MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonw | 2025-10-17 15:49:10+00:00
"But the press of today is a for profit endeavour."

It is worth paying attention to the significant rise in prominence of non-profit newsrooms, particularly in the USA.

Some notable examples:

The Baltimore Banner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baltimore_Banner Founded: 2022

ProPublica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProPublica Founded: 2007

The Texas Tribune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Texas_Tribune Founded: 2009

The Marshall Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marshall_Project Founded: 2014

I'm particularly excited about the Baltimore Banner, who are only a few years old but are earning sizable subscription revenue now (it's healthy for them not to be too dependent on donors).
by TFYS | 2025-10-17 15:49:25+00:00
A corporation in the absence of a strong government absolutely can imprison you and use violence, because nobody would be there to stop them. The richest corporations would be the ones who could afford the most weapons, and they would therefore be able to do whatever they want. Even if you imagine this weak government to still somehow maintain a monopoly on violence, a small weak government would be easily corrupted by the richer corporations.
by deadbabe | 2025-10-17 15:49:48+00:00
It is assumed that any system that uses AI for conversation in games would also implement a sufficiently advanced RAG system and careful prompts to ensure the AI is only talking about approved facts or talking points.

Customer service AI already is a thing and it works pretty well, games are just an extension of that built upon fictional world data and dynamic events.

I think it would even be neat if you used standard dialog tree interfaces but had an LLM to slightly customize canned responses based on the player’s unique experience or reputation so far, while still communicating the relevant info, this way things feel less scripted.
by doomrobo | 2025-10-17 15:50:06+00:00
Yes, if every single URL in your web application has a hash in it (including <a> hrefs) then you don’t have to worry about anyone maliciously serving a webpage anymore.

But how do you get new app versions? I argue, if you want any meaningful security guarantees, an answer to this question will require transparency and/or code signing (which itself requires transparency, per my comment below)
by b2ccb2 | 2025-10-17 15:50:30+00:00
What's even worse: Some of the responses to the authors AI generated responses read like prompts. Case in point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45610341 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45611835 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45610450

The last one hits hard:

Can you provide the numbers for Manhattan, or SF centre?

I am distraught at how AI is conditioning us with its sycophancy.
by kragen | 2025-10-17 15:51:02+00:00
This is not correct. Low-data-rate satellite communication is generally received on the satellite with omnidirectional antennas, because if you try to do it with directional dishes, any problem with your satellite's attitude control system or position estimation leaves you with a dead satellite, because the directional dish on the satellite is pointed somewhere you don't have a transmitting antenna. Attitude control problems can be serious in any case (for a publicly known example, see Kepler), but if you can't communicate with the satellite you have no chance to fix or work around the problem, or even find out what it was so the next satellite doesn't have it.
by ndriscoll | 2025-10-17 15:51:35+00:00
It's not exactly rare to avoid mutability/use a functional style in application code, and even in mutable code, IME aliasing is rare. In some ways Rust's rules are kind of a formalization of what was already good practice in C. Variable scope is also usually small. Turns out things that are easier for the computer to analyze are also easier for people to analyze, so it's long been good practice to structure your code in easy to analyze ways.
by JeremyHerrman | 2025-10-17 15:52:08+00:00
Unifi G4 Doorbell Pro [0] is a great self-hosted option. I've been very happy with mine over the last year, but I was already bought into the unifi ecosystem with a UDM Pro SE and U6 mesh APs.

0: https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/cameras-doorbells/collec...
by bflesch | 2025-10-17 15:52:24+00:00
I know there are several companies who have done object detection for microscopy images with - I assume - traditional rgb images. I wonder if someone trained their ML model with the spectral images yet.

Would be nice to detect parasites or parasite eggs just with hyperspectral cam without staining. Important step towards the non-chemical toilet-which-inspects-feces-for-parasites I've been talking about to my friends for more than ten years ;)

Most of fluorescence microscopy works by staining/modifying the sample organism with a fluorescent before examining it. Theoretically (tm) it should work just by using hyperspectral imaging but that might be nobel prize territory.
by mjburgess | 2025-10-17 15:53:01+00:00
If they are studying universal features of human psychology, their analysis should pertain to these features.

By wading into contemporary politics and attributing "authoritarian" psychology to people who want to believe, e.g., what trump says -- you're only making a partisan political statement. This hypothesis is one amongst an infinite number, and has nothing to do with their study.

"Oh but it feels true!" is exactly the opposite of science. They did not study Trump, nor his political strategies, not their supposed underlying psychological motivations.

One can find in every government in the world so-called "misinformation", and find in people who support those governments, credulity about this misinformation. They havent studied any of the relevant domains to make any of these partisan political claims, even if they are true.

