 14 potential outbreaks in 20 states,

So is that high or low? It would be useful to know what the median and max cases per year has been over the last few decades.

14 potential doesn't sound that bad if we're investigating them out of an abundance of caution.

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Edit: to semi-answer my own question, according to https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/reported-rabies-deaths?ta... there were 7 deaths in 2011. So we are in a decade high, but with the numbers being so low in general seems like it might just be statistical noise.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-22 05:26:40+00:00
Worth noting that many human cases of rabies infection involve bat bites, which (especially from vampire bats) can be hard to notice at all if they happened very suddenly or while you were asleep. The scarier thing is that once the virus is inside you, the arrival of symptoms can only mean that it's already too late for prophylaxis.

I remember the case of a woman in California, a teacher, who picked up a stunned bat that had accidentally flown into her school room one day. While she carried it over to the window to release it, the bat bit her without her even noticing. Weeks later she was diagnosed with rabies and died soon after. Only after the diagnosis did anyone make the connection to the incident with the little bat.

Just found a link, to confirm I'd remember the essential details right. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-teacher-dies-bitten-...

Edit: As for chagas, it's scary but not something worth blowing too far out of proportion either. I live in a country where chagas is endemic and even here it's exceptionally rare outside of deeply rural areas with lots of poverty and extremely low quality housing. The housing is a key transmission factor actually, since the bug tends to infect people with the parasite while they sleep, and it more easily enters barely-together rural shacks than it does properly built houses and apartments.
by defrost | 2025-09-22 05:27:05+00:00
> increasingly chalking this up to age

I've always had high regard for Trump as a talented scumbag grifter of note.

He's been noticeably and increasingly off game since it seemed he was only campaigning for re-election to avoid a mountain of looming bad legal outcomes.

Much of his early second term "wins" I've marked as momentum success from having a ready to go game plan care of the Project 2025 crowd. His carry through on tariffs, dodging Epstein complications, handling free speech issues, etc. have been more chaotic than cunning.
by shivasaxena | 2025-09-22 05:27:15+00:00
> But that was done by regulation, wasn't it? Would have been nicer to see that come as a result of competition.

Bill Gurly has been crying for years now about how US banks have been bocking/not-participating in equivalent services in US(Fed Now) and for good business reasons for them.

A well functioning market does need regulations. Not everything can be magically fixed by "competition"

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kivatinos_bill-gurley-on-paym...
by olivia-banks | 2025-09-22 05:27:46+00:00
Yeah, this is one of the bigger pain points (that and no dynamic stack allocation). I got around this by defining anonymous functions and then calling between them (using `@call(.always-tail, ...)` where possible to avoid stack-frame overhead).

Eventually, I restructured my IR to allow for more imperative code-generation, which I believe will lead to slightly better optimizations by the compiler.
by gertlex | 2025-09-22 05:28:11+00:00
This issue with READMEs in particular has driven me nuts for the decade I've been doing ROS related robotics stuff. So many repos where the only surface clue (i.e. before diving into the code) of what it does is your interpretation of its name.

But I'm pretty sure it's universal, like you allude to. And not just open-source; but at work, too. I feel like I'm the only one in my company that makes PRs to edit the READMEs to explain what a repo is for, and what repos it might relate to. (I was much happier in the past when we had a couple mono-repos; now the trend is every little project gets its own undocumented repo, alas.)
by rdtsc | 2025-09-22 05:28:34+00:00
The title of the blog post currently is:

> How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me

The HN title is:

> How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me

Those are different things. A "non-developer" reads as someone who isn't supposed to understand any of this. I am imagining a human resource person, a customer completely unfamiliar with internals, someone from a completely different area of expertise. They shouldn't have to know what snarfus are, or how to fisterfunk the shamrock portal. In that case yes, let's mock the developer for completely missing the mark with a 6 paragraph long joke.

A beginner developer, however, is someone completely different. This is a person who will eventually have to juggle snarfus, and as unfortunate as it may be, even need to fisterfunk the shamrock portal. It is partially on them to put some effort into figuring out what fisterfunking is, and how it applies to the portal. If they are particularly good, after figuring out what those things are, they may even volunteer to update the documentation as to make it easier for the next beginner developer to understand it instead of replying with a 6 paragraph long joke about it.
by dathinab | 2025-09-22 05:29:11+00:00
I'm not sure a single country will to the "invest immediately" thing, like at all.

In the same way politician outside of the US trust anymore what Trump says when it comes to economics, a lot of countries seem to have started to response the same way. I.e. speak with Trump like he did with them, do hollow promises, and then backtrack and/or circumvent them.
by vkou | 2025-09-22 05:30:19+00:00
> Don’t forget: our insane support for genocide and an out-of-control genocidal regime that’s clearly trying to trigger WW3.

Look, I think the people involved should be waiting trial in the Hague as much as the next man, but let's be real. They could kill another 5.2 million people, and nobody would start WW3 over it.

