MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by prmoustache | 2025-11-23 16:03:22+00:00
OTOH I never lived 5 years in the same place and I think it is not that bad of an idea when I look at the sheer amount of unused or barely used shit people hoard over the years in their house.

Then one day people's health or econoly dwindle, they need to move to a place without stairs or to a city center clother to amenities such as groceries, pharmacy and healthcare without relying on a car they cannot drive safely anymore, and moveming becomes a huge task. Or they die and their survivors have to take on the burden of emptying/donating/selling all that shit accumulated over the years.

Every move I assessed what I really needed and what I didn't and I think my life is better thanks to that.

I understand this is a YMMV thing. I am not saying everyone should move every couple of years. But to many people that isn't that big of a deal and it can be also considered in a very positive way.
by kasool | 2025-11-23 16:03:41+00:00
To elaborate on this, Vulkan is an open _standard_ whose many implementations (user mode driver) may or may not be open source. Vulkan is just a header file, it's up to the various independent hardware vendors (IHVs) to implement it for their platform.

Also a small correction: Vulkan actually _does_ run Apple platforms (via Vulkan-to-Metal translation) using MoltenVK and the new KosmicKrisp driver, and it works quite well.
by rlpb | 2025-11-23 16:04:07+00:00
> I'd say that a forked, LTS apache2 (just an example) on a 15 year old LTS is likely used by 17 people and someone's dog.

Likewise, the number of black hats searching for vulnerabilities in these versions is probably zero, since there isn't a deployment base worth farming.

Unless you're facing something targeted at you that an adversary is going to go to huge expense to try to find fresh vulnerabilities specifically in the stack you're using, you're probably fine.

I agree with your sentiment that no known vulnerabilities doesn't mean no vulnerabilities, but my point is that the risk scales down with the deployment numbers as well.

And always keeping up with the newest thing can be more dangerous in this regard: new vulnerabilities are being introduced all the time, so your total exposure window could well be larger.
by k310 | 2025-11-23 16:04:19+00:00
AI and less readability are features that nobody requested, and are arguably weapons in a perceived war among CEO's.

Windows Users Furious at Microsoft’s Plan to Turn It Into an “Agentic OS” [0]

> "Great, how do I disable literally all of it?"

Long story short, only linux and bsd-derived distros give you choice.

I suggest that with the switch in computing from "Faithful Servant" to "PIMP"

[0] https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/windows-users-f...
by whnr | 2025-11-23 16:04:23+00:00
If you’re a German this is wonderful because it imports PDFs of most German (and some European) brokers perfectly.

A big pain I have with the US reporting is that dividend payments don’t give the quality there based on anywhere. That makes it close to impossible to calculate TTWROR or IRR. Because just because yahoo says there was a dividend does not mean there was cash flow.
by ndegruchy | 2025-11-23 16:04:33+00:00
Yeah, same with OpenOffice for years. It was a hack to get the program already resident in memory and ameliorate some of the startup costs.

Again, this was a hack. They should really be looking at fixing the issues with the startup time and slow performance of explorer, because even on vastly lesser machines, we've had near-to-instant startup times with, effectively, the same application.
by dahart | 2025-11-23 16:04:52+00:00
Rasterizing and shading are two separate stages. You don’t need to know pixel position when shading. You can wire up the pixel coordinates, if you want, and they are often nearby, but it’s not necessary. This gets even more clear when you do deferred shading - storing what you need in a G-buffer, and running the shaders later, long after all rasterization is complete.
by varispeed | 2025-11-23 16:05:04+00:00
The rot is in the state: procurement rackets, sweetheart deals, and policy capture by corporations who get access no ordinary voter ever will. When a government sits down with giant asset managers, then magically “discovers” Digital ID is its national priority, that’s not the invisible hand at work. That’s the very visible hand of influence bypassing democratic process.

People love saying “it’s just capital seeking returns” as if that explains anything. It doesn’t. Accumulating money isn’t the issue. Being able to buy policy outcomes is the issue. Once private interests can tilt regulation, spending, and national infrastructure in their favour, you no longer have a market problem. You have a governance problem.

