MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smcl | 2025-10-21 07:47:35+00:00
A lot of HNers are quite puritanical about alcohol and think it cannot ever be enjoyed responsibly, and that anyone who has ever overdone it a bit has a serious problem.

As you and others have said, this is maybe a bit much to have over 3 hours, but doesn't necessarily mean anything on its own. This is roughly six 500ml beers (plus one half), at a rate of one beer every 30 minutes. The bigger issue would be fetching the beer and going to the toilet - you'd be up and down constantly.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-21 07:47:58+00:00
Wow, I wonder what happened in November 2018 to cause the previous zero import situation?

Reuters doesn't feel it's worth mentioning so probably just random fluctuations in the market or a previous Trump trade war, something like that of no relevance to the current situation and so best ignored.

Here's an economics paper summarising and putting dollar values on the fallout that time:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03069...

Estimating the market effect of a trade war: The case of soybean tariffs

* In 2018, China levied a 25% retaliatory tariff on U.S. soybean exports.

• That tariff led Chinese buyers to favor Brazilian soybeans.

• We estimate the tariff lowered U.S. prices at the Gulf by $0.74/bu on average for about five months.

• USDA’s trade aid payments for soybean damages summed to $3.70 for 2 bushels over two years.

•We project that USDA’s trade aid to soybean producers exceeded the tariff damage by about $5.4 billion.
by jjcob | 2025-10-21 07:48:15+00:00
What are you talking about? Food safety regulations like requiring milk to be pasteurized?

I think that's just common sense, but at least in my home of Austria you can still easily get un-pasteurized milk if you really want. I'm not sure how the "government" controls my food choices? (In some cases I would actually prefer more regulation, because some producers make some questionable choices. I would prefer to buy cured meat without nitrates, but it's quite hard to find)
by esperent | 2025-10-21 07:49:17+00:00
> I like a laptop that can get the job done

Of course, but it depends on the job. If you're working on heavy 3D scenes, or doing video work in 4k or 8k, then "gets the job done" will be an expensive laptop. Maybe not $8k expensive, but $4k easily. For this kind of work it's often cheaper to buy a highly specced gaming laptop rather than a workstation laptop.
by gethly | 2025-10-21 07:50:49+00:00
Only the incognito mode works, nothing else. Makes no sense to me. It's the second day now. Not sure if I should be angry with Google(likely) or Firefox for this. The main problem seems to be that some googlevideo.com subdomains are returning 403 errors. Strange thing is that in normal mode, the rr5 subdomain is called and returns the 403 but in incognito mode rr3 is called and that returns content just fine. I have no clue what picks the subdomains from which the videos are streamed.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-10-21 07:51:19+00:00
My father is way more tech illiterate and I got him a Samsung, I put the mod 'ultra power saving' where it locks down the phone to 8 preselected app, no app drawer only home screen with the 8 icons, and it's enough for him to make phone call, send SMS and take photo. Everything else he doesn't know how to use and didn't want to learn anyway. Bonus, the phone last for one to two week.

Now I don't know if yours is as bad as my father, in that case I'd suggest Samsung, but my mother on the other hand she can actually use the phone for many things : Spotify, using wireless payment, Waze and so on... It's just that things got to be intuitive enough and she is going to fall every time there is dark pattern and she is going to call me every time something is convoluted.

Because of that Android is even worst, Google UI is horrendous and they are master at dark pattern, at least as good as Microsoft.

Apple is still better but that's a far cry from what it used to be a few years ago.

We are evolving, just not in the right direction.
by motorest | 2025-10-21 07:52:39+00:00
> The key thing you should ask yourself: do you need DynamoDB or Lambda? Like "need need" or "my resume needs Lambda".

If you read the message you're replying to, you will notice that I singled out IAM, Lambda, and DynamoDB because those services were affected by the outage.

If Hetzner is pushed as a better or even relevant alternative, you need to be able to explain exactly what you are hoping to say to Lambda/IAM/DynamoDB users to convince them that they would do better if they used Hetzner instead.

