MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Panzerschrek | 2025-10-07 06:25:57+00:00
It's too constrained to statically-analyze the whole program to determine required stack size. You can't have calls via function pointers (even virtual calls), can't call thirdparty code without sources available, can't call any code from a shared library (since analyzing it is impossible). This may work only in very constrained environments, like in embedded world.
by mr_mitm | 2025-10-07 06:26:37+00:00
I'm currently trying to set one up. What do I have to put in there so the OOBE is skipped, or at least skip the online account part? My goal is to install a Windows 11 in a VM with zero user interaction.

Edit: Actually, currently the whole thing is failing after the second reboot for other reasons. I get an error that says there is some malformed command in the unattend.xml or something. Couldn't fully debug it yet - it's possible the setup succeeds after I figure this one out.
by ggm | 2025-10-07 06:27:09+00:00
Please don't project lithium shortages as a compelling story. Firstly, unmined resources are large. Secondly battery technology is changing. Thirdly, you need to cite sources if you want to assert we can't make enough.

You ignore pumped hydro as well. Battery stacks are not the only storage.

I'm not a power engineer or any kind of engineer but I think you are repeating fright memes not actual information. I read widely and nothing I read suggests we face any lack of capacity to install battery storage, or pumped hydro.
by alex7o | 2025-10-07 06:27:22+00:00
Just wait for it, from what I know Sony uses clang for it toolchain, don't know about the others so if enough studios start to switch they will start to offer the tools.

Side note: I have been using msvc in wine for almost 5 years now, so if that works I don't know why the Sony/Nintendo/Xbox toolchain wouldn't.

Have you tried the intellij IDEs? I thought that they were pretty similar in terms of experience, although I have used them for java/dotnet primarily.
by mythz | 2025-10-07 06:27:27+00:00
I left Visual Studio for Rider long before I gave up Windows, IMO it's far superior to VS for everything other than GUI Apps or Blazor hot reloading (which is basically broken in both).

JetBrains seem to have the best IDE for every language I've tried: Rider / IntelliJ / Android Studio / PyCharm / PhpStorm / RubyMine. Never tried CLion though, but given they all share the same base I'd thought it would be of a equally high standard?
by naveen99 | 2025-10-07 06:27:35+00:00
Red shift appears mostly very far away… where the empty space is not resolved so much… hydrogen in infinite time universe is easy to form with radioactive decay, and other processes that produce hydrogen and helium from larger elements and supernovae, the only real bang in the sky. If anything , 14B years is not enough to combine carbon, oxygen, gold, uranium on earth from different classes of supernova .
Show HN: GroundCite-An open-source package to fix broken Gemini API citations
by anshulee25 | 2025-10-07 06:28:24+00:00
Hi HN, We're excited to share GroundCite, an open-source, Gemini-based multi-agent library designed to solve one of the biggest headaches in using powerful LLMs for reliable, grounded research: invalid, irrelevant, or broken citations. The Problem While Google Gemini's grounding feature is powerful, relying on it for high-stakes, trustworthy content often results in sources that are: 1. Irrelevant: The source doesn't actually support the claim. 2. Unreliable: The model cites a site you know to be low-quality or out of date. 3. Broken/Invalid: The URL is dead or the cited snippet is missing. This fundamentally undermines the research integrity of LLM outputs. Our Solution: GroundCite GroundCite acts as a smart layer around the core Gemini model to enforce accuracy and provide developers with granular control over the grounding process. It utilizes a multi-agent architecture to validate and filter sources before the final answer is generated, turning Gemini into a much more reliable research assistant. Key Features: • Source Filtering & Control: You can explicitly define a list of trusted sites for the model to use, or, critically, exclude unreliable sources (like forums or outdated wikis) from the grounding pool. • Active Citation Validation: The library validates the generated source URLs and confirms that the content within them actually supports the model's claim. • Enhanced Reliability: By forcing smarter, controlled grounding and citation practices, GroundCite significantly boosts the trustworthiness and accuracy of the output. We built this out of necessity and decided to open-source it for the wider community struggling with reliable AI research. Links • Playground / Demo: See the difference controlled grounding makes and try it before integrating: https://groundcite.cennest.com/ • GitHub Repository: We welcome stars, issues, and contributions! https://github.com/cennest/ground-cite • Technical Articles / Full Story: https://www.cennest.com/category/groundcite/ We are looking for feedback on the multi-agent architecture, potential use cases, and how we can best extend this to support other LLMs and grounding services. Thanks!
by andai | 2025-10-07 06:28:34+00:00
Also, if the name had been two words, it would need to be quoted, right?

