MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by array_key_first | 2025-12-06 00:30:57+00:00
Petroleum is subsidized so heavily globally. Most oil actually comes from nation companies. That's, like, the maximum amount of government intervention you can get.

The people who think oil are or were a "free market" are beyond delusional. No, that was never the case - all the big players are governments, all of it is centrally planned, and all of it is subsidized by the population. That's why it's so cheap.

The reason it's going up in price is BECAUSE we're doing this less, as renewables become more competitive.
by lsb | 2025-12-06 00:31:25+00:00
My threshold for “does not need to be smaller” is “can this run on a Raspberry Pi”. This is a helpful benchmark for maximum likely useful optimization.

A Pi has 4 cores and 16GB of memory these days, so, running Qwen3 4B on a pi is pretty comfortable: https://leebutterman.com/2025/11/01/prompt-optimization-on-a...
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-12-06 00:31:36+00:00
I’ve been downvoted enough with my comments on this blog post where I’m hesitant to add anything else, but here I agree with you. They’re trying to be everything to everyone, where does the accountability of their customers being responsible for running, you know, up-to-date packages come in? Like, you don’t take just a little bit of pride in your work that you’re continually watching CVE lists and exploits and just have a minimum of effort toward patching your own shit, rather than pawning it off on vendor? I simply can’t understand the mindset.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-06 00:32:30+00:00
> its not clear what other markets SpaceX can grow into. The rocket market is small

Ten years ago, smart people said the launch market couldn't possibly grow beyond $3 to 5bn.

There is a tonnne of induced demand when it comes to launch. In LEO alone we have telecommunications, sensing and defence applications, most of which don't do well when put on the same bird. Add to that potential power-transmission uses and a global race to the Moon and Mars and it seems even if Starship can be mass manufactured, production will be the limiter, not demand.

> combined with Starship launch will be so cheap that it can compete against some broadand on the ground. But that seems speculative

Doubtful for broadband. Probable for rural and maybe even suburban cellular.
by dns_snek | 2025-12-06 00:33:05+00:00
The US spends more money on healthcare than any other country (per capita and in PPP-adjusted terms), with the lowest life expectancy out of all of its peers [1].

Make of that what you will, but that tells me that after cutting out all the corporate abuse and inefficiency, the average person should be spending about the same for similar standard of care, except without all the bureaucracy and stress.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
by ekropotin | 2025-12-06 00:33:18+00:00
The problem with sagas is that they only guarantee eventual consistency, which is not always acceptable.

There is also 2 phase commit, which is not without downsides either.

All in all, I think the author made a wrong point that exact-once-processing is somehow easier to solve than exact-once-delivery, while in fact it’s exactly same problem just shaped differently. IDs here are secondary.
by genrader | 2025-12-06 00:34:28+00:00
Google's summary of the thinking process isn't as detailed or accurate as what is actually being thought out.

For instance, look at what other reasoning models show you about their thinking. You can tell Gemini is not giving it all to you, so I don't put full trust in it unless it routinely is giving me an issue that I can catch in there.

For instance, it doesn't show you all the tool use that it can use nor distinguish the different types where I really wish it would. Especially because I force it to in a Gemini personal context instruction as well as many prompts and it does do them
by Lamprey | 2025-12-06 00:35:33+00:00
When only one thing goes down, it's easier to compensate with something else, even for people who are doing critical work but who can't fix IT problems themselves. It means there are ways the non-technical workforce can figure out to keep working, even if the organization doesn't have on-site IT.

Also, if you need to switchover to backup systems for everything at once, then either the backup has to be the same for everything and very easily implementable remotely - which to me seems unlikely for specialty systems, like hospital systems, or for the old tech that so many organizations still rely on (and remember the CrowdStrike BSODs that had to be fixed individually and in person and so took forever to fix?) - or you're gonna need a LOT of well-trained IT people, paid to be on standby constantly, if you want to fix the problems quickly, on account of they can't be everywhere at once.

