MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kleinishere | 2025-10-13 04:28:08+00:00
Xenodium is doing amazing things for emacs. If you enjoy this or are generally emacs interested, I’d check out his blog @ https://xenodium.com/

I also purchased my first iOS app upon recommendation from other emacs users - the author’s app, Journelly. A simple portable place to save down links or notes and export out as org files (as one option; apparently markdown is on the way). https://xenodium.com/journelly-for-ios

No affiliation to Xenodium. I’ve just been diving into emacs this year and love seeing his contributions.
by zx8080 | 2025-10-13 04:28:14+00:00
> swift

Not everyone would want to get into Apple vendor-locked language (formally not, but it's like saying Chromium is opensource and not related to Alphabet/Google) and its development environment. Especially after JetBrains closed its swift oriented ide [0]. I hate xcode, sorry, after developing for too many years in it.

0: https://www.jetbrains.com/objc/
by anotherpaulg | 2025-10-13 04:29:25+00:00
I’ve been building proficiency with quantum optics equipment. Repeating classic quantum entanglement experiments like the quantum eraser [0] and violating the CHSH inequality (which won the 2022 Nobel). I’m working towards a novel quantum eraser variant.

[0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/entangled-pair-quantum-eras...
by grues-dinner | 2025-10-13 04:29:39+00:00
Theoretically, with enough cheap renewable energy, synthetic hydrocarbons could fuel the war machine.

It would need possibly big, vulnerable plants to refine, but so does jet fuel and diesel now.

Adding that much electrical capacity is a civilisational task, but an electrical "JP-8 at home" plant in theory is a good security asset, especially for countries with poor oil supply.
by Franklinjobs617 | 2025-10-13 04:30:10+00:00
Wow, thanks for this validation! Hearing from someone who almost built the solution themselves confirms we’re on the right track.

You hit the nail on the head regarding language support.

Mandarin/Multilingual Support: Absolutely, supporting a wide range of languages—especially Mandarin—is a top priority. Since we focus on extracting the official subtitles provided by YouTube, the language support is inherently tied to what the YouTube platform offers. We just need to ensure our system correctly parses and handles those specific Unicode character sets on the backend. We'll make sure CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) languages are handled cleanly from Day 1.

The RAG/Semantic Search Idea: That is an excellent feature suggestion and exactly where I see the tool evolving! Instead of just giving the user a zip file of raw data, the true value is transforming that data into a searchable corpus. The idea of using RAG to search across an entire playlist/channel transcript is something we're actively exploring as a roadmap feature, turning the tool from a downloader into a Research Assistant.

Thanks for the use case and the specific requirements! It helps us prioritize the architecture.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-13 04:30:56+00:00
Google, Microsoft, Apple, the value it's generating for them alone is enough of a demand to refute the "bubble" claims. the hype bubble will surely burst, but people are using it everyday. This is like saying the "crack cocaine" bubble will burst once people hear about its side effects (or alcohol lol). A reduction, sure. But not a crash.

I wouldn't be my life savings on OpenAI either FWIW.
by loveparade | 2025-10-13 04:32:12+00:00
I've built something similar before for my own use cases and one thing I'd push back on are official subtitles. Basically no video I care about has ever had "official" subtitles and the auto generated subtitles are significantly worse than what you get by piping content through an LLM. I used Gemini because it was the cheapest option and still did very well.

The biggest challenge with this approach is that you probably need to pass extra context to LLMs depending on the content. If you are researching a niche topic, there will be lots of mistakes if the audio isn't if high quality because that knowledge isn't in the LLM weights.

Another challenge is that I often wanted to extract content from live streams, but they are very long with lots of pauses, so I needed to do some cutting and processing on the audio clips.

In the app I built I would feed an RSS feed of video subscriptions in, and at the other end a fully built website with summaries, analysis, and transcriptions comes out that is automatically updated based on the youtube subscription rss feed.
by antonvs | 2025-10-13 04:32:18+00:00
I’ve lived in Africa, Europe, and the US, but I’ve never experienced a situation where I couldn’t just switch to a different bank if I wanted to. That’s the context for my comment. All I’m saying is that if you’re in a situation where a bank’s services are overly restrictive, and switching to a different bank will solve that, it makes sense to switch. I can’t speak to places where such choices aren’t available.

