MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jstummbillig | 2025-11-26 21:34:13+00:00
> - Revenue sharing from drug discovery (called out by OpenAI CFO): Why would a pharma company give away the upside to a commoditized intelligence layer? Why would OpenAI have a more compelling story than Google Deep Mind, which has serious accolades in this space?

I am not sure I follow. They "give it away", because they have to. They have to pay any of the model companies. What do DeepMind's accolades matter if it's commoditized, as you propose?

AI resources will remain scarce for the foreseeable future: I have to literally wait multiple Minutes to get an answer for semi-hard coding problems. The current demand is the delta between this, and the few milliseconds that it could take if supply was there. I suspect the tension will grow. Why would there not be multiple companies positioned to capture value? Assuming that any of them can turn demand into profit, that seems to be the most likely story right now.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-26 21:35:14+00:00
I'm thinking that Apollo covered 90% of the useful spin-offs from developing tech for manned travel to the moon or Mars. And at least 90% of what's left was either covered by the ISS, or could be covered by a few small LEO space stations.

The economic cases for manned moon or Mars programs look really iffy these days. The US has poured tens of $billions down the SLS rat hole, with very little to show for it. And Wienersmith's A City on Mars is a pretty damning dissection of the whole concept of Martian colonies.
by phantasmish | 2025-11-26 21:35:19+00:00
I have seen tons of great movies made after 2010, but must admit I’m having trouble thinking of any blockbuster-type movies that stand up to the best of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

Does Fury Road count? I dunno. The closest I can get aside from that are a couple Tarantino movies. Jurassic Park, the first Mission Impossible movie, Aliens, Jaws, hell even Independence Day. Nothing’s quite up there. Lots that are a kind of janky B-movie sort of good, but nothing as solid as those. Almost all are marred by lots of CG that might look ok at the time but seem dodgy and very distracting within 5 years max, for one thing (to be fair, Jurassic Park suffers from that in a couple scenes, too)
by postoplust | 2025-11-26 21:35:19+00:00
https://www.pcmag.com/news/netflix-is-telling-writers-to-dum... (https://archive.is/RE0pz)

> Amid a push to perfect 'casual viewing,' creatives say streaming execs are requiring them to remove nuance and visual cues, and do things like announce when characters enter a room.
by aylmao | 2025-11-26 21:35:30+00:00
175 years isn't a lot of time when we speak in humanity's time scale. We've been around 200,000 - 300,000 years.

That alignment will happen many more times in the history of humanity. That is to say, I don't know if a spacecraft to overtake Voyager will be launched on the next alignment or one 10,000 years from now, but it doesn't seem unlikely to happen.
by beepbooptheory | 2025-11-26 21:36:24+00:00
This article was on the front page recently that discusses the idea behind this:

https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using...

Most of the time, you need quick patches because of fairly recent dependency changes, so if you just wait and kind of "debounce" you dependency updates, you can cover a lot of supply chain vulnerabilities etc.
by octaane | 2025-11-26 21:36:43+00:00
My response to the money aspect of this it's just like any other business: money needs to be invested, and then a return will be realized. Resource extraction (i.e, asteroid mining) is one obvious example.

The human compatibility issues with microgravity are well known, as is the solution, which has even been proposed by NASA: centripetal force to create 1G for the astronauts.

As far the the radiation goes, we do indeed know exactly what kinds of radiation they would encounter. And the easiest way to shield humans from it in space is lots of water, or metal. We know this from extensive real work done on earth re: nuclear power plants.

The real issue is money, not technical feasibility. Once the dough rolls in from asteroid mining, it bootstraps the financing issue and pays for itself many times over.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-26 21:36:47+00:00
> My most "old woman yells at cloud" opinion is the fucking DISEASE of smartphones that is truly a cancer in our society. Don't get me wrong, I love mine, and they're completely possible to use in a way that coexists with the rest of your tech and life, but my god, the wide adoption of them has demonstrated the majority of our population has the regulation capacity of a fucking carrot.