If the problems are more spread out over time, then you don't need to have quite so many IT people constantly on standby. Saves a lot of $$$, I'd think.

And if problems are smaller and more spread out over time, then an organization can learn how to deal with them regularly, as opposed to potentially beginning to feel and behave as though the problem will never actually happen. And if they DO fuck up their preparedness/response, the consequences are likely less severe.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-12-06 00:35:36+00:00
Now this... was a really good move.

OP is also marginally underestimating the impact this move would have on Google's competitiveness - they are making huge gains prototyping at light speed; this will halt their AI hardware acceleration plans pushing them back into slower software development on ever aging hardware.

It also shows why Nvidia is not afraid of competitors coming out with new desgings that obsolete their hardware: what good are superior designs with no fabs to produce them?
by standardUser | 2025-12-06 00:37:22+00:00
In terms of access to drugs, the differences between countries is incoherent, not really a "good vs bad" situation. A lot of it has to do with the different ways nations fumble their endless (yet fruitless) attempts to limit abuse and recreational use.

But in terms of cost, the US system is bad. If we as a nation want to invest in drug development, we should do so. Instead we ask grandma and grandpa and the chronically ill to flip the bill. Hard to think of a worse approach.
by maxglute | 2025-12-06 00:37:25+00:00
His team built great models, can't say the same for structures get built IRL, especially California buildings in Winter climates. TBH starchitects whose buildings performance fail as much as Gehry's should have their Pritzker revoked if X% of seminal projects fail as buildings. Or there should at least be some sort of architecture naughty list, but I surmise that list would be very long.
by modeless | 2025-12-06 00:37:50+00:00
SpaceX is absolutely capable of building 80 rockets, if they needed to. Don't forget that they built 132 F9 second stages last year, plus thousands of satellites and millions of user terminals. But they don't need to build 80 first stages because their first stages are getting reused 30 times. Why would they waste time building first stages they don't need? China needs to build 80 full rockets because theirs explode after each use.

Meanwhile the Starship factory is looking like it will be quite productive once the design is locked down.
by rsynnott | 2025-12-06 00:38:40+00:00
I mean, you also likely lose the troubleshooters. Many completely indispensable engineers don't write a lot of code; if a month-long investigation leads to a hundred lines of code being changed and a 10% cut in machine costs, well, is that not useful work?

This would be particularly on Torvalds' mind, I assume; people who fix bugs in the Linux kernel (generally not a lot of lines of code) are generally more valuable to the project than people who contribute device drivers for obscure hardware (many lines, much productive, wow!)
by rorylawless | 2025-12-06 00:39:43+00:00
You can get larger packs of painkillers OTC by speaking with a pharmacist (OTC in the literal sense) or ordering online. For example, Boots sells a 96 count 400mg ibuprofen.

https://www.boots.com/boots-ibuprofen-caplets-400mg-96s-1026...
by genrader | 2025-12-06 00:40:05+00:00
If you're using for instance the Gemini web app there may be a preference in the system prompt to immediately favor the fact that you said to create an image when in fact it may have been better to initially start with a regular chat prompt, making sure you're on Gemini 3 Pro thinking, and then give it exactly what you usually would. You can tell it that after it has an answer to the question then to create an image for it.

This may even work if you tell it to do all that prior to figuring out what to create for the image,
by thankyoufriend | 2025-12-06 00:40:25+00:00
AI isn't solving the problems that our society needs to solve, and its potentially making some of them worse. If you can't understand why people feel that way by now, then you are out of touch with their struggle. Instead of being disappointed in your fellow humans who contain the same capacity for wonder as you do, perhaps you should wonder why you are so quick to dismiss them as luddites. BTW you might want to read more about those guys, they didn't actually hate technology just because it was progress. They hated the intentional disruption of their hard-earned stability in service of enriching the wealthy.
by bastawhiz | 2025-12-06 00:41:41+00:00
I like this, but unfortunately it doesn't solve one annoying problem: lexical scope doesn't work and it will fail in an unexpected way.

