MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rustdebacletime | 2025-10-24 13:31:52+00:00
> Especially ones related to optimizations.

Did they change the language? GCC is not meant to change the C or C++ languages (unless the user uses some flag to modify the language), there is an ISO standard that they seek to be compliant with. rustc, on the other hand, only somewhat recently got a specification or something from Ferrocene, and that specification looks lackluster and incomplete from when I last skimmed through it. And rustc does not seem to be developed against the official Rust specification.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-24 13:32:02+00:00
These are different categories of software.

Typst is a way to define a document. Headers, paragraphs, figures, equations, tables, etc. it is a direct competitor to LaTeX and maybe in some ways similar to Word, which provides a GUI for an XML defined document.

Pandoc is a converter, which given a document in one document description language outputs a document in another document description language.

What is exciting about Typst HTML support is that its goal is that it has first class support for both PDF and HTMl, which is obviously preferable to something like pandoc, which always has to rely on an intermediate representation of the document, before a conversion can happen.
by antonvs | 2025-10-24 13:32:09+00:00
If it's in a stable orbit in the solar system, it wouldn't be able to "eat" us. Black holes gravitate exactly the same as any other mass, so it would have the same gravitational effect on Earth as any object if the same mass.

What makes black holes special is that you can get much close to their center of mass than you can with normal objects. When you're that close - inside the radius that a normal density object of that mass would have - then you experience gravity at a much higher strength than normal.

Put another way, even if our Moon was a black hole with the same mass, very little would change except that it would no longer reflect sunlight. Ocean tides on Earth would remain the same. You wouldn't want to try to land on it though...
by torginus | 2025-10-24 13:32:35+00:00
This gave me an idea - what if we made a stable diffusion based AI that would replace unimportant faces (and possibly other identifying details) with different ones - I have seen that AI can do this and make the change unnoticeable.

That way people would be safe from having their personal likeness and whereabouts accidentally plastered over the internet (except when they want their photo to be taken), and the end result wouldn't look so obviously modified as blurring faces or licence plates.
by bluGill | 2025-10-24 13:33:28+00:00
Depends - the problem with heat pumps is when you need them the most they don't work. If it never gets below -10c (exact temperature needs more study, could be as low as -25) where you live they are fine - but that implies you live in an area where you don't get many cold days and so the expense isn't worth it (it also implies you live where it gets hot in sumner so you want ac anyway and the marginal additional cost makes it worth it again). If you live in an area where it gets colder you need additonal backup heat that can cover those really cold days and so you may as well run that system only.
Show HN: UN Volunteers Opportunities Dashboard
by npetz | 2025-10-24 13:34:30+00:00
Hey

I wanted to share a website i've made.

It'a redesign of the UNV ( United Nations Volunteers ) Dashboard.

I quit my job lately to take some sort of a gap year.

I've been pondering between working in the non-profit sector, or trying to make my own little business.

This is a little step towards both ideas :)

I'm trying to get used to ship things, and also do things just to be useful.

The original UNV dashboard has pretty bad UX, so I hope my version can help make people finding a volunteering opportunity a less stressful endeavour.

It's not perfect, but I intend to keep making it better.

https://volunteerwiththeun.com/

cheers <3
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-24 13:34:59+00:00
> Now obviously people these days generally know about that so hopefully don’t use predictable file names but that’s one way.

Annoying side effect: now you gotta guess which process created the darn lockfile.

A more sensible approach is to do sanity checking on the lockfile and its contents (i.e. does the contained PID match one's own binary).
by smashed | 2025-10-24 13:35:37+00:00
Officially you are right, they release it as a stable OS after a few weeks of beta's.

Unofficially any serious user knows to stick to LTS for any production environment. This is by far the most common versions I encounter in the wild and on customer deployment from my experience.

In fact I don't think I ever saw someone using a non-LTS version.

Canonical certainly has these stats? Or someone operating update mirror could infer them? I'd be curious what the real world usage of different Ubuntu versions actually are.
by MetaMalone | 2025-10-24 13:36:04+00:00
“An X-ray poker machine was employed to read facedown cards and a rigged card-shuffling machine was also used in the plot, prosecutors say.”

