MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alganet | 2025-10-11 15:41:04+00:00
This seems like a romantization of what good developers are supposed to be.

Most likely it is an exagerated take on what these individuals were able to achieve, and it downplays the role of HR.

Instead of HR being to blame for missing talent, it portrays that missing talent as "inherently stealthy", which might not be as true as reported.

Overall, we need less of this kind of mythology.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-10-11 15:42:41+00:00
I'm not sure this is a plausible brink. The initial "tariff board" situation was 10 times more severe than this, and additionally this is a repeat of the same playbook.

This won't be the start of (further) major decoupling unless it's what China wanted in the first place, and they needed another 6 months of preparation before committing to the path. If China says "Go ahead and tariff us 100%. All rare earth exports and re-experts to the US are banned", then that's when to expect changes that won't be reversed any time soon. Everyone knows that Trump will blindly auto-escalate in response, so China saying so would mean "this is the outcome we prefer" and all that follows from there.
by rickydroll | 2025-10-11 15:42:51+00:00
Here is a better article that I intended to post, plus a couple more for some nuance on 1a protected speech vs. regulated speech

https://nefac.org/is-heckling-a-speaker-a-crime/

https://www.aclumich.org/en/cases/hecklers-veto

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-first-amendment-does-no....
by ksec | 2025-10-11 15:43:02+00:00
>Will streaming services ever stop over-compressing their content?

Before COVID Netflix were at least using 8Mbps for 1080P content. With x264 / beamr it is pretty good, and even better on HEVC. Then COVID hit, every streaming service not just Netflix have excuses to lower their quality due to increased demand with limited bandwidth. Everything went down hill since then. Customer got used to lower quality I dont believe they ever bring it back up. Now it is only something like 3-5Mbps according to previous test posted on HN.

And while it is easy for HEVC / AV1 / AV2 to have 50%+ bitrate real world savings compared to H.264 saving at 0.5 - 4Mbps range, once you go pass that the savings begin to shrink rapidly to the point good old x264 encoder may perform better at much higher bitrate.
by nick__m | 2025-10-11 15:43:05+00:00
The process in Québec doesn't have those flaws, it is much superior than the one used in the rest of Canada :

To obtain medical aid in dying in Quebec, people must meet all the following requirements: have a Quebec health insurance card, be 18 years old or older, have the mental capacity to make their own decisions about their medical care, be in one of these situations: and be in a state where their abilities are severely and permanently getting worse, with no chance of improvement, have a serious physical impairment that greatly affects their abilities for an extended period, be in constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain, be informed about any available means to relieve suffering, have decided that those means are intolerable. Once a doctor or SNP assesses the request, they must ask a second doctor or SNP to confirm in writing that the patient is eligible to receive medical aid in dying. The doctor or SNP must also ensure that several measures to protect the patient have been respected. They must ensure that: The patient made their request freely and with all the information necessary to make an informed decision. The patient repeated their request at different moments. The patient has had an opportunity to discuss the request with their loved ones. The patient has the opportunity to change their mind right up to the very last moment. If the patient has trouble communicating, the doctor or SNP must also ensure that the patient was given a reliable means of communication and understands the information they had received.

from https://educaloi.qc.ca/en/capsules/medical-aid-in-dying/
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-10-11 15:43:05+00:00
I wrote an article trying to give a simple overview for teaching. https://rubberduckmaths.com/eulers_theorem

I also added plenty of inline python code blocks students can change and run on the fly.

The reason i wrote this is the hand waving around group theory i saw in other explanations. Namely you shouldn't just say x^y always = x mod m for certain values of y (eg. x^13=x mod 35, even for factors of 35). You should give a detailed, intuitive understanding of why this occurs.
by 0xEF | 2025-10-11 15:43:22+00:00
You're not missing anything. I did not want to get too deep into it here, because let's be honest; thinking about having to take our own life is a really, really dark place to go, even if it with the best of intentions. I'm not really sure that HN is the place for that type of discussion, at least not on any detailed level.

