MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SL61 | 2025-11-23 00:50:47+00:00
It's interesting to observe that fame (and the money that usually comes with it) seems to follow something like a log scale. People usually don't become gradually more famous in a linear way. They're more likely to spend a few years with 50k listeners and then get a big hit and get 1 million listeners overnight, then the next big jump is 20 million, and so on.

It's possible to be semi-famous and still able to go to the grocery store and pump your own gas without getting recognized. The local sports radio guys don't need an entourage, even if they do get recognized. But as a rising artist, you hit a point where you can no longer go out in public at all. It's really shocking when it happens because it's so abrupt. My dad's famous friend was a regular at a local restaurant and wasn't bothered for a long time, even when his name/face started showing up in the media. Then one day another customer shouted his name and he got mobbed by fans, and he realized he couldn't go out to eat like a normal person anymore. I think Charli crossed that line with the success of her album Brat last year. It's the point where you start to ask yourself if it's really worth it, and maybe consider going full recluse like Thomas Pynchon. (That's not even getting into the online stan culture stuff that Charli talks about in the article.)
by a-dub | 2025-11-23 00:52:28+00:00
maybe the ionized oxygen sensation, the ozone, the garbage and smoke are like a thin film of garbage and smoke particles in the nasal cavity experiencing mechanical stimulation. the mr guidance seems like a good idea, but the actual mount and targeting sounds crude, what are the odds it's just in the nasal cavity warming up and activating the gross stuff that lives in there?

i wonder if some kind of inhalable anesthetic would be a good control. ie, if the normal sensory pathways are blocked and the lifu stim of the olfactory bulb still creates the percept, then maybe it would be evidence that it is working as it appears...
by gwerbret | 2025-11-23 00:53:21+00:00
Some thoughts regarding Mozilla's leadership.

Certain aspects of human nature, as they apply to the corporate world, can be acknowledged and understood, even if they're not excuses when they lead to the downfall of a prominent organization. When you give someone a big title, a dump truck full of cash, and a mandate to innovate, human nature dictates that most people will internalize the idea that "because I was given all this, I must be competent", even if they very obviously are not. Typically the outcome is a "bold plan forward" which is notable for lacking any actual clear solution to the company's main problems. In one example I know of, the CEO decided to pivot from an unrelated field towards launching a cryptocurrency, and cooked up a cartoonishly-dangerous marketing scheme to support the idea. One person ended up dying as a result, and the company then purged every mention of crypto from its website. (And yes, the company collapsed soon afterwards.)

While it's easy to blame the CEO with their oversized salary, the blame for such disasters doesn't just lie with them. After all, arguably the most important roles of the board are to hire a good CEO, ensure the CEO is actually performing as they should, and fire them if they're not. When politics, cronyism, or again, simple incompetence, lead the board to also fail at its job, you end up with the long, slow decline into obscurity we've seen so often in the tech world.

But Mozilla had a good run.
by efreak | 2025-11-23 00:54:22+00:00
Read the notes on the repository itself:

> Basic Information on the Contents of This Repository > > It is mostly important to note that there is currently no known way to compile the source code in this repository into a final "Z-machine Interpreter Program" (ZIP) file using an official Infocom-built compiler. There is a user-maintained compiler named ZILF that has been shown to successfully compile these .ZIL files with minor issues. There are .ZIP files in some of the Infocom Source Code repositories but they were there as of final spin-down of the Infocom Drive and the means to create them is currently lost. > > ... > > In general, Infocom games were created by taking previous Infocom source code, copying the directory, and making changes until the game worked the way the current Implementor needed. Structure, therefore, tended to follow from game to game and may or may not accurately reflect the actual function of the code.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-23 00:55:26+00:00
Thread/Matter is a bullshit standard for “growth and engagement” home automation whose primary purpose is to get users locked into an ecosystem and watch ads or “engage”, with the “home automation” part being secondary (if it automates the home too well they won’t have to “engage” so we can’t have that).

Ignore and move on.

If you want home automation, either pony up for KNX (you can do it yourself, the only “closed” part of the ecosystem is that the configuration tool is paid), or use conventional Zigbee with an open-source coordinator like Zigbee2MQTT and Home Assistant, or Wi-Fi devices that either have an official local API like Shelly or reverse-engineered one.

