MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-09 11:10:27+00:00
> that is of course not part of the airframe

Correct.

The 737’s airframe’s excellence is the reason Boeing was loath to let it go. It’s a really good airframe, and a market fit to boot for the transition from hub and spoke. A clean-sheet design for the 737 would look a lot like the 737. That is what makes the shortcuts tempting.

Engines, avionics and control software are distinct components and not part of the airframe. (Debatable only on engine cowlings and mounts. Neither of which were relevant to the 737 Max’s faults.)
by bad_username | 2025-11-09 11:11:23+00:00
<quote>

ALL individuals (both youth and adults) should meet and/or exceed the following:

150 to 300 minutes per week of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity, OR;

75 to 150 minutes per week of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity, AND;

Resistance training of moderate or greater intensity involving all major muscle groups on 2 or more days per week

</quote>

This boolean expression needs some parentheses...
Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?
by evolve2k | 2025-11-09 11:12:02+00:00
As a tech parent I think one of the best things I did for both my son and daughter was for their first computer to help them to build and setup their own Linux computer (It was Ubuntu back then but they’ve both moved themselves to Arch these days).

We went together and bought a second hand desktop (exciting the people selling to us also) and when I got home I pulled out the Ram, HD and CD drive and set them aside; and then together with a screwdriver we “built the computer” over a few days.

In windows when a child goes searching the web for a “movie maker for windows” they are going to be in a world of hurt either finding expensive commercial options or super scammy sites promising the world.

By comparison on Linux if they search the local “app store” they’ll find stacks and stacks of free, useful, open licensed software.

My kids loved the power, freedom and later unexpected community this bought them.

Now my friend wants the same for their daughter who is 8 years old.

I’m planning to do the same and go with her parents and her and buy a second hand desktop together and then put Linux on it.

My question is where would you go from there? What suggestions do you have? What to install? Any mini “curriculums” or ideas?

Would love to hear your ideas and experiences. Linux with free and open software is the goal and focus.
by radarsat1 | 2025-11-09 11:12:16+00:00
It is a strange phenomenon though, these walls of text that LLMs output, when you consider that one thing they're really good at is summarization, and that if they are trained on bug report data, you'd think they would reproduce it in terms of style and conciseness.

Is it mainly post-training that causes this behaviour? They seem to do it for everything, like they are really biased towards super verbose output these days. Maybe something to do with reasoning models being trained for longer output?
by metalman | 2025-11-09 11:13:01+00:00
pic at the top of the article, from a drone, looks over the crash path, and shows the runway, the angle beween the two is diagnostic for a very hard turn to the left, despite what had to be the pilot attempting to correct for a strait departure. the angle is so sharp as to indicate much more than an engine out, as the giant rudders on these planes are there for just that scenario. other footage, shows the plane rolling in, left wing down, indicating loss of lift on that side. this is a bad one, and with the ATC's not getting paid, and who knows what else, the whole sector is looking very grim,and highlighting the fact that ALL of the "deciders", fly private, private jets, to and from, private airports.
by mg | 2025-11-09 11:14:34+00:00
That makes me wonder if we could simply test this by letting the LLM add or multiply a long list of numbers?

Here is an experiment:

https://www.gnod.com/search/#q=%23%20Calcuate%20the%20below%...

The correct answer:

Correct: 20,192,642.460942328

Here is what I got from different models on the first try:

ChatGPT: 20,384,918.24 Perplexity: 20,000,000 Google: 25,167,098.4 Mistral: 200,000,000 Grok: Timed out after 300s of thinking
by ekidd | 2025-11-09 11:15:41+00:00
> It's a matter of UK law and, I'd bet, many countries, that they have the sovereign right to legislate about matters in and outside their borders.

