MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vidarh | 2025-10-10 10:55:15+00:00
Probably not. I have lots of experience with assembly in general, but not so much with x86. But the changes work and passes extensive tests, and some of them would be complex on any platform. I'm sure there will be cleanups and refinements needed, but I do know asm well enough to say that the fixes aren't horrific by any means - they're likely to be suboptimal, but supoptimal beats crashing or not compiling at all any day.
Show HN: Egui-rad-builder is a RAD tool for building UIs with egui (Rust)
by timschmidt | 2025-10-10 10:56:11+00:00
A little more than a year ago, I threatened to build RAD tool for egui if no one else got around to it first.

Well, here it is, only a day old, warts and all. GUIs designed with it should build and run, but it still has a lot of rough edges. Much more to do to expose the full range of egui functionality.

Please feel free to kick the tires and leave a bug report or file a PR! Thanks for being a wonderful community!
by polski-g | 2025-10-10 10:56:18+00:00
Tim Cook doesn't want the legal liability when this app is named in a civil suit regarding an assassination. It simply isn't worth it.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/24/dallas-ice-s...

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/defendants-in-prairieland-...
by pas | 2025-10-10 10:56:53+00:00
the problem is that ... there's currently no better theory that matches the data than the amyloid cascade one - as far as I understand (and of course I'm extremely far from an expert on this)

still, I think it's correct to state that it's very hard to falsify the hypothesis, because it says that AD (Alzheimer's disease) goes through the following stages: unknown proximate cause leads to appearance of amyloid plaques which then irreversibility lead to Tau bundles (tangles) which inevitably lead to neurodegeneration which then show up as AD

the model states that by the time the plaques are there it's "too late"

of course there are drugs being tested to try to "solve" this from multiple angles, for example make the progression slow enough to "not matter", prevent the tau bundles, etc.

...

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-defense-of-the-amyloid-h...

see also "In 2024, the amyloid-cascade-hypothesis still remains a working hypothesis, no less but certainly no more": https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/aging-neuroscience/arti...

in particular I recommend looking at this diagram that shows how the model has evolved over the decades: https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/1459224/fnagi-16-...
by endymion-light | 2025-10-10 10:57:13+00:00
Quality of product - Not quality of coding.

Yes, both impact each other, and if facebook was just shoddily coupled together it probably wouldn't be a great product, but so many engineers get into this mindset of needing finely tuned clean code vs a working product.

When people were switching, how many decided to use facebook because the coding style of the backend was really clean and had good isomorphism?

There's a balance with this, but so much of it's success was being at the right place at the right time, and if you spend a massive amunt of time not building product and just building good code, you're going to hit a failure.
by vidarh | 2025-10-10 10:57:28+00:00
Just don't give it write access, and rig it up so that you gate success on a file generated by running the test suite separate from the agent that it can't influence. It can tell me it has fixed things as much as it like, but until the tests actually passes it will just get told the problem still exists, to document the approach it tested and to document that it didn't work, and try again.
by troupo | 2025-10-10 10:57:38+00:00
Real world isn't about calculating a fibonacci sequence.

Real world is usually a combination of

- read data

- trasform data

- obtain auth

- prepare data in proper formats

- <the only step usually shown in examples here>

- get results back. Perhaps an error? A stream? A specific format? Could we do retries?

That's why a full example would look like this: https://developer.auth0.com/resources/labs/actions/sync-stri... or https://github.com/stripe-samples and not a "it's enough to deduce parameters from method signature"
by Someone | 2025-10-10 10:58:03+00:00
> Without version numbers, it has to be backwards-compatible

If there’s one thing that mathematical notation is NOT, it’s backwards compatible. Fields happily reuse symbols from other fields with slightly or even completely different meanings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_mathematical_symbo... has lots of examples, for example

÷ (division sign)

Widely used for denoting division in Anglophone countries, it is no longer in common use in mathematics and its use is "not recommended". In some countries, it can indicate subtraction.

