MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-26 23:27:26+00:00
How would this algorithm change on 16-bit or 8-bit devices? Or does some variety of the traditional naïve algorithm turn out to be optimal in that case? There's quite a bit of microcontroller software that might have to do date conversions, where performance might also matter. It's also worth exploring alternative epochs and how they would affect the calculation.
by apple4ever | 2025-11-26 23:27:42+00:00
> the people who stop taking GLP, 75% gain 50-75% of their bodyweight back and lose all concomitant cardiovascular, cancer etc. risk benefits.

I don't think that framing is right, from another study:

* 17.5% maintained 75+% of their weight loss

* 25% maintained 50-75% of their weight loss

* 23% maintained 25-50% of their weight loss

* 24% maintained 0-25% of their weight loss

At least 75% (possibly more!) maintained some form of weight loss 25% to 75%+. That is tremendous. And 43% maintained 50%+! For reducing being overweight, that is just amazing.

> I hate that our solution to obesity is not the way Iceland treated it's youth drinking problem: reduce access to the harmful thing, give people money and support to do the healthy thing. Stick with it instead of cancelling the program if it doesn't show results in 4 years.

I don't think it's possible to "reduce access to the harmful thing" when that thing is "food".

Many people show long term results even stopping it. I don't understand this desire to say "people should suffer!" instead of taking something that helped them.

Plenty of people have tried (me included) but if it was easy to lose weight, nobody would be long term overweight.
by jdiff | 2025-11-26 23:27:44+00:00
My Pixel 8 certainly hasn't gone through 10k cycles and it barely holds on to any USB-C connector I put inside it. They all fall out even when laying still on a flat surface.

There's always outliers, of course, but I had this issue with USB Micro-B on at least one other device and never saw it with a Lightning connector.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-26 23:28:01+00:00
This is why one should pin all direct and transitive dependencies with their checksums and not upgrade everyday willy-nilly. There is no need to specify the specific version numbers of transitive dependencies, if one keeps a lock file that pins those exact versions and checksums of transitive dependencies, and one doesn't upgrade willy-nilly all the time. Make upgrading dependencies a conscious choice, and perhaps have a policy of at most upgrading every X days.
by rav3ndust | 2025-11-26 23:28:17+00:00
indeed, been preaching this kind of thing for ages. the main apps i keep on my mobile are my web browser, my comms apps (element, telegram and signal), and some other stuff from f-droid like retro music, ffupdater, newpipe, termux and stuff like that.

any social things i add as pwa through the browser.

not interested in any of those fast food or store apps. never selling ad-space (and privacy) on my own device to save $2 on a hamburger and some fries, and even if i did want them, chances are high they wouldn't run on my device anyway (feature not bug) lol

thankfully in my area, we have some good local places where you can order food just fine over their website. and if it didn't work over the website, i can simply do it the old-fashioned way, pick up the phone and say "i'd like to place an order for XYZ.."
by pimeys | 2025-11-26 23:28:52+00:00
Well, I just updated my 5950x with 128 GB to AMD Strix Halo with the same amount of much faster RAM. It is noticeable faster, but what's better: the whole computer is tiny and sips energy.

I'm very happy I ordered this in the summer, framework delivered it to me early this month. I wonder will these machine just be out of stock now or the price goes up a lot...
by e12e | 2025-11-26 23:29:19+00:00
The better dupe (linked in TFA) - from March:

> Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL

https://www.ditto.com/blog/cross-platform-p2p-wi-fi-how-the-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43505022
by thisislife2 | 2025-11-26 23:29:43+00:00
Yes, we definitely need something like this for the iDevices - it's outrageous that an old but capable device like iPad Air (1st generation) has to become e-Waste simply because Apple has decided not to support it any longer and won't allow other Operating Systems to run on it. Mac's already have the OpenCore Legacy Patcher - https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher - that allow you to run newer macOS versions on older and even unsupported Macs.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-26 23:29:53+00:00
I might suggest looking at Alibaba's open source AgentEvolver. It doesn't specifically target video games, but it's an agentic system designed around a more OODA loop evolutionary system than the kind of train/inference system, has potential, could be exciting to see.

