MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toast0 | 2025-10-30 18:20:04+00:00
> A colleague is working on a kernel patch to bypass part of the UDP stack to restore proper ordering, which will probably need to be maintained in-house or at least hidden behind a kernel config knob upstream since this reordering is considered acceptable under the guarantees for UDP.

My understanding is that in Linux, TCP on localhost (including packets sent to a public address on a local interface) bypasses the stack; I don't see why it would be a problem for UDP to do the same.

This is contrast with FreeBSD, where TCP to localhost is actually packetized and queued on the loopback interface, and you can experience congestion collapse on loopback if you do things right(wrong).
by reaperducer | 2025-10-30 18:20:35+00:00
V2 is probably now useless considering that it will never get any updates.

Is it really?

People on HN are always talking about how they use pre-Creative Cloud versions of Adobe products years and years later.

My firewall already blocks Affinity programs from accessing the internet without my permission. I guess I'll set it to an automatic deny so I don't lose any features, or have to deal with any nagging.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-30 18:20:51+00:00
I developed aphantasia around 13 after a series of heart procedures where I had to be under.

Evaluating qualia in others is extremely difficult/philosophically impossible, I have pre/post expierence with both states of being.

I can still somewhat conjure up imagery from prior to the procedure series, it almost feels like I can see them, my mother's face, my father face, kinda of, it did not effect my dreams or ability to have imagery in my edge of dreaming state, not immediately at least.

I went from being very imaginative to trying to surf that half awake state in the mornings because it was such a loss.

At this point it's all mostly gone. My memory is entirely text strings now.
by indemnity | 2025-10-30 18:21:30+00:00
There are dozens of us… dozens ;)

I use Ghostty, but the same thing. I have a flake based setup, which means I have the same environment and programs across all my Macs, Linux machines and WSL terminals.

Takes me about 30 minutes to spin up a new Mac laptop, with 99% of all setup done, down to system preferences.

Linux (nixOS) a little longer because for a brand new machine I may need to do a little hardware specific bootstrapping, but if I’m paving the same machine about the same.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-30 18:21:50+00:00
Isn't a lot of this the government insisting that PG&E act as the de facto California wildfire insurance provider and collect the premiums out of everyone's electric bill?

You have wildfires caused by, basically, climate change causing there to be an abundance of fuel (dead wood) waiting for any spark, exacerbated by decades of the government putting out every wildfire when in the natural environment the last fire would have cleared out the dead wood before the next one, causing fuel to accumulate even more.

At that point it doesn't matter what the ignition source is, that much fuel is going to burn, soon. If it isn't some piece of PG&E equipment it will be a lightning strike or something else. But if you can pin it on the power company because a tree caught fire from falling on a power line then the fire insurance companies can sue the power company instead of filing for bankruptcy, and then all you have to do is pass on the cost to ordinary people as $500/month electric bills.
Dear Proton, can you fix Drive?
by ixxie | 2025-10-30 18:21:56+00:00
Dear Proton,

I've been using Proton for a couple of years now. The mail works well enough, and I'm happy with the calendar. Basic, but good.

I was excited when Proton Drive came out; but 3 years later, the experience is still very lacking. I'm not expecting feature parity with Google Drive, but the app is incredible slow and the UX is a confusing mess.

It's nice to see the ambition to roll out docs, wallet, a password manager, VPN and now AI. But encrypted cloud storage is essential for our privacy, and I wish you gave it the attention it deserves.

With gratitude,

A loyal customer
by reenorap | 2025-10-30 18:22:01+00:00
That the vaccines worked, that natural immunity against COVID didn't exist, that the vaccines were BETTER than natural immunity, etc.

I'm fully vaccinated along with a booster. I was the first person outside of medical professionals that I know that got the COVID vaccine. I got COVID 3 weeks after my booster which is when I was supposed to be the most protected. That's when I came to the conclusion that we were lied to.

My kid got COVID and then he was still forced to get the vaccine because the school district/state forced it. That's because they refused to believe that natural immunity existed or that somehow the vaccine was magically better than natural immunity. This also made me realize how religious this has become because now even the scientists were anti-science.

