MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 16bytes | 2025-11-20 21:20:33+00:00
> Airlines operate to a much stricter standard than one in a million. If one in a million flights ended in a fatal crash, the US alone would see about 3 airline passenger deaths per day on average.

I think you conflated flights (several 10Ks per day) with passengers (several million per day).

One in a million flights is one accident every few decades.

> at least in the US. Engines will fail

As per the report, this appears to be a structural failure, not an engine failure.
by nandomrumber | 2025-11-20 21:21:15+00:00
You do realise whatever your blood absorbs in your lugs is distributed throughout your body? Some tissues will absorb certain types of chemicals more so than others.

You’re right though, nicotine is a CNS stimulant, which by definition does indeed constrict peripheral blood vessels, and raise blood pressure.

However, it is well documented that tobacco smoke contains many nastiest.

Check out the Health section here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoking

And well documented that wood smoke, and smoke from burning plant matter more generally, is a health hazard, and not just from the acute carbon monoxide risk.
by natemcintosh | 2025-11-20 21:21:24+00:00
As a Kagi subscriber, I find this to be mostly useful. I'd say I do about 50% standard Kagi searches, 50% Kagi assistant searches/conversations. This new ability to change the level of "research" performed can be genuinely useful in certain contexts. That said, I probably expect to use this new "research assistant" once or twice a month.
by PotatoPancakes | 2025-11-20 21:22:04+00:00
If you don't like it, that's fine, I won't argue over taste. But your other descriptions of Bach's life deserve to be fact-checked.

> He was a nepo baby with a big purse. His brothers, his family, all musicians of note for prominent figures of society. However, his leaning on his long history of music within the family helped polish his work as structured which helped sell it.

This interpretation is not particularly historically accurate. Let's investigate:

> He was a nepo baby with a big purse.

Musicians of the baroque era weren't particularly wealthy or notable. Musical fame wouldn't come until the Classical era. And yes, music was his family trade, but that's how most trades went in that time. His parents both died before he turned ten, so he was mostly raised by his older brother. By all accounts they were not wealthy. So I think the term "nepo baby" is misleading, and "and "with a big purse" is simply incorrect.

> His brothers, his family, all musicians of note for prominent figures of society.

This is highly overexaggerated. JS Bach had two brothers who survived childhood, and neither was particularly "prominent." Most of his "notable family" were his children, especially CPE Bach.

> However, his leaning on his long history of music within the family helped polish his work as structured which helped sell it.

Bach's career was one of slow and steady growth. It doesn't appear that he leaned on his connections or family name much.

Bach did get some widespread acclaim by the end of his life, but mostly as an organist, not as a composer. His compositions were mostly discarded and ignored for a whole century until Felix Mendelssohn revived interest in his compositions. The cello suites, for example, were lost for nearly two hundred years, and only re-discovered in the 1920's.
by WCSTombs | 2025-11-20 21:22:10+00:00
But I think that's really the point: it gets applied to problems it was clearly not meant to solve. The article doesn't really get into that, but that's how I'm reading it because I've seen it happen. To some programmers, every component of a program is its own service, even when there's no need to have multiple processes. The only tool they have is that hammer, so everything has to be a nail.
by chihuahua | 2025-11-20 21:22:31+00:00
In the 1980s, I was interested in text adventure games, and had a kind of book/magazine on the topic of how to write them. In BASIC, obviously (groan) because that's what was easily accessible back then.

I remember figuring out the mechanisms that the book introduced: what kind of rudimentary data structures to use to represent the state of the world, the locations of objects, etc.

I got some simple stuff to work, you could navigate the world, pick up and drop objects, etc. but then my motivation gradually ran out because I didn't have a clearly defined design for the game I was going to build.

I had a few pirated games (C64, Amiga): "Death in the Caribbean", "The Pawn", etc but never had the motivation to stick with them past the first or second puzzle. The puzzles seemed like if the answer didn't arrive via a flash of divine inspiration, there was no way to figure it out based on logical reasoning. Maybe that part of my brain wasn't developed back then.
by sosodev | 2025-11-20 21:22:38+00:00
How do you figure? They're very similar planes. The left engine and its pylon detached in both cases during takeoff rotation. Both incident reports stated that proper maintenance would have prevented the detachment.

