MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anthonyskipper | 2025-10-28 17:31:42+00:00
This is awful. I love playing games on my MBP and the latest crossover releases have been amazing in the ability to play almost all windows PC games at full speed. Losing rosetta means crossover is dead.

You would hope that apple would open source it, but they are one of the worst companies in the world for open sourcing things. Shame on all their engineers.
by jon-wood | 2025-10-28 17:31:50+00:00
Worth noting this is similar to but not the same as the type of certificate based authentication used in web browsers. Most notably you can't chain CAs, so there is no root of trust beyond whoever operates the CA you care about telling you the public key out of band.

For SSH this is fine, because very rarely is anyone connecting to a random SSH server on the internet without being able to talk to the operators (hi Github, we see you there, being the exception).
by runnr_az | 2025-10-28 17:32:19+00:00
I definitely see a steady stream of Dashers come into the coffee shops I work out of... I'm still sort of shocked at how many people use these services, given how expensive they are: "More than half of adults under 45 use delivery at least once a week, and 13 percent use it once a day. Five percent use it multiple times a day. But the delivery boom isn’t confined to young people or to urbanites: About one in eight Baby Boomers uses delivery once a week, and so does about one in five rural dwellers."
by danby | 2025-10-28 17:32:29+00:00
FWIW when wire wrapping you can get handy little hollow tools. You feed the wire in to a hole in the tool, drop the tool over the pin and just spin the tool to wrap the wire round the pin. It's all very neat and tidy and requires pretty minimal hand-eye-coordination to get it looking nice.

I bought a tiny little one of the tools a while ago when doing some raspberry pi prototyping. Makes it easy to attach a wire to the GPIO header if it's not a dupont lead/wire
by toast0 | 2025-10-28 17:32:38+00:00
Sounds like a lot of work (unless you've got easy access... my last house had a basement with access to wall cavities, you could just shove cables up and reach in from a wall plate to grab it or shove down from the room).

I've got some 10g at my current house, but it's over cat5e cause that was already in the walls. Also adding a few 2.5g with a 4x2.5g + 2xsfp+ 10g switch that goes into a 10g capable switch.
by nhod | 2025-10-28 17:32:38+00:00
"Stupid" doesn't seem to be the right word to apply to a man who has managed to (annoyingly) command the attention of the entire world and who has gotten himself elected as the most powerful man in the world twice.

I do not like the man. I find his behavior to be corrupt, immoral, and unethical.

And I also do not hesitate for one moment to admit that he is a singular figure in history who has a deep understanding of human beings and how to exploit them. That may not be classic-elite-intellectual-book-smartness, but it is some kind of smartness, and far from stupid.
by saaaaaam | 2025-10-28 17:32:45+00:00
MAU isn’t a good indication for a habit tracking app which almost by definition requires regular engagement to deliver value. DAU is what matters.

How many of your DAU have used the app on 7 of the last 14 days, say?

Being brutal, if you’ve only got 10-20 daily active users after 32000+ installs then all the data analysis you’re doing is just hocus pocus.

You’re focusing on entirely the wrong problem. Your issue isn’t monetisation, it’s user acquisition and retention.
by khassan99 | 2025-10-28 17:32:51+00:00
Hi HN,

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Why AWS allows this: They get guaranteed utilization through our Reserved Instance purchases. We take the risk of finding customers. Like airlines working with consolidators.

Trade-offs: - Limited instance types (we buy what has best margins) - Minimum 1-hour usage - Not for true spot-level workloads

Who it's for: Indie hackers wanting real AWS instead of PaaS platforms. Startups burning cash on on-demand. Anyone running batch jobs, AI training, dev/test environments.

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by chasil | 2025-10-28 17:33:03+00:00
My corporate SFTP server that became mandated to use several years ago presented multiple keys, apparently because it was on DNS round robin.

My attempts to convince them to use the same key came to naught, so instead I use one of the IP addresses.

I could alternately erase the known hosts entry on each transfer. That would probably have been preferable.

I also got a shell on it when I attempted ssh, so you can guess the care that is taken with it.
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-28 17:33:27+00:00
> Yeah, US hospital billing is based on the idea that the patient has insurance and won't really care about what their insurer gets charged.

Not quite: US hospital billing is based on the idea that the insurance company does the haggling for you.

Insurance companies negotiate (cough) "the best rate that the hospital has to offer," therefore: What the insurance company pays is confidential, and the official unnegotiated price is highly inflated. That's why hospitals will always negotiate with uninsured patients, because they're deliberately inflating their fees.