Would love to know more about such a machine, if anyone has any insight. Are these developed underground? How expensive could they be?

If it can efficiently take in a deck of cards and deterministically return a rigged deck in a reasonable amount of time, I would be fascinated at how they solved that problem.
by sandorscribbles | 2025-10-24 13:36:22+00:00
to make their infra culture even more dire, they require in-office 5 days a week, and moved their office to SeaTac airport. KSEA is a solid 90 min commute each way from the tech hubs of Kirkland and Seattle. not to mention SeaTac the city is a crime ridden dystopia where 3-4 cars are stolen per day from SeaTac airport and the local officials response is "ya but its a lower stolen car average than the city of Seattle".
by cjbgkagh | 2025-10-24 13:37:09+00:00
Controlling the narrative is often the point of using rhetorical fallacies.

Like the intolerance of intolerance there is discretion over what are acceptable intolerances. With whataboutism there is discretion over what are acceptable appeals to hypocrisy.

Whatsboutism is merely saying your appeal to hypocrisy is invalid. Which would hold more weight with me if the side saying it never made appeals to hypocrisy of their own. Otherwise they’re being hypocritical about making appeals to hypocrisy.

On the substance, I hate what Trump has done. I would not take the position that what Trump did is ok because of what Biden did.
by debo_ | 2025-10-24 13:37:09+00:00
Horror. The spiral birth factory, stepped terraces of the hatching cells, blind jaws of the unborn moving ceaselessly, the staged progress from egg to larva, near-wasp, wasp. In his mind's eye, a kind of time-lapse photography took place, revealing the thing as the biological equivalent of a machine gun, hideous in its perfection.
by HellYNot709 | 2025-10-24 13:37:37+00:00
Honestly as a parent, I enjoyed this.. article? I'm unfamiliar with terms on said site. Anyhow, I found much of it useful and thought engaging.and do have personal bais with this, Perceive *non-conventional* parenting. However from the effect and effort the two parents put in, frankly I'm impressed. I don't personally abide by the guru thinking ideology, and that is a bais. Yet lots of good helpful parenting info. I thoroughly enjoy the thought of running experiments on and with my children, I personal would have included them in the *experiment* process. Any thoughts? Parent or non parental thinking sounds intriguing.

Made Small typing error correction hence edit
by mirashii | 2025-10-24 13:38:48+00:00
The problem is that this isn't Canonical's own stance. From https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

> Every six months between LTS versions, Canonical publishes an interim release of Ubuntu, with 25.10 being the latest example. These are production-quality releases and are supported for 9 months, with sufficient time provided for users to update, but these releases do not receive the long-term commitment of LTS releases.
by westurner | 2025-10-24 13:39:09+00:00
They should fab carbon-based chips to eliminate supply chain limits, decrease resistivity, and reduce thermal waste.

CNT (Carbon Nanotubes) on rGO (reduced Graphene Oxide) wafers should work due to the difference in work functions between each form of carbon.

Semiconductor fabrication with (SiC) Silicon Carbide is already demonstrated.

Carbon epoxide (C_n H_2n O_n) would probably also be a sufficient substrate for electronic computing.

/?hnlog graphene, out of graphene :

- "Ask HN: How much would it cost to build a RISC CPU out of carbon?" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41153490
by rustdebacletime | 2025-10-24 13:39:19+00:00
I would use a newer version of C, and consider picking C++, if the choice was between C, C++, Ada, and Rust. (If pattern matching would be a large help, I might consider Rust).

For C++, there is vcpkg and Conan. While they are overall significantly or much worse options than what Rust offers according to many, in large part due to C++'s cruft and backwards compatibility, they do exist.
by pton_xd | 2025-10-24 13:39:36+00:00
> I think arresting people for cheating legitimizes backroom / mafia gambling. All the other rings (and those left from this one) can say "Look, those other guys got arrested. The law protects you."

