MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by casey2 | 2025-10-24 11:57:16+00:00
Where is this money actually going? Does anybody see it in their day to day? It all feels like it's spent maintain a fragile status quo, fragile peace, fragile health, (not so) fragile roads but still.

Something doesn't sit right, if Clinton got the deficit under control while maintaining a strong economy it should be easier with modern technology. Lots of fraud going on I guess.

health&pharma, oil&gas, defense have seen major year on year profit increases since then when at best improvements should be very marginal due to the nature of the businesses. They are also large portions of the budget. In general any industry that has exploded in profits that can't be explained by increased market share should be looked into very closely.
by georgehopkin | 2025-10-24 11:57:22+00:00
Artificial intelligence can detect intestinal parasites in stool samples with greater accuracy than experienced laboratory technicians, according to research that could transform how labs diagnose parasitic infections worldwide.

Scientists at ARUP Laboratories and Utah startup Techcyte developed a deep-learning model that achieved 98.6 per cent agreement with manual microscopic examination whilst identifying 169 additional organisms that human reviewers had missed, reports the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.
by exasperaited | 2025-10-24 11:57:43+00:00
A good spray picking off the very earliest dozen or so wasps in the early spring may actually directly get the queen, who has not always permanently settled in. That point or the next few weeks is an excellent opportunity to add secondary toxins that the workers will carry in, because the nest is so small they will encounter the queen.

Beyond that I guess only completely saturating an internal trunk route through the thing with a tool like that is going to work!
by cesarb | 2025-10-24 11:57:48+00:00
> If the plan is to use solar and storage for _all generation_, though, that's the number that matters.

And that's the problem with these Internet discussions: that's almost never the plan, but commenters trying to make solar look bad assume it is (to your credit, you made it explicit; many commenters treat it as an unspoken assumption).

In real life, solar and batteries is almost always combined with other forms of generation (and other forms of storage like pumped hydro), in large part due to being added to an already existing large-scale grid. The numbers that matter are for a combination of existing generation (thermal power plants, large-scale hydro, etc) with solar plus storage. Adding batteries for just a few hours of solar power is enough to mitigate the most negative consequences of adding solar to the mix (non-peaking thermal power plants do not like being cycled too fast, but solar has a fast reduction of generation when the sun goes down; batteries can smooth that curve by releasing power they stored during the mid-day peak).
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-24 11:57:59+00:00
The entire point I was trying to make at the beginning of the thread is that mmap gives you memory pages in the page cache that the OS can drop on memory pressure. Io_uring is close on the performance and fine-grained access patterns front. It’s not so good on the system-wide cooperative behavior with memory front and has a higher cost as either you’re still copying it from the page cache into a user buffer (non trivial performance impact vs the read itself) + trashing your CPU caches or you’re doing direct I/O and having to implement a page cache manually (and risks duplicating page data inefficiently in userspace if the same file is accessed by multiple processes.
Ask HN: Anyone else use FreePascal as their low level language?
by rlawson | 2025-10-24 11:58:13+00:00
Like most devs I have a couple high level languages (Java/Python/PHP) but my low level language was always C/C++. However after 25 years I was still shooting myself in the foot on the regular. I evaluate Go, Rust and fpc. I'm too dumb for Rust, Go's was close but lack of exceptions and classes made it not for me. Fpc hit the sweet spot. The syntax is a little clunky but I have classes when I need them, exception handling, memory management - both auto and manual and cross platform support. Plus I can fit in my head - unlike C++
by lapcat | 2025-10-24 11:58:19+00:00
> Ford at least had the misguided excuse of wanting to put the scandal behind and focus on the future.

I'm more concerned with the effects of the pardons on the country and on democracy than I am with judging the rectitude of the pardoner. Allowing the President to escape the law set a terrible precedent with obvious repercussions into the present.

