MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joshstrange | 2025-11-05 18:56:27+00:00
Watching the inline video [0] made my blood boil. The officer acts all high and mighty "I'm not going to share the evidence with you because you are lying to me". This is but a small example of the overall incompetence and laziness of the police in this country to say nothing of the ego-tripping.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zTYO7ib-cM
by bearhall | 2025-11-05 18:56:29+00:00
I think it actually changed. I have a broken bone and have been consulting with ChatGPT (along with my doctor of course) for the last week. Last night it refused to give an opinion saying “ While I can’t give a medical opinion or formally interpret it”. First time I’d seen it object.

I understand the change but it’s also a shame. It’s been a fantastically useful tool for talking through things and educating myself.
by cj | 2025-11-05 18:56:29+00:00
He’s simply saying that ChatGPT was able to point them in the right direction after 1 chat exchange, compared to doctors who couldn’t for a long time.

Edit: Not saying this is the case for the person above, but one thing that might bias these observations is ChatGPT’s memory features.

If you have a chat about the condition after it’s diagnosed, you can’t use the same ChatGPT account to test whether it could have diagnosed the same thing (since the chatGPT account now knows the son has a specific condition).

The memory features are awesome but also sucks at the same time. I feel myself getting stuck in a personalized bubble even more so than Google.
by fragmede | 2025-11-05 18:56:44+00:00
Is people drinking alcohol a loss for society? Because the thing is, society needs to continue to produce children in order to continue existing. It's called a social lubricant for a reason, and while it is exceeding obvious that alcohol abuse is a problem, that's exactly why the state runs the liquor stores. To limit products available and limit hours to ideally prevent the worst of abuses. So the unanswerable question is, how many children is alcohol ultimately responsible for? If it were successfully banned (using magic) would civilization survive past the end of the incoming generation? Given alcohol's ubiquity on all corners of the globe, I don't think that's decided or even decidable.

As we're only considering children being born, the health effects of alcohol while pregnant are known, (aka fetal alcohol syndrome) but since they're known, they can be dismissed if we assume pregnant mothers aren't drinking. The other thing we can discount is the long term health effects of alcohol consumption. Yes there are health ramifications, but as long as people are able to create healthy babies, what happens later on in life is less relevant to the question of making babies, which civilization needs in order to continue.
by glitchc | 2025-11-05 18:57:02+00:00
While this perspective has merit, it is hampered by the fact that all of the examples used are polar equations, and the illustrations are therefore unnecessarily dramatic. Given that a Cartesian representation of a polar relationship is always a planar projection of the underlying conic, extremums near valid points are to expected.

It would be more useful to visually demonstrate linear relationships but of course the errors there would not make for such a punchy blog post.
Show HN: See chords as flags – Visual harmony of top composers on musescore
by vitaly-pavlenko | 2025-11-05 18:57:09+00:00
I designed a relative piano-roll-based music notation. I used 12 colored arranged in a specific way to make visible the main effects and oppositions of Western tonal harmony. The tonic is always white, so a manual annotation/interpretation is required for each MIDI file.

All chords are flags of three to four colors. Minor mode is darker, major mode is lighter. Colors are arranged in thirds.

I sorted the pieces from simple complex harmony. I also wrote a bit of text to explain what you may see. There's also a corpus of structures: hyperlinks of tags that allow you to find similar patterns throughout my corpus of 3000+ popular pieces.

My method makes chord progressions memorizable and instantly visible in the scores. No preparation of Roman numeral analysis / chord symbols analysis is required. After a bit of training the chords will stare right in your eyes.

It's not synesthesia, it's a missing script for tonal music which makes harmonically identical things look the same (or similar).

I've also recorded lectures on my method in Russian (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzQrZe3EemP5pVPYMwBJG...). I'm sorry I haven't yet found time to re-record in English.

I've also sketched a friendlier intro: https://vpavlenko.github.io/d/

Sorry, but this thing won't make any sense if you're color-blind.