By wading into contemporary politics, they are giving the veener of science to highly partisan claims about the supposed psychology of political actors. That isnt what they have studied.
by PyWoody | 2025-10-17 15:53:15+00:00
The must fun I've ever had while driving was with the family '99 Honda Civic. Zero power. Zero torque. But, man, it was like driving a go kart in the streets. I'd zip through mountain passes with the engine revving to hell but in reality I'd only be barely going the speed limit.

I did the same mountain pass in my Subaru recently and didn't even notice I was going 20mph over the speed limit. The engine was silent and still responsive.
by kaladin-jasnah | 2025-10-17 15:53:47+00:00
I'd contend that you can develop interest and talent but struggle to grow without extra exposure. I became interested in computers literally because of Scratch in middle school!

But I wouldn't have progressed without having a parent who was a Java programmer at some point and local libraries with deeply technical books. I had to explore out of class to find my niche and develop my interests.
by zdw | 2025-10-17 15:54:47+00:00
There's a chapter in John McPhee's "Draft No. 4" (which is quite a time capsure of how writing was done in the last century) about the fact checking topic, and how much effort went into it for stories posted in The New Yorker.

The amount done todays seems to be almost nil, especially when coming to a different conclusion wouldn't agree with an overarching narrative being pushed.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-17 15:54:55+00:00
I'm not saying I was right, but the teacher's explanation was not what you said. It was that the correct answer is the inoffensive one.

I'm also still not sure about the answer. A lot of unrelated cultures developed music independently and ended up with some kind of rhythm beaten from something. I didn't say they had tuning forks or scales, and ofc 12 tones or 8 notes per scale isn't universal, but there's still the thing about octave equivalence. I did some searching back then and found some scientific papers on this that didn't show a definite conclusion.
by iamnothere | 2025-10-17 15:55:04+00:00
Without rules around spectrum usage or interference in place, you’re saying I could just set up my own 1 MW transmitter on the cellular bands and the phones would just continue working as if nothing was happening? Fantastic, let’s get rid of the rules then. I have been wanting to build a giant spark gap in my backyard, that would finally make it legal.
by mjburgess | 2025-10-17 15:55:09+00:00
The whole thing is just "here's a narrow result in psychology" connected to grand theories about contemporary politics which implicate the current administration and its supporters into a reductionist explanatory analysis that is widely out of the scope of what they've actually studied.

They did not study trump, trump supporters, trump's political project, its motivations, their motivations, authoritarianism, etc. All of that analysis in this article is partisan politics with sciecne-washing.
by Aachen | 2025-10-17 15:55:17+00:00
Here in the Netherlands, the government gave them away for free

They're also illegal because you're not allowed to film public spaces without a good reason (it's up to the judge and case law to decide, e.g. if there has been arson in the area recently then it's reasonable to monitor your car that's parked at the kerb, for example). Nobody has yet gotten in trouble to my knowledge

Gotta love hypocrisy
by rcfox | 2025-10-17 15:55:23+00:00
Just following the chat for a few minutes, people posted links to a couple of other locations:

Okaukuejo waterhole in Etosha National Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeMUdOPFcXI (at the time of posting, a herd of elephants are enjoying the water)

Kalahari Desert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME0dPuBtzug
by cameronh90 | 2025-10-17 15:55:28+00:00
Doing stuff on-prem or in a data centre _is_ hard though.

It's easy to look at a one-off deployment of a single server and remark on how much cheaper it is than RDS, and that's fine if that's all you need. But it completely skips past the reality of a real life resilient database server deployment: handling upgrades, disk failures, backups, hot standbys, encryption key management, keeping deployment scripts up to date, hardware support contracts and vendor management, the disaster recovery testing for the multi-site SAN fabric with fibre channel switches and redundant dedicated fibre, etc. Before the cloud, we actually had a staff member who was entirely dedicated to managing the database servers.

Plus as a bonus, not ever having to get up at 2AM and drive down to a data centre because there was a power failure due to a generator not kicking in, and it turns out the data centre hadn't adequately planned for the amount of remote hands techs they'd need in that scenario...

RDS is expensive on paper, but to get the same level of guarantees either yourself or through another provider always seems to end up costing about the same as RDS.
by anonymousiam | 2025-10-17 15:55:33+00:00
The S-band uplinks are not typically used during operations. They're mostly used during transfer orbit operations and initial testing, and in emergencies when something goes wrong with the normal comms (safe mode). The S-band antennas on the satellite are typically omnidirectional, so they'll hear anything strong enough to overcome the noise floor. Those comms can be encrypted or in the clear, depending upon the situation. The military satellites that I'm familiar with stop listening to the S-band uplink when their normal uplink is operational, so interference shouldn't be an issue during normal operations.

