MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hn_acc1 | 2025-11-12 21:08:51+00:00
1) DMV is state-run, not federal govt. 2) Why can't we at least spend 5 minutes studying how it went in Canada, and learn that govt guidance was helpful to the transition, so do that too? 3) Sure. And even more because, even when he DOES pick up on a good idea (I support elimination of the penny), he does so in a haphazard / slipshod way that the end result is often worse than if nothing had been done.
by 0x457 | 2025-11-12 21:08:54+00:00
Yes, but the point is that we already know (app permissions, cookie tracking consents) that "ask only what you need to function" isn't how sellers operate.

Also, you need an ID to buy some OTC medicine and to pick up some prescribed medicine. As well some other cases when ID needs to be presented, but those probably require more than just DOB anyway.
by DharmaPolice | 2025-11-12 21:09:49+00:00
I'm sure there will be negative side effects but the main outcome of these drugs is that you eat less. Many of us have trained ourselves to eat at a frequency and volume way beyond what is really required to keep our body functioning. This leads to weight gain in most people and thus is the focus but even independent of weight there are effects of continuously eating poor quality foods which are unlikely to be good. So I'm not surprised that there are all these miraculous sounding positive side effects to drugs which prevent most people from putting their metabolic system under near constant load.

When the side effects are better understood I suspect for the average person, eating less would be a net benefit to their overall health - _even if they don't lose any weight_.
by m463 | 2025-11-12 21:10:06+00:00
> Robbers do not routinely detect the presence of cash

But the reverse might not be true.

Just because it is not detectable does not mean people who feel unsafe would carry large quantities of cash.

If I was going into a bad neighborhood, I wouldn't carry a lot of cash.

But in japan, I've seen how people behave differently. for example, I saw a lady leave her purse on a restaurant table while she went to the bathroom. This kind of stuff is common in japan - people feel safe and there is little expectation of theft.
by KaiserPro | 2025-11-12 21:10:08+00:00
Lets put that quote in its full context, because its designed to sound much more impressive than it actually is.

> Anthropic serves more than 300,000 business customers, and our number of large accounts—customers that each represent over $100,000 in run-rate revenue—has grown nearly sevenfold in the past year.

Let me deconstruct that:

> Anthropic serves more than 300,000 business customers

Hard fact. No qualification on spend or activity, are they on trails or fully paid with contracts and minimum spend

> and our number of large accounts—customers that each represent over $100,000 in run-rate revenue

run-rate revenue is an extrapolation. (https://www.fool.com/terms/r/run-rate/) That could be buisnesses that trail anthropic for a month, spend 24K and think "fuck thats expensive" and stops spending. average that over 2 months, then times by 12, boom 100k account.

> has grown nearly sevenfold in the past year.

no starting base....

Its unconvincing, because its smoke and mirrors. Give me the numbers of paying customers, over time with revenue. Then show the opex/capex.
by ge0n111 | 2025-11-12 21:10:25+00:00
I think they made the right choice with Snapdragon chip... it will drop in and work as a dev kit for all the android toolchains that support quest3, devs will easily port quest3 games etc... so it's basically a non-spyware quest3 which is what everyone wants at this point. Custom drivers on the wifi 6 dongle are going to likely offer the best wireless experience, which again is what everyone wants.

I'm curious how meta responds imo the only way to compete is on price/ease of use but i'm not interested in another quest the 'social features' are just an excuse to collect data.
Show HN: SecurVO – Compliance management for service businesses
by AaronKushner | 2025-11-12 21:11:29+00:00
Hey HN! I'm launching SecurVO, a compliance and operations management platform for service businesses like property management, facilities management, and field services.

The Problem:

Service businesses juggle tons of recurring tasks (inspections, certifications, maintenance), vendor compliance (COIs, licenses), and document expirations. Most use spreadsheets or pay $50-200 per user per month for project management tools that weren't built for compliance work.

What We Built:

SecurVO handles recurring tasks, document expiration tracking, vendor compliance, asset maintenance, SOPs with attestation, and incident tracking - all in one platform. Key difference: no per-seat pricing. Pricing is by tier - every tier has full access to all features, and comes with generous seat ceilings that leave room for growth.

