MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ehnto | 2025-11-13 04:30:05+00:00
Hitman is amazing insofar as the worlds are so well realised and the gameplay is excellent. But the controls are a bit pants, and I had an issue on Quest three where it was applying a foveated rendering but the mask was off (and the quest 3 doesn't have eye tracking). So it was blurry within my field of view, and sharp just next to it.
by scuff3d | 2025-11-13 04:30:32+00:00
That might be a problem in the frontend/JavaScript world, but I think people forget the industry is a lot bigger than web dev. I've managed to go my whole career without ever having to write a single line of JavaScript.

But to be fair your point, and the original authors, isn't a bad one. And I think someone else in this thread said it too. If you're only skill is typing out code against a very narrow spec that someone else did all the work to figure out, you're probably in trouble.
by kkukshtel | 2025-11-13 04:31:20+00:00
Something great about this release as well is the release of "file-based apps"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals...

Basically, you can now write scripts in C# without the ceremony of a solution or project file — writing some code in a cs file and running `dotnet run myFile.cs`will execute the file directly.

You can also shebang to make it directly executable!

Hoping this inspires more people to give C# a go — it's incredible these days. Come in, the water is fine.
by gpm | 2025-11-13 04:31:32+00:00
No, I was running on normal untrusted video files. The standard ffmpeg command line would happily attempt to parse those with the LucasArts Smush codec even though I'd never heard of it before.

See the POC in the report by google, the command they run is just `./ffmpeg -i crash.anim -f null /dev/null -loglevel repeat+trace -threads 1` and the only relevant part of that for being vulnerable is that crash.anim is untrusted.

Edit: And to be clear, it doesn't care about the extension. You can name it kittens.mp4 instead of crash.anim and the vulnerability works the same way.
by goku12 | 2025-11-13 04:33:36+00:00
> Is it sustainable, you think not but I believe it doesn't matter.. Line must go up..

I was talking about us. It's not sustainable for us. All these big companies keep driving up our cost of living, while stifling our incomes at the same time. There is also a cost to not participating, so that's not an option either. But we cannot keep giving. There must be a point where we say enough is enough and cut off and replace their influence on our lives.

> The internet I loved and helped grow is something I don't recognise anymore. Maybe there's a new generation of hackers who make the new system.

I completely agree. I too hate the direction that the internet has taken. That's what I was talking about in the next sentence. We need solutions out of this hell created by industrialized greed and corruption. But the problem now isn't the absence of hackers, it's that money rules over merit, more so than ever before. That's visible in everything from toxic hashtag campaigns and stupid internet trends to adoption of really crappy technology. I don't know how we'll overcome that.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-11-13 04:33:55+00:00
> This is the laziest, most egregious "WeLl AkShUaLlY!!!" comment I've seen in a little while. Like, really embarrassing.

And yet I haven't heard how this affects this person's ability to be an endocrinologist. Most of any job is routine busywork—and if ethical purity is the requirement to hold a job that impacts the lives of the public, we may never have a politician (or hospital chief) for the rest of humanity.

I am not saying that OP should love their endocrinologist. I am saying that all of this is a non sequitur.
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-13 04:34:03+00:00
Let's not shoot the messenger (edoceo)

Too many people are in denial about what they actually own, and seem to refuse to accept this battle isn't starting or coming up, we're already in the process of losing it.

Clinging to material ownership feels great on the moment, but that's absolutely not what we need to deal with right now. It's kinda like being so proud to be the registered owner of your car, while it's getting impounded and you'll be spending the next 10 years trying to get it back.
by runako | 2025-11-13 04:34:11+00:00
I actually think we should have more power plants, and we should generate a lot more power.

At the same time, it is not obvious that utility systems in communities are equipped to respond well to actors who are 1) not local 2) high growth 3) demand rapid deployment 4) are willing to spend flagrantly to move fast.

Put another way: should OpenAI be allowed to pay (say) 10x the going rate[1] for electricity in a region in exchange for being given the right to consume 90% of the electricity generated in that region? What principles should govern this balance and the acceptable price changes? How do those principles extend to determining who should cover CapEx for expansion? Does Texas need the 57 permanent jobs in Abilene that Stargate will generate so badly that millions of Texans should subsidize the richest startup ever?

