MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by didibus | 2025-12-12 16:58:01+00:00
I might have a different take. I think microservices should each be independent such that it really doesn't matter how they end up being connected.

Think more actors/processes in a distributed actor/csp concurrent setup.

Their interface should therefore be hardened and not break constantly, and they shouldn't each need deep knowledge of the intricate details of each other.

Also for many system designs, you would explicitly want a different topology, so you really shouldn't restrict yourself mentally with this advice.
by lunias | 2025-12-12 16:58:18+00:00
I'm not sure I understand your point, nor you mine.

I'm not commenting about the Netherlands specifically, I'm commenting about people leaving the United States for anywhere because they feel similar to you about "the grim outlooks of the current US". It's a common narrative, but about 10x more people immigrate to the US every year as compared to the Netherlands. A lot of people in the US are like, "Trump sucks, I'm moving to Spain." Most of them never will, they just like saying they will. They don't speak Spanish, have no contacts anywhere outside of the US, have never been to Spain, etc. I'm just suggesting that the grass is not always greener on the other side, there are always trade-offs and some of the best ways to learn about those trade-offs is talking with people that have lived in both places.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-12 16:58:30+00:00
Law enforcement and intelligence agencies across Europe were given de facto impunity due to Cold War era policies that were then rolled back in the 2010s.

In 2025-26, the threat profile that most European countries face is comparable in scale to what was the norm during the Cold War, except now most Western European intelligence and law enforcement agencies are not allowed to use the same tools they used to use barely 15 years ago.

As an American, it's fine for me if Germans and Europeans remain naive. An allied Europe is good, but a naive but controlled Europe is equally as good. For every Atlanticist, we have people who can push our interests in an illiberal manner like Dominik Andrzejczuk.

For every Vance, we got a Nuland, and American views on Europe began shifting all the way back in 2011 [0] (for all you guys who will spew the "Politico is Axel Springer" crap, this article is from 2011 - 13 years before the acquisition): "Europeans should be particularly concerned that a strong majority of Americans under the age of 45 now see Asia as more important than Europe" in 2011.

> The cost of surveillance this way is very high. It's not practical to perform massive surveillance this way, so it requires a reason for targeted surveillance

Not really. Data warehousing with cold/hot storage along with basic statistical analysis and inference has become cheap. And even local police departments can afford a $50k-$100k annual contract to work with red teams on bespoke exploit development.

[0] - https://www.politico.eu/article/americans-turn-their-backs-o...
by dekhn | 2025-12-12 16:58:33+00:00
History is made by people who reflabor the exahenge.

I build microscopes instead of telescopes (as a hobby). I can't tell you how many times I've taken a mostly working system and stripped it down to make some important change that affects most of the design to get only a tiny incremental improvement. Sometimes that improvement makes all the difference (for example, being smart when 3d printing a piece that carries something heavy so it doesn't deflect) and sometimes it's just an itch I need to scratch. Eventually, I learned to make two: a microscope that gets built and used, and then a microscope that is a prototype. Then I'm not tempted to take the daily driver and pull the engine.
by MarkusQ | 2025-12-12 16:59:12+00:00
Interestingly, the report from which they draw that number is one of the few that they cite but do not link to. Here's a link:

https://www.scribd.com/document/883045105/SpaceX-Gen1-Gen2-S...

It also notes that the collision odds on which SpaceX triggers such maneuvers is 333 times more conservative than the industry standard. Were that not the case (and they were just using the standard criterion) one might naively assume that they would only be doing a maneuver every ten hours or so. But collision probabilities are not linear, they follow a power law distribution so in actuality they would only be doing such maneuvers every few days.

It is disingenuous to the point of dishonesty to use SpaceX's abundance of caution (or possibly braggadocios operational flex) as evidence that the risk is greater than it actually is.
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-12 17:00:04+00:00
WRT AI overviews/summaries, was Google smart enough to set up for this long ago?

1) encourage SEO sites to proliferate and dominate search results, pushing useful content down on the page.

2) sell ad placement directly on the search results page, further pushing useful content down on the page

3) introduce AI summaries, making it unnecessary to even look for the useful content pushed down on the page.