I take the same position on countries - it’s why I no longer live in Africa, where I grew up. And why I soon won’t be living in the US any more. Life is too short to waste it having other people’s mistakes inflicted on you.
by adamhowell | 2025-10-13 04:32:45+00:00
This one's going to be out of left field, but last Thursday I launched Countdown Treasure (https://countdowntreasure.com)

It's a real life treasure hunt in the Blue Ridge Mountains with a current total prize of $31,200+ in gold coins and a growing side pot.

I modeled it off of last year's Project Skydrop (https://projectskydrop.com) which was in the Boston area.

* Shrinking search area (today, Day 5, it will be 160 miles, on Day 21 it'll be just 1 foot wide)

* 24/7 webcam trained on the jar of gold coins sitting on the forest floor just off a public hiking trail

* Premium upgrades ($10 from each upgrade goes towards the side pot) for aerial photos above the treasure and access to a private online community (and you get your daily clues earlier)

* $2 from each upgrade goes towards the goal of raising $20k for continued Hurricane Helene relief

So far the side pot is $6k and climbing.

It's been such a fun project to work on, but also a lot of work. Tons of moving parts and checking twice and three times to make sure you've scrubbed all the EXIF data, etc.
by throwaway422432 | 2025-10-13 04:34:36+00:00
The know-how has been lost so those currently looking to build plants have to relearn the processes. At the same time they need to examine new methods using different chemicals depending on the material they are extracting from and the particular impurities that need to be removed.

Ball park for a processing plant is 1.5b and 2-3 years from digging foundations to operations if the funds are there and it's fully approved. A lot of the metallurgical testing can be done in parallel with the build, but getting off-take partners requires being able to prove you can supply, and the off-take partners usually supply a lot of the funding.

Case in point, Lynas' Seadrift project in Texas is stalled and may not proceed due to an waste-water permitting issue and the USG not wanting to provide the additional funding required, or fully commit and guarantee off-take.
by Lammy | 2025-10-13 04:35:15+00:00
> Minimal Abstract Markup Language

Pardon my naming nitpick and lack of commentary on any technical aspect, but I don't think this is a markup language. What is being marked up? HTML is called that because it's marking up text with like bold and italics and font and color and paragraphs and stuff.

To be fair, YAML's creators had the same misunderstanding. Compare:

https://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-12-10.html

https://yaml.org/spec/history/2002-04-07.html
by necovek | 2025-10-13 04:36:24+00:00
Locked devices are created to supposedly ensure the security of a device user, not because malicious users exist.

SIM card is a good example. Technically, that's trivially solvable with a PKI infrastructure (a malicious user can't trivially and successfully misrepresent as google.com): operator runs their CA, and by signing your certificate, they attest that you are the owner of a particular phone number. No malicious user can mess with that (other than attacking the CA).

What they can do is attack end-user devices through different cheaper means (social engineering, malicious apps, exploits...), and extract individuals' private keys, thus allowing them to misrepresent as that individual. A SIM card protects against this by not making private key accessible in the first place.

This is exactly what locked devices do: they protect customers from not knowing how to properly (including securely) use their devices.

This is what we need to focus on as technologists: if we know how to securely use our devices, how do we opt out of others "protecting" us, and take full responsibility and liability for security lapses?
by jared_stewart | 2025-10-13 04:36:48+00:00
I've been working to build some tools for detecting and monitoring lookalike domains - the kinds of things used in phishing / brand impersonation attacks.

My current prototype scans potential lookalikes for a target domain and then tracks DNS footprint over time. It's early, but functional - and makes it easier to understand if some lookalike domain is looking more "threat-y".