Matter/Thread/etc is just the latest iteration of creating the next batch of e-waste 5 years down the line.
by gishh | 2025-11-23 00:55:40+00:00
> I’ve always wondered why someone else’s success triggers such rage and anger in certain people and I think it probably all boils down to the fact that the patriarchal society we unfortunately live in has successfully brainwashed us all. We are still trained to hate women, to hate ourselves and to be angry at women if they step out of the neat little box that public perception has put them in.

I assume roughly half of pop stars are male, give or take. Or, given the quote and speaking in generalities, at least roughly half of successful people are male. I’m sure we can all name wildly successful males who garner the same hate she is speaking about.

I don’t think it’s patriarchy, I think it’s simply jealously, insecurity, and judgmental feelings all wrapped up into a big ball of hate.

Or it’s the patriarchy. Just doesn’t make sense for the point trying to be made.
by andai | 2025-11-23 00:55:48+00:00
So, I can tell you my reaction when I was 13 and first saw a smartphone. (It must have been late 2007 or 2008.)

You know. Everything's round and cute and colorful. Like candy.

"Oh. This is for retarded people."

Unfortunately I was wrong.

It's actually much worse than that. It's for normal people. But it makes you retarded.

Slowly. You don't even notice it happening.

It eats away... day by day.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36256-4
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-23 00:55:52+00:00
Sure, if you ignore all the parts of the neutron economy that make it possible to work. The part everyone missed in this discussion is that all of the numbers of neutrons (and their barns) aren't constants. Since the fuel is a fluid, you can use density and shape to improve the neutron economy in the reactor core. Basically, when the atoms are closer together, the economy improves. You can also use a better moderator like graphite since the basic design is safer and the rate of fission is just easier to control.

And considering that people made these things work 60 years ago without modern computers, the idea that its impossible or needs 40 years of research seems pretty far fetched. What is left of the nuclear industry wants to build current designs like the AP1400. That is a great idea, but there are things you can do with a LFTR that you can't do with an AP1400. The biggest of them is making synthetic fuel. The other advantages are the amount of waste produced and the fact that you can make a LFTR into a waste burner consuming the spent fuel rods from a AP1400. The downside is you actually have to fix nuclear regulations to do this and getting politicians to do that has proved impossible.

There are no technological barriers, this is entirely political.
by desadas | 2025-11-23 00:55:58+00:00
We just shipped Vigil — a plug-and-play firewall that wraps your agent in one line and blocks:

Prompt injection (DAN, GCG, context-switching)

Unauthorized tool calls

PII leaks (SSNs, cards, emails)

We’re offering a free trial for early-stage teams before we lock it behind a paywall. No setup, no sales calls just a key and go.
by potsandpans | 2025-11-23 00:56:18+00:00
It's even more curious that merely pointing out that you unevenly moderate triggers yet another link to the clustering illusion.

The truth is: we never will be able to know the biases of this community or mod team with accuracy, because hackernews doesn't expose enough data to be able to perform a meaningful analysis.

The call-out is disjoint from the rest of what you go on to say. I said you are _certainly_ biased. I didn't say how. Your comment starts with saying that people are predisposed to feel persecuted due to biases, which is somehow related to my use of the word, and then you go on to essentially confirm exactly the intention of my callout.

> That explains why the people you're most implacably opposed to also believe they're seeing the same thing, just in the opposite direction.

Cordially, I have no idea what you're talking about or referring to in this regard. Who is my enemy that you've invented here? I'm not representing a position on behalf of the community, other than to point out that this moderation has _some_ uneven biases, and it's always interesting when they show.

In the words of @tomhow

> The choice is yours to make an effort to observe the guidelines and be a positive contributor to HN, or alternatively to keep using HN for political/ideological battle

What's my political and ideological battle? Functional programming? Ai usage?

When political topics come up, I engage with the discourse. That's within the bounds of the spirit of this community.
by bethekidyouwant | 2025-11-23 00:56:29+00:00
I don’t think it’s common for consumers to buy 18650 lithium batteries, I mean I do and I know that they are all fake if you order them online… I’m not really understanding the point of this article. Most consumer products come with the batteries inside them already. The idea of somehow banning the import of unsafe batteries seems pretty unrealistic.
by stubish | 2025-11-23 00:56:31+00:00
The bit about FEX is interesting. Taking x86 code and running it on ARM. The most important thing for Valve to do is pick what instruction set to use, one you can run natively or native hardware, or efficiently and reliably through translation on alien hardware. ARM might be a great choice, as hardware exists at scale on mobile devices, and emulated on other devices even if the CPU happens to be Intel or AMD. Valve is then in control, rather than Intel or Apple or Microsoft.
by Aloisius | 2025-11-23 00:56:31+00:00
Can they convert $1K outlay into $1.1K of tax revenue the same month?

