MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lioeters | 2025-11-27 02:48:48+00:00
That gets into astrobiology. Theoretically life could have started as soon as its basic ingredients were ready. So not until things had cooled down a bit after the Bang, when there were heavier elements than hydrogen and helium; and some kind of land and water.

> In the redshift range 100 . (1 + z) . 137, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) had a temperature of 273–373 K (0-100◦C), allowing early rocky planets (if any existed) to have liquid water chemistry on their surface and be habitable, irrespective of their distance from a star.

> In the standard ΛCDM cosmology, the first star-forming halos within our Hubble volume started collapsing at these redshifts,allowing the chemistry of life to possibly begin when the Universe was merely 10–17 million years old.

From: The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe - https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0613

In comparison, our beloved sun is estimated to have been born 9.2 billion years after the Big Bang, a third of the way into the universe's history so far.

> The Sun is approximately 4.6 billion years old, while the age of the universe, based on current estimates, is about 13.8 billion years.

So our solar system is not that old, relatively speaking. We're among elders, some stars are three times older than the sun.

> In the future, however, life might continue to emerge on planets orbiting dwarf stars, like our nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, which will endure hundreds of times longer than the sun’s.

> Ultimately, it would be desirable for humanity to relocate to a habitable planet around a dwarf star like Proxima Centauri b, where it could keep itself warm near a natural nuclear furnace for up to 10 trillion years into the future.
by godelski | 2025-11-27 02:49:22+00:00
> it's distinct from hygiene.

Mold

Not to mention that any bacteria thrives in more humid environments. They aren't so good at keeping moist. This is true for a lot of things, especially the smaller the thing is, including bugs. Higher humidity definitely makes good hygiene more difficult.

Why do you think bathrooms have fans? That'd be a lot of effort to deal with farts.
by woodruffw | 2025-11-27 02:50:22+00:00
I don’t have strong opinions about Zig or Codeberg, but I find the self-described status of the latter’s infrastructure concerning[1]: they’re seemingly running faulty hardware in production with limited redundancy, and are actively soliciting more hardware of unknown quality/reliability/provenance from their community. This is cool for a hobbyist project, but it doesn’t scream “stable platform for a post-GitHub world,” which is how I’ve seen Codeberg (aspirationally) described.

[1]: https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-onwards-and-u...
by quirino | 2025-11-27 02:50:30+00:00
> As a bonus, we look forward to fewer violations (exhibit A, B, C) of our strict no LLM / no AI policy,

Hilarious how the offender on "exhibit A" [1] is the same one from the other post that made the frontpage a couple of days ago [2].

[1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/25974

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039274
by ggreer | 2025-11-27 02:51:25+00:00
The post doesn't link to the report itself. It looks like you can only read a summary of it for free and must pay 5.90 to download a copy.[1] From what I can glean from reading TUV's summary, it seems like the Teslas had significantly higher mileage than other vehicles (>50,000km in 2-3 years). Also their failures were mostly in brake discs and rear axle issues, which makes me think that due to regenerative braking, the discs were rusty from disuse. The rear axle issue they mention is probably a clicking noise caused by under-torqued rear halfshaft nuts.[2] Tesla updated their torque values last year[3], so this shouldn't be a problem anymore. Any older vehicle that has the click can be fixed by re-lubricating the hub and torquing the nut to the new value.

Without paying for the report, we can only speculate as to what TUV considers a serious defect. If the rates are as high as claimed (17% Model Y, 13% Model 3), then the issues are most likely minor things such as rusty brakes or rear axle clicking. Rusty brakes are less than ideal, but they're common on EVs and they work just fine. The fix is to simply use the brakes occasionally. If anything it's an indication that the vehicle requires less maintenance because the brake pads won't need replacement as frequently.

