MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-02 16:28:48+00:00
I have only assayed samples from the iron cap. You would not expect to find much in that part of the formation but it still came in at 1-2g/ton. There is a large area of visually striking bornite[0] that I have not yet been able to properly sample which is roughly the area you would expect the gold to concentrate. It is in the walls of a narrow, deep canyon at high elevation. The region was mined for gold/copper a century ago, so the existence is not surprising.

The location makes access extremely challenging. It requires 3 hours of hiking, assuming you are fit, and borderline technical mountaineering once you get close to the site. The lower parts of the canyon are also under tens of meters of ice most of the year, which creates a separate set of safety issues. When these mountains were prospected in the 1920s, it would have been underneath a deep permanent snow field. I've visited some of the old gold mines in the area for calibration and this deposit appears substantially larger than those.

The discovery was accidental. I was looking for a waterfall I had seen on satellite imagery in the backcountry and came across an enormous chunk of molybdenite[1] while climbing across granite scree. I made several trips to find the source of the molybdenite higher up the mountains, which I never did, but while searching for that I localized a bunch of other beautiful sulfide/oxide mineral specimens to the above canyon. It gives me a great excuse to explore parts of the mountains no one has been into before.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornite

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molybdenite
by Gud | 2025-10-02 16:29:10+00:00
My pet solution to wealth inequality is to distribute the wealth by printing shares in public and large private corporations and handing them out to the general population when the individual is born, but full control handed over gradually, from year 18-30.

Of course combined with a general education in economics.

I always thought it highly unfair and detrimental to society that some start from zero while a small number of people are handed everything to them.

Please explain to me why my idea is foolish. Because I believe it will make society flourish.
by stego-tech | 2025-10-02 16:29:22+00:00
Literally this. Studies repeatedly show this is an empty threat by the rich, because their wealth is intrinsically tied to the economy of their country of residence in most cases and therefore readily taxable while being difficult to move. This is why they bluster that they’ll leave: because they know they cannot, without forfeiting far more than they’d lose via higher taxation.

It’s empty bluster.
by mhitza | 2025-10-02 16:29:32+00:00
In an application I'm working on, I use gpt-oss-20B. In a prompt I dump in the OWASP Top 10 web vulnerabilities, and a note that it should only comment on "definitive vulnerabilities". Has been pretty effective in finding vulnerabilities in the code I write (and it's one of the poorest-rated models if you look at some comments).

Where I still need to extend this, is to introduce function calling in the flow, when "it has doubts" during reasoning, would be the right time to call out a tool that would expand the context its working with (pull in other files, etc).
by rurp | 2025-10-02 16:29:41+00:00
Wait, how many people have rents locked in from a previous era? The vast majority of rental agreements I'm aware of renew every year or so and the landlord is free to charge market rate at that point. Older generations get hit with high rent the same as Gen Z.

No argument on housing prices. It's crazy how high they are in a lot of cities relative to the median salary.
A new game "Take it Personal"
by simpaticoder | 2025-10-02 16:29:48+00:00
There is a game I invented a few years ago called "Take it Personal". The game is generally played by 2 players and the goal is for one person to say something anodyne and for the other to find a way to take offense. You can play symmetrically or designating one player as the attacker. It is a very easy game. One reliable attacker move is to find an omission (for example something they could have said that was better, but they chose the lesser, clearly to hurt your feelings). The other is to amplify and distort what the defender said into the most negative possible direction. If the defender attempts to "undermine" the attack, it becomes very easy since all criticism can be take as either gaslighting or doubling down. Plus, the emotions associated with grievance will increase the plausibility of claims that these are simply more attacks. It is not a pleasant game.

But it is instructive. I highly suggest that all people play this game at least once. It gives you a greater appreciation for when it is played in public.
by hellojesus | 2025-10-02 16:29:53+00:00
The SCA is way more fun than Ren Faires in my experience, but you typically have to play the part to experience the fun. So much so that Ren Faires seem boring to me these days.