It took years for them to relent and those several years of religious and anti-science beliefs from scientists and politicians destroyed the trust that people had in them.
by CompoundEyes | 2025-10-30 18:22:04+00:00
I had to take a long distance road across the US for work in the spring. I planned my hotel for the night to be around a Chipotle along the way. It’s one of the few options that isn’t synthetic and doesn’t make me feel the awful “I’m traveling for work trash diet” feeling. Some actual vegetables and protein at least. Didn’t have time to seek out local places and delivery is hit or miss. Is it possible their prices are up because the cost of “actual food” has gone up? Beyond that you’re eating low quality borderline carnival food (sugar, cheese blob, deep fried) and mono sodium glutamate loaded Christian faith based chicken sandwich offerings.
by brooke2k | 2025-10-30 18:22:06+00:00
It might be easier to think in terms of what you can actually achieve with your visualization.

I am terrible at visual art because I struggle to picture what I am drawing before I draw it. When I do calculus problems, I have to write down in full every intermediate step because I can't visualize how the equations change more than one or two steps in the future.

Those kinds of things seem to me like more objective measures of someone's ability to visualize, although I have nothing other than anecdotal evidence to back that up.
by rockostrich | 2025-10-30 18:22:13+00:00
It's strange to me to see Chipotle as the face of this. You can still get a chicken burrito which has 60g of protein and 1000 calories for just about $10. In my opinion, the only issue with their food is that the sodium is a bit high which is pretty unavoidable with fast food.

A similar burrito from any other local place near me is $15 or more. These might be a bit healthier but it's 50% more expensive.

You can definitely meal prep everything for a Chipotle burrito or bowl for about half the price meal but that doesn't factor in the time to grocery shop and cook (and also buy tortillas from Chipotle because for some reason you can't get them as a consumer from any wholesaler...). I opt for making burritos that can be frozen instead and it's nice having a freezer filled with 3-4 different options that take 5 minutes to defrost/reheat in the microwave. @stealth_health_life on instagram has a bunch of great recipes but it's also not really hard to just prep individual burrito fillings and make your own.
by egypturnash | 2025-10-30 18:22:24+00:00
> a 3.5GB app is a sad sign of the times.

It's par for the course, Illustrator 2025 is 2.8 gigs on my Mac for just the binary, 3.29 gigs for its directory in /Applications for some of its support files, plus however much space it takes up in ~/Library for more of its support files.

Photoshop's another 4.8 gigs for its binary and InDesign's another 2, so Affinity's doing pretty well to get some part of the functionality of all of those in a mere 3.5 gigs. Or Adobe's hilariously bloated. Or both. Let's go with both, really.
by phil21 | 2025-10-30 18:22:25+00:00
CBT effectiveness is highly overstated, from anecdotal experience and talking with psychiatrists in a social setting.

It works for a subset of the population that doesn’t question stuff too much and is more or less ok with gaslighting themselves. There is evidence that it loses effectiveness the higher up the IQ scale you go.

The vast majority of mental health issues are a “not treating the root causes” problem. People stuck in a life they despise for various reasons and have no realistic way of changing those root causes. This ranges everywhere from the single mom with 3 kids and an eviction notice all the way to the high powered corporate executive stuck in an empty do-nothing career path.

Not everyone is wired the same but we’ve created a society that you must conform to extremely rigid norms or be at risk of destitution.
by uticus | 2025-10-30 18:22:38+00:00
In my experience, this is a communication issue, not a logical or technical or philosophical issue. Nor the result of a fixation caused by an idea out of the blue.

In my experience it may be solved by both parties spending the effort and time to first understand what is being asked... assuming they are both willing to stomach the costs. Sometimes it isn't worth it, and it's easier to pacify than respectfully and carefully dig.
by BrenBarn | 2025-10-30 18:22:38+00:00
> Usually, I would mess around in IPython / Jupyter for a couple days until I have something I'm happy with. Then I'll "productionize" the project.