Tech Stack:

TypeScript/React frontend, Node.js backend, PostgreSQL database.

Current Status:

Just launched beta. Looking for ~50 beta testers to help us validate the core workflows and identify edge cases. Beta users get 90 days free.

What I'd Love Feedback On:

Is the feature set too broad or just right for operations teams? Pricing model (flat rate tiers vs per-user) - does this resonate?

Live at: https://SecurVO.com

HHappy to answer any questions about the tech choices, business model, or why we built this!
by ilikecakeandpie | 2025-11-12 21:11:49+00:00
Yeah I stopped because I didn't like the way it made me feel. I needed it because my blood sugar was way too high and it helped me drop close to 60 pounds in 6-8 months, but I did not like how it made me feel and I lost more muscle than I was happy with.

I've gained about 15-20 pounds back, but I'm now much healthier overall.

I like how my brain works and I didn't like something affecting or changing that because I couldn't put the fork down. Easy decision for me
by cwmma | 2025-11-12 21:12:07+00:00
It's because technically the dollar is divided into Dimes, Cents, and Mil. (this is why dimes say 'One Dime' on them instead of 'Ten Cents'.

So while the mil isn't really used anywhere else that regular people see any more due to inflation, it is a valid division of the dollar and that's why they are able to get away with it.
by Noaidi | 2025-11-12 21:13:00+00:00
I do not like the framing. GLP-1 drugs help people lose weight, and it is the weight loss that lowers death rates in colon cancer[1]. This is making it sound like the drug itself is reducing cancer.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12672-025-03902-4
by godelski | 2025-11-12 21:13:18+00:00
> Google X is a complete failure - Google Brain - Google Watch/Wear OS - Gcam/Pixel Camera - Insight (indoor GMaps) - Waymo - Verily

It is a moonshot factory after all, not a "we're only going to do things that are likely to succeed" factory. It's an internal startup space, which comes with high failure rates. But these successes seem pretty successful. Even the failed Google Glass seems to have led to learning, though they probably should have kept the team going considering the success of Meta Raybands and with things like Snap's glasses.

https://x.company/projects/#graduate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Development#Graduated_projec...
by datadrivenangel | 2025-11-12 21:13:27+00:00
This is a very insightful article:

"You might be expecting that here is where I would start proclaiming the death of software development. That I would start on how the strange new angels of agentic AI are simply going to replace us wholesale in order to feast on that $150/hour, and that it's time to consider alternative careers. I'm not going to do that, because I absolutely don't believe it. Agentic AI means that anything you know to code can be coded very rapidly. Read that sentence carefully. If you know just what code needs to be created to solve an issue you want, the angels will grant you that code at the cost of a prompt or two. The trouble comes in that most people don't know what code needs to be created to solve their problem, for any but the most trivial problems. Who does know what code would be needed to solve complex problems? Currently that's only known by software developers, development managers and product managers, three job classifications that are going to be merging rapidly."
by sethhochberg | 2025-11-12 21:13:39+00:00
They're quite popular for distributed audio systems in general (of which sound masking is one type). "Constant voltage audio" comes in a few flavors and 70v is very common in the US, other parts of the world often use 100v. Background music systems in retail, voice paging systems, etc use constant voltage hardware because its much better technology for very long cable runs, daisy-chained speakers, and centrally located amplifiers.

The cost is fidelity. Full-range audio transformers aren't cheap, so these systems usually make some compromises because your announcements or smooth jazz over the pasta aisle don't need to be true hi-fi.

Its cool technology. Most of the speakers have variable power taps, so you can run a bunch of them in parallel on a single line and control the actual volume as-needed based on where the speaker is deployed by varying the transformer tap on each speaker.
by rtkwe | 2025-11-12 21:13:50+00:00
I did the math on this site and I'd have to hunch less than a foot from the screen to hit 35 PPD on my work provided Thinkpad X1 Carbon with a 14" 1920x1200 screen. My usual distance is nearly double that so my ppd normally is more like 70 ppd, roughly.

https://phrogz.net/tmp/ScreenDensityCalculator.html#find:dis...
by potatolicious | 2025-11-12 21:13:56+00:00
Yes but that can create major motion sickness issues - motion that does not correspond top the user's actual physical movements create a dissonance that is expressed as motion sickness for a large portion of the population.