The following info is dated to about 2004-2008:

I was fortunate enough to live in the Phoenix area, where the second largest gathering occurs in Feb, called the Estrella War (it since moved south to Florence). There are about 5k people that come out for the event, and a giant camp, marketplace, battlefield are all set up.

I spent my days fighting in giant battles, and the evenings were spent with friends and acquaintances. Nights brought parties, etc., but nothing beats falling asleep in a tent to the near-distant beating of drums and occasional bagpiper.

There are a variety of arts and sciences, crafts for children, and of course royal court proceedings. I had an absolute blast as a college student participating.

One day I hope to participate again and venture to Pennsylvania for Pennsic, the biggest which was about 16k folk when I played.

Who knows how the SCA is now; I've been out for so long with a shoulder injury. But I've considered getting back in for rapier combat which looked like a lot of fun but not nearly at the battle scale of hardsuit.
by lossolo | 2025-10-02 16:30:00+00:00
Most hybrid stacks (BM25 + dense via HNSW/IVF) still rely on embeddings as a first class signal. So in practice the vector side carries recall on paraphrase/synonymy/OOO vocab, while BM25 stabilizes precision on exact term and short doc cases. So my point still stands.

> The architecture doesn't care

The architecture does care because latency, recall shape, and failure modes differ.

I don't know of any serious RAG deployments that don't use vectors. I'm referring to large scale systems, not hobby projects or small sites.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-10-02 16:30:07+00:00
Creativity is fun. AIs automate that away. I want an AI that can do my laundry, fold it, and put it away. I don't need an AI to write code for me. I don't mind AI code review, it sometimes has a valid suggestion, and it's easy enough to ignore most of the rest of the time.
by pndy | 2025-10-02 16:30:12+00:00
It's here already - at least for the developed countries. It's both thanks to this multitool used to handle the surgery - destroying, removing natural lens and replacing it with an implant, and technology that allowed creating customized intraocular lenses pretty fast.

My mother had her eyes done 2 years ago with one month break between. I did set timer on second surgery and it was just 20 minutes once she was inside. The only thing we had to care about were drops administered 4 times a day before and after the procedure - for once multiple alarms on my phone were useful. And of course control visit with dressing removal that happens for every patient on second day.

In my city a duet of two doctors runs an ophthalmology clinic and seems they have some good contracts with health services because they're always busy and have shorter waiting lists than clinic at our local hospital. Both women handle a queue of about 20 people and each weekday is dedicated to a different issues, with serious surgeries reserved for weekends.

I ask one of doctors if failed cataract surgeries happen because I was concerned before the first time my mum had it. She said that these are extremely rare but if a patient needs another it happens again pretty fast. The issue might be with lens that moved inside due to e.g. patient activity shortly after the procedure.

I do remember some short documentary about probably an Indian surgeon who treated eyes of North Korean elderly people. He also visited other places around the world as sort of personal goal to give new eye care technology in places where is needed but socio-economic conditions do not allow it. I'll try to find that unless someone happen to know that man's name.
by bayarearefugee | 2025-10-02 16:30:23+00:00
> In this case, "bad things happening" is an exodus of the ultra wealthy, which is not so simple to reverse.

Speaking as an American who lives in California (so not directly relevant to the article in question, but 'wealth exodus' is often brought up to scare people about wealth taxes here as well):

Fucking Good. Bye Felicia. Hope they all move to Florida and/or Texas. We'll still be absolute fine here without them.

But also institute land value taxes so they can't be here while pretending to not be here
by gred | 2025-10-02 16:30:32+00:00
See sibling comment. Seguimos siendo un país de gitanos que no se ha adaptado a las necesidades infraestructurales, organizacionales, legales o sociales de las renovables. I'm bullish on solar in the long-term, but I expect further problems here (including outages) in the short- to mid-term. I'd love to be wrong on this, though.

