MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mtillman | 2025-10-12 15:04:07+00:00
I was just thinking about this movie on Friday while at a concert. Lorna Shore, awesome show. Anyways, the person in front of me was watching an overweight person (purpose of the niche I suspect which is why I mention it) do their daily chore routine (laundry, cleaning, etc) on tiktok. After the video was finished, my fellow concert attendee quickly went to Amazon and purchased the iron in the video. No links clicked, just serious chore fomo leading to a purchase. All while standing 3 feet from a circle pit/wall of death/etc while Lorna Shore was playing 20 ft from their face.
by traceroute66 | 2025-10-12 15:04:09+00:00
> What's going on here?

Perhaps its a reflection of how hard it is to get the medical community to take Long COVID seriously ?

I would say there is more chance of them (sadly) telling you to go home, take a couple of paracetamol and get some rest. Or if you're lucky, they might mis-diagnose you with something else....

(No first-hand experience here, just going by one or two anecdotal stories I've heard on the grapevine)
by immibis | 2025-10-12 15:04:34+00:00
At some point, all financial instruments look bad, but non-financial markets remain: it's possible to go out and buy goods and services, and it's possible this leads to a better end result than holding financial instruments as long as possible.

Even when the market isn't bad, it's still a good idea to consider your balance between financial and non-financial assets. The whole point of holding financial assets is to eventually maximize your non-financial assets, after all.
by lexicality | 2025-10-12 15:04:39+00:00
> I'm not a Windows developer, you'll have to excuse my ignorance on that. Pretty sure you're not shipping user32.dll with your applications though.

Microsoft's famously terrifyingly large amount of engineering work that goes into maintaining backwards compatibility to allow you to run Windows 3.1 software on Windows 11 is certainly impressive, but maybe also is the exception that proves the rule.

> Just being unable to solve a problem perfectly doesn't mean you should give up without trying.

Currently no one can solve that problem at all, let alone imperfectly. If you can, I'd gladly sponsor your project, since it would make my life a lot easier.
by josario | 2025-10-12 15:05:15+00:00
Hi!

I’m a software developer and an amateur photographer. Last year I bought a Fujifilm X-T5 and started shooting SOOC JPEGs, but I’ve always found it difficult to understand what settings other people use or to edit photos quickly while traveling.

So, in my free time, I decided to build something that could be useful both for me and others.

That’s how I created photo.recipes — a collection of small, fast, browser-based tools designed to help photographers analyze and tweak their images on the go. It’s completely free to use, with no ads or tracking — I built it simply because I wanted it to exist.

Some of the tools:

Analyzer – extracts EXIF data and shows the in-camera settings used, so you can replicate them.

Presets – finds the most similar Fujifilm film simulation for a given photo.

https://photo.recipes/recipes – apply film recipes directly to your images.

https://photo.recipes/frame – add clean frames before sharing online.

https://photo.recipes/tags – suggests relevant hashtags for social media.

I also made a PWA at https://pwa.photo.recipes so it's easier to use on the phone.

I’ve shared it with a few photographer friends and got great feedback, so I wanted to share it here too. I built the first version in about a month and I’m adding new features weekly — like a growing database of lenses or the PWA.

Would love to hear your feedback, ideas, or critiques — especially from people who care about both photography and tools that “just work.”

Thanks :)
by bawolff | 2025-10-12 15:07:27+00:00
If xhtml really took off, there would just be server side linting/html tidy. Its not that hard a problem to solve. Lots of websites already do this for user generated html, because even if an unclosed div doesnt take down the whole thing its still ugly.

The real problem is the benefits of xhtml are largely imaginary so there isn't really a motivation to do that work.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-10-12 15:07:32+00:00
He mananged to convince the most powerful country on earth to vote for international cooperation rather than a guy who sang a parody song with the lyrics "bomb Iran". Obama notably worked out a denuclearization deal with them so there's that.

