MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alsetmusic | 2025-12-24 01:30:46+00:00
> The idea that anyone should be able to enter the country illegally and be given the right to due process presupposes that the state has the resources to deal with the volume of people who decide to do that.

No. It presupposes that every human being deserves to be treated with dignity no matter the circumstances. But I don't expect you to agree with me. Your interpretation of contemporary life in the USA is clearly distorted, but again, I don't expect you to agree. You're being lied to, fwiw.

> what do you do? You can't shoot them

There's no reason for me to engage with you further if this is how you think.
by saagarjha | 2025-12-24 01:31:44+00:00
I’m currently doing this in one of my side projects: https://github.com/saagarjha/Ensemble. It works, kinda; it’s good enough for demos at least and I haven’t had much time to improve it. At some point you would really want to use an actual video encoder though because JPEGs are not cheap to encode and send even with hardware acceleration.
by reactordev | 2025-12-24 01:32:06+00:00
I’ll chime in and say I run LM Studio on my 2021 MacBook Pro M1 with no issues.

I have 16GB ram. I use unsloth quantized models like qwen3 and gpt-oss. I have some MCP servers like Context7 and Fetch that make sure the models have up to date information. I use continue.dev in VSCode or OpenCode Agent with LM Studio and write C++ code against Vulkan.

It’s more than capable. Is it fast? Not necessarily. Does it get stuck? Sometimes. Does it keep getting better? With every model release on huggingface.

Total monthly cost: $0
by defrost | 2025-12-24 01:32:36+00:00
In defence of Windows . . .

(I've been a cross platform numerical developer in GIS and geophysics for decades)

serious windows power users, current and former windows developers and engineers, swear by Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility.

It's an open powershell suite collaboration by hundreds maintained by an opinionated coordinater that allows easy installation of common tools, easy setting of update behaviours, easy tweaking of telemetry and AI addons, and easy creation of custom ISO installs and images for VM application (dedicated stripped down windows OS for games or a Qubes shard)

https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

It's got a lot of help hover tooltip's to assist in choices and avoiding suprises, you can always look to the scripts that are run if you're suspicious.

" Windows isn't that bad if you clean it out with a stiff enough broom "

That said, I'm setting my grandkids up with Bazzite decks and forcing them to work in CLI's for a lot of things to get them used to seeing things under the hood.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-24 01:34:29+00:00
> If everyone in the news media is against you or ignores you then it's not possible to get a secondary source to fight misinformation.

Well, no, because secondary sources are not limited to news media sources (and for current events, primary sources are allowed.) If literally everyone creating media of any kind other than Wikipedia itself relating to a subject is in on a conspiracy to suppress it, yes, you are SoL on Wikipedia.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-12-24 01:34:56+00:00
You’re wrong in the way in which many people are wrong when they hear about a thing called “tail-call optimization”, which is why some people have been trying to get away from the term in favour of “proper tail calls” or something similar, at least as far as R5RS[1]:

> A Scheme implementation is properly tail-recursive if it supports an unbounded number of active tail calls.

The issue here is that, in every language that has a detailed enough specification, there is some provision saying that a program that makes an unbounded number of nested calls at runtime is not legal. Support for proper tail calls means that tail calls (a well-defined subgrammar of the language) do not ever count as nested, which expands the set of legal programs. That’s a language feature, not (merely) a compiler feature.

[1] https://standards.scheme.org/corrected-r5rs/r5rs-Z-H-6.html#...
by zzo38computer | 2025-12-24 01:35:07+00:00
SCTE-35 might be a better way to get rid of the commercials (normally SCTE-35 is intended for adding commercials rather than removing them), but only if that data is available (in my experience, sometimes it is, but not always). It might be even more better to just avoid recording the commercials (therefore saving disk space, and saing network bandwidth if using internet for downloading them), or to automatically skip past commercials when playing back a recording (instead of replacing them with something else). If using HLS, then you might use the #EXT-X-CUE-OUT command to detect commercial breaks, and avoid downloading them (although there is sometimes problems with audio/video desynchronization when converting to DVD format, and I don't know if that is because the commercial breaks are not recorded or for some other reason).
by netsharc | 2025-12-24 01:35:14+00:00
It's action thriller writing for something that's in reality is super dull (my question is loaded with outdated cliches, but would you be telling a girl you're trying to impress at a party about this problem you faced of trying to push some data over the network?). I had to skim over it, like watching a YouTube video at 2x so I don't start evaluating how obnoxious the narrator is.
by The_President | 2025-12-24 01:35:35+00:00
"Long ago" (Chantico-era anyone), Starbucks crews used to write on the cups with a standardized format which enabled calling the line. Actively soliciting the line ("calling the line") was extremely useful for knocking out a line extending out the door. Creating a computer label system may have knocked down shrink from free drinks (friends, cops, other baristas), but neutered the staffs ability to call the line. Now, in a busy Starbucks, it's more likely you won't be asked for what drink until you're at the register to pay.

