MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vee-kay | 2025-12-28 04:36:38+00:00
Bottom of the barrel flash drives..

Many of us have old cheap flash drives, which may have some backups (family photos, videos, career files, etc.) we may not want to lose - so they may qualify for such periodic basic maintenance (just plugging them into the PC once in 6 months or so).

I think most home users don't know this can be a potential problem for flash drive storage.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-12-28 04:38:01+00:00
Sure, here is a great and very influential article about technological innovation explaining faster than GDP growth of govt health spending: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.6.3.3

It was written contemporaneous to Clinton. You are welcome to read about the budgetary process of the Clinton years, healthcare was THE primary issue. Like why am I talking about this stuff, and why was everyone talking about it under Clinton? Because we’re all stupid? Military spending is PERCEIVED to be something about the budget, but it is ALL ABOUT HEALTHCARE, it has been since 1965 in this country, and it is all about healthcare everyone else in the developed world, acutely so in Europe and Japan.
by nwellinghoff | 2025-12-28 04:38:54+00:00
The “non exclusive” thing may come back to bite them. If another big player comes in to lic the tech and get “different” tech than nvidia it opens up law suits. Also this seems like it’s just a bet on time. The head engineer who invented this technology will be replicated. But I guess that will take a while and the margin money machine will print Bs while the dust settles.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-28 04:40:04+00:00
Well it's either see someone experiencing psychosis, or be at a few orders of magnitude higher risk of dying or being seriously injured.

I often see these comparisons to cars and theyre just so dishonest, because nobody seems to mention the number one downside of driving a lot. Maybe we're desensitized to it. Driving is a fantastic way to die, one of the best.
by thfuran | 2025-12-28 04:40:12+00:00
And the comment you’re replying to suggests that since many lived experiences are plausibly heritable, the term is appropriate. In any case, the context in which it is actually used in the article seems beyond all but the most pedantic reproach:

>The first is how a father’s body physically encodes lived experience, such as stress, diet, exercise or nicotine use

And that’s a single sentence partway through the article. From the beginning, the refrain is the list of the sorts of things that seem to have heritable effect, not the phrase “lived experiences”.

>Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children

>Within a sperm’s minuscule head are stowaway molecules, which enter the egg and convey information about the father’s fitness, such as diet, exercise habits and stress levels, to his offspring

Etc.
The article is clearly not attempting to suggest that all experiences are heritable.
by SilverElfin | 2025-12-28 04:40:14+00:00
My assumption is employees are mostly out on holidays since the deal was known widely only on Christmas, and so they’re busy with their personal lives, quietly discussing this issue with trusted coworkers, and if there are serious problems, they are coordinating a lawsuit instead of saying something they shouldn’t in public.

You should be asking why no one has dispelled the criticisms of how employee equity is treated in this deal - neither Nvidia nor Groq’s founders nor regular employees. Lots of people have raised this concern. Should be simple to answer, right?

As for people with no skin in this deal “whining” - why wouldn’t people raise concerns? It’s a disturbing trend. These are highly unusual deals made to circumvent the law and break norms, on antitrust and employee compensation. They’re suspicious and prior examples have stolen from employees. So distrust and scrutiny by default is completely justified.
by renewiltord | 2025-12-28 04:41:18+00:00
Can do with any weighted LB, right? E.g. route53 or Cloudflare LB. But even manually you just need k IPs (perhaps even 2) and have host k1 and host k2 report different (overlappingly valid) certs. Then (1/k) users will see bad cert. your usual will be near zero failures but canary will have 100% failures.

I’ve always used the calendar event before expiry and then manual renew option but I wonder why I didn’t do this. It’s trivial to roll out. With Route53 just make one canary LB and balance 1% traffic to it. Can be entirely automated.
by vee-kay | 2025-12-28 04:41:54+00:00
Magnetic HDDs also tend to have inbuilt SMART features to monitor disk performance and health, so they can inform when they are beginning to give problems. So the advanced user can recover the data before the HDD fully fails.

