MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chollida1 | 2025-11-11 17:10:33+00:00
The more I read about hte history of computer animation in movies the more i am amazed at George Lucas for being such a visionary.

To be the man responsible for the creation of Pixar, Industrial Light and Magic, Skywalker sound, LucasFilm games, THX, and Kerner Optical is a very impressive accomplishment for him and that's secondary to the main accomplishment he's known for in StarWars.
by iluxonchik | 2025-11-11 17:10:39+00:00
$90B is a lot of gold for sure! :D

But the total amount of gold seized worldwide is much smaller than Bitcoin (using today's spot prices). There is a popular argument that Bitcoin is better than gold because it's harder/impossible to seize, which is simply not true.

Also, I meant to share this article, not the one linked by this post: https://illya.sh/threads/multiple-governments-have-seized-bi...

It's on the same topic, but more detail.
by trashb | 2025-11-11 17:10:40+00:00
A lot of (not all) European regulation is at it's core about trade. Things this author feels are "obstructions to trade" are to enable trade of the things we value. For example Europe might regulate what fish species you can sell if you call a fish "Anchovy". Additionally some regulation applies minimal standards, for example regulation of the angle of what's visible in the rear view mirror of a car. On top of that some regulation is to guarantee certain standard of living between member countries. The countries themselves are separate governing states therefore they still have some agency on the standards they set on top of the European regulation. This all is required for equal trade between countries while not merging altogether.

On top of that not all regulation is about economics, sometimes we favor safety, standard of living or social safety nets above short term profit. Those factors will in the long run lead to more prosperity for the citizens.

No system is ideal and there are definitely problems within Europe however I feel like this article is written from a very pro USA perspective. At points it almost reads like a thread to the European government or pro-USA propaganda. I think the authors proposes a solution that will lead to a "race to the bottom" within European trade similar to how the current economic system is dysfunctional in the USA.
by wanderingmoose | 2025-11-11 17:10:54+00:00
I work in vfx, and we had a lecture from one of the art designers that worked with some formula 1 teams on the color design for cars. It was really interesting on how much work goes into making the car look "iconic" but also highlight sponsors, etc.

But for your point, back during the pal/ntsc analog days, the physical color of the cars was set so when viewed on analog broadcast, the color would be correct (very similar to film scanning).

He worked for a different team but brought in a small piece of ferrari bodywork and it was more of a day-glo red-orange than the delicious red we all think of with ferrari.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-11 17:10:56+00:00
very rarely, you see even americans being abducted at their work place but the company owners are mostly left alone. If employing illegal immigrants was that risky, it would drop dramatically. This isn't about illegal immigration, it is about hatred and cruelty. Native born american citizens are rotting in prison without so much as seeing a judge or a lawyer, if you defend that, you are a traitor. If you can at least disavow that, I can consider that your argument is in good faith.

Your link shows the company was fined. what a joke. americans are rotting in prison and the company is fined? why the employers not in jail next to the illegal immigrants. Who was in a better position to obey the law? the wealthy employer who screwed over american workers by hiring illegal migrants, or the desperate migrant trying to earn an honest living?

I hope you reflect on your moral character before defending these people.
by ericmcer | 2025-11-11 17:11:04+00:00
Generally agree, but I also don't like how dogmatic people are about this. It feels like a cult where there is no room for nuance on either side.

Are we too dumb to believe some vaccines are life saving miracles and that others may not be necessary? Why is it so all or none?

Especially given things like most European nations not vaccinating against RSV, Hep A or Varicella. Are they all psycho anti-vax nutjobs? It seems much better to go through them one by one, and say: "Measles is universally recommended, has saved countless lives, lets do that one. Covid-19 vaccine for a 6 month old, USA is the only country still recommending it, skip it."
by ryandrake | 2025-11-11 17:11:08+00:00
> All of this while people were out contravening quarantine mandates anyway. Getting haircuts kills grandma - so how come everybody out on the streets was proudly posting pictures of themselves on social media wearing rainbow-colored masks, with perfectly manicured buzz cuts?

