MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WickyNilliams | 2025-10-11 14:25:05+00:00
It's often the case that screen readers do not support the more exotic aspects of html (hell even some basics, unfortunately).

The browser may add a reference from one to the other in the accessibility tree, but whether a screenreader announces it is another matter. I'd be surprised if it's supported in any meaningful way here. Happy to be shown otherwise!
by wadudu | 2025-10-11 14:25:14+00:00
As AI video generation with OpenAI's Sora becomes more popular, many creators need a way to present their work cleanly. Sora Watermark Remover is a fantastic free tool designed for this exact purpose. It allows you to quickly and easily remove the watermark from any Sora-generated video online, without needing to install any software. For content creators looking to polish their AI videos, this zero-cost tool is a must-have.
by Pikamander2 | 2025-10-11 14:25:15+00:00
> half-baked making its usage almost useless.

It's sad how many elements this is still the case for in 2025. A good chunk of them can be blamed on Safari.

Probably the most extreme example of this is <input type="date"> which is supposedly production-ready but still has so many browser quirks that it's almost always better to use a JS date picker, which feels icky.
by AlexandrB | 2025-10-11 14:25:50+00:00
> The teacher was not at fault for his condition. We should learn magnanimity.

This is equally true of conditions like paranoid schizophrenia or psychopathy. Sometimes a person is just born with wiring that makes you dangerous to others. Does this mean that everyone around them must have the magnanimity and charity to them attacking people at random?
by c-smile | 2025-10-11 14:25:56+00:00
Also, if to allow form.value to accept JSON-ish objects it will be possible to set form values in single shot:

form.value = { transAmount: 12345n, transDate: new Date() };

where form is

<form> ... <output type="currency" name="transAmount" /> ... <output type="date-local" name="transDate" /> </form>
by dingnuts | 2025-10-11 14:26:54+00:00
what on God's green Earth could the CEO of a no name b2b saas have a use for long running agents?

either your business isn't successful, so you're coding when you shouldn't be, or cosplaying coding with Claude, or you're lying, or you're telling us about your expensive and unproductive hobby.

How much do you spend on AI? What's your annual profit?

edit: oh cosplaying as a CEO. I see. Nice WPEngine landing page Mr AppBind.com CEO. Better have Claude fix your website! I guess that agent needs therapy...
by floundy | 2025-10-11 14:27:44+00:00
>finance’s requirement to keep costs under control

Apple is offering some great value for the money with the M4 chip now, the Mac Mini is $600 and the 13" MacBook Air is $1k.

The real killer is of course the corporate monitoring software and bloated endpoint security suites, we can all point to dozens of coworkers as the reason these exist, and unfortunately as far as I know of there's no corpos that do an "idiot test" to allow people who have demonstrated computer literacy and compliance with corpo security policy to be placed in a less restrictive group.

A Raspberry Pi with an SSD is much snappier than the newest and much more powerful business-grade laptops our employees are issued with all the bloatware on them.
by rendall | 2025-10-11 14:28:21+00:00
Market success does not necessarily prove conceptual neutrality; it just shows which designs fit best within the existing ecosystem of compilers, toolchains, and developer expectations. That is the lock-in the article describes.

Calling the argument post hoc ergo propter hoc also misses the mark. The author is not saying CPUs look this way because of C in a simple cause-effect sense, but that C-style abstractions and hardware co-evolved in a feedback loop that reinforced each other’s assumptions about efficiency.

And I do not think anyone is advocating "disruption for disruption's sake." The point is that our definition of what counts as a worthwhile improvement is already conditioned by that same co-evolution, which makes truly different paradigms seem uneconomical long before they're fully explored.
by ricardolopes | 2025-10-11 14:28:29+00:00
The problem I have with coding on Termux is that it's not a full Linux environment, and a lot of tools will fail to compile because there's some dependency that doesn't exist. That includes, for instance, database adaptors for nodejs, which compromises web app development.