This is the main reason many VR games don't let you just walk around and opt for teleportation-based movement systems - your avatar moving while your body doesn't can be quite physically uncomfortable.

There are ways of minimizing this - for example some VR games give you "tunnel vision" by blacking out peripheral vision while the movement is happening. But overall there's a lot of ergo considerations here and no perfect solution. The equivalent for a virtual desktop might be to limit the size of the window while the user is zooming/panning.
by throo0000ss | 2025-11-12 21:14:02+00:00
I don't think they're confused. They support some actions, but clearly they're not going to support someone no matter what they do.

They supported Israel's right to defend themselves. That support evaporated when Israel decided to continue a war that was doing more than just removing Hamas. In this case, they're probably okay with fighting drug traffic, but not with blowing up random boats and killing those in them without any due process and any proof of them being drug traffickers... or whatever is going on with Venezuela.

Things like Brexit are different. Some managed to convince part of the population that the UK could be stronger alone and dictate terms to a much larger and stronger economic block. But reality doesn't care about what we believe and the UK still has to trade with the EU, be aligned in terms of laws and standards, be part of defense alliances, etc. The current government could ignore this reality and do what the previous government was doing, but clearly that wasn't working.
by sema4hacker | 2025-11-12 21:14:07+00:00
I admit I avoided a lot of reading in high school in the 70's by buying Cliffs Notes instead, because I was young and dumb and lazy. I hope adult professionals can see how much worse it is to use LLMs to try and do their work for them, but I understand the temptation. Imagine how hard it would be to catch their shortcuts if hallucinations didn't happen.
by teekert | 2025-11-12 21:14:26+00:00
Fun story. I worked at a large food tech company. For products like Yoghurt you’d like Bactria that make the yogurt very quickly at high temp. But grow as slowly as possible at low temp (stays fresh longer).

They’d mutate the s out of these Bacteria, in smart calculated ways. A basepair here, a gene there. When they hit a jack pot. They’d document the mutations, throw the engineered strain out and start blasting them with UV. Afterwards you just scan for the same mutations and voila, now it’s classical strain enhancement!

Same was done for yeast for all kinds of food applications.

There is something to be said for it because you never need antibiotic resistance for selection that way. But you also don’t really know what you are doing and you could edit the resistance genes out. Anyway, this was >20 years ago. Maybe they do it differently now.
by karianna | 2025-11-12 21:14:39+00:00
I wonder if statistically (hand waving here, I’m so not an expert in this field) the SOTA models do as much or as little harm as their human counterparts in terms of providing safe and effective emotional support. Totally agree we should better understand the risks and trade offs but I wouldn’t be super surprised if they are statistically no worse than us meat bags this kind of stuff.
by andrewflnr | 2025-11-12 21:14:53+00:00
Moving around radioactive material doesn't affect its activity, unless you're specifically talking about collecting it into a near-critical mass or something like that. Presumably that's what GP was thinking about wrt neutron reflectors. And I'm pretty sure that only works even in principle if the isotope in question can be stimulated into activity by absorbing neutrons (or other radiation I suppose), which is not the case for all of them. Bio-accumulating a critical mass of radioactive material ion by ion... well, it sure is sci-fi.
by verdverm | 2025-11-12 21:14:53+00:00
> The company employs more than 800 staff and more than 500 jobs were estimated to go. This was not a "fixed plan", though the process was being sped up by extra costs placed on the firm by the government, Mr Glynne said.