As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the entire founding political mythology of the United States is pretty much "The Parliament of the UK tried to regulate our freedom of speech without even giving us a vote, and that was intolerable." Specifically, the Stamp Act was seen as suppressing the right of the American colonies to engage in political speech. (This wasn't the only reason for the Revolutionary War, but it's one of the ones we still remember. We remember it in part because laws regulating the publishers of political pamphlets get complained about in political pamphlets.)

This isn't a political issue in the normal sense. It's more like Guy Fawkes and the "gunpowder treason and plot." The one thing that the "Tea Party" and the "No Kings" protestors can probably still agree about is that the Stamp Act was bad, because this issue is part of the fundamental political mythology of the country. "The British Parliament does not get to regulate our speech" is right up there with "The President does not get to wear a crown."

This is not a fight that the UK government can actually win, not in the long run. Any US politician who allows Parliament to regulate the speech of a US citizen will find themselves in the awkward position of British politician who proposed a national monument to Guy Fawkes. Allowing this is "Un-American" in these sense that it goes almost directly against our founding patriotic mythology and symbolism.

The UK should just accept the geo-IP block of the UK as a compromise, and walk away. This particular fight isn't worth it. Trust me on this.
by mywacaday | 2025-11-09 11:15:55+00:00
I'm Irish and have a common firstname.lastname@gmail.com At some point the head of a national hospital thought he had that address and wasn't using his official email for everything, I got several emails that should not have been for me and some were quiet sensitive, I always emailed back the sender to let them know and eventually I emailed his secretary as it kept happening. I've also received purchase order confirmations from Australia, building contracts from Canada, HR emails from a university to which I had to confirm I had deleted the mail as letting them know led to GDPR investigation
by bob1029 | 2025-11-09 11:15:56+00:00
I would challenge any retail business to beat the 2.5% rate on their cash transactions once the various transit, security and banking fees have been factored in. Those armored trucks don't work for free.

The US payment networks are also incredibly robust with some fantastical operational guarantees. I cannot recall the last time I couldn't get an online authorization at a merchant terminal. There are rooms of people monitoring these things like a hawk 24/7/365. Imagine being called by your ISP proactively when they detect >.01% packet loss on your line. That was my job for an entire year. Calling banks on the phone in the middle of the night because we think there might be an issue before there actually is an issue. Statistically speaking, this is one of the most certain things in the life of a typical American. Visa alone processes a quarter trillion (10^12) transactions per year. We've got a lot of samples that say the system works really well and might be worth the cost.

You can point to regulation and artificial moats for prohibiting competition, but it's genuinely a difficult problem to solve, even if you can do it purely digital. Trust is the most challenging element. I think moving cash, checks and other paper around is easier in a lot of ways.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-11-09 11:17:29+00:00
That's because they don't have links to far right organisations around the world, they aren't running a social media site that aggressively promotes hate speech, they're not attempting to foment civil war in countries like the UK, and they don't say rambling grandiose crazy shit about colonising Mars or having self-driving cars real soon now which is clearly insane, makes no sense to anyone rational, and has a long record of being exaggerated and wrong.

None of this is hyperbole. All of it is historically documented.
by lazide | 2025-11-09 11:18:35+00:00
They shouldn’t, because the original claimant has 10-14 days (depending on exact timing) to sue. If they don’t, they reinstate. Which considering many other folks it can take 6 months…

[https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explai...]

Not saying Google is good or anything, but this is well trod ground at this point.
by jll29 | 2025-11-09 11:19:18+00:00
> “Jim [James Watson] now holds the view that women can’t be great at anything,” and certainly not science.

Watson and Crick are notorious for having secretly accessed and used Rosalind Elsie Franklin's personal x-ray images (of DNA) while she was not in the lab.

To me, Franklin is the real hero in discovering the DNA's structure, and she should have received the Nobel prize (50%), perhaps jointly with Watson (25%) and Crick (25%).

Objective scientific research means: never let your personal prejudice or ideology clout your own search for truth. The fact that Watson and Crick did not even mention or cite Franklin's article, which ironically even appeared in the same issue of _Nature_ as Watson and Crick's paper, is most dishonorable and dishonest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-11-09 11:21:46+00:00
You're literally handing over your code to a third party.

