MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by orblivion | 2025-11-10 00:34:16+00:00
Running OpenStreetMap off the grid (self-hosted to say the least) on a Raspberry Pi 500 (and to some extent a Pi Zero 2W) for Internet In a Box:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielkrol_openstreetmap-acti...

All of the street and satellite tiles are thanks to maps.black. The search uses Nominatim's sqlite3 mode. I was told that it's experimental only because it hasn't been tried in production yet, so I'm sort of testing it in the process. So far I'm only doing administrative boundaries and natural features, but so far so good! I'm going to slowly add a few more types of POIs, I just don't want the database file to get too big.

Note that Internet in a Box has an OSM offering already, but the data is five years old and the tech makes it harder to update. As of today, there are much easier options on the table, and we get cool stuff like 3d buildings. Also, the search was much more limited.

* https://internet-in-a-box.org/

* https://maps.black/

* https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/customize/SQLite/
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-10 00:34:31+00:00
“Today, the European Commission is unveiling a comprehensive plan to accelerate the development of high-speed rail…

…the plan sets the ambition…

…In preparation for the plan, Commissioner Tzitzikostas held an Implementation Dialogue with relevant stakeholders…”

https://transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/commission-l...
by yboris | 2025-11-10 00:38:05+00:00
Next release of my app (8 years since initial release) - adding minor features and minor bugfixes.

Video Hub App - browse your local video files with a beautiful interface (and scrub-able thumbnails to see multiple screenshots)

$5 for anyone https://videohubapp.com Free for anyone https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
by tombert | 2025-11-10 00:38:21+00:00
Yeah that's what I was getting at. I know seL4 is used in a bunch of places, but outside of a few hobbyist projects I have never heard of anyone using is at a "full" OS.

It would be nearly impossible to have the support for the extremely diverse set of hardware that desktop Linux has while staying formally verified, but for something a bit more constrained like a smartphone, I think something like seL4 could work as a base and the manufacturer could write their own drivers for whatever hardware is needed.

I mean, how cool would it be if every single part of the stack that is even possible to verify was fully verified. I know about the halting problem, I know there are things that would be basically impossible to verify fully, but I still think it would be cool to live in a world where software engineers actually had a little assurance what they were doing actually worked before unleashing into the world.
by acdha | 2025-11-10 00:38:23+00:00
In my city, the origin of those laws was partially trying to push the national discourse for immigration reform but mostly due to wanting law enforcement, public health, and education to work better. Without legal paths, you inevitably get people who are joining relatives who are here legally, trying to appeal refugee decisions, etc. where those people are not causing problems but could be victims of crimes everyone wants to be reported and you don’t want perverse incentives like a minor who is a citizen being deprived of education or other support because they have a caretaker who is not a legal resident and doesn’t want to listen to themselves on official forms.
by NiloCK | 2025-11-10 00:38:32+00:00
Meta question:

Is there a cadence for these threads? I had in mind to "be prepared" to post in November's with what I'm working on, but I expected it to come around on the 15th (mid-month).

What I'm working on:

- skuilder - (skill builder) - https://github.com/patched-network/vue-skuilder - an AGPL framework / toolkit for SRS++ based interactive tutoring systems

- https://letterspractice.com - a low cost, hopefully high quality early literacy acquisition app, targeting ages 3-5.

- https://flutor.app - an app to learn the flute

(The proprietary apps are built with the toolkit).

I've struggled to pitch or articulate the vision here, but my latest pithy attempt is: scaling self-actualization by mechanizing the nested loops described by Anders Ericson's 'deliberate practice' - Inner loop: individual learners maximize their skill uptake velocity and performance peak by adhering to domain specific best practices - Outer loop: domain specific best practices get refined according to innovation or serendipitous discoveries from the inner loop (eg, someone is observed to beat out prior best practices)

As mentioned, I'm flat-foot posting here, so the pages aren't all prepped. https://flutor.app/dbg and https://letterspractice.com/dbg show some of the innards. Not linked, but I'm especially fond of https://letterspractice.com/dbg/juggling - the premise here that as child practices the letters, the letters exemplify the principles of effective practice in alliterative skill domains (juggling Js, batting Bs, flossing Fs (it's hard ok?))
by hamdingers | 2025-11-10 00:38:37+00:00
You can accomplish the same thing without any custom software. I have a Reolink PoE doorbell, using Frigate and Home Assistant like OP, and the Advanced Camera Card from HACS.

