MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danpalmer | 2025-10-07 05:42:24+00:00
Again, that's not something for others to aspire to, even if it works for you personally.

The fact that you're "dumping" gifts at your parents' home suggests a few things. It hints at a callousness regarding relationships, particularly with that choice of words, although that may be reading too far into it.

It also suggests that you do intend to return to the gifts eventually. That you see the nomadism as temporary, that you'll always have your parents' home to return to, or that you eventually intend to settle down. That's fine, maybe that's a natural change at some time in your life, but it would also suggest that this nomadism is not sustainable. It also demonstrates the privilege you have, in being able to return to somewhere, being able to have the best of both worlds. That's also not a bad thing, but it's worth recognising the privileged position you're in.
by unsigner | 2025-10-07 05:43:50+00:00
Congrats on the release. I was wondering what the zstd team is up to lately.

You mentioned something about grid structured data being in the plans - can you give more details?

Have you done experiments with compressing BCn GPU texture formats? They have a peculiar branched structure, with multiple sub formats packed tightly in bitfields of 64- or 128-bit blocks; due to the requirement of fixed ratio and random access by the GPU they still leave some potential compression on the table.
by bettik | 2025-10-07 05:44:44+00:00
This essay synthesizes our perspectives on AI companions and adolescent development. A longer version is being prepared for academic peer review. Feedback is welcome.

We argue that the key is to recognize AI companions as potential members of a child’s social world, clique members that are often invisible to adults. Parents’ role must evolve from spotting visible human cliques to sighting invisible AI cliques: recognizing when a companion relationship is forming, reading signs of social substitution, and, when needed, breaking the bond, much like one would intervene in a harmful peer clique.
by TheDong | 2025-10-07 05:44:51+00:00
They all pay the price of google (micro-brainwashing by ads to buy things they don't need).

I think the average person will happily pay the same price to OpenAI (being micro-brainwashed by the AI to buy things they don't need, i.e. ads). I feel confident OpenAI will be able to charge even more for ads than Google since OpenAI will be able to influence people even more strongly, and hide the ads even better.
by vasama | 2025-10-07 05:45:15+00:00
That's sort of like asking a motorbike enthusiast why they don't just drive a car instead.

There's a big difference in the input scheme between PC and consoles. Playing with a controller might not be satisfying for someone used to keyboard and mouse. The latter also provides a higher skill ceiling for competitive play.

The lower end hardware used in consoles also does not allow for high framerates and high resolution monitors, while with PC gaming one can get as much performance as they're willing to pay for.
by stuckindoors | 2025-10-07 05:46:23+00:00
The problem isn’t adequate number of doctors….it too many trainees.

Trainees training others is what happens at frequently at teaching hospitals. All these folks are too busy. Somethings the third year is inadequately trained to teach a first year - they teach them bad habits. And often academic facilities don’t value good patient care….they value national recognition and publications. It is the folks of the lecture course that get promotions.

This I’m sure happens in all fields…in medicine it leads to deaths.

There was a joke that you never want the visit an hospital in July, as that is when new residents were around. The fact is that there is an ounce of truth to that joke. It sure feels like mortality increases in July.
by keiferski | 2025-10-07 05:46:37+00:00
“The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country –and we haven’t seen them since.” - Gore Vidal

I read a biography of Vidal a few years ago and wrote a little post about it, which you might find interesting:

“Gore Vidal was everywhere and now he is nowhere” - https://onthearts.com/p/gore-vidal-was-everywhere-and-now

Sad to say that with the recent passing of Lewis Lapham, there seem to be very few/zero political commentators on the level of him and Vidal, in the sense of being a true public intellectual and not just a partisan blog/substack trying to get subscribers and sell books. Of course Vidal and Lapham had books and magazines, but they brought a much deeper respect for history than the average commentator today.