I've also been working on automating the processing of a parent-survey response for my kid's school using LLMs. The goal is to produce consistent summarization and statistics across multiple years and provide families with a clearer voice and helping staff and leadership at the school best understand what things have been working well (and where the school could improve).
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-13 04:37:28+00:00
So you installed 1Blocker. But I posted screenshots showing it didn’t have ads. Either you didn’t install it or you didn’t go into settings to enable it

And am o suppose to believe you by fiat that “it’s the worlds strongest” even though you couldn’t site one thing that it could do that 1Blocker couldn’t?

The list of urls it’s blocking is in the interface and you can add your own You’re really not going to well here…

So you realize you just add another goal post that’s also invalid? Are you now saying that you only use open source software or that you only care that your ad blocker is open source?
by toast0 | 2025-10-13 04:39:38+00:00
This seems neat. I have some minor stuff I'd like an ATA to do differently [1], and maybe I can make it work with this, if I get motivated!

[1] I don't quite remember what I wanted to do, so that's the first part! But I have a telephone controlled gate, with 3-pair wiring, and right now I'm using two pair for phone inbound and outbound, and one pair I can't use... If I can get the ATA to interface well enough with just one pair to the gate, then I can use two pair for ethernet, and I don't need to use a modem to interface with the gate over the phoneline.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-13 04:40:59+00:00
I learned about Searle's death a few weeks ago, from this article: https://www.colinmcginn.net/john-searle/

It includes a letter that starts:

I am Jennifer Hudin, John Searle’s secretary of 40 years. I am writing to tell you that John died last week on the 17th of September. The last two years of his life were hellish. HIs daughter–in-law, Andrea (Tom’s wife) took him to Tampa in 2024 and put him in a nursing home from which he never returned. She emptied his house in Berkeley and put it on the rental market. And no one was allowed to contact John, even to send him a birthday card on his birthday. It is for us, those who cared about John, deeply sad.

I'm surprised to see the NYT obituary published nearly a month after his death. I would have thought he'd be included in their stack of pre-written obituaries, meaning it could be updated and published within a day or two.
by protocolture | 2025-10-13 04:41:07+00:00
There's another thread here where they are talking about the necessity to make emergency services numbers available anyway, because kids are often the people who make the crucial phone call when a parent has an accident. And its doubtful that the parent is going to collapse, push an ansible update to his project, and then have the kid dial emergency.

Theres potential for nuisance, but not one that seemed like a big threat for that whole period where toddlers routinely had access to phones.

I asked because I am interested in whats happening, maybe they have a unique situation/environment that requires this. Maybe they have phone jockey kids who mastered the technique.
by dpeckett | 2025-10-13 04:44:08+00:00
I've recently spent a bunch of time working on a mesh networking project that employs CONNECT-IP over QUIC [1].

There's a lot of benefits for sure, mTLS being a huge one (particularly when combined with ACME). For general purpose, spoke and hub VPN's tunneling over QUIC is a no-brainer. Trivial to combine with JWT bearer tokens etc. It's a neat solution that should be used more widely.

However there are downsides, and those downsides are primarily performance related. For a bunch of reasons, some just including poorly optimized library code, others involving relatively high message parsing/framing/coalescing/fragmenting costs, and userspace UDP overheads. On fat pipes today you'll struggle to get more than a few gbits of throughput @ 1500 MTU (which is plenty for internet browsing for sure).

For fat pipes and hardware/FPGA acceleration use cases, google probably has the most mature approach here with their datacenter transport PSP [2]. Basically a stripped down per flow IPsec. In-kernel IPsec has gotten a lot faster and more scalable in recent years with multicore/multiqueue support [3]. Internal benchmarking still shows IPsec on linux absolutely dominating performance benchmarks (throughput and latency).

For the mesh project we ended up pivoting to a custom offload friendly, kernel bypass (AF_XDP) dataplane inspired by IPsec/PSP/Geneve.

I'm available for hire btw, if you've got an interesting networking project and need a remote Go/Rust developer (contract/freelance) feel free to reach out!

1. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9484.html

2. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/ann...

