MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CPLX | 2025-11-12 17:50:00+00:00
Perhaps. But if you have a taxi or car service driver who's not willing to ever break any traffic laws in New York, you will not arrive at your destination in anything approaching a reasonable amount of time.

For example, getting at the back of the line for an exit rather than trying to go to the front and cut your way in could be a multi-hour mistake.
by Simulacra | 2025-11-12 17:50:06+00:00
This is how I've felt about Apple, and it doesn't just include a model with a jack, but a worsening of the iOS system, models that are no for most users of previous models. Apple has run out of ideas, and maybe that's the entire smartphone category.

People will still buy smart phones, but I think their will be less enthusiasm for the latest and greatest model.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-11-12 17:50:06+00:00
That generation of Apple laptops was my tech awakening. I always thought of computers as tools just for office work and nothing I'd ever want to use. But one day I sat down in front of a G4 iBook and was like, man, this thing is beautiful. And it's pretty fun to use. I got an iMac a couple weeks after that and it set me on my programming career.

And just looking at that picture in the article, that keyboard is beautiful. Apple truly had some incredible design sense. It's very unfortunate how rough their design decisions have been the past few years.
by giantg2 | 2025-11-12 17:50:08+00:00
So how do they account for people who use coupons or rewards cards today? Those create a discount that technically result in charging some customers less than others, including SNAP users. In the case of rounding, you wouldn't be charging SNAP user any more that other users who use cards for payment. The point of the law was to prevent stores from charging surcharges etc on food stamp users back in the day.
by dang | 2025-11-12 17:50:31+00:00
Related. Others?

A Black Fungus Might Be Healing Chernobyl by Drinking Radiation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43148355 - Feb 2025 (10 comments)

Fungus at Chernobyl absorbs nuclear radiation via radiosynthesis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24166994 - Aug 2020 (104 comments)

Radiotrophic fungus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20342750 - July 2019 (63 comments)

Chernobyl Fungus Feeds On Radiation (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6763520 - Nov 2013 (53 comments)

Black Fungus Found in Chernobyl Eats Harmful Radiation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=127626 - March 2008 (1 comment)
by iteria | 2025-11-12 17:50:35+00:00
It depends on where you are. There was a protest in in Atlanta about the speed limit. What did they do? They got in every. Single. Lane. As did the speed limit. This backed up traffic for miles. It stopped commercial delivery and had ramifications for entire area. The protesters were arrested. For going the legal limit. The speed limit did not change, but there is a reason why it's never enforced.

I've lived in a couple of places where going the speed limit is a whole problem that can cascade outside of just yourself. There is an argument to be made that perhaps then the speed limit shouldn't be that low, but in driving safety is far more important than legality. It will be interesting to see how Waymo handles these realities when it gets to those areas.
by jansenmac | 2025-11-12 17:50:43+00:00
It started out as a tv-documentary series on Dutch television. It's presenter was called Teun (Tony) and he wanted to be convicted for eating chocolate which he knew was produced by making use of slavery. This failed and he then created his own brand that should have been 'slavery free', which proved very difficult indeed. The brand was later taken over and made into what it is now.
Show HN: Comprehensive Chicago area golf resource
by golfer | 2025-11-12 17:51:04+00:00
I'm an avid golfer -- it's my main hobby. Chicagoland is blessed with an abundance of public golf courses. I had an idea in 2022 to start documenting the courses I play in both the city and suburbs. Over the past 3 years, I've visited over 200 golf courses and took pictures and notes, documenting everything from the clubhouses, pro shops, scorecards, driving ranges, putting greens, golf holes.. and even the course hot dogs. (Courses should take their hot dogs seriously!)

It's been a fun labor of love. My goal is to create the ultimate Chicago golf guide. The course catalog has in-depth descriptions of most courses, where I've done my best to research the history of the property. That is painstaking work for 200+ courses but I find it fascinating. The work continues.

I've added a course map, news, and other featured content.

Example of a course page -- Ravisloe CC https://www.golfscout.net/golf-course/ravisloe-country-club-...

