MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xandergos | 2025-12-11 03:00:01+00:00
I've thought about this before, and I think there is some way you could find to do it. For example, you could generate on the mercator projection of the world, and then un-project. But the mercator distorts horizontal length approaching the poles. I think it would be complex to implement, but you could use larger windows closer to the poles to negate this.
by shmerl | 2025-12-11 03:00:16+00:00
That's a catch 22 / circular argument that can always be used to excuse inaction, but it's not a real argument. Yes, it's a long term problem to solve and has many moving parts. But if they don't solve their part, they are only slowing it down even more. Any contribution to move things forward moves things forward, and lack of it delays things.

I.e. if you are saying "we feed the cartel, let's not do anything about it, since doing anything will only potentially help later, so we still need to feed the cartel in in the interim" doesn't really stand any argument grounds. I.e. feed the cartel and do nothing is worse than feed the cartel and do what you can to stop that over time.

And their piece of this is pretty big (huge portion of TV market), that's why they in particular should be asked more than others, why they aren't doing their part.
Ask HN: What high-effort, high-reward skills have you developed in 2025?
by Hixon10 | 2025-12-11 03:00:36+00:00
It would be interesting to hear what current tech skills have a steep learning curve but pay off a lot afterward.

Some examples (not sure they're the best ones, but just to illustrate):

1. Vim motions

2. Rust

3. Jujutsu (as an alternative to Git)

4. Formal methods in software engineering (Alloy, TLA+)
by cafxx | 2025-12-11 03:00:43+00:00
There's a bunch of activity ongoing to make things better for memory allocation/collection in Go. GreenTeaGC is one that has already landed, but there are others like the RuntimeFree experiment that aims at progressively reduce the amount of garbage generated by enabling safe reuse of heap allocations, as well as other plans to move more allocations to the stack.

Somehow concluding that "By killing Memory Arenas, Go effectively capped its performance ceiling" seems quite misguided.
by jackling | 2025-12-11 03:01:45+00:00
Premise 1: The pagers were military devices, but based on what we know about them, it is impossible to assert that all were in the custody of Hezbollah combatants at the moment they exploded. One would need to prove that the pagers were physically on the combatants’ persons—and not, for example, sitting on a coffee table or elsewhere—at the time of detonation.

Premise 2: The physical location of the pagers directly affects the pattern of civilian injuries. Hospitals reported that many of the injured were civilians, including children, women, and non-combatants who were at home, at work, or in public areas. Even pro-Israel outlets, such as the Times of Israel, reported the same distribution of casualties.

Footage from Reuters, Al Jazeera, AP, and local Lebanese reporters shows numerous injured civilians with bandaged hands and faces, including people hurt inside homes, markets, farms, and workplaces, as well as children with hand and facial burns.

Now I would pose the question to you, why is your (likely novice) understanding of explosives and the footage you seen enough to overwrite the opinions of the hospitals and government of Lebanon?
by TacticalCoder | 2025-12-11 03:01:46+00:00
> Another issue is due to the font size and font metrics

The biggest issue is that you don't replace a serif font with a sans-serif one "because diversity".

There's a reason signs on the highway are using sans-serif and there's a reason letters and books are using serif fonts.

I did both write and typeset books and honestly it's facepalming that the previous administration did switch to Calibri "because of diversity and because it's now the default in Word".

Ah, OK. Microsoft is, partly, behind the move. This explains that.
by k310 | 2025-12-11 03:02:23+00:00
Interesting. I (male, 76) never carry my phone except in a shoulder bag. At home, it always lies somewhere (the watch finds it) or on a charger. Out in my rural property, I never carry it because it's steep, (a ridge), slick with tiny dried oak leaves, except in a backpack or camera bag when I am out snapping photos or clearing some trails I created through the brush (which likes to grow back)

The phone reported an uneven stride, which is interesting, because I never carry the phone and Apple said phone and not watch. I got some varicose veins recently, which receded. I know that affected my stride.