Every morning, I am one of about four parents dropping Primary 1 age children off at school that isn't nose-down in a phone. While walking, while crossing the road, while standing there waiting to pick their child up after school - nose down, thumb going scroll scroll scroll.

Christ almighty. I only carry my phone because in theory I'm still at work for that half an hour, and if anyone phones me twice it's probably important enough to look at, maybe even answer.
by quickthrowman | 2025-11-26 21:36:50+00:00
I’m not sure why anyone believed this load of lies, tunnel boring is a mature industry with multiple companies that make tunnel boring machines, and tunnel boring has been around for well over a hundred years. The cutting heads move slowly because they’re between 3 and ~50 feet in diameter (1 to 15 meters for non Americans)

Anyone claiming they can 10x the speed of a physical process that has been worked on by thousands of engineers over more than a century is full of shit. Anyone who bought that explanation is either far too credulous or just doesn’t understand what it takes to bore a large diameter tunnel.
by CupricTea | 2025-11-26 21:37:04+00:00
The biggest thing for me is the cinematography. 80s/90s movies were filmed as if you're standing alongside the cast.

* Many more shots from eye level

* Significantly less jumpcuts

* People actually cast shadows onto the environment, and filmmakers would fearlessly shoot scenes with full bright or full dark elements in them without trying to make everything dark and bright visible simultaneously

* Waist-up or even full body shots of multiple (3+) characters talking and/or walking around with few if any jump cuts

I'm not even from that era but I find movies from that era to feel the most "real", like I can almost reach into the screen and just "be there" together. This aesthetic is perfectly doable in the modern age, even with digital cameras, it's just not the trend currently.
by Tooster | 2025-11-26 21:38:08+00:00
I might be misunderstanding parts of the comment above, although I think it aligns with what I had in mind. Here’s what I meant:

If a ray carries full spectral information, then a transparent material can be described by its absorption spectrum — similar to how elements absorb specific wavelengths of light, as shown here: https://science.nasa.gov/asset/webb/types-of-spectra-continu...

In that view, transparency is just wavelength-by-wavelength attenuation. Each material applies its own absorption/transmission function to the incoming spectrum. Because this is done pointwise in the spectral domain, the order doesn’t matter:

OUT = IN × T₁ × T₂ (or in a subtractive representation: OUT = IN − ABS₁ − ABS₂).

So whether one material reduces 50% of the red first and another reduces 50% of the green second or vice verse doesn’t change the result. Each wavelength is handled independently, making the operation order-independent.
by trollbridge | 2025-11-26 21:38:23+00:00
My bank is an acquiring bank. They are also local so I far prefer having a direct face to face relationship with them.

They use Clover’s platform to provide devices and APIs (you could in theory use another vendor’s devices if you really wanted to).

In general, I don’t want someone else to be my payments provider since we do a lot of subscriptions, which would leave me completely locked in to a provider. Already been there done that with PayPal.
by Klonoar | 2025-11-26 21:38:56+00:00
In case it wasn't clear from my other comments up and down this comment chain, I don't really care about the specifics of Germany. If it's hard for you[1] to do it in Germany, then suck it up and figure it out.

More than enough has been written about how the ecosystem in various EU countries stifles entrepreneurship. It's not new information, but it's not a problem for the vast majority of people reading this site. This site is also focused on supporting entrepreneurship, we should be supporting the default approach of getting paid for your work.

Germany needs to change, not the stance of this site or the argument of charging for your work/time/etc.

[1] (the proverbial you)
by dekhn | 2025-11-26 21:39:07+00:00
A hummingbird builds a nest in my back trees just about every year and raises a couple hatchlings. They can be very territorial- buzzing my head as I walk by, constantly chirping at other birds. The nests are really impressive, made out of spider silk and other things the bird can collect nearby. They are very pliable and robust.