Now, people only see the summaries and the paid-for ad placements. No need to ever leave the search page.
by CapricornNoble | 2025-12-12 17:00:10+00:00
Are you suggesting that the Russians were using __ The Guardian __ as part of an influence campaign....in 2004? That's an extraordinary claim, for which you present no supporting evidence while blasting the article for being "short on facts". Pot, kettle, black. Here's Radio Free Europe on the subject:

https://www.rferl.org/a/1058543.html it specifically calls out amounts paid to organizations in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine via the National Endowment for Democracy, which is funded via Congress and the State Department.

>Besides, did you know that the Kuchma government sent Ukrainian soldiers to Afghanistan and Iraq

Yes, I know that. I bring it up anytime somebody says "Ukraine never invaded anybody!"

> Why would the US government want to overthrow a sympathetic regime?

To replace a sympathetic leader they DON'T control with an even more sympathetic leader they DO control. Wresting control of the political apparatus in a state often outlasts any singular "elected" Executive.
Show HN: Euporie-lite, Jupyter notebooks in terminal in the browser
by joouha | 2025-12-12 17:00:15+00:00
I modified my terminal Jupyter client, euporie [1], to run using pyodide in the browser.

It's akin to JupyterLite, providing a temporary online Python notebook environment without the need to install any Python packages. It's potentially useful if you need to do a bit of quick interactive work in Python, but don't have the environment set up ready to do so.

Since actual jupyter kernels can't run in pyodide (they run as subprocesses and communicate over ZMQ), it uses an in-process Python kernel which runs on the same interpreter as the application itself.

Notebooks and files can be saved persistently to a local-storage based file system. It uses xterm.js as the terminal emulator (though I'm keen to test out ghostty-web).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27091167
by christophilus | 2025-12-12 17:00:23+00:00
No, it's not. I've built native Windows client-server applications, and many old-school web applications. I never once sent data to the server on every click, keydown, keyup, etc. That's the sort of thing that happens with a naive "livewire-like" approach. Most of the new tools do ship a little JavaScript, and make it slightly less chatty, but it's still not a great way to do it.

A web application should either be server-generated HTML with a little JS sprinkled in, or a client-side application with traditional RPC-like calls when necessary.

Blazor (and old-school .NET Web Forms) do a lot more back-and-forth than either of those two approaches.
by suspended_state | 2025-12-12 17:00:35+00:00
I think it does indeed make a lot of sense in the particular example given.

But what if we add 2 extra nodes: n5 dependent on n2 alone, and n6 dependent on n3 alone? Should we keep n2 and n3 separate and split n4, or should we merge n2 and n3 and keep n4, or should we keep the topology as it is?

The same sort of problem arises in a class inheritance graph: it would make sense to merge classes n2 and n3 if n4 is the only class inheriting from it, but if you add more nodes, then the simplification might not be possible anymore.
by anonnon | 2025-12-12 17:01:31+00:00
> Did it fail

13 years to get to v0.0.1 is a success? Look at how much progress Ladybird has made in a fraction of that time. Remember that these people are constantly starting rewrites of C and C++ projects (when they're not demanding others do it) in Rust "for safety" (and "oops it's MIT now"), even of ancient Unix utilities with minimal attack surfaces like the "date" command, yet when it comes to a browser rendering engine, which entails computationally-intensive, aggressively-optimized rendering of untrusted input--a massive attack surface, and the very thing for which Rust was supposedly designed--they somehow can't get the right combination of enough Rust zealots (and Adderall) to get past the finish line.
by hrimfaxi | 2025-12-12 17:02:26+00:00
> Over a 100-year period, SF6 is 23,500 times more effective at trapping infrared radiation than an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide (CO2). SF6 is also a very stable chemical, with an atmospheric lifetime of greater than 1,000 years.

https://www.epa.gov/eps-partnership/sulfur-hexafluoride-sf6-...
by johnisgood | 2025-12-12 17:03:51+00:00
You are right that the wing/leg comparison is often lazy rhetoric: we hold engineered systems to different failure standards for good reason.