Course map: https://www.golfscout.net/chicago-golf-course-map

Sortable course list: https://www.golfscout.net/sortable-courses-18-holes

Hot dog ratings: https://www.golfscout.net/chicago-golf-course-hot-dogs

Next up comes driving ranges and more. Let me know what you think!
by silisili | 2025-11-12 17:51:22+00:00
My only real objection I guess, and the reason I don't carry change of any sort, is because it's constantly falling out of my pockets. I'm rather tall, so many seating positions put my knees higher than my waist, which I think contributes to that.

Further, since I don't have enough pockets to have a dedicated change pocket, it's always getting caught up in my keys and/or pocket knife.

Nobody really gave us training on this stuff, do other countries use a coin purse or some such?

Lastly, they're just comparatively heavy.

I just carry cash around in either a clip or a "front pocket wallet" I think they're called, and it seems more convenient all around.
by monocasa | 2025-11-12 17:51:23+00:00
There's levels of microcode.

It's not too uncommon for each pipeline stage or so to have their own uop formats as each stage computes what it was designed to and culls what later stages don't need.

Because of this it's not that weird to see both a single rmw uops at, says the initial decode and microcode layer, that then gets cracked into the different uops for the different functional units later on.
by einsteinx2 | 2025-11-12 17:51:27+00:00
Per their wiki [0], these are their notes on Bun:

- No permission restrictions available. Scripts have full file system and network access.

- Supports downloading EJS script dependencies from npm (--remote-components ejs:npm).

- No support for SOCKS proxies when downloading EJS script dependencies from npm.

[0]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/EJS#notes-2
by stuffn | 2025-11-12 17:51:46+00:00
I've never been to a doctor where they waited the appropriate amount of time. It's always almost immediately as you sit down. This has caused a lot of problems for me. I learned most insurance companies require a doctor hold you until your blood pressure is "normal" (where normal is < 140/90 for their purposes). This resulted in several times where I was kept in an office with nurses coming in and out every 3 minutes to repeatedly take measurements which simply made it worse.

Blood pressure is highly variable even moment by moment. A single data point at your yearly visit is basically meaningless. Even your posture can shift it. Legs in a different position? Too much tension in one arm over the other? Seated awkward? Have gas? Unfortunately, it's also very difficult to get a 24 hour monitor unless you have another suspected condition (such as kidney problems).
by ctoth | 2025-11-12 17:52:16+00:00
It's always so surprising to me that stuff like Zitron's latest eruption gets traction but when the actual guys who are actually building the actual stuff actually talk about what they're actually doing? Silence.

Petabit network? Multi-region AI training? This shit is nuts!

Also I feel like they answer so many questions that the gotcha folks so frequently have. Like this:

Satya Nadella 00:02:41 There is coupling from the model architecture to what is the physical plan that’s optimized. And it’s also scary in that sense, which is, there’s going to be a new chip that’ll come out. Take Vera Rubin Ultra. That’s going to have power density that’s going to be so different, with cooling requirements that are going to be so different. So you kind of don’t want to just build all to one spec. That goes back a little bit to the dialogue we’ll have, which is that you want to be scaling in time as opposed to scale once and then be stuck with it.

But somehow this idea that "oh they're just so dumb don't they realize GPUs depreciate" is the level of analysis typically on offer when talking about these huge datacenters.
by ecshafer | 2025-11-12 17:52:16+00:00
The route we ended up going, was hybrid cloud with a colocation for on-prem (Mainframes and a few servers), and then AWS for the cloud portion. Not sure on what the cost savings were. As I wrote the authentication service I knew what those numbers were, so I knew that on a normal day we would be sitting at 1% cpu usage basically all day except market open/close. And then fiscal quarter ends were a big bump. And then of course big news days. 99% of the time for 99% of the days were just nothing.
by teunispeters | 2025-11-12 17:52:31+00:00
Speaking as someone who just started exploring Prolog and lisp, and ended up in the frozen north isolated from internet - access. The tools were initially locked/commercial only during a critical period, and then everyone was oriented around GUIs - and GUI environments were very hostile to the historical tools, and thus provided a different kind of access barrier.