1 - this is a hypothetical, but OpenAI's Stargate project in Texas is projected to cost multiples of the total assets of any of the large multi-state power generators in the country. None of the utilities are setup to engage with a buyer like that.
by fsmv | 2025-11-13 04:34:59+00:00
I recently did an arch with zfs root setup. You have to make a custom install ISO that has the zfs module to do it. After it's installed the main annoyance is the zfs module only works with certain kernel versions and often arch has updated the kernel to a version not supported. There's a repo with pinned kernel versions or you can just use the lts kernel.

FreeBSD is much easier but I needed better Linux compatibility for this machine
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-13 04:35:24+00:00
> Who will make us pay?

No one, directly.

Indirectly, undermining our own credibility when we try to foster a rule-based order that doesn't require constant resort to expensive (in both lives and treasure) applications of hard power, OTOH, will have a cost.

> And is that cost less or more than the cost of hundreds of thousands of opioid deaths?

It doesn't matter, because this campaign won't in any reasonable scenario prevent hundreds of thousands of opioid deaths, it will just add a bunch of deaths from international armed conflict on top of it.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-11-13 04:35:34+00:00
It's like being rickrolled. An article chats up a device as an awesome buy but has no links to buy one (even tho they're an affiliate publisher). Ditto for the article they linked to.

Anyway, GSMArena device specs: https://www.gsmarena.com/hmd_touch_4g-14208.php

Reddit hands on: https://old.reddit.com/r/dumbphones/comments/1o69beb/the_hmd...

AmazonIndia: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0FSKWJX31 ₹3,999 or fully impossible to buy in the US for $45.13

You can also not buy it from the manufacturer because it's out of stock. https://www.hmd.com/en_in/hmd-touch-4g

But if it was in stock, you need to "Enter PIN code to check availability" before you can buy anything. ex:https://www.hmd.com/en_in/hmd-150-music

No one is saying where you get a pin.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-11-13 04:35:54+00:00
> It would appear fairly clear: she tried to claim a therapy would help someone when it clearly would not and when confronted with this fact, actively tried to hide it. How on earth would you trust such a person to be your caregiver?

Where did you derive any of this from what the OP said? He said there was an allegation of research conduct, and this is the statement to which I responded.

Almost all research uses artificial cell lines and animals—where did you get the idea that we were talking about 'a therapy would help someone'?
by Anon4Now | 2025-11-13 04:36:43+00:00
They didn't speak English, and I speak a little Spanish. I got to know a lot of these guys, so I asked them. My boss immigrated from Mexico, and he explained the under-the-table pay setup. Many landscapers and contractors in the area pay workers under the table because a lot of them under report income to the IRS. Plus, my stepmom was illegal before my dad and her got married, so it's no big deal to me.
by tecoholic | 2025-11-13 04:37:08+00:00
Wow. I didn’t know that things are this way. I am a recent immigrant living close to the city and always seem to be able to see a GP on the same day. Is that because I have private insurance and I pay out of pocket anyways? If I were a citizen, I wouldn’t be able to go to those places (at least for “free healthcare”), and will have the same wait times? Or is it geography dependent with rural Victoria having issues and Melbourne city being well covered?
by captainkrtek | 2025-11-13 04:37:27+00:00
There is a chain of things that need to be done

- early recognition - early administration of aspirin and/or nitro if indicated - activation of, and transport to, a hospital with catheterization capabilities.

If medics can show up and do multiple ekgs to confirm and en route, thats even better. But critically the blockage needs to cleared, and they need definitive care (cath lab).
by pfannkuchen | 2025-11-13 04:37:55+00:00
The dispatcher must not have understood right? This is like evil levels of incompetence otherwise, because the system can’t possibly be designed to do that right? So the dispatcher must have been in the wrong, but to make the dispatcher not completely evil we have to make her merely stupid and/or careless. That’s terrifying. Where did they go to if you don’t mind me asking?
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-13 04:38:01+00:00
> This is misleading though.

