MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Telaneo | 2025-10-15 11:51:56+00:00
Correct. One additional problem beyond the price hike was also the fact that the price came to be wildly unstable. One day it was bascially free and the next day it was approaching 1 euro per kwh, where as before, the price usually came to about 1 NOK (10-12 eurocent) per kwh after taxes and such, and hadn't moved significantly from that in over 10 years.

See Fig 2 here[1] for just how spiky the market became after the price hike.

Also bear in mind that Norway does most of its residential heating with resitive heating, precisely because electricity has historically been so cheap. Heat pumps are getting more popular, and burning firewood got very popular during the price hike, but basically no-one heats with gas, as there's no infrastructure to support it.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266695522...
by rs186 | 2025-10-15 11:51:56+00:00
In Android world, there is not such thing as "has been patched". It is always A complex situation with all different OEMs, devices and versions.

The patch was committed about 3 months ago, possibly available to OEMs as binary earlier, but devices are probably just receiving these patches.

I bet at least half of all affected Android devices in the world have not got the patch yet if I am optimistic. It's probably near 80-90%.
by cameronh90 | 2025-10-15 11:52:18+00:00
I live in inner London so maybe it's a regional thing, but developments here usually include consultations from more organisations than I knew existed. Here's a recent one from near me: https://anewcentreforlewisham.com/planning/

I forget which of the various huge documents contains the local organisational consultations, but one of them does. The planning application itself (DC/24/137871) contains 340 documents. News quotes, for example, Greenwich council:

> While the scheme would appear as part of a tall building cluster, it risks harming the open character of Blackheath and the setting of heritage assets. The report requests additional winter views to fully assess visibility and potential harm.

(bit of an odd objection considering you can see Canary Wharf from there and there's a heavy traffic road running through the middle of it...)

I'm not suggesting that, for example, things like NHS concerns that there aren't enough local hospital beds or whatever aren't important, but I guess my view is that they shouldn't really be part of an individual planning decision.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-15 11:52:20+00:00
Use of the bell curve for this meme considered harmful.

If you're going to use AI like that, it's not a clear win over writing the code yourself (unless you're a mid programmer). The whole point of AI is to automate shit, but you've planted a flag on the minimal level of automation you're comfortable with and proclaimed a pareto frontier that doesn't exist.
by deanc | 2025-10-15 11:52:41+00:00
We have this system in Finland and whilst I was sceptical at first, it works much better. Electricity prices are published about 24h in advance for 15m intervals (was 60m up until 2 weeks ago). You can therefore time your usage dependent on demand on the grid (which is correlated to production of course).

We've saved 100s of euros annually on our electric bill by limiting sauna, washing machine + dishwasher to low-cost hours. Sometimes it's impossible and it's days at a higher rate - but for a 2 person household it's costing us 15-20e a month (+ additional transmission costs)
by pards | 2025-10-15 11:52:47+00:00
My parents had a off-peak hot water system when I was growing up. The insulated tank would fill and heat up during off-peak hours (i.e. late at night), and merely keep it warm during the rest of the day.

The downside was that once the hot water was gone, we had to wait until the next day for more. The last person to shower occasionally got a cold shower.

On-demand systems win here.
by not_math | 2025-10-15 11:53:24+00:00
There's a program called Hilo [1] in Québec where it's using the Hydro-Québec Rate Flex D [2] to automatically stop the heating during peak demand.

> With Rate Flex D, you can save quite a bit of money, since most of the time in winter, you’ll be charged less than the base rate, except during occasional peak demand events, when you’ll be charged more than the base rate.

