MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gbuk2013 | 2025-11-17 23:37:35+00:00
My favourite question to ask when seeing benchmark results such as this is “how much latency did you have / inject when running the benchmark”. This tends to lead to interesting conversations and learning. :)

One my favourite instances of this was in a benchmark measuring contest with a Golang enthusiast who was surprised to see that with a bit of latency his server was not 3x faster than Node.js like he thought it would be.
by bigiain | 2025-11-17 23:38:26+00:00
> They pay as little as humanly possible to cover their ass.

They probably spend more on the team who ends up writing the "We take your security very seriously" breach notification message than they do on "security people". At least until then get forced into brand-name external Cyber Security Consultants to "investigate" their breach and work out who they can plausibly blame it on that's not part of the C suite.
by angadh | 2025-11-17 23:39:17+00:00
You are vey correct—the talk and link have nothing to do with Soma.

I can only presume, based on timing of the talk being 1960, that his thoughts here link to mescaline and the practical utopia he talks of in Island, whose inhabitants make use of a local psychedelic. So whatever he must have said here had more to do with his later perspectives than his feelings around the island.
by 65 | 2025-11-17 23:39:33+00:00
The author appears to have a very large ego. Most "weird" people I know fall into the same trap of desperately trying to be something... to be interesting or dazzling or charming, while forgetting that they're talking to another person.

Connection is being interested in what someone has to say. Not in being "interesting" or playing some kind of game. Ask questions, share similar experiences.
by mmooss | 2025-11-17 23:40:14+00:00
On what geometric surfaces do weather models run? Spheriods? Spheres? Projections on planes? Geoids??

Weather is three-dimensional and I would guess that the difference between sphere and (appropriate) spheroid could impact predictions. It seems possible that, at least for local and hyperlocal forecasts, geoids would be worthwhile. But as you go from plane -> sphere -> spheroid -> geoid, computing resources must increase pretty quickly.

And even if a geoid is used, that doesn't mean the weather user sees a geoid or section of geoid. Every consumer weather application displays a plane, afaict. Maybe nautical or aeronatautical weather maps display spheres?
by enbywithunix | 2025-11-17 23:40:27+00:00
I rather like Gemini. I have several presences on the protocol, as well as a hefty list of gemlogs I follow. The somewhat slow and niche nature of this corner of the internet has meant that I come and go, rather than using it daily (like I do with the web); but it always feels sort of cozy and welcoming when I do eventually return.
by msla | 2025-11-17 23:41:02+00:00
Doesn't have the Northern Transcon, either, which is an important rail link right along the Canadian border:

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

The Northern Transcon is the northernmost route in the west:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BNSF_Railway_system_map.s...
by tootyskooty | 2025-11-17 23:42:31+00:00
Shameless plug: if OP is looking to stay on d3, he could also try slotting in my C++/WASM versions[1] of the main d3 many-body forces. Not the best, but I've found >3x speedup using these for periplus.app :)

[^1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/d3-manybody-wasm
by CPLX | 2025-11-17 23:43:28+00:00
How about the 600,000 packages daily from just Shein and Temu alone?

This isn't even remotely confusing to anyone who's bothered to look at it.

I assume you haven't done that, because you said this:

> It was only exploitable by lying about the value of a shipment.

That's not true at all. It was made perfectly legal for shipments under $800, and what was supposed to be a personal use type exemption was wildly exploited until it accounted to over 90% of all shipments to the US, and over $60bn in goods, annually. That was a mistake. Correcting it was well overdue.
by robocat | 2025-11-17 23:44:33+00:00
We all seem to love to be one-dimensional: simplifying down a story from a spectrum to a trite summary.

POSIWID is about finding a single "purpose" and defining that as the apex reason for a system (usually to manipulate).

I'm not sure how we have more balanced discussions.

reductionism: squashing a many-layered phenomenon into a single tidy cause framing: choosing one angle of a story and strawmanning or deflecting. false dichotomy: where every shade of gray is lost. single-axis narratives: narrative manipulation where you steer the public to think along just one line (whatever works — economic, moral, tribal).
Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files
by kaushiksrini | 2025-11-17 23:45:42+00:00
I built a Rust-based CLI/terminal UI for inspecting Parquet files—data, metadata, and row-group-level structure—right from the terminal. If someone sent me a Parquet file, I used to open DuckDB or Polars just to see what was inside. Now I can do it with one command.

Repo: https://github.com/kaushiksrini/parqeye
Show HN: Onethingeveryone.com – A global album of advice from people everywhere
by spacebots | 2025-11-17 23:46:36+00:00
I built onethingeveryone.com

A global advice album where anyone can share one thing they’ve learned in life so everyone can from each other.

I’ve always believed that everyone knows something you don’t, so I wanted to create a simple, timeless place for people to pass on small lessons and truths from all cultures, professions, and ages.