If you reference something lexically, your code fails at runtime. Want to use an import? You have to use import() inside the closure you pass to spawn(). Typescript doesn't know this. Your language server doesn't know this. Access a variable that shadows a built in global? Now you're accessing the built in global.

The only way this could even be addressed is by having a full on parser. Even then you can't guarantee things will work.

I think the only "fix" is for JS to introduce a new syntax to have a function that can't access lexical scope, returning a value that either extends a subclass of Function or has a cheeky symbol set on it. At least then, it'll fail at compile time.
by tstrimple | 2025-12-06 00:42:20+00:00
Tons of morons bought the Trump administration lie that Haitian immigrants are eating people’s pets. Their problem isn’t real. They are complete idiots with zero critical thinking skills who have more influence in elections than more rational populations due to this stupid ass country’s prioritizing empty land over actual citizens. Isn’t it funny how when “centrists” compromise with conservatives it always seem ruin things for decades if not centuries?

I had some hope as a millennial youth that we were “evolving” past the conservative mindset. It was insane to me that an ideology that has been consistently wrong from supporting slavery to opposing women’s suffrage would continue to have any support. But here we are still talking about gay marriage again because fucking conservative bigots cannot let anyone live in peace. But I’m sure you consider their “concerns” to be very valid and worth entertaining.
by toast0 | 2025-12-06 00:42:29+00:00
I mean, having been in that building a few times, and working on the other side of the street, it's pretty clear the reason that building is such a disaster is that the architects did what the clients asked for. I like to give Gehry the benefit of the doubt, maybe that's cause he guest starred on Arthur. But you can only tell the client they're dumb and their building will suck to be in so many times before you just go ahead and let them have their hellscape.

The roof was pretty nice though.
Show HN: Tuned.ws – AI growth strategist for Spotify/Apple Music artists (demo)
by stackws | 2025-12-06 00:43:21+00:00
Tuned.ws is a desktop app and a web app, I’m building to turn raw artist data into an “AI growth strategist” for musicians.

Instead of logging into multiple dashboards and spreadsheets, you export your data (Spotify for Artists, Apple Music, etc.), drop the CSVs into Tuned.ws, and then chat with an AI that actually understands your numbers. It can surface trends, suggest release/marketing moves, and explain why certain tracks or cities are performing the way they are.

Demo video: https://tuned.ws/demo

Right now Tuned.ws can: • Ingest platform CSV exports (starting with Spotify + Apple Music) • Auto-build a dashboard with top tracks, cities, and trends • Let you ask free-form questions about your data in a chat (“Why did this track spike?”, “Where should I focus ad spend?”) • Generate strategy-style insights in plain language for non-technical artists/managers

It’s still in beta and focused on solo artists/indie teams. I’d love feedback from HN on: • Where the insights feel useful vs. generic • What data sources you’d expect next (TikTok, IG, YouTube, radio, etc.) • Any obvious “this will never scale because X” concerns

Happy to answer technical/product questions in the comments.
by andreygrehov | 2025-12-06 00:43:53+00:00
The NYT shouldn't get a free pass for publishing a half-baked internal draft memo that even says "initial analysis" and then framing it as settled science. That's how you create panic and confusion, not transparency. Leaking unfinished work and splashing it on the front page is reckless. This should not be allowed.

Calling everyone "anti-vaxxers" is lazy. Most people I know who are skeptical of the covid shots (including plenty of doctors and scientists) are fully vaccinated against measles, polio, tetanus, etc. They just don't trust a product that skipped the usual 5–10 year safety window and got pushed with emergency authorization. That's not "anti-vax", that’s pattern recognition.

The memo is short on data and long on rhetoric, sure. That's exactly why we need the actual underlying review released in full.

