MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-12-05 19:00:04+00:00
Google's photo app had the searching for years. It seemed a lot more useful a few years ago when it was using dumber image recognition models. Now it returns fewer matches on the same search. I tend to search the same things a few times a year as a supplement to some story and it's been frustrating to see in real time, a picture that used to come up when searching "car" or "guitar" is missing and instead unrelated pictures returned.
by wk_end | 2025-12-05 19:00:21+00:00
That frontend seems to have things that aren't hosted on Wikimedia Commons, whereas I think OP's link is Wikimedia-exclusive and more reliable.

For example, Network (1976) - one of my favourite films - isn't listed on the Wikimedia page, but it's listed on the WikiFlix frontend. I was a little surprised to see that, since AFAIK it's still under copyright. Clicking through, it's trying to embed a copy from the Internet Archive, from which it was taken down because, yes, it's still under copyright.
by robocat | 2025-12-05 19:00:47+00:00
Presumably if you were vaccinated as a child against chickenpox (Herpes Zoster) and didn't get chickenpox then you already have the protection.

There are no dementia statistics versus vaccination for that demographic because vaccination started about 1995.

There is also a relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1950/

If you are thinking that dementia is caused by shingles, then also consider that shingles is caused by chickenpox.
by gosub100 | 2025-12-05 19:00:48+00:00
Look up "corporate raiders" if you think business people weren't greedy in the 80s, or the dissolution of Ma Bell, that used to rent you your phone. In fact, the 80s era cable TV also started the box rental racket. You could not choose to buy, you had to rent.

Regan's politics are completely orthogonal to IP content today.
by jvanderbot | 2025-12-05 19:01:01+00:00
I almost always prefer enums and matches! vs bool parameters. Another way is to implement a Trait that you find useful that encapsulates the logic. And don't forget you can do impl <Enum> {} blocks to add useful functions that execute regardless of which member of the enum you got.

enum MyType{ ... } impl MyType{ pub fn is_useable_in_this_way(&self) -> bool{ // possibly ... match self {...} } }

and later:

pub fn use_in_that_way(e: MyType) { if e.is_useable_in_this_way() {...} }

Or if you hate all that there's always:

if let MyType::Member(x) = e { ... }
by quesera | 2025-12-05 19:01:13+00:00
This is outside my field.

If you tell me that EPA doesn't have a better process than "dunno, seems OK", then I'll humbly defer.

Not holding EPA up as infallible, just asserting that intentionally-deceptive research should not be tolerated -- and should demand a higher degree of skepticism of other research from the same entities or with the same beneficiaries.
by redserk | 2025-12-05 19:01:20+00:00
Do recognize, you're voluntarily participating in a highly moderated forum. If one were principled in their opposition to moderation, one would not voluntarily choose to use said forum for nearly a decade ;)

Part of what makes Hackernews enjoyable to read is the strong and very reasonable moderation. We aren't subject to walls of Viagra/Cialis ads or back-and-forth flamewars.

I'd argue it's because of content moderation that HN is an environment that generally promotes a marketplace of ideas.
by 0xCE0 | 2025-12-05 19:01:31+00:00
Excel is a real CEO/CFO-grade tool, because the mental/simulated model stays local, stabile and personal, Excel rarely corrupts data (never happened at least for me, even with massive file sizes) and you can just generally trust it to get the needed job done with it whatever it is.

Yeah, I can't quit Excel. Every day there are spreadsheets open in my taskbar, even right now :)
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-12-05 19:02:21+00:00
Hello! Another datapoint here, both I and a friend of mine got shingles in our early 30s. I had to go to two different doctors because the first just assumed that it was "bad acne" (my shingles followed the trigeminal nerve across my face). Second doctor immediately clocked it as shingles. It was perhaps the second most painful experience of my life, not so much because it was intensely painful but because the pain was constant and resistant to relief.