At the moment, I have standing orders in place that no heroic measures or treatments should be enacted in the event that I am in a terminal or vegitative state. I've communicated clearly to family members that would be responsible for my decision making that things are not to be prolonged or dragged out for the sake of emotional contrivance.

Without knowing how we will die, it's really quite impossible to plan around it, of course. My comment, more or less, expresses my desire to have more control over my exit in the event that I am put in a position to become a massive burden on those I love; this is something I consider a reasonable and rational request, where the folks that make our laws do not. None of that changes without discussing and sharing our viewpoints on the matter, though, which I suppose was all that I was doing.
by MountDoom | 2025-10-11 15:43:28+00:00
Google market cap has grown over 50% in the past six months. Nvidia was up nearly 70%. Tesla was in the same ballpark, I can't imagine why. Heck, Meta was up 35%, for no conceivable reason.

So the headline here should be probably less about a small 5% hiccup in that Bitcoin-like trajectory, and more about why the heck is so much money pouring into the sector - including Tesla and Facebook, which aren't on the forefront of anything right now.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-11 15:43:38+00:00
> But, eventually, something had to reign in all that and the FCC along with international laws and standards came up to calm all that down.

No, it actually stayed pretty lively until the 90s, when the government decided that there could be huge monopolies in media, all the stations were bought up by like 6 guys, and were automated to play Disney music 24 hours a day.

Not such a neat story, right?
by ryukoposting | 2025-10-11 15:43:40+00:00
I've waffled between support and opposition of MAID a lot, for similar reasons. I think the morality of it depends heavily on social and economic context. In the US specifically, I worry that MAID could serve as a roundabout form of eugenics, even if it wasn't disproportionately recommended to any particular group.

Imagine you're poor, your family is poor, and your friends are poor too. You spend 2 years in and out of inpatient care, and then die. Your family is now saddled with a debt they will never be able to pay. Your medical bills could make them homeless. Now imagine choosing between that, and MAID. MAID is obviously a cheaper "out."

Now remember the demographics of poor people in this country. If poor people end up being more likely to choose MAID, that necessarily means MAID would be used disproportionately on ethnic minorities and disabled people. So you end up with eugenics again, just because of the sorry state of our medical system and class demographics.

Not all assisted suicide is eugenics, to be clear. There's a discussion of Jain practices elsewhere in this comment tree.

But man did I lose sleep at the thought that we could have people volunteering to kill themselves solely because they're poor. You could argue that it's wrong not to give someone the choice to die sooner, given that dying later could cause so much strife for their family. But I hold that the right solution isn't making people die sooner, it's building a medical system where people never have to grapple with this choice in the first place.
by toast0 | 2025-10-11 15:43:44+00:00
New video codecs typically offer more options for how to represent the current frame in terms of other frames. That typically means more processing for the encoder, because it can check for all the similarities to see what works best; there's also harder math for arithmetic coding of the picture data. It will be more work for the encoder if it needs to keep more reference images and especially if it needs to do harder transformations, or if arithemetic decoding gets harder.

Clever matters a lot more for encoding. If you can determine good ways to figure out the motion information without trying them all, that gets you faster encoding speed. Decoding doesn't tend to have as much room for cleverness; the stream says to calculate the output from specific data, so you need to do that.
by Bender | 2025-10-11 15:44:03+00:00
Can you confirm the full technical method you were using to see DoH traffic? i.e. Destination IP/port/protocol

Suggested capture methods:

tcpdump -p --dont-verify-checksums -i any -NNnntt -B32768 -c2000 -s0 proto 6 and 'tcp[13] == 2' and not host ${Your_Router_IP} & tcpdump -p --dont-verify-checksums -i any -NNnntt -B32768 -c4000 -s0 proto 17 and not host ${Your_Router_IP} and 'length <256' &

