MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dlcarrier | 2025-10-19 22:29:15+00:00
In the US, prescription and OTC are theoretically completely unrelated, but in practice patent holders want their drugs to be prescription, where end users aren't involved in the process of selecting or paying for the drug, whereas generic manufacturers want the drugs to be OTC, where end users are choosing the product in a competitive market.

See, for example, Prilosec (Omeprazole) switching from prescription to OTC.
by infamia | 2025-10-19 22:29:22+00:00
No, there are plenty of other examples (just in games alone) to write off as a mere one-off oversight. It certainly seems targeted since they've targeted religious apps that don't even have any explicit content. For an app store that is supposed to advocate for freedom this is disturbing and very off-putting. The answer is not submitting a PR to enable even more censorship.
by cardanome | 2025-10-19 22:29:23+00:00
Mostly prints vs sticker, color consistency, building techniques, visible sprue points, whether figurines has special prints on arms and stuff like that.

For a child most sets will be fine if you don't need to care about the price. Though some sets want to install an Smartphone app for full functionality which I think is a pretty shite idea as most good parents want to get their children away from the screens.

However a lot of adults are also collecting Lego. And the 1000 Dollar Death Start is aimed at them, not children. It is an UCS set, which normally means higher quality.

The problem is that a lot of cost cutting measures have been used to save up a few cents here and there for the most expensive set ever. The figurines are trash. The sets includes stickers. The problem with stickers is that they look like ass over time so not really suited for serious collecting.

The backside of the set looks absolutely disgusting. Which would be fine as you could put it in front of a wall but alas you can only access certain features by the backside. The elevator mechanic is trash. Honestly just watch a video of the thing.

And worst of all, the Tie Fighter needed for the set to be complete was only available as an extra goodie for early buyers to spread FOMO. One thousand dollars and you don't even get the whole thing. Scalpers sell that Tie Fighter for like two hundred.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-19 22:29:32+00:00
Yeah I was wondering if there was perhaps some regional differences. The one time I did a DIY fix of my dishwasher I was pleasantly surprised with how easy it was. They're largely very simple devices, and aside from a couple screws to keep them from tipping, they slide right out of the opening they're in.

> [...] German ones can be a bit more of a pain

I did replace my dishwasher a few years ago with a Bosch. Uh-oh!
by atmavatar | 2025-10-19 22:30:07+00:00
There was nothing to stop the Republican party from unilaterally averting the shutdown, and there's nothing stopping them from unilaterally ending it. They have the majority in both houses as well as the presidency, so they can pass anything they like.

The only road bump in place is the Senate filibuster rule - but that's a rule that can be (and has been) tossed aside when inconvenient. Recall that Republicans removed the filibuster from judicial appointments when they wanted to ram through multiple Supreme Court justices and hundreds of lower court judges.

The underlying problem is that the current Republican party wants this shutdown because it reinforces their half-century-long message that government is broken and gives them cover to remove federal workers.

It also doesn't help that the House is remaining closed to delay seating an incoming Democrat representative from an Arizona special election.

Expect this shutdown to continue for a while.
by muddassirhq | 2025-10-19 22:30:22+00:00
Title: AppleNotes Blogger Theme — an Apple Notes–style single-file Blogger theme (just sharing)

Hi HN — I made a single-file Blogger theme (applenotes.xhtml) that turns a Blogger blog into an Apple Notes–like three-column layout: folders/labels, notes list, and a reader/editor column. I’m posting this because I like the aesthetic and thought others might enjoy a minimal, old‑school blogging UI.

What it is - One XHTML/Blogger theme file (applenotes.xhtml) with an inline <b:skin> CSS block. - Uses Blogger template tags and widgets (Label, BlogArchive, Blog widget) so it uploads directly to blogger.com. - GPL‑3.0 licensed.

Why - Blogger was my first web platform and I wanted a simple, usable theme that feels like Apple Notes for people who just want to write and organize privately/publicly. - It’s intentionally minimal and opinionated — not a modern CMS clone, just a pleasant writing/listing interface.

Features - Responsive three-column layout that collapses for mobile. - Styled folder/label list, notes list with hover/active states, and a reading/editor area. - Toolbar, search input, empty states. - Easy to tweak colors, fonts, and column widths in the <b:skin> block.

How to use 1. Backup your current Blogger theme. 2. Theme → Restore → Upload, then paste or upload applenotes.xhtml. 3. Adjust colors/widths by editing the CSS inside the <b:skin> block (ensure UTF‑8).

Notes - This is a personal design project; I’m not soliciting feature requests, contributors are welcomed. If you want to fork or adapt it, it’s GPL‑3.0 — please include the license.