Ringing the doorbell sends a notification with a snapshot and a link that takes me to a tab in the dashboard with the advanced camera card. I can then use it to speak if I so desire, and I've also set up buttons on that page for the "quick reply" messages.
by buran77 | 2025-11-10 00:39:20+00:00
Novelty is enough to look like "shockingly good". You were comparing "no self driving" to "some self driving". A jump from 0 to something always seems big. Standard driver assists were also impressive when they appeared on cars. In the meantime Tesla still makes a lot of claims about safety but doesn't trust the FSD enough to publish transparent, verifiable stats. That speaks louder than any of our anecdotes.

> You are judging past tech by 2025 standards.

That's very presumptuous of you. Every single person I know driving a Tesla told me the FSD (not AP) is bad and they would never trust it to drive without very careful attention. I can tell Teslas on FSD in traffic by the erratic maneuvers that are corrected by the driver, and that's a bad thing.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-11-10 00:41:04+00:00
+1. I surf occasionally, and go rock climbing a couple times a week. Compared to the "average American" I suspect I'm pretty active. Compared to other rock climbers and surfers, I'm probably relatively inactive. If I'm not concerned about improving at these hobbies, and just want 80% of the health benefit of being active, am I achieving it? Or am I still below?

Edit: From the linked paper:

'''

2.1 Subject Recruitment Nineteen male subjects ((41.9 ± 13.8 years; 82.6 ± 13.9 kg)) participated in this study and were assigned a research arm based upon meeting one of the following criteria related to physical activity:

- Sedentary (SED): n= 10. Does not perform exercise regularly or elevate heart rate outside of daily tasks

- Active (AC): n=10. Performs aerobic exercise for at least 150 minutes per week, and has at least a six-month history of doing so

'''

I bet that "Performs aerobic exercise for at least 150 minutes per week" is related to some standard advice (but I'm too lazy to confirm that. I guess that provides an easy measuring stick to decide if we're being 'active enough'
by com2kid | 2025-11-10 00:41:22+00:00
A 3 bedroom townhome in Seattle (actually Redmond WA, more expensive!) when I graduated was 350k, and that was already an inflated housing bubble price. My starting salary was 85k at Microsoft.

If 20k people move to a city each year and the city only approves 10k new buildings, the city is sabotaging its own growth.

Saying "we don't want growth!" doesn't work. Prices shoot up, wages increase, cost of living goes up, the price of everything goes up, eventually it becomes unsustainable and the entire economy crashes.

If 20k people want to move to a city, built 25k housing units. Keep it simple.

Expedite permits, hire more inspectors, simplify building codes, do whatever is needed to ensure people have a place to live.
by dataviz1000 | 2025-11-10 00:41:39+00:00
Interesting.

I rewrote Playwright to run completely in a Chrome Extension without CDP or chrome.devtools for no practical reason at all. I started to do it like Forest Gump started running. It can't get past bot protection so pretty worthless from a browser automation point of view. [0]

What I don't understand is why the need to rewrite Playwright instead of just patching it. Playwright (or Puppeteer) has addressed every edge case that has come -- especially race conditions which are a monster to deal with -- up over the years and by the time you do the same you will have Playwright.

Why is rewriting or rebuilding Playwright from the ground up needed?

[0] https://github.com/adam-s/cordyceps/tree/main/pages/side-pan...
by bobthepanda | 2025-11-10 00:41:48+00:00
I don't think that point to point is necessarily dead or even really correlated to all the airlines' declines. Rather, the entire category of US low cost carrier and ultra-low cost carrier is suffering, and that just happens to be all the point to point airlines. But this is happening even to the more hub-focused LCCs, like JetBlue (which is busy trying to upgrade into a traditional class-based carrier).

