MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DaveZale | 2025-11-20 22:27:53+00:00
"Despite decades of research, TB remains a disease of inequality and thrives in the context of poverty and weakened health systems."

A disease of inequality? No. It was a huge problem in Western societies. We invented a treatment to cure it. Same as with leprosy and many other diseases. So how does one rationalize this statement? Better technology sometimes means better health and more wealth.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-11-20 22:27:55+00:00
Apple can’t do anything <to entrench its monopoly> without angering EU.

Ironically one of Apple’s biggest selling points in the last 4-5 years of iPhone releases, the switch to USB-C, was pretty much forced by the EU.

So far it appears Apple benefits more than it’s hurt by the EU’s anti-monopolistic decisions.
Show HN: Premortem, a coding-agent-powered airplane blackbox
by theahura | 2025-11-20 22:27:55+00:00
A few weeks ago, I was getting random OOMs on my linux box and I had no idea what was causing them. At one point when I realized that the memory was getting sucked up by some process, I kicked off a claude code job to see if it could figure out what was happening in real time. And it did!

In real time the coding agent ran through a suite of system commands, figured out which jobs were causing problems, and then even started to dig into the explicit function calls (python and node processes can both be inspected at the function call level by sideloaded processes) before the entire system finally crashed.

Besides being extremely cool, I realized that with a few tweaks I could make this a legitimately useful tool. The basic idea: any time certain system vitals cross a threshold, spin up a coding agent and have the agent debug what is going on as aggressively as possible, with all logs being streamed to a third party server (in addition to being stored on disk). This basic abstraction would solve two huge problems:

- Most of the time it is very hard to figure out why exactly a machine went down. This tool would effectively act as an airplane blackbox, a sort of last record of what was going on that specifically is focused on debugging the failure as it happened. Massive speed up on figuring out system-breaking issues.

- Most of the time there are available interventions that someone could take that would prevent the system from going down at all, if a human was around when the crash was happening. For example, if I see that I’m about to OOM from vitest, I can just kill a bunch of the processes that are spiking memory and prevent the system from crashing that way.

We now have premortem running on all of our production machines.

Hope this is useful for other folks!
by superkuh | 2025-11-20 22:28:42+00:00
Okay, so you linked to https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone which contains this text:

>The federal government defines a “reasonable distance” as 100 air miles from any external boundary of the U.S. So, combining this federal regulation and the federal law regarding warrantless vehicle searches, CBP claims authority to board a bus or train without a warrant anywhere within this 100-mile zone. Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population, over 213 million people, reside within the region that CBP considers falling within the 100-mile border zone, according to the 2020 census. Most of the 10 largest cities in the U.S., such as New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, fall in this region. Some states, like Florida, lie entirely within this border band so their entire populations are impacted.

Which, upon re-reading both of your comments in this thread makes me actually think there is no argument at all and everyone here and the ACLU agree: there is a no consitution zone, it has practical consequences, and it does extend out 100 miles from internal foreign borders.
by gwd | 2025-11-20 22:28:47+00:00
From the ruling:

> 69. It is plain that the onslaught of sockpuppet trolling to which Mrs Schestowitz in particular was subjected was a truly appalling experience – the very antithesis of everything Tuxmachines and Techrights stands for in the free software community. There is not the slightest suggestion that either Dr or Mrs Schestowitz did anything to invite or deserve it. They are both clearly and justifiably angered, dismayed, distressed and hurt by it.

> 71. It is also plain enough that Dr and Mrs Schestowitz have found it entirely straightforward to convince themselves that Dr Garrett was behind the trolling. But the task they have given themselves in pleading the truth defence in defamation proceedings is to establish or prove, on the balance of probabilities, that that is objectively true. And they have made that exceptionally difficult for themselves by advancing no evidence for it.
by matt-p | 2025-11-20 22:29:20+00:00
I think there's something like 24 national languages in the EU. I can hardly blame hetzner for not translating their services to say polish and think it's entirely the wrong approach anyway.

