MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Gormanu | 2025-11-27 12:12:21+00:00
You know, I think this Explorer is exactly the tool many of us lacked. Reading the Linux kernel source always felt daunting — thousands of files, confusing paths, complex structure. This feels like a “map” that helps you orient yourself, see how parts interconnect, how VFS works, how modules tie together. Yeah, sometimes a feature breaks (API limits, errors opening directories), but even so — this is a great way to peek “under the hood,” understand the architecture, and take the first step. Big thanks to the folks behind it.
by flave | 2025-11-27 12:12:45+00:00
Sure.

The headlines says that music “speeds recovery” but the paper specifically says that patients had similar recovery profiles.

The media article overall overstates the findings of the study. It’s a very specific study on a specific cohort and a specific surgery (minimally invasion) but the article implies strongly that music helps with all surgery.

Also the paper specifically doesn’t touch on medial outcomes from the music - that’s fine as science since it’s granular, but it’s a pretty big thing to miss in the article.

The article misses a bunch of further questions that need more research. How does the patient playing music affect the surgeon? Is it music in general or specific music that helps? Is the patient choosing the music relevant?

“Reshape how hospitals think about surgery”? Not really, hospitals already use music in surgery so it’s not going to “reshape” anything. Over dramatisation.

It’s also just very shallow. Makes no mention of existing science/practice for example. Didn’t speak to any other researchers.

Look, the article is fine-ish but it’s just a regurgitation of the paper with more dramatisation and no analysis. Just post the paper especially on HN.
by supermatt | 2025-11-27 12:13:27+00:00
> It's still unclear

EVERYTHING is unclear, because they have literally only just received a negotiating mandate to discuss the idea. This isn't even a proposal that will reach parliament in its current form - its undergone near zero scrutiny because it simply hasn't progressed far enough to be scrutinised.

> It seems _very_ likely... client-side scanning

Actually, it seems almost completely UNLIKELY due to the protections afforded EU citizens. The last time legislation was passed that eroded privacy it was repealed by the ECJ (albeit many years later).

> it's _very_ important to keep raising our concerns

I totally agree
by georgefrowny | 2025-11-27 12:13:32+00:00
That's pretty cool. Must be a fiddly job to anchor it into the rest of the system.

> Moreover, current commercial tips that fit this spec are made of either non-biodegradable plastic or metal.

I'm not sure saving at most the few micrograms (the entire mosquito is only a handful of milligrams) of plastic here is really a major factor. Probably there are orders of magnitude more plastic in the tape on the box that they would ship it in.

Also not very clear how it can be 100% finer than current tips!
by Yizahi | 2025-11-27 12:13:39+00:00
I suspect that most of the trades are off-chain now, due to blockchain being being complete and utter crap for fast transactions by design. So people are entrusting their tokens to the centralized entity and receive some IOUs from it, with which they trade and that centralized platform. Basically unlicensed banks recreated with all negatives of the bank and no benefits.
by saubeidl | 2025-11-27 12:13:45+00:00
> That's a very generous definition of "voted". As I said people can't vote for the EU commission nor can the parliament vote for the members of the commission. Remember that the EU commission is the ONLY one that can propose laws, the parliament CAN NOT do this even though it's their job.

People can't vote for ministers etc either. That's how representative democracy works.

> How about that German journalist that critizied a politician regarding free speech and got probation?

You mean a neonazi that was spreading Nazi propaganda in Germany, which is a bit sensitive when it comes to that sort of thing for obvious historical reasons?

> Or when the police raided someone's home because he called a politician on Twitter a "dick

That was in fact ridiculous and I agree with you that this shouldn't have happened. But that isn't "the EU" that's German conservatives.
by Levitz | 2025-11-27 12:13:48+00:00
It's just the classic of people with a whole lot of money getting what they want from the government, only boosted by the fact that for the previous decade and a half the left has legitimized political action from corporations since it benefited them, as platforms were largely left-leaning. Now the boot is finally on the other foot and panic ensues.

Can't say I like it, but it has been my position from the very start that this would happen, and as such I'm fresh out of sympathy.