Now that every single legacy airline has a "basic economy", which is often competitive with the LCCs in pricing, there is no moat for the LCCs anymore. Legacy basic economy can be more attractive simply because of mileage programs and better frequencies (even if there is a connection); and legacy airlines have more wiggle room to lower prices in basic economy by raising prices in their premium classes.

It also does not help that the 737MAX fiasco hit some LCCs like Southwest particularly hard due to the practice of going all in on an aircraft type.
by Veserv | 2025-11-10 00:42:48+00:00
We do see constant exploitation of government and critical infrastructure systems. The US telecom network is literally actively compromised right now and has been for multiple years [1]. Like wishful thinking, ignorance is also not a valid argument.

It is frankly baffling that I even need to argue that COTS operating systems are easily hacked by governments and commercial hackers. It literally happens every day and not a single one of those companies or organizations even attempts to claim that they can protect against such threats. Government actors are literally what these companies peddling substandard security use to argue "nothing we could do". It has been literal decades of people trying to make systems secure against government actors and failing time and time again with no evidence of success.

I mean, seriously, go to Defcon and say that nobody there with a team of 5 people with 3 years (~10 M$, a single tank) could breach your commercially useful and functional Linux or Windows deployment and you are putting up a 10 M$ bounty to prove it. I guarantee they will laugh at you and then you will get your shit kicked in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Typhoon
by tomhow | 2025-11-10 00:43:04+00:00
Please don't try to turn this into a debate about pandemic policies. You don't know what any of us personally believed about any of it then or now, and it's nothing to do with the issue at hand.

There's no point having any guidelines or standards for the way this place operates if they change based on the particular issue of the day. The purpose of HN's guidelines is that we should be able discuss any topic, no matter how difficult, as long as we do so in the spirit of curiosity.

Outside HN there's no shortage of places where people can engage in ideological battle and vigorous protest, and I'm fully supportive of your right to do whatever you want to do to fight for the issues you believe in. Indeed, you're welcome to fight for what you believe in here too, but the way it's done on HN is through respectful conversation and persuasion, not aggression.

As for your own history here, the first time I can see moderators having to ask you to follow the guidelines is in 2014, so this pattern goes back years before the pandemic. HN is only a place where people want to come to discuss important topics because other people make the effort to raise the standards rather than dragging them down. Please be one of the ones to make this place better, not worse, otherwise you're welcome to choose not to participate here.
by appleaday1 | 2025-11-10 00:43:38+00:00
shit is there no social media that isnt like political? easiest win of the century right there, I thought about for example what if someone created a new livestreaming site and banning all existing Twitch/Youtube/Kick users as a lot of them have drama and what a lot of people would consider toxic. A new livestreaming site such as this would immidiately be looked at positively.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-11-10 00:43:50+00:00
Yeah Python grants are small potatoes. Things like https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/28/dei-rise-and-fa... , which involves threatening federal funding to Harvard in a way that induced them to make at least some DEI-related policy changes, is a much bigger priority.

Still, just because grants to open-source programming language foundations aren't the most important federal government spending priority, doesn't mean I want the federal government to remove the no-DEI condition on federal grant money.
by dpark | 2025-11-10 00:44:04+00:00
> this parallel construction

“not A, not B, not C” and “not A, not B, but C” are extremely common constructions in general. So common in fact that you did it in this exact reply.