This isn't misleading in any way. It's unfortunate and we should be pissed about it, but this is exactly the legal arrangement that Google and Apple came up with.

> I wouldn't be surprised to find out it was ruled unconscionable by some court

Last US court battle, Apple told the court it needed the money from the kids casino to keep its profits, and the court just nodded.

Apple had to be held in comptempt of a court order after 4 years and a deluge of evidence, for us to see any significant move.
by d0ublespeak | 2025-11-13 04:38:47+00:00
This isn’t an inherent flaw of public health care. A lot of the health care problems in this country (Australia) stem from a continued disinvestment in the public system after a decade (prior to the current government) of conservative mismanagement. Most state funding here comes from the federal governments standard sales tax. They intentionally gimped our public system to fund a private system that isn’t financially viable. Reversing that is going to take time. The problem exists it’s just important to attribute it to the correct sources. Medicare (our public insurer) is an incredible privilege that we should protect and hold our leaders accountable for managing.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-11-13 04:38:48+00:00
> So if your endocrinologist was found to have ran a concentration camp in the past, it would have no effect on your decision on whether you wanted to use them as your doctor? Running a concentration camp also has no bearing on a doctor's performance.

The story presented here is that OP disliked their mother's physician. There was no discussion of malpractice. Then, OP seems to have searched for information about the physician.

'Research misconduct' and murdering your fellow man are... not the same thing.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-13 04:39:03+00:00
Various random and unexpected indie games exist. Like the Indie community has fully embraced VR and it is full of unique and experimental and awesome and garbage games.

Euro and American Truck Simulator still have VR support and it's more fun and satisfying than it should be.

Load up Google Earth VR, plop yourself in front of your childhood home and feel more than you expected.

If you like modern air combat: VTOL VR and DCS. If you like WW2 fighter combat, IL-2 Sturmovik.

Hotdogs Horseshoes and Handgrenades for the ultimate American Freedom simulator.

Project Wingman for Ace Combat 7 in VR. Star Wars Squadrons is fully playable in VR. War thunder has VR

BeamNG has unofficial VR

Rec Room if you want to get absolutely schooled by 13 year olds at laser tag and paintball and other games.

Hyperbolica is an exploring and puzzle game about non-euclidean space, where walking in a straight line doesn't work like you expect and apparently it has VR

Pulsar Lost Colony is a game about being a star trek captain with your friends and also can be played without VR.

Phasmaphobia is a game about getting the shit scared out of you and you can do it in VR if you do not fear death

An upcoming game about "Be an artemis astronaut". There was also one to explore a Google Earth style of the ISS. Also Kerbal Space Program at one time had a VR mod.
by moomoo11 | 2025-11-13 04:39:03+00:00
First of all, my condolences to the author.

I resonate with your thoughts about USA response times. We lived in a middle class suburb with mostly immigrants. When I was 10 my mom slipped in the bathtub and was knocked out. I dialed 911 crying and within 2 minutes a cop had arrived and only a few minutes later the fire truck first response had arrived. They helped my mom out and she was fine afterwards.

It was so crazy for 10 yo me. I thought my mom was gone.

I am so sorry for what the author and his family had to endure.
by Ms-J | 2025-11-13 04:40:09+00:00
Use privacy preserving coins such as Monero instead of Bitcoin as it is much more safe. Not bulletproof, but much better.

Monero also complicates any type of investigation much more than Bitcoin. It is very hard for investigators. They also don't want to burn techniques unless the case is absolutely massive.

Also make sure to never use an exchange that forces KYC.
by rendaw | 2025-11-13 04:40:19+00:00
This is a weird article. It starts off with Golang, then presents the alternative "Software Transactional Memory (STM)" which appears to be a Haskell feature.

Mutexes have lots of issues, as mentioned. Some are mitigated in other languages, like Rust, which gates access to the data in the mutex via the lock and disallows mutation for shared (multithreaded) data without a mutex.

