MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mananaysiempre | 2025-10-12 12:24:24+00:00
Another article that also includes an explanation of the current state of the hack (workaround known, patch[1] in development); of GrapheneOS (“security patch” pulled in, but official VoLTE/VoNR/VoWiFi override toggles introduced[2] in device settings as a replacement); and of other phones (coming to all in-support Android phones near you, sometime before December depending on the quality of said support):

https://piunikaweb.com/2025/10/10/october-2025-pixel-update-...

[1]: https://github.com/kyujin-cho/pixel-volte-patch/pull/387

[2] https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/956
by ben_w | 2025-10-12 12:24:48+00:00
Can you name one thing that matters *for a passport* that isn't already covered by the photograph and name?

The "relationship" here is "someone bought a ticket in this person's name, and they have appeared with the ticket in order to be conveyed to another location as specified on the ticket".

I mean, us passengers are (and on budget airlines you can feel it) just a fancy kind of livestock that can complain about itself being delivered incorrectly and where it's worth trying to upsell them with overpriced in-flight drinks.
by ndiddy | 2025-10-12 12:26:11+00:00
> MacOS 8. Not the Linux thing, but Copeland. This was a modernized version of the original MacOS, continuing the tradition of no command line. Not having a command line forces everyone to get their act together about how to install and configure things. Probably would have eased the tradition to mobile. A version was actually shipped to developers, but it had to be covered up to justify the bailout of Next by Apple to get Steve Jobs.

You have things backwards. The Copland project was horribly mismanaged. Anybody at Apple who came up with a new technology got it included in Copland, with no regard to feature creep or stability. There's a leaked build floating around from shortly before the project was cancelled. It's extremely unstable and even using basic desktop functionality causes hangs and crashes. In mid-late 1996, it became clear that Copland would never ship, and Apple decided the best course of action was to license an outside OS. They considered options such as Solaris, Windows NT, and BeOS, but of course ended up buying NeXT. Copland wasn't killed to justify buying NeXT, Apple bought NeXT because Copland was unshippable.
by tim333 | 2025-10-12 12:26:40+00:00
I think it's a bit of a bubble. However, bull case:

Phase 1) Spend $400 bn / yr less a bit of income

Phase 2) ? - AGI aound 2030 - replace workforce or double output. Worth >1x world GDP or ~$100 tn ?

Phase 3) Profit!

(some discussion in "The case for AGI by 2030" https://80000hours.org/agi/guide/when-will-agi-arrive/)

Fund phase 1 by hyping it to investors
by meander_water | 2025-10-12 12:27:20+00:00
I've not used Claude Code, so my answer might not be that useful. But I would think that because both are chat-based interfaces you would be able to instruct the model to either continue without approval or wait for your approval at each step. I certainly do that with Cursor. Cursor has also recently started automatically generating TODO lists in the background (with a tool call I'm assuming), and displaying them as part of the thinking process without explicit instruction. I find that useful.
by andblac | 2025-10-12 12:27:42+00:00
At first glance, this reminds me of how branch prediction is utilized in CPUs to speedup execution. As I understand it, this development is like a form of soft branch prediction over language trajectories: a small model predicts what the main model will do, takes few steps ahead and then verifies the results (and this can be done in parallel). If it checks out, you just jump forward, it not you take miss but its rare. I find it funny how small-big ideas like this come up in different context again and again in history of our technological development. Of course ideas as always are cheap. The hard part is how to actually use them and cash in on them.
by DaSHacka | 2025-10-12 12:27:58+00:00
One of the working theories on people suffering long COVID-like symptoms after receiving an mRNA COVID vaccine may apparently be related to spike proteins found in the patient's blood far longer than is typical/intended. This is apparently similar to long COVID patients.

At least, that's my layman's understanding when I was following it some years ago. I'm not sure if there's been more recent studies that have found more concrete links since then, but I suspect GP is in the same boat, which is why they asked.
by jeremy151 | 2025-10-12 12:28:30+00:00
I live in an area with PFAS contaminated ground water (which I now aggressively filter.) To me giving blood just kind of makes sense, if there is a class of things that can enter your blood and never leave, and does not replicate on its own, why not perform a regular "oil change" and hopefully help some people at the same time. Some study has been done:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8994130/

The study specifically does not look at the effect on recipients, though the donation centers do not disallow such donations. My presumption is that the donation is a net positive all around. If study comes to show the contrary, I'll certainly revise my approach.
by nurbl | 2025-10-12 12:28:57+00:00
Though in principle they serve similar purposes there are some big differences though. Python with types is still just python. Typescript is a different language from JS (guess it a superset?) and it being controlled by a large company could be considered problematic.

