MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tonfa | 2025-12-28 00:50:37+00:00
> That alone makes it far removed from being politically suspect in my book, unless there's some blatant case against the euro that I'm missing.

Lack of integration/solidarity. A common currency is a pretty bad idea if economies are allowed to diverge (see previous sovereign debt crisis, there's no reason why eg France can't be the next trigger).

You need a common tax base, and solidarity across member (much more than the current state) to have an effective monetary policy.

The in-between status quo for EU really isn't great (either you need to keep building EU institutions/start having proper eu taxes and budget -- something that is not really popular at the moment--, or euro should be reconsidered). (From what I understand it's not really a controversial opinion in economic circles).
by bigyabai | 2025-12-28 00:50:38+00:00
> Overall, it’s a great read

It's basically an advertisement. We've been playing these "don't give the user the password" games since GPT-2 and we always reach the same conclusion. I'm bored to tears waiting for an iteration of this experiment that doesn't end with pesky humans solving the maze and getting the $0.00 cheese. You can't convince me that the Anthropic engineers thought Claude would be a successful vending machine. It's a potemkin village of human triumph so they can market Claude as the goofy-but-lovable alternative to [ChatGPT/Grok/Whoever].

Anthropic makes some good stuff, so I'm confused why they even bother entertaining foregone conclusions. It feels like a mutual marketing stunt with WSJ.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-12-28 00:51:33+00:00
This is definitely a sound strategy, you have to be careful about little tech too. Personally I managed to work at several "big tech" companies that were okay with me doing side work for profit (both consulting and design/development work). I carried that forward as a manager and was always supportive of people who did side projects because my experience was that those people were less likely to burn out than ones who were spending all their time at work.
by RHSeeger | 2025-12-28 00:52:38+00:00
> Will the SECOND GROUP leak the source code? Is the SECOND GROUP telling the truth? Did the SECOND GROUP lie and have access to Ubisoft code this whole time? Was it MongoBleed? Will the FIRST GROUP get pinned for this? Who is this mysterious THIRD GROUP? Is this group related to any of the other groups?

This read to me like the end of a soap opera. Tune in tomorrow to find out!
by notepad0x90 | 2025-12-28 00:52:51+00:00
What are the abuse risks of compute versus vpn? Mullvad is doing it already. Their payment information doesn't need to be "anonymous". I have hosted websites while paying for the domain, vps hosting and all that it entails entirely with BTC, not once using payment information associated with me. But you know what was required of me even then? A damn email address!!
by scrubs | 2025-12-28 00:53:10+00:00
I wish I was more sophisticated in these areas. But I'm not. My fear isn't so much reduction in USD is our American stupidity in current account deficits, and debt which is to precisely point fingers at our insipid Congress. The last gasp --- which proved to be all air --- was Paul Ryan who was gonna try to fix things. Since that time it's a combination of we didn't, and we can't, plus reactionary moves. In so doing we're just wasting our soft power here. The other head wind is trade deficits. But unlike that, our budget and it's knock on effects is more directly in control.

I once ran into Tom Keene of Bloomberg news around 2014. In discussing this his view of Washington's view was we can print whatever we want. I was surprised he didn't criticize that ... but it's stuck we me ever since.
by devilbunny | 2025-12-28 00:53:23+00:00
I keep the really important stuff in a travel wallet. It's about as high as a letter/A4 piece of paper is wide, it holds some money and passports, and I could throw my cell phone in it. The rest of the stuff can be tossed, but that's going with me.

Keep an eye out for one - the long ones are not easy to find, and the company that made mine is out of business. Example: https://www.leatherology.com/products/zip-around-travel-wall... (no knowledge about the company or the product, just what I found with a quick search).
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-12-28 00:53:36+00:00
> Sadly I think the actual antenna and hardware were relatively large since it's a long wave signal, but maybe with SDR it'll all fit on the head of a pin these days.

Unfortunately there's no real way to cheat physics as far as shrinking a wavelength goes. With RF antennas about the best you can do is a major dimension 1/10th the frequency of interest.
by charcircuit | 2025-12-28 00:54:01+00:00
>But if the transform is an animation this will actually look even worse

I wish they provided an example video of this since I can't visualize it. My natural thinking is subpixel antialiasing should look fine.