Food banks didn’t explode because Jeff Bezos has too many zeroes in his account. They exploded because governments funnel public money into offshore middlemen, contractors billing ten times the real cost, multinationals avoiding scrutiny, and regulators pretending this is all fine. That’s not the “cycle of capital”. That’s a parasitic state captured by rent-seekers.
by proactivesvcs | 2025-11-23 16:05:13+00:00
In the context of UK infrastructure, "OR" is an abbreviation of "Openreach", part of the BT Group that is responsible for the infrastructure from ducts and poles to street cabinets and exchange buildings. It is not an organisation that an end user can access for support and is charged by ISPs to repair, upgrade and install additions to large parts the telecommunications network. It can be difficult to convince one's ISP to have Openreach investigate a physical fault or bottleneck, unless that ISP is the aforementioned Andrews and Arnold who literally implemented automated methods to repeatedly bounce faults back to Openreach when the latter insists on erroneously rejecting faults. Makes for entertaining reading :-)
by saaaaaam | 2025-11-23 16:05:16+00:00
I think you’ve put your finger on it. This isn’t about AI, it’s about the threat to people’s identity presented by AI. For a while now “writing code” has been a high status profession, with a certain amount of impenetrable mystique that “normies” can’t hurdle. AI has the potential to quite quickly shift “writing code” from a high status profession that people respect to commodity that those same normies can access.

For people whose identities and self of sense have been bolstered by being a member of that high status group AI is a big threat - not because of the impact on their work, but because of the potential to remove their status, and if their status slips away then they may realise they have nothing much else left.

When people feel threatened by new technology they shout loud and proud about how they don’t use it and everything is just fine. Quite often that becomes a new identity. Let them rail and rage against the storm.

“Blow winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!”

The image of Lear “a poor, infatuated, despised old man” seems curiously apt here.
by nine_k | 2025-11-23 16:05:54+00:00
Writing boilerplate code is mostly creative copy-pasting.

If I were to do it, I would have most of the reusable code (e.g. of a RBAC system) written and documented once and kept unpublished. Then I would ask an AI tool to alter it, given a set of client-specific properties. It would be easier to review moderate changes to a familiar and proven piece of code. The result could be copied to the client-specific repo.
by perching_aix | 2025-11-23 16:06:48+00:00
Thankfully it's mathematics, so people powerscaling their idols, deifying them at the detriment of others, and putting terms into quotes mockingly, is not what determines whether results hold or not. Perhaps the only field not fundamentally shackled by this type of quackery, even if people try their hardest from time to time to make it so.
by itsalwaysgood | 2025-11-23 16:07:06+00:00
The author refers to their dad as a coward.

When the wife wanted to divorce, the dad recruited his mother-in-law to convince the wife to stay on the marriage.

He was selfishly hiding information and making lifelong decisions for everyone because "he knew best."

The dad died of a heart attack. His family was too ignorant to know a quick drive to the hospital was the best action. They didn't know because the 911 operator told them to wait for the ambulance (for legal reasons, they will not tell you to rush to the hospital. Imagine the liability of a wreck).

There's no need to play devil's advocate. Private decisions were made, and we all have the privilege of reading about the outcome. It gives us much to consider, and not much else.
by onion2k | 2025-11-23 16:07:09+00:00
I'd read it more generously than that. I think Chrome trying to stop the server choosing the language for you. By sending an accepts-language header (which your browser does regardless of what you use; it's not a Chrome thing) the server should return the page in a language you've said you'll accept. By adding the language to what you've told Chrome not to translate, it's attempting to show you pages in languages you want.

