MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by red-iron-pine | 2025-11-12 18:13:48+00:00
nah NATO would own the skies pretty hard. Different story vs. China, but Russia's aerospace forces are a shadow of the USSR's.

Russia's AA has been seriously degraded -- still more than enough to dominate the AFU's aircraft, but not a real airforce -- and Ukraine's limited AA has been enough to check the VVS's air dominance.

there is a reason its mostly a ground war involving disposable drones.
by qnleigh | 2025-11-12 18:13:53+00:00
A lot of people rely on Uber and Lyft for supplemental or primary income, so this could be very disruptive if it continues to scale. Are we not worried about this in the medium-term?

Also I appreciate many of the random human interactions I've had with Uber/Lyft drivers. Of course not every ride was great, but many drivers had stories and experiences that no one I usually meet would have. For me, the safe but bland experience of a self-drivng car isn't worth losing the human touch, not to mention taking away income for human drivers.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-11-12 18:13:53+00:00
I'd say screw it, get rid of nickles and dimes as well. Quarters can stay, for now.

It's a complete waste of money and time continuing to mint such low-value currency. It can't be used for just about anything.

Unfortunately, I do see the problem with part of this. For a handful of items where it does matter, it will force people to use cards more if they want to avoid rounding. And the card providers already have a choke-hold on retailers, and the whole thing is basically a scheme that funnels money from the poor to the wealthy via interest and fees on the consumer, interchange fees, and rewards programs.
by foldr | 2025-11-12 18:14:09+00:00
I'm not excusing the BBC for broadcasting a documentary with a misleading edit of Trump's speech. They've rightly admitted their error in that respect.

This is a politically motivated attack on the BBC by people who, as referenced above, don't care a jot for accuracy in news reporting. By combing through the BBC's enormous output they have, unsurprisingly enough, managed to find one or two legitimate grievances.
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-12 18:14:36+00:00
... but isn't it using a wireless dongle to connect to the headset to the PC so HDMI doesn't get involved?

It seems to me the wireless is pretty important. I have an MQ3 and I have the link cable. For software development I pretty much have to plug the MQ3 into my PC and it is not so bad to wander around the living room looking in a Mars boulder from all sides and such.

For games and apps that involve moving around, particularly things like Beat Saber or Supernatural the standalone headset has a huge advantage of having no cable. If I have a choice between buying a game on Steam or the MQ3 store I'm likely to buy the MQ3 game because of the convenience and freedom of standalone. A really good wireless link changes that.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-12 18:14:38+00:00
The moment we learned ChatGPT helped a teen figure out not just how to take their own life but how to make sure no one can stop them mid-act, we should've been mortified and had a discussion.

But we also decided via Sandy Hook that children can be slaughtered on the altar of the second amendment without any introspection, so I mean...were we ever seriously going to have that discussion?

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/family-teenager-died-...

>Please don't leave the noose out… Let's make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.

How is this not terrifying to read?
by anechouapechou | 2025-11-12 18:15:00+00:00
Cocoa flavanols are some of the most powerful compounds for heart and brain health. If you look around, you’ll find brands that actually test their cocoa for heavy metals. To get the most benefits, go for natural (undutched) cocoa, as, like the article mentions, the dutching process can strip away up to 80% of the good stuff.
by CPLX | 2025-11-12 18:15:30+00:00
No, I don't think it's because you're in a taxi. I think everybody should try to cut to the front of the line. That's what everybody does in New York, and it works pretty well. It's pretty easy to understand what's gonna happen next.

I've lived in New York for longer than most HN posters here have been alive, most likely. A couple of times a year, I'll end up in a car with someone who doesn't understand how this whole thing works, and they'll do something insane like getting on the Brooklyn Bridge and then just staying in the right lane the entire time waiting to get off to the right. Or they'll sit on the BQE at the Flushing Avenue exit a mile back from the exit, causing me to waste large portions of my life that I will never get back.
by walterbell | 2025-11-12 18:15:40+00:00
Supposedly JIT is possible [1] for sideloaded apps, including UTM (QEMU). Apple does have the power to re-enable the hypervisor API in iOS at any time, perhaps after Google unifies Android+ChromeOS, including Debian Linux "developer" terminal VM. At least these emulation and JIT hacks let developers explore use cases for non-appstore software.