>the characters will jiggle as each glyph bounces around between different subpixel snappings and hints on each frame.

This shouldn't be a big issue unless your animation is slow and your subpixels are big, but a picture would help prove this.
by floundy | 2025-12-28 00:54:29+00:00
Rhode Island is trying this. The gantries have been up for years, but it was challenged in court by the trucking lobby. The state prevailed with some concessions, and is planning to reinstate the truck tolls soon.

Probably, due to the small size of RI, it will just cause goods not bound directly for RI to divert along I-395 up through CT and MA, and I-290 and I-495 in MA.
by oxag3n | 2025-12-28 00:54:41+00:00
Lucky to see one guy in commuter traffic. I need to drive few times per month during commuter hours and in Seattle area there are few types of such unsafe driving:

1. Trucks - not keeping the lanes, speeding (it's 70mph cars and 60mph trucks, trucks bypass me when I'm driving 70).

2. Old company vans and pickups - that's surprising to me, but I frequently see some old Gutter/Plumbing/Heating van darting in an out of lanes. I'd think they'd get fined or in accident sooner or later, but still.

3. Large pickups. They usually are speeding, going in and out of HOV lane closer to Seattle. Never saw HOV enforced on I90.

The enforcement was somehow increased this year, but only until heavy traffic (you can see it daily 5am-6:30am), but never during heavy traffic, which would be more helpful.
by like_any_other | 2025-12-28 00:55:32+00:00
The BBC omits that this humble "social media campaigner" is a former Labour strategist [1,2], the CCDH he leads was founded by another Labour strategist and current Downing Street Chief of Staff [1,3], and said CCDH's explicit goal was to "Kill Musk's Twitter" [4], and their tactics are not to inform audiences about disinformation, so that they can make informed viewing decisions. No, their tactics are to deplatform or attack the finances of sources they dislike, depriving viewers of that choice [5].

You'd think an organization that wanted to be trusted to impartially fight misinformation and "hate" would want to at least appear impartial. Well, I guess when their friends at the BBC simply omit all signs of partiality, they do.

Now you may think that despite all this, they are still justified, and doing what they think is right, in service of truth (so long as said truth isn't hateful). Maybe. But does that justify the BBC keeping their readers in the dark?

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/10/23/elon-musk-wa...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imran_Ahmed_(strategist)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_McSweeney

[4] https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/election-excl...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Countering_Digital_...
by BobbyJo | 2025-12-28 00:55:53+00:00
> People who don't know US budgets don't know what drives faster-than-GDP growth in expenses (it's real estate, biotech and college).

That's just wrong. Social Security, Medicare, debt interest, and the military eclipse everything else. Discretionary spending outside the military is only like 15% of the budget.

Also, why are you even connecting GLP1 drugs and the 90s federal budget surplus? The drugs didn't exist back then, and the government isn't paying for everyone to take them now, so I have no idea why you'd even draw a connection there.
by miduil | 2025-12-28 00:55:54+00:00
This was just shown at the 39C3. Common (unpached) Bluetooth headsets using Airoha's SoCs can be completely taken over by any unauthenticated bystander with a Linux laptop. (CVE-2025-20700, CVE-2025-20701, CVE-2025-20702)

This includes firmware dumps, user preferences, Bluetooth Classic session keys, current playing track, ...

> Examples of affected vendors and devices are Sony (e.g., WH1000-XM5, WH1000-XM6, WF-1000XM5), Marshall (e.g. Major V, Minor IV), Beyerdynamic (e.g. AMIRON 300), or Jabra (e.g. Elite 8 Active).

It was presented here https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/event/...

You can watch the pre-recorded talk here:

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3/relive/887fe87e-6ef2-5d9...
by notepad0x90 | 2025-12-28 00:56:10+00:00
Yes, it should be paid of course. Matter of fact, please charge me more for the privilege of not being asked email,phone, credit cards. Just take my money, and feel free to take whatever steps you think are needed to make sure abuse isn't taking places. I champion requiring a "deposit" where if abuse took place the user would forfeit it.