Don't like it? Build your own Silicon Valley.
by uniqueuid | 2025-11-27 12:14:00+00:00
Short answer: no

Tape is really complicated and physically challenging, and there are no incentives for people investing insane amounts of time for something that has almost no fan base. See the blog post about why you don’t want tape from some time ago.

Edit: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/lto-tape-backups-for-linux-n...
by senordevnyc | 2025-11-27 12:14:20+00:00
Metrics: life expectancy, infant mortality, maternal mortality, extreme poverty, access to clean water, access to adequate calories, medical care, literacy, education, likelihood of being murdered, disposable income, on and on. Take your pick.

The fact that you’d even ask me to share a metric of how someone from a century or two is worse off tells me all I need to know about whether you’re able to engage in good faith here. Ditto for the low effort ad hominem attack you opened with.

But by all means, carry on with your tilting at the windmills of change.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-11-27 12:14:23+00:00
> This is a position that seems to be as unenforceable as AI can't be trained on code whose copyright owners have not given consent.

Stares at facebook stealing terabytes of copyrighted content to train their models

Also, even if code is trained only on FLOSS approved licenses, GPL based ones have some caveats that would disqualify many projects with including code
by Barooahn | 2025-11-27 12:14:31+00:00
I think this is a wonderful idea. I have spent some time in the past teaching TOEFL and found that children enjoyed games more than anything else. Gamification of learning seems to me to be the way forward.

Using a well-known game such as UNO is a great idea for the reasons you state - not as much time wasted on explaining complicated instructions and children can help each other if needed.
by rs186 | 2025-11-27 12:16:42+00:00
Given my own experience working on compiler stuff with LLM, I'd say it's a very good decision.

LLMs jump at the first opportunity to use regex for EVERYTHING instead of doing proper lexing/parsing, for example. You need to repeatedly tell it not to use regex. In the end you might as well hand write your code, because you actually know how it works, unlike a clueless LLM.
by everdrive | 2025-11-27 12:16:58+00:00
I'm not sure if the browser vs. an app has access to the accelerometer, but this is another case where something on the phone provides information that a normal desktop would not:

"Researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk warn that 'Facebook reads accelerometer data all the time. If you don't allow Facebook access to your location, the app can still infer your exact location only by grouping you with users matching the same vibration pattern that your phone accelerometer records.'"

“Although the accelerometer data seems to be innocuous,” Mysk says, “it's jaw-dropping what apps can make up of these measurements. Apps can figure out the user's heart rate, movements, and even precise location. Worse, all iOS apps can read the measurements of this sensor without permission. In other words, the user wouldn't know if an app is measuring their heart rate while using the app.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/10/23/apple-iph...
by GJim | 2025-11-27 12:17:21+00:00
> I don't know if you will find a time in US history where the press was accurate, honest, and truthful.

1) Spare us the US defaultism!

2) If we are going to make this conversation about the USA, didn't US broadcast media have a 'fairness doctrine' that was abolished some years back? Hence the growth in outlets providing heavily biased dishonest news on broadcast media? I suggest this has driven much of the popular rhetoric of which you speak.

Frankly, every country has seen a growth in biased social media "news" sources regardless as to the broadcast media fairness doctrines that still exist in those countries. Deliberate misinformation and a lack of trust in journalism is real.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-11-27 12:17:23+00:00
Isn't the first picture already misleading?

As far as I know, the order of hook calls is important to link them to the correct components: the important point of the linked list is not the ordering of built-in hooks depending ob name.

Although it's true that useEffect runs code after render. The picture places useReducer after useEffect, which would not even make sense in this interpretation?

Could be that I'm misremembering details, but I find it more interesting to read, for example, a good description, when a PR is large, dense, or hard to understand.

In the case of hooks, this blog post was good:

https://overreacted.io/why-do-hooks-rely-on-call-order/

I'm not sure whether the explanation in the picture is useful to anyone who doesn't already know the information.

Same issue with most AI-generated doc-blocks I've seem, often misleading, or explaining the obvious, instead of the "why".
by tene80i | 2025-11-27 12:17:32+00:00
It’s not a misuse - it’s exactly the intended meaning and it is perfectly common in mainstream usage.

