MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ekaros | 2025-11-13 10:28:13+00:00
I believe there is lot of making money now or in next 3 to 12 months. Whatever it takes. Unless you go to really egregious level of fraud, you likely won't be punished. So optimal game is to skim your bonuses from the game. Same goes for fund management. Keep numbers looking good and stay on mostly legal side and you get to skim from top.

Eventually this will then crash down.
by jsmailes | 2025-11-13 10:29:04+00:00
For me, the big killer feature would be if this device is approved for modern media DRM. As much as I'm tired of streaming and its level of control over how I watch TV, it's still a decent part of my media consumption, but any Linux mini-PC I connect to the TV can only do low-resolution streaming from most providers. If the steam machine is approved for high-resolution streaming, it could totally replace the smart TV stack in most homes.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-13 10:29:31+00:00
What really blows me away is the range that you can achieve with almost no power on tiny little antennas. For instance, ELRS uses a transmitter/receiver that is less than a gram, that can keep a link with a drone alive across 30 km or even more. And the antenna is so small you might toss it away with the packaging if you're not paying attention.

One example:

https://rcmaniak.pl/userdata/public/assets/images/SpeedyBee/...

Oh, and it also speaks WiFi, just in case and it has its own little onboard computer and a web server.
by bloak | 2025-11-13 10:29:38+00:00
Same in Britain (except that the rejection of US coins is ... less curious). The funny thing is that sometimes they have these strange machines nearby that I have never seen anyone using[1] but which claim to be able to convert coins for you while taking a cut.

It's true that not all the self-checkouts accept cash but if you go when it's not too busy you can easily find one that does.

[1] OK, I've occasionally "used" one myself but not for putting coins into it. I just like to cheer myself up by reading the hilarious list of objects that I shouldn't insert into it.
by stavros | 2025-11-13 10:30:05+00:00
Oh wow, this made me realize something I've had for 20 years: When I look too close for a few seconds, I get blurriness at the center of my vision. It goes away after a while, but this made me realize that the blurry region is actually my fovea!

I have no idea why my fovea blurs when I look close up at something, and doctors haven't been able to figure it out, but at least now I can google it better.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-13 10:30:27+00:00
> How did that ancient civilisation from the 90s managed to build a functional chat app?

By only accepting ANSI input, not encrypting any messages, and not bothering to protect users' from remote attacks.

Facebooks's GUI stack for WhatsApp may be rather buggy but on a technical level there's a lot more going on than back in the days of unencrypted TCP connections over plaintext protocols.

Meanwhile, Telegram has an excellent desktop app (despite their terrible protocol), so it's not like the knowledge was lost either.
by InMice | 2025-11-13 10:31:22+00:00
Of course. That's why the nobel prize in medicine in 2016 was awarded to a cell biolgoist studying cellular autophagy for over a decade. It must be why glucose is not an essential dietary macronutrient and our liver can synthesizie it endogenously from fats and proteins (it just felt like doing that one day and stored all those chemical pathways in our genes I guess). That must also be why ketones produced from our fat stores burn so cleanly with less reactive inflammatory byproducts. In fact the cells in our brain actually prefer ketones to glucose. There's no such as water fasting. It's just random chance that when the body is in a state of ketosis it suppresses ghrelen and other hunger hormones or that countless other chemical pathways (de)activate or change. That's right the body has absolutely no design or adaptation for scarcity of food. Water fasting is totally foreign to the human body, that's why whenever we study ancient cultures...we find they practiced purposeful fasting. There's just no such thing as water fasting, it must be a modern eating disorder.

There's no chance it has anything to do with the last few million years of our evolution. It has no benefit or relevance now.
by ritzaco | 2025-11-13 10:31:40+00:00
I've met a few people who genuinely believe that 'tax deductible' equates to 'essentially spending nothing' or somehow equate that the amount you donate would be an amount you would otherwise give to the Government in taxes so from your perspective it doesn't change anything.

This is definitely not the case. If you make $100 profit and you would have had to pay 20% corporate tax, then you pay $20 in taxes, you'd be left with $80 to buy chocolate or whatever you want.

