MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nomel | 2025-10-11 02:45:48+00:00
Could you explain how this is related? This is evidence they've always curated for what they deem as "undesirable" things, related to engagement.

> who appeared too ugly, poor or disabled

From the engagement perspective, you'll find that movie stars, social media stars, CEOs, and even politicians (with some famous presidential results [1]) are, nearly without exception, attractive and fit. Why?

[1] https://www.history.com/articles/kennedy-nixon-debates
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-10-11 02:46:51+00:00
Article is just a collection of links to individual stories already in discussion around here:

Bank of England flags risk of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45516265

OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521629

AMD signs AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, gives it option to take a 10% stake

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45490549

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45512317
by soraminazuki | 2025-10-11 02:47:03+00:00
I initially found the noun-verb model of Helix appealing, but I discovered that I prefer verb-noun much better after giving it a try.

One major drawback of the noun-verb approach is its inability to support repetition using the `.` command, which is one of my favorite features in Vim. I often find myself doing something along the lines of `dd..`, `dap..`, `<Ctrl-a>..`, or `/foo<Enter>cgnbar<Esc>...un...`.

More importantly, noun-verb editors have a shortage of usable keys. Too many common operations require the use of the alt key, and that bothers me a lot. This seems inherent to the noun-verb model.

To expand on this, Vim has normal, visual, and insert modes. Noun-verb editors only have visual and insert modes, resulting in fewer options for key assignments. To exacerbate the issue, noun-verb editors have no distinction between motions and text objects. This means they must map text objects in visual mode, whereas Vim only needs to map them after some verbs. So noun-verb editors uses up more keys in less modes.
by Noumenon72 | 2025-10-11 02:48:21+00:00
I would say removing political rage bait is a sign that they are not optimizing for engagement but enjoyment. TikTok is a feed of stuff that's interesting, funny, and wholesome, not the slop and doomscrolling that chasing engagement gets you. Just from looking at the thumbnail in the article you can tell it would never be shown on TikTok, regardless of political content.
by kevinsync | 2025-10-11 02:49:10+00:00
I cannot for the life of me find the article that explains this succinctly and with a hint of salience, but I recall reading sometime this year about how Klarna (a Swedish company) created the concept, in part, because the Swedish (culturally) tend to pay back their loans. It was a hit in its motherland, with little fraud and generally-responsible users. Then they went worldwide, in particular in America where we are a pack of jokers and heathens who are happy to finance a Crave Case and a vape with no intention of paying it back ever.

It apparently never occurred to them that we are like this.
by blakenomad | 2025-10-11 02:49:21+00:00
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by TZubiri | 2025-10-11 02:50:25+00:00
I think the argument is that this is precisely the tail end of exceptional conditions overfueling is designed for. If it's typical to fill fuel for 4 hours on a 2 hour flight, and the flight took 4 hours. It seems like this is exactly why they overfuel to 4 hours. If this happens once every 100k flights, then it doesn't even beg the question of "why aren't we overfuelling to 4.5 hours".

This is just clarifying the question from the perspective of an outsider.

That said, an investigation would be pretty reasonable, even if only to confirm that the abornamlity were forces majeures
by commandersaki | 2025-10-11 02:50:26+00:00
I think it's just reacting to the market; with MIE the cost of full chains probably go up significantly, and individual chains are worth less than what it would be when included in a full chain.

Individual chains of course are still eligible for rewards:

> Individual chain components or multiple components that cannot be linked together will remain eligible for rewards, though these are proportionally smaller to match their relative impact.

Edit:

I think those that build a full chain and attempt to sell to the regular posse would rather just take the bug bounty from Apple. There's little information about the 0day market for chains but from what I've seen it is you need to provide long term support and hoard alternative methods when different parts get discovered or break down. With MIE and other mitigations and vigilant scanning of devices, there's more chance exploits and techniques are discovered, patched, and you as VR/ED will only get a small fraction of the contract (like say $8m over a couple of years). (Someone from the 0day industry feel free to correct me.)
by wpm | 2025-10-11 02:50:40+00:00
I just booted up my G4 Cube running 10.2 and lemme tell you that aquagel looks 10x better, especially on at 1600x1200 on a Trinitron. Gorgeous, fun, clear delineation of content, with just maybe a bit too much transparency in a few spots.

It went too far (I think the subdued Aqua of 10.9 was peak), but no where near as bad as Glarse.
by al_borland | 2025-10-11 02:53:35+00:00
In many cases, the parents catch the chaos from work and bring it home.

For a while I had a boss who was very stress inducing. Several members of the team started having problems at home with their relationships as a result. I lived alone and thought I was fine, until I noticed I hand makes on my hands from nails in the morning from clenching my fists as I slept all night… something I only ever experienced while working for that boss.