I imagine Chrome is really adding the language to your browser preferences when you choose not to translate a page, and the HTTP client in the browser is generating request headers based on your preferred languages. A small (and largely unimportant) semantic point, but it's possible that the Google translate team weren't aware of how adding a preferred language might impact user privacy. That isn't to excuse the behaviour; they should have checked.
by spongebobstoes | 2025-11-23 16:07:12+00:00
in my experience, it is not a useful heuristic

a non native English writer may have a "house style" that you see as violating norms

dismissing all those people removes a great diversity of thought and expression from your mind without due consideration

better to engage with more ideas, even those in unusual packaging. learning to read it easily and without bias is two kinds of skill growth anyhow
by rixed | 2025-11-23 16:07:24+00:00
I haven't read Marx since I left college, but in my remembering the only thing that is "theft" in the capital is the initial accumulation. There is no idea that any form of ownership beside that is theft (I don't believe there is any notion of "evil" either.) To be honest, you don't give the impression that you have read anything from the author that you are siting. Marx is like those ancient greek phylosophers and classical scientists who are "quoted" more often than read.

One could probably say that the privatisation of human communication is a form of "initial accumulation", or maybe just another step toward appropriation of culture, but that's apparently not the angle that the author decided to explore (can't be sure, I couldn't do better than skim that text which looked wrong in too many ways).
by cjbgkagh | 2025-11-23 16:08:53+00:00
While I agree it is unfair and it would be better if they didn’t, the reality is that there is a meta-game at a higher level and they are playing according to the meta-game rules. Part of the meta-game is to convince others to stay in the regular game sandbox which gives rise to the hypocrisy we are all familiar with. I don’t know what it would take to diminish the meta-gaming let alone eliminate it, it’s very hard to stop things that are very profitable. I also think we’re in the looting phase of corporatocracy. I think the result of this means the meta-gaming rapidly grows like a cancer to take over everything.
by delfinom | 2025-11-23 16:08:59+00:00
>ISPs also have different levels of service for different entities, and seem to just barely care about you as a customer.

Hah, we were independent and now part of a megacorp. The local ISP (basically a Optimum subsidiary) still does not care. Their ONT is still a old model that uses....volatile RAM for configuration, and if (and they do) fail to replace the backup batteries, then the configuration is wiped on power interruptions.
by varispeed | 2025-11-23 16:09:18+00:00
The problem isn’t the number of regulators or how muscular they are. It’s that there’s no functioning enforcement. You can design the neatest regulatory framework in the world, but if the people meant to uphold it look the other way, you may as well print it on kitchen roll.

Take MI5. Their remit explicitly includes safeguarding the democratic system. Yet when you’ve got a government holding cosy meetings with global asset managers and, like magic, Digital ID turns into a flagship national policy nobody voted for, where are they? Nowhere. They’re busy pumping out LinkedIn-based “espionage alerts” about Chinese headhunters while ignoring policy capture happening in broad daylight. They don’t even need the Prime Minister’s blessing to investigate that kind of threat. They just… don’t.

So yes, we have oligarchic corporatism. But the real failure is that the institutions meant to keep it in check have basically checked out.
by michaelt | 2025-11-23 16:11:19+00:00
Let's quote the godfather of British ID cards, Tony Blair:-

> Why is TikTok so successful? Because its algorithms establish your personal preferences so quickly and satisfy them with their content. How do they do that? By accumulating your data and using the services of a huge number of computer engineers to make those algorithms so effective.

[...]

> Imagine that all your health information was in one place: easy, with your permission, for anyone anywhere in the health service to see. That your passport, driving licence, anything you need to prove your identity, were in one simple digital wallet, unique to you. That you could purchase and pay for any goods or services using your digital ID.

https://institute.global/insights/tech-and-digitalisation/to...

So the proposal isn't just a mandatory ID card - it's also the unification of all government databases.

Combining tax records, driving licenses, passports, NHS records, benefits, vehicle registration, the ability to get a job, the ability to rent a house and the ability to get a bank account into one unified super-database (with an app)

The ID being fully digital will also be a boon for the financial services industry. Today banks extending large loans can afford to check people's documents properly even if it takes a few days and a visit to a bank branch. But what payday loan companies that want to loan someone £15 for a takeaway curry on sunday evening? They don't have the margin, the time or the physical presence to check IDs properly, and often lose money to fraud because of it.
by bradleyjg | 2025-11-23 16:11:20+00:00
Neat! Thank you. That’s really the killer feature for this imo.

