MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dnautics | 2025-11-11 22:53:10+00:00
This is a very fun project with a corsi-rosenthal filter (a box fan taped to a bunch of normal house filters). To control the fan, you'll have to have some fun with a relay connected to MAINS voltage -- if you dare. The salon power relay hat is a reasonable solution (just remember to get voltage up/on for fail-dead). It's possible to squeeze everything inside of those cheap lasko fans you can get, too, if you want a challenge.
by quotemstr | 2025-11-11 22:53:45+00:00
> [You can] create a trivial concurrent [Go] program that violates the memory safety guarantees ... > That is not true of Rust.

It's not supposed to be, but Rust does have plenty of outstanding soundness bugs: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20la...

Rust as intended is safe and sound unless you write u-n-s-a-f-e, but as implemented has a ways to go.
by LexiMax | 2025-11-11 22:54:04+00:00
I always like to point out that "Open Source" was a deliberate watering-down of the moralizing messaging of Free Software to try and sell businesses on the benefits of developing software in the open.

> We realized it was time to dump the confrontational attitude that has been associated with "free software" in the past and sell the idea strictly on the same pragmatic, business-case grounds that motivated Netscape.

https://web.archive.org/web/20021001164015/http://www.openso...
by jynelson | 2025-11-11 22:54:06+00:00
this is really cool omg! i didn't know that, i'll do some research.

one of the strange things to me about the terminal landscape is how little knowledge sharing there is compared to other domains i'm familiar with. iTerm has a bunch of things no one else has; kitty influenced wezterm but otherwise no one else seems to have valued reflection; there's a whole bunch of extensions to ANSI escapes but most of them are non-standard and mutually incompatible. it's weird. if i compare to something like build systems, there's a lot more cross-pollination of ideas there.
by ivirshup | 2025-11-11 22:54:46+00:00
Issey Miyake's "Pleats Please" line has always been made out of synthetics. It was an intentional choice due to the character of polyester as a fabric, like it's ability to hold the pleats while still being machine washable.

https://asufidmmuseum.asu.edu/learn/articles/issey-miyake-pl...
by Terr_ | 2025-11-11 22:55:16+00:00
But what's the limit, especially when there is no sign "the next big war" is imminent or big?

If we assume that we'll have a Ukraine-like scenario, then we might as well start with nationalizing industries like US steel, snatching "untrustworthy" residents to put them into internment camps, start rationing how much food people can eat, and... Heyyyyy waitaminute...
by rekabis | 2025-11-11 22:55:28+00:00
As an early/mid GenX, my empathetic view based off of real-world observations:

Young men are still being nailed to the wall with patriarchal standards, such as having good incomes and prestigious careers and owning a house and being (largely) debt-free. Without these, the vast majority of women will consider these men as “non-persons”, and utterly ignore them in terms of potential romantic candidates. Exhibit № 1: the “666 man” rule that now enjoys non-trivial levels of use among young(er) women.

Unfortunately, the tools and paths to achieve these benchmarks are almost completely denied to young men, especially in comparison to prior generations like the boomers and the earlier half of GenX. And then they face twice as much competition for those benchmarks as their grandfathers did. That alone is a massive hammer blow against “success”.

Unless the expectations being piled on young men get radically lowered to be more in-line with actual opportunities, the current chasm will continue to widen, with more and more men being left behind.

What also bothers me about this article is the intellectually bankrupt usage of the so-called “gender wage gap” of 17%, which compares the wages of all men against the wages of all women. That’s no different than comparing a 26yo male junior lawyer to a 26yo female barista and complaining about the barista’s low wage.

Adjusting for the job itself, certifications pursued, hours worked, availability to work and the nature of the work itself, the actual “wage gap” almost vanishes to 1.5-3%, depending on industry. In many larger metro regions - and keeping all other things the same, such as specializations, education, time worked, etc. - young women under the age of 30 actually out-earn men of the same age by up to 20%. And yet, that is always conveniently ignored.

So do I agree with Galloway? Broadly, yes.

And he is worlds better than the 1ncel movement, which has an overarching tendency to blame women instead of focusing on self- improvement.

