MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Zenst | 2025-11-10 14:21:26+00:00
I did some HP-UX in late 80's, migration of servers across the country for a courrier company from NCR towers to HP servers running HP-UX (sorry don't recall the models of hand).

Had fun porting sortware across, a radio system that was unable to test fully unless in the field (which it did first time, which was amazing). Had many good chats with HP engineers back then (we did a large purchase as a global company) and one I still recall was early editions of HP-UX having an error code of 8008, until somebody in senior managment at HP saw it one time (no customer had ever complained apparently about it).

I liked HP-UX having previously worked on IBM RT systems running AIX, as well as NCR towers with there more vanilla System V. Though did have SMIT with AIX and SAM with HP-UX for those manual saving moments of ease to fall back on. Though my favourite flabour of unix of that time would be the Pyramid systems dual universe OSx. You could have a BSD or an AT&T enviroment at once, able to use both flavours in scripts by prefixing with bsd or att, to run that command. Don't recall how it handled TERMCAP/TERMINFO of hand (that was always an area of fun back then).

Fun times, in the days in which O'Reilly and magazines like Byte or Unix World, were the internet, along with expensive training courses and manuals that you would use and thumb every page of the multi tombed encyclopedic stack they came in.

Best C platform for developing that I did use in that era, hands down the VAX under DCL, the profilers etc, pure leaps and joy.
by fundatus | 2025-11-10 14:21:37+00:00
Obviously, but in case the sarcasm of my comment didn't come through: I was trying to make the point that you can't draw lines between continents just because of geography (or tectonic plates for that matter). It's arbitrary - after all we can't even agree which continents do exist.

Relevant watching: Map Men: How many continents are there? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrsxRJdwfM0)
by Fileformat | 2025-11-10 14:21:44+00:00
I want to use it on an RSS feed: to make it sensible when a new users clicks on an RSS link.

I specifically want it to be served as XML so it can still be an RSS feed: I don't even need the HTML to look that great: I have the actually website for that.

Example: https://www.fileformat.info/news/rss.xml
by FeloniousHam | 2025-11-10 14:21:46+00:00
I'll grant that the marketing oversells the capabilities of the system, but (as I have commented repeatedly in these FSD threads): anyone using it knows within a couple days their comfort level. I'm utterly unconvinced that any user is actually confused about the capacity of the system just because it's named "Autopilot" or "Full Self Driving" is not telling the truth.

The fact of the technology is that while imperfect, it is absolutely a marvel, and incredibly useful. I will never drive home again after having a beer after work, or when I'm tired after a long day. I can only attribute the angry skepticism in the comments to willful ignorance or lack of in-the-seat experience. I use it everyday, it drives me driveway to parking with only occasional interventions (per week!).

I'll throw in that my wife hates it (as a passenger or driver), but she has a much lower tolerance for any variance from expected human driving behaviour (eg. lane choices, overly cautious behaviour around cars waiting to enter traffic, etc).
by sn9 | 2025-11-10 14:22:13+00:00
It's the sort of thing you can just experiment with and see for yourself.

Try eating the usual health-promoting diet high in fiber and low in saturated fats from animal sources, mostly whole foods, lots of fruits and veggies and legumes and whole grains, lean meats, etc.

After a few months, check your blood work.

Then reintroduce fattier cuts of meat into your diet and see what your numbers do after a few months.
by csomar | 2025-11-10 14:22:27+00:00
> When you are outsourcing assembly you are actually sending quite a lot of the knowledge and know how that went into the high value act of designing a thing.

I don't think so. Employees on the chain line are not going to become literate and engineers just because you are outsourcing the menial stuff.

> so being able to produce physical stuff both better, more, and cheaper

That is knowledge work.

> The only area china is really behind seems to be commercial airlines engines. That is the only thing we never really outsourced.

It didn't stop Brazil from creating a rather very good aerospace company.