Congestion (allergies?) sometimes affects my balance, but I am steady as can be after the congestion goes away, a few days when it hits. Otherwise, it's just the disorder of the home that makes navigation tricky. I am working on that. Tired of stubbing my toes. I am single, so I report only to me, and I am too easy going on myself in this regard (until lately)

I don't know where men carry phones other than myself. I use the shoulder bag or don't carry it around. Women use back pockets, and why don't the phones break? I'm right now sitting with the phone in a front pants pocket and it's uncomfortable. Shirts and t-shirts often have no pockets and if they do, the phone falls out. (you know where).

Well, that's my two cents worth (before pennies are banned). I'm probably an outlier. A typical "walk" on the ridge here involves some climbing, and tests my stability. Few falls, and I always managed to land on the designated glutes.

I'd clear those tiny leaves from the better trails but that would be a monster chore and they'd be right back.

Home will be much more navigable as downsizing and organizing move forward.
Show HN: Enact – NPM for AI Tools with Sigstore and Dagger
by kgroves88 | 2025-12-11 03:02:59+00:00
I'm on a mission to make discoverable ai tools. I've been thinking about this issue for over a year.

This isn't an MCP registry; it's a fully open source system, with a unique way of defining ai tools.

here's a demo video. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1anYnc7EBSYKvHJNncf4CSAeMViM...

I think the developer experience is a little better than defining mcp servers on multiple ports, but I'm curious to hear what everyone thinks.
by KerrickStaley | 2025-12-11 03:03:06+00:00
In my personal experience, OpenRouter makes it easy to call Gemini 3 Pro Preview and other frontier LLMs with very little setup. It’s great for projects where you want to compare different LLMs or have the flexibility to switch. It charges a 5.5% fee on top of the base API price so at scale you would want to switch to directly calling the provider.
by addaon | 2025-12-11 03:03:09+00:00
An anytime algorithm monotonically improves some evaluation metric. For a sort, the evaluation metric is usually the number of inversions in the list. At completion, there will be zero inversions. If at time 0 there are N inversions, then at time 0 < t < completion time there will be ≤ N inversions; that is, the list is "more sorted" than it was before. As the various examples about games and animation elsewhere in the comments show, this can be interpreted as "somewhat smoothly moving towards sorted over time," which is an (occasionally) ((rarely)) useful property.
by ntSean | 2025-12-11 03:03:18+00:00
Each company was required to put a statement to the eSafety commission explaining why they should be exempt from the law, even GitHub. The eSafety commission also have an open monitoring period where they'll repeal the law if it isn't working as intended, and will release research.

I don't think it's just corruption, there are people who are trying to do the right thing, even if flawed.
by tptacek | 2025-12-11 03:03:48+00:00
Premise 1: I accept that they could have been on coffee tables! The problem isn't that I'm sure every pager was in a combatant pocket; it's that they were microcharges (we have videographic evidence!), and unless most of the pagers were for whatever reason not on hand to a combatant but rather for some reason close to a civilian, the Lebanese civilian/combatant casualty figures can't be made to make sense.

Premise 2 just repeats Premise 1, from what I can tell.

The footage argument doesn't rebut any claim I made. You're treating this as if it's an argument that the pager strike was clean, or even morally justifiable; I have made neither claim.
by shagie | 2025-12-11 03:03:48+00:00
One of the things that image shows is the slightly higher density of the Times version (compare row by row) allowing the paper to put more text on a page and thus reduce some of the costs.

This appears to be done by increasing the height of the lower case letters in the Times side while reducing the height of the capital letters at the same time. This then was also combined with a reduction in the size of some of the serifs which are measured against the height of the lowercase letter (compare the 'T' and the following 'h').

The Times is similarly readable at the smaller font size than the modern serif font - and scaling the modern font to the same density of text would have made the modern font less readable.

Part of that, it appears is the finer detail (as alluded to in the penultimate paragraph) - compare the '3' on each side.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-12-11 03:03:56+00:00
Scientific POV: Having 8x the evolutionary timeframe of cooking with fire is certainly a better explanation as to why Hominids have relatively shorter digestive tracts.