In my experience, flash drives tend to get problems suddenly leading to data corruption, and it may not be immediately apparent to the user till it is too late. I haven't such problems in recent years though, so maybe flash drives have become smarter too.
by an-allen | 2025-12-28 04:42:04+00:00
A lot of this is transmitted via the language. The stories we form as a result of events in our lives, have power to set our values in all areas. These myths of the self, have what is essentially a value manifest for someone. And these myths, can be so strongly held that it will influence the person and family’s moods, actions, habits.

What is important is to note that there are many formulas for consciousness. Some are truely bonkers, some are just fundamental truth. And some… have yet to be discovered.

Permutations and combinatorics create a hyperspace of all ridiculous things!
by Avamander | 2025-12-28 04:42:09+00:00
> The way to do that requires them to know that the key which signed the data belongs to you.

This is something S/MIME does and I wouldn't say it doesn't do so well. You can start from mailbox validation and that already beats everything PGP has to offer in terms of ownership validation. If you do identity validation or it's a national PKI issuing the certificate (like in some countries) it's a very strong guarantee of ownership. Coughing baby (PGP) vs hydrogen bomb level of difference.

It much more sounds to me like an excuse to use PGP when it doesn't even remotely offer what you want from a replacement.
by jakelazaroff | 2025-12-28 04:45:00+00:00
That is no longer true! You can do it in CSS with a combination of `@starting-style` and `transition-behavior: allow-discrete`. [1]

Another gotcha you'll run into is animating the height. A couple other new features (`interpolate-size: allow-keywords` and `::details-content`) will let you get around that. [2]

Modern CSS is awesome.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/entry-exit-animations

[2] https://nerdy.dev/open-and-close-transitions-for-the-details...
Show HN: AI slop has flooded the template market
by VBproDev | 2025-12-28 04:45:43+00:00
I was sourcing e-commerce templates for a client and ran into two bad options:

- expensive, locked-down ecosystems like Shopify
- broken AI-generated junk

So I built Estrocom, an e-commerce template with Astro, Tailwind, and TypeScript,
designed to be WCAG AA accessible, SEO-friendly, and mobile-first.

Live demo:
https://estrocom.netlify.app

Source code:
https://github.com/VBproDev/estrocom

Why it’s worth checking out:

- Accessibility: 0 issues detected by Axe and Lighthouse, WCAG AA contrast maintained
- Performance: Sub-1s load time with strong Lighthouse scores
- Mobile-first: Works from 360px up to large screens
- Atomic design: Atoms, molecules, and organisms for scalability
- Full shopping flow: Cart + product categorization
- SEO-ready: JSON-LD schema and sitemap support
by shuiquan | 2025-12-28 04:45:55+00:00
I've open-sourced QEM Autonomous Final: a cognitive engine that moves beyond static vector search to "entangled memory fields." Using a unique 1+(-1) projection logic and differential quantization, it achieves 24x semantic compression. Its standout feature is "Quarantine Sublimation"—a biomimetic process that, like REM sleep, transforms data noise into intuition seeds, providing a self-healing and auditable memory layer for long-term AGI systems.
by maxglute | 2025-12-28 04:46:14+00:00
PRC lending their USD surplus to countries to buy more PRC shit. "Increases demand for dollar-denominated assets, goods and service" =/= increase demand for US treasury, aka it doesn't fund US deficits. The attack is not on dollar circulation / liquidity but cost of treasury

Old: PRC recycle surplus USD into US bonds, increase US treasury demand, subsidizes cheap US debt.

New: PRC recycle surplus USD into BRI finance, said USD doesn't return to US treasury to buy bonds, decrease US treasury demand, treasury increase interest to fill hole, makes exorbitant privilege more exorbitant.