Disagree, this case demonstrates the exact opposite -- you think your underground game is legit because there's celebrities playing? Think again, it's a far more sophisticated scam operation than you could imagine.

> The only reason the FBI cares here is probably because one of the victims had pull.

Again, I doubt it. Likely it's because the mafia is involved, and according to the indictment "the defendants and their co-conspirators used threats of force and violence to secure the repayment of debts from illegal poker games."
by JohnMakin | 2025-10-24 13:39:56+00:00
“just play better poker” like that’s an easy thing to do in a game of chance and incomplete information, with variance having years or decades long tails. not to mention it’s an unsolved game, so “better” poker doesn’t even really have a set definition and depends on tons of variables. and they literally knew what hole cards were coming - that’s vastly more of an edge than playing “better poker” than someone.

Besides the fact they were often targeting pros - this was reported on and known by LA area pros for at least two years now. why the FBI decided to act now is weird to me. I can’t stress enough that in the pro scene this was common knowledge. years old podcast clips are coming up talking about it.

source: https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/breaking-news/article/professio...
by cool_man_bob | 2025-10-24 13:39:58+00:00
> More like, matured into white collar crime.

Honestly this is the first “advanced” mafia scheme I’ve heard of in a while.

Last time I heard about a mafia crime it was a very sloppy hit that sounded more like what you hear from teenagers in Chicago shooting at each other.

Though tbf it could easily have always been like that and I’m just blinded my media bias about a group of people I’ve never known form a time I’ve never known.
by ajross | 2025-10-24 13:40:07+00:00
The fact that this arguable, but clearly reasoned and expressed comment is now deep gray kinda puts an exclamation point on the argument, I'd say.

(Honestly I think the moderation paradigm at HN has some bad externalities too, but really this isn't a solvable problem in the general case and nowhere does it well. The showdead mechanism at least makes the censorship visible to those who know where to look.)
by jfengel | 2025-10-24 13:40:48+00:00
That seems like a lot of work. TFA said that they arrested 30 people, and got $7 million out of it. The fancy tech involved must have taken a good chunk of that.

It sounds like each of them could get at most a six-figure payday out of this. Which is no chump change, to be sure, but it sounds like many of them could have made as much money without the risk of going to jail just by getting a desk job.

Plus, there's no way a conspiracy that big is going to remain secret for long.

Maybe the expected to get away with it for longer and get a bigger payoff. But wow, it seems like a ton of effort.
by stared | 2025-10-24 13:41:24+00:00
> There is 0 correlation between anti-abortion laws and birth rates.

It is a strong claim. Can you point to data from Poland that there is no correlation?

Of course it is anecdata, but while I do women who openly stated they are not going to risk it (as they are of higher age, or had previous complications). Some moved to other countries.

On the contrary, it is hard to imagine that "thanks to making it riskier, I decided to have kids".
by mikestew | 2025-10-24 13:41:29+00:00
one of those flights was because Alaska Air had not trained their ground crews how to de-ice the plane and refused to use the deice-as-a-service, stubbornly keeping it in-house, which had their entire Alaska flight grounded at KSEA for an entire day for a light dusting of snow.

Oh, was that the reason we were stuck in Orlando, and the only airline that couldn’t fly out of SeaTac due to snow that day was the one with “Alaska” in its name? (Yes, literally every other airline at SeaTac that day was flying, if a bit delayed.)
by manquer | 2025-10-24 13:41:43+00:00
Whatever they did could be quite legal in those other geographies. What you are saying is like say a country in middle east prosecuting you for smoking weed or drinking alcohol somewhere else when you visit.

Laws apply to jurisdictions, there are no universal laws which are legally binding.

Even if it is illegal, it is for them to collect their own fines for that crime .
by troupo | 2025-10-24 13:42:04+00:00
They have a literal section "(6) Description of the “comparator” platforms" where the very first item is "(a) Google and other Android platforms"

There's a section "112. On 10 June 2022, the CMA published the final report in its MEM Study, which contains a number of findings in relation to both Apple and Google."