If you donate $20 and deduct it from your profit, then your profit is now calculated at $80. So you pay $16 in taxes. So you saved $4 but spent $20, so you're $16 dollars down and now you only have $64 for chocolate, so not 'essentially nothing'.
by bonesss | 2025-11-13 10:31:46+00:00
If they hadn’t fumbled the UI framework, and to a lesser extent the language design, you’re effectively describing .Net’s original role in the MS ecosystem and their play for web dominance.

JIT compiling, native graphics, quick and easy online deployment into sandboxes, support for desktop standards like keypresses, etc.

It feels like the web ate up the windows desktop experience instead of that experience spreading cross-platform and dominating.
by sometimes_all | 2025-11-13 10:31:55+00:00
> Why is this even up for debate

There was a time when this wasn't. The thing is that it _is_ now, especially for people in the upper-middle class and above, who can and do live a WAY better life in Mumbai, however much you try to deny it. There are people who've told me they wouldn't bother living in the Bay Area had it not been for the money, weather and inertia. I am now also seeing a lot of NRIs who are grasping at straws to justify their living in California, something which they didn't even need to bother with 20 years ago.

> The crosswalks in SF and San Jose exist

I find it funny that you have to reach all the way to crosswalks to make a point. The places where you cross the road? What makes you think they don't exist in Mumbai? What about so many places in the US where you cannot even walk on the road if you don't have a car?

You can try and convince people who haven't been to Mumbai at all, or don't live there regularly. People who are well-off, have lived in both places, and especially those who might _now_ consider starting a life in the States: you'll pretty much need to provide a utopia or an extremely high-paying job to convince them to move there. Mumbai is hell, there is no denying that, and even locals will not fight you on it; I personally would not try to convince a non-local to consider Mumbai as a place to live. The problem is that the Bay Area is not the heaven, perceived or real, it used to be any more.
by exmadscientist | 2025-11-13 10:32:53+00:00
What I want to see is someone go through and assign sRGB colors for each of the main LED types. It's surprisingly difficult. I've failed every time I've tried, in that what I come up with doing it by starting from the spectra (or a simple gaussian approximation) looks on screen nothing like the real LEDs. The greens (515-525nm) are particularly difficult.

I recognize that sRGB will never be able to do a perfect job, but it seems like it has to be possible to do decently well.

(What do I need this for? I design electronics. I use LEDs as indicators. I like to show the true color of the LED in my schematics and documentation, as best I can. And I try to never use the same color twice, in small and bespoke things, so there's less risk of indicator confusion, which means I've often got a lot of funny colors around.)
by gambiting | 2025-11-13 10:33:04+00:00
>> when you buy a PC you can't just turn it on and play video games, especially not after Microsoft's shenanigans.

In like, what way? You can "just" boot up a new Windows PC, install some games and play them straight away. Do you mean the fact that you now have to log into a Microsoft account first? Because if yes - SteamOS also requires you to log in before you can use it.
by Aachen | 2025-11-13 10:33:39+00:00
Until there are no banks left to switch to

Maybe this sounds dark but see also how the net is tightening around phones that allow you to run open firmware after you've bought the hardware for the full and fair price. We're slowly being relegated to crappy hobbyist projects once the last major vendors decide on this as well, and I don't even understand what crime it is I'm being locked out for

We're too small a group for commercial vendors to care. Switching away isn't enough, especially when there's no solidarity, not even among hackers. Anyone who uses Apple phones votes with their wallet for locking down the ability to run software of your choice on hardware of your choice. It's as anti-hacker as you can get but it's fairly popular among the HN audience for some reason

If not even we can agree on this internally, what's a bank going to care about the fifty people in the country that can't use a banking app because they're obstinately using dev tools? What are they gonna do, try to live bankless?

Of course, so long as we can switch away: by all means. But it's not a long-term solution
Show HN: New major version 3.2.0 of hmpl
by aanthonymax | 2025-11-13 10:34:05+00:00
Hi, HN! We're continuing to build the perfect tool for HATEOAS apps, and in this version, we've added some truly extensive functionality that will make the development process significantly easier.