Do you use any workaround for that huge limitation? Or just SSH into a proper Linux box?
by shiandow | 2025-10-11 14:29:34+00:00
I think ransom is also a bit of a misnomer that the hackers deliberately use to frame the transaction in a more positive light.

I mean, it's just extortion. Nothing is being ransomed, you don't get something back and you can't really secure something already lost. It suffers from the same problems as other forms of extortion, namely that you can't really trust the other party to do what you want and really they have no incentive to do so.
by panny | 2025-10-11 14:29:39+00:00
There is also an element of office politics involved sometimes. There are very petty people who will throw road blocks in the way of a brilliant programmer, because he outshines them. There are program managers who will hobble a brilliant programmer, because they don't want to build dependence on a superstar fearing that star will ask for too high salary at some point. And the brilliant programmer? He's good at programming, not schmoozing.
by jhbadger | 2025-10-11 14:30:56+00:00
I loved Mix/Power C. That's how I learned C on DOS in the late 1980s. Mix also had a neat set of DOS tools that simulated UNIX on DOS -- no multitasking, but you got a Bourne-like shell and various utilities like grep and sed -- and the source code to them!

http://www.mixsoftware.com/product/utility.htm

(it's funny that their store's still up; I wonder if anyone buys from them in 2025)
by atmavatar | 2025-10-11 14:32:33+00:00
Many areas don't feel safe.

What's interesting is that of your list of dangerous places, only St. Louis cracks the top 10 list of counties in the US with the highest per capita homicide rate or even general crime. Aside from that and DC, the remaining counties are mostly rural.

That isn't to say things aren't bad in some cities, homelessness in particular, to a degree which should be considered extremely shameful for those living in "the richest country in the history of the world".

However, the fact that the focus of reporting crime and specifically violence is nearly exclusively limited to cities is strong evidence that the goal isn't to solve the problem: it's merely to continue stoking red vs. blue division.

The underlying cause of most of the crime and violence in this country is ultimately poverty, which is why no one with political power is interested in taking steps to fix it.
Show HN: LeetEngineer – The LeetCode for Non-IT Engineers (HR → technical)
by Daneng | 2025-10-11 14:32:49+00:00
Hi HN — I’m Daniel, the founder. I built LeetEngineer because as an engineer I found generic interview prep doesn’t cover real engineering interviews.

LeetEngineer helps candidates prepare end-to-end:

Paste a job post and get HR screening questions + technical interview questions automatically.

Generate scenario-based technical questions tailored to the role.

Receive suggested answers and tips for presenting your knowledge effectively.

Why it’s different

Focused on engineers — not generic whiteboard practice.

Tailored to real job descriptions, so prep aligns with the company’s expectations.

Helps candidates who don’t know exactly what to expect in interviews.

What I’m looking for from HN

Honest feedback: does this solve a real pain for engineering interviews?

Feature suggestions — what would make you actually pay for this?

Early testers willing to try it for free in exchange for feedback.

Quick note: this isn’t a polished company launch — it’s a product I built to solve my own interview prep problems. I’d love critiques and ideas.

— Daniel (founder) — https://leetengineerai.com
by bityard | 2025-10-11 14:32:51+00:00
Uh, new years resolutions are not exactly what I would call the ideal metaphor for assisted suicide.

Plenty of people here who reacted negatively to OP's suggestion seem to not have had to deal with a loved one who dealt with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia. It's not hard like taking care of a toddler is hard. It's hard like, "this is not the same person I know for my whole life, they don't recognize me, they say and do mean things to me and their grand-kids and neighbors all the time, and require 24x7 supervision to not hurt themselves or break everything in the room."

Oh, and remember that in the US, all nursing homes for this kind of thing are for-profit companies backed by venture capital, meaning they are expensive as hell. Take your current middle-class apartment, shrink the size to just a bedroom (that you now have to share with someone else), and then quadruple the rent. Just a few years of that can decimate the life savings of the average retiree and/or their children's.

