MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by em-bee | 2025-10-20 01:17:55+00:00
i don't think we are fundamentally disagreeing, but i do see a few things differently.

As a parent the physical/mental efforts and money I'm spending raising a kid aren't reciprocal to anything I'm doing for myself.

why? i mean, i agree they aren't equal, but i do for my kids what they need, and for myself what i need. so i consider it fair, neither to much, nor to little.

I'd never expect for the whole thing to be balanced

my definition of balanced is that everyone gets what they need. so yeah, it's absolutely balanced for me. or at least i try to make it balanced.

it would be crazy to expect as much from my kid as we're pouring into it

strongly disagree on that point, however, what i expect from my kids is what they do in the future. my dad stopped pouring anything into me when i moved out of the house. simply because i moved far away and we had little contact. which was fine. i now spend a lifetime giving to others what i learned from my dad. i expect my kids to do the same. for me it's the whole point of raising them. for them to go out and pay things forward.

We'd have to get back to sending kids to work 8h a day if we stick to the simplistic "treat others like you treat yourself" view of the world.

this doesn't make any sense to me at all.

but then, i am a freelancer, and i work on what i want, when i want. i don't work 8hrs a day either. so maybe i am an exception here, and i treat myself better than the average person? but even with a full-time job i don't think i would feel different.

also, we are sending kids to school. that's their "job" and it's just just as hard. including homework some kids work more than their parents.

mental bookkeeping

i don't do bookkeeping. all i am doing is making sure that i am well, and my family is well too.

sleeping a total of 4h in 3 days to keep an ill small human alive is self abuse

disagree calling that abuse. it's a sacrifice. but when that happens i'd take time off work, including a few days afterwards to recover. self-abuse implies that i should not do it. instead i make sure i get enough sleep on normal days. i am 50, and i am still able to pull the occasional all-nighter. not regularly, but i can if i have to.
by chaostheory | 2025-10-20 01:18:10+00:00
Unfortunately, the only generation that will notice any VR innovation is Gen Alpha or younger. The older generations as a whole are either indifferent or flat out hostile to VR.

Also I agree with Adsoitis. VR apps have an opportunity to go beyond traditional UX. This is a missed opportunity, but understandable given the backlash to VR and to a lesser degree AR
by Marsymars | 2025-10-20 01:18:14+00:00
Even at large corps, it's fairly common to outsource IP work to law firms that specialize in IP - and if you're Danish, it might make sense to outsource to a Danish law firm that has its own worldwide IP contacts (rather than getting your own worldwide branch offices to handle local IP laws everywhere). One of said contacts might then pawn off the work onto a junior, who then has their assistant handle all communiques from CIPO. Said assistant could then entirely drop the ball.

I've zero idea about anything specific to Novo Nordisk, but have enough exposure to IP in Canada to envision the above happening in other cases.
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-20 01:19:05+00:00
There are a million laws on the books that not only are not enforced, but aren't even self consistent with each other. It is enforcement that determines what one actually can or can't do. The enforcement exists for controlled substances, for resale, and for a supply of over 90 days. For personal non-commercial use of a non-controlled medicine for under 90 days, the law is not enforced, and for good reason. People would die if the law were to be enforced too strictly.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-20 01:19:08+00:00
> With proper data permission check, having predictable ID is totally fine.

That qualification is doing a lot of work in this sentence. For supporting evidence as to why this is the case, a quick search for "CVE PHP security vulnerabilities" or "CVE NodeJS security vulnerabilities" will produce voluminous results.

> And UUIDv7's random part is large enough so that it's much harder to predict than auto increment id.

Usually. One common scenario where using UUIDv7 for primary keys in a persistent store can be exploited similar to sequential integer ID's is when there are queries supporting pagenation and/or those leveraging the temporal ordering UUIDv7 supports intrinsically. For example:

id > aSynthesizedUUIDv7Value

Note that this does not require successful identification of either the `rand_a` or `rand_b` UUIDv7 fields[0].

> If your security relies on attacker don't know your ID (you don't do proper data permission check), your security is flawed.

