MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by submeta | 2025-10-31 19:46:11+00:00
Too little, too late. After the Snowden revelations there were no reasons to use US tech, for any org outside of the USA. It was obvious that US state actors do not respect any non-US actor. We Europeans need to treat US IT companies just like Russian or Chinese IT companies. And build our own infrastructure. The US does not care about alliences. It will treat any ally just like any other country.

Edit: Office365 is a pile of horse poo. These tools do not allow you to do brain surgery. There are other alternatives to write text, do calculations, and send emails. Nothing that justifies being compromised by US state actors.
by buildsjets | 2025-10-31 19:46:49+00:00
Note that in the Ancient Greek democracies, the people who worked 12 hour days 6-7 days a week and had a life expectancy of 30 years were called "Slaves", and they were not allowed to vote.

Non-laboring, land-owning males were the only ones allowed to participate in the democracy, and they lived to ripe old ages just as in modern times, even allowing for the occasional hemlock ingestion.

The Old Greeks cannot be trusted with historic matters. They were victims of indigestion, you know.
by cal_dent | 2025-10-31 19:47:11+00:00
There has recently been many looks at the epidemic in gambling. Wonder how all of the focus seem to happen at the same time

Off the top of my head:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-31/great-bri...

https://kyla.substack.com/p/gamblemerica-how-sports-betting-...

https://www.ft.com/content/e80df917-2af7-4a37-b9af-55d23f941...

https://www.dopaminemarkets.com/p/the-lottery-fication-of-ev...

https://www.investors.com/news/investing-gambling-robinhood-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-premier-league-footb...

https://www.ft.com/content/a39d0a2e-950c-4a54-b339-4784f7892...
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-10-31 19:47:22+00:00
This is a good example of cases where LLMs can tend to write 'bad' code, because these patterns (i.e. reinventing wheels in the browser) are quite common in the wild, and LLMs tend to choose them over just using native features (such as buttons). I find myself telling Claude to revisit implementations and simplify them in these kinds of ways.

Another good example is bizarre error handling conventions when working in TypeScript. Claude will come up with tons of weird ways of doing this, using different approaches all over the place, but rarely consider simple patterns like 'return an expected value or an error'.
by quantified | 2025-10-31 19:47:41+00:00
Daniel 2 is totally vague. Could be describing many situations.

Miracle in Poland: let's see the peer-reviewed results. Same for Mexico. Not surprising that the reported Mexican blood type would be the same as found on the shroud of Turin, which is clearly a fake from the image.

[https://www.richardhanania.com/p/fatima-and-the-sample-size-...]

Jesus said he would return before his disciples died. Did that prophecy come true?

If the book is full of verifiable falsehoods, how do you decide which things aren't false?
by MandieD | 2025-10-31 19:47:45+00:00
Good Lord. My scheduled Cesarian section delivery in 2020 was a hair over 5,000 EUR, including three nights in a double room (extremely short in Germany for that procedure, but our house was closer to the maternity ward than the main public parking garage is), and that was all picked up by my private insurance. I don't know what the in-patient charges for my child were, because that was my husband's insurance, but I'm going to guess far less, since he didn't require any special handling, thank God.

In Germany, there is the GOÄ, which is a publicly-available list of procedures and what the public health insurance funds will pay doctors and hospitals for them. Private patients can be charged fixed multiples, but usually no more than about 3.5 times the "list" prices.
by MrJohz | 2025-10-31 19:48:20+00:00
You almost certainly don't want to assign tab order manually. Theoretically, if your html is out-of-order for some reason, then you can fix it with taborder, but there are so many issues with out-of-order html that it's much better to avoid that in the first place. Even on modern websites, it is almost always easier to lay your html out in the correct order rather than messing around with the order via CSS. (I read an article recently by a web accessibility expert that discussed the issue of flexbox's order parameter and how the working group designing it failed to accessibility into account when adding it to the spec: https://alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-threat-model-for-accessi...)