I speak with some authority here because all of this happened to my father. He was "alive" in the last few years of his life, but not what anyone would call "living." I absolutely do not want that to happen to me. If it were legal in the US, I would absolutely opt for an assisted suicide plan for myself.

There are ways to handle it that avoid all the "whatabouts" that you and others have already brought up. One rough draft of an example: 1) Have a lawyer write up a kind of will expressing my wishes. 2) Get three unbiased negative diagnoses to show I am of sound mind prior to signing the will. 3) Go in for regular testing (every year, maybe two). After each negative diagnosis, add another (witnessed and/or notarized) signature to the will. The will is not valid if testing or a signature is missed. 3) If there is ever a positive diagnosis, it must be confirmed by two other clinics. 4) If three years pass with doctors and clinical tests confirming increasing dementia symptoms along the way, the assisted suicide clause is invoked and I get to pass peacefully surrounded by loved ones instead of being a stressful burden on them for years or decades to come.

Yes, there are details and unintended consequences that neither me nor anyone else can see ahead of time. Like everything else, they are dealt with as they come up. No, you won't convince me that your favorite corner case means the entire idea is invalid.
by nedt | 2025-10-11 14:32:55+00:00
The article might have some points, but there is also a lot of complaining just for the sake of it.

- One the homescreen seeing the search as a clear button is useful for most users. The swipe down is just not easy to find and remember. The dots shown when swiping through homescreens is actually much clearer if you don't have so many pages.

- Same goes for the pull down search bar. It took me a long time to remember that. And then in the system settings it always took me some time to find it again. That it's the same gesture as reload in other apps made it even more confusing. Now it's right where you thumb is.

- The pulsating buttons - I haven't even seen them. And I switch during the public beta phase. Normally buttons get hidden by your thumb when you press them.

- And then yeah a lot of things look different now. We had that before when we switch to the previous design language and people were just complaining as much.
by lukan | 2025-10-11 14:33:01+00:00
Well, but what if I ain't a christian nor a buddhist and don't think suffering as a normal living condition is necessary? (Can you proof it is? Also I don't think all christians/buddhists share that believe)

So sure, suffering and pain are part of life. And accepting that helps a lot to not get stuck in that condition by avoiding painful things, you cannot avoid.

"Anyone can say that about their life right now, can't they?"

So no, not anyone is saying that. Only those with a death wish.

And I don't consider having a death wish as a mental condition. It can of course result of a illness, but it can also be a consciouss wish and then finally a decision.

And if other people decide they may not do this, but have to remain in their state of living hell, then this is just torture to me.
by tamcap | 2025-10-11 14:33:32+00:00
You can use a turbine to generate electricity, so yes, you are converting potential energy into electrical potential. However, no real mass produced passenger plane today can use that electricity for flight (thrust).

RAT is only used when sh*t hits the fan. Even then, it can help you power some hydraulics / electrical, not “store” energy for further flight.

The OP asked - in a low fuel situation, can the energy spent on a climb get effectively recovered - and the answer is not really. We convert as much as we can into unpowered (low-powered) descent. But once you are at a spot where you make a final decision to land or not, you are by design low and slow - and all that energy you had 15m ago is gone.

If you need to keep flying, those engines need to spool back up. And that takes fuel.
by PopAlongKid | 2025-10-11 14:33:38+00:00
For context, three of the tallest skyscrapers at the time were constructed in Chicago during roughly this same period.[0] (Originally known as the Hancock, Standard Oil, and Sears buildings, since renamed). Chicago was also the second largest U.S. city at the time, and I've often thought that the WTC construction was in part motivated by a sense of civic competition between the two cities.

"Of Chicago's five tallest buildings, three were completed within a 5-year span between 1969 and 1974."

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_C...
by mytailorisrich | 2025-10-11 14:33:45+00:00
What sort of ongoing support does Apple offer?