e.g. this wouldn't work either?

font-family: Times New Roman;

Edit: Well this and just "times" does work fine, which makes me wonder if it's been special cased due to being an older font, or if the matching is very permissive.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-07 06:28:37+00:00
Paper: https://iris.cnr.it/retrieve/3c9394c7-a04f-431a-976d-cdc65af...

> China launched 21 of the 26 hazardous new rocket bodies over the last 21 months, each averaging more than 4 metric tons (8,800 pounds). Two more came from US launchers, one from Russia, one from India, and one from Iran

What are the American ones?

> most of the rockets used for Guowang and Thousand Sails launches have left their upper stages in orbit

Are they in the same orbit as the satellites? If so, China is effectively mining their own constellations.

(Side note: Ars is usually much better at citing its sources. This is terribly written by their standards.)
by potamic | 2025-10-07 06:29:36+00:00
It's sad that such a thing needs regulation in the first place. In real life if a salesman is being inconsiderate, I'll go out of my way to avoid their sales and find someone else who is better mannered. But we don't seem to apply the same measure to ads. Ads can be brash, insulting and manipulative, and yet that doesn't seem to cause a negative outcome for them. Rather it appears such ads work better and now that's what everyone's pushing towards. Human psychology is such a weird thing.
by orangeboats | 2025-10-07 06:30:14+00:00
Yes, but currently the decompressors we use (so things like zstd, zlib, 7z) come from a mostly-verifiable source -- either you downloaded it straight from the official site, or you got it from your distro repo.

However, we are talking about an arbitrary decompressor here. The decompressor WASM is sandboxed from the outside world and it can't wreak havoc on your system, true, but nothing stops it from producing a malicious uncompressed file from a known good compressed file.
by Tor3 | 2025-10-07 06:30:24+00:00
Yes, that the comments disappeared was terrible. Some comment would have early and precious information in some cases, e.g. the existence of a direct precursor (not part of the list of 'seasons'), and tons of other information, not just comments about characters in the show or whatever. And reviews don't have comments either, I miss those. Would have saved wasted time.
by mft_ | 2025-10-07 06:31:28+00:00
I’d love to be able to move to Linux as Microsoft continue to find yet more ways to enshittify, but sadly there are some software areas that just aren’t ready yet.

* Professional MS Office / Sharepoint use - if you need the installed apps, there’s just no alternative. Amusingly MS have helped the Linux migration with their browser alternative/lite versions, but IMO they’re only suitable for smaller and less involved documents.

* CAD - aside from Freecad (def. not for me) most top established CAD packages are Windows-only (with a subset also working on Mac).

* Desktop publishing - there’s nothing I’ve found to rival even old PagePlus, let alone InDesign or QuarkXpress. (I may give Scribus another try at some stage; I auditioned it as a possibility for an elderly relative a while ago and it was no-go then.)
by ItsBob | 2025-10-07 06:32:51+00:00
I was using Win 11 for a year or so until recently but I'd had enough. It was laggy and I was scared to download updates as they break things way too often.

I understand the complexity with the Windows codebase... it's fkn massive! However, to be able to push out a Windows update and break something literally every single time is something for the history books!

Anyway, I need Windows for some of my software, like my VST's (Roland Earth Piano, XLN Audio) so Linux isn't an option unless there is something I'm missing!

I use Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC with the Massgrave activation... that's me until I retire hopefully. I'd encourage everyone to do the same.
by ehnto | 2025-10-07 06:33:19+00:00
A brand is built on sentiment. That's the upside. You are witnessing exactly why it's important here, as people tell you why they're going to stop being customers. I don't watch anime so have no skin in this game, but this is a classic tale at this point.

