MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-06 23:10:22+00:00
> Yes, the current leaders are the result of Natenyahu's previous harvest.

When have Palestinians had leaders that have been truly interested in peace?

> There is no shortage of articles on the internet detailing how Israel is the one responsible for propping up Hamas.

There's a lot more nuance to this issue as allowing funds to be transferred by Qatar was to some degree an attempt at improving the lives of Palestinians in Gaza.

> And the current leaders of Iran are the fruits of what the USA/CIA sowed by toppling a popular democracy and replacing it with a despotic monarchy.

I think you're underplaying the impact of radical Islam here.
by mandevil | 2025-10-06 23:10:29+00:00
Almost 30 years ago I went to a Penn and Teller magic show. They did their bullet catch (classed up but basically the same trick people have been doing for a century) and other stuff I don't really remember.

The trick I vividly remember was just Penn standing behind a table, putting a piece of green cloth (like a surgical thing) over a water balloon, and then giving a long speech of all the damage that friends of his had survived, as he stabbed the balloon (under the cloth) repeatedly in time with his speech, and talked about the wonder of medical science, and how doctors he knew had saved people from all these horrendous accidents and damaging the balloon in sync with every example.

And then he removed his hands from the table, holding them up to the audience, leaving the balloon still under the surgical barrier, and said "And the other thing that doctors will tell you, if get a couple of beers into them, is that sometimes people just die for no reason at all." And the balloon collapsed right on cue.

I can't seem to find a video of it but I remember it clearly.
by purplezooey | 2025-10-06 23:10:39+00:00
There are some interesting points, but a few cringe things.

1) (referring to the Antifraud Company) "...they call themselves “a private-sector DOGE” -- Not exactly putting your best foot forward.

2) OpenAI paid $6.5B for Jony Ive's year old startup. That's a 'B'. Sure, stock is funny money, but it's difficult to defend the overpaying here. A lot of money seems to have been lit on fire.
by IshKebab | 2025-10-06 23:10:41+00:00
Yeah definitely. For the web it's more like the last 0.1% takes 99.9% of the time. And it's not like you can skip it either. Nobody is going to use a browser that is missing 0.1% of the web platform - that probably means something like 1% of websites are broke in some way and that's a terrible experience.

They are decades of work away from having a browser that would be competitive with Chrome or Firefox.
by uyzstvqs | 2025-10-06 23:11:51+00:00
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was also able to handle 128 TPS just fine. They just chose to never implement it in official matchmaking (64 TPS). It did work very smoothly on community servers.

Counter-Strike 2 implements a controversial "sub tick" system on top of 64 TPS. It is not comparable to actual 128 TPS, and often worse than standard 64 TPS in practice.
by everforward | 2025-10-06 23:11:55+00:00
They cant run double, it becomes clearer as the baseline goes up. At .16, the alcoholic would be up at .32 and at serious risk of dying from respiratory suppression. They’re more used to being drunk, but that doesn’t avoid the physical reality of alcohol toxicity.

It’s very different than THC where a 10x tolerance is pretty normal for a new user vs a heavy user. Relative to alcohol, that would be .08 vs .80 which is like twice the lethal limit.

Thus it’s very hard to set limits because one persons residual use from 6 hours ago is enough to get another person stoned off their ass. I don’t really have solutions there though.
by bob1029 | 2025-10-06 23:12:00+00:00
I miss playing on consistent <10ms servers in the CS 1.6 days.

The Houston/Dallas/Austin/San Antonio region was like a mini universe of highly competitive FPS action. My 2mbps roadrunner cable modem could achieve single digit ping from Houston to Dallas. Back in those days we plugged the modem directly into the gaming PC.
by ahlCVA | 2025-10-06 23:12:07+00:00
SNI leakage is what encrypted client hello (ECH) tries to solve: https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-encrypted-client-hell...

