MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lynndotpy | 2025-11-22 15:55:23+00:00
Huh, this sounds exactly like what they had been doing with the OfficeClickToRun.exe, which would update in the background and keep parts of Office preloaded so it would launch quickly.

I can't find anything explaining what differs between this, but I can find people comparing Edge's "Startup Boost" feature of the same name to the long-standing OfficeClickToRun.exe ( e.g. here https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/22778/bms-crashes-after-t... )

I haven't used Windows in three years or Office in seven so it's possible they removed OfficeClickToRun.exe since 2022 and are reintroducing it.
by lioeters | 2025-11-22 15:55:30+00:00
That was a delicious sonic experience. Reminds me of "circuit bending", an aesthetic technique to push the limits of hardware in unintended ways to get creative effects. Otherworldly sounds emerging from glitches, feedbacks, overdrives.

What's fascinating is the endless variety of chaos and patterns created from such a simple mechanism and system. It seems the feedback is key, how an output is fed back into another input. Recursive functions, like fractal geometry.
by throwaway13337 | 2025-11-22 15:56:27+00:00
I'm amazed at this question and the responses you're getting.

These last few years, I've noticed that the tone around AI on HN changes quite a bit by waking time zone.

EU waking hours have comments that seem disconnected from genAI. And, while the US hours show a lot of resistance, it's more fear than a feeling that the tools are worthless.

It's really puzzling to me. This is the first time I noticed such a disconnect in the community about what the reality of things are.

To answer your question personally, genAI has changed the way I code drastically about every 6 months in the last two years. The subtle capability differences change what sorts of problems I can offload. The tasks I can trust them with get larger and larger.

It started with better autocomplete, and now, well, agents are writing new features as I write this comment.
by jclarkcom | 2025-11-22 15:56:44+00:00
It's a good point and I should make a distinction on what models are appropriate. I think of chatGPT 4 like a college student and chatGPT 5.1 5 Pro (deep thinking model) more like a seasoned professional. I wouldn't trust non-frontier, non-thinking models with a result for this kind of question. But the determinism of the result does not scare me, the out output may vary but not directionally. The same thing would happen if you asked the foremost security expert in the world, you'd get slightly different answers on different days. One time as a I test I ran a very complex legal analysis through chat GPT pro 10 times to see how the results would vary and it was pretty consistent with ~10% variation in numbers it suggested.
by DANmode | 2025-11-22 15:57:24+00:00
As long as you, or your child, aren't one of the 60%+ of people who can't properly break it down.

In that case, all of the "enriched" bread, folic acid, certain forms of vitamin B, will be difficult to process (often causing problems).

https://www.mygenefood.com/blog/mthfr-and-folic-acid-build-u...

Folate, folinic acid: those are safe to take, and pass through, for the entire population.
by zekrioca | 2025-11-22 15:57:24+00:00
Certain lobbyists like hiding the end-to-end aspects of nuclear and focus mostly on “energy density”, “clean operations” etc, because they take advantage of the fact most people think short term (because, well, it is simpler). It is like the fossil fuel lobbyists that say gas is cheaper but never mention the externalities caused by e.g., the air pollution causing health issues to those living nearby LNG plants, who end up paying for the costs, just not at the moment of operationalization. Of course none of these proponents live near these infrastructures. This is the very same old 60-90’s stories with the tobacco industry saying smoking have health benefits.
by Tractor8626 | 2025-11-22 15:57:39+00:00
> you can absolutely NAT without preventing the "outside" subnets from being allowed to route to the "inside" subnet

Under very specific conditions. Technically if you send packet with destination 192.168.1.10 directly to wan port of router - yes it can route it inside. The problem - how to deliver this packet over internet. You need to be connected to exactly same network segment to pull it off.

