MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-09 21:46:39+00:00
Didn't know about this! Thanks, I just wish something like this was on signal or discord but maybe that's because I don't operate much mail and I really like signal...

But anyways, just as a headsup for a moment I was confused that I wasn't getting the verification mail and I was literally going to comment it but then I got the mail just in time, so maybe to anyone out there, maybe be a bit patient as its worth it (or it could totally just be an issue from my side as I spammed it twice or maybe it got congested I am not sure)

EDIT: It wasn't that they sent me 2 mails but rather that they sent me 1 mail and I clicked on it and then got another and I thought it was because of me spamming verification twice but it turns out that they sent me a mail because someone had responded to me :)

Neato. I really like this.
by kulahan | 2025-10-09 21:47:14+00:00
Upper back and neck pain for me. Went to a Phys. Therapist and got a set of exercises. It was largely muscle weakness from bad posture - something many, many people will likely suffer in the coming years thanks to staring at screens on handhelds.

Mine was because I have the posture of a lump of VERY wet clay.

Also, losing weight helped a lot - less to carry around and hold in the right places.
by MisterTea | 2025-10-09 21:48:11+00:00
> Is their database a 7-bit database?

Ascii is 7 bits. What people think of as 8-bit ASCII is actually code page 437, the alternate characters added to the PC BIOS in the original IBM PC. Like UTF-8 it uses the most significant bit in a 1 byte ASCII char to determine if it should use a character from ASCII if 0 or the extended 437 characters which includes ü if 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
Ask HN: Looking for someone to build a useless fun project idea with me
by bunnybomb2 | 2025-10-09 21:48:17+00:00
I had an idea last night of a website called "WALL STREET SIMULATOR" (I thought the caps sounded cool.) where you put a selfie/pic of ur head, and it places it onto a stock image pic of a suit. (You can pick color of suit, tie, button down and pocket square, possibly background too?) 2009 esq style. I am a founder in the health-care adjacent CPG space, so I have no clue how to code or anything technical. I thought this would be a funny project if anyone wants to do it with me. Let me know.
by Tcepsa | 2025-10-09 21:48:26+00:00
It's for letters/numbers. The mechanical keyboard community has adopted phrases like "chord" and "arpeggio" because they refer to analogous things in the typing world ("pressing multiple keys at the same time" and "pressing multiple keys in quick succession", respectively).

In keyboards with a limited number of keys (such as in TFA) they become especially crucial to being able to express the full complement of "standard" letters, numbers, and symbols.
by CraigJPerry | 2025-10-09 21:48:54+00:00
>> Yes, it comes in at the 'fair market bids' part

No, you’re confused. The legally obligated “fair market bids” - a tongue in cheek term - isn’t conducted in dollars. I believe you’re thinking of the secondary market activity which occurs at a later time - where private buyers purchase from the primary dealer banks and those txns are in dollars.

At the primary dealer purchase stage, the fed provides the funds to purchase via the PDCF. “The market” has precisely zero influence over this process.

You’re kind of randomly firing in different directions with the last paragraph, its too removed from reality to make much of a useful comment on.
by gcanyon | 2025-10-09 21:49:34+00:00
One time in Missouri I swear to god a roc pooped on my car as I was driving down the street. Seriously, it was at least a cup of poop, a thick trail starting at the front of the car, up and over the hood, looping on the windshield, and halfway across the roof. It took minutes of dedicated squeegeeing to clean it.
by RhythmFox | 2025-10-09 21:49:53+00:00
If only the Ruby ecosystem was really run by children, that sounds way more for than whatever this is. Joking aside though I think you are very right to question the professionalism behind this post. The narrative spin here is so toxic to good faith arguments around how we could change the 'supply chain' of Gems for the better. Wasn't that what this was all about Ruby Central? Can we get an update on that instead of this attack on your former admin?
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-10-09 21:50:44+00:00
Traumatic stress is known to affect the response to alcohol in rats: see "The persistent effects of exposure to a predator odor stressor on sensitivity to alcohol" (2025) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addicn.2025.100230. They found different results in male and female rats: depending on the exact mechanism, finasteride might specifically affect this. (We could ask them to re-run the experiment with a "male taking finasteride" group, and see what happens? But I'd personally want to determine what's developmental, what's genetic, and what's hormonal, and quantify the effects, before running such a specific study.)