It's still not perfect since you're still leaking information about the privacy set implied by the outer ClientHello, but this possibly isn't much worse than the destination IP address you're leaking anyway.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-06 23:12:20+00:00
> You can never request an illegal act, never commit an illegal act, but create a culture where others become incentivized to do illegal acts. This can be done in sufficiently subtle ways that it's impossible to prove it was intentional.

I disagree. So do many state and federal RICO[0] laws. They were enacted for precisely this situation.

But you do you.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corru...
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-10-06 23:12:41+00:00
Automation? Though china are not half bad themselves.

Or bet on china crashing their housing bubble and take their currency stability and industry with them. But we've been predicting that for well over 10 years and it hasn't happened yet.

... and it would be quite useful to have local industry to replace it with, or we just end up crashing the USD aswell when nobody can produce anything.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-10-06 23:12:58+00:00
At least in Physics, on average every year there is more than one discovery that is worth a Nobel prize. So there is an increasing backlog of people who should get a Nobel prize. You can look at the list and check that people in the 1920s got their prize about 15 years after their work [1]. But recently people have been getting it about 30-40 years after.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Phy...
by jader201 | 2025-10-06 23:13:09+00:00
Yeah, 100% to this too. My wife won't even charge our EV away from home due to the issues we've run into with the various apps.

Not only are they all different, they sometimes just fail. And this is sometimes an app issue, but it's also often a charger issue. We had to literally drive an hour away, with only about 15% remaining, to get to a working charger one time, because we couldn't get either of the two chargers working at the place we often stop by.

Not only was that a big inconvenience, it was stressful not knowing whether we had enough charge to make it to our backup. If we didn't have a backup close enough, I'm not sure what we would've done.
by runarberg | 2025-10-06 23:13:53+00:00
You wanted to see the computations, I provided you with them and instead of admitting that you were wrong, you responded by casting doubt on their models. This doesn’t strike me as arguing in good faith. But very well, 5th on my list of the same search term gave me this:

Vera C. Rubin Observatory – Impact of Satellite Constellations

https://www.lsst.org/content/lsst-statement-regarding-increa...

The Vera Rubin Observatory came online only this June, but they were complaining about Starlink already last year, and provided preliminary observation how they affected their observations, and how they plan on mitigating it.

Both the 2023 paper and the Vera Rubin Observatory statement call for a set of policies to mitigate the effect of these satellites. However policymakers have not enacted any of these other then some NSF science grants to study potential solution (I don‘t know whether or not they were defunded by DOGE; although if they were, that would seem like a criminal conflict of interest). And I have my reservations about the willingness of governments in the world to come together and set the universal regulatory framework required to enforce these proposed mitigations.

Note that increased exposure time required because of these satellites will affect the number of available operations, which in turn will decrease the amount of astronomy done with this telescope. I want to note especially the conclusion:

> Overall, large numbers of bright satellites — and the necessary steps to avoid, identify, and otherwise mitigate them — will impact the ability of LSST to discover the unexpected.

When you are disputing this you are disputing top engineers and scientists in astronomy. You better have a good reason for that (other then protecting the wealth of billionaires).
by sublinear | 2025-10-06 23:14:04+00:00
Why would it be like that instead of the way we already handle low-trust environments?

Projects that get a lot of attention already put up barriers to new contributions, and the ones that get less attention will continue to get less attention.

The review process cannot be left to AI because it will introduce uncertainty nobody wants to be held responsible for.

If anything, the people who have always seen code as a mere means to an end will finally come to a forced decision: either stop fucking around or get out of the way.

An adversarial web is ultimately good for software quality, but less open than it used to be. I'm not even sure if that's a bad thing.
Show HN: Neural background noise removal in multimedia with a single command
by svemyh | 2025-10-06 23:14:09+00:00
Hey HN,

Introducing `dfm`, a simple CLI for background noise removal from audio and video files. It leverages the DeepFilterNet model and FFmpeg to seamlessly enhance your recordings. Huge credit goes to Hendrik Schröter et al. for their original work on DeepFilterNet, which powers this tool. https://github.com/Rikorose/DeepFilterNet

I built this for my own needs to more easily process a bunch of video files. Hope others might find it useful as well.