[1] https://onejailbreak.com/blog/stikdebug-ios/
by delecti | 2025-11-12 18:15:42+00:00
Article 1, Section 8 of the constitution gives Congress the authority responsibility to coin money. And in the coinage act of 1792, 31 USC 5111(a)(1), congress directs that the treasury "shall mint and issue coins described in section 5112 of this title in amounts the Secretary decides are necessary to meet the needs of the United States", with the list in section 5112 explicitly listing the penny (31 USC 5112(a)(6)). It's clearly intended to instruct the treasury to mint pennies without congress needing to proscribe the varying amount every year. It also clearly demonstrates the intent that pennies "shall" be produced.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/politics/2025/04/3... https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5111 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5112

The fact that all of that gives leeway for "'none' is all that's necessary" is why I said the legal basis was "shaky" and not "baseless". I think getting rid of pennies is good, but this is something that Congress needs to do, rather than continually abdicating its responsibilities.
by Ekaros | 2025-11-12 18:15:59+00:00
>RAM 16GB DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 VRAM

Hmm. Not that it is big deal, but I would be somewhat worried about true longevity with the VRAM. Not sure if SteamOS helps there, but on PC some new titles are going over the 8GB VRAM.
by honkycat | 2025-11-12 18:16:03+00:00
Helm sucks.

Helm, and a lot of devops tooling, is fundamentally broken.

The core problem is that it is a templating language and not a fully functional programming language, or at least a DSL.

This leads us to the mess we are in today. Here is a fun experiment: Go open 10 helm charts, and compare the differences between them. You will find they have the same copy-paste bullshit everywhere.

Helm simply does not provide powerful enough tools to develop proper abstractions. This leads to massive sprawl when defining our infrastructure. This leads to the DevOps nightmare we have all found ourselves in.

I have developed complex systems in Pulumi and other CDKs: 99% of the text just GOES AWAY and everything is way more legible.

You are not going to create a robust solution with a weak templating language. You are just going to create more and more sprawl.

Maybe the answer is a CDK that outputs helm charts.
by wasabi991011 | 2025-11-12 18:16:05+00:00
I think I've seen that blind people in the US have a little machine that they can use to add the braille themselves. Also from a quick google search there's also electronic bill readers that can be provided to blind people for free if they qualify.

In Canada the bills are embossed with braille by the mint. There may be other accommodations too, but I haven't looked it up.
Ask HN: When should you quit your job for a side project?
by Nair0 | 2025-11-12 18:16:16+00:00
I'm curious what people here think about this question.

If you plan on working on a side-project that might make you money, or build a startup, when do you think is the best time to quit your job?

Is it when you make enough to live by yourself? When you validate that the idea works? When you realize you don't have enough time for both? Or simply at the very beginning?

What do you think are the reasons for which you should stay longer or less?
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-12 18:16:18+00:00
The omnipresent threat of being splattered by someone who's weaving lanes or distracted by their phone and not expecting to see a vehicle doing 20mph (!!!!) below traffic speed is exactly what I want when I'm in a taxi. /s

If you actually thought adoption would benefit us on it's own rather than seeing it a roundabout way to enforce rules that you want to see enforced without buy in from the public you'd want these cars to behave in a way that makes it easier for them to exist in typical traffic.
by n1xis10t | 2025-11-12 18:16:54+00:00
I think it’s gotten worse, but as for how much worse and whether or not Google is better I’m not sure. I think I have noticed a few times when quotes didn’t work, but I think recently I’ve been noticing that I put things in quotes and then there are no results, and thinking about it now I think that happens more frequently than it used to.

That makes me think that they may have downsized the Bing index, and then sometimes they have the quotes work in which case you get few or no results, and sometimes they ignore the quotes so that you still have some results even though they’re dumb.