I suppose JS could go in the same direction and adopt the typing syntax from TS as a non-runtime thing. Then the typescript compiler would become something like mypy, an entirely optional part of the ecosystem.
by lexicality | 2025-10-12 12:29:10+00:00
> I guess we've just given up on any kind of package version flexibility.

Presumably because decades of experience has demonstrated that humans are extremely bad at maintaining compatibility between releases and dealing with fallout from badly specified package versions is probably second only to NULL in terms of engineering time wasted?

Or possibly it's just because a lot of the Python ecosystem doesn't even try and follow semver and you have no guarantee that any two versions are compatible with each other without checking the changelog and sacrificing a small chicken...
by DaSHacka | 2025-10-12 12:29:58+00:00
And what is the difference between a 'state' and a 'corporation'?

What happens when a corporation has more power, influence, control, and private security than a country?

This reminds me of discussing things with libertarians. "It's bad when a government does it, but when a private corporation does it, it's actually okay guys, it's the free market and all."
by bckr | 2025-10-12 12:30:01+00:00
That the ideas are given little attention is the substantial basis in determining that they are fringe.

If an idea is given a lot of attention, it might be mainstream or fringe, depending on how accepted it is. It might be getting a lot of negative attention, or it might just be getting a lot of attention right now. It might be transitioning from fringe to mainstream.

But if it is not getting any attention, or very little, then it is by definition fringe.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-10-12 12:33:34+00:00
From what (little) I understand, VoLTE and VoWiFi are quite similar under the hood—VoLTE is more or less SIP, and VoWiFi is that same SIP over IPsec. You see how this would be an interoperability nightmare (not that I’m excusing the telecom people for getting us into this mess). Furthermore, some carriers get testy about you avoiding roaming charges by using VoWiFi (while others actually encourage it).
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-12 12:34:37+00:00
Knowing when to say "no" to a project is an important skill.

One always must define a one sentence goal or purpose, before teams think about how to build something.

Cell processors, because most coders can't do parallelism well

Altera consumer FPGA, as they chose behavioral rather than declarative best practices... then the Intel merger... metastability in complex systems is hard, and most engineers can't do parallelism well...

World Wide Web, because social-media and Marketers

Dozens of personal projects, because sometimes things stop being fun. =3
by kodomonocch1 | 2025-10-12 12:35:17+00:00
SEE (Semantic Entropy Encoding) is a schema-aware JSON compression format. It keeps JSON searchable while compressed, cutting I/O and CPU cost. Benchmarks: ~19.5% of raw size, lookup p50 ≈ 0.18 ms.

Article: https://medium.com/@tetsutetsu11/the-hidden-cloud-tax-and-th...

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/tetsu05/see-the-hidden-cloud-tax-bre...

GitHub: https://github.com/kodomonocch1/see_proto

Curious about your thoughts — especially from those using Zstd or Parquet in production. What would be your biggest blocker for adopting schema-aware compression?
by CMay | 2025-10-12 12:35:34+00:00
I am aware that many companies train on illegally acquired content and that bothers me too.

There is that initial phase of potential fair use within reason, but the illegal acquisition is still a crime. Eventually after they've distilled things enough, it can become more firmly fair use.

So they just take the legal risk and do it, because after enough training the legal challenges should be within an acceptable range.

That makes sense for publicly released images, books and data. There exists some plausible deniability in sweeping up influences that have already been released into the world. Private data can contain unique things which the world has not seen yet, which becomes a bigger problem.

Meta/Facebook? I would not and will never trust them. Microsoft? I still trust them a lot more than many other companies. The fact many people are even bothered by this, is because they actually use OneDrive. Why not Dropbox or Google Drive? I certainly trust OneDrive more than I trust Dropbox or Google Drive. That trust is not infinite, but it's there.

If Microsoft abuses that trust in a truly critical way that resonates beyond the technically literate, that would not just hurt their end-user personal business, but it would hurt their B2B as well.
by Ozzie_osman | 2025-10-12 12:37:28+00:00
The paper says "One in five children." I wouldn't be surprised at all. Children are very dynamic, changing often as they grow and go through different developmental stages (which may include periods where they seem more tired or more cranky, etc) . They also often lack the language and agency to explain what's going on with their bodies.

I don't see how you'd know the exact number without a solid diagnostic check.
by mrec | 2025-10-12 12:38:09+00:00
Valid option - I used it myself for a very brief toe-dip into blogging earlier this year - but maybe worth noting that Google seems to flat-out refuse to crawl anything you put there. Won't pick it up by itself, won't read a sitemap you explicitly tell it about. It'll grudgingly index specific page URLs you tell it about, but that's kind of absurd. I don't know if it's because it's on a subdomain, or a Microsoft property, or because I was 100% ad- and tracker-free or what.

