MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by s_dev | 2025-10-17 14:38:37+00:00
It's made by two Ukrainian brothers in Ireland.

It's a franken debian. Which a lot of Linux users don't like for a variety of reasons but I think that debate is of a wider scope than this one submission.

The main Dev/Maintainer for Linux Mint 'Clem' is also based in Ireland. So these are the only two Linux distros I know of to be associated with the Irish tech scene which is small.
by isaacfrond | 2025-10-17 14:39:05+00:00
I don't believe you.

You prompted chatgpt to create movie based titles and then passed it off as regular output.

With the prompt "suggest 10 titles for this article" + the article text, I get the following _normal_ titles.

1. When the Brain Misreads the World: How Uncertainty Shapes Thought and Behavior

2. CogLinks: A Virtual Brain That Teaches Us How the Mind Adapts

3. The Neural Balancing Act: How the Brain Decides Under Uncertainty

4. Modeling Mental Flexibility: Simulating How the Brain Learns and Adapts

5. Inside the Decision Machine: How New Models Reveal the Brain’s Hidden Algorithms

6. Uncertainty, Meaning, and Misfires: Understanding the Neural Roots of Psychiatric Disorders

7. When Circuits Go Off Course: What a Virtual Brain Teaches Us About Mental Illness

8. The Thalamic Switchboard: Linking Flexibility and Habit in the Human Mind

9. From Neurons to Algorithms: Building a Bridge Between Brain Biology and Psychiatry

10. Toward Algorithmic Psychiatry: Simulating Brain Circuits to Decode Mental Disorders
by iamnothere | 2025-10-17 14:39:06+00:00
> dedicated bands have little to no value anymore

Citation needed. Cellular devices are an obvious application that needs dedicated spectrum allocation. Amateur bands (including volunteer civil defense helpers) and private terrestrial radio systems count on their spectrum being clean enough for use. Emergency responders have critical radio systems with dedicated frequencies. Ships and airplanes use dedicated spectrum allocations for navigation and reporting their positions, weather satellites have dedicated bands, safety equipment like avalanche beacons have dedicated frequencies, and so on.

None of this stuff would work if there were a free-for-all competition for whoever could shout the loudest on each band. To say that these bands are not important (or even critical to life safety) just because more data goes over unlicensed spectrum is frankly ignorant.
by shevy-java | 2025-10-17 14:40:01+00:00
This is not 100% correct though; I mean, your summary is good, don't get me wrong so I upvoted it. But it conflates a few issues that are not 100% related.

For instance, DHH and his fancy blog, are not 100% related or relatable to RubyCentral ousting long-term developers. There may be some connection (DHH on shopify's board, tons of ruby developers being paid by shopify and still writing "my opinion is totally unbiased" like byroot did), but there is no 1:1 overlap. For instance, I could not care what DHH writes on his blog any less. rubygems.org changing policies though - that affects me. And if shopify is in part responsible, and DHH sits on shopify and makes decisions, then yes, something changed here. But there are also people who have a vendetta against DHH and they leak into other spaces too. I am not among those people and they shouldn't try to hijack other communities either.

By the way, the Shopify ultimatum also does not explain why all other ruby devs were ousted. Ruby Central lost the narrative here. And, since they accuse Arko as the ultimate bad boy - why haven't they sued him? Why do they continue to refuse to do so? (Because they know their case would be rubbish nonsense and they would have to open up ALL emails, which may make many more people suddenly ... very funky.)
by delichon | 2025-10-17 14:40:20+00:00
I know what you mean about mindless aspirational slogans. "No child left behind" is logically the same as "no child gets ahead". But trying to convince the Ruby community to be nice, by the example of their founder, isn't in that category. And if Matz told me to jump off of a bridge, he has enough stored up credibility that I'd at least consider it.
by lossyalgo | 2025-10-17 14:40:24+00:00
First comment on that post claims that according to Mimecast, 37% of EU-based spam originates from Hetzner and Digital Ocean. People have been asking for 3 days for a link to the source (I can't find it either).

On the other hand, someone linked a report from last year[0]:

> 72% of BEC attacks in Q2 2024 used free webmail domains; within those, 72.4% used Gmail. Roughly ~52% of all BEC messages were sent from Gmail accounts that quarter.