STM sounds interesting, but it doesn't really seem different to me from a mutex. I'm not very familiar with Haskell, but AFAICT you still need to decide on a call tree root that does the commit, functions can't be blindly composed. I guess if there's an error nothing happens, but I doubt that's a magic bullet when you're dealing with external systems like processes, databases, etc (i.e. if the STM fails to commit, the database could then go out of sync with memory).
by bsder | 2025-11-13 04:40:23+00:00
> But let’s not pretend that many of the precautions and policies weren’t performative. Mask mandates were always dumb. Most people didn’t wear effective masks and many didn’t cover their noses.

We have specific evidence that not masking and not distancing caused superspreader events. Before there were too many cases, contact tracing backwards showed that specific parties, weddings, etc. were responsible for accelerating the early spread above baseline.

Thus, the burden of proof is on the "anti-mask, anti-distancing" people to prove that they aren't worse than the alternative--doubly so given the post hoc analyses available due to Norway and Sweden.
by ryanjshaw | 2025-11-13 04:41:01+00:00
> few details that were gotten wrong during the fog of war

It’s fine to have your opinion but don’t dismiss others’ experiences and values.

The extreme lockdowns caused irreparable, long-term harm to many people. You’re glossing over this as if it’s a minor error that anybody could’ve made, which is not correct.

It is essentially a trolley problem. You value “extreme intervention that is statistically better overall but unnecessarily devastating to some”, whereas many other people are happy to let nature run its course to some extent than have their government turn against them “for the needs of the many”.

That is a moral discussion, not a scientific one, and people are rightfully angry when it’s misrepresented as purely a scientific one.
Show HN: modal-cuda – CLI to run CUDA .cu programs on Modal GPUs
by Sai_Praneeth | 2025-11-13 04:41:36+00:00
I use a MacBook (no NVIDIA GPU) but still like experimenting with CUDA kernels.

I didn’t want to spin up a VM every time or use browser-only tools, so I built a tiny CLI that runs local .cu files on Modal GPUs with a single command.

Modal gives around $30 in free credits when you sign up, so the CLI is built around that. You can run simple kernels on smaller GPUs (like T4) for very little. I ran multiple tests for under $1.

What it does: - Sends your .cu file to a Modal container with a GPU image (you can override it) - Compiles it with nvcc (supports nvcc args) - Runs it on any GPU you choose (T4 through B200) - Streams output/error back to your terminal

Usage: uv add modal-cuda

mcc myKernel.cu --gpu H100 # or: uvx --from modal-cuda mcc myKernel --nvcc-arg=-Xptas --nvcc-arg=-v

Links: GitHub: https://github.com/ExpressGradient/modal-cuda PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/modal-cuda
by pfannkuchen | 2025-11-13 04:41:37+00:00
On the ambulance delay time. Have people perchance started calling ambulances for less and less serious matters over time? Thus increasing the calls per capita. I could kind of see that given what I’ve heard about 911, but then again maybe not. Also I feel like 50 years ago people would have been more worried about having some enforcement action taken against them for wasting the 911 line’s time on something inappropriate? Not sure if that enforcement ever actually happened, though.
by kant2002 | 2025-11-13 04:41:57+00:00
As grandparent said, Blazor optimized for fast delivery. For public products you will have places where you should care about interactivity a lot. Their solution is interop with JS. You may try WASM but it’s definitely slow for UI.

WASM good for complicated tools, but you better probably with other language if you looking for next Figma.

Hybrid approach which is default have two issues. - round trip to the server. That’s not nice for interactivity and responsiveness. - hybrid hydration model is needlessly complicated. And again it will not fully solve your problem when you need to go extra mile.

Overall cold start for WASM require large payload, for Hybrid you need Websockets for updates. That sucks outside of cities or on junkie mobile. Not for public product.

Working with Blazor from Net Core 2.2

For internal tooling, or B2B where you don’t care that much is very efficient.
Video Editor
by brokeswe | 2025-11-13 04:42:02+00:00
This is going to sound retarded, but I'm going to ask anyways. Let's say if you're trying to build a video editor, this means you'll have a timeline component and have that canvas on top of it, so you can add shapes and text. Does it make sense to use WebAssembly? For example, search editing operations and undo stack. I want to try and make something professional-grade so you can have a shit ton of elements, and they should be able to render everything reliably.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-11-13 04:42:22+00:00
> But the doctor likely makes the same money for less effort that contributes to the patient dying, because it's hard to prove the link.

