MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sbfeibish | 2025-10-12 11:20:27+00:00
I've invested in junior mining stocks. The rare earths are hot right now (12 Oct 2025). As a whole the group is supposed to lose money every year. It's just a question of will they lose a little or a lot. I see people rushing in right now because China is restricting the export of rare earths. They don't know the flaws these companies have. But they will :)
by nosianu | 2025-10-12 11:20:55+00:00
> People need to treat PR like they do AIs. "You utterly failed to answer the question, try again and actually answer the question I asked this time.

I'm going way off topic, and off on a tangent here.

Anecdote, famous public broadcaster TV talk show in Germany (Markus Lanz): The invited politician failed to answer, so the host did what you asked. Three times. Then he just stopped and went to the next topic like nothing happened.

For anyone thinking this is reasonable, what else could he have done, after all?

This method is utterly useless for the public watching the dialog, but has benefits for both the show and the politician. The public won't learn a thing. The host can pretend to be super tough in evading guests. The politician is let off the hook very easily - he just have to deflect the question(s) with canned standard responses three times, easy enough, no consequences.

Next day, the very critical people on reddit wrote highly upvoted comments celebrating how "tough" the host was on the politician.

But the whole scenario is always the same, every single time, almost like it's scripted: The guest only has to deflect the "tough" question a few times and then nothing else happens, they just move on. It's also eerie to see the change in the host and their questions, from acting tough three times to changing back to acting amiably and forgetting about the unanswered question.

At this point this is all just part of the "act tough but don't upset the guest" show.

You may ask, but what can they do?

Well, how about throwing the guy out? What's the use of them as an interview partner if the interview is used as a mere PR piece? They should just have replacement guests on standby. That won't be a high-level person, but it does not need to be. Yes, they will have trouble getting politicians in if they have to fear actually having to answer. So what? Is the show being a one-sided PR piece any better? They could just interview normal non-Berlin-politics-bubble people instead. There are soooo many who have interesting things to say, much more interesting than some politician's prepared statements.

Unless there are actual consequences, like ending the interview right there and letting the viewers or readers know that answers were refused, acting tough does not matter if it can just be waited out.
by _kb | 2025-10-12 11:21:49+00:00
There's a bit of a trend of vendors packaging mobile CPUs in desktop form factor which are a good candidate for this. Rather than the prebuilt mini PCs this also includes mini-ITX boards. Personally I use the Minisforum BD795i SE, but there are others too.

Check for PCIe bifurcation support. If that's there you can pop in a PCIe to quad M.2 adapter. That will split a PCIe x16 slot into 4 x M.2s. Each of those (and the M.2s already on the motherboard) can then be loaded with either an NVMe drive or an M.2 to SATA adapter, with each adapter providing 6 x SATA ports. That setup gives a lot of flexibility to build out a fairly extensive storage array with both NVMe and spinning platters and no USB in sight.

As a nice side effect of the honestly bonkers amount of compute in those boards there's also plenty of capacity to run other VM workloads on the same metal which lets a lot of the storage access happen locally rather than over the network. For me, that means the on-board 2.5GbE NIC is more than fine, but if not you can also load a M.2 to 10GbE adapter(s) as needed.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-10-12 11:22:37+00:00
Exactly. Opinionated products are great for those who share the opinion, and for everybody else there’s other products. It’s personal preference, and nobody is “wrong” for preferring one platform above the others.

Could I get along on a Windows or Linux box if I had to? Sure. I even have multiple of both as single-purpose machines. I’m not going to enjoy it, though, and I’m going to end up spending way too much time and energy tweaking either to fit my preferences (being Mac-like). There is no Linux desktop or Windows release that I could put to use as a daily driver without getting pulled down the customization rabbit hole.
by graemep | 2025-10-12 11:23:41+00:00
Not on MAcOS, but I imagine the reason is the same as mine for using tiling on Linux.

If you are using a small laptop your argument holds.

However, the larger your monitor the more the benefits of having things side by site. I do it all the time. A document I am writing an email about and the email open side by site. Editor, terminal and VCS GUI open at the same time. Documentation and code open side by side. Template and web browser. Accounting software and bank statement. File manage and absolutely anything. Chat window and whatever you are discussing.