The site is live and free to use. You can:

- Browse the short, crowdsourced insights

- Add your own (takes about 10 seconds)

Built with plain HTML/CSS/JS and minimal dependencies — I wanted it to feel like a digital book of humanity’s advice, not an app.

Would love your thoughts on:

The concept itself, does it resonate?

The design and simplicity, too minimal or just right?

Thanks for checking it out!

- Tai
by scottlamb | 2025-11-17 23:46:40+00:00
I think because it's called `safe_c.h` and is "designed to give C some safety and convenience features from ... Rust", and says "The Memory Management Beast: Slain", you expected to see some level of memory safety, Rust's headline selling point. I did too when I opened the article. But it doesn't at all. Those phrases are all clickbait and slop.

In fact I don't see anything here from Rust that isn't also in C++. They talk about Result and say "Inspired by Rust, Result forces you to handle errors explicitly by returning a type that is either a success value or an error value", but actually, unlike Rust, nothing enforces that you don't just incorrectly use value without checking status first.

It's just some macros the author likes. And strangely presented—why are the LIKELY/UNLIKELY macros thrown in with the CLEANUP one in that first code snippet? That non sequitur is part of what gives me an LLM-written vibe.
by strangegecko | 2025-11-17 23:48:00+00:00
China (or at least the CCP, I find the equivocation of the CCP with the country disagreeable) has had the desire or even need to get revenge for their "century of humiliation" for a long time.

They have a fundamentally different government and social model, basically a one person dictatorship that feels the need to micromanage and control their populace.

They absolutely love seeing democracy and businesses associated with it fail because it reinforces their perspective of the CCP model being superior and thus strengthens their perceived legitimacy (or even inevitability) of CCP control over China.
by edgineer | 2025-11-17 23:48:36+00:00
The elephant in the room for me is "microphonics" or the noise piped to your head via the wire any time anything touches it.

You demand higher quality, yet don't care about the loud noise created with every small movement of your body? I have heard this dismissed before as "doesn't bother me" and it's hardly ever mentioned in discussions about good audio vs Bluetooth.

I'm bewildered why wireless audio isn't praised for completely eliminating this source of noise that plagues every wired headphone, earbud, and IEM.
Show HN: Interview Tracking Tool
by Keloran | 2025-11-17 23:48:36+00:00
I recently needed to start looking for work again, and as such I had 2 real choices when it came to tracking my interviews and their processes

1. memory, not a good idea, I can't remember all the companies I've applied for

2. spreadsheet of some variety to keep track of them, but then I can't do a quick lookup when I am walking the dog, and a recruiter rings to say "have you heard of company-y"

So I decieded to build a tool for it, now I assume there are millions of these, but this has also kept me busy between job applications, so I present interviews.tools

A simple interview tracker, you can add all the companies you have applied with, do a quick search when a recruiter rings and see if you have ever applied with them

See future interviews instantlly and what stage they are at so you don't need to wonder, and calender integration so you can link it in your fav calendar app and see all of them

And some very simple stats, e.g. 30 applied, 19 awaiting response, 4 rejected, 3 passed to the next stage

--

It also works without having to sign/login it just means you are limited to 1 browser (non-account uses localstorage) and you cant get the calendar integration (since I have no idea what dates things are)

--

It is also source available at https://github.com/keloran/interview-tools
by tovej | 2025-11-17 23:48:37+00:00
Thank you also for engaging in a civil manner.

I still don't understand how you can view the Israeli foundation myth, and the "fear of an existential threat" as legitimate, when the Israeli state's founding was an unjust, immoral, wrong undertaking, the foundation of a colony on someone's homeland.

If a perpetrator breaks into a house and kicks out the homeowners, then declares the attempts to take back said house as an existential threat to their new house ownership, a reasonable person would not view that as a legitimate concern.

It's just not a logically consistent way to look at the situation. I agree that the current day situation is different, considering Israel has existed for two generations. It still does not change the fact that they are forcing an apartheid on the Palestinians, and are engaged in genocide, and have sabotaged any attempt to solve the situation by means other than ethnic cleansing.

I refuse to consider a balanced view when the crimes that have been committed are so unbalanced. Israel has established a society, and that society has clearly established itself as the bad guy, Palestine has not even had a chance to create a society for themselves, so they cannot even be judged to the same standard. But even if we do, it's hard to see them as anything but victims of Zionist oppression.
by torginus | 2025-11-17 23:48:37+00:00
I might be ignorant, but it looks to me like a slightly Rust-ified Bash, not sure if there's any standout features here - if there are could somebody point those out?

I kind of hate to admit, but in many ways Powershell is stil king of the shell game (haha) - the fact that it's object based (with autocomplete!) and has a proper JIT, meaning it's fast enough in processing pretty much anything just with native shell scripts (certainly not true for Bash or Python!) gives it a very different feel. Afaik there are object based shells, but none are fast enough to be generally faster or as fast as the disk is, meaning you need to resort to tricks for heavy-duty processing.