Making up conspiracy theories over CVs doesn't cut it. Either you know anything about the topic and you actually are able to support this idea, or you're an eternal September admission whose only contribution is noise and memes.

What is it?
by tifa2up | 2025-10-21 07:53:11+00:00
You typically add a lot of metadata with each chunk text to be able to filter it, and do to include in the citations. Injecting metadata means that you see what metadata adds helpful context to the LLM, and when you pass the results to the LLM you pass them in a format like this:

Title: ... Author: ... Text: ...

for each chunk, instead of just passing the text
by gambiting | 2025-10-21 07:53:16+00:00
>>I highly recommend being very rigorous about giving them the peanut exposure every single day

I honestly can't tell if this entire post is some kind of parody or what. That cannot be real - I don't know anyone or have ever heard of anyone basically force feeding their child peanuts to maybe avoid peanut allergy later in life. It sounds insane, just like the presumption that because you missed some imaginary time window in their development your daughter has developed peanut allergy. That cannot possibly be real.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-21 07:53:20+00:00
Also, science is persistently incomplete, and actually making decisions (or advice) requires making assumptions (often, neutral ones, but that can turn out to be quite wrong) about what is in the unfilled gaps. The advice to avoid peanuts was because it was clear that severe peanut allergies existed, it was clear that they affected a small fraction of children, and it was clear than when they affected very young children, those children weren't able to let people know what was going on as well as older children and adults to enable timely intervention.

There wasn't much information one way or the other on what avoidance did as far impacting development of allergies, and with the evidence available, delaying exposure seemed prudent.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-10-21 07:53:24+00:00
(author)

I'm kinda allergic to writing "I did the thing" posts, so I can't help but tryhard and attempt to make them compelling somehow.

Writing in this manner is also very helpful in making sense of the work for myself. Takes a better understanding of the subject to thoroughly explain what you've built than to merely build it. Sometimes I've gone back and read through one of these updates to just get a refresher on what my thinking was when I built something.
by dillondesilva | 2025-10-21 07:53:33+00:00
Hey Petar, thanks for checking it out and cool suggestion!

As @alsetmusic already mentioned, I think an alias might be the best way for the moment.

One thing that could be challenging is figuring out how to access the stdout/stderr contents for a program that was previously run. With the current implementation, these pipes are routed to hank although I'm not immediately too sure how one could access this post-execution. Feel free to write or implement any ideas onto the repo!
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-21 07:54:15+00:00
At the scale of Amazon, law enforcement is no longer bound to the law, it's bound to politics.

Your average local employer with a few dozen people? If he fucks around enough to draw in the attention of OSHA, he will find out. Easy prey and without political connections he's toast.

But Amazon? This company is by direct head count the third-largest employer in the US, second-largest in both the US and worldwide if one excludes militaries [1]. Amazon is frankly too large to enforce laws against and so is similar-sized Walmart (who has been able to extort the government into subsidizing their poor wages with food stamps), too many livelihoods depend on the existence of the company.

IMHO, a lot of the Big Tech and F500 companies should be outright broken up. When a company grows so large that laws cannot be enforced or, worse, laws get willfully ignored because it's cheaper to risk the occasional fine and bad press, eventually the rule of law itself suffers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers
by piva00 | 2025-10-21 07:56:02+00:00
I use a mix of tools, depending on needs: `curl` scripts for things I might need to automate on barebones OS installations (Linux/macOS), HTTPie on my local CLI env if I'm debugging something where I need to mutate parameters quickly: making sequential calls, many requests with varying parameters; and Insomnia as GUI where I can save requests with parameters, headers, etc. to be re-used during development.