Sometimes stress has to be rooted out at the source. A person can only buffer so much for so long.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-11 02:54:40+00:00
Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503960 - October 2025

U.S. colleges poised to close in next decade, expert says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45171434 - September 2025

Looming 'demographic cliff': Fewer college students and fewer graduate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42634596 - January 2025

Predicting College Closures and Financial Distress [pdf] - https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/frbp/assets/working-... - December 2024

BestColleges: Tracking College Closures and Mergers - https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/closed-colleges-list-s...

(At least 84 public or nonprofit colleges have closed, merged, or announced closures or mergers since March 2020 as of this comment; I think the evidence is strong smaller for profit schools with enrollments <1k will continue to close well into the future)
by scuff3d | 2025-10-11 02:54:45+00:00
You have to clear credit checks to get a credit card. Theres also generally a more involved application process (at least a little bit). The added barriers helped prevent the most financially unstable people from getting them.

There's plenty of problems with the system, but at least it's more difficult for people to get preyed on by credit card companies.

I see these companies like Klarna as not any better then payday loan places.
by mackeye | 2025-10-11 02:54:51+00:00
(for kakoune, not helix) i've used kakoune daily for almost 2 years now, and i still mix up e.g. `(?<!` vs `(?!<` for lookbehind regexes. i appreciate the ability to select a region and watch whether my regex has selected what i expect.

but, this is probably less important than the simplicity of the selection first model, as it ties into multisel, etc. a selection is a cursor and an anchor. other keys manipulate the selection(s) in very particular ways, which are predictable. external tools interface easily with the selection format, as it represents cursors and anchors.

each benefit taken alone is quite small, but together they offer kakoune a very lean, predictable design when combined with its use of external programs for tasks like sorts or paragraph reflows.

helix is similar to kakoune w.r.t. the editing model. kakoune has `w` to select the next word (and move the anchor to the start of the next word), and `W` to select the next word (and keep the anchor where it is, so you now have two words selected). helix has `v` to enter visual mode, which is essentially equivalent to caps lock with kakoune --- `vw` in helix is equivalent to `W` in kakoune (i believe).

i think selection first is better, but i think it's fair to prefer vim's style, obviously. but there's certainly ample reasoning, though helix might not explain it thoroughly, because (at least, at one point) they may have expected users to have viewed kakoune previously, and understand its philosophy, as helix is essentially a batteries-included kakoune (and kakoune explains the reasoning quite thoroughly).
by thombles | 2025-10-11 02:56:00+00:00
Spam, illegal content, and moderation in general. How do you protect against new account spam when any domain could be a PDS and any PDS could host an arbitrary number of users? What do you do about people stuffing ebooks and TV shows in git repositories? If a project is getting piled on with all its issued spammed because of political views of the repo's maintainer, is this considered a problem, and if so how is it fixed?

The advantage of an AppView is that, like BlueSky, you can actually have a central moderation team and consistent moderation policy. Even if people post whatever they want on their own PDS it is possible to curate what people normally see. However, even though I avoid following the drama I can see that the BlueSky moderation team is constantly under fire for some decision or other. Choose your poison.

Nowadays I don't have the appetite for fully decentralised public networks and all the responsibilities and problems they bring. It's nice that AT's content is completely open compared with something like Twitter, but it's so helpful that the day-to-day administration is centralised when you want an authority to appeal to without ending up with the quagmire of "defederation".

A question to ponder: is anyone here going to volunteer to run a "permissive" radicle seed node? (i.e. providing storage and access to arbitrary git repos uploaded anonymously)
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-10-11 02:56:19+00:00
Hello again!

I try to tease some details here (please note that the biological allusions are not meant to be "rational")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45545841

>There is no machine that will flash an indicator when pointed at a “fascist”.

Perhaps a reference to a certain Soviet farce?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin-dza-dza!#Animated_remake

(2013)

Online, the best we can do is try to be right about the kind of questions to ask.. (& pay heed to emotivism, like you say)
by roenxi | 2025-10-11 02:57:57+00:00
> I mean for every two tons of produce we produce today, we produce one ton in this scenario. What do you think that looks like for our country?

Well, the ~33% of food that gets wasted in the US would probably need to be handled a lot more carefully. Probably the obese people would need to eat less. And the strategy of growing the population every year through migration might need to be rethought if more farmland can't be found. Plus maybe there'd need to be more fertiliser produced. That involves fossil fuels.

The US has an explicit strategy of growing the population every year. That is a strategy that eventually leads to famine. Pointing out that global warning might lead to famine is less scary than pointing out that business as usual certainly leads to one - the poulation of the US doubled since 1950 and that is equivalent to halving the food production per person. In fact, letting natural population decline take hold would solve both problems and let the smaller population enjoy higher living standards.

