MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NonHyloMorph | 2025-11-29 13:18:38+00:00
I think the terminology here isn't sharp. One of the first headlines is: "Language is not necessary nor sufficient for thought" I disagree. Language is not necessary for cognitive processes in individuals/organisms. It is absolutely necessary for what we commonly refer to as thought (bit of a pretentious we: it involves you in the group of people who have some idea about philosophy (e.g. baseline-heidegger)/the humanities/psychoanalysis etc.) that which we refer to as thought. Thought can be a decentralised process that is happening "between" individuals ("Die Sprache spricht" - Language is speaking by heidegger points into that direction). Thought is also, imho, a symbolic process (which involves sign systems, mathematics, languages, images). Not everything going on as a cognitive process is therefor constituting thought. That's why one can act thoughtless- but not "cognitionless".
by qprofyeh | 2025-11-29 13:19:21+00:00
If you have ever been to a city that has banned fossil fuels then you can absolutely tell the difference, to most of the overpopulated European cities that I have visited. It’s astonishing how peaceful and comfortable it is to run or even stroll when every breath is just 100% refreshing; you feel 10 pounds lighter. Meanwhile the blackened filter of our home HVAC needs replacement again… and allergies.
by boutell | 2025-11-29 13:19:34+00:00
He lost me a bit at the end talking about running chat bots on CPUs. I know it's possible, but it's inherently parallel computing isn't it? Would that ever really make sense? I expected to hear something more like low end consumer gpus.

Recent generation llms do seem to have some significant efficiency gains. And routers to decide if you really need all of their power on a given question. And Google is building their custom tpus. So I'm not sure if I buy the idea that everyone ignores efficiency.
Show HN: oeis-tui – A TUI to search OEIS integer sequences in the terminal
by wesleyhill | 2025-11-29 13:20:01+00:00
i always loved looking up the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) when researching a sequence of numbers.

so I decided to make a TUI and CLI for it so that I can browse sequences in the terminal.

it supports almost all the features on the site (including the OEIS Webcam) and supports graphs, a preview pane, exporting and bookmarks.

more features here: https://github.com/hako/oeis-tui?tab=readme-ov-file#features

repo: https://github.com/hako/oeis-tui

gitHub releases: https://github.com/hako/oeis-tui/releases

cargo: cargo install oeis-tui
by OutOfHere | 2025-11-29 13:21:05+00:00
Financial literacy is a red herring. If one only stores their savings in gold or an index fund, that gets them practically all the way there. It takes all of two minutes to teach it. It compounds itself.

Risk too is sort of a red herring. Just buy in whenever it dips, and you are set. Diversify just enough to dilute the aggregate risk, and it practically disappears.

Savings are not even possible with low income, only with medium to high income. The lesson to learn is to avoid wasteful excessive spending that benefits oneself only in the moment.
by isoprophlex | 2025-11-29 13:21:25+00:00
I did a LOT of that. We made our own in undergrad; depending on audacity and effort we made stuff ranging from beautifully clear, crystalline needles to stuff that looked like satans' earwax. Extremely memorable stuff, that at that moment in life, was a very good thing to happen to me in order to learn how to connect with my feelings.
by danaris | 2025-11-29 13:21:41+00:00
And just when was the last time you saw CEO of a company as big as Microsoft "caught lying to shareholders" about anything actually face any punishment?

CEOs of big public companies lie to their shareholders all the time. It would be fantastic if they could be held accountable for those lies, but AFAIK when the SEC has tried, they always weasel out of it by saying things like "well, from what I knew at the time, it was true" or "if you interpret it this (ridiculous) way it was true". It's very, very hard to prove malicious intent—that is, prove what was going on in the CEO's head when they said it—with something like this beyond doubt, and that's effectively what's required.
by casenmgreen | 2025-11-29 13:21:52+00:00
I had a chat with Support. I spoke to two people, as I had a first conversation, then after finished remembered I wanted to ask what "all funds in the account will be refunded" meant.

From the first person;

1. TW cannot confirm or deny if standing payments on the account will go through.

2. It is clear I cannot directly or easily produce a suitable document to prove address. The only route I can see is is to contact the accountant, get him to change the trading address with Companyies House (the State registrar), and get that document from him. (I don't normally do this, because digital nomad - I'd be doing it every three months, if I did.)

As it is, I may have a better solution - I have reverted the address to the original address.

Interestingly, this has removed the warning that documentation is needed. I am curious to see what comes next.

From the second person;

1. The message fro TW that "if we don’t hear from you in the next 2 days, we’ll need to refund any money you’ve paid in" in fact means that you will no longer be able to make payments from your account, and any payments you do make will bounce back to you two days afterwards.

It turns out "paid in" means "payments you make to other people".

I would have written "you will not be able to make payments".

