MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-15 21:00:32+00:00
Exactly, no one internally is going to use something like Amplify or Code Catalyst. That’s like internal developers didn’t use CodeCommit (AWS’s now deprecated Git service).

Even though it did hurt me when they got rid of CodeCommit. I work in consulting and I always ask for my own isolated dev AWS account in their organization with basically admin access. It was nice to just be able to put everything in CodeCommit without dealing with trying to be a part of their GitHub organization if their was red tape.

I miss Cloud 9 too. I didn’t have to bother with making sure their computers were setup with all of the pre requisites and it gave me a known environment for the handover
by sillysaurusx | 2025-11-15 21:01:04+00:00
I’m curious, what got you interested in solving this particular problem? I.e. what was your specific use case?

Most websites work fine with plain html. If you need something fancier, the world seems to have settled on using React.

I get that this is to let you render html on the backend and then stream it to the site so that JS can update the dom. But why? Genuine question; I’m not saying there’s no good reason.
by AJMaxwell | 2025-11-15 21:01:54+00:00
It's probably whatever "1 cup" means to the patient. The researchers would want them to stick to their status quo for the best results.

For example, 1 cup of coffee for my wife involves a blend of coffee and espresso beans with no adders, but 1 cup to her dad means lighter roast bean with milk. Both options have different caffeine contents and nutritional values.
Show HN: Where Was I? – AI summaries for when you forget your book's plot
by beetle_snail | 2025-11-15 21:02:55+00:00
I have ADHD and a 200+ book TBR pile. The problem is I keep putting down complex novels, then picking them up three weeks later with absolutely no memory of who these characters are or why they're arguing about inheritance law.

So I built Where Was I? Upload a PDF or EPUB, tell it what page you're on, and it generates a spoiler-free summary of everything up to that point.

Live: https://app.wherewasi.co.uk (no signup required - just upload and go)

The system uses RAG with semantic chunking that follows narrative structure rather than arbitrary page breaks. It extracts plot points using MMR and contextual relevance scoring, then generates summaries that avoid spoiling anything beyond your current page.

Tech stack: - FastAPI backend on Railway, Google Cloud Storage for frontend - ChromaDB for vector storage with custom book collections - OpenAI embeddings (text-embedding-3-small) for semantic search - GPT-4.1 for summarisation that only sees pages you've read to prevent spoilers - Semantic chunking using semchunk (respects sentence boundaries, not just tokens)

This is genuinely v0.1. The UI is basic, it will probably crash under load, and I'm sure there are edge cases I haven't considered. But it works. I use it every time I pick up a book I abandoned.

Built this because I got tired of either (a) giving up on complex books or (b) spending 20 minutes flipping back through chapters trying to remember if the butler was suspicious or just socially awkward.

Happy to answer questions about the RAG implementation, spoiler prevention strategies, etc.
by krapp | 2025-11-15 21:03:30+00:00
I see no reason to assume economic systems must map to physical systems or else must serve a biological imperative to be considered valid. That seems an odd requirement to have. There is no system in our bodies regulating our cells which has strong parallels to capitalism either.

Also, you're mistaken in assuming that cooperation doesn't exist in socialism (I'm going to use the term "socialism" here to refer to the more broadly defined concept rather than "communism" specifically, although to some people it's a distinction without a difference.) Broadly speaking, the entire goal is communal ownership and distribution of resources, particularly of the means of production so that workers own the rights and profits of their labor.

Animals and biological systems do use common resources and cooperate, but they don't tend to form corporate structures to exploit those resources for profit, so the thesis that nature and physics are more capitalist than socialist seems designed to beg the question for an already capitalist worldview.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-15 21:05:25+00:00
> Terrorism is never about how many people you kill. It’s about instilling fear and sending a message and the downstream economic harm.

But again, what does it have anything to do with it being a plane? If they were to blow up a train instead of a plane, are people going to be like "haha you idiots, that only works if it's a plane"?