[1] https://www.hiloenergie.com/en-ca/ [2] https://www.hydroquebec.com/residential/customer-space/rates...
Show HN: A roguelike with a physics sandbox and Excel clone as minigames
by yutokure | 2025-10-15 11:53:53+00:00
Hi HN, I'm the creator of this project. For the last few years, I've been solo-developing what started as a simple roguelike and evolved into... well, this. It's a massive, open-source, browser-based game/platform built entirely with vanilla JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Demo: https://yutokure.github.io/yu-roguelike/site/ GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/yutokure/yu-roguelike/tree/main

The project has three core pillars:

1. The Roguelike: A deep, turn-based game with a "dungeon crafting" system. Instead of playing random levels, you combine presets to compose a dungeon with specific properties, and the same combination always generates the same seed. The endgame involves unlocking a developer console to script the game world.

2. The 75+ "Minigames": This is where my obsession really shows. To grind EXP, you can play a huge variety of side content, including: A physics/chemistry sandbox: I wrote a 2D engine from scratch that simulates rigid bodies, cloth, fluids (SPH), thermodynamics, and chemical reactions. You can even design custom materials by combining elements from a periodic table. A spreadsheet app: A surprisingly functional Excel clone with a formula engine (=SUM, VLOOKUP, etc.), formatting, and even XLSX import/export. Other tools: A word processor, paint program, circuit simulators, and tons of classic games (Chess, Tetris, etc.).

3. The To-Do List: This is my experiment in gamification. It's a real To-Do list where you set your own real-life tasks. Completing them gives you in-game rewards (EXP, rare items), while negative tasks (like "stayed up too late developing this game") can apply penalties. This has been a massive learning experience and a true labor of love, free from commercial constraints. I wanted to see how far I could push what's possible in a browser with just the basics. I'd be happy to answer any questions about the implementation, the design philosophy, or why I thought building an Excel clone for a roguelike was a good idea. Feedback is deeply appreciated!
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-15 11:54:12+00:00
Laws mostly don't work by actually filing cases. They mostly work by deterring malicious activity because people don't want a case brought against them. The cases are only for the ones who fail to be deterred, which is pretty uncommon for large corporations because they can afford lawyers to tell them what not to do.

The problem comes when you erode what was meant to be a strong antitrust law through decades of narrowing interpretations and then it's not deterring them anymore.

> the law ends up being used to punish declining companies for prior bad behavior.

The solution to this one is to take the politicians out of it and allow customers to file antitrust class actions.
by cedilla | 2025-10-15 11:54:15+00:00
I don't know what the name of the internet law is, but I think it goes something like: when someone tells you about a regulation and how outrageously stupid it obviously is, they probably misrepresented it or frames it in an adventurous way.

In this case, there is no "increased subsidies for less feasible regions". And if you know anything about the region, it's very implausible. Southern states are generally not forerunners for wind power, with Bavaria's governing party being downright hostile. They are not increasing subsidies, that's for sure.

My best guess is that this refers to either differences in subsidies between the states - Lower Saxony has lower to no subsidies because building wind turbines is popular and profitable there without additional funding. Bavaria meanwhile probably lacks experts and has to bring them down from Lower Saxony or NRW, increasing building costs even at locations just as suitable as in Lower Saxony. So yeah, they might still have state subsidies, but not because they want wind power where it's infeasible. You wouldn't find an operator for that.

Another guess is that maybe this about the process for bidding on subsidies. This is a method where for large-scale projects operators can bid on executing projects not just with money but also by the amount of subsidies. For off-shore power, that subsidy often goes negative now, i.e. it's practically a license cost now. That does indeed mean that less desirable projects, which are probably less ideal for power generation, receive more subsidies, but that's a far cry from building wind power in "infeasible" locations.
by noisy_boy | 2025-10-15 11:54:21+00:00
> And regarding reporting, how many times can you write the same thing "american's are fat"? Or are you supposed to cover every heart attack on a news story?

No, but you can spend a bit more time on coverage of new findings/research regarding the causes, initiatives and scientific progress towards treatment etc. Sure it isn't sexy but I think there is enough sensationalism to go around to fund some sensible reporting.
by ErikCorry | 2025-10-15 11:54:35+00:00
We choose to be transparent when we fix stuff, even if it makes us look a bit silly :-) . We are certainly installing more logging and tracking of this sort of thing!