It's amazing that you never even tried to read the actual document but already immediately assume a position that is trivially proven wrong.
by Avamander | 2025-10-24 13:42:52+00:00
> Did they change the language?

That's not what you asked though, these were intentional breakages. Language standard or not.

In any case though, bringing up language specification as an example for maturity is such a massive cop-out considering the amount of UB in C and C++. It's not like it gives you good stability or consistency.

> there is an ISO standard that they seek to be compliant with

You can buy RM 8048 from NIST, is that the "culture" of stability you have in mind?
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-24 13:43:12+00:00
Has Google made anything as impactful as Gmail and Chrome since those acquisitions? Stagnant doesn't mean unprofitable.

Google videos was a thing, it died. Google had an awesome modular phone project (Ari?), it died too. I can imagine they could have done something like M-series apple chips and an actual modular phone and phone OS that was superior to Apple products.
by lukan | 2025-10-24 13:44:18+00:00
If you download a executable from a website and run it .. pretty much the same thing?

If you give USB access, it is not really a website anymore, rather a app delivered through the web. I don't see a fundamental difference in trust.

I rather am able to verify the web based version easier and I certainly won't give access to a random website, just like I don't download random exes from websites.

Performance is lower, yes and well ... like I said, it is all a big mess. Just look at the global namespace in js. I still use it because of that power feature called plattform independence. What I release, people can (mostly) just use. I (mostly) don't care which OS the user has.
by habosa | 2025-10-24 13:44:24+00:00
On this topic I strongly recommend “The World I Live In” by Hellen Keller.

In some of the essays she describes how before she was taught to communicate she had no inner monologue and didn’t even recognize herself as human. She was surprised to learn that the dog was not able to understand her. Language essentially gave her her mind, although the book does go into great detail about the things she perceived about the world through touch and exploration that few others would.
by ClarityJones | 2025-10-24 13:44:25+00:00
The raison d'etre for the offense of fraud is to protect commerce.

The state / society needs to enforce a basic level of trust for Business A to buy widgets from Business B, and for Customer C to be employed, etc.

Betting on sports / poker / etc. is not part of that. Nobody is creating anything of value when you spin the roulette wheel. At best, the house wins and most players lose... and that is a harm to society. At worst, the house cheats or some subset of players cheat, and most players lose... and that too is a harm to society. (Edit: At worse worst, it leads to violence, extortion, etc...)

Gambling does not deserve the legitimacy of being policed.
Show HN: The System Skill Pattern
by jakedahn | 2025-10-24 13:44:27+00:00
Hello HN!

I’ve been playing with Claude Skills and stumbled on a simple pattern for tiny, durable personal data systems:

* CLI: a small, self-contained executable

* SKILL.md: the operator guide (what to run, how to parse output, how to think about the system)

* SQLite: a local DB for persistent state

It’s nothing mind-blowing, but the ergonomics of this combo feel great.

If you define a process/flow, Claude can "turn the crank" by running the CLI, accumulating context, and animating the system to life over time.

They’re also easy to share: you can distribute System Skills via Claude Code’s `/plugin marketplace add <repo>`.

More details in the blog post and the toy Pomodoro System Skill reference implementation here:

Blog: https://www.shruggingface.com/blog/the-system-skill-pattern

Repo: https://github.com/jakedahn/pomodoro

--

Curious whether any of this resonates. Also excited to hear any interesting System Skill ideas worth exploring!
by tremon | 2025-10-24 13:44:34+00:00
That's true, if you use the the CAP definition for consistency. Otherwise, I'd say that the DNS design satisfies each of those terms:

- "Rapidly updatable" depends on the specific implementation, but the design allows for 2 billion changesets in flight before mirrors fall irreparably out of sync with the master database, and the DNS specs include all components necessary for rapid updates: push-based notifications and incremental transfers.

- DNS is designed to be eventually consistent, and each replica is expected to always offer internally consistent data. It's certainly possible for two mirrors to respond with different responses to the same query, but eventual consistency does not preclude that.