Again, I agree with this in theory. But as the saying[1] goes:

In Theory There Is No Difference Between Theory and Practice, While In Practice There Is

0 - https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9562.html#name-uuid-versio...

1 - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/04/14/theory/
by duxup | 2025-10-20 01:19:46+00:00
I may be one of the idiots. I really struggled to get through this and understand it ... I assume I should be familiar with all the links and thus would then understand some of it? The text after each link just seems like shallow summaries, but I'm not sure even those summaries support whatever the author is trying to say.

There are such random grandiose statements too like "There is no part of modern education that helps children." What does that even mean?
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-10-20 01:20:44+00:00
>What the universities are doing now is not conducive to scientific knowledge either. In fact, they produce a lot of anti-knowledge.

Asimov was talking about you and those like you when he said[0]:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Your ignorance is not just as good as the knowledge of others, despite your protestations to the contrary.

But at least you can be comforted that your ignorance is just more in a long tradition of ignorance, as ignominious as it might be. Booyah! USA! USA! USA! amirite?

[0] https://www.azquotes.com/author/605-Isaac_Asimov
by relium | 2025-10-20 01:21:38+00:00
PICT supported vector commands like FrameRect and FillOval, bitmap commands like BitsRect, and even embedded PostScript via PicComments.

Version 1 PICTs: https://show.docjava.com/posterous/file/2012/07/9614411-DOC0...

I have the Version 2 documentation around here somewhere. I don't think I've looked at it in 20 years, though.
by cookiengineer | 2025-10-20 01:23:48+00:00
Check out libvirtd based stacks, because that's what's supported by upstream Linux.

Some shops here migrate to proxmox as a UI because of certification requirements, but I migrated some of my customers to cockpit dashboard, and some to kubernetes. It's always a matter of scale and provisioning requirements.

Cockpit is my favorite so far because it's easy to setup, but its focus isn't cluster scale, which is what most larger companies need. You have to setup basically two cockpit variants: the webui and lots of cockpit server daemons (aka libvirtd on remote machines). The webui then uses SSH to login to other machines to manage them (e.g. via the known_hosts file on the webui server). [3]

Proxmox is pretty old and Perl, but it's doable. Usually storage clustering is a bit painful because you need something on a filesystem layer like ceph clusters.

There's also openshift but no idea if that is an IBM/RedHat lock-in as well, so the SMEs didn't want that risk.

[1] https://cockpit-project.org/

[2] https://www.proxmox.com/en/

[3] https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/feature-machines.ht...
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-20 01:24:44+00:00
Maybe they just really love the game. This is a form of tribute.

I too have a beloved video game from my childhood: Mega Man Battle Network 2. That game changed my life. I learned English and became a programmer because of it. I have two physical copies of it in my collection, one of them factory sealed.

Sometimes I open the game in IDA and try to reverse engineer bits and pieces of it. I just want to understand the game. I don't have the time, the dedication or even the low level programming knowledge that these badass folks in the ROM hacking community have, but I still try it.
Show HN: ColorMinds – AI Coloring Pages Generator for All Ages
by learningstone | 2025-10-20 01:24:55+00:00
Hi everyone ,

I'm an engineer who has spent years building full-stack products at companies like IBM, Alibaba, and Xiaohongshu. Recently, I started working on an AI-driven creative tool for families, designers, and educators — *ColorMindsAI.com*.

https://www.colormindsai.com

ColorMinds turns text prompts into printable coloring pages in seconds. Type something like “a cat flying a kite in a forest” or “space-themed birthday scene”, and you instantly get a ready-to-color outline.

A few things that make it unique: - Fast and free to try — built with a modern AI stack - Thousands of themed pages (animals, holidays, fantasy, and more) - Users can favorite, remix, and even create story-based coloring series - A growing collection for kids, parents, and creative hobbyists worldwide

I'm currently experimenting with multilingual support and an AI story-to-coloring feature. Feedback from this community would be super valuable — ideas, criticisms, or crazy use-cases are all welcome!