I find it easier and more productive most of the time.
by jimmcslim | 2025-10-12 11:24:25+00:00
Ask yourself "what is intelligence?". Can intelligence at the level of human experience exist without that which we all also (allegedly) have... "consciousness". What is the source of "consciousness"? Can consciousness be computed?

Without answers to these questions, I don't think we are ever achieving AGI. At the end of the day, frontier models are just arithmetic, conditionals, and loops.
by maratc | 2025-10-12 11:25:00+00:00
Just to remind you that <bold> <italic> text </bold> </italic> [0] that has been working for ages in every browser ever, is NOT a valid XHTML, and should be rejected by GP's proposal.

I, for one, is kinda happy that XHTML is dead.

[0]: By <bold> I mean <b> and by <italic> I mean <i>, and the reason it's not valid HTML is that the order of closing is not reverse of the order of opening as it should properly be.
by KingMob | 2025-10-12 11:26:13+00:00
I don't personally know, but I used to use the creator (Granger)'s previous work, the Clojure live-running editor LightTable.

LT was cool, but they abandoned it with insufficient hand-off when it was 80-90% done to work on Eve.

I know a bunch of people were unhappy that LightTable wasn't finished, especially because they raised money via Kickstarter for it.

Maybe Eve was too ambitious. Maybe funding never materialized. Maybe they just got bored and couldn't finish. Maybe they pissed off their audience.
by pajuhaan | 2025-10-12 11:26:42+00:00
Michio Kaku-- a famous line says: if string theory can calculate the masses of the elementary particles, the game is over. Okey, not string theory!

The key move is to stop treating superposition as “what is,” and use it only as “how we calculate.” Then add one physical rule that ties a phase space to our ordinary space: radius × internal frequency = speed of light. That single lock keeps the math finite and the motion deterministic. maybe God eq Rw=c

With that lock in place, the electron’s own field slows its internal clock a little (a real time-dilation effect). From that, you can get the g-factor with a short relation—and you can make the electron mass emerge from first principles, no tuning. The number lines up with experiment to high precision.

The picture is clean; finite modes instead of infinite sums; no extra dimensions; paths through the double slit become ordinary, once the lock supplies the missing constraint; entanglement is just a shared internal beat between two systems.

Is every step written out in textbook detail yet? Not all—filling every gap could take hundreds of pages. But the route is clear, the checkpoints are solid, and the tests are on the table.

So, with respect Mr. Kaku; you said “game over” when someone can get masses from first principles. I’m saying: game over, Mr. Kaku—electron mass is in hand. Now let’s open it up, stress-test it, and make the full book.
by matwood | 2025-10-12 11:27:42+00:00
Don't mention AI, just point out why the code is bad. I've had co-workers who were vim wizards and others who literally hunt and pecked to type. At no point did their tools ever come up when reviewing their code. AI is a tool like anything else, treat it that way. This also means that the OPs default can't be AI == bad; focus on the result.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-10-12 11:30:04+00:00
From about the 1910s to the 1960s, the USA was considered the world's factory. If you wanted the get a product made, you'd go there to set up a production line; if you wanted to make a factory elsewhere, you'd hire American experts to teach you and tool it up for you.

The USA no longer has that role for hardware, although it does for software.
by chrismorgan | 2025-10-12 11:31:31+00:00
> Google Hangouts:

Which particular thing called Hangouts? There were at least two, frankly I’d say more like four.

Google and Microsoft are both terrible about reusing names for different things in confusing ways.

> Can't keep track of all the Google chat apps.

And Hangouts was part of that problem. Remember Google Talk/Chat? That was where things began, and in my family we never wanted Hangouts, Talk/Chat was better.

Allo, Chat, Duo, Hangouts, Meet, Messenger, Talk, Voice… I’ve probably forgotten at least two more names, knowing Google. Most of these products have substantial overlap with most of the rest.
by pityJuke | 2025-10-12 11:32:26+00:00
no, that's using it wrong.

- "they cooked [hard]" is positive

- "they're [hard] cooked" is negative.

- "let them cook" means let them work, they'll do something positive.