I'm told that stress can cause shingles to flare up, in that stress also suppresses the immune system, and both my friend and I were going through one of the most stressful phases of our lives at the time, so I always chalked it up to that. Not a very strong hypothesis, though.
Show HN: Diamond or Dud – Vote on and discuss a different stock every week
by aaronds | 2025-12-05 19:02:32+00:00
I like finding and reading about companies but struggle to find the time.

So I started a weekly poll: I pick an interesting company, show some key facts and figures, and let the community vote and discuss - overvalued or hidden gem? A few minutes a week to discover a new company or see what others think about one you know.

Starting with Palantir this week. Would love HN's take.

Cheers!
by NelsonMinar | 2025-12-05 19:03:27+00:00
I wonder if this works any better than their Unifi LTE Backup. That was so bad I gave up on it after about a month. The biggest problem was the weird way the router handled routes meant that with the LTE on the network, even when it wasn't being used a bunch of router features were impaired. Like static routes.

Ubiquiti makes some good hardware but their software is full of terrible bugs.
by tptacek | 2025-12-05 19:03:56+00:00
Dev Pragad was involved with the IBT ownership of Newsweek. The whole thing is a mess. Cards on the table, I'm throwing an elbow with the "religious cult" thing; the cult has not much to do with why you should be careful with Newsweek. Rather, it's that Newsweek as it exists today has nothing to do with Newsweek as people understand it. Whoever owns it, it's basically an actual clickbait farm now.
by alpha_squared | 2025-12-05 19:03:59+00:00
Someone "actually working with it" checking in, if that matters at all to this conversation. I'm very bearish on the industry even if I think the tech is going to stick around.

If we separate the tech from the industry, it's clear one has some value (albeit very hard to say just how much) and the other is a lot of smoke and mirrors. This is not a healthy space.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-12-05 19:04:01+00:00
I'm saying based on sentiment I see as a gamer.

There's plenty of outrage about paid loot boxes and viewing them as terrible, terrible gambling that exploits consumers and ought to be regulated/banned. Not everyone agrees with this take, but it's still fairly widespread.

Now, you do see people pointing out that trading card games are basically still gambling -- and no one really disagrees with that -- you just don't see the same level of outrage about it. What you usually see is grudging acceptance, ala "what're ya gonna do, that's just how these card games are".
by spicybbq | 2025-12-05 19:04:03+00:00
Reading about it, I see some characteristics: no screen, possibly something you can carry in your pocket, possibly has ai-driven awareness of its environment.

OpenAI wants to get into the hardware business, so they came up with something. Is it going to be something people actually want? I am skeptical, but as a consumer it's cool that so companies are trying out various new devices even if most of them are no good.
by gfaster | 2025-12-05 19:04:10+00:00
That it is Undefined Behavior for a loop with a non-constant conditional and that doesn't cause side effects in its body to not terminate.

For example, you can use this make the compiler "prove" the Collatz Conjecture:

https://gcc.godbolt.org/#g:!((g:!((g:!((h:codeEditor,i:(file...
by vlovich123 | 2025-12-05 19:04:19+00:00
> Control-plane and data-plane should be separate

They are separate.

> a react patch shouldn't affect traffic forwarding.

If you can’t even bother to read the blog post maybe you shouldn’t be so confident in your own analysis of what should and shouldn’t have happened?

This was a configuration change to change the buffered size of a body from 256kb to 1mib.

The ability to be so wrong in so few words with such confidence is impressive but you may want to take more of a curiosity first approach rather than reaction first.
by Lord-Jobo | 2025-12-05 19:04:20+00:00
“Trust x,y” will also basically never mean “trust, completely, always, equally, and blindly”.

Trust the science was a shorthand for “you, or even I, may not understand this thing in perfect detail, but the people working on it do, and they GENERALLY aren’t making catastrophic mistakes that you can detect as an amateur. And when these people collectively stand behind a conclusion the odds of it being completely wrong are exceptionally low. We don’t have a more accurate alternative regardless. Please stop JAQing off about it”

But writing all of that over and over again is annoying. And a lot of “”””critical thinkers”””” can’t be bothered to read it. So the shorthand emerges. Sometimes used incorrectly? Definitely.
by gaigalas | 2025-12-05 19:04:42+00:00
The internet dislikes a lot of things. It's meaningless.

