MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vinhatson | 2025-09-18 15:57:36+00:00
This paper proposes a novel hypothesis redefining black holes as dynamic ``universal recycling factories'' that transform ordinary matter into dark matter and contribute to cosmic expansion. By eliminating the concept of singularities through the Minimum Existence Domain Axiom and introducing a framework of dynamic spacetime interactions, we suggest that black holes process matter in their accretion disks via a Gravitational-Frictional Phase Transition, producing dark matter and releasing energy that drives cosmic expansion. This hypothesis resolves key cosmological mysteries, including the nature of dark matter, the existence of transient black holes, and the conservation of information. Testable predictions are provided, including characteristic radiation signatures, gravitational wave bursts, and correlations between black hole distributions and dark matter density.
Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code or Cursor slash commands?
by alexoberneyer | 2025-09-18 15:57:57+00:00
The idea of reusable prompts via slash commands (like in Claude Code or Cursor) is great. But in practice, I find myself switching between different tools—Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini, etc.

I am to lazy to maintain a separate /command file for each tool. Wouldn’t a more general prompt library (e.g. Raycast snippets) be more practical?

Curious to hear from others—do you use these slash commands regularly, or do you prefer a centralized prompt/snippet system?
by j1elo | 2025-09-18 15:58:19+00:00
Google. Microsoft. Apple. In the years where "mobile is cool" became a mantra, basically everybody fell for the trend. Several examples in this random blog post that talks about the topic:

https://blog.prototypr.io/mobile-first-desktop-worst-f900909...

You asking this means (maybe?) that you're too young to have used the abhorrent default start menu of Windows 8, but yeah, forcing down users' throats the result of tucking what essentially was a mobile design into a 32" desktop monitor was the pure definition of "stupid decisions driven by marketing".

And it was not only OSes, too much of the web got "infected" with these design trends that are only appropriate for small screens:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/content-dispersion/
by Schweigerose | 2025-09-18 15:58:54+00:00
I used XFCE for more than a decade and it's my first choice when picking a DE. Two major issues tempted me to try KDE this year: the lack of Wayland support and the absolute asinine file picker/ chooser dialogue XFCE took from gnome, if I remember correctly. Having a file picker that marks the text of the file name, but when you start typing switches to the search bar drives me nuts. (Even when you just want to drop a downloaded file somewhere in a directory ... why would I want to search in these circumstances??)

I'm keeping an eye on XFCE and they plan to release Wayland support some time this autumn. Once this is somewhere near stable, I thin I will switch back again to XFCE.
by drtgh | 2025-09-18 15:59:12+00:00
Google's browser holds almost the entire market share, and it's a browser that shifted to Manifest V3 to prevent ad blockers from being installed (which now require special effort from users to install and keep it/them working). Do people really believe that the decrease in the number of visits is as significant as Google is trying to make YouTubers believe through their algorithm?

I don't know... To me, it just seems like a textbook move from a Corporate Abuse Playbook. I bet someone at Google is laughing about it right now.
Show HN: GPTShirt – Describe shirt. Wear shirt.
by nliang86 | 2025-09-18 15:59:55+00:00
Post:

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How it works:

1) Describe your idea in a prompt, with optional reference images (people, objects, styles, etc.)

2) AI generates your design. Iterate and refine until happy. Powered by Nano Banana.

3) Order it - we handle printing and shipping

4) (Optional) Share it - handy for group orders.

Some example shirts:

- Family picnic with Totoro - https://gptshirt.app/designs/2910ae97-8c7a-4631-9271-291364f...

- Cosmic Cat Island - https://gptshirt.app/designs/0d65835c-ea70-4a56-9f5e-92a0ec4...

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It costs $20 per t-shirt, plus shipping. Shipping takes 3 to 5 business days.

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by themaninthedark | 2025-09-18 16:00:10+00:00
There are several top level comments here acting like this is the first time the government has done something like this. It's not.

The previous administration was doing the same thing; Publicly saying that they wanted to change laws, that these companies were killing people etc. At the same time, they were also asking the companies to remove people for their speech. The threat was implicit.

I don't like that the current republican administration is doing it now, I didn't like it when the previous democrat administration was doing it then.

The only way to keep it from happening is for everyone to speak up, for that to happen you also need to recognize when your team is doing the same thing and call them out. Look at the comments saying "I bet we won't hear from the freeze peach crowd", of course you won't see them. Not because they don't care however but because their disagreement of the government action is getting lost in the noise of your crowds.
by demurgos | 2025-09-18 16:00:15+00:00
> I'm not sure if this isn't as common as I think it is - but what's wrong with typing `ip` into a terminal (that's always open anyway)?