We have quintessentially corporate Dells, which retail for about the same as Macs, and they come with full corporate support contracts... they sent someone to change the motherboard in mine, for instance. Support contracts are important in corporate settings, not just cost.

And of course, very often corporate IT only knows Windows and MS in general so says they can't support anything else.
by Retric | 2025-10-11 14:35:16+00:00
Inflation. PS5 standard at $499 in 2019 is $632 in 2025 money which is the same as the 1995 PS 1 when adjusted for inflation $299 (1995) to $635(2025). https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

Thus the PS6 should be around 699 at launch.
by hilbert42 | 2025-10-11 14:37:22+00:00
An interesting article, especially given the links to the YouTube interview of Cornelius Lánczos. I've used the Lánczos algorithm for years for interpolation but until now I'd not put a face and voice to his work.

It's interesting to compare Lánczos (and other) resampling algorithms in digital imaging with what's known as K-factor (aka K-rating)—a measurement in analog television for rating image quality. There are interesting similarities between the two.

An image is an image whether it's generated digitally or by analog means, so it's only to be expected that ways of measuring image quality between these two systems would have some things in common. That's done by comparing the output signal with the original image but it's not as straightforward as it seems as human perception and subjectivity get in the way.

As per article we've seen Lánczos, (sync, (sin x)/x) resampling quality is better than say nearest neighbour, Mitchell, triangle, etc. but the problem of human subjectivity remains as it's often difficult to compare image quality visually and or consistently. Analog television has long had methods of objectively evaluating images without the human factor and again the solution is mathematical, and as I'll show it has some interesting parallels with Lánczos resampling.

To determine image quality/K-factor of a television transmission system an electronic test signal replaces the subjective image and it's measured for distortion products after it exits the system. The mathematical parameters of this test signal are carefully defined to detect distortions and artifacts that are most noticeable to the human eye.

The test signal consists of a sine-squared pulse of specified duration followed by bar (a square wave with a transient response the same as the pulse). The K-factor is determined by measuring the deviation in the pulse and bar risetimes together with generated artifacts such as ringing and under and or overshoot. As the Pulse & Bar is a precision test signal input/output comparisons aren't necessary, thus a single measurement simplifies testing.

For those interested see BBC Monograph 58 'Sine-squared Pulse and Bar Testing in Colour Television'. 1965. PDF https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/bbc_monograph_58

Unfortunately, this ref. is behind a firewall: Macdiarmid, I.F. and Phillips, B. 'A Pulse & Bar Waveform Generator for Testing Television Links.' Proc I.E.E. Vol. 105, Part B, p.) 440. 1958.
by dietr1ch | 2025-10-11 14:38:02+00:00
1. No, it puts people in control of when they query the index instead of spamming everywhere eyesight could possibly stare at.

2. That's fine, you want something new or something you don't know where to get? Query an index. You want the good ol' experience? Go for what you already know well.

If you worry about the people who would never discover anything new, then it's like they don't talk to anybody or have no desire of changing anything, but that's their decision.
by pomelo-nwu | 2025-10-11 14:38:13+00:00
Hey! You could try Qwen-Code. it offers 2,000 free API calls per day, which should be more than enough for most use cases. I know it has a “YOLO mode” that automatically approves all tool usage confirmations, but it would be great if it implemented more granular permission controls, similar to how Claude manages tool permissions with customizable allow/deny lists for terminal commands.
by 1dom | 2025-10-11 14:39:18+00:00
I get your points. Nobody owes anyone anything, life is hard, we should be grateful Meta gifted us React in the first place, licenses are a thing etc.

Let me try again to explain the view that you 2 are saying you can't see:

I don't have an obligation to donate anything to anyone ever - like you said nobody does.

However, I think people are entitled to hold the expectation and opinion that I'm a bit of a jerk if I'm super rich and choose to donate virtually nothing.

$3million is virtually nothing to a $3 trillion org.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-11 14:39:35+00:00
Utterly illegal, and planned so so so long ago by Vought & Project 2025.