I think if COVID times taught us anything, it's that you can make all the "mandates" you want, but if you don't enforce them, they're just suggestions, and the public will mock and ignore them. It was infuriating watching people ignore stay-at-home, deliberately endangering everyone and prolonging the pandemic, and then laughing it up on social media, consequence-free. Absolutely shameful. But because the mandates were never really enforced, people freely acted like assholes.
by gf000 | 2025-11-11 17:11:25+00:00
> What went wrong?

Well, we have FP at home.

It just got ingrained into pretty much every mainstream language, and most [1] of the wins can be had even when it's applied to certain parts of the code base only. Like, Java has immutable data classes (records), ADTs with pattern matching, etc.

As much as I like Clojure, I just don't think Lisps can ever become too mainstream, their readability simply repels too many people (and even though I am okay with reading it, I do think it's less readable than an equivalent Java-style code would be).

[1]: I would even argue that a properly mixed pure and (locally) side-effecting code is the happy ground, as they strengthen each other
by alwillis | 2025-11-11 17:11:26+00:00
> After years of using git I got back to svn

You get the best of both worlds--a sane set of commands and a distributed version control system--by using Mercurial [1].

Checking Status: SVN: svn status Mercurial: hg status

Adding Files: SVN: svn add <filename> Mercurial: hg add <filename>

Committing Changes: SVN: svn commit -m "Commit message" (commits changes directly to the central repository) Mercurial: hg commit -m "Commit message" (commits changes to the local repository) and hg push (sends local commits to a remote repository)

Deleting/Removing Files: SVN: svn delete <filename> or svn remove <filename> Mercurial: hg remove <filename> or hg rm <filename>

Viewing History: SVN: svn log Mercurial: hg log

Viewing Differences: SVN: svn diff Mercurial: hg diff

Branching: SVN: svn copy <source_URL> <destination_URL> (creates a branch by copying a directory in the repository) Mercurial: hg branch <branchname> (creates a new named branch within the repository)

Reverting Changes: SVN: svn revert <filename> (reverts local modifications) or svn merge -r <revision>:<revision> <URL> (for more complex reverts) Mercurial: hg revert <filename> (reverts local modifications) or hg backout <changeset> (to undo a specific commit)

[1]: https://www.mercurial-scm.org
by tsegratis | 2025-11-11 17:11:38+00:00
thanks for the reply

ive lived a large part of my life in the Middle East, so my opinion of bias is formed from seeing news outlets write about situations ive lived in

> So ask yourself, which direction is the BBC bias truly happening?

i have. im not asking who is committing war crimes. im saying bias needs to be fixed -- the issues presented in the report are massive irrespective of who committed war crimes!!

and if we desire to truly and correctly ascribe war crimes, then we must start with removing bias. else we lay error ontop of error
by phantasmish | 2025-11-11 17:11:58+00:00
I want a tiny phone.

But I have kids, and am less willing to compromise on camera quality than I am size.

I’d pay the same price for a smaller phone if the camera specs (and ideally battery life—go ahead and make it a little thicker, they’re too thin anyway) were the same as the larger phones, but they’re not.

I bet those kinds of differences are what do it for a lot of folks. They’re like me and would prefer smaller, all else being equal—but all else is typically not equal, even compared to standard iPhones and not the ultra-high-end ones.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-11 17:12:04+00:00
> Go back and listen to what the media was saying about the vaccines when they were first released: you won't get COVID, you won't spread COVID

You’re making the claim. Show me.

I remember this debate happening online. It was stupid then as it is now. The clinical outcomes were clear as day: reduced hospitalisation. And Jonas Salk’s original polio vaccine was non-sterilising and not only not non-infecting, but actively infecting.
by 999900000999 | 2025-11-11 17:12:26+00:00
I just can't.

This is 150$ and probably cost 5 to 10$ to make.

You can ask a traditional crafts person in most the world to make you a custom one with traditional patterns and it would be significantly better. Then they can feed their family for a least a week.