Each one has its strengths, and weaknesses, Insomnia can export the saved requests as `curl` commands so it's a nice visualisation to iterate over a complex call until it's working, and then be exported if needed to be automated; `curl` is quite ubiquitous but clunky to remember the exact arguments I might need; HTTPie has a nice argument syntax so it's quite readable to be quickly edited but isn't present without installing Python, pip, and pulling it.
by anthk | 2025-10-21 07:57:06+00:00
Gopher would be far easier, they already are some gopher clients for the ZX and you can visit an HN mirror at gopher://hngopher.com

Also:

gopher://magical.fish (web-like portal with news feeds, games and services) gopher://sdf.org (blogs basically) gopher://bitreich.org (huge directory a la Altavista/Yahoo back in the day) gopher://gopher.icu (Nice personal page) gopher://gopher.icu/7.gutenberg (Gutenberg project) gopher://1436.ninja (Nice personal page too)
by hluska | 2025-10-21 07:58:23+00:00
The 2000 guidance was based on expert opinion because there were no studies. Leap was published in 2015 and it gave the first level 1 data on peanuts.

Anaphylactic shock is scary and peanut fear was a big deal in the late 1990s but actual risk of harm was very low. The guidance was more about the psychosocial burden placed on parents when there was no guidance. Anxious parents have been studied, that mechanism is reasonably well understood and that harm can be quantified.
Show HN: Mocking APIs by just posting jsons to endpoints
by tiempie | 2025-10-21 07:58:47+00:00
I made a self-hosted API for crud-ing json data (initially for simple storage use cases). However, I started using to mock APIs, where I have scripts that create/edit random jsons and I make them available as API endpoints through this application.

The API is based on your JSON structure. So the example below is for CRUD-ing [key1][key2] in file.json. The value (which can be anything) is then added to the body of the request. Moreover, there are helper functions for appending and incrementing values.

DELETE/PUT/GET: /api/file/key1/key2/...
by waterhouse | 2025-10-21 07:59:10+00:00
More generally regarding poisons, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridatism . TLDR: YMMV.

"Mithridatism is not effective against all types of poison. Immunity is generally only possible with biologically complex types which the immune system can respond to. Depending on the toxin, the practice can lead to the lethal accumulation of a poison in the body. Results depend on how each poison is processed by the body."

"A minor exception is cyanide, which can be metabolized by the liver. The enzyme rhodanese converts the cyanide into the much less toxic thiocyanate.[12] This process allows humans to ingest small amounts of cyanide in food like apple seeds and survive small amounts of cyanide gas from fires and cigarettes. However, one cannot effectively condition the liver against cyanide, unlike alcohol. Relatively larger amounts of cyanide are still highly lethal because, while the body can produce more rhodanese, the process also requires large amounts of sulfur-containing substrates."

Our immune, metabolic, and other systems are built to be adaptable, and some things are easy to adapt to, but other things are difficult or impossible for them to adapt to.
Show HN: UltraFaceSwap – Multi-face swap for photos, GIFs, and videos
by harperhuang | 2025-10-21 07:59:33+00:00
Hi HN,

I just launched UltraFaceSwap (https://ultrafaceswap.com), an AI face swapping tool that handles photos, GIFs, and videos with single or multiple face swaps.

*What makes it different:* - *Multi-person swapping*: Swap multiple faces in one image/video (most tools only do one) - *Multi-face GIF support*: First tool I've seen that handles multi-person face swapping in animated GIFs - *Video quality*: Maintains temporal consistency (no flickering between frames) - *Comprehensive format support*: Works seamlessly across photos, GIFs, and videos

*Why I built it:* A friend needed a face swap tool for their project, so I tried every option on the market. They all had limitations: - Only single face swaps - Poor video quality with flickering - No proper GIF support, especially for multiple faces - Clunky UX requiring multiple steps

So I built what I wished existed.

*Pricing model:* - Free trial to test it out - Daily free credits (casual users might never pay) - Pay-as-you-go for volume (no subscription)

*Tech challenges I solved:* - Face tracking across video frames - Handling occlusions (when faces turn away) - Multi-face detection and assignment in animated GIFs - GIF color palette preservation while swapping multiple faces

*Current limitations:* - Processing videos takes time (30s video = ~3-5 min processing) - Works best with clear, well-lit faces - Very fast motion can still cause artifacts

I'm a solo developer and spent 2 months getting the quality right. Would love feedback from HN: - What use cases would you have for this? - Is multi-face swapping something you've needed? - Any concerns about the technology?