In general I think the GC should auto-adapt as much as possible. It's a bit of an admission of defeat for the GC author if the users have to spend a lot of time tuning the parameters. What we are doing here is removing the tuning that was no longer correct, and allowing V8 more latitude to pick its own young gen size.
by amiga386 | 2025-10-15 11:54:37+00:00
This is all true, the NIMBYs are real and we must construct additional pylons... but the largest part of curtailment costs come from the UK energy sector's project mismanagement.

1. We have two undersea cable projects (EGL1&2) to provide transmission capacity between all the new windfarms in Scotland, and SE England where it's used. Both projects are years late.

2. But we keep approving and switching on more windfarms in Scotland anyway ("connect and manage" policy)

3. The bottleneck that the undersea cables aim to get around - the transmission lines between North Scotland and Northern England - are at lowered capacity because maintenance is due, and it's non-negotiable.

Basically everything will be great in 2030 when every project delivers at once, but until then, enjoy exhorbitant curtailment costs.

https://ukerc.ac.uk/news/transmission-network-unavailability...
by postexitus | 2025-10-15 11:54:46+00:00
Even without new physical cables - very recently Nordic power markets switch to Flow Based Market Coupling (FBMC) - which basically takes physical properties of the existing lines (coupling points) in grid balancing operations, which allowed some underused lines to be used more (practically) - which made electricity cheaper in some locations, and more expensive in others (because cheaper electricity flew from that region to more expensive ones). It is akin to blocking train lines to a holiday resort because poorer people will be able to access it.
by Rebuff5007 | 2025-10-15 11:55:07+00:00
I still don't get what you think is "newsworthy", or what "should" be reported on.

Why is homicide inherently more newsworthy than "people get heart attacks"? It completely depends on how much homicide is happening, how many heart attacks are happening, and what we as a society think is reasonable for either fatality. Given how few people are dying with homicides, how many people are dying from a preventable disease -- which is what the main article here says -- I think there can absolutely more attention put on the preventable disease. Particularly at a moment in time when funding for healthcare by the government is being dramatically reduced.
by nakamoto_damacy | 2025-10-15 11:55:10+00:00
The G in AGI is a big deal and it’s missing from LLMs.

Anything coded by an LLM risks being under-generalised.

Asking an LLM to think in a generalised way does not make it an AGI. The critical ability to generalised beyond learned patterns and to not only come up with arbitrary patterns but to use correct logic to derive them is missing from LLMs because LLMs do not have a logical layer, only a probabilistic one with learned constraints. The defect is the lack of internal logical constraints. It’s a big subject.

I say more about it here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hessiejones/2025/09/30/llms-are...

Aka

“layered system”
by jqpabc123 | 2025-10-15 11:55:30+00:00
American management is really a cult.

There are members and outcasts.

Members are rewarded and nurtured. Outcasts are restricted, controlled and overruled. In American business society, engineering will forever be an outcast --- not because it's logical but because it's a tradition --- one that the cult rarely breaks.

Outcasts are rarely allowed to voice an opinion (Example: Boeing). The overall structure is really descended from the plantation system which is a variation of the even older feudal system.

The only real escape for an outcast --- refuse to play the game, start your own business --- which I did decades ago.
by Angostura | 2025-10-15 11:55:59+00:00
Sure, I use Home Assistant running in a little raspberry pie in the lift.

There is an Octopus Integration that exposes current prices (and much else) to HomeAssistant.

There is another Integration that works with my solar panels and another that works with my batteries and can change mode (self use, force charge, force discharge etc.)

So from there it’s really just a question of setting up some if-then automations to turn on smart switches, charge the batteries if prices go negative.

You can also gradually add more nuanced automations like turning on water heaters if the panels are generating more than 1kW and the batteries are over 90% charged.