We've added bindings between the request status and the tag attribute. This will allow you to create dynamic indicators and more without using the indicator helper block.

We took the code from the old Cample project. I think its speed will be very useful for users.

I would appreciate your feedback ^ ^
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-13 10:34:19+00:00
> as good as a response you can have to an incident like this.

From customer perspective “in an effort to reduce the likelihood of this data becoming widely available, we’ve paid the ransom” is probably better, even if some people will not like it.

Also to really be transparent it’d be good to post a detailed postmortem along with audit results detailing other problems they (most likely) discovered.
by john01dav | 2025-11-13 10:34:19+00:00
> alternate keyboards can steal your password, alternate browsers can have adware / malware, alternate launcher can do many naughty things etc. etc.

It's plausible that Google is done some of these things, like doing some sort of data mining on everything that you type for example (steal your password), and many official google apps have ads if you don't pay them
by nsoonhui | 2025-11-13 10:34:57+00:00
China is now encouraging higher birth rates after many years of the one-child policy. But the general consensus is that it hasn’t been very successful, even with the CCP’s authoritarian power. The causes are multi-dimensional and difficult to solve: high living costs, changing social values, and younger generations who no longer want to marry young—or marry at all.

Even North Korea has to encourage women to give birth[0]; the Kim dynasty can’t simply issue an order and shoot anyone who disobeys. It simply doesn’t work that way.

[0]: https://www.voanews.com/a/north-korea-s-kim-calls-for-women-...
by niek_pas | 2025-11-13 10:36:06+00:00
I'm guessing you have a very positive experience with gaming PCs; I wish I could say the same. My Windows PC:

- Randomly BSODs because of (I think) a buggy Focusrite audio interface driver (that I can't fix and Focusrite refuses to) - Regularly 'forgets' I have an RX 5600 XT GPU and defaults to the integrated graphics, forcing me to go into the 1995 'Device Manager' to reset it - Occasionally just... stops playing audio? - Occasionally has its icons disappear from the taskbar - Regularly refuses to close applications, making me go into the Task Manager to force-quit them.

These are just the issues I can think of off the top of my head. I've been playing PC games for like 15 years and this is just par for the course for my experience.
by jonathanstrange | 2025-11-13 10:36:40+00:00
I wrote a longer post about that elsewhere but there is morally no good justification to restrict everyone else's devices just because a small minority falls for scams. This is a very principal issue in a free society and in most societies we allow all kinds of individual risk taking because we believe that adults should make their own choices even if that means that some people sometimes make mistakes.

On a side note, it is technically very feasible to help antivirus and security software makers to lock down phones for people who would benefit from it. For example, you could have a strict whitelisting approach for vulnerable users (e.g. elderly, bitcoin entrepreneurs, annoying kids, Google engineers) who prefer it that way, making installation of arbitrary software impossible. Giving up choices voluntarily is fine, taking away choices by force is not fine.
Ask HN: What do you do while LLM is writing code
by me551ah | 2025-11-13 10:37:09+00:00
I have been coding for more than 20 years now and nothing has changed my coding habit more than LLMs. I am a touch typer and use a blue mechnical keyboard since I love typing so much and have been used to writing a lot of code.

But ever since LLMs have released, I do find myself writing long prompts and then waiting for LLM to do the implementation. They are not perfect by any means and make a lot of mistakes, but I have found that verbose prompting does usually get the job done.

Now these sessions usually last a few hours due to how slow LLMs are and I usually work on larger pieces of work. I am used to working long hours and typing for a long time, but this is new. I find myself waiting for 70% of the time for an operation to happen.

I find myself watching tv shows or youtube videos or even doing some creative writing on the side while LLMs do their work.

So I was just wondering what other creative things the HN crowd has come up with to do while LLMs are doing the grunt work for you.
by Retric | 2025-11-13 10:37:58+00:00
“In 40,000 years it will get to within 1.6 light years from a star, that’s such an unimaginable distance it’s irrelevant.”