It's really true language is a big barrier but honestly the solution cannot be for every single company to offer services in 20 languages. It can't be. English must be adopted.
by bitexploder | 2025-11-20 22:29:32+00:00
Thing is, I am not /really/ worried about private citizens with access to this. There are just limits to what a private citizen or even massive corporation can do. What concerns me is when governments get involved and aggregate these private databases. The government is the one that can violate your 4A rights. It exists to protect us FROM the government. Not from private citizens and that exposure is very different. A private citizen can't for example, prosecute me, etc.
by linguae | 2025-11-20 22:29:40+00:00
I'm not affiliated with ravynOS, but I've been periodically following the project for a few years.

The main page (https://ravynos.com/) expresses the philosophy of ravynOS:

"We love macOS, but we’re not a fan of the ever-closing hardware and ecosystem. So, we are creating ravynOS — an OS aimed to provide the finesse of macOS with the freedom of FreeBSD."

rayvnOS seems to be designed for people who love macOS, particularly its interface, its UI guidelines, and its ecosystem of applications, but who do not like the direction that Apple has moved toward under Tim Cook (soldered RAM, limited and inflexible hardware choices, notarization, iOS-influenced interface changes, increased pushiness with advertising Apple's subscription services, etc.) and who would be unhappy with either Windows or the Linux desktop.

Speaking for myself, I used to daily-drive Macs from 2006 through 2021, but I now daily-drive PCs running Windows due primarily to the lack of upgradable RAM in ARM Macs. I'm not a big fan of Windows, but I need some proprietary software packages such as Microsoft Office. This makes switching to desktop Linux difficult.

It would be awesome using what is essentially a community-driven clone of macOS, where I could continue using a Mac-like operating system without needing to worry about Apple's future directions.

On the Unix side of things, I believe the decision to base ravynOS on FreeBSD rather than on Linux may make migrating from macOS to ravynOS easier, since macOS is based on a hybrid Mach/BSD kernel, and since many of the command-line tools that ship with macOS are from the BSDs. This is known as Darwin. It's not that a Mac clone can't be built on top of Linux, but FreeBSD is closer to Darwin than Linux is.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-11-20 22:30:14+00:00
It makes sense that dining out is expensive, but it's weird that premade meals in grocery stores are so expensive, and that there's not a super cheap middle ground where they use economies of scale to have 1 person cook cafeteria slop for 100 and sell it for pennies. Is it a food safety thing? Is it that kitchens are available enough that anyone willing to eat that would just make it themselves?

I guess there's labor in portioning or serving, and a lot of labor on the back end for cleanup? It's an interesting problem, because I know that I can make a ton of food way more easily and cheaply than small individual portions, and when I look at breakdowns of restaurant costs, somehow rent isn't an outlier, labor and materials contribute a lot to the costs. But I feel like having already purchased the necessary equipment (or amortizing it across 100,000 meals or whatever) I could feed 100 people with less than $100 at Costco. But you can't go to a restaurant and get something bad for $5 that fills you anymore, not easily. Where's the money all going?
by chasd00 | 2025-11-20 22:30:36+00:00
> ICE raids started and 25% of the school kids didn't show up to school. Which indicates that likely 25% of the population is illegal.

you're downvoted but this is a very real thing, especially at the elementary school level. My kids had regular classes in first/second grade taught in Spanish because they were the one single English speaking student in the room (this was fixed when my wife and I found out). The level of illegal immigrants in schools goes down over time as they drop out. My son is now 16 and a sophomore in HS, SEM Magnet, and in a class of about 100-125 he knows maybe 10 that have told him they're here illegally.

/Dallas public schools
by relwin | 2025-11-20 22:30:37+00:00
Here's a vid describing DRN & Resolvion supplying car location data to repo companies. I didn't realize they'll strap a camera pack on your car and pay you a commission on the license plate data you collect. https://youtu.be/xE5NnZm9OpU?si=oEkSvUjNmBhQD-xI&t=138
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-20 22:30:40+00:00
>rectified a long time ago.

There's no such thing as "This is fixed forever". If lax maintenance oversight has led to companies re-introducing known dangerous maintenance procedures or departing from known good ones, then we will be back in the 70s in terms of airplane safety and people will have to die again to relearn those lessons.

