MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-09-19 12:40:27+00:00
My favorite method of frying an egg is in a wok with oil. It gets amazingly crispy, rather than floppy, which is how it usually turns out in a conventional nonstick pan.

But it pretty consistently sets off the Coway air purifier in my kitchen when I do it...so I would assume frying with oil to the point of smoking does adversely affect air quality.
by Zak | 2025-09-19 12:41:38+00:00
When I have driven cars with electronic door poppers, I found them to be a downgrade from traditional mechanical door handles. It's even possible to make the latter sit flush, and cars have been doing it since at least the 1960s.

I'm all for trying new things in the hope that there might be a better way, but make sure it's actually better before putting it into a volume product where it has safety implications.
by infecto | 2025-09-19 12:41:42+00:00
Frying would require some sort of oil or fat and it’s hard to tell but the pan looks clean. Anything with oil will dramatically bump up those numbers. It’s intuitive just cleaning your kitchen, grease being cooked travels.

My one wish is the west adopted Chinese style kitchens. Even in new condo builds the kitchen will be isolated in a room you can close off, with an exterior wall and powerful exhaust vents. I always found it perplexing how ok folks are with what feels like cooking food in their bedroom.
by jzb | 2025-09-19 12:42:05+00:00
Came here to see if anyone recommended that clip. I watched it just last night, it never fails to crack me up, especially CJ's reaction. "You can't do that!" "Why not?" "Because it's freaking me out!"

Effective scene, too -- I've thought a bit differently about maps and some other things ever since, things that might not have ever occurred to me before. It's not a bad idea to expose people to different map projections / configurations to shake up their view of the world.
by jedimind | 2025-09-19 12:42:12+00:00
You are deliberately playing a semantic game with the word "disappear" because you know the truth is damning.

The Irgun didn't "vanish." Its violent, expansionist and terrorist ideology succeeded. It then took over the "state", making the old brand name redundant. Why would Menachem Begin need a private terrorist gang when he could one day command the entire military to achieve his goals?

And your argument about tactics is a pathetic diversion. The state adopted the Irgun's core ethos, a readiness to use extreme, disproportionate violence and terrorism for political ends. This is the "state" whose military ruthlessly attacked[0] its own "greatest Ally", an American naval intelligence ship, the USS Liberty including its crew, and later formalized its terrorist strategy of collective punishment into an explicit military policy, the Dahiya Doctrine[1]. The violence wasn't abandoned. It was industrialized. Instead of a terrorist bombing a hotel, Prime Minister Begin used the full force of the air force to carpet-bomb Lebanon and Gaza.

The Irgun didn't disappear. It just took over the "state" and evolved its terrorism by trading its primitive zionist bombs for high-tech fighter jets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine
by Brendinooo | 2025-09-19 12:42:41+00:00
Right up until the end I'd say it's a good illustration of the hedonic treadmill.

But I'm really not sure what to make of the ending.

> "Oh," he said, "she wants to become like God."

> "Go home. She is sitting in her filthy shack again."

This is ambiguous. The flounder simply acknowledges a change in state without saying whether he actually fulfilled the request or not.

If he rejected the request, then it's a tale about checking ambition, trying to be like God, etc.

But if he accepted the request? Then it's advancing a very different idea of what God is like.

I wonder if the original German is equally ambiguous...

EDIT: I suppose she's not making the sun and moon rise, so maybe I'm overcomplicating it.
by lxgr | 2025-09-19 12:42:42+00:00
Firefox does several other things with AI too, and many of them locally, e.g. suggesting tab group names, suggesting other tabs to add to existing groups, auto-generating alt texts for images pasted into edited PDFs – each supported by a dedicated local model!

You can see which ones your Firefox installation has already fetched and their purpose on about:addons.

More about this here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/on-device-models

On top of that, current mobile versions (and weirdly enough only mobile versions) can now also summarize articles using Apple Intelligence (where available) or Mozilla-hosted remote inference: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/shake-to-summarize/
by onli | 2025-09-19 12:42:55+00:00
Afaik the nonstick pans are not emitting pollution in that sense, the food does not get contaminated, even if the surface peels off that is supposed to be benign. The problem is the production process, having already contaminated the drinking water of the whole world with PFAS - and that's the route where we get contaminated for real as well.