Don't paste the output, just suggestions for capturing HTTPS SYN and QUIC over UDP.
by jmward01 | 2025-10-11 15:44:10+00:00
NVIDIA and Tesla are massively over valued right now. Both of them have valuations based on their potential for the future but the very real competition to both now makes their inevitable dominance a very far from sure thing bet. Tesla's brand is tarnished and their tech is lagging far behind global competitors and NVIDIA is seeing real competition from AMD, finally. Compute is too fundamental for a single company to hold all the cards. I can agree with the 'don't take every little blip seriously' mindset but there are real fundamental problems in the big players in the market right now that should cause concerns.
by intended | 2025-10-11 15:44:11+00:00
This isnt science, or engineering.

This is voodoo.

It likely works - but knowing that YAGNI is a thing, means at some level you are invoking a cultural touchstone for a very specific group of humans.

Edit -

I dug into the superpowers and skills for a bit. Definitely learned from it.

There’s stuff that doesn’t make sense to me on a conceptual basis. For example in the skill to preserve productive tensions. There’s a part that goes :

> The trade-off is real and won't disappear with clever engineering

There’s no dimension for “valid” or prediction for tradeoff.

I can guess that if the preceding context already outlines tradeoffs clearly, or somehow encodes that there is no clever solution that threads the needle - then this section can work.

Just imagining what dimensions must be encoding some of this suggests that it’s … it won’t work for situations where the example wasn’t already encoded in the training. (Not sure how to phrase it)
by array_key_first | 2025-10-11 15:44:16+00:00
Yes you did, you said "let's not regulate things that are flimsy" and your example was smoking (???) because we have vapes now (???) and so effectively people still smoke inside (???)

Really? We can't even regulate smoking? That's too far for you? Jesus Christ.

If this isn't "we tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" then I don't know what is.

Yes, regulations are not perfect and do have to be updated. That doesn't mean theyre worthless and we shouldn't bother. Thats stupid.
by j_bum | 2025-10-11 15:44:41+00:00
This was a fun read.

I’ve similarly been using spec.md and running to-do.md files that capture detailed descriptions of the problems and their scoped history. I mark each of my to-do’s with informational tags: [BUG], [FEAT], etc.

I point the LLM to the exact to-do (or section of to-do’s) with the spec.md in memory and let it work.

This has been working very well for me.
Show HN: Booking.com Fake Rating Detector
by deeteeess | 2025-10-11 15:44:49+00:00
I've been constantly traveling for the past few months and after being burned with a few filthy "highly rated" hotels I resorted to constantly checking Google Maps to verify the scores... Enter Vietnam, where there's a million hotels and not a shred of credibility. Cross checking was taking far too much time so I built a browser extension to do it for me by adding a button on search results. I'm finding it useful so feel free to use it too!
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-11 15:45:15+00:00
"Remember that when the market falls, you have not lost money, not unless you sell."

This is such a bad take, lol. It's a thing meme traders say to cope. You absolutely have lost money. You haven't realized the losses, but you are definitely poorer and should re-evaluate your risk tolerances based on your current worth.

You can take loans out using your stock portfolio as collateral. In attempting to do so, as you speak to a bank, they aren't judging you based on your initial capital investment. They're looking at the current valuation of your portfolio - unrealized gains/losses taken into consideration. That makes your current worth very real and tangible without needing to actually realize the gains/losses.

If taxes didn't occur when you realized gains/losses then people would stop saying this phrase. It's just something said to try and prevent anxiousness from increasing your tax burden. Fundamentally, you lose/gain money whenever the things you own change value.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-11 15:45:36+00:00
All of these are available on PC and/or Xbox. Several are PS4. Not a single one is exclusive.

I understand these things don’t bother you but you can’t say it has plenty of exclusives when it literally does not. You just aren’t bothered by that fact and that is fine. But it makes me question what I would be buying when I have more affordable ways of playing all of these games since again, they have virtually no exclusives and their best studios have dropped little to nothing due to their failed gamble with live service.

