MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coldtea | 2025-11-22 16:17:55+00:00
Today we're much much more about conformity, rigid structrures, time management, and so on, than 4000 years ago, or even 50 and 100 years ago.

And today we're much less about having extended families and communities that take care of their members and lend a hand.

At best we have some half-arsed provisions by an indifferent state, and we're left on our own. A slip and you're broke, or homeless, or depressed on your own.
by theletterf | 2025-11-22 16:18:46+00:00
I chose to make my personal site a blog. I guess they'd call it a nice blog, since I only write about technical writing. It's great for networking and your career. Personal brand and all that.

I would never return to personal blogging, though. That ship sailed around 2007, when social media appeared and trolls killed the last remaining personal blogs. The GeoCities safe haven vibe died then.
by user_7832 | 2025-11-22 16:19:01+00:00
> Bad regulation is when that same regulatory body, the FAA, delegates most of the oversight to the very same companies they should be overseeing.

I wrote about this in the past, but the TLDR is that it’s anywhere between extremely tough to impossible to do it. The TLDR is that modern tech systems are so many and so advanced that only engineers of the company can truly understand it.
by TexanFeller | 2025-11-22 16:19:19+00:00
From decades of experience and lots of reading it's exactly this, and this is the important detail that most neurotypicals including many doctors are missing that would allow them to understand instead of being dismissive.

I find monotropism an apt way of understanding it. A normal person's attention is like a flashlight they control that illuminates much of a room at once. Autistic brains are a tight beam flashlight, almost a laser for some, with its aim difficult to change. ADHD brains are more like a tight beam flashlight on a motorized mount that swivels in all directions, but you're not always in control of where it swivels to...it's like an AI constantly overrides your direction inputs and points the light at what it deems most exciting or urgent at the moment.
by BigGreenJorts | 2025-11-22 16:19:25+00:00
> Not to trivialize therapy, but for many illnesses, not just mental, a portion of it can be described as ways of learning to live with the illness, not necessarily treating the underlying cause.

Yeah, I feel like it's fair to describe the cognitive behavioral model. We're not necessarily looking for the cause of these thoughts and beliefs, tho they may come up, we're simply going to challenge them at face value and reinterpret the situation.
by sashahilton | 2025-11-22 16:19:44+00:00
The standards side of things is true, however this can be largely solved by providing a reference implementation, given that no device manufacturer is going to implement the stack from scratch. Automated testing of firmware would also work. As for high conformance... WiFi and BT devices manage to work well enough by simply buying a tested chipset and building on that, no external testing/fees necessary.

I understand the certification if a manufacturer wants to sell a product commercially as 'Matter Certified'. For hobbyists or smaller players, pulling the reference implementation, loading it onto a cheap MCU, and calling it 'Works with Matter' would suffice.

As it stands, the latter isn't an option, because of the codesigning they've shoehorned into the spec. And for all the noise made about security, once connected to the hub the manufacturer can run whatever they like on it and send data back to their servers with very little visibility to the user.

Thread is arguably the interesting part for low power devices, and doesn't force certification. Matter is little more than a protocol spec, at the tradeoff of locked down devices and annual fees. For Matter over WiFi, I can't see any point whatsoever in using it. And for the costs of Doing Matter/Thread certification most smaller hardware startups will balk at the hundreds of thousands required to do so, and stick with WiFi/BT/Zigbee/Thread + roll their own protocol/app.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-22 16:19:45+00:00
The stuff on their shelves is less valuable. They also get more traffic and seem to have more security cameras and staff. Target has had a lot of thefts. If I'm not mistaken, Target had an AI system to track faces of shoplifters and the accumulated value of the stuff that was stolen. Costco won't generally let you in if you don't have a membership, and there are people at the entrances and exits at all times.

Have you not seen the stores like Walgreens that have very basic toiletries behind glass? This stuff is very location dependent and some cities (most?) are still normal. Many stores including Target and Walmart are using AI to track shoplifters. They have had to resort to adding up thefts over time until it totals over $1000 or something, because theft is so pervasive. That's not the kind of theft you need outside cameras for, but these stores see it all.
by throw0101a | 2025-11-22 16:20:27+00:00
The Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018 had with-in it the provision National Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2018:

* https://rntfnd.org/wp-content/uploads/National-Timing-Resili...

A roadmap was published in 2021:

* https://www.transportation.gov/pnt/national-timing-resilienc...

And also from 2021, NATIONAL R&D PLAN FOR POSITIONING, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING RESILIENCE:

* https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021...

The simplest solution is to simply to resurrect the Loran infrastructure that the US (and others) run until the 2000s. The Koreans have been running eLoran for a while, and the UK and France are teaming up as well:

* https://insidegnss.com/uk-and-france-renew-ties-resilient-pn...