I am afraid we cannot reconcile the difference in our thinking.
by assemblyman | 2025-11-10 14:22:29+00:00
Ah no, I meant these ones by Graham:

https://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-3rd-Ed/dp/006335...

https://www.amazon.com/Security-Analysis-Seventh-Principles-...

I'll paste a couple more readable ones too :)

https://www.amazon.com/Concentrated-Investing-Strategies-Gre...

https://www.amazon.com/Value-Investing-Graham-Buffett-Financ...

Like I said to someone else above, I myself put almost all my savings in index funds and slowly read/study these just for curiosity. Eventually, I hope to actually spend some time looking at real data but even if I don't find any interesting stocks or lose my modest starter funds for this activity, I would be okay with it.
by pcdoodle | 2025-11-10 14:22:57+00:00
The challenge of moderation is a can of worms.

I've thought long and hard about how a new comer could get around the issues but never came up with anything rock solid. SMS / Email is maximum sign up resistance but could help. Also being able to browse before making an account is key for new users but then you're open to bots.

Anyone got some good idears?
by marcosdumay | 2025-11-10 14:23:27+00:00
> advice to "always" treat numbers as strings

FFS, have your parser fail on inputs it can not handle.

Anyway, the book defining XML doesn't tell you how your parser will handle values you can't represent on your platform either. And it also won't tell you how our parser will read timestamps. Both are completely out of scope there.

The only common issue in JSON that entire book covers is comments.

The SOAP specification does tell you how to write timestamps. It's not a single book, and doesn't cover things like platform limitations, or arrays. If you want to compare, OpenAPI's spec fills a booklet:

https://swagger.io/docs/specification/v3_0/about/
by codinhood | 2025-11-10 14:23:31+00:00
Working on some fun/silly projects.

My favorite so far is: "The Anti-AI UI Test".

After ChatGPT Atlas came out I thought it would be fun to find UI patterns that AI browsers couldn't figure out like multiple download buttons, hidden unsubscribe buttons, etc. So I created 7 levels of web dark patterns for AI browsers. You can try it yourself if you want:

https://codinhood.com/anti-ai-ui

I found Atlas can get through most patterns, so I created an even more unhinged one (job application form) that shifts the interface and flashes content.

Don't take it too seriously as actually testing AI browsers, it just a fun side project. I documented the patterns here: https://codinhood.com/anti-ai-ui/about
by netsharc | 2025-11-10 14:24:22+00:00
I wonder how hard it is to become such a person. Just start telling people you're looking to be one, and I imagine they'll give you their business card in case you manage to become one and they need you in the future.

Of course, people skills are necessary... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIMIyQnOso
by erikcapkovic | 2025-11-10 14:25:03+00:00
Me and my friends are working on a fitness companion app, used for tracking both nutrition intake and workouts. Taking the best from well known nutrition apps and workout apps like Hevy. In the core of it will be an AI Agent which can analyze the overall progress based on food and exercise logs and give personalized suggestions.

https://thefithub.sk

Maybe a bit too complex project for me to handle but hopefully will take it somewhere
by csomar | 2025-11-10 14:25:14+00:00
Of the top of my head: pollution, jobs that negatively affect your countryman and then require expensive healthcare, side effects (noise, truck traffic) that negatively affect knowledge workers, low pay.

I can't also think of any reason why bringing these jobs is a net positive. Like I get it, China is adversarial but there are 2-3 billion more people you can outsource this work to who are unlikely to get adversarial.
by lowkeyokay | 2025-11-10 14:25:42+00:00
I am working on a time tracking app. I use it to keep track of time spent vs my estimates, and also just to check my actual working hours. It's fully local—everything is stored in localStorage — but I do have plans for some optional syncing so it can be used on multiple devices.

It has helped me a lot to keep focus while working and track distractions. It might be too tailored for my needs, but have a look: https://zookeeper.fyi
by dmazin | 2025-11-10 14:26:00+00:00
If this guy is interesting to you, I recommend "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry"[1]. Really good computing history book, and I've read a lot of them. Lee is a major character in the book.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-10 14:26:12+00:00
I do think DEC64 has merit: Most of the time, I'd prefer to be able to reason about how non-integers are handled; and I just can't reason about traditional floating point.