A substack post is not anger, an HN comment is not breaking machines.

In IT specifically, people who dislike AI are simply not revolting. They're retiring or taking sabbaticals. They're not breaking machinery, they're waiting for the thing to crash and burn on its own.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-05 19:05:08+00:00
>While people who work are more benefitted by the higher wages of increased domestic labor

This is not a given. In the US unemployment has been low for a very long time. If the majority of your population is in the 'well enough' paid service economy and you're trying to bring pay low paying blue collar jobs, then all you do is massively increase the total price of everything because the production line works needs to massively increase salaries to compete with things like software engineering.

Furthermore there is zero requirement that onshoring actually brings jobs, at all. If I'm going to build a factory here in the US I'm going to automate the fuck out of everything having the minimal amount of staffing. It won't be like 100 years ago where a factory brought in 1000s of jobs.
by rudedogg | 2025-12-05 19:05:19+00:00
The language tends to affect everything, but to give a quick Developer example there’s Zed. Developers use it because it’s fast. Same with Sublime Text.

Your criticism makes more sense with products targeting non-technical users though. But IMO tech choices have cascading effects. I won’t buy a vehicle if the infotainment software sucks, and that’s the 2nd largest purchase I’ll ever make.
by redserk | 2025-12-05 19:05:22+00:00
That's fair, but my point was that AI should be implemented in a way that's out-of-the-way but is still helpful to users.

I think LLMs are incredible, I think there's a lot of really good usecases where it can help promote recommendations and actions for a user to take. I don't think every user wants to have every app they touch into a Chatbot though.
by perching_aix | 2025-12-05 19:05:26+00:00
> I read the article it's about blue check marks,

Why lie so blatantly? This is what was in the article:

> EU regulators said X's DSA violations included the deceptive design of its blue checkmark for verified accounts, the lack of transparency of its advertising repository and its failure to provide researchers access to public data.

Can you count? I count three distinct claims, not one.
by amluto | 2025-12-05 19:05:51+00:00
We will start finding out whether people who got the varicella vaccine instead of chicken pox get shingles at a similar rate soon — the older members of this population are approaching shingles age.

Here’s a study that looks good:

https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/226/Supplement_4/S470/6...

The headline conclusion is:

> Latent VZV can be wild-type VZV (wt-VZV) from natural infection, vaccine-strain VZV (vs-VZV) from immunization with live attenuated vaccine, or both. Based on available data in children and adolescents, the risk of HZ from vs-VZV appears to be approximately 80% lower than the risk from wt-VZV, with a lower incidence found in 2-dose as compared to 1-dose vaccine recipients [9, 10].

A major caveat is that the relevant age groups were very much too young for shingles vaccines at the time the study was published.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-05 19:06:05+00:00
>General society being generally poor communicators

period dot.

Don't insinuate there was a golden past where humans in general were great communicators, it didn't exist. Furthermore the need to communicate in the modern world has increased network sizes many times over what humans developed in the 'monkeysphere'. For all most of all human evolution the number of people you interacted with and communicated with was relatively tiny, like 150 or so.

Before we developed radio communication to crowds was a rare thing done by few people. Radio itself lead to massive crowds but few communicators themselves (Propagandists quickly realized its power for example). And really TV was much the same. But in the last 40 years we've had a geometric explosion in the ability to communicate by the average person. In terms of societal growth, this is a tiny sliver of time. Now your 'average idiot' can communicate with the world, poorly, and still garner a huge audience, and or work requires much less 'doing things' and communicating.
by nevertoolate | 2025-12-05 19:07:18+00:00
I do. I’ve researched the optimal distance for a smallish tv screen (which fits between the studio monitor stand). I move the tv closer when watching a film, it stands on hacked together wooden box like thing which has some yoga tools and film magazines in it - it has wheels. Crazy stuff. There is a flipchart like drawing of my daughter covering the tv normally which we flip when watching films.
by rzerowan | 2025-12-05 19:07:42+00:00
Thats part of it actually , they have(had) a nonstandard offering via Sony hardware. If it was a known OEM like Oppo/Honor/Oneplus theres already some familiarity/buyin from users and lines possibly can be opened for select verticals.