This might compound with the findings described in "Alcohol and Placebo: The Role of Expectations and Social Influence" (2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-020-00321-0:

> We suggest that expectations of inebriation formed by socialization and experiences can explain most of the behavioural changes following alcohol consumption.

If you can find someone who experienced these effects from taking finasteride, which persisted when they stopped taking it, despite them not ever really minding the symptoms at all, then that'd be evidence that my "it's trauma-related" theory is wrong. But all I'm aware of is people getting really distressed about normal/known side-effects of finasteride, and then afterwards they report a slew of other symptoms that are associated with PTSD.

We don't know which direction the arrow of causality points, and I'm not sure how to establish that.
by simion314 | 2025-10-09 21:51:07+00:00
Right, you would need open source models that were checked by multiple trusty parties to be sure there is nothing bad in them, though honestly with so much quantity of input data there could be hard to be sure that there was no "poison" already placed in. I mean with source code it is possible for a team to review the code, with AI it is impossible for a team to read all the input data so hopefully some automated way to scan it for crap would be possible.
by stockresearcher | 2025-10-09 21:51:08+00:00
> The correct long term answer is that we have to have her name changed legally

Are you sure?

SSA has administrative offices that deal with data errors. Generally in a GSA high rise in a big city. NOT the offices where you go to get benefits.

Someone doing data entry for the SSA fat fingered some info about me back when I was born, and I only found out in the 2010s thanks to the IRS rejecting a tax filing (I had to pay a 50 cent late fee!!!).

Went in-person to their office in the Metcalfe Federal Building in Chicago and the lady spent a few minutes examining documents, typed on her computer for about 20 seconds, and that was that. All fixed.
by belorn | 2025-10-09 21:51:15+00:00
In Sweden you are not allowed to turn on red, but the crossroad on the right and left are often aligned to be green at the same time as the cars has green. As such, both the car lane and crossroads are active at the same time, and drivers are expected to turn across active crosswalks. Pedestrian has priority, and there is usually a short period between green -> yellow -> red, where the crosswalk will be red, which allow for around 2-3 cars to pass if the crossroad has people on them during the full active duration.

I think the major difference lies elsewhere. A major one could be that teaching drivers to ignore red is just a very bad idea. An other aspect I find quite different when I visited the states was that the transition time was extremely long compared to Sweden. Here it is not uncommon to see green to be only active for a handful cars worth of traffic before changing, or about the estimated time that it takes for a person to cross the road. It not designed to drive fast and do a quick turn.
by lschueller | 2025-10-09 21:51:56+00:00
Looks to me like trying to compete with the Chinese car imports, not only in regards to the number, but to the design as well. The big issue I fear is, that China is just at the beginning of is big ev dump. Like what we've seen in other industries, solar, steel, machinery, plastic toys... It's not like the us or european car manufactures need to outsit this for a couple od months and everythings goes back to the good ol times. The low priced ev strategy is shifting the market massively. I think western car manufacturers are better off when pushing the standards in the terms of overall quality and range.
by farrelle25 | 2025-10-09 21:52:05+00:00
That's interesting about walking. I've done longish walking pilgrimages lasting several weeks (Camino etc.) and some stomach problems and joint problems improved a lot. I usually walked about 25km a day - I realise that's longer walking than what you mentioned.