PRC parallel dollar bond lending COMPETES with US treasury bond lending. PRC dollars gets recycled towards PRC goods / BRI projects, not US treasury. PRC leveraging dollar liquidity for PRC geopolitical interests, meanwhile taking demand away from treasury bond sales, so US drive rates up to compete. US treasury had to find other buyers to fill ~600 billions (and raising) of USD bonds that PRC no longer holds. Filling hole that size = finding more price sensitive buyers (vs PRC who previously default recycled into treasury), so raise interest, increase debt servicing. US 10 year going from 0% (countries basically paying to hold USD) to ~0.8% cost US ~300B+ annually. Now that's not all PRC doing, but 100 billion here and there and soon we are talking about real money.
Show HN: One-click PPTX to PNG (Windows app and Python library)
by WaterRun | 2025-12-28 04:46:37+00:00
A small tool that exports .pptx files to .png images with one click.
EXE (Windows, ready to use out of the box): https://github.com/Water-Run/pptx2png/releases/tag/pptx2png

PyPI (call it from your Python code): https://pypi.org/project/pptx2png/
by notepad0x90 | 2025-12-28 04:47:06+00:00
same way I would with my email provider. But I'd expect a recovery code of some sort that i could save.

How would you normally recover an account? Email? So, if my email is compromised, everything gets compromised? That's not sane at all. You should normally have MFA, and if you can recover your MFA/2FA with email, it's just an over-engineered inconvenience. The way it's done right, the MFA recovery code servers as a general account recovery code as well. You save that somewhere safe and offline.

In this case, they use ssh public keys, so there is no need for all that, just add a spare public key to authorized_keys, and keep it's private key offline and safe, ideally in an HSM.

This is a service for technical people, so all that works, for general consumer service, you give them a choice. Either they choose to use a recovery key, a recovery email/phone...or recovery via payment. Let them pay $1 for recovery, proving they control the original method of payment (KYC not crypto). But if nothing else, users should be able to choose recovery code instead of email. It's more secure, because you're not relying on a 3rd party service to also be secure. I don't like them much, but recovery questions have also been used, but if you think about it, those are not that different from recovery codes, they're just more guessable.

Recovery codes aren't one string, they're usually multiple, so if users chose, they can split up their storage. For added reliability, you can require validation of recovery codes periodically, after a successful sign-in.
by peter_d_sherman | 2025-12-28 04:47:27+00:00
>"The question isn't just why Nvidia paid $13.1B more than market rate for technology they could build themselves (they have the PDK, volume, talent, infrastructure, and cash). The question is why they structured it this way.

Where the premium was spent:

Regulatory arbitrage:

Non-exclusive licensing avoids years of antitrust review. Structure the deal as IP licensing + talent acquisition, and regulators have no grounds to block it.

This alone is worth billions in time and certainty."

Isn't that fascinating!

Observation: For any given Deal (in business or in life in general) -- there may be one or more legal components -- to it...

But (equal-and-oppositely!) there also may NOT be one or more legal components to it!

What each deal has in some legal components -- it may lack in other legal components...

Conversely, what each deal does not have in some legal components -- it may have in other legal components...

Now, perhaps this sounds like a "self-evident truth", and thus not be worthy of deeper exploration, but it seems that there exists an:

Intersection of Set Theory and Legal Aspects -- applied to Deals

(AKA "Transactions", "Exchanges", "Barters", "Trades", "Exchanges Of Value", etc., etc.) in various jurisdictions (which can be thought about as how contracts, both legal and natural, arising from such exchanges are, or would be interpreted through its courts, through its regional statutes (aka "Laws") IF there are inter-party disputes which subsequently require a court for such interpretation...)

And that intersection -- could well be worthy of further study!

Phrased another way -- it (and this article!) are highly interesting from a legal perspective!

(And also a Set Theory one!)
by theptip | 2025-12-28 04:47:33+00:00
> The cost of that suit will be more than the value of the gains and damages awarded.

In many cases this is so, but here we are talking about tens of billions in value. Even a few percent of value won is worth lawyering up to the hilt for.

> as long as the transaction is reasonable

What does “reasonable” mean? If the OP is correct and selling the IP guts the company then it seems hard to justify. I also don’t think you can reduce the concept of fiduciary duty in this way. It’s a well-defined term of art with specific precedent.
by stingraycharles | 2025-12-28 04:48:27+00:00
Honestly, as someone else who does a lot of data plumbing, there is so much FTP servers with excel sheets being used as the means for official clearance processes.

