MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Is the Standard Model overfitting or am I curve-fitting?
by albert_roca | 2025-12-25 18:22:03+00:00
I am developing a geometric model of physical interactions based on geometric constraints (w = 2, δ = √5 ) and topological invariants. No free parameters, just geometry. In your opinion, is this a legitimate geometric unification or just sophisticated curve-fitting?

Results:

Proton radius (r_p):
Modeled as a tetrahedral structural limit (4 · ƛ) with spherical field projection loss (α / 4 · π).

r_p = 4 · ƛ_p · (1 - (α / (4 · π)))
Pred: 8.407470 × 10^-16 m
Exp: 8.4075(64) × 10^-16 m
Diff: 3 ppm

Proton magnetic moment (g_p):
Derived from the dynamic potential (δ = √5 ) damped by a golden friction term (α / Φ).

g_p = (δ^3 / w) - (α / Φ)
Pred: 5.5856599
Exp: 5.5856947
Diff: 6 ppm

Muon anomaly (a_μ):
Derived as a hierarchical resolution of the icosahedral geometry: surface (α / 2 · π) + nodes (α^2 / 12) + vertex symmetry (α^3 / 5).

a_μ = (α / (2 · π)) + (α^2 / 12) + (α^3 / 5)
Pred: 0.00116592506
Exp: 0.00116592059
Diff: 4 ppm

α particle radius (r_α):
Modeled as a 4-nucleon tetrahedron (8 · ƛ) with a linear nucleonic projection cost (α / π).

r_α = 8 · ƛ_p · (1 - (α / π))
Pred: 1.67856 × 10^-15 m
Exp: 1.678 × 10^-15 m
Diff: 330 ppm

Proton mass (m_p):
Connecting the Planck scale to proton scale via a 64-bit metric horizon (2^64) and diagonal transmission (√2 ).

m_p = ((√2 · m_P) / 2^64) · (1 + α / 3)
Pred: 1.67260849206 × 10^-27 kg
Exp: 1.67262192595(52) × 10^-27 kg
Diff: 8 ppm

Neutron-proton mass difference (∆_m):
Modeled as potential energy stored in the geometric compression of the electron (icosahedron, 20 faces) into the protonic frame (cube, 8 vertices). Compression ratio = 20/8 = 5/2.

∆_m = m_e · ((5/2) + 4 · α + (α / 4))
Pred: 1.293345 MeV
Exp: 1.293332 MeV.
Diff: 10 ppm.

Gravitational constant (G) without G:
Derived from quantum constants and the proton mass, identifying G as a scaling artifact of the 128-bit hierarchy (2^128).

G = (ħ · c · 2 · (1 + α / 3)^2) / (m_p^2 · 2^128)
Pred: 6.6742439706 × 10^-11
Exp: 6.67430(15) × 10^-11 m^3 · kg^-1 · s^-2
Diff: 8 ppm

Fine-structure constant (α):
Derived as the static spatial cost plus a spinor loop correction.

α^-1 = (4 · π^3 + π^2 + π) - (α / 24)
Pred: 137.0359996
Exp: 137.0359991
Diff: < 0.005 ppm

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17847770
by xvxvx | 2025-12-25 18:22:33+00:00
Anytime I see headlines like these, I think of the countless animals tortured to death. The sheer level of suffering, all for this Frankenstein nonsense. 90–95% of drugs that appear safe and effective in animal tests ultimately fail in human trials. They mention mice, but there are likely other animals involved, like dogs. Animals deliberately bred with crippling diseases, all for fame and fortune.

More than 110 million animals are killed in the United States each year in experiments. I'd rather just accept Alzheimer's than be complicit in this evil.
by _ZeD_ | 2025-12-25 18:22:35+00:00
keep in mind that, apart from the money throw at js runtime interpreters by google and others, there is also the fact that python - as a language - is way more "dynamic" than javascript.

Even "simple" stuff like field access in python may refer to multiple dynamically-mapped method resolution.