BTW, with a name like "lentil_soup" how could you not live in Spain? ;-)
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-10-02 16:31:36+00:00
Yeah that's not bad looking at all. What happened to UI styling and the theming engine in 8 was a travesty. It was so ugly and because the theming engine had been gutted, the user couldn't even fix it with third party visual styles.

That's maybe 11's single saving grace: it course corrected and Fluent actually looks pretty good. If only the rest weren't awful.
by anovikov | 2025-10-02 16:31:39+00:00
To legalise overtime for the few highly qualified employees that are worth it. Now it's just illegal to ask them to work more.

And public sentiment is deeply irrational as always. Like in the US, why do people continuously battle over non-issues like abortion, guns, global warming or transgender rights, but no one seems to have ever protested over the very real, and fixable, issue of gerrymandering?
by ramesh31 | 2025-10-02 16:31:48+00:00
>Whether or not there are leaders to oppose them varies. Or do we have to wait until the only opposition option is open war?

No one in this country has the ability to care about anything at all anymore that isn't directly necessary for survival unless you're a millionaire (and we all know which side they're on). The result is that it makes the individually rational choice to keep your head down and just deal with it. We are at the brink, and there is just no other option than to watch in horror and pray you aren't affected.
by abeppu | 2025-10-02 16:32:05+00:00
I don't think the spending story alone is helpful because it doesn't acknowledge where there's room for actual improvement. Of the $1.5T spent on "Hospital Care", if almost all of it went to medical staff, facilities, equipment etc, and if good data suggested that people aren't in hospital unnecessarily, maybe that number isn't a problem. But if private hospitals have very fat margins, and some significant share of patients could be served just as well through less expensive clinical services, maybe that's too much.

In the context of the cost of medication, the $449B on "prescription drugs" doesn't break out what goes to drug makers vs PBMs or anyone else. We can easily imagine a world without PBMs that still delivers drugs to patients, but someone has to actually make the drugs. We can also ask, are people on medications they don't actually need? Are we sometimes _causing_ later health issues when medicating (e.g. fueling a giant opioid crisis)? None of this is apparent in the top-line spending figures.
by Analemma_ | 2025-10-02 16:32:05+00:00
The objection was never the hegemony of a specific ideology: private evangelical universities like Liberty, Bob Jones, etc. have had much stricter demands on ideological conformity for much longer, and nobody raised a peep. The problem was always that it wasn't their ideology being promoted; anyone who thought otherwise and that their complaints about groupthink or whatever were genuine was a useful idiot for the regime.
by tdb7893 | 2025-10-02 16:32:13+00:00
I think framing this stuff as even a protection of conservative views is going to miss the point. They seem to want a hiring preference for conservative views and seem to want to punish non-conservative organizations at universities (e.g. LGBT organizations or views). This won't be the end to this push, it's just another step in a longer context.

Edit: with NSPM-7 you can sorta see the angle they are likely to push. With a lot of the oppositional views to the government being labelled as promoting terrorism and violence.
by mac3n | 2025-10-02 16:32:21+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cataract_surgery

> Cataract surgery was first mentioned in the Babylonian code of Hammurabi 1750 BCE.[13] The earliest known depiction of cataract surgery is on a statue from the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt (2467–2457 BCE).[
by 1-more | 2025-10-02 16:32:21+00:00
This sounds a bit like the Sunrise Hospital Emergency Room treating patients from the Mandalay Bay shooting in 2017

> I said, “Bring all your patients together.” They brought them all towards me, and I was at the head of multiple beds, spiraling out like flower petals around its center. We pushed drugs on all of them, and they all got intubated, transfused, chest tubed, and then shuffled to Station 1.

> the respiratory therapist, said, “Menes, we don’t have any more ventilators.” I said, “It’s fine,” and requested some Y tubing. Dr. Greg Neyman, a resident a year ahead of me in residency, had done a study on the use of ventilators in a mass casualty situation. What he came up with was that if you have two people who are roughly the same size and tidal volume, you can just double the tidal volume and stick them on Y tubing on one ventilator.