> Look no further than 911. Two costly unnecessary wars (that even republicans don’t defend anymore) that caused an entirely new generation

It sounds like you're saying that inhibiting overreactions to terrorism would lessen its effect and act as a deterrent to it.
by accrual | 2025-11-15 21:05:54+00:00
For some it's just fun. Changing things because we can. I was a huge tinkerer in the XP days, I'd test out every tweak and tool I could get my hands on and would reinstall the OS every couple months. I'd use Resource Hacker to change out the XP flag icons, put my initials on the start button, etc. It wasn't about making it more usable so much as it was just making it mine.

It makes me happy to see newer generations still doing the same stuff, granted its much more complex to do this work on Win11 vs XP.
by michaelsmanley | 2025-11-15 21:05:57+00:00
Oddly enough, I happen to be reading this book right now (though my edition is titled "An Island Called Moreau"). I had just finished re-reading Wells and Silvia Moreno Garcia's "The Daughter of Doctor Moreau" (a re-telling of the story set in colonial Mexico), and thought I'd try Aldiss's version. I am still trying to decide if he wrote it as a satire or not.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-15 21:06:34+00:00
> It’s just polite fiction to ignore the fact that South Korea is a US vassal

Korea is an American suzerainty. Not vassal. Similar to North Korea:China. One of the strategic considerations in countering China in Taiwan is whether Japan and Korea would refused their territory from getting involved. That's a veto a vassal doesn't get.

Iran under the Shah was a U.S. vassal. Same for Ghani's Afghanistan. (Belarus: Russia.)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-15 21:07:02+00:00
I don’t believe I’m making up this scenario. But here I go..

I would book a first class flight in the first seat in front of the plane. Make all of the first class passenger - fewer of them, probably wealthier business travelers who don’t think they are Rambo - move to the back of the cabin.

The aisle would be the perfect kill zone. I watched a documentary and they said SWAT training for taking over a plane from terrorist they know that whoever goes in first is likely to get shot.
by joshvm | 2025-11-15 21:07:12+00:00
On film availability. It's relatively easy to slit film to width, with little jigs that are machined or 3D printed. This is popular for Minox "spy" cameras since new 8x11 reels are $20+ and you can refill an old plastic cartridge if you're very careful. The stock is about 8-9mm wide depending on the camera and so a 35mm roll will yield 2 strips that can be cut to length.

Some enterprising person makes a machined an aluminium Minox film cartridge, which is expensive, but solves the problem of the originals being incredibly fragile. It doesn't take many retail rolls to justify the cost though.

https://juliantanase.com/about-minox-film-cassettes-old-and-...

Here's a 110 slitter: insert https://www.camerhack.it/product/110-film-cutter/
by themafia | 2025-11-15 21:07:47+00:00
> whose full-time job is to fuck with you in subtle ways.

And this is a process that you expect to produce an output with any predictive value what so ever?

> it could prove more useful than other arbitrary kind of culture fit interviews.

You could also just end up selecting for psychopaths and sociopaths for whom this test does not function, regardless of how much you "fuck with them."
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-15 21:08:06+00:00
Dell customer service is whatever someone wants to pay for.

I bought a new Dell laptop 20-ish years ago along with whatever the super-duper coverage was called at that time (Complete Care, maybe?). IIRC, it only excluded deliberate damage (and "hammer marks" was used as an example).

But they had no trouble sending me parts. Power brick soaked in a flood? No big deal; a new one is on the way. Dropped a screwdriver on the screen at work? They sent a whole person over to replace it.

It was very expensive coverage -- it cost more by itself than the used/refurb laptops we're discussing. It was sold separately. It did not, by my estimation around that time, ultimately pay for itself.

But if you score it for "free" with a used machine, then sure! Bargain!