Right, it's this. I get the feeling a lot of people here don't work that way though. I mean I can understand why in a sense, because if you're doing something for your job where your boss says "the project is X" then it's natural to start with a project structure for X. But when I'm going "I wonder if this will work..." then I want to start with the code itself and only "productionize" it later if it turns out to work.
by philipkglass | 2025-10-30 18:23:10+00:00
Residential electricity service from PG&E has never properly separated the fixed costs of service delivery to a location (maintaining poles, transformers, and wires) from the cost of marginal energy consumption. It has folded much of the fixed infrastructure costs into the per-kilowatt-hour unit price. This functions as an implicit subsidy for households that need grid tied electrical service but do not consume much electricity from the grid.

These implicit subsidies used to mostly benefit lower-income households (though not always: properties like seasonal vacation houses also benefited). Now, higher-income households are more likely to benefit from this structure because they are more likely to install rooftop solar (reducing kWh consumption) but still need the grid to work at night. Crediting solar households for grid exports makes this problem especially acute but it would also exist even if solar households were merely reducing the kWh drawn from the grid during daytime.

One remedy could be to fully separate the costs of fixed infrastructure from per-kWh unit charges and set prices directly proportional to costs. But that is probably politically unfeasible because there will be outcry that prices proportional to costs would hurt low-income, low-consumption households.

Another way to remedy it would use the previous approach but give offsetting vouchers to households that would face financial hardship as a result of the change in pricing structure. I don't know why the underlying issue has remained unaddressed in favor of patchy solar-specific changes to the law.
by bena | 2025-10-30 18:23:19+00:00
This is the fundamental question about experience.

You may be "right". What you consider to be "seeing" things in one's head may be not what's happening in that person's mind. What they call "seeing" may be something else.

The best way I can describe it is essentially generating a memory. If I were instructed to picture an apple in my mind, I could imagine a hand holding up an bog standard Red Delicious. I can imagine it free-floating. And it would be much like when I remember what happened yesterday for instance. Of course, we get into whether or not we "see" the memory or not.

So, if you are saying you do not consider yourself to have mental images, what, to your best ability to describe it, do you do when you remember an event?
by lumost | 2025-10-30 18:23:34+00:00
It's my unfortunate experience, when I've had covid its a 6-12 hour affair that happens once every 12-24 months. My 3rd vaccine shot had me in bed for 3 days. Leading to continued vaccination being unsustainable. My wife has a similar experience to yours, and gets moderate to severe covid. She gets the vaccine every year to help avoid it - but still gets moderate COVID roughly once per 6 months.

It's unfortunate that the vaccine has such radically different outcomes within a single household, if it was a flu shot like experience I'd happily get it once per year.
by prox | 2025-10-30 18:23:38+00:00
I am sorry, but for me the app just died. That may sound dramatic but the promise at acquisition was that nothing would change. The picture that was drawn is that we would get a v3. Sure I would suspect some canva integration, but again, not a whole redo and relaunch that seems at first glance nothing like what we had, and completely taken over into the Canva system.

Also free is never free.
by anovikov | 2025-10-30 18:23:42+00:00
Precisely reflects my own experience. Used them whole lot starting from March (after resisting for a long time out of stubbornness when everyone and their dog around me did since long), reached peak usage in July, but then got disillusioned realising how much did i mess up this way. Now only use to create small unit-like snippets, test them separately, then manually integrate.

This toy is broken, give me the next one.
by pkt0x53 | 2025-10-30 18:23:55+00:00
Tailpass is a Tailscale powered TCP port forwarding tool that bridges your VLANs, containers, and hosts simply and securely. You can easily connect web servers, SSH sessions, databases, or any TCP service across your network without worrying about complex configurations. Add your local and remote services, start the tunnel, and your traffic flows seamlessly through Tailscale. Tailpass gives you a lightweight dashboard, an efficient backend, and the freedom to access your services from anywhere.
by rayiner | 2025-10-30 18:23:57+00:00
I can basically do a Google Street View of places I’ve been before, seeing what I’d be seeing if I was there. It’s not as clear as being there and having my eyes open, and th animation is jerky, but it’s in color, and I have the same spatial sense of where things are relative to where I am mentally standing.