I'm not involved in this stuff anymore (now retired), but it's possible that the Starshield constellation supports transmitting on S-band (or L-Band) as a means to relay SGLS communications to satellites that are out-of-view. Having this capability would greatly benefit the workflow of transfer orbit operations and initial testing, by eliminating the constraint that the satellite must be in-view to communicate with it. It would also benefit anomaly resolution by allowing instant access to a malfunctioning spacecraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Control_Network

https://www.orbitalfocus.uk/Frequencies/FrequenciesSGLS.php

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/473264/af-sp...
by dvt | 2025-10-17 15:55:37+00:00
> For example, President Donald Trump incorrectly claimed in August 2025 that crime in Washington D.C. was at an all-time high, generating countless fact-checks of his premise and think pieces about his dissociation from reality.

This is a dubious example to give. Even NPR (which skews liberal) has given a much more nuanced[1] interpretation of the numbers. Obviously Trump's claim is hyperbolic and inflammatory (per his MO), but the sentiment does seem to resonate with at least some folks in DC, particularly ones that moved there in the early 2010s (when crime was at an all-time low).

[1] https://www.npr.org/2025/08/19/nx-s1-5506208/dc-crime-trump-...
by Octoth0rpe | 2025-10-17 15:55:45+00:00
> Hooks are only 5 years old

7. Worth saying that React really only took off 9-10 years ago, so hooks are damn near the beginning of time for _most_ react devs.

> The docs were revamped 2 years ago and there's lots of dead links to the old docs page which has a scary warning "These docs are old and won’t be updated.

IMO those are not dead links. A link is 'dead' if it links to a page that doesn't exist. Links to old pages with warnings are appropriate in many cases. Many projects are using older versions of react, and devs need to look up info. Not sure this should be seen as a problem.

> Create-react-app was deprecated in February of this year and in their blog post they tell you to use frameworks like Next.js.

Not sure why this is a problem. A very early tool got deprecated, and the react docs recommend the current paradigm. It's not like they're changing their getting started guidance every month, or even every year.

> Remix is now react router v7

If this is a bitch fest about React, then the react docs and CRA are fair game, but remix isn't IMO.
by nradov | 2025-10-17 15:56:07+00:00
I guess your belief is based on "vibes", not on actually hiring low-skilled workers. A lot of people are not medically disabled but are just kind of lazy or incompetent or unreliable. This has nothing to do with race or whatever so it's weird that you would bring that up.

Some of those workers can be trained to be more valuable. But employers generally aren't going to hire them based on hope.
by siglesias | 2025-10-17 15:56:25+00:00
I’m with you 98% of the way and then things take a sharp turn. In your world, the mere behavior determines the understanding. In Searle’s the CAUSES of the behavior determine the understanding. The causes are knowable. He stipulates a setup where there’s an epidemic boundary to show that you can have apparent behavior but a fundamental difference in causes that can make you have a point of view on whether there is genuine understanding. If you don’t like this term, you can say conscious understanding. As I said before, there has to be a categorical distinction between a system that feels and a system that is pretending to feel. The distinction you make between machine 1 and machine 2 is correct. The stipulation is that machine 1 has physical causes that produce the physical phenomenon of consciousness (think about how various substances alter conscious feelings, such as pain killers and anesthetics), and machine 2 also has physical causes but the physical causes are doing something different, they’re modifying symbols to execute program steps, and if you like the “output” is just other symbols. Those symbols only have meaning by matter of interpretation and convention and there’s no physical truth to their meaning.

So if you like, one is real and the other is fake. Or, one is physical and the other is symbolic or conventional. One actually had breakfast this morning and the other is lying about having breakfast to pass the Turing Test. One can feel pain, guilt, shame and the other one is just saying that it does because it’s running a program.

Searle says there is an empirical test for which domain a thinking object falls into (your machine 1 and machine 2)—to an outside observer, in the limit, there is no difference in behavior. They will do the same thing. For all that, if you have a metaphysical value for consciousness and “genuine” feeling, then you think the difference is important. If you don’t, you don’t.

FWIW—I think once AI has a full understanding of its ontology, even if it’s simulating a human brain perfectly, if it knows it’s a program it will probably explain to us why it is or is not necessarily conscious. Perhaps that will be more convincing for you.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-17 15:56:36+00:00
I was a news junkie for several years (now cured).

I was mildly obsessive about fact checking. And oh wow, it is bad.

My takeaway was that people who casually read the news (e.g. newspaper, scanning headlines on their favorite news site, etc) are the most misinformed.[1] The one who doesn't follow the news knows he is ignorant and doesn't know the inaccurate information. The one who follows it heavily, and with an eye towards gaining knowledge (and not following a tribe) will develop the skill to sift through the crap.

[1] Well, OK - those who obsessively follow only the news in their bubble are probably worse.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-17 15:56:55+00:00
People conveniently leave this out a lot. Outlets like The Guardian have lost massive amounts of money every year for decades. They are supported by wealthy people who want to see their agendas be influential.