Also, the ffi-bindings of python, while offering a way to extend it with libraries written in c/c++/fortran/... , limit how freely the internals can be changed (see the bug-by-bug compatibility work done for example by pypy, just to name an example, with some constraint that limit some optimizations)
by Lyngbakr | 2025-12-25 18:23:40+00:00
I have a PhD in a similar field to Earth Science and now I'm an engineering team lead at a company in a field related to my PhD. This is the second such role I've held like this and it was very much that I found a perfect position in both cases. I think a key part of being able to combine my domain and technical expertise in a single role was that the jobs were at startups where there's often the need for folks to wear multiple hats. That said, in the past decade since leaving academia I have perhaps seen a handful of such jobs. So, they do exist, but are few and far between, IME.
by kelnos | 2025-12-25 18:24:02+00:00
That's an admirable goal, but, depending on the hardware, it can run into that pesky thing called reality.

It's getting very tiresome to hear complaints about things that don't work on Linux, only to find that they're trying to run it on hardware that's poorly supported, and that's something they could have figured out by doing a little research beforehand.

Sometimes old hardware just isn't going to be well-supported by any OS. (Though, of course, with Linux, older hardware is more likely to be supported than bleeding-edge kit.)
by sidrag22 | 2025-12-25 18:24:02+00:00
> Humans are just animals with a superiority complex.

I feel you are just attempting to avoid defending your actual stances tbh.

I actually AGREE that humans are not that special... however, that applies to literally every single human. what you are doing is isolating groups of humans, which is something drastically different.

We can be not special on a grand scale, but we still must all live together.
by philistine | 2025-12-25 18:24:23+00:00
Absolutely this IBM. In 1989, they owned the PC market. It was theirs. Of course the cracks were deep and deepening, but IBM still could have maintained a leadership of that industry to this day. Instead, they squeezed so hard the PC market fell from their iron grip.

The fact IBM still exists and is an important company is irrelevant. They lost control of the de facto computing standard. Microsoft could lose control as well.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-25 18:24:30+00:00
It's a good domain name for what its worth. But are you/ anybody not worried about the javascript trademark by oracle and the lawsuit of oracle vs deno and the times oracle sends cease and desist to even books about javascript one time or any conference with javascript as an example

This I think is the reason why javascript conferences are instead called ecmascript conferences
by GarnetFloride | 2025-12-25 18:24:55+00:00
Merry Christmas,
This has been a wild one. On the way to my sister's house we got a call from her sister saying their dad needs to go into an assisted living place because his pneumonia is not getting better and needs 24/7 care. But this will cut off the income my wife was bring in for caring for him.

As the call is on our car throws a red light: Transmission malfunction: Service now. We take the next exit and happen to find a Big O Tire place which is where we get most of our car work done. The transmission is seized, but it's Christmas Eve and no one is open to get an estimate on a replacement. But that's okay a couple of cousins are able to pick us up to get to the party.

We get home and find big pile of presents on our doorstep but we find they are addressed to names we don't know. So we bring them in for safekeeping. Today I look around the apartment building and finding one with a dollhouse on the balcony give a knock but its the wrong door but they knew the family which was downstairs so the right family got the presents finally.

Now cinnamon rolls are baking for breakfast and starting dinner prep soon.

But somehow I have to figure out if I should replace the transmission on a 13 year old car which needs $4500 in suspension work too or replace the whole vehicle.

And find a way to make more money since the part-time job I have right now to open up time for caregiving won't be enough for all this, and it looks like caregiving won't be necessary for much longer anyway.
by tbrownaw | 2025-12-25 18:26:36+00:00
There is a complexity class called BQP, which is more or less the things that quantum computers are good at. This includes P which is more or less the things they normal computers are good at. Things that quantum computers are better at would more or less be one minus the other. One interesting point is that BQP probably doesn't include all of the rather famous NP class.
by cyberax | 2025-12-25 18:26:58+00:00
> Buildkit is integrated into dockerd the same way the old builder was. If you want a newer Buildkit you'll need to run it separately of course.

I don't think that the older builder created special containers for itself?

> I'm not quite sure I understand what you are trying to do with nfs there. But you can definitely export the cache to a local filesystem and import it with cache-from.

Which is dog-slow, because it squirts the cache through a socket. I have an NFS disk that can be used to cache the data directly. This was just one of the attempts to make it go faster.

> You can also provide named contexts.

Which can only refer to images that are built inside this particular buildkit or are pullable from a repo.

This is really all I want, a way to quickly reused the previous state saved in some format in Github Cache, NFS, or other storage.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-25 18:27:37+00:00
It's not really open source project. They always gated a bunch of features, require CLA (so even if someone does contribute, boom, your code is theirs and they will probably close it down behind enterprise license if it is useful enough), and have pretty complex licensing scheme https://docs.mattermost.com/product-overview/faq-mattermost-...