Some people's lives are simply worth more than others to world powers, and in this case, the Thanksgiving Turkey getting a stay of execution would get more people to tune in to the telly.
by hoangvu12 | 2025-09-22 05:30:27+00:00
I’d say what makes it special is its simplicity, you don’t need to link your email or bank account. I put privacy above everything. Most apps I’ve found require connecting to a bank account or Gmail, which isn’t great for privacy. Instead, my website offers an AI Agent that can help you enter your subscriptions if you don’t want to do it manually
by darkamaul | 2025-09-22 05:30:42+00:00
The short-term effects of relaxing vaccine requirements won’t be obvious right away, but the consequences will likely compound over time. I don’t know how much time of lower coverage it will take before we start to see measles, rabies, or others become regular problems again.

If you’re traveling, it’s more important than ever to make sure your own vaccines are fully up to date. And if you’re in a high-risk group, the US may not be the safest destination in the near future.
by FranzFerdiNaN | 2025-09-22 05:31:37+00:00
Yeah seriously doubting you really lived in the EU instead of just shitposting as another American patriot who has to declare that everything is better in the US. Because I’m Dutch and banks here are fine. I never even have to think about my bank because it just works.

Also no insane fees for going into the red, or having to pay to get my own money and all that fun stuff that American banks seem to love.
by bruce511 | 2025-09-22 05:32:00+00:00
I don't think agreement is necessary. I think each will, in turn, come to their own conclusions.

In boardrooms around the world there is of course concern to protecting the existing US market. And in the short term there are lots of noises to placate the US.

At the same time there's a recognition that the US is not a stable long-term partner. The bigger conversation is around new markets, building diversity of markets, diversity of investment and so on.

"Global Trade" is mostly not an organised thing. It's a zillion small transactions between individuals, small companies and so on. Ultimately my (US) customers will pay the tarifs to their govt, or not (shrug). In the meantime I'm looking for non-US customers for my business growth. I'm investing anywhere except the US, because the current uncertainty is bad for making investment decisions.

Ultimately this process is a wake up call to suppliers who have focused on the US market. And to those future businesses to come. Diversify markets, because then you aren't beholden to them.

In 10 years time, regardless of who is in power, or the conditions then, the lesson will remain.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-22 05:33:16+00:00
This is attempt number 2, it was already tried before with Swift for Tensorflow.

Guess why it wasn't a success, or why Julia is having adoption issues among the same community.

Or why although Zig is basically Modula-2 type system, it is being more hyped than Modula-2 ever was since 1978 (it is even part of GCC nowadays).

Syntax and familiarity matters.
by patanegra | 2025-09-22 05:33:46+00:00
Well, when you as a parent, basically get your 9-year-old, work as many hours per year, as a full-time employed adult, so your child reaches its full potential, you expect, that this possibility will continue in all levels of education.

Anyway. If Oxford is going to pass on those kids, who are often multiple years ahead of the average, some other university will accept them. And then, this university will likely beat Oxford in ratings.
by seemaze | 2025-09-22 05:33:59+00:00
This hits home, and not even relegated to software. My partner decided to learn to ride a motorcycle during the pandemic. I’ve been riding in some form or another for more than half my life. In the first minutes of attempting to explain the procedures, I immediately realized there were years of involuntary movements and coordination I failed to articulate because it wasn’t a part of my mental model of the process.

Needless to say she signed up for a professional course, got the license, and we’ve travelled nearly 10,000 miles together since!
by viggoblum | 2025-09-22 05:34:07+00:00
Hey,

I’m in the early stages of exploring what might one day become a new product. Some years ago I built PictoPlan, a simple single-user app for daily visual planning. It had quite a bit of success, but I eventually discontinued it.

The new idea is a system where caregivers, parents, or institutions could centrally (and remotely) create and update daily visual schedules using icons/pictograms. Updates would sync automatically across devices.

The vision: imagine a nursing home or residential institution with tablets in each room. The schedule would visually remind residents to go to the bathroom, take medication, eat breakfast, etc.

I know there’s a single-user need for this type of tool (based on my previous PictoPlan experience), but that market was nearly impossible to monetize. What about multi-user or institutional contexts?

– Do you think such a system could be valuable?

– What pitfalls should I expect?

– Have you seen similar attempts work or fail?

Any feedback or thoughts would be very welcome.

(There’s no product yet — just exploring the idea)
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-22 05:34:21+00:00
You're spreading FUD, assuming unprofessionalism, and making a strawman argument based on nebulous hypotheticals and assuming the worst intention and stupidity. There are plenty of vendors who $upport "unsupported" versions of many languages, libraries, and frameworks with backported security and functionality patches for things that matter that are too expensive to update and are outside of FOSS support. For other things that don't matter, sometimes prototyping or one-of runs the functionality of executing is far more important than any or all CVEs that aren't exposed in any material manner. This is the definition of nuance.
by lwansbrough | 2025-09-22 05:34:37+00:00
No, the US has completely and utterly destroyed all credibility it had. It is a farce.

There is no hope for it to return. US allies have credible evidence that the American populace are untrustworthy, uncaring, and frankly, stupid.

The only way for the US to restore credibility is to prosecute. And then survive another 100 years without doing it again.