> Three key points: 1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February 2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty 3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise - https://bsky.app/profile/bbkogan.bsky.social/post/3m2u44bxav...

There are foes to the USA who have desires a rapid scheduled disassembly.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-11 14:39:45+00:00
One idea to fine-tune your perspective is to zoom out over time to form an opinion on how reactive to be.

Often you notice that what seems like a big drop is either pretty common or pretty small.

For instance, looking at the Nasdaq Composite over a few time horizons:

- 6mo: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/.IXIC:INDEXNASDAQ?...

- 5yr: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/.IXIC:INDEXNASDAQ?...

- Max: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/.IXIC:INDEXNASDAQ?...
by dtkav | 2025-10-11 14:39:51+00:00
I recently bought the toniebox to hack it for my son's 4th birthday. It has become his favorite object.

I considered building sometime custom, but the tonie hardware is cute, portable, and lovable in a way that would be hard to replicate.

It has been really fun for my wife and I to listen to our favorite music in the car, and then when my son says "I like this song" I "burn" him a little disk that evening.

He's turned into a little DJ, and has memorized a handful of his songs (and dances and sings along).

One caveat is that finding compatible NFC tags is a little bit complicated. if you buy from RFIDfriend [0] then they take a couple weeks to arrive from Germany.

Highly recommend!

[0] http://RFIDfriend.com
by skybrian | 2025-10-11 14:40:27+00:00
There are lots of Saleforce customers getting hacked. [1]

> Insurance giant Allianz Life, Google, fashion conglomerate Kering, the airline Qantas, carmaking giant Stellantis, credit bureau TransUnion, and the employee management platform Workday, among several others, have confirmed their data was stolen in these mass hacks.

Perhaps it's bad security defaults which are in some sense user error, but when it becomes common pattern then I think the company needs to make systematic fixes.

Compare with many Snowflake customers getting hacked.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/03/hacking-group-claims-theft...
by runarberg | 2025-10-11 14:40:27+00:00
It is trivial to do that with JavaScript as you fill in the content of <output> using Intt, e.g.

const outputEl = document.getElementById("my-output"); const currencyFormat = new Intl.NumberFormat("default", { style: "currency", currency: "ISK", }); outputEl.textContent = currencyFormat.format(value);

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
by superkuh | 2025-10-11 14:40:50+00:00
Powerline Ethernet is directly equivalent to littering in the park. By using it you are littering and being a jerk, even if you don't realize it. The FCC only tests such setups in very limited contrived ways. When it comes to actual house wiring the copper wiring is never impedance controlled, constantly approaches and leaves large metal objects, etc, so that it is always radiating radio waves. And powerline ethernet is HF (<30MHz) frequencies so those radio waves travel around the entire earth, ruining a shared medium. Just like littering in a public park is ruining a shared medium.
by ipython | 2025-10-11 14:40:58+00:00
I don't connect my TVs to the Internet; instead I hook up Apple TVs to an HDMI port and just use the TV as God intended - as a dumb display device. The Apple TV is connected to the Internet and functions as my portal to, as you say, the vulgarities of contemporary media and visual indulgence. Without the downsides of buggy and spyware ridden TV firmware.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-11 14:41:39+00:00
I bought a Wi-Fi 6 TP-Link router recently and found out that it's normal for people to have performance/responsiveness issues due to all the "advanced" features enabled. I turned them all off and use the simplest possible connection settings, but somehow there is still a 20-second delay when my smartphone tries to access a web page (and I use 1.1.1.1/8.8.8.8, and this never happened on previous wifi routers). The great enshittification rolls on.
by simonw | 2025-10-11 14:41:58+00:00
I can't recommend this post strongly enough. The way Jesse is using these tools is wildly more ambitious than most other people.

Spend some time digging around in his https://github.com/obra/Superpowers repo.

I wrote some notes on this last night: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/10/superpowers/