There are constant data bugs in the feeds provided by major exchanges, market makers, etc, and so many iffy business rules that are basically all encoded in 100+ tab excel sheets.

Maybe this article focuses on a very specific niche of banking, but most of it is tied together with FTP and excel sheets.

I think the author would be shocked just how flaky a fundamental banking protocol like SWIFT is.
by oldputput | 2025-12-28 04:48:42+00:00
I used to be freely optimistic about humanity, now it’s becoming more and more forced. The percentage of people who are naturally kool-aid drinkers appears to have remained fairly constant over time, but AI will change that, the shadows will multiply. There’ll be shadows of shadows. Shadows all day. Shadows in the way, even when you’re searching for the light, trying to do right.
by 1659447091 | 2025-12-28 04:48:51+00:00
The second sentence/paragraph of this article:

>> The Center for Countering Digital Hate founder was among five people denied US visas ...

Has a link to an earlier article about the "five people"[0]

>>Imran Ahmed, an ex-Labour adviser who now heads the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), and Clare Melford, CEO of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) [...] Ahmed from the CCDH, which says it advocates for government action against hate speech and disinformation online, has links to senior Labour figures. He was previously an aide to Labour minister Hilary Benn, and Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff Morgan McSweeney has served as a director of the group he founded.

Along with more details about the people, what the trump side claim them to be and other information about this on going event. The info was referenced in this article to a more informationally relevant article that establishes who he is. The article you are commenting on is a follow up to that one (which has the foundational identity info you claim is omitted and can be found).

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp39kngz008o
by b112 | 2025-12-28 04:49:22+00:00
One annoying thing is I've tried to pay, but can't.

I spend about four to five months per year in the Bay Area, but have Canadian license plates. The website doesn't even let you enter a Canadian plate, or a foreign plate.

So I bought one of the transponders at Walgreens, and just leave it in the glove box because it has 20 bucks or something when you buy it.

But I can't check its status, don't know how much is left on it, have no idea what I'm paying, really sucks.
by mistercow | 2025-12-28 04:49:38+00:00
> It seems obvious that a higher perceived brightness can be achieved for any given pixel if using greyscale instead of using colors, just because less of the backlight's area is occluded.

When converting to grayscale, you typically calculate the value of the pixel and then set all color components to that value. The point of this is to keep the luminance the same as it was in the original color pixel. If you’re doing this correctly, the perceived brightness stays the same.

And just as a smell test: have you ever converted an image to grayscale and flinched away because it seemed twice as bright? Of course not; it just loses its color.

The only way you would get more perceived brightness at lower backlight intensity would be if you physically removed the color gels that overlay the LCD matrix. Which is obviously not what they’ve done here.

I’m pretty sure the increase in battery life they observed is simply because they’re using their phone less, which is very much the main upshot of the other benefits they listed. The idea that color pixels drain more energy is just obviously nonsense.
by kreelman | 2025-12-28 04:50:11+00:00
These are neat. Thanks for posting.
How common are the hardware displays that support these in real life?
The rise and rise of OLEDs seems to make these kinds of displays "so old fashioned", but if the display needs to only display monochrome textual information, these displays would reduce risk, possible points of failure (due to reduced complexity/connections).

These kinds of displays probably are cheaper? ..though OLEDs certainly have economies of scale on their side...

Please comment if any of the above fits with some known devices?

...On the artistic side, this font looks great and could be super useful for building soft prototypes of devices... Which kind of loops back to the reason this font was released is because these devices are still perhaps quite well used?
by array_key_first | 2025-12-28 04:50:14+00:00
There will always be people who abuse the system, no matter what system you have.

The solution is not to burn down all systems and just wild west everything. No. The solution is to anticipate the fraud, and build it into your margins and planning. Recognize it will always happen. And, in fact, the optimal amount of fraud is never zero. Because preventing fraud, too, has a cost, and it grows exponentially.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-12-28 04:50:21+00:00
Yes, TLS for example uses X.509, as do lots of things. The container format, as well as the data-structure. I'm saying not just for SBOM, but for the code-signing cert aspect as well. I wouldn't mind if there was an "SBOM" usage in X.509, and CA's sell SBOM signing certs or whatever, but the sad fact is, I think some mobile platforms, macos and windows are the only place this is used.