[0] https://docs.apwg.org/reports/apwg_trends_report_q2_2024.pdf
by bearjaws | 2025-10-17 14:40:55+00:00
I feel like this is left out of the story too often - people tend to compare the most optimistic "self-hosted", usually just one or two servers at best, to a less than ideal cloud installation.

My parent company (Healthcare) uses all on prem solutions, has 3 data centers and 10 sys admins just for the data centers. You still need DevOps too.

I don't know how much it would cost to migrate their infra to AWS, but ~ $1.3M (salary) in annual spend buys you a ton of reserved compute on AWS.

$1.3M is 6000 CPU cores, 10TiB of RAM 24/7 with 100TB of storage.

I know for a fact due to redundancy they have no where near that, AND they have to pay for Avamar, VMWare, (~$500k) etc.

There's no way its cheaper than AWS, not even close.

So sure someones self hosted PHP BB forum doesn't need to be on AWS, but I challenge someone to run a 99.99% uptime infra significantly cheaper than the cloud.
Show HN: WP-MCP – An MCP server to control WordPress
by rnaga | 2025-10-17 14:41:53+00:00
Hi HN,

I built wp-mcp — an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that exposes WordPress management tools to AI clients. It connects directly to your WordPress database through wp-node, a TypeScript library that mirrors WordPress core CRUD operations. The goal is to let AI agents or CLI tools create, edit, and publish WordPress content without PHP or wp-admin.

What it can do:

- Create and update posts

- Manage users, categories, tags and more

- Move drafts through review → publish flows

- Works via STDIO (for local clients like Claude Desktop) and Streamable HTTP (for remote setups)

Proxy and Transport:

- Includes a lightweight proxy utility that runs as a local MCP endpoint and forwards requests to a remote wp-mcp server

- Useful when your AI client doesn’t fully support remote MCP or OAuth

Under the hood:

- Written entirely in TypeScript

- Uses wp-node for strongly typed access to the WordPress database (MySQL/MariaDB)

- Returns structured responses for AI clients

- Early but stable enough for draft-to-publish automation

Docs and quick-start instructions are in the README. https://github.com/rnaga/wp-mcp

Thanks for checking it out.
by shevy-java | 2025-10-17 14:42:26+00:00
They keep on using buzzwords. These Ruby central guys never maintained a single gem used by many people in their life. I have no idea what they are writing, but it feels as if AI is writing their statements. Even then it is of such a poor, repetitive quality that even AI may just accidentally write better "summaries". People lost all trust in Ruby Central - there is no way for them to win back trust here.

IMO it would be better to start from a clean slate; dissolve Ruby Central and bring back the community with a new policy, rules - but that's not going to happen. Ruby Central went the corporate way and that's it. It would just be ironic if, say in 10 years, gem.coop proves to be much more successful whereas Ruby Central still writes the same AI-generated text ("we care for the community even if everyone is now elsewhere already").
by dylan604 | 2025-10-17 14:42:36+00:00
I think "destroy" gets misconstrued in people's mind as exploding as a default. Rendering useless would be another way of describing it.

Edit: what kind of laser would you be using to pull this off though? the amount of time the satellite would be visible and in range of your beam would be limited. they roughly have the same orbital period as the ISS which I've personally seen many times which is my point of reference. it's only visible for a very short time, so you'd need a very hot beam to work in that time frame. would it be effective as an additive heating. as in, would it cool off before the next time it came within range?
by electroly | 2025-10-17 14:42:52+00:00
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is the one name that the NYT did not strip the diacritics from. Every other Vietnamese term and name has been stripped (including the names of the other authors in the reading list), but the article author's name, alone, retains its diacritics in the NYT article. They do seem to have gotten the diacritics subtly wrong in the article subtitle vs. the byline (which is correct and, I assume, generated automatically).

https://archive.ph/Gi1HX
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-17 14:43:36+00:00
That might have been true locally, but you need to know the actual lead levels (which can change with infrastructure changes) in cold and hot water to know for sure.

