MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnmaguire | 2025-10-28 17:39:56+00:00
I wish I could say that Unifi has just worked for me, but any time I add a new Unifi device to the network (say a new switch, or just recently a U6 range extender), my network gets incredibly unstable until I manually restart every UniFi device on the network, sometimes multiple times. (i.e. Some devices won't connect to WiFi due to DHCP IP configuration errors.) And that's after getting the device adopted, which generally takes multiple retries.

I've also had three instances where upon rebooting due to a power outage or a system update, my inbound firewall / port forwarding was just broken. UniFi simply did not pass packets to my server. Once again, a full reboot of every UniFi device on the network resolved it.

I really want to like UniFi, and I appreciate how much access I have to SSH in and figure out what's going on (and I did take tcpdumps and have a support case open), but it has definitely not been plug-and-play for me.

I'm using a UDR7, U7 Lite, a number of managed UniFi switches, and just recently added the U6 extender.
by reaperducer | 2025-10-28 17:40:11+00:00
Deviance is all around, the author is too trapped in a bubble to see it.

Show me the modern counter-culture movement. Show me the modern Firesign Theater. Show me today's National Lampoon. Show me the modern Anarchist's Cookbook.

No, 2600 doesn't count. It's a toothless parody of what it once was that you can buy on the shelf at Barnes and Noble next to Taylor Swift magazines.

Heck, even the 2000's had hipsters.

Where are the protest songs? I think this is the first generation that doesn't have mainstream protest songs.
Open challenge to all the vibe coding fans and enthusiasts
by pyeri | 2025-10-28 17:40:45+00:00
Here is my open challenge to all vibe coding proponents who think this way of software development with LLM prompting as the only or primary means actually works.

Show or cite me at least one open source non-trivial app (Desktop or Web) which is usable and proven (at least a few thousand github stars) - and built entirely using vibe coding.

If you can show me such a project, I'll be a convert and start changing my view towards LLMs and take vibe coding (and even AI assistance in programming) a lot more seriously.
by ericmay | 2025-10-28 17:40:46+00:00
> Those yokels on January 6th tried. But do you think they could have overcome even the local SWAT let alone the military?

Well they did - they weren't far away from grabbing Nancy Pelosi or Mike Pence. What's the US military going to do? It's not really equipped for this kind of stuff, oh and those yokels didn't really bring a ton of firearms, but they could have. Thankfully I don't think those yokels expected to have the success that they did and they didn't really intend to try and overthrow the government, though I personally believe they all should have been tried as many of them were.

> There are very much two views of what America should be like and pretending there isn’t is why Democrats keep losing.

The Democrats are losing because their ideas are by and large bad, and most Americans don't agree with them. Communism? Open Borders? Those are the topics that dominate the Democratic Party right now and as an independent I also find those ideas completely unpalatable, even though perhaps stupidly I still keep voting for Democrats locally because the MAGA goons make me so mad.

I'm not suggesting the country isn't divided - it always has been and it's perhaps more divided now because people are spending all day on the Internet, but further dividing the country be calling things "red" or "blue" is actively harmful. Besides even in those so called "red" or "blue" areas there are plenty of people who are on the other side of the dominating spectrum. Plenty of rural Californias who vote Republican, plenty of liberals in Kansas City.
by bartread | 2025-10-28 17:40:47+00:00
I agree: it is more than faintly infuriating that when people say AI what the vast majority mean is LLMs.

But, at the same time, we have clearly passed a significant inflection point in the usefulness of this class of AI, and have progressed substantially beyond that inflection point as well.

So I don't really buy into the idea tha OpenAI have gone out of their way to foist a watered down view of AI upon the masses. I'm not completely absolving them but I'd probably be more inclined to point the finger at shabby and imprecise journalism from both tech and non-tech outlets, along with a ton of influencers and grifters jumping on the bandwagon. And let's be real: everyone's lapped it up because they've wanted to - because this is the first time any of them have encountered actually useful AI of any class that they can directly interact with. It seems powerful, mysterious, perhaps even agical, and maybe more than a little bit scary.