It's okay if a non-voting member of the Nobel org 'regrets' other peoples' decision because Obama didn't immediately withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan and pardon Bin Laden. Maybe he can take some solace in the fact that he let Putin take Crimea and shoot down MH17, trading peace in 2014 for war in 2022.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-12 15:08:58+00:00
Yes but something like signal or f-droid just works. I get it. Some open source might be inferior to others because of lack of donation etc. but that doesn't mean that we should basket all of open source because of it.

I think that we should expose more people to the idea of open source through something easier/practical like signal/f-droid/flatpak as I had mentioned in the comment.

Yes it was a little overwhelming in the start for me as well but its soo worth it imo. You feel comfortable with technology of sorts once you go all in, knowing you can always change things to your liking and you have the uttermost freedom, that is truly... liberating.

The true freedom in this day and age. I always appreciated the idea of freedom, the freedom of doing a job that you might like (financial freedom) etc..
by cjbarber | 2025-10-12 15:09:20+00:00
People care about what they already care about / already want.

Most people don't care about open source for its own sake.

Find the things they already care about where open source gives them more of what they already want, with less effort.

Don't try and convince them to care about it, just find things they already care about where the open source version is genuinely better (from their perspective, not yours). Promote it on the merits they already care about (speed, cost, UX), not on the fact that it's open source (only people who already care about open source care about that).
by bawolff | 2025-10-12 15:11:15+00:00
> XHTML. Have you ever read the parsing rules for HTML 5, where the semantics for bad HTML were formalized?

I actually have, and its not that bad.

If anything, the worst part is foreign content (svg, mathml) which have different rules more similar to xml but also not the same as xml.

Just as an aside, browsers still support xhtml, just serve with application/xhtml+xml mime type, and it all works including aggressive error checking. This is very much a situation where consumers are voting with their feet not browser vendors forcing a choice.
by technothrasher | 2025-10-12 15:12:57+00:00
My new Audi lets me turn off telemetry (at least it claims it does), but it complains every single time I turn the car on and makes me confirm two "no, I don't want to turn it back on" dialogs each time. It will also sometimes (I haven't figure out a pattern) tell my phone to auto-load the Audi app when I get in the car, for no useful reason, and then the app complains that it can't get the data it wants because I turned the data off. It's exceedingly obnoxious.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-10-12 15:13:28+00:00
My assumption is that the HN audience is not perfectly gaussian distribution of the population but probably not extremely far from it.

So can someone who owns a modern car please help me understand why you would buy a car that has the mere capability to be remotely shut off?

A vehicle is a personal safety device, that allows for independent travel away from bad things and towards safe things. That is one of the most critical aspects of a vehicle.

Assuming that one of the most critical times you might need a vehicle is fleeing oppression, having a remote switch off as a possible vector to impede your escape is an existential threat and basically makes one of the core reasons to have a vehicle moot.

My assumption is that most people are not thinking about their vehicle as one of the most critical tools for freedom.

Having traveled the world and lived in war zones, vehicles are life savers and it’s insane to me that anyone would allow a possibility for someone else, specifically corporations and governments with major power levers, to even have the ability to stop that remotely.
by SquareWheel | 2025-10-12 15:13:59+00:00
I'm not sure what to tell you. I'm a professional with nearly two decades of experience in this industry, and I don't read any white papers. I read web publications like Smashing Magazine or CSS Tricks, and more specifically authors like Paul Irish, Jake Archibald, Josh Comeau, and Roman Komarov. Developers who talk about the latest features and standards, and best practices to adopt.

The view that professionals in this industry exclusively participate in academic circles runs counter to my experience. Unless you're following the latest AI buzz, most people are not spending their time on arXiv.

The PSL is surely an imperfect solution, but it's solving a problem for the moment. Ideally a more permanent DNS-based solution would be implemented to replace it. Though some system akin to SSL certificates would be necessary to provide an element of third-party trust, as bad actors could otherwise abuse it to segment malicious activity on their own domains.

