MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LarsDu88 | 2025-11-12 00:48:10+00:00
Agree, agree, agree.

New technologies should make iteration time on this stuff faster not shorter... even for complex things like fighter aircraft.

The fact that there are over a dozen Chinese humanoid robotics companies that have shipped working products in the past 12 months should be a big red flag.

I will say though that during WW2 and the Cold War, the amount of tolerance for killing test pilots was much greater given the number of people dying during active military conflicts at the time.
by xg15 | 2025-11-12 00:48:27+00:00
> Without the knowledge of how to forage or avoid predators, it is left to rely on scraps from human hands—often unhealthy, processed foods that weaken its body and leave it vulnerable to disease. While we might feed them out of kindness, their growing dependence only deepens their inability to adapt to the wild.

There are a lot of animals, both wild and domesticated, that are adapting to life in urban areas because food sources in other spaces have been decimated through aggressive building or farming. The city is the wild now.
by epage | 2025-11-12 00:48:51+00:00
> It does this using (mostly) standard features built-in to the terminal and shell (a custom DCS): you can read their explanation here. It's possible to do this less invasively using OSC 133 escape codes; I'm not sure why Warp didn't do this, but that's ok.

Independent of the rest, I would love for more terminal emulators to support OSC 133.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-12 00:49:14+00:00
On the other hand, if the bug doesn't get filed, it doesn't get fixed. Sure Google could spend some resources on fixing it themselves, but even if they did would we not likely see a complaint about google flooding the maintainers with PR requests for obscure 30 year old codec bugs? And isn't a PR even more of a demand on the maintainer's time because now there's actual code that needs to be reviewed, tests that need to be run and another person waiting for a response on the other end?

"Given enough eyeballs, every bug is shallow" right? Well, Google just contributed some eyeballs, and now a bug has been made shallow. So what's the actual problem here? If some retro game enthusiast had filed the same but report would that be "abusing" the maintainer's time? I would think not, but then we're saying that a bug report can be "abusive" simply by the virtue of who submits it. And I'm really not sure "don't assign employees to research bugs in your open source dependencies and if you do certainly don't submit bug reports on what you find because that's abusive" is the message we want to be sending to corporations that are using these projects.
by cmurf | 2025-11-12 00:50:07+00:00
We may need to help them by looking at the POS interface and make sure they're using/requesting debit for debit cards.

I suspect the POS defaults to credit. But I've never looked at any of the interfaces.

I know US Postal Service somehow detects my card is debit and then requests a debit transaction because the credit card pad asks for a PIN not a signature. So maybe some POS have an autodetect option.

(See also my other comment)
by brailsafe | 2025-11-12 00:51:14+00:00
Heh, this is a nearly identical idea to what I've been considering trying in the past week, since I have some experience with the PDF spec and Acroforms from my time working on a commercial PDF SDK, and I personally have both struggled and watched people struggle with certain forms. Also seems like a straightforward value prop.

It's nice to hear that it's a viable niche and you're doing well with it! Thanks for sharing
by lisdexan | 2025-11-12 00:51:35+00:00
> They all look the same. They all reflect similar taste. Quite a bit of politics, but is there a single right wing sticker? I couldn't find one.

If one of the laptops had a libertarian flag added, suddenly it would become "creative"? All these photos⁰¹²³⁴ are aesthetically distinct. Sure, you can see trends in the website but that's always a thing, specially considering nobody there is designing stickers.

I also find it curious that you conflate social signaling with lack of (true) creativity. If all you ate was bacon, would you sneer at the foodies for making homemade pesto and not unleashing their free will by adding strawberry jam to it?

[0] https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/image-5.jpg

[1] https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/cyberpunkd-chr...

[2] https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_4174.jpg

[3] https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/PXL_20251111_2...

[4] https://stickertop.art/content/images/2025/11/IMG_4148-1.jpe...
by freefrog334433 | 2025-11-12 00:51:41+00:00
The ability to load recompiled code on running processes makes it possible to change live services on the fly. I worked for a low budget mobile operator in SE-Asia where there were no test platforms, and every change was on the live servers. Erlang made changes fast, as small changes were trivial, while large changes were broken down into small changes, implemented individually, and tested. Rolling back was fast, as I kept the original code before modifying. No convoluted build structures, and praying the rollout to production doesn't throw unexpected errors.

Programming languages stress reusable code, where you get reusable processes (eg interface to the SMSC)in Erlang, which you would need messaging servers in other languages.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 00:52:57+00:00
Having empathy for people is good.

Letting that empathy lead you into violating international sanctions to funnel money to a sanctioned country is decidedly not a good idea.