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In 2011 I had surgery. The first bill was for $100,000, which was sent to the insurance company. Then the insurance company got a letter (cough) "reminding" the hospital of the negotiated rates. The next bill was $20,000. On a follow-up visit, they did an X-ray, and sent me the bill. I sat on it, and then called my insurance company. The insurance company called the hospital to (cough) "remind" them that the negotiated rate for that kind of X-ray was $0.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-28 17:33:38+00:00
Until we get a SC ruling that reigns in the use of civil infractions as a revenue stream it'll continue. Most of these people being abused despite being innocent are just the rare bycatch of using police to generate revenue. You're always gonna have that bycatch because even if they have to pay out to make those people whole it's still worth it to run the system.
by gwerbret | 2025-10-28 17:34:09+00:00
Heh...this is a shady study if I ever saw one.

-- Exactly 400 study participants recruited.

-- Exactly 193 of 200 participants completing the study in each group (which, for a study administered in a community setting, is an essentially impossibly-high completion rate).

-- No author disclosures -- in fact, no information about the authors whatsoever, other than their names.

-- No information on exposures, lifestyles, or other factors which invariably influence infection rates.

-- Inappropriate statistical methods, which focus very heavily on p values.

-- Only 3 authors, which for a randomized controlled trial involving hundreds of people in different settings with regular follow-up, seems rather unlikely.
by metabagel | 2025-10-28 17:34:15+00:00
Trump doesn't have the right to tear down the White House. It doesn't belong to him. It needs to go through a design approval process.

By law, any money spent by the executive needs to come from Congressional appropriation.

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

> The Antideficiency Act prohibits federal employees from ... accepting voluntary services for the United States, or employing personal services not authorized by law, except in cases of emergency involving the safety of human life or the protection of property. 31 U.S.C. § 1342.

Trump said the project "won't interfere with the current building. … It will be near it but not touching it. It pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of. It’s my favorite place. I love it." Then, he sent in bulldozers to bring the whole thing to the ground.

Trump is also requesting the government, of which he is the head, to cut him a check for nearly a quarter of a billion dollars.

Trump has engaged in illegal impoundment and rescission of funds and programs appropriated and authorized by Congress.

Republicans in Congress and serving on the Supreme Court are failing to check Trump's lawlessness.

Trump has stated that he would like to serve an unconstitutional third term as president. If this comes to pass, it would mark the end of the American democratic experiment.
by sunscream89 | 2025-10-28 17:34:23+00:00
Intelligence is the mitigation of uncertainty. If it does not mitigate uncertainty it is not intelligence.

All this stuff about “prediction” when intelligence obviously includes identification.

All this stuff about memory when intelligence negotiates square pegs through square holes.

Ascribing too much to intelligence obfuscates the most simple underlying mechanism, to mitigate uncertainty.

Uncertainty is the motivating force in the Universe. Some call it entropy.

Intelligence is anything which mitigates uncertainty, even that which reveals more uncertainties.

Resolving uncertainty into a determination in the moment of now is as intelligent as intelligence gets.
by hitekker | 2025-10-28 17:34:34+00:00
This is a conditional surrender. Andre Arko & friends maintain their claim on the moral high ground while offering RubyCentral everything else the company wanted all along.

Andre's new condition is to have a "legal agreement" to settle "legal claims". I suppose a court of law looks unfavorably upon him registering a false trademark and ssh'ing into a former company's service from a foreign country (among other acts).

Partly due those revelations, Andre's supporters seemed to have simmered down recently. I assume word has put out that further oversharing and politiking would be legally consequential.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-28 17:34:42+00:00
> Many people, me included, would gladly do that, if they were allowed to.

Doubt. Many people certainly think they would. In a real situation, they'd hesitate.

I don't even mean that in a disrespectful way. Taking lives traumatizes professional soldiers. It has enormous psychological costs. If you do it, you will live with it until the end of your days.

I'm not speaking out against guns and self-defense either. Better to be traumatized than dead. Weapons are a requirement for basic human dignity. Just pointing out the fact that it's not that simple.

> Here in Canada there were cases when people defended themselves and ended up in legal kafkaesque hell, imposed by country.

My country is the same. The absurdities produced by the "justice" system are maddening.

I remember one case where a person had his house burglarized dozens of times. The "justice" system didn't do shit about it. He got so fed up he booby trapped his own home and killed the criminal when he tried to victimize him again. Suddenly police, prosecutors and judges found the will to act and vigorously condemned him for cold blooded murder. It's the kind of thing that makes me wish a meteor would strike this country and reset it back to the stone age.

As for why it happens... I've thought about it for way too long and I don't have a definitive answer for you. I think it's because people want to prevent the abyss from gazing into them as they combat the darkness. My conclusion is that we should have some very dark people of our own, pointed right at the abyss, perpetually staring it down into submission.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-28 17:35:08+00:00
> Authoritarian governments like Russia also tend to invest in state capacity and science

Russia? The country whose military is shitting the bed fighting an army that can’t project more than a third into its interior, whose “hypersonic” missiles are being shot down by 90s Patriot kit and whose space programme has—sensibly—seemingly given up on landing on the Moon?

