MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-10 20:20:51+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Willson

https://www.quentinwillson.co.uk/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2lpww7pw72o

https://www.youtube.com/@quentinwillson8918/videos

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/quentin-will...
by genericone | 2025-11-10 20:20:51+00:00
Excessive speeders in the absence of speed-limit enforcement just creates neighbors that don't mind their neighborhood being consumed by speed bumps/dips, I think there's an analogy here in residential areas. And if you have a lot of children in your neighborhood, there IS a 'xx-phobia' for speeders. But speed bumps and dips are an absolute nuisance and sometimes dangerous, so just having cameras identify and a system willing to punish speeders would absolutely be the preference.
by JohnFen | 2025-11-10 20:20:53+00:00
I've been suckered into answering these questions before, but I don't do it anymore because it just leads to a barrage of comments about how I did it wrong. Let's just say I gave it a more than fair shot.

The reality is that I don't see any such gains overall. The gains I get in one area I lose because I have to spend more time in other (more tedious and unpleasant) areas. So it just isn't for me. In case it matters, I'm a senior+ engineer.

What I don't understand is why so many people are so terribly concerned about whether or not others find value in these tools. Why does it matter to anyone who isn't selling the tools?
by whitehexagon | 2025-11-10 20:21:03+00:00
Nice, I started with 5 panels (450W each) and a simple design of interchangeable long and short rear legs to adjust the angle of each panel. Base of leg sits in a bracket on a steel frame, and pivots on an M8 bolt. Top of the leg attaches to some angled 'meccano' steel I affixed to the rear of the panels. It worked great, but I slightly over optimized by sharing legs, which made the twice a year switchover a bit tricky, since I could only manage to lift a single panel at a time.

Last year the 550W panels here dropped to 90eur, and so I just added some more panels to remove the need for the switchover. I saw last week 600W panels going for 80eur but no space left, but tempting. Good luck! It's a nice feeling to have energy independence.
by tick_tock_tick | 2025-11-10 20:21:39+00:00
> the politicians are unlikely to say it outright but I think this is pretty clearly aimed at the US and making it too costly to do so.

lol this makes zero impact on that. The Canadian government doesn't even think it's own solder would fight the USA or sadly even run an insurgency. It's the consequence of trying to minimize nationalism and being cultural dominated by the USA for decades.

If the USA wants Canada it gets Canada.
by viccis | 2025-11-10 20:22:05+00:00
That's because Chrome tracks so much telemetry about you that Google is satisfied with how well it has you surveilled. If you install a ton of privacy extensions like Privacy Badger, uBlock, VPN extensions with information leakage protections, etc., watch that "accuracy" plummet again as it makes you click 20 traffic signals to pass one check.
by MrJohz | 2025-11-10 20:22:29+00:00
Conveniently, all three of the major JS engines can be extracted from the browsers they are developed for, and used in other projects. Node and Bun famously use V8 and the WebKit one, and Servo I believe embeds SpiderMonkey.

If you want to start a new browser project, and you're not interested in writing a JS engine from scratch, there are three off-the-shelf options there to choose from.
by graypegg | 2025-11-10 20:22:38+00:00
That's a really cool idea! I'm not sure of the specifics, but I believe digital printing on fabric isn't outrageously expensive, and being custom made per layout would let you hide a lot of the patch-like structure with the actual design. (I imagine it would be a lot less noticeable if a seam follows a line in the design, or a pleat like in the dress examples from the paper) Insanely cool value prop to get some of these patches in the mail, that assemble into a choice of a few different garments, all pairing well together. And if you like a fabric/pattern from a prior piece, now it can be a highlight in another garment.

Please make a men's size+cut version if you do that, you have an interested customer #1!
by threetonesun | 2025-11-10 20:22:54+00:00
LLMs do love to make up endpoints and parameters, but I have found that ones with web access are pretty good at copy/pasting configs if they can find them, so it might be worth a few minutes of exploring what people are actually finding that's causing it to make up an endpoint. I have not (yet!) seen an instance where making something easier for LLMs to parse didn't also help human comprehension.
by disambiguation | 2025-11-10 20:23:40+00:00
The double entendre occurred to me, I don't disagree.