* https://rntfnd.org/2025/11/12/s-korea-leads-meeting-with-u-k...

Chinas has had a completely built out network (including fibre networks for high-precision timing) for over a year:

* https://rntfnd.org/2024/10/03/china-completes-national-elora...

This is not rocket surgery: a working system that can giver you continent-wide coverage can be up and running a few years, with little technical risk (there's already kit available).

Throwing some money at the problem and instructing the DOT/DHS/whomever to issue an RFI/RFP would go a long way to moving the ball forward.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-11-22 16:20:46+00:00
>Samsung and its peers, SK hynix and Micron Technology, have redirected much of their fabrication capacity to high-end chips used in AI servers. While this shift yields higher margins, it leaves less capacity for traditional DRAM products that power laptops, desktops, and mainstream servers.

So if the AI bubble does pop in early 2026, you will get a tsunami of cheap server RAM. You still won't be able to find cheap PC RAM. So either way, the short term future of computing is firmly fixed in the cloud.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-11-22 16:20:58+00:00
I suspect its less about the need to feel special than you imagine.

My take is that these folks can't accept that nobody is actually driving. It terrifies them to realize that we are all aboard a rudderless ship, so they imagine these secret cabals to be able to sleep at night.

Take COVID. There is insufficient proof that it was the result of lab work, but many many people prefer that warm fuzzy thought over acknowledging that mutating is just what viruses do, and always have done. Knowing that we're all one unlucky mutation away from grisly death is just too much for some folks. "It can't happen again, we shutdown that lab!"

To those people it has to be a nice, neat conspiracy. That way someone is in control, and if we just put those few villains in their place everyone will be safe from viruses, economic instabilty, immigrants, and the boogey man forever.
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by mattdevgames | 2025-11-22 16:21:43+00:00
Hi HN! I'm Matthew, an indie dev who got tired of flashcards, so I built a real-time, bilingual word-building game.

Most language apps lean heavily on recognition tasks (multiple choice, matching, word banks). Useful, but they don’t train that “I need to remember this word right now” feeling. So I made a game that forces actual recall under pressure.

Gameplay: you get 7 random tiles and have to build a valid word in the language you're learning before the timer runs out. Your opponent is doing the same in your language — same tiles, opposite directions. Both of you are confused, but for different reasons, and somehow that makes it fun.

It supports 9 languages so far (English, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch), and any pair can match.

Would love feedback on:

Matchmaking

Difficulty

Edge cases

Which languages to add next

Bonus: I also made Sushi Sprint, where you play a piece of sushi in the Olympics.
by maybewhenthesun | 2025-11-22 16:21:47+00:00
The problem with 'something like SDL, but 3D' very quickly turns into a full blown engine. There's just such a combinatorial explosion of different ways to do things in 3D compared to 2D that 3D 'game engine' is either limiting or complicated.

OpenGL was designed as a way to more or less do that and it turned complicated fast.
by wkat4242 | 2025-11-22 16:21:51+00:00
The problem for me is, wordpress is a security disaster especially the plugins. I don't want to constantly worry about updating in time. One day too late and you can be screwed. I've seen it happen with other people.

I'm a huge fan of self hosting but internet facing stuff I don't want to run myself but all the commercial blogging services like medium have scummy tracking and analytics built in, or try to get my readers to subscribe to things.

Then I tried substack but they lean too heavily on the "newsletter" paradigm which I hate. Also they are starting to enshittify now too.

I don't mind paying for a service but they always want to double dip in tracking readers and selling subscriptions to them as well. Yuck.
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-22 16:22:31+00:00
> Those changes to the rural environments started getting made over a century ago, with horse drawn combine harvesters dating to the 1820s-1830s and self-propelled ones to the 1910s; while the insect decline became noticeable this century.

Sure, but the real push came over the last few decades, (IMHO) closely correlating with the utter decline of employment in the primary sector [1], that was all machines and efficiencies of scale.

[1] https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Wirtschaft/Konjunkturindik...
by Workaccount2 | 2025-11-22 16:22:59+00:00
The problem is that people don't really want to pay for it.

When you compare the rates at which people recognize the need to decarbonize, to the rates at which people are willing to pay 20-50% more for green energy, an obvious and expected trend arises.... people overwhelming don't want to put their money where there mouth is. Or they want someone elses money to go where there mouth is.

It needs to be understood that almost all those "green energy is cheaper than fossil fuels" studies use the best case scenario to calculate those values.

To put that another way, gas meets it's ideal pretty much everywhere, whereas green energy meets it's ideal in small, often far from society, spots. Transmission can bridge the gap to a degree, but it's then a cost multiplier.