You mention using it to skip a nav header or something similar, but (1) you have autofocus for that if you need it (and you don't usually need it), and (2) the pattern where you provide a "jump to content" button is typically a better approach, because it allows the user to decide what they want to do when they arrive on your site, rather than you deciding for them. If the "jump to content" button behind visible when focused and is the first element on the screen, then it works perfectly for screen readers and other keyboard users, and you don't need to handle taborder manually.

There are always exceptions to these sorts of rules, and some times tabindex might be necessary, but I've not yet come across a case where the problem couldn't be solved better in a different way.
by kergonath | 2025-10-31 19:48:21+00:00
> What exactly are they "engineering" here?

The coatings, which do matter quite a bit when you are optimising for some durability/optical quality tradeoff.

Glass covers make screens more durable, but imply internal and external reflections. Laminated screens on glass panes solves the internal reflections and improve transmission, but do not help with glare and external reflections. Those can be improved by texturing the glass, but at the cost of diffraction and smearing, leading to a decrease in effective resolution. Unless the texture becomes small enough, but then you need it to be durable enough to avoid being wiped or damaged by things that might come into contact with the screen.

It turns out that there is a lot more than the bottom layers that matter in a display. You can see all these problems being solved in succession when looking at the evolution of Apple’s displays over the years (and others’, but it is much easier to find information about the good and bad sides of any Apple product). It’s fascinating, actually.

[edit] add the issue of oils on the human skin and you have do deal with oleophobic coatings for touch screens, which is another very important factor to consider. In addition to how the touch sensors are integrated.
by danaris | 2025-10-31 19:48:33+00:00
...I'd have to say that seems like a radical reading of the text.

No; you can adjust screen brightness just fine with the built-in settings, including with the F1 and F2 keys (plus the Fn key if you've got them set that way).

This Vivid app is specifically for extra HDR levels of brightness. I've never had a problem with my M1 or M4 MBPs, either inside or outside, with the built-in brightness levels. (But, to be fair, I don't use it outside a lot.)
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-10-31 19:48:35+00:00
tbh, I've started to grow a disdain for front-end developers. It seems their favorite pastime is re-inventing the wheel, and every single time, they destroy something while gaining absolutely nothing.

Stop implementing date pickers when <input type="date"> exists.

Stop implementing smooth scrolling. Browsers already do it on their own, and your implementation will not work. Really, just don't mess with scrolling in general. Don't make scrolling have "momentum". Don't change scroll speed. One site I've been to goes out of its way to change how much a scroll wheel click scrolls the page. For fuck's sake, can someone explain to me why that would be a feature!? Why go out of your way to override a specific user preference!?

All this bullshit changes expected behaviors, reduces accessibility, reduces the performance of your web page (and therefore increases CPU and battery usage)...for no reason whatsoever.
by deaux | 2025-10-31 19:49:02+00:00
What are you even saying?

This is the bloody pricing page. If I as the CEO of a SaaS startup don't even know what our pricing page says I should step down. That's our offer, that's the most important page we have. Come on now. Writing "free forever" isn't something some rogue marketing intern does, this is a core positioning decision and something you'd absolutely be part of, if not leading, as the founder.
by galaxyLogic | 2025-10-31 19:49:09+00:00
> Every token in a response has an element of randomness to it.

I haven't tried this, but so if you ask the LLM the exact same question again, but in a different process, will you get a different answer?

Wouldn't that mean we should mosr of the time ask the LLM each question multiple times, to see if we get a better answer next time?

A bit like asking the same question from multiple different LLMs just to be sure.
by phantasmish | 2025-10-31 19:49:17+00:00
> (Though over in America, most of the historic grand mansions are now tourist attractions, for lack of heirs with the wealth and interest in maintaining them.)

Part of this is that the "old money" tended to withdraw from public life after the Great Depression when they decided infamy was a serious liability.