And you don't need statefull firewall to deny this kind of packets.
Show HN: Styleframe – Type-Safe, Composable CSS in TypeScript
by alexgrozav | 2025-11-22 15:57:47+00:00
Hi HN, Over the past 10+ years I’ve been building design systems at various companies, tooling, and UI libraries, including an open-source UI library called Inkline. Through that work I kept running into the same recurring issues: CSS styles breaking due to typos or wrong values, design tokens getting duplicated or drifting, themes becoming unmanageable, and tooling that didn't scale in TypeScript-heavy front-end stacks.

I built Styleframe to address these problems. It’s a TypeScript-native way to build type-safe, composable, and scalable design systems.

Key features:

- Type-safe CSS: Write selectors, variables, utilities, themes and tokens in TS and have compile-time checking (no silent runtime CSS bugs).

- Composable design systems: Build tokens, themes, selectors and utilities as reusable pieces, combine modules cleanly, share across projects.

- Rich design tokens and theming: Variables for color, spacing, typography, breakpoints, border-radius and shadows; theme overrides for light/dark/brand variants; output optimized CSS.

- Framework-agnostic usage: Works with React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Astro, any bundler.

In large teams or systems, styling becomes a fragile surface area: styles leak, tokens diverge, themes multiply, build complexity increases, and developer experience suffers. By writing styling in a typed API, Styleframe aims to make CSS first-class and manageable in modern TS-driven design systems.

What I’m looking for

I’d appreciate feedback from the HN community — especially if you:

- Are maintaining or have built design systems in TypeScript-heavy stacks

- Have experienced pain with CSS scalability, theming or token drift

- Are interested in typed styling APIs or trying out Styleframe in your stack

Happy to answer questions, walk through how the core engine works, or compare to existing solutions. Thanks for reading — looking forward to your thoughts.

— Alex
by mwexler | 2025-11-22 15:57:57+00:00
I am actually quite frustrated with the state of "Open Banking" access in the US. No matter which tool I use across open source or just something I hack myself (or a spreadsheet), I still have no easy way to get to my banking and investment data. Plaid and other "aggregator/scrapers" are not designed for a single user. Tiller and Lunchapp seem OK, but now I have yet another party involved in the process.

Why is there not an aggregation service that literally lets me go directly to my financial institutions to pull down my data and put it into whatever I want? A Plaid, Finicity, Yodlee, MX for the user, not the mass-traffic developer?

I guess, like price engines and free hosting, the business model isn't there to support a thing that just helps folks.
by Aztar | 2025-11-22 15:58:14+00:00
I speak 4 languages fluently. Here is what helped:

1- Speak slowly. Don't rush it

2- Its fine to formulate what you want to say in your mind before saying it. take your time.

3- Use a phone and record yourself speaking about different subject. Practice, practice and practice.

4- Some audiences are harder than others. French people for example tend to nitpick and want you to be really fluent. While most english speakers are fine with your speaking, but it depends on the audience and who you are speaking to.

5- You obviously need to immerse yourself in the language you want to speak. Tv-shows, Movies, News and even tabloid. The latter is actuallt good to understand jokes, innuendos and other subtle conversations.

One thing I also noted, is that if you follow/watch people who are not native speakers, they actually tend to explain things/concepts better. Because they are limited in words and have limited scope compared to native speaker. Anyone remarked this?
by genuser | 2025-11-22 15:58:15+00:00
Apple has entered the AI arena with Apple Intelligence, promising to integrate artificial intelligence seamlessly across its ecosystem. But does it deliver genuine smart assistance or merely offer gimmicky features? After extensive testing of every available function, the answer appears to be both. While some tools demonstrate practical utility, others feel underdeveloped, revealing a platform still in its early stages rather than a finished product.
by DANmode | 2025-11-22 15:59:17+00:00
Please don't do this.

You've contributed nothing curious to this thread whatsoever, just threw some doubt in, then buggered off during the replies – more or less communicating "stuff I can't directly or completely refute is AI slop".

That's....disappointing.