Requesting that other people sign up for Stripe accounts and send you the money in violation of sanctions is bad. The other person risks extreme legal consequences including prison sentences for deliberately and openly violating sanctions.

The comments are a warning to anyone who might feel compelled to do what is being asked, without realizing the specific request is a serious legal matter that can come with prison terms measured in decades.

> I see comments like "is this a request to bypass sanctions"

Did you read the Gist he posted? It was a direct request for someone to help him bypass sanctions.
by ankit_mishra | 2025-11-12 00:53:06+00:00
OP's account was made an hour ago and comments from it are suspiciously fast (and unnecessarily verbose).

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=echend

This is an obvious scam, I don't know why I wasted this time double checking.

Makes me sad that this it the top HN post. Also got me thinking if the technique is so effective here (among more-than-average-scam aware community), I don't want to imagine the success rate on other social media.
by NewsaHackO | 2025-11-12 00:53:25+00:00
>That being said, I am still biased towards empathizing with the library author since contributing to open source should be seen as being a great service already in and of itself, and I'd default to avoiding casting blame at an author for not doing things "perfectly" or whatever when they are already doing volunteer work/sharing code they could just keep private

This is true, and the only reason for this was more so his dismissive view of DeepWiki than a criticism of the project itself or of the author as a programmer. LLMs hallucinate all the time, but there is usually a method to the way they do so. Particularly, for it to just say a repo had a VSCode extension portion with nothing pointing to it would not be typical at all for an LLM like DeepWiki.
by rekabis | 2025-11-12 00:54:19+00:00
If you read my comments, at no point did I ever veer into anything approaching dominance.

Having a physical advantage is not dominance. It is merely capability with regards to the objective in play, which is where the argument of division of labour comes into play.

You want to have people play to their capabilities and (metaphorical) strengths. It’s how a society (or any cohesive unit of people, actually) maximizes its effectiveness and utility for everyone concerned.

To not do so is akin to having two people paint a wall, and for the sake of appearances you have the tall one paint near the floor and the short person paint up near the ceiling. Unless other attributes significantly overcome the massive disadvantages of the height difference, it would be madness to force them to paint the wall like this.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 00:54:25+00:00
> No, I'm not asking anyone to bypass sanctions.

> I'm looking for a partner/co-founder OUTSIDE Iran who would: - Register a US/UK company (legally) - Open their own Stripe account (under their name/company) - I work as a remote contractor/technical co-founder (legal, like any distributed team)

This is a clear and direct sanctions violation. What you are requesting is very illegal.
by more_corn | 2025-11-12 00:55:01+00:00
“Does lemon juice make me invisible to cameras?”

“Nope, that won’t work. If you’re planning to rob a bank try a mask or some other way of obscuring your face. Some classics are a bandanna for that classic outlaw look, a balaclava (black is the new black!). Retro cult movie style is to use some pantyhose.”
by textlapse | 2025-11-12 00:55:41+00:00
This is awesome… but: On the Web, is Avalonia using Skia to render inside a Skia Canvas?

**insert inception meme here**

Joking aside: this points to MSFT moving away from the whole Mono/Maui investments and into Aspire or whatever they call it. Without MSFT backing this I am not sure if there is much more future left for MAUI (or dotnet on mobile in general).

Avalonia is great though.
by hysan | 2025-11-12 00:56:31+00:00
At least when I lived there, Japan was a heavily cash centric culture. Due in part to the difficulty of getting a credit card and how little benefit there was to having one for day to day consumer interactions (edit to mention that I’m very much simplifying here; I know it’s more nuanced than this). 60% is lower than I would have expected but it has been almost a decade since I lived there. I closed the article once they threw that huge pop up in my face, but I did see that they only mentioned that Japan was an outlier. If you knew anything about Japanese economics and culture, this wouldn’t have been surprising to see. I’m guessing the rest of the article didn’t provide any depth to their visualization.
by dubyabee2 | 2025-11-12 00:56:44+00:00
- Get a brandname that offers auto-over-the-air updates and keeps active development for bug and security fixes. - WiFi 7 or 6e is good for mesh depending on your budget. - Avoid using extenders, consider high-speed mesh as a replacement. - Mobile app enabled for setup, notifications, and security events if your devices supports a security suite - If Budget shop for devices that support OpenWRT or DD-WRT to help future proof your firmware experience using devices that are 20 years old may not be that long now with firmware development and new tech constantly cycling. - If you carrier offers you WiFi ask questions related to above...have a slower wifi core devices won't help if you surround it with a fast network. - Move as much IoT/Multimediat (smarthome & fire sticks & storage) to ethernet. - future proof you ethernet look at multi-gig switches not just gigabit switches, it is worth investment in the next few years.
by torginus | 2025-11-12 00:56:49+00:00
I don't understand the distinction between spatial and temporal memory safety - from what I gather, spatial memory safety is just preventing out of bounds access of arrays, dereferencing uninitialized or otherwise invalid pointers. But use after free absolutely results in the same kinds of errors (accessing unused memory, or memory used by someone else).