The PS3/PS4 had several single player titles that you could only play on PlayStation and were made specifically for them. They weren’t resting on the laurels of previous releases and just giving them a new coat of paint. They had bigger, better, more exclusive libraries. The PS4 in particular had clear value. No one had to argue for it. The library is considered one of the best.

I am a big proponent of consoles believe it or not but frankly the PS5 is a head scratcher for me at the end of the day. Especially for the (now increased) price.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-11 15:45:47+00:00
No. But I think that people should be able to decide when they want to end their lives if it is because of pain that won’t get any better, a terminal illness that causes pain etc. while they have all of their cognitive functions.

But we should put guardrails around if the reason for assisted suicide is not pressure from relatives, depression, etc.
by mallowfram | 2025-10-11 15:46:14+00:00
That's simply the function of narrative using words. How can anything built subjectively in symbols and cause and effect reach consensus, correlational objectivity?

They can't. Language is for confirmation bias first and foremost. It embeds the illusion of subjective perspective in every statement.

We quit language, replace it, or go down for the count.

"It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images of the world, and has thus been drawn into the human realm, which now encompasses everything. There is no place, no thing, no person or phenomenon that I cannot obtain as image or information. One might think this adds substance to the world, since one knows more about it, not less, but the opposite is true: it empties the world, it becomes thinner. That’s because knowledge of the world and experience of the world are two fundamentally different things. While knowledge has no particular time or place and can be transmitted, experience is tied to a specific time and place and can never be repeated. For the same reason, it also can’t be predicted. Exactly those two dimensions – the unrepeatable and the unpredictable – are what technology abolishes. The feeling is one of loss of the world." Knausgaard
by krapp | 2025-10-11 15:47:22+00:00
The rationale behind the FCC is that it's regulating a limited resource (spectrum space.) The web is not a limited resource (although bandwidth is, but that's a different debate.) The web is also international, and we're already seeing conflicts where one country tries to force their regulations onto another. That metaphor just doesn't work where the web is concerned.

I agree that the web in the US, and specifically large social media platforms, will probably be regulated because that seems to be one of the few things both parties agree on for their own reasons. But more so because the government wants to control information and surveil citizens. I think the balkanization of the web as a whole into smaller, closed networks is probably inevitable.

But what's most depressing of all is how many people in tech and on HN would be thrilled if one needed a license to publish on the internet just because that would implicitly push most people off of the web and leave it for a privileged elite.

As bad as social media can be (and I think its harm is often oversold for political ends) having a space where anyone can publish and communicate and create freely, where different platforms can exist and cater to different needs, where media isn't entirely controlled and gatekept by corporations, is critically important. More important than any other communications paradigm before it, including the printing press.

It's really going to be sad when we burn it all down, because it seems unlikely anyone is going to make something as free and open as the web ever again.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-10-11 15:48:00+00:00
Thanks for sharing your awesome notes.. I will devour these eagerly and learn from your journey so far.

I don't mind lower power if it means I can get off the grid, and especially if I can have a small fleet of devices for the purpose of.. I'm already doing myself of my development work on the uConsole - it's not a fast PC, nor a beast in any sense, but it does function just fine for my use case.

I could see an ARM64 cluster being solar powered with workable results.

I agree .. the idea of a battery-less solar calculator-type computer would be grand. Lets see how long it takes for someone to design a viable product around this idea ..
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-11 15:48:09+00:00
> If you want to make your future life easier I suggest running a PVC pipe (at minimum in the drop down portion). Replacing or adding new cabling will be much easier if you do this so it's totally worth the few extra bucks and few extra minutes of work.

I’m trying to understand how removing an entire sheet of gypsum (or cutting a 6” by 8’ channel) and installing an empty PVC raceway is ‘a few extra minutes of work’. Installing the PVC might be, but you’re looking at hours of work over multiple days to replace the drywall and refinish the wall.