But, my original comment is strictly about email. Even if you asked for a government-id and credit-card payment, I won't object. Just please, no email!
by josephg | 2025-12-28 00:56:18+00:00
It is that hard for some. Empathy requires actually going out and talking to people. And then listening to them describe their experiences, without editorialising or interrupting.

I've met plenty of engineers who would rather spend 2 weeks programming than spend 5 minutes talking to their users. I used to struggle a lot with this myself when I was younger. Social anxiety isn't easy to overcome.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-12-28 00:56:54+00:00
> I have never been convinced by this argument. The aggregate number sounds fantastic but I don't believe that any meaningful work can be done by each user saving 1 second. That 1 second (and more) can simply be taken by me trying to stretch my body out.

I’d see this differently from a user perspective. If the average operations takes one second less, I’d spend a lot of time less waiting for my computer. I’d also have less idle moments where my mind wanders while waiting for some operation to complete too.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-28 00:57:00+00:00
I have a consistent rule. The rule is that if an LLM meets the threshold I set then it definitely violated copyright, and if it doesn't meet the threshold then we need more investigation.

We have proof of LLMs going over the threshold. So that answers the question.

Your illustrations are all in the "needs more investigation" area and they don't affect the conclusion.

We both agree that 1 token by itself is fine, and that some number is too many.

So why do you keep asking about that, as if it makes my argument inconsistent in some way? We both say the same thing!

We don't need to know the exact cutoff, or calculate how it varies. We only need to find violators that are over the cutoff.

How about you tell me what you want me to say? Do you want me to say my system is inconsistent? It's not. Having an area where the answer is unclear means the system is not able to answer every question, but it doesn't need to answer every question.

If you're accusing me of using "vibes" in a way that ruins things, then I counter that no I give nice specific and super-rare probabilities that are no more "vibes" based than your suggestion of an entire repo.
by bavell | 2025-12-28 00:57:10+00:00
Some very fun indie games I've been playing this past year (lots of early access):

- Hexarchy / Rogue hex (Civ-like)

- The Last Caretaker

- Captain of Industry (factorio-like, was posted here on HN by dev awhile back)

- 9 kings

- Super Fantasy Kingdom

- Manor Lords

- Astronomics

- Heart of the Machine
by thecosmicfrog | 2025-12-28 00:57:15+00:00
> the failure mode is the opposite of graceful degradation. It’s not like there’s an increasing percentage of requests that fail as you get closer to the deadline. Instead, in one minute, everything’s working just fine, and in the next minute, every http request fails.

This has given me some interesting food for thought. I wonder how feasible it would be to create a toy webserver that did exactly this (failing an increasing percentage of requests as the deadline approaches)? My thought would be to start failing some requests as the deadline approaches a point where most would consider it "far too late" (e.g. 4 hours before `notAfter`). At this point, start responding to some percentage of requests with a custom HTTP status code (599 for the sake of example).

Probably a lot less useful than just monitoring each webserver endpoint's TLS cert using synthetics, but it's given me an idea for a fun project if nothing else.
by mgh95 | 2025-12-28 00:58:04+00:00
> Hum... There are no reliable numbers out there, but I don't think the dollar devaluation has been keeping up with the US inflation.

There isn't anything like "dollar devaluation has been keeping up with the US inflation". You are interested in what is called the import/export price index [1] and for imports that has been relatively flat for the past ~24 months(import +.3%, export +3.8% for TTM). So in a sense, imports for a fixed good are relatively unchanged in constant-currency terms.

It's more along the lines of "if the EUR goes to 1.5, what does this do to eurozone economies?" and the answer to that isn't pretty for europe. This would greatly impair the economy of Germany and other large eurozone economies pretty substantially(see this article for why [2]).

And finally, remember: the US actually exports inflation [3]. Most economies cannot simply say no to this effect.

[1]https://www.bls.gov/mxp/
[2]https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-06/europe...
[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-18/strong-us...
by cyode | 2025-12-28 00:58:33+00:00
Mega gif indeed. Two relevant excerpts found in the about page (it's a gif but not a gif):

> Why 796?