Instead with the SonyX offerings , they linited it to a tiny range, upgrades as i recall were sometimes not possible to newer versions and a separate support contract to Jollla was needed.

A pure play ala android would do better, they (jolla) do the software - the OEM does the hardware/updates similarly to how Linux distros like Ubuntu get bundled into Dell etc.

If they were a hardware firm like Huawei bulding their phone and OS makes sense , or with massive scale like Google with Pixel.They are neither. Hardware is hard, and scaling it at volume moreso.
by autoexec | 2025-12-05 19:08:05+00:00
> Can you name a major cloud provider that doesn’t have major outages?

That fact that no major cloud provider is actually good is not an argument that cloudflare isn't bad, or even that they couldn't/shouldn't do better than they are. They have fewer resources than Google or Microsoft but they're also in a unique position that makes us differently vulnerable when they fuck up. It's not all their fault, since it was a mistake to centralize the internet to the extent that we have in the first place, but now that they are responsible for so much they have to expect that people will be upset when they fail.
by ux266478 | 2025-12-05 19:08:22+00:00
No. The touchscreen firmware's source is not distributed[1] for one, and neither is the firmware for the baseband processor. Possibly more aspects.

Although "open" doesn't matter as much as "libre" does. Modifying source code is useless if you can't actually replace the running instance. It has all the same problems as closed source software. Baseband processors are legally required to be tivoized, thus the violation of user freedoms is encoded in law. Quite frankly, I think it's a huge mistake on the part of regulators. If somebody wanted to do undesirable things on cellphone bands, they can simply build their own transciever for it and there's effectively no way to stop that. These regulations aren't a real security measure, not even security through obscurity. Making a transmitter for a certain band is trivial if all you're doing is causing interference. If the malicious actor is doing more than just that, it already requires a strong understanding of RF principles such that they already effectively posses the knowledge to make an appropriate transciever. All regulators effectively do here with Tivoization is protect potential back doors and security vulnerabilities from being mitigated.

[1] - https://docs.puri.sm/Hardware/Librem_5/advanced/firmware.htm...
by peterbrianson | 2025-12-05 19:08:44+00:00
Hello, I'm the Brian that made these slides. Here's a copy: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M-d9rRsFnC8zUkeFrkVC...

One clarification: these are not official internal NYT meeting guidelines; rather, they are learnings from throughout my career that I documented and presented within my teams and departments when I worked at NYT. They developed a life of their own and were shared around the company over the years, but this is the first time I've seen them "escape" and get shared outside. Enjoy!
by e12e | 2025-12-05 19:08:52+00:00
> "Some DisplayPort"? There's still no HDMI/video out on the M2 air under Linux? No Ethernet 1 or 10gps?

I'd advise buying a MacBook air m1 over an m2 if the goal is to run Linux...

https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m2/
by sunaookami | 2025-12-05 19:08:55+00:00
The fact-checking organization "Correctiv" (which was one of the first that got the privilege of marking shared links on Facebook as "disinformation") falsely claimed the right-wing AfD party planned to deport millions of non-Germans in a secret "Masterplan" ("Remigration") which of course did not happen which was confirmed by a court and later by Correctiv themselves.[1] This false report was repeated on every TV station, print and online magazine but the correction was not as widely shared (most people don't even know that the report was fabricated). Keep in mind that the Correctiv report lead to mass protests against the AfD and reactions from a lot of companies and government officials, so it had a HUGE impact.

The government also funds projects from Correctiv (a common pattern for these "N"GO's).