Which is a shame, as I think if Vidal was twenty or thirty years younger, he would be immensely popular in a TikTok and YouTube world. He had a real charisma that comes through in his many video interviews. Here’s my favorite one: https://youtu.be/E76ArLbSABA?si=3FRQYNce1CThryJo
by jancsika | 2025-10-07 05:46:41+00:00
> I, the user, can already control the content width by resizing my browser, thank you very much.

Nearly every techie and non-techie I know has a bazillion tabs open 100% of the time. The likelihood that even the top 10 are all single-column text is 0%. And I'd sooner read web pages hot off a dot matrix printer than constantly pecking at the edge of an un-maximized window, resizing it like some kind of meth-addled chicken.

Note: I may be overstating slightly for effect.
by cocodill | 2025-10-07 05:47:10+00:00
I'm not a Windows person at all and only follow developments in Windows drama sporadically. Is it even an option to first install an old build of Windows 11 (21H2, 22H2, 23H2, ...) and hope that an update will bring the system up to a secure state? Or will it feel like installing Windows XP in 2008?
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-10-07 05:47:29+00:00
I just upgraded my recently bought X1 Carbon Gen 12 from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. And now the sound stutters occasionally :( My guess is it's something with Pipewire replacing PulseAudio, where some apps now use a PulseAudio shim on top of Pipewire. Or maybe drivers I dunno.

But the fingerprint scanner works. The fingerprint scanner works!

Everything else has been fine.
by darkamaul | 2025-10-07 05:47:47+00:00
pdoc is my go-to documentation tool for small Python projects.

However, when they start to grow, MkDocs and the Material for MkDocs theme make the most sense — they’re easy to install and deploy, and they offer a ton of features for writing engaging documentation.

[0] https://www.mkdocs.org/ [1] https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-07 05:49:40+00:00
> the high bar to getting licensed ( med school and afterwards specialist training) is still the same for everyone

Oversupplying doctors will lower that bar one way or another. Medical schools are a bottleneck? Race them to the bottom. Fund hundreds of them so that it's always possible for any student to find one that'll accept them. Problem solved. Now the medical licensing process has become the bottleneck. Millions will be spent on lobbying in order to subvert it via whatever means. Once that's done, medical specialization will turn into the bottleneck. Repeat.

No system retains its integrity when you inject billions into it via loans. And that's just financial interests. Factor in the fact reelections of politicians might very well ride on their providence of more doctors to the population. Just look at the post I replied to:

> This is a problem that we as voters should start to act upon.

That's the sort of populism that could very well decide elections. Politicians do not give a shit about anything other than reelection, least of all the quality of the doctors their voters are getting. They will always be able to afford the best care.