I'm a regular Linux user, but I wouldn't know how to get all the data from the Wi-Fi applet using the Command Line. GUI have the advantage of discoverability over CLI: with a GUI I get a bunch of useful info in a single place, with a CLI I first need to know that a data is available and then I need to look-up the right invocation to get this data.
by amalcon | 2025-09-18 16:00:31+00:00
> The printing press, steam engine, cotton gin, combine tractor etc. all didn't kill traditional masculinity, so why should computers and robots?

This is an interesting space for discussion, and it's worth noting that I don't fully disagree with you here. However, I do think computers (and "robots", AKA machines with computers in them) are materially different than these other examples.

A combine harvester might allow one farmer to do the work of ten, but the thing that farmer is actually doing still shares a lot of similarities with what the farmer was doing before. Same with the cotton gin, the assembly line, or the table saw.

The printing press is special because it replaced what would today be a bunch of office jobs (scribes) with a single physical job. The latter would actually be more male coded in modern America.

On the other hand, something like the CNC lathe straight up replaces a large number if "machinist" jobs with some smaller number of programmers and CAD experts. These jobs are less masculine coded than machinist was. It also adds some computer knowledge to the requirements of the repair job. Even while we still approach true lights out manufacturing, the jobs "around" that machine are more supervisory in nature and less masculine coded.

It's not that the progression toward lights out manufacturing hasn't generated new jobs. It's generated plenty of them. It's just that a lot of these jobs are relatively gender neutral now, like product design and marketing. A lot of the masculine coded ones are driving based - delivery drivers, etc - which have already been undermined by the gig economy and are rife for further disruption by self driving cars once that gets good enough.

I agree that the solution needs to be a cultural shift of some kind. We aren't going to put computers back in the bottle. Executing a cultural shift is hard, but it's been done before: frankly, just look at all of the other (almost all positive) results of feminism since Susan B. Anthony's time.
by spyckie2 | 2025-09-18 16:00:49+00:00
Not to take away from the article, in the comments she states that her world is filled with the joy of new things with her new baby. She is doing as well as one can be for how much she loved Jake and how much she misses him.

The author is extremely talented at isolating certain feelings and making you feel them with her. I wouldn't use this article as a diagnosis of anything but her writing talent.
by dh2022 | 2025-09-18 16:00:55+00:00
It is hilarious :) "Idiocracy" is where the "only sky deity worshippers pro-create" movie ends.

I happen to have religious friends. They invited me once to a Christmas dinner - about 5 families. My and my wife were the only ones who did not have at least 2 kids (we had no kids at that time). My wife was the only woman working, and I was the only one who was not working construction - one of the guys made this remark, not me.

During the dinner the male host started playing on a keyboard. There was a chorus of women singing religious hymns around him (I am not making this up). One of the guys tried to convert me. All in good nature and polite and with no confrontation - these are all good people and we saw each other after that. But I skipped Christmas at their house the following year :)
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-18 16:00:57+00:00
I know UMAP has gotten to be the standard these days but I don't really like it. In particular you see these cusp structures that strike me as a "bad smell" in high dimension data visualizations -- I imagine in these cases some points lie on a manifold around the edge of a fold which is perpendicular to the plane so something that really should be a blob looks like a line and worse yet two sides of the blob get projected on top of each other; this was something I struggled with with my PhD drawing Poincare sections until I realized that what was going on.

I worked on a visualization product which used t-SNE which I thought was the first cluster visualization that really worked. Our version was tuned up so that you got nice blobs instead of those nasty lines. Sometimes I see cuspy t-SNEs but I think if your parameters tuned right you get better and more insightful visualizations than UMAP.
by righthand | 2025-09-18 16:01:06+00:00
I do not agree. While there may be a flux of people who have therapists, the majority do not and that is why you hear about it on Youtube.

I do agree that younger people are trying to take more care of their mental health but I do not see healthy reasons for which they are chasing that improvement. For example the “pursuit of happyness” is indoctrinated and people think they always need to be happy. At the same time I think people are self-diagnosing which I do not include as “health care” as I meant it, but rather self care or even passive-hypochondria.
by kjok | 2025-09-18 16:01:34+00:00
> automated scanners seem to do a good job already of finding malicious packages.

That's not true. This latest incident was detected by an individual researcher, just like many similar attacks in the past. Time and again, it's been people who flagged these issues, later reported to security startups, not automated tools. Don't fall for the PR spin.

If automated scanning were truly effective, we'd see deployments across all major package registries. The reality is, these systems still miss what vigilant humans catch.
by DashAnimal | 2025-09-18 16:01:38+00:00
Arseny Kapoulkine is an amazing engineer. Highly recommend following his blog or social media. Other than working on luau and the rendering engine at Roblox, he's also responsible for meshoptimizer which if you're in graphics you've most definitely heard of, and volk, which now comes packaged with the Vulkan SDK.
by kirillzubovsky | 2025-09-18 16:01:39+00:00
This is the only command I use nowadays: "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions"

I have about 25 agents for different tasks, and sometimes I dispatch them to do their individual work, but that usually happens at the beginning, when I build the first scaffold.