Do you have anything, nostalgia or otherwise to share or mention?
by kazinator | 2025-10-19 22:30:24+00:00
Generally speaking, only images/videos are NSFW-taggable.

The argument can be made than an app which displays religious imagery is not suitable for the workplace, but if it's just a reader with texts, then not.

If someone wants to spy over your shoulder to read text on your screen, and it doesn't jibe with their religion, that is their problem.

And, if that's where the goalposts lie, then atheistic texts could be offensive in such a way. I.e. a Mastodon post claiming "there is no god" should be marked NSFW and blurred out until you click something.
by tim333 | 2025-10-19 22:30:35+00:00
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45493287 246 comments

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45465969 111 comments

both on "AI bubble is 17 times bigger"

By the way the 17 times refers to an interest rate model and is largely unrelated to AI. Explained here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz2EqmqNNlE&t=306
by zzgo | 2025-10-19 22:30:37+00:00
> This is what government is for

In my home country, the people building the robots and job destroying AI have captured all three branches of government, and have been saying for over 40 years that they'd like to shrink government down to a size that they could drown it in a bathtub. The government can't be relied upon to do more than move its military into our cities to violently stifle dissent.
by cvoss | 2025-10-19 22:30:37+00:00
This is a very problematic choice and as much as I want to think it wasn't malicious, at every turn it sure looks like it's meant to be inflammatory.

I can think of exactly one good reason to mark religious content as NSFW (under F-Droid's bizarre and very not normal definition of that word): To protect persons living in areas of the world where association with that religion is ruinous or outright dangerous due to persecution.

Aside from that extreme outlier, this is very bad, to not only associate a censoring label to anybody's relgious text, but a label that accuses the text of being offensive in the name of not producing offense. Virtue-signaled sensitivity to users desires (as if that's a single, unified, knowable thing), "political incorrectness" and "religious... settings"? Yikes, so much irony. Anti-feature indeed.

This whole matter is far outside the bounds of a software repository's domain of responsibility, and it's inappropriate for them to try.
by mihaaly | 2025-10-19 22:31:31+00:00
> don't think there is a file manager available on any platform as good as Windows file explorer

Good joke, made my day! : )

(very sorry, it is late, would love to collect and expand in a dedicated thread later. a prime reason for hating to turn on my work computer - no Windows at home! -, me, the tech enthusiast since learned how to hold a screwdriver, is Windows Explorer. so many senseless inconsistencies with unfinished junk petrified into unmutable practicies that changing line of work where never ever need to use Windows again is getting increasingly attractive very fast. even goat herding sounds a sensible alternative sometimes)
by conartist6 | 2025-10-19 22:32:02+00:00
Yeah that's a fair take. I think you're reading the situation right in terms of the difficulty of driving adoption. We can't just be a tiny bit better, or just better at one thing. To get people to take migrate into a whole new ecosystem we'll have to push the boundaries in several dimensions, and in a practical sense we have to show the early adopters at least one killer feature that makes it worth it for them to spend time there in the first place.

I would explicitly push back on one idea though, which is that this our approach is monolithic. Yes our tech stack looks foreign from the outside (and it is) but inside it's quite nicely broken down into different layers and libraries with well-differentiated responsibilities. The core of the IDE is so incredibly lightweight that we embed it into our blog posts to parse and syntax highlight our code examples. That gives you a little hint of how we intend to get the tech into the hands of a lot more people. We intend to be able to give them a whole IDE that runs effortlessly in their web browser!
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-19 22:32:28+00:00
That's similar to what sent my last Samsung fridge to its next home. Samsung apparently had some problems with wire movement in the door hinge, so they changed the design and embedded the wires in glue/foam/whatever. So now if you have a problem with those wires, which happens because it's a hinge ... you get to replace the whole door at least. Turns out to be an expensive pain in the ass if the fridge is more than a few years old, it was more time- and cost-effective to get a new fridge at that point.
by TheTaytay | 2025-10-19 22:34:19+00:00
This hides those apps from the search unless that user enables the NSFW filter. When seen through that lens, I can’t imagine the overlap of users who are searching for a Bible app and who also want to show NSFW apps with them. When seen through that lens, it doesn’t seem like this is a user-friendly decision or one that is taking the user in control or taking their context into account.
by h2zizzle | 2025-10-19 22:35:01+00:00
Productivity has outpaced population growth for some time, and the largest obstacle to the full-fledged social stability that would guarantee ubiquitous "food on the table" (at least, in the West) are people like you, who advocate zealously for artificial scarcity based on a mistaken or emotional sentiment.