But while I think that helping men is an important part of the solution, there are insurmountable and systemic societal and economic barriers that young men have no power to affect, and never will.

Helping men will only go so far, and I fear that it will be nowhere near enough.
by thrw045 | 2025-11-11 22:55:35+00:00
You hate on Louis Vuitton but have you ever tried one? Have you looked at all the designs they have? I think LV is better than Hermes bags with that horrendous closure they have on the Birkin and other bags. LV has cool colorful designs also in their ready to wear. You might object to the branding but the bags work very well and are designed well in terms of how easy it is to get stuff in and out and if you don't throw it around the canvas can last a long time. Hermes might have nice Pogo leather and so on but that doesn't mean that closure is worth the hassle IMO.

Also IDK what to think about the iPhone Pocket. It LOOKS like a hassle to get stuff in and out of it but if they have somehow managed to make it easy, maybe it's well designed. If not then I agree with you the product is probably garbage.
by ofalkaed | 2025-11-11 22:55:45+00:00
Back around the turn of the century my wifi card died when I was reinstalling my system and I had no money for a new wifi card, no internet at home so I ended up with a very a basic console only Arch install, only audio software I had installed was SoX. I started out using SoX and Bash to make music, explored Lame's ability to encode anything as an mp3 and eventually discovered what TFA talks about. I never made anything I would call good, it just is not a method all that compatible with my interests but it has stuck with me all these years and has left me feeling that much of computer music has stagnated (in method, not output) and we have a great deal of room to explore yet.

Stagnated is not quite the right word, I think what computer music has been doing in the last couple decades is establish its primary instruments and techniques, the various audio DSLs, which is a fairly important thing musically speaking, it builds the culture and repertoire. Computer music is strongly rooted in how the musician interacts with the code, it is the strings of their guitar and I think we have barely touched on exploring that relationship yet. What is the prepared piano of computer music? how do I stick a matchbook between the strings of the code or weave a piece of yarn through it?

I hope more go back to exploring these very basic and simple ways of generating sound with computers and start experimenting with it, there is more out there than just ugens.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-11-11 22:56:10+00:00
I've got stickers on my laptops. None of them are political, but I've got various indie fashion brands, music related, furry stickers, etc. If someone managed to be offended by them that's more their problem than mine. I can go work anywhere and have enough savings that it would be no inconvenience to me. I wouldn't want to work with someone who couldn't handle some trivial self expression on the back of a laptop.

So far no one has ever been offended by this though. HN is far more sensitive than the average CTO.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-11-11 22:56:44+00:00
The Museum of London site (now closed as they prepare to move to their new site, coincidentally near the AWS HQ), and there was a window you could look down on part of the wall, which you can also see from the other side of the road near Barbican. I won't give directions, as that seems futile anywhere near Barbican, but I had only just thought about how weird it is that there is wall at Tower Hill, and wall at Barbican - they can't be the same run of wall as it was built, can they? That'd be immense...
by briffle | 2025-11-11 22:57:32+00:00
you should really look up the profit margins of the largest PBM's, but they are now wholely owned by large insurance companies, or pharmacies. They are the middle men, and get a cut (and often rebates for selling over a certain amount)

https://www.drugchannels.net/2025/03/the-top-pharmacy-benefi...
by edm0nd | 2025-11-11 22:57:35+00:00
I absolutely love this website.

I've been putting stickers on all of my laptops for decades. I get all my laptop stickers from @HackerStick3rs mainly and then cybersec conferences (like DEF CON, BSides, Saintcon, Nolacon) are my other main source of them.

Stickers are kinda like currency at hacker conferences and a great way to meet new people.
by maffyoo | 2025-11-11 22:57:36+00:00
Im not sure that's the case, they've been doing MR-G watches for a long time (29 years) as a push upmarket. Just look at the latest GW-BX5600 (released in 3 days) it has a new MIP LCD panel on a new module. This retails for $150 .. no doubt the module will be put in much more expensive watches but one thing Casio continues to do is produce good value digital watches and at the lower price points. im hoping they add a model like the 5600u, with this module, with a screw in case back and higher quality resin. Also, my current favourite is the JDM yellow (original style) LCD F-91W. That was released 4 years ago and cost me $11 plus shipping. long live Casio!
by NewsaHackO | 2025-11-11 22:57:48+00:00
>Far lower than real documentation written by someone who knows more, that would not have made that mistake.