> The name of the project has a small code: 7, 9 and 6 are the ordinal numbers of the letters in the English alphabet for the word GIF. This project is essentially one big gif, a mega gif, so all the action takes place on the 796th (GIF) floor of the space station :)

> How does animation rendering work?

In order to maintain pixel clarity and still have good compression, it was necessary to create own video format. The entire animation is divided into sections, and each section is packed into this special format. The browser then loads the desired section and renders it in a separate thread into the common canvas.
by twodave | 2025-12-28 00:59:12+00:00
Ostensibly not all known oil fields are actively being extracted. This fact alone makes it unlikely that discovering a new source would affect the price of oil, unless it can be retrieved using cheaper than the existing methods. It’s also worth pointing out that “oil” as a resource isn’t this homogenous substance. Basically every different source of oil has a different (and expensive) refinement process on the other end. It’s a lot more variables than the Reddit-style armchair oil tycoon would probably expect.
by Alupis | 2025-12-28 00:59:30+00:00
So what's your proposal? Go back in time 200 years and create a public-transit system?

The US is huge. There is no feasible way to support public transit for 95%+ of it's land-mass. That's not going to change anytime soon, or ever.

Also, most mass-transit systems in the US operate at significant loss, even with government (ie. taxpayer) funding and collecting rider-fare. A lot of public transit systems are in complete disrepair and are severely lacking. Buses and lightrails are never going to be "cheaper", as convenient or accessible as roads and vehicles are.
by Aboutplants | 2025-12-28 00:59:46+00:00
Your upset because you used hard earned money to completely change your life to the point that you now live near the beach? Buddy, that is exactly what money is for and it appears you used it more wisely than 99% of everyone else. Congrats on making the leap to better your situation and have experiences that will never be replaced. Enjoy your life! Looks like you are doing that so continue doing it! This is what it is all for!
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-12-28 01:00:17+00:00
In Tennessee (other states, too), it is not illegal to have a trailer hitch ball in front of your license plate. They're recently begun erecting ALPRs everywhere...

...so I have a trailer hitch ball hung entirely across my plate — not considered "obstructing view" de jure, but YMMV (depending on officer).

Tennessee does not issue license plates for most trailers, either, so you can easily & even more legally conceal your license plate when towing.

Anything else that obstructs the view is illegal (including bicycle racks, leaves, dirt, lenses). But not trailers & hitch balls.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-12-28 01:00:39+00:00
I would eventually want even payment processors to stop asking for email. They have my address and government id, for any liability related reasons. ideally, we would use federated auth, where auth providers aren't using email at all. I'd imagine the complexity of your backend is simpler too as a result.

And kudos on your service, I'll keep it mind next time I'm picking a provider.
Show HN: Iris – an AI-powered rental search built specifically for San Francisco
by manan08 | 2025-12-28 01:00:47+00:00
We built Iris after watching friends spend weeks doom-scrolling Craigslist, Zillow, Apartments.com and broker sites — only to miss good units or run into stale / scammy listings.

Iris is a SF-only rental marketplace with a few differences from existing platforms:

1. Search by natural language (“1BR near BART under $3.2k”) or images (upload inspiration photos)

2. Verified listings only from property managers, owners, and authorized agents

3. SF-specific filters: rent control toggle, transit lines, neighborhood context

What surprised us since launch:

1. A large share of inventory never shows up cleanly on national portals

2. Renters care more about context (block, transit, light, noise) than raw filters

3. Narrow vertical focus (one city) lets us build features Zillow can’t justify

Would love feedback from people who’ve built:

- Vertical marketplaces

- Local-first products

Happy to answer questions.

-- Manan Shah
Show HN: I created a tool to design and create foamcore inserts for boardgames
by Rabidgremlin | 2025-12-28 01:00:52+00:00
As a holiday project to test out spec first development using Codex CLI, I ended up creating https://boxinsertdesigner.com/

It lets you design a box insert in 2D and spits out a cutting list.

I'm looking for feedback, bugs, feature ideas etc and figured this would be a good place to find it :)
by vidarh | 2025-12-28 01:01:04+00:00
That's true, but it can also add unnecessary constraints if done thoughtlessly.