You say Bing is better, so it seems weird that a Bing proxy would get less results than Bing, but I think I have heard people talk about things like this before, where Bing’s API doesn’t let you paginate as far as the normal Bing front-end does.

That might be what this is. Bing might be degrading their API product more aggressively for some reason, maybe in an attempt to get people to use normal Bing, or maybe just to cut costs? I don’t know.

By the way, you don’t need to be sorry for the rant. More people need to rant about these things.
by mulmen | 2025-11-12 18:17:33+00:00
At big retailers the price tag code indicates what type of price it is. For example the last digits can mean:

0: full

9: sale

8: reduced

7: clearance (item will not restock)

I forget the exact system Sears used but we could tell at a glance if a deal was really “good”.

I’m curious if Sears and WalMart used different systems and if WalMart exploited knowledge of the Sears system to signal better prices to shoppers. Like a full WalMart price being .97 and clearance being .94.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-11-12 18:17:42+00:00
> The US, on the other hand, does have such capabilities thanks to modern stealth bombers, and using that capability is no more escalatory than sending 1,000,000 attack drones at the enemy.

Stealth bombers exist to deploy nukes, and were created to match the number of Soviet cities that the US Airforce planned on hitting if/when WW3 happened.

No amount of modern stealth bombers, even the F-35, could seriously crush a national-level industrial production regime. Esp. not China's which is massive.

The US would have better luck setting off nukes underwater near the coast and letting the tsunami wash away most large Chinese urban areas.

In an actual shooting war most surface vessels are going to last about 10 seconds, so it's the subs and their munitions that are going to carry the war, combined with air power.
by jm4 | 2025-11-12 18:18:21+00:00
It's been a while since I have done web dev, but web devs back then were certainly not scared of any language. Web devs are like the ultimate polyglots. Or at least they were. I was regularly bouncing around between a half dozen languages when I was doing pro web dev. It was web devs who popularized numerous different languages to begin with simply because delivering apps through a browser allowed us a wide variety of options.
Show HN: Tuisic v2 – Now with visualizer and AI (MCP server) support
by dark-kernel | 2025-11-12 18:18:38+00:00
A few months ago I shared Tuisic — a terminal-based online music player that streams from YouTube, SoundCloud, JioSaavn, and more.

Since then I’ve added some major updates:

+ Real-time visualizer (CAVA-like, runs inside the TUI) + MCP (Model Context Protocol) server integration — lets AI tools or assistants control playback, query track info, etc. + Stability and UI improvements + Refined MPRIS/DBus handling and cleaner build options

Everything is still lightweight and fully terminal-driven — no browser, no GUI, no ads.

GitHub: https://github.com/Dark-Kernel/tuisic AUR package: `tuisic-git`

Would appreciate testing, bug reports, or feedback on how the MCP interface could evolve.

– Sumit Patel (Dark-Kernel)
by schlauerfox | 2025-11-12 18:18:42+00:00
The glow was done in-camera with a prism, the reflective tape was retroreflective so the light source would go into the prism, bounce off the quartz reflector material and into the camera lens, hence the dust coming off the sticks and the lack of glow in that spot where you see it end-on. The 'roto' was for color I think.
by notanastronaut | 2025-11-12 18:18:55+00:00
I have no brand loyalty, hero worship, religion, sports or team in particular, and my hobbies are my own. I have no problem sharing my opinions, but I didn't do stickers, posters, band shirts, or anything like that growing up and still don't. And I heavily agree with the office space reference. Plus, it feels distinctly un-corporate or business professional to allow company devices to be branded in such a way.

And with all of that being said, this hn article has me ruminating on what people are declaring with these things, and my takeaway is that it is a form of tribal expression. Whether it is a "I work with tech stacks" or media entertainment they prefer on their own time, it is a way to find like-minded people and share perhaps some whimsy or at the very least make their laptop distinguishable from the other thousand plus in their organization. Much like how all crossovers are nearly identical in a parking lot, so too are the numerous HP/Macs/what-have-you sitting on everyone's desk. Much like changing the wallpaper away from a corporate logo, if allowed, you're making that piece of equipment more "yours". Much like ricing your terminal.