I'm not trying to defend Trump. My point is that the stage was set for Trump. Abuses of executive power, of which I've given two egregious examples—Watergate and Iran-Contra—have been swept under the rug for far too long. To always "put the scandal behind and focus on the future" is to encourage future misbehavior. I would note that in stark contrast, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has just gone to prison.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-10-24 11:58:56+00:00
You can monitor and restrict Steam usage with parental controls. This is no more unfeasible than WiFi and device time limits, and last I checked, children don't carry a credit card. What's the mystery here? An 8 year old is not accruing bitcoin to buy skins.

Meanwhile you have users here that will tell you that refusing to give their kids smartphone or even any video game is not that hard, but it seems needsly restrictive.
by tomhow | 2025-10-24 12:00:18+00:00
> and how exactly this post is "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon" ?

We haven't said it is. In fact, we haven't really looked at the article. This submission got effectively no attention or engagement on HN. It spent zero time on the front page, and most of the discussion is this meta subthread. So, there's no aberration from the guidelines in the case of this item.

> here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45659046, you have "new phenomenon" . why won't you unflag it?

We also haven't seen that one. It also spent no time on the front page and had little discussion. Nobody has contacted us asking us to unflag it and making a case for it containing "significant new information".

> also, in general, you can broadly apply "they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon" to any given article

That's false and is the most important point to recognise about HN. Most of what is in the mainstream news is not "new". It's mostly the same story with different details (i.e., most day-to-day political drama, celebrity news, crime stories, etc). Or they're notable for being unusual (e.g., person who wins the lottery three times) but not any kind of interesting new phenomenon.

Sometimes a mainstream news item really is about an interesting new phenomenon, and that's when it qualifies for HN.
by divan | 2025-10-24 12:00:34+00:00
I’ve been (really, really) into photography since I was six, and I’m still (really, really) at it three decades later. I never felt much appeal toward photography as an art form – it’s always been a way to capture moments and share them with people I care about.

These days I play with both AI photography and “normal” photography. My main camera is the A9 III with a global shutter – a machine gun that fires 120fps RAW files. I shoot a lot of sports, and the people I photograph are thrilled to get such high-quality shots of moments that mattered to them. It doesn’t really matter how much cultural value society attaches to photos – those captured moments will always be meaningful to them, and they feel joy when they see them. That’s the whole point of photography for me.

AI photography is a bit different. I take 15–20 photos of a friend’s face with my camera, train a LoRA model to use with Flux1.dev, and upload it to network storage on RunPod. Then I spin up a serverless worker on an H100 that runs the ComfyUI API, and use my own Flutter-based frontend to play with prompts and generate new photos of that person. I can make far better headshots this way than in a real studio. For some friends, it’s even been a therapeutic experience – seeing so many high-quality images of themselves looking confident, happy, and fully alive helped them feel that way, even if just for a moment. One friend told me, “You did more with these AI photos of me than therapy did in the past year.”
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-10-24 12:02:00+00:00
>Nobody has ever walked past a photograph because they can't inspect its digital authenticity hash.

This has rapidly changed over the last few months. As more and more pictures/videos going viral on social media are AI-generated [0, 1], real pictures/videos of remarkable things are increasingly falsely called out as AI-generated [2]. People are definitely starting to care, and while the toy camera in the linked article is merely an artistic statement, having some ubiquitously standardized way of unambiguously validating content generated by a real recording device is going to become paramount.

[0] https://www.today.com/news/bunnies-jumping-trampoline-viral-...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O-8kAnBL2s

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/skiing/comments/1oeda67/my_highligh...
by impossiblefork | 2025-10-24 12:02:46+00:00
Yes, but capitalism is just a name for the bad thing. We don't actually say that we have capitalism, if we did we would basically be saying 'capital ownership by some to the exclusion of others is good actually' and that isn't compatible with having society.

You say things like 'free markets are wonderful and efficient and we don't believe that they lead to the kind of outcomes that people who have come up with terms like "capitalism" believe they will'.
by pdimitar | 2025-10-24 12:04:27+00:00
It is also worth noting that theoreticals don't help such discussions either.

Yes, C programmers can do much more checks. The reality on the ground is -- they do not.