I like how they classifythr sub problems of their work. Environment/ self questioning -> task / self questioning -> trajectory / self evaluation. OODA-esque.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10395 https://github.com/modelscope/AgentEvolver with thanks to Sung Kim who has been a great feed https://bsky.app/profile/sungkim.bsky.social/post/3m5xkgttk3...
by moritzwarhier | 2025-11-26 23:30:14+00:00
What would be a better solution? Do other package managers reliably restrict access to the host system beyond the scope of the project folder?

Many quirks come from abilities that were once deemed useful, such as compiling code in other languages after package install.

Sure, today, I can disable install scripts if I want but it doesn't change much when I eventually run code from the package anyway.

But even restricting access to the file system to the project's root folder would leave many doors open, with or without foreign languages: Node is designed as a general purpose JS runtime, including server-side and build-time usage.

The utility of node.js was initially to provide a JS API that, unlike the web platform, is not sandboxed. And npm is the default package manager.

This not only allows server-side usage, but also is essential to many early dev scenarios. Back in the days, it might have been SCSS builds using node-gyp (wouldn't recommend). Today it's things like Golang TypeScript or SSGs.

So, long story short: as many people before me already said, it's an ecosystem/cultural problem.

One thing against npm in this regard was/is its broken lock-file handling until I think version 12 or 16. That led to unintended transitive dependency version changes, breaking any reproducibility.

Same for compiling foreign languages.

These problems are solved today / not different from other package managers and -registries, as far as I know.

The culture of taking breaking changes and dependency bloat lightly has not changed as much, I think, although it's improved.

This most important point seems to be related to 3 reasons IMO:

- junior developers without experience in library development reaching large audiences

- specs, languages, runtime, and the package managers itself going through disruptions and evolutions

- rapidly releasing breaking majors, often caused by the above factors

The combination of these plus the role of the project lead/team who actually decides about the dependencies.

There are probably also many projects with unclear roles and many people who can push manifest changes, coupled with habitual access to CI/CD pipelines.
by autoexec | 2025-11-26 23:30:58+00:00
> . The average consumer is absolutely using ChatGPT for personal use

In my experience the "average consumer" isn't doing anything with ChatGPT except maybe play with it for a little bit before getting bored. They actively avoid AI when the apps and products they use try to shove it down their throats and they search the internet and ask their tech savvy family members for ways to disable AI in their stuff when they see it nag at them about using it.

Inevitably, AI ends up being used by people in some ways (like the AI reply at the top of every google search) but almost never because the average consumer asked for that or wanted it. It's a toy when they want to use it, and annoying when they don't but are forced to.
by mcculley | 2025-11-26 23:31:17+00:00
Will they live longer on the moon?

(Maybe you are just joking, but I wonder about the idea.)

When I was a kid, it was a general assumption in science fiction that living in zero-G or low-G would provide health/longevity benefits. Our experience with the ISS shows that microgravity is bad for health (muscle atrophy, bone loss, vision problems). It is not clear that low gravity would be much different.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-11-26 23:31:17+00:00
The GP wrote:

> at our Flemish school

I assumed this meant high school or earlier (18 and under). Most kids I grew up with (including myself) wouldn't be mature enough to do this without explicit instruction (and some policing!). That is why I want to understand more. Example: Did they have a big school meeting where they explained to local kids: "There are bunch of war refugees coming. Here are some things we can do to make them feel more welcome. First: Don't criticize their accent when they are speaking Flemish/Dutch." It is also interesting from the lens of Belgian linguistic culture, as the country is broadly divided north is Flemish, south is French and a tiny part is German.
by p-e-w | 2025-11-26 23:31:27+00:00
It has always surprised me that this is the lesson so many people see in that photo.

The lesson I see is that absolutely nothing humans do (including “wasteful fighting” and “over-consumption”) matters at all. We could colonize the solar system, or we could die out, and the Pale Blue Dot would remain the same either way.

It seems to me that people are desperately trying to squeeze a distorted message of hope from an image that fundamentally signifies the exact opposite of hope, namely indifference.
by imgabe | 2025-11-26 23:31:37+00:00
> A company will know that you just got paid and so charge you just a bit more for your chicken nuggets than they do when you haven’t been paid in two weeks.