If the company culture allows this and you see senior staff doing it, in a way it is in your favor to follow the trend - just to say, I see what's going on and I will join in to show my affiliation with this company's culture. It also gives you a chance to say "this is my tribe" and influence people, one way or another. And face it, a blank laptop lid is also a form of expression, whether you intend for it to be or not. So embrace it if allowed, rebel if it isn't allowed and see who follows suit or complains, or don't embrace it. It's a choice you make even if you do not play along.

And to be frank, in our current climate, politics is very important. One side uses their freedom of speech to suppress others and has more branding on their vehicles and toolboxes than a Lisa Frank notebook binder from the 80s. This as a form of intimidation, as well as expression. I think there should be more political stickers. For every "Don't Tread On Me" there should be a counter "We Will Tread Where There Is Inequality".

I know the argument, "there is no need for politics in the workplace", but companies are more political than any individual, as they contribute campaign fiances to both parties, thanks to Citizens United. If they don't want politics at work, they should take their work out of politics.

Edited to Add: Sticker Bombing has strong Punk roots. And few things are more punk than putting politics where corporations may not like it; directly in their face. Now, whether or not sticking bombing your laptop lid is still punk is debatable, but you cannot deny its roots.
by otterley | 2025-11-12 18:19:07+00:00
This article says nothing of the sort. The court order is to preserve existing logs they already have, not to disable logging, and hand all the logs over the plaintiffs. OpenAI's objections are mainly that 1/there are too many logs (so they're proposing a sample instead) and that 2/there's identifying data in the logs and so they are being "forced" to anonymize the logs at their expense (even though it's what they want as a condition of transferring the logs).

There is nothing in the article that mentions OpenAI being forced to create new logs they don't already have.
by zahlman | 2025-11-12 18:19:28+00:00
> Not wrongdoing, but

Okay, but can you provide any concrete examples of anything objectionable whatsoever?

> The fact that there is no official concrete list of bannable posts suggests

No; it suggests that he did nothing wrong. Which he didn't.

> On the other hand I know people who walk a very tight line and find loopholes in every rule, and mods have a very hard time "officially" banning those types

I observed him throughout the entire exchange. He did nothing wrong.

ryan_lane claims to know things here, but refuses to cite anything. Because, I contend, there is nothing to cite.

Yes, Mr. Peters apparently has a personality that rubs certain people the wrong way, and over time they get the impression of wrongdoing. I find this impression to be completely unreasonable. But more importantly, the Python Code of Conduct explicitly to "be respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences" and "show empathy towards other community members"; and the way that people find fault with Mr. Peters demonstrates nothing of the sort. It is rather about seeking uncharitable interpretation, which goes so far as to state overt falsehoods.

Also: speaking from personal experience as a moderator, "skill issue tbh". At any rate, despite its length, the Python Code of Conduct is not a bunch of legalese in which people might be able to find "loopholes". The judgment of whether someone is playing along is appropriately subjective, as it needs to be for such matters.

The problem is that it isn't being applied fairly. Not even remotely.

> Maybe it was like a town where the main bully met unfortunate circumstances and all twenty witnesses haven't actually seen anything for some reason.

The PSF goes out of its way to avoid this circumstance with its reporting and incident-handling procedures. It goes so far (which is part of the problem) that they explicitly use it to justify a refusal to show any kind of evidence, even in cases where nobody in the discussion can imagine a way that the evidence could identify a reporter.
by kpw94 | 2025-11-12 18:19:36+00:00
> $1 and $2 coins in wide circulation (instead of worn-out $1 bills).

This has its own pros/cons...

One advantage of $1 bill over coin is the majority of people in US don't need a wallet with zipper to hold coins. Five $1 bills is much less bulky and much lighter than five $1 CAD or five 1€ coins
by chrismorgan | 2025-11-12 18:19:44+00:00
I want self-hosting to mean only hosting (as in, speaking HTTP) from servers that I control. I acknowledge this is not exclusively how the term is used any more, but I do think it’s still at least a preferable goal.