Forcing checks by the compiler seems to be the only historically proven method of making programmers pay more attention.

If you can go out there and make _all_ C code utilize best-in-class static checkers, by all means, go and do so. The world would be a much better place.
by j-krieger | 2025-10-24 12:04:59+00:00
> That's empty dogma.

This dogma is statistically verifiable. We could also replace them with Go counterparts

> I will take proven C or even static analysed C

This just means you don't understand static analysis as much as you do. A rejection of invalid programs by a strict compiler will always net more safety by default than a completely optional step after the fact.
by pqtyw | 2025-10-24 12:04:59+00:00
The whole concept of "state of emergency" becomes meaningless if you are somehow in a permanent state of emergency. Or if there is no change in circumstances whatsoever and a new administration decides that the country is suddenly in a state of emergency for no particular reason.

Sure, its politics but it shouldn't be a hack for the president to do whatever he wants illegally. Obviously the courts should step in and stop this. Otherwise the constitution might as well be discarded and the congress disbanded.
by JohnMakin | 2025-10-24 12:05:10+00:00
Was still seeing SQS latency affecting my systems a full day after they gave the “all clear.” There are red flags all over this summary to me, particularly the case where they had no operational procedure for recovery. That seems to me impossible in a hyperscaler - you never considered this failure scenario, ever? Or did you lose engineers that did know?

Anyway appreciate that this seems pretty honest and descriptive.
by thedanbob | 2025-10-24 12:05:15+00:00
It seems like Shorts keep getting worse, at least the Shorts that I get presented with. For a while the most popular format was a clip from a movie or TV show with annoying royalty-free music slapped on top and a badly chosen title. Now I'm seeing clips shrunk down into a tiny content box within the Short while the background is some guy watching you watch the clip. Why is that popular?!
by inkyoto | 2025-10-24 12:06:25+00:00
And I strongly recommend that you stop recommending the reading of something that has its practical usefulness limited by what the treatise leaves unsaid:

– It identifies problems (complexity, latent failures, hindsight bias, etc.) more than it offers solutions. Readers must seek outside methods to act on these insights. – It feels abstract, describing general truths applicable to many domains, but requiring translation into domain-specific practices (be it software, aviation, medicine, etc.). – It leaves out discussion on managing complexity – e.g. principles of simplification, modular design, or quantitative risk assessment – which would help prevent some of the failures it warns about. – It assumes well-intentioned actors and does not grapple with scenarios where business or political pressures undermine safety – an increasingly pertinent issue in modern industries. – It does not explicitly warn against misusing its principles (e.g. becoming fatalistic or overconfident in defenses). The nuance that «failures are inevitable but we still must diligently work to minimize them» must come from the reader’s interpretation.

«How Complex Systems Fail» is highly valuable for its conceptual clarity and timeless truths about complex system behavior. Its direction is one of realism – accepting that no complex system is ever 100% safe – and of placing trust in human skill and systemic defenses over simplistic fixes. The rational critique is that this direction, whilst insightful, needs to be paired with concrete strategies and a proactive mindset to be practically useful.

The treatise by itself won’t tell you how to design the next aircraft or run a data center more safely, but it will shape your thinking so you avoid common pitfalls (such as chasing singular root causes or blaming operators). To truly «preclude» failures or mitigate them, one must extend Cook’s ideas with detailed engineering and organizational practices. In other words, Cook teaches us why things fail in complex ways; it is up to us – engineers, managers, regulators, and front-line practitioners – to apply those lessons in how we build and operate the systems under our care.

To be fair, at the time of writing (late 1990's), Cook’s treatise was breaking ground by succinctly articulating these concepts for a broad audience. Its objective was likely to provoke thought and shift paradigms, rather than serve as a handbook.

Today, we have the benefit of two more decades of research and practice in resilience engineering, which builds on Cook’s points. Practitioners now emphasise building resilient systems, not just trying to prevent failure outright. They use Cook’s insights as rationale for things such as chaos engineering, better incident response, and continuous learning cultures.
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-24 12:06:40+00:00
> My friends literally keep track of how long they've been away from shorts and regularly "relapse" into sinking hours into shorts "against their wills"

Statements like this makes me feel like I'm a different species entirely.