I know there's various data apps can collect. On iOS at least it seems like you have to grant permission for the app to access most of it. But how on Earth is this supposed to work? How does the app on my phone know if I just got paid?
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-26 23:32:18+00:00
If you replace panic with a bespoke fallback or retry, have you really gained anything? You can still have all your services die at the same time, and you'll have even less of a smoking gun since you won't have a thousand stack traces pointing at the same line.

The core issue is that resilience to errors is hard, and you can't avoid that via choice of panic versus non-panic equivalents.
by charcircuit | 2025-11-26 23:32:33+00:00
>Guess who hires them? Not you!

McDonalds doesn't hire them either. But, they will pay a bigger share of the arbitration fees than you do.

>they’d have to settle it out of court with a mediator that Disney hired

It would be a mediator hired by JAMS, a neutral 3rd party.
by arn3n | 2025-11-26 23:33:22+00:00
I keep hearing about how the supply and demand cycles are “lagged” and that this price spike happens every 3-5 years for purely economical reasons. I feel like I’m being gaslit — I don’t recall any such price spikes in the past of this magnitude. You’re telling me that there’s a totally predictable price cycle and NO ONE has prepared for it? Or else prices are just high temporarily and no one can step in to increase supply? Either way, it seems that there’s not enough competition in this market.
by unethical_ban | 2025-11-26 23:33:40+00:00
Just throwing another anecdote out there, my Zen 1 CPU (1700) was flaking out and I was kind of thinking of doing an AM5 build, with an IPMI motherboard and some nice DDR5 memory. DDR5 has a quasi-ECC built in, which is good for a server.

Thing is, I have 128GB of memtest86-passed DDR4 RAM, and while I don't need that much, the idea of spending ~$300 on 32GB was ludicrous. So I have a Ryzen 5700G now, and all is well.
by echelon | 2025-11-26 23:34:45+00:00
Why? I'd prefer a doorless bathroom.

One of my bedrooms at home opens into an open concept bathroom. No doors, vaulted ceilings, open.

I really don't get this.

I don't want to feel claustrophobic.

Edit: Like these -

https://34stjohn.com/blogs/inspiration/how-to-pull-off-an-op...
by screye | 2025-11-26 23:34:46+00:00
Much like the Hyperloop before it, the core assumption of the Boring company is ill-conceived. Tunnel boring isn't a bottleneck.

The costs of surveys, hvac, seismic research and maintenance required to keep a deep-underground tunnel going are much higher than cut-and-cover. So, even if tunnel boring was free, it still wouldn't make sense to prefer it over other options. There are very scenarios where deep-tunneling makes sense (dense cities, across rivers when bridges are infeasible), but they're the minority.

In most transit projects, cut-and-over is blocked not because it's a bad technical option. It's because NIMBYs refuse to permit on-the-ground disruptions or noise of any type. San Jose is the canonical example. It's a political problem, not a technical one.
by famouswaffles | 2025-11-26 23:34:58+00:00
You argue LLMs are Markov chains because the context window is a 'large finite set.' But the physical configuration of the human brain is also a large finite set. We have a finite number of neurons and synaptic states; we do not possess infinite memory or infinite context.

Therefore, by your strict mathematical definition, a human is also a discrete-time Markov chain.

And that is exactly my point: If your definition is broad enough to group N-gram lookup tables, LLMs, and Human Beings into the same category, it is a useless category for this discussion. We are trying to distinguish between simple statistical generators and neural models. Pointing out that they both satisfy the Markov property is technically true, but structurally reductive to the point of absurdity.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-11-26 23:36:10+00:00
Oh, for goodness' sake, drop the melodrama and hyperbole. I take it you haven't lived in the country either.

Singapore is not North Korea, the PRC, or any of the Gulf countries, where people just get disappeared (or sawn into pieces and stuffed into a suitcase) for 'criticising the government' or 'criticising the country'.

I am Singaporean.