There are some books about walking putting illness into remission. A famous one is "The Salt Path" where someone with "corticobasal degeneration" brain disease was positively impacted by their walk. (Although the claims are in doubt now because the main author wasn't truthful about other aspects of their walk)

Anyway walking probably a real positive overall!
by blibble | 2025-10-09 21:52:10+00:00
it's not that clear cut, because there is no "rubygems company" or clear ownership of any of this stuff

it would be quite easy to argue that ruby central had never had a right to remove these people at all

> I've had access/credentials to organizations that I've left and never abused them even once.

yes, likewise

and if I was Andre I wouldn't have even have ATTEMPTED to do this, as it looks terrible regardless of the eventual legal determination
by giantg2 | 2025-10-09 21:52:22+00:00
"Company: Stop clicking on links to third party sites.

Also Company: All of IT, HR, benefits, cloud storage, customer management, and employee portal is moving to its own third party platform!"

Smart companies validate and tag those third party emails as "partner" or similar. That way the users are only using the extra scrutiny on the non-partner external emails.
by greenchair | 2025-10-09 21:52:27+00:00
It's pretty obvious to everyone that doctors have been abusing these levels. See doc for 20 minutes for a low complexity item but get charged for a 30 minute medium complexity. The insurance companies aren't blind. They've got the stats in hand for each doctor. I mean some of the ranking data is already built into the portal tools they give consumers for finding a doc.
by ks2048 | 2025-10-09 21:52:49+00:00
Every couple of weeks I see a new TTS model showcased here and it’s always difficult to see how they differ from one another. Why don’t they describe the architecture and details of the trailing data?

My cynical side thinks people just take the state-of-the-art open source model, use an LLM to alter the source, minimal fine tuning to change the weights and they are able to claim “we built our own state of the art tts”.

I know it’s open source, so I can dig into the details myself, but are they any good high-level overviews of modern TTS, comparing/contrasting the top models?
by 827a | 2025-10-09 21:53:21+00:00
Where I live, we have three major hospital chains. Imagine one of them is Kaiser Permanente. My primary care is through Kaiser. When I needed to see a podiatrist to get a toenail removed, they were through Kaiser. When I went to an ER a few years ago for some abdominal pain, it was a Kaiser ER.

It is beyond me why my employer is paying an insurance company anything at this point. Kaiser should be selling me an annual plan where everything at Kaiser is covered, maybe up to a point, and then they have insurance-like network relationships with e.g. other ERs in the area, if you need them, plus out-of-area addons for when I'm traveling.

This is, fundamentally, in Kaiser's interest to sell (again, I don't live near Kaiser Permanente, I'm just using them as an example; every population center has networks of healthcare providers like this). They hate dealing with insurance as much as their patients do. But only recently have these healthcare mega-conglomerates achieved so much monopolistic integration that they could actually do this and people would be interested.

Also, interestingly: My dentist does not accept insurance; direct pay. My eye doctor also does not accept insurance. This is also a new thing; it wasn't long ago that I recall them actually asking for it, but nowadays they just bill directly. It hasn't gotten more expensive (beyond the fact that my employer is paying for useless dental and vision insurance, but at least those are only like $1-$4/paycheck).

Idk, my point is, I think things are changing and will continue to change faster than you might think. I'd love to see government-ran single-payer, but even admitting that is very unlikely to happen on the near term, there's just so much excess, waste, and bureaucracy in the medical system that some kind of short-circuiting direct-to-consumer play, by someone, will happen. Once a major healthcare provider chain can prove that this D2C model works (and it would work), the dominoes will fall.
by kibwen | 2025-10-09 21:54:27+00:00
Each new layer of emulation is new code that needs to be written that wasn't required when the original program in question was written. It's a great approach for software preservation, but the fact that it's necessary shows why the approach of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" doesn't work. The context of computing is changing around us at all times, and hardware has a finite lifespan.
by bionsystem | 2025-10-09 21:54:28+00:00
The way a lot of teachers teach it is plain trash. I was raking terrible grades in OCaml and C before a student showed me what I needed to know in 15 minutes, and then I would kill it in the remaining exams. Same thing happened to my 68000 course. It didn't happen with every teacher but still, some people really need to get some better pedagogy.
by robbbed | 2025-10-09 21:55:34+00:00
What timing I was going to install Omarchy this weekend. I know very little about DHH so will have to do more research. My main concern is that if DHH is some kind of far right psycho how much of his beliefs will make it into the software he's building? Sure I can comb through the repo before installing but will I do that on every update? That's my main concern. However, I encourage everyone to DYOR before automatically jumping to conclusions.
by consumer451 | 2025-10-09 21:55:37+00:00
Thank you so much for sharing this. Myself, and I’m sure many of others, are thinking about these things a lot these days. It’s great to see how someone else is coming at the problem.