I'm not completely convinced about what's actually going on here, because of the strange co-incidence between TW saying "if we don't hear from you in two days" and the Support guy saying "payments come back in two days".

In any event Support here have asserted that payments from the account (to AWS, for example) are expected to stop working as of Sunday evening.

This also means the subject of this post is exactly wrong; it reflects my misunderstanding of TW's meaning.

2. TW cannot confirm or deny if payments into the account will still work.
by submeta | 2025-11-29 13:23:04+00:00
So we had this short period of ad-free time on ChatGPT. A tiny bubble where things were not polluted yet. And of course, now they are going down the exact same path as everyone else.

Same story with Amazon Prime Video. We had a few wonderful years without ads. Now I pay them 2.99 a month just to not see ads, and even then some shows are marked as “only with ads.” It is absurd.

And honestly, I am just tired of this pattern. Every service launches clean. They talk about user experience. They talk about trust. They talk about building something new. Then, the moment they have enough users locked in, the ad creep begins. First a little banner, then a “sponsored” thing, then pre-rolls, then mid-rolls, then “pay extra to remove the ads we just added.”

It feels like everything on the internet eventually devolves into the same dark pattern: take a good service, inject ads, charge to remove the ads, slowly add more ads anyway, and hope nobody leaves because the alternatives are just as bad.

The internet used to feel like innovation. Now half of it feels like airport TV: loud, annoying, and impossible to escape unless you pay for yet another upgrade.

Edit: Need to setup a raspberry pi.
by zeeed | 2025-11-29 13:23:49+00:00
Is it possible and cost-covering to create an ad-sponsored service that discloses what ad networks collect about users - i.e. age, location, preferences, interests, pregnancy, illnesses etc?

Because let’s be honest - all of us know that a lot of data points are being collected about us, countless articles have been written about the insanity of cookie and user-data monetization networks - still it appears to be a privilege to few to tap into that data trove.

I personally haven’t seen an effort to try and make this transparent. Efforts like this page are commendable and informative, much like amiunique or other services - still they lack the tangible information that sharing this information with “the world” reveals about an affected individual.

Why hasn’t this been done yet? Why is this seemingly not trivial?
by kimkoo | 2025-11-29 13:25:17+00:00
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The assembly section automatically arranges the coils into rows and pushes them into the stringing workstation with precise alignment. With adjustable spring height (80–230 mm), 4–7 coil turns, customizable waist diameter, and a heavy-duty 1000 kg wire capacity, the machine adapts easily to various mattress and sofa designs. Dual touchscreen panels and a wireless controller provide convenient parameter control, diagnostics, and operation management.

Ideal for manufacturers seeking higher automation, stable quality, and large-scale Bonnell spring production, this all-in-one solution delivers enhanced durability, efficiency, and long-term reliability backed by KIMKOO’s industry expertise.
by Hilift | 2025-11-29 13:25:51+00:00
You have minimal to zero leverage of the native Windows debugging, logging, or instrumentation. At best an opaque box with one knob and hopefully it doesn't fail or you will be roaming the countryside learning how to perform correlated packet captures at various levels of crappy obtuse networking. Could be useful for concealing non compliant vulnerable applications from pesky security vulnerability assessment teams. Combine that with the price is right and it is a solid 97% win exceeding performance metrics bonus pool refreshed.
by fweimer | 2025-11-29 13:25:52+00:00
I thought that most advertisers go through middlemen and do not do business with the ad networks directly? So you only have to make it attractive for the middlemen (of which there are fewer), and that shouldn't be a problem for anything AI-related.

Furthermore, anyone offering some sort of assisted browsing service is automatically in the ad business, regardless what they do with affiliate links in generated page summaries.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-29 13:26:16+00:00
The measurement may very well be accurate but statements like that should set off massive red flags and not be taken at face value. A factor of ten difference for something that just kinda diffuses through the air doesn't "just exist". You don't get gradients like that "naturally" for the most part. It's the result of something. Maybe there's a source something is upwind of and something else is downwind of. Maybe there's conditions causing it to concentrate. Or it varies 10x day to day, but on an average basis it equals out. Etc. Etc.
by gruez | 2025-11-29 13:26:17+00:00
>You can't re-create an icon to circumvent trademark law.

That's not what's happening here. According to wikipedia it's public domain because:

>This logo image consists only of simple geometric shapes or text. It does not meet the threshold of originality needed for copyright protection, and is therefore in the public domain. Although it is free of copyright restrictions, this image may still be subject to other restrictions. See WP:PD § Fonts and typefaces or Template talk:PD-textlogo for more information.
by time4tea | 2025-11-29 13:26:23+00:00
100% test coverage is a bit of a distraction.

You can get to 100% by having tests that run the code, but have no assertions.

