MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krisoft | 2025-11-13 09:36:49+00:00
I also don’t think it is downvote worthy.

The first part of the comment is very valuable. “I looked at it and it made me feel extremely strange almost immediately“. That is very good to know.

The second bit I’m less sure about. What do they mean by “check to make sure this can't trigger migraines or seizures”? Like what check are they expecting? Literature research? Or experiments? The word “check” makes it sound as if they think this is some easy to do thung, like how you could “double check” the spelling of a word using a dictionary.
by Dixneuf19 | 2025-11-13 09:38:35+00:00
> In March 2026, Ingress NGINX maintenance will be halted, and the project will be retired. After that time, there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any security vulnerabilities that may be discovered. The GitHub repositories will be made read-only and left available for reference.

> In March 2026, Ingress NGINX maintenance will be halted, and the project will be retired. After that time, there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any security vulnerabilities that may be discovered. The GitHub repositories will be made read-only and left available for reference.
by hdgvhicv | 2025-11-13 09:39:11+00:00
Based on the interstellar density it will take a billion years to ablate just a millimetre off its outer layer.

The chance of impacting anything larger than that is internal, same as an encounter with another star. In 40,000 years it will get to within 1.6 light years from a star, that’s such an unimaginable distance it’s irrelevant.

In 100 million to 1 billion years you may not be able to recover audio from the golden record, but until that point they will be lasting remnants of a civilisation long gone, and never be encountered.

Voyagers will only impact a few thousand kilograms of material before all stars die out in 10^14 years, it will still be an object after the final stars fade.

The biggest risk to voyager now is if proton decay is a thing, or if a civilisation deliberately seeks it out, which seems very unlikely given how many natural lumps of iron int he 1 ton range flying through interstellar space.
by anilgulecha | 2025-11-13 09:39:39+00:00
Fair warning, when I last put up a bet in AI video arena, I won! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anilgulecha_kitsune-activity-...

Same terms - gentlemen's agreement. The loser owes the winner a meal whenever they meet :). For a HN visitor to blore, I'll happy to host a meal anyway :)
by conartist6 | 2025-11-13 09:40:18+00:00
Max Brunsfeld in fact, yep. He went along to Zed from the Atom team.

But curiously Zed hasn't been very interested in Tree-sitter. They don't seem to see it as having much strategic value to their company, which is odd because lots of other people do see it as a valuable platform. You have Tweag building code formatting on it, you had GitHub building stack graphs on it, you have Merigraph. You even have sone really "out there" stuff like the Software Evolution Library!
by squigz | 2025-11-13 09:40:31+00:00
If this is the case, how can we know whether that number represents a drop in population or not? Can we measure population size 100,000 years ago? 50,000? Then compare them? What about that number represented as % of total population? 1,000-10,000 sounds low, but our population probably wasn't very high that long ago either.
by v-erne | 2025-11-13 09:41:08+00:00
That's a great idea. I would love to be able to do that. If only I was not forced to live in the most expensive part of my country where one square meter costs more than half year salary of average person. At least from accounting point of view I'm a millionair, just without any ability to get my own space (because needs of family always come first). Life is strange.
by hnlmorg | 2025-11-13 09:41:54+00:00
Unfortunately buying closed systems hasn’t stopped me from being IT support:

- “why can’t I play online with EA Sports?”

- “I can’t log into Roblox!”

- “why can’t I see my sisters world in Minecraft?”

- “I’ve lost my Fortnight skins!”

- “why does Roblox keep disconnecting me on my phone [when Roblox servers go down]?”

- “Why can’t I play this game [without updating it]?”

- “this game update takes too long to download!”

If there’s one constant in life: it’s that doctors get nagged by friends for free diagnosis, mechanics, electricians, carpenters for free repairs, and software engineers for free IT support.
by epolanski | 2025-11-13 09:42:33+00:00
+1

We getting rid in Europe of 1 and 2 cents which are more valuables than pennies and nobody gives two damns.

Even roundings in Italy, by law, now are 5 cent based: meaning you can't have a bill that ends with 5 cents it has to get rounded to the nearest multiple of ten cents.