1. https://www.tuvsud.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025/novem...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HncCmgMp-s

3. https://service.tesla.com/docs/Model3/ServiceManual/2024/en-...
by nxobject | 2025-11-27 02:51:31+00:00
A note that it's easy to "overstay" a visa when waiting for a green card interview - the wait times are often in the 6-16 month range, and if you leave the country you'll be considered to have abandoned your "petition to adjust status". It's a catch-22, and it looks like the only recourse is for an immigration lawyer to file a habeas corpus petition in federal court.
by svieira | 2025-11-27 02:52:06+00:00
Yes, but my point is that without a reasonable supervision tree and crash boundary the difference between a composition of Result-returning functions that bottoms out in main's implicit panic and an explicit panic is nil operationally.

While lexically the unwrap actually puts the unhandledness of the error case as close to the source of the issue's source as possible. In order to get that lexical goodness you'd need something much more fine grained than Result.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-27 02:52:45+00:00
From a comment:

> The flush Hyundai and Kia handles are motorized and retractable, but they can also be opened entirely mechanically without power. They are little more awkward to use when unpowered but it's entirely doable if you know how. You just push the front side in which pops out the rear grab handle part. This also how Chevy has done their Equinox EV handles which is powered on the higher trims but unpowered for the base model I believe.

So, as long as they fail safe, I think they’re fine from a form and function perspective. It’s the failing unsafely (Tesla) that’s the problem. If they do not work without power, they should fail safety testing.
by ehnto | 2025-11-27 02:53:02+00:00
What do you find lacking in tooling in that regard?

I don't think there is all that much friction in distributing git, it's one of the easiest tools to have multiple remotes on. The auxiliary tooling is all open source too, so not much in the way of hosting your own, or for hosted platforms offering the services.

The social aspect of the hosted platforms is unlikely to ever be distributed because that is basically githubs only differentiation.
by Weves | 2025-11-27 02:53:50+00:00
Have you checked out https://docs.onyx.app/deployment/getting_started/quickstart#...?

We should definitely update the Local guide to reflect the ^, thanks for pointing that out.

For the container footprint - pretty much all of them are necessary to run locally. We hope that just a large # of containers shouldn't be a problem, as long as they are all lightweight (e.g. total resource utilization is low). We of course could bundle them together into a single "mega container", but that seems against the best practices of Docker.

On a related note, we are looking to have a version that doesn't require the vector database (the heaviest part of the system in terms of resource utilization). Our goal is to have a deployment mode with less than 1gb of RAM required.
by elmerfud | 2025-11-27 02:54:21+00:00
The fuel efficiency claims are nonsense. Golf balls would like to have a word with these engineers.

They do it because it looks cool and futuristic. Just like replacing all of the physical switches with non-tactile touch-based things. Overall just reduces the vehicle's safety and increases the cost to repair. Door handles, by law should be mandated to be physical things. If you want a button that can automatically actuate the physical linkage that's fine but the handle itself should be a physical linkage to the latch.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-11-27 02:54:41+00:00
>If automakers were that serious about drag reduction, we’d see many more EVs riding on smaller wheels.

Has nothing to do with drag. EVs are heavy, and need big brakes to stop in an emergency. Wheels go over the brakes. Therefore, the wheels need to be big to fit the brakes. Smaller wheels mean longer braking distances. Nobody wants that.
by logicprog | 2025-11-27 02:55:27+00:00
This is just the same flippant dismissive stuff as usual. At this point, it's its own brand of anti-AI slop. Just because LLMs are not deterministic, it does not mean that you can't effectively iterate and modify code it generates. Or that it won't give you something useful almost every time you use it. Also, this article talks about possible use cases of LLMs for learning, and then dismisses them as completely replaceable with a book, a tutorial, or a mentor. Not counting the fact that books and tutorials are not individually tailored to the person and what they want to work on and are interested in can't be infinitely synthesized to take you as far as you want to go and are often limited for certain technologies and mentors are often very difficult to come by.
by theamk | 2025-11-27 02:55:36+00:00
There are some arguments which have been rehashed to death on internet. Yes, I could write yet another version it, but why? Author has likely seen it a lot of times already, I am unlikely to change their mind. So downvote and move on.