“This doesn't mean that the entire article was written by an LLM, nor does it mean that there's not useful information in it. Regardless, given the amount of low effort LLM-generated spam that makes it onto HN, I think it is fairly defensible”

> The style is list-heavy, including lists used for conditionals, and full of random bolding, both characteristic of AI-generated text

This is just blogspam-style writing. Short snippets that are easy to digest with lists to break it up and bold keywords to grab attention. This style was around for years before ChatGPT showed up. LLMs probably do this so much specifically because they were trained on so much blog content. Hell I’ve given feedback to multiple humans to cut out the distracting bold stuff in their communications because it becomes a distraction.
by fariszr | 2025-11-10 00:44:49+00:00
https://github.com/FarisZR/knocker

Knocker, an http knock based access service for your homelab that works at a reverse proxy or firewall level.

It's a more convenient albeit less secure alternative to VPNs like tailscale. It's more convenient because it whitelists the enite network, and it's less secure for that reason.
by Marshferm | 2025-11-10 00:44:51+00:00
It’s far more uninspired like Jacques Tati or Billy Wilder. Chatbots that coach the weakest and most damaged psyches into suicides. That make up things. That demonstrate how truly poor our tech prowess is. Think dystopian screwball comedy where tech is running down beloved bodega cats and citizens are burning teslas to the ground.
by pkulak | 2025-11-10 00:45:11+00:00
Repealing Obamacare has been a _very explicit_ policy position of the Republican party for over a decade. They spent the entire last election telling anyone who would listen exactly what they would do, and now they are doing it. Yes, elections matter, and they have consequences. The midterm elections are in one year. That's the next chance the electorate has to change their mind.

The thing is, the last time the Republicans shut down the government for whatever pet project it was they wanted, I was furious. They lost the last election, yet they were trying to jam their agenda into law anyway through, essentially, blackmail. I'm not so hypocritical that I would be okay with it now because it's "my side". My side is functioning democracy at this point, and that's what the Democrats are risking with this shutdown.
by solraph | 2025-11-10 00:46:10+00:00
The paper indicated the Active group has doing at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity throughout the week, or 75 minutes of high intensity activity activity (matching WHO guidelines[0]), and have done so for at least six months.

Anecdotally, I and several other people have found smart watches good for keeping track of intensity minutes.

[0] https://www.who.int/initiatives/behealthy/physical-activity
by goncharom | 2025-11-10 00:46:21+00:00
I've been working web scraping using LLMs, I just shared one of the libraries I created to get structured data from arbitrary pages: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45870231

Instead of sending the page's HTML to an LLM, Hikugen asks it to generate python code to fetch the data and enforces the generated data conforms to a Pydantic schema defined by the user. I'm using this to power yomu (https://github.com/goncharom/yomu), a personal email newsletter built from arbitrary websites.
by ianmabie | 2025-11-10 00:46:31+00:00
I have two side projects I continue to make some headway on: a practice call platform (practicecallai.com) and an iOS baby tracker / newborn app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lil-baby-tracker-newborn-log/i...).

The last month has had its ups and downs.

Ups = some local-area doulas have started sharing the baby app in a big WhatsApp group & growth is starting to pick up.

Downs = my first vibe-coding horror story. For PracticeCallAI, the subscription flow was failing and somehow outside my test coverage, so I've been missing out on new subscribers for the last two months. In an effort fix it, Replit Agent - which I have been loving otherwise - truncated the table that stores all of the user calls. and their database rollback is throwing errors. So that's been fun.
by tippytippytango | 2025-11-10 00:46:37+00:00
Above I was talking more generally about full autonomy. I agree the combined human + fsd system can be at least as safe as a human driver, perhaps more, if you have a good driver. As a frequent user of FSD, it's unreliability can be a feature, it constantly reminds me it can't be fully trusted, so I shadow drive and pay full attention. So it's like having a second pair of eyes on the road.

I worry that when it gets to 10,000 mile per incident reliability that it's going to be hard to remind myself I need to pay attention. At which point it becomes a de facto unsupervised system and its reliability falls to that of the autonomous system, rather than the reliability of human + autonomy, an enormous gap.

