MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2025-10-30 20:17:49+00:00
Never mind... apparently Andrew's no longer a prince[0]. King Sausage Fingers is demoting him to regular rich pedophile and kicking him out.

So I guess consequences are possible. I don't know if this is meaningful.

And I don't know if anything's going to happen to Trump. Andrew was a prince, who's going to punish the king?

Sorry - CEO of America. We don't have kings here.

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/30/prince-andre...
by karel-3d | 2025-10-30 20:18:05+00:00
yeah I liked it too but then, I realize how little I pay for this type of software vs how much I pay for subscription for services that I honestly barely use.

financially, subscriptions just make more sense sadly. People vote with their wallets, and they vote subscription.

It's sad, I loooooved Affinity and their licensing schemes, but honestly... I can see why they are moving.

The AI stuff though makes no sense to me? How many people will actually use it? But then I am mostly programmer and I use these tools only time to time.
by blackqueeriroh | 2025-10-30 20:18:09+00:00
Because it’s not inevitable. I know it’s the fashion on HN to say it’s inevitable, but it’s not, and if it were, then it would be inevitable for all companies, including those who didn’t exit, which would mean those companies would fold, which would make it a capitalism problem, not a “founders exit” problem.

Either way, trying to place blame on individual people is kind of silly.
by immibis | 2025-10-30 20:18:14+00:00
Solar energy is currently the cheapest form of energy, cheaper than coal, cheaper than natural gas. You know the conspiracy theories about how the oil companies are keeping perpetual motion machines hidden? Solar panels are literally that. With the caveat that they only work in sunlight. So they're not great when you need energy at night. But even if you triple your costs to account for only working 8 hours a day, they're cheaper than anything else.
by rgblambda | 2025-10-30 20:18:53+00:00
Though I recognise the similarity, a Irish song about a relative who emigrated to America in the 19th century, fought in the Civil War, becomes a politician and advocates for Irish Independence isn't really on the same scale as what the Israel lobby is being accused of.

And a double reminder that it's an Irish song that tells an Irish perspective,not an American one.
by ryanmeasel | 2025-10-30 20:19:35+00:00
The Unity SDK is C# and slots right into the typical Unity patterns for touch input.

Two contact types are provided: Finger – Representing a single touch point, e.g, a finger Glyph – Representing a tangible object

For each contact, you get ID, Position, and Phase. For Glyphs, you also get orientation and touched status, as in the system knows whether the object is being touched or not. There tunable parameters for the tracking system as well.

For event systems (e.g., menus, etc), BoardUIInputModule in provided in place of Unity's default InputSystemUIInputModule.

Please reach out if interested to develop: https://board.fun/pages/developers
by neRok | 2025-10-30 20:19:43+00:00
Regarding "a propensity to hold grudges" and "easily move on, forget, not hold grudges": I find this to be the case. I can easily hold a grudge, because it's like the grudge is a post-it-note stuck to the front of my book-of-knowledge. This means I can readily recall the grudge, and that I can also easily forget/move-on from the grudge (just remove the note).

Continuing with the post-it-note analogy, the note can only hold a small amount of information, and so the grudge will be recorded as something simple like "fuck ___, they're an arrogant twat". So then the situation arises where you're talking to someone else and they ask "what do you think about ___?"; and so you answer "I can't stand them, they're so arrogant"; to which they respond "oh really, how so?"; and you can't give an answer, because it wasn't written on the note.

I think this ties in with memories not making you feel the relevant emotions, because the emotion you felt was also just saved as a "fact". I have found though that if I step through all the facts of an "event" and consider each "moment" along the way, that I can often generate the relevant emotion. So say I was remembering an argument, I can remember various facts about the argument and that I was angry about it, but I can't feel that anger. But if I walk through the moments, like `they said this, which made me think that, to which I rightly responded with...`, then eventually I'll start to feel angry just like I would have.