*Try it here:* https://www.colormindsai.com *More experiments:* https://geminibanana.fun

Thanks for reading — and if you have kids, teach art, or work in education, I'd love to hear what kind of coloring pages you'd love to see next.
by hackingonempty | 2025-10-20 01:25:56+00:00
IMHO the actor model is great until you need to share something across processes, then you have a distributed computing problem inside your program.

For developing fault tolerant multicore programs I think I'm better off using a functional effects system with software transactional memory like Scala/ZIO than Gleam/OTP. I can still use the actor model where appropriate. Plus the JVM software ecosystem and runtime observability / battle-testedness is far better than BEAM.
by kaliszad | 2025-10-20 01:28:03+00:00
You can get servers elsewhere as well and they can be more agile than Dell/ HPE/ SuperMicro/ Lenovo. Asus, Asrock, Gigabyte and some other brands can ship servers rather quickly. Perhaps not the next day but the prices are much lower out of the door especially if you are a smaller customer. Most companies know well in advance how much compute/ storage they will need. So if something takes a month or two it isn't a big issue.
by gdulli | 2025-10-20 01:28:41+00:00
> Once you rethink the vending machine interface, maybe a different modality reveals it self.

You haven't said why one should. The screen is 2d, the LRUD interface is 2d. It's simple and works well. What are we leaving on the table?

The article says this "represents a monetization opportunity for Meta". What does it represent for me? Other than an opportunity to have new types of screens to buy.

> “Instead of a $500 TV sitting in front of us, what’s to keep us from one day having it be a $1 app,”

I'm already at my peak being online and attached to screens. If I make any change it's going to be in the direction of being less online, not more. I don't want smart glasses keeping me online at all times. I don't want TV glasses enabling me to watch TV at all times. My $500 TV serves its purpose perfectly already and I don't need to bring it with me.

Even if I wanted a permanent TV in my glasses and the app was only $1. The app will track the shit out of me. My TV is kept off the network. Going from cable to streaming added the adtech industry's surveillance and unskippable ads. There's no way Meta won't shit out something worse than I can still cling to with my offline TV.

Surely I lack the imagination to see how cool VR TV apps could be, but it doesn't take imagination to know how this is going to be consumer-hostile.
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-20 01:28:51+00:00
Maybe practical real world computers but then I’d actually put Schokley and co as the true fathers having invented the transistor which is the only reason we have more than 6 computers - IBM otherwise would have been right because the energy and space requirements really would only have allowed for a small number of computers to have otherwise been built.

But ENIAC wouldn’t have been possible without Turing’s foundational research on what it means to build a computation machine in the first place and ENIAC was even preceded by Z3 although it was the first electronic Turing complete machine (Z3 was electromechanical).

They’re all important contributions but Turing literally defined the theoretical field. It’s like calling Townes, Schawlow, and Basov the fathers of the laser even though they just showed how to build the laser that Einstein predicted decades before. It’s important foundational work but most people know Einstein + laser whereas the names of the inventors of the first laser are less known. Einstein defined that it was even possible and how it would work. Others figured out how to achieve that through foundational science and engineering.
by rawgabbit | 2025-10-20 01:30:47+00:00
It is a peculiarity of how houses are built in Texas. A lot of Texas has clay a few feet underground. This clay soil is vulnerable to trees sucking up water which leads to foundation issues. Some homes have root retarders to prevent this. https://www.texasinspector.com/files/Structural-Slabs-FPA-SC...

Another Texas problem is that the sewer gray water line is placed relatively shallow. I had neighbors who to pay a crew of dudes shoveling like mad to unearth the sewer line so the plumber can repair it. The most common reason was roots from a large tree. https://www.metroflowplumbing.com/detecting-and-preventing-t...
by jhbadger | 2025-10-20 01:31:33+00:00
There's a great recent book (Anne Trumbore's _The Teacher_in_The_Machine_) on using technology to "disrupt" education (starting much earlier than you would think, with mechanical devices in the early 20th century that could drill students with multiple choice questions, running through basically pre-computer MOOCS that used radio and then TV to broadcast lectures, various educational software, and finally MOOCs like Coursera and Udacity).
by nobody9999 | 2025-10-20 01:32:10+00:00
>Having casually attended one of these schools, I'm so confused about why they are even in this group. What is making this group of schools best suited for this sort of blackmail?