The way the situation played out is different but the failure mode seems to be very similar if not the same.

The NTSB report itself even references AA-191 as the only "similar event".
by ceejayoz | 2025-11-20 21:22:50+00:00
Sure; the UK's Tories, or Germany's CDU, or Australia's Liberal (lol) Party.

Hell, the right-wing ran on giving more money to the National Health Service as one of their Brexit arguments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_Leave_bus (Including Farage, at times! https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-r...)
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-20 21:22:52+00:00
Apple will never leave the EU market, that would be a stupid decision. EU is barely smaller than the US market if looking at GDP per capita, it's only a difference of ~$16,000. If looking at population, EU is larger than the US.

Hopefully they keep cracking open the walls of Apple's garden and Apple stops region locking the changes to just those markets.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-20 21:23:16+00:00
46 voted yes. And just a few months prior democrats tried to pass this [1] [2]. Which only failed because Trump didn't want Biden to be able to show a "tough on the border" stance.

Again, you'll find few democrats that have a stance on the border that contradicts the Republican stance. There are a few, but most are just staying silent. The only reason they vote against these sorts of bills is because of pure partisanship, not out of some ideology alignment.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/436...

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-hold-election-year-sh...
by tptacek | 2025-11-20 21:23:45+00:00
It's bad, but a more neutral way to put it is that they got rid of the "hate" framing altogether and replaced it with a (mealy-mouthed) "divisiveness" framing.

New policy:

https://media.defense.gov/2025/nov/14/2003820615/-1/-1/0/CI_...

Old policy:

https://wow.uscgaux.info/Uploads_wowII/O-DEPT/CG__Harassing_...

I agree with a friend online who said this reads actually somewhat like malicious compliance from USCG (you still can't hang a swastika; they just got rid of the normative language about why).

Not really sure what's interesting about this story for HN, though.
by jerf | 2025-11-20 21:24:07+00:00
Elsewhere in thread is mentioned an Underworld remake.

I do not have the same complaint about them as I do Ultima VII. A good remake could still be an interesting experience today, with little more than a graphical overhaul and modern controls. Both of them have a mixture of exploration, combat, and conversation that keeps them engaging over time.

Ultima VII's problem is that it's just... one big fetch quest. The combat is a non-entity (in the original game, I gather some of the remakes have tried to address this but they're starting way, way behind the eight ball), and there just isn't much else there.

Ultimas prior to VII don't have that problem because combat is functional, so the essentially multi-genre nature of an RPG where each subgenre keeps the other from becoming painfully tedious is there, but by modern standards, probably still fairly unplayable. Neat ideas, you can see how later games picked up the ball and ran with it in various directions, but very hard to play by modern standards. For instance, Ultima 4 combat has modern TRPG combat in it to some extent... except no even remotely modern TRPG game makes "moving one space" an entire action on par with "make one attack", and for good reason.
by LMYahooTFY | 2025-11-20 21:24:12+00:00
> I just don't buy the narrative that if you don't threaten employee's and "whip them into shape" that then there's no incentive to do good. I refuse to believe that not firing people is, somehow, causing them to coast.

It's exactly what I saw, so take that for what you will. Similarly, I've also worked with white collar engineers in corporate environments, and have experienced the opposite as you go up the ladder. These are generalizations, but I am arguing that certain principles of how unions function in blue collar labor jobs have predictable results.

I think "threatening employees" is a beyond cynical way of describing low performance consequences.

If you can't understand how someone being virtually un-fireable due to performance results in coasting I'm really not sure how to discuss this.

I don't want to presume too much here, but if your reference point is only working with white collar engineers, it's hard to explain how different working in a unionized blue collar environment can be.
by int_19h | 2025-11-20 21:24:36+00:00
We're literally discussing a mass surveillance dragnet throughout the country (not just at the border) here; the kind of stuff that is normally reserved for dystopias in fiction.