I also don't understand how one can sidestep the issue of ownership of memory - let's say you have a situation where a given piece of memory has changing or ambiguous ownership - like an event sent between two components, that has allocated some dynamic memory.

I'm not saying this just because, I've encountered this exact issue before - many C libraries have event systems where the ownership is not obvious coming from the code - like the sender owns the event, and if you store a reference to it, then you have a dangling pointer if the sender decides to clean it up.

That's why it's important to make it either obvious who owns what, or have some automatic system like GC or unique_ptr or the borrow checker.

This is a very real issue and the only way you can fix it is to follow strong informal conventions the language has no way of enforcing or even communicating to the user.

You mention Zig has a temporal memory management solution of a different kind - may I ask you what it is, because I haven't really seen it.
by GabrielTFS | 2025-11-12 00:57:03+00:00
In practice, it doesn't matter all that much whether the software project containing the vulnerability has the resources to fix it: if a vulnerability is left in the software, undisclosed to the public, the impact to the users is all the same.

I, and I think most security researchers do too, believe that it would be incredibly negligent for someone who has discovered a security vulnerability to allow it to go unfixed indefinitely without even disclosing its existence. Certainly, ffmpeg developers do not owe security to their users, but security researchers consider that they have a duty to disclose them, even if they go unfixed (and I think most people would prefer to know an unfixed vulnerability exists than to get hit by a 0-day attack). There's gotta be a point where you disclose a vulnerability, the deadline can never be indefinite, otherwise you're just very likely allowing 0-day attacks to occur (in fact, I would think that if this whole thing never happened and we instead got headlines in a year saying "GOOGLE SAT ON CRITICAL VULNERABILITY INVOLVED IN MASSIVE HACK" people would consider what Google did to be far worse).

To be clear, I do in fact think it would be very much best if Google were to use a few millionths of a percent of their revenue to fund ffmpeg, or at least make patches for vulnerabilities. But regardless of how much you criticize the lack of patches accompanying vulnerability reports, I would find it much worse if Google were to instead not report or disclose the vulnerability at all, even if they did so at the request of developers saying they lacked resources to fix vulnerabilities.
by harshreality | 2025-11-12 00:57:10+00:00
College algebra is just rehashed high school algebra.

Math is a broad subject. This is something LLMs are actually reasonably good at: ask them for textbook recommendations, and get into a dialogue about which sub-areas of math you're interested in and what level you're currently at, whether you want pure math (more theorem-proof focused) or applied math (more practice solving concrete problems, e.g. finding lots of derivatives and integrals). Toss in names of books that have been recommended and ask where they fit in to the LLM's other recommendations.

LLMs don't understand the math, but they're trained on a lot of discussions and recommendations for math books, and have a reasonably good sense of what level different books are at.

Download multiple recommendations in each area and try them all out. Seeing how different authors start out approaching largely the same material will help you conceptualize it better than just relying on a single approach. There's no universal "right" book to learn from. I wouldn't buy non-free textbooks without trying them out first.

Youtube has a lot of math lecture series, which can help if you're stuck on a particular point, but they're not the same as doing problem sets yourself.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-11-12 00:58:18+00:00
I dislike Hegseth and MAGA as much as anything, but quite honestly what you are describing is just bureacracy, and it doesn't serve a country well in an actual armed conflict.

In the current Ukraine conflict, the US provided something like 50 M1 abrams tanks all of which have currently been destroyed or out of commission. Russia threw something on the order of 3500 tanks (around the same number Hitler threw at Operation Barbarossa, but with each tank far far more capable) and virtually all of those machines have been destroyed or put out of commission.

In a real war, you need to come up with new solutions rapidly as the situation changes, and that's a capability the United States seems to have lost. The quality of US tech is fantastic, but the quantity is probably not going to be there when it matters.
by joshuamorton | 2025-11-12 00:58:27+00:00
To be more precise, the law requires employees to publish the nlrb notice in well trafficked or otherwise conspicuous locations.

I think there are other places where "government mandated corporation inform people of their rights" is a thing, especially with things like data use and sharing.

