MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tobias3 | 2025-10-03 14:33:26+00:00
We already turned off the tap (look at the link above). It is just unimportant countries like Hungary and Slovakia that still import pipeline gas (and they're not making any friends...) . Would be great to pressure them more. Till this year Ukraine still imported nat gas from Russia btw.

LNG is a fungible commodity that is traded world-wide. Don't see much beyond symbolic value here in refusing it. Trying to enforce a price cap would be great there, but needs coordination.
by vel0city | 2025-10-03 14:34:08+00:00
Maybe inside the loop, but go to Channelview or Deer Park or Baytown or La Porte or League City or even Webster.

Go take a look around the Nasa Bypass and Gulf Freeway. You've got apartments, a Great Wolf Lodge, an oil pipeline holding station, and single family homes all right next to each other all right on top of the creek.

The parks I used to play at had active oil and gas wells right next to them. My neighborhood growing up had a big, straight greenbelt that bisected the neighborhood due to the abundance of buried gas lines in between.
by mwigdahl | 2025-10-03 14:34:27+00:00
I was annoyed at reading all the subjective comparisons and outright conspiracy theories on the Reddit AI coding groups, backed by nothing more than that day's subjective observations.

So I put the older and newer versions of Claude Code and Codex CLI to the same task of generating a simple React web app from a specification, using a consistent prompt structure, and compared the results.

It's not a quantitative evaluation, but it is an apples-to-apples qualitative comparison that shows clear differences in agent/model performance on an equivalent multistep task using equivalent approaches.
by immibis | 2025-10-03 14:34:29+00:00
Why did Charlie Kirk only ever win debates against 19-year-old college students studying things other than politics? Have you actually watched any of these debates? He "wins" the debates not by being right, but by being the loudest and most prepared with his incorrectness. This doesn't prove anything except that humans are influenced by factors other than truth. When he accidentally debates someone who is on the side of truth and knows how to debate, he gets thoroughly trounced.

My previous comment was not a setup then conclusion. It was a response to two different things in the same comment.
by pengaru | 2025-10-03 14:34:33+00:00
If you do hundreds of half assed pushups every day, consistently, you'll still be able to do 100 perfect pushups in one set when some pedantic "those aren't pushups" type tries to make you feel bad for finding a path to fitness without being a form nazi.

All that matters is area under the curve - do them daily and in quantity. Hungover? do them. Sleep deprived? do them. Headache? do them.

Form is so far in diminishing returns land it's hilarious that people bring it up, and in my experience often what's considered "perfect form" actually puts more strain on joints and increases likelihood of injury.
by js8 | 2025-10-03 14:34:43+00:00
> NATO has not expanded into Russia. Russia has expanded into Ukraine.

Morally you're correct, but on a practical level, Russia didn't want the NATO to be in Ukraine. Morality (or international law) doesn't always win - look at the Cuban missile crisis.

> People join NATO in self-defence against Russia.

Yes, the motivation of the joining countries is clear. What is less clear (and you should question), why they should be accepted - if such offers pose a risk of eventual escalation into a war. (I know it's not fair, but that's geopolitics.) It was the U.S. announcing in 2007 NATO expansion to Ukraine and Georgia, despite Germany and France being against and no public/democratic discussion of this in Ukraine and Georgia (or any other NATO member). Is it hard to believe this is done for any reason other than imperial vanity?

> They wouldn't have to if Russia didn't keep attacking its neighbours.

U.S. have attacked unprovoked countries all over the planet, why trust them more than Russia? Seems quite shortsighted.
by kqr | 2025-10-03 14:34:59+00:00
I actually think this is rather sensible. If I didn't have to learn DOS from scratch[1] to do it, I would be tempted to use it as a platform for many of my side projects. As you say, it will forever be a desirable platform to maintain (currently in the shape of DOSBox) thanks to the vast quantities of software – especially games – written for it.

[1]: I am young enough that when I last used DOS was before I had started programming, so I never learned it beyond command-line interaction.
by cootsnuck | 2025-10-03 14:36:02+00:00
I think it also just creates a lack of "urgency" problem. I live in a blue city in a red state. Constituents expect results because we can't rely on our state gov. Local officials know this. There's more competition from more progressive candidates too locally which is helpful in keeping liberal officials more focused on results instead of the game of politics.

Idk, I think it's different for every city. But I think the point I'm trying to make is that having some kind of political constraints in governance seems to typically be a good thing for the sake of getting some shit done.

Actually I think I'm just stating an obvious point now given the glaring ineffectiveness of our two party political system...
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-03 14:36:38+00:00
Apple has always stood up to the government when there was money to be made. Claiming privacy protections sells iPhones.