Seriously, nobody cares.
by UK-Al05 | 2025-11-13 09:43:26+00:00
Lots of places are not like this. I work at a large tech company, at its not like this at all.

My machine is not locked down. I can use vim or whatever ide/editor I want. We don't use scrum/safe, we're expected to contribute to the actual system design. etc If I have a choice, i'm not working at a place like that.

However if you work in dotnet at a traditional "enterprise", it is highly likely to be like this. I have a choice, so i'm not going to choose that.

Wanting replaceable talent drives the tech decisions to only use the "standard" microsoft stack. Other companies value picking the right tool, then teaching people. The best companies don't even care what language you use, and are happy to bring you up speed.

I've found a position that uses dotnet which does not have this culture which is good. But i can totally imagine not picking dotnet to avoid this culture.
by maxlin | 2025-11-13 09:43:37+00:00
>This is why we announced this change early: to gather input and ensure our solutions are balanced.

Sounds like just trying to save face, they didn't have a language of "we're only _MAYBE_ stopping everyone from installing non-verified apps" back then. They were quite adamant.

But happy that they're dropping the craziest part of this in any case. Won't stop me from investigating Graphene OS and other options when getting my next handset though, the previous move surely caused a jolt in my interest.
by bzzzt | 2025-11-13 09:44:29+00:00
How much are you willing to donate before concluding it's more efficient to just buy a new MacBook? Even the cheapest models now are faster, more energy efficient and more secure. You don't have to throw the old one away if you can find a use case for running old software but I don't think there are many people running 'power user / developer' like tasks on old hardware, especially if their jobs depend on it.
by icebergonfire | 2025-11-13 09:46:23+00:00
More anecdata, my spouse and I have been on Mounjaro since Jan 2025 guided by private health insurance.

I have suffered almost the entire gamut of side effects from the beginning until I tried split dosing twice a week, and even then there’s still the occasional instance of me learning that I should not have eaten that and the following 9 hours are going to revolve around stomach pain.

My partner’s journey on the other hand has been smooth sailing the entire time.

YMMV, do your own research but definitely double check any search results with your doctor first… lots of urban myths going around.

I do recommend it though, I am the healthiest I’ve been in literally 10 years.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-11-13 09:46:31+00:00
> "Never enable software installation if someone asks you..."

Imagine a situation in which a frightened, stressed user sees such a message on their screen. Meanwhile, a very convincing fake police officer or bank representative is telling them over the phone that they must ignore this message due to specific dangerous emergency situation to save the money in their bank account. Would the user realize at that moment that the message is right and the person on the phone is a thief? I'm not so sure.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-13 09:46:54+00:00
The fundamental dichotomy of all tools is they have multiple uses.

People proposing these ID's frequently suggest positive uses and there are some.

What they fail to do is consider the negative use cases and there are some (or the history of governments using tools to suppress).

In that respect the two sides struggle to see each others point of view because one doesn't see the problems and the other only sees the problems.
by Mr_Minderbinder | 2025-11-13 09:46:56+00:00
YouTube has gotten so bad that even normal people are complaining about it now. A middle-aged woman who volunteers with me was saying how she did not feel comfortable using YouTube due to the number of inappropriate ads. I ended up giving her links to a few Invidious instances and she loves them even if they are slower and not entirely reliable. She also understood the concept of a front-end without much explaining on my part.
by bsder | 2025-11-13 09:47:40+00:00
You aren't wrong.

However, the single digital service that hasn't killed my digital library at some point is Steam. Games that I bought many years ago are still fine. Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all killed digital games that I bought.

That having been said: I've transferred a lot of my purchasing to GoG. Steam doesn't get the benefit of the doubt anymore.
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-13 09:48:16+00:00
> They are "plummeting around the world at the same time," they just didn't start plummeting everywhere at the same time.

This is pedantic. Do you understand what "at the same time" means? By the time birth rates plummet below replacement rate in Africa, they would have risen well above replacement again in Europe and North America.

> Except Africa can't fill the gap for everywhere else, and if immigration is the "solution" then what do you do about Africa after it's been sucked dry of its prime labor force? Just leave all its poor elderly to die on their own?