As a CTO how do you think it would have gone if I'd spent my time correcting peers, team members, consultants, salespeople, and the rest to the effect that, no, this isn't AI, it's one type of AI, it's an LLM, when ChatGPT became widely available? When a lot of these people, with no help or guidance from me, were already using it to do useful transformations and analyses on text?

It would have led to a huge number of unproductive and timewasting conversation, and I would have seemed like a stick in the mud.

Sometimes you just have to ride the wave, because the only other choice is to be swamped by it and drown.

Regardless of what limitations "AGI" has, it'll be given that monicker when a lot of people - many of them laypeople - feel like it's good enough. Whether or not that happens before the current LLM bubble bursts... tough to say.
by nradov | 2025-10-28 17:40:58+00:00
Yes, it is a huge mess. For patients who do have health insurance it's worth checking your health plan's online cost estimator tool before any elective treatments. Most payers are now legally required to offer an estimator to members under federal cost transparency rules. It can be confusing to know what to search for but at least worth a try for something like an MRI.
by aj_hackman | 2025-10-28 17:41:00+00:00
I was born in 90, and your post sent me down memory lane. When I was still in diapers my parents put a lien on their house so my mom could get a 486 machine, learn Lotus 1-2-3, and get a better job. One of my earliest memories is watching it boot up, seeing all the BIOS text that I couldn't read or understand scrolling across the screen, and wondering what that machine was thinking about to get itself all the way to Hard Drivin' or Wolf 3D. I asked my mom many years later why she didn't just get a C64, and she scoffed and asserted it was a cheap piece of junk made to play crappy games. The PC was a serious business machine for adults.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-28 17:41:05+00:00
Last time I had blood work done, my doctor and I decided on a set of cholesterol related markers beyond your typical cholesterol assay.

It took me a week and hours of phone calls to figure out what would be covered, and how much the non-covered tests would cost. The doctor pointed at the lab, the lab pointed at insurance, insurance pointed at the doctor.

Finally it was the lab that was able to produce numbers.

And when I was finally billed those numbers were still incorrect! (and thankfully cheaper)
by philipbjorge | 2025-10-28 17:41:23+00:00
> We asked for a bill with the standard CPT codes. No reply. Asked again. “Oh, we meant to send it. We upgraded our computers five months ago and nothing works.” Uh-huh. Finally got the CPT codes.

I work in healthcare RCM. I have no trouble believing the staff here that nothing in their system works.
by vcanales | 2025-10-28 17:41:51+00:00
I use these at night, sleeping with them on. I experienced this screeching intermittently for like a week, and then it went away almost completely. Now, it only happens if I lay down in a very specific way. It's probably related to the strength of the seal in my case, and maybe at higher altitudes and different pressures the seal is affected in a similar way.

The seal might have improved for me the more I used the same eartips
by wmwragg | 2025-10-28 17:41:55+00:00
I'm aware, I use ARM images all the time, I was trying to indicate that the usual refrain that the developers have had years to migrate their software to apple silicon, doesn't really apply to docker images. It's only the increase in use of ARM elsewhere (possibly driven by the great performance of macs running apple silicon) which has driven any migration of docker images to have ARM versions
by landdate | 2025-10-28 17:42:01+00:00
Yes, but that doesn't mean I won't react with the same hostility that I recieve. It contradicts common sense one user will be burdened by hostility, and when they lash back out, the accosters will show it as proof of something. In another aspect, most people I have met in real life are cowards who don't dare speak out of turn. Of course, I have never had this issue in real life or otherwise, and I take personal joy in the wisdom I raise before the invalids, even though they will never appreciate or understand it.
by lapcat | 2025-10-28 17:42:03+00:00
A number of comments have suggested lead poisoning, but I think that's far too facile an answer. Perhaps it explains a bit, but does lead poisoning make you prefer original movies to sequels or to have better musical taste? If so, I say bring back the lead! ;-)

The article author presents a life expectancy explanation, but I think that's even less plausible than lead poisoning. When I was a teenager, I wasn't thinking about how long I would live, and it would have made no difference whether life expectancy was 60, 70, 80, or 90. Does it make any sense at all that teens drink alcohol and smoke pot if they believe they'll live to 70 but not if they believe they'll live to 90?