3. https://netdevconf.info/0x17/docs/netdev-0x17-paper54-talk-s...
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-10-13 04:44:26+00:00
There is an implication that passionate weirdos are good by nature. You either add value in the world or you don't. A passionate, strange actor or musician who continues trying to "make it" who isn't good enough to be entertaining is a parasite and/or narcissist. A plumber who is doing the job purely for money is a value add (assuming they aren't ripping people off) - and they are playing the game - the money for work game.
by klamike | 2025-10-13 04:45:40+00:00
https://lpviz.net/

lpviz is like Desmos, but for linear programming - I've implemented a few LP solvers in Typescript and hooked them up to a canvas so you can draw a feasible region, set an objective direction, and see how the algorithms work. And it all runs locally, in the browser!

If you go to https://lpviz.net/?demo it should show you a short tour of the features/how to use it.

It's by no means complete but I figured there may be some fellow optimization enthusiasts here who might be interested to take a look :) Super open to feedback, feature requests, comments!

For a 2-min intro to LP, I recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZjmPATPVzI
by bruce511 | 2025-10-13 04:46:08+00:00
True. Given their lifespan it behooves folks to "get them while they can".

A warlike country with a history of antagonism to China is probably less secure than countries that have chosen to behave like good neighbors.

If you feel like panel production is strategic, which is an easy argument to make, and given that the US has a substantial ability to produce panels [1], perhaps a useful strategy would be to consume those panels as much as possible, subsidizing production to make it a growth area.

Indeed it might become a surplus, allowing for export, which in turn improves foreign relations. And the simple existence of the domestic market leads to improvements, better quality and so on.

I'm no economist but the above seems like a solid strategy to me. It would be most interesting to see the outcomes where a country pursued this strategy versus one that actively worked to marginalize solar, killing domestic production instead.

I wonder if there are more countries in the same boat which could be used to see the long-term outcome of the various strategic options?

[1] Solar systems comprise of more than panels. But the other parts are just electronics so not important in the context of managing solar as a specific product.
by measurablefunc | 2025-10-13 04:46:28+00:00
He explains it in the original paper¹ & says in no uncertain terms that he believes the brain is a machine & minds are implementable on machines. What he is actually arguing is that substrate independent digital computation will never be a sufficient explanation for conscious experience. He says that brains are proof that consciousness is physical & mechanical but not digital. Searle is not against the computationalist hypothesis of minds, he admits that there is nothing special about minds in terms of physical processes but he doesn't reduce everything to substrate independent digital computation & conclude that minds are just software running on brains. There are a bunch of subtle distinctions that people miss when they try to refute Searle's argument.

¹https://home.csulb.edu/~cwallis/382/readings/482/searle.mind...
by danybittel | 2025-10-13 04:46:29+00:00
You can definitely feed camera intrinsic (lens, sensor size..) and extrinsic (position, rotation..) into the SfM. While the intrinsic are very useful the extrinsic not actually that much. In no way can you measure the rotation good enough, to get subpixel accuracy. The position can be useful as an initial guess, but I found it more hassle than worth it. If the images track well, have enough overlap, you can get exact tracking out of them without dealing with extrinsic. If they don't track well, extrinsic won't save you. That was at least my experience.
by jimhi | 2025-10-13 04:47:14+00:00
This is sick - I happen to run a site for DIY and community organizations like yours. We have proven the best way to fundraise is to throw events like you did but to upsell people on a recurring donation when they get the ticket.

On the off chance you are throwing another event, I would love to help you raise much more than $800 one time (my site is https://withfriends.events/)
by adamhowell | 2025-10-13 04:48:41+00:00
Thanks! Yeah, I unfortunately can't shell out a straight $20k donation, but I saved the $25k over the year from my e-commerce business and justified it as a marketing expense if worse case scenario happens and it's found earlier than the math predicts. But if we get past break even then can't wait to write that check to help out the communities around here that are still recovering.
by inkyoto | 2025-10-13 04:49:43+00:00
> […] because the Chinese government has started massively distorting the economy in favor of automation projects. It's widely known that one of the hardest parts of planning a factory is figuring out what to automate and what to use human labour for.