Anyway, "consumer freedom" as we know it is a facade, with a handful of conglomerates owning most of the brands you know, a few large investment funds owning the conglomerates, and a few factories in Asia supplying many of the parts and products that nominally Western brands sell. The choices aren't meaningful and the costs are higher because we try to maintain this appearance of choice (hence, Temu).
by toyg | 2025-10-19 22:35:40+00:00
> It's just not part of their world takeover plan anymore

That's because they don't have a world takeover plan anymore. That plan failed, so they came up with other ones (mobile! Subscriptions!) and those failed too - so now they're just trying to survive.

I honestly prefer for Ubuntu to be just another Linux player doing what most Linux players do (i.e. looking after n.1 and focusing on internal consistency), rather than their original borg-like form that tried to co-opt the entire ecosystem. As much as I enjoy a reliable Debian-like infrastructure everywhere, there is value in the fundamental diversity of distros focused on different ways to "do Linux".
by hypeatei | 2025-10-19 22:36:08+00:00
The President typically has a lot of influence over party members in normal times, the Republican sychopants who are in Congress now will do whatever he says. A bipartisan border bill was killed before Trump even got re-elected[0] simply because he didn't want it passed.

0: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-kill-b...
by andai | 2025-10-19 22:38:54+00:00
Sound is a good cue to problems. In one place I worked, we had a big board of dials showing what was happening to our web servers. The hands were moved by little servomotors that made a slight noise when they turned. I couldn't see the board from my desk, but I found that I could tell immediately, by the sound, when there was a problem with a server.

https://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html
by sipofwater | 2025-10-19 22:39:22+00:00
* "New Oklahoma schools superintendent rescinds mandate for Bible instruction in schools": https://apnews.com/article/oklahoma-schools-bible-mandate-su... (apnews.com/article/oklahoma-schools-bible-mandate-superintendent-630b2f706731224a070d7fef6a35b7d8)

* "Want the Bible in public school classrooms? There's an app for that": https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/11/04/an-oklahoman... (www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/11/04/an-oklahoman-wants-ryan-walters-to-considering-a-free-bible-app-instead-of-spending-millions-on-athe/75570802007/); https://archive.ph/14iDg
by Hizonner | 2025-10-19 22:40:20+00:00
> label that accuses the text of being offensive

Abrahamic religious texts, and a lot of others as well, are offensive. They clearly and directly glorify oppressive and/or genocidal violence in the past. There's a very strong argument that they demand similar violence in the present and future. They definitely demand a whole bunch of evil and oppressive social institutions. They're more offensive than hardcore porn. Any "believers" who claim they don't really mean what they say should get exactly as much consideration as people who claim hardcore porn doesn't really mean the sex.

It's just that F-Droid shouldn't be in the business of caring what's "NSFW".
by charcircuit | 2025-10-19 22:40:42+00:00
>He should be up there with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and all the rest of them, one of the great figures of the history of computing. He should have made as much money as they did

I disagree. The amount of value companies like Microsoft and Apple have given the world is many many orders of magnitude than what this guy did. It's hard to have 1 person compete against the efforts of hundreds of thousands of people. Just being early to field of computing shouldn't automatically make someone a "great."
by danpalmer | 2025-10-19 22:41:06+00:00
I used it in ~2018-2020 on Slack (as well as waaay back on Campfire), and it was showing its age. The Node ecosystem, for all its faults, has come a long way since Hubot was created, and working with Hubot felt dated. I believe the original was written in CoffeScript!

That said, if all you want is a few quick scripts hooked up to chat, it's still pretty low effort. Alternatives require a fair bit more setup, and while they're better for it, maybe you don't need that.
by Animats | 2025-10-19 22:41:29+00:00
People who have visited Bletchley Park or are into early computing history know of Tommy Flowers. Few others do.

He should have been involved in 1950s computing. But he went back to the Post Office Research Station to work on phone switches again. He did good work on phone switches.[1] But vacuum tubes in phone switches were never a good idea, and the technology of phone switches was its own little world. Fully electronic phone switches were several decades away.

[1] https://www.communicationsmuseum.org.uk/emuseum/electronicsw...
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-19 22:41:33+00:00
Debian is famous for modifying all programs it ships, it is more the rule than the exception. That's the deal I get when choosing Debian. SSH is more of a protocol, than a trademarked program.

> Organizarions that open source software can have closed source infrastructure that you can't request.