A company gets successful off the back of community engagement and builds great shared sentiment with its customers. They get bought, the incoming board members start cutting costs, accidentally cutting the artery they didn't realise fed the heart of the brand.

The company loses an edge the board didn't realise it had, and people slowly lose that connection, which allows them to painlessly jump ship to the next company with the same catalog but better sentiment brand.
by globular-toast | 2025-10-07 06:33:46+00:00
I did it 15 years ago and never looked back. Vista was enough to give me the nudge. On the occasion I've had to use Windoze over the years I've laughed harder and harder each time. It's hard to explain to people who only know Windoze, but it's just really nice to use software made by people who don't hate you.
by tifik | 2025-10-07 06:34:46+00:00
I was reseaching kirigami yesterday for a DYI project, and it was the first time I heard about kirigami, and of course I stumbled upon the parachute application. And now its on the front page of HN?

To whoever is running the simulation: This is a bit on the nose. And don't even try to Baader-Meinhof me.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-07 06:34:52+00:00
The bottom line is that BLS statistics, backed up by Federal Reserve studies, show that the median American household has >$1,000 per month in excess income after all ordinary expenses without regard for the necessity of the expenses in the “ordinary” category. In Federal Reserve studies that probed this more deeply, the truly “paycheck to paycheck” population in the sense that most people understand it was 10-15% of the population. That is still a substantial number of households but far below the misleading 69% figure thrown about.

Americans are flush with income at the median and spend it on unnecessary luxury goods, as is their right. There really isn’t a way to argue around this fact.

The households that are paycheck to paycheck outside their own choice is much, much smaller. Including well-off households in the same category does a disservice to poorer households.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-10-07 06:35:07+00:00
> of course they are relevant and are built on tech transfer.

The small amount of technology transfer that happened in 2011 for internal combustion engines is not relevant to the EV industry in 2025. It wasn't even enough back then to make China competitive in internal combustion engines.

> Again, this was illegal then and China was taken to the WTO in 2018

No, technology transfer is not blanket banned by the WTO. It's actually encouraged for developing countries.

> Again, see the WTO case WT/DS549 China — Certain Measures on the Transfer of Technology

I don't think the WTO has ruled on that complaint.

> Sure, which EV or batteries before 2022?

The US faced virtually no competition for EV vehicles from China before 2022. The protectionist measures came up as soon as the competition appeared.

> Again, "ACTIVE" patents. Patents last just 20 years

You're really going to claim that China does not lead in current-day research? You're reaching back to decades ago, when that wasn't the case, to dismiss the massive Chinese R&D on batteries today.

> China's "local price" or "cost of manufacture" is not considered a "normal value" as their entire supply-chain is distorted by gov't subsidies.

Government subsidies are fairly small, and are paid to the consumer (not the producer), so they don't affect the cost of exported goods. Chinese companies are selling EVs in Europe at far, far higher prices than in China.

As I said, some EU countries are afraid of legitimate competition in EVs, because their own EV industry is hopelessly backwards. They're raising protectionist barriers, and coming up with a fig leaf to justify it.
by Jare | 2025-10-07 06:35:26+00:00
I recently bought a big new desktop and before putting Windows 11 on it I decided to check out Linux (Mint, can't even remember why that one). The experience was amazing, everything worked out of the box and every Windows game I tried ran perfectly thanks to Steam's Proton.

I still went ahead and reinstalled Windows 11 on it. Suffice to say if I knew what it was going to be like, I'd have stayed on Linux.

I've been a windows user at home and professionally since 2.0 (as a bit of a toy) and 3.0+, never felt comfortable on macos, etc, so as close to a fanboy as it gets. But the love story is over.
by baq | 2025-10-07 06:35:59+00:00
I’m willing to bet it’s about the hardware. Windows laptops almost all universally suck in at least a few areas: display, touchpad and wake from sleep at the most inconvenient times. Give me a MacBook which natively boots Windows and I’ll use it, if only because it has WSL2. If it boots Linux, even better. (Naturally, those three usually broken things must work on either.)
by timr | 2025-10-07 06:36:43+00:00
Indeed. This is why the drug passed phase 1 (safety) trials when it was first approved in 1992 for treatment of prostate enlargement. Moreover, it subsequently passed additional rounds of clinical trials for the hair loss indication in 1998, and has been involved in more than 30 different clinical trials overall.