AI sounds more like an excuse than the basis. I suspect more and more people are going to push back against the AI everything these out-of-touch CEOs are hyping around
by Fabricio20 | 2025-11-12 21:15:01+00:00
This is my main concern with the new headset.. hopefully they have a way to support lighthouse.. maybe as an "upgrade" to the tracking if you already have a lighthouse setup. I play a game called VTOLVR and it's atrocious on the quest with inside-out tracking, because the game VERY often has you looking in a direction where your arm is behind your back or behind your leg (from the VR's perspective) and it completely loses tracking.. literally killing you in game sometimes. Think "looking up and behind you for threats" while your hand is in the throttle/stick for a combat plane.
by mindcrash | 2025-11-12 21:15:24+00:00
Speaking as someone who is deploying HA Kubernetes clusters on bare metal just for fun in just a few seconds I noticed something which made me stop reading this article all together.

Just deploy Rook and Ceph? ARE YOU BLEEPING KIDDING ME?!?

There's a job description called "Storage Engineer". These people know a little bit about Kubernetes, but are mostly specialized in everything Ceph. This tells you everything how hard it is to keep Ceph humming along in production. As a sidenote: if you want to make really good money there's also somebody called a "Ceph consultant" who is called in when SHTF. And if SHTF in a Ceph cluster, it really does.

And that's besides all the crap it takes to get and keep Kubernetes running smoothly: Kernel Optimization. Networking. Security. Storage integration. Observability. And the list goes on...

In other words, unless you are VERY well versed in a variety of topics ranging from server architecture to deep Linux knowledge and are knee deep in the usual day to day operations stuff already you are better off running Kubernetes in the cloud and leaving all the intricacies to the likes of Google, Microsoft and Amazon than trying to run a well designed cluster architecture yourself. It just isn't worth it.
by ed | 2025-11-12 21:16:04+00:00
Source?

There’s growing evidence of cardioprotective effects independent of weight loss.

Eg https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

> The cardioprotective effects of semaglutide were independent of baseline adiposity and weight loss and had only a small association with waist circumference, suggesting some mechanisms for benefit beyond adiposity reduction.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-12 21:16:35+00:00
The tax authorities cannot unilaterally change the law with "guidance".

It is explicitly written into statute in many cases, requiring legislative action across thousands of independent tax authorities. Complicating it more is that in some cases a change must satisfy constitutional requirements which are even harder to change.

Everything is easy if you pretend that you can change things by authoritarian fiat instead of abiding by existing statutory and constitutional restrictions. The courts would never allow it.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-12 21:17:19+00:00
I actually prefer rechargeable batteries.

But rechargeable lithium batteries in AA form factor are cheap and cheerful. Even low quality ones will get 20 hours in that situation. So I have no more room to complain.

Valve is weirdly good at making controllers efficient. The original steam controller could get 80 hours out of two AAs if you turn off rumble.
by jedberg | 2025-11-12 21:17:23+00:00
"What are we going to do about the rounding problem?!"

INCLUDE TAX IN THE PRICE, then you won't have a rounding problem!

The common argument against that is "but there are so many tax jurisdictions"

One, Europe has a bunch too and has solved this, and two, it would only apply to in person cash transactions. You should be able to figure out the tax rules for the one specific place the transaction is taking place.
by quickthrowman | 2025-11-12 21:17:29+00:00
Food was almost never interesting in DCSS, except for maybe Centaurs.

Once you reached a certain point you either had a giant stack of rations or a giant stack of honeycombs if you were a Spriggan. Random mutations can happen from other non-food sources, and most items are not worth lugging around so it never really forced you to make decisions. I handled long term item storage by setting a waypoint on a square on a finished floor I used to store items. If you have ++Fire, +Cold, and +RMut then you have all of the resistance you’ll need.

FWIW I’ve won crawl dozens of times, at least once for every race and class. Placed in the top 3 for the 0.10 online tournament, both individually and my team. The two guys who beat me were both child chess prodigies, both won the Morgan Prize and both were multiple time Putnam Fellows; I went to public school and later got a GED. Felt pretty big brained after that tournament lol.

Haven’t played since 0.13
Ask HN: Would you use an app that lets you sell/delegate your shareholder votes?
by vinny380 | 2025-11-12 21:18:05+00:00
Most people who own stocks never bother voting in shareholder elections — it’s confusing and feels pointless. But those votes still matter to activists and funds trying to influence companies.