And I think hiding others' scores is a very important part HN's culture - making up/down votes is direct communication with author, not "virtue signalling". And authors themselves have no way to compare them with others. (Unlike Reddit, where large negative score often invite even more downvotes from "regulars")
by Fnoord | 2025-11-27 02:55:37+00:00
> In what way would it discourage you and your friend(s) from booking a standard twin room, if they don't tell you there's no bathroom door?

(They regard it as cheapskating/cheating.)

Very simple: by making it the status quo that bathroom doors aren't there they discourage you to rent a single room. So instead, you rent two single rooms with full privacy for each of you. Because a double room is only for couples, in their (I concur: twisted) world.

You mean you want to go to the competition? What if the competition does it as well? What if it is the norm?

As for your #4. People don't have time to put effort into such. Outliers do, they're the ones who make noisy drama at the reception. But they're the exception, not the rule.
by kion | 2025-11-27 02:56:34+00:00
retaglutide is the next gen (3rd) GLP-1 which is in phase 3 trials now. It is a triple antagonist (current are dual GLP-1/GIP). It adds glucagon, and apparently that comes with not only greatly increased weightloss, but also wicked sugar cravings.

These things do way way more than just appetite and craving suppression.
by perihelions | 2025-11-27 02:57:16+00:00
It's true they're using much higher LEO orbits—not sure why you were downvoted for this basic and relevant fact. While Starlink goes to 500-600 km altitudes, Qianfan seems to target 800 km[a], and Guowang has been launching to 900 km and 1,145 km [b,c]. (I'm not discussing the few Starlinks in VLEO orbits below 300 km, because I don't know what the concrete plans are with those).

Those are orbits with 100+ year dynamic lifetimes (as is regularly discussed, i.e. ref [d]). It's true that they could actively deorbit them; that's the lifespan of passive debris that fails to actively deorbit. (Ref [d] also discusses spent rocket stages in this context, and China's uniquely bad behavior there).

I assume the main motive behind this is basic business economics. China doesn't have reusable boosters; the ones that might succeed this month won't reach Falcon 9 levels of mass production, and launch cadence, for several years. They're on an expensive on-ramp. To a first-order simplification 1,100 km orbits need only 1/4th as many satellites for the same coverage as 550 km orbits.

[a] https://www.space.com/china-first-launch-internet-satellite-...

[b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guowang

[c] https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/china-may-have-taken-a...

[d] https://spacenews.com/chinas-megaconstellation-launches-coul...
by shevy-java | 2025-11-27 02:57:17+00:00
It is good to have alternatives to mega-corporations controlling the ecosystem.

Microsoft controlling GitHub is an issue, but one can see this issue emerging in different places too; see shopify puting pressure on the ruby ecosystem, ending with various developers who contributed to ruby (in particular via gems and bundler) no longer being accepted there (via RubyCentral's take-over, under shopify's directive and influence onto ruby). Many more examples can be given here. The thing is that money buys influence, ultimately dictating who can contribute and how. Python forcing mandatory 2FA onto all developers is also an example here - the hobbyist who just contributes code, has not really any benefit here, whereas corporations delegate more "security" onto unpaid folks.
by kjgkjhfkjf | 2025-11-27 02:57:23+00:00
To be fair to Rust, the issue was an "unwrap" in the Rust code[0]. "unwrap" means "if the operation did not succeed then panic". Production Rust code should not use "unwrap", and should instead have logic to handle the failure case.

You don't need exotic formal verification methods to enforce this best practice. You just need a linter.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/#memory-...
by autoexec | 2025-11-27 02:57:26+00:00
Smart monitors are being widely sold already and getting more common. The fact that they generate continuous income for the manufacturer after the sale is too tempting for many companies to abandon entirely.

Most likely we'll see non-smart monitors only sold in bulk to business customers, or as highly overpriced displays with limited features (like we do now with TVs) or there will be enterprise options in software (probably though management software) to disable some (but not all) of the advertising, screen-capturing, and AI functions which is just what we see now with Windows and other hardware used by enterprise customers.
by gishh | 2025-11-27 02:59:21+00:00
> “If it compiles it’s probably correct” has always been a tongue-in-cheek pithy exaggeration.

If you say so, I believe you. That isn’t how it comes across in daily, granted pithy, discourse around here.