~ (tilde)

1. Between two numbers, either it is used instead of ≈ to mean "approximatively equal", or it means "has the same order of magnitude as".

2. Denotes the asymptotic equivalence of two functions or sequences.

3. Often used for denoting other types of similarity, for example, matrix similarity or similarity of geometric shapes.

4. Standard notation for an equivalence relation.

5. In probability and statistics, may specify the probability distribution of a random variable. For example, X∼N(0,1) means that the distribution of the random variable X is standard normal.

6. Notation for proportionality. See also ∝ for a less ambiguous symbol.

Individual mathematicians even are known to have broken backwards compatibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematical_notati...

* Euler used i to represent the square root of negative one (√-1) although he earlier used it as an infinite number*

Even simple definitions have changed over time, for example:

- how numbers are written

- is zero a number?

- is one a number?

- is one a prime number?
by ownagefool | 2025-10-10 11:00:05+00:00
That's not multi-master in the typical sense, it's sharding, and done correctly, you shouldn't have any write conflicts because each shard should be strongly consistent within itself.

Typically a strongly consistent (CP) system works by having a single elected master where writes are only ack'd when they're written to the majority of the cluster. The downside of this system is you need majority of the cluster working and up-to-date and the performance impact of doing this.

A multi-master system is generally ( AP ) allows writes to any master node, but has some consensus algorithm where it picks and chooses winners based on conflicting writes. It should be faster and more available at the cost of potentially lost data.

There are some systems that claim to beat CAP but they typically have caveats and assurances that are required. After-all, if you ack a write, and then that node blows up, how will it ever sync?
by eythian | 2025-10-10 11:00:29+00:00
In NZ there are restrictions on what you can't name a child (titles that represent royalty e.g. "king" or certain positions, e.g. "justice", or ones that can lead to excessive mockery, e.g. "sex fruit"), but the line seems to be hazy as "Number 16 Bus Shelter" was apparently permitted.

As for legally renaming yourself, I really don't know if the same rules apply. Probably the title-related ones, or ones that could be offensive, but I'd expect that's about it.

But just getting called whatever you like isn't a problem. I know quite a few people who don't go by their legal first name.
by kidandcat | 2025-10-10 11:02:09+00:00
Hi HN, I just released Anonat, a Deno Fresh app for spinning up disposable, end-to-end encrypted chat rooms. Each room lives at a random eight-character URL, you can add an optional shared password, and all messages/files are encrypted in the browser with AES-GCM before they ever touch the server. We persist ciphertext in Deno KV only while a room is active; one minute after the last participant disconnects, the data vanishes.

Repo (MIT): https://github.com/kidandcat/anonat Demo: https://anonat.org/
by netsharc | 2025-10-10 11:02:22+00:00
Even Obama said basically those words when he got a call from his staff at 6AM announcing that he had won, and he said in the press conference that he didn't feel he deserved it (I looked this up in his 2020 book Promised Land).

Meanwhile for Trump... I'm pretty certain he wants it because a clever, charismatic, eloquent and beloved Black man got it...
by Normal_gaussian | 2025-10-10 11:02:46+00:00
I think you're unaware of how vast vast is!

Personally, I feel vast is used to refer to things that 'appear limitless' e.g. vast desert, or when describing easily bound things - like percentages - to be almost complete.

Looking around it seems there is some debate on this, but it tends to end up suggesting the higher numbers:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vast_majority - puts vast as 75-99%

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39222264 - puts vast as greater than 75% (I can't tell if the top comment is a joke or there really is some form of ANSI guidance on this).

But to find a more compelling source I've taken a look at the UK's Office for National Statistic's use of the term. While they don't seem to have guidance in their service manual (https://service-manual.ons.gov.uk/) a quick term limited search of actual ONS publications show:

* https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

- "The vast majority (99.1%) of married couples were of the opposite sex"

- "In this bulletin, we cover families living in households, which covers the vast majority of families. " - this is high 90's by a quick google elsewhere.