Given New Mexico's tax rates, it seems like it would be difficult to do so.

It looks like the program will cost about $600M next year. In order to generate more tax revenue than it costs, it would need to increase personal income somewhere on the order of $12-15B of personal income, taxable sales, business profit or some combination.

Now, a fraction of that will come from the childcare workers. Some may come from stay-at-home parents or parents working part time going to work, but given they say it'll save on the order of $12K/year/family, a family would need to increase their income by about $260K/year in order to pay $12K in extra state income taxes.

It's rare to see spending programs actually pay for themselves. Mostly when politicians talk about a program paying for itself, they preform verbal slight-of-hand, arguing that $x will come back as $x*y in economic activity. That is, of course, a lie, but no one calls them out the fact that economic activity ≠ taxes.
by maartin0 | 2025-11-23 00:56:52+00:00
I had the same thought - I guess it's similar to that idea that if you had someone else's eyes, you might not perceive specific colours to be the same?

But actually it sort of makes sense since (from what I understand) is stimulating an external interface (the receptors), so you're mimicing what the effect a smell would have on you rather than the electrical signal created by the response to a stimulus?
by stavros | 2025-11-23 00:56:55+00:00
A while ago I wrote a simple Python script to do this testing with an airplane/drone flight controller (they have voltage and current sensors onboard) and a constant load. Here are some of the curves I did of my batteries:

https://notes.stavros.io/maker-things/battery-discharge-curv...

And here's the script itself:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/assault-and-battery/

As you can see, it's very easy to tell a new, genuine battery from an old or fake one.
by andrepd | 2025-11-23 01:00:05+00:00
> From the perspective of 2025, I can't help but think about the people I know today getting vocally angry about Israeli violence in the Gaza strip, and suggesting that this violence has implications for US politics - and I wonder how many of those people would be happy to throw an American in a wheelchair off a ship in the name of the Palestinian cause.

I'm quite unsure what this is trying to imply. Israel committed genocide in Gaza, this much is established, and even the skeptics about the word "genocide" admit at least "war crimes". How does knowing that there terrorists from that place murdererd a person in a wheelchair in 1985 change one's view about that?!

May I remind you that Israel murdered over one hundred people in Gaza for over two years. Some of those were even in wheelchairs. Would you like a link to videos, uncensored ones? Double-tap attacks on hospitals? Maybe the screams will not let you sleep at night.

--

Nobody sane would perform the reasoning "Irish terrorists killed hundreds of British people in the 70s and 80s" ergo "the British army should destroy 85% of buildings in Ireland". But apparently s/Ireland/Palestine/ and it's a normal acceptable thing to say!

Finally, "suggesting that this violence has implications for US politics", of course it does. Israel is a major US ally and gets billions of dollars in funding. Of course it has implications on US policy, from diplomacy to finance.
by nashashmi | 2025-11-23 01:00:39+00:00
Police Open Fire as 50,000 Protest Outside Pretoria L.A. Times Archives Nov. 21, 1985 12 AM PT

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-11-21-mn-2106-s...

Makes me recall a similar story happening in our times in the world. The headline does not mention "Black". [Security force] indiscriminately is killing. World says nothing.
by hunterpayne | 2025-11-23 01:01:11+00:00
This type of reactor would probably use super-critical CO2 instead of water to transfer the heat from the reactor to the turbines, so no water. The design is safer that way.

The way water might be used in this design is to make a synthetic fuel instead of electricity. In that case, you are swapping out the turbines for a process that extracts CO2 from seawater, uses electrolysis to crack the water and then a FT process to make a (renewable) hydrocarbon fuel (you might even use some feedstock to make it more efficient).
by chanux | 2025-11-23 01:01:57+00:00
This reminds me of the time when I put extra effort to write good commit messages, explain 'the theory'[1] behind when it makes sense, name Chesterton's fences and generally provide guidance to the future engineer who has to look through this to understand why something was done in a certain way.

This was a delayed project running out of budget and everything had to be completed within a few months. However, the management in it's infinite wisdom also did a complete source code/issue management platform change.

The person who did the repo migration went with the default settings. (I believe this was the case. I forget the details. I would also only half blame the person because everything was rushed)

Everything up to that point was committed with "Made by so and so bot".