The remaining influence it has economically and militarily should be considered to be "running on fumes."

US allies are looking for an exit strategy and aren't going to reconsider. Russia won.

I fully anticipate this to be downvoted, I don't care. You are coping if you think America can pull itself out of this.
by derefr | 2025-09-22 05:35:22+00:00
> per the DSM two individuals can be diagnosed whilst sharing only 3 of the 9 symptoms, whichs admits that each of the symptoms can have a cause that is not from ADHD.

To be clear, ADHD, despite having "disorder" in the name, is actually a syndrome: a complex of symptoms that, when recognized together, indicate that a certain set of interventional treatments will likely be applicable.

Diagnosing someone with a syndrome does not indicate any knowledge is available on the cause (etiology) of the symptoms. Many different things can cause the same set of symptoms. But if a certain treatment ameliorates anything qualifying as that syndrome, regardless of the upstream cause, then the diagnosis of the syndrome (and so the existence of the syndrome as a concept) is useful, even if it's not informative.

The DSM actually covers two very different categories of what we might call "mental" illnesses: neurocognitive illnesses, and neuroendocrine (or neurohormonal) illnesses.

Neurocognitive illnesses — structural problems with the brain or its cells (think Parkinson's Disease, or ALS, or Lewy Body dementia) — are usually traceable to specific etiologies, as each one usually has either a very unique presentation of signs and symptoms, or has unique markers that can be assayed/biopsied for.

Neuroendocrine illnesses, on the other hand, are almost always syndromes. Many different upstream problems (genetic, toxic, nutritive, auto-immune, etc) can potentially cause the same small menagerie of messenger-chemicals to get out of whack, and due to this, many different upstream problems end up looking like the same few "templates" of symptoms. If you can put the particular out-of-whack messenger-chemicals back into whack with drugs that do that, then you've fixed the symptoms — which doesn't fix the upstream problem (if it even can be fixed), but does fully compensate downstream for the upstream problem.
by oofbey | 2025-09-22 05:35:39+00:00
That’s one reason. Another less cynical reason is to ensure professionals mean the same thing when they use specific words. Brains are complicated, of course. Making predictions about how one person will react to medication based on their experiences is very difficult. Being able to collect data and group it consistently makes this prediction task much easier. “We known that many people who answer these questions with these answers improve after taking this medicine.” That’s genuinely useful, needs the DSM or something like it, and has nothing to do with insurance.
by eesmith | 2025-09-22 05:37:01+00:00
The title is 'Oracle Unveils $5 Billion Investment in UK Cloud Infrastructure' and the text has nothing about making Oxford a new Silicon Valley.

Doing so would be an assertion that all previous attempts to make "a new Silicon Valley" - Silicon Fen, Silicon Glen, and more, including the existing Oxford Science Park - did not succeed.

Eg, from 1998, "Britain's new silicon valley ... Oxford Science Park" at https://www.independent.co.uk/money/britain-s-new-silicon-va... -

Also, the dateline here is March 21, 2025.
by brettkromkamp | 2025-09-22 05:37:41+00:00
I built my own topic maps-based knowledge management system, Contextualise, a tool to organise projects and activities made up of unstructured information resources (think notes, URLs, images, files, locations, events, whatever…). All appropriately linked. I’ve been using it for years and it works very well for me. It does, however, require consistency, discipline, and effort.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-22 05:38:10+00:00
It wasn’t anything clever. A couple years ago I did a dive into x86 and ARM literature to determine what bits of a pointer were in use in various environments or were on a roadmap to be used in the future. To be honest, it was more bits than I was expecting.

Note also that this is the intersection of bits that are available on both ARM and x86. If you want it to be portable, you need both architectures. Just because ARM64 doesn’t use a bit doesn’t mean that x86 doesn’t and vice versa.

Both x86 and ARM have proposed standards for pointer tagging in the high bits. However, those bits don’t perfectly overlap. Also, some platforms don’t fully conform to this reservation of high bits for pointer tagging, so there is a backward compatibility issue.

Across all of that, I found six high bits that were guaranteed to be safe for all current and future platforms. In practice you can probably use more but there is a portability risk.
by overfeed | 2025-09-22 05:38:19+00:00
Can't have a code review if you're coding solo[0], unless we are redefining the meaning of "code review" to the point of meaningless by including going over one's own code.

0. The dawn of video games had many titles with 1 person responsible for programming. This remains the case many indy games and small software apps and services. It's a skill that requires expertise and/or dedication.
by spookie | 2025-09-22 05:38:19+00:00
> - USA trained Fatah to coup against legitimate Palestinian government > > - Coup succeeded in west bank and failed in gaza in 2007

Adding more context here:

- The training was also provided by Egypt, and Israel

Now, let's go back a few years and tackle what happened before all that. Hamas did not recognize Israel under the Oslo accords, effectively saying if they were in power, the work done towards the accords would be in vain.

What was the accord about?

- "The internationally drafted road map calls for an end to Israeli-Palestinian violence, a freeze in Israeli settlement activity, and the creation of a Palestinian state."