* https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/...

- "The vast majority of households across England and Wales reported that they had central heating in 2021 (98.5%, 24.4 million)."

* https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

- "The vast majority (93.0%) lived in care homes."

This seems to put vast in the 90%+ category. There is certainly more analysis that can be done here though, as I have only sampled and haven't looked at the vast majority of publications.

(this was fun, I don't mean to come over as pedantic)
by pydry | 2025-10-10 11:03:39+00:00
They certainly wouldnt have given it to Hugo Chavez in 2002 when he overcame the American backed anti democratic coup to overthrow him.

Dissidents in countries which are enemies of the west? With enormous oil reserves? With an American fleet poised offshore ready for regime change? Definitely. Who are zionists to boot? Even better.

Dissidents in brutal, dictatorial countries (e.g. Saudi) which are allies? Hell no. Never. The nobel prize is a tool of statecraft and that would be a self defeating use of its PR potential to advance western foreign policy goals.
by andersmurphy | 2025-10-10 11:04:08+00:00
Fantastic write up!

For those of you who don't think Datastar is good enough for realtime/collaborative/multiplayer and/or think you need any of the PRO features.

These three demos each run on a 5$ VPS and don't use any of the PRO features. They have all survived the front page of HN. Datastar is a fantastic piece of engineering.

- https://checkboxes.andersmurphy.com/

- https://cells.andersmurphy.com/

- https://example.andersmurphy.com/ (game of life multiplayer)

On both the checkboxes/cells examples there's adaptive view rendering so you can zoom out a fair bit. There's also back pressure on the virtual scroll.
by andersmurphy | 2025-10-10 11:04:58+00:00
For those of you who don't think Datastar is good enough for realtime/collaborative/multiplayer and/or think you need any of the PRO features.

These three demos each run on a 5$ VPS and don't use any of the PRO features. They have all survived the front page of HN. Datastar is a fantastic piece of engineering.

- https://checkboxes.andersmurphy.com/

- https://cells.andersmurphy.com/

- https://example.andersmurphy.com/ (game of life multiplayer)

On both the checkboxes/cells examples there's adaptive view rendering so you can zoom out a fair bit. There's also back pressure on the virtual scroll.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-10-10 11:05:56+00:00
Not to diminish her valor and heroism. Mad respect. But how is that actually about peace?

A dictatorship can be peaceful, and a democracy can be warlike. Venezuela hasn't been involved in any war recently as far as I know. Of course people who fight for democracy deserve being praised and supported, but to me it looks odd to do so with a peace prize.

The prize is supposed to be awarded to people who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses". Is this the case here?
by benjiro | 2025-10-10 11:06:18+00:00
> like the Russia/Ukraine war where both sides are losing hundreds of people every week.

Every week? If we just look at the Russian casualties numbers, its around 1000+ casualties PER DAY.

There was a recent leak of the death toll and the most active area's had a 2/5 dead rate, 1/3 "missing" rate, and the rest was wounded.

If we only count the death + "missing" over the entire front for Russia, its 500+ PER DAY.

Ironically, the Russian->Afghanistan invasion was WAY less deadly then what we see today in Ukraine.

Your point still stands about the US evolvement in Iran/Afghanistan, but darn your numbers really way below the actual body count in the Russian "3-day limited special military operation". Those are numbers from the first year, not the daily of the third year.
by cassiogo | 2025-10-10 11:06:35+00:00
I like Hotwire but I admit its a bit confusing to get started with and the docs dont help. Form submits + redirects are a bit weird, you cant really make the server "break out" of a frame during a redirect if the form was submitted from inside a frame (there are workarounds, see https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/issues/257).