The people in China see nothing of the "standing up to the government" reputation and never really have. At least Google decided to pull out when the government started demanding they hand over data and apply censorship, Apple just complied and started storing data where the CCP can get to it.
by S_Bear | 2025-10-03 14:36:49+00:00
I'm a technology librarian and I spend around 20 hours a week helping seniors with their devices. I really wish that phone and TV engineers could shadow me for a few weeks and see what problems people really have using their devices (yes, people drag their TV to the library for me to look at). The number 1 complaint by far is getting rid of the home button on iphones and ipads. I've had a few patrons switch to android because it has fewer touch controls.
by rhubarbtree | 2025-10-03 14:36:56+00:00
I’ve been to more US states and cities than most Americans and every city I’ve been to has a severe homeless problem.

Whilst it’s true that europe does have homelessness too, and it has gotten worse in recent years, it is incomparable to America.

It doesn’t seem like a problem that can be fixed by some local policy or other. It’s a societal problem.

America also has stratospheric levels of inequality, a terrible healthcare system, and lacks a functional welfare state. I do not think this is a coincidence.

I’d much rather live somewhere more civilised, at the cost of higher taxation.

It always irks me to see Americans taunt Europeans on social media about their lack of very large tech companies, whilst the Europeans are perhaps too dignified to point out the consequences of America’s hypercapitalism (such as homelessness, crime, and trump) in return.
by wswope | 2025-10-03 14:37:07+00:00
Speaking as a born and raised Houstonian, that’s a completely delusional claim — and you’re believing it credulously because it fulfills a narrative that appeals to your preconceived notions.

This article is the spitting definition of drawing a bullseye around an arrow. Houston’s secret sauce of preventing mass encampments is a combo of sprawl and police brutality. There aren’t as many dense areas to congregate compared to CA, and there are more places to hide away or squat to avoid notice.

Enjoy your flavoraid though.
by a_rahmanshah | 2025-10-03 14:37:10+00:00
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by ramses0 | 2025-10-03 14:37:38+00:00
Echoing a sibling comment. OpenSCAD is DEFINITION LANGUAGE and while it feels kindof like a programming language it's wildly not. Here's a comment in a (lengthy) issue that describes in more detail.

https://github.com/openscad/openscad/pull/4478#issuecomment-...

My main complaint was you can't say with OpenSCAD:

translate(makePen().cap) ; translate(makePen().body) # ...to decompose/modify returned parts of complex objects

...and woefully, you cannot say:

pen := new Pen(q,r,s,t); box := new Box( pen.L, pen.W, pen.H ) # ...to be able to make boxes for arbitrary pens

...so it's MATHEMATICALLY parametric, not PROGRAMMABLY parametric, which led me down other CAD-language (eg: CadQuery), or you could use `*.scad` as a _rendering_ language rather than a _development_ language.
by atrus | 2025-10-03 14:37:39+00:00
I was a similar path, learned and used Autocad from kid onwards. Being able to visualize things in a top/front/side view is a huge help in modelling. And you can get pretty far in making nice things with just a simple extrude/scale workflow in Blender.

As for being worth it. depends on your goals tbh. For 3d printing/cnc, I'd still stick with cad. Blender can do it, but it's not nearly as good as any cad software. If you're looking to expand into editing videos or making models for something 3d the spatial sense will make life easier in learning Blender for sure.
by oneplane | 2025-10-03 14:37:53+00:00
You don't need to be in the Apple ecosystem to buy an Apple TV and only use non-Apple services.

The only thing that will probably suck is the lack of things like MiraCast and Google's Casting stuff, but you could use third party AirPlay software (still free IIRC) to stream whatever you want if you want to use screen mirroring.

These days people tend to use their media boxes as App Launchers for other services anyway, so it doesn't really matter that much anymore.
by jpeeler | 2025-10-03 14:38:46+00:00
Wouldn't you have the same problem with changing workspaces? Sounds like you can't keep track of anything not currently present on the screen, which before the overview was a lot harder to deal with. One thing that could help is to create a "temporary terminal" keybinding to launch in floating mode so you'll never forget to close it. Or create a focus-or-launch bind that switches to an existing terminal (tools like Nirius can help minimize scripting). The other thing that may help is adjusting your struts so you can see that windows exist to the left or the right. More of general workflow tip than one related to just terminals.
by andydotxyz | 2025-10-03 14:38:47+00:00
If you want to code everything in low level languages feel free. I guess assemblers still work well or you can just list machine code.