This makes no sense with how endocrinology works. And OP did not give any evidence of malpractice, so we have no reason to believe that less effort or patient risk regarding the practice of medicine was involved.
by mikem170 | 2025-11-13 04:42:48+00:00
I ended up on OpenBSD, having gotten frustrated with Windows, Suse, Fedora, FreeBSD and a Chromebook.

I grew to appreciate stability, over time - I don't want to have to fix things after updates, including my tweaks and customizations. I want complete control of my computers. I appreciate a cohesive and well documented system. I want simple and consistent and secure. I don't want the OS to take up more of my time than it needs to.

Perhaps you should consider the BSDs to be like different linux distributions, having their own priorities, pros and cons. Some people don't care. Some do. It's all good, having more options.
by feffe | 2025-11-13 04:43:03+00:00
Steam on Linux works really well now. I sort of built my own steam machine a few months back with a framework desktop that now sits in my TV rack. Gaming on it is a really good experience. Had to buy a PS5 controller though because I could not get the XBOX controller to work over bluetooth which was a bit of a bummer. For me the new controller is most interesting as most games have XBOX controller support (with xbox button captions) and the steam controller adopts the button naming.
by moomoo11 | 2025-11-13 04:43:10+00:00
Yep. I had a misdiagnosis because of a dumbfuck doctor and I’m eternally grateful for the Cleveland Clinic doctor who fixed me up.

Fuck that bad doctor, it’s not like they’re some Holy Paladin. He had no remorse either and didn’t really pay much attention to me.

I hope AI puts as many doctors out of work as possible so that only the best, like my CC doctor, remain.
by rekabis | 2025-11-13 04:43:16+00:00
> This has never happened in history

Historians and social scientists widely agree that a significant surplus of unmarried, low-status young males can cause substantial social and political unrest, a pattern observed in ancient societies and documented throughout history.

The core issue stems from an imbalance in the "marriage market" (often referred to as a "marriage squeeze"), where these "surplus men" have little or no prospect of finding a spouse, establishing a family, or gaining a respected place in society. This lack of integration often leads to frustration and alienation, making these individuals more likely to engage in risk-taking behavior, crime, and violence.

Societies have historically dealt with this "bachelor problem" in several ways, and the failure to do so often resulted in conflict:

• Formation of "Bare Branches": In Imperial China, unmarried men were termed guang gun-er ("bare branches" or "bare sticks"). The Ming Code specifically labeled these marginalized individuals as a potential source of illegal activities and unrest. The Nien Rebellion in the mid-19th century has been linked by some scholars to the presence of large numbers of these disaffected, mobile, and unmarried men.

• Redirected Aggression (War and Exploration): Many land-owning societies historically managed excess male populations by sending them away to fight in wars, join the priesthood, or colonize new territories. Examples often cited include:

• Viking raids: Speculated to be partly driven by a system where not all men could inherit land and marry. • Mongol warbands: United by leaders like Genghis Khan, potentially channeling the energy of unmarried young men into conquest. • Janissaries: The Ottoman Empire created a military class of forced Christian converts who were kept as unmarried, loyal soldiers, effectively absorbing a potentially destabilizing group.

• Polygyny and Social Inequality: In some polygynous societies, a small number of elite men monopolized most women, leaving many lower-status men without spouses. This extreme inequality has been associated with higher rates of violent crime and internal conflict, as the frustrated, unattached men had little stake in maintaining the existing social order.

• Modern Analogy: In modern times, the pattern repeats in fragile states or cities where extremist groups and gangs heavily recruit from large pools of frustrated young men who lack family ties, jobs, or a clear future.

The existence of a large group of unattached men with little to lose is a recognized warning sign for social instability, leading to domestic and international violence.

• https://rhyd.substack.com/p/the-surplus-male-problem

• https://kar.kent.ac.uk/11430/1/surplus_men_IS_article.pdf

• https://magazine.byu.edu/article/the-dangers-of-losing-balan...