I saw this textpost made by someone else, and literally thought of you, JumpCrisscross.
by inglor_cz | 2025-11-22 15:59:25+00:00
In isolation, yes. But other things have happened as well. People dress like slobs; interestingly, in my country, where GDP per capita skyrocketed since 1989, standards of clothing seem to have gone down, especially for formal occasions. We have a major problem with physical fitness, Westerners of the 1970s were much thinner and moved more. People read fewer books and spend their days consuming brainrot on Tiktok, Instagram and YouTube shorts.

(Notice that the very word brainrot is a neologism?)

I don't think we should pooh-pooh such developments as irrelevant, and I am very unhappy that they have been subsumed to the universal polarization of the culture wars that consume everything while producing nothing of value.

The Moloch indeed.
by joecool1029 | 2025-11-22 15:59:37+00:00
> Depends on the person, I suppose?

Probably. In my case long-term memory seems to be really strong down male side of my family so when I read my old stuff from 20+ years ago I remember it and know it was me, just a little different like 'damn, we don't wear clothes like that anymore' when you look at old pictures. The styles/culture/times change you are in and so you adapt to them, but you are still you. I hear this commonly though that some people don't feel like the old them is same person at all.

For me: I have felt a continual sense of self since around kindergarten, before that memory is a little episodic (my earliest is going to hospital to visit my mom and sister after she was born, when I was age 2) but I feel the same 'me' in memories from kindergarten til now over 30 years later. I also do stuff like pick up and start reading a book, put it down, and then go back and finish from where I left off 3-4 years later. I've met a few other people that do that as well, but it's a little uncommon I think?

On the flip side my working memory has always been really bad. My attachment to memory blanks under stress, some people will relate in things like public speaking. I remember in high school forgetting entire marching band drill one time and having to improvise because I stress blanked. The memory is there when this happens it's like it stops streaming to RAM, intuition takes over based on what it sees not what is known.

What is incredibly useful, and this I always felt is for personal writing only (diary/journal)... writing allows for capturing a state of your own thinking/feelings at a time. I would often write to myself when major events happened (good or bad) and then later on I could interpret from the strong feelings what I was going through and see if I handled them or could handle them better. You don't need editing passes for this, it should capture your raw state. Probably good to do this if your memories fade as well, but I don't know. I will probably burn some of my old writing, things that have served their purpose. Apparently it makes you feel relieved doing it and some cultures have this concept.
by twoodfin | 2025-11-22 16:00:18+00:00
Sorry, I don’t understand your position.

Income taxes are transfer taxes: The government takes a cut of money moving from a labor buyer to a labor seller. Not unlike excise taxes or tariffs, though we needed a Constitutional amendment for Congress to do it.

Property taxes are property taxes. They’re premised on the notion that there’s a private owner of the property to be taxed, and those taxes fund services and protections via the elected government of the property holder.

If LVT requires rent-equivalent rates to work, you can call it a really high property tax, but that’s just linguistic games: The government is charging rent on property it now effectively owns.

What part of that do you disagree with? I took your comments to imply yes, in fact, under LVT the government effectively owns the land and charges rent on it, as it was in feudal times and perhaps should have continued to be so?

(Also, re: property taxes and takings, check out Tyler v. Hennepin. 9-0. https://www.oyez.org/cases/2022/22-166)
by alpinisme | 2025-11-22 16:00:30+00:00
I’ve never heard of anything more happening than being reminded not to do that (pretty much the only time it happens is when someone is talking with product support and lets slip a feature or product they’re working on will solve a complaint about an existing product). I’m sure you’d be fired if it was thought you did it intentionally to spread knowledge of the secret though.

I guess in this case the question comes down (for me) to whether employees at this lab were asked by their managers not to tell friends and acquaintances what they worked on. Even if not with an explicit threat of harm, asking someone not to tell something is pretty much exactly what asking them to keep it a secret means.
by marcinzm | 2025-11-22 16:00:54+00:00
They boy who cried wolf. We are a dictatorship and we are headed towards a dictatorship are not the same thing.