.
by _wire_ | 2025-10-06 23:14:13+00:00
It's lovely to think of a legendary primatologist as being so confounded by these apes that her first regard to the horror of them is to dream of launching them to space.

Thus spoke Zarathustra plays as Trump swings a bone with a cutaway to Elon Musk tumbling away from a Grok-pod into endless orbit of Jupiter.
by bgwalter | 2025-10-06 23:14:36+00:00
So it is a secret tool, they will "gradually reach out to interested maintainers of critical open source projects with CodeMender-generated patches", then they "hope to release CodeMender as a tool that can be used by all software developers".

Why is everything in "AI" shrouded in mystery, hidden behind $200 monthly payments and has glossy announcements. Just release the damn thing and let us test it. You know, like the software we write and that you steal from us.
by shoo | 2025-10-06 23:14:43+00:00
A few people are discussing Newell Brands Inc (NWL)'s poor stock performance over the last decade, and how that makes it hard to sell as a success story. As bgwalter points out, there was a large drop of NWL's share price, particularly between june 2017 ($53.35 / share) and june 2019 ($15.36 USD).

Looking at historical financial metrics [1] over this period provides some insight about the stock price drop:

2016 2017 2018 2019 Revenue ($b) 13 15 9 10 Op Margin(%) 9 10 7 8 EBIT Margin(%) 9 13 -91 -6

Their revenue had been growing, then in 2018 their revenue dropped by around 40%, breaking the trend of "increasing revenue" and "increasing EBIT margin". So that explains why we might expect a large decrease in share price, if investor narratives changed from a "growth company" story to a "declining company" story. Reported earnings were negative for 2018, 2019 and 2020.

A Forbes article from 2019 [2] provides some context that may explain large revenue drop:

> Over the last year or so, the company has offloaded many non-core businesses (such as sporting goods maker Rawlings, packaging manufacturer Waddington, and Pure Fishing – a maker of fishing equipment) to trim its portfolio and cut costs. Moreover, the asset sales have helped the company prune down its debt, which stood at about $6.7 billion at the end of June, down from close to $11 billion two years ago.

Aha: searching for "Newell restated financials" dug up this interesting gem [3]. In 2023 the SEC charged Newell and the former CEO Michael Polk with misleading investors:

> The SEC’s order finds that, in 2016 and 2017, Newell and Polk took actions that increased the company’s publicly disclosed core sales growth in ways that were out of step with Newell’s actual but undisclosed sales trends, allowing the company to announce “strong” or “solid” results in quarters it internally described as disappointing due to shortfalls in sales. According to the order, Newell pulled sales forward into earlier quarters without adequate disclosure and engaged in accounting practices that were inconsistent with GAAP, while overriding its internal accounting controls. Collectively, these measures gave the misleading appearance that Newell had achieved core sales growth in line with its targets and deprived investors of information relevant to an accurate and complete understanding of Newell’s actual sales trends.

So former CEO Polk engaged in financial shenanigans during 2016 and 2017 to cook the books and make sales growth appear better to investors than they actually were, shaping NWL as a growth story. They weren't able to maintain the charade in 2018.

[1] https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/xnas/nwl/key-metrics

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2019/10/24/ho...

[3] https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023-210
by HappMacDonald | 2025-10-06 23:17:11+00:00
Not from the perspective of "harm to those lied to", no. But from the perspective of "what the liar can expect as a consequence".

I can lie to a McDonalds cashier about what food I want, or I can lie to a kiosk.. but in either circumstance I'll wind up being served the food that I asked for and didn't want, won't I?
by bigiain | 2025-10-06 23:17:21+00:00
> When dropping a payload from a drone or aircraft, this gliding angle means parachutes will often drift far from their intended targets. This can be especially frustrating and potentially dangerous for operations such as humanitarian aid delivery, where precisely targeted airdrops are often vital to success.