- Distributed: the DNS system certainly is a distributed database, if fact it was specifically designed to allow for replication across organization boundaries -- something that very few other distributed systems offer. What DNS does not offer is multi-master operation, but neither do e.g. Postgres or MSSQL.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-24 13:44:49+00:00
I don't think we have anything close to diametrically opposed views, for the most part.

When it comes to following lines of reasoning to absurd conclusions though, in the other direction, don't we end up in a world where it is everyone's right (private or public for that matter) to surveil everyone at all times the moment they step outside?

Isn't that something you have an issue with? An extension of the existing problem with data brokers, including ones that record data from interactions on their private space (eg our access to their products in their stores, etc)?

You're definitely right that there are worse offenders out there than "randos taking pictures", but it doesn't have to be an either-or thing.

Plus, I'd suspect that almost anyone who thinks it's not great that every other person on the street can now record them and post it on social media for engagement also doesn't like the other bits of tracking and surveillance you bring up, so if anything, they are probably your overzealous allies.
by gwern | 2025-10-24 13:44:55+00:00
> but I think fixing the verbal tics is still important and useful.

I don't. I think they're useful for flagging the existence of mode-collapse and also providing convenient tracers for AI-written prose. Erasing only the verbal tics with the equivalent of 's/ - /; /g' (look ma! no more 4o em dashes!) is about the worst solution you could come up with and if adopted would lead to a kind of global gaslighting. The equivalent of a vaccine for COVID which only suppresses coughing but doesn't change R, or fixing a compiler warning by disabling the check.

If you wanted to do useful research here, you'd be doing the opposite. You'd be figuring out how to make the verbal expressions even more sensitive to the underlying mode-collapse, to help research into fixing it and raising awareness. (This would be useful even on the released models, to more precisely quantify their overall mode-collapse, which is poorly captured by existing creative writing benchmarks, I think, and one reason I've had a hard time believing things like Eqbench rankings.)
by jfengel | 2025-10-24 13:45:21+00:00
The problem with the joke, as I see it, is that it only works with a colloquial definition of ACID. If it worked with a formal definition, it would be funnier by having a twinge of insight.

It's as if the joke requires two steps away from reality: first to apply the definition to a domain where it doesn't apply, then mis-reading the definition to make it fit. Having to go two steps like that spoils the feeling of insight that makes a joke like this work.

The article doesn't belabor the gag, which is a point in its favor. It has to hit you with its punch line and then quit before it wears out its welcome.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-10-24 13:46:26+00:00
You can get things printed onto a transparency mounted in a slide frame. Actual slide film, though, must be done by exposing light. When you want another image put onto a slide, the easiest way to do it is to just take a picture using a camera.

That’s beside the broader point that OP made: it doesn’t matter since you can just point a verifiable camera at a staged scene (or reproduction of an AI image) and have an image of something that doesn’t represent reality. You can cryptographically sign, or have an original slide, of an image that is faked outside the camera.
by gitaarik | 2025-10-24 13:46:26+00:00
Very nice, I've been working on something similar, but for regular news. But I want to summarize complete articles, and RSS only provides the headlines and sometimes the first paragraph of an article.

So I decided to write web crawlers, but then you run into CAPTCHA stuff. So I instead used Selenium to automate my browser to fetch the news articles. That worked well, but I haven't worked on it since.

Now I'm thinking that with all these AI browsers around these days, maybe that's actually easier than doing it with Selenium. But haven't researched it properly yet.

In any case, the LLM work of detecting whether two articles are reporting the same news, and summarizing the story, is the same in your project. So in case your project is open source, I would be interested in that part.
by blincoln | 2025-10-24 13:46:50+00:00
Maybe you have friendlier wasps in the UK, but the common ones in the US (yellowjackets, mud daubers, etc.) are generally very aggressive, and trying to coexist with them will end badly sooner or later.

I'm vegetarian because of personal ethics. I safely capture and release spiders I find in the house. I use live traps for mice and rats, and release them in the woods. But most wasps here are on my "nip the problem in the bud" list, along with termites, Scotch Broom, and a few other things.

I leave non-aggressive wasps, like Great Golden Diggers, alone.