I tried DDG (Bing-backed, I believe) and it happily found everything with no manual intervention at all. That was the point where I ditched Google Search after 30 years.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-12 12:38:30+00:00
If they are running safe mandatory scans on your phones for this, you seem shocked and angry that anyone would imply that this would lead to safe mandatory scans on your phones for that and the other, and open the door for unsafe mandatory scans for whatever.

If you can't acknowledge this, it puts you in a position where you can't be convincing to people who need you to deflect obvious, well-known criticisms before beginning a discussion. It gives you crazy person or salesman vibes. These are arguments that someone with a serious interest in the technology would be aware of already and should be included as a prerequisite to being taken seriously. Doing this shows that you value other people's time and effort.
by ben_w | 2025-10-12 12:38:38+00:00
The concept of gender, or the concept of passports?

For the latter, there's a lot of small differences you only even notice by moving across a border, because the "common sense" you grew up with conflicts with the "common sense" in the new home. My own experience moving to Germany from the UK had this, even: some countries (e.g. Germany) require everyone to have ID, but not all (e.g. UK); while I approve of it being as easy to move from Somalia to America* as from South Dakota to Arkansas, we're not actually ready for it yet. Would be a huge benefit to all of us if we were, and we should work towards it.

For the former, the absence of distinction on legal records doesn't mean people won't treat you differently anyway; consider how ginger and blonde hair have stereotypes, even though hair dye is trivial to get and use.

Thing is, there are even legit reasons to care about gender, unlike for hair — it's just… how do I put this… you know how you sometimes see people (IMO in bad faith) demanding to know what "the definition of a woman is"? In my experience, such people never like that all possible "definitions" are extremely domain-limited, and absolutely not universally applicable despite the correlation.

To give some common examples and why they aren't universal:

• If you're a surgeon, you'll care about the current actual anatomy, not the chromosomes — I can't get ovarian cancer if I don't have ovaries, doesn't matter if that congenital or from a oophorectomy.

• If you're a geneticist, you care about the chromosomes (of which there are many more than 2 groups even in humans), not the anatomy.

• If you're dating casually (and, at risk of me making the typical mind fallacy, if you're not bisexual like me), you care about the exterior bits. You do otherwise use contraceptives for sex while casually dating, right? So it doesn't matter if the bits outside are connected to anything functional inside, right?

• If you want to start a family with someone, you care if they're fertile… which not all cis people are, while some trans people are.

• If you're an animal biologist, you care about which has the biggest gamete… hence why in seahorses it's the males who get pregnant.

• If you're trying to keep sports interesting, you care about how much testosterone is floating around, and wouldn't you believe it, that's something you can take as a supplement even without being trans.

• You want to know how to address someone? Sure, in English polite forms have "Sir/Madam" variations, and many other languages have stronger variations between male and female forms in language (e.g. Pavlov/Pavlova), but that's why people list their pronouns now, and those don't have to have anything to do with gender anyway (I know several with the title Doctor, both men and women).

etc.

* Replace with your own country here, I'm picking on the USA just because it's where I think most HN readers are
by Sammi | 2025-10-12 12:38:47+00:00
Here's my best advice of prompt engineering for hard problems. Always funnel out and then funnel in. Let me explain.

State your concrete problem and context. Then we funnel out by asking the AI to do a thorough analysis and investigate all the possible options and approaches for solving the issue. Ask it to go search the web for all possible relevant information. And now we start funneling in again by asking it to list the pros and cons of each approach. Finally we asked it to choose which one or two solutions are the most relevant to our problem at hand.

For easy problems you can just skip all of this and just ask directly because it'll know and it'll answer.

The issue with harder problems is that if you just ask it directly to come up with a solution then it'll just make something up and it will make up reasons for why it'll work. You need to ground it in reality first.

So you do: contrete context and problem, thorough analysis of options, list pros and cons, and pick a winner.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-10-12 12:38:59+00:00
Depends on how the rollout of mobile networking historically went in a particular country. (Mostly, from what I can see, if it was the entrenched landline monopolists from the start or if they had to outcompete a few upstarts first.) In some places (Russia, Ukraine) you have to explain to people what a carrier-locked phone even is, and they get (understandably) appalled at the concept. Others (Turkey) have went as far as to have infra to IMEI-block you after you spend too much time in the country until you pay up.
by michaelcampbell | 2025-10-12 12:39:03+00:00
I talked to some Heroku reps at a local tech conference a year or so ago; it was clear that they were instructed to not have any personal opinions of the shredding of the free tier, but they did admit in a roundabout way that it lost them a lot of customers - some they were glad to get rid of as they were gaming the goodwill and costing Heroku lots of money, but weren't sure if it was a good long term idea or not.
by givinguflac | 2025-10-12 12:39:23+00:00
Really neat! I appreciate the out of the way, ad-free nature of the app.