Now, I'm not going to argue that there can't be rare side effects that are only discovered with time. I'm also not going to claim that the original trials were perfect, or that research into the question isn't justified. But you're trying to assert that they didn't test for safety, and that's just factually incorrect.
by flohofwoe | 2025-10-07 06:37:17+00:00
> russia had a deal for nato not to get close to its borders

This deal doesn't exist, at least anywhere on paper. There is an obligation related to the reunification of Germany that no NATO troops are stationed on the territory of former East Germany which has been honored by the reunited Germany.

Countries are also not forced into NATO, they ask to join.

> USSR, and Russia asked to get in NATO a few times and got pretty rude responses “no way”.

As far as I have read, Russia wanted to 'skip the queue' ahead of smaller countries. When this special treatment was denied, Russia suddenly didn't want to join anymore.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-07 06:38:24+00:00
The thing is, Microsoft did plenty of user-hostile stuff back then. Games for Windows Live with its weird DRM and making games unplayable after shutting down, for instance. And the push for using all kinds of "Live" services. Something called a .NET Passport also comes to mind during the mid-XP days. .NET framework applications had their own special kinds of installers, Microsoft Silverlight thrived for a short moment, and the introduction of their (initially mediocre) antivirus program also wasn't well-received by the industry.

They just never shoveled their crap into the OS itself. It was always recommended addons, recommended freebies, and recommended optional features that came along with other products.

When MS started unifying everything into Just Windows, all of the crap they pulled with separate software packages merged into one digital blob, Windows 8/8.1/10/11.

With Windows 8, I can at least appreciate the attempt to unify things so they are easier to use for consumers (if only they hadn't bunged up Windows Phone, repeatedly). I wonder what Windows would be like if they hadn't tried to the Windows 8 experiment.
by timr | 2025-10-07 06:38:35+00:00
It isn't a review article, though the difference is more subtle, because a review article is also editorial in nature.

The difference here is that this article is someone with an axe to grind (again, see the "dedication", which is never done in a legitimate review; and the clownish application of statistics, which is so completely absurd that it implies incompetence, malice or both). I have no faith that this writer made a legitimate attempt to impartially weigh the evidence on this question.
by aborsy | 2025-10-07 06:38:49+00:00
What are good static site generators (SSGs) to create a simple minimalist academic-like website?

It seems Astro or Hugo (potentially with Tailwind to customize CSS) are good options. Astro felt more complex than needed, on the other hand, writing html/css manually doesn’t work well either (predefined layouts and easy to use style customization options would be needed). I couldn’t find a suitable Astro theme either (most themes seem to be made for companies, or needlessly fancy, and a few for individual blogs).

In the process of figuring this out, I was surprised how complicated designing a website has become. There are so many frameworks, components, integrations and significant dependancies that I wondered how web developers keep up in this ecosystem.
by Tor3 | 2025-10-07 06:39:01+00:00
The problem is that '.. make Crunchyroll less competitive..' isn't really happening. There is no competition. Even when there are multiple providers (say, Netflix in addition to Crunchyroll), a particular show, or even season, will be licensed to exactly one of them, in any particular region. There was a particular show where I had to juggle between CR and N for every season because CR and N couldn't both license all the seasons.

And.. it's actually better if absolutely everything is on Crunchyroll. One subscription and you're set. Or I am, at least. Having to hunt around to figure out where some particular show can be found.. subscribe there only for watching that particular one.. mostly it can't be done, in my region, and I absolutely don't want to.

Which of course also gives CR no competition, and that's the price we pay. When the quality has gone down enough, the alternative isn't moving to a competitor, it's to give up on anime altogether.