I replaced my hot water heater and supply pipes myself, so it has no more lead than the cold. They're currently tearing up my street to replace the lead in supply lines, so... everything will hopefully improve here.
by tkrn | 2025-10-17 14:43:38+00:00
>The spaghetti code was astounding, and I remember squeezing line numbers between existing code-- adding a "31 GOTO 40" so I could squeeze a "room" into lines 32-39.

I spent too many nights trying to implement complex text adventures in Commodore 64 Basic and I'm sure that instead of permanently damaging me (at least in the sense that Dijkstra meant) it just made me appreciate more all the abstractions later languages introduced to me.
Ask HN: Best resources to catch up on changes in Gen AI over last 6-12 months?
by AbstractH24 | 2025-10-17 14:44:35+00:00
I've realized that I'm starting to fall behind the very rapidly changing landscape. Does anyone have any resources they recommend?

Particularly interested in things that are video + exercises. And one thing in particular I keep meaning to dig into is how to best leverage an MCP server.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-17 14:44:56+00:00
The thing that is giving the right juice is that they can hold up meritocracy and victory of ideas under fair competition in response to identity politics. If we just framed things in terms of fighting poverty and systemic bias instead of reparations they wouldn't have a leg to stand on. We're giving them the ammunition they're blowing holes in us with.

Human vs AI is the same debate. No matter how good AI is, nothing is stopping you from creating. People have freedom of choice in terms of what they can consume, and if AI is a better creator than you, why should you make people's experiences worse by ramming your mediocrity down their throat with the battle cry of "human made"? You don't deserve an audience just because you're made of meat.

If you hate slop, hate it because it's bad, and hate human slop equally.

For reference, I'm a published artist and I'm currently querying for a manuscript. I use AI to scaffold projects quickly to ~80% then finish it myself, just like the the masters of the Italian renaissance did with apprentices.
by indymike | 2025-10-17 14:45:00+00:00
> Corporations are pushing remote attestation now. They can detect if we "tampered" with our devices now.

This is not new, and has been the case since the mid 1990s.

> Installed your own open source software? All services denied.

I access five different banks with linux every day. I've never had this problem.

> We're marginalized.

I've made a great life for my family largely using free software to do so. I don't feel marginalized.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-10-17 14:45:00+00:00
> Starshield's unusual transmissions have the potential to interfere with other scientific and commercial satellites, warns Scott Tilley, an amateur satellite tracker in Canada who first spotted the signals.

Might that be the point? A space-based means of "hacking" satellites? Or is that kind of a dumb thing to do when you could do the same Earth-based?
by Arch485 | 2025-10-17 14:45:45+00:00
I don't use Zorin anymore, (I'm a dirty Ubuntu plebian) but I used to use it and it's great. The only thing I liked about Windows 11 was it's slick UI, and Zorin is basically the only Linux distro that replicates that without a ton of hassle. Zorin Connect is also awesome if you use your PC to watch TV on your TV.

If you're thinking of abandoning Windows, (which, honestly, who isn't these days) Zorin is a good choice.
by bflesch | 2025-10-17 14:46:30+00:00
Well done, thanks for sharing.

May I ask a stupid question? In order to speed up this process you'd need to buy more of the broadcom spectrometers which are quite expensive.

So instead of buying more spectrometers, is there a way to use multiple fibre cables but make them different length so the single spectrometer takes longer to process the image, but the "exposure" of all fibre cables would be at the same time. Would it be possible to stack the signal in a way that the light of the first fibre cable arrives at the spectrometre, then there is a short pause, then the light of the second fibre cable arrives at the spectrometer, etc.

I imagine it like plumbing if you have two toilets attached to the same canalisation, and you flush both toilets at the same time but the length of each toilet's pipe to the main canalization pipe is done in a way that the water of the first toilet has fully passed before the water of the second toilet arrives.

To put it into numbers: toilet1 pipe length would be 1m and toilet2 pipe length would be 10m because before both pipes join and go into the canalisation. Water travels at a certain speed in the pipe, which would make this possible.

Can the same principle be used for fibre cables? If yes, it should be possible to construct a 100x100 fibre cable sensor matrix using large fibre cable lengths but only a single spectrometer.