But you are misusing the mereological fallacy. It does not dismiss LLM/brain comparisons: it actually strengthens them. If the brain does not "think" (the person does), then LLMs do not "think" either. Both are subsystems in larger systems. That is not a category error; it is a structural similarity.

This does not excuse LLM limitations - rimeice's concern about two unreliable parties is valid. But dismissing comparisons as "category errors" without examining which properties are being compared is just as lazy as the wing/leg response.
by afavour | 2025-12-12 17:04:37+00:00
Broadly speaking I'm a "whatever goes" kind of person. Don't regulate too much, let people do what they want. But this recent rise in gambling is making me feel like a censorious pastor or something. It's so obviously damaging. I don't even know that anyone was really asking for it. But there was money to be made, so of course it had to be legalized. And countless lives will be ruined.

One stat that gives me hope: young people aged 18-29, one of the prime targets for this gambling push, were asked if legalized betting is bad for society. In 2022 only 22% did, in 2025 41% do:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/02/americans...

The damage is clear, everyone sees it. Only question is whether anyone will actually do anything about it now that the cat is out of the bag.
by YurgenJurgensen | 2025-12-12 17:04:46+00:00
Factory farms consume far more feed than they can grow on site though, so the real power isn’t in the chicken farmers, it’s the ones growing chicken feed, and they’re probably used to switching crops to suit market demands.

And the farmers who do grow their own feed are probably smaller operations targeting higher quality meat than factory-farmed chicken, so they’re not the ones that vat-grown meat-substitutes would be competing with.
by nickthegreek | 2025-12-12 17:06:04+00:00
> Instead you're nitpicking my ability to parent my kids.

You willingly invited that conversation. I obliged.

> If you truly believe what you're saying, then you'd agree with me.

Get over yourself. You have not made an attempt to ask for a solution from me to find common ground. You keep trying to remove yourself from the responsibilities of parenting in the modern world as shown in the examples you put forth and your initial post asking that parents not shoulder the blame for what is happening under their nose. Surely they have some level of culpability.

I believe that it would be good for Parental Controls on devices to have a toggle to say that the phone is being used by someone in under 13, or someone 14-18 (whatever bands you want). When enabled, this flag should be available to locally installed apps and remote connections. Laws can be passed that tell remote connections how they must act when receiving this flag. This keeps me, an free adult, from being subjected to more corpo/govt tracking.
by dylan604 | 2025-12-12 17:06:08+00:00
My physics teacher in high school used unobtanium in class and was the first I recall using it. This was way before Core or Avatar. After reading your wiki link, it fit perfectly with the definition of a frictionless, massless pulley use.

It's funny, because I'm one to use movie references in casual conversation like it's nothing, yet my use was definitely not in this case
by MLgulabio | 2025-12-12 17:06:10+00:00
I'm lost on why you fantasies this so much and don't just buy an RV or something?

Do you really hate driving that much?

I don't think this would change the world as you imagine it. I don't mind driving long i will just make sure i get entertainment for the purpose. Like an audio book. My wife doesn't say 'Lets go soemwere you can drive me around and i can finally do that many things in parallel'.

And plenty of family drive today with RVs while the parents are in the front and the kids are in the back. No one is showering while the parents drive. Do you know how slow Cars now would need to drive to make this suddenly that much more comftable than what we have today?

You would need to rebuild the car and streets to get to this point.
by Aachen | 2025-12-12 17:06:10+00:00
Or if you search for content which you know exists on the web and it suddenly takes an unusual amount of coaxing (e.g. half a sentence in quotes, if you remember it correctly word for word) before it brings up the page you're looking for

Like, isn't this a well-known thing that happens constantly no matter if you're a user or run any websites? Relying on search engine ranking algorithms is russian roulette for businesses sadly, at least unless you outbid the competition to show your own page as an advertisement when someone searches your business' name
by anonymousiam | 2025-12-12 17:06:19+00:00
Last month I opened a drawer and found my Google Nexus One smartphone. It hadn't been turned on for 10 years and I figured the (easily removable) battery was done. I tried charging it anyway and to my surprise, it actually recovered and charged.