Allowing yourself to be vulnerable means you are indeed open to attack. But it is also a large part of emotional connection. The alternative is being a fortress - with all the relationship problems that entails.

The very fact that you see vulnerability as “bad” is a perfect example of what that language is intended to highlight.
by LunaSea | 2025-11-27 12:17:56+00:00
> "The EU" is our elected governments

Is that why the EU MEP can't propose laws?

Is that why the Commission can ignore the MEP's votes?

Also, many European governments have not been elected by people voting for them but by people voting against their opponent. Hardly a vote of confidence.

> An extra vote on top of the election was always foolish.

Yes, so foolish to ask people their opinion. If only we could have one strong man or woman decide everything.
by Joker_vD | 2025-11-27 12:17:58+00:00
> when prices go down instead of up. It is generally considered harmful: both because it is usually brought on by something really bad (like a severe economic contraction)

Or, you know, technological improvements that increase efficiency of production, or bountiful harvests, or generally anything else that suddenly expands the supply at the current price level across the economy. Thankfully, we have mechanisms in place that keep the prices inflating even when those unlikely events happen.
by ionwake | 2025-11-27 12:18:14+00:00
Im not sure if this is of interest, but in the city of london (the bit that doesnt even "belong" to the crown ) , you are legally allowed to walk sheep across to it over Tower Bridge if you are a freeman "Gentleman of the City" ( right into the heart of london!).

Also in Newcastle Upon Tyne I believe you are allowed to take yoru sheep to eat from the grassland in the city center too.
by lapcat | 2025-11-27 12:18:31+00:00
Isn't that the point of a hierarchy, though? The important decisions come from the top.

When I worked for someone else (now self-employed), some bugs were my fault. But with features and other intentional changes, the bosses had to sign off on them, and in some cases there were vigorous internal debates, but the bosses had the final say and could overrule objections.
by CoastalCoder | 2025-11-27 12:18:46+00:00
> It seems like every organization in America is compromised in some way if you dig deep enough.

I agree, and my view is that it goes much further. Quoting author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts.".
by CuriouslyC | 2025-11-27 12:18:46+00:00
Mattermost is nice but I lost some respect for them for a couple reasons:

1. Slightly worse product than Slack (if just for lack of connect) yet they're charging more for the cheapest license.

2. Gating reasonable OAuth support behind the paid version is crippleware

IMO they're gonna get forked, and they'll deserve it.
by supermatt | 2025-11-27 12:18:58+00:00
I really wanted to like penpot, but when I tried a few months ago, simply navigating between pages (even on the example documents) was causing parts of the document to change in bizarre ways. I didn't want that level of risk with documents I actually cared about, so continued to use figma. I guess it's time to give it another shot.

EDIT: still broken 8 months later :(
by Treegarden | 2025-11-27 12:19:40+00:00
I don’t see how “tech” is limited to software. While your case might be made for software, according to many accounts Musk is a strong driver on the hardware side. For instance, I’ve read the Tesla and SpaceX books by Eric Berger, which are much more focused on technical things compared to the more mainstream books. And while Musk is not in the trenches with a screwdriver, he’s not faking it either.

To be honest, I’m actually interested in this hypothesis: is he legitimately skilled/knowledgeable, or is he indeed faking it? And for either side I would like to see evidence. This question is interesting to me because some of his companies have made substantial contributions to pushing the frontier of technology (reusable landing, high launch cadence, electric cars, energy).

If he is really faking it, that might even be good, because the success of his companies might be replicable and could continue without him. But what if he is not?
by quitit | 2025-11-27 12:19:43+00:00
If the EU forced Apple to adopt Wi-Fi Aware then Apple would just fence it to EU users.

The attempt of trying to paint this as a powerplay by the EU is tenuous:

- Apple, along with Microsoft and Intel are founding members of the Wi-Fi Alliance, whose objective was to introduce a standard of interoperability through Wi-Fi Aware.1

- This work commenced long before the EU showed any interest in regulating tech.