For an analogy on how I think memories are stored differently: then for non-aphantasiacs, I reckon their brain must save `memory.zip`, which contains `video, audio, smells, emotions, etc`. For a person like myself with aphantasia however, it's like I asked ChatGPT for a summary of `memory.zip`, and then I only saved the summary.

Saying that though, I do wonder about the connection between "fact based memories" and aphantasia's lack of mental imagery. Because if >50% of the usefulness of `memory.zip` is from the video, but you can't "see" the video because you aphantasia — then has your brain decided/learned to not bother saving `memory.zip` and instead just save the summary, or are all components of `memory.zip` also corrupt/unplayable?
by floo | 2025-10-30 20:19:44+00:00
For context: I own licenses for both Affinity Designer, and the full Affinity 2 suite.

Just tried the new affinity application for a couple hours and it's pretty great. Personas are now studios and as far as I can tell features from all apps are now integrated into one.

Giving this away for free is insane value and I am very glad to have this as a photoshop alternative.
by mfreed | 2025-10-30 20:19:58+00:00
I'm not aware of any published source for this time limit, nor ways to reduce it.

The docs do say, however, "If the volume has been impaired for more than 20 minutes, you can contact the AWS Support Center." [0] which suggests its some expected cleanup/remount interval.

That is, it is something that we regularly encounter when EC2 instances fail, so we were sharing from personal experience.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/work_volume...
by saxenaabhi | 2025-10-30 20:20:14+00:00
I wonder why other providers don't use metal ssd sync replication technique that planetscale uses? Most of them just default to EBS.

My interest in it peaked when I heard about NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe/TCP) and SPDK from Xata[1] and apparently with that performance is as good as planetscale metal, but planetscale found their methodology flawed[2] and they Xata never responded.

[1] https://xata.io/blog/reaction-to-the-planetscale-postgresql-...

[2] https://planetscale.com/benchmarks/xata
by SweetSoftPillow | 2025-10-30 20:21:20+00:00
I've encountered a strange bug (using Chrome for Android). When I have this CSS demo page open and scroll about halfway down, the volume of my background audio (e.g., a Twitch App stream) drops by about 50%. Closing the tab immediately restores the audio to its normal volume. I can reproduce this issue consistently. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this behavior?

Edit: it seems it's caused by autoplay of Easing Wizard's video.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-30 20:21:28+00:00
Even on non-AWS projects, I still use S3. I haven't really explored the other options, but if you have opinions or advice I'd love to hear them.

One thing very important, is that I can authorise specific web clients (users) to access specific resources from S3. Such as a document that he can download, but others with the link should not be able to download.

Thank you!
by Johanx64 | 2025-10-30 20:21:32+00:00
> has been pretty solidly invalidated by GP

How exactly has it been invalidated?

By pointing out that SOME widely used software (mostly web/web infra with unix heritage) has been written using vim/emacs as the text editor?

Now, you can find endless sea of garbage software on github that is written using riced vim/emacs setups - would you therefore conclude that using vim/emacs leads to garbage software?

The only thing you can conclude here is that to write software (either good or bad) you generally speaking need a keyboard and a text editor.

Claiming vim/emacs leads to or directly contributes to "quality software" is the same and about as meaningful as saying that keyboards and text editors lead to "quality software".

Cargo cult insanity.
by tarentel | 2025-10-30 20:21:51+00:00
Not quite. I have had a lot of musical training and have a very good musical memory. I can write down songs from my head or hear a song and write it down later, depending on how complicated it is, usually with only 1-2 listens, or play it back, etc. I can visualize things in my head but it is a lot more abstract, or rather, harder to explain.
by ezfe | 2025-10-30 20:22:06+00:00
Sure, if the subscription is unreasonably priced. Then yes, it will be unreasonable.

Final Cut Pro is a $300 piece of software with a $50/yr or $5/mo subscription. It would take you 6 years to reach the same price which shows the subscription cost is reasonable.

