MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eesmith | 2025-11-10 13:46:26+00:00
You asked "To whom are they inclusive?"

I replied by pointing out how "pregnant women" excludes girls.

You said "Woman = all members of the female sex of reproductive age capable of child bearing in the context of pregnancy discussions".

I pointed how that definition is wrong under US EO 14168, and wrong according to quite a few gender critical people.

Claiming I've moved the goalpost, when I directly answered your question and responded to your counter-argument, is a bad faith argument.

Did I miss where you described why you are opposed to using the phrase "pregnant people" instead of "pregnant woman"?
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-11-10 13:47:13+00:00
Murderbot gets a passing mention in the section where the bots gender is important for the plot. But at least in the books, the bot is specifically genderless and prefers "it" pronouns.

Different (voice) actors playing the role maybe fall into the second section of the article, but in the book at least there's a specific attempt to address this with a third way.
by dividedcomet | 2025-11-10 13:48:23+00:00
https://github.com/paradise-runner/kaleidoscope

A multi-agent TUI that uses opencode and tmux to help me solve the frustrating LLM slot machine problem. I find that running 3 agents in parallel on even tough problems is enough to have one that builds what I want.

It’s also been a fun challenge to build a tool that can be used to improve itself
by idiotsecant | 2025-11-10 13:48:29+00:00
Yes, some kind of alternative DNS system where domain assignment is authenticated using some kind of distributed system of ownership consensus! If only such a thing has existed for years already and was well tested and performant...

https://www.kraken.com/learn/what-is-ethereum-name-service-e...

All the things that crypto true believers believed would happen are slowly coming to pass. It wasn't all bored apes and gambling. There was some legitimate developing going on, and still is.
by doright | 2025-11-10 13:48:35+00:00
I like beets' functionality but don't as much like "babysitting" it for long sessions when I have a bunch of new music to import. Especially because crashes are frequent and sometimes make it lose all incremental progress. Lack of progress bar on large imports is painful also.

It would be nice if a beets background worker could be kicked off when new music is detected to avoid the sequential nature of the commandline and see all the waiting tagging actions at once. This[0] is supposed to do that but it appears deprecated in favor of something else[1].

That being said, the "beets way" works pretty well past the import stage, so I haven't felt the need to move off it for local music.

[0] https://github.com/sentriz/betanin

[1] https://github.com/sentriz/wrtag
by metalliqaz | 2025-11-10 13:49:40+00:00
Well, my point is that you don't actually know how diverse the authors are. It was just assumed by their identity. They could be immigrants. They could have been abused as children, or hungry. They could have been raised by wealthy tennis pros. They could have spent their lives hacking on electronics and playing chess, or they could have spent their lives camping and herding cattle. You have no idea. And this is true of someone from any part of the world.
by tannhaeuser | 2025-11-10 13:50:43+00:00
The entire point of markup attributes is to contain rendering hints that themselves aren't rendered to the user as such. Hell, angle-bracket markup itself was introduced to unify and put a limit to syntactic proliferation. But somehow "we" arrived at creating the monstrosity that is CSS and then even to put CSS and JS into inline element content with bogus special escaping and comment parsing rules rather than into attributes and external resources.

The enormous proliferation of syntax and super-complicated layout models doesn't stop markup haters to cry wolf because entities (text macros) represent a security risk in markup however; go figure.
by greenbeans12 | 2025-11-10 13:50:43+00:00
https://tryward.app

We’re building Ward, a security browser extension that uses Gemini Nano, an on-device LLM, to scan for phishing, scams, and other threats from the DOM.

Think of an antivirus for everyday web users, like young children, older adults, and less savvy individuals.

We recently participated in the Google Chrome Built-in AI Challenge 2025 and have submitted to the Chrome Web Store.

We’re looking to meet people who may know someone Ward is good for and would want to provide feedback. Alternatively, we’d love to chat with any IT Managers/Directors of Security/Google Apps Admins who would be interested in piloting us as an anti-phishing enterprise solution.