I’m not a programmer, it’s all fairly easy to do.
by tmountain | 2025-10-15 11:56:12+00:00
Yeah, it felt like the U.S. was stumbling towards a more just and equitable future, and media and popular culture perpetuated a narrative that we were MUCH further along as a country and culture than we actually were. To the point of just representing a false reality. Then, all of the sudden, reality came crashing down, and it became pretty evident that a huge chunk of the country doesn't give a damn about any of that stuff, nor can they be bothered to waste a minute worrying about the consequences of re-electing a felon, etc. They just want cheap eggs, which they're still not getting, but they are getting an entirely new type of governance, which looks pretty darn authoritarian, but who am I to say...?
by sateesh | 2025-10-15 11:56:53+00:00
What other option you can propose. This article [1] says preferred suggestions by economists is: retraining, regulation, or social insurance and for most of the people surveyed "retraining" was the preferred approach.

Not sure MOOCs can be taken as an useful alibi to measure success of upskill. Most (employers) won't honor the MOCC certs, and people do MOOC while working. Taking a MOOC doesn't inherently ensure that the learner has mastered the course they took, hence there is less incentive in completing too.

1. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/coming-ai-backl...
by powerapple | 2025-10-15 11:57:00+00:00
I can see that. WingTech bought it for profit, the best way to get the maximum reward is from the stock market. It is actually not rare operation in Chinese companies. But I doubt this is the reason Dutch government would interfere using the national security excuse. There are other ways to handle this, and would be less damaging. I am more inclined to believe that the US's pressure and the current management who wants to use this as a chance to take control of the company.
by jcattle | 2025-10-15 11:57:08+00:00
It really depends on how much excess capacity the north south interconnects have. You'll have to store the energy where it is produced and then get rid of it when the windfarms are not producing (and there's demand in the south). I'm sure someone did the math on this and it is not economical at the moment, otherwise this would have been lower hanging fruit than adding interconnects.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-15 11:57:27+00:00
To be fair, codebases are bimodal, and 300k is large for the smaller part of the distribution. Large enterprise codebases tend to be monorepos, have a ton of generated code and a lot of duplicated functionality for different environments, so the 10-100 million line claims need to be taken with a grain of salt, a lot of the sub projects in them are well below 300k even if you pull in defs.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-15 11:57:59+00:00
Wikipedia has some good examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victimless_crime

Definitions differ person to person, but many things we consider benign today like sexual activities between consenting adults, racial integration, even free travel have at times and in places been considered crimes.

Today, homelessness is often criminalized. As is drug use even among otherwise productive law abiding citizens. Assisted suicide is often criminalized, even for terminally ill and suffering consenting adults.
by rwyinuse | 2025-10-15 11:59:40+00:00
Yeah, I get why people don't want wind turbines right next to their house, but also in my country I see people in the countryside complaining about turbines that are literally in middle of a forest, many kilometers away. It's just pathetic, especially since we're talking about economic backwater, where tax revenue and jobs from those turbines are a significant plus.
by jasonlotito | 2025-10-15 11:59:46+00:00
> Google Drive would be good enough

It gets deleted. TOS violation.

> (if you can access Meta, you can access Google Drive)

Not necessarily. No capable person that understands tech at all would think this.

> or any other cloud storage where you maintain ownership of your data.

If you don't own the infrastructure, do you really own it? And none of these are resilient to takedown requests, or other means of removal.

> Internet Archive allows takedown requests from content owners,

That's not what happened here. He was the content owner. Also, you pretend like other groups don't also do that.

> You can give people anywhere in the world the credentials to access it:

Like IG did?

None of your solutions meet my criteria in the slightest.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-10-15 11:59:50+00:00
I'm not an apple user, have used neither the old or new design, and if I had to choose, I'd pick the old one any day of the week. Liquid Glass very much feels like Apple's Boeing 737 MAX moment.