In fact AI is handing over the process of creating code - eventually all code - to a small number of third parties, who will have complete power over the world's IT infrastructure.

No wonder they have wildly inflated valuations. The potential to enforce authoritarian policies through opaque technology is unprecedented.
by beklein | 2025-11-09 11:24:47+00:00
Thanks for the Google link, I was just asking GPT-5-Pro "How to Google: 'How do I run a rust project'", and am still waiting for the answer... the point was that searching for an answer (wherever/however) is not necessary in some cases, like this one, but asking the AI agent to find a solution can be sufficient and is totally ok. Engineers are allowed to delegate, there is not nothing wrong with this.
by panick21_ | 2025-11-09 11:25:20+00:00
Ok, but if something has gone on for 70+ years its not a 'misstep' that something else.

And doing all these things very well is not easy even in the nations that do it 'best' and most nations are not in that class.

In terms of the Post Office for example, they had to kill their commercial competitor to establish a monopoly and held back more advanced competitors like FedEx with their monopoly. Thus useful services didn't exist for many decades where they could have existed.
by lngr | 2025-11-09 11:25:39+00:00
Yes, I love it. I have used it a while with Claude Code, Codex CLI and Windsurf. It's awesome with Claude Code. Codex CLI produces just garbage. Windsurf results vary, even when I use it with Claude models. I now use it with Windsurf for the specify and plan modes, and Claude for the implementation.
by Twey | 2025-11-09 11:27:05+00:00
In addition to the other comments here, note that in PL circles ‘syntax’ typically denotes _everything_ that happens before translation/execution, importantly including type checking. ‘Semantics’ is then about explaining what happens when the program is run, which can equivalently be described as deciding when two programs are equal, mapping programs to mathematical objects (whose ‘meaning’, or at least equality, is considered to be well understood), specifying a set of transformations the syntax goes through, et cetera.

In pure functional languages saying what value an expression will evaluate to (equivalently, explaining the program as a function of its inputs) is a sufficient explanation of the meaning of a program, and semantics for these languages is roughly considered to be ‘solved’. Open areas of study in semantics tend to be more about doing the same thing for languages that have more complicated effects when run, like imperative state update or non-local control (exceptions, async, concurrency).

There's some overlap in study: typically syntax is trying to reflect semantics in some way, by proving that programs accepted by the syntactic analysis will behave or not behave a certain way when run. E.G. Rust's borrow checker is a syntactic check that the program under scrutiny will not dereference an invalid pointer, even though that's a thing that is possible by Rust's runtime semantics. Compare to Java, which has no syntactic check for this because dereferencing invalid pointers is simply impossible according to the semantics of the JVM.
by nolok | 2025-11-09 11:27:13+00:00
France is being kept alive by paying itself? Makes no sense.

Also arianespace group has 60% of their revenue from the development of the m51 nuclear launcher, the rocket thing is their side show and a way to subsidize our nuclear launcher development not the other way around.

Also ag studied a reusable launcher in the early 2000s and found it not viable economically, because it wasn't, to make it work space x had to have massive government subsidies in guaranteed launch AND starlink which was essentially let our own investors and the dod feed the finance of space x until it's viable. Which is a good strategy mind you, but as a result pointing the finger at ag being supported by government funding as if it was a bad sign is rather absurd.
by shiomiru | 2025-11-09 11:27:28+00:00
To clarify, I think it's fair to say "I use GitHub because I don't think MS is that bad" (I disagree, but it's at least a consistent view.)

I only take an issue with "I think MS is morally reprehensible but everybody uses it so I'll keep using it too" because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Most people looking for code hosting will use whatever they first run into, so when you choose a host for your project you are also directly channeling users towards said host. It's your responsibility to pick a host for your projects that isn't evil by your standards, whatever those may be.
by viraptor | 2025-11-09 11:27:40+00:00
> Countries don’t really want unique IDs per person

Given the number is countries that already have those and those that attempt it every few years... I'd say it's not correct.