In a year when I consolidated a bunch of accounts, I’ve found essentially no program regardless of off or online that’s able to build a global view.

It’s a pretty classic data problem—-heterogeneous data sources, entity resolution, etc. Should be amenable to a ml solution.
by dahart | 2025-11-23 16:11:25+00:00
I think what you’re describing is the difference between raster and vector graphics, and doesn’t reflect on shaders directly.

It always depends on your goals, of course. The goal of drawing with a pen is to draw outlines, but the goal behind rasterizing or ray tracing, and shading, is not to draw outlines, but often to render 3d scenes with physically based materials. Achieving that goal with a pen is extremely difficult and tedious and time consuming, which is why the way we render scenes doesn’t do that, it is closer to simulating bundles of light particles and approximating their statistical behavior.

Of course, painting is slighty closer to shading than pen drawing is.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-23 16:12:09+00:00
For me, the real question is why all these neolib governments are insisting on - spending all their political capital on - these things that have no constituency demanding them? The only people telling UK citizens that they suddenly need digital ID are ministers in the government. Who exactly are they working for?

Of course, that question is asked by me in bad faith. You'll see exactly who they're working for when they are voted out and go to work for them directly. You can see now when you see who their ex-colleagues work for. So the real question is how long with the populace tolerate these massively unpopular governments, that are in-place due to historical electoral exclusion systems and media collusion, instituting massive authoritarian changes and moving more and more power into the executive and the private sector?

Why have these historically 2-party countries had their 2 parties completely merge on policy matters (other than goofy wedge issues that are intentionally kept unresolved), and even combined are not even carrying majorities anymore? And how much can we hope for different out of the recently-small, disorganized, personality-driven "populist" parties who are vying to defeat them and almost getting majorities? Are they just greenfield corruption projects by the same people, to avoid or recycle the old corruption networks?

Is there any possible way we can get politicians to work on all of the obvious stuff falling apart rather than spending all of their time pandering to authoritarian billionaires for life-changing amounts of cash?
by gus_massa | 2025-11-23 16:12:51+00:00
It's a general purpouse language. Reusig an old comment, I used it for

* A bot to reply emails that uses IMAP, SMTP and web scrapping. (It's not 100% automatic. It replies only the easy cases and adds labels so I reply the tricky ones.)

* An program to cleanup Moodle backups that uses gzip and xml. I compiled it and send it to my coworkers. (The backups have too much info, so before restoring it in another site it's better to remove the unused parts.)
by fogzen | 2025-11-23 16:13:05+00:00
What is the ideological lens that characterizes our society? Greed.

The individual owes nothing to society: no limit to what I can own. Society owes nothing to me: my share of the wealth is my own fault. Might makes right. A deal is fair regardless of the terms: a deal is a deal. Workers don’t deserve a vote: they agreed to their servitude.
by khaledh | 2025-11-23 16:14:00+00:00
I'm no expert myself, but is this the same as Russell's type hierarchy theory? This is from a quick Google AI search answer:

Bertrand Russell developed type theory to avoid the paradoxes, like his own, that arose from naive set theory, which arose from the unrestricted use of predicates and collections. His solution, outlined in the 1908 article "Mathematical logic as based on the theory of types" and later expanded in Principia Mathematica (1910–1913), created a hierarchy of types to prevent self-referential paradoxes by ensuring that an entity could not be defined in terms of itself. He proposed a system where variables have specific types, and entities of a given type can only be built from entities of a lower type.
by xp84 | 2025-11-23 16:14:29+00:00
Yeah, here in the US there are geographically tiny pockets in a few major cities that have actual fiber. Most of the country, including a shocking number of dense urban areas outside the east coast, has zero fiber penetration. Of our two telephone monopolies, one installed fiber for 10 years and quit (the East Coast one), and the other basically never installed fiber to the home.