I can absolutely call the ruling People's Action Party a bunch of ivory tower-dwelling bureaucrats who have lost touch with the issues of the populace, and are mostly far cry from Lee Kuan Yew's days. I can say that Ms Josephine Teo really needs to keep her mouth shut, and that Mr Ng Chee Meng, MP for Jalan Kayu, didn't deserve to win his constituency one jot. I can say the ruling party regularly gerrymander the districts so they keep winning, even though they deny it. I can say they stifle the development of creative pursuits and the arts with their heavy-handed censorship. I can say they have their vices backwards by being extremely light on drink-driving, but simultaneously extremely harsh on cannabis, which smells horrible but isn't a big problem in terms of addiction or withdrawal.

I can say they are strongly influenced by Anglospheric right-wing Christian evangelism, and they need to root it out before it settles too deep into the country's psyche. I can say they are trying to build a cult of personality of Lee Kuan Yew, who has been dead for 10 years; it's time the country, the government, and the ruling party built on his legacy and moved forward instead of circling around him and his memory.

If you want more criticism, how about actually watching the Singapore Parliament, and deciding for yourself?

Oh, and if you ever decide to drop by, leave the hard drugs at home (including weed), if you want to leave with your head on its neck.

As for metrics: Singapore is both on paper and in reality a pretty good place to live, if you can stand the humidity and heat (frankly, that's the only truly oppressive thing about the place, how ruddy hot it gets). Why do you think people still emigrate to it, from lower-income countries, and from the West?

And finally, 'bald JD Vance', I don't understand how US politics is related to Singapore. They are countries hemispheres apart. One occupies a full third of a continent and has a population of 350 million. The other is a tiny island city-state of 6 million.

The politics of the US have also degraded to something worse than sports rivalries and the discourse is generally of extremely poor quality; it is only a reflection of the competence (or lack thereof) of its leadership and the majority of its people.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-26 23:37:34+00:00
> Porn, obviously, though if you look at what's popular on civitai.com, a lot of it isn't photo-realistic.

I don't have an argument to make on the main point, but Civitai has a whole lot of structural biases built into it (both intentionally and as side effects of policies that probably aren't intended to influence popularity in the way they do) that I would hesitate to use "what is popular on Civitai" as a guide to "what is attractive to (or commercially viable in) the market", either for AI imagery in general or for AI imagery in the NSFW domain specifically.
by paulddraper | 2025-11-26 23:37:53+00:00
> Walmart doesn’t accept Apple Pay because they want you to use their app and think they are big enough not to

You can pay with credit card swipe/insert.

You cannot pay with credit card tap-to-pay, or mobile device.

Swipe versus tap-to-pay has literally nothing to do with an app. But it's because of the extra charge.

---

It's funny that you know it's more expensive, and yet claim that is unrelated.
by shagie | 2025-11-26 23:38:54+00:00
PBS Space Time has a hoodie for that... (the T-shirts are sold out). https://crowdmade.com/collections/pbsspacetime/products/pbss...

Why Antimatter Engines Could Launch In Your Lifetime https://youtu.be/eA4X9P98ess (3 weeks ago) ... with that T-shirt. ... and the bit about theoretically possible warp drives (4 years ago) https://youtu.be/Vk5bxHetL4s
by crazygringo | 2025-11-26 23:39:01+00:00
Seriously.

I upgraded my iPad to a USB-C version and discovered I couldn't use my 1st-gen (Lightning) Apple Pencil with it even though it's compatible -- because I first had to buy a special female-female USB-C<->Lightning dongle just to be able to plug it in to pair it. (Even though I can keep using my Lightning charger to charge it separately from my iPad.)

Moving from Lightning to USB-C hasn't been too bad for me since I use wireless charging with e.g. my Lightning AirPods. But the transition is a huge pain. Because of weird cases like the Pencil, it's not even enough to just have a USB-C charging cable and a Lightning charging cable.
by mangodrunk | 2025-11-26 23:39:38+00:00
Thanks for sharing your experience. I do think it’s more important for most students to understand money than most of what is currently taught with algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus. My main point though was to focus on probability and statistics. Right now, most students barely understand and remember what is currently taught and also lack knowledge to understand important matters that directly affect them.
Ask HN: Is all AI coded code in the public domain?
by e12e | 2025-11-26 23:39:45+00:00
AFAIK it's generally assumed (but not(?) tested in court, that LLMs can't be assigned copyright, and that copyright for work generated by LLMs can't be claimed by a human just for being in the loop.