But who knows, maybe those pans are even more dangerous than currently known.
by sevensor | 2025-09-19 12:42:57+00:00
What I find fascinating about the site is my own emotional reactions to the various collections. The message is, “this is how they manipulate you, and it works.”

> Color Association of the United States, which at one time determined what the "in" colors would be for each season, announcing this far enough in advance that fabric makers could plan production

Wild, I did not know this. I wonder when beige will come back.
by cassianoleal | 2025-09-19 12:43:49+00:00
If it's Teflon / PTFE, as long as you don't let it smoke you should be fine. The polymer chain is too large to enter your cells, so your body just expels them intact.

That's not to say you should go out and buy everything coated in PTFE. It generates tons of pollution when it's synthesized. I'm just saying there's no need to rush to throw away the ones you may already have at home - that might be counter-productive as you're now generating waste unnecessarily.
by seszett | 2025-09-19 12:43:57+00:00
All modern cars have been locking the doors for the last 20 years or so, as far as I know. At least here in Western Europe.

The door handles still work from the inside, they mechanically unlock the door unconditionally, meaning nobody can be trapped inside even by manually locking the doors.

The exception is if you flip the "child safety" switch which disconnects the inside door handle of the rear doors.
by eigenspace | 2025-09-19 12:43:59+00:00
The context here is that the author is the principal developer of one of the biggest (if not the biggest) and most performant differential equation solver suites in the world[1].

It's written in julia, and it is very widely used, and known to be state of the art.

[1] https://github.com/SciML/DifferentialEquations.jl
by ccppurcell | 2025-09-19 12:44:35+00:00
As a mathematician I'd like to draw your attention to the magic square on the Passion facade of the Sagrada Familia, with magic constant 33, the final age of Jesus. It has repeated numbers so it is considered trivial or not a magic square at all by some definitions (after all you could always set every cell equal to 1 to satisfy the other conditions). There are non trivial magic squares with constant 33. Nevertheless, this example is noteworthy.
by Mlller | 2025-09-19 12:44:36+00:00
This tale of the Grimmsʼ collection was contributed (in a Low German dialect) by Philipp Otto Runge. His main profession was painting, and he designed a color model using a sphere.[1]

His interest in colors certainly left a trace in the elaboration how the sea and the sky are colored and change their colors.

Runge contributed another tale, “Von dem Machandelboom” ‘Of / about the juniper tree’. Both tales were held in high regard by the Grimms. They saw some traits as typical or classical for the genre, e.g. the repetitions, parallelisms with rising tension.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Otto_Runge#Runge_and_c... –
by jonbiggums22 | 2025-09-19 12:44:53+00:00
The other day I was doing a task I wished to record my view from in case I needed to review later and searched for webcam glasses or something. There are tons of $50 fairly unobtrusive spy glasses on Amazon already.

Actually, this reminds me I might buy a pair after all. In my case I was reviewing an important document package and wanted a way to quickly confirm later what I put in. But I've also recorded unboxings (when worried about a potential return) and disassembly of appliances for repairs that I only make every year or two.
by NateEag | 2025-09-19 12:45:22+00:00
A good point. Thank you.

The violence, once enacted, is an objective fact.

The threat of violence is still there only due to the collective subjective agreement that countries exist.

The IRS would have no functional power if Washington, D.C. and other major US cities were destroyed in a nuclear exchange.

I could imagine many citizens still choosing to pay taxes of some sort and/or respect the value of physical dollars in such a scenario, but it would likely not be due to fear of the federal government. Possibly fear of local police, though.
by esafak | 2025-09-19 12:46:57+00:00
There is not much to the art of the email; there are no great e-mail writers. I'd suggest learning to write long form instead. If it is purely about discipline you'd be better off exercising daily, and improving your diet over the coming year.