Too bad Microsoft messed up the ergonomics, and using it feels like pulling teeth.
by WolfeReader | 2025-11-17 23:48:44+00:00
I had something similar happen at a prior job.

1: Befriend one of the front-end developers 3: The dev stops talking to me, becomes a lot less happy overall 4: The dev quits

In my case, what I didn't know about for a while was 2: The guy got put on a PIP for dubious reasons and got absolutely demoralized.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-11-17 23:49:25+00:00
Wouldn't this only be true if the camera's are primarily used by non-government entities? Once their income/use is primarily from the government they become an agent of the state and relevant laws apply, no? Wasn't this how they were able to FOIA 'private' parole officers in the south a couple of years back? Or they could 'constructively' construed as being a public entity? Private parole officer, private care providers, etc have all been ruled to in fact be constructively agents of the state and the rules (not necessarily FOIA in each instance, but even tougher constraints that would easily apply as precedent for FOIA) applied to them.
by atulvi | 2025-11-17 23:50:07+00:00
Simply enter a topic you're interested in, and Wikidive will explore Wikipedia to find TWO related topics that an AI model thinks are interesting. You can then choose to dive deeper into one of these topics. Each "dive" presents you with related topics that you can explore further, creating an engaging journey of discovery.

EDIT: How it works:

It asks an llm this prompt: "I was going in this rabbit hole of wikipedia articles: #{chain} \n I have now found these topics:\n\n#{related_topics}\n\n Select the 2 most mind blowing topics from the list and that I'd enjoy given my rabbit hole. Ensure two topics are not the same."

and pics two articles that it returns. This is slightly better than random.(related article names are obtained from wikipedia API).
by kcplate | 2025-11-17 23:50:20+00:00
Reality is that if you are going to convert 150-200 acres of course space to residential, it’s not going to happen organically. A developer will come in and drop infrastructure and a couple of hundred homes, and then add an active HOA so folks feel good about that nice neighborhood maintaining their property values. That is going to likely demand a level of property maintenance that will work to counter any utility pricing soft control you try to impose.

I think the folks who try this ecological impact argument and want to push homes into that space just don’t think through all the consequences or assume there is a greater landscape effort than it actually takes. It’s a lot of work, but is it less that the combined work of 200 homes? Probably not. A couple of tractors vs 200 mowers? Landscape chemicals on perhaps 20 acres of the 150-200 (tees and greens, spot treat everywhere else) vs 3 homes per acre treating their whole lawn? 300-400 more vehicles driving in and out of the area everyday?

You want to outlaw them and let them go wild, I can accept that argument and can’t counter it but for “golf is fun and people enjoy it.” However if the concept that houses are better ecologically…I think that is a huge stretch.
by dfabulich | 2025-11-17 23:50:41+00:00
For RSS/Atom, you put this in the XML, right inside the document element (the <feed> element or the <rss> element):

<script src="https://example.org/script.js" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"></script>

You can also put CSS in there, like this:

<style xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> * { color: red; } </style>

Or like this:

<link href="https://example.org/style.css" rel="stylesheet" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"/>
by dylan604 | 2025-11-17 23:52:49+00:00
> Makes you wonder what other similar ideas are out there!

There are examples of planes silhouetting the sun or moon. There are examples of the ISS. There are examples of planets (Mercury/Venus) crossing the sun, not the moon (obviously). I think someone else mentioned rockets being captured too.

People have also done similar with the moons of other planets. And of course that's how exoplanets have been discovered by looking the effects of a planet crossing between our line of sight of its host star.
by tetris11 | 2025-11-17 23:52:57+00:00
> In 1919, the Japanese discovered a more potent version of the drug — methamphetamine. The new drug was a crystalline powder soluble in water. In this form, it can be smoked, injected, snorted or taken orally. Users get an intense but brief high when they inject or smoke the drug, but if it's snorted or taken orally by capsule, the high lasts longer.
by spc476 | 2025-11-17 23:53:21+00:00
There was (and still is to a degree) a group of people critical of TLS. One half of the group (which I think you belong to) bitch about it being mandatory. The other half bitched about the use of TLS instead of <bespoke encryption system they just read about that is better/easier/smaller than TLS>. TLS was the main point of Gemini.

And about the lack of file size: I proposed a way to sneak it in, and it was rejected outright. Oh well.
by k310 | 2025-11-17 23:53:40+00:00
Mobile home parks are predatory. Unlike a traditional home, "owners" own only the home and pay an exorbitant land rent each month. So, unlike a traditional home where the land appreciates and you maintain the home, you get in effect, the worst of both worlds. You get zero land equity for rents approaching mortgages (YMMV. They are very high in desirable CA locations.), and still pay to maintain the home.

