MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by owenversteeg | 2025-10-08 14:47:50+00:00
Congratulations to the laureates! Well deserved.

The article gives a good simplified explanation, here is my shorter explanation: porous materials, like sponges, have a lot of surface area, which is useful for two main reasons: 1) speeding up reaction rates and 2) capturing and releasing molecules (water, CO2, pollutants, etc.) More surface area is more valuable. Before, the most surface area we had was with zeolites, which are aluminosilicate minerals which occur naturally and are also synthetically produced - the synthetics mostly produced by trial and error. MOFs are unique in a few ways; for one, they are rationally designed molecules where we can predict some properties, and two, the surface area is far higher than zeolites. Zeolites range from 10-1700 m2/gram based on how you measure (most are from 20-400) and MOFs range from 1000-7000+.

Unfortunately MOFs are still quite expensive and very much on the cutting edge, so I am forced to use zeolites anytime I want a lot of surface area, but they are getting more accessible (you can now buy them on Amazon!) and I imagine the price will come down for some of the simpler to make MOFs in the near future.
by miroljub | 2025-10-08 14:47:57+00:00
> This is completely untrue. The Atomaustieg happened under Merkel (CDU) and was catalyzed by Fukushima. That's democracy, for you, btw.

So, when the government does something populistic (with majority support) that is bad for the country, it's a democracy.

But when the government refuses to do something populistic (with majority support) that is good for the country, that's also democracy.

Looks like our democracy #unsereDemokratie it is not possible to do good, only harmful dealings are allowed :)
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-08 14:48:00+00:00
you can almost always go to archive.is or one of the other mirrors and paste in the original link. it will get you past the paywall and also give you a link that will get others past the paywall. it seems to be a monkey-see monkey-do part of the hackernews microculture that if a link is paywalled a commenter will throw up the archive link
by gruez | 2025-10-08 14:48:21+00:00
>The headline is not true because "impose conditions" is not "strip". "Strip" would look like 15.2(2)(e) and (f) except targeting the ISPs customers instead of their suppliers. Imposing conditions does not as a matter of statutory interpretation include the ability to prohibit or terminate.

As we seen with the tariff court cases in the US (ie. does "regulate ... imports" mean the power to set tariffs?), vague language like this is exactly what an authoritarian government would use to justify their actions.

>Moreover even if, say, 15.2(2)(f) referred to (d) instead of (e) the headline would still be entirely untrue because the charter would prohibit it and this law, like all laws, must be interpreted in a manner consistent with the charter.

So they can crush dissenters and maybe get overturned in 2-3 years time, by which time everyone forgot? That's exactly what happened with the convoy protests.
by stickfigure | 2025-10-08 14:48:31+00:00
That stuff is also made in Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Phillipenes, Korea, India, etc etc etc.

Things would get a little more expensive. We are already seeing that with Trump's trade policies. But if the west-aligned world stopped trading with China their entire economy would collapse overnight, with mass unemployment.

It is a shame that Trump is deadset on alienating all of our natural allies in this conflict - especially those in the apac region.
by DudeOpotomus | 2025-10-08 14:48:59+00:00
When you can buy a Governor, you buy a Governor.

When you can buy a State, you buy a State.

When you can buy a SCOTUS Justice, you buy a SCOTUS Justice or 6.

When you can buy a POTUS, you buy a POTUS.

Elon bought them all and many of you cheer. Says more about you than Elon but speaks mountains about the core of our culture and our national ethos but mostly about how easy it is to pervert people and their false ideology with money.
by j-krieger | 2025-10-08 14:49:07+00:00
> It feels disingenuous to me to see "someone else pays tax, so that counts as a tax on me" leveled as a serious argument.

They don't pay tax. They pay half of the social insurance fee for their employer. Of course that half is part of the wage you're being paid.

> Maybe it's just my cold pragmatism speaking, but if your employer suddenly didn't have to pay that tax, I don't think they would bump your salary up.

I could certainly use that range to negotiate my salary.

> Americans make this same argument (they call it "trickle down economics"). So far, it doesn't seem to have worked out for them.