A side one is that the LISP ecology in the 80s was hostile to "working well with others" and wanted to have their entire ecosystem in their own image files. (which, btw, is one of the same reasons I'm wary of Rust cough)

Really, it's only become open once more with the rise of WASM, systemic efficiency of computers, and open source tools finally being pretty solid.
by Almondsetat | 2025-11-12 17:52:38+00:00
Nobody "has to" beg for funding, because nobody is forcing them to work! You are underfunded if you are forced to accomplish a task and are given too little money. In community driven projects this is not the case. The only thing keeping the developers from taking a nice vacation is their abstract own sense of duty, which is their prerogative, but completely optional
by kalleboo | 2025-11-12 17:53:37+00:00
I've gotten to experience using RealPlayer again this year[0] and... a lot of it was just it being really early but a lot of it was just the software being really bloated with adware and terrible design decisions. It asks for your home address when you install it, there are a bunch of ad panes you have to manually disable etc

[0] https://kalleboo.com/linked/realplayer2025.png
by mmooss | 2025-11-12 17:53:42+00:00
Very interesting!

> however tricky those are to separate in zero sum environments.

Framing the issue as zero sum environments is the key to defeating DEI, etc. Arguments are won (and lost) in the way they are framed.

Economics, for example, is not at all zero sum. But people work to frame it that way in order to divide and conquer.
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-12 17:54:08+00:00
> You can choose your tool, you’ll get it.

That's actually decent. Too often you're stuck with whatever gear your shop uses - Bosch, Hilti, Makita are the most common power tools here in Germany. It makes sense for the penny pinchers who purchase on volume and get discounts, but chances are high it ends up pissing off the employees rather sooner than later.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-12 17:55:00+00:00
Since some days I suddenly get freezes in the tab; these unfreeze after some time, say 20 seconds or so, but I notice a delay.

Something has really changed to the worse lately. I think it has to do with anti-ad programs as well as AI, like the UI also changed. It is important to point out that while you do not have any issues, other people do or may.
Show HN: Opensource.Builders 2.0 – find and build open source alternatives
by theturtletalks | 2025-11-12 17:55:02+00:00
Hey everyone,

A couple years ago, I got into programming and fell down the rabbit hole of open-source software. I started realizing a lot of the commercial software I used had open-source alternatives. In 2020, those alternatives were good but not perfect replacements. With LLMs entering the scene, there are even more open-source alternatives now and they're narrowing the gap between proprietary options.

LLMs also got me thinking: will people continue using proprietary or opensource applications in the future when they can build their own personal application tailored specifically for their needs? I also started thinking that there are so many open-source directories out there already, so what value would another directory bring?

Then a solution to both questions gave me a light bulb moment.

The original opensource.builders just called things "alternatives." But that's too vague. Take Ghost and Shopify. You could call Ghost a Shopify alternative since both support blogging. But Shopify also has payments, inventory, checkout, and product management that Ghost doesn't. The label oversimplifies what they actually do.

So instead, we now track features and map where they live in the code. Once we had that, we realized you could pick specific features from different projects and get help building them into your own stack. You browse features, select what you need, and we generate a prompt with exact file paths and GitHub locations. Your AI learns from real implementations and helps you implement those features in your own codebase.

What's Next?

I'm using these principles at Openship to build management software for every vertical: e-commerce, hotels, restaurants, barbershops. Next week I'll share what we've built and how we're leveraging these platforms to create a decentralized marketplace where businesses own their storefronts.

opensource.builders helped us understand the landscape and build what was missing.

Try it: https://opensource.builders Ethos: https://opensource.builders/ethos Source: https://github.com/junaid33/opensource.builders
by simoncion | 2025-11-12 17:55:18+00:00
> emigration

I'll assume you meant "immigration". The US's emigration laws would apply to me.

If I wasn't a US citizen, and my goal wasn't to gain official, above-board citizenship in an EU-member nation by way of doing work as a programmer, system administrator, or other such similar job, then I imagine I would have an easier time getting in, yes. For example, if my place of residence was in a low-cost-of-living country and my intent was to take whatever odd jobs I could get and use the excess to establish a nice nest egg back home, I imagine I'd have a much easier -if far more precarious- time.