The Liquid Glass design has awful contrast, and seems really amateurish with how stuff on the screen overlaps. Looks like the stuff you'd see in KDE 10-15 years ago[1], back when compositing window managers were kinda hot and new.

[1] This is from 2012, and arguably deals with the transparency-induced readability issues better than Liquid Glass seems to: https://imgur.com/a/x1LmBAQ
by positron26 | 2025-10-15 12:00:01+00:00
> Coders are biased and often not aligned with users whose rights FSF is there to protect. Just look at any OSS vs FS discussion on this site to see examples.

Programmers understand software ecosystems, of which free software is just a subset. I also see a lot of programmers advocating leaderships and other non-technical skills generally. If you observe a pattern where a lot of coders seem biased, maybe there's something else going on?

> Good initiatives require strong argumentative basis to have a strong wide following

The FSF has circular logic all throughout their ideology. They only want to argue if you let them frame the conversation with their own conclusions along with a full deconstruction of views they didn't come up with, like open source, which they explicitly work to discredit and do not represent. It is little wonder that their following is not wide nor strong because they are divisive and completely incapable of working with others or incorporating ideological diversity. They are eclipsed by the EFF and several other organizations built around open source applications in terms of fund raising at this point. Don't listen to me. Just go look at some financials. You'll see how little they represent these days.
by tamcap | 2025-10-15 12:00:22+00:00
> It has a cruise speed of about 200 km/h (\(124\) mph), a payload of \(350\) kg (\(770\) lbs), and a range of approximately 300 km (\(186\) miles)

While it’s a real plane, I think we can both agree this is more of a prototype than what the general public would consider to be a passenger plane.

Yes, energy recovery is possible. It’s not happening currently in commercial aviation.
Helpcare AI (YC F24) Is Hiring
by hsial | 2025-10-15 12:00:35+00:00
Ideal Candidate:

- Worked at an early-stage startup (pre-seed, seed, series A)

- 7yrs of full-stack experience. (python, react preferred, open to other)

- Some experience with LLM / Agentic Applications.

- Some experience with Data Ingestion.

- Bonus 2x / yr.

- $120,000+ / yr. with generous equity.

Tech Stack:

Python, React, Fast API, Supabase

Who we are:

- Mission to improve the world's capacity for care

- Respectful, intelligent, positive team

- A-players that are excited to build the best

- Well funded, YC- Company with incredible customer demand
by Loughla | 2025-10-15 12:01:23+00:00
I don't mind them in the distance. I would love if these stupid things were 40km away. The closest is like 500 meters away from my house.

They're awful.

I live in the country for the peace and quiet and dark at night.

Now with a wind farm, there is a constant background hum that reminds me of living near a highway in the city, and a swishing noise that's louder than the cicadas and other night time bugs. Also, the red blinking safety lights do actually keep me up at night, but I might just be very sensitive to light.

I fully supported and still support the wind farm, even though I knew I wouldn't be able to host a turbine (and therefore benefit at all from these things). But, I really, really, really don't like the side effects at all.

Is that NIMBYism?
by alephnerd | 2025-10-15 12:02:01+00:00
The MNDAA is a close ally of the KIA as both are members of the Northern Alliance, and all the Northern Alliance members saw their relations with China tank after Chinese brokered talks with the Tatmadaw failed [0] last December.

As a result of that failure, all the Northern Alliance members began trying to pivot to other states or in the case of the MNDAA faced the brunt of the Chinese crackdown.

[0] - https://www.bnionline.net/en/news/juntamndaa-peace-talks-doo...
by adam_patarino | 2025-10-15 12:02:16+00:00
Nice work! I use Claude for task like this with a simple prompt. I’m not a lawyer so I’m certain my current process is risky.

I think your site needs to call out that problem more clearly. The two pains you solve for me: - saving money on a lawyer for first pass / basic contracts - Reducing risk of my current “vibe red lining”

I also think you need establish your credibility on the site. My first thought was “did some kid vibe code this? Or is this someone with an actual JD.”