That's a great question.

I wonder, shouldn't Oral Roberts University, Brigham Young University and other, similar institutions be required to be less biased in their ways too?

If not, why not?
by jiggawatts | 2025-10-20 01:34:18+00:00
Okay, how, could someone like Jia Tan sneak code into a codebase where commits can only be made by authenticated users with staff accounts on a private network?

Versus… a random email offers to help, someone says “sure!”, and… that’s it. That’s the entire hurdle.

Google did discover a Chinese hacker working for them on the payroll. That kind of thing does occur, but it’s rare.

It’s massively harder and more risky.
by brigandish | 2025-10-20 01:34:27+00:00
> One of the earliest syntax choices we made was to avoid the classic SELECT … FROM … style. In SQL, a query starts with SELECT, but conceptually you first define your data source and only later decide what you want to project out of it. We always found that ordering unintuitive. So in EventQL a query begins with FROM e IN events. Only at the end do you specify what you want to output, using PROJECT INTO.
by anon291 | 2025-10-20 01:35:00+00:00
There is no reason to believe they will need anything of the sort other than our biased human perception of the thing. AI models could just as easily claim that humans need the ability to function call via MCP to do real cognition (tm).

If you mean sensory input as in qualia, such a thing is impossible to discern in non humans and only speculation in all humans but yourself. Requiring this unprovable standard is self sabotage
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-20 01:35:49+00:00
The Great Wall is just part of a larger series of fortifications in eastern Central Asia. One of the others is the less studied Medieval Wall System (MWS). The gobi wall here is a few hundred kilometers of one of the individual walls within the MWS, which as the name suggests is within the gobi desert in the modern country of Mongolia.

And just to preclude the usual follow-up, these walls probably weren't major defensive fortifications intended to keep out armies of nomadic raiders. Their primary function was closer to airport customs, visible outposts that reinforce the boundaries and laws of the state.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-20 01:35:51+00:00
What would the point be, in the Gobi desert?

The structure of traveling through that is that you follow the silk road between a bunch of major cities built around oases. It's not necessary to divert anyone with walls - the fact that they need to drink, and that they won't be willing to wander off into the desert, get lost, and die, is sufficient. You don't move people to the tax collectors. You move the tax collectors to them.
Show HN: RSS Feed Generator
by ctkhn | 2025-10-20 01:37:26+00:00
I built a typescript app that will take a directory of mp3 files, rip the metadata and cover art, and turn them into a podcast feed. I had been self-hosting a podcast feed for a couple friends and wanted to build something better than I had found previously, at least for my specific use case.

I wouldn't be happy turning this in at work = it's not perfect, definitely not optimized, and docs need work. I'm sure it breaks a lot of rules for clean code, good abstractions, and proper nodejs usage, but it's my first time using ts/js for backend and I haven't always had the time for personal coding projects like I've wanted to, so I'm just glad it's working.

Just swapped out the docker image on my homelab and was excited to start seeing per-episode cover art show up in my feed.
by jimkri | 2025-10-20 01:38:29+00:00
This is from some research that shows spirulina can absorb toxins, and then when I take Metamucil, it helps to slow my body's processing of the supplement.

What I have noticed is that the increase in nutrients will go through me super fast since I have a lower fiber diet, but when I have taken it with Metamucil, the fiber increase really slows down my bodily function. I figured if the algae is moving more slowly, it should also be able to have a higher absorption rate since it stays in my body longer.

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32749124/ - This research paper talks about how spirulina has been shown to help with Heavy-Metal Toxicity.