- "someone cooked here" [0] has become a TikTok meme for positive things

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOpadGhGtuA
by sarchertech | 2025-10-12 11:32:46+00:00
If you want to kill yourself the way many old people have done forever (by no longer eating), in most cases society doesn’t have a say.

If you want to involve society by petitioning the courts to have a doctor kill you, society gets a say because you’ve involved society.

There’s no country with assisted suicide laws where society doesn’t get a say because killing someone by default is murder, and exceptions must be highly regulated.
by danaris | 2025-10-12 11:32:49+00:00
From what I understand, among the intersex community, "hermaphrodite" is generally considered a slur. The term a) implies things that are not true of them (that they have multiple sets of functional genitalia), and b) is often used to fetishize them for that reason.

Frankly, there isn't really a good reason that we should have a gender marker on our passports. The picture should be enough for any agent trying to visually identify us, and until and unless we can get to a world where every country is fully accepting of trans (and intersex) people, having a gender marker there forces them to make a choice between using a marker that does not match their gender identity (and thus may very well give them dysphoria), or using a marker that makes them a target for transphobic officials. (This is all true of drivers' licenses, too.)
by nashashmi | 2025-10-12 11:33:01+00:00
Very cool explanation. I love how you have simplified the life cycle of info. I also like your approach to “organization” being modeled after a general whiteboard.

I’m working on ideas for replicating a physical desk in a digital space. Your project is a good start. Additional layers are communication (email, chat, video) and shared access (shared library?, read only access to desk).
by willyxdjazz | 2025-10-12 11:33:03+00:00
A documentary, source-based overview of Trump’s campaign for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, fact-check of his “ending wars” claims, analysis of his public announcements, actions, legal situation and the winner (Maria Corina Machado). Every claim is verified with links to Reuters, BBC, Human Rights Watch, AP, Yale and other independent organizations.
by ahamez | 2025-10-12 11:33:03+00:00
Note that using Hammerspoon, you can build your own window manager.

Personally, I really like how Divvy (https://mizage.com/divvy/) uses a modal (press cmd-alt-ctrl-x, then press a single key to chose a layout for the frontmost window), but it's no longer maintained.

Thus, using OpenAI's Codex, I generated a modal window manager (https://github.com/ahamez/dot_hammerspoon/blob/master/wm.lua).

Thought it would be interesting to share this approach!
by sothatsit | 2025-10-12 11:33:38+00:00
Agent performance depends massively on the work you do.

For example, I have found Claude Code and Codex to be tremendously helpful for my web development work. But my results for writing Zig are much worse. The gap in usefulness of agents between tasks is very big.

The skill ceiling for using agents is also surprisingly high. Planning before coding, learning agent capabilities, environment setup, and context engineering can make a pretty massive difference to results. This can all be a big time sink though, and I'm not sure if it's really worth it if agents don't already work decently well for the work you do.

But with the performance gaps between domains, and the skill curve, I can definitely understand why there is such a divide between people claiming agents are ridiculously overhyped, and people who claim coding is fundamentally changing.
by senko | 2025-10-12 11:35:37+00:00
20-year average P/E for US stock market as a whole is ~20 (current s&p500 forward estimate is 24). Historically they were a bit lower (eyeballing it at 15), and in the aftermath of the Great Depression they it was aroun 10.

You want to claim the US stock market for the past 100 years is insane, go ahead, but that's a different argument than saying Google or NVIDIA, only slightly above the average for S&P500, are overpriced compared to the rest of the market.

And if the entire market is overpriced, where you going to invest instead? Crypto? Gold? Both shot up much more. Real estate? Bonds? Europe? China? Better have a good thesis on that.
Show HN: Place to find and share quality websites
by JeremyJaydan | 2025-10-12 11:36:47+00:00
Hi HN,

After 10+ years of learning web development and design and contemplating starting a business online I've finally made headway and launched a website that I can call mine.

It's a website directory, it's fairly basic but built on what I believe is a strong foundation and I'm excited to improve it based on feedback, adapt, and grow.

The problem Intrasti solves is of saturation and quality on the internet by way of moderating every listing (Only SFW allowed) and every submission is associated with who submitted them so it's up to users how they would like to curate.