- Apple have a pretty solid history of fencing EU-mandated changes to EU devices.

- Microsoft's Windows, also deemed by the EU as a "gatekeeper" hasn't deployed Wi-Fi Aware in Windows. With no public plans to do so.2

1. https://www.washingtoninformer.com/wi-fi-aware-aims-to-conne...

2. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2284386/...
Ask HN: Would you use a fast/cheap "prior art" service instead of a patent?
by shaheeniquebal | 2025-11-27 12:20:42+00:00
We’re exploring a tech-focused IP platform that helps startups publish fast, affordable “prior art” disclosures. The goal is to protect inventions without the cost or delay of patents, especially in this AI age where things move quickly.

The core proposition is: for a few hundred dollars, you get a timestamped, public disclosure that blocks others from patenting your idea.

We're trying to validate if this is truly valuable for early-stage founders.

Would you consider this a valid alternative to a low-value patent?

What would make you trust a platform offering this?

Is the $250-$500 price point compelling?

We also have a completely anonymous 60-second survey if you prefer that format: https://forms.gle/KSSWGc68RkNT9G8n6

We'll share a summary of the results here afterward. All perspectives are appreciated.
by Anthony-G | 2025-11-27 12:21:42+00:00
I'm more a fan of atmospheric black metal, 80's thrash and prog metal, myself but the psychological effects of listening to death metal have been researched. As previously discussed on Hacker News:

Dissecting the Bloodthirsty Bliss of Death Metal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18335308

Death metal music inspires joy not violence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19383699
by ezrabrand | 2025-11-27 12:21:42+00:00
Long-time HN lurker here! Was excited to see this discussion around my major interests of Talmud, Kabbalah, and tech.

There are a lot of misconceptions and mystique surrounding the Talmud. I'd like to take the opportunity to clarify some fundamental aspects, as relates to the discussion here:

The famous "Talmud page" (discussed in the links in the parent comment) was set by a Christian printer in the 16th century.

It emulated a common layout in medieval Christian manuscripts for Christian primary texts and commentaries [0].

The analogy of the Talmud to a hypertext isn't especially apt, IMO. The Talmud indeed extensively cites Bible and Mishnah, and uses lots of technical terms. In this regard, a better analogy is to legal literature (which is what the Talmud in fact is). While being couched as a (fictional) "conversation"/dialogue between rabbis who lived over the course of ~400 years (100 CE to 500 CE).

In fact, Kabbalah (as another commenter mentioned) is a better example of a “hypertext,” since it’s full of recurring symbols that point to different Sefirot and other core concepts.

(By way of credentials: I hold an MA in academic Talmud and Kabbalah, write on these subjects in several venues, and have presented at academic workshops. Over the past two years, I’ve also been developing digital-humanities projects related to this work.)

References:

[0] https://seforimblog.com/2023/06/from-print-to-pixel-digital-...

[1] https://www.ezrabrand.com/p/beyond-the-mystique-correcting-c...
by avinashgaurav_ | 2025-11-27 12:22:13+00:00
I’m doing some research on how engineering and FinOps teams manage cloud cost optimization across AWS/Azure/GCP. I'm trying to understand real-world practices instead of the usual marketing claims.

I put together a short 5–7 minute anonymous survey covering:

• How teams track and optimize cloud spend • Tagging / cost allocation challenges • Forecasting, budgeting, showback/chargeback • Tools you use (built-in or third-party) • Gaps in automation, visibility, and alerts • Features you wish cloud cost tools actually had

No email required, no follow-ups, no sales. Just trying to gather honest input from people who deal with cloud bills regularly.
by randerson | 2025-11-27 12:22:46+00:00
I guess there's a paradox in that we'd only make the progress needed to overtake if we are still launching throughout those 600 years and iteratively improving and getting feedback along the way.

Because the alternative is everyone waiting on one big 600-year government project. Hard to imagine that going well. (And it has to be government, because no private company could raise funds with its potential payback centuries after the investors die. For that matter, I can't see a democratic government selling that to taxpayers for 150 straight election cycles either.)
by sallveburrpi | 2025-11-27 12:24:47+00:00
Things would be so much easier if there weren’t a super small minority of extremely greedy rich and powerful people who ruin it for everyone…

Alas we decided collectively that money trumps(sic) everything so low trust society is the natural consequence of this.