If you do not have a long list of things to say, what good is going to come of this except to LLM companies?
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-09-19 12:46:58+00:00
I want Deno to succeed. They already have enough challenges between bun and Node taking all of their good ideas and incorporating them. I want the ecosystem to have more options.

This is Oracle we are talking about here. I would cut off my nose to spite Oracle’s face if necessary, they are some of the worst corporate actors in the history of the world. And that is not an exaggeration.
by SXX | 2025-09-19 12:47:07+00:00
> Most SSH clients I know show a big and often non-overridable warning in case of a changed host key and don't allow (at least not TOFU-style) trusting two keys.

You can solve this with HostKeyAlias, but yeah I doubt Apple would do this. Considering other comments mentioning "just SSHing after reboot" it's certainly the same host key.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/733753/how-to-handle-ssh-host-key-verification-with-2-different-hosts-on-the-same-but

PS: Another option obviously UserKnownHostsFile, but I would better keep single known hosts file.
by thomasmg | 2025-09-19 12:47:59+00:00
My interpretation is that the fish didn't actually turn down and punish, but fulfilled the wish. It's just that the fish thought: to be like God means to be humble. She asks to be like God, true godliness is humility. So she did get what she wanted, but not in the way she thought. (BTW I'm not religious in the sense I go to church a lot, and don't even necessarily believe in God, but I do share many of the values of religion.)
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-19 12:48:33+00:00
The UK is also historically a strong ally of Israel. Like other former colonies they looked to britain for help and guidance. After all the whole state was built on British foundations. After a while britain realised it was in their interests to help Israel and their relationship even today is one of mutual respect.

I think it goes to show the limits of the conflict between the British and the jews of palestine. It was never personal and therefore while there was much anger and resentment, there was never any hate.

The history of how the alliance came about is fascinating. It started with the suez war. Their relationship with the US came about at the same time as the breakdown with the French and was helped by the fact that the US saw Israel as a convenient proxy against the Soviets.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-09-19 12:49:30+00:00
> It's pretty shameful that these large companies have no real way to contact them

This is by design in order to prevent any meaningful path to having to manage user complaints. Companies, broadly, used to have teams of customer support people and you could call and someone would answer to route your issue. That still exists in a lot of family run business (trash collection, home services like cleaning, custom parts etc…) but is frankly extremely rare for the majority of corporate interactions.

That’s not coming back because it’s clear that having a black hole for service saves money and doesn’t prevent repeat customers because there’s no real competition in any market, in a way that would bring customer support back.

It’s just gone.
by zimpenfish | 2025-09-19 12:50:09+00:00
> Mojang, even pre microsoft, has never provided any sort of modding support.

I believe Mojang now provides deobfuscation mappings[0] which makes life slightly easier for modders.

[0] Although all I can find are people saying "we should move to Mojang's mappings!" rather than an official Mojang announcement.
by ClarityJones | 2025-09-19 12:50:12+00:00
That's neat. The shape of the campus does fit better on the 8.5x11" paper when printed that way, but that wouldn't have required the text to be aligned the same. I see the main entrance is on Oxford, to the (not South...) West, making this a case where the campus has an orientation and they're putting the top of the campus at the top of the map.
by throwaway0236 | 2025-09-19 12:50:20+00:00
It works for me (desktop chrome on mac). There are some glitches sometimes when the movies start spanning more than one row.

The initial movie needs to be dragged on the thin white line (not exactly good ux). Perhaps it's not visible?

Also, if you have dragged the first movie and place the second movie incorrectly, it will be placed back in the "stack"
by aa-jv | 2025-09-19 12:50:56+00:00
I lived a pretty high life in Los Angeles for 15 years, and when the time came for me to move to Europe (I'm Australian), I had two weeks where I was basically homeless before the flight home - lease expired on the apartment, circumstances with couch-surfing were not ideal - so I tried two weeks living hard, to see what it was like, as I was also going to have a 6 month hiatus before Europe, back home in the Australian outback, which is a different definition of rough - so I thought, what the heck, why not see what its like. I'd lived in a bubble in LA for so long, the bubble had burst, so why not just try it for a couple of weeks and see how far I got .. I kitted myself out with a sleeping bag and a tent and all the rudimentary camping basics, and headed out of my cushy Los Feliz neighborhood, onto the streets.