That's why one struggles to name any of the living heirs of the big names of that era, who are absolutely still filthy stinking rich, while newbies like Musk, everyone knows. The culture of what Fussell calls the "top out-of-sight" is to remain sufficiently anonymous that nobody knows their given names unless one goes looking (and even then, it may be hard to find much trace of them). A bunch of them don't show up on any of those "richest" lists not because they couldn't rank, but because you effectively have to opt-in to those, for enough of your wealth to be traceable without great effort to get counted.

Owning a highly-visible Newport mansion could well be a mark of poor taste, among that set.

They still have their grand houses, they just may not (though, may) be in the Georgian or Neoclassical style or whatever, and they're probably not visible (from remotely close-up, at any rate) from any public road. Drive minor highways in the right parts of the country and look for nice (though, not necessarily imposing or impressive) gates leading into what looks like a simple, wooded lot with an unremarkable, perhaps even gravel, drive that immediately disappears into the trees, and you've probably found one, and they're all over the place... plus their families will usually own plenty of extremely nice, but not flashy, well-located houses and condos and such in more-populated areas.
by jmyeet | 2025-10-31 19:49:26+00:00
This administration in particular has done more to erode and destroy American soft power than any other and it's not even close.

A lot of people fundamnetally misunderstand the source of the US's power. Some think it's because oil and other commodities are traded in US dollars. It's not. Oil is traded in US dollars because of American soft and hard power, not the other way around. Sell oil in euros and people will just trade their euros for USD for the exact same reasons.

The ultimate source of American global power is the US military, period. Where the British Empire once was so powerful because it was the world's drug dealer (first tobacco, later opium), the US is the world's arms dealer. The US got incredibly wealthy from WW1 and WW2 and there are many conflicts to this day where each side is firing US sourced weapons at each other.

It requires finesse to maintain this position. It's a bit like being a bank. A bank needs a certain facade of predictability, even neutrality, to continue to profit off whatever happens. People can revolt against the bank and the banking system. It's happened before (eg penny auctions in the Great Depression).

What this administration is teaching the world is that the US is becoming unreliable. It's now a threat to sovereignty and national security to be reliant on the US, for anything. This goes well beyond cloud services and US tech giants. The US was always capable of turning on its protectorates and puppet states but it generally behaved in a far more restrained way to maintain the illusion of independance or at least to prioritize stability and predictability.

I fully expect in the coming years that the EU is going to create their own competitors to things like AWS and they're going to do it by mandating its use by all government systems. It's going to be the new Airbus counter to Boeing.

China is way ahead in this game. A lot of people (myself included) like to point to how much infrastructure, particularly rail, China has built in the last few decades. But fewer look at how they've done it. China originally bought European high speed intercity trains but that was temporary. They bootstrapped their own industries and produce their own trains now. And they use the same rolling stock on all metros and intercity lines to avoid the inefficiencies of localized procurement processes.

I believe that a command economy like China will be the clear winner of the 21st century.
by tagyro | 2025-10-31 19:49:48+00:00
Back in 2006 I saw this demo video from Jeff Han https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcKqyn-gUbY so when the iPhone came out I really wasn't surprised by the multi-touch part. And, as others have pointed out, scroll inertia wasn't a new concept - I also remember a Flash website (or demo) from yugop (Yugo Nakamura) or Tokyo Flash (I really don't remember whom) that had it in the interface, all very fluid.

Was the iPhone revolutionary? Absolutely!

But, imho, it was built on evolutionary advancements.
by macintux | 2025-10-31 19:50:19+00:00
> but we would have just seen the same thing transpire over a number of years if iPhone hadn't been created.

Maybe, but I’m not certain we would have converged on a single form factor. Only Apple had the retail, marketing, software, hardware capabilities, discipline, and incentives to throw everything behind the minimalistic design and single form factor and turn it into a hit.