At its core it’s a spiritual problem. Capitalism is cool but making it a religion has its trade offs.
Ask HN: How to Find Investors?
by karanveer | 2025-11-27 12:24:51+00:00
Greetings HN

There is enough knowledge on this on the internet and youtube videos, nonetheless, I wanted to ask some pros here, how and where to find and pitch to the right people.

I've bootstrapped a lot of failed projects, and I am thinking of giving the VC / Investor-based sourcing a try.

I'm just looking for the experience, more than actual funding too, if that makes sense.

I am currently not in a city where meeting irl people would be possible either.

I am based in the UAE and India.

The Product in mind: One of my pitches that i am getting ready for was a "link in bio" tool that i deployed in 2023 and was live for over a year.

I took it down to make some changes and perhaps re launch it with a different vision in mind.

Currently its back on local host.

Any info would be helpful.
by dgroshev | 2025-11-27 12:25:04+00:00
I mostly agree, but it also depends on the size and the shape of the fillet. Large sweeping curves that stay close to horizontal for a long distance are bad, but a tight corner can still look better in G2/G3 than just G1. On the top at least, because fillets on the bottom create sharp overhangs that don't print well.

Also, if you have that option, filler + sanding + paint can hide the layers completely, but preserve the overall shape.
by konart | 2025-11-27 12:25:07+00:00
I thing you might have misunderstood me.

I do not disagree with the book's argument. I'm just pointing out (or rather expressing my doubt) that the word "code" brings no additional context to the sentence.

As others (and I) rightfully noted - code and modern tech does make things cheaper and easier, but this can be said about all advances.

The "nerd reich" is not possible without code, code is not possible without computers, computers are not possible without abacus etc.

As I see it the word "code" sells this book better than, say, "taxes". Because taxes are boring and obvious.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-11-27 12:25:11+00:00
The open core model is fine, but your community edition should be a reasonably complete product. Gitlab is a good example of this. They're not selling access, they're selling convenience.

The features that differentiate to enterprise customers don't matter to small shops anyhow: policy compliance, monitoring, fancy reporting, fine grained access control,etc. Give away tools that are useful for individuals and small teams, and charge for the features that are large team/enterprise related.
by isodev | 2025-11-27 12:25:20+00:00
It would be unfortunate if we have to fight this for every category of gizmos separately. It would be best if the next iteration of the consumer rights directive codifies this in general e.g. connected devices (even if the connection is just peer devices), anything that generates or stores user related information etc.

If tomorrow someone invents smart glasses that can trigger a home robot to do the laundry when I look at the pile of dirty clothes on the floor, the orchestration should be based on capabilities, not brand or ecosystem.
by nickpp | 2025-11-27 12:25:21+00:00
> It's unclear exactly what you're arguing

Actually, it's perfectly clear to me.

> we shouldn't have any regulation

Nope, he's not saying that at all. He's just saying that any regulation (no matter how necessary, well intended or even perfect it is) has a cost. And that cost is accumulating across all regulations.

Furthermore, that cost is easily supported by large incumbents (big fans of regulation, btw) but it hurts startups the most. Thus the more regulations a market has, the fewer startups will have. Fewer startups means less competition. Less competition means less innovation, fewer products and higher prices. We can easily see this effect unfolding in the housing, education or health markets.

Bottom line is: we must take those second order effects of regulation into consideration when talking about it.
by delaminator | 2025-11-27 12:25:36+00:00
What I meant was CA created those "what kid of biscuit are you" type quizzes on Facebook after Eric Schmitt's daughther told a guy at CA that's how Google's spin off team did it for Obama in 2012. But that's (D)ifferent.

"Hey! scan your face and find your twin" has the same vibes

> Barack Obama's re-election team are building a vast digital data operation that for the first time combines a unified database on millions of Americans with the power of Facebook to target individual voters to a degree never achieved before. [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/17/obama-digital-...