You can DM or hit me at fitzgeraldcedric(AT)gmail.com :)
by sschueller | 2025-11-10 13:51:02+00:00
Very cool, I built a colored one for Swiss transit (https://sschueller.github.io/posts/turning-a-project-into-a-...) and turned it into a product: https://www.stationdisplay.com

It runs on an ESP32-S3 using the government provided open data. https://opentransportdata.swiss
by researcher-one | 2025-11-10 13:51:03+00:00
The following comes from CHATgpt's search on the German Army's use of FHSS during the first world war:

Here is the closest verbatim passage I found from Jonathan Zenneck’s *Wireless Telegraphy (1915), in the chapter “Methods for Preserving Secrecy of Messages.” The wording is slightly abridged due to the scan quality: “Furthermore, the apparatus can be so arranged that the wave-length is easily and rapidly changed, and then the wave-length varied in accordance with a pre-arranged programme, perhaps automatically. This method was adopted by the Telefunken Co. at one time.”

Note that the book was published in 1915, when Hedy Lamarr was less than one year old.

Anyone interested in the topic might also look at the work of Dr. Tony Rothman on the same question of Hedy's supposed invention. Tony was the scientific advisor to the filming of the PBS special called "Bombshell." He is a man of considerable standing, accomplishments, and qualifications.

Regarding Hedy's patent -- as I said in my paper, note bene: the application of a known technique (FHSS) for its intended purpose (security) does not constitute an invention. Hedy'a attorney tried to convey this message to her in his correspondence, but the message never sunk in.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-10 13:51:13+00:00
Depends who pushes it and how - Steam (Valve) have the clout to if not to "take over gaming" at least turn it into a duopoly on the desktop/laptop from an OS point (from a game client point of view there is already Steam.....and way....over here everyone else).

I don't think anyone else does.

There isn't any technical reasons preventing it, PS5's are based on a heavily modified BSD - it requires a single vendor to standardise and support the platform with enough resources/commitment to do it properly.
by zipy124 | 2025-11-10 13:51:39+00:00
there are benefits such as child tax credits which are not tapered. You either get the full benefit if earning £99,999 a year, or nothing at £100,000. This benefit if you have children can be worth tens of thousands of pounds, thus resulting in a net loss. If you look at income data after tax this causes a weird drop in take home pay in the roughly 100-130k range, where people just salary sacrifice all their extra pay to make sure they are under 100k. This is not productive to the economy.
Show HN: Capme – Free screen recorder with zero cloud uploads
by coffeevibe | 2025-11-10 13:51:53+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Capme because I passionately hate meetings (80% of that is just wasted time), but screen recorders either cost $18/month, add watermarks or I can't convince Janet in accounting to install any software whatsoever.

I just wanted something simple that everyone can use without signups, basically the excalidraw of video recording.

So that's exactly what I set out to build: Capme is a free screen recorder, no accounts needed, no time limits, no watermarks, no cloud uploads.

You choose a background, add a logo, and hit record. If you feel like you need it, write a script in the teleprompter.

That's it. With Capme, your videos never leave your device - no cloud processing, no storage, nothing. You record locally, save the file, and share it however you want.

It works best in Chrome, decent in Safari & Firefox.

Try it: https://www.capme.app/studio

Completely unmonetized for now. Would love feedback:

- What's missing?

- What looks like shit?

- Should I add a video background with unicorns wielding laser swords and would you use that for your next standup video?

Cheers!
by JanTurnherr | 2025-11-10 13:51:53+00:00
My recent expierience: 2023: install windows on new machine. Login to microsoft account. Use computer.

2025: install windows on new machine. Try to log in to microsoft account. Cant. Use usb key. I dont have one. Use authenticator. Message is not show in authenticator. Use password. Wrong password (it was 100% the correct one) give up and use offline account. New try to log in: nothing works. In the end i had to reset my password.
by pm215 | 2025-11-10 13:52:55+00:00
Oh hey, a 9000/340 in the Cambridge area. Almost certainly that originated with the university's Engineering department, who back in the 1990s got rid of a lot of these machines that they had been using as X terminals. My notes say they had six diskless workstations to each server, and kept the monitors to use with the replacement machines, which would explain why this person's 9000/340 has no disk or monitor.