> Let's say that India faces the same problem - that's a nuclear armed state. How does that play out?

They're switching over to industrial farming as far as I'm aware, they're probably going to be fine. Eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_India looks like a 50% reduction in farmland would knock them back to 90s levels of production efficiency, and they were mostly ok in the 90s. That is value not calories though, doing a precise estimate is probably more than I can manage for a comment.

> Remember the power outage in Texas?

Civilisation in Texas didn't get anywhere near to a collapse. I'm no expert on 450CE Rome, but from what I do know it looked nothing like modern Texas. I wish I could trade for problems like that and enjoy Texan electricity prices. I don't mind having to be ready for an emergency, that is already something that I need to do. Texas got a good deal on that one.

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I want to stress here that I'm on board with the idea that these are all catastrophic risks that could end badly. But that is business as usual for humanity, we ignore a lot of catastrophic risks on an average day. These are all things we've faced before and faced anyway without the climate changing at all. Cheap energy is the best bet to manage those risks and turning away from it is madness.
by hshdhdhehd | 2025-10-11 02:58:29+00:00
I am thinking it is best to view life health first. If the job makes you unhealthy it is not worth it for any money. Find another job.

I also wonder if the employment relationship creates more stress? Like if you have 6 clients and 1 is stress but 5 are energising that might be Ok vs just one stressful boss.
by conception | 2025-10-11 02:58:31+00:00
AI content has no value. As soon as you find out something was created by AI you think no effort, art or emotion was put into its creation and have no interest in consuming it. It’s fine and fun for “inside joke” vibes between friends but sharing outside of that context no one cares or is interested because they too can just type in a few words and get the same or better results. It’s empty calorie content.
by pols45 | 2025-10-11 02:59:16+00:00
There’s a difference between 1-to-1, 1-to-many, and 1-to-all media.

Once you move into the broadcast realm, the 1-to-all, you’re no longer dealing with a tank or a pond but with an ocean.

And once you’ve created an ocean, you cant divide it so that predators swim in one corner and parasites in another. Everything coexists, mixes, mutates.

That’s why debates about what platforms like TikTok “should” or “shouldn’t” do are hollow. There is never ending debate but all sorts of strangeness and surprises emerge every single day, that no one can predict or control. That is the nature of the Ocean.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-11 02:59:39+00:00
Universities are responding by increasing the range of people they admit. If you consider universities farmers growing a crop of students that the government pays for, you'll see things play out like this.

You think to yourself "why would they admit people with really low scores and then inflate grades? That doesn't seem like educating people" but the answer is that they're responding to a crop with shrinking yield by expanding what they're willing to farm.

Hence all those bogus subjects and stuff which people are getting degrees in.
by SNosTrAnDbLe | 2025-10-11 03:00:06+00:00
In my 20 years of engineering, all my distributed systems knowledge was learnt in a period of two years under two amazing engineers working in two failed startups

One was like those legendary OG dogmatic distributed systems software engineer that you can meet and the other was an OG data platform person. They have zero social media presence but they have guaranteed jobs whomever they call.

I learnt my transactions and services from engineer 1 and my analytic/data platform fundamentals from engineer 2

I have made more money in the enterprise land but I think the two failed startups did 10x more to help me grow as an engineer

I am rather confident that an AI cannot come close to what I do and my management knows that
by dredmorbius | 2025-10-11 03:01:04+00:00
Related concept: the Market for Lemons: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons>.

In markets where information on quality is difficult to acquire, assess, and/or trust, you tend to get two results:

- Low-quality products flood the market. This leads buyers to assume lower-value products, and hence ...

- High-quality products are consistently under-priced. This leads those offering higher-value products to withdraw from the market, or to offer those products (or services) only in limited sub-markets where full value is more likely to be obtained.

The problem is a broad one, and long-predates used-car sales. There was a popular late-19th century book David Harum (1898) by Edward Noyes Westcott. All but forgotten today, it was a bestseller at the time and spun off several related franchises, including a 1934 film and 1936 radio serial. The title character was a horse trader, the profession which previously held a similar status to used-car salesman.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harum>
by tastyface | 2025-10-11 03:01:12+00:00
DHH did not say "something stupid once," but posted an article dripping with white nationalist sentiment a mere month ago: https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug...

As a somewhat conservative Christian -- not some frothing-at-the-mouth liberal -- reading this left me feeling vaguely nauseous and made me want to ensure that no amount of my money went into this guy's pockets again. This is not some witch hunt over subtle ideological differences. It's literally the kind of thing that David Duke would have been saying a decade ago.

"Whether or not it is, the repetition of that word by you and your friends is a magic spell that brought that administration into reality."