Plan B is of course to get my Japanese up to a level sufficient to be able to turn off the subs, at least any potential problem there will be gone.

I pay much less for CR than for Netflix, I would rather pay more on Crunchyroll if this could guarantee a certain quality. Netflix, on the other hand, is basically a giant waste of money for me. That I haven't cancelled yet is just lazyness.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-10-07 06:39:02+00:00
> UI scaling took a long time to get good, but it's more flexible than macOS now for pixel-perfect output on displays that aren't multiples of 1440p. (e.g. 4K)

We can't be using the same windows. At work we have 27" 5k displays which I use at 200%, so a perfect multiple of the usual 100% I use everywhere else. The screen is blurry 99% of the time. The only reliable way to get it sharp is to boot the PC with the screen attached. Of course, if I go to the toilet and the screen turns off, when I come back it's just like hot-plugging it: a blurry mess.

Apparently, updating the graphics driver also works, so I suppose it's enough to restart just that instead of the whole OS. Don't know how to do that, though. The resolution is reported as the correct one, changing scaling options doesn't help. 100% looks sharp enough, but it's unusable for me.

And I don't use any old app, it's mostly new outlook and edge. But even the start menu is blurry! There's also the fact that afterwards, tray icons' menus tend to appear in random places, but I understand that apps draw those, so I guess this isn't completely windows' fault.

My work machine dual-boots Linux, which is what I actually daily drive, and these screens have pushed me to switch to Wayland. Now there are some rough edges there, but the high-dpi is handled perfectly (same setup as windows: everything 100% except for that one screen at 200%). This is using Sway and mainly Firefox, Chromium and Alacaritty. Native GTK apps seem to work fine, too, but I don't use many of those.

edit: not sure about your mac point. I sometimes use a mac and it works at 200% on two separate 4k screens.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-07 06:39:19+00:00
There was a shift in attitude to where physicians are managing livestock instead of caring for people. It's not great when some of the livestock die, but that's what livestock does... oh well. The psychology of that shift is complicated, multiple factors that are difficult to tease out. But the bad news is that the shift is likely irreversible, it's lasted long enough that the current doctors teach it to the new incoming residents.
by adrian_b | 2025-10-07 06:39:29+00:00
This is not really modern science.

It has been known for millennia that overfeeding geese with sweet fruits is how you make "foie gras" (which is why in the Romance languages the name for liver comes from figs, replacing the original Indo-European name, which was still used in Classic Latin).

There is no surprise that the same thing happens in humans.

The liver must process all the fructose from sugar and all the alcohol that are ingested. Excessive amounts of either of them will overload the liver capacity of processing them, which also varies between humans.
by chaostheory | 2025-10-07 06:39:54+00:00
Because gain of function research is dangerous. It’s also what likely turned Covid into a pandemic.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S07554...

https://www.newsweek.com/controversial-wuhan-lab-experiments...

https://www.newsweek.com/covid-lab-leak-china-virus-nuclear-...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/10/covid-origins-invest...

https://www.propublica.org/article/senate-report-covid-19-or...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.202000...
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-10-07 06:40:04+00:00
There is no audience for someone like that anymore, at least not enough to make that you’re primary work.

Chomsky famously said for decades: “The average teenager would rather be at the mall than at the library”

In the wise words of the dude:

How are you going to keep her on the ranch after she’s seen ‘logjammin’

It’s an interesting conundrum though because I’d argue most of the kind of people that watched “firing line” read “the nation” and watched the PBS newshour just don’t exist at numbers that make them viable anymore
by mythz | 2025-10-07 06:40:13+00:00
> C# isn't going to be much use to me on Linux.

FYI I'm a C# dev and .NET works flawlessly on Linux (Fedora). Since I only used Rider/VS Code for my .NET Apps on Windows it works as just as good on Linux, albeit even better given access to better command-line tooling.

I don't run any legacy .NET Framework Apps on Linux (which require Mono) but I'm still able to build our software for all our supported platforms: .NET Framework v4.7.2, .NET Standard 2.0, .NET 6.0, .NET 8.0 both locally and on our Ubuntu GitHub Actions Runner.