Groovy in an emergency scenario, but I, a humble non-doctor, like the idea of fewer compromises of sterility as the de rigueur way of doing things for non emergency surgeries.

https://epmonthly.com/article/not-heroes-wear-capes-one-las-...
Show HN: IndieDevs 2.0 – Developer community and Portfolio Builder
by emanueledpt | 2025-10-02 16:32:31+00:00
Hi HN, 3 months ago I built indiedevs.me as a simple way for developers to showcase projects, track engagement, and claim a personal portfolio page (like indiedevs.me/username). It grew from a side project into something 90+ devs started using to posting their projects, getting seen, and engage with others.

Why I built it: existing “link-in-bio” tools felt generic. I wanted something developer-first: project showcases, visit counts, click metrics, a project feed and a place where developers are discoverable based on skills. Basically, a lightweight hub where devs could share what they’re building and see real feedback.

What’s new in 2.0 This update goes beyond portfolios into more of a developer community. Highlights: * Skills & discovery – Add structured skills (TypeScript, React, Python, etc.) so employers/collaborators can find you * Feed redesign – better project discovery and search * CV integration – upload/manage your resume alongside your profile * Email & repo showcase – integrated communication + cleaner GitHub project display * Analytics improvements – clearer profile performance * Golden badge system – recognition for early adopters * (Soon) profile backgrounds – light customization

Where it’s heading Next up: * Project upvoting * Follow/following dynamics between developers * Simple posts to share updates The long-term vision is to build “the next indie developer community” – part portfolio, part social layer, designed for devs who want to showcase, connect, and collaborate without drowning in noise.

Would love feedback from HN: * Is this something you’d actually use as a dev? * What features matter most for you in a developer-focused community? https://indiedevs.me
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-02 16:33:10+00:00
What you're missing on the spreadsheet is that the amount you're paying for the subscription is only a fraction of what they can get for your data.

Just think of what your insurance company would be willing to pay, for instance.

If there's anything I don't understand here, it's why they are bothering to bill the end users at all.
by carlosjobim | 2025-10-02 16:33:10+00:00
> The visual style is slightly dated feeling but it wouldn't take a whole lot of work to fix that.

This was fixed in 2010, about 15 years ago. And it's still the nicest looking UI of any desktop OS to this date:

https://www.deviantart.com/zainadeel/art/Shine-2-0-for-Windo...

It's what "liquid glass" wishes to be.
by emanueledpt | 2025-10-02 16:33:46+00:00
Btw I’m Emanuele, a 21-year-old indie developer from Italy. I built IndieDevs because I wanted a developer-first profile: projects, skills, and real signals (clicks/visits) instead of a generic link page. Feedback welcome—especially on for metrics, landing page, which discovery filters actually matter (skills/stack/location/seniority), and whether upvotes/follows/posts add signal or just bloat.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-02 16:33:47+00:00
I don't take issue with the fact that he's naive or that his ignorance of corporate dysfunction has been shattered. You don't know what you don't know until you do.

What I take serious issue with is that there's a whole ecosystem of not identical but comparable dysfunction in academia and yet he didn't spot it or is ignoring it. That to me is indicative of bigger problems.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-02 16:34:12+00:00
What the MEPs in SEDE mean by spyware in this case is exploit and root kits being deployed by member states Interior/Home Affairs ministries and targeted at MEPs - not "mass surveillance" (which SEDE is largely indifferent about).

Spyware in EP parlance means rootkits and zero-day exploits.

This is largely a result of Predator which was co-developed in Czechia and Israel.
by bregma | 2025-10-02 16:34:24+00:00
I swear there would be nothing but heaps of smoking machinery and mangled human limbs and entrails in the operating theatre in my wake and they'd find me cowering in some far corner of the building curled up in a foetal position.

I can't even tolerate a glaucoma test and cut the optometrist off mid-sentence when he starts to suggests it.