(A person can check the warranty/service status of an unmolested Dell machine here: https://www.dell.com/support/contractservices/en-us )
by moron4hire | 2025-11-15 21:08:46+00:00
TS is "more difficult" than S in the sense that is more difficult to win a lottery jackpot than the smaller prizes. It's not "more difficult" in the sense that there are higher expectations or you're held to a higher standard. If you fail a TS clearance investigation, you won't be able to have any position of public trust at all, even if it's just being in HR and processing government employees' health insurance elections.
by andy99 | 2025-11-15 21:08:51+00:00
Yes I’m also curious. From what I know polygraphs and similar interrogation are for assessing whether there is anything that could be used to blackmail or compromise you. Whether one agrees with the method, the goal seems logical for intelligence orgs. For companies, industrial espionage would be the obvious parallel. I don’t know how polygraphs would relate to culture fit though… watching to see if candidates perspire and their heart beats faster when asked if they have grit and value diversity :)
by hunter-gatherer | 2025-11-15 21:11:05+00:00
I don't contend with your view at all, and agree completely. I've spent lots of time in the Middle East and know exactly what you're speaking of. I actually happened upon this article the other day, whicj I found interesting regarding early symbiosis[1]. I'm not a biologist, so I can't speak to the subject a whole lot.

1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/raccoons-are-show...
by sgarland | 2025-11-15 21:11:16+00:00
Except for the DB. The official way to migrate from a Lightsail DB to RDS is to do a logical dump and restore.

For MySQL, or if you have a monotonic column in Postgres, that might be doable if you dumped in parallel, but otherwise it’s an unacceptable amount of downtime when you reach the limits of Lightsail.

It is baffling to me that AWS doesn’t offer a one-click option to B/G from Lightsail —> RDS, as that’s a very reasonable growth pattern for many startups.
by hearsathought | 2025-11-15 21:11:22+00:00
> Is this a troll account?

If you have to ask, no. But then again, since you went through my comment history, you know it's not.

> (EDIT: 4 months old. Peeked through comment history. All flamebait.)

Flamebait? That's rich coming from you.

> Same goes for Pakistan vis-a-vis China,

Are you seriously comparing nuclear armed pakistan/china with south korea/US? You are so unserious that it's hard to take you seriously.

You truly are an expert at everything. Where do you find the time with your nonstop posting here.
by evil-olive | 2025-11-15 21:14:16+00:00
annoyingly misleading headline. they didn't "ban" anything. they issued a ground stop for 35 minutes.

> Flights at all airports, including Incheon International Airport, were banned from landing or takeoff between 1:05 p.m. and 1:40 p.m. to ensure there was no disturbance while the students sat for the listening comprehension section of the English test.
by nandomrumber | 2025-11-15 21:14:47+00:00
How do you prove your understanding of the situation isn’t manufactured?

Is it because Greta Thunberg is on your side? I could understand that, she’s quite pretty.

Is it your manufactured guilt over something you didn’t do, to people that didn’t have jt happen to them?

Or is it because you are what happens when children are raised by three generations of fatherless homes?

Ask yourself, what would happen if Israel said it would lay down its arms and fight no longer, vs. what would happen if Palestinians did the same.
by sillysaurusx | 2025-11-15 21:15:31+00:00
Would environmental damage be a big deal if the reactor exploded? It seems odd that people care very much about nuclear power plants, but relatively little about nuclear submarines, which are just smaller power plants.

The USS Thresher was lost at sea when it sunk below its test depth and imploded. I wonder if there was any damage whatsoever from the fallout. https://youtu.be/g-uJ1do3yV8?si=CLFS80oo564PKouo

Also the USS Scorpion if I remember correctly.

If the environmental effects don’t matter, then I’m surprised it’s ever been a big deal in the first place. Also slightly surprising that we don’t have nuclear sub-sized power plants powering neighborhoods or cities.

I guess one big difference is that any nuclear sub accident would be located far from populated areas. But has there been any studies of how bad the fallout from one of these smaller reactors could be? If it’s 1/100th the size of Chernobyl, it seems like the maximum damage could be 1/100th of Chernobyl, which may or may not be a sufficient buffer.