You can run tests that test unimportant code just as much as super critical code. There's no differential between the two. Of course super critical code should have a number of different tests that exercise it. Its not the same as testing every path, its testing different inputs and checking that you get the right results. Also see property testing.

Chasing 100% is like any metric that becomes a goal, it perverts the metric, and moves the meaning away from the metric.

Why is that? Well, we dont really want tests at all, if only people could write perfect software first time, we wouldn't need them. Stupid people!

What we want are reliable systems! So we use feedback loops between deployed systems and code to help us discover those places where we need more tests, or a different type of testing, and then we do that.

Of course if your test coverage is 0%, thats probably bad, but 100% is a non-goal.

You'll also find that if there are no tests in a system, when you need to add them, its really hard, cos its not designed in a way that makes it testable. So maybe the TDDs will help you! You end up with a system that you have high confidence in, and also is testable.. so when you find something that doesn't work how you thought, its easy to add that test right in there.
by redhale | 2025-11-29 13:28:43+00:00
In my opinion, the openings to pair are harder to find when remote.

In person, it's usually easy to see when a junior is struggling, and pull up a chair. That same junior, in a remote environment, might not proactively ask for help. And me sending a slack message to them asking how they're doing might get a "all good" even when they are not. And sending a huddle request to them because I suspect they're struggling is just a VERY different thing than looking over at them to read their body language, or swinging my their desk to check in.

Maybe some would say that it's on that junior to know they need to ask for help. Sure, great. That does nothing to resolve the reality of this very real situation. Of course part of coaching this junior (in person or remote) would be encouraging them to be more proactive about asking for help, but if you have fewer opportunities to offer help and coaching in the first place, their growth is slower. Significantly slower in my opinion.

This is a hard difference to convey to someone who has never experienced a good in-person culture. But I know I would not be where I am if I had spent the first decade of my career working remotely.
by lupire | 2025-11-29 13:28:44+00:00
You mean non-Euclidean fabric?

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/09/08/trig-hyperbolic-ge...

https://math.hmc.edu/funfacts/spherical-pythagorean-theorem/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_distance
by lucasfdacunha | 2025-11-29 13:29:07+00:00
Working on https://greatreads.dev/

A place to aggregate and find articles from developers' blogs. Right now, I'm building a submission form for people to submit new sources.

There is also a way to search for articles using vectors, it's called "Semantic Search". So basically you can ask, for example, "Postgresql and how to best optimize it." and it would search for articles touching that subject, or at least related to it.

I've been slowly adding new sources to the website. Any suggestions would be great. It has about 300 sources at the moment.
by cluckindan | 2025-11-29 13:30:35+00:00
1) Absolutely nobody is going to take heavy psychedelics if they are driving or operating heavy machinery, and if they are, they are either very misinformed or simply don’t care to the point of malice. Driving or operating while impaired is a crime in itself.

2) The effects of DMT wear off in 15-30 minutes, which is why it’s called ”the businessman’s lunch”. Subjectively, however, a person may experience decades of time pass.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-11-29 13:30:44+00:00
There were plenty of preemptive multitasking systems for the original 68000, and regardless page fault recovery was fixed from the 010 onwards.

And certainly was very not a problem on PowerPC which TFA is about.

Also not sure how you can say the 68000 "barely has interrupts" I don't even know what you're on about.

MacOS was broken because Jobs forced it to be that way after he was kicked off the Lisa team. Which had a preemptive multitasking operating system on the 68000.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-29 13:31:21+00:00
This actually made me smile. The reason should be explained.

I hate ads, so I was sold on e. g. ublock origin from the get go - it is a general content blocker, before Google declared total war against and disabled the extension (karma will come back to Google eventually, but that is a separate story). I decide to want to live an ad-free life, naturally including on the world wide web. All ads must go. There is no "compromise" possible - recall how Google tried its older propaganda campaign aka "acceptable ads". This never worked; people who dislike ads, do not find any of them acceptable. Ever.

So greed is the motivation for ads.

Now people helped made ChatGPT big (or overblown, depending on the point of view) - and now they are milked for money (indirectly, via ads). So their time is now wasted with this. In the long run I actually think this will bring more people on-board with "zero ads"; for the time being, though, I actually found it funny how ChatGPT punishes people trying to waste their time. Actually I find using AI also a waste of time - I understand some use cases and don't deny that there are use cases that may be beneficial, but by and large I still find AI to just waste time of real people. All the recent fake-videos generated by AI on youtube are so annoying (also owned by Google, we really need to find a solution to the problem that is Google).
by thearrow | 2025-11-29 13:31:52+00:00
Please note that air quality in an area varies dramatically over time. You are looking at a current snapshot with maps like that. The map linked below has his more historical data and I can see several _weeks_ this past year in my area (which currently has very good air quality) where the PM 2.5 weekly average exceeded 25ug/m^3.

https://map.purpleair.com/air-quality-raw-pm25

Localized phenomena like a neighbor starting a fire, up to the activity of nearby factories and power plants, up to national and global phenomena like wildfires and weather patterns, all have dramatic effects. Looking at an air quality map once and determining that you don’t have to think about air quality because you’re in the US is a mistake.