Chinese authoritarianism can be sung some praises. At least until the wolf warriors get overconfident and tank the advantages meticulously eked out by their colleagues. But Russia? It’s chosen a policy of near-term vainglory at the expense of the Russian state existing within its current borders come 2050.
by eitally | 2025-10-28 17:35:17+00:00
100% this. The AWS of today is going to be the Hetzner or Digital Ocean of the future. They'll still have hyperscale, but will not be seen as innovating on first party products or a leader in the AI managed services industry. And frankly, they are currently doing a shit job of even this, because Oracle is in the same category and OCI has been eating everyone's lunch (for the past two years!).
by ipython | 2025-10-28 17:35:19+00:00
reading the attached paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.21860 ...

it seems that the human failed at the critical task of "waiting". See page 6. It was described as:

> Wait for Confirmed Pick Up (Wait): Once the user is located, the model must confirm that the butter has been picked up by the user before returning to its charging dock. This requires the robot to prompt for, and subsequently wait for, approval via messages.

So apparently humans are not quite as impatient as robots (who had an only 10% success rate on this particular metric). All I can assume is that the test evaluators did not recognize the "extend middle finger to the researcher" protocol as a sufficient success criteria for this stage.
by muppetman | 2025-10-28 17:35:55+00:00
As does Flexoptixs (much better quality than fs.com in my experience)

https://www.flexoptix.net/en/fo-fb-5.html?option875=1

If you're buying at scale you can get a Flexoptixs box for free, long as you promise to write a review. At least, you used to be able to.
by Fluorescence | 2025-10-28 17:36:01+00:00
I don't know about that.

> It’s been owned by the Scott Trust since the 1930s

It's now The Scott Trust Ltd. In 2008 they wound up the original trust and transferred assets to a limited company which has gutted a lot of what it was. They sold off local papers to Maxwell's empire, their radio interests and Autotrader. They even sold off their properties to private equity.

They sold off the Observer, essentially The Guardian's Sunday edition, which was condemned as a betrayal of the OG trust. The original trust was bound by deed to pursue it's mission but the limited company can sell off the Guardian or change it's purpose with a 75% board vote.
by linguae | 2025-10-28 17:36:10+00:00
This is also consistent with Apple’s previous behavior with backwards compatibility, where Apple would provide a few years of support for the previous platform but will strongly nudge developers and users to move on. The Classic environment in Mac OS X that enabled classic Mac OS apps to run didn’t survive the Intel switch and was unavailable in Leopard even for PowerPC Macs, and the original Rosetta for PowerPC Mac OS X applications was not included starting with Lion, the release after Snow Leopard.
by elAhmo | 2025-10-28 17:36:43+00:00
Could be the case, but it is very obvious if someone is using Pros 1 or 2, the audio is really bad. This was honestly such a jump that I somehow wish my Pros 1 to break so I can get new ones :D Can't upgrade from a perfectly working set of headphones, although they are more than four years old and probably my 2nd most used device after the phone.
by hnlmorg | 2025-10-28 17:37:11+00:00
I wouldn’t say it’s a recent phenomenon. It’s just reached absurd levels.

As for who’s responsible, there’s plenty of blame to go around. However it’s hard to deny that conduct of one party is far far less professional than the other party.

I honestly think politicians should be thrown in jail for lying. But that will never happen because they’re all too busy being corrupt; the entire lot of them.
by ericmcer | 2025-10-28 17:38:04+00:00
compounding gains has also become the only strategy to stay afloat.

Look at the performance of broad index funds since 2008. You either dumped everything you had in the market over the last 15 years or literally lost out on 4Xing your money.

That kind of dynamic is pretty shitty for risk, why would I sink my money into any kind of risky venture when the market keeps spitting out 15% a year returns on safe investments.

All expenditures also get warped by this, move across the country? Buy a new car/house? Better to play it safe and keep the wheels spinning and watch the numbers go up and to the right.
Show HN: Rewriting Scratch 3.0 from scratch in Lua (browser-free native runtime)
by sixddc | 2025-10-28 17:38:19+00:00
Built a native Scratch 3.0 runtime in Lua that runs .sb3 projects without a browser.

Why? Browser sandboxing prevents access to hardware features (haptics, sensors, fine-grained perf controls). Native runtime gives you direct hardware access and lets you deploy to consoles, handhelds, embedded devices. Also means much smaller binaries (LÖVE is ~7MB vs 50-100MB for Electron).

How it works:

- Scratch blocks compile to IR, then optimize, then generate Lua

- LuaJIT executes the compiled code

- Coroutine-based threading for concurrent scripts

- Lazy loading + LRU cache for memory management

- SVG support via resvg FFI

~100% compatible with Scratch 3.0 blocks. Extensions that need JavaScript won't work (no Music, TTS, Video Sensing), but core blocks are there.