It's a separate issue when software is unreasonably priced in subscription mode, versus the merits of the subscription model itself.
by eviks | 2025-10-30 20:22:07+00:00
Good point about primes, not enough symbols for uniqueness, so just π isn't enough! Though using two symbols ( .* ) in place of nothing is too dirty, better use an invisible and color highlight the spacing between π and ( to indicate to the plain text reader the difference.

Win screenreaders understands 2.3 (pronounced two three) vs 23 (twenty three), though it doesn't pronounce the operator, neither in a.2 vs a2 (though pronounced differently). But this could be fixable, so also good point about accessibility
by squigz | 2025-10-30 20:22:11+00:00
All of those things seem like upsides to me!

And for what it's worth, I think I've visited The End once? What makes it a sandbox is that you can play however you want - let The End be your goal, if you'd like, or just mine and build big castles, or mess around in Creative mode. That's the brilliance of it.
by itsamario | 2025-10-30 20:22:19+00:00
Can you remember seeing? I use my imagination to get a very grainy image but it's usually my interpretation of it and what I'm using it for.

Like when in school I'd imagine graphs lines before drawn or best example is a cad test and from reading the directions I could get an idea of what I was about to draw in cad

Man made computers in our image, it use to be a job title.
by k310 | 2025-10-30 20:22:30+00:00
Speculation is that Trump is not IN the files, but has inherited the blackmail business from Epstein after his "demise." If so, Trump stands to lose a fortune in worldwide blackmail money, and his hold on the blackmail victims, who may include heads of state, extremely wealthy people and legislators and judges.

In other words, everything; his world and all around it collapse in a heap.

The conspiracy theory, so massively promoted, that Epstein's clientele consisted mostly, or entirely, of Democrats has enormously backfired. The distractions from it are now on a worldwide scale, including destruction of "The People's House".

Mike Johnson has frozen the House of Representatives and illegally refused to seat an elected representative who could tip a vote on disclosure.

Alan Dershowitz, who represented Epstein, said: [0]

> key documents in the Epstein case are being “deliberately, willfully suppressed” to protect certain individuals. He claimed to know both the names and the officials suppressing the information.

> Pressed by Spicer on whether those individuals were politicians or business leaders, Dershowitz replied, “They’re everything.”

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/dershowitz-claims-he-sa...
by tptacek | 2025-10-30 20:22:34+00:00
OK. But if you put a 32-bit header with a sequence number and an "ACK requested" flag on top of UDP, and arrange to send NACKs when you see skips in the sequence numbers, you're not using UDP; you're using a transport you built on top of UDP.

This isn't just a semantic argument. People getting this conceptually wrong has broken the deployment story for things like SCTP, which for no good reason rides on top of IP directly and thus gets blocked by middleboxes.
by WorldPeas | 2025-10-30 20:23:34+00:00
I am here to commiserate. I basically have accepted in the few cases I use it over pasting an image I will always have to use sonnet[1m] with it. I wish there was some way to delegate a sub-agent or at least some garbage collected chain of thought, it's really not ideal to have to load the entire dom into context just to repair a single arcane line of tailwind that's breaking page scroll
by dhosek | 2025-10-30 20:23:44+00:00
In the 90s I did a tech writing gig documenting some custom software a company had built for them by one of the big consultancy agencies. It was a bit of a nightmare as the functionality was arranged in a way that reflected the underlying architecture of the program rather than the users’ workflows. Although I suppose if they’d written the software well, I wouldn’t have had as many billable hours writing documentation.
by sltkr | 2025-10-30 20:23:57+00:00
For rational numbers, Python has a Fraction class in the standard library that performs exact integer arithmetic:

>>> from fractions import Fraction >>> f = Fraction(0xFEDCBA987654321, 0x123456789ABCDEF) >>> f%1 Fraction(1, 5465701947765793) >>> f - f%1 Fraction(14, 1)

That shows that 0xFEDCBA987654321 / 0x123456789ABCDEF = 14 + 1/5465701947765793 exactly.