Edit: I did some math and it seems the second fibre cable needs to be 40.000km long so that the singal of the first fibre cable reaches the sensor after the signal of the second fibre cable has passed the sensor (at 0.2s).

speed of light in vacuum 299.792.458,00 m/s in fibre 66,00 % percent 197.863.022,28 m/s exposure per pixel 0,2 s exposure start time distance traveled fiber 1 0 s 0 fiber 2 0,2 s 39.572.604,46 meters 39.572,60 kilometers

Edit2: You can buy 1km fibre cable for 50€ , so only 2.000.000€ to test this
by busterarm | 2025-10-17 14:46:38+00:00
Good summary. Also the ask for politics to be kept out of company chats is often what I find cited as the _core_ reason for why "DHH is a Nazi" in online discussions. It's _weird_.

I think the real root of peoples' disagreement over what happened there is that rank-and-file employees wanted to assert a lot more control over what their company does than they actually could and they were informed that that wouldn't be acceptable. The six month severance was generous.
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-17 14:46:40+00:00
No, it’s not. Whataboutism is collaborating. Don’t be that guy.

The difference with this administration is that they aren’t even pretending to follow the nominal controls or rules to wield that force.

There was a legal concept around the drone/missile/commando/aerial strikes to assassinate targeted individuals in the Middle East. The morality of that action was dubious at best, but what’s happening in the Caribbean doesn’t even meet that very low moral, ethical, or legal bar.

This administration, with their craven collaborators on the Supreme Court, is solely focused on asserting virtually unlimited executive power to a fairly obvious end.
by shevy-java | 2025-10-17 14:47:12+00:00
How so?

I think there are a gazillion questions left. But, I also agree that the future will tell, e. g. we'll have to see how popular gem.coop will become (if they become popular). And I also, despite my disagreements, think that it may have been better to solve installations of ruby projects from the get go, e. g. Rust + cargo. But I also see this as separate from a service such as rubygems.org (or whoever provides any infrastructure). The question of who develops functionality can be separate, I have no strong preference here. And, I also agree that having both bin/gem and bin/bundle is not good. There should be a unified API (or two - a simple one maintained by ruby core, and then people can build extra functionality into their own variants).

Sadly this all also may end up like this:

https://xkcd.com/927/

What I liked about bin/gem was its simplicity. Bundler brought a few new things or easier things to the table. "gem" should make it much easier to use any source though, including gem.coop.
by echelon_musk | 2025-10-17 14:47:32+00:00
> Linux-based operating systems were generally built for engineers by engineers, with little consideration for regular users. We decided to fix this. [0]

I am extremely sceptical that any normal Windows user would have the patience to use WINE to get Windows software working. Sadly this feels like this distro is subject to exactly the problem they claim to solve.

I think the only way desktop Linux will ever approach something an "ordinary" computer user could use is if a corporation puts significant money behind the development effort. Until then, the incentives will simply never align.

[0] https://zorin.com/about
by the_gipsy | 2025-10-17 14:47:56+00:00
He did not get the refrences at all. Of course you don't need to understand all refrences to "get it", but he doesn't really bring anything to the table.

From what I remember, the spinning animal goes deeper, the videogame-like spinning food like items go deeper. There are so many layers to it, that is what's interesting.
by tamimio | 2025-10-17 14:48:42+00:00
Speaking of Namib Desert, yesterday I was in a nature museum and saw the Namib beetle, the fog collector beetle!

https://imgur.com/a/UbIefte

I love nature, and I am seriously thinking of changing careers completely away from technology and getting into a nature-related field, or at least something to use my technology background but spend most of the day with animals and in nature. I just don't know the whats and hows of that change yet. I would definitely take a job even if it's not paying that much in that direction if I found one in a heartbeat!
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-17 14:48:48+00:00
Partly it's dysfunctional but the options for treating severe mental illness (schizophrenia spectrum, bipolar, major depression) aren't that great.

When you seem some guy screaming on the street corner a monthly depot injection of an antipsychotic drug would probably calm them down but overall the drugs are unpleasant [1] and have serious side effects, particularly sedation, weight gain, and high blood sugar [2] A "functional" system would probably be one that can get people like that a diagnosis and get them treatment against their will.