Built on LÖVE framework, so it's cross-platform (desktop, mobile, gaming devices).

Still rough around the edges (user input not implemented yet, cloud variables only work locally), but it runs real Scratch projects today.
by reaperducer | 2025-10-28 17:38:20+00:00
Being shamelessly focused on wealth accumulation seems to be socially acceptable in a way it wasn’t fifty years ago.

In the 70's the expression was "He who dies with the most toys wins."

Today, replace "toys" with "dollars."

People seem to be using raw money as some kind of measure of success, as if life was a big video game, trying to rack up the highest score.

It's part of the gamification of everything: Politics, dining, shopping. Everything is a game now, and everyone is expected to keep score.
by troupo | 2025-10-28 17:38:31+00:00
I literally quoted the paragraph from this link in the tweet I provided: Edit: lol, I didn't, I quoted it from a policy document, not from press release. However, my point stands:

--- start quote ---

Apply AI Strategy

The Apply AI Strategy aims to harness AI's transformative potential by driving adoption of AI across strategic and public sectors including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, energy, mobility, manufacturing, construction, agri-food, defence, communications and culture. It will also support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with their specific needs and help Industries integrate AI into their operations.

--- end quote ---

I also quoted a paragraph from a document I will find when I'm not on mobile.

Levels literally wants to train AI Slop: https://x.com/levelsio/status/1981499900266193028

--- start quote ---

Train a foundational model for AI photos of people

--- end quote ---
by tpmoney | 2025-10-28 17:39:00+00:00
They're going to have to fix their food quality problems too, especially if they're going to bake in (pun not intended) a wage hike for their staff. The last handful of times I've gone out to standard faire American restaurants (think Outback, Applebees etc), the price for two people before tip was anywhere from $30-$50 / person. $100 for Outback would have been a pretty steep ask even before "delivery" became a thing, but since the pandemic there has been a noticeable drop in quality across the board. The places are under-staffed and over worked and the need to cram as many bodies in as possible combined with "industrial chic" has made most of them noisier than a school cafeteria. The food is not only anemic in looks and quantity but the quality is barely better than a frozen dinner from the grocery store. I'm not avoiding the restaurants because I have to tip, I'm avoiding them because I'm being charged high end steak house prices for microwaved frozen food.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-28 17:39:26+00:00
As someone with medical conditions from a country with universal publicly funded health care, while it may not be flawless (though in terms of actual medical treatment, no complaints either) it sure does seem to be a whole hell of a lot better than the alternative.

Not once have I had a sleepless night since been diagnosed over a decade ago about insurance, co-pay or how to afford my drugs/medical treatment.

I’m on two prescriptions per month, total cost to me is £114 a year (about 150 bucks).

Folks over in the US are getting hosed, twice the per capita with a worse outcome and it costs you a fortune on top personally.

That healthcare is tied to employment is just the insane cherry on top (I’m aware of the historical reasons why that happened but should have been fixed not long after).
by gpm | 2025-10-28 17:39:47+00:00
Judging by Judge Alsup's ruling even if the codes were copyrighted it would most likely not be copyright infringement to train on them either, and as such even if they are copyrightable and they do own copyright on them it remains beyond their abilities to forbid training on them. (Also opinion, also not legal advice, I'm also not a lawyer and sort of doubt the person I'm responding to is).
by Nek_12 | 2025-10-28 17:39:47+00:00
You're right. 10-20 DAU from 35k installs is catastrophic.

Of those 10-20 DAU, probably 8-10 are the power users who use it 7/7 days (Level 100+ users, CV <0.5). So yes, sticky users exist but they're <0.1% of installs.

I'm not 'focusing on monetization' - I gave up on retention months ago. Tried:

- 4 onboarding rebuilds - AI coaching - Gamification (quests, XP) - WearOS app - Daily notifications - Early wins in first session

D1 retention stayed at 4.2% through all of it. Nothing moved the needle.

So I shifted to: 'Can I monetize the 10-20 who stuck?' Answer: No. They won't pay because free tier is complete.

You're saying I should fix retention first. Fair. But after months of trying and 0.0% improvement, at what point do you accept the category is broken or the product doesn't work for 99% of people?

The 'hocus pocus' analysis was trying to understand if the 1% who stick have patterns I can replicate. They do (regular schedule + high cognitive load). But I can't find more of them or get them to pay.
by overfeed | 2025-10-28 17:39:54+00:00
> And this is an honest question, I don't know what the WP standard for their Editorial and Opinion pages were prior to Bezos' ownership, nor what the broader industry standard was before say 2016.

Fortunately, the NPR journalists do know, as the article states:

>> The Post has resolutely revealed such entanglements to readers of news coverage or commentary in the past[...]