But the relative ease does not merely apply to users, but to the barrier of entry for alt products as well.

Consider that the current paradigm is contingent on the "blind trust" users have held in tech for a long time. It's possible that a new kind of app will thrive in a different paradigm.

For example, is there any reason we couldn't have a simple "message wrapper" which only sends encrypted payloads via SMS or Email and decrypts on the fly in a secure sandbox? Easy for the user and hard to regulate.
by jmkr | 2025-11-10 20:24:24+00:00
I have been building music theory/midi related vst plugins in JUCE.

It's mostly targeted at me, or others that make music, but are not piano players.

There isn't much to show currently, but I have a rhythm generator, and have been working on a chord builder. The main thing that has taken time has been trying to decide which things to add to a user interface to make it worth actually building.
by mattmaroon | 2025-11-10 20:24:35+00:00
Corporations aren’t people in the literal sense which the 13th amendment uses, nobody ever said they were. They just have the ability to do some people things. They can have a bank account or sign a contract. They cannot vote or enlist or do lots of things people can do. (The technical name is ‘juridicial people’ and what they can or cannot do is spelled out in law quite well.)

Money isn’t speech, and no court ever said it was. The ads you buy with money are speech. What’s the difference between a Fox news editorial show or a right-leaning ad on Fox News? (The answer: who pays for it.) If news organizations are just things owned by people, what makes them more worthy of expressing opinions than other things owned by people? Just because they have “news” in their name?

You just think they’re half-assed because you have the cartoony idea of what they are expressed by media that doesn’t like them. They’re quite sensible.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-10 20:24:35+00:00
See my other comment for this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45864463

I believe that for today's large software which has multiple engineers, possibly not even working in the same group, involved in the final product, the key problem of exceptions (knowing what is or is not an "exceptional" situation for the software) is not soluble in the general case. Exceptions are a clever idea if you're a solo writing a soup to nuts piece of software, say the firmware for a thermostat, but are too flawed for the library author or the app developer.
by Animats | 2025-11-10 20:24:41+00:00
This isn't using government employees for non-combat tasks to free up troops. It's more like the WWII Home Guard in the UK.

"Federal and provincial employees would be given a one-week training course in how to handle firearms, drive trucks and fly drones...The public servants would be inducted into the Supplementary Reserve, which is currently made up of inactive or retired members of the Canadian Forces who are willing to return to duty if called."

This sort of thing is usually a desperation measure in wartime. What threat does Canada see? US ICE goon squads crossing the border into Canada? Building up the regular military reserves is more normal. Further down, the article says that's happening.

A better use for a Home Guard of government employees would be civil defense. What to do when power goes out, food distribution breaks down, or gas deliveries cease.
by knuckleheads | 2025-11-10 20:25:03+00:00
This is something I've gone and forth on for https://threeemojis.com/ as well. I think it's pretty hard to generate a story of a complicated puzzle, in part because the person you are sending it to doesn't have an idea of the terrain you were playing on and so kind of doesn't care. I do see some people doing custom share images with their puzzles, but it doesn't seem to have caught on so much.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-11-10 20:25:04+00:00
Biggest problem is you need two types economy at once.

You need the big paradigm shifts that come from an innovation economy; for that, capital must flow easily, risk-taking (both companies and individuals) be rewarded not punished, and a stable job is kind of a bad thing (people get too comfortable)..

Meanwhile in more mature sectors, job security (so people can have mortgages and families) and market stability should be fostered and corporate overreach & power be checked.

Advanced economies are a mix of sectors which need almost opposite policy.
by valcron1000 | 2025-11-10 20:25:15+00:00
> Zig must also be good for eliminating the same ones.

But Zig does not eliminate them, but rather it might catch them at runtime. The difference here is that Rust promises that it will detect them at compile time, long before I ship my code.