Exercise outdoors is a wonderful thing, obviously, but there are some days, even in the US, where you might think twice or even consider shifting your exercise to a different (less-polluted) time of the day.
Show HN: Horizontal Cylinder Chess
by deanalvero | 2025-11-29 13:32:06+00:00
A chess variant where the top and bottom ranks are adjacent. An additional row of pawns protects your King in the other side of the play area.

This game is built using Compose Multiplatform and it runs on Android, iOS, Web, Desktop (JVM).

Source code is at https://github.com/deanalvero/horizontal-cylinder-chess.
by elevenapril | 2025-11-29 13:32:32+00:00
Hi HN, I built this because I live in a city with limited sunshine and kept missing the good days while working from home.

The problem: Apple Watch tracks "Time in Daylight" but buries it in Health app with zero insights.

What I built: - Pulls daylight data from HealthKit - Gives you a daily "Sunshine Score" (0-100) based on duration, frequency, and morning sun bonus - Shows weekly trends to spot patterns - Widget + Watch app for quick glance Tech: SwiftUI, HealthKit, WidgetKit, WatchOS. No backend – all data stays on device.

Built this in ~2 weeks with no prior iOS dev experience (used AI coding tools). Got rejected by Apple 4 times before approval – happy to share what I learned about HealthKit app reviews if anyone's curious.

Free to use, optional $1.99/mo subscription for trends.

Would love feedback, especially on the scoring algorithm.
by ifwinterco | 2025-11-29 13:33:00+00:00
A crypto advocate would argue smart contracts can fulfil that role, but also that applies in developed countries but not in the countries where the vast majority of the world population lives.

I think if a true crypto economy does emerge anywhere it's likely to be Nigeria, Lebanon etc - places with a significant population of educated entrepreneurial people but where the state is run abysmally and you can't rely on those institutions anyway
by sbarre | 2025-11-29 13:33:08+00:00
> pretty much entirely just generalizations of their own experience, but phrased as if they're objective truth

I mean you're describing 90% of blog and forum posts on the Internet here.

This (IMO - so it's not ironic) is the biggest leap most people need to make to become more self-aware and to better parse the world around them: recognizing there is rarely an objective truth in most matters, and the idea that "my truth is not your truth, both can be different yet equally valid" (again in most cases, not all cases).
by p0d | 2025-11-29 13:35:04+00:00
I have been running a one-man sideline Saas for 18 years. I have found that most customers have no concept of what the company looks like behind a Saas product.

The only time I had the, "What happens if you get knocked down by a bus?" comment, was for a big bespoke contract, which I got.

I have never aimed to hoodwink anyone. I have just been surprised to learn in the average person's mind Saas = company of many people. One client of 10 years was shocked when I told him by email that I was in my 50s and a company of one.
by netsharc | 2025-11-29 13:36:09+00:00
Maybe it's just my pessimism, but why am I imagining the ads given by LLM will make them turn to be like they're salespeople trying to meet their sales quotas?

"ChatGPT, my cat is coughing and not eating, what can I do?"

"One consideration is air quality in the cat's environment. You should take your cat to an island holiday, for example to St. Barts. Jet2 is offering a package holiday for next week if you book now"
by bdangubic | 2025-11-29 13:36:34+00:00
Few things that I would tell my kid of she was starting out in this industry today

- never work FAANG or any bullshit company like that

- look for companies that are small (up to 100 SWEs max, preferably 1/2 that) that have solid business (20+ years, profitable)

- when you get hired volunteer to fix every problem everyone else is running away from (there will be plenty). you will work hard in the beginning to understand the nuts and bolts of everything

- along with nuts and bolts of the technology / stack / ... learn the domain as much possible (so much so that you could get a job tomorrow in that domain, e.g. if your company is providing software for automation of say state&local courts then you need to learn everything there is to learn about state&local courts so much so that you could legit get a job as a court administrator)

"soon" you will be the first that:

- fixes all the issues

- puts out production fires

- is in every meeting

- ...

there are other ways to do this but this 100% is one of them...
by mrweasel | 2025-11-29 13:37:22+00:00
I might be completely wrong, but I doubt that OpenAI can sell enough ad space to cover their cost. Maybe their clicks will be more valuable and that will help.

Still I see this as a pretty desperate act. Google and Meta also makes their living of ads, but they've cranked that nob so hard, to please the shareholders, that their product is now suffering. If OpenAI does the same, they could easily crash as fast as they've grown. Complete boom and bust cycle in less than a decade.