Apple isn't the only one who can make a giant sock!
by kridsdale1 | 2025-11-11 17:12:27+00:00
I bought a Pro Max for myself and an Air for my wife, who had a Mini before.

The Air is DAMN SMALL. You really should try holding it. Yes the 2D dimensions are as large as a normal modern phone but it’s hardly there otherwise. It’s a good compromise.

I’d want it myself but I shoot ProRes Video.
by wmeredith | 2025-11-11 17:12:32+00:00
There's a bunch of damning stuff in the report, but this is the smoking gun:

"The team tasked with vetting fraudulent ads had a guideline not to impact more than 0.15% of Meta’s revenue — roughly US$135 million of US$90 billion in H1 2025.

There's clear line in the sand drawn where Meta prioritizes revenue despite knowingly harming people. This company should be dismantled.
by mushgev | 2025-11-11 17:13:08+00:00
Thanks! I started building this after running into the problem myself. On one project we had five developers, each using AI tools, and everyone ended up structuring things differently. After a few weeks the codebase felt like five mini-projects stitched together.

I wanted something that kept the architecture consistent without everyone having to stop and redraw diagrams all the time. That’s how SpecMind started. We’ve been using it in real projects, and it’s been much easier to keep track of how everything fits together.
by sincerely | 2025-11-11 17:13:10+00:00
in my experience as a tech guy who got into fashion and then after several years went back to not caring: Sneakers are the product category with the least differentiation in value-for-money between the high end (especially designer, but also not-designer-but-still-expensive like common projects) both in terms of aesthetics and quality/durability. You're paying $300 more for a 10% better product. Jeans, outerwear, knits, boots, you can more easily justify that cost
by dpflan | 2025-11-11 17:13:15+00:00
At this point, you may as well get a powerpack for a mini and put it in one of these slings, you could have a crazy powerful machine in your "sock-et" sling thing here...

When the iPhone Air was just another huge phone...but thinner...smh. Apple should put up some page to check interest level in a smaller phone, and with enough interest, go manufacture it. If it is more expensive because economies of scale don't work out, but they create one that is small yet powerful, that's what I would buy at premium, because apparently compactness is a luxury.
by snickerbockers | 2025-11-11 17:13:39+00:00
It certainly should be possible but idk if its actually implemented; at the very least you should be able to implement it as a filter plugin for ffmpeg.

Some of the more advanced CRT shaders actually attempt to mathematically model how the video gets distorted by the CRT and even the component video. If the effects of converting to film are so well-understood that Pixar can adapt their film for the process then it out to be able to post-process the video in a way that reproduces those artifacts.

I don't think its possible for it ever to be exactly the same since the display technology of a monitor is fundamentally different from a film projector(or a CRT) but it should be possible to get it good enough that its indistinguishable from an photo of the film being displayed on a modern monitor (ie the colors aren't completely different like in the comparisons in the article.

BTW TFA didn't mention this but about 15 years ago they rerendered toy story and toy story 2 for a new theatrical run when those gimmicky 3d glasses were popular. If that's the version thats being distributed today on Disney plus and bluray (IDK but i feel like it probably is) then that could potentially be a more significant factor in ruining the color balance than not having been converted to film.
by lenkite | 2025-11-11 17:14:02+00:00
> I don't believe that these were significantly contributory, from experience: The unions...

The formally commissioned report clearly demonstrates that the ship building unions were dysfunctional:

"…a laborer (member of the Transport and General Workers Union) [to] carry the ladder to site, a rigger (member of the Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers Union) [to] erect it and place it in the proper position, and an electrician (member of the Electrical Trades Union) [to] actually remove the old bulb and screw in the new one. Production was often halted while waiting for a member of the appropriate union to arrive to perform the job reserved by agreement for them. (sunset 96)"
by fabian2k | 2025-11-11 17:14:03+00:00
I haven't followed all the details, but the parts I've seen all pretty much said that the risk of myocarditis from a COVID infection is still larger than from the vaccines. This is all very low incidence, so it's hard to get robust data.