> The property of memory safety is itself not binary in both languages

In this case it is: either you catch the issue at compile time, or you don't. This is the same as type safety: just because Python can detect type errors at runtime it does not mean that it's as "type safe" as, for ex. Haskell. This might be due to imprecise usage of terms but that's just the way it's discussed in the craft.
by jenadine | 2025-11-10 20:26:05+00:00
If you lose your phone or if it's out of battery, you'll get a free boarding pass at the airport as long as you checked in online before getting to the airport.

If you didn't check in before, you'll have to pay a 50€ fee. (Same as before)

Source: https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/lp/explore/digital-boarding-pa...
by gessha | 2025-11-10 20:26:17+00:00
I find it more intuitive to talk about it in terms of project governance and control.

An OSS project has contributing members and they exert control over the project by working on the codebase and approving/rejecting contributions. If they act as an entity, you can buy their control over the project. The entity that owns the project can now change the license, “sponsor” the contributors by giving them salary, “fire” the contributors, etc.
by goalieca | 2025-11-10 20:26:21+00:00
Now let me ask you the more fundamental question.. did this do you any better than if you had searched a youtube video or some other source? Would this be video from 2016 be relevant? This may not be the right video but my approach for DIY in the last 10-20 years was to hit youtube up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77q9KtjnNTU

I'm trying to gauge whether LLMs are truly expanding our capabilities in a fundamental way or are really just another way to search for answers without going to google or a library.
by screemers | 2025-11-10 20:26:22+00:00
Thank you for this amazing feedback! You've perfectly captured the real, more complex problem here. I completely agree that grouping by extension is just the first, most basic step.

Your comment was so insightful that it inspired me to act on it right away. I've just released v1.2.0 which introduces the foundation for a custom rules engine.

For now, it allows sorting based on keywords in the filename (e.g., moving any file with 'invoice' in its name to a specific folder), which is the first step towards the context-based sorting you described.

You can see the new release here: https://github.com/Screemerss/Smart-File-Organizer/releases/...

This is just the beginning. The long-term plan, thanks to your suggestion, is to explore metadata-based sorting and eventually look into privacy-friendly, local AI models for true content analysis.

Thanks again for the great suggestion, it's been incredibly helpful!
by kidproquo | 2025-11-10 20:27:03+00:00
A web app for my music needs - metronome, ABC notation editor with MIDI playback and PDF render, an embedded YouTube video player with a chapter/section creator based on timestamps and a looping feature for the chapters for practicing

https://metro.scopecreeplabs.com

https://metro.scopecreeplabs.com/abc

https://metro.scopecreeplabs.com/video

Offline first, everything is saved to Local Storage. Sharing is also purely serverless - the ABC text and the video chapter defs are shared via query parameters after compression and base64 encoding.

Tech: React, Material UI, ToneJS, ABCJS, CloudFlare (Pages, Workers, D1 Storage)

Next: Add an AI assistant to the ABC editor - editing ABC text gets painful fast.
by shagie | 2025-11-10 20:27:22+00:00
“The wonder of it—the horror of it, Sura said—was that unlike the useless wrecks of Canberra’s past, these programs still worked! And via a million million circuitous threads of inheritance, many of the oldest programs still ran in the bowels of the Qeng Ho system. Take the Traders’ method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex—and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth’s moon. But if you looked at it still more closely…the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind’s first computer operating systems.”
by defrost | 2025-11-10 20:27:46+00:00
This is true.

Hence the importance of controlling the narrative by spinning unchecked stories about immigrants eating cats, disproportionate rates of murder and crime, ignoring revenue from immigrants paying taxes, etc.

The fact that sufficient people will vote on immigration as an issue is orthogonal to the realities of laws and enforcement rates and entirely predicated upon perception of such issues.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-10 20:27:59+00:00
I read about this regarding Hubble imagery, but pretty sure it applies to all missions funded by tax payers. The teams requesting time from the platforms are granted exclusive time to work out what they need so they can publish their papers for credit and what not.