For the most part, I can’t “think” about things except maybe mental math. I see things, and I talk to myself in my head.
by somerandomqaguy | 2025-10-30 18:23:59+00:00
Ah, I wasn't aware the Fiesta discontinued outside as well. AFAIK Ford did so to retool Cuautitlán Assembly plant in Mexico from the Fiesta to the Mach-E. Looks like Cologne Body & Assembly is going to be producing Ford's EU electric CUV's instead of the Fiesta.
by Amorymeltzer | 2025-10-30 18:24:37+00:00
YMMV, but for me, the image on en.Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia> made it easy for me to understand. That and having a frank conversation with someone close to me: "Wait, you just think of something and see it, like a picture or real life?" "Wait, you actually see anything?"
by abetusk | 2025-10-30 18:24:38+00:00
The test is this:

Close your eyes and try to visualize an apple. Do this for 30 seconds or so. Try to visualize the skin, the reflection, the texture, the stem, the depth, etc. Try to hold a stable mental picture of that apple.

After the 30 seconds, rate your ability to picture the apple from 1 to 5, where 1 is complete inability and 5 is as if you were looking at a picture of an apple for those 30 seconds. 1 is aphantasia.

Another idea is to recall a vivid dream you had. I think most people would describe it as being part of a movie or reality. While awake, are you able to recreate scenes in vivid detail as if you were dreaming? 5 for complete parity and 1 for not at all. 1 is aphantasia.
by tekacs | 2025-10-30 18:24:42+00:00
Have you seen the Aphantasia Apples?

https://lianamscott.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/f4c55-1_b...

As in: if you look at this image, can you place yourself on a scale of 1 - 5 of with what kind of fidelity you can picture an apple if you try to imagine it?

I'm a 5 for example, and in asking many people this question I've gotten a solid spectrum of answers from 1 - 5. Generally in a single group of a handful of people I'll get several different numbers.
by mnmalst | 2025-10-30 18:24:47+00:00
I am the same and I am not convinced people can really - see - things. Like, when I close my eyes, I see the inside of my eye lids, the blackness. When I then try to imagine a candle for example there is no candle appearing in the darkness, I just remember how a candle is shaped its parts and similar characteristics. I see nothing.
by DonnyV | 2025-10-30 18:24:52+00:00
Incompetence, our "leaders" are woefully incompetent. MAGA, GOP and the right are filled with idiots. The Liberal and Neoliberal Democrats at least were a little better at stealing everything from us and delaying progress. They would bury people in culture wars and keep their followers busy with DEI rules. They used legitimate racist issues and then said everything was caused by racism and not that the 1% was just stealing everything.
by pwg | 2025-10-30 18:25:00+00:00
The portion you've overlooked is there is an entire population of users out there who have never seen, nor used, a command line, and telling them to "just type this out" ignores all the background command line knowledge necessary to successfully "just type this out":

1) They have to know how to get to a command line somewhere/how (most of this group of users would be stymied right here and get no further along);

2) They now have to change the current directory of their CLI that they did get open to the location in their filesystem where the video is actually stored (for the tiny sliver who get past #1 above, this will stymie most of them, as they have no idea exactly where on disk their "Downloads" [or other meta-directory item] is actually located);

3) For the very few who actually get to this step, unless they already have ffmpeg installed on their PATH, they will get a command not found error after typing the command, ending their progress unless they now go and install ffmpeg;

4) For the very very few who would make it here, almost all of them will now have to accurately type out every character in "a-really_big_filename with spaces .mov", as they will not know anything about filename completion to let the shell do this for them. And if the filename does have spaces, and many will, they now need to somehow know 4a) that they have to escape the spaces and 4b) how to go about escaping the spaces, or they will instead get some ffmpeg error (hopefully just 'file not found', but with the extra parameters that unescaped spaces will create, it might just be a variant of "unknown option switch" error instead).
by djassoRaph | 2025-10-30 18:25:13+00:00
Hello HN community,

I’m Raphaël Reck (creator of this project) and I’d like to share Open LLM-Reader (“LLMR”), a small open-source tool to make your website truly agent-friendly.