Saying the former when the reality is the latter means your message will simply becomes ever more ignored the closer to a dictatorship we get and thus makes a dictatorship more likely.

> I’ll say the same is true for those that hold your point of view.

I aways find it so interesting that having a view that aims to be based on reality and not overly exaggerated fear mongering is seen as so negatively by both sides. I can't see that ending well for the US to be honest. Fear mongering is how you get dictators, left or right, and not how you get a stable democracy.
by jmclnx | 2025-11-22 16:00:55+00:00
I remember reading something about defunding some satellites, so I went looking. All I could find is articles about the US not providing backup satellites.

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/nx-s1-5127737/losing-gps-woul...

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/losing...
by epolanski | 2025-11-22 16:02:40+00:00
The thing that gets on my nerves is that this is really an unsolvable political problem.

When governments do try to push and make it law to have X amount of bushes and unfarmed land in a way that makes sense for wildlife to thrive you instantly get angry farmers on your roads, lose their votes and get publicly accused to starve the nation.

And farmers, due to the difficulty of their job (in time, investments and returns) and their role in a society's lifecycle get instant empathy.

There's areas in Italy where farms have absolutely polluted water to insane level, and this further compounds with heavy pollution of drinkable water wells (which should always be at least 120 meters from the closest farm from what I know).

Regular citizens, which end up getting heavily sick from all these farms (often in mortal ways) never get any kind of support as they lack the political and financial weight, and as soon as the argument scales, you're back at populist "you want to starve our people and kill our economy" arguments.

I had a house in the country, by law there shouldn't be more than one chicken farm in a 4 miles radius, yet they built two in less than 2 miles, one of them 300 meters from my house. It literally smells in disgusting ways 24/7, from ammonia to rot I had to sell it for pennies (5'000 euros, renovated), as nobody but the farmers in the area had the slightest intention to moving to such a beautiful yet disgusting place. And I haven't even mentioned that to avoid having to bring the hundreds of dead animals to a registered incinerator (as the law requires) they just dig mass graves in 5 minutes and cover the entire land.

Wildlife has absolutely disappeared.

It's really a tough, tough political battle.

Everything from agriculture to cattle to fishing is insanely polluting and bad for the environment, but the idea of really tracking and controlling how those industries operate is beyond naive. The labels on your tuna can saying it didn't kill dolphins are worthless, there's no way to check what happens on these boats, so are the labels for your coffee or cocoa not using child labor or your food being organic. It's all absolutely fake and a matter of money.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-11-22 16:03:42+00:00
Fabulously complicated and only producible with exotic emitters, sensors, and high frequency ICs. Probably as easily jammed or forced into calibration state with a directed low frequency em pulse generator. High tech garbage. We will not fare any better than Ukraine relying on tech like this.

Fortunately someone recently posted a real technological wonder - the F-14 cpu, old timers were messing with multithreaded compute while I was muddling along learning pong line by line from a hobbyist magazine.
by R_D_Olivaw | 2025-11-22 16:04:05+00:00
I want to send you an e hug.

I've worked in education and helping kiddos get accomodations and fixtures for their learning has made grow a huge amount of compassion and empathy for myself in this respect.

I think the reality is that this new way of working is still relatively new for human beings. For eons we had more natural, environment based rhythms and then suddenly we're thrust into artificial air and lighting environments staring at papers and now screens.

Our eyes and minds wander to literal infinite spaces on a screen, while our body is sitting in the exact same space (often in the same posture) and we all pretend that "this is normal". But our body keeps score and you can't BS it. It takes its toll.

I too WFH and while my days are somewhat longer, it's only because I do life things while I do work things (as if reality actually has a distinction) and it's better for my mental health.