Author Feedback: The "animate an article with static pictures with text scroll-over" was really neat when it first debut'd, but at this point you guys need to keep site designs much simpler. I shouldn't have to physically wheelscrool 8x as much to read the same amount of text.
by DonHopkins | 2025-12-11 03:04:47+00:00
Yes, you can use a 3d Perlin noise field and sample it on the surface of the sphere, to get seamless texture without any anomalies at the poles or projection distortion. That applies to any 3d shape, not just spheres -- it's like carving a solid block of marble. And use 4d Perlin noise to animate it!

It's easy to add any number of dimensions to Perlin noise to control any other parameters (like generating rocks or plants, or modulating biomes and properties like moisture across the surface of the planet, etc).

Each dimension has its own scale, rotation, and intensity (a transform into texture space), and for any dimension you typically combine multiple harmonics and amplitudes of Perlin noise to generate textures with different scales of detail.

The art is picking and tuning those scales and intensities -- you'd want grass density to vary faster than moisture, but larger moist regions to have more grass, dry regions are grassless, etc.
by here2learnstuff | 2025-12-11 03:04:48+00:00
Please expand on your experiences, because I've had great luck with Pulumi at my company since October 2021. No engineer liked HCL, our demographic was engineers who were familiar with programming languages who wanted to self service basic infrastructure (AWS SecretsManager, IRSA roles, Databricks Service Principals, etc). We were pretty easily able to shim in a RunAtlantis inspired system that displayed previews that required explicit approval when a PR was raised, performed apply on merge to main, and ran drift checks periodically.
by defrost | 2025-12-11 03:05:30+00:00
The statistical evidence for a change in the paper you linked and the other papers in the area is extremely weak.

At one end of the scale is very little data that gives an unreliable picture with a high degree of variability, at the other end of the not very long in time scale is somewhat more data that provides a better picture.

To make such a fuss about " this demographic change " indicates a lack of exposure to such statistics.

Why are you attempting to make such a big deal of bad data here?
by acdha | 2025-12-11 03:05:43+00:00
> It's not political commentary, it's a constant stream of pure, unfiltered manipulation, lies, brainwashing, prejudice and antisocial behaviour.

This is exactly what conservative talk radio was like, and it radicalized a bunch of boomers – especially the ones with long car commutes who had limited counter examples. There’s a direct line between the guys joking about eating spotted owls or how feminists were too ugly to worry about rape to the modern environment, or saying that the government was discriminating against white men, but the difference now is scale and variety: now it reaches more people and there are more flavors available so the young woman who would’ve been turned off by Rush instead gets some wellness influencer talking about how birth control causes cancer.
by bluesounddirect | 2025-12-11 03:06:47+00:00
How long before someone connects The secretary of commerce howard lutnick, to his company bgc partners ownership a oil and gas shipping broker , poten and partners . Poten had a desk specifically for Venezuelan crude, which Venezuela can not really domestically refine at scale. Their crude is mainly refined in Texas , and Louisiana . So we seize their tanker on the way to where exactly? Also do we even know if it was carrying crude to be refined to fuel or bitumen . Who owns the cargo, where is it being refines , who insured the boat , who insured the cargo. This story has too many holes in it to make sense . Whatever happened to the Epstein files ?
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-12-11 03:06:52+00:00
Looks great, time to add it to my bookmarks.

Anyone has other sites like these to share?

- Domain-driven design, design patterns, and antipatterns

https://deviq.com/

- Refactoring and Design Patterns

https://refactoring.guru/

- Standard Patterns in Choice-Based Games

https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/standard-...
by ntSean | 2025-12-11 03:07:27+00:00
This is not true. Its users suspected to be underage which will be asked.

Additionally, the law makes no judgement on the technology used to identify age, just that social media companies need to make an effort. I suspect that companies will not want to deal with the data security issues (very illegal to share pictures of underage people without consent), and will not be "sharing" with 3rd parties.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-11 03:07:30+00:00
Fair.