For spies, you just issue multiple identities - the origin country shouldn't have any issues with that part. It already happened for witness protection level stuff.

For voting... yeah, that's a citation needed. Politicians mostly worry about foreigners coming to vote.
Show HN: A simple TUI orgmode editor inspired by nano and k9s
by RWejlgaard | 2025-11-09 11:28:17+00:00
Hello everyone I wanted to share a program I've been working on.

I'm writing this primarily for myself and my own setup. I found emacs keybinds too hard to memorize and too unintuitive.

It's still a little early in development but it works for my own use case. Please let me know of any improvements that would be nice to have
by Agraillo | 2025-11-09 11:29:08+00:00
> We usually don't use our real names for social media accounts

It's interesting how cultural differences can make some life algorithms hardly work in some countries. I sometimes use a method to find people from my past by googling their full name, switching to the image results, and spending a manageable amount of time scrolling through them until I find the person. I've successfully used this method several times. The images are usually related to job activities or social media profiles. However, from your description, this approach probably won't work in China for at least two reasons: too many raw results and few or no social media results.

UPDATE: a follow-up question. If in a big company two or more figures happen to have the same full name and need to be exposed publicly (on a site or promotional materials), are there any tricks for this?
by spease | 2025-11-09 11:29:24+00:00
I started with desktop applications, so my go-to for GUI has been Qt, especially QML. It works on Windows / MacOS / Linux as well as iOS and Android. I think there’s now a way to compile QML to webassembly as well. It also has a ton of support classes that are loosely analogous to the various *Kit things supplied on iOS and Android.

The downside is that the core of Qt is in C++, so it’s mostly seen (or used for?) embedded contexts.

I recently used Slint as well, which isn’t anywhere near as mature, but is at least written in Rust and has some type-safety benefits.

SwiftUI is pretty good too, and I wish I got to work on Apple platforms more.

To me, the simplicity of creating a “Button” when you want a button makes more sense, instead of a React component that’s a div styled by layers of CSS and brought to life by JavaScript.

But I’m kind of bummed that I started with that route (well, and writing partial UI systems for game / media engines a few times) because most people learned web apps and the DOM, and it’s made it harder to get the kind of work I identify with.

So it’s hard for me to recommend Qt due to the career implications…but at the same for the projects I’ve worked on, it’s made a smaller amount of work go a longer way with a more native feel than electron apps seem to have.
by SahAssar | 2025-11-09 11:29:34+00:00
> [1]: https://opzero.ru/en/prices/

Those are the prices that they are buying for, they do not indicate at all that these are common or how large the market is for RCE on any OS.

> [2]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/leaker-reveals-which...

Those are (mostly) not RCE, and are for consumer devices configured in a default way.

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The parent stated that "Any government can get RCE on any OS with the change in their couch."

That implies that Kiribati currently could easily buy RCE on for example hardened Linux or OpenBSD running the most sensitive infra in the world. I just don't buy that, since if it was true any current conflict would look much different.

Of course there are security holes and major fuckups do happen, but not at the scale the parent implied.
by thro1 | 2025-11-09 11:30:05+00:00
Just.. and for so long:

XSLT is WWW standard, JavaScript is not (it's ECMA standard) - and there is no JavaScript specification on W3C pages .

( https://www.w3.org/wiki/JavaScript )

Shall JavaScript to become a web standard first - then to be used to "replace" already standard solution ?
by n1b0m | 2025-11-09 11:30:41+00:00
French engineers were known for their willingness to embrace advanced, high-risk technologies to gain a decisive advantage in the aerospace market.

French influence drove Airbus's early focus on understanding customer needs and adapting to market requirements. Early on, the company adopted English as its working language and U.S. measurements to appeal to a wider range of airline customers.