You sound really invested in keeping those covid shots on the childhood schedule. Got a big Pfizer position in the 401k? Kidding, obviously. But the "anyone who asks questions is an anti-vaxxer" reflex is exactly why people stopped trusting the institutions in the first place. I respect every real skeptic, on any side. Asking questions is what moves science forward. Blind trust is stagnation.
by anonymars | 2025-12-06 00:44:28+00:00
Fractional reserve banking is still not the same as printing money outright

If you borrow $100 USD from the bank, and pay it off immediately after, it's clear no money was "created" as such

If $100 USD is "printed" outright, it's clear that there's no way to achieve that same result

The fact that the debt isn't generally paid back immediately doesn't change that fundamental. That's what I meant when I said any apparent "change" is about "time" rather than "money"

It is true that the money supply should expand with the economy. Turning raw materials into finished goods represents a larger "net economy" at the end of the process than at the beginning. (Indeed that's basically how it makes sense to have interest on debt in the first place)

Nevertheless, printing money out of whole cloth is different from issuing debt
by adrianwaj | 2025-12-06 00:44:44+00:00
Okay, so if you open up your site for free, there should be a way for an AI chat to link to the paid version of the free page when referencing in the chat window. That link can be obfuscated in some way too, perhaps. Also, it'd be very cool to split that payment back to the AI.

- You help the LLM by putting something up for free and pinging it upon publishing

- The LLM helps back by linking to you (hopefully)

- The user helps by paying you when they visit the paid version

- You help the LLM by splitting that payment back to it

optional: your free page can have reference links.. so other pages that helped you reach your final version can get a split of the payment as well. Perhaps the LLM can handle that part in "upstream distributions."

In fact, your reference links can lead to even more reference links further upstream when stepping back through the totality of references: the pyramid slice. Perhaps it should be capped at say 3 steps back.. that can be decided somewhere or the payments can be diluted the further back the focus.

So here's the crux - there should be a way for the user to decide how much they want/can pay you. A tipping culture can work. If you're broke, just don't tip anything or put it on hold. Big Business can be transparent on their payments and build up social capital by disclosing their "giving." There can be a level of transparency and privacy that can be tweaked for each situation.
by coldtea | 2025-12-06 00:45:10+00:00
>When people describe autism as a spectrum disorder, they generally mean the third metaphor.

Yes, but that's not what a spectrum technically is.

It's also not a very good idea descriptively, all the various properties people pile into this "spectrum" don't have nowhere equal weight with respect to relative importance to warrant the equal weight they get in such 'diagrams'.
by overfeed | 2025-12-06 00:45:51+00:00
> So, we probably need to make ads prohibitively expensive, and legally risky, such that the volume of them decreases dramatically.

i.e. those with lots of money get a lot of ad time and no one else gets any. I can think of a number of ways why this is inadvisable, across multiple axes, social, economic, and political.
by exmadscientist | 2025-12-06 00:46:19+00:00
This appears to be some kind of AI-slop rapid response to a piece of actual research (over at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09755-9 ). I don't mind discussing that, but this piece should never have been published. Just look at Figure 2 if you don't believe me, or the publication timeline.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-12-06 00:46:49+00:00
So, I understand this, and I absolutely support evidence-based medicine. I guess I'm at a loss as to why decades of giving this vaccine to folks 50+ is not sufficient to assess risk for people under that age, or never inspired more study into side effects. I also think that people who are 50+ are living long enough these days that we could probably make a good assessment as to how long the vaccine lasts (if we're not assessing that, I'd be kind of surprised and concerned as to why not).

Prioritizing drugs in the event of shortages is totally understandable, though pretty easily fixable if you give the manufacturers time to plan for general availability (hopefully they would see it as an opportunity to make money by broadening market share, not an opportunity to make money by restricting supply).
by tialaramex | 2025-12-06 00:46:53+00:00
C++ as First Language seems like an especially terrible idea to me. Maybe I should take a few months and go do one of those courses and see whether it's as bad as I expect.

The nice thing about Rust as First Language (which I'm not sure I'd endorse, but it can't be as bad as C++) is that because safe Rust ropes off so many footguns it's extremely unlikely that you'll be seriously injured by your lack of understanding as a beginner. You may not be able to do something because you didn't yet understand how - or you might do something in a terribly sub-optimal way, but you're not likely to accidentally write nonsense without realising and have that seem to work.