I have a lot of respect for you Andrew, not meaning to attack you per se. You surely can see the irony in the internet falling over because of an app written in rust, and all that comes with this whole story, no?
by accrual | 2025-11-27 03:00:27+00:00
Seconding this simply for data purposes. iOS 26 was the worst release I've ever dealt with coming from an iPhone 4S user to present. Goddamn there were so many obvious bugs and flaws. The .1 release fixed some of them but my keyboard still randomly shifts to the left by a few pixels every time it opens.

Take me back to the days where things were governed by UX and not revenue.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-27 03:00:29+00:00
So you are ok with 2FA, right? If you contribute code there.

Now - what if you are not ok with it? What can you do?

> Almost offensively usable

I think you conflate two points here. One is how useable github is. The other is: control. At which point are you no longer ok with what a private company does? This is not solely about Microsoft alone by the way.
by brailsafe | 2025-11-27 03:00:57+00:00
> If you think homeschooling makes kids grow up to be prejudiced, you should just say that, instead of insinuating it.

Absolutely not what I was insinuating.

I was suggesting that explicit isolation from potential peers that come from different levels of wealth or backgrounds based on pre-existing prejudice has the potential to reinforce those prejudices. I'd wager this would overwhelmingly come from private schools and suburbs, not homeschooling, but it's more of a matter of where the desire to control the exposure comes from if that's part of the reason.

So no, I was making no direct association between homeschooling and prejudice.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-11-27 03:01:04+00:00
A perspective which has helped me is viewing LLM-based offerings strictly as statistical document generators, whose usefulness is entirely dependent upon their training data set plus model evolution, and whose usage is best modeled as a form of constraint programming[0] lacking a formal (repeatable) grammar. As such, and when considering the subjectivity of natural languages in general, the best I hope for when using them are quick iterations consisting of refining constraint sentence fragments.

Here is a simple example which took 4 iterations using Gemini to get a result requiring no manual changes:

# Role You are an expert Unix shell programmer who comments their code and organizes their code using shell programming best practices. Create a bash shell script which reads from standard input text in Markdown format and prints all embedded hyperlink URL's. The script requirements are: - MUST exclude all inline code elements - MUST exclude all fenced code blocks - MUST print all hyperlink URL's - MUST NOT print hyperlink label - MUST NOT use Perl compatible regular expressions - MUST NOT use double quotes within comments - MUST NOT use single quotes within comments

EDIT:

For reference, a hand-written script satisfying the above (excluding comments for brevity) could look like:

#!/usr/bin/env bash perl -ne 'print unless /^```/ ... /^```/' | sed -e 's/`[^`]*`//g' | egrep -o '\[.+?\]\(.+?\)' | sed -e 's/^.*(//' -e 's/)$//'

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_programming
by Willish42 | 2025-11-27 03:01:13+00:00
> Communicating with Voyager 1 is slow. Commands now take about a day to arrive, with another day for confirmation.

I found this a bit silly given the headline: "well duh, that's the theoretical limit barring fancy quantum entaglement nonsense or similar!"

TIL all electromagnetic waves, including radio which Voyager 1 [uses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Communication_system), travel at the speed of light. For some reason I always thought we had satellites doing some slower process or needing to somehow "see" light photons coming back from the probe to achieve near-lightspeed communication.
by chaos_emergent | 2025-11-27 03:03:44+00:00
Most QA, most analyst positions, a good chunk of the kludge in intellectually challenging jobs, like medical diagnostics or software engineering, most administrative work, including in education and in healthcare, about 80% of customer success, about 80% of sales, are all within striking distance of automation with current-generation LLMs. And taht's entirely ignoring the 2nd-order effects in robotics and manufacturing.
by davidsainez | 2025-11-27 03:04:19+00:00
> works flawlessly

> intermittent outages

Those seem like conflicting statements to me. Last outage was only 13 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45915731.

Also, there have been increasing reports of open source maintainers dealing with LLM generated PRs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039274. GitHub seems perfectly positioned to help manage that issue, but in all likelihood will do nothing about it: '"Either you have to embrace the Al, or you get out of your career," Dohmke wrote, citing one of the developers who GitHub interviewed.'