So the quest is for eyeballs, but not for cash. They're totally willing to throw away the pennies* that they could get from that if the alternative is not to get the ideas they want to push into circulation, which often boosts their other business interests.

It's not even possible to make money from journalism. Every outlet is a money sink for someone, you should just wonder if that person has a moral reason for throwing away the cash or another goal.

[*] is there any news outlet that beats alpha other than the NYT? Maybe the WSJ?
by smt88 | 2025-10-17 15:56:56+00:00
I've been building things from scratch for decades and am still building things for production myself (full stack).

I can't really get anything usable out of vibe coding. And when I can even get vibe-coded stuff to run, the security and data schemas are always so laughably bad that I could never release anything.

Now I'm trying to define inputs/outputs (OpenAPI spec, wireframes, etc.) and database schemas myself and have the model fill in the middle using the strictest language I can (usually TypeScript) so that some bugs will come out at compile time.

Regardless, every approach I've taken has required me to be an expert coder, and that's not going to change with LLMs.
by hugofromboss | 2025-10-17 15:56:59+00:00
The agent can run without Temporal (completly stateless). Wanted to make it easy to deploy without many dependancies. Temporal is there as it provides quite a number of core capabilities (scheduling, durable execution etc). Without having to deploy lots of stuff (via temporal cloud). I hadn't actually seen DBOS. So I'll take a look thanks!
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-17 15:57:16+00:00
You are still thinking in terms of framework goodness, which is why this is challenging for you. Don't do that. Don't redraw anything. Don't create some shallow copy, cloned node, or other insanity. You don't need any of that. You don't need to litter your code, most especially your DOM nodes, with a bunch of business logic insanity.

All you need is the event handler. The event handler can be assigned to a node's event property directly, but if this is for a commercial site with lots of third party analytics/spyware you need to use a event listener instead because those third party libraries will overwrite your event assignments. The event handler receives an event object as an argument with a reference back to the given DOM node.

All the business logic should be stored in a single location representing a given business function, typically far away from the browser logic. It makes sense when you write the code without using a framework. If you write the code and try to make it look like a framework it will look like a framework, unsurprisingly. If you don't do a bunch of framework component insanity it will not look like a framework.

This is a person problem, not a technology problem.
by darkwater | 2025-10-17 15:57:32+00:00
You have probably misunderstood. There are 4 parties here:

A) the content creator, owner of the IP

B) the people that copy the content made by A and publish it (i.e. the "release groups"). They can distirbute the content over bittorrent, sharing sites etc

C) people that run platforms that share copies made by B, and they offer access to those copies (sometimes even just a hash to a torrent) with some kind of paid subscription. Their added value is making it easier to access content copied by B.

D) final users, they can choose to consume content from A, B or C.

My point was that D paying for C are... weird, in my opinion.

Edit: technically there is a 5th group, like C but that do it for free, running forums etc at most hosting some banner to pay the hosting cost and not much more.
by Aunche | 2025-10-17 15:57:33+00:00
Blaming society for the poor state of journalism is tempting but ignores that the root of the problem lies from within. Financial institutions and other journalists demand information dense journalism to do their jobs and have no problem paying for it, so this is what they receive. Most regular people view news as a form of entertainment and have no problem with sacrificing their attention, and this is what they receive.
Show HN: HardView – Python library for Windows hardware monitoring
by manfo19 | 2025-10-17 15:57:37+00:00
Hi HN,

I just released HardView 3.2 a Python library to monitor hardware: CPU, RAM, temperatures, fans, and more.

Most functions are cross-platform (Windows + Linux)

Install via PyPI:

pip install HardView

Docs and source: https://github.com/gafoo173/HardView

Curious to hear what you think!
by GMoromisato | 2025-10-17 15:57:40+00:00
The root problem is that the media's business model has failed. We need a new business model before the situation improves. What might that business model look like?

My preference would be for consumers of news to pay for that news. This aligns incentives and gives us power to choose the media companies that serve us best. We're seeing part of this transition with all the news orgs putting up paywalls and name-brand journalists starting their own Substack.

But I don't know if this will work--are there enough people willing to pay? I subscribe to 4 streaming services (Netflix, Disney, Apple+, and HBO) but only one news source (NYT). And I've never been tempted to pay for a journalist's Substack, no matter how talented. That's a revealed preference right there.

Maybe the answer is to bundle entertainment with news. If each of those streaming services came with a news channel and cost an extra $2 per month, would I subscribe? Maybe.

Of course, that's how it used to work!
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-10-17 15:57:41+00:00
Curious that the Wikipedia article seemingly editorializes the quote. The article displays:

> In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about economics than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

But in fact Crichton's quote was:

> In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. [0]

Why they felt the need to edit Palestine out of the quote is unclear.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20070714204136/http://www.michae...