After looking at it, a few pieces of feedback and a request:

-on the Health tab it cuts the title off (iPhone 15PM here) to say “how your health improv..”

-I would really like to be able to label my own custom tracker. Right now I have two that both say “habit free” which means nothing once you have multiple.

-Perhaps the above custom label request solves this one, but I think it’s too limiting a list to choose from. Smoking, for example- there are a loooot of ways to consume nicotine.

-I’d really love to be able to reset the counter when I stumble, but have a log in the counter of prior streaks to be proud of.

-I’m not exactly sure how this would look, but I’d absolutely use a feature that allowed you to count how many times you use nicotine in a day, for example, to aim for a lower number of uses the following day or week.

I love this idea, take or leave the feedback as you will; nice work!!
by mkfs | 2025-10-12 12:39:33+00:00
> This was a deliberate strike targeting a known American citizen in a country with which the US was not at war (Yemen), for accusations of terrorism.

I never understood this argument. Al-Awlaki was embedded with a group of enemy combatants the US was at war with, and he knew he was a wanted man, and he had plenty of opportunities to surrender, but he chose not to. So either the US does some Spec Ops snatch-and-grab to get him and risk the lives of all involved personnel, or do nothing at all?
by mapontosevenths | 2025-10-12 12:39:35+00:00
Reference: https://archive.ph/C0F33

It is cheaper in this case because it's not a comparison of new solar versus new coal.

They're spinning back up dirty old coal plants that they previously shut down because alternatives were cheaper/better. This means the upfront cost is lower for the power company but the long term costs to the environment and health of the public are compromised to allow them to put off building new infrastructure that would provide cleaner AND cheaper power in the long term.

They're socializing the costs and privatizing the profits again.

> solar people have a long history of basically lying about the cost/benefit ratio

Are you sure that's the case and it's not that you are being lied to by the Republicans who take huge donations from the energy sector? Can you cite a study that isnt more than a decade old and hasn't been retracted?

There have been numerous studies to the contrary and having priced home solar myself recently I can tell you firsthand that costs have only gone down significantly every single year for the last decade. The cost for new solar has never been lower and for new construction it's been beating coal for at least years already. Coal is expensive, despite what the coal industry tells you.

If you read the linked article you'll note that even new solar and existing coal are competitive, despite it being an unfair comparison. If you add in storage costs it can leave renewables at a slight disadvantage, but in exchange people get to have healthy lungs and land that hasn't been permanently rendered unusable by strip mining and toxic runoff.

It baffles me that Republicans would rather keep power costs high AND making the environment worse than use the free and inexhaustible power the sun provides. Hell, it's red states that would benefit the most from upgrading the grid. I saw one estimate that installing solar would generate nearly a trillion dollars in jobs for red states over the next decade.

Our future should be solarpunk, not cyberpunk.
by UncleMeat | 2025-10-12 12:39:56+00:00
If you own your own business and can ensure enough clients you can make good money. But this isn't exactly a default situation. And it comes with all of the associated overhead for owning your own business. If you are a one-person show you'll also need to be available at weird times for emergencies or will lose clients because you aren't available on a weekend to deal with some issue.

Plenty of people working in the trades are making modest salaries working for some builder or some company that serves industrial clients.
by eqvinox | 2025-10-12 12:41:19+00:00
That's why other spaces have machine tools for this. There seems to be an overall drift in Python to use more type annotations anyway; making a tool that compares 2 versions of a package isn't rocket science (maybe it already exists?)

Literally everyone posting here is using a system built on compatible interfaces. Stable DLLs on Windows, dylib framework versions on OSX, ELF SOversioning on Linux.

It's clearly not impossible, just a question of priorities and effort, and that makes it a policy decision to do it or not. And I'll lean towards we've been shifting that policy too far in the wrong direction.
by shawabawa3 | 2025-10-12 12:41:29+00:00
Accuracy is a nonsense word in this context

Tests have a sensitivity (1 - percentage of false negatives) and specificity (1 - percentage of false positives)

"Accuracy" usually refers to sensitivity. If specificity is near 100% and the test is cheap/fast even low sensitivity can be good

On the other hand you could have sensitivity of 100% but the test could be useless if specificity is low and the condition is rare
by aesh2Xa1 | 2025-10-12 12:41:30+00:00
I looked up the amount of blood lost due to a menstruation cycle, and the answer is around 50 ml.

OP's linked paper has "the iron-reduction patients had 300ml of blood removed at the start of the trial and between 250 and 500ml removed four weeks later."

A blood donation removes 500 ml, so about a year of menstruation all at once. You can donate every two months, besides.

So, yes, if there is an effect then we might expect the magnitude of the effect to differ. Or else we'd expect a paper cut to also have the same effect.

Sex biological difference could matter as well.