None of this has anything to do with trickle down economics. The trick is that if social insurance payments go up, which they do a lot, my employer is charged automatically and I no longer have that room for negotiating a raise.
by aitchnyu | 2025-10-08 14:49:18+00:00
I've been urging my friend to be the hero and set up Sonnet 4.5/Qwen3 235B/Deepseek R1/V3 on AWS Bedrock and allow employees to point their IDEs and chatbots to their endpoint and dont let the data leave their cloud. They are priced the same as their public counterparts.
by sumtechguy | 2025-10-08 14:49:38+00:00
That is exactly where I am. The value prop on synology has fallen off. Esp since they have let their kernel rot. There are tons of perf they are leaving on the table. The default external ports are usually 1g and most others have moved to at least 2.5g.

I just wanted something I just didnt have to mess with a lot. And could pop in an external USB drive here and there. Other solutions will fill that need just fine too. Just didnt really want to fiddle with DIY.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-08 14:49:44+00:00
this is how capitalism does things. no one wants to overinvest but no one wants to be left behind and everyone is sure that either there's not gonna be a pop or they can sell before it pops.

it has been educational to see how quickly the financier class has moved when they saw an opportunity to abandon labor entirely, though. that's worth remembering when they talk about how this system is the best one for everyone.
by NoGravitas | 2025-10-08 14:50:01+00:00
It would be strictly lesser if there were a significant free choice of App Views. BlackSky doesn't have one. NorthSky doesn't have one. You can currently be a BlackSky user, but if BlueSky bans you, your posts become invisible.

ActivityPub's lack of portable identity is a pretty serious problem, but the fact that significant portions of ATProto still rely on centralized infrastructure with no credible path to decentralization is pretty clearly worse[1].

[1] There are only two credible relays, and only one credible app view, and building/running either requires hundreds of times more capital than spinning up a Mastodon instance.
by epistasis | 2025-10-08 14:50:43+00:00
Though I agree with dollar revaluation also causing problems, I find approximately zero to agree with in that article. Low dollar value hurts me today, not the elites as this article claims. Low dollar value does little to hurt the elites whose wealth is managed to ride that out without impact. And in particular tariffs hurt working people, not the elites. We have been through this a century go, it's one of the better understood things in economics. The pain doesn't start today with the tariffs, it starts next year.
by crote | 2025-10-08 14:50:46+00:00
I reckon the issue is more in replacement than transient data loss: what are you going to do when you can't find a replacement controller card, or it only available at ludicrous prices?

With a proprietary on-disk format you can't exactly hook them up to any random controller and expect it to work: either you find a new one from the same controller family, or your data is gone.
by slowmovintarget | 2025-10-08 14:50:56+00:00
I went with a UGreen NAS a couple of months ago specifically because Synology had added this restriction. It's been a happy decision so far.

When reading up and watching videos for what I should get, everything pointed at Synology as being the "Apple of NAS products." But everything I looked at showed they were coasting on their status and had actively worsened their products in recent revs.
by mamonster | 2025-10-08 14:50:59+00:00
> Victory in this environment requires more than technological superiority. It demands clarity of purpose, coherence between means and ends, disciplined execution, and moral restraint—the very fundamentals Clausewitz insisted upon. These are not optional in the urban century. They are decisive.

If I learned anything from both Gaza and Ukraine, it's that its the complete opposite that's true. You go clearing from house to house, some AQB fighter is gonna pop-out of a tunnel and pop an IED into your Merkava tank. You do that enough times and your army's morale is going to be shot. You wanna win, you have to bomb dual use assets and only fight when its needed. If you can do a hunger siege, flood by bombing a dam or something else, then do that.
by trod1234 | 2025-10-08 14:51:12+00:00
Opportunity costs don't destroy the economy.

Money-printing does destroy the economy on a lag, specifically when the production has such catastrophic shortfall that it shows itself to be ponzi without tangible value or benefit. Value being based entirely in human action.