But his own documentation did said that there was a VSCode extension, with installation instructions, a README, changelog, etc. From what he said, it doesn't even compile or remotely work. It would be extremely aggravating to attempt to build the project with the maintainer's own documentation, spend an hour trying to figure out what's wrong, and then contact the maintainer for him to say, "oh yeah, that documentation not correct, that doesn't even compile even though I said it did 2 months ago lol." It is extremely ironic that he is so gungho about DeepWiki getting this wrong.
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan | 2025-11-11 22:58:07+00:00
Yes, these sorts of compensation features have become common on higher end headphones.

One example:

> The crossfeed feature is great for classic tracks with hard-panned mixes. It takes instruments concentrated on one channel and balances them out, creating a much more natural listening experience — like hearing the track on a full stereo system.

https://us.sennheiser-hearing.com/products/hdb-630
by jhpacker | 2025-11-11 22:58:59+00:00
Unlinked domains can definitely be found in a lot of ways, but like I show in the article there was literally no fetching of the page except for Googlebot. So even if the hostname was leaked somehow the contents of the page require fetching the page, which was only done by Google. Also like I show in the article the content that ChatGPT knows identically matches what's in a Google search snippet, down to where a word-break is.
Show HN: Trainly – Simple API for Building Graph-RAG MVPs Fast
by kavin_key | 2025-11-11 22:59:17+00:00
Hey everyone

I’ve been working on Trainly, a Graph-RAG API that helps developers go from raw documents → working RAG endpoints in minutes.

Instead of wiring LangChain, vector DBs, and retrievers manually, Trainly lets you: 1. `pip install trainly` 2. Initialize with your API key 3. Upload your docs 4. Query your endpoint
by Marshferm | 2025-11-11 22:59:18+00:00
I was a student in Gerda Lerners patriarchy class at Madison and she always said off hand there’d be a time where the narrative construct of patriarchy (our male unideity myths, our law, our state, our history in cause effect simplifications- all illusions btw) would run aground when women gained equality and the hidden legacy that gave lesser able men places at the societal table would vanish. These men who are castaways were included earlier as the effluvia of dominance. Now they’re not included.

That’s evolution, especially as patriarchy is dismantled far too slowly. When do we demote these male gods? The dinosaur skeleton of patriarchy?

Keep in mind, patriarchy is just a narrative that masculinity can never resurrect.

And the question becomes how do we ensure parity or partnership, otherwise women can possibly implement the pendulum swing matriarchal dominance? The patriarchy (male mono mythic gods, inheritance favorability, dominance, you name it) is slowly coming to an end. And those that sneaked by in the past on the coattails of dominance are not getting into college nor can this plurality compete in an open market.

Retrieving masculinity isn’t bringing back the dominance or self image of it.

What did men do to deserve this? We accepted evolution and the switchover happens.
by tadfisher | 2025-11-11 22:59:41+00:00
Tools are still evolving out of the VLM/LLM split [0]. The reason image-to-image tasks are so variable in quality and vastly inferior to text-to-image tasks is because there is an entirely separate model that is trained on transforming an input image into tokens in the LLM's vector space.

The naive approach that gets you results like ChatGPT is to produce output tokens based on the prompt and generate a new image from the output. It is really difficult to maintain details from the input image with this approach.

A more advanced approach is to generate a stream of "edits" to the input image instead. You see this with Gemini, which sometimes maintains original image details to a fault; e.g. it will preserve human faces at all cost, probably as a result of training.

I think the round-trip through SVG is an extreme challenge to train through and essentially forces the LLM to progressively edit the SVG source, which can result in something like the Gemini approach above.