Realize that it's against my interests to warn citizens of developed nations about this. If I were a socipathic person, I would be praising their openness since it could facilitate my own immigration into their countries. I genuinely don't want to watch other people suffer the same fate.
by tirumaraiselvan | 2025-10-07 05:49:43+00:00
This article is getting a lot of hate but honestly it does have good amount of useful content learned through practical experience, although at an abstract level. For example, this section:

``` The teams that succeed don’t just throw SQL schemas at the model. They build:

Business glossaries and term mappings

Query templates with constraints

Validation layers that catch semantic errors before execution ```

Unfortunately, the mixing of fluffy tone and high level ideas is bound to be detested by hands on practitioners.
by lithocarpus | 2025-10-07 05:51:24+00:00
True, and, I'd posit that there are often better and safer alternatives that would be similarly or more beneficial with less potential for harmful side effects.

I have several anecdotes from my own life. When I was ~18 the doctor proposed to give me jaw surgery to fix my overbite by extending my lower jaw. I asked him what the reasons for this were and he said it was mainly cosmetic. I thought this was not a good enough reason for surgery - which while often safe does also often have harmful side effects - I now know way too many people who had surgery complications that often took a long time for them to become aware of. I think I feel better about myself now for having made that choice than I imagine I would if I had a better jaw line.

It's true that some people are going to have a story where they see the cosmetic medical intervention as having been beneficial for their mental wellbeing. I'd still suggest that in many such cases there might have been other ways to get a better outcome. It's for each of us to decide.

Still, burden of proof of the safety of a drug should be on the company profiting from it.
by chrismorgan | 2025-10-07 05:51:29+00:00
A few years ago, at age 30, I expected by age 40 to either be married, or of no fixed abode. (There is, of course, a lot more to the story.)

I had been planning the construction of a velomobile and trailer, with solar panels, batteries, digital piano, small fridge, more than 20L of water capacity, integrated sleeping quarters… essentially a miniature, human-powered RV (in fact very close to New Zealand’s freedom camping vehicle rules; with a few realistic changes it could be certified). Suitable for roaming Australia, only needing restocking/dumping every three or four days. Obviously much heavier than backpack travel (laden, 120–140kg, excluding rider; but at least this wasn’t my grand-piano-cycle design¹), but significantly more independent in other ways. I planned to build it, then cycle around Australia for a year (average 50km/day), then unless my situation changed, sell my house and continue indefinitely.

Well, I moved to India and got married last year instead. So my velomobile will never happen. :-)

—⁂—

¹ It calls for some pretty crazy gear ratios if you want to be able to climb any sort of slope, but I worked things out enough to be confident the concept is sound, with careful component choice (e.g. the tyres I’d otherwise prefer to use are only rated to 150kg, so either different ones will be needed, or doubling the wheels in some way). Less thoroughly imagined is the pipe-organ-cycle. Horizontal mounting honestly makes it surprisingly practical… though you might want to stop at 16′ pipes, five metres long is already getting unwieldy. Sadly I don’t think wind harvesting would be viable to drive an organ of any real size; you’d need a separate blower.
by andai | 2025-10-07 05:51:43+00:00
While we're on the subject of "the user needs to become the programmer to have an acceptable experience" (sites needing my custom css added to be usable), my pet peeve is when the scrollbar is present but intentionally offset from the right edge of the screen by one pixel.

So then you hug the right edge of the screen, looking for it, where it looks like it is, and where it's been for like the entire history of computing, and then you click, and there's just nothing there.

This is a special case of Fitts's law, where a button at the edge of a screen becomes effectively infinitely wide, as far as ease-of-clicking goes.

This was used intentionally with great effect on usability in the 90s and 2000s. (Scrollbar, start menu, show desktop, etc.)

In the last decade however the trend appears to have reversed: it is now fashionable be to make the scrollbar as difficult to click as possible, by offsetting it, making it narrower, or hiding it altogether.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-07 05:51:45+00:00
In addition to what sibling comment wrote well, there are also a bunch of games that aren't "couch-friendly" and not even available on console.

I like consoles (borderline prefer them to PCs) but there are some experiences I can only have on PC.

Another aspect is that sticking a console onto my desk and plugging it to my PC monitor wouldn't be very practical, and I don't want to commit my living room to my gaming whims, and even less want to get another TV+couch-like setup in my office.
by troupo | 2025-10-07 05:52:00+00:00