Yes, Doug does bloviate quite a bit. (And when I asked him if there was a way to make callbacks in Node.js / Javascript simpler, he mocked me. A few years later, "await" was added to the language, which generally cleans up callback chains.)
by greeniskool | 2025-11-10 14:26:33+00:00
Sadly, not anymore - TecToy lost the Sega license a few years ago. In the later years, they were simply rebranding AtGames plug-and-plays with the Atari and Sega licenses; and more recently, they did a half-assed attempt at launching a rebranded Ayn Loki in response to the handheld PC boom[0]. They don't do much in the gaming business anymore, instead focusing in the smart appliances and credit card readers for businesses.

[0] https://www.loja.tectoy.com.br/produto/zeenix-pro-16gb-de-ra...
by hequmania | 2025-11-10 14:27:04+00:00
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by stetrain | 2025-11-10 14:27:36+00:00
Yes, we should just make couplings so that a long string of cars can be attached together. The trailing cars could all follow the lead car. If you add some guide rails to the road you don't even need a fancy autonomous steering system. Swap the rubber tires for steel wheels on the guide rails and you reduce friction losses and eliminate flat tires. A centralized dispatch and signaling system could keep the system free flowing and enable high capacities.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-10 14:27:56+00:00
Multiple MB?

I'm looking at: https://github.com/mfreed7/xslt_polyfill

Which uses: https://github.com/DesignLiquido/xslt-processor/tree/main

But they don't look that heavy. Am I missing something? Megabytes of JS would be enormous.
by triceratops | 2025-11-10 14:27:57+00:00
> Breaking a law that is widely regarded as unjust

That's not the "why" for so-called "sanctuary city" practices. The answer is more pragmatic: local law enforcement needs all local residents to cooperate with them to be able to do their jobs.

If undocumented people are afraid to report crimes or be a witness, that hinders investigations and prosecutions of more serious crimes.
by piltdownman | 2025-11-10 14:28:04+00:00
In terms of health outcomes, the UK generally has higher life expectancy and lower maternal mortality rates than the US - but that said, even the richest Americans face shorter lifespans than their European counterparts.

The real focus and point of contention should be that the US healthcare system is exponentially more expensive per capita than any European model, but is worse for almost all health outcomes including the major litmus tests of life expectancy and infant mortality. In some cases, the wealthiest Americans have survival rates on par with the poorest Europeans in western parts of Europe such as Germany, France and the Netherlands.

https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-04-02/wealth-mortality-gap

Americans average spend on inpatient and outpatient care was $8,353 per person vs $3,636 in peer countries - but this higher spending on providers is driven by higher prices rather than higher utilization of care. Pretty much all other insights in comparing the two systems can be extrapolated from that fact alone imo.

https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/health-policy-101-i...
by Balgair | 2025-11-10 14:28:25+00:00
I guess it depends on what you mean by edited.

Like, there are trials underway right now for organ specific editing for genetic diseases. In that, they just do some CRIPSR injection in the liver or the affected organ to regain lost function.

The trick is what we decide 'lost function' means. So, for issues with lost enzymatic function or the like, sure, yeah, that's totally a disease, no worries. But what about Vitamin-C function? We could easily edit someone to produce that again, I mean, most mammals have this function.

And, yadda yadda yadda, the slippery slope slips, and you get people that have gills or some such nonsense.

I think most people's worry is in germ-line editing, where you 'rob' children of choices.