Everyone else was splitting their efforts across multiple form factors and relying on carrier stores to sell their phones, and I don’t think that was going to revolutionize anything.
by munk-a | 2025-10-31 19:50:23+00:00
I disagree strongly here - though not from a technical perspective. There's absolutely a legal concept of making your work available for viewing without making it available for copying and AI scraping (while we can technically phrase it as just viewing a bunch of times) is effectively copying.

Lets say a large art hosting site realizes how damaging AI training on their data can be - should they respond by adding a paywall before any of their data is visible? If that paywall is added (let's just say $5/mo) can most of the artists currently on their site afford to stay there? Can they afford it if their potential future patrons are limited to just those folks who can pay $5/mo? Would the scraper be able to afford a one time cost of $5 to scrape all of that data?

I think, as much they are a deeply flawed concept, this is a case where EULAs or an assumption of no-access for training unless explicitly granted that's actually enforced through the legal system is required. There are a lot of small businesses and side projects that are dying because of these models and I think that creative outlet has societal value we would benefit from preserving.
by onetimeusename | 2025-10-31 19:50:33+00:00
I read a biography of a British politician who was later elevated to the aristocracy (although I guess his family was somewhere between commoner and aristocrat prior to that). It said his family took a financial hit because of a decline in crops in the late 1800s. I dug it up and found out that the US was partly responsible for that actually because of cheaper imported grains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_depression_of_British_ag...

Many aristocrats relied on agricultural income from their property holdings.

Another interesting point is that it seems like the majority of titles were awarded relatively recently as in within the last 120-150 years. That doesn't mean there aren't some older ones but it changes the perception of them from being a centuries old group of warlords or relatives of the king to a group of lawyers, military officers, and politicians.
by lalitmaganti | 2025-10-31 19:51:23+00:00
+1 this was my experience trying it out as well. I find that for getting started and for simple usecases it works amazing. But I have quite a lot of concerns about how it scales to more complex and esoteric workloads.

Non-deterministic OOMs especially are some of the worst things in the sort of tools I'd want to use DuckDB in and as you say, I found it to be more common than I would like.
Leveraging OPFS in WASM for 10GB+ Data Processing in Datastripes
by vinserello | 2025-10-31 19:51:24+00:00
We just shipped a major architectural upgrade: our Datastripes database core (compiled to WASM) now uses the Origin Private File System (OPFS).

This is a game-changer for our client-side data analysis and for massive Scale (tested with 10GB CSV directly in the browser). Moreover, data streams directly from OPFS, not RAM, reaching near-desktop-speed.

We wanted a truly serverless, high-performance data analysis tool and we are getting it by giving our in-browser database a desktop-class storage system.

Thus, we must suggest OPFS as the core of any data intensive client-side systems!

https://datastripes.com
by assimpleaspossi | 2025-10-31 19:52:06+00:00
Maybe unrelated but, years ago, I had a job that had me criss-crossing the country by plane Monday through Friday and sometimes Saturday. So my sleep and the time zones and hotels could sometimes mess with me.

One day, I went to a grocery store and mid-turn onto another street, I forgot what city I was in. Worse, I was half a mile from my apartment in my home town.
by bell-cot | 2025-10-31 19:52:58+00:00
> Taxes had a lot to do...

Kinda? Taxes on the UK's wealthy (not just property taxes) skyrocketed from '14 to '46, mostly because the gov't needed to seize every farthing it could, to starve off national bankruptcy. And taxes were only part of the US issue. Wikipedia notes that just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breakers needed 50-ish servants to run, and 150 tons of coal a year to heat. Imagine the payroll and utilities to live at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltmore_Estate

Worth noting - in Britain's "good old days", there mostly seemed to be no lack of heirs with the £££££ to staff and maintain those enormous estates, century after century after century. Yes, that was partly social. And primogeniture certainly helped.
Ask HN: Stuck in Enterprise CRUD: Seeking Path to Hands-On AI Role
by mattfrommars | 2025-10-31 19:53:01+00:00
+++++ GEMINI CONCISE VERSION ++++++++ Hi HN,

I'm a developer with six years of experience (backend/frontend/infra), primarily doing vanilla CRUD work in an enterprise setting. I'm struggling to pivot into a more in-demand field like AI.