Here's a movie I captured of the nest (from a distance) https://youtu.be/Q49XETLwpxI and if you want to jump ahead to momma showing up to feed the hatchlings, https://youtu.be/Q49XETLwpxI?t=609

Wish I could find the video I made of their first flight.
by joejohnson | 2025-11-26 21:39:25+00:00
I wonder if it's related to Apple's change from AWDL to Wi-Fi Aware, but AirDrop seems much more reliable on iOS 26. I can send to multiple people at once and they often all succeed, but most importantly, if one transfer fails or is cancelled, I can retry and it works. In older versions of iOS, a failed transfer seemed to block all future attempts until the phone was restarted.
by stackedinserter | 2025-11-26 21:39:50+00:00
They are still jerking on these 50+ years old achievements, without having new ones. "Space race" didn't stop after Venera landing, and soviets/russians are thing of the past now. Aside of useless ISS trips, they have no relevance in space anymore.

> "Won the space race" because of the moon landing is Hollywood nonsense.

"Won the space race" because they were first at the very beginning is a nonsense too. Following this logic, China won rocket race because they invented first rockets centuries ago.
by eqarmada2 | 2025-11-26 21:40:11+00:00
Think prepared statements automatically make your Node.js apps secure? Think again.

In my latest blog post, I explore a surprising edge case in the mysql and mysql2 packages that can turn “safe” prepared statements into exploitable SQL injection vulnerabilities.

If you use Node.js and rely on prepared statements (as you should be!), this is a must-read: https://blog.mantrainfosec.com/blog/18/prepared-statements-p...
by hyperhello | 2025-11-26 21:40:56+00:00
It's all crap, my friend. You can pretend Super Mario is different than Predator longer than you can pretend the Big Mac is different than the Whopper or Home Alone is different than Home Alone 2. Little kids can hold two stuffed animals and make up stories where they are different, but when you're older you can meaningfully accept that it all scrolls by and your life is the same whether you ate a Whopper and root for the Bengals or you ate a Big Mac and root for the Cubs.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-11-26 21:41:33+00:00
> Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy Pelosi, is a retired businessman who founded and managed a real estate and venture capital investment firm called Financial Leasing Services, Inc.. He is also an investor with a portfolio that includes significant holdings in technology companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple.

Oh, wow, a guy who specializes in investing in FAANGs makes the same amount of money on investments as workers at FAANGs who don't diversify? Oh, and it must be insider trading to get such returns on big companies that many other people make a lot of money on? And you are going to convince me that Nancy Pelosi saw that the current AI boom/bubble was going to happen before anyone else because of her role in congress?

I get it, you hate Democrats. But stop making sh*t up when its obvious your stories are bunk.
by Tarsul | 2025-11-26 21:41:43+00:00
When I developed pre-diabetes symptoms (having to drink a lot - like 5-6l per day, consequently having to pee a lot, when not doing the first: getting headaches), I noticed that cutting on sugar meant (next to other benefits) that the thirst-induced headaches were the first thing that went away. Not the thirst itself (still have it).

However, not an expert on headaches and can't say if it has anything to do with the migraines in the article. But the point that reducing sugar helps in a myriad of ways, stands and is worth repeating.
by poszlem | 2025-11-26 21:41:49+00:00
You open by calling me a bot, which is an odd way to start a serious argument.

It isn’t about extra ways to blow things up. It’s about survivability and leverage. A platform you can’t detect or preempt changes deterrence dynamics, just like subs do. The advantage comes from being untargetable, not from adding more warheads.
by ggm | 2025-11-26 21:41:59+00:00
> Good luck competing with China if they get there first.

The French, the English, the Dutch and the Portuguese all got to Asia.

Which one was first and which one(s) were last to leave is not the same.

The far side of the moon doesn't have a magic "dibs, it's mine" quality. It's big, and it's an extreme environment.
by tmanderson | 2025-11-26 21:42:07+00:00
Tired of the annual "what do you want for Christmas?" group text chaos? We built WeDo to fix that.

It's a multi-party gift registry where families and friend groups each get their own wish list, but can see and claim items from everyone else's lists. The key feature: when you claim something, the recipient can't see who claimed it or that it was bought—preserving the surprise.