[0]: https://www.groundlight.ai/blog/how-vlm-works-tokens
by garciansmith | 2025-11-11 22:59:43+00:00
Seems to be in line with those I've seen for the past, oh, twenty years. Nerdy media (lots of Star Trek, video games), tech stickers, Linux users of course, a lot of political ones (oft left-leaning and lots of tech-related causes and groups like the EFF), some just plain silly/funny. Generally I see laptops with stickers in larger urban areas or university towns. Though honestly even ones I've seen in very small rural areas are generally similar, but maybe that just reflects the culture of those who tend to go to coffee shops and libraries and also wants to adorn their laptop.
by layer8 | 2025-11-11 22:59:47+00:00
I disagree. The definition of a two-phase commit protocol is that you have a number of participants in a transaction, and the first phase consists of asking each participant if they can commit, and if or when all participants affirm positively, then the second phase consists of telling all participants to perform the commit. Let’s not dilute well-established terms.

The procedure in the article is not a two-phase commit, because changes are committed to the system of reference regardless of whether the subsequent commit to the system of record succeeds or not.

In addition, half of the rule in the article is about the ordering of reads, which two-phase commit isn’t concerned about at all.
by dbg31415 | 2025-11-11 23:00:42+00:00
I was excited when I saw the headline -- I thought Apple had finally brought back a smaller iPhone, like the Mini.

But nope. It's just an ugly phone purse.

Look, it's bad enough that the much-hyped Vision Pro didn't take off (1), and the much-hyped iPhone Air didn't take off (2), and default Apple apps will soon have ads (3), and the latest MacOS is full of issues that would have been caught if they did any QA on it before release (4)... but Tim Apple is also throwing bribes at Trump every chance he gets (5)...

Time for some new leadership at Apple.

(1) https://applemagazine.com/us-vision-pro-sales-expected-to-de...

(2) https://nypost.com/2025/11/11/business/apple-pulls-plug-on-i...

(3) https://www.tuaw.com/2025/10/27/apple-maps-to-introduce-ads-...

(4) https://osxdaily.com/2025/09/19/why-im-holding-off-on-upgrad...

(5) https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-apple-ceo-tim-cook...
by mh- | 2025-11-11 23:00:50+00:00
I check my BP a lot for reasons, too, and this matches my experience as well. A few tips to reduce the variance (but it'll never go away):

* the position of both of your arms, and the angle your elbows are bent at matters. make sure the edge of your desk isn't pushing into your forearm.

* same goes for both of your legs. make sure you're sitting with legs uncrossed, relaxed angles, make sure the edge of your chair isn't pushing into the back of your thighs excessively.

* control your posture. slouching seems to have an effect too, but I'm unclear on the mechanism.

Anecdotally, the nurses at the doctor's offices I go to rarely (~never) bother to control for any of this other than telling me not to cross my legs. So while I fully believe white coat hypertension is a thing, I also think there's a lot of poor control of variables here. If you look up the AMA/AHA guidelines for blood pressure, the ranges they offer are predicated on some very prescriptive protocols for measurement.. which I virtually never see adhered to.
by quickthrowman | 2025-11-11 23:01:04+00:00
Casio is leaving money on the table by not producing MR.G tier $5,000+ G-Shocks. Every other watchmaker is moving upmarket as well, most of them are far more greedy than Casio has been.

You can still get a DW*-5600 for $60 and a GW*-5600 for $120, Casio still offers value for a good price :)

I wear a Swiss three-hander that costs more than a MR.G, so my perspective on watch value might differ from the average person.
by anon291 | 2025-11-11 23:01:32+00:00
I mean it's trivial to do quantum math without the imaginary units. Just rename the solutions to algebraic polynomials something else and continue.

There is nothing strange about i and claims contrary to that misunderstand what it even is. Partly terminology is to blame. I simply represents a 90° rotation of space. Really quite simple and easily measurable in our 3d world
by toast0 | 2025-11-11 23:01:56+00:00
Sure, but running a fuzzer on ancient codecs isn't that special. I can't do it, but if I wanted to learn how, codecs would be a great place to start. (in fact, Google did some of their early fuzzing work in 2012-2014 on ffmpeg [1]) Media decoders have been the vector for how many zero interaction, high profile attacks lately? Media decoders were how many of the Macromedia Flash vulnerabilities? Codecs that haven't gotten any new media in decades but are enabled in default builds are a very good place to go looking for issues.