For those who want a fast to learn and use higher level language for this Go is a great tool and there are great projects out there. Two of them in the top 10 for all cross platform beating out a lot of other languages (no presence of GTK or Qt up that high... https://ossinsight.io/collections/cross-platform-gui-tool/)
by immibis | 2025-10-03 14:39:08+00:00
Populist denotes leaders who say anything the people want to hear - in other words, leaders who are very effective at propaganda. A populist will say they want to reduce the debt. People will vote for him, because they want the debt to decrease. That populist will increase the debt more than any other president in history and his followers won't find out - he'll tell them some different propaganda. He might even say he lowered the debt even though he obviously didn't.

A populist will say he supports free speech, then make it illegal for certain people to speak on TV, cut funding to universities where people are allowed to say things he doesn't like, take ownership of the largest social media platforms and ban everyone who disagrees with him, all while repeating the claim of supporting free speech.

A populist will say every other politician is corrupt and he's the only one who can end the corruption. When elected, he'll be more corrupt than anyone else ever, while proclaiming there's no corruption any more, and we have always been at war with Eastasia.
by HankStallone | 2025-10-03 14:39:19+00:00
Right. As I touched on elsewhere in the thread, our local jailers know all the homeless people in town because they show up regularly when their mental illnesses and/or substance abuse get them into trouble. The ordinary guy who wound up homeless due to a string of bad luck and just needs a place to sleep and a new job to get back on his feet is more a movie trope than reality. These are people with real problems who in many cases need regular supervision in something like a group home, if not outright institutionalization. And as you said, the latter is very hard to do now.
by cmoments | 2025-10-03 14:39:44+00:00
Over the last few months I’ve been building something I wasn’t sure was even possible: an AI platform for long-form film storytelling. Most of the tools out there right now are great for quick clips or short visual experiments, but I kept asking myself — could AI actually carry a full story, with characters, arcs, and emotional beats, for 30 minutes or more?

That question turned into Cinematic Moments, which we’re finally opening up. The first public demo is live, and while it’s still early, it’s the beginning of something I’ve wanted to see for a long time: AI moving beyond “snippets” into true narrative form.

A few things we’ve been working on:

Building from scripts first instead of prompts, so story drives the visuals.

Keeping characters and worlds consistent across scenes (what we call continuity locks).

Scaling runtimes from short demos to 30 minutes, 45 minutes, an hour — with the long-term goal of feature-length productions.

Releasing new pieces on a weekly cadence, so it keeps evolving.

I don’t think we’ve solved it yet — but we’re close enough to show the work in progress and get feedback. I’d love to hear what the HN community thinks: where does this fit in the future of film and media, and what pitfalls do you see?
by pas | 2025-10-03 14:39:44+00:00
there's no need to understand it, as being healthy well after being alive for hundreds of years would incentivize a lot of people to do more with their life than clutching their academic pearls.

even if not, the aphorism is not a necessity. scientific progress is a very soft thing anyway in most fields (medicine for example), and just because nowadays when the old guard dies off a new paradigm takes over doesn't necessarily mean that were the old guard alive there wouldn't be paradigm shifts!

simply accumulating the necessary data to convincingly be able to claim that the new model is better takes decades ... which conveniently coincidences with some old dog dying.

sure, likely if the old guard would be alive for a few more decades maybe they would insist on even more convincing data.

but that would at least help us to have better science!

and no one is prohibited from exploring applications of the new models before they became de facto dogma!

... and so on.

most of the time progress is limited by methods (data collection, precision - repeatability, and of course replicability), but those are usually limited by engineering, culture, funding, etc.

see the whole story with Alzheimer's and the first mouse model problem, and the failed clinical trials of various treatments, and ... despite all this how still we have no better idea, despite decades of effort!

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-defense-of-the-amyloid-h...

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-of-mice-mechani...
by cashsterling | 2025-10-03 14:40:06+00:00
Atlantic Quantum has some brilliant people and I'm sure they have some great ideas.

That said, I dislike the quantum computing craziness we're in where big claims are made without proof or data.

"We have the fastest clock speeds, lowest error rates, and most scalable architecture... no data, just take our word for it."

It will be interesting to see how they do in the DARPA QBI program.
by chaoticmass | 2025-10-03 14:40:09+00:00
Not really fair to compare the two geographic regions. Nobody wants to live on the streets in Dallas or Houston. It’s way too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. That said, living in Dallas I have seen the odd tent city pop up under some freeway overpasses but they don’t stick around very long so I guess the city does do something about it.
by conor- | 2025-10-03 14:40:17+00:00
Looking through the commit graph for Omarchy is wild. It has 2000+ commits, most of which contain the type of intermediary work pushed into the trunk that you'd see from a jr who doesn't squash their local work

Also some gems like: https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/commit/af72a45dbd4358bca...