We won't need to import labor from Africa when they have their own labor shortage because the birth rate in the US would have already recovered. The labor gap won't hit everywhere at the same time. That's why immigration works. In fact, Africa might need to import labor from America when the gap hits them.
by asmor | 2025-11-13 09:48:29+00:00
This is pretty funny. The main reason I dislike Traefik is because you can get away with broken ingress objects (i.e. you put elements into the `tls` array that only have a cert or only have a hostname and traefik will do some fuzzy matching) and it was a huge pain to get our manifest rendering pipeline back to spec.
by skydhash | 2025-11-13 09:49:43+00:00
Do you think most people have 128GB laptop? It’s more likely to be 8 or 16 GB. The OS os likely taking 4 or more, the browser two or more. And if you add any office applications, that’s another few GB gone. Then how many Electron monstrosities you think the user can add on top of that?
by maxlin | 2025-11-13 09:51:00+00:00
This is quite cool, rocked back and forth from and to my screen and got a (bit inconsistent, but consistently visible) "shape" of the fovea. maybe 30% larger than I thought it'd be!

Right after though, I felt like my vision was clouded, like there was a grey overlay on it or something for a few minutes. Don't recommend having this open for too long. Visual cortex doesn't like running against its limits I guess
by icebergonfire | 2025-11-13 09:51:12+00:00
Anecdotally speaking I can confirm this… it gets easy to just skip a meal, and you may end up skipping the entire day because the usual hunger signals are just not there.

For anyone tempted by that concept, please don’t and remember to try to eat your 1000-1500 calories every day.

Quick weight loss won’t do you any good if you lose all your muscle mass, or if you carve a deeper groove into body image issues.

It’s cliche but it’s true, slow and steady is the way to go.
by pqb | 2025-11-13 09:52:06+00:00
From article:

> WhatsApp for Windows was originally an Electron app, and it was eventually replaced with UWP after years of investment. Four years later, WhatsApp is going back to WebView2, abandoning the original WinUI/UWP native idea.

> My understanding is that the recent layoffs at Mark Zuckerberg-headed Meta likely disbanded the entire team behind the native WhatsApp. I don’t see any other reason why Meta would abandon its native app for Windows. Meta will save costs by maintaining the web app codebase on Windows, but you’re going to hate the experience.

Giving them more time won't change much if they have resigned from devs in order to save some money.
by lewispollard | 2025-11-13 09:52:43+00:00
It's the only controller I use (bar the Steam Deck's built in controller) despite owning plenty of other conventional controllers. Once you get used to it and make use of Steam Input's per-game customisation and mapping it works really well, especially if you treat it as a mouse-like input rather than conventional gamepad.

The only place it suffers for me is games that aren't coded to support simultaneous gamepad and mouse input, which you can work around by mapping the joystick as a keyboard input. Otherwise it's great.
by K1A2S3I4M5 | 2025-11-13 09:53:02+00:00
"ContextKey" - Relationship-Based Smart Keyboard App

PRODUCT FUNCTION:

KEY FUNCTION:

"A personalized, theme-based smart keyboard that prevents users from sending the wrong message to the wrong person."

HOW IT WORKS: Theme-Based System:

Users choose a theme for each contact: * FAMILY → Warm colors, "Dear Mom" auto-addressing * WORK → Professional blue, "Sincerely" suggestions * LOVER → Romantic pink, "My love" auto-completion * FRIEND → Friendly green, "Hey buddy" emoticons

User Experience:

1. Download the app. 2. Select 3 contacts from your contact list (Mom, Boss, Lover). 3. Assign a theme to each.

4. Done - Secure messaging.

SPECIAL PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:

"We're developing the world's first relationship-based smart keyboard. By preventing mistakes made on social media, we're ensuring the security of 100 billion messages a day."
by stared | 2025-11-13 09:53:47+00:00
I know it is a matter of preference, but I loved the most GPT-4.5. And before that, I was blow away by one of the Opus models (I think it was 3).

Models that actually require details in prompts, and provide details in return.

"Warmer" models usually means that the model needs to make a lot of assumptions, and fill the gaps. It might work better for typical tasks that needs correction (e.g. the under makes a typo and it the model assumes it is a typo, and follows). Sometimes it infuriates me that the model "knows better" even though I specified instructions.