I've tried upskilling (certs, technical books, personal projects), but without professional exposure to an AI project, my efforts haven't opened doors. I feel stuck.

I see three main paths forward to bridge this experience gap:

1): Apply directly to AI-focused roles, hoping a company takes a chance on a "vanilla Java dev."

2) Go back to school for a Master's degree in AI.

3): Double down on more advanced AI certifications and personal projects.

Fellow Devs: How did you successfully pivot from traditional development into a high-demand field? What was the critical action that finally broke the barrier for you?

+++++ RAW VERSION ++++++++

Hi HN,

I'm doing bit of retrospection from where to go from where I am in my career. I'm struggling a bit to break into industry that is in demand verses what I have been doing - which is CRUD style work in enterprise company. I have six years experience in diverse area, backend, front end, infrastructure. .

I have done my best to upskill which ever way I can, from reading technical books, "AI Engineer" to obtaining certification that is AI focused to better understand AI terminology that is.

What triggered me to make this post is I came across an individual on LinkedIn who has been in product and managed to get into 'AI Project' and now appears to be trying to transition into 'hands on' AI role by going back to school and doing master's degree in AI space.

Compared to my experience, I have been working as a developer for six years. However, I have never been exposed to any real AI project I can work on.

So, for me to take the next step, I can see only three options:

1) applied to AI focus role and 'hope and pray' some AI company is willing to take a risk to get vanilla Java backend dev to build out their AI product

2) Go back to school and do master's degree in AI like the individual did on LN

3) do AI focus certification, like AI Engineer Azure, Coursera/deeplearning, certification and, again, 'hope and pray' it will make my resume stand out?

I'd love to hear from fellow devs who were able to change their trajectory to transition from vanilla development into field that is in demand and open more opportunities?

I feel extremely sideline the way I am in my current position. I genuinely believed doing AI certification and a personal project in AI will open doors, but turns out, it didn't. Also, my company which is financial services space is not open to having AI project deployed. For example, we were very late to adopt copilot. So, that's another limitation.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-31 19:53:35+00:00
The best you are going to do is have a black body radiator pointed away from the Sun.

Intel chips are rated for a maximum temperature of 100 centigrade, I get 1100 W/m. Contrast that to the solar constant of about 1400 W/m. If you assume solar panels are about 20% efficient, you are going to get 280 W of power from a meter of solar panel which all turns into heat so we need 1/4 meter of cooling panel for a meter of solar panels.

The question though isn't the area but rather the weight and the cost, the solar panels could be very lightweight films printed onto membranes whereas the cooling panels will need circulating fluids, but heat pipes are pretty high density.
by jvanderbot | 2025-10-31 19:53:37+00:00
Why stop there? Misaligned incentives tied to a baby boom is at fault.

Lots of people aging into health care/ problems.

Rising demand + protectionism of med schools -> Higher wages and costs

Increased demand for care -> More nursing demand -> More student loans for nursing schools

More nurses making money and overworked -> More protectionism to save wages

Regulation to try to level costs and provide uniform care for "all" -> More paperwork -> more administrators -> slower care + costlier care

More costs -> More insurance premiums, more medicare/medicaid budget required

Consolidation -> higher profits + less overhead. ("one system")

Huge insurance companies, huge care providers, and gobs of nurses -> Voting sway

Voting sway -> Legislators try to work "within" the system
by RaftPeople | 2025-10-31 19:54:28+00:00
> Everyone answers correctly the ball will roll of the table and fall to the ground.

For me the ball kept rolling off the table and rolling through air but not falling to the ground, even while realizing I should be causing it to fall to the ground, but rolling straight just "felt" natural at that moment because it's in make-believe land it can do whatever.