I sit on a yoga ball, I have an office chair, I do standing desk. There is a beautiful garden behind my screen that constantly beckons me to stop staring into the phony black mirror.

Sorry for the rant, but just know that you're not the weird one. Our systems and processes are the weird ones. And it's our prerogative to find, or construct, better ones for our flourishment.
by bob1029 | 2025-11-22 16:04:11+00:00
I wouldn't mind if Unity 2022.3 was the final version of the product. Nothing about Unity 6 is interesting to me. If I want more than what this old build can offer, I'd go find a big cash pile, hire a team and roll my own engine.

The only thing that would make me want to upgrade to a newer version is if they get CoreCLR working. Even then, I don't think there is much value add for the project I am currently on.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-22 16:04:14+00:00
> A floating house can be constructed on any shoreline and is able to cope with rising seas or rain-induced floods by remaining atop the water's surface. Unlike houseboats, which can easily be unmoored and relocated, floating homes are fixed to the shore, often resting on steel poles, and are usually connected to the local sewer system and power grid.

"Wave" appears once in the article. A week ago, the BBC was writing about Storm Claudia hitting Britain, with winds gusting to 70mph.

"Tide" does not appear in the article, though it notes floating homes being stabilized by poles driven 65m into the ground. There are plenty of places where the daily low-high tide range is 5m or more.

While floating homes may work well in some places - sheltered by large breakwaters and other expensive infrastructure - I'd assume that the article is, overall, hopelessly optimistic.
by dahart | 2025-11-22 16:04:16+00:00
> the general consensus is that extreme intelligence (or genius) involves the ability to grasp concepts others can’t and apply them in novel ways

Whose consensus? Can you back up that claim with some links? The only actual metrics we have for intelligence are based on a speed race, and are not based on concepts that you and I can’t understand. Everyone can answer the questions on an IQ test correctly given unlimited time. I would claim that because IQ tests do not involve the ability to grasp concepts other can’t, there is no such consensus. Higher IQ is literally defined as someone being able to answer questions you can understand faster than you.

> Both and Kichoge [sic] are both huge outliers in running

A small nitpick, Bolt and Kipchoge are the fastest at what they do, but they are not huge outliers at all, they’re a very tiny bit faster than their competition, and there’s plenty of competition.

This actually brings up a pretty important statistical point - that measuring outliers in terms of standard deviations washes away ALL of the absolute differences between people. It’s a relative ranking score, not a direct measure of intelligence. Someone with an IQ of 210 might be 0.1% smarter than someone with an IQ of 130. Or even less. The popular idea that a high IQ score somehow means someone has extreme intelligence far higher than others is a complete and total myth, there’s no basis for believing it’s true aside from conflating or misunderstanding what a standard deviation is. Standard deviations tell you about the distribution. It is a metric that gets exponentially smaller the higher the number is, and is always measuring in relation to the group, and does not correlate directly with the metric it’s capturing.

There’s really no such thing as extreme intelligence with people who can grasp concepts others can’t. And there’s no such thing as a 210 IQ either, as others have pointed out. Everything over ~145 is almost completely meaningless and even if it had meaning simply does not demonstrate that very high IQ is appreciably smarter than your average scientist. Isn’t it actually already obvious there isn’t a cabal of super geniuses who have invented the things the rest of us don’t understand?
by caminante | 2025-11-22 16:04:28+00:00
Real estate includes land and structures.

There's too much overlooked survivor bias with "I wish I owned real estate..." retrospectives. What people are really saying is that they wish they had speculated, but that's no different than "I wish I owned [NVDA]..."

Take homes values. On a real$ basis, "home prices show a strong tendency to return to their 1890 level[s]" [0].

1. People just move if things get expensive. Urban land area is only 2.6% of total US.

2. Tech improvements unlock cheaper and more durable homes.

What Jack Ma's doing is a completely different level of personal estate management and a flight to safety.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case%E2%80%93Shiller_index#Eco...