I love the grounding back to ~“well even a human would be bad at this if they did it the current LLM way.”

Bringing things back to ground truth human processes is something that is surprisingly unnatural for me to do. And I know better, and I preach doing this, and I still have a hard time doing it.

I know far better, but apparently it is still hard for me to internalize that LLMs are not magic.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-09 21:55:43+00:00
Ridiculous, but ironically I think walking robots as self-relocating computers might be the most readily viable.

Small servers with console, PA speakers, field metrology or data acquisition machines, those things could have the lower torso or two for this and relocated as needed. The PhD guys can just park the truck and let those deploy wherever AI thinks >65% suitable for human use on their own, instead of users burning 15% of brain juice thinking and executing that. That would be immensely useful.

(also re: hotels that others are commenting, there were never technical reasons the door keycard readers couldn't ever had doubled as credit card readers - I think the reason why clerks are required is for sanity check, that the guests aren't in need of immediate safety/health assistance and ok to proceed to beds)
by jonstewart | 2025-10-09 21:55:50+00:00
I do a bit of performance work and find most often that things are mixed: there’s enough CPU between syscalls that the hardware isn’t being full maximized, but there’s enough I/O the CPUs aren’t pegged either. It is rare that the profiler finds an obvious hotspot that yields an easy win; usually it shows that with heavy refactoring you can make 10% of your load several times faster, and then you’ll need to do the same for the next 10% and so on. That is the more typical real world for me, and in that world Python is really awful when compared to rewrite-it-in-Rust.
by astrange | 2025-10-09 21:56:21+00:00
There's actually a second issue with the Literature prize, which is that it's supposed to be given for work "in an idealistic direction", but nobody knows what that means.

And since the literature committee tends to be run by extremely pretentious artists they don't like idealism anyway. Artists are supposed to be tortured postmodern souls you know.

A lot of people want Haruki Murakami to get the prize, but I don't think his work would pass this.
by miguelgrinberg | 2025-10-09 21:56:54+00:00
FastAPI is a web framework, which by definition is (or should be!) an I/O bound process. My benchmark evaluates CPU, so it's a different thing. There are a ton of web framework benchmarks out there if you are interested in FastAPI and other frameworks.

And numpy is a) written in C, not Python, and b) is not part of Python, so it hasn't changed when 3.14 was released. The goal was to evaluate the Python 3.14 interpreter. Not to say that it wouldn't be interesting to evaluate the performance of other things as well, but that is not what I set out to do here.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-09 21:57:03+00:00
If you are worried about github/MS capture... Then my suggestion is to just create mirrors of golang projects you like on gitlab/codeberg

But this is so so much better than having arko or somebody having your PII.

Like I hate github but I am pretty sure that people there aren't actively looking for my PII when I download go projects or that a single person couldn't really access it I suppose

I am not really familiar but if I remember the heads project related to coreboot isn't there a way to sign your github repository with your ssh key or something related (I can be wrong, I usually am)

Like I know it could be a pain in the ass but if you are so worried about github, what if we could optionally have everything be gpg'd via ssh keys & the project could only work if someone shares a ssh key

And something like rubygems could just have a name <-> github mapping <-> gpg mapping and it might require some additional software right now but I am just giving ideas maybe for new languages as well I am not sure

What are your thoughts? And what do you think the ideal way could be. I have heard from many people (like primagen) that golang is the best package model and I also resonate with that statement but yeah github is a bit of menace/threat to open source

All the more reason to use something like codeberg!
by Animats | 2025-10-09 21:57:30+00:00
That's the problem.