For example yesterday there was that piece where the author seems to have misunderstood how heap allocation works in Rust. But, in safe Rust that's actually harmless. If they write their mistake it won't compile, maybe they figure out why, maybe they give up and can't use heap allocation until they learn more.

I haven't thought too hard about Zig as first language, because to me the instability rules that out. Lecturers hate teaching moving targets.
by dangus | 2025-12-06 00:47:07+00:00
I agree that your take is a very real thing.

At the same time, I think there's a somewhat valid space for the psychology of this response.

If I use Harry Potter as an example, I think Harry Potter fans fall in a handful of camps:

1. Agrees with JK Rowling on her anti-trans rhetoric

2. Grew up loving Harry Potter and detests JK Rowling's views, possibly to the point of a boycott

3. Has never heard of any of the controversy and is blissfully ignorant

4. Is aware of the controversy but never signed up for that discussion in the first place and is just here for wizard fiction, wishes the controversy never existed.

I think the CEO of Framework is essentially going for #4 here, and I am quite mixed on whether that standpoint is enabling of problematic people or not. I can understand arguments both ways. For the role of a CEO, in this day and age, taking a polarized position does have the possibility of alienating half of your customer base, essentially a no-win scenario.

#4 is also mixed with a sprinkle of "Sometimes saying too much and engaging too much in the argument is your own undoing and digging your own grave." Often CEOs that say nothing end up with better outcomes than those who take an active stance on issues.

I can totally recognize that #4 is objectively more cowardly and less principled than #2, but I also don't know that we can expect 100% of generally good people to be freedom fighters.
by bawolff | 2025-12-06 00:47:17+00:00
I think CSS just wanted to be able to apply filters (blur() is a very common use case). Since a filtering language already existed for svgs, and web browsers had already implemented it, it made sense to connect the two. SVGs can also be styled via css, so there needed to be a syntax to mark in document filters as applying to specific svg elements.

I dont really think css filter is neccesary here though. I suspect the exploit could be implemented without that part just by embedding svg on the page.
by maxglute | 2025-12-06 00:47:48+00:00
Upperstage stage 1/6 weight with simple merlin engine. SpaceX might need to build 80 first stages if PRC reusable ends up building 80 first stages that's also reusable 30 times. Whether SpaceX can actually build and operate 80 first stages (very likely), and their associated second stages (more questionable) or realistically 100, or 200, we don't actually know, but we know basically in any mature industry PRC can outscale US capabilities, sometimes dramatically, i.e. 200-300x in shipbuilding.
by gerdesj | 2025-12-06 00:48:26+00:00
All of my company's hosted web sites have way better uptimes and availability than CF but we are utterly tiny in comparison.

With only some mild blushing, you could describe us as "artisanal" compared to the industrial monstrosities, such as Cloudflare.

Time and time again we get these sorts of issues with the massive cloudy chonks and they are largely due to the sort of tribalism that used to be enshrined in the phrase: "no one ever got fired for buying IBM".

We see the dash to the cloud and the shoddy state of in house corporate IT as a result. "We don't need in-house knowledge, we have "MS copilot 365 office thing" that looks after itself and now its intelligent - yay \o/

Until I can't, I'm keeping it as artisanal as I can for me and my customers.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-12-06 00:48:37+00:00
> When my dad remarried, my stepmother was a citizen of a different country, does that retroactively make me no longer a "heritage American"? If they had had kids, would my hypothetical half-sibling be a "heritage American"?

No, because of the ties to a foreign country through your stepmother.

> Or actually now that I think about it, my mom, who as a child knew her great-grandma, a Norwegian immigrant, wouldn't count as a "heritage American".

No, although if it's only one great-grandmother among 8 I'm not super worried about your mom being more loyal to Norway than the US. Also realistically Norway today has many of the same issues with culturally-foreign immigrants that the US does, so maybe that wouldn't amount to all that much in the unlikely case that your mom did strongly identify with Norwegian cultural norms.