Anyway, make sure to keep your grinding wheel well maintained; you seem to make frequent use of it.
by engeljohnb | 2025-11-12 17:55:21+00:00
I'm glad there's a streaming service that pays independent creators for their hard work, but the player is glitchy almost to the point of being unusable.

Actually, it's completely to the point of being unusable. For several videos now, I've watched halfway through and suddenly playback stops and the video is replaced with "Error." And every time this happens I have to just pray the videos on youtube because, without exaggeration, it will never work again. Even after checking a week later.
by rootnod3 | 2025-11-12 17:55:24+00:00
One can of course add the same stuff to other languages in form of libraries and stuff, but lisp/scheme make it incredibly easy to make it look like part of the language itself and make seem a mere extension of the language. So you can have both worlds if you want to. Lisp/scheme is not dead.

In fact, in recent years people have started contributing again and are rediscovering the merits.
by madcaptenor | 2025-11-12 17:55:25+00:00
For example, $0.93 * 1.07432 = is $0.9991176 exactly, which rounds to $1.00. But if you buy a dozen such items then $0.93 * 12 * 1.07432 = $11.9894112 exactly, which rounds to $11.99.
by stusmall | 2025-11-12 17:55:31+00:00
>He was used to doing everything the C/Java/JavaScript/Python/almost-every-language-under-the-sun way, and avoiding the "Microsoft way" of doing things created so many roadblocks.

What exactly does this mean? I haven't touched .NET in earnest in over 10 years. I know the ecosystem has evolved a lot since then, but I don't know how or in what ways
by toast0 | 2025-11-12 17:55:49+00:00
The slow lane and passing lane dichotomy makes sense in a rural highway with two lanes in your direction.

It makes less sense in an urban environment with 5 or more lanes in your direction. Vehicles will be traveling at varying speeds in all lanes, ideally with a monotonic gradient, but it just doesn't happen, and it's unlikely to.

In California, large trucks generally have a lower speed limit (however many trucks are not speed governed and do exceed the truck limit and sometimes the car limit) and lane restrictions on large highways. Waymo may do well if it tends toward staying in the lanes where trucks are allowed as those tend to flow closer to posted car speed limits. But sometimes there's left exits, and sometimes traffic flow is really poor on many right lanes because of upcoming exits. And during commute time, I think the HOV lane would be preferred; taxis are generally eligible for the HOV lane even when only the driver is present, but I don't know about self-driving with a single or no occupant.
by AlSweigart | 2025-11-12 17:56:12+00:00
The Python Software Foundation Security Developer-in-Residence, Seth Larson, published a new white paper with Alpha-Omega titled "Slippery ZIPs and Sticky tar-pits: Security & Archives" about work to remediate 10 vulnerabilities affecting common archive format implementations such as ZIP and tar for critical Python projects.

PDF link: https://alpha-omega.dev/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2025/10/...

PSF Blog: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/slippery-zips-and-stick...

Alpha-Omega.dev: https://alpha-omega.dev/blog/slippery-zips-and-sticky-tar-pi...
Need free help on an Industry Project?
by sfromana | 2025-11-12 17:56:23+00:00
Several undergraduate students from Union College,NY will be coming to the Bay Area from March to June for an Innovation study program. They are available to help non-paid (pref hybrid or on site) in the areas of Software Engineering, Biomedical/MedTech, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering (i.e. robotics) Also, some can perform simple Data Analytics (building dashboards, etc.) and some have CAD skills.

The commitment is between 10-20 hours a week and will require intermittent mentorship/feedback. Please send inquiries to sfromana@gmail.com, or fill out this interest form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vtFpI3CXQK_61h_40n0Cfp-IqoekGSKmvo-yYAP7WQc/edit
by jrochkind1 | 2025-11-12 17:56:35+00:00
If I want to book an appointment for April 12th 2027 at 2:00pm, then that's the time I want.

If my locale decides in 2026 to opt out of daylight savings time and not use it anymore -- it does not mean my appointment is now at 1:00pm instead. My appointment is still at April 12th 2027 at 2:00pm. But if I had saved it as a prediction of a UTC time in ISO 8601, then the system would think my appointment was now at 1:00pm.