Look, this is ethically difficult stuff. We don't have a lot of history to draw on here, and the actual implementation is technically difficult to do and to understand for most people (that would include these children, they would not really know what was done to them). Add in economic fears and issues with progeny really being your progeny (oh hey, a A2160F Thermo-Fisher gene editor is actually my father, when you think about it), and ignore all the Star Trek nonsense. This stuff is terribly fast and terribly unfair and terribly long lasting.
by cubefox | 2025-11-10 14:28:50+00:00
He ignores this basic argument:

Positions in sequences like arrays are referred to using ordinal numbers (first, second, third, ...). There is no ordinal "zeroth". Ordinal numbers start at 1. This is contrary to cardinal ("how many?") numbers, which start at 0. And talking of "natural" numbers is besides the point. Therefore, referring to the seventh element in a sequence with the name "6" rather than "7" is confusing and provokes off-by-one errors.
by mesrik | 2025-11-10 14:30:12+00:00
HP-UX general support seems it is EOLd by end of this year. Extended, apparently very pricey, support will last till 2028.

It would be nice if anyone having still contacts they could ask if HPE would be willing to relax at least parts of HP-UX, like documentation and let achieve.org take them and let us occasionally check things as rererence how it was HP-UX.

It would be shame if all that work that they did documents were lost and unavailable general public later on.
by rramadass | 2025-11-10 14:30:47+00:00
What an idiotic comment; especially the last line!

The psychological effects of prolonged exposure to extreme gratuitous violence in horror films (the sub-genre of torture/sadism/slasher) are well known. The effects are quite detrimental (particularly in youngsters/teens) and in many cases long-lasting. They include Persistent Anxiety, Fearfulness, Avoidance, Obsession, Desensitization towards Violence (especially towards Women), Lack of Empathy, Nightmares, Sleeplessness etc.

Scary movies can have lasting effects on children and teens, study says - https://record.umich.edu/articles/scary-movies-can-have-last...

Psychological Effects of Horror Movies - https://edinazephyrus.com/psychological-effects-of-horror-mo...
by laz | 2025-11-10 14:30:59+00:00
I see a single IP for all 3

While I'm here: Google uses edns0 client subnet to geo target your client IP.

Try a dig -t txt o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @8.8.8.8 vs the others to see the src IP of the packet sent to Google's DNS server, and any edns0 info that came along with it.
by lizknope | 2025-11-10 14:31:17+00:00
Did anyone use AFS (Andrew File System)?

My university in the 1990's had hundreds of Unix workstations from Sun, HP, DEC, IBM, SGI, and Linux.

It was all tied together using this so everything felt the same no matter what system you were on.

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

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

The IT dept installed and compiled tons of software for the various systems and AFS had an @sys string that you would put into your symbolic link and then it would dereference to the actual directory for that specific system architecture.

https://docs.openafs.org/Reference/1/sys.html

https://web.mit.edu/sipb/doc/working/afs/html/subsection7.6....

"On an Athena DECstation, it's pmax_ul4; on an Athena RS6000, it's rs_aix31" and so on.
by fguerraz | 2025-11-10 14:31:40+00:00
This is just corporate greed!

I live in a EU country in an apartment and 5GHz is completely crowded and pretty much unusable because of DFS (making your WiFi AP unexpectedly stop to do a complete scan and choose a new channel), so 6GHz is the only stable, high bandwidth option here, and we need more channels so that most peopole chan switch to it.

The cellular networks operators can have that shitty 5GHz part of the spectrum if they want it!
by sarchertech | 2025-11-10 14:33:03+00:00
Everything’s a trade off. Take something from 30 year ago written in a less popular language with a compiler that no one is maintaining, or that you might not even be able to find a copy of.

You can’t compile the source for modern systems, but the windows binary still runs.

Distributing the source also doesn’t solve the backwards compatibility problem even if it does ameliorate it. A compiler can’t paper over every compatibility problem.
by munificent | 2025-11-10 14:34:08+00:00
> "Five things you MUST do if you're doing this thing. You'd never guess #3!" It used to be everywhere and now it's nowhere.

Try opening YouTube in an incognito window sometime. Scrolling through a few, I see:

* Banned Amazon Products you NEED to See to Believe!