I could't help but roll my eyes at this textbook example of describing new technology as being "useful for humanitarian or search & rescue work", instead of the much more obvious usefulness in military applications.

Who's kidding who about what "precisely targeted airdrops" are most likely to be used for? These will be in use by Ukraine well before anything beyond a technology demo drops on to a "stranded hiker" in a National Park...
by IgorPartola | 2025-10-06 23:17:29+00:00
You are right but 8 bytes into 4 bytes sounded more on illustrative in my head. And while I try to make a point to be kind to people who do not know things, if you choose to express a clearly nonsensical opinion in such strong terms, on a forum that has discussed to death how you cannot cram more addresses into an IPv4 header, and something you can check for yourself so easily, yeah sorry you deserve a terse response of that’s not how bytes work. You did not bother to do 60 seconds of education before spouting this tired nonsense.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-10-06 23:17:35+00:00
To anyone who thinks “we moved manufacturing to China, so someone should be able to replicate that playbook“, the Chinese government is one step ahead. They know that being the world’s sole manufacturing base is an incredible economic and geopolitical advantage and won’t give that up. Allowing any country to do a China on them will only weaken their economies of scale.

And how do they do this? Requiring export licenses for manufacturing machines. Apple wanted to diversify their iPhone manufacturing to India. The machines needed to manufacture iPhones and themselves made only in China. And China placed export restrictions on them to slow down or stop that process. Ditto on the expertise to run those plants. That expertise used to be distributed. It’s mostly Chinese now, and the government exerts a more direct influence on the experts to prevent the knowledge from being spread around.

In any case the idea of being able to trust a foreign country as place where stuff can be manufactured has been harmed by both China and Trump. China has demonstrated how such leverage can be abused and Trump has broken the taboo against tariffs. So there’s going to be even less support for creating an alternative to China, which ironically strengthens China.

Lastly, even if you got the machines and the know-how and set up a plant in another country, you’re still buying most of your components and raw materials from China. And China has gotten incredibly good at sanctioning specific industries in specific countries. Ask American arms manufacturers that need permanent magnets.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-06 23:17:49+00:00
I'm not sure what level of confidence I have in any major media conglomerate to actually deliver anything resembling unbiased news at this point. The entirety "journalism" is entrenched by activists to begin with.

The best you can do is get a few of the same stories from sources that are biased in different directions to glean out something resembling a complete picture, and even then you should be skeptical.
by rtkwe | 2025-10-06 23:18:28+00:00
They're right, when they said 0.6s tick they mean there's a tick every 0.6 seconds.

It's important to some players because you can get some odd behaviour out of the game by starting multiple actions on the same tick or on the tick after you started a different action. It's ridiculous click intensive but you can get weird benefits like cutting the time to take an action short or get xp in 2 skills at once.
by westurner | 2025-10-06 23:18:36+00:00
> [At nanoscale] heat doesn't just "diffuse." It can ripple like sound waves, remember its past, or flow in elegant streams like a fluid in a pipe. For decades, scientists had pieces of this puzzle but no unifying explanation.

> Now, researchers at Auburn University and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory have delivered what they call a "unified statistical theory of heat conduction."

> "Fourier's law was written 200 years ago; this breakthrough rewrites the rules for how heat conducts in the nanoscale and ultrafast world of today," said Prof. Jianjun (JJ) Dong, Thomas and Jean Walter Professor of Physics at Auburn University.

ScholarlyArticle: "Time-domain theory of transient heat conduction in the local limit" (2025) https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/p8wg-p1j3
by hatthew | 2025-10-06 23:18:38+00:00
I wear flip flops every single day, and only switch to hiking boots for better arch support when I go on long hikes that matters. Sometimes I forget to bring my boots and end up climbing a mountain or wading a muddy stream with flip flops. The boots are marginally better, but not enough for me to notice; I only started them on hikes after my aunt pointed out that I didn't have great walking posture.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-06 23:18:44+00:00
Transitors at the quantum level are probability functions just like everything else is. And just like everything else, at the macro level the overall behavior follows a predictable known pattern.