This is why it has to do with dates being in the future. A past date-time can be converted to a UTC time represneted in ISO8601 that will not ever change (if it was converted properly).

I'm not sure where you got restaurants from -- you are the first person in this thread to mention restaurants? That is one use case for storing dates and times in the future, but certainly not the only one! There are of course some where the time zone is not "obvious". You realize there is software that's used for things other than restaurant orders and reservations, right? (Also I can imagine a restaurant that's a mobile food truck in an area near a timezone border...)

You speak very authoritatively and combatively about something I think you may not be on the same page about.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-12 17:56:52+00:00
> it would have taken at least 10 more minutes to arrive. (And it wouldn't have been an authentic NYC experience)

Lived in New York for 10+ years and still go back regularly. This is unacceptable behaviour by a cabbie.

Given the amount of construction and thus police presence on that route right now, you’re lucky you didn’t get a 60-minute bonus when the cab got pulled over. (The pro move during rush hour and construction is (a) not to, but if you have to, (b) taking the AirTrain and LIRR.)
Show HN: Fivefold – a logic puzzle where the rules change every day
by MattRix | 2025-11-12 17:57:02+00:00
Fivefold is our new daily puzzle game. It's kind of like Sudoku, but with more variety since we switch which rules are used each day. If you want to practice the game, you can try a bunch of pre-made puzzles in the Dojo section of the site. I'd be interested to know what people think of it!
by jsheard | 2025-11-12 17:57:05+00:00
Frame is obviously the main headline here, but they've also launching a new SteamOS mini-PC and a new controller.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamcontroller

No prices listed for any of them yet, as far as I can tell.
by hedgehog | 2025-11-12 17:57:30+00:00
I don't know if the bet was even particularly wrong. If they had done a little better job on performance, capitalized on the pains of Netburst + AMD64 transition, and survived long enough to do integrated 3D graphics and native libraries for Javascript + media decoding it might have worked out fine. That alternate universe might have involved a merger with Imagination when the Kyro was doing poorly and the company had financial pain. We'll never know.
by advisedwang | 2025-11-12 17:57:37+00:00
LLM's don't have any internal concept of "actual response" vs "surrounding words". Just like they don't have a internal concept of system prompt vs user input. Just like they don't even have an internal concept of what the LLM emitted vs what was given to it! It's all just one long sequence.

(Yes, it is possible to create tokens to represent category changes, but this is still in-band. the token is still just part of the sequence and the LLM isn't guaranteed to factor it in correctly)
by nextos | 2025-11-12 17:57:45+00:00
We've done this, and it works. Our setup is to have some agents that synthesize Prolog and other types of symbolic and/or probabilistic models. We then use these models to increase our confidence in LLM reasoning and iterate if there is some mismatch. Making synthesis work reliably on a massive set of queries is tricky, though.

Imagine a medical doctor or a lawyer. At the end of the day, their entire reasoning process can be abstracted into some probabilistic logic program which they synthesize on-the-fly using prior knowledge, access to their domain-specific literature, and observed case evidence.

There is a growing body of publications exploring various aspects of synthesis, e.g. references included in [1] are a good starting point.

[1] https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2024/file/8...
by quickthrowman | 2025-11-12 17:58:05+00:00
Unfair burden?? I think you’re blowing this out of proportion..

Credit card fees are 2-4%. Rounding to the nearest nickel costs at most $0.02 (1,2 round to 0; 3,4 round to 5)

It is cheaper for the merchant to round to the nearest nickel for any transaction of one dollar or more than it is to pay CC merchant fees.
by commandar | 2025-11-12 17:58:06+00:00
Anthropic, frankly, needs to in ways the other big names don't.

It gets lost on people in techcentric fields because Claude's at the forefront of things we care about, but Anthropic is basically unknown among the wider populace.

Last I'd looked a few months ago, Anthropic's brand awareness was in the middle single digits; OpenAI/ChatGPT was somewhere around 80% for comparison. MS/Copilot and Gemini were somewhere between the two but closer to Open AI than Anthropic.

tl;dr - Anthropic has a lot more to gain from awareness campaigns than the other major model providers do.