What it does :

- You point the Python script at your site (e.g. python3 generate_llmr.py /path/to/your/site) and it builds a site.llmr file. (I just run it from inside the folder) GitHub

The .llmr format compresses and structures your content so that LLMs don’t have to parse full HTML markup, heavy styling, nav links, footers, etc — you skip a lot of token overhead. GitHub

The README claims up to ~94-97% token reduction compared to raw HTML parsing. (It's what IA deduced... I'd like help with this data one day, please.)

GitHub

Aim: better semantic understanding, lower bandwidth & token cost, faster AI responses about your site.

Why this matters :

With more AI agents browsing the web, sites that optimize for human readers only may lag in being “consumable” by LLMs. By making a simple standard (.llmr), you get ahead: indexing, summarization, retrieval become cheaper and more accurate.

For developers, site-owners, bloggers, this is a nice no-dependency drop-in (pure Python standard lib) to help serve the AI-first web. GitHub

How to try :

Clone github.com/djassoRaph/open_llmr

Run python3 generate_llmr.py /path/to/your/site

Upload the generated site.llmr to your site root.

Add in your HTML <head>

<link rel="llm-index" type="application/json" href="/site.llmr">

(Optional ?: add to robots.txt as Sitemap: https://yoursite.com/site.llmr ?)

GitHub :

Enjoy faster, cleaner AI-reads of your site.

Help me out !

Feedback welcome: issues, suggestions, embedding improvements.

Forks, contributions appreciated: multi-language support, richer embeddings, CMS plugins next. GitHub

If you have a blog or site, try it and share your compression ratio or token-savings experience.

Thanks for reading. I hope this helps push the web toward AI-friendly architecture.

Kindly, Raphaël (Europe)

GitHub: https://github.com/djassoRaph/open_llmr
by colechristensen | 2025-10-30 18:25:15+00:00
There are several levels of this. There are people who can do things as though they see but have no conscious access to the interpreted visual information. Or they can do something that requires vision with one hand but not the other.

You can think of it like a bunch of different subsystems responsible for different kinds of tasks and some of them can be broken so the connections between them don't work.

Read Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks for a lot of case studies.
by racingmars | 2025-10-30 18:25:16+00:00
From everything I've read about aphantasia, I'm certain it described me -- I have absolutely no ability to consciously "visualize" things in my head (I was also surprised to learn that some/most people sometimes experience a smell sensation if they recall smells, or "hear" music when they think about music or have a song stuck in their head, etc.)

Really the only thing in my head is my internal monologue. If I'm thinking about something I've seen, it's my internal monologue "saying," with words, physical attributes I remember about it. If a song is stuck in my head, it's my internal monologue (in my own voice) signing the lyrics or my own voice humming the tune in my head. No sensation of it being the original artist or the actual instruments, it's 100% my own voice in my own head.

I have a friend who says she does not have any inner monologue at all, and thinks entirely visually. I can't imagine! We're on the pretty extreme opposite ends of the spectrum of how we think, apparently.
by bluGill | 2025-10-30 18:25:45+00:00
The details matter and are personal I agree.

Even if a house isn't right for you, you still need to save for the deposit on an apartment. You still need to buy furnishings for your apartment. You won't even know if a house is right for you until you are mid 20s to 30, so it is probably best to save for a house and if you decide at 30 it isn't right for you roll that money into retirement savings (if a house isn't right for you that means you need more retirement savings)

Relationships - even if you don't have a wedding or kids - come at the time you have those starting to get out on your own expenses. You will need to figure those out.
by sebastiennight | 2025-10-30 18:25:45+00:00
The root comment was talking about investing 5% of their earnings. If you're making any kind of income at 17 (which admittedly is not everybody) then learning to save+invest a small portion of that can have incredible positive snowball effects beyond the compounding itself.

I can't imagine a scenario where at 55 years old, you would miss the 5% of your summer income you invested back in high school. But I can totally see a scenario where investing those 5% led you to increasing it to 10% in college, 20% on your first job, and being financially independent way before you hit the age of 55.