Of course, private equity firms love the idea. Price-fixing among park owners happens. [1] Some comments [2]

Pro's and Cons[0]

I live in a double-wide manufactured home in the country, and own the land, quite a bit of it (sharpens chain saw ) Spare you the details.

[0] https://www.luxwisp.com/pros-and-cons-of-land-lease-communit...

[1] https://www.classaction.org/news/class-action-alleges-mobile...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/comments/s0jh8a/what...
My tiny workflow for an AI code review assist
by infl8ed | 2025-11-17 23:54:17+00:00
I wanted to share a small workflow I find helpful that I haven't necessarily seen mentioned elsewhere. I don't always want AI assistance for a code review but it can sometimes be helpful and for those cases I use the below method.

1. Download the raw PR diff file. In GitHub you can do this very easily by adding '.diff' to the end of the pull request url and then saving the resulting page.

2. Go to your preferred AI chat/ide that accepts file attachments and has access to your codebase, I like Cursor for this.

3. Git checkout the feature branch if you aren't on it already.

4. In the AI chat attach the diff file and a message like "help me review this pr, diff attached, we are on the feature branch"

That's it. Sometimes I make the chat message more relevant, tell it some background about the task, and ask it for specific parts of the pull I am interested in checking, but nine times out of ten I just use the very simple message as above and it works fine.

It certainly spouts out some garbage, but it has also caught some very obvious and non-obvious bugs.

What I like about this method as opposed to say bugbot, apart from the fact that bugbot costs extra, is it makes it easy to continue the conversation and also to look through the files/diffs in the ide.

Hope this workflow is helpful to someone.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-17 23:56:00+00:00
The graph database market has a deserved reputation for carefully crafting scaling claims that are so narrowly qualified as to be inapplicable to anything real. If you aren't deep into the tech you'll likely miss it in the press releases. It is an industry-wide problem, I'm not trying to single out Neo4j here.

Using this press release as an example, if you pay attention to the details you'll notice that this graph has an anomalously low degree. That is, the graph is very weakly connected, lots of nodes and barely any edges. Typical graph data models have much higher connectivity than this. For example, the classic Graph500 benchmark uses an average degree of 16 to measure scale-out performance.

So why did they nerf the graph connectivity? One of the most fundamental challenges in scaling graphs is optimally cutting them into shards. Unlike most data models, no matter how you cut up the graph some edges will always span multiple shards, which becomes a nasty consistency problem in scale-out systems. Scaling this becomes exponentially harder the more highly connected the graph. So basically, they defined away the problem that makes graphs difficult to scale. They used a graph so weakly connected that they could kinda sorta make it work on a thousand(!) machines even though it is not representative of most real-world graph data models.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-11-17 23:56:23+00:00
> Plus intelligence is super overrated. I don't believe that having above average intelligence improves your life in any meaningful way.

If you are deeply into some scientific fields (in particular mathematics, but also related areas like physics and possibly computer science (the latter in the sense of the scientific discipline, not in the sense what the work in industry is)) having a massive IQ immensely improves your life. That is why in my opinion some highly smart people feel so attracted to these fields.

On the other hand, in most other areas of society, a "slightly above average" IQ is optimal (think 120-130). Sufficient to be able to dominate most people (sorry for this dark description), but not so high that you feel isolated and don't get understood.
by psunavy03 | 2025-11-17 23:56:32+00:00
The fact that we can't do this in the US boggles my mind. So the data is already reported to the IRS, yet I have to fill out a tax return containing the same data, and then I'm responsible if it's screwed up? Why can they not just send me a bill if they already have all the data, then I dispute it if there's a problem?
by 0x1ch | 2025-11-17 23:56:43+00:00
I don't think this is the best indicator of trends. Chess players who aren't winning multiple tournaments a year, or aren't training a kid to win those tournaments, probably have very few sources of their (own) income. They'll take any sponsors that aren't dirt.

Twitch also has an entire category dedicated to live coding, so again, not all that weird to see codegen ads or something.
by pfdietz | 2025-11-17 23:56:59+00:00
The reactor breaking and taking a very long time to repair because the repairs would have to be done remotely, with robots. The structure becomes too activated for people to go inside, even after the reactor is shut off.

The reactor breaks because it's a large device operated at high stresses (power/area, neutron loading). There are many components and joints that can fail.

BTW, this means fusion will be expensive, because getting all those components to be reliable right off the bat becomes expensive. No tiny cracks in the welds means expensive quality control.
by leoc | 2025-11-17 23:58:38+00:00
xv6 the MIT 'spiritual port' (so to speak) of Version 6 Unix probably deserves to be mentioned there as well, as while it's not actually a historic Bell Labs Unix it will better meet some people's needs. https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2025/xv6.html