Some truly terrible quality pictures of the one I used to own are at https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~pmaydell/hardware/tiroth... (I have long since disposed of it). Some of the people who got the machines had a play around with getting Linux booting on them. Amazingly some of that code is still in the kernel, eg drivers/net/ethernet/amd/hplance.c so it might even still work ;-)
by rsynnott | 2025-11-10 13:53:13+00:00
> They're in production today, and will probably be forever.

I suspect their days are numbered, because they have become _far_ more expensive to dispose of, and that's only going one direction.

> But for high power density, low cost, and and high current applications where you don't have to worry about carrying them or tipping them over, you're going to be stuck with lead in a bucket of acid for a while I suspect.

You'd think, but they _haven't_ seen a lot of use in, say, grid-scale applications.
by lossolo | 2025-11-10 13:53:30+00:00
It's getting out of control. Just yesterday, I was turning on remote desktop on Windows 11. It showed as enabled, with a label indicating that it was listening on port 3389, but it wasn't accessible from a remote host. I checked on Windows, and it turned out it wasn't actually listening on the RDP port at all. I tried toggling it off and on again, still nothing. Only a reboot helped.

A few weeks ago, a family member had Notepad stop working suddenly, showing an error saying it couldn't execute the binary or something similar. Reinstalling it from the Microsoft store or even downloading other official versions didn't help, they had to restore Windows from a backup.
by NoGravitas | 2025-11-10 13:53:54+00:00
Yep, I'd like to think this was a bill to protect my right to run any software I want to on hardware that I own, but it's actually a bill to keep Montana localities (cities, counties) from regulating or restricting data centers (noise, power, etc) in the interests of their residents. It's a state preemption bill restricting local democracy for the benefit of big business and polluters.
by molticrystal | 2025-11-10 13:53:55+00:00
Plan 9 extensions would only require enough examples to justify and might not take years. Though your taking years assessment would be right if there's a dearth of kernel spots to add up where automatic pointer conversion for anonymous fields, or using the typedef name to access them, offer some improvement, not necessarily even a huge improvement.

Since with the Microsoft extension, it was just waiting until enough examples were woven into the discussion to overcome the back and forth that was preventing "biting the bullet".
by bambax | 2025-11-10 13:55:07+00:00
This month I wrote a small Windows utility to keep a PC "always awake": prevents the PC from going to sleep (using a Windows API that exists just for that) and simulates invisible mouse movements every 60 seconds to keep apps like MS Teams happy, so that the user always appears active.

There is a PowerToy thingy that's similar but it's full of options and command-line flags. My version has no options, it's just a tray utility that can be toggled on (green) or off (orange) with double-click. There are also physical mouse jigglers but they're cumbersome, and many have visible mouse movements, which is extremely annoying (not all of them do this but many do!)

The full install file is just 100Kb, works on all versions of Windows starting with Win7, installs without admin rights. Can't live without it!

I need to make a website for it but I'm procrastinating on that one last step...
by ssslvky1 | 2025-11-10 13:55:28+00:00
Features Spin the slot machine every time you submit code! Endless spins! Wait for your build, vibe hard, and spin again. The Vibe Engine™ — the calmer you are, the luckier you get. (Probably.) Global Leaderboard — who’s the ultimate Vibe Coder of Vegas? Secret Easter Egg: Reach 777 commits, the Devs shall descend from the cloud and proclaim: “Merge forever. Conflict never.”
by cbg0 | 2025-11-10 13:55:36+00:00
> 6GHz barely makes it through a concrete wall, so you're only receiving your own AP, so you have the whole bandwith mostly to yourself.

I agree with this and the fact that 6GHz should still be available for wifi, but this whole bandwidth frenzy over wifi has always seemed like a meme for anyone except power users. A 4K netflix stream caps out around 15mbps, so >95% of typical home users will be just fine using 2.4/5GHz inside their own homes.
by estebarb | 2025-11-10 13:55:53+00:00
To be fair, everyone is committing this crime: Amazon, Google, IBM... as a native spanish speaker, I have never wanted to read documentation in spanish: it is usually of lower quality, not up to date and uses translations of technical terms that make it impossible to reconcile with the rest of the literature (I'm looking at you, dragon book translation. Nobody says "canaletas" instead of "pipelines").