One thing that has definitely changed is parenting styles. I was a stereotypical "latchkey kid". Between the end of school and the beginning of dinner, I was free to go anywhere and do anything with no adult supervision. This was very common among GenX. However, later generations suffered from "helicopter parents" who won't let their kids out of their sight and arranged "playdates" and other organized activities for their kids, not allowing them to spontaneously choose for themselves. I suspect a lot of that was inspired by fear, American's Most Wanted and similar fearmongering about stranger danger and child abduction.

There's probably not just one factor to explain everything. Corporate consolidation, for example, also explains many cultural changes, and such consolidation has been occurring and growing over the course of many decades, even before the internet.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-10-28 17:42:42+00:00
It's a natural consequence of a highly-connected communication graph. People with extreme political views talk about politics a lot, so casual political conversations are naturally going to disproportionately represent the extremes. Similarly, when people more-or-less agree, they tend to discuss politics less (because there's only so much preaching the choir that people can stand). Most meatspace communication graphs happen between people who tend to have similar world views, but online, you've got neonazis and anarchists replying to the same reddit threads. The combination of the above two factors means that by far the most political views you'll end up seeing are 1) your own, followed by 2) extreme versions of your opposition's views.
by alphazard | 2025-10-28 17:42:48+00:00
There is too much effort going into software licensing. Copyright is not part of the meta, information wants to be free; it will always be possible to copy code and run it, and difficult to prove that a remote machine is executing any particular program. It will get easier to decompile code as AI improves, so even the source code distribution stuff will become a moot point.

Licenses have been useful in the narrow niche of extracting software engineering labor from large corporations, mostly in the US. The GPL has done the best job of that, as it has a whole organization dedicated to giving it teeth. Entities outside the US, and especially outside of the West, are less vulnerable to this sort of lawfare.
by FrankWilhoit | 2025-10-28 17:42:48+00:00
I'm sorry, I still don't get it. Look at the diagram: B and R are continuously in contact with liquid mercury and therefore exposed to its (notoriously sky-high) vapor pressure. Entrainment be damned: I simply do not see how any combination of velocity and gravity could prevent that vapor pressure from remaining in equilibrium with the liquid mercury. Now if the working fluid were something with a negligible vapor pressure, I could understand it -- but, evidently, I would be wrong. What is going on?
by Etheryte | 2025-10-28 17:42:55+00:00
An even better option is to go to your GP and have them run your bloodwork. It's cheap, depending on where you're from it might even be free, and you don't have to guess or randomly pick supplements you read about online. Most people on HN will live to a very high age, there's no reason to take random gambles on what you do to your body.
by foldr | 2025-10-28 17:43:00+00:00
In the US care like that is rationed by wealth rather than by need. Your parents are getting MRI scans that they may not really need, while uninsured Americans aren't getting MRI scans that they may actually need.

I bet we could cut down NHS waiting lists a fair bit if we arbitrarily decided that ~10% of the population were no longer entitled to a wide range of non-emergency treatments.
by scottlamb | 2025-10-28 17:43:09+00:00
> While it's an interesting story, I doubt they needed Claude to work a hospital bill down to that amount. Hospital billing folks are acutely aware that the initial bill is outrageous and indefensible from their end.

OP agrees: "Ultimately, my big takeaway is that individuals on self-pay shouldn’t pay any more than an insurance company would pay—and which a hospital would accept as profitable business—than the largest medical payer in the country. I had access to tools that helped me land on that number, but the moral issue is clear. Nobody should pay more out of pocket than Medicare would pay. No one. ... Hospitals know they are the criminals they are and if you properly call them on it they will back down."