Here on the Hacker News we might be biased against shallow-yet-nice. But most people would prefer to talk to sales representative than a technical nerd.
by noir_lord | 2025-11-13 09:53:51+00:00
> You can actually watch CPU usage increase if you toggle it.

Not any more, I kept windows 11 around for gaming but I binned the partition, how they managed to make a 7950X3D/7900XTX feel "clunky" is astounding given that I live in KDE which has a reputation for been a "heavy" DE and yet it it feels instantaneously fast in every dimension compared to windows 11.
Show HN: Guapital – what rank is your wealth?
by mzou | 2025-11-13 09:54:03+00:00
Hi HN,

Tracking your wealth is mundane and boring. You write down some number in spreadsheet, stare at it, and wonder—what's the point? It doesn't have to be that way.

Introduce Guapital, think league of legends for wealth tracking app. Guapital supports multiple asset types (real estate, cash, brokerage, RSUs, crypto, and etc). But here's the best part: you get to see where you rank (in percentile) compared to your peers, plus projections of your net worth in 5-30 years.

Have fun building guaps, and feedbacks are always welcome!

link: https://guapital.com
by perihelions | 2025-11-13 09:54:10+00:00
It also normalizes in the public eye the notion that conventional ID's deserve suspicion, and pushes the Overton window, in the US context, further in the direction of accepting that LEO's can and should be jailing people solely on their personal suspicions about ID authenticity.

A person without an iPhone (or not utilizing it fully) does not deserve suspicion. It's not a crime to opt out of the mainstream iPhone sociology. It is not right to treat a person who is e.g. elderly, or for some other reason has "fallen" behind the digital divide, as an inferior person with fewer rights and privileges.

It's reliably in tech peoples' blind spot, when thinking about how to make things "efficient" for the common case, one that reflects their own experience, to not think or care about the less-common cases that don't affect them. See: digital-only payments[0]. But being banned from shopping in a few hipster stores is a small thing compared to being wrongly jailed!

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cashless
by sschueller | 2025-11-13 09:55:25+00:00
No thank you.

I am glad that the first eID vote we had on this (in Switzerland) prevented private industry from issuing IDs etc.

What we have now (upcoming, after another vote) is an open source[1] non centralized eID issued by the government.[2]

Although there are still some problematic points (initial issuance software is not open source and who can ask for the ID is not limited enough) the solution we have now is the best way to do such a thing at this time.

[1] https://github.com/swiyu-admin-ch

[2] https://www.eid.admin.ch/de/swiyu-coming-soon-d
by wvh | 2025-11-13 09:56:56+00:00
If you count 3 control plane nodes and at least one or two extra servers worth of space for pods to go when a node goes down, I'd say don't bother for anything less than 6-7 servers worth of infrastructure. Once you're over 10 servers, you can start using node affinity and labels to have some logical grouping based on hardware type and/or tenants. At that point it's just one big computer and the abstraction starts to really pay off compared to manually dealing with servers and installation scripts.

I'd say the abstraction is not worth it when you have only a steady 2-3 servers worth of infrastructure. Don't do it at "Hello, world!" scale, you win nothing.

(I work for a company that helps other companies set up and secure larger projects into environments like Kubernetes.)
by noir_lord | 2025-11-13 09:57:18+00:00
Latitude is one factor but not the sole factor, proximity to oceans/seas for example matters as well as it has a moderating influence in both dimensions - not a coincidence that the coldest states in the continental US are all northern and in the center of the landmass.

Other factors are things like prevailing winds, mountain ranges, altitude and so on and on - the climate system is one of the most complex systems on the planet and even with decades of heavy study and insanely fast computers we still struggle to predict it accurately out past a week or two at most with any degree of success.
by klez | 2025-11-13 09:58:10+00:00
The difference is that "Not having DRM" means the games I bought with no DRM is still there once they enable it. For example, with GOG I download the games I buy and there's no way they can enable DRM on the copies I made.

On the other hand, if the games already have DRM and it gets worse or for whatever reason Valve goes under and you can't play your games anymore, well... you can't play any DRMed game without using whatever DRM mechanism they'll choose next.