Of course, I could be wrong. Which is why we need some trusted third party validation of these ideas.
by brunoff | 2025-11-10 00:46:49+00:00
My name is composed of three parts, each one is common, but I thought that their sequence was supposed to be rare for statistical reasons. I sometimes searched for it in the internet to take a look of how my homonyms were going. Before 2010 they were few in terms of search results, but as years passed by, they started to show their faces. Most of the time they weren't bringing good news, like for example writing a best seller. I remember one year, a news site said one got killed by a shot. Then a few months later another one was also shot. I even sent a joke message to a few close coworkers "sorry, I won't be able to show up at work tomorrow. reason: I got killed (again) - <link to news>".

Another name "rareness" related story. Somewhere around 2010's I was backpacking east Europe and border police hold a train from Croatia to Slovenia for something like 15-20 minutes asking me to prove that I really was myself. Then they released me and let the train enter the country, but even so the police randomly appeared to ask my specific documents (in places that there were other people they came and asked only my docs). Then it started happening in other countries, most (but not all) countries started to hold me on the border control for one hour or two to do some clearance. Then in Argentina the border police said that someone with my whole name AND birth date was in some kind of interpol search list. Then two or three years later it stopped happening. I am sure someone stole my id and commited some crimes and then he was caught, because it is impossible to someone with my same three name and birth date happen to be in a interpol list just by coincidence. Interpol lists have how many people? 25k? Divide by days in a year. 69 have born in same day as you. From those, one have the same name as you.
by acdha | 2025-11-10 00:47:05+00:00
How many Republicans were purged from party leadership after they didn’t vote to shelter Trump from the consequences of attempted election theft? His first term you had Romney, McCain, Cheney, etc. in Congress and a lot of people in his administration like John Kelly who had various lines they wouldn’t cross.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/politics/trump-fascist-john-k...

Those people have all been purged. Any instinct you have for what Republicans will do which is older than 2021 is now actively misleading your judgement.
by terminalshort | 2025-11-10 00:47:20+00:00
> Every single person I know driving a Tesla told me the FSD (not AP) is bad

I really don't believe this because everyone I know who drives a Tesla tells me the opposite. I tend to think this is an artifact of people who just irrationally hate Tesla because IRL every negative thing I hear about Teslas comes from people who don't own the cars and hate Elon Musk.

> they would never trust it to drive without very careful attention

Of course, because the product is not designed to drive without human supervision.

> I can tell Teslas on FSD in traffic by the erratic maneuvers that are corrected by the driver, and that's a bad thing.

I don't believe you actually can because I don't notice any difference in the quality of driving between Tesla's or any other car on the road. (In fact the only difference I can notice between drivers of different cars is large trucks). So, again, I write off such statements as more of the same emotionally driven desire to see a pattern were there isn't one.
by romaaeterna | 2025-11-10 00:47:25+00:00
0%. This is entirely on the driver. He's someone who should spend a few years in prison, and then never be allowed to have a license again.

A foot on the gas overrides braking on autopilot and causes it to flash up a large message up on the screen that "Autopilot will not break / Accelerator pedal is pressed"
by ang_cire | 2025-11-10 00:47:47+00:00
> Multiplayer games routinely just get killed by their publishers.

You are confusing "multiplayer" with "massively multiplayer online" games. The vast majority of multiplayer games are not MMOs. There are tons of multiplayer games that you can run your own servers for, or which use P2P or local LAN connections to not require any publisher presence or support for.

Hell, set them up a Minecraft or ARK or whatever survival-crafter game server, and they can invite and play with their friends on it.
by iamjs | 2025-11-10 00:48:04+00:00
I struggled with hand and wrist pain for years from spending too much time at a computer. I did physiotherapy for years and while it helped me manage pain, I was never able to truly build enough strength to get ahead of it until I started bouldering. I took it very slowly—I spent months on very easy problems—but because it was so much fun, I kept going back. Initially, I would only go on Saturday mornings, so I had the full weekend to recover before jumping back into the work week on Monday. After a two or three months of that, I was able to climb anytime I wished. I'm still not a particularly advanced climber, and I typically only go once per week, but I am still slowly progressing, and I absolutely love it.