It's open-source: https://github.com/vpavlenko/rawl

Earlier context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39165596

(Back then colors were less logical, and there was no corpus of 3000+ piece annotated yet)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-05 18:57:41+00:00
> pandering to an imaginary moderate is not nearly as effective as being really exciting to your base

The takeaway should be there is no one size fits all.

Under Biden, donors pushed climate and identity politics that don’t work outside far-left Democrat strongholds. Then Kamala clumsily tried finding a centre in a multidimensional policy space which may not have a definable centre.

Mamdani won New York. But “moderates,” i.e. politicians who spoke to economic populism and don’t get distracted by the base, kept Pennsylvania, Virginia and New Jersey. If we want to control national politics, we have to concede that West Virginia and Arizona voters don’t care about the same things as folks in Manhattan and San Francisco. That’s okay. We can embrace that diversity. But it also means we have to respect it and cut out the name calling because a promising candidate on the other side of the country doesn’t embrace your pet issue or identity language.

(Obama campaigned for Mamdani and Spannberger and Prop 50.)
by justapassenger | 2025-11-05 18:58:00+00:00
I'm a hobby woodworker - I've tried using gemini recently for an advice on how to make some tricky cuts.

If I'd follow any of the suggestions I'd probably be in ER. Even after me pointing out issues and asking it to improve - it'd come up with more and more sophistical ways of doing same fundamentally dangerous actions.

LLMs are AMAZING tools, but they are just that - tools. There's no actual intelligence there. And the confidence with which they spew dangerous BS is stunning.
by kotaKat | 2025-11-05 18:58:01+00:00
When Lowes made the shift off their in-house TUI point-of-sale to a GUI I heard a lot of fallout from the hardcore TUI users losing their keyboard menuing. Stores and people would build their own “cheat sheets” to fly around the system and it became almost a second language to get to know the TUI.

Knowing that 1.5.6 sends you to scheduling a pickup, or 11.1 to get into the credit card application, versus hunting through graphical hell with a mouse and a touchscreen.
by qwertox | 2025-11-05 18:58:34+00:00
- Chrome 155 (Nov 17, 2026): XSLT stops functioning on Stable releases, for all users other than Origin Trial and Enterprise Policy participants.**

- Chrome 164 (Aug 17, 2027): Origin Trial and Enterprise Policy stop functioning. XSLT is disabled for all users.**

Not the first time I've seen on Google's pages that the use of asterisks then lacks the corresponding footnotes.
by shagie | 2025-11-05 18:58:39+00:00
For a time warp from The Onion - June 22, 2021 : De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’ https://theonion.com/de-blasio-well-well-well-not-so-easy-to...

I'd also call out October 17, 2025 : Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer https://theonion.com/zohran-mamdani-refuses-to-share-plan-fo...
by jimmaswell | 2025-11-05 18:58:47+00:00
> no relevant software runs on BSD at all.

I don't understand how you arrived at that conclusion. That comment probably passed through several BSD boxes on its way to me - BGP servers, DNS servers, absolutely critical things that *BSD shines at. Even this website itself apparently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-11-05 18:58:57+00:00
It's also from an era where you used one piece of software doing routine tasks that rarely changed.

Imagine learning all the keyboard shortcuts for every website you use nowadays.

For example I worked at a video store long ago that had some dos program to manage everything, I didn't own a computer and I didn't use any other software. It was still often a slow turd, and it wasn't networked with the 2 other local stores, so if I wanted to know if a customer had an account there, or if they had some stock there, I had to call.
by evanelias | 2025-11-05 18:59:03+00:00
How so? Manhattan's bedrock is famously well-suited for skyscrapers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Manhattan_Prong

Manhattan also has an inherent economy of scale that Hoboken lacks; Hoboken is barely over 1 square mile of land.

Meanwhile the lower-rise neighborhoods of Manhattan have roughly the same population density and building height as Hoboken. So why are you calling out Hoboken? What single-story buildings are you even talking about there, and why are you ignoring the presence of single-story buildings in Manhattan? They're rare but they absolutely do exist -- I just ate lunch in a single-story Manhattan building literally yesterday.
Show HN: Yansu, Serious Coding
by yubozhao | 2025-11-05 18:59:07+00:00
We been helping mid-market companies for the past 1.5 years and finally ready to share the internal platform publicly.