>>> math.log(5465701947765793, 2) 52.279328213174445

Shows that the denominator requires 52 bits which is slightly more than the number of mantissa bits in a 64-bit floating point number, so the result gets rounded to 14.0 due to limited precision.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-30 20:23:58+00:00
"Play" implies a lack of seriousness.

To that end:

1. Blink an LED (this is more rewarding than it seems it should be, because it proves that the toolchain works)

2. Learn to fade that LED on and off instead of blink

3. Learn to make an RGB pixel using red, green, and blue LEDs and some tissue paper

4. Realize that's kind of limiting, and use a WS2812B LED pixel instead

5. Notice that there's whole panels of WS2812B available

6. Buy one. Make it display dumb memes or emojis or dickbutts or whatever.

7. Add a web interface.

8. Give it a domain name.

9. Aim a camera at it, fire up a twitch stream, send the link to HN, and we'll spend a few hours or days shitposting on your little video wall

10. ???

11. (there is no profit. it's supposed to be fun, right?)
by 650REDHAIR | 2025-10-30 20:24:08+00:00
As a hobbyist how do I stay protected and in the loop for breaches like this? I often follow guides that are popular and written by well-respected authors and I might be too flippant with installing dependencies trying to solve a pain point that has derailed my original project.

Somewhat related, I also have a small homelab running local services and every now and then I try a new technology. occasionally I’ll build a little thing that is neat and could be useful to someone else, but then I worry that I’m just a target for some bot to infiltrate because I’m not sophisticated enough to stop it.

Where do I start?
by jocaal | 2025-10-30 20:24:50+00:00
I don't agree. How can wasting your money in your twenties and thirties be more valuable than saving for an early retirement. Imagine being able to retire at 40 and do whatever you want. If you weren't stupid, your health should be good enough. Why prolong the time you have to do stupid chores for other people when you can be strategic and opt out as early as possible.
by ryanmeasel | 2025-10-30 20:26:08+00:00
Sure, a modular system would work as you suggest.

It is not a requirement to provide a conductive path to the person though. The patterns (glyphs as we call them) are detected and tracked regardless of whether they are being touched. However, when there is a conductive path to the person, the system detects that which provides another input vector.
by yesfitz | 2025-10-30 20:26:45+00:00
It would be helpful to have a step-by-step walkthrough on the site (video or screenshots). The "How It Works" section is a little vague to suit that bill.

I'm looking for both an example of what to expect and inspiration for how I could be eating with your service.

I'd also recommend focusing on the API integrations, and/or whatever other features separate elevate this beyond asking $LLM for a weekly meal plan and shopping list taking into account dietary preferences.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-30 20:27:23+00:00
They are using text inputs, where you press enter to send stuff daily. Most of the hurdle is just overcoming the preconception that at black in put window means hard mode.

They can right-click in the folder view of their OS file viewer. On Windows they can also just type the command into the path bar.

When you tell them the command, you could also just install it. Also you could just tell them to type the name of the app 'ffmpeg' into the OS store and press install. They do this on their phone all the time.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-30 20:28:11+00:00
> Never mind... apparently Andrew's no longer a prince. King Sausage Fingers is demoting him to regular rich pedophile and kicking him out.

A pretty good deal for being “kicked out” though. [0]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cnveqgj957dt?post=asset%3A6300...
by fschuett | 2025-10-30 20:28:19+00:00
Well, Tantacrul did answer that objection: it just shows you a popup dialog on first start: "which theme do you want" (colorful or colorless, light / dark) and "which experience do you want" (classic / new). So if you pick the "colorless, light, classic" option, it's going to look pretty much like the current Audacity, except that they moved from wxWidgets to Qt.
by Andromxda | 2025-10-30 20:28:47+00:00
Root access doesn't magically make an OS "open". You can disable System Integrity Protection on macOS and get full root access. That doesn't make it an open OS in any way. Root access fundamentally breaks the security model of Android. It's totally unsuitable for production environments. See https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/android.html#rootin...
by acemarke | 2025-10-30 20:28:59+00:00
That's one of the main theses of the book "Die with Zero":

- https://www.diewithzerobook.com/welcome

Read it earlier this year and it definitely changed some of my thinking along those same lines.