We need for data-at-rest, what TLS has been for data-in-motion.
by grayhatter | 2025-12-28 04:50:27+00:00
> Is anyone else worried that [...] the Rust world [...] slap on it MIT license because it's [reason you don't like]?

No... I don't think that's how software works. Do you have an example of that happening? Has any foss project lost control of the "best" version of some software?

> Not everything in software is about features.

I mean, I would happily make the argument that the ability to use code however I want without needing to give you, the people, permission to use my work without following my rules a feature. But then, stopping someone from using something in a way you don't like, is just another feature of gpl software.
by an-allen | 2025-12-28 04:51:58+00:00
Interesting about the epigenetics, transposons, and other DNA augmentations…

These are all fundamentally a story of how the individual encounters and uses information in their lived experience. But there is also a very strong consensus narrative that must be respected, but also challenged and evolved. DNA is literally the informational substrate of a life… when you adopt a personal belief, or are subject to someone elses, you have the ability to help but also harm your informational substrate. Tend your garden of ideas with love and care.
by rastrian | 2025-12-28 04:52:31+00:00
I’ve worked in Brazilian banking stacks that were literally FTP + spreadsheets for years. So yes, the ecosystem is often messy and protocols can be flaky.

That’s exactly why I argue for stronger internal modeling: when the boundary is dirty, explicit state machines/ADTs + exhaustiveness + idempotency/reconciliation help ensure bad feeds don’t silently create invalid internal states.
by dietr1ch | 2025-12-28 04:53:39+00:00
> I told the waitress “you too” wrt to her telling me to enjoy my meal.

That's not too bad unless you are in a group and they make fun of you right away, but it's a fumble that you can fix and start a good play if you don't just get super nervous.

Laugh it off, ask her if it's not the first one, ask her to join, even if you know she's actually working and can't.

I've never done any improv, but it seems like something maybe everyone should do so we all can avoid awkward moments that stick for way longer than they should.
by arcticfox | 2025-12-28 04:53:55+00:00
I'm going to blow your mind: people are different! I have lived in several cities in the PNW and New England and now live in Houston metro by choice. It is far easier, more efficient, and more economical for my family which are our priorities. (Also infinitely more diverse, which is a big plus, but doesn't really have anything to do with urban planning). We like it a lot here.
by rastrian | 2025-12-28 04:53:59+00:00
Yep, in practice a lot of orgs treat reliability as a cost center until an outage becomes a headline or a regulatory incident. I’ve seen the same tension in payments/banking: product pressure wins until the risk is visible.

Part of why I like “make invalid states unrepresentable” approaches is exactly that: it’s one of the few reliability investments that can pay back during feature work (safer refactors, fewer regressions), not only during incidents.
by ivansavz | 2025-12-28 04:56:06+00:00
I've been in Grayscale for some time now (almost a month), and it's great. I always wanted to have a phone with an eInk display, and this is pretty close feeling (aesthetically).

Scrolling is no longer interesting, and food looks un-appetizing. Making the digital reality look boring is a good deal to make the real world look more exciting.

Thanks to comments from @jtbaker and @SkyPuncher I just added a shortcut to the "pull out" menu so I can now turn off when I need to work with pictures where colors are important.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-28 04:57:18+00:00
And I can respect that - the problem is that urbanism, at it's core, is an organization problem. It internetly involves other people, regardless of if any one of them wants it to or not.

I mean, ideally, I could say I want to live all on my own in a mansion far away from everyone else. But I still want access to the world's best food, entertainment, and socialization. But it's just not possible.

Everything is compromises. We can't be erecting hundreds of miles of road and acres of parking lots so people have a 10 by 10 foot lawn, you know? And ultimately it will come back to them, too. Because commuting does suck, and I think most people know it sucks. They just can't, or won't, put two and two together on their lifestyle and commuting. They're inherently linked!