> Everyone else is just going to keep using Slack, and arguably outside of these niche concerns, it's a better funded and higher quality product.

They had niche when their lite enterprise license (just basic LDAP and some other small features) was $2.5 per user.

Now they are basically on slack pricing, why would anyone bother...
by move-on-by | 2025-12-25 18:28:33+00:00
I’m not Daniel, but I think some of these questions are pretty easy to answer.

* Does it have to be?

Of course not. This is a free open source project. Absolutely none of it ‘has to be’. Speaking more towards features, I’m sure a lot could be removed, but why? For example, the newer ‘wcurl’ tool no doubt added to the LoC, and it doesn’t do anything that couldn’t already be done with the CLI- but I certainly appreciate it being created. Thank you Daniel and the cURL team!

* Should it be?

There is a whole list of features being deprecated. Personally, I’ve found cURL’s support timeline and deprecation notices very gracious. Page: https://curl.se/dev/deprecate.html

On the other hand, new things are coming all the time. For example, adding support for HTTP3 and QUIC no doubt added substantially to the LoC, but it would be a glaring omission to not have it.

* Were sub-libraries or some kind of splitting ever considered?

This is the main reason for my response. How would the use of sub-libraries help with anything? At the end of the day, it’s still the same amount of code (maybe even more?), and the same bill-of-materials that must be maintained, no?
Ask HN: Dentistry, Software Engineering and Health Informatics
by CoffeeDeSanta | 2025-12-25 18:29:50+00:00
I graduated from dental school, I never wanted to study dentistry but that's a story for another time, I studied web development for sometime, looked for webdev jobs, never landed one, now I work at a health informatics company in the implementation part but I really wanna scratch that SWEing itch, I am studying CS fundamentals these says but I am not sure what I should do next, what I know is that I don't think I want to remain at the HI job forever.
by tjruesch | 2025-12-25 18:29:53+00:00
I haven't done as much testing as I'd like to confidently answer this in general terms. In our own environment we have the benefit of defining the system prompt for translation, so we can introduce the logic of the tags to the LLM explicitly. That said, in our limited general-purpose testing we've seen that the flagship models definitely capture the logic of the tags and their semantic properties reliably without 'explanation'.
I'm currently exploring a general purpose prompt sanitizer and potentially even a browser plugin for behind-the-scenes sanitization in ChatGPT and other end-user interfaces.
by hugs | 2025-12-25 18:30:26+00:00
i started the selenium project as just a js and python thing. but it got really popular in java circles.

vibium will also be a big tent project and support ts/js, python, java, and as many other languages we can support, too. but i started with ts/js because that's what's extremely popular right now. (and i like js!)

(side-note: i f'ing love nim, we will be supporting nim, too. getting nim on the tiobe top 20 is on my bucket list.)
by crazygringo | 2025-12-25 18:30:30+00:00
> Meanwhile, your comments provide an amusing clinic on hypocrisy.

Have you not noticed that you're also providing zero facts? Again, I suggest you look in the mirror. Do you somehow think that when you make a claim you don't need facts, but when people disagree with you they do...?

There aren't any actual studies on rates of usage of the DEL key. So I don't know what you're expecting.

I suggest, in the future, that you don't apply such double standards, where you demand empirical evidence from everyone else, but neglect to give any yourself. It's not a good look, and you aren't going to gain much respect doing it. Hopefully you can learn from this exchange and be better than that in the future. Good luck.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-25 18:31:05+00:00
Very interesting, I feel like domain names definitely have values but I don't know much about domain names that much but how do you buy or sell hundreds of domains?

I found websites/newsletters like https://ungrabbed.com/

Personally It would be interesting to see some domain names for cheap and if I have an idea, I can perhaps have domain name for cheap or something similar to it but I don't really know if I should go into this hobby perhaps and no guarantees that I would but I am curious about resources basically and I wish if you can tell me more about it

I feel like the issue I feel as if is that most domains would just be parked in there or would be sold for losses perhaps.
Show HN: I Patched Agents SDK to Work with React Native
by Rostik312 | 2025-12-25 18:31:25+00:00
For the last two weeks, I was struggling to make Agents SDK work with React-Native. The problem is they never made support for it. After two weeks of trying different approaches, using a server as a proxy, or trying to make my own web socket, I almost gave up. Then I decided to do a little bit of digging and found out that actually someone in July tried to propose a PR with a fix to make React-Native work with Agents SDK. However, the maintainers ghosted that PR. After some digging, I have made my own patch, and successfully made Agents SDK work with React-Native.