I enjoy a lot of YouTube content, I watch it daily. And some shorts are nice. But I've never ever had a anything remotely like a "craving" for either.

What kind of content is so addictive?
by abdibrokhim | 2025-10-24 12:07:10+00:00
i am Ultimate plan user on Higgsfield AI platform. I have subscribed 3 days ago. Now, I am trying to generate a video using Veo 3.1 model inside Higgsfield AI platform. But failed, and again failed. It's my 3-day trying to generate a video. But still fucking failed. HiggsfieldAI is scam.
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-24 12:07:54+00:00
Rather than a direct syscall, you could imagine something like rseq where you have a shared userspace / kernel data structure where the userspace code gets aborted and restarted if the page was evicted while being processed. But making this work correctly and actually not have a perf overhead and also be an ergonomic API is super hard. In practice people who care probably are satisfied by direct I/O within io_uring with a custom page cache and a truly optimal implementation where the OS can still manage file pages and evict them but the application still new when it happened isn’t worth it.
by dc396 | 2025-10-24 12:07:58+00:00
Hint 1: look at the URL and note the word "blog".

Hint 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_cancer

I can point to blogs too, here are a couple:

- https://ezra.com/en-gb/blog/turbo-cancer

- https://globalvaccinedatanetwork.org/news/turbo_cancer_and_m...

As for your appeal to authority, Andrew Wakefield was once considered a scientist as well. The fact that a scientist talks about something for years or gets papers published means little. What matters is actual, independently reproducible data.
by energy123 | 2025-10-24 12:08:01+00:00
That's not the case when it comes to professional bodies. Tradespeople are similar to surgeons. They use licensing as a tool to restrict labor so their wages remain artificially high and they can parasitically collect economic rents. Getting overseas labor banned is part of this.

I'm not in favor of throwing away all regulations and all licensing, mind you. But some pragmatic rebalancing needs to happen. If I go to India I do not automatically die inside a house with a $9500 solar installation. That'd be much more likely to happen on an American road with its 40000/yr fatalities that everyone casually accepts as a pragmatic trade-off worth having ;)
by raincole | 2025-10-24 12:08:10+00:00
Pleasantly surprised to see a project like this without genAI nowadays.

And for people inevitably asking "why not Blender," my answer is that the field of 3D content creation is so vast that some people need "gateway drug" like this (and SketchUp, and Daz3D, etc) before trying to throw themselves into Blender/Maya/Houdini's throats.
by pdimitar | 2025-10-24 12:09:09+00:00
Claiming without evidence that something is battle-tested while also claiming the competition is "trendy" does not help any argument you might be attempting to make.

I am trying to read your comments charitably but I am mostly seeing generalizations which makes it difficult to extract useful info from your commentary.

We can start by dropping dismissive language like "trendy" and "magic", "fashion" and "Rust kids". We can also continue by saying that "believing the borrow checker is some kind of magic" is not an interesting thing to say as it does not present any facts or advance any discussion.

What you "assure" us of is also inconsequential.

One fact remains: there are a multitude of CVEs that, if the program was written in Rust, would not happen. I don't think anyone serious ever claimed that logic bugs are prevented by Rust. People are simply saying: "Can we just have less possible bugs by the virtue of the program compiling, please?" -- and Rust gives them that.

What's your objection to that? And let us leave aside your seeming personal annoyance of whatever imaginary fandom you might be seeing. Let us stick to technical facts.
by illuminator83 | 2025-10-24 12:09:59+00:00
Also pretty sure it is a feature because the general population wants to have pleasant interactions with their ChatGPT and OpenAI's user feedback research will have told them this helps. I know some non-developer type people which mostly talk to ChatGPT about stuff like

- how to cope with the sadness of losing their cat

- ranting about the annoying habits of their friends

- finding all the nice places to eat in a city

etc.