One of the great things here is that most of the teams are so focused on their specific criteria in the data, they sort of lose the forest in the tree. Once that data has been released to the public, more and more interesting things are being found in the existing data rather than requiring new observations. It's space, so most things only need to be imaged once per sensor. It's not like setting up a trap camera hoping to see big foot the one time he strolls past. The universe changes on a much slower scale so the data is still relevant for much longer.
by marknutter | 2025-11-10 20:28:16+00:00
For obscure things, it's often very hard to find videos like that, and the videos vary greatly in quality. ChatGPT helped me fix my washing machine and my dryer yesterday with perfect advice, walking me through every step. Those are both projects I would've made a half assed attempt at and then thrown my hands up and called someone to do in the past.
by mr_toad | 2025-11-10 20:28:23+00:00
The decisive battle of WWII, as far as the defence of Britain was concerned, was fought in the air. Invading an island nation without air superiority is a non-starter.

I actually doubt the value of modern navies for anything other than gunboat diplomacy, or coastal patrols these days. I think they’re too vulnerable to things like cruise missiles and drones.
by yencabulator | 2025-11-10 20:28:25+00:00
Paths are not full URIs. You can do hacks like /https:/example.com/foo but.. why?

I'm personally not at all convinced having a scheme multiplexer in front is a good thing, for a namespace like what a kernel would manage. It's just not really any different from having top-level /foo and /bar, and introduces a bunch of special cases. Windows drive letters suck for a reason.
by baggachipz | 2025-11-10 20:28:26+00:00
You have the inside track so I'll defer to most. But on /r/eero the devs (specifically one in particular) always responded and were very engaged with the community. That sort of thing is only possible in a small passionate company. I don't trust any Amazon hardware in my home so I am curious if they're as good as they were. What is your experience like working there?

Addendum: looks like rank-and-file employees were screwed and the execs cashed in hard[1]. There was a lot of attrition after that. So I guess Amazon didn't have to lay people off, they did it themselves.

[1]https://mashable.com/article/amazon-eero-wifi-router-sale
by smsm42 | 2025-11-10 20:28:26+00:00
They can't. But they can police any service that has substantial number of users. And that's what most of the people would use. So, the hardened criminals would use their own underground darknet services which the government couldn't breach, but the regular people would have no privacy at all.

> 4chan, rejecting their assertions on jurisdiction is certainly an option.

4chan can tell UK regulators to take hike because 4chan has no business presence in the UK. Any service that does want to serve UK users and is successful in doing so, will eventually find itself in UK regulators' crosshairs. For services that are based outside UK, they'd just stop serving UK users because that's the easiest way to handle it. Which is completely fine with UK regulators, in fact, that's exactly what they want - so that nobody would be able to provide privacy to UK subjects.
Show HN: SReact – AI stability and drift metric (built for EU AI Act)
by sReact | 2025-11-10 20:28:27+00:00
I built sReact™, a universal stability metric for large language models. It detects when AI systems start to drift – quietly, precisely, and in real time. No data storage. 100% privacy by design. Built for the upcoming EU AI Act.

Would love to get feedback from this community – especially on use cases and interoperability with existing monitoring tools.
by foobarian | 2025-11-10 20:29:00+00:00
TIL about this term's origins!

> act of "toeing the line," most likely from a combination of nautical discipline and athletic races. In the Royal Navy, sailors had to stand with their toes against a line on the deck for inspection, while in sports, runners line up with their toes at the starting line

And while I'm here I'll mention a couple other terms I never knew about:

Slave:

> The English word "slave" originates from the word "Slav," which was used in Medieval Latin (\(<<!nav>>sclavus<<!/nav>>\)) to refer to people of Slavic origin who were frequently captured and sold into slavery during the early Middle Ages.