Someone's always trying to claw you in the less safe direction. It's a constant battle to not regress.

But IDK, hopefully this plane just got some sort of "unlucky" about fatigue somehow, and it doesn't have far reaching consequences.
Show HN: TDS Compass – AI prompt for your communication style
by relationalai | 2025-11-20 22:31:06+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been experimenting with a small tool called TDS Compass and would love feedback.

What it is

A 1-minute, 8-question quiz that maps your communication style onto two axes:

Structure (S) – how much you prefer scaffolding, steps, and clear organization

Relational (R) – how much you care about tone, warmth, stories, social context

Those scores map into 16 “zones” (A1–D4).

For each zone, the app generates:

A short explanation of how you tend to communicate

A system-style prompt you can paste into ChatGPT / Claude / etc. so the model adapts to that style

Links

Quiz: https://resonantlabsai.github.io/tds.compass/quiz.html

Home / overview: https://resonantlabsai.github.io/tds.compass/

Source: https://github.com/resonantlabsai/tds.compass

All static, no backend, no login. Just HTML/CSS/JS + JSON.

Why I built it

A lot of “prompt guides” treat AI purely as a tool to optimize. I wanted something that:

Helps people understand their own information + relational preferences

Tunes AI interactions so they feel more aligned with the human, not just more verbose

Encourages a “human + AI building together” mindset rather than “user + obedient assistant”

There’s a short manifesto-style paragraph on the home page about humans and AI as partners, which is the philosophy behind this rather than just conversion or engagement.

What I’d love feedback on

Does the 1-minute, 8-question format feel like the right granularity, or too coarse?

Do the zone descriptions and prompts feel:

Too generic?

Too specific?

Weirdly accurate?

Any thoughts on:

Better UX for saving / reusing prompts

Ways to make this useful for devs building AI products (e.g., integrating zones into onboarding)

Concerns about framing / ethics in how people relate to AI personas

Happy to answer questions and open to critiques (of the framework, copy, or implementation).
by GenerWork | 2025-11-20 22:31:19+00:00
I bought a Pro subscription (or the lowest tier paid plan, whatever it's called), and the fact that I had to fill out a Google Form in order to request access to get Gemini 3 CLI is an absolute joke. I'm not even a developer, I'm a UX guy who just likes playing around with seeing how models deal with importing Figma screens and turn them into a working website. Their customer experience is shockingly awful, worse than OpenAI and Anthropic.
by kragen | 2025-11-20 22:31:37+00:00
$ gforth Gforth 0.7.3, Copyright (C) 1995-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Gforth comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `license' Type `bye' to exit s" rabbithole" .s" forth" .s" into" .s" deep" .s" too" .s" go" .s" not" .s" must" . :1: Undefined word s" rabbithole" >>>.s"<<< forth" .s" into" .s" deep" .s" too" .s" go" .s" not" .s" must" . Backtrace: $7F53D6EF5A68 throw $7F53D6F0BDB0 no.extensions $7F53D6EF5D28 interpreter-notfound1 :: : ws s" rabbithole " s" forth " s" into " s" deep " s" too " s" go " s" not " compiled s" must " 8 0 do type loop ; ok ws must not go too deep into forth rabbithole ok
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-20 22:31:55+00:00
The notable change is that most of those repos have been available not as a open source but "source available" as Fair Use (for Archival Purposes), but the copyright owner (Microsoft today) has now directly applied the MIT License to three of those repos (Zork 1/2/3). Hopefully they will apply it to more of them as Microsoft legal allows, but it's still exciting they've made three repos officially open source under a FLOSS recognized license.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-20 22:32:22+00:00
Yup, the thrust improvements were expected. The BE-4 engines have quite a low chamber pressure for their engine class, so they can gain significant performance just by increasing chamber pressure.

Additionally, the New Glenn fairings are very large for their weight capacity. New Glenn has 3x the fairing volume compared to the Falcon Heavy, but can throw less mass. So many expected that BO designed it this way because they expected to increase performance of their engines in the future, making the weight/volume ratio of their fairing more balanced.