Aside from the customer waiting longer for their drink, this also impacted a skilled barista's ability to combine batches of milk across multiple drinks, etc.

Recently I walked out of a Starbucks because the staff were waiting on the customer before me to "run and get their payment," while I waited to order a drip coffee that I had cash+tip in my hand for. "We'll be with you in a second."
Show HN: Ragctl – document ingestion CLI for RAG (OCR, chunking, Qdrant)
by ahsekka | 2025-12-24 01:35:55+00:00
Hi HN — sharing ragctl, an open-source CLI for the most failure-prone part of RAG pipelines: document ingestion, OCR, parsing/cleaning, and chunking.

Vector DB setup is fairly standardized now, but getting high-quality, consistent text + metadata into it still takes a lot of brittle glue code. ragctl aims to make that “pre-vector” step repeatable: turn messy documents into retrieval-ready chunks in a few commands.

Features
• Multi-format input: PDF, DOCX, HTML, images
• OCR for scanned/image-based docs
• Semantic chunking (LangChain)
• Batch runs with retries + error handling
• Output: direct ingestion into Qdrant (for now)

Looking for feedback
• DX: is the CLI intuitive?
• Performance / edge cases: weird PDFs, mixed layouts, tables
• Roadmap: which connectors (S3, Slack, Notion) or vector stores should be next?

Repo: https://github.com/datallmhub/ragstudio
Happy to answer questions about the architecture and chunking approach.
by benoau | 2025-12-24 01:37:27+00:00
It's worse than that, they don't want the EU to restrict Meta and X sowing hate-speech and political division.

The EU's DSA law is prohibiting advertising based on gender, religion, sexuality and political affiliation, requiring transparency around who funded advertisements, and requiring algorithms reveal why you are being served any particular content.

That is the "censorship" the US is fighting to prevent.
by alsetmusic | 2025-12-24 01:38:05+00:00
I strive to live in a version of the USA half as nice as the one you think we live in. We definitely didn't overthrow legitimate governments in the name of big business in South America, the Middle East, or even Hawaii. /s

I remember when I found out that a highly intelligent friend believed the earth was six-thousand years old. But at least he had the excuse that his idiotic religion was pushed on him since birth. Intelligent people on this site are sometime incapable of basic media literacy and I find it wholly depressing.

Keep voting against your interests while others of us fight you tooth and nail to try to make the world better for everyone (rather than just our own teams), even including you.
by musicale | 2025-12-24 01:39:25+00:00
It's mainly a joke about what things would be like if companies were more transparent about the reasons for unpopular changes. The follow-up is "we heard you loud and clear; you don't like (thing we did that makes things worse for you), so we promise to communicate (these bad changes) better in the future."

To their credit (?) NVIDIA mixed some good with the bad, bundling the hour limit with an upgrade to 1440p (Xbox Cloud Gaming also added 1440p but jacked up the price.)
by mindslight | 2025-12-24 01:40:39+00:00
I wonder if this activity is being used as a kind of loyalty test. Keep track of who is assigned to redact what, and then if certain files leak or are insufficiently redacted, they indicate who isn't all in on Dear Leader.

It's not like a few more stories of Trump raping $whomever are going to move the needle at all, especially with how the media is on board with burying negative coverage of the regime.