But as you can assume that COVID is widespread enough that almost everyone will get it at some point, the risk from the vaccine is not larger than that from the infection, likely it is much lower (especially if we include more than myocarditis).
by fxtentacle | 2025-11-11 17:14:10+00:00
The iPhone Air was a turn in the wrong direction.

What people like me wanted was an iPhone 13 mini that's a bit thicker so it can have a bit more battery capacity. And with the 120 Hz PWM nausea fixed.

The iPhone Air has worse battery life. And it has a larger screen. And it's worse to handle one-handed. Coming from the 13 mini, it's not an improvement.
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-11 17:14:15+00:00
Beats me. The only dosage forms I've seen are blotter and sugar cubes, maybe some of the blotter diffuses through the lining of your mouth if you keep it under your tongue but it also works great if you just swallow it -- it's very orally available.

Lilly though had a bad relationship with drugs, he crashed his bike when he was high on ketamine long before ketamine was fashionable.

In the early 1990s accounts of drug experiences on Erowid were mostly positive ("I smoked weed and got high and had a good time") but by the early 2000s it started to look like anti-drug propaganda but I think it was a lower quality tranche of users [1] and you started seeing negative ones ("I took a fistful of random pills, went out on the street, lost motor control and was laying flat on the ground, everybody was really sympathetic until I rolled over and a huge baggie of pills came out of my pocket, then I got kicked by a cop.")

[1] y'all know I am not inclined to believe in natural hierarchies but I think that early adopters of most things are "better" than later adopters however you define "better"
by nozzlegear | 2025-11-11 17:14:20+00:00
As a daily user of F#, I'm most looking forward to the support for "and!" in computation expressions. There are a few performance-critical pieces of code I can think of that are currently wrapped up in "Task.WhenAll" / "Parallel.ForEachAsync" that I'd like to extract back into "native" F# task computations.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-11-11 17:14:45+00:00
Might be true, but I don't think malnutrition, sedentary lifestyle etc have peaked in the 70s.

If these factors are perfectly controlled for, maybe you're right. It would be stupid for me to further engage in discussion about it though, without having read science about this.

There are other things we know about though, for example an increase in microplastics intake.
by _trampeltier | 2025-11-11 17:14:46+00:00
I work in industry automation and use for every day calculation mostly my HP 35s, even I also have a HP 50g under my desk and more than a PC on my desk.

It's just for me the most easy way to calculate things with current and power for everyday use.

And .. even the basic Windows calc app is so slow to start, I already finished until the app started.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-11 17:14:47+00:00
Hmmm. I saw the first three toy story; the fourth one I never saw, even though people said it is not bad, but to me Toy Story was over with the third one.

Now, while I liked the first three, the first one always has a special place, because at the time it was really quite new-ish. Fully computer animated movies were quite rare. Pixar did several short videos before Toy Story, and I think there were some other movies too, give or take, but Toy Story kind of changed everything past that. Unfortunately many other computer-generated movies are absolute garbage nowadays. The big movie makers want money and don't care about anything else, so they ruin the interest of people who are not super-young anymore, because let's face it: older people are less likely to watch the latest marvel 3D animated zero-story movie that is a clone of prior clones.

It would be nice if AI, despite it also sucking to no ends, could allow us to produce 3D movies with little effort. I have a fantasy game world my local pen and paper RPG group built. Would be interesting to feed it a ton of data (we have generated all that already over decades) and come up with an interesting movie that relates the story of a part of this. This is just one example of many more. Quality-wise I still like Toy Story - I find it historically important, and it was also good at the respective time (all first three actually, although the storylines got progressively weaker; I did like Ken and Barbie though, but too much of the story seemed to go into wanting to milk out more money selling toys rather than telling a story. Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear was always great though.)
by signatoremo | 2025-11-11 17:14:50+00:00
When was the last time Greater Italy being used? Right.