> Remove non-existent vibe-code hallucinated options and clean up theme files

or https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/commit/4fedfbe9f19303046...

There's also Omakub[0] which was sort of a precursor to Omarchy that gives users the `wget <some url> | bash` as a means of installation where the install script is a thin wrapper around another `eval $(wget <some url>` that then git clones a repository and executes a 3rd script.

That's definitely the kinds of patterns I'd expect some prolific software engineer to use and also encourage complete novices to Linux to be comfortable just piping arbitrary wgets into a shell

[0] https://omakub.org/
by rufus_foreman | 2025-10-03 14:40:19+00:00
Another recent book along the same lines would be "Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress and How to Get It Back" by Marc Dunkelman:

"When he looked into the history, Dunkelman realized that progressives have long swung back and forth between two opposing impulses. One is what he calls Hamiltonianism: the desire to achieve progress by empowering government and institutions to tackle big problems at the direction of strong leaders (like Robert Moses) and informed experts. The other is what he calls Jeffersonianism: the desire to prevent unaccountable centralized authorities (also like Robert Moses) from abusing ordinary citizens by empowering them to fight back."

-- https://www.niskanencenter.org/why-nothing-works-with-marc-d...
by sroussey | 2025-10-03 14:40:23+00:00
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by angelofpc | 2025-10-03 14:40:36+00:00
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by ge96 | 2025-10-03 14:41:13+00:00
I just wasn't sure how you'd know where you are if you can go in any direction

I suppose if it's built like top-left is 0,0 you could just scroll up/left to get to the beginning

If you imagine there are 4 windows and are arranged 2x2 then I was thinking you'd have an icon somewhere like

[ ] [*]

[ ] [ ]

So you'd know you're at the top right position
by refset | 2025-10-03 14:41:39+00:00
> which is more efficient than "hacking it" with recursive queries in a relational db

It seems to me that the way recursive CTEs were originally defined is the biggest reason that relational databases haven't been more successful with users who need to run serious graph workloads - in Frank McSherry's words:

> As it turns out, WTIH RECURSIVE has a bevy of limitations and mysterious semantics (four pages of limitations in the version of the standard I have, and I still haven't found the semantics yet). I certainly cannot enumerate, or even understand the full list [...] There are so many things I don't understand here.

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2022...
by myfonj | 2025-10-03 14:42:07+00:00
> esoteric browser prefs

That hurts. I see where you are standing, and can confirm you expressed opinion of the contemporary majority of browser users, but man, how sad it that. The attitude diverged by a light years, when "Setting preferred fonts for generic font families" is now "esoteric". (Web) browsers ("user agents") came to existence with these capabilities in mind, and even now are build around the principle of "preferences reconciliation" between defaults, author and user (as opposed to simple "display what author dictates"). And default font choice is probably the very first aspect it ever had to handle.

(Or were you referring to some other "pref"?)
by bccdee | 2025-10-03 14:42:34+00:00
Whale hunting (and dolphin hunting) tends to come up any time the Faroes are mentioned, and I don't understand why it's such a cause celebre. I don't see how this is worse than any other form of hunting or fishing, and frankly I prefer it to most forms of animal agriculture.

Industrialized whaling has done massive damage to global whale populations, but the Faroes are tiny and (to my knowledge) their hunting practices do not have a significant ecological impact.
by lastofthemojito | 2025-10-03 14:43:01+00:00
The photos generally looked like all of the other photos I've seen posted from tourists visiting the Faroe Islands, but I was impressed by the presentation of the tall portrait-orientation image of people atop a cliff. At least on my device, all of the previous images on the page had been entirely in frame at once, but that image required 3 scrolls to reach the bottom, really driving home the height of the cliff.
by lovich | 2025-10-03 14:43:07+00:00
> … the EU commission went after criticism of politicians, which frankly is a lot more serious than what is happening in the US.

Disrespectfully, in absolutely no way is any constraints on free speech in Europe worse than what the current President in America is doing when he states that speech against him is illegal

Your entire comment is grasping at straws trying to justify the insanity going on in the US
by astafrig | 2025-10-03 14:43:23+00:00
> assistive access only works for the standard apps

Other apps can offer a proper Assistive Access mode [0], but when most developers these days put writing a real app in the ‘too hard’ basket, getting them to actually use platform features feels like an impossibly long shot.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accessibility/assi...