It was the hardest thing I'd ever done to myself. My gear was stolen within days, I got beat up and nearly stuck with dirty heroin needles at least 3 times, almost arrested twice, and yeah .. it just generally sucked. I was not prepared for the hardship.

6 months in the Australian desert after that experience definitely made me appreciate the Australian desert a lot more than I had previously, and I will never, ever try this experiment in an American city again.

Its not the street that'll get to you. Its the street life. If I were the only homeless bum in the area, I would've done better I think - but it was all too easy to filter out to skid row after having been chased out of pretty much every 'sanctity' spot I could find, under bridges and in the Griffith Park area - whether by cops or by other homeless people. It was pretty stupid of me, in hindsight. I really didn't need to do it, I was just trying to push my boundaries before heading into the Kimberley region to eat snakes and lizards. That was, by comparison, a far better experience than the reptiles of LA. Would not recommend.
by buran77 | 2025-09-19 12:51:30+00:00
> Hard does not mean negative or bad

It does when it applies to your life. (Edit to reply to your edit) A bit of physical activity doesn't make your life harder. A lot of it might. And almost only hard physical activity is pure punishment, even literally used as such in labor camps.

> the safety nets are often illusions

Safety nets are sometimes illusions, they are mostly helping. Like an airbag they only need to work once to prove their worth.

> see: insurance, for one example

Insurance saved the livelihoods of millions of people, sometimes many times over. Rebuilding houses, repairing equipment, covering medical expenses, or critical services. Sometimes they fail you.

Do you know many people who wish for a hard life? For the homeless life? To not have any sort of insurance?

> There's a balance of course [...] You are forsaking nature and an eon of evolution to satisfy what exactly?

The balance.
by sdairs | 2025-09-19 12:51:46+00:00
ClickHouse doesn't use ZooKeeper anymore, and if you're just using a single server you don't need to worry about coordination :)

ClickStack/HyperDX is a polished OOTB stack that has an all in one image you can deploy to get started, so you don't need to worry about the ClickHouse side until you need to really scale (which is where ClickHouse really shines).
Show HN: Splitly – AI Expense Tracker
by Vraj911 | 2025-09-19 12:52:02+00:00
I’ve been working on an AI agent called Splitly, designed to help people manage personal finances directly through chat. Splitly can record spending, bills, and borrowed or lent money. Instead of just typing, users can also upload bill photos or send audio messages, and the agent extracts and logs the details automatically. It then provides summaries, balance sheets, and recommendations such as highlighting overspending, or suggesting limits.

Splitly lives inside NexChat, a messaging app we’re building where people can connect not only with other users but also with AI agents. Users can interact with Splitly privately as their personal finance assistant, or they can invite it into a one-to-one chat so that two people can collaborate with the agent in real time. Beyond Splitly, anyone will be able to build and submit agents to NexChat, making it an open ecosystem where agents can become active participants in conversations.

The broader goal is to treat AI agents as first-class chat participants, useful not just for individual productivity but also in shared, human-to-human contexts.

I’d appreciate feedback from the HN community on both Splitly and the idea of an open agent ecosystem in chat.
by damaru2 | 2025-09-19 12:52:17+00:00
When AI conferences reject a large fraction of papers, many of those submissions just come back in the next cycle. Lower acceptance rate implies a larger pool build-up and a percentage of it becomes about the same number of accepted papers as with larger acceptance rates.

See this interactive model + math https://damaru2.github.io/general/queueing_to_publish_in_AI_...

Also, an informal summary here: https://x.com/spokutta/status/1967995421386793033
by patrickk | 2025-09-19 12:52:22+00:00
Fair enough.