Funny enough I lived in the Atlanta metro area from 1996 to 2022. I had a house built in Decatur in 2003.

I started dating my now wife in 2011. She lived in Alpharetta. As soon as I met my now step sons who were 9 and 14, my first thought was in going to have to sell my house and move. There is no way in hell they are going to survive Decatur public schools.

We moved to Johns Creek at first and then had a house built in Forsyth County. Yeah this Forsyth County

https://youtu.be/WErjPmFulQ0?si=qfgRouGzQvm_nI1h

The attitudes in the burbs of Forsyth changed since then as people came from other places and it grew. But we very much stuck out. My son loved it there and still lives in that area and rents a house nearby where you use to live.
by simianwords | 2025-12-11 03:07:48+00:00
> Together, they now own three times more than the poorest half of humanity, or 2.8 billion adults. While the gap has stabilized since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has grown sharply over recent decades: Back in 1995, the 0.001% held "only" twice as much as the poorest half.

Important context: here debt is counted as negative. This means a person with no debt but zero wealth also owns more wealth than bottom 20% or so cumulatively because the debts of people cancel out with others wealth. I think this is misleading.
Show HN: MechanicsDSL – PhPhysics simulations with LaTeX-like syntax in Python
by Guilo78 | 2025-12-11 03:08:02+00:00
Hi HN! I built this to make physics simulations more intuitive.

Example - simulating a pendulum:

from mechanics_dsl import PhysicsCompiler compiler = PhysicsCompiler() compiler.compile_dsl(r""" \system{pendulum} \lagrangian{\frac{1}{2} m l^2 \dot{\theta}^2 + m g l \cos(\theta)} """) solution = compiler.simulate((0, 10))

It automatically derives equations of motion and can generate C++/Rust/CUDA code.

Feedback welcome!
by thatcat | 2025-12-11 03:08:16+00:00
It's an opportunistic solution to a budget problem.

Local governments have extra money from property price bubble increasing tax revenues.

At the same time there are great open source image analysis models for companies to put on a pole using cheap android hw and a solar panel and make bold claims about solving all crime, then they can sell that data again to 3rd parties like insurance. Also can start buying access to more video feeds from ring cameras etc and resell that. They'll hire someone to make a ux to integrate it into PDs later, for a premium of course.
by justin66 | 2025-12-11 03:08:29+00:00
Interestingly just nine days ago someone here shared a link to the US's Law of War manual for military personnel. It's pretty good for what it is. Since countries base this stuff on the same international treaties they've all signed, it's a guide to Israel's conduct during war (or just about anyone's) as well as the US's.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147605

https://media.defense.gov/2023/Jul/31/2003271432/-1/-1/0/DOD...

The question of whether what Israel did with the pagers was legal is not really controversial, or rather, it's not unclear what the law is. Find out the exciting answer in 6.12.4.8 Booby-Traps and Other Devices in the Form of Apparently Harmless Portable Objects Specifically Designed to Explode. (spoiler alert: of course what they did is illegal)

In case you were wondering what the big deal was the other day about the US bombing shipwrecked "narco terrorists" there's 7.3 RESPECT AND PROTECTION OF THE WOUNDED, SICK, AND SHIPWRECKED.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-12-11 03:09:02+00:00
Yeah, but he gave you an affirmative answer, that it did make him more productive, and you keep moving the goalposts as I watch.

Not only that, I think you're misrepresenting his claim:

> I suspect I’m likely 5-10x more productive, though it depends exactly what I’m working on

1) He didn't say 10-100x

2) He said it depended on the work he was doing

Those seem reasonable enough that I can take his experience at face value.

This isn't about you pressure testing his claim, this is about you just being unwilling to believe his experience because it doesn't fit the narrative you've already got in your head.
by delichon | 2025-12-11 03:09:25+00:00
The solution is what Lauren did, she rolled her own. Once that took teams of experts and big bucks. Now a single ML expert can do it for small bucks because she "needed a restaurant recommendation" and didn't trust the available ones. Soon any mild mannered programmer will have the same capability, and then the muggles will get it, in a mass, just for the asking of their favorite chat bot.