When that happens, its basically slave labor silently extracted from the population through inflation. Such things historically always trigger other cascading failures.
by palmotea | 2025-10-08 14:51:23+00:00
>> But if you are like most people, you will tend to be too uncharitable. Consciously self-correcting to the charitable side can help.

> well you will be taken for a ride in modern workplaces if you go the opposite direction. you need to weed out snakes.

You do, but usually it's better to be more on the charitable side by default and only be uncharitable when someone has behaved in a way that proves that to be necessary.
by zahlman | 2025-10-08 14:51:44+00:00
The continued reference to "socialism" here is a strawman. The discussion started with pembrook's complaint https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45512714 and then had j-krieger explaining how the system works starting with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45513552 . At no point did either person describe the system as "socialism". j-krieger was even explicit in referring to "'Social market economy'... a regulated market economic model [,] designed to sit exactly in the middle between laissez faire capitalism and socialism". But interlocutors continually insisted on dragging it back to "socialism" simply because j-krieger denied that it was "capitalism", applying a false dichotomy.

What you, mfru and dns_snek did here is not respectful, open-minded discourse and I'm amazed that j-krieger put up with it that long.
by dkarl | 2025-10-08 14:51:58+00:00
The definition of a "real game" gets extremely relaxed in a competitive situation between low-rated players. Between two grandmasters, they're going to stop the moment the outcome becomes clear. But when you have two just-above-beginners, there are other factors. They're going to keep playing in lost positions where there's a big material imbalance. They're going to miss a lot of mates in 3+ moves, and even simpler mates under time pressure. They end up in weird and "unrealistic" positions that aren't even interesting as puzzles, but have competitive significance to them because if the player with a big positional or material advantage loses on time or makes a blunder under time pressure, it will affect their rating and their standing in a tournament.
by pydry | 2025-10-08 14:52:04+00:00
Russia is following Clausewitzian principles pretty assiduously.

They've got a set of 3 clear objectives and their tactics on the ground, e.g.

* prioritizing attrition over the capture of territory.

* avoiding urban fighting where possible (e.g. a multi-year avoidance of zaporizhia and kharkiv).

* minimizing civilian casualties.

Reflect not only the objectives, but the desire to avoid a lot of the "messiness" the author referred to. The fact that Ukrainian civilians fear busification more than drone strikes is a testament to that.

None of the other parties (Ukraine, Hamas, Israel) appear to follow clausewitzian logic, though.
by neciudan | 2025-10-08 14:52:25+00:00
Just dropped a new episode of Señors @ Scale focused on accessibility, UI design, and inclusive engineering practices.

Guest: Kateryna Porchienova, Senior Engineering Manager at Buffer Topic: Accessibility at Scale

Kateryna shares some great stories and hard lessons:

How her first app helped children with disabilities learn from home

Why accessibility should be treated like testing, not an afterthought

The most common developer mistakes like overusing ARIA or ignoring motion preferences

The tools that make accessibility scalable like React Aria, Storybook, and Lighthouse

How AI can both help and break accessibility if used blindly

How to build a company culture that values inclusion by default

If you care about frontend engineering, design systems, or UI performance, this episode is full of real insights from production work at Buffer.

Watch or listen here: ▶ YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y8ph_8pmFmo

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2gCamstD91G9ZRlqt0O3Bw

Curious how your team approaches accessibility. Do you include it in testing, rely on audits, or have a design system that enforces it?
by jeremie | 2025-10-08 14:52:26+00:00
It was a different era 15 years ago, made some decent inroads on an API based approach with the Locker Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locker_(software) but the platforms quickly started gimping the APIs and exports/takeouts were non-existent or too early yet back then, so ran out of steam.

Thanks for making this, def will be digging in!
by KPGv2 | 2025-10-08 14:53:06+00:00
@j-krieger Arguing that the existence of regulations makes an economy non-capitalist is something I've only ever seen extreme left and extreme right-wing people make. Everyone else recognizes "capitalism is a system based on private ownership, wage labor, and private capital accumulation" as a fundamental truth, including, like, all experts in this field. Ultimately, you're making a No True Scotsman argument.