It worked fine when I turned it on, but it's essentially a paperweight now because the US mobile carriers have all upgraded to 5G, and this is a 3G phone.

The thing that struck me while doing this is just how tiny the Nexus One is. It's a full-featured (for the day) smartphone, but it's less than half the size of pretty much all the mainstream smart phones today. Battery life was decent, and the apps were pretty functional.

My current phone is about twice the length, 50% wider, and twice as heavy. Battery life has been getting progressively worse with background apps draining your battery so they can scoop up and market whatever information about you they can. Battery life has also been impacted by the BLE tracking features, which run all the time.

I wish I could upgrade the Nexus One with a 5G radio -- it would be a great phone today.
by MangoToupe | 2025-12-12 17:06:52+00:00
> The Space Shuttle was one too and that was a marvel. A deathtrap politically-motivated pork-barrel hot-mess of a project, but also a shining black-and-white marvel of a glorious flying space Aga.

https://archive.org/details/gil-scott-heron-whitey-on-the-mo...

The big dig directly benefits people producing value many, many, many times what the investment cost. Who gives a shit about the initial investment? Voters have proven time and time again that it's easier to lie to them than to get them to earnestly think.
by bluGill | 2025-12-12 17:07:13+00:00
There are a bunch of it depends. A large part of traffic is because someone messes up - accidents cause large delays, but even a small mistake in merging can slow down several others. Though human drivers regularly tailgate, if self driving cars maintain their proper 3 second following distance we could need a lot more space. (though perhaps self driving can safely maintain even a closer distance than humans do - I don't know)
by flail | 2025-12-12 17:07:16+00:00
There's a huge difference between nurses or teachers and Ivy League students. Namely, the former are not remotely as prestigious roles. I highly doubt there are 20 candidates for each nurse or teacher job.

Affirmative action happens when we discuss privileged positions. Spots at Ivy League colleges definitely are positions of privilege.

So if the situation under consideration were nursing, there wouldn't be such a discussion because there wouldn't be affirmative action in place.
by pornel | 2025-12-12 17:07:18+00:00
If a codebase is being maintained and extended, it's not all code with 20 years of testing.

Every change you make could be violating a some assumption made elsewhere, maybe even 20 years ago, and subtly break code at distance. C's type system doesn't carry much information, and is hostile to static analysis, which makes changes in large codebases difficult, laborious, and risky.

Rust is a linter and static analyzer cranked up to maximum. The whole language has been designed around having necessary information for static analysis easily available and reliable. Rust is built around disallowing or containing coding patterns that create dead-ends for static analysis. C never had this focus, so even trivial checks devolve into whole-program analysis and quickly hit undecidability (e.g. in Rust whenever you have &mut reference, you know for sure that it's valid, non-null, initialized, and that no other code anywhere can mutate it at the same time, and no other thread will even look at it. In C when you have a pointer to an object, eh, good luck!)
by senordevnyc | 2025-12-12 17:08:17+00:00
I live in Manhattan, and don't own a car, so I get where you're coming from. The reality here is that America doesn't like trains and isn't going to build trains in any kind of a timeframe that's helpful to me. I'm about to move to Westchester, but I need to get to the Upper West Side every day. Yes, I can take the train from Westchester, but it goes into Grand Central, so then I need to take another train from there. And I'll have my kid with me.

So my options are:

1. Drive, walk, or bike with my kid to the train station in Westchester, ride to grand central, switch to subway, drop her off at school, then take the subway to my office. Total time about 90 mins.

or

2. Drive 35-45 mins.

I'll be driving.

There's talk of having one of the train lines go into Penn instead of Grand Central, with stops on the Upper West Side! But that'll be a decade or more, if it ever happens, and it won't be relevant to me anymore at that point.
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-12 17:08:18+00:00
It's entirely possible to have utility-importance non-monopoly gatekeepers, which is part of the legal issue.

The US regulates monopolies.

The US regulates utilities, defined by ~1910 industries.

It doesn't generally regulate non-monopoly companies that are gatekeepers.

Hence, Apple/Google/Facebook et al. have been able to avoid regulation by avoiding being classed as monopolies.