* This has NEVER Happened Before... (Severe Weather Channel)

* Our Dog got Married and had PUPPIES! THE MOVIE Emotional

* I WENT TO GHOST TOWN AND SOMETHING HEARTBREAKING...
by jacquesm | 2025-11-10 14:34:11+00:00
I lived on an Island in Lake Huron for about 5 years and went visiting the Lake Superior area many times. To call it a lake does not really do it justice: it's an inland sea, and a most impressive one. I've seen the lake from the shore in more than one storm and it didn't look any different than the ocean, except that it seemed in many ways more violent. I asked the locals about it and they said that the lake is more violent than the sea in places but there wasn't any coherent explanation, it could be the steep rise of what eventually becomes the shoreline rather than the much more gradual one the ocean usually has.

There are also much lower periodicity waves in such constrained bodies called 'seiches':

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

There is a museum dedicated to the wrecks, well worth visiting, but do bring earplugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Shipwreck_Museum
Show HN: An open source astronomy dashboard (https://caelus.siderealcode.net)
by rhannequin | 2025-11-10 14:34:14+00:00
Hello HN! My name is Rémy and I recently published an astronomy dashboard where everything is open source: the code of the website, the framework it is based on and the library that computes astronomical data.

For the last few years, I have been developing the Ruby library Astronoby (https://github.com/rhannequin/astronoby) with as much dedication and perseverance I could while I don't have any scientific academic background. My end goal was to use this library and build a website that not only provides as much data as possible, but let anyone access and understand how it was computed. This goal is on its was of completion with Caelus.

Of course the website is still quite new and there are many features I will implement in the coming weeks and months, including the ability to set any date, having a global view of the Solar System, having an interactive sky chart, a tool to prepare your observation night, having the website in multiple languages, etc.

I believe astronomical data should be universal and anyone should be allowed to easily access this data, manipulate it, understand how it was generated, and contribute to and with the community.

My goal is to make this project truly collaborative. I am open to feedback, ideas, requests, bugs, everything, to offer the community open source astronomical data.

Thank you all.

Website: https://caelus.siderealcode.net

Source code: https://github.com/rhannequin/caelus
by gruez | 2025-11-10 14:34:27+00:00
>But there has to be some change in things. There is no equilibrium possible in having the world produce the same amount of stuff but half the population has zero money or everyone has half as much— and can’t afford that stuff so then it just wouldn’t be produced, but that isn’t the way the economy has ever gone either.

How is AI different than the agricultural revolution, which allowed us to make the same amount of food for 95% less labor, or recent changes in automation, which drastically reduced the amount of labor needed for manufactured goods? The outcome for both is that people got displaced to the "service industry", which meant both desk jobs and jobs like nurses. I don't see how AI is going to be any different, except with desk jobs moving to other non-automatable service jobs like nurses, plumbers or whatever.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-11-10 14:34:34+00:00
it's not a race to the bottom, it's a zero sum game. someone is gonna lose money but everyone who currently has a stake thinks they can bail out before the crash (or if the people in charge try to abort the game and initiate a more sustainable but less immediately profitable model). Stockholders essentially hold a company hostage like that: maximize short term growth of my asset value right now or I tank the entire org, then when the bad decisions you made today come back to haunt you I dump stock, pull up stakes and haul ass right before the whole thing explodes. These people kill sheep for wool.
Show HN: SuperCurate – Fast note search and curation
by f_k | 2025-11-10 14:34:48+00:00
I'm building SuperCurate (https://getsupercurate.com), a tool focused on note retrieval and curation rather than note creation. Think filing cabinet for your notes, web clippings, images and PDFs.

I built it because I wanted fast search and filters for my Evernote archive (ENEX) so I could drill down and surface exactly what I was looking for.

It can also search inside PDFs and jump directly to the matching page with highlights.

Web Clipper for Chrome to save content directly: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/piianedlaigjpcebhlp...

Demos:

- Search and curation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4QSIoUL4Uk

- Web Clipper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F7QoC7X3fs

- Search inside PDFs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0X9sD-938Q

I'd love to hear your feedback and use cases!