LLMs have nondeterministic properties intrinsic to their macro behaviour. If you've ever tweaked the "temperature" of an LLM, that's what you are tweaking.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-10-06 23:18:58+00:00
You can get a digital mobile key without a citizen card? You just need to provide passport and tax number to any number of locations:

https://www2.gov.pt/en/locais-de-atendimento-de-servicos-pub...

It's surprising to see you say this, since the PT gov website is honestly pretty clear on it.

And I highly doubt you're 200km from any court clerk. Especially since, you know, Portugal is only 220x550km...
by shit_game | 2025-10-06 23:19:11+00:00
Shops can shut down for more reasons than not having enough work, such as tariffs and regulations affecting CoGS, low hiring capability, CoGS changing (like energy), and especially tool and material shortages (also affected by the same issues). I remember one of my bosses closing his shop due to these issues, as well as the compounding factors of corporate buyouts of smaller outfits and job offshoring, too. America is an expensive place, and market makers do not like expensive places.
by didntknowyou | 2025-10-06 23:19:15+00:00
it kinda worked in a way. AMD offered OpenAI 160 million stock options.

With AMD's stock jump today it's net worth increased about $35billion, close enough in value to those stocks option they gave away (if it was redeemed instantly).

It's too much of a coincidence so I'm guessing market makers and institutional shareholders priced it in their trading today.
by bcrl | 2025-10-06 23:19:16+00:00
Licensing takes many forms. Some are onerous, some are not. Working At Heights training takes 0.5-1 day of training every 3 years where I live, and it's mandated because it saves lives. Yes, it's a form of licensing, but it's an easy box to check because it's accessible.

For example: running experiments on humans without their prior consent is considered unethical. However, large tech firms routinely run A / B tests on their users without providing Informed Consent. If software developers were trained like engineers, they would be ethically obligated to obtain Informed Consent prior to engaging in this kind of conduct. More importantly, when software developers realize they were being experimented upon (as happened in the Linux kernel community a while back), they were justifiably outraged.

I know this isn't going to be a popular position to hold here, but there's a lot of harm being done by unethical practices that are currently widespread in big tech. Ephemeral ads that prey on the elderly would be considered Not Good by anyone that has seen a parent fall prey to them, yet there doesn't seem to be any concern whatsoever amongst the industry giants themselves to prevent this practice. So long as an ad brings in money, it's good to run seems to be the bar for advertisers at present, and I don't think that's good for society.

When there are no ethical considerations given to the consequences of an action, unethical outcomes are inevitable. Fixing that starts with learning, which is something every great developer already does.
by fluoridation | 2025-10-06 23:19:24+00:00
>suggestions using the notes are routinely ignored

Of course. The records are known to not be 100% accurate. Any conclusion you derive from them will be faulty.

>There is no professional or legal liability if the records are wrong.

Again, of course. In many cases it may not even be possible to show a record is incorrect. For example, if the record doesn't say a test was performed, but the patient insists that it was, is the record wrong, or is the patient mistaken? Or a doctor could incorrectly write down something that only he saw, such as a blood pressure value on a gauge.

I would guess a key obstacle to eliminating all these inaccuracies is that doctors don't see strict record-keeping as actually useful in helping patients. Every minute that they're taking notes of dubious future utility is a minute they could spend seeing a patient.
by nickpinkston | 2025-10-06 23:19:43+00:00
I'm optimistic that it's easier to find/solve vulnerabilities via auto pen-testing / patching, and other security measures, than it will be to find/exploit vulnerabilities after - ie defense is easier in an auto-security world.

Does anyone disagree?

This is purely my intuition, but I'm interested in how others are thinking about it.

All this with the mega caveat of this assuming very widespread adoption of these defenses, which we know won't be true and auto-hacking may be rampant for a while.