To argue that it is somehow okay because it enables "small government" to exist is very much in the spirit of "war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength". When thugs in uniform stop and interrogate Americans on the roads because their movement patterns are "suspicious", there's nothing small about it.
by tguedes | 2025-11-20 21:24:49+00:00
But that's the problem with this. The vast majority of the spend is going to be on the Nvidia chips which have a shelf life of 3-5 years. They are not making any significant long term investments.

During the dot com bubble, telecom companies spent 10s of billions of dollars laying down cables and building out the modern public internet infrastructure that we are still using today. Even if a lot of companies failed, we still greatly benefited from some of the the investments they made.

For this bubble, the only long term investment benefits seems to be the electricity build out and a renewed interest and investment in nuclear.

Most (if not all) of Oracle's investments are mostly in chips and data centers.
by dpark | 2025-11-20 21:24:52+00:00
At no point did I say the law was very difficult to read. I said that your claim that it should take 20 minutes to read is absurd.

That the other replies to you said basically the same should clue you in that this is not realistic for others even if it were realistic for you.

> don’t call me a fucking liar though you cunt.

You could have easily just walked your claim back and said “Okay, 20 minutes is an exaggeration but it’s not a hard law to read”. Instead you repeatedly doubled down and backed yourself into a corner where the only possible options are that you are an ultra speed reader at 10x normal pace or you are a liar.

Not my problem if you don’t like those options.
by barrell | 2025-11-20 21:25:05+00:00
If you look at my post history, I’m the last person to defend LLMs. That being said, I think LLMs are the next evolution in search. Not what OpenAI and Anthropic and xAI are working on - I think all the major models are moving further and further away from that with the “AI” stuff. But the core technology is an amazing way to search.

So I actually find it the perfect thing for Kagi to work with. If they can leverage LLMs to improve search, without getting distracted by the “AI” stuff, there’s tons of potential value,

Not saying that’s what this is… but if there’s any company I’d want playing with LLMs it’s probably Kagi
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-11-20 21:25:24+00:00
Meh. I think political parties in the states are really there just to make money. Why else would the dems keep pelting you with adds for $5? I think both parties are saying whatever they need to say to convince people to give them cash. The number of people who care about privacy seems smaller than the number of people who want to be entertained by politicians, so it's unlikely to change anytime soon.
by bluGill | 2025-11-20 21:26:03+00:00
OOP is about messages according to the inventor - messages are about the interface. People get confused with objects which languages without messages don't have (you can get them, but they are not first class in the language)

Even plain objects though, the point isn't the inheritance! The point is to put an interface on the data. Inheritance is sometimes useful because, but there is a reason we keep screaming "prefer composition to inheritance" (even though few listen)
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-20 21:26:35+00:00
Counterpoint: when you're sharing a public road, the license of your car to share that road isn't private information.

... But I echo the concern with how the collection and aggregation of the data can be abused. I just don't have a great solution. "Don't use shared public resources to do secret things; they're incompatible with privacy" might be the rubric here.
by ActorNightly | 2025-11-20 21:26:40+00:00
>Wow, this is incredibly concerning.

Well, maybe now you understand that when people were saying Trump is an actual fascist, it wasn't just memes.

Its only gonna get worse. At some point, CBP is gonna shoot someone, nothing is gonna happen, and that will be the turning point of when they can just arbitrarily start shooting citizens with no repercussion.

If you don't have a plan to GTFO the country by now, you are behind.
by VHRanger | 2025-11-20 21:26:45+00:00
(Kagi staff here)

Generally we do particularly better on product research queries [1] than other categories, because most poor review sites are full of trackers and other stuff we downrank.

However there aren't public benchmarks for us to brag about on product search, and frankly the simpleQA digression in this post made it long enough it was almost cut.

1. (Except hyper local search like local restaurants)
by exceptione | 2025-11-20 21:27:32+00:00
They are increasingly revealing their ugly face. We had Sieg Heils on Republic and conservative public events. We have Miller in power. The groypers are being enabled to push out the old guard.