Is there going to be an avalanche of code that is legally in the public domain, going forward?
by DrierCycle | 2025-11-26 23:40:29+00:00
Movies were made to make a high majority of profits in theaters, a captive audience that had few distractions and optics developed for composite nuances.

Listen to the soft wind mixed in under Jodie's lambs tale. It comes on slowly, builds and then rapidly fades. 100s of details like these were managed for reaching audiences out of their range of conscious awareness. That's how movies used to get made. Now everything is developed to look at, to notice. And if it isn't, it's in a mode of realism that's basic.
by kergonath | 2025-11-26 23:40:38+00:00
> Comanagement between EU representatives and Apple employees?

Whatever gave you this impression? That’s not what the story is saying at all.

> the EU is not necessarily representing its citizens

It is not supposed to. The EU is a group of states, not citizens. If you want your voice to really count, lobby your national government, which has more say in the councils of ministers or the council of Europe than the MEPs have.

> I’m also paying for an entire lavish class of superior citizen in Brussels who implement laws written by lobbies.

How big is that "entire lavish class"? Just to know how upset I need to be. Also, which law was "written by lobbies"?
by ottah | 2025-11-26 23:41:08+00:00
A security in depth approach obviously. Run less, use vetted sources, when running suspect software execute in a properly sandbox context. Seriously what's the point of securing screenshot and key loggers if a malicious process has full access to the users home directory, auido stack, webcam and network?

If you can't trust the process don't run it. If you have to run it, isolate all of it.

Wayland gives you neither the freedom to safely tailor your security policy, nor the security guarantees to warrant its inflexibility.
by yearolinuxdsktp | 2025-11-26 23:42:13+00:00
The 10K cycle insertion rating for USB-C is an idealized metric that does not include lateral force, torque, device movement, or real-world wear patterns. These non-axial forces are a known cause of USB-C port failures and are explicitly not accounted for in the standard 10k-cycle durability claim.

USB-C center tongue female design means that the port will break before the cable. With lightning, the cable plug takes all the stress.

Apple doesn’t publish insertion cycles rating for Lightning connectors, so it’s impossible to provide empirical evidence of that.

In my personal experience, I’ve had two USB-C ports go bad on two MacBooks. I’ve yet to own a USB-C-charging phone, but I’ve never had a Lightning port fail.
by testemailfordg2 | 2025-11-26 23:42:26+00:00
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

"Customers deployed on the new FL2 proxy engine, observed HTTP 5xx errors. Customers on our old proxy engine, known as FL, did not see errors, but bot scores were not generated correctly, resulting in all traffic receiving a bot score of zero."

This simply means, the exception handling quality of your new FL2 is non-existent and is not at par / code logic wise similar to FL.

I hope it was not because of AI driven efficiency gains.
Show HN: AroundHere – Location based Wiki/Grokipedia explorer with summary/TTS
by j-b | 2025-11-26 23:42:28+00:00
I built AroundHere.app to explore location based Wikipedia and Grokipedia articles with Claude AI summaries and text-to-speech.

Search any topic by adding it to the URL: aroundhere.app/golden gate bridge, aroundhere.app/quantum computing.

Enable location to discover nearby Wikipedia articles through a radar visualization.

The app pulls content from both Wikipedia and Grokipedia, then generates Claude-powered summaries combining both sources. OpenAI TTS reads summaries aloud if you prefer listening. If a related Grokipedia article exists, a Grokipedia button is shown. A separate Summary button returns the summarization of the grokipedia article after which a "Listen" button appears.

You get traditional encyclopedia content alongside AI-curated perspectives. The location feature helps you find historically interesting spots nearby, while URL search works as a quick research tool for anything.
by randycupertino | 2025-11-26 23:42:48+00:00
When I stayed in the Dubai airport hotel not only was it $550 a night for a basic tiny room and there were there no bathroom doors but there was a GIANT painting of the king of dubai both in the bathroom and the bedroom! The one in the bedroom was almost floor to ceiling size. I hung a towel over him. It was super creepy and felt like his eyes were watching you as you walked around the room.