Secondly, I've reached out on every platform possible to both maintainers for the Agents SDK repository, and finally got a response through Instagram, surprisingly.

The lesson is that I've learned is:
- I can patch any open source library to make it work for my purposes.
- Second, as a nobody, you can reach out to people through many, many channels, and they will respond to you through one of them.

P.S. It's a TestFlight App, so you might wanna open it on your iPhone.
by jerkstate | 2025-12-25 18:32:01+00:00
Unfortunately, LEGO has decided that they want to make mostly high-margin co-branded sets with Nintendo, Pokémon, Minecraft, Star Wars, Monster Jam, F1, etc rather than cool engineering sets with a lot of flexible pieces that can be built into lots of different things. Luckily Chinese vendors like Uncle Brick and Mould King have stepped in to offer huge sets of Technics compatible parts, including simple motors that LEGO simply does not make anymore, for not much money. It’s really too bad that Lego abandoned that market. I would certainly pay a premium for the original stuff but a lot of what I would like is just not available. Now, I still buy a lot of the branded LEGO stuff, but the Chinese stuff has also entered the rotation for the older kids who are interested in engineering.
by pjdemers | 2025-12-25 18:32:21+00:00
If the earth is one big tomato garden, maybe aliens will leave us alone.
Also, native Americans were very aware that other groups of humans existed beyond their horizon, and some of the those groups were hostile to them. We have zero reason to believe there is anyone out in space hostile to us. In fact, we have plenty of evidence there isn't anyone at all out there.
by pansa2 | 2025-12-25 18:32:44+00:00
True. Choosing between the two languages usually comes down to their library ecosystems - or more bluntly, to Rails on one hand vs NumPy on the other.

Nonetheless, it's still common for people to talk about the relative performance of the two languages, and to claim that Ruby is slower than Python. As someone who's actually tested this, it hasn't been true for 15 years.
by willis936 | 2025-12-25 18:32:44+00:00
Very little progress made this year after high profile departures (Hector Martin, project lead, Asahi Lina and Alyssa Rosenzweig - GPU gurus). Alyssa's departure isn't reflected on Asahi's website yet, but it is in her blog. I believe she also left Valve, which I think was sponsoring some aspects of the Asahi project. So when people say "Asahi hasn't seen any setbacks" be sure to ask them who has stepped in to make up for these losses in both talent and sponsorship.

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-n.html
by chiefalchemist | 2025-12-25 18:32:53+00:00
> when you can quickly create an AI illustration, you don’t need to hold it to high standards of composition, color, or even the right number of fingers. Hence slop.

But it’s not the lack of quality per se, it’s the quantity, it’s the scale. That’s not the fault of the tool per se (‘cause in the right hands the tool is capable of producing quality.)

Lowering the barrier to entry increases the number of the under-qualified. It invites Dunning Kruger to become the norm. That creates an excessive amount of output. It’s going to fall on a bell curve. Slop by definition is the middle and lower of the curve.
by eigenspace | 2025-12-25 18:33:01+00:00
There was no change of course. Julia's AbstractArray interface requirements are just agnostic about array start indices. we have packages (e.g. OffsetArrays.jl) for arbitrary index ranges and that has existed for a long time.

If anything, the only significant change is that the community is becoming more and more convinced that offset array support is a bit of a footgun and makes it easy for bugs to sneak into generic code.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-25 18:33:05+00:00
Quite an obvious one would involve it occurring on an island. The effects of wars and invasions sweeping across continental Europe destabilised the institutions which would allow it to emerge.

High rainfall also lends itself to agriculture, water power and all the other uses of water in industry.

Ultimately I put it down to education. When large sections of the population become literate, and science can be explored without fear of reprisal or control by government... Then it flourishes. A society which hinders access to education, censors scientific discussion or binds it to certain interests is bound to fail.