If you're opposed to Safe Browsing as a whole, both Chromium and Firefox allow you to disable that feature. However, making it an opt-in would essentially turn off an important security feature for billions of users. This would result in a far greater influx of phishing attacks and the spread of malware. I can understand being opposed to such a filter from an idealistic perspective, but practically speaking, it would do far more harm than good.
by jancsika | 2025-10-12 15:14:09+00:00
> Couldn’t it be the other way round, that changes in health caused by other external factors erroneously get blamed on COVID?

It is possible, but not to the degree that all long Covid cases are being confused with external factors.

> Menopause can cause brain fog

Additionally, long Covid can cause brain fog. This was shown in brain scans from a popular HN post about a research paper just yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45539845

Those patients were 20-59 and had "no previous history of neuropsychiatric disorders."
by tene80i | 2025-10-12 15:14:42+00:00
This is a great question but let’s reverse it: why should they care?

I don’t mean they shouldn’t, but you have to start there.

Consider the things people care about: friends, family, finances, their career, health, hobbies, their local amenities, the avoidance of hassle and, for some, living according to a set of ideals.

Why should they care? What does open source give you?
by stephen | 2025-10-12 15:14:44+00:00
Oh hello! Very happy to hear from you, and even happier to be wrong about your "AWOL-ness" (since I want to ship postgres.js to prod). :-)

My assumption was just from, afaict, the general lack of triage on GitHub issues, i.e. for a few needs we have like tracing/APM, and then also admittedly esoteric topics like this stack trace fixing:

https://github.com/porsager/postgres/issues/963#issuecomment...

Fwiw I definitely sympathize with issue triage being time-consuming/sometimes a pita, i.e. where a nontrivial/majority of issues are from well-meaning but maybe naive users asking for free support/filing incorrect/distracting issues.

I don't have an answer, but just saying that's where my impression came from.

Thanks for replying!
by nine_k | 2025-10-12 15:15:21+00:00
It's perfectly possible to work for 26 years with Java and not ever seriously touch Spring, or AWT, or Swing, or the EE bits, etc. Java is sprawling, and a corporate backend developer and a mobile frontend developer may have little intersection in the big libraries, and even the approaches, they use.

It's perfectly fine to never have touched Spring. What surprised me is not acknowledging that not only are annotations used to do clerical things like @Override or @Deprecated, and not only to do some weird wiring with @Injected or @RequestBody, but allow to add large custom steps in transforming the code. Annotation processors are a huge comptime interface that can do, and routinely does, wild things, unimaginable in Go, the kind of code transformations you would expect in Lisp or Python.

I suspect the latter should have interesting security implications, too.
by notmyjob | 2025-10-12 15:16:06+00:00
I suspect many people commit the grave sin of mixing data sources to derive percentages, which seems almost impossible not to do in this case. I also strongly suspect that rates of infection (the denominator in question) were inflated to some extent during the pandemic as insurers and hmo were incentivized to detect covid even when it may not have been the primary reason for presenting. There were also disincentives or at least a lack of incentive to detect teratogenic effects of the lipid nanoparticle based preventative, and unfortunately likely personal biases as the preventative was highly politicized. But I’m not thinking about it much deeper than that, so you may be right.
by mpweiher | 2025-10-12 15:16:17+00:00
We are switching...but how and at what cost? We put SQL programs as strings into our other programs, often dynamically constructing them using procedure calls and then dispatching them using yet more procedure calls.

If that weren't yikes enough, SQL injection bugs used to be the #1 exploited security vulnerabilities. It's gotten a little better, partly because of greater usr of ORMs.

ORMs?

https://blog.codinghorror.com/object-relational-mapping-is-t...
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-12 15:17:34+00:00
Xi is getting China ready to attack Taiwan in 2026 or 2027, and the now mutual unwinding of economic relations between the US and China is underway. Still frenemies at this point, but Trump is aiming for more enemy status sooner because it causes media drama and draws attention to him. The US will be screwed because domestic production takes years to happen and it has lost most of its machine tool suppliers, knowledge, and workers. Manufacturing productivity is essential for any sort of war, as evidenced by the history of the American Civil War and WW II.