There's also no actual way of saying "no" to a web standard. The whole process is designed around moving a spec forward through stages.

To quote Rich Harris, the author of Svelte: https://x.com/Rich_Harris/status/1841605646128460111

--- start quote ---

saying 'no' is the key to good software design, but in standards you can only 'champion' proposals — you can't champion the _lack_ of a proposal. the best you can hope for is inertia.

in my experience the only feedback that is welcome is around the details of an idea, never around whether the idea has merit in the first place, and you should expect to be reminded that implementers are the only people whose opinions actually matter.

--- end quote ---

and someone else in the same conversation:

--- start quote ---

You can't practically anti-champion standards that are small improvements to features that ought to have been abandoned, like Shadow DOM. Shadow DOM sucks, but it sucked a little less when they added CSS Module Scripts, Selection.getComposedRanges(), ElementInternals.shadowRoot…

https://x.com/dfabu/status/1841936377350652391

---
by vunderba | 2025-10-07 05:53:05+00:00
Shrugs. I don't know what to tell you. I'm glad to see that you're passionate about it I guess but most of my friends who use Crunchyroll were also equally unsurprised when they removed the comment section. I can't think of any streaming services that have something like that - as I said before, there's literally no upside to it for CR. Those comment sections could also be a puerile cesspool.

I'm sure there was an extremely vocal minority that threw a fit when they killed it off, but I doubt their overall subscriber numbers were significantly impacted. The majority of people are just there to watch anime. There's plenty of subreddits that are vastly more suitable to discussion.

Calling the Crunchyroll anime comment section a community is a bit of a stretch, it's like saying that the comments under a TikTok video are a community.

My original point stands.
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-07 05:53:10+00:00
> (I am not trying to nitpick, really interested in knowing whether there's some angle/twist here, since the post itself is about hidden connections and what not).

Honestly that shone through even from the first sentence.

I mentioned Estonia because Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia have a bit of shared identity, kind of similar to Sweden/Norway/Finland or USA/Canada.

> I think it was founded in CZ and is now HQed in NL. Right?

Yes I was just wrong. I was convinced it was Ukrainian for some reason.

I agree that the combination of those two points made my post particularly confusing.
by mythz | 2025-10-07 05:53:21+00:00
The best thing to happen to Linux Desktop is Windows 11, with perfect timing too as modern Linux has been a joy to use as a daily driver.

Normally I'd be unhappy when a sleazy corp forces me to give up on 25 years of muscle memory of using my preferred OS, but I'm thankful they gave me the push I needed to rip off the ad/spyware laced Windows Band-Aid that I only need to do once in my life.

It's been over a year since I switched to Linux which has been a breath of fresh-air, all my dev tools work natively, the console is far superior and I'm still able to play all my favorite Steam games.

Best of all I'm not reminded daily that I'm using an OS that works against my best interests, I can actually use an App Store again that's been designed for the benefit of its Users, imagine that.
by mindslight | 2025-10-07 05:53:28+00:00
Hospitals are fundamentally paper pushing bureaucracies that systematically don't give a fuck about patients, and the "case managers" and "social workers" are the worst of the lot. A hospital gave my dad covid in the middle of 2020, then insisted he be discharged still covid positive and unable to stand on his own (the PTs had just let him languish). That was some great public health policy right there. The only consolation was that it was summer so I could keep good airflow through the house. I avoided getting it, as far as I could tell. Found a freelance aide that didn't mind the rona, and we eventually got him back on his feet. And once you see how abjectly horrible this system is, you can't avoid noticing all of those terrible dynamics even in much lower-stakes interactions.
by darkamaul | 2025-10-07 05:55:05+00:00
I don’t see why you wouldn’t book a flight using an AI assistant. No one’s saying it should do it completely unsupervised (maybe that’ll come much later), but having something that can research the best routes based on my criteria and show me several options — with a single click to purchase the one I find most convenient — is something I’d love.

It could even work against the dynamic pricing algorithms airlines use to maximize revenue: if I have a tireless assistant exploring every possible combination to find the cheapest ticket, it’ll probably do a much better job than I ever could.
by ZenoArrow | 2025-10-07 05:55:13+00:00
> F# was pitched by Microsoft to be used in areas where Python dominates