I’m exploring an app that would let retail investors trade or delegate their voting rights (the “proxy votes”) while keeping their shares.

Basically, if you don’t care how your shares vote, someone else who does could pay you for the right to use them.

Obvious issues: regulation, low dollar value per vote, and general apathy.

But I’m curious — would you ever use something like this? Or is this a tarpit idea? Thanks!
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-11-12 21:18:10+00:00
> Which came from a misunderstanding about where the downloadable solver script comes from, as it doesn't come from youtube.com, it comes from github.com (yt-dlp org), I was just correcting that misunderstanding.

But that script is ultimately running a JS challenge from Youtube, right? That’s why we actually needed a JS runtime in the first place.
by jsheard | 2025-11-12 21:18:13+00:00
That's great as long as it works, but D3DMetal is a proprietary, closed-source Apple library so you can and probably will get rug-pulled by Apple neglecting or deprecating it as their priorities change. They've only ever positioned it as an "evaluation environment" for developers to estimate how their game will run before going ahead with a native Mac port, not as something for end-users to play Windows games with, so if developers don't bite then they'll have no reason to keep working on it.
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-12 21:18:28+00:00
> Is there even a desktop/window manager work with 3d space currently?

The best known is perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass but there's many others, at varying stages of development. It will be interesting to see if custom OS/UX development is made available for this device. We'd also need quite a bit of custom development to make the OS comprehensively usable with gamepad-like controllers alone (no mouse or keyboard required). The existing work on "10-ft." media center interfaces can provide a useful starting point for this but it's far from covering all possible uses.
by BenjiWiebe | 2025-11-12 21:18:37+00:00
I'm in favor of keeping dimes.

However, to put it into perspective, a dime is only 50 seconds of labor at Kansas' minimum wage ($7.25/hr).

It's hard to find a situation where a dime truly makes much difference. And remember the rounding. You won't always lose 10c just because dimes don't exist.
by tadfisher | 2025-11-12 21:19:25+00:00
> Disclaimer: This article was written with AI assistance, for a bit of brainstorming and proofreading.

I suspect the target audience is "whoever will subscribe on Substack" more than someone who has ever written or contemplated writing shellcode. I'm seeing more and more articles like this that focus the prose on some weird subset-of-a-niche aspect of a subject, then end with a set of bullet points for fixing the problem as if this is something one regularly encounters.
by verdverm | 2025-11-12 21:19:27+00:00
The problem with masking and non-identifying themselves is we now have non-ICE vigilanties acting as if they are ICE. It's become bad enough even the FBI put out a notice

https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-warns-of-criminals-posing-as...

ICE wouldn't need to hide behind masks if they were only going after the "worst of the worst". Instead they are taking children from their beds in the middle of the night, daycare providers in the middle of the day, and journalists and politicians trying to visit their sites
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-12 21:19:30+00:00
> So the ask (make a patch for your CVEs) is reasonable. It follows that to fail to do so is unreasonable.

Ah, that's where the confusion happens. It's your stance that it follows, but tpmoney was directly disagreeing with that logic.

tpmoney's stance, and my stance, is that it's reasonable to ask and it's also reasonable to say no.

It's not irrational to say that you can reasonably decline a reasonable request. Jeez.

(Also even if it was irrational, that wouldn't make tpmoney a hypocrite. That claim is just weird.)
by spprashant | 2025-11-12 21:19:43+00:00
I think thats part of the issue I have with it constantly.

Let's say I am solving a problem. I suggest strategy Alpha, a few prompts later I realize this is not going to work. So I suggest strategy Bravo, but for whatever reason it will hold on to ideas from A and the output is a mix of the two. Even if I say forget about Alpha we don't want anything to do that, there will be certain pieces which only makes sense with Alpha, in the Bravo solution. I usually just start with a new chat at that point and hope the model is not relying on previous chat context.

This is a hard problem to solve because its hard to communicate our internal compartmentalization to a remote model.