Someone downthread joked about using nuclear powered submarines to transmit electricity back to the mainland, but it seems plausible to build a nuclear sub sized reactor offshore (just the reactor, no sub) while enjoying the safety benefits that this class of nuclear reactor apparently has.
by dickersnoodle | 2025-11-15 21:16:21+00:00
I don't get offended. I've built software for my entire (43+ year) career and call myself a software developer (and back in the day a computer programmer) and I have never worked in a place where they treated it like actual engineering but have worked in plenty of places that had the "never enough time to do it right but plenty of time to do it over" attitude
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-15 21:16:30+00:00
(I edited my above comment. I didn’t finish my thought “caused an entire generation to hate America”).

My wife and I fly a lot so we don’t think twice about it. But I’m sure you know how many people are deftly afraid of flying. Can you imagine how reticent people would be about flying if planes start blowing up? Much more economic harm comes from a disruption of air travel than if mass transit stopped in one city.

No one in America to a first approximation cares about trains or mass transit. They are mostly popular in those left leaning cities that are infested by criminality any way. I can see it now “what did they expect when they elected a socialist Muslim” (please note sarcasm).
by snickerbockers | 2025-11-15 21:17:21+00:00
>Neither did you (or I).

Not that specifically but I certainly have the capability to create my own OS without having to refer to the source code of existing operating systems. Literally "creating a linux" is a bit on the impossible side because it implies compatibility with an existing kernel despite the constraints prohibiting me from referring to the source of that existing kernel (maybe possible if i had some clean-room RE team that would read through the source and create a list of requirements without including any source).

If we're all on the same page regarding the origins of human intelligence (ie, that it does not begin with satan tricking adam and eve into eating the fruit of a tree they were specifically instructed not to touch) then it necessarily follows that any idea or concept was new at some point and had to be developed by somebody who didn't already have an entire library of books explaining the solution at his disposal.

For the Linux thought-experiment you could maybe argue that Linux isn't totally novel since its creator was intentionally mimicking behavior of an existing well-known operating system (also iirc he had access to the minix source) and maybe you could even argue that those predecessors stood on the shoulders of their own proverbial giants, but if we keep kicking the ball down the road eventually we reach a point where somebody had an idea which was not in any way inspired by somebody else's existing idea.

The argument I want to make is not that humans never create derivative or unoriginal works (that obviously cannot be true) but that humans have the capability to create new things. I'm not convinced that LLMs have that same capability; maybe I'm wrong but I'm still waiting to see evidence of them discovering something new. As I said in another post, this could easily be demonstrated with a controlled experiment in which the model is bootstrapped with a basic yet intentionally-limited "education" and then tasked with discovering something already known to the experimenters which was not in its training set.

>Did you create anything that you are certain your peers would recognize as more "novel" than anything a LLM could produce?

Yes, I have definitely created things without first reading every book in the library and memorizing thousands of existing functionally-equivalent solutions to the same problem. So have you so long as I'm not actually debating an LLM right now.
by yann-gael | 2025-11-15 21:17:48+00:00
Procedural Content Generation (PCG) is a powerhouse technique that creates the vast, replayable worlds we love in games like Rogue and Minecraft. However, this power comes with a fundamental challenge: How do you maintain the structured pacing and intentional design of a handcrafted level while still benefiting from algorithmic variability?

The CG-WFC method, short for Cyclic-Graph and Wave Function Collapse, offers an elegant, two-layer solution to solve this issue.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-15 21:18:25+00:00
There has always been a contingent of people that do sensitive work for the government because they have important expertise but are either "unclearable" or unwilling to go through the formal clearance process. Limited affordances are sometimes made in these cases at the discretion of senior officials with that authority. For the government it is a practical risk/benefit calculus and they still have the ability to do a substantial background check on their own without a formal process.

While it would never be allowed for the average Federal employee it does exist outside of purely political positions.
by qingcharles | 2025-11-15 21:18:31+00:00
I've spent a lot of time in forfeiture court and it's always a chuckle to hear these cases get called. Especially the defendants' lawyer "Yes, your honor, I represent the cats."