Haha, no. Microsoft barely talks about F# at all, and has largely left the evolution of the language up to the open source community that supports it. Furthermore, you shouldn't take your cues about what a language is best suited for from marketing types, you should evaluate it based on its strengths as a language and broader ecosystem. If you seriously doubt that C# is a better comparison to F# than Python, then I suspect you haven't used either C# or F# and you're basing your views on marketing fluff.
by mattmaroon | 2025-10-07 05:56:20+00:00
Amazing how many people in here don’t understand how the non-tech section of the business world works. Windows is in no danger of being replaced and age of the decision makers has nothing to do with it.

You use Windows because you live in Teams and Outlook. You use Windows because you, your suppliers, and your customers are all using CRMs that don’t run on Mac and your employees of any age sure as hell don’t know how or want to run Linux desktops. You use Windows because you paid Deloitte consulting a trillion dollars to give you your whole tech stack and they can’t even spell Linux.

I could go on and on but no, the corporate world doesn’t care that you have to have an online account (they prefer it), privacy is something you don’t even expect and is managed by IT anyway, etc.

I’ve been hearing how home users are going to switch to Linux for 25 years with no change in marketshare. They’re not. Nobody cares anymore, it’s like saying that HD-DVD is going to win the format war over Bluray now. It’s yesterday’s battle and the victory already divvied up the spoils.
by anonzzzies | 2025-10-07 05:56:23+00:00
A lot of what we encounter is; there is this 'chat' interface which is the 'wow factor': you type something in english and something (like text to sql) falls out, maybe 60-80% of what was needed. But then the frustration (for the user) starts: the finetuning of the result. After a few uses, they always ask for the 'old way' back to do that: just editing the query or give them knobs to turn to finetune the result. Where most want knobs which are, outside the most generic cases (pick a timespan for a datetime column), custom work. So AI is used for the first 10% of the work time (which gives you 60%+ of the solution) until the frustration lands: the last 40% or less are going to take 90% of your time. Still great as overall it will probably take far less time than before.
Show HN: I Fixed My Mount Balance Problem with This $15 DIY Trick
by karlperera | 2025-10-07 05:57:24+00:00
Hey HN,

I've been struggling with mount balance issues in my astrophotography setup, leading to frustrating tracking errors and wasted imaging time. Instead of buying expensive counterweights or upgrading my mount, I found a simple, effective, and super cheap DIY solution that cost me less than $15.

In this video, I walk through the problem, my thought process, and how I implemented this trick to get perfect balance. It's a practical fix that might help others facing similar challenges with their equatorial mounts.

I'd love to hear if anyone else has tried similar low-cost solutions or has other clever DIY hacks for astrophotography gear!
by nmehner | 2025-10-07 05:57:38+00:00
The long term strategy is H2:

https://h2-global.org/the-h2global-instrument/

And gas plants are what is closed to H2 and can be switched over easiest. But H2 is only viable once renewable production exceeds demands during long stretches of time. Otherwise it is always better to use the energy directly or use short term storage (batteries) which are also growing exponentially: https://battery-charts.de/battery-charts/

Sorry, you are all emotion and provide wrong statements. What I wrote directly contradicted your statements and proved them wrong, but now you say they are missing the point? Reducing fossil fuel consumption by 50% within 10 years is an achievement. There are always things that could be done in a better way. But let's be real here.

And yes Germany imports electricity from France: https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE...

That is kind of the point of having an integrated grid.

But 19TWh. While producing 470TWh. 4%. That is not ... a lot. And in 2022 Germany exported 5.5TWh and had to restart coal plants when the French nuclear plants were in trouble. So what? That what a grid is for.
Show HN: PrioTimeApp – a simple, priority-driven productivity app
by quantummint | 2025-10-07 05:58:27+00:00
Hey everyone

I launched PrioTimeApp — a priority-driven productivity app designed to help you focus on what truly matters.

Most productivity tools try to do too much. PrioTime keeps things simple:

Daily checklist

Eisenhower Matrix (urgent vs important)

Pomodoro timer

Minimal design, no clutter

It’s built for people who want consistency, not complexity. You can use it directly in the browser — no install, no account needed.

I’d love your feedback — both on UX and the “priority-first” approach.

Thanks for checking it out!
by anonymousiam | 2025-10-07 05:58:38+00:00
I took Finasteride (1mg) daily for 20 years, because both my GP and my wife had commented on my thinning hair. The pills worked, and I didn't have any side effects (that I can positively attribute).

Five years ago, I was diagnosed with CKD (3A), so I stopped taking Finasteride, which was the only prescription drug I was taking. I cannot claim any causal relationship, but I have been happier for these past five years. Of course, it could be because I'm now retired and financially secure. My hair seems to be thinning again, but it's still there.