As for slavery, I believe it is overstated. Many societies have had slavery and not industrialised. At best, I think slave labour allowed merchants to become wealthy, but is a disincentive to industry as it was in Roman times.
by snowpid | 2025-12-25 18:34:34+00:00
what? is this serios? to quote my link from the most major jewish organisation:

"Die Zeit der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft mit Millionen getöteter Juden, Sinti und Roma, Homosexueller und politisch Verfolgter ist für den Fraktionsvorsitzenden der AfD lediglich ein „Vogelschiss“. Die darin zum Ausdruck gebrachte Haltung verharmlost in unerträglicher Weise die Gräuel der Geschichte. So wie vor wenigen Jahren bei Pegida oder in Chemnitz laufen AfD-Politiker nun bei Querdenker-Demos neben Hooligans und Rechtsextremen. "

Maybe get out of your buble. Most jewish and gay people despise the AfD. Most jewish and gay people want to leave the country in case of AfD majority. But hey Im talking to an account calling the AfD "most pro-jewish" party.
by BeetleB | 2025-12-25 18:36:19+00:00
> Why on earth did we do this?

Much has been written about this, but from what little I know, they were abusive, and didn't do the job well. And were abused to keep sane people in.

I've heard that the advent of better drugs was also a factor. Prior to those drugs, there was no alternative other than commitment to mental facilities. The drugs gave the promise of a more manageable life - either by the patient or by their family.

What did we replace them with? Prisons.

About 20 years ago I saw a documentary about the use of prisons as a means to get mental health care. It explored the history that led to mental institutions getting shut down, and how prisons are treating the mentally ill. As crazy as it sounds, the prisons are doing a better job - even the inmates agree. Quite a few inmates said that the biggest problem they had was that they would be released from prison and not get access to the care they were receiving (including medications).

It wasn't trying to paint a rosy picture - they actually said this is, in one sense, an abuse of the prison system and that there needs to be a better way to treat them - but the consensus was "Definitely should not revert to the prior mental institutions!"
by tsimionescu | 2025-12-25 18:36:29+00:00
Alzheimer's is, by definition, dementia with associated amyloid plaques in the brain. Since you can't detect the plaques without cutting into the brain, the diagnosis is normally given based on symptoms of dementia (significant loss of memory or other cognitive functions) without other clear reasons (no evidence of vascular events, head trauma, brain tumors or other neurological diseases etc).
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-12-25 18:37:09+00:00
> It's getting very tiresome to hear complaints

This is very true. I've been asked by lots of people "how do I start with Linux" and, despite being 99.9% Linux user for everything everyday, my advice was always:

1. Use VirtualBox. Seriously, it won't look cool, but it will 100% work after maybe 5 mins mucking around with installing guest additions. Also snapshots. Also no messing with WiFi drivers or graphics card drivers or such.

2. Get a used beaten down old Thinkpad that people on Reddit confirm to be working with Linux without any drivers. Then play there. If it breaks, reinstall.

3. If the above didn't make you yet disinterested, THEN dual boot.

Also, if you don't care about GUI, then use the best blessing Microsoft ever created - WSL, and look no further.
by erulabs | 2025-12-25 18:37:17+00:00
Not to be "that guy" but Anduril is Aragorn's sword and is the most good-guy good-thing that could ever be fantasized about. It's used to defeat Sauron. And the Palantir stones are not "the bad guys tool", they were made by the Elves in ancient history and a few of them wound up in the bad guys hands. Misread LOTR indeed!
Tell HN: Reddit AI Slop dating app ads
by 999900000999 | 2025-12-25 18:37:52+00:00
I keep seeing dating app ads for I believe Boo. The ad has an Asian couple at a convention, and looks ok at first glance. Then the obvious issues start.

The couple is holding hands, but it ends up looking like a blob of fingers. The convention has items for sale, and the text on item boxes is AI gibberish.

How lazy can a marketing team be ? You don't have 500$ to record a real video?
by dmos62 | 2025-12-25 18:38:10+00:00
In my case, the business did have human support assistants, but didn't do reservations via the phone. I had to switch to the web app for that, which was annoying (I was driving?). I guess doing user identification over the phone and scheduling the appointment are time-consuming for the human assistant, while these are some of the few things an app can do well. I presume the logic is to preserve human assistants for actually complicated or dynamic assistance, for the sake of cost-efficiency. A voice llm can bring down the cost of these basic-but-time-consuming interactions.