Perfect for holidays, birthdays, or any group gift-giving situation. No more duplicate gifts, no more "I already bought that," and no more awkward spreadsheets.

Features: - Easy login/invite with passwordless auth (magic links) - Paste any URL and it auto-fetches the product title - Race-condition protection so two people can't claim the same item - Mobile-friendly for shopping on the go

Built with Next.js 16, Prisma, PostgreSQL, and Supabase. Open source and self-hostable.

With the holidays around the corner, we're using it ourselves and figured others might find it useful. Would love feedback from the HN community!
by echelon | 2025-11-26 21:43:01+00:00
That's an amazing story.

I really like all the cultural oddities that Garry's Mod spawned. All of the indie animation. It was a big piece of machinima / virtual filmmaking / YouTube history and absolutely paved the way for VTubing and Unreal Engine in film.

Any idea if Facepunch or Valve retain rights to "Skibidi Toilet"?
by wavemode | 2025-11-26 21:44:13+00:00
Valve's financials are nonpublic, and any numbers you find are rough, indirect estimates.

In any case, my point was not that these games make no money, but simply that Valve doesn't need them. The total number of people buying games on Steam vastly dwarfs the number of people who play Dota 2 and CS2 (even just counting total players - how much more when you narrow down to players who spend money).
by Weves | 2025-11-26 21:44:24+00:00
A few reasons:

1/ No model lock-in / ability to use the ideal model for each use case.

2/ More connectivity. A fuller connector library (contributed to by the open-source community). More built-in tools (similar to the ^).

3/ Customizability and flexibility. If you really need a feature, you can build it rather than waiting months (years?) for your request to go through.

4/ White-labeling. You can make it feel like a product built for/by your company rather than generic.
by Atreiden | 2025-11-26 21:44:37+00:00
Always glad to see more software in the window management space, especially for MacOS.

Any reason to use this over JankyBorders? I'm using it alongside Aerospace right now and forget sometimes it isn't built-in. Kind of weird to me that after all this time this is such a sparsely implemented feature. But the combo with Aerospace works well. Only thing missing is support in Aerospace for a toggle to have a window expand to the size of it's container. Really liked that feature in Yabai, made working with multiple tiled terminals really nice
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-26 21:44:59+00:00
> It was a trick for hard disks because on ancient drives the heads could get stuck to the platter, and that might help sometimes.

Stuck heads were/are part of the freezing trick.

Another other part of that trick has to do with printed circuit boards and their myriad of connections -- you know, the stuff that both HDDs and SSDs have in common.

Freezing them makes things on the PCB contract, sometimes at different rates, and sometimes that change makes things better-enough, long-enough to retrieve the data.

I've recovered data from a few (non-ancient) hard drives that weren't stuck at all by freezing them. Previous to being frozen, they'd spin up fine at room temperature and sometimes would even work well-enough to get some data off of them (while logging a ton of errors). After being frozen, they became much more complacent.

A couple of them would die again after warming back up, and only really behaved while they were continuously frozen. But that was easy enough, too: Just run the USB cable from the adapter through the door seal on the freezer and plug it into a laptop.

This would work about the same for an SSD, in that: If it helps, then it is helpful.
by star-glider | 2025-11-26 21:45:47+00:00
I'm libertarian, but I have to say watching the EU torment Apple has been delightful and one of the stronger arguments for muscular regulatory action.

The USB-C thing just made everything better. It cost Apple basically nothing---maybe a few million/year of profit, which for a company that's worth $3 trillion is nothing, and it made my and many other people's lives quite a bit more convenient.

Same with this Airdrop thing, and same with RCS (although there's some reporting that RCS had more to do with China than the EU).

Eventually, someone is going to break open iMessage, and poor Apple will actually have to compete again for customers. Maybe they'll innovate something more interesting than Airpods Ultra Mega Pro Max or a thinner phone.
by quickthrowman | 2025-11-26 21:45:56+00:00
Tunnel boring is only partly about boring the tunnel itself, bracing the tunnel and removing the spoils probably take as much time as boring the tunnel itself.