… or it is an early manoeuvre – a pre-emptive measure – to address the looming burden of an ageing population and a dearth of young labour that – according to several demographic models – China will confront by roughly 2050 and thereafter[0]. The problem is compounded by the enforced One-Child Policy in the past, the ascendance of a mainland middle class, and the escalating costs of child-rearing; whilst, culturally and historically, sons are favoured amongst the populace, producing a gender imbalance skewed towards males – many of whom will, in consequence, be unable to marry or to propagate their line.

According to the United Nations’ baseline projection – as cited in the AMRO report[1] – China’s population in 2050 is forecast at approximately 1.26 billion, with about 30 per cent aged 65 and over, whilst roughly 40 per cent will be aged 60 and over. This constitutes the more optimistic projection.

The Lancet scenario[2] is more gloomy and projects a 1 billion population by 2050, with 3 out of 10 being of the age of 65+.

It is entirely plausible that the Chinese government is distorting the economy; alternatively, it is attempting to mitigate – or to avert – an impending crisis by way of automation and robotics. The reality may well lie somewhere between these positions.

[0] https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2050/

[1] https://amro-asia.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/AN_Chinas-L...

[2] https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736%2820%2930677-2/...
by keepamovin | 2025-10-13 04:50:02+00:00
Tangentially related, I've experimented with Tailscale and Zerotier and, tho I guess they have different audiences, I prefer Zerotier for reliability. Tailscale gets borked by existing VPN config, breaking things on local networks. I like both but does anyone care to share their experiences or explain more in depth the uses / differences as they see it?
by codeableconcept | 2025-10-13 04:50:06+00:00
This is similar in terms of macros to the traditional Irish diet in the 19th century, which for workers was purportedly made up of around 13 pounds of potatoes a day for an adult man. This traditional Korean diet appears to also be extremely high in carbs as a proportion. Of course these groups had significantly higher energy expenditures than most moderns, but it does seem possible that caloric excess in the absence of significant dietary fat does not drive obsesity / metabolic disease in the same way.
by ggm | 2025-10-13 04:52:28+00:00
I believe this is a false dichotomy. It's interesting but it also demands no third way exist.

For example I have run services which existed inside a forever() loop. They exit, and are forceably restarted. Is that viable for a flight control system? No. Does it allow me to meet a low bounds availability problem with OOM killers? Yes, until the size of a quiescent from-boot system causes OOM.

BGP speakers who compile in runtime caps on the prefix count can be entirely stable and run BGP "correctly" right up to the point somebody sends them more than the cap in prefixes. That can take hours to emerge. I lived in that world for a while too.
by vbilopav | 2025-10-13 04:52:46+00:00
NpgsqlRest Automatic PostgreSQL Web Server

Create REST APIs for PostgreSQL databases in minutes.

https://npgsqlrest.github.io/

- one man project (me) - been doing it well over a year now - no sponsorship, no investors, no backers, no nothing just my passion - I haven't even advertised much, this may first ir second time I'm sharing a link - On a weekdays im building a serious stuff with it - On weekends preparing a new major version with lessons learned from doing a real project with it

Not going to stop. But I migh be seeking sponsors in future, not sure how that will turn out. If not that's ok, I'm cool to be only user.
by Nursie | 2025-10-13 04:53:06+00:00
> Um, the Netherlands is not a mid-sized country.

The Netherlands is entry 71 in a list of countries by population, making it very 'mid' indeed. You're comparing it to the USA, which is the third most populous nation on earth, of course it's significantly smaller!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...

But hey, let's look at some better figures, estimated energy use is now in the region of 200TWh - https://www.statista.com/statistics/881472/worldwide-bitcoin...

Which puts it somewhere around an Egypt or a Malaysia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...

> If bitcoin is using the same as 17 million people, that'd really not that much in relation to the overall population.

That's a value judgement and you'll notice I've been careful not to put any into my comments.