In other words "No DRM -> DRM" and "DRM -> Worse DRM" have different outcomes.

> Valve has been doing business this way forever.

And Google's motto was "Don't be evil" and for a good chunk of their life they weren't. That worked out well, did it? I'm not saying Valve will do a 180 and squander all the good faith it acquired. I'm just saying it's not beyond the realm of possibility.
by ssrc | 2025-11-13 09:58:20+00:00
For me, the "human-readable" part is key. It's not just that the output is e.g. javascript, but that it is more or less human-readable with about the same organization as the original code.

If you implement SKI combinators, or three-address instructions, as functions in javascript, and that's the output of your compiler, I would not call that a transpiler.
by vladms | 2025-11-13 09:58:26+00:00
Sure, my point was that even if iPhone ecosystem is more secure than Windows 95, I do not think this is due mostly to the "walled garden", but because (as you mention) Windows 95 just did not care about security at all. By the time iPhone appeared the security of Windows systems (2000 and later) had already improved (even if not perfect) and there was a possibility to configure it more "locked down", if you wanted.
by umanwizard | 2025-11-13 09:59:02+00:00
The pre-GPT-5 absurdly confusing proliferation of non-totally-ordered model numbers was clearly a mistake. Which is better for what: 4.1, 4o, o1, or o3-mini? Impossible to guess unless you already know. I’m not surprised they’re being more consistent in their branding now.
by kybernetyk | 2025-11-13 09:59:17+00:00
Before macOS 26 I would have agreed with you. But after Tahoe my M1 MacBook Pro feels a lot slower.

Funny, there's even some regression in layer backed NSView rendering where the app I'm working on is faster (in some aspects) in a macOS 15 VM than on bare metal under macOS 26.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-11-13 10:00:29+00:00
> Meta would have been better off doing like Telegram and just using Qt.

Qt would certainly be the better choice. However, since Meta already has a web version of the WhatsApp client, the WebView2 path was an easy and inexpensive option. After all, MS itself paved the way with Teams, Visual Studio Code, and Outlook.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-13 10:00:44+00:00
I for one don't "require" three meals a day, but I'm hungry in the morning, ergo, I like breakfast.

It's not so much about how often you eat but what and how much. Generally speaking, of course, I can't speak for any benefits of intermittent fasting (assuming equal daily calorie / macronutrient intake) because I'm uneducated in that regard. But TL;DR, I will agree that desk jockeys will need less calories than people with a more active job or lifestyle, and people need to adjust their lifestyle accordingly else they'll gain weight.
by bsder | 2025-11-13 10:01:00+00:00
Deflection and obfuscation when told to produce evidence. As always. Standard anti-vax. Sigh.

> I said it was stupid to have a mask mandate when most people wore ineffective cloth masks and even then didn’t cover their nose.

This was mostly true because "wearing a mask" became a partisan political issue so half the country wouldn't even try to be responsible.

Even if you didn't want to wear a mask, not getting together in gigantic gatherings like churches and weddings as well as quarantining yourself after such gatherings or travel was also effective. The fact that I quarantined after air travel prevented my in-laws from catching the Covid that someone gave to me.

Alas, this also became a partisan issue.

And, as I pointed out, the burden of proof is on the anti-mask, anti-quarantine crowd. We actually have analyzed the tracking and spread after the fact and have the appropriate evidence.

But that doesn't matter to people like you. It was never about evidence and facts anyway.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-13 10:01:08+00:00
> I want to be able to install apps from alternative app stores like F-Droid and receive automatic updates

That's actually possible, though app stores need to implement the modern API which F-Droid doesn't seem to do quite well (the basic version of F-Droid (https://f-droid.org/eu/packages/org.fdroid.basic/) seems to do better). Updating from different sources (i.e. downloading Signal from GPlay and then updating it from F-Droid or vice versa) also causes issues. But plain old alternative app stores can auto-update in the background. Could be something added in a relatively recent version of Android, though.

If this Verified bullshit makes it through, I expect open source Android development to slowly die off. Especially for smaller hobbyist-made apps.