> I've heard a ton of cases where folks basically "pay what they can" for the bill and that's good enough for both parties. I doubt the reasoning Claude provided was ultimately what got the hospital to knock the bill down, probably more around the legal action and PR threats. Ironically, the hospital will probably count this as charity even though OP didn't want to be considered charity, as they had to write off part of the bill.

I read that OP refused to sign something that fraudulently said the full price was $195k but rather insisted on signing on a bill that said the full price was $33k or $37k or something. (Maybe $4k was called charity.) They might have presented a completely different bill to the IRS to justify tax-exempt status, but that illegal action would be totally on them; OP is not participating in their tax fraud. I applaud OP for that and hope this becomes the norm.
by integralid | 2025-10-28 17:43:17+00:00
It does not. DNS attacks happen. It won't be used by APT on you or me, but may be used as an escalation mechanism in a company, for example. It's also something a hacked router could do, but I never heard of it happening, to be fair.

I was actually personally a victim of such (unsuccessful) attack in the tor network. SSH login to my hidden service complained about a wrong fingerprint. The same happened when I tried again. After tor restart, problem disappeared. I assume this was an attempt at SSH mitm by one of exit nodes?
by itsalwaysgood | 2025-10-28 17:43:18+00:00
Biased newsfeeds are one thing, cronyism and flooding courts/weaponizing the judicial system are a different thing.

It could be the case that the level of cronyism and weaponizing we see today is the same amount as in the past.

It's up to the reader to determine how much of their opinion is due to bias, and how much is due to a real increase in nefarious political strategy. Some are more diligent about checking their sources that others.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-10-28 17:43:30+00:00
The annoying part is that there is a credible link between them, so it's harder to dismiss.

There is an established statistically measurable link between some viral infections during pregnancy and autism. So there is a statistically measurable link between Tylenol use (which reduce fever and pain) with the person having fever and pain.

If there is published science claiming so, they have to now argue for why this science is misleading or wrong instead of simply dismissing the case for having no scientific ground. The science is lazy but not outright wrong, and has not been retracted.

The tragic part is that it's far worse for the baby for a the mother to have a high unchecked fever or infection, or to use any other painkiller (most of which are well known to be dangerous during pregnancy). So even if there is a remnant risk after taking relevant variables into account, it is a far preferable risk to continue to use it.
by basiccalendar74 | 2025-10-28 17:43:56+00:00
Passive investing is not an issue, but the default bias towards large cap equities like SP500, Nasdaq100. Passive investing through total market ETFs (like VTI) maintains the status quo.

For example, if they are only two companies, say with 1T and 4T market cap. If one invests 5M into a total market ETF, 1M is allocated to company A and 4M to company B. But since company B is 4x bigger than company A, the upward price pressure is the same for both companies.
by panick21 | 2025-10-28 17:44:18+00:00
Yes. When I was playing around with different configuration for what a machine could look like back then, you realize that the RAM cost is dominate. So you can develop as many chips as you want, that leads to high fixed cost, but the marginal cost is tiny.

While on the other hand, RAM is easely equal to all other chips on the board combined.

So you need to desperatly do everything you can to limit RAM usage. That's why Amiga was smart to do shared RAM between the CPU and the Chipset. The Archimedes did the same thing as well. And ideally you get some SRAM on there not depend on the RAM to much, ARM3 chip did that and speed improved by a huge extent.

And you really need a good operating system that could give you advanced features without completely blowing up your RAM.

That is why it is sad that nobody with sufficent capital to pump into costume chip design took on a project like that, as it needs to be somebody with the volume the economics work out.

But nobody did and instead we got there threw an iterative process where PC manufactures pumped out PC and bought the cheapest chips, while Intel and chip companies integrated the board more and more. I remember learning about Southbridge and Northbridge, and that essentially the design you end up with.
by Levitz | 2025-10-28 17:44:38+00:00
Quick google points to about 1M Basque speakers in the EU against 5-6M Danish speakers, there's also the fact that Basque is not the only official language in the country it belongs to, and that it's in fact not spoken in the vast majority of the country.