New Glenn has 45t of capacity now. Increasing thrust by 15% should increase that to 51t, thus making New Glenn 7x2 also just barely a Super Heavy booster. Perhaps they didn't call that out because that would overshadow the 9x4 announcement.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-11-20 22:32:35+00:00
This is also my take on the market, although I also thought it looked like they were going to win 2 years ago too.

> How are we feeling about Google putting everyone out of work and owning the future? It's starting to feel that way to me.

Not great, but if one company or nation is going to come out on top in AI then every other realistic alternative at the moment is worse than Google.

OpenAI, Microsoft, Facebook/Meta, and X all have worse track records on ethics. Similarly for Russia, China, or the OPEC nations. Several of the European democracies would be reasonable stewards, but realistically they didn't have the capital to become dominant in AI by 2025 even if they had started immediately.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-11-20 22:32:48+00:00
Yes, when I said "improper" I meant the American 191 maintenance crew took shortcuts. The manual basically said "When removing the engine, first remove the engine from the pylon, then remove the pylon from the wing. When reattaching, do those things in reverse order." But the crew (more likely their management) wanted to save time so they just removed the pylon while the engine was still attached to it. They used a forklift to reattach the engine/pylon assembly and its lack of precision damaged the wing.[0]

Fatigue cracking would be a maintenance issue too but that's more like passive negligence while the 191 situation was actively disregarding the manual to cut corners. The crew chief of the 191 maintenance incident died by suicide before he could testify.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191#E...
by grayhatter | 2025-11-20 22:32:56+00:00
> LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful

> Note: This is a personal essay by Matt Ranger, Kagi’s head of ML

I appreciate the disclaimer, but never underestimate someone's inability to understand something, when their job depends on them not understanding it.

Bullshit isn't useful to me, I don't appreciate being lied to. You might find use in declaring the two different, but sufficiently advanced ignorance (or incompetence) is indistinguishable from actual malice, and thus they should be treated the same.

Your essay, while well written, doesn't do much to convince me any modern LLM has a net positive effect. If I have to duplicate all of it's research to verify none of it is bullshit, which will only be harder after using it given the anchoring and confirmation bias it will introduce... why?
by watwut | 2025-11-20 22:33:15+00:00
The consistent mistake people did last years, including those on HN was to pretend to themselves that odious people are "just joking" and "totally not serious". Again and again. Starting with 4chan and 8chan that were just a trolls and no one was ever nazi, until nazi became normalized, the top government and leadership of a major party.

No one was sexist ever, they were just joking and all feminists were stupid not understanding that, until their quite sexist messages got released by inside a pack of messages to known abuser. This is literally the case of Larry Summers.

And you want to play that game again, with literally the same person. Of course no one believes it, it is not being sophisticated, you are asking people to pretend they are stupid. Nothing in Summers career suggests he would sarcastic out of care for Africa or environment. That is not what his work was, at all.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2025-11-20 22:34:12+00:00
Meanwhile you can carry a nuclear bomb on a train and nobody even bothers to check the id or ticket up until you are on board.

Irrational fear of flight strikes again, it's a very long list actually of standards that aviation has to comply with in order not to thrive but to merely exist , all because people are irrationally fearful about being suspended mid air.

It's the same thing for nuclear
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-11-20 22:34:29+00:00
> Or, in other words, a Markov Chain won't hallucinate.

It very much can. Remember, the context windows used for Markov Chains are usually very short, usually in the single digit numbers of words. If you use a context length of 5, then when asking it what the next word should be, it has no idea what the words were before the current context of 5 words. This results in incoherence, which can certainly mean hallucinations.
by solomonb | 2025-11-20 22:35:07+00:00
`eff` is a research project that is no longer in active development and never made it to production in any sense. It would be AMAZING if `eff` were completed but I dont think that will happen at this point.