Yansu (严肃) is a AI coding platform that use spec + TDD to build complex software projects. It is more like a SOP than coding agent. We focus on understanding requirements and checking outcomes against those requirements while iterating the code based on the tests.

Yansu tries to learn as much tribal knowledge as possible. These are things you don’t write down in google doc or Notion. Yansu absorbs these knowledge by continuously talking to users and distilling learning from them.

It's as if a spec + TDD platform had a baby with character.ai.

Why care about requirements? B/c 80% of any software development is understanding requirements and what exactly we want to build. We also focus on outcomes, the only thing that matters. We deliver satisfying outcomes by simulating scenarios and generating tests based on those scenarios. Our agents take that tedious testing part of the code away from others.

We prioritize accuracy over latency/cost, using a mixture of agents (not limited to CC, codex, and etc) to get the job done. We then run through continuous-testing-generating pipelines until all things pass.

What does Yansu mean? “Serious” in Chinese. Just like my favorite artist, Rene Magritte, painting in his kitchen in a suit. I want to give my coding respect and care.

Our goal is to level people up from IC to tech leads, to work on the high leverage work of planning, validating, and educating.

We made a launch video to celebrate human work that builds on all of the creative minds before us. Shoutout to CinemaSings for making this happen.

Enjoy the video (linked in the tweet) and check out Yansu.
by latchup | 2025-11-05 18:59:24+00:00
Multiple reasons:

* Gen AI never disagrees with or objects to boss's ideas, even if they are bad or harmful to the company or others. In fact, it always praises them no matter what. Brenda, being a well-intentioned human being, might object to bad or immoral ideas to prevent harm. Since boss's ego is too fragile to accept criticism, he prefers gen AI.

* Boss is usually not qualified, willing, or free to do Brenda's job to the same quality standard as Brenda. This compels him to pay Brenda and treat her with basic decency, which is a nuisance. Gen AI does not demand fair or decent treatment and (at least for now) is cheaper than Brenda. It can work at any time and under conditions Brenda refuses to. So boss prefers gen AI.

* Brenda takes accountability for and pride in her work, making sure it is of high quality and as free of errors as she can manage. This is wasteful: boss only needs output that is good enough to make it someone else's problem, and as fast as possible. This is exactly what gen AI gives him, so boss prefers gen AI.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-05 18:59:34+00:00
I used a more recent term known to Web developers.

It means going through the image and remove most code that isn't directly needed by the application, or only exists to support developer workflows.

Usually needs a bit help for fine tuning, regarding what code to keep, and what to delete.

You also find this on Java (jlink, ProGuard, D8/R8 on Android), and .NET (trimming, .NET Native manifests).
by dsign | 2025-11-05 18:59:47+00:00
I know for a fact that at least one of those companies also installs SIM cards in all their busses.

The only difference is who could potentially use the backdoor, and yes Sweden seems slightly less poised to attack Norway than China. At least these days. Because, let's face it, the Swedes owned Norway back in the day and them wanting their oil-rich lucky cousin back at home is deranged but not as much as the Chinese wanting the fjords....
by mmaunder | 2025-11-05 19:00:00+00:00
"And, in fact, one 13th Century outbreak – a literal form of dance fever – occurred south of Hamelin, in the town of Erfurt, where a group of youths were documented as wildly gyrating as they travelled out of town, ending up 20km away in a neighbouring town. Some of the children, one chronicle suggests, expired shortly thereafter, having flat-out danced themselves to death, and those who survived were left with chronic tremors. Perhaps, some theorise, Hamelin witnessed a similar plague, dancing to the figurative tune of the Piper."

Early discovery of MDMA.
by andix | 2025-11-05 19:00:15+00:00
I've also helped running an old Windows 3.1 accounting software. It runs perfectly fine on Windows XP inside a VM.