Pothole:

> A (potentially legendary) origin story suggests the name came from potters digging clay from roads, creating the holes
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-10 20:29:13+00:00
What was the reaction to SS? or to stick to my DEA example, what was the result of the war on drugs? millions and millions dead because of drug related causes right? how do you think the nation will react to ICE's brutal and cruel, even illegal operations? many would consider them heroes, but the other side will consider them no different than the SS or gestapo, the only correction is to wind down immigration enforcement dramatically, increasing immigration.

Imagine a democrat administration simply reverting ICE to its pre-2025 state. the implication alone and the perception it gives will drive up illegal immigration. "america is open again".
by necovek | 2025-11-10 20:29:36+00:00
My comment is not about that at all: it's a response to claim how Google SW engineering team is feeling the heat just like any other free software project, and thus we should be sympathetic to them?

I am sure they've got good reasons they want to do this: them having the same problems as an unstaffed open source project getting vocal user requests is not one of them.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-11-10 20:29:49+00:00
A large number of people, myself included, are now radicalized against the concept of immigration enforcement. I think everyone has a duty to make sure that ICE is as ineffective as possible and ICE agents are as miserable as possible. There's a lot of talk, for example, about how the asylum system is easily abusable; that's true, but now we will not be able to fix it because no immigration reform compromise that doesn't destroy ICE is acceptable.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-11-10 20:29:54+00:00
I think most video games from this era are actually in this state. There are a large number of companies that believe they own the rights to video games like this. No one is really challenging it. In the event that it is challenged they genuinely believe they have the documentation to back it up. But if that were to actually happen, it may come up they have insufficient documentation to support their claims.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-10 20:29:58+00:00
> (See? No black mirror necessary for my brain to dredge out some dystopian ass shit)

oops. you poor poor fella. haven't we pretty much gotten to the point that if you've thought about it, someone else has also already thought it and released it? at least, that's my core belief in any thing clever I think I might have just thought.
by lukaslukas | 2025-11-10 20:30:58+00:00
Good question. We have considered all options. But the company cannot be officially closed without paying all taxes/fines, etc.

At the same time, with a C corp, only the company itself is liable for taxes and fines, not its founders. If a company does not have sufficient funds, it cannot operate, and there is a process for automatically dissolving the company (after several years, if you have no outstanding obligations to third parties, no fraud intentions, etc.). We didn't want to do this and be left with an unpaid bill in our minds.
by drewg123 | 2025-11-10 20:31:19+00:00
I've been using the free version of NetSpot, and it does not seem to show the width. The ISP really should configure the narrowest width possible.

Our ISP provided router does seem to default to 20MHz (I think; I cannot recall if I changed it). It offers the choice of 20 or 40Mhz.
by stackedinserter | 2025-11-10 20:31:21+00:00
> Federal and provincial employees would be given a one-week training course in how to handle firearms, drive trucks and fly drones

What is the use of these "professionals"?

I know russians send these substandard soldiers to meat grinder ("infiltration in small groups" tactics). If they're killed with ukrainian FPV drone, it's fine, at least AFU spent a drone. Is it what Canadians are planning to do?
by scuff3d | 2025-11-10 20:32:22+00:00
> Like not playing with the fantasies and embracing reality is a violation.

What does this even mean? Can you give me one specific concrete example of what you want to say in the workplace that you think will end up in a conversation with HR?

I have gone through literally all the same corporate training everyone else has for 20 years across 5 different companies. I have always worked in fairly diverse places, and have never once experienced what you're talking about.
by OutOfHere | 2025-11-10 20:32:28+00:00
To espouse DEI already is going too far. Isn't this something they do?

Don't they favor females instead of males?

A better question is: why does Python even need the PSF staff? I am not convinced it does. The staff use donations to pay themselves salaries, to achieve what exactly that is so necessary? Do they even do any of the technical work?
by the_af | 2025-11-10 20:32:35+00:00
> A corporation is a person, not a human. Person is an abstraction used by law, but it has no direct relation to a human being.

Most English dictionaries define person as a human.

I think the legal concept of person ("legal" or "juristic" person) as applied to corporations is something entirely different that, by unfortunate coincidence, shares the same name.