So anyway, outside that lucky group we all use cable only because the alternative is, in many places, 6Mbps ADSL on aging and flaky copper wires. Or potentially 12Mbps… VDSL? AT&T branded that as U-Verse for a while. But basically they ceded the market to the cable companies.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-23 16:14:32+00:00
Isn't this particular failure mode applicable to any TDMA technology (of which even GPON fiber is one) when the contention ratios become too high?

The issue is that the ISP selling services beyond what that physical network segment can provide, and it being effectively legal to sell something and not deliver it if you're a big enough corporation and only scam consumers.
Show HN: AI Factor Model Stock Screener
by valeagent | 2025-11-23 16:15:09+00:00
I built Sophistia because traditional stock screeners only filter financial ratios, and none of them let you screen companies by deeper business characteristics or narrative factors.

Sophistia lets you type any factor in plain English - e.g., “AI datacenter exposure”, “high switching costs”, “mission-critical supplier”, “tariff sensitivity”, “recurring-revenue strength”, “rare earths value chain”, “Trump trade war beneficiaries”, “AI-disruption risk”, etc. You can describe in detail what the factor should evaluate and choose the scoring scale.

The system scores thousands of companies from 0–10 on each factor using LLMs with structured context. Companies with the highest total scores rise to the top of your custom thematic watchlist. It’s essentially a factor-model stock screener for retail investors: you define the narrative, factors, characteristics, or thesis, and the tool finds the companies that actually match it.

I built this after realizing how difficult it is for retail investors to identify companies that benefit (or suffer) from a trend without already knowing the entire universe of stocks. Hedge funds solve this by having the resources to track all the stocks; retail investors don't. This is my attempt to bridge that gap.

This is not a tool for deep, company-specific analysis but rather a way to surface the companies that exhibit the characteristics you’re looking for and may deserve a closer look.

This is very much a v1: right now it only covers SEC companies and the contextual data is still limited. Feedback from anyone familiar with active trading, screening tools, or factor models would be extremely helpful.

This is a completely solo-founded project that I built myself.
Show HN: Jabcode Studio, high-density QR-like 2D barcodes for sharing files
by jabber-feller | 2025-11-23 16:15:17+00:00
I built Jabcode Studio, a tool for creating and scanning high-density QR-like 2D colour barcodes. Unlike standard QR codes, these use multiple colours to pack much more data (upwards of 2 KB per code).

Web and iOS available. App store link here: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/jabcode-studio/id6749924342

JAB Code has been around for a while, with some discussion here a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18495250

But this is the first implementation I've seen for files (without compiling from source) and the first iOS compatibility I’ve seen.
by SilentM68 | 2025-11-23 16:15:56+00:00
This seems interesting.

Me wonders if this can be applied to other parts of the brain, perhaps recalling long buried memories? In my case, "a 12‑lexeme mnemonic constellation that operates as a cognitive entropy incantation, each syllabic particle mapping onto a quantized shard of an authorization singularity’s randomness reservoir. This ordered cascade of linguistic quanta serves as a deterministic bootstrap constant, re‑materializing access to a distributed transactional continuum avatar via recursive derivation algorithms. In practice, it’s a compact neuro‑linguistic checksum spell, a bridge where human cortex patterns resonate with machine‑level information‑integrity archetypes, conjuring identity from chaos like a linguistic particle accelerator, aka ₿" ;)
by jabber-feller | 2025-11-23 16:16:05+00:00
Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Thanks for checking this out! A lot of the backend is thanks to the original open source Jabcode project. Their code already supports files, but I added compression and some tooling in the app to make file transfer more seamless.

The original implementation used some deprecated image libraries, so I rebuilt all the image handling with iOS tools, like converting directly to bitmaps for speed and stability. I’m also working on extending the code to 16- and 32-colour modes, since those were dropped when ISO standardized Jabcode.

I’ve always collected physical media like NES and Atari games, but I know for many creators distributing physical products can be too expensive. So I thought printing a game on cardstock or putting Jabcode encoded data on the back of a poster could be a neat way to sell a “physical” version of a digital product.