Try it out – I think you'll find the quality noticeably better than alternatives.
by miki123211 | 2025-10-21 07:59:40+00:00
Loading a model takes at least a few seconds, usually more, depending on model size, disk / network speed and a bunch of other factors.

If you're using an efficient inference engine like VLLM, you're adding compilation into the mix, and not all of that is fully cached yet.

If that kind of latency isn't acceptable to you, you have to keep the models loaded.

This (along with batching) is why large local models are a dumb and wasteful idea if you're not serving them at enterprise scale.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-21 08:00:15+00:00
Musk effectively left his newest plaything a few months after the takeover and some events like him going in in a datacenter and disconnecting servers, that was when Twitter (I'll call it X when he acknowledges his daughter) started to stabilize again.

All that he seems to be doing these days at Twitter is messing around with the recommendation algorithm, override the decisions of what's left of moderation for his far-right friends and that's it. Oh and of course Grok/xAI or however it's called these days, but IIRC that's a separate corporate entity that just got shoehorned onto Twitter.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-21 08:00:23+00:00
One aspect of China and so many countries outside of the west is just how unequal they are that people keep forgetting. Yes China is communist, at the very least in name. It is also incredibly unequal.

So there are rich kids in China. And while inequality means per-capita less rich kids, but they tend to be much richer than a US rich kid, and China is easily 5 times bigger, so ... no shortage of very rich kids. And yes, some of them are smart.

https://www.instagram.com/richkidsofchina/

So no, it is not that there are no smart kids with resources in China. In fact quite the opposite.

Perhaps it's like most countries outside of the west. I've seen this play out several times with Iranians. It's the environment, the government, the ideology. Iranians, the ones that managed to maintain some wealth, know what they're doing. They're pretty smart. A bunch of them go back every few years. In Iran, they don't achieve much. Outside of Iran, they achieve a lot. The same people. At least there resources would be a better explanation, but that's not it. In reality the Iranian state will brutally stamp out any public display of culture (because Iranian culture is anything but islamic. In fact, don't even call it Iranian. It's Persian). So what's left is Persians outside of Iran and drug parties.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-10-21 08:00:46+00:00
Yes, there are some counterexamples. Bamba (peanut-butter-flavored puffed maize) in Israel is one, worth studying as it is commonly given to very young kids.

But generally speaking, the USA is an outlier on the prevalence of Peanut Butter specifically, and to a lesser extent peanuts in general.
by bravetraveler | 2025-10-21 08:01:00+00:00
The wisdom of pipes! I'd share these workflows the exact same way we share others [ie: BASH, Ansible]: Git. Needs nothing more than a directory, though an SSH daemon is quite nice.

Those of us who can survive without desperate monetization plays are worth quite a lot, actually. They say 'jury rig', we say 'engineer'.
by anal_reactor | 2025-10-21 08:01:04+00:00
I'm currently in a place that pays me €100k just to sit on my ass, and I can do that remotely. I've tried actually doing some work, but that backfired. Not sure what to do, because on one hand my skills are evaporating, but on the other if I wanted a job that pays more I'd have to learn a lot and then work substantially more. I'm wondering if maybe sitting here until retirement is a viable option.
by fainpul | 2025-10-21 08:02:53+00:00
I don't know the X13, but I have lots of experience with old Thinkpads. Keyboard replacement really used to be super easy:

Turn Laptop over, look for the screw holes with a keyboard icon next to it, remove those screws with a Phillips size 1 screwdriver, flip over, open lid, slide keyboard up and lift out, unclip flex cable, then do the reverse steps with the new keyboard.

After a while, Lenovo started using more clips and fewer screws and things started to go downhill from there.
by padzochambers | 2025-10-21 08:03:00+00:00
Thank you for your advice and I agree experience is superior to just knowing everything in a textbook. But out of interest, if the person with the diploma had a great portfolio and had amazing skillset, would you have possibly considered a little more then?

I'll be happy to get a junior level entry job to build that experience first. Right now I will focus on expanding my 'freelance' work.
by kace91 | 2025-10-21 08:03:11+00:00
>In my defense though, I was REALLY young.

No need to apologize, needing an excuse to lack knowledge is how we end up with people afraid to ask.