At least before the translations were done by profesionals, but now they are done with tech capable of hallucinating new stuff itself... I'm trusting translations even less than before.
by seethishat | 2025-11-10 13:55:58+00:00
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8806

Abstract

Some DNS recursive resolvers have longer-than-desired round-trip times to the closest DNS root server; those resolvers may have difficulty getting responses from the root servers, such as during a network attack. Some DNS recursive resolver operators want to prevent snooping by third parties of requests sent to DNS root servers. In both cases, resolvers can greatly decrease the round-trip time and prevent observation of requests by serving a copy of the full root zone on the same server, such as on a loopback address or in the resolver software. This document shows how to start and maintain such a copy of the root zone that does not cause problems for other users of the DNS, at the cost of adding some operational fragility for the operator.

This document obsoletes RFC 7706.
by ptero | 2025-11-10 13:56:10+00:00
This is likely very regional. As a single data point, raising the family in the Boston area for the last 25 years I do not recall not being able to see a doctor the same day for the regular scares, from ear pains and high fever to falling and later vomiting (is this a concussion?).

A few times when we needed to see specialists, we often saw them within 24 hours; occasionally longer but I would say with a median of 48-72 hours. Even things that are clearly not urgent (for dermatologist "hey, I have forgotten about skin checks for the last 2 years, can we do the next one now", for ENT "hey, my son is getting nosebleeds during high intensity sports; can you check if there is a specific blood vessel that is causing problems"?) always happened well within two weeks. Three caveats to this happy story:

1. This is Boston area with likely the highest concentration of medical practitioners of all kinds in the US. I had good insurance with a large network, decent out-of-network coverage and for most cases not needed a pre-approval to see a specialist.

2. Everyone is generally healthy and our "specialist needs" were likely well trodden paths with many available specialists.

3. Our usage of the doctors, as the kids became generally healthy teenagers and adults, dropped significantly in the last 5-7 years. I hear post-covid the situation is changing and I may be heavily skewing to the earlier period.
by pcrh | 2025-11-10 13:57:00+00:00
Nice! It's interesting to see the major travel hubs and how they can differ from modern ones, for example Durocortorum (Reims) and Augustobona (Troyes) in France, as well as Verulamium (St. Albans) in England.

It would be nice to be able to use Streetview or similar to see how the roads look today (where they still exist).
by runeks | 2025-11-10 13:57:04+00:00
> Other than criminal enforcement, I'm not sure how you'd meaningfully change the incentives for someone who is willing to throw a £5 electrical device in the gutter because they can't be bothered to take it home, recharge it and refill it with £0.20 worth of liquid.

Here in Denmark we are forced to pay a small deposit when buying bottles/cans of beverages, which is returned (in cash) when you return the bottle. The consequence is that you find zero beverage bottles lying around, since they’re collected and redeemed.

If we put a, say, similar $10 deposit on these vapes, I think we’d see the same effect here. One problem is that they’re smaller, so they’re harder to find for collectors.
by blutack | 2025-11-10 13:57:06+00:00
Presumably also open circuit not rebreather given this was mid 90s. It's a pity the article doesn't detail their dive plan, the gas quantities must have been staggering.

Nowadays this type of diving would be done using an eCCR (and backup open circuit), where some software on a microcontroller controls the amount of oxygen in a breathing loop. A scrubber (hopefully) removes the CO2. Changing the gas mixture as you go is required to reach these sorts of depths because oxygen becomes toxic at pressure, and gas density itself can cause issues with breathing.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-10 13:57:07+00:00
As someone who worked in the film industry for 15 years, this is why I get weary of anyone telling me a new tool “will just make things easier.“ All it does is raise the expectations of what I am supposed to do even if it leads to my role expanding every six months without compensation.

I don’t know a single specialized camera operator anymore. Literally every shooter I know is also a competent editor, which I do think is neat and makes us better Cam Ops, but it also means people expect everyone to shoot and edit. Also capture excellent sound. Don’t forget the set has to look good. Make sure you’ve got a good Rolodex of locations ready to go as well.