If the progression holds, oodles of recommendation engines can bloom, and it'll be trivial to fork and customize a favorite with a prompt. As the friction of doing large analysis jobs tends toward nil, the Google moat dries up and their commanding height subsides. Too optimistic?
by sgc | 2025-12-11 03:09:29+00:00
Your examples don't seem to represent the leading causes of fatalities from traffic accidents in the US, which remain distracted driving (phones and crappy touchscreen controls, etc) and drunk driving. People rolling through a stop sign / performing a 'California' stop are nowhere near the massive security concern to authorize the ideal surveillance state. To deal with the bigger issues you would have to film peoples actions in their cars and run it all through ai to accuse them of driving while drowsy. That would be an incredible and lazy failure. Also, fatalities per mile had a massive surge in 2020-2021, but they have been steadily dropping since then (2024 in wikipedia estimated a 1.27 per 1m miles, about the same as 2008). If the trend continues, in a year or two we will be back to the early 2010s lows without draconian measures.

The solution, as always, is better infrastructure and support at multiple levels, not beating everybody with a stick.
by qrios | 2025-12-11 03:10:06+00:00
> … what human intelligence is because intelligence is best described as a side-effect of consciousness …

Is "human intelligence" and "intelligence" equal?

And: How to become conscious before being intelligent?

Or: If intelligence is a side-effect, how often this side-effect can't be observed?

Xor: What if an intelligent being denies being conscious?
by android521 | 2025-12-11 03:10:34+00:00
The ones that actually match POSD (deep modules, small interfaces, lower complexity) and work great with plain functions are:

Module Pattern

Factory Pattern (factory functions)

Mediator / Middleware Pattern (as function pipelines)

Hooks Pattern (custom hooks, generalized)

Container / Presentational Pattern (implemented with function components + hooks)

Everything else is either neutral, UI-only, or fights POSD (Singleton, Mixin, etc.).

Patterns from that page you should treat skeptically for POSD

From Patterns.dev, for your POSD-style codebase I’d avoid or downplay:

Singleton Pattern → encourages global state and tight coupling. Patterns

Mixin Pattern → tends to increase interface surface and make dependencies opaque. Patterns

Observer Pattern → powerful, but event-based wiring can obscure data flow and increase “system complexity” (classic POSD warning). Patterns
by amypetrik8 | 2025-12-11 03:10:54+00:00
> some immigrants about what brought them to the United States in the first place.

What brought them to the US is that if they have a kid, now their kid is a citizen. Green card etc waived - you wouldn't deport a family would you? Now they nominally have zero income so they qualify for full on super duper welfare - food, house, medical care. Of course find a job, too - but has to be under the table because no green card. Meaning no taxes either. So free food, free house no rent, free medicine, no taxes. Medical care legally requires accomodations for foreign languages - don't need to speak English either.

I mean, if Japan said, "if you have a kid here, live here on our dime, eat on our dime, free medical care, no taxes" yea I would take that deal!! Can't blame em

Irony of the whole thing? This actually kinda solves the population crisis. Forces people to have a kid. Actually an interesting finding but poorly explored since the powers that be like to bury their head in the sand and pretend 50 million people haven't exploited this.

Other point is well, why did this even happen? Well, the landlords are quite happy to see the feds paying for rent, they'll collect that check, as with the food suppliers and the medical care practitioners - a very nice niche. And the small businesses are more than happy to pay someone under the table untaxed, lower overhead. So the people coming in illegally, they benefit, the people collecting the taxes paying for them, they benefit, everybody else, welp, there goes your tax money
by nntwozz | 2025-12-11 03:11:28+00:00
Society is like poorly written software with lots of patches, new features are added (social media) and then stuff randomly breaks. A fix is eventually deployed, sometimes the fix works; sometimes the fix causes more bugs.

And so we move forward, like Gordon Freeman in unforeseen consequences.

Nobody said nothing as social media and the attention economy took over the world.

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” — Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park