Kanye West is a good example. He has a bipolar diagnosis but now thinks he is fashionably autistic so he quit taking his meds and now he is shooting music videos of black people in blackface giving the Hitler salute after a whiney autotuned complaint that they won't let him see his kids after he posted something on Twitter [3]. For him responsibility is not "don't cosplay as a Nazi" but "face up to your condition and take your meds" and he won't want to cosplay as a Nazi and they might let him see his kids.

I've known quite a few people who are schizophrenia spectrum without a diagnosis: one of them lived at our house for a year and a half until she threatened my wife with a knife and she took her own life a year later, another one called us up five times in one day last week with a scrambled story about how she got bit by a dog, I sat down and listened to her for about 20 minutes in which she got lucid just a few times and I was able to piece together the place where it happened, that she's talked to the security guard and the EMT but not the police, that she did see a doctor and get a Tetanus shot though she wasn't sure if it was a Rottweiler or a Pit-bull.

The good news is that new drugs are here and more are under development:

https://www.cobenfy.com/

[1] no diversion risk!

[2] last year my condition got worse and my doc put me on the minimum dose of seroquel before going to sleep which is 1/10 the dose they'd give to someone who is really psychotic. It was effective at getting me quality sleep and avoiding "paranoia against objects" in the morning but I gained 15 lbs and my A1C was borderline in my last bloodwork and my doc thinks I should get off it. Even the smallest dose is so sedating I can't believe anyone could take it during the day, my guess is that if I cut the pills in half the sleep promoting effect will still be strong enough.

[3] oddly not "X"
by hbn | 2025-10-17 14:48:55+00:00
> Google requiring JS even for its own search engine

This has been annoying me personally because sometimes I'll "bookmark" something I want to come back to like a movie or a video game by Googling it and leaving the tab open on my phone's browser.

But now, seemingly when those pages are suspended, Javascript isn't allowed to run in them, so all my Google search tab thumbnails are just a static screen telling me that I need to enable Javascript.
by Zambyte | 2025-10-17 14:49:15+00:00
Regarding iteration, a simple solution without reaching for while loops is to iterate on a range and operate relative to the length.

const a = [_]u8{ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 }; // 2 4 6 8 10 for (a[0 .. a.len / 2], 0..) |_, i| { std.debug.print("{} ", .{a[i * 2 + 1]}); } std.debug.print("\n", .{}); // 1 3 5 7 9 for (a[0 .. (a.len + 1) / 2], 0..) |_, i| { std.debug.print("{} ", .{a[i * 2]}); } std.debug.print("\n", .{}); // 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 for (0..a.len) |i| { std.debug.print("{} ", .{a[a.len - i - 1]}); }
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-10-17 14:49:46+00:00
The fact that a majority (a slim plurality, actually) of the country voted for someone who is ripping up the Constitution is a real problem. It doesn't mean that he's not ripping up the Constitution.

> anecdotal or skewed headlines

How are any of my examples above anecdotal or skewed? Did Trump issue an executive order ending birthright citizenship as enshrined in the 14th Amendment or not? Just one action like that would be an incredible break with the American political tradition, but he's done dozens of things that are just as bad or worse.

I don't know what "my approach" is. I'm describing reality as it is. I don't know how or if the American political system will overcome Trump and survive, but that system is facing extinction right now.
by jerf | 2025-10-17 14:49:54+00:00
I didn't try to hit that because that's harder to call, especially at a small startup. If what is probably "the guy doing all this" happens to be more comfortable with k8s than the AWS stack you can end up winning by going with a nominally more complicated k8s stack that doesn't force you to spend dozens of hours learning more new things and instead just using what you already know. For a small startup those training costs are proportionally huge compared to a more established larger going concern already making money. Startups should generally always go with whatever their engineers already know unless there is a damned good reason not to. (And "I just wanted to learn it" is not a good reason for the startup.)

But monetarily, even for a startup, $400/month savings is something you shouldn't be pouring the equivalent of $5000 (or more, just picking a reasonable concrete number to anchor the point) into. You really need to solve a $400/month problem by putting your time into something, anything that will promote revenue growth sooner and faster rather than optimizing that particular cost.