I'm posting this on HN probably before I should as I'm genuinely looking to connect with peers who are interested in the ProductHunt/AlertnativeTo/etc scene. If you're interested in what I'm building I'd love to hear what you think about this industry.
by bluesign | 2025-10-12 11:37:05+00:00
> From my point of view, the issue would be if the same phone worked with the same technology over the same mobile network when connected via a carrier A but the same phone on the same network refused to work with the same technology when connected via a carrier B.

But thats the whole point of carrier profiles ( If I didn't understand wrong. )

Eventually it is the carrier who decides what you can do. ( this can also may be related to deals they made with manufacturers )

I think in this case, it is just missing carrier profile. ( which is like a config file )
by rft | 2025-10-12 11:37:38+00:00
A VR interactive thesis defense/sword fighting crossover game sounds just weird enough to work. Maybe base it on the fight mechanics of Until You Fall [1], we could call it "Until You Graduate" (I will see myself out for that one) or "Thesis Offense" [2].

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/858260/Until_You_Fall/

[2] https://xkcd.com/1403/
by wakawaka28 | 2025-10-12 11:38:12+00:00
Because a person's sex is a basic descriptor. They also ask for height, weight, hair/eye color, and race. If someone had to identify your dead body, it would be critical to know your sex. We don't need to pretend that this concept doesn't exist, or escalate toward some biometric bullshit, just to appease some extremely tiny minority. If there is really a need for it, add an intersex category and stipulate that you must actually be the biological sex that you register with.
by palata | 2025-10-12 11:38:16+00:00
I have used both, and I can personally use my smartphone properly with both.

GrapheneOS is more strict about security, making it more secure but less accessible (at the moment you can only run GrapheneOS on Pixel phones).

I am happy with GrapheneOS' policy: that's exactly why I use GrapheneOS, to the point where I bought a Pixel just for GrapheneOS. Many people complain about GrapheneOS not supporting other phones. IMO it's the other way round: the other Android manufacturers do not support GrapheneOS.

If you really want GrapheneOS to lower their security in order to run on another phone, what you want is actually LineageOS.
by immibis | 2025-10-12 11:38:26+00:00
I thought it was interesting how long Wikipedia took to rename "2023 Israel-Hamas war" to "Gaza war" and start calling it a genocide, but I suppose this is why. When major sources have a significant bias, Wikipedia copies that bias as a matter of policy.

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In response to the reply accusing this comment of bias: When people said this two years ago, they were accused of bias. But now, in the present, with the benefit of hindsight and more information, it's a mainstream fact, and Wikipedia does report on it. We also know that major news organizations were aware of this at the time and chose not to report it. After round earth theory becomes mainstream, it's not bias to talk about why it took so long for round earth theory to be recognized.
by jongjong | 2025-10-12 11:39:44+00:00
In my country (Australia), the cheapest I can get is like $250k USD equivalent... But that's a shack in the middle of the desert in some tiny ghost town. Even in a normal small town, houses are like $350k USD minimum. In capital cities, it's like $500k USD minimum for a tiny apartment... Top salaries for top senior software devs are like $130k USD before tax, taxed at about 40%... So take home pay is like $78k USD net income. Rent is like $22k per year minimum. Impossible to get fixed-rate mortgages; banks only only do variable rate... 20% minimum deposit. This is in a country with a LOT of spare land which is scarcely populated.
by UD_Pickups | 2025-10-12 11:41:17+00:00
Founder perspective: “avoid patents by staying 20 years behind” is the tragedy. I published a 2-page CC0 initiative that splits protection into two layers: • GLOBAL layer — fast, low-friction recognition for non-strategic inventions • LOCAL-STRATEGIC layer — conventional national control for sensitive tech Goal: cut admin drag/time-to-market while keeping sovereignty intact.

Brief (CC0): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17305774 Curious: would this structure have saved any of the projects mentioned here?
by viraptor | 2025-10-12 11:41:39+00:00
Htmx uses memes for communication on purpose. It literally has a page cataloging the lore https://htmx.org/essays/lore/ I wouldn't expect posts related to htmx and similar projects to take themselves too seriously. This seems by design from Carson Gross. He created grug brain after all http://grugbrain.dev/
by maxglute | 2025-10-12 11:41:52+00:00
>I thought "rare earths" were not rare at all

Propaganda. Some strategic rare earth is indeed rare.