If the US doesn't impeach and remove Trump and Vance, and get a real, war-time leader who isn't a celebrity reality star ASAP, it will be doomed as China will rapidly seize Taiwan, disrupt Western chip production and plunge the West into an economic armageddon, and likely widen to a war with Japan who would definitely intervene militarily to defend economic technological resources in Taiwan. No more incompetent, self-destructive, corrupt, ideologue chaos can be tolerated.
by dboreham | 2025-10-12 15:17:38+00:00
Throwing out this random data point: I know several people who I believe have some sort of what could be called "long covid". Here's the weird thing though: all these people are some level of covid denier/vax skeptic type person. They themselves don't believe they have long covid (and in some cases don't even believe they had covid). But all of them conform to this pattern (as observed by me): 1. They had covid, 2. Immediately after they developed some weird long term symptoms that no doctor can explain.

Obviously there's some probability this is all coincidence but it does seem strange, especially considering the predisposition for these people to not think their issues were triggered by covid infection.
by PKop | 2025-10-12 15:17:46+00:00
> why you would buy a car that has the mere capability to be remotely shut off

One answer to this I would presume is: there are no other new cars for sale without this flaw.

Why there aren't regulations or forced options in the market without these functions (as well as with physical control knobs instead of touch surfaces) is a good question too. There is huge demand for cars without most of this nonsense, yet I don't see that demand being met.

I doubt anyone wants a car whose infotainment system can be improperly updated to cause catastrophic power and engine failure while driving, if given this information and a choice to avoid it.
by lazide | 2025-10-12 15:17:53+00:00
This is why some hardcore folks go ‘trad diesel’. Just glowplugs and mechanical parts!

Notably, you have to go back to 70’ish era to get that kind of equipment. Almost everything else has some kind of ECU.

Cellular connections didn’t start becoming somewhat common until the late 90’s-early 2000’s though.
by chiefbox | 2025-10-12 15:18:16+00:00
I’m using a very stable iPhone 11, and was very content. I upgraded to iOS 18.7.1, anfter checking online feedback, then I started having a Carplay issue when on phone calls. Support suggested updating to iOS 26, and boy was that a mistake: glitchy, latency, and UI annoyances. Where is the DeLorean!
by throwaway7783 | 2025-10-12 15:18:17+00:00
Why are you assuming you cannot write your own library and use it with Spring? It's not an either/or, just like most frameworks are. You are framing it as if there is only one way to do it in spring.

Please do not project things like "you guys don't even know..". I'm one of "you guys" , and have built production code in a variety of languages and frameworks. So this "you guys" knows exactly what he/she is talking about.
by Nasrudith | 2025-10-12 15:20:12+00:00
The first newspaper ad was for a book and in the 1620s. I am not certain about intellectual handwringing but there were people who considered making money through commerce at all as morally wrong due to it involving neither toil as they recognized it nor might-makes-right. Based upon some truly stupid ideas of "fair price" and assumptions of fixed universal prices meaning that any merchant had to be a scammer.
by blincoln | 2025-10-12 15:20:14+00:00
Feels like there must be some way to use "variability of colour by viewing angle" for tiny clusters of volumes in the object as a way to generate material settings when converting the Gaussian splat model to a traditional 3D model.

E.g. if you have a cluster of tiny adjacent volumes that have high variability based on viewing angle, but the difference between each of those volumes is small, handle it as a smooth, reflective surface, like chrome.
by toast0 | 2025-10-12 15:20:25+00:00
> So can someone who owns a modern car please help me understand why you would buy a car that has the mere capability to be remotely shut off?

Because afaik, all the modern cars have this as a 'feature', but there's lots of other nice features they have.