My loose summary of the book:

"Any money left in the bank when you die is essentially wasted - you could have used it to have experiences when you were alive, or given it to family / charity earlier when it would have had more benefit. Figure out what major experiences and memories you want to have in life, plan to do them earlier when you have health and time, and build up memories for later in life."

I didn't find the discussions of how to plan out retirement savings very useful - there's a lot better info on withdrawal approaches in various FIRE-related groups.

But the "be willing to spend now on activities you might not be able to do later / don't hold off on 'living' until you're retired" argument made a _lot_ of sense to me for a variety of reasons, and it was a major factor in researching early retirement a few months later (and deciding to make that a new goal. along with taking more vacations before then).
by RajT88 | 2025-10-30 20:29:27+00:00
For me, it's a little more like you describe these days. It is images, but fuzzier and more impressionistic than it used to be. I have to concentrate harder to have a full-on image of a scene, and can't so much when multitasking.

In college, especially when I was studying Japanese and had to memorize a lot of shapes, I could look at a poster filled with characters and recall it hours later to translate those characters. Your mind is a muscle and it gets better with exercise, and grows weaker when lazy.
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by josharsh | 2025-10-30 20:29:29+00:00
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by andrewmcwatters | 2025-10-30 20:29:30+00:00
I haven’t actually seen it in the wild yet, just talked about in technical talks from engineers at different studios, but I’m interested in designs in which there isn’t a traditional main thread anymore.

Instead, everything is a job, and even what is considered the main thread is no longer an orchestration thread, but just another worker after some nominal set up between scaffolding enough threads, usually minus one, to all serve as lockless, work-stealing worker threads.

Conventional async programming relies too heavily on a critical main thread.

I think it’s been so successful though, that unfortunately we’ll be stuck with it for much longer than some of us will want.

It reminds me of how many years of inefficient programming we have been stuck with because cache-unfriendly traditional object-oriented programming was so successful.
by no_wizard | 2025-10-30 20:30:12+00:00
How is this any different from say ollie.ai? This looks alot more like a funnel for grocery delivery combined with recipe database functionality not dissimilar from apps like Paprika.

The big push on the website from my impression is that its a funnel to Instacart or Kroger. Does it limit its recipes to whats in stock around me? How accurate is the stock levels shown in the app?

Are you only limited to Kroger or Instacart to see what groceries are required for a recipe?

I didn't see any outward showing of family sharing either, such as a meal calendar.

Can you speak to how it handles dealing with preferences, e.g. no gluten or seafood? This is critical in surfacing recipes, to me accuracy on this is very critical.
by cookingmyserver | 2025-10-30 20:30:14+00:00
I am fascinated by the extent to which people can mentalize their different senses. I can visualize most of my primary senses. Sight would probably be my weakest one. I am definitely not aphantasic, but the images seem much more ephemeral than what other people experience. I can conjure up an image at will but if I focus too much it will become fuzzier.

Fuzzy isn't even the best word to use though. It's not fuzzy but lacking detail while at the same time my brain isn't comprehending that it is lacking detail. It is almost as if my brain can only focus on a few aspects of the picture at once with the most striking characteristics being rendered while the other parts are inferred or filled in with the most perfect placeholder - something that perfectly represents the idea of what is missing, but which it is not.

None of my other senses suffer from this. I can smell pumpkin pie or treated lumber on command. I can conjure music in my head all day (and often do without trying). I can metalize the feeling of cold or warmth. I too can taste spaghetti and meatballs. When I read that my mind immediately went to those cheap pre-made meatballs in the frozen section, my teeth cutting through those dense almost hard meatballs that are somehow so bland yet over spiced.

I also wonder how much of our differences are often our inability to communicate our experiences in a sufficient manner.