From the book “The Concept of “Greater China”: Themes, Variations and Reservation”:

The world is suddenly talking about the emergence of “Greater China.” The term has appeared in the headlines of major newspapers and magazines, has been the topic of conferences sponsored by prominent think-tanks, and is now the theme of a special issue of the world's leading journal of Chinese affairs. It thus joins other phrases – “the new world order,” “the end of history,” “the Pacific Century” and the “clash of civilizations” – as part of the trendiest vocabulary used in discussions of contemporary global affairs.

https://doi.org/10.1017/S030574100003229X

“Pro war” you say?
by lysace | 2025-11-11 17:14:54+00:00
That is fascinating.

I guess I got through that when I was 7 on a pass-me-down ZX81 from a relative who just had upgraded to a Spectrum (I assume).

I mentally called bull when reading boragonul's story because:

a) BASIC has a REPL

b) Kids back then had near infinite patience/time.

c) These computers came with pretty good manuals explaining BASIC

There was very little external stimuli. As an example: TV broadcasters in Europe were literally mostly shut off during the day to save power. Radio was on all day, but it was 99% boring adult stuff.
by SoftTalker | 2025-11-11 17:15:33+00:00
Those are not the options. COVID is exceedingly mild for many people (if I've ever had it, I didn't notice), and severe only for a few. The risk needs to be evaluated in relation to each person.

I rarely get sick. I haven't had flu or even a cold in at least 10 years. I don't get flu vaccines because in my estimation I don't need them. By contrast, for something like tetanus vaccines, I do get those periodically as my hobbies expose me to cuts and dirt.
by griffzhowl | 2025-11-11 17:15:34+00:00
I don't think it's a chicken or egg problem. We still have the non-functional form of the gene for synthesizing vitamin C in our genomes. It's been identified, and the mutation which knocked out it's functionality is known. This was a single event. If the primate who had this variant didn't already have a diet high in vitamin C, it wouldn't have survived. And since their diet was high in vitamin C, they obviously had the sensory apparatus necessary for detecting the food sources
by thegrim33 | 2025-11-11 17:15:53+00:00
I mean .. come on. The performance "investigations" where these:

- "When I set a FPS cap it seems to slow my game down to a halt, and I don't really know why, so I'm just going to shrug and disable it and it seems to fix it, so I'm not going to think about it anymore"

- "My game has worse performance on Mac but a library developer says they're fixing it, so I'm just going to shrug and hope it's eventually fixed"

- "The game performs better on Firefox than Chrome/Safari, I don't know why, who knows, moving on .."

- "I have horrible performance rendering text as an entity, so instead of fixing my entity system to be performant I'm going to just modify my game loop for text rendering to be its own thing"

- "I'm going to use pooling to re-use entities and it increases my performance by ~30%" (even though they have only a dozen entities on screen at once, only allocating a max of 1 or 2 objects per frame, and adding pooling for this is somehow a massive performance win?)

What value was I supposed to take from this article?
by shevy-java | 2025-11-11 17:16:20+00:00
I tested firefox recently. It had some AI summary button or something that was new. I instantly wanted to eliminate this from the UI but I don't know how to do that. I guess it is possible? But it probably requires some time and research; the thing I don't need or want this, it just takes away space.

Then I remembered why I no longer use firefox. I believe we, as users, need to take back the open web. The days of some random developers ruining the UI should really be over, be it firefox, or Google chrome killing ublock origin. We need to fight back.
Show HN: Enact – 60-second pitch analyzer (score/100 and 3 edits, no signup)
by cotreasoner | 2025-11-11 17:16:50+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m an engineer-turned-founder. I kept seeing smart people (me included) lose listeners in the first 60 seconds of a pitch.

Not because the idea was bad, but because the opener was rambling, vague, or missing a clear ask.

So I built a tiny tool to pressure-test that first minute.

What it does - You hit record in the browser (no signup). - Speak your pitch (up to ~60 seconds). - You get: a score out of 100, and three surgical edits (e.g. clarify who it’s for, add proof, tighten ask).

Why I’m posting - To see if this is actually useful beyond my own use case. - To get feedback on: - Does the scoring feel fair or gimmicky? - Are the edits specific enough to be actionable? - What would you want before using this with a real pitch?

Thanks for checking it out! Happy to answer questions in the comments.