We don’t need to keep every individual role just because it’s traditionally been there, but in a lot of industries we’ve clearly gone the wrong direction. And with something like QA/QC I could see that being a huge problem because the payoff is not obvious so upper management is going to want you to get something out the door no matter what state it is in.
by vrighter | 2025-11-10 13:57:20+00:00
So it's just a lot of hot air, simply because it is not the government that is restricting our right to compute. But the device makers, and software developers.

Google deciding to monopolize app installations is a restriction on computing. Not the government.

Device makers locking bootloaders is a restriction on computing. Not the government.

Bank applications refusing to run unless running on a blessed-by-google firmware on a device with a locked bootloader is a restriction on computing. Not the government.
by ramraj07 | 2025-11-10 13:57:33+00:00
I will trust Google to abide by the rules more than any other big tech firm. Like with all my money ill make that bet. Not because I think they're good guys but from everything I have learned they have a culture that abides by rules like these. If they say they wont train on api use (they do say it) I feel assured they wont.
by styanax | 2025-11-10 13:58:27+00:00
Hoping the HN DNS savvy reading this can help me understand a Quad9 thing I ran into. I was debugging (as in scratching my head) a bank website login problem and ended up doing some DNS checks against their domain, usual stuff, while using Quad9 as my DNS provider.

While testing, I was using Google and Cloudflare as well, and started noticing something - Quad9 does not return all A records listed for a domain, the same way Google/Cloudflare do.

dig -t A google.com @8.8.8.8 +short (6x IPs) dig -t A google.com @1.1.1.1 +short (6x IPs) dig -t A google.com @9.9.9.9 +short (1x IP)

This gave me a weird feeling; I get there's a lot of DNS geo magic and 8.8/1.1 serve 2 different subnets, and 9.9 a third. But... where did the other 5 expected IPs from Quad9 get off to?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-11-10 13:58:47+00:00
Nice read but we also have democracy to prevent things but it still feels effectively hi-jacked by such fictional constructs like capitalism and the lobbying power

Theoretically we should be able to think of the majorities or ourselves and we can have a good system

but we also feel like a lack of choice I suppose, the elections feel between just two parties with choosing the lesser evil (I think zohran is cool tho in the democratic party and maybe he could signify some good things I guess)

Personally I feel like we need to focus more on the incentives and competency of people more than anything and try to vote it on that and not what they speak I suppose.
by assemblyman | 2025-11-10 13:58:52+00:00
I don't think feeding pigeons is objectively a bad thing. While I live in a highly urban area and don't doubt they get food, a couple of additional sessions of seeds per week is not going to make them dependent or obese. I generally confirm I am doing something reasonably appropriate by asking my local bird sanctuary.

I don't follow social media at all so not sure if there's a trend going on about feeding birds. A few times someone has shown me clearly fake (i.e. spliced together) videos of animals being "rescued" and living with families. They do make me angry because they are clearly made for views.
by latexr | 2025-11-10 13:59:26+00:00
If you want to learn “how to survive in a tough world”, the worst strategy you could follow is to to only read ideas from the group which dominates much of it. By your logic, you should be reading books specifically from people who face constant hardship and discrimination, which includes trans, homosexual, black people… Sure, throw in a few books from rich white men in the global north to learn how they think, but to only read from them would be a mistake.

Even if you don’t want diversity of ideas, you need it to form an accurate picture of reality.
by maxlybbert | 2025-11-10 13:59:28+00:00
Well, for one thing, IEEE-757 was a significant improvement on the vendor-specific ways of handling floating point that it replaced ( https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754st... ).

I wasn't a big fan of floating point until I worked with a former college professor who had taught astrophysics. When possible, he preferred to use respected libraries that would give accurate results fast. But when he had to implement things himself, he didn't always necessarily want the fastest or the most accurate implementation; he'd intentionally make and document the tradeoffs for his implementation. He could analyze an algorithm to estimate the accumulated units in the last place error ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_in_the_last_place ), but he realized when that wasn't necessary.