E.g. if you require an input to be StringIO, instead of requiring an object that responds to "read".

Too often I see people add typing (be it with a project like this, or with is_a? or respond_to?) that makes assumptions about how the caller will want to use it, rather than state actual requirements.

That is why I prefer projects to be very deliberate and cautious about how they use types, and keep it to a minimum.
by tomhow | 2025-12-28 01:02:04+00:00
It doesn’t have to be “grotesque” to be in breach of the guidelines. The guidelines ask us to be kind, to avoid swipes and sneers, and to converse curiously.

If it was a one off we’d be content to leave it flagged and move on but we’re talking about a pattern from years ago that seems to be resuming, and we need you to end that pattern now, thanks.
by kccqzy | 2025-12-28 01:02:20+00:00
I quote from Spanner docs at https://docs.cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-externa...

> External consistency states that Spanner executes transactions in a manner that is indistinguishable from a system in which the transactions are executed serially, and furthermore, that the serial order is consistent with the order in which transactions can be observed to commit. Because the timestamps generated for transactions correspond to the serial order, if any client sees a transaction T2 start to commit after another transaction T1 finishes, the system will assign a timestamp to T2 that is higher than T1's timestamp.

Of course there is always the edge case where two commits have the same commit timestamp. Therefore from the perspective of Spanner, they happen simultaneously and there is no way to determine which happens first. But there is no need to. There is no causality relationship between them. If you insist, you can arbitrarily assign a happens-before relationship in your own code and nothing will break.
by bsder | 2025-12-28 01:02:31+00:00
> If $3-$8 a day isn't worth it for you, there's a free option that's totally acceptable.

That, in fact, isn't always true.

In Austin, for example, I-45 was supposed to have "frontage roads" all along it so that people could avoid the toll road if they chose at the expense of going through a few traffic lights.

Gee, guess what somehow magically never got built in many sections of I-45? So, your options are pay the toll or go a LONG way out of the way in order to avoid it since the construction of the tollway also destroyed the old routes.
by raron | 2025-12-28 01:03:02+00:00
> clock sync for civilians has never been easier

I don't think civilian clock synchronization was an issue since a long time ago.

DCF77 and WWVB has been around for more than 50 years. You could use some cheap electronics and get well below millisecond accuracy. GPS has been fully operational for 30 years, but it needs more expensive device.

I suspect you could even get below 1 sec accuracy using a watch with a hacking movement and listening to radio broadcast of time beeps / pips.
by josephg | 2025-12-28 01:03:09+00:00
> What I would love would be an interactive script that asked me what I was trying to do and constructed a command line for me while explaining what it would do and the meaning of each argument. And of course it should favour commands that do not re-encode where possible.

My ChatGPT history is full of conversations like this.

I have mixed feelings about using chatgpt to write code. But LLMs certainly make an excellent ffmpeg frontend. And you can even ask them to explain all the ffmpeg arguments they used and why they used them.
by machomaster | 2025-12-28 01:03:21+00:00
Unfortunately the skeleton analogy is not correct, because it assumes that the foundation is fine, and you just need more beef/muscle/money to scale it up.

With the exception of few European countries that did maintain a functional army (Finland, France), other countries' military skeletons suffer from terminally low levels of bone density due to decades of under- and malnutrition. The whole bodies (incl. skeletons) have to quickly be build anew.
by EA-3167 | 2025-12-28 01:05:06+00:00
I don't believe that the whole billionaire-led VC industry in California is going to relocate to Florida, in part because of the weather, in part because of the cost, and many other factors. As far as "everyone leaving" California, I don't think that's true, but I'm on the other side of the country and it doesn't bother me either way.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-12-28 01:05:09+00:00
For a fun project it certainly is a fun idea.

In real life, I guess there are people who don't monitor at all. For them failing requests would go unnoticed ... for the others monitoring must be easy.

But I think the core thing might be to make monitoring SSL lifetime the "obvious" default: All the grafana dashboards etc should have such an entry.

Then as soon as I setup a monitoring stack I get that reminder as well.