For example, I have agents that setup a DB in certain way, or write a logger in a specific way, I have a test agent that writes them, and a test agent that executes ..etc.

However, for the day-to-day, outside of major ground up builds, straight up Claude.

Sending better prompts to Claude adds more value than everything else, in my experience.
by mzajc | 2025-09-18 16:02:24+00:00
> Is it really necessary to take up what could be used for 2+ extra lines of terminal output for a labeled Copy button?

It's not, which is why the context menu gives you an "Icons Only" option, along with "Text Only", "Text Alongside Icons" (default), and "Text Under Icons". You can also adjust the icon size, or remove the toolbar entirely.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-18 16:02:49+00:00
> KDE is less popular because of the license situation of Qt

Qt is LGPL and has been for literally decades. LGPL is fine.

> and drama with the commercial entity that does a lot of KDE development.

Kdab? I have no idea what you're talking about here.

> Everything works out of the box. Trackpad gestures, touch, touch gestures, multi monitor support, HDR now; everything you could think of.

Hasn't been my experience, and also "everything" is simply a lot less than KDE. For example most of the network settings are not available - you have to use some third party app that isn't installed by default (`nm-connection-edit` or something).

Notifications are also awful in Gnome. They are the same colour as the background so difficult to notice (I had to end up editing some random CSS to fix this), and they disappear if you just mouse-over them. No history. I missed so many meetings.

I'll give you that Gnome looks nicer. KDE has improved a lot but it still has some amateur looking parts. But it's just so incomplete!
by enobrev | 2025-09-18 16:03:10+00:00
I think there's something of a pendulum here, and I agree it's swayed too far to over-diagnosing ourselves. But I also think of my father who passed a couple years ago.

We didn't have much of a relationship. He had friends, but never close ones. He was weirdly mean or weirdly seclusive or weirdly awkward at times - and also incredibly intelligent and occasionally gracious and hilarious.

After he passed, I wondered if he might have been somewhere on the spectrum - but his peculiarities were simply ignored. A poor boy, in a poor urban neighborhood, with a dead father, being raised by an immigrant mother and immigrant siblings doesn't get diagnosed with much of anything - if they see doctors at all. And hey, he had a near photographic memory, and did great in school, so what's there to worry about?

It's always been "how he was", and that's probably ok, but I do wonder if he would have had a better or somehow different life if he knew more about _why_ he was the way he was.
by stronglikedan | 2025-09-18 16:03:17+00:00
Removing Meta from the equation will not remove general rudeness. Those same people aren't paying attention to you now either, it's just not so obvious.

There are other, valid use cases for this. I'm looking forward to it. More specifically, I'm looking forward to the secondhand market that will surely spring up moments after release as people realize that it's not a product for them in particular.
by staticautomatic | 2025-09-18 16:03:42+00:00
In theory, sure, but in reality, please god no. 99% of LinkedIn messages you get as a hiring manager are “Hi I applied to your role”, “Hi I applied to your role and I’d be a great fit when can we talk?”, “Hi I’m really interested in learning about your work can we meet for coffee?”, or “Hi I’d be a great fit for your role because <insert enormous AI-written cover letter>.”
by jkaplowitz | 2025-09-18 16:03:48+00:00
This time and last time both ordered by an immigration judge, who is a non-tenured employee of the executive branch able to be fired at will by the President and who is not allowed to consider constitutional defenses. Very different from the real judges to whom the constitutional questions in Khalil’s case are reserved.

Even statutorily rather than constitutionally, there are defenses which if proved would prevent these misrepresentations from making him deportable, and he does have appeal rights both within the executive branch immigration court system and beyond.

This case is definitely not over.
by mixcocam | 2025-09-18 16:04:10+00:00
I'm sorry that you read my comment as "tone deaf". It was not my intention.

> This type of contribution is so incredibly both tone deaf and unempathetic, I wonder if you understand even how incredibly selfish the attitude is? Especially in using the word “just”.

I don't see how a comment which proposes a solution to the problem at hand can be "selfish".

I am the owner of a small business myself and am well aware of what switching tools requires. I'm also sorry that you think that modern tools like Slack or Mattermost for that matter improve communication over what email provides; then again that is obviously a matter of opinion.

> “Just” do this incredibly complex switch, which is utterly unsuitable to your users and how they work together, and which doesn’t actually solve your problem at hand since the article is about something else.