It’s a complex process with work crews, management layers, multiple subcontractors, multiple stakeholders, etc. Replacing the tool on a CNC mill with a tungsten carbide tool takes what, a few minutes? Assuming you already have the tool.

It’s also insanely easy to verify a tungsten carbide CNC tool is 10x faster at cutting metal than high speed steel vs. testing ‘This tunnel boring machine will be 10x faster.’

One takes minutes, the other takes years.
by christkv | 2025-11-26 21:46:08+00:00
Modern writing for films is terrible is my feeling. I can’t remember any weekend in the 90s an first decade of 2000s where I could not find one or more movies that I wanted to watch. These days neither me or the kids can find anything and we have been going to Sunday matinees and watching old 80s, 90s and even silent movies with Buster Keaton and they are better than the slop that made today. Frankly I’m hoping gen AI lets new and exiting storytellers end the industry.
by mvkel | 2025-11-26 21:46:17+00:00
The Voyager project itself has long ended and it's just cute to keep monitoring it and getting data from it. If nothing else, it serves well as a perpetual PR vehicle for NASA. The core of the project I would not say represents long-term thinking of NASA or civilization. I'm not convinced that we're biologically wired to think long-term. It's extremely rare when someone pops up, and they usually end up becoming extremely impactful in society (Lincoln; Jobs; Elon)
by Barrin92 | 2025-11-26 21:46:18+00:00
It's the opposite. Modern movies are obsessed with plot. Inception being an example of this. It's everything else, the image and characters that's lacking. You're never going to get something like Tarkovsky's Solaris again that just shows you a highway scene for five minutes.

Villeneuve commented on this a year or two ago in an interview where he pointed out that he hates the extent to which television has infected film with its focus on plot and dialogue at expense of what's visually on the screen.
by DrewADesign | 2025-11-26 21:46:33+00:00
Yeah the fines are designed to provide incentive to operate like you value your worker’s and others’ humanity even if you don’t have the humanity to really do it. It’s useful because our business economy mostly incentivizes businesses to treat people like fungible economic units of potential profit and loss. If the business is run by someone more interested in stroking their ego rather than optimizing profit and loss, the whole thing breaks down. Yet another example of the real work not working like an economics thought experiment.
by Weves | 2025-11-26 21:46:48+00:00
Yep, we have our own implementations! We've spent a lot of time on them, and in our internal benchmarks they compare pretty favorable to the native versions.

RAG specifically is our speciality - we've done a ton of optimizations there (hybrid search, document age-based weighting, giving the LLM the ability to read more from interesting docs and less of irrelevant docs, etc.) and we outperform the implementation within ChatGPT quite substantially in internal blind testing.

Curious what you find if you compare them head to head though!
by jeromegv | 2025-11-26 21:47:28+00:00
I guess we just have different experience of Manila. In most places you would go as a visitor, either tourist or business, you're not really likely to see a lot of violence. I've been there 10 times over 10 years, and really nothing truly bad happened or even seen or heard by fellow travellers. I've been harassed by street kids, that's about it.

Do people talk that crime exists? For sure. You have to be smart, just like any other big city. But I don't see how you'd truly put yourself into a dangerous situation. There's lots of security everywhere westerners might hang out.

Airport has seen lots of improvements recently.

But yes, traffic is horrendous, public transit as well.
by luqtas | 2025-11-26 21:47:30+00:00
i think your mistaking stuff here. 2001 space odyssey is considered a masterpiece by cinema enthusiasts. tested through short years. who knows if it'll still rank high in 300 years from now like some arts of old mediums; Don Quijote book is a great example

have been watched almost a hundred of hours of the early cinema (1920-1930) i found 2001 space odyssey boring as heck. had to go to a public theater to not sleep through, because the past 2 attempts at my house got me sleeping. cinema is a recent medium. it can go through a lot of stuff. and yet, you can find shallow films since the first era, till today. not every movie was made to be dense, slow or thoughtful. the 90s also had a bunch of shallow stuff