German engineers brought a reputation for meticulous attention to detail, efficiency, and robust industrial processes, ensuring reliable and high-quality production.

Germany's strong engineering foundation provided the technical discipline needed to standardize components and organize the complex cross-border manufacturing process.
by ajb | 2025-11-09 11:30:54+00:00
Ok, if my comment came across as saying to scorn forth, then it was badly written.

Chuck Moore is a genius. How many other people created a language, wrote their own semiconductor simulator and ECAD system, and used it to design their own CPU? But, Forth has a strong culture of NIH, and it started with him. Maybe you need a degree of arrogance and self-belief to do the things he's done. Sadly, most people are not such geniuses as to be able to get away with it.

What I tried, perhaps badly,to say; is that it's worth learning everything from Forth culture except for contempt for everything that's not Forth. There are a lot of things wrong with common-denominator programming languages, and common-denominator practices; and it can be exciting for a young programmer to join a community which openly expresses the problems and has an alternative view. (This was especially the case 15-20 years ago when C++ hegemony was at its height). But it can easily become parochial.

The lesson of Forth for me, is that you can really gain a lot of productivity by ruthlessly removing generalisations and focusing on the exact problem you want to solve; and not being afraid to re-implement stuff in order to do so - if you can do it in a simpler way. I don't think adopting concatenative syntax is necessary to do this; there are too many examples where it was achieved without.

Chuck Moore has argued that all programming should adopt this radical simplification approach; this seems to be the case put by the OP (although not explicitly). I don't think it works. Too many tasks require a degree of collaboration which is enabled by the abstractions. Rewriting everything simpler works for a lone programmer, but it means you have to understand everything, and sometimes you just have to interoperate with some system whose complexity can't be refactored away. Take Unicode- Chuck Moore's answer would be "throw away unicode" but most of us don't have that choice.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-09 11:30:58+00:00
I have met many former Airbus engineers and former Airbus contractors. Every single time I have heard nothing but bad things about the company.

Sure, selection bias, but everything I heard is exactly what I would expect from a large corporation, split across a continent at its worst. Long, tedious decision processes which are completely opaque together with a culture, where management sees it as their responsibility to create a large bureocratic processes to navigate the extremely challenging landscape, where culture and geography clash. Mind you these are complaints from people still working in Aerospace.

In general I have always had terrible experience the more diverse and intercultural Teams got. The best teams I experienced are homogeneous, ideally only including people from a small geographic region, with very similar sensibilities. Even inside a nation regional sensibilities can be a challenge.
by eibrahim | 2025-11-09 11:31:43+00:00
Yes it is AI generated but I reviewed all the generated code and content and tweaked the design for hours. I am a real person and have been coding since 1995 and have a bachelors from Virginia tech in computer engineering and a minor in math.

AI generation is a tool, and it is the best tool I have ever used in my career. Of course if you don’t know what you are doing, it won’t help you. Just because you have a calculator you don’t become an engineer. Or a paintbrush doesn’t turn you into Picasso.

PS: my wife hates my LinkedIn profile photo too :) she says it looks fake. It’s enhanced for sure.
by Pfeil | 2025-11-09 11:31:52+00:00
First of I think it is nonsense as I never got any NSFW content with filters enabled, and I actually always disable them and still get no NSFW content if I do not search for topics that can at least imply it.

But the main point here is that this is something generated in a chat-like product. The task and expectations and level of control are completely different. I am not saying it is impossible something like this comes up in a model even with good training data, but even in this unlikely case, this would be easy to catch with a filter.

AI is not search. It is a likelyhood-based text generator which can be useful for finding good terms for search and a lot of other uses, and while people use it for search, the mode and UX is completely different. That is why people use it as such!

If a Restaurant cannot provide proper hygiene, it will be forced to improve or be closed if noticed. And for Grok (and others) hygiene is in question due to such incidents. Society needs to discuss metrics for AI chat hygiene so we can have consistent law enforcement to shut down services like these when they are not hygienic enough.