Raceways are unnecessary in stick built houses if you have a fish stick and fish tape. If you’re building a new house, then sure, install 1” EMT as raceway for Cat6A before putting up the drywall.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-10-11 15:48:20+00:00
I read about mutation testing in a course of test oriented programming. And i am unsure to this day of what domain it's meant for.

The most strict and safety critical code i have encountered, was specifying its system behaviour in a state machine diagram of a ISO specification.

Yet it was too state based for effective unit testing. Instead it opted to assert the living hell out of the codebase and be paranoid about even the stability of the ram it wrote to.

I have a hard time imagining a domain that is both;

1. Easily to coverage test to a high enough degree that mutating testing can be used.

2. Needs pedantic testing to the point of absurdity, perhaps already using boundary value diagrams for its test-cases.

And so mutating testing feels quite odd to me, and selling it as an AI tooling is even more insane. It feels like far more effort than to just not use AI.
by pardon_me | 2025-10-11 15:48:20+00:00
We are human. Unfortunately all of our experiences with others change our perception of them, no matter how much awareness of their motivations and our history with them. We can try to ignore it and have patience. Apologies can help but relationships will constantly change.

It's certainly a failure point within us and something to be aware of to make effort towards understanding our own impact as you suggest. Sadly a problem with no full solution over long enough time periods.
by tilxeycneg | 2025-10-11 15:48:25+00:00
This will be worse off for them; Shanghai and Beijing real estate prices dropped 50% in some places in September and October. Their long 6 day national holiday in October had a 20% consumption drop compared to 2024. Same with box office, dropping by double digits compared to 2024.

And this is before the 100% tariffs.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-11 15:48:57+00:00
SS doesn't come out of the general budget, I don't know what to tell you. If you dissolve SS you don't get any money. SS is not being paid out from general budget. That spending has literally nothing to do with the deficit.

People have been saying that SS will run out since the 70s, at least. I've heard it all.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-11 15:49:30+00:00
I wouldn't agree that the higher barrier to entry was a good thing, but I also would say that the barrier to entry was actually pretty low, with angelfire, geocities, etc. Dreamweaver + other wysiwyg, and the lack of a necessity of a giant js framework with bundling and tree-shaking.

The problem is that the barrier to entry got too low, so it was necessary for large companies to interpose themselves between producers and audiences, starting with google (becoming something other than a grep for the web, and instead becoming the editor and main income source for the web) and expanding outwards into facebook.

Remember that we started with walled gardens like AOL and Compuserve, and the web (and the end of those companies) was people desperate to break out of them. Now people have been herded in again since the indexers bought the ad companies.
by Sincere6066 | 2025-10-11 15:49:39+00:00
"Uh oh, I don't like that sound of that..."

clicks article

"Project Amethyst is focused on going beyond traditional rasterization techniques that don't scale well when you try to "brute force that with raw power alone," Huynh said in the video. Instead, the new architecture is focused on more efficient running of the kinds of machine-learning-based neural networks behind AMD's FSR upscaling technology and Sony's similar PSSR system."

"Yep..."

Sigh.
by tuukkah | 2025-10-11 15:49:54+00:00
I think e.g. Mastodon with IndieWeb is a way to fight against the enshittification and to bring back the good from the early years. "The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”. We are a community of independent and personal websites based on the principles of: owning your domain and using it as your primary online identity, publishing on your own site first (optionally elsewhere), and owning your content." https://indieweb.org/
by bilekas | 2025-10-11 15:50:06+00:00
This topic is always a mixed bag for me, on the one hand I don't think you should pay ransom groups as it encourages more, but also their security should be better.

> “No company wants to see, you know, hundreds of thousands, or, millions of records of their customers just on the internet,” Kirk said. “That’s awful. It’s awful for the companies. It’s awful for the people affected.”

This reads to me like : "Well yeah sorry to our customers, but we're not taking a loss for our incompetance"

There's no winners here.