Which can't be a source for the program binaries, so you can still audit them, you just can't rely on e.g. their proprietary test suite.
by ImJamal | 2025-10-19 22:41:43+00:00
Gerrymandering is just a symptom, not the problem. The US has had 435 house representatives since the Reapportionment Act of 1929. The population of the US during the 1930 census was about a third of what it is today. If we bumped it up to about 1300 representatives gerrymandering a district or two wouldn't really matter.
by scarecrowbob | 2025-10-19 22:41:44+00:00
I work with audio professionally and it took me a years to get a feel for dynamics processing. Like, it wasn't until I down sat with a nice compressor (in my case a Neve 453) and just did a lot of experiments, and then took my experiences from those experiments to my live gigs.

IME, you can get a feel for what the threshold and ratio are doing pretty quickly, and that's probably enough to be useful. In broad strokes that's all you need to make them "work". If you have the attack set way fast, you'll start to hear the signal get a bit muddy.

But attack and release (especially on a lot of plugins) are a bit funky, and I still can't tell what the knee is doing unless I move the knob around. And I own a couple clones (76kt or gold comp 2a) and a couple of distressors, and they sound different but I still need play around with them to coax them into what I think they should sound like.
by foofoo12 | 2025-10-19 22:41:47+00:00
> It has happened to me several times that I was stuck on some problem for an hour in the night, but was able to solve it in 5 minutes in the morning.

If you really try to solve a problem and then put it away for a day or two, you'll often find that your brain has done some good background processing on the problem.

I've experienced it multiple times and one of our professors recommended it as a "trick of the trade". But you have to do an serious attempt to solve the problem before you can send it to the background thread.
by j1elo | 2025-10-19 22:42:16+00:00
Same. Is there a project page or anything that explains the context, the reasons, the history behind this? I bet it would be very interesting.

The Readme is too technical and misses a writeup on the soul of the project: Section 1, title. Section 2, already talking about Ubuntu and dependencies. Where is section "Why?" :-) ?
Tell HN: Opportunity to build NCLEX prep that teaches, not just tests
by johnnyApplePRNG | 2025-10-19 22:42:22+00:00
I've been watching my partner grind for the NCLEX - UWorld, pricey bundles, the whole circus - and the vibe is "learn to beat the test", not "learn nursing". I'm not knocking hard work or the point of a licensure exam, but it's wild how much energy goes into memorizing tricks that fall apart once you step outside the multiple choice bubble.

Take the "ROME" mnemonic for acid-base. It's catchy and, sure, it "works" something like 80% of the time. But one out of five is a rough failure rate when the outcome matters. If a patient heard "my acronyms get me most of the way there", they wouldn't be reassured.

What I wish existed is a resource that puts understanding first and makes passing the side effect. Picture a concept map of physiology and clinical priorities where every question hangs off the actual idea, so when you miss something the system walks you to the exact misconception - not just "do more cardio". Explanations would teach instead of justify, spelling out why each tempting distractor is wrong in this case and when it would be right in a different scenario. Adaptive practice would notice patterns in reasoning - prioritization slips, safety misses, lab confusion - and coach those directly, with a conversational tone drafted by a cheap LLM and reviewed by humans for accuracy.

I'm not here to dunk on any single company; the incentives feel off across the ecosystem. Expensive content and brittle heuristics reward short term gains over durable mental models, and that's backwards for a profession built on judgment. If anyone here is building a free or actually affordable, learner first NCLEX or general health science resource, I'd love to see it. I can't lead it right now, but I'll test, contribute where I can, and cheer.
by pogue | 2025-10-19 22:42:31+00:00
It sounds like people will be flocking to Canada to fill their ozempic prescriptions. However, the WP just posted this article about how ordering rx meds from Canada has become unaffordable due to tariffs.

Many seniors get cheaper medicine from Canada. That might become harder https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/18/deminimis...

No paywall: https://archive.ph/nT0Jl
by toast0 | 2025-10-19 22:43:13+00:00
> It shouldn't have happened in the first place. OpenSSH should control their exact dependencies and Debian shouldn't be meddling with them and swapping them out, loading random code into OpenSSH's process.

IIRC, this dependency isn't in upstream OpenSSH.

However, OpenSSH is open source with a non-restrictive license and as such, distributors (including Linux distributions) can modify it and distribute modified copies. Additionally, OpenSSH has a project goal that "Since telnet and rlogin are insecure, all operating systems should ship with support for the SSH protocol included." which encourages OS projects to include their software, with whatever modifications are (or are deemed) necessary.

Debian frequently modifies software it packages, often for better overall integration; ocassionally with negative security consequences. Adding something to OpenSSH to work better with systemd is in both categories, I guess.