I used to help maintain a popular open source library and I do not envy what open source maintainers are now up against.
by __rito__ | 2025-11-27 03:04:24+00:00
A surprisingly missing entry is Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh. It's oddly good, and is very unique.

The writer talks at length about Bengali SciFi, but misses Ghana Da! The novels and stories are really enjoyable mixture of SF and pulp. Two collections are there in Eglish: The adventures of Ghanada, and Mosquito and Other stories. They are by the author Premendra Mitra/Mitter.
Are MAGA and fundamentalist views like antivax a lesion-like brain problem?
by DrierCycle | 2025-11-27 03:04:57+00:00
Biological and cognitive underpinnings of religious fundamentalism Zhong “we found that participants with dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) lesions have fundamentalist beliefs similar to patients with vmPFC lesions and that the effect of a dlPFC lesion on fundamentalism was significantly mediated by decreased cognitive flexibility and openness. These findings indicate that cognitive flexibility and openness are necessary for flexible and adaptive religious commitment, and that such diversity of religious thought is dependent on dlPFC functionality.” https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5500821/

A neural network for religious fundamentalism derived from patients with brain lesions https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2322399121

The neural underpinning of religious beliefs: Evidence from brain lesions https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9583670/
by jcz_nz | 2025-11-27 03:05:11+00:00
Historically it was targeted at already captive clients building on Windows, so there was no incentive to innovate or break eggs. This persisted just long enough for the industry to evolve (web & Linux) and create much better solutions, making MS’s dev tools largely irrelevant. Today, seeing .net in a shop is a red flag for me at least (choosing .net for Web work, to clarify)
by aeve890 | 2025-11-27 03:05:54+00:00
>MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH ACHIEVED

the bootlicking behavior must must be like crack for wannabes. jfc

>I did not write a single line of code but carefully shepherded AI over the course of several days and kept it on the straight and narrow.

>AI: I need to keep track of variables moving across registers. This is too hard, let’s go shopping… Me: Hey, don’t any no shortcuts!

>My work was just directing, shaping, cajoling and reviewing.

How people can say that without the slightest bit of reflection on whether they're right or just spitting BS
by Fnoord | 2025-11-27 03:06:04+00:00
FBI recommends using an ad blocker (2022) (ic3.gov) posted Sept 8, 2024, 230 comments [1]

Another fun one: Signal is the No. 1 downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why? | TechCrunch, from March 2 2025

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41483581

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/1j38sgw/signal_is_t...
by vdupras | 2025-11-27 03:06:04+00:00
Except for the "disabilities" part, which is problematic to classify, wouldn't your description broadly fit the word "losers"?

EDIT: I don't understand the downvotes. It's not a value judgement on Github employees, it's about the meaning of the word "loser". Go back to your teenage years. What's a loser? Someone, often through no fault of their own, keep being in a bad situation, having the "short end of the stick". What characteristically makes them losers is that they lack the audacity to snap out of it.

Isn't that an accurate definition of what "loser" generally means?
by gusye | 2025-11-27 03:06:36+00:00
I’ve seen teams struggle on both sides of this.

The vendor route feels great at the beginning with clean UX and fewer moving parts, until costs creep up or you suddenly need an engine or table format the platform doesn’t really support.

The open route gives you freedom, but then you’re managing multiple catalogs, inconsistent metadata models, and a bunch of glue code nobody planned for but still ends up living forever. Gravitino seems to be tackling the “one catalog vs many catalogs” issue.

Where do lineage and ACLs actually live in your setup? I’m genuinely curious how people are handling this today.
by trhway | 2025-11-27 03:08:26+00:00
The world makes full circle. A 4-toilet (2 facing the other 2 for lively conversation) bathroom per floor, no walls whatsoever between the toilets, "open layout" so to speak, in our dormitory in high school (regional school for advanced science studies) in USSR in 80-ies come to mind. Looks like we were living the boutiquey avant-garde way of the future :)