Germany's market is an example of welfare capitalism, which is a type of capitalism.

What you're writing reminds me very much of "the USA isn't a democracy, it's a republic!" (as if a republic isn't a type of democracy called "representative democracy")
by fasbiner | 2025-10-08 14:53:19+00:00
The light is going to go out for all of humanity for all time as part of a centuries old plan for final victory by starting at the most critical link of all in the whole chain of being... canadian routers.

Canada is a country that has historically been weaker on free speech and free assembly and individual rights compared to the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Canada#Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_banned_in_Canada

A website operator was convicted of obscenity in 2016, a comedian was fined for making a joke about someone's appearance in a comedy club while on stage, the government debanked people as an extrajudicial punishment for a disruptive assembly without due processs... it's a lovely country but they have more tradition of using the state in conjunction with corporate power to express value judgements with the force of law. America is an outlier, not a baseline.
by magnio | 2025-10-08 14:53:21+00:00
ARC-AGI is one of the few tests on which human can complete easily while LLMs still struggle. This model scores 45% on ARC-AGI-1 and 8% on ARC-AGI-2, the latter is comparable to Claude Opus 4 and GPT-5 High, behind only Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Grok 4 Thinking, for a model about 0.001% the size of commercial models.
by fhd2 | 2025-10-08 14:53:47+00:00
For the consistency/security rules, I meant that any API accessible in the browser is also publicly accessible to anyone. Quite a lot easier to e.g. syphon data out of a system than if they just did SSR. So if you want to avoid that, you'll have to build a proverbial Chinese wall between frontend and backend. And whenever you want to add a feature, you'll have to adjust that wall.

For SSR, the devs working on the frontend can access anything they like. Sure, in bigger teams and for important consistency rules you'll want to encode that, but it's all a _very_ solved problem with stuff like Django.

Nope, not currently hiring :/
by falcor84 | 2025-10-08 14:53:48+00:00
From my reading of history, there's no straightforward correspondence between the ethics of the winning side and its ability to have good relations with the losing side. As a clear anti-example, in later stages of WW2, the allied forces were very willing to engage in attacks on population centers to achieve a decisive victory faster (particularly: Dresden, Hamburg, Hiroshima and Nagasaki), and the resulting relationships between the allied countries and Germany and Japan could not have been more positive even if the most optimistic poet in 1944 were to written lyric poetry about the best possible future.

To be clear, I'm not advocating for cruelty, but I'm wondering if going back to an approach of "surrender or we'll kill you all" would save more lives than the current situation of "do everything you can to avoid doing too much harm at any one time", which ends up prolonging conflicts indefinitely.
by andybak | 2025-10-08 14:53:59+00:00
I don't care how many people want it. I personally never claimed it was going to be a huge mass market thing. It's big enough to be sustainable.

Stupid claims by people trying to pump investment hype have no bearing on my interest in the medium.

> I don't know anyone with a social life who care about these toys, the only people I know of who are semi interested already spend 6+ hours a day gaming.

The people I know with an interest in VR are mainly artists and other forms of creatives. We must move in different circles.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-08 14:54:11+00:00
> Islamic teachings actively call for believers to punish those that 1) challenge teachings of Mohammed, 2) stop believing in the teachings of Mohammed, 3) stray from the teachings of Mohammed. Often with literal proscribed death sentences.

Utter non sense.

You misunderstand both what Islam is about, the place it gives to the prophet and how sharia works.

Sharia explicitly protects non believers. Did you fail to notice that Jews lived for ages in the various Islamic empires?

As a non Muslim who has lived in majority Muslim countries multiple times, I’m shocked you can actually live in one and come out with such large misconceptions.
by kevindamm | 2025-10-08 14:54:24+00:00
Elsewhere someone already mentioned the Ulam Spiral [1] and I'll add the Sieve of Pritchard [2] which combines the Sieve of Eratosthenes with Wheel Factorization. Its wiki page has a nice visualization. Notice that when the primes are arranged in a rectangular grid (rows at a time, left-to-right, top-to-bottom) there are entire columns that can immediately be eliminated from consideration.