I try to make it visible when I’m among juniors and there’s something I don’t know. I think showing the process of “I realize I miss some knowledge => here’s how I bridge the gap” might help against the current trend of going through the motions in the dark.

It used to be that learning was almost a hazing ritual of being belittled and told to RTFM. That doesn’t really work when people have a big bold shortcut on their phones at any given time.

We might need to make the old way more attractive if we don’t want to end up alone.
by gambiting | 2025-10-21 08:03:19+00:00
I don't think there's a joke here, or at least I'm not reading it this way. If anything it's not about "weaklings" but about being in an area where people are more likely to sue a business if they aren't warned beforehand - a street vendor elsewhere will not ask because their risk profile doesn't include being sued by someone who bought ice cream from an ice cream truck.

Like if you walk into a store and they offer you coffee or even a glass of prosecco, I would also say to my wife "oh we're in that kind of store now" because you know you're about to be ripped off in some way. Not that other stores are for weaklings.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-21 08:04:01+00:00
That's not the problem you keep hearing about. China is incredibly unequal. The education program is aimed at test taking because the only way to do anything is to first climb the ladder in the communist party. How do you get into the lowest rung of the communist party? How do you start climbing the ladder?

Well, a test, the "Gaokao". There's your explanation. You need to know math, and of course exactly how Xi Jingping (and the CCP) is a god and the solution to all the worlds problems (there's 3 volumes about it which you have to know by hard: "习近平谈治国理政")

Looks like (three of) this book: https://www.amazon.com/Xi-Jinping-Governance-Simplified-Chin...

If anything, Chinese people outside of China show that their education aimed at test taking works damn well. China doesn't let them out anymore, but it's not lack of ability.
by victop | 2025-10-21 08:04:07+00:00
All good security measures, for sure, but the blog post you linked doesn’t mention anything about telemetry (ie request data sent to those *.gw.postman.com endpoints). As a user, it would be great to know exactly what data is sent to Postman servers (eg we send resolved query strings, we don’t send headers, etc), as well as to have an easy way to opt out of telemetry altogether.
by jjav | 2025-10-21 08:04:12+00:00
> “The network is the computer” was a marketing campaign.

No, not at all. It became a marketing campaing in the very late 90s dot.com boom, but the concept that defined Sun goes back to the beginning, 1984. Back then, that was a radical vision and Sun truly lived it internally for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Network_is_the_Computer
by jongjong | 2025-10-21 08:05:19+00:00
I'm not really interested in communism but I will support it if it lets me have a Blockchain-based DNS system.

All the arguments I'm hearing against a Blockchain DNS system are rooted in petty crony-capitalist thinking.

This kind of thinking seems to permeate most other parts of society... It's gotta stop.

"Oh but what if someone steals it"

This ain't gonna be much of a problem in a functioning society where the top 20 domain names doesn't hoard like 95% of the traffic.

"Oh but we don't want people to own domains permanently or else they will take all the good domains"

Um hello?? Have to checked this thing called reality? It's already the case! So happy billionaires have to pay their $20 per months to maintain their market monopolies.

I actually don't mind other people having more stuff than me but tired of petty people ruining good ideas and stalling progress to make a few bucks.
by hdgvhicv | 2025-10-21 08:06:38+00:00
Our file deliveries to from s3 failed because despite being eu-west-1/2 authentication relied on us-east-1

From what understand that’s a feature you can’t opt out of.

AWS is a single on if failure. The same point used globally by an industry that can’t imagine any other way.

Diversity is defence. Monoculture is a strategic weakness.
by onli | 2025-10-21 08:06:52+00:00
I'm not aware of a recommendation to give peanuts/other possible allergens that regularly, at least I'm certain that's not a thing where I live. The change was that peanuts before were avoided completely for years, and now they are added when it fits, like a peanut butter toast once in a while. Outside of the desensitization therapy you go through now, you do not give like two peanuts every day or put it in milk regularly. You just test for allergic reaction early and then stop thinking about it, that's the change.

So you did nothing wrong. The six week pause was completely meaningless.