In 2020 it suddenly came to a halt, because the date pickers just couldn't go further than 2019. Nobody seemed to care in 1992 when it was released.

It was really easy to de-compile the Visual Basic 3 software (perfectly legal where I live). My first idea was to get the source cleaned up a bit and compile it again to 32 bit with Visual Basic 4, but I couldn't figure it out, it required some 3rd party libraries that I just couldn't get a hold of.

In the end I just changed the number 2019 in the binary to 2059 in a hex editor, and it just worked. There was only one occurrence of the number 2019 in the whole binary. I guess I got really lucky.

Edit: It seems like Windows and Visual Basic are not affected by the Unix 2038 problem at all. 16 bit Windows seems to be fine until the year 2107.
by amavect | 2025-11-05 19:00:23+00:00
No problem. While fuzzy graphing has existed for a long time as contour plots, I'd still like to encourage you to experiment more. The colors look pretty. :)

I have a suggestion. Calculate z=left-right without absolute value, and try mapping [negative limit, 0, positive limit] to [black, red, white], or possibly [negative limit, 0, positive limit, outside of limits] to [red, white, blue, black]. And of course, do variations and have fun!
by whynotmakealt | 2025-11-05 19:00:41+00:00
it seems the stars have aligned then.

On a serious note, I am more worried about people who have their retirement funds in these, I genuinely think that its going to impact the whole world and not only just America.

History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes.

I don't know but why do people not listen to the tune then? I was saying similar stuff like this simply because I read one thing in my life about investing which sorta changed my life, investing grows not because free money but because market is efficient and you get part of that efficiency. Deep down, a company has to get efficient or more profitable in long term to make their valuation make sense yet AI had none of these things and in my opinion, it never would.

I use AI, to test out new ideas I don't know about, to try to solve something I am interested about, but I still wouldn't bet on it simply because its business model for profit is broken.
by tarsinge | 2025-11-05 19:00:43+00:00
Maybe because there are other usages than business data entry and programming? I don’t think I’d be more productive when say editing pictures/movies or producing music with a text interface. Maybe it’s because I grew up with classic Mac OS but computers were not only about productivity, they were a place, and UX peaked with Spatial Finder. Nowadays I spend my working days mostly in text mode and I feel like I’ve lost something.
by patmcc | 2025-11-05 19:01:17+00:00
I worked at a big-box retailer before figuring out a career. They had an old-school TUI that was incredibly fast and well designed. Function keys to do all kinds of lookups and adjustments, advanced menus when you needed them, overall just a well designed system. People took a week or so to get the hang of it but then the skill ceiling was insane, people could get fast.

A few months before I left they switched to a "modern" GUI. It was shockingly bad. The speed of every transaction lowered. Even with optimal use it just took longer. So much time wasted.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-05 19:01:45+00:00
I kind of like Smalltalk. Unfortunately syntax-wise Smalltalk is a huge set back and step back compared to Ruby. But Alan Kay's ideas are still epic today. I still don't think any language came close to his vision either; smalltalk definitely not. Ruby got closer but also no dice.

Elixir kind of got close too (prettier "erlang") - to have fault-tolerant mini-CPUs ("objects", aka similar to biological cells). The problem is that even people with grand ideas, such as Alan Kay, are not automatically great language designers. Matz is a better language designer than Alan Kay, for instance, whereas Alan Kay has the better ideas. It's a trade-off.

Note: I myself would not know how a language should look like that would follow Alan Kay's vision closer. It is definitely not smalltalk; it is also not ruby, though ruby is very good. I know I would suck as language designer, but as an improvement I would have a language similar to ruby (no, not crystal - crystal is a worse "ruby"), with a stronger focus on speed (perhaps have a second language that can be as fast as C here and be similar) and with a much stronger focus on what erlang brought to the table; that would get us close to, say, around 85% or 90%. And then add the rest that could fulfil Alan Kay's vision. Of course we need a specification too, because just saying "90% of his vision" is also pointless. I would perhaps start from erlang, retain the good bits, make it a modern variant of OOP (and OOP is also defined differently in different programming languages, so we need to define that term too, in the specification).
by radley | 2025-11-05 19:02:32+00:00
> UX absolutely peaked with TUIs several decades ago.