[1] https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/correctiv-verhandlu...
by aeve890 | 2025-12-05 19:09:00+00:00
Now that you mention it I think this is a new trend. I pretty sure I've seen more "written in Rust/Go/Zig" than any other language out there. I've never seen a post like "new cli, written in C++" for example. I don't know if it's just some kind of tribalism or a way to attract talent to your project.

I think end users don't give a shit about the tech stack of a software. Why would they?
by triceratops | 2025-12-05 19:09:06+00:00
> how much money HBO is still making off of decades old IP

I'd say Disney is the uncontested king of making money off old work. If HBO was that good they wouldn't have been scooped up so easily.

Netflix execs may be envious of the enduring cultural cachet of shows like The Sopranos or The Wire. That's completely different from making real money.
by CocaKoala | 2025-12-05 19:09:22+00:00
More specifically, it's highly doctor-dependent. The FDA hasn't approved shingrix for people under 50; some doctors are willing to prescribe it without FDA approval, others are not. I personally had shingles in my early thirties and have thus far been unable to have my doctor prescribe shingrix.

Also, I would like to point out that having shingles was possibly the single most physically unpleasant experience of my life and boy it sure would have been fantastic to have been able to get the shingles vaccine before I got shingles, as opposed to sometime after! because wow, having shingles sucks.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-05 19:09:32+00:00
>Once people perceive a social stale mate they either avoid

This is called the Firehose of Falsehood and it's a very effective way of killing public participation.

>use their personal experiences to make their decisions

Yes they can if they have them. But people use other peoples personal experiences when they don't, which means all you have to do is become their facebook friend and then tell them that 'trans mexican aliens from mars stole their job' and they'll start repeating it as a personal experience.
Show HN: We created the #3 browser agent
by valliveeti | 2025-12-05 19:09:41+00:00
We just open-sourced a browser agent that ranks #3 globally on the WebVoyager benchmark.

When we set out to build APIs for any website, we quickly realized that the existing browser agents were lacking in key areas. So we decided to build our own. After lots of iterations, we’ve made it to the other side and surpassed several far better funded teams to reach the podium, with a clear path higher.

We also have some more specialized agents in the pipeline that will be best-in-class for what they are.

Along with Giga 1, we are also releasing the underlying engine that lets you build custom browser agents of any complexity. You can run them locally, in Browserbase through the native integration, or bring your own provider.

Take a look, try Lindra Giga 1 out, and give the repo a star!
by shadowgovt | 2025-12-05 19:10:13+00:00
> they were only there for a paycheck

Perhaps more generously: reading the same story one or a few times carries more impact than reading it 300 times in quick succession. Especially when your goal that day isn't to find out what Atton Rand learned in his time fighting in the Mandalorian Wars; it's to walk to the right immediately after he finishes talking to confirm whether you can still fall through the deck-plating and into space there.
by Beijinger | 2025-12-05 19:10:18+00:00
Big claims. Solid names.

"“All five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA, along with phosphates, have already been found in the Bennu samples brought to Earth by OSIRIS-REx,” said Furukawa. “The new discovery of ribose means that all of the components to form the molecule RNA are present in Bennu.”"

Let's hope it is not a contamination.
by fngjdflmdflg | 2025-12-05 19:10:24+00:00
These OCR improvements will almost certainly be brought to google books, which is great. Long term it can enable compressing all non-digital rare books into a manageable size that can be stored for less than $5,000.[0] It would also be great for archive.org to move to this from Tesseract. I wonder what the cost would be, both in raw cost to run, and via a paid API, to do that.

[0] https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-05 19:10:46+00:00
> One would assume taxi companies etc would be willing to pay for cars that have high uptime and reliability. But I think they drive mostly the same stuff as regular people. At least one would assume they could get beefier suspension and transmission and high displacement downtuned engines.

Here in the UK until recently it was all Skoda Octavias, nice simple comfortable cars with a reliable diesel engine. Prior to that, it was all Citroën Xantias - again, nice simple comfortable (really comfortable with their hydraulic suspension) cars with a big reliable diesel engine.

It's not uncommon to see them hit well over half a million miles, often in less than five years.