A carbon tax is a good way to balance this, but man, people vote hard to not have to spend more of their own money. (I don't want to pay for it/I only want it if billionaires pay for it)
by lostlogin | 2025-11-22 16:23:00+00:00
I assume OP means discrete and not discreet.

“Discreet and discrete are homophones. They sound the same but they have different definitions. Discreet means careful or intentionally unobtrusive. Discrete means distinct or unconnected.”

I learned something though.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/commonly-confused-words/discr...
Show HN: Dembrandt – Extract any website's design system in seconds (OSS CLI)
by munkkipoika | 2025-11-22 16:23:32+00:00
npx dembrandt stripe.com Few seconds → complete design system.

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Whaddaya think?
by Johanx64 | 2025-11-22 16:23:34+00:00
Arduino doesn't directly benefit from pretty much any of legacy unix barf-bag stuff.

It's just a HAL and an IDE, with a truckload of user/third party supplied libraries for various modules, sensors, etc.

Plus, every sizable MCU/dev-board vendor supplies a Arduino HAL implementation (so called Core) for their board/mcu/module (or it's done by enthusiastic community).
by jcalvinowens | 2025-11-22 16:24:18+00:00
You're completely missing the point.

> this is clearly a straw man, as no one is saying you'd wait seven days to deploy THAT patch...

The policy being proposed is that upgrades are delayed. So in a company where that policy was enforced, I would be required to request an exception to the policy for your hypothetical patch.

That's unacceptable for me. That's requiring me to do extra work for a nebulous poorly quantified security "benefit". It's a waste of my time and energy.

I'm saying the whole policy is unjustified and should never be applied by default. At all. It's stupid. Its harmful for zero demonstrable benefit.

I'm being blunt because you seem determined to somehow misconstrue what I'm saying as a nitpicky argument. I'm saying the whole policy is terrible and stupid. If it were forced on me by an employer, I would quit. Seriously.
by LexiMax | 2025-11-22 16:25:18+00:00
Outside of the context of the culture war, it has gotten a project or two that I've seen to really think about what they should name their branches, and how they could better describe what kind of development happens in them.

Branch names like "stable", "next", and "protobreak" are a lot more understandable than "master" or even "main."
by analog31 | 2025-11-22 16:25:40+00:00
I've played with a lot of boards, including Teensy, Seeed XIAO family, some boards from Adafruit and SparkFun, and one Chinese copy of a Chinese ESP32 board.

For my work projects, I use Teensy because it's the screaming-est processor, and I use its computing power. The cost isn't exorbitant since it's typically re-usable unless you want to turn something into a permanent installation.

I suggest play with what you've got until you get sick of it, or run into a hardware need that would be better served by another processor or board. Or choose a new board when your R4 goes into something that you want to keep.

I've tried to maintain a "platform agnostic" approach, where I stick with the general Arduino API and processor-independent libraries as much as possible, and only drop down into the vendor-specific libraries when there's a real performance reason. This makes it easier to switch boards if needed -- a lifesaver during the chip shortage, and possibly important under present day supply chain uncertainty.

Doing it this way will give you the benefits of drawing from a broader range of tutorials and docs, while also providing a gentler learning curve on working with the low level chip-specific stuff.
by nenxk | 2025-11-22 16:25:49+00:00
Restricted high speed chases lead to a lot more crime though there’s some car thief’s I’ve watched on insta and they avoid LA and stick to Oakland because of the chase laws you also have people in New York like squeeze benz, license, doolie, and a lot more who have made entire social media careers driving around recklessly and getting into crashes on freeways because they won’t get chased more than a mile there’s been a huge rise in “cutting up” in nyc because why not if you won’t get chased you can just remove your plate and do whatever.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-11-22 16:26:29+00:00
To memory, cars started getting a lot more aerodynamic through the 90s. You have to go back to the 80s to find boxy designs throughout mainstream cars, at which point you’re looking at vehicles somewhere in the ballpark of 40 years old.

Anecdotally, I’ve not seen many of those on the road. It’s not too unusual to see a late 90s something puttering around town, but 80s and older is unusual, even in rural areas.
Show HN: Jsonl Viewer Pro – Open 5GB Security Logs Instantly on Mac
by hilti | 2025-11-22 16:26:45+00:00
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by falleng0d | 2025-11-22 16:27:07+00:00
Brazil is a dictatorship in disguise. Supreme court is the executive branch. There is no law the court can do anything it wants, arrest anyone for any reason. There is no expiry date for their term.

As a Brazilian I can’t see a future where the people win. It’s not even close it’s full control and all of the power is concentrated in the government upper branch.