They do not want that "robot" personality and they are the majority.
by HenryAI | 2025-10-24 12:10:08+00:00
Recent JAMA studies reveal counterintuitive findings: ultra-low THC doses (0.002 mg/kg) show neuroprotection without psychoactive effects, while 4% THC reduces pain but 8% worsens it. Medical users show improved cognition over time, contrasting sharply with the Dunedin study's findings on heavy recreational use. Temperature-controlled vaping at 160-200°C preserves therapeutic terpenes destroyed by combustion.
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-24 12:10:19+00:00
MADV_FREE is insufficient - userspace doesn’t get a signal from the OS to know when there’s system wide memory pressure and having userspace try to respond to such a signal would be counter productive and slow in a kernel operation that needs to be a fast path. It’s more that you want MADV (page cache) a memory range and then have some way to have a shared data structure where you are told if it’s still resident and can lock it from being paged out.
by janderson215 | 2025-10-24 12:10:43+00:00
Agreed on the pay cut - even if temporary - and aligning incentives. Resignation frees them from a chance to correct their missteps. Just making a guess here, but I would think that, in general, good people who actually hold themselves accountable for screwing up understand the situation better than a replacement. Unless there is a pattern, it is probably in the org’s best interest to give that manager a shot at redemption, especially considering the glut of incompetent managers, the learning curve for competent managers, and the likelihood that a replacement would do a better job.

If an engineer screws up hugely, do you want get rid of them immediately and find a replacement, or evaluate whether or not they learned a very important and expensive lesson that may happen again with a replacement?
by javier_e06 | 2025-10-24 12:10:46+00:00
I wish I had the was blower 3 months ago. Wasps nested in the space between my laundry room and the 2nd floor. The exit was a crack between the concrete blocks outside wall and the vinyl siding. They found an entrance into the house through the overhead light socket when a fool whose name shall not be mentioned duck-taped their regular exit route. A call to the pest-control and $400.00 USD later took care of it. They bore a tiny hole next to the exit and pumped lethal gas in it. The problem with the was blower in my case it it would have to be 8 ft attached to the wall.
by quacked | 2025-10-24 12:11:14+00:00
Thanks for the link!

Actually, I did struggle with algebra, and also calculus and differential equations. As with most on this site, I fell into an "advanced"/"gifted" cohort, but I was always down at the bottom of the class.

I excelled (relative to my peers, not to truly gifted people) at linear algebra, statistics, systems engineering, and combinatorics.
by wartywhoa23 | 2025-10-24 12:11:47+00:00
It is stated multiple times across the article that the probe would need a means of changing is trajectory, but not even a hint of idea how that could possibly be done is given. So the most important and blocking aspect of the mission is simply skimmed over, and the rest of it is built upon this omission as if it was something trivial to come up with.

Does anyone have an idea how to equip a 1g spacecraft with any means to steer itself at 1/3 speed of light? The kinetic energy at that speed would seem to require something very incompatible with the weight constraint, to my understanding.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-24 12:11:58+00:00
IIRC There's a principle in Judaism about deliberately not doing things which you know aren't forbidden but might reasonably be interpreted (wrongly) as forbidden by any observers. So that not only are you behaving correctly but also onlookers see you behaving correctly. For example if you're not supposed to eat bacon, the fact this product looks like bacon means you shouldn't eat that, even though it's not bacon - because if you do and somebody else sees that, what they saw was you eating bacon.

In this case it may well be safe for the Waymo to pass a bus but, the rule says not to pass a bus because humans will assume if the Waymo can pass a bus so can they and that's false.
by pqtyw | 2025-10-24 12:12:05+00:00
I assume the whole concept of the rule of law is also meaningless to you? Blatantly abusing your office for personal gain entirely in the open while violating a bunch of laws in the process (that nobody is willing or capable of enforcing for that that matter..) is corruption. Silly demagoguery won't change that.

> If you think only one party's members are guilty of technical crimes

Never said or implied that. No clue what you mean by "technical crimes" either.