Google does have immense scale that makes some things easier. They can test and develop congestion control algorithms with world wide (ex-China) coverage. Only a handful of companies can do that; nation states probably can't. Google isn't all powerful either, they can't make Android updates really work even though it might be useful for them.

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2014/01/ffmpeg-and-thousand-...
by easytiger | 2025-11-11 23:02:18+00:00
For rooms with closed windows this stuff has in my experience a 100% success rate. (they always manage to get in somehow). Spray the room an hour before bedtime and it eradicates them. Guess it's similar to that stuff they spray on airlines.

It is not a repellent but seems to actively kill them/render them unable to fly [Metofluthrin (Pyrethroid)]

https://www.peacefulsleepsa.co.za/products/in-room-solutions...
by unixplumber | 2025-11-11 23:02:20+00:00
> Terminal emulators display grids of characters using all sorts of horrifying protocols.

What sort of "horrifying protocols"? The entire VT220 state machine diagram can be printed on a single letter- or A4-sized sheet of paper. That's the complete "protocol" of that particular terminal (and of any emulator of it). Implementing the VT220 with a few small extensions (e.g., 256 colors or 24-bit colors) wouldn't be too onerous. I implemented such a parser myself in probably a few hundred lines of code, plus a bit more to do all of the rendering (drawing glyphs directly to a bitmapped display, with no libraries) and handling user input from a keyboard. You'd have a difficult time properly parsing and rendering a significant subset of HTML in less than a few _thousand_ lines of code.

Edit to add: terminal emulators often implement other terminals like VT420, but the VT220 is enough for the vast majority of terminal needs.
by joshuamorton | 2025-11-11 23:02:31+00:00
Two this, first, I want to jump back to something you said earlier:

> Nullification of immigration laws is, in fact, a right that states can exercise, but it's overt nullification is absolutely an escalation that undermines public trust because it force the feds to send enforcement officers into a hostile area.

Do you see why this might actually be seen as increasing public trust in local LEOs who aren't participating in human rights abuses?

> We should fight to win the immigration debate with persuasion, in the legislature. We need to have the law on our side, and we need to have the populace on our side.

And can you see why not condoning those abuses gets the populace on "our" side?

Second, you have asserted something like

> When the feds choose to enforce a law is areas that are actively trying to prevent that law from being enforced

a few times now. And I'd like you to clarify: in January 2025, what actions was Chicago taking that were "actively preventing [immigration] law from being enforced"? And what actions do you see municipalities engaging in today that are "actively trying to prevent [immigration] law from being enforced"?

And if you were in charge, what would you do instead? Keep in mind, as a mayor or police captain or whatever, you cannot tell Greg Bovino what to do. You can assist him, but his use of force policies are different than yours, and you cannot make him or his officers follow your directives.
by Hizonner | 2025-11-11 23:02:46+00:00
1. It's not politically charged now.

2. It's not all over government Web sites. In fact I doubt it's on them at all.

3. Cabinet-level officials aren't giving stupid speeches about how important the name is in reflecting a Whole New Approach.

4. I don't remember Obama objecting to it at the time... nor did Obama go on TV and say "It will now be called OBAMACARE in honor of me, the greatest and only competent President ever".

5. Actually I don't remember it even being a "slur". The first draft was based on Romneycare. There was also "Hillarycare", which might have actually been pejorative. In any case it wasn't anything like on the level of the President or the Secretary of anything making a bunch of noise about it.
by dmix | 2025-11-11 23:03:10+00:00
Assuming they are picking winners. Western government's usually just throw money at existing legacy organizations, not up and coming companies.

In this case it's an institute attached to a big university (University of Texas) that is scaling up an R&D idea, that happens to be useful for the military https://www.statesman.com/story/business/2024/07/18/semicond...
by cyberax | 2025-11-11 23:03:13+00:00
> 1. I actually disagree here, the built in Tesla UI is excellent.

It is not. E.g. why the heck the address search field is not displaying the _full_ address if it can't fit into the narrow search field?

> 4. They've at least brought them back on the Model 3

Oh wow. At least some progress!