Imho, the EU is taking the right approach: also classify sub-monopoly entities with large market shares, and apply regulatory requirements on them.

I'd expect the US to use a lighter touch, and I'm fine with that, but regulations need to more than 'no touch'. It'd also be nice if they were bucketed and scaled (e.g. minimal requirements for 10-20%, more for 21-50%, max for 50%+).
by mothballed | 2025-12-12 17:08:34+00:00
Can't imagine why they'd be anxious.

Life is a negotiation. What the populace brings to the table is they will vote harder next time or maybe a little bit of protests, but mostly just do what they're told and carry on with their jobs and pray things get better. What the government bring is fighter jets and guns and career civil servants who have had a lifetime of training how to fuck you, the might and wishes of the rich and powerful, and lording power by taxing you then redistributing it back as benefits that then feel depended upon.

If you enter the negotiating table with a sociopath and expect them not to steamroll you when you openly show you have far worse cards, then you're not thinking clearly. Insanity is thinking you can keep bringing the same things to the negotiation table and getting different results.
by m4ck_ | 2025-12-12 17:08:35+00:00
I think the only way we're going to see that happen is if first we do exactly what the right-wing hivemind truly believes to be the only solution: eliminate any and all environmental regulations. They're going to fight tooth and nail until they're made to understand that the "rivers-literally-so-polluted-they're-on-fire" era wasn't so great. So they're going to have to re-live it, the unbreatheable air in any populated area near industry; extremely loud and dirty diesel engines dumping soot everywhere, no limits on emissions from things like the paper/steel/oil industry, etc.
by BizarroLand | 2025-12-12 17:08:48+00:00
It will probably be fine, since the 1N4001 is also rated for temporary spikes to 30A.

"For 1N4001 Diode, the maximum current carrying capacity is 1A it withstand peaks up to 30A."

https://components101.com/diodes/1n4001-diode-pinout-datashe...

They're also cheap as chips, so worst case if it blows they can swap out for 2 of them like you suggest.
Show HN: tomcp.org – Turn any URL into an MCP server
by ami3466 | 2025-12-12 17:10:16+00:00
Prepend tomcp.org/ to any URL to instantly turn it into an MCP server.

You can either chat directly with the page or add the config to Cursor/Claude to pipe the website/docs straight into your context.

Why MCP? Using MCP is better than raw scraping or copy-pasting because it converts the page into clean Markdown. This helps the AI understand the structure better and uses significantly fewer tokens.

How it works: It is a proxy that fetches the URL, removes ads and navigation, and exposes the clean content as a standard MCP Resource.

Repo: https://github.com/Ami3466/tomcp (Inspired by GitMCP, but for the general web)
by cies | 2025-12-12 17:10:48+00:00
You do need some fancy in-house way to migrate old JSONs to new JSON in case you want to evolve the (implicit) JSON schema.

I find this one of the hardest part of using JSON, and the main reason why I rather put it in proper columns. Once I go JSON I needs a fair bit of code to deal with migrartions (either doing them during migrations; or some way to do them at read/write time).
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-12-12 17:11:30+00:00
Don't let it take hold! They will absolutely dominate the political lobbying scene and you'll never get rid of it. Sports betting being allowed makes Australia's recent social media ban to U18s clear that the priority is to support traditional media rather than prevent harm to youth.

Sports betting ads and apps are everywhere in Australia with practically no restrictions. You cannot avoid it, every free to air channel is basically now sponsored by sports betting ads, every traditional newspaper is kept alive by sports betting ads and every second billboard and poster is for sports betting. Children are now exposed and normalised to it from birth.

Absolutely nothing is being done from a regulatory point of view. It enables traditional media and it seems traditional media still call the shots in Australia.
by lentil_soup | 2025-12-12 17:12:00+00:00
>> There have been other attempts to use genetically-modified fungi (Trichoderma) for protein production, where they secrete in the cultivation medium a water-soluble animal protein

Honest question, what does "animal protein" mean here in regards to it being produced by a fungi? is it that it's the same as as one from a cow at the molecular level?