Always wanted the cat, or the Honda Civic or whatever to ask to represent themselves. I guess if there was a foreclosure against an Nvidia Spark with a local LLM it might be able to give it a worthy try.
by dehrmann | 2025-11-15 21:19:05+00:00
I researched this a bit and found there really is no standardized "cup of coffee" for research purposes. Even for volume, I've seen it range from 6 to 12 fl oz. The main mechanisms of action are caffeine and flavonoids, and there's so much variation across beans and brewing methods that you'd think researchers would try to include that in their data to normalize it.
by matrss | 2025-11-15 21:19:22+00:00
Re: delayed security fixes, if a vulnerability is not yet publicly known and there is no indication that it is actively abused it is common practice to schedule fixes and give advance notice of them to have administrators be prepared to update promptly. The fact that the vulnerability was leaked beforehand is unfortunate, but Forgejo handled it well with rescheduling their release in response.

Re: license change, hard forking, and new features: my understanding is that Gitea wasn't very open to contributions coming from Forgejo. The hard fork seems to be a consequence of that. Yes, there used to be weekly cherry picks, I assume they stopped exactly because Forgejo and Gitea diverged to much and they became too much of a maintenance burden. Yes, this means Gitea has gotten features that aren't present in Forgejo since then. But you miss the point of the hard fork if you count this as a negative: Forgejo is deliberately diverging from Gitea now. Cooperation didn't work out, so they are no longer a superset of Gitea, but an entirely separate project. And as such they don't have more maintenance burden than Gitea itself.

And Forgejo definitely does not lack development power as its own now-independent project. They have features themselves that Gitea doesn't have. One notable that comes to mind is storage quotas, but there are many more too.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-11-15 21:19:40+00:00
> If I need a Gimp in every workspace I just open a Gimp in every workspace where I need one.

Sticking with the workspace-per-project scenario:

What if there's no room in the workspaces that need Gimp? Or what if you only want Gimp occasionally, so you don't want it to fight for layout with your important windows in each workspace.

The downside of scratchpad is that you'll have many Gimps there, and they're disconnected from their related workspaces.

> Niri takes away the question of where to place it, but it definitely doesn't help with "Where the fuck is that one window I opened and how do I find it?"

In the workspace per project example, it's "my project foo Gimp is in the project foo workspace's overflow".

With something like i3/sway, you'll probably hide gimp in a tabbed/stacked container in some node in the workspace tree, but that's fiddly and kind of a hack in this example.

As for "where the heck is this window at all", I like mod-tab to MRU enumerate windows globally. This is a nice solution in any WM/DE.

> If you really need THAT much overspill on a workspace

We're just talking about an extra window here in a multi project setup which is something I run into dozens of times a day. You'll find a reference to this in every "I switched from i3/sway to niri" blog post. https://ersei.net/en/blog/niri - I'd say it's the main trade-off.

> Sure, Niri takes away the question of where to place it

We can probably just end it here, because that's the utility of a scrolling WM and you saw my point.
by BrenBarn | 2025-11-15 21:19:59+00:00
It's not clear to me that indie game dev was ever viable in the sense that there was a reasonable chance of making a living just from that. Some people succeeded, sure, and some still succeed. Probably a greater number reach a different kind of success, which is they make enough money and reach enough users to feel it was a worthwhile endeavor, but not nearly enough to actually make a living. But actually making a living from indie anything is always hard.
by Tarsul | 2025-11-15 21:21:13+00:00
But the crazy part is that on a spectrum from far left to far right, the far left was never more correct than on climate change. By which I mean it truly is catastrophic/worldchanging or in a little more words: the worst legacy a generation ever left behind for future generations. And why? Because we are addicted to fossil fuels. Climate change happens more because of wants [of the rich world] than because of needs [of everyone]. We burn our future for our current desires.
by yieldcrv | 2025-11-15 21:21:34+00:00
polygraphs are federally banned for employment except for in the federal government, so that's more controversial circumventing the federal government's hypocrisy

you're blind if you want to pretend that this specific action is the top of a slippery slope when we're below the slope at this point, Congress isn't gong to do anything so why even act surprised. let's focus on the hypocrisy of polygraph being standard at all