From https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-histor... we can find an excerpt relating to the policy and its purpose:

>One of the EU’s founding principles is multilingualism.

>This policy aims to:

>communicating with its citizens in their own languages

>protecting Europe’s rich linguistic diversity

>promoting language learning in Europe

With this in mind, the first intention fails by an enormous margin, given that 95%+ of Spain doesn't speak an iota of Basque, the second is met handily, given the long history of the language, and I'm not sure what to think about the third, any language whatsoever would serve that purpose.
by torstenvl | 2025-10-28 17:44:55+00:00
It's a bizarre assumption that this is about "neglected software."

A lot of software is for x64 only.

If Rosetta2 goes away, Parallels support for x64 binaries in VMs likely goes away too. Parallels is not neglected software. The x64 software you'd want to run on Parallels are not neglected software.

This is a short-sighted move. It's also completely unprecedented; Apple has dropped support for previous architectures and runtimes before, but never when the architecture or runtime was the de facto standard.

https://docs.parallels.com/parallels-desktop-developers-guid...
by slg | 2025-10-28 17:45:10+00:00
>So it gives the appearance of “opinionated news is good, so long as the opinions are correct.”

All news is opinionated news and some opinions are objectively better than others. For example, the simple act of choosing which story to cover is an opinionated choice and if a news outlet decided to cover a random high school teacher the same way they cover the POTUS, that would be an objectively incorrect editorial opinion.
Show HN: Mindstamp – Make Any Video Interactive
by ladybro | 2025-10-28 17:45:10+00:00
Hey HN!

My name is Brett and I'm the solo developer behind Mindstamp.

Mindstamp turns any video into a two-way, interactive experience by layering in clickable buttons, hotspots, quiz questions, branching, images, and a whole lot more.

Here's a quick walkthrough: https://youtu.be/CD42oKQjnKI

Back in 2018, I built a product called Aech that let you add comments on top of videos for your friends so it felt like you were watching together.

That didn't quite work, but it got into the hands of a couple video agencies using it for client feedback, and for the past 7 years I've listened to the feedback that users have given to continually improve the platform.

Today, we are used primarily by corporate training teams and educational institutions that want to ensure their content is being 1. watched and 2. understood.

Rather than watching a video and taking a quiz at the end, we put that quiz right inside the video to ensure they are paying attention.

Here's a live demo: https://mindstamp.com/demo

Mindstamp is built using a Rails backend and a Vue.js frontend. A few months back, I completed a full rebuild of the entire app since it accumulated a lot of technical debt after 7 years of learning while building. It took me 12 months, but now I can sleep at night, so I'd say it was worth it.

Happy to answer any questions or provide more info. Thank you!
by Sesse__ | 2025-10-28 17:45:16+00:00
> Often Cisco/etc will refuse support cases if you aren't using their optics, if the switches/routers even work with them in the first case, which isn't a given as often they'll refuse to work with non branded optics.

As others here have pointed out, Cisco reserves the right to do this but doesn't do it in practice. They don't even have a realistic chance to _detect_ a Cisco-programmed FS SFP, since it simply identifies the same as a genuine Cisco module.

If your case was directly related to the SFP (“I can't get a link on this fiber port”), then yes, they could probably refuse it. But if your case is about basically anything else on the switch, they won't care.
by poisonborz | 2025-10-28 17:45:22+00:00
What does this sentence even mean? A regular car crash basically always has someone at fault, a reckless or unattentive driver, a service employee or a manufacturer. What does "death by robotaxi" change by that? That responsibility should dissolve, and people would say "oh it was an Act of the Algorithm, move on, it's still worth it?"
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-10-28 17:45:31+00:00
Well... by filing the suit, if it isn't dismissed immediately, then Texas gets to do discovery on J&J. J&J may be unwilling to let that happen.

So options are dismissed immediately, J&J settles, Texas drops it after discovery (if they fail to find a smoking gun), or it goes to trial and Texas has to actually prove it.