In terms of consent decrees, that was the wrong example. But lots of judgements do involve various notification requirements.
by rubyn00bie | 2025-11-12 00:59:46+00:00
I’ve known many talented engineers who know nothing about business, what’s legal or not, and I politely think this is likely one of those cases. The person put in a ridiculous amount of work, and is trying to think of anything that could work. Maybe those seemed like the simplest possible solutions, and so they listed them. I think it’s worth it to give them a little bit of slack, and assume their intentions are wholesome, until there’s evidence otherwise.

Additionally, there may be people from countries where this partnership would be, or could be, made legal— but the OP probably doesn’t know the name of the specific “Stripe” equivalent is… I certainly wouldn’t.
by wtallis | 2025-11-12 00:59:46+00:00
The big picture is probably that GB10 is destined to show up in laptops, but NVIDIA couldn't be bothered to do all the boring work of building the rest of the SoC and Mediatek was the cheapest and easiest partner available. It'll eventually be followed by an Intel SoC with NVIDIA providing the GPU chiplet, but in the meantime the Mediatek CPU solution is good enough.

From NVIDIA's perspective, they need an answer to the growing segment of SoCs with decent sized GPUs and unified memory; their existing solutions at the far end of a PCIe link with a small pool of their own memory just can't work for some important use cases, and providing GPU chiplets to be integrated into other SoCs is how they avoid losing ground in these markets without the expense of building their own full consumer hardware platform and going to war with all of Apple, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm.
by paxys | 2025-11-12 01:00:17+00:00
> Go ahead. Talk to the avatar for 2 minutes. Ask it anything in English. Watch how it responds in real-time with synchronized lip movements and natural conversation. I'll be here when you get back.

Okay, but you linked to a generic landing page with a "Book a private demo" button. So what exactly does your product do? And why should anyone here be interested if you can't as much as post a video of it working?
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-12 01:00:20+00:00
The Monroe Doctrine was about preventing monarchies from operating in the Americas in a time when the United States was heady with its eighteenth-century democratic framework. The USA was preindustrial, trade was much simpler, and there was an honest belief among political elites that American democracy was uniquely good and a flame worthy of spreading.

While the Monroe Doctrine persists, I think the actual reasons for it changed drastically by the twentieth century, when preventing foreign expansion in the Americas was so blatantly about protecting American economic interests, democracy in those countries be damned. And today geopolitical doctrine makes the other superpowers adversaries regardless of what political system they espouse.
by wk_end | 2025-11-12 01:02:03+00:00
Like this:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/GYVwdgxgLglg9mABA...

It's a bit of a hack, though - if you incorrectly implement myFunc so that, say, it returns a string even when x is true, it can violate the overloading assertions without any error or warning.
by belorn | 2025-11-12 01:02:10+00:00
The Swedish traffic agency, in combination with the health department, openly publish accident data for every road. Accidents and their outcomes are public data and has been so for a long time. The location of traffic cameras is also public and so is the date when they got installed. Everything is open to the public, and gps applications are allowed to both have the data and warn drivers.

The accident rate from before to after the installation of a camera has an average reduction of around 25% in reducing deaths in traffic. If someone don't believe it they can download the public data themselves and redo the math.

Sweden also do not have traffic cameras on highways, most likely because they are ineffective in reducing deadly outcomes at those speeds. The chance of surviving a frontal collision at 100km/h is highly unlikely, so the cost of installation a camera is better spent on roads with lower maximum speeds where the reduction in average speed actually have an effect on outcomes.
by chickensong | 2025-11-12 01:02:34+00:00
I haven't really bought stickers off the internet, but I'm guessing t-shirt or art stores might have some, or your favorite brand of thing might have some.

If you keep your eye out for stickers, you'll start to notice them at many types of smaller establishments like cafes, book stores, boutiques, breweries, music venues, galleries, etc... they're often by the register, and sometimes free!

As a long time sticker collector, I love how the stickers found at random places have some memories attached to them. Finding them, especially when traveling, sometimes feels like finding treasure!
by Kyrio | 2025-11-12 01:02:50+00:00
These days, I think Microsoft's web-based desktop apps mostly use WebView2 directly instead of Electron, so they don't have to bundle a browser. I think for Teams it happened at the same time that they moved from Angular to React.

The point about them not using MAUI still stands though. From what I understand, the .NET world has either adopted different abstractions like Avalonia, or stuck with tried and tested solutions like WinForms with proprietary controls. After all, they've seen this before with WPF which was never fully adopted by MS either, or with the debacle around Metro/WinRT. You're never quite sure what Microsoft wants you to use or will support in the long term. They also make Blazor, which is a different (and likely more accessible) way to build web apps with .NET.

Since we're on the subject of companies not dogfooding their shiny tech, is Google really using Flutter for their own apps? I feel like the evolution of the Android ecosystem towards Kotlin and Jetpack Compose implies otherwise.