An obvious application, if this robot could do it, is retail store shelf restocking. That's a reasonably constrained pick and place task, some mobility is necessary, and the humanoid form is appropriate working in aisles and shelves spaced for humans. How close is that?

It's been tried before. In 2020.[1] And again in 2022.[2] That one runs on a track, is closer to an traditional industrial robot, and is used by 7-11 Japan.

Robots that just cruise around stores and inspect the shelves visually are in moderately wide use. They just compare the shelf images with the planogram; they don't handle the merchandise. So there are already systems to help plan the restocking task.

Technical University Delft says their group should be able to do this in five years.[3] (From when? No date on press release.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHgdW1HYLbM

[2] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/telexistence-convenience-store...

[3] https://www.tudelft.nl/en/stories/articles/shelf-stocking-ro...
by mendexio | 2025-10-09 21:57:50+00:00
Hi HN,

Mendex here. I'm excited (and a bit nervous) to share a project I've been pouring my heart into: CubicLog.

I've actually never used a traditional logging stack like ELK or Grafana/Loki. When I needed a logging solution, I looked at the market and saw a level of complexity that felt fundamentally opposed to my philosophy of how software should be: simple, self-contained, and respectful of the user's time and resources.

Instead of adopting a tool I didn't believe in, I decided to build the logging tool I wished existed, from first principles.

The result is CubicLog. It's not an "alternative to X"; it's a manifestation of a philosophy:

Single Binary & SQLite: The entire application, including the web UI and database, is a single, ~11MB cross-platform binary. No dependencies, no Docker required.

"Simple by Design, Smart by Default": The core idea. You can send completely unstructured logs, and the built-in pattern matching engine (with over 460 patterns) automatically analyzes the content to derive metadata like severity (`error`, `warning`, `success`), extract the source service, and identify patterns like stack traces, HTTP errors, or security issues, all with zero config.

Beautiful Embedded UI: I believe simple tools deserve a premium user experience. The entire dashboard is a modern, responsive UI powered by Alpine.js and Tailwind from a CDN, embedded directly in the Go binary.

Full Service Management: Includes CLI commands to run as a service (`-stop`, `-status`, `-restart`) using a PID file.

This project was built to solve my own frustrations, born from a long battle with burnout where simplicity became a necessity. It was built in a unique Developer-AI collaboration, which is documented in the repo.

I'm here all day to answer any and all questions. I'd love to hear your thoughts, criticisms, and ideas. The project is fully open-source (MIT license).

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/MendexIO/CubicLog Homepage & Interactive Demo: https://mendexio.github.io/CubicLog/

Thanks for taking a look!

Cheers, Mendex
by lxgr | 2025-10-09 21:57:51+00:00
That's not the case with [1], for example. They allow pausing (and then canceling) the subscription any time before the last day of the month. It works as advertised in my experience.

[2] seems to be offering the same, but I haven't tried it myself. [3] looks interesting too.

[1] https://www.ticket-plus.app/en/

[2] https://www.mopla.solutions/de/tickets/deutschlandticket

[3] https://deutschland-ticket.store/autobus-oberbayern?lang=en
by nearbuy | 2025-10-09 21:58:20+00:00
The myth that people in Columbus's time thought the Earth was flat was largely spread by school textbooks in the early to mid 20th century. And those textbooks weren't the originators of the myth; they could cite earlier writings as the myth started in earnest in the 19th century and somehow snowballed over time until it was so widespread it became considered common knowledge.

Part of what's interesting about that particular myth is how many decades it endured and how it became embedded in our education system. I feel like today myths get noticed faster.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-09 21:58:52+00:00
Not parent poster, but I'd approach it as:

1. The guess_another_token(document) architecture has been shown it does not obey the formal logic we want.

2. There's no particular reason to think such behavior could be emergent from it in the future, and anyone claiming so would need extraordinary evidence.

3. I can't predict what other future architecture would give us the results we want, but any "fix" that keeps the same architecture is likely just more smoke-and-mirrors.