[1]: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral

[2]: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Pritchard
by hodgesrm | 2025-10-08 14:54:55+00:00
This is a big motivation for running your own models locally. OpenAI's move to deprecate older models was an eye-opener to some but also typical behavior of the SaaS "we don't have any versions" style of deployment. [0] It will need to change for AI apps to go mainstream in many enterprises.

[0] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/8/surprise-deprecation-of...
Show HN: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks in the Browser
by ToJans | 2025-10-08 14:55:44+00:00
I wanted to get a better understanding of this paper, so I asked Claude to train and generate a small sudoku solver with some extra explaining.

Original paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04871

New Link including link to source in github:

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/1dde5d3c-4ad8-420f-9b62-4...
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-08 14:56:34+00:00
AI is a risk. The thing we know is going to bite us in the butt is our continued massive sovereign debt burden and lack of any political will whatsoever to either increase taxes or reduce spending. The dollar is not going to do well this century and creditors confidence is already starting to decline.

In fact, the further we go into debt - the more we are implicitly betting our society on an AI hail mary.
by damnesian | 2025-10-08 14:56:39+00:00
You are 100% correct that it has become increasingly politicized in recent days. My reaction is it should be non-controversial to approach self-improvement in an agnostic, purely therapeutic way.

It's a really fine line "holistic" practice in general has had to tread to not insult either the strictly religious, or the strictly irreligious. But it's potentially the sphere where this advice could come from. Do you have connections to a community? Do you take time for self-care? Have you taken a walk in nature lately? Do you try to do things mindfully? Have you tried taking stock at the end of the day with journaling in order to empty the mind of worry before sleep? this kind of advice is aimed at physical bases for positive effects on feelings of well-being we often lump into "spirituality" which are really more mind and body hacks than anything else.
by ryukafalz | 2025-10-08 14:56:58+00:00
I've had mixed experiences with my NUC. It has what I think is a firmware bug that causes display output to fail if you connect a monitor after boot. Very annoying if it ever drops off the network for some reason.

There seems to be a Windows-only update tool available that might fix it, but that's rather inconvenient when it's used as a server running Linux! No update available as a standalone boot disk or via LVFS. So I haven't gotten it fixed yet because doing so involves getting a second SSD, taking my server offline to install Windows on it, just to run a firmware update.
by gambiting | 2025-10-08 14:56:58+00:00
We can see it, it's obvious that the system in France(and other EU countries) works this way, it's just not really relevant when talking about salary. When I sign an employment contract for 100k euro that's my income. The fact that the employer then has to pay another 40k or 100k or a 1M euro on top of it to keep me employed is not really relevant because it's not my salary - it's their cost to keep me employed. The main proof being in two things

1) like I asked you in another comment - if that contribution was removed, I'm sure you wouldn't feel like you got a paycut.

2) if that did happen, your employer wouldn't magically decide to give that money to you instead, right? It is not and never was your income.
by bloak | 2025-10-08 14:57:20+00:00
Long-lasting transferable exclusive rights that will inevitably end up being owned by corporations could also be a problem, though, particularly when the lawyers are motivated to interpret them as broadly as possible so that it becomes dangerous to even slightly resemble anyone famous who died less than 70 years ago unless you have paid various licence fees. So I'm not sure it's worth giving up our current freedoms just to avoid some distasteful crap on the internet which I can easily avoid.

However, there might be a way of doing it that doesn't create a new category of intellectual property. I think I read about a case that went a bit like this. Parliament created some kind of privacy right. A newspaper asked someone for permission to publish some pictures that could be an invasion of some person's privacy. The person asked for money. The newspaper went ahead and published without permission. The person sued. The newspaper argued in court that if the person was willing to let the pictures be published in return for money then they didn't really care about their privacy. The judge said: it does not seem that the purpose of the legislation was to create a new category of intellectual property so that argument might be valid... I've garbled the details and I'm not sure of the final result but that line of reasoning is interesting, I think.