This was way ahead of Google was allegedly committing "well over 30%" of code by AI. I witnessed the true pioneers in this space.

[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
by holysoles | 2025-11-23 01:02:30+00:00
I think a lot of folks feel that Firefox has outstanding features and issues that prevent more widespread adoption and current user happiness, as opposed to spending effort on AI features.

The average person doesn't care about an AI pane and that won't cause them to change browsers. Mozilla adding tab group support actively got non-tech people I know to switch, in addition to uBlock Origin and generally better privacy.
by HansHamster | 2025-11-23 01:02:40+00:00
Meanwhile, the DPO4054 I use at work has issues with half of the buttons, the data returned by some commands doesn't match the manual, and the probes from some newer scopes don't fit even though they all just use BNC? Maybe the software on it is just outdated? Nope, the only version you can get from the Tektronix page is older than what is on the scope. And there are newer versions, but they are only for the DPO4054B and not the older DPO4054...
by stackghost | 2025-11-23 01:03:00+00:00
>1. It's a great way to learn. Teaching something to someone else has always been the best learning tool, and writing about something with an audience in mind is an effective way to capture some of that value.

>3. If you blog more frequently than that it can be a really valuable resource for your future self. I love being able to look back on what I was thinking and writing about ten years ago. Having a good tagging system helps with this too - I can review my tag of "scaling" or "postgresql" and see a timeline of how my understanding developed.

These are generally why I blog. I write the articles with an audience in mind, because I don't know a concept if I can't explain it cogently. And also I actually tend to refer back to my blog for my own reference surprisingly regularly. For example, I wrote an article on installing Debian on a PC Engines APU over the serial interface, and then getting the Unifi Controller running. Every so often when I update the Debian install on that box, or decide to change OSes on a different APU I'll refer to that article.

You wouldn't think that that would be so difficult but it was a surprisingly baroque process.
by gnabgib | 2025-11-23 01:03:29+00:00
Related:

iPhone Air (907 points, 2 months ago, 1949 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45186015

iPhone Air teardown (360 points, 2 months ago, 223 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45319690

Apple Said to Cut iPhone Air Production Amid Underwhelming Sales (9 points, 1 month ago, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627471 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45667319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45681443 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45704877
by Daub | 2025-11-23 01:03:49+00:00
> a good understanding of color theory is also necessary.

Agreed. I would also speak out again the uninformed use of pre-configured color combinations. As someone who teaches art/design these are the bane of my life… students use them as a replacement for color theory. A designer should at least know how to parse a color into its hue, saturation and lightness components. Most everything else should follow naturally.
by DaveZale | 2025-11-23 01:04:00+00:00
We had Molycorp 15 years ago being run by a Canadian magnet company. It could have worked out, but the engineers were clueless about process scale up and sourcing the acids required for refining, which, they said, were being consumed by the fracking boom. In any case, the Mountain Pass site has a lot of light rare earths, but little of the heavy rare earths. The heavier rare earths come comingled with a lot of radioactivity. So the business ideally involves removal of the desired heavy rare earths, then disposing of the radioactive tailings back to where they came from. No doubt we have plenty of the heavier rare earths in tailing piles from the nuclear arms build up over many decades. It's a matter of good long term management.
by ekropotin | 2025-11-23 01:04:42+00:00
I have completely opposite opinion on this.

Writing commit messages is one of these mundane chores I’d gladly delegate to LLMs which are very very good at this kind of thing.

I mean, if you really know you code, you know it, there is no much value in reinforcing it in your head one more time via writing comprehensive commit messages - it’s a waste of time, imho.
by mac-attack | 2025-11-23 01:04:50+00:00
> nobody ever brags about how lack of “tracking” has positively impacted their lives

This reminds me of the anti-vax logic a tad in that they lack the imagination on the seemingly obvious effects of their ideal world.

Being indifferent to companies and political parties (which becomes your Gov't when voted into power) indirectly states that you are indifferent to others attempts to influence you and/or foolhardy enough to believe that all of your beliefs consistently originates from objective personal experience.
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by AshBuildsAI | 2025-11-23 01:04:54+00:00
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by pandaman | 2025-11-23 01:05:15+00:00
I am sorry, I cannot read that "actual research" but I figure it did not include places with the most inequality, like ones I've listed?

>Note that your claimed statistics for such enclaves could still be true but not discount the overall statistical relationship

If you know statistics then you might be familiar with the "correlation does not imply causation" turn of phrase. And yes, any counter example destroys a causation claim.