It is all necessary as Trump can't be the future. For it to survive, they will have to double down, and so extreme ideological idiocy will take its place.

But people still think they can wait it out. But alas, that is not how fascism works. Those concentration camps will never become vacant.
by shagmin | 2025-11-20 21:27:41+00:00
Almost all languages have some sort of object representation, right? Classes with their own behavior, DTOs, records, structs, etc.,. What language are you working in? If you're coupled to a specific database provider anyway there's usually a system table you can query to get your list of tables, column names, etc., so you could almost just use one data source and only need to deal with its structure to provide all your endpoints (not really recommending this approach).
by jedisct1 | 2025-11-20 21:28:57+00:00
"Sqlite [...] encryption extension is a $2000 add-on".

SqliteMultipleCiphers has been around for ages and is free https://utelle.github.io/SQLite3MultipleCiphers/

And Turso Database supports encryption out of the box: https://docs.turso.tech/tursodb/encryption
by snvzz | 2025-11-20 21:29:17+00:00
>(JH7110) I tried...

A RVA20 compliant chip, released in 2023. I have one of these (VisionFive 2, received February 2023) with a couple hard disks and ZFS, serving as home NAS. Between RPi 3 and RPi 4 in CPU speed, similar I/O as RPi 4.

Obviously not a speed demon, but it was the very first mass-produced RISC-V SoC.

>He swore blind that I'd be blown away by the kit that SiFive would release the next year.

Probably the Intel thing that never actually happened, despite there been test chips which is what your acquaintance likely was able to play with.

SiFive released something else instead, earlier this year, as stopgap. Based on their P550 microarchitecture, it is dramatically faster than JH7110, but of no particular interest to anybody not directly involved in RISC-V, as it lacks vector and thus isn't RVA23 compliant.

In 2026, it'll be 2023+3, and many usefully fast RVA23 core IPs (Above Zen1 performance) are expected to finally show up in development boards, although only the one from Tenstorrent has had a concrete announcement so far.
Show HN: Docuglean – Extract Structured Data from PDFs/Images Using AI
by victorevogor | 2025-11-20 21:29:22+00:00
Hi HN! I built Docuglean, an open-source SDK for intelligent document processing that works with OpenAI, Mistral, Google Gemini, and Hugging Face models.

The idea came from repeatedly writing boilerplate code to extract structured data from invoices, receipts, and other documents. Instead of wrestling with different API formats, I wanted a unified interface that:

- Extracts structured data using Zod/Pydantic schemas - Classifies and splits multi-section documents (e.g., medical records) - Processes documents in batches with automatic error handling - Works locally without APIs (for PDFs, DOCX, XLSX, etc.)

Key features: - Available for both TypeScript and Python - Batch processing with concurrent requests - Document classification (splits 100+ page docs by category) - Local parsers (no API needed for basic extraction) - Apache 2.0 licensed

Currently supports OpenAI, Mistral, Gemini, and Hugging Face. Planning to add Together AI, Anthropic, and more.

Would love feedback on the API design and what features would be most useful
by drob518 | 2025-11-20 21:29:57+00:00
It’s very Lispy, but it’s not strictly Lisp. Why, for instance, use “<“ and “>” to surround various forms but not others? If they were to make a mini-Lisp, I’d expect something more like Gnu Emacs Lisp, something that’s obviously a Lisp, but heavily influenced by the Lisps of the day. I’ve found a few old MDL manuals linked from Wikipedia, but none of them have any sort of “Here’s why we created MDL” section that I could find.
by moshebenpeshe | 2025-11-20 21:30:02+00:00
I’ve been working on a very small, open video protocol called “arkA”. The idea is simple: instead of video being tied to a particular platform, account system, or backend, arkA defines a minimal JSON metadata format that points to a video stored anywhere (IPFS, S3, Arweave, Cloudflare R2, or a personal server).

This week the first end-to-end MVP went live. It demonstrates that the core idea works in practice.

*Live demo client (static HTML/JS on GitHub Pages):* https://baconpantsuppercut.github.io/arkA/

*Example video stored on IPFS (via Pinata):* https://cyan-hidden-marmot-465.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/bafybeigx...