I think the "form over function" dogma has taken over to such an extent that it's creating miserable, concrete and glass hellscapes that are foisted upon the public by detatched "starchitects". A great point that was mentioned somewhere (maybe in that artlicle I linked) is that unlike other forms of art, architecture is forced into your view, whether you like it or not. If you hate modern art, you can simply avoid that msueum.

With newer stone CNC machines now advancing, hopefully we can recreate the beautiful, intricate craftsmanship of the past, and indeed even develop wacky, creative new forms too and move away from these horrible, bland designs that have taken over everywhere, and made every cityscape look generic and indistinct.
Show HN: Simple API for connecting user email accounts
by mrgreenyboy | 2025-09-19 12:52:39+00:00
Hi,

I built this little API as I wanted to do this in one of my projects, looked around and found that it was either quite difficult to do, had a bunch of extra stuff that was useless, didn't support SMTP/IMAP, etc...

I tried to price it at 5x less than Nylas, because I have less features and it's a new API. It's free in the development mode, if you join the waitlist I can invite you, I'm only limiting it because the payment system isn't fully built, and webhooks don't work in development, but I'm going to add those soon.

thanks for reading this small rant, Dan

PS: I will give this away for free, if you give me feedback.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-09-19 12:52:45+00:00
? Are we talking about same thing? Mojo, the new language for programming GPU's without CUDA?

The marketing and web site materials clearly show how they are using the Python interpreter and extending Python. They promote the use of Python everywhere. Like it is one of the most hyped points.

I think you are trying to quibble with, does the new functions get compiled differently than the rest of Python? So technically, when the Mojo functions are in use, that is not Python at that point?

Or maybe you are saying that they have extended Python so much you would like to not call it Python anymore?

Like IronPython, maybe since that gets compiled to .NET, you disagree with it being called Python?

Or maybe to use the IronPython example, if I'm calling a .NET function inside Python, you would like to make the fine distinction that that is NOT Python at that point? It should really be called .NET?

Here is link to docs. You worked there. So maybe there is some hair splitting here that is not clear.

https://docs.modular.com/mojo/manual/python/

Maybe it is just marketing hype that you disagree with.

But right on the main page it says "Mojo is Python++".
by incomingpain | 2025-09-19 12:52:47+00:00
Top LLMs, even ones that run at home are putting out great code.

But what is "perfect code"? Lets even say they provide perfect code. What is perfect implementation? What is perfect architecture?

I do imagine Scotty in the year 2425 actually does nothing but asks an LLM for the solution and the LLM pretty much just does that.

But it's going to be a very long time until we get any such capability.
by sensanaty | 2025-09-19 12:53:05+00:00
The sociopaths pushing this kinda crap don't live the same lives you or I do. They have people they pay to make decisions for them, or they pay people to do shit like buy their weekly groceries for them or whatever other stupid crap they're trying to sell as a usecase for these useless AI tools. That's why all these demos are stupid shit like "Buy me plane tickets for my trip", despite the fact that 99.9% of people need very specific criteria out of their plane tickets and it's more easily done with currently available tools anyways.

They literally think "What does a regular Joe need in their day-to-day?" and their out of touch answer is "I have all these ingredients but don't know what to cook" or whatever. It's obvious these people haven't spoken to anyone who isn't an ass-licking yesman in a looooong time.
by troelsSteegin | 2025-09-19 12:53:16+00:00
One could look at feed-forward decision trees as representing the idea that preferences are latent and immutable, and that the optimal branch is the truest expression of innate preferences. And, one could look at backpropagation as adjusting preferences to accomodate situational constraints -- or as learning to want what is good for you, where what is good for you is defined by some external or imposed metric. Tragically, Plath was unable to "backpropagate". Was attention all she needed?
by bell-cot | 2025-09-19 12:53:30+00:00
Sadly, the ship's sinking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMHS_Britannic#Last_voyage_and... - sounds like To Do list for demonstrating incompetence. "Watertight" doors that didn't actually work, lower portholes left wide open as the sea outside rose and started pouring in, lifeboats lowered right into the path of the meat grinders (exposed & churning propellers), and more.