The article is about a simple yet painful problem. I am proposing a solution, I don't see how my comment is not pertinent. As for my use of the word "just", simple does not mean easy.

> Even with the absolute best reading of intentions I can give to your comment, I can only imagine you wrote it to make some microsubset of people still using mailing lists feel better about their choice and validated in one of the ever rarer advantages there are to using email as primary communication. > > Either that or you don’t actually know what Slack is. But then why comment?

False dichotomy. I truly believe that mailing lists are a great way to collaborate. Especially given the case that data ownership is now even more important to the author of the post.

Slack/Mattermost try to combine real-time chat with asynchronous information exchange. I think that that is not a great way to work, this is close enough to what I think of these solutions to [link to](https://basecamp.com/guides/group-chat-problems). Not only that but your data will always be locked away in their non-standard format.

Moreover, I emailed the author (good thing this "clunky" system exists), and offered help with a potential switch to using email. Thank you nonetheless for taking my comment into consideration. I can only hope it was more useful for other readers than it was for you.
by aeturnum | 2025-09-18 16:04:17+00:00
What you're describing is a big problem [edit: for the people who get sucked into it] and, to me, is kind of the "other side" of the overmedicalization issue that this blog is complaining about. One way medicalization harms is is when people are forced into conditions they don't agree with (as the author feels they have been). The other way is when people who aren't medical professionals (and wouldn't be in a position to diagnose even if they were) adopt medical language to describe experiences.

I guess my thoughts on the trend you're critiquing is that it happens almost entirely outside of the medical community. As you describe the people who are most impacted by this often find actual medical treatment unhelpful and un-validating and turn to self-medication or other "medically inspired" coping techniques. I think the people who actually don't have these conditions and are applying medicalized treatments and explanations are opportunistically drawing on medical language because people often respect it socially. But also there are lots of people who engage in self-deception (or just normal deception) for social advantage and I don't know that people who use medical language are better or worse? A word is just a word and unless that word is actually on a medical record somewhere it only has the power you give it.

The flip side of this is of course that the medical establishment has many well-studied and documented biases. They offer poor treatment to overweight people, black people, people with mental health diagnoses, basically every vulnerable population that's been studied gets worse service from medical professionals. That very reasonably leads to people distrusting "the system" and searching for coping mechanism outside of it. I think that is generally pretty harmless and helpful - as long as it doesn't get into the realm of serious self-medication like you describe. Basically if you like using a medical term to describe your experience ("I'm being really OCD today") I don't think there's much harm in it and you may find coping mechanisms for people with ODC helpful as a bonus.
by overfeed | 2025-09-18 16:04:17+00:00
> Someone always rocks up to say this in these threads, and then never actually offers any suggestions of what they think an alternative should look like.

It's a broad observation about culture - there's no "alternative" to a well-established culture, no single forum comment will change society.

> Seriously, what is the alternative meant to be? ... Constantly reminding people that everyone will die and you'll be forgotten completely in about 3 generations?

I think you're on to something here; there's an inherent conflict between ruthless individualism that tells people they can do anything they put their mind to, and the stark, limiting reality of mortality. That's a bummer, so don't think or talk about it, or it'll mess with your grindset.

Collectivist cultures already embraces the idea that one's life is more than just about the individual, so grief and talking about death are far less radioactive. Religions that embrace ancestral spirits being presence offer comfort in continuity; her husband isn't really gone, and he may even watch ober their daughter, and even help her in math exams. In that light, dying is less of a big deal - more of a transition really - compared to oblivion, which is super heavy. I'm not saying these are better
by rbanffy | 2025-09-18 16:04:19+00:00
> And it's pretty clear that "getting women" to "focus on career" will eventually lead to extinction.

As a parent of three, with two very career-minded women, I can tell you that it won't. We planned, did the work, and it all happened according to those plans. We could have had more, but we decided we had contributed enough to future generations. And the long-term effects continue to ripple on, as we already have grandchildren.
by nicoburns | 2025-09-18 16:04:45+00:00
I feel like the correct solution to these problems (across NPM and all similar package managers) is a web-of-trust audit system based on:

- Reviewing the source code in the actual published package

- Tooling that enable one to easily see a trusted diff between a package version and the previous version of that package

- Built-in support in the package manager CLIs to only install packages that have a sufficient number of manual reviews from trusted sources (+ no / not too many negative reviews). With manual review required to bypass these checks.

There are enough users of each package that such a system should not be too onerous on users once the infrastructure was in place.
by NateEag | 2025-09-18 16:04:51+00:00
> Atheism doesn't presuppose either hedonism or nihilism.

And if the GP thought it did, he would not have bothered to qualify it with those labels.

Since they _did_ specify "atheistic hedonism/nihilism," we know they're talking about those specific stripes of atheism, and can discuss that.