As in economically extractable stuff are geologically rare.

The strategic heavy stuff (dysprosium, terbium, yttrium) for high performing magnets are ECONOMICALLY extracted from ionic clay deposits mostly in PRC, myanmar (controlled by PRC), and small pockets else where (Lynas Australia+Malaysia) which is <10% i.e. not enough for world demand but process still depends on PRC tech.

Rare earth is not rare for these HeavyREE in the sense that fresh water is not rare for a desert nation next to the ocean, you just have to spend $$$ desalinate. Except this is 2000s, and the technology to do so at scale doesn't exist. US+co would have to plow through order magnitude more rocks to get the small % of HREE, i.e it's much more energy intensive and polluting to the point where it might not even be strategically viable. See how PRC has MORE shale deposits than US on paper but they still have to import fossil because the shale is technically hard to access.

TLDR is PRC controls like ~90% of supply and ~100% of process for some strategic HREEs, i.e. more than US EUV tier control. The only saving grace is HREE doesn't depreciate like semiconductors so if it can be smuggled (like US did with Ti from USSR during coldwar) it would be golden, but you also can't rent HREE from the cloud. So it depends on how strong PRC enforces controls. The other reminder is there is host of other elements that are also strategic (Ga/Ge for radars etc), which PRC also functionally has 100% control over due to having ability to process to sigmas of purity, i.e. imagine if everyone has oil but only one country has refinery technology.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-12 11:41:55+00:00
In the 80's and 90's, I learned on the evil cousin, the PC, by spending all of my money on overpriced hardware reference books at Computer Literacy Bookshop of Santa Clara. Being a broke, car-less high school student, it was perhaps the only time I ever used VTA light rail from Blossom Valley.

Examples:

- The Programmer's PC Sourcebook 155615321X

- The Undocumented PC 0201622777

- PC Intern: The Encyclopedia of System Programming 1557553041

Coupled with Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++, until I could afford Borland C++ 3.1 by virtue of getting a job at Egghead Software. :D "Stack Overflow" was the 4 other people in the under-resourced, purposefully (un)managed high school computer lab run by the wisdom of one Dr. Richard Thaw. It had awful PS/2 model 25's and 30's that were an upgrade from discarded PCjr's. It did, however, have 10BASE2 thin-net and a nominal Novell 2.x or 3.x file server.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-12 11:42:31+00:00
Ember do a good summary of their current trajectory:

> Australia’s largest source of clean electricity is solar (18%), which has doubled since 2020. Australia has the world’s highest solar generation per capita, over seven times the global average.

> Australia’s joint share of wind and solar (29%) is almost double the global average (15%), though it remains below peers like the United Kingdom (36%) and Spain (43%).

> Australia relied on fossil fuels for 65% of its electricity in 2024, with 46% coming from coal. Its power sector emissions have fallen by 21% from their peak in 2009 due to growth in solar and wind, even as demand has grown

https://ember-energy.org/countries-and-regions/australia/
by wishawa | 2025-10-12 11:42:33+00:00
Inference is impressively fast. But what about quality? In the Kimi vendor verifier (https://github.com/MoonshotAI/K2-Vendor-Verifier/), Together has one of the highest tool call failure rates (>300 failures over the benchmark, compared to 0-2 for the official API, groq, SiliconFlow, and Infinigence).
by pjmlp | 2025-10-12 11:43:33+00:00
Even if C++26 covers all scenarios needed for MOC, it is going to take ages until Qt can rely on it being available across all their customer platforms, unfortunely after a spike in the last decades regarding ISO C++ support, the compilers velocity has slowed down, while proprietary compilers have decided to freeze their support somewhere between C++14 and C++17.

Most likely the raise of AOT compiled alternatives, for scenarios where C and C++ were only being used due to being compiled languages, big names in C++ compiler world rather put money on their own alternatives, are the two main reasons of the slow down.

- https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support.html

- https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support/17.html

- https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support/14.html