I'm going to push back a little on that. For several years, MacOS followed a strong UX convention with consistent keyboard shortcuts, menus, layout order, and more. Similarly, Microsoft started with the same, but with everything reversed. At the time, most major cross-platform apps followed these conventions.

Two periods broke these rules: the expansion of web apps and Apple's pivot towards the consolidation of everything into iOS.

First was the dawn of web apps. Faced with two opposing standards, web apps didn't know which model to follow. Business sites stuck with MS standards, while design-centric sites followed Mac standards. As those broke consistency, cross-platform apps gave up and defined their own standards.

Mobile platforms tried to establish new standards. iOS was mostly successful, but started slipping around iOS 7. Material Design was supposed to standardize Android, but Google used it for all Google products, making it more of a standard for the Google brand than Android.

The second started around WWDC 2019. At that point, Apple deprioritized UX standards to focus on architecture updates. The following year, Catalyst was literally a UX catalyst, introducing two competing UX standards for MacOS. From that point forward, Apple really hasn't had a singular UX standard to follow anymore, but they seem to be marching towards iOS standards for all devices.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-05 19:03:14+00:00
That part is also cool. I'd like this in ruby too, e. g. where we could have tons of objects reflect on that state, and just resume work there. Everything is an object. Squeak everywhere, but to also retain the "scripting" (light) commandline approach. Nobody in smalltalk really understood why "scripting" is important. Python showed why.
by shivanshvij | 2025-11-05 19:03:31+00:00
That's a great point. This was one of my iPerf3 runs at one point:

`iperf3 -c 172.31.45.187 -p 5201 -P 128 -t 5 -b 512M -u -l 1448 --bidir | grep "\[SUM\]\[\(TX\|RX\)-C\].*receiver"`

We're also looking at using packet generators to test raw packet throughput. There's a lot more bottlenecks we can cleanup I'm sure.
by wafflemaker | 2025-11-05 19:03:35+00:00
That's averages, but Norway has hot summer days too. Factor in thinner atmosphere (more UV), lower sun angles, over 20h days and you get more warmth with less average temperature.

And those buses stink like inside of a plastic factory. Never been to a plastic factory, but rode these buses. And the smell is strong even a year into use. Makes you wonder if China has same rules for carcinogenic plastic in consumer goods.
by JCharante | 2025-11-05 19:03:36+00:00
Have you ever been to a Marriott? They have something called MARSHA depending on the property. Once you log in it's basically a command line interface filled with abbreviations. As a high schooler in 2016 I used to train people at a reservations call center on how to use Marsha. It's super unintuitive but surprisingly everyone can wrap their heads around it eventually. Ok maybe 9 out of 10. You could decline to learn Marsha and work for properties that use a GUI like Opera PMS (for us it was mainly IHG properties). You got a pay raise if you learned Marsha. Opera was great, they later started upgrading to some bloated crap with lots of padding between buttons.

IIRC Marsha has transactions so you can build up a reservation and make queries in the process. There's even test properties in production so you can practice making/reserving/retrieving reservations.
by wpm | 2025-11-05 19:03:39+00:00
Actual terminal-based TUIs sure, they have small character sets burned into ROM, sized for 50-years-ago prices.

Modern terminals, even the text-based console on a fresh minimal Arch linux install, is going to support Unicode probably without a ton of issues as long as you have a font installed that has the characters. The struggle then for RTL or non-Latin character sets and languages is making the UI fit the words in a way that makes sense.
by pants2 | 2025-11-05 19:04:14+00:00
Expectation:

> "AI with the overarching purpose of just trying to understand the universe," the billionaire stated, noting that he believes the safest way to build an AI is to make one that is curious and truth-seeking. Musk pointed to questions that remain about dark matter, dark energy, the nature of gravity and the fermi paradox.[1]

Reality:

Anime waifus and racist Wikipedia

1. https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/musk-tells-twitter-us...