But that's me. I think my wife would do her own eye surgery with just a mirror and some kitchen knives. Ugh, I wish I hadn't thought of that. Excuse me while I go try to stop the panic.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-02 16:35:14+00:00
Believing something is a benefit and something actually benefiting you are a different thing.

You can believe anything. You can believe the Earth is flat, I don't care.

> How arrogant. It's not up to you to decide what improves people's lives.

You're right, it's not up to me. Its up to reality.

Things getting worse for other people don't improve your life. That's not an opinion. That's not something I made up.

That's just how the world works.

Also, sympathetic? Really?

You want me to be sympathetic of you being not sympathetic? How short sighted and downright delusional do you have to be to not see the contraction in that?

Obviously a lack of sympathy isn't a position that deserves sympathy. Otherwise, what the fuck are we doing here?
by jtrn | 2025-10-02 16:35:15+00:00
The other licensing shoe is going to drop. And when it does, it will be same as always. Important features will be cut of from “community” edition, like admin for minio, and pricing will be predatory for full product, like Taipy. Seriously, screw Taipy. Got quoted 200k for an open license if I wanted to self host it, with no limit on number users.
by righthand | 2025-10-02 16:35:28+00:00
> and have a stable environment

For example, having a good supportive community with after school programs or other youth outreach programs.

I was dining and eavesdropping a conversation at a table in a restaurant. It was a mother and 8 year old daughter talking about her future. They were talking about a career path to being a doctor, SAT scores and how she is studying right now for the SAT and other tests and the extra-curricular that would be required (whether the child naturally wanted this path is unknown). The mother remarked on another conversation with her daughter’s friend; that she did not ask the daughter’s friend about the career prospects, because she wasn’t sure if the friend had any. She didn’t want to have an awkward conversation. Notice that the supportive environment doesn’t extend to the daughter’s friend in any manner.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-02 16:36:16+00:00
>This seems to speak against the existence of a cap.

The "cap" is not a national policy, it's incentivized by the anticipated performance of the student body, which varies greatly based on the home life of the students.

>grades have little correlation with performance

>Citation needed.

>This claim is different from the claim of grade inflation.

I do not understand how this is different from grade inflation. From my searches, and my experience having graduated in the early 2000s, keeping kids moving along and graduating is the goal, as opposed to evaluating their aptitude. Extra credit, dropped grades, make up work, etc.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/investigators-thousands-grades-ch...

What could possibly be the reason for this change in North Carolina?

https://www.wect.com/2025/09/13/nc-students-can-no-longer-fa...

>That's obviously a problem, but it would seem the obvious solution to unfunded mandates is to, you know, fund the mandates.

We all know this isn't going to happen. I would even go so far as to say that was the goal when passing laws such as IDEA 2004 and not providing funding. It's not irony below, it is doublespeak when they knew what the outcome of requiring something without providing the requisite funding would do.

>There's some irony here, though, because The Economist says, "The trend towards weakening standards can be blamed in part on No Child Left Behind, an education-reform law passed in 2002," but that was the policy of Republican George W. Bush (who actually introduced the phrase "the soft bigotry of low expecations").
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-02 16:36:25+00:00
Also in agreement, I miss the old days.

I still find that environment somewhat over on the ops side of things (I'm a sysadmin, technically) as corporate IT is still the red-headed step child so I get left alone for the most part but its still pretty rough.

We aren't immune over in ops land though either. Still getting newbies that are in it only for the money and I've worked with people who actively hated computers and didn't enjoy the work at all, only the paycheck.
by innagadadavida | 2025-10-02 16:36:44+00:00
The article is not making a proper distinction of scale and is probably due to the small scale problem that they solved. What is small scale and <10K documents / files can be easily processed with grep, find etc. For something at larger scale >1M documents etc. you will need to use search engine technology. You can definitely do the same agent approach for the large scale problem - we essentially need search, look at the results and issue follow up queries to get documents of interest. All that said, for the types of problem the OP is solving, it might just be better to create a project in Claude/ChatGPT and throw in the files there and get done with it. That approach has been working for over 2 years now and is nothing new.