The system is designed to keep them in power there is nothing that can be done just leave the country
by terminalshort | 2025-11-22 16:27:43+00:00
But if we could actually ally with Russia against China that would be a massive strategic win. Russia is:

1. A massive nuclear power

2. On the border of China

3. Willing to take risks for geopolitical gain that the Europeans would never dream of

4. A natural enemy of China since China claims (unofficially) large areas of Siberia including Vladivostok (their only major port on the Pacific).

If Russia were an ally, that would put our alliance to the north, east, and south of China. More importantly it would put the threat of a land based attack on the table which is currently not the case.
by jeffbee | 2025-11-22 16:27:44+00:00
In terms of consumer bills, California is actually among the states with typical spending on such things. Your actual energy bill in California is not that high. There are 14 American states where residential energy bills are higher than California's.

People are always pointing out the marginal volumetric costs of electricity, which is indeed very high. But that is just reflection of the fact that we use so little energy because of our history of efficiency laws and the mild climate, so the fixed charges and taxes that combine into the volumetric price are much higher than in other states. And our extremely large fleet of behind the meter solar panels also contributes to the higher volumetric price of grid electricity. All together, this doesn't tell us much about whether renewables are a good policy or not.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-11-22 16:27:45+00:00
This is a valid security strategy tho, always shifting the ground beneath the attackers feet. As the code author, you might not know where there are vulnerabilities in your code, but someone targeting you does. You will never have bug free code, so better to just keep it in constant flux than allow an attacker to analyze an unchanging application over months and years.
by bikelang | 2025-11-22 16:27:48+00:00
To push back on this idea a bit - my family buys a share from a CSA (community supported agriculture). Our CSA is a local organic farm operating on about 4 acres of land. They grow enough food for ~30 CSA shares and sell at farmers markets as well as to local restaurants. For $700 we get enough fresh produce to cover about 2/3rds of our groceries (for 2 adults) for a 20 week period. We spend a lot more than 35/week at Whole Foods typically! And this is in a relatively HCOL part of Colorado - which isn’t known for its easy growing climate.

All that is to say - I’m not sure I agree that supermarkets are the cheapest outcome for food. Locally grown food can be substantially cheaper. What we give up is the year long availability for any kind of produce we could dream of. Instead we eat seasonally and we eat what is available. It requires a shift in cooking practice from “I want to make X - I am going to go buy A,B,C ingredients” to “I have A,B,C - what can I make with this?”.

Maybe that lack of choice is an unacceptable trade off for some - for us we find it fun. It’s well worth cheaper, better tasting (really cannot understate this part), and substantially longer lasting produce. It’s actually crazy how long the produce we get from the farm lasts - we have basically zero spoilage now.

I just wish we could get food like this year round - and I am considering buying a second share next year entirely to can it. So maybe it will be possible!
by parsimo2010 | 2025-11-22 16:27:55+00:00
The article is paywalled, but remember that the USA’s business giants during the Cold War were ran quite different than businesses today, especially with the fact that they had major internal R&D labs that did novel research in-house and relied less on transfer coming from research universities. Think about the other stories that you may have heard about Xerox or Bell labs. So Kodak having research abilities is not surprising. They also made the cameras and films for US spy satellites during the Cold War. They were not just a little company that made recreational film. They were a science and chemistry powerhouse.
by graemep | 2025-11-22 16:27:57+00:00
Of the four animal products you list there, only one is meat, and its a cheap meat...

Meat is not all that expensive for protein and comparatively quick and easy to cook, agreed, but the cheapest option is still veg.

Liver, and offal in general, is much underrated for both taste and health. A lot of people in the UK just do not eat it and its becoming hard to find (liver the common, but other things are not).
by 951560368 | 2025-11-22 16:28:10+00:00
I've been thinking about how to make meditation support more universally accessible.

The vision is simple: meditation guidance should be available to everyone regardless of their economic situation, with full respect for personal privacy, and built on transparent, community-driven development.

Some ideas I've been exploring: - Making it completely free and sustainable through open-source development - Ensuring zero data collection - what you practice stays with you - Creating content that adapts to different cultural backgrounds and experience levels - Building it as a public good rather than a commercial product

For the experienced meditators here: what features or approaches would actually help you practice more consistently or deeply? What would make you recommend meditation tech to friends who are hesitant to try commercial apps? Curious about the community's thoughts on meditation tech as a public good rather than a commercial product.
by mrkeen | 2025-11-22 16:28:36+00:00
> it expects a level of correct-design-up-front which isn't realistic for most teams.

The opposite is true.

A non-ES system is an ES system where you are so sure about being correct-up-front that you perform your reduce/fold step when any new input arrives, and throw away the input.

It's like not keeping your receipts around for tax time (because they might get crinkled or hard to read, or someone might want to change them).