The best of both worlds right now is an earlier modern car where the 2g/3g modem can no longer connect to the outside world. Even better if you can pull the modem, but they're usually up behind a lot of trim.
by weavejester | 2025-10-12 15:21:29+00:00
> You have found yourself in contradiction. You can't both believe that breaking laws is a last resort and also believe that it is a duty based on subjective criteria like morality.

I don't take the phrase "a duty to disobey unjust laws" as literally as you do. If it's more effective to overturn the law through legal means, then of course do that first.

Calling something a "duty" doesn't mean you get to turn your brain off and follow it blindly. Ships have a duty to help people in distress at sea, but they obviously need to first ensure that they don't put themselves in danger.

> That you are somehow special like MLK.

Believing that you need to be 'special' to act morally is one of the main causes of widespread societal injustice. As MLK said:

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice"

> Don't be a jackass. Obey the law. You're not smarter than everyone that made the law. When you are, we'll tell you. That's democracy.

I was in favor of gay marriage long before it became law, or even was supported by the majority of people. Yet now it is. So the law at the time was ultimately wrong and I was ultimately right. By your definition, doesn't that mean I am smarter than everyone who made the law?

I don't think you need to be smarter than lawmakers to identify unjust laws. You need only look at the progressive causes of today to find the moral norms of tomorrow.
by technothrasher | 2025-10-12 15:21:32+00:00
The American Heritage Museum in Massachusetts is raffling off a 1944 Ford GPW jeep in fully restored condition. Pretty sure there are no computers in that one! But sorry, floor mounted Browning 50 cal machine gun is a replica.

https://www.tapkat.org/american-heritage-museum/lkaKb5?promo...
by jimnotgym | 2025-10-12 15:21:33+00:00
Don't buy modern cars. There is a real movement to keep driving cars from circa 2010. This was around peak car for me. You could still block off the egr valve, remove the cat and any dpf nonsense. No 'driving aids' to distract and infuriate me. No touch screens to distract and infuriate me. No software updates. Can still get over 50mpg. My car is going to keep being fixed as long as it is viable.
by hugs | 2025-10-12 15:21:50+00:00
from an an average developer perspective, nostr is interesting because it's "just" a digitally signed json data structure sent over a websocket. reading the spec [1] for creating a simple nostr client (aka "nip-1"), my average developer brains thinks: i could do that.

i don't get that same feeling when reading atproto or activitypub docs. ultimately, there's a reason why all these protocols get complicated at scale, but in the simple case, nostr is very easy to make a client for and start playing with.

nostr feels like a good example case for gall's law: "a complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."

[1]: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/01.md
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-10-12 15:22:00+00:00
I wasn't aware of Copperspice, but would have been tempted to use it. Qt seemed to have lost it's way when it started with Qt Quick and QML and deemphasized it's roots as a cross-platform library with widget-based UI.

I was always uncomfortable with MOC - the rest of Qt was great, so you put up with MOC, but I was always hoping they might have moved away from it as C++ got more powerful.
by DebtDeflation | 2025-10-12 15:22:27+00:00
There is absolutely no way an OTA update should be able to impact anything powertrain related, it should be limited to the infotainment system and accessories. PCM updates should require a hard connection to the vehicle's OBD port at the dealership/mechanic (or a home user with the appropriate software and cable). NHTSA should investigate this.
by Irwy | 2025-10-12 15:22:27+00:00
so much interisting math is involved in this discovery, from topologie to space and time.

you will probably need to read a book or two to understand all that but it can get so many application that maybe you should actualy read them or wont lost time doing so :

Data structure, deep learning using topologie, lossless embeding, introduction to P vs NP and etc. A lot of ideas may emerge from this kind of work
by BoredPositron | 2025-10-12 15:22:31+00:00
The forum thread is more chilling. It seems they released a fix that they pushed silently. You can't verify if you installed the silent update yourself the support rep needs to use your vin in an internal tool to check if the fix is applied. "Park your car in an area with good cell coverage. Wait 10 minutes and do a reboot." After that I can try driving my car and hope the update went through? Absolutely insane.