No backend is involved; it’s just the browser loading the video from a decentralized gateway using the metadata.

*Why I’m building this:* Most video systems combine storage, accounts, recommendation logic, monetization, and delivery into one large platform. arkA experiments with unbundling those pieces. If storage, metadata, and playback are separate concerns, anyone can host videos and anyone can build clients to display them.

*Current state:* - A small static reference client (~60 lines of JavaScript) - One example video published via IPFS/Pinata - Basic JSON metadata - Early schema drafts in the repo

*Repo:* https://github.com/baconpantsuppercut/arkA

*What I’m looking for:* Feedback on the protocol idea, criticism of the MVP architecture, suggestions for metadata/schema versioning, and perspectives from people familiar with distributed storage systems (IPFS/IPNS/IPLD, Arweave, S3-compatible systems, etc).

This is extremely early. There’s no platform, no company, and no plans for lock-in. Just a small protocol experiment that might be useful if it grows.

Happy to answer any questions.
by ncr100 | 2025-11-20 21:30:05+00:00
To the GOP, lying (in stated intentions "small gov", et al) aligns with their core values:

GOP is the party of capitalism (free-market, laissez-faire). Capitalism is the pursuit of self-interest and the profit motive.

And when the opportunity permits, this creates an ethical incentive structure for lying to be deployed for tactical gain.
by holmesworcester | 2025-11-20 21:30:05+00:00
The most important reason for privacy is that without it, social norms calcify.

If a norm is outdated, oppressive, or maladaptive in some way and needs to be changed, it becomes very difficult to change the norm if you cannot build a critical mass of people practicing the replacement norm.

It is even harder if you cannot even talk about building a critical mass of people practicing the replacement norm.

For many norms, like the taboo on homosexuality which was strong in the US and Europe until recently and is still strong in many places today, the taboo and threat of ostracism are strong enough that people need privacy to build critical mass to change the norm even when the taboo is not enshrined in law, or the law is not usually enforced. This was the mechanism of "coming out of the closet": build critical mass for changing the norm in private, and then take the risk of being in public violation once enough critical mass had been organized that it was plausible to replace the old oppressive/maladaptive norm with a new one.

But yes, obsolete/maladaptive/oppressive norms are often enshrined in law too.
by chihuahua | 2025-11-20 21:30:14+00:00
I think it would be safe for Microsoft to release (intentionally or unintentionally) the source for just about any product. I bet it's incredibly difficult to run a successful build. From talking to someone who used to work on Excel, it took them around 1 day to build Excel from source. And that's if everything goes perfectly and you know exactly what you're doing and are using the build system and setup and configuration that the Excel team has in place.
by bhelkey | 2025-11-20 21:30:43+00:00
Lets just zoom into a single use case. The ability of the user to buy a 3rd Party watch that integrates with their phone:

* Apple doesn't allow 3rd Party watches to send text messages. The Apple Watch is allowed to do so.

* Apple doesn't allow 3rd Party to take actions on notifications. The Apple Watch is allowed to do so.

* If you want to use the internet on your watch, you must: 1) install a 3rd party app, 2) keep that app open. Closing the app closes the connection to the internet. The Apple Watch does not have this restriction.

* 3rd Party watches cannot detect if you are using your phone. This means that they will notify users of notifications even if the user is looking at the notification. The Apple Watch does not have this restriction.

* Apple does not have ‘interprocess communication’(IPC) like Android.

* Apple restricts making 3rd Party App Stores. This makes it difficult to make a community of people making watch faces.

All points come from Pebble's blog [1]. This is just a single type of integration that Apple intentionally makes difficult, there are many others (e.g. 3rd Party Photos App, ...)

[1] https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-...
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-11-20 21:30:53+00:00
Same, though in fairness as long as they don't force it on me (the way Google does) and as long as the real search results don't suffer because of a lack of love (which so far they haven't), then it's no skin off my back. I think LLMs are an abysmal tool for finding information, but as long as the actual search feature is working well then I don't care if an LLM option exists.