Also, custom actions [https://turbo.hotwired.dev/handbook/streams#custom-actions] are super powerfull, we use it to emmit browser events, update dom classes and attributes and so on, just be careful not to overuse it.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-10 11:06:39+00:00
I dunno. Do you? Does the Nobel prize have a history of shaping the future? Did winning the Nobel prize make Obama a different president? Was it supposed to?

To me, it seemed oddly aspirational, but maybe that's more often the case with the peace prize, too.

Also worth noting that the language in the press release [1] and facts page [2] makes it all sound like it was for things already achieved (although maybe that's at odds with "Inspires Hope for a Better Future"), and I'm skeptical of looking at year 1 achievements the job with arguably the most destructive power in the world.

It's not a hill I'd fight, let alone die, on, though. :)

1- https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2009/press-release/ 2- https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2009/obama/facts/
by tossandthrow | 2025-10-10 11:07:58+00:00
> ... Who is to blame here?

That is not really relevant, is it? The LLM is not a human.

The question is whether it is still af efficient to use LLMs after spending huge amounts of time giving the context - or if it is just as efficient to write the code yourself.

> I still remember training a junior hire who started off with

Working with LLMs is not training junior developers - treating it as such is yet another resource sink.
by chithanh | 2025-10-10 11:07:59+00:00
> Your other responses seem to suggest you just have something against sweet things (even when you seem to acknowledge there are other factors at play like acidity and tooth decay)

We are talking about school lunches here. Sweet meals are bad (whether sugar or artificially sweetened) as it trains children's palate and shapes lifelong preference for sweet food. Hence I support banning artificial sweeteners as California plans to do.

When it comes to sweetened drinks, switching from sugary to artificially sweetened is not empirically shown as beneficial. This is the hurdle that proponents of public health interventions to replace sugar with aritificial sweeteners need to overcome.

> Did they try every possible "artificial sweeteners"?

The study which I linked in another reply looked at various commercially available artificial sweeteners and some combinations. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14203032

This is necessary because not every species' taste receptors respond to every type of sweetener, e.g. rats do not respond to NHDC.

> These aren't like the same substance tweaked a bit where you're in a endless ratrace with the chemists.

Well it depends on who has the burden of proof that a certain food additive is safe and does not cause undesired long term effects, especially in children.
by netsharc | 2025-10-10 11:08:14+00:00
You seem to have come from another timeline, where that's reality. Wikipedia says:

> On 19 March 2011, a NATO-led coalition began a military intervention into the ongoing Libyan Civil War to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 (UNSCR 1973). The UN Security Council passed the resolution with ten votes in favour and five abstentions, with the stated intent to have "an immediate ceasefire in Libya, including an end to the current attacks against civilians, which it said might constitute 'crimes against humanity'

but I guess that's fake news...

But I'm more interested about how you can travel between timelines. Is it with a portal gun like in Rick and Morty?
by joeadewuni55 | 2025-10-10 11:10:41+00:00
If you’ve ever tried to appeal a parking ticket, you’ll know how frustrating it can be: The process isn’t always clear You know what happened – but not how to say it in the right way And you’re dealing with it while already stressed or short on time So I built Resolvo – a free tool that helps people generate an appeal for their parking fine in minutes
by GoToRO | 2025-10-10 11:11:48+00:00
Who said there are no good news? For the people that never lived in a dictatorship here are a few reasons people were killed in one: • grafitty agains the regime • making anti refime jokes • beeing a top official and saying you don't think the direction we are going is good

Beeing thrown in prison for years reasons: • owning a walkie talkie. Can be used to organize a revolution they said • listening to foreign radio stations
by sipofwater | 2025-10-10 11:12:21+00:00
"Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/)
by f_devd | 2025-10-10 11:13:12+00:00
Pretty interesting architecture, seems very easy to debug, but as a downside you effectively discard K-1 computations at each layer since it's using a sampler rather than a MoE-style router.