On most human timescales that’s a long time, but here it’s only 0.004% of a billion years and in general stars are ~5 light years between closest stars in our neighborhood. If you assume zero significant impacts means it’s around in 100+ billion years there will be many vastly closer passes than 1.6 lightyears. It’s the kind of thing you really need to simulate because gravity plays a larger role the closer voyager gets to another star.
by dspillett | 2025-11-13 10:38:07+00:00
> Foveated streaming! That's a great idea.

It would be interesting to see⁰ how that behaves when presented with weird eyes like mine or worse. Mine often don't always point the same way and which one I'm actually looking through can be somewhat arbitrary from one moment to the next…

Though the flapping between eyes is usually in the presence of changes, however minor, in required focal distance, so maybe it wouldn't happen as much inside a VR headset.

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[0] Sorry not sorry.
by lentil_soup | 2025-11-13 10:38:13+00:00
it's so refreshing to read something like that from a big company, it's weird, but felt like there's still hope? that there's people in power that still care? strange feeling, still curious about it

the last few in years in tech have been depressing, like no one cares to make something that's actually better for the consumer, it's made me into a cynic and I hate it
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-13 10:38:15+00:00
Banning the pill alone would be sufficient.[0] And you don't even need to ban it entirely, just slightly limiting the supply would be enough. Banning it entirely would double the fertility rate because the pill had cut it in half from 1960-1975 when it was introduced in the US.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_oral_contraceptive_pi...

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/uni...
by port11 | 2025-11-13 10:38:24+00:00
Can you suggest a middle ground that works? JetBrain's pay-to-upgrade but keep the fallback license?

I'm genuinely asking. I'm (finally) making my own app without the VC crap, and my best-case scenario is to sell for a fixed price with no plans to upgrade/upsell later. But the app isn't yours, no, since I'll have to deal with the servers/support/admin/taxes on my end. You're buying a license to use it. Is that not ok?
by rafaelmn | 2025-11-13 10:38:41+00:00
600€ is top I would pay for this, and even then the HDMI 2.0 sucks. I get that it's a linux/amd issue with HDMI licensing but it still sucks for a media center when most TVs these days support 4k/120 VRR.

I really like the controller, I think I'll pass on the device and just stream from my PC to TV.
by Madmallard | 2025-11-13 10:38:56+00:00
fluoroquinolone toxicity and mast cell disorder

complete nightmare to live with

like I have permanent tendinopathy and muscles even still to this day lock up easily probably from mitochondrial dysfunction which would be explained by multiple lab findings I had like a really low lactate threshold compared to normal for my age

and I react to everything I eat with throat swelling eventually and constantly have to switch foods

nothing works long term I’ve tried everything I react to medications if taken long enough as well
by omnimus | 2025-11-13 10:39:44+00:00
Typical hn comment where major feature of a software is broken because of “reasons”. But it is fine because “I and most people don't use it”.

Hey if you are not using casks you are missing out. It's by far best way to install gui apps on a mac.

Once this doesn't work its serious problem for brew because there are package managers like nix that are arguably better for developers. Something like this could start slow death of brew just like macports did before.
by koliber | 2025-11-13 10:39:58+00:00
How would the apology need to be worded so that it does not get interpreted as a fake apology?

In terms of "downplaying" it seems like they are pretty concrete in sharing the blast radius. If less than 25% of users were affected, how else should they phrase this? They do say that this was data used for onboarding merchants that was on a system that was used in the past and is no longer used.

I am as annoyed by companies sugar coating responses, but here the response sounds refreshingly concrete and more genuine than most.
by Gud | 2025-11-13 10:41:14+00:00
It seems to me most of the critique against FreeBSD is how relatively clunky it is on the desktop, compared to Linux(or MacOS). I use both FreeBSD and Linux on the desktop.

I have been a happy FreeBSD user for 25 years. It is a FAR SUPERIOR server operating system compared to the rest.