It's such a powerful supplement, and really interesting to learn about.
by aardvarkr | 2025-10-20 01:39:33+00:00
This article is saying that the patent elapsed in 2018 because thy didn’t pay the $250 to renew the patent. Instead they relied on “data exclusivity” which means their trial data is exclusively theirs and anyone who wants to sell in Canada must first run safety trials of their own at a huge expense. It’s just as good as a patent but has a shorter window of exclusivity.
by jakebasile | 2025-10-20 01:43:13+00:00
I miss when gaming in general was less mainstream and more weird like this. Now the silicon manufacturers hate that they even have to sell us their scraps, let alone spend time on making unique designs for their boxes.

I bought a small press book with a collection of this art and it was a fun little trip down memory lane, as I’ve owned some of the hardware (boxes) depicted in it.

For anyone else interested: https://lockbooks.net/pages/overclocked-launch
by kaliszad | 2025-10-20 01:44:20+00:00
You would be surprised. I have unclogged processes inside and between companies before where people would tell me it's not possible or that success is unlikely.

And yes, if you are working with professionals most expenditures can be planned well in advance so you definitely can take months or even more than a year in the process. If there is a major issue affecting the business of the company you would be surprised what is possible. I've got things approved in weeks in an enterprise of 2000+ employees before and I was 5 levels down from the CEO then. I have improved my negotiation skills greatly since then (it helps when you co-found a consulting company).
by btown | 2025-10-20 01:45:34+00:00
> Flexibility doesn't mean you can query arbitrarily deep payload structures at production scale without cost. Indexing in EventSourcingDB is primarily on metadata (like type, subject, timestamps). If you filter on arbitrary JSON payload fields, you may trigger a full scan. That's by design and by honesty: we don't hide the trade-offs. That's also why we say use EventQL wisely. It's perfect for ad hoc analysis, debugging, or one-off data extraction. If a query is needed repeatedly or must run at scale, build a projection – projections are precomputed and optimized.

As they note, representing derived products of event stores as metadata-only uncached queries/views will only get you so far.

If you want something that bridges exploratory analysis to production-grade, consistent materialized views, I really like the approach that Materialize (materialize.com) and Feldera (feldera.com - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685689 and specifically https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41687690) take. They're mathematically sound ways of representing an entire hierarchy of derived materialized views in pure SQL, and having them update in real time... much like Excel would, if you change an input cell numerous sheets of dependencies away. There are some incredible papers here - DBSP and Differential Dataflow are the keywords.

I do think that both Feldera and Materialize have focused a lot on analytics use cases, rather than on what implications they could have for event sourcing in high-reliability operational situations. The unifying key, of course, is that the moment you have the ability to declaratively specify a network of downstream projections, you can hot-swap them, version-control them, and time-travel along your code-versioning-time-dimension and data-time-dimension independently - which can be incredible.

But I think there's a ton of tooling left to be built, and culture to change around event sourcing being an enterprisey way of building things, before we start to see the future appear here. But that future will be amazing.
by stuehieyr | 2025-10-20 01:46:14+00:00
This blog presents a radical reimagining of SAT solving through the lens of quantum vacuum fluctuations and the Casimir effect. We explore how partial variable assignments can be treated as physical microstates in an energy landscape, with "almost-satisfying" configurations experiencing attractive Casimir-like forces that cause coagulation into stable solution clusters.

It’s a new way of thinking about computation as a physical process. The integration of quantum vacuum dynamics into Boolean logic is as imaginative as it is rigorous. With minor theoretical tightening and hybridization for structured problems, this could become a foundational approach in the next generation of constraint-solving algorithms.

https://github.com/sethuiyer/casimir-sat-solver
Ask HN: How can I get an invite to Lobsters?
by learningstone | 2025-10-20 01:46:26+00:00
Hi everyone ,

I’ve been reading Lobsters for a while and really enjoy the quality of discussions there. I’d love to join the community and contribute posts around front-end engineering and AI.

I’m currently building *ColorMinds.ai* – an AI-powered platform that turns text prompts into printable coloring pages. The stack is React + Vite + Cloudflare Pages, with a custom prerender pipeline for SEO optimization.

If anyone here has a spare Lobsters invite, I’d really appreciate it My email is: *jinlonghacker@gmail.com*

Thank you in advance, Nick