I want to self-host things. Currently I use a VPS. I’m planning on trying out hosting from home. Either way, if I get into doing much multi-megabit-per-second video stuff, hosting of that bit will definitely be going behind some CDN.
by mynameisash | 2025-11-12 18:20:14+00:00
> the transition was a non-issue

I'm reminded of when Minnesota passed the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act (MCIAA) close to 20 years ago. (Some) restauranteurs - along with the GOP - made pronouncements about how this would destroy the economy. No one would go to out to eat or for a drink again. Doom and gloom.

Last I checked, there are plenty of restaurants open in the state, and things are going fine. In fact, just before the MCIAA went into effect, I had a newborn, and we went out to eat one time with him in tow. We asked for a non-smoking area but were placed immediately next to a family chain smoking. We decided to never go out to eat again until we could do so without risk of second-hand smoke.

My point is that there are frequently these predictions of things being impossible or even just incredibly difficult and not worth the effort, and in the end, it's not a big deal.
by wkat4242 | 2025-11-12 18:20:18+00:00
> In direct contrast: I fully agree with OpenAI here. We can have a more nuanced opinion than 'piracy to train AI is bad therefore refusing to share chats is bad', which sounds absurd but is genuinely how one of the other comments follows logic.

These chats only need to be shared because:

- OpenAI pirated masses of content in the first place

- OpenAI refuse to own up to it even now (they spin the NYT claims as "baseless").

I don't agree with them giving my chats out either, but the blame is not with the NYT in my opinion.

> We don't have to support OpenAI's actions in order to oppose the NYT's actions.

Well the NYT action is more than just its own. It will set a precedent if they win which means other news outlets can get money from OpenAI as well. Which makes a lot of sense, after all they have billions to invest in hardware, why not in content??

And what alternative do they have? Without OpenAI giving access to the source materials used (I assume this was already asked for because it is the most obvious route) there is not much else they can do. And OpenAI won't do that because it will prove the NYT point and will cause them to have to pay a lot to half the world.

It's important that this case is made, not just for the NYT but for journalism in general.
by rokumar510 | 2025-11-12 18:20:32+00:00
Hey HN, I've been obsessed with 'cloud horror stories' and realized they're almost all code-level bugs, not just idle servers.

I went hunting and found this 14x N+1 bug in Airbyte's S3 connector. This post is the full breakdown.

To fix this at scale, I'm building wozz—a free, open-source linter to catch these bugs in PRs. The linter is here: github.com/WozzHQ/wozz.

Happy to answer any questions!
by bitpush | 2025-11-12 18:21:28+00:00
> Second once the paper's in my hands, I get to do what I want with it, and the expectations of the paper company has no bearing on it.

Absolutely! I run an adblocker as well!

At the same time, you'd agree they have the right to refuse to serve you (access denied) or make you jump through hoops (solve a challenge etc)
by shawn_w | 2025-11-12 18:21:30+00:00
You can do that in Racket, with the Racklog library¹. There's also Datalog² and MiniKanren and probably some other logic languages available.

[1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/racklog/index.html

[2] https://docs.racket-lang.org/datalog/index.html
by btilly | 2025-11-12 18:21:31+00:00
I don't either. Even with their problems, they didn't miss by much.

One key factor against them, though, is that they were facing a company whose long-term CEO had written Only The Paranoid Survive. At that point he had moved from being the CEO to the chairman of the board. But Intel had paranoia about possible existential threats baked into its DNA.

There is no question that Intel recognized Transmeta as a potential existential threat, and aggressively went after the very low-power market that Transmeta was targeting. Intel quickly created SpeedStep, allowing power consumption to dynamically scale when not under peak demand. This improved battery life on laptops using the Pentium III, without sacrificing peak performance. They went on to produce low power chips like the Pentium M that did even better on power.

Granted, Intel never managed to match the low power that Transmeta had. But they managed to limit Transmeta enough to cut off their air supply - they couldn't generate the revenue needed to invest enough to iterate as quickly as they needed to. This isn't just a story of Transmeta stumbling. This is also a story of Intel recognizing and heading off a potential threat.