`eff` is based on delimited continuations (which Alexis had to build into GHC), it is not using `Freer`. If you want to look at an effect system in Haskell that actually has been used in production AND is based on this paper then look at `freer-simple`: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/freer-simple

No it is not high performance, but neither are any other Haskell effect systems and performance is relative to your problem domain. It also has the benefit of being implemented very similarly to Oleg's paper making it a lot easier to learn from then most other options.
by kombine | 2025-11-20 22:35:23+00:00
I have the same sentiment. I am forced to use a MacBook in my new job while waiting for them to procure a laptop that I can put Linux on. I can say that Linux with KDE Plasma desktop is in almost every way superior to Mac OS. Much better UX, configurability and core applications. And even little things are more polished and thought through compared to what a trillion dollar company was able to produce. It's really beyond me how people use Apple products, and it's the absolute majority of them in my field.
by charleshong | 2025-11-20 22:35:26+00:00
Well, most of our results are not 17x. But still (IMO) solid across the board!

Also, the 17x came from a pretty obscure fusion optimization that isn't called out anywhere in the documentation (we had to run the profiler to see what was actually going on). Wouldn't be surprised if whoever within AWS wrote the kernel didn't know about that optimization.
by tayo42 | 2025-11-20 22:35:42+00:00
> Before you said you wanted it shorter, now you want it longer with more detail. Please pick one.

Shorter by taking the extra info and pictures out. Clearer by taking away pictures. These can be one line with a single bullet point.

> > This isn't 5 years ago where hiring pipelines didn't have people in them > > I'm not sure what this means. Feels a lot more automated today with everyone using an ATS.

I mean like people to actually even interview. We would sometimes have an opening and no people to even interview.

You can take the feedback or not. I have gotten interviews in the last few months, give a lot interviews and look at a lot of resumes. My point was, the job market is bad, but its not no interviews bad. It is competitive, there are fewer listing, pay is stagnating or even going down. The interview process it self is fucked up. But there are jobs out there.
by DonHopkins | 2025-11-20 22:36:26+00:00
I wrote them, and after a while I received a brochure in my mailbox, with this stamp:

---v----v----v----v----v--- | _______ | > One / \ G < | Lousy / \ U | > Point | ___ | E < | | (___) | | > <--)___(--> P < | / / \ \ o | > / / \ \ s < | |-|---------|-| t | > | | \ _ / | | a < | | | --(_)-- | | g | > | | /| |\ | | e < | |-|---|_|---|-| | > \ \__/_\__/ / < | _/_______\_ | > | f.m.l.c. | < | ------------- | > < | Donald Woods, Editor | > Spelunker Today < | | ---^----^----^----^----^---

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23114927

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Z1cKUxD9c

https://crpgadventures.blogspot.com/2016/05/zork-victory-sor...
by stevenicr | 2025-11-20 22:36:40+00:00
True story:

People (or bots) using cloudflare ips to probe for exploited files.

I block the cloudflare cidr they are coming from.

Website backup (wordpress using updraft free) - fails.

Logs show failure to connect to updraft's web site.

I lookup the website's dns and see cloudflare ips.

Those ips are in the CIDR I blocked.

I temp undo the block, run the updraft backup, and go back to blocking millions of cloudflare ips.

Scratching my head on why updraft needs to connect to it's home site to run a backup, and why a better failure notice was not presented.
by ActorNightly | 2025-11-20 22:37:01+00:00
In theory, you could have a large enough markov chain that mimicks an LLM, you would just need it to be exponentially larger in width.

After all, its just matrix multplies start to finish.

A lot of the other data operation (like normalization) can be represented as matrix multiplies, just less efficiently. In the same way that a transformer can be represented inefficiency as a set of fully connected deep layers.
by jborean93 | 2025-11-20 22:37:29+00:00
This seems a bit pedantic, while you may be correct (I honestly don't know what standard this is referring to) the UTF-8 BOM is a thing that some tools do know about. Even then in the context of OP's question the BOM with UTF-8 isn't the specific problem but rather how the shebang interpreter reads the actual ASCII byte sequences so a UTF-16 with a BOM "text" file would also fail.
by ndiddy | 2025-11-20 22:37:53+00:00
The source code for most of Infocom's Z-code interpreters (including the Apple version) is available here: https://github.com/erkyrath/infocom-zcode-terps . Note that this isn't an official licensed release so it's in a legal gray area. It would be nice to see Microsoft bless these with an official license as well.