Based on my observations over the last decade, I vehemently disagree on the direction of causality here.
by gruez | 2025-10-11 03:04:27+00:00
>I'm my opinion one should be informed about local, national and world politics. Also history. What happens in the US unfortunately impacts my country (currently very directly; you are about to bail out Argentina, my country, just because Trump likes our president), so I'm paying attention.

What good does "paying attention" serve? Are you standing ready to send Trump a well timed tweet to get him on your side? Or maybe boycott US products? That's the problem with the 24/7 news cycle. There's "breaking news" happening all the time, and glued to your screen to stay "informed", but what does that actually do?

Moreover the OP isn't even against staying informed. He specifically points out the contrast being glued to some national issue that has no impact on his life, but isn't informed at all for any local issue that actually impacts his life.
by bobmcnamara | 2025-10-11 03:04:58+00:00
IEEE 802.11af old TV band

IEEE 802.11ah 900Ish

IEEE 802.11ax(WiFi6): traditional channels can be subdivided between 26 and 2x996 resource units according to need(effectively a 2MHz channel at the low end). This means multiple devices can be transmitted to within the same transmit opportunity.

> How about some modulations designed to work at low received power and/or low SNR?

802.11(og), 1 & 2 Mbps.
Show HN: Ambigram Generator: Create words that read the same upside-down
by Franklinjobs617 | 2025-10-11 03:05:12+00:00
Hello Hacker News!

This is a side project I've been working on: Ambigram Generator (https://www.ambigramgenerator.me/). It generates rotational ambigrams, which are words or phrases that read the same when inverted (rotated 180 degrees).

The Technical Challenge: Why is Ambigram Generation Hard? The core challenge isn't just about flipping letters; it's about solving a complex substitution cipher problem while maintaining legibility and aesthetic coherence.

Character Pair Mapping (The Logic): The system relies on a massive, pre-rendered and manually optimized database of character pair combinations (e.g., 'A' flips to 'V' or 'L' flips to 'J'). The difficulty lies in optimizing the system to prioritize aesthetically pleasing pairings over just mechanically correct ones. Our current engine holds hundreds of pairing rules derived from hand-drawn ambigram work.

Aesthetic Coherence (The Design): Unlike a simple font swap, generating an ambigram requires that the 'A' from one side perfectly melds into a 'T' on the inverted side. We implemented a weight and stress system for each transition, preferring connections that share visual weight and line thickness.

The Feedback Loop: Early versions used rudimentary stroke merging, which failed for 90% of inputs. The current iteration uses an SVG-based rendering pipeline with custom path merging logic to smooth out the joins between characters like 'N' and 'Z' when inverted.

Key Trade-offs and Open Questions Trade-off: Speed vs. Quality: We could use a full ML/AI approach for higher flexibility, but the latency and cost would be prohibitive for a simple, fun tool. We opted for a highly optimized, rule-based system for near-instant results.

Trade-off: Font Flexibility: The system is currently tied to a single optimized, high-contrast serif typeface. Making it work across multiple fonts requires rebuilding the entire character-pair database, which is a massive undertaking.

Open Question for the Community: The current system uses a brute-force approach on the character dictionary. Has anyone here worked on a similar combinatorial design problem? I'd love input on whether a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) solver could be a more efficient long-term solution for finding valid character pairings.

We're offering this tool for fun and to revive interest in this niche art form. Feel free to try generating your own name and let me know which letter pairings look the worst, or if you have any suggestions on the SVG path smoothing logic!

Thanks!
by prescriptivist | 2025-10-11 03:05:52+00:00
This is such a strange take. Ruby Central, for better or worse, is the steward of Rubygems/Bundler. If Mike Perham wants to withdraw his funding because he thinks DHH is a white supremacist, then that's fine. But DHH didn't do that, Perham did.

Arko is not a completely innocent, non-self-interested character here. He has announced a project to end-run the existing rubygems, bundler, etc infrastructure before all this, in the name of "better tooling", but his tooling is solely owned by him and a handful of people that really, really don't like DHH. Controlling this aspect of the ruby toolchain ecosystem is in their own self-interest and overlaps with their deep disdain for the politics and corporate nature of the existing stewards of the ruby toolchain ecosystem. Maybe their approach and stewardship of this fork of the toolchain is more just, secure and equitable, but make no mistake -- they are fighting the same war that DHH and Shopify are, which is who controls the keys to the toolchain. Do you think if Arko, Perham, et. al. had control they would somehow be completely neutral, apolitical stewards of the ecosystem? No! They have made it clear with their money and machinations that they do not want to operate in the same ecosystem as DHH and their politics and ethics are intertwined with their relationship to the ruby community. They are no different than him.

Meanwhile those of us who just want stability are stuck between two factions who claim righteousness and ownership. I wish they all could be deposed and some more mature non-individual foundation could take over.