Similar or usually the case more flexibility than Linux due to the excellent ports system that lets you finely tune what you install and the equally excellent binary package system(pkg), while at the same time, base is stable.

No ons is dicking around with the basic system tools, they just keep getting fine tuned.

I would guess 10-30 years down the line we will have an excellent BSD desktop.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-13 10:42:24+00:00
Probably not that significantly, these are primarily crimes of opportunity. An attacker isn’t likely to do much research on the company until they already have access, and that point they might as well proceed (especially since getting hit a second time would be doubly awkward for the company, presumably dramatically increasing the chances of payment)

And selling the data from companies like Checkout.com is generally still worth a decent amount, even if nowhere close to the bigger ransom payments.
by josephg | 2025-11-13 10:42:46+00:00
I bought a bunch of games for console over the years that I can't play any more.

I have about a dozen games on the switch. In another console generation, nintendo will make all my existing switch games unplayable again. I feel like you don't really buy console games. You rent them for one console generation.

I mean, I can't tell whats worse - that Nintendo has the gall to try and sell me the same game for switch that I already bought retail on the Wii several years ago. Or that I can't play a lot of my old Wii games at all any more.

But every year I end up picking up more and more games on steam. So many games. I have hundreds, and so do most of my friends. And all of those games keep running on every PC I own.

That's the value proposition of a steam box. It ships with hundreds of games that I already own and already enjoy. Fancy playing bioshock again? Sure. Factorio? Yeah hit me. Dota? Cyberpunk? Terraria? Stardew Valley? Lets go.

How do the console makers compete with that?
by JonChesterfield | 2025-11-13 10:42:59+00:00
That one is historically interesting.

I suspect the first compilers were named that because they were making compilations of assembly routines, probably slightly modified/specialised to the rest of the routines.

Compilers still do that. Some of the input is your source, but there's also "the compiler runtime" which is essentially a lot of extra routines that get spliced in, and probably "the language runtime" which gets similar treatment.

So compilers are still joining together parts, we've just mostly forgotten what crt or udiv.s are.

Linking and loading are more dubious names, but also they refer to specialised compilers that don't need to exist and probably shouldn't any more, so that may resolve itself over time.
by killerstorm | 2025-11-13 10:43:18+00:00
LeCun's argument was that a single erroneous token would derail further response.

This is, obviously, false: a reasoning model (or a non-reasoning one with a better prompt) can recognize error and choose a different path, the error will not be the part of an answer.

You're talking about a different problem: context rot. It's possible that an error would make performance worse. So what?

People can also get tired when they are solving a complex problem. People use various mitigations: e.g. it might help to start from a clean sheet. These mitigations might also apply to LLM: e.g. you can do MCTS (tree-of-thought) or just edit reasoning trace replacing the faulty part.

"LLMs are not absolutely perfect and require some algorithms on top thus we need a completely different approach" is a very weird way to make a conclusion.
by tcfhgj | 2025-11-13 10:43:28+00:00
> It’s just that consumers don’t really care for the most part, so the cost is basically $0.

It's zero, because most people cannot just not use WhatsApp, M$ Teams, etc. because WhatsApp has a monopoly on their centralized garden.

It's not like a Matrix where I can easily switch clients like I can switch refrigerators.

Even if someone would be able to provide an alternative, Facebook would just "kill" them like Apple did kill Beepers iMessage alternative.
by masfoobar | 2025-11-13 10:43:51+00:00
I have the original Steam Controller. It's OK, and a nice alternative even for general usage to move the mouse cursor, etc.

I also have a GameSir Cyclone 2 controller. Works great for Steam, Epic/Heroic, and works well for Switch (though the button layout was "incorrect" but perhaps it can be changed)

Personally, I prefer the Cyclone/X-box style controllers better. Well, Xbox does not own that style but, in my opinion, they helped to perfect it.

(I guess it was Game Cube the started that style officially)

Never liked the Playstation controller where the analog sticks were at the bottom. However, this new Steam one might be OK as the sticks are higher up.

We shall see.