The best way I can summarize it is a Mixture-of-Experts combined with an 'x0-target' latent diffusion model. The main innovation is the guided sampler (rather than router) & split-and-prune optimizer; making it easier to train.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-10 11:13:34+00:00
There is something called "democratic peace theory" which argues that democracies are less likely to attack other democracies, compared to other forms.

So I guess you could also claim that democracy helps maintain peace from that point of view, and a person who successfully proved that a "democratic election" really wasn't democratic at all feels like the right thing to award, as it'll further international peace.

edit: the submission article also talks briefly about how peace and democracy is linked (in their eyes):

> Democracy is a precondition for lasting peace. However, we live in a world where democracy is in retreat, where more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence. The Venezuelan regime’s rigid hold on power and its repression of the population are not unique in the world. We see the same trends globally: rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule and militarisation. In 2024, more elections were held than ever before, but fewer and fewer are free and fair.
by NalNezumi | 2025-10-10 11:13:58+00:00
I don't know much about her but it's truly sad to see how absolutely eeeeeveryyyyy media reporting about this have to report it with Trump, or in relation to his statements. Man must sucks to be her, limelight is still on Trump, truly a showman.

And to repeat my point that I do every year: Nobel peace prize is the only part of the price that is actually given out by a foreign political body (Norway, founding member of NATO and Oil nation) and not the Swedish academy.

It's famous recepients include presidents that bombed/joined war during/just after been given it and bloggers that kept blogging after surviving shootings. And Henry Kissinger

Petition to rename it to "Norwegian peace price". /signed, a Swede
by sipofwater | 2025-10-10 11:14:20+00:00
"Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux application, and QEMU running under Termux: Booting "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" with debian-12-nocloud-amd64.qcow2": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1mkyers/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1mkyers/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/)
by ptx | 2025-10-10 11:15:52+00:00
Where are you getting these numbers?

Python 3.11 on Debian is around 21 MB installed size (python3.11-minimal + libpython3.11-minimal + libpython3.11-stdlib), not counting common shared dependencies like libc, ncurses, liblzma, libsqlite3, etc.

Looking at the embeddable distribution for Windows (32-bit), Python 3.11 is 17.5 MB unpacked, 3.13 is slightly smaller at 17.2 MB and 3.14 is 18.4 MB (and adds the _zstd and _remote_debugging modules).
by Gravityloss | 2025-10-10 11:15:52+00:00
Average might not be a good metric for these.

There can be glacier collapses in the Antarctic and each one could raise sea level significantly, and we don't know how long those take. West Antarctica for example would be 3 meters alone.

Someone should provide some summaries, as this is an important subject, I feel the communication is buried in a lot of technicalities.

https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/2013/01/antarcticas-contri...
by SenHeng | 2025-10-10 11:16:05+00:00
Quick summary, capital requirements raised from 5 million yen ($30k) to 30 million yen ($200k) and at least 1 full time staff required.

Possible paywall so some quotes

> Currently, applicants can qualify for the visa status by establishing a business in Japan and either investing at least ¥5 million in capital into it or hiring two full-time employees who live in the country. The visa is renewable and allows stays of up to five years each time.

> However, under the revised criteria, the minimum investment requirement for those applying from Thursday will be increased sixfold to ¥30 million.

…

> Applicants will also be required to employ at least one full-time worker who is either a Japanese national or a foreign resident with independent residency status, such as a permanent resident or spouse visa holder.

…

> The government will also be introducing a new language requirement. Either the applicant or a full-time employee must demonstrate business-level Japanese proficiency — approximately CEFR B2 level.

…

> In addition, applicants must prove at least three years of management experience or hold a graduate degree in business administration or a related field, which they were not previously required to do.
by major505 | 2025-10-10 11:16:44+00:00
Its fair. She done a crucial job uniting the different interests of the oposition of the venezuelan goverment/cartel.

Too bad they where so divided for so many years, that when they trully worked together to wind a election it was too late because now MAduro dont even care to steal the ellections in plain sigth and probably theres no more solution without violence.