Also if you're wondering how this activity isn't some kind of abuse of government resources, keep in mind that thanks to the Supreme Council's embrace of the Unitary Executive Theory (ie Sparkling Autocracy), covering up evidence about Donald Trump raping under-aged sex trafficking victims is now an official priority of the United States Government.
by wswope | 2025-12-24 01:41:23+00:00
One of the archive.org links to this story was flagged a few hours after taking off last night. Might’ve been this one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46361571

I assumed this thread had been axed and manually reapproved. Probably likewise for some of the other people posting inb4s.
by jibal | 2025-12-24 01:41:44+00:00
It's certainly not a strawman when it's an oft repeated argument going back to Oliver Wendell Holmes' dictum in Schenck v. United States (and even further, as Holmes didn't invent this argument). The argument doesn't change if it's "There's a fire! Run, everyone!" -- and saying "that isn't speech, it's an emotional trigger" would be an intellectually dishonest evasion--lots of actual true blue speech triggers emotions.

P.S. I won't engage further with people clearly not arguing in good faith.
by silviogutierrez | 2025-12-24 01:41:52+00:00
Full disclosure: I run a competing app [1].

I think this is great, especially because it's OSS.

But if you want to really outshine Strong and Heavy, I'd look into "auto progression" of exercises. Too often, people just... log the same thing for years. Some RIR / RPE / linear progression would keep people motivated.

[1] joyapp.com
by N_Lens | 2025-12-24 01:42:02+00:00
Having been born Baha'i and going through the exploration of Abrahamic religions, I came to the conclusion that Eastern thought on divinity was more palatable and sane than simplistic monotheistic apprehensions of the Abrahamic faiths. This is also catching up in the West, with early thinkers like Baruch Spinoza talking about pantheism - 'Spinoza's God'.

To me it is evident that depictions of divinity depend on the context they are born in. The Old Testament was born in an area of conflict and instability and therefore their God is an all powerful punishing vengeful God that punishes the enemies of the chosen people. There's nothing universal or absolute about the Abrahamic God, unlike the claims by the followers, it is simply a conception born of the time and culture of the people.

Ironically it seems to me to be a great sin to push this God onto other cultures or people, according to its own system of belief.
by throwup238 | 2025-12-24 01:43:08+00:00
> - Associated Press + Facebook valuation estimate in court transcript (U.S., 2009) The AP reported it could read “redacted” portions of a court transcript by cut-and-paste (classic overlay-style failure). Secondary coverage notes the mechanism explicitly.

What happens in a court case when this occurs? Does the receiving party get to review and use the redacted information (assuming it’s not gagged by other means) or do they have to immediately report the error and clean room it?

Edit: after reading up on this it looks like attorneys have strict ethical standards to not use the information (for what little that may be worth), but the Associated Press was a third party who unredacted public court documents in a separate Facebook case.
by geraneum | 2025-12-24 01:44:20+00:00
Did you just referenced an article by Kenneth Love? I’m sure you already know but for anyone else who might see this, a U.S. District Judge Michael B. Mukasey in Love v. Kwitny (1989) suggests that he played a role in the coup himself! Love even admits it later! [1]

The link from TIME is an op-ed? Who’s the writer? That’s not a source, credible or otherwise.

- https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/7...
by dehrmann | 2025-12-24 01:45:57+00:00
> What if we only send keyframes?

I think the author reached this conclusion, but individual jpegs is essentially only keyframes.

> We don’t spam HTTP requests for individual frames like it’s 2009.

Uncompressed frames are huge, somewhere between 5 MB and 50 MB. The overhead of a request is negligible. It's also different when you're optimizing for latency and reliability where dropped frames is OK. Really, the lesson is they should have tried the easy thing first to see how good it was.
by dangus | 2025-12-24 01:46:07+00:00
I run OpnSense, Wireguard, hooked up to third party WiFi access points, and I had to do a lot of configuration and work that I wouldn't have had to do if I had just bought Ubiquiti equipment.

I did save money, a really significant amount of money.

Obviously, yes, I am capable of going through the work that eliminates my need for this product. I have no trouble configuring Wireguard and setting it up on my client devices and running through all that.

But it was a lot of work to get to this point and I had to spend a lot of time learning how to do that, even as a person who is already technical. Wireguard in particular took me a solid half a day to build understanding and get it configured.

If I was a little bit richer and I went back in time I'd probably just buy all Unifi. Actually if I went back in time I think with my same levels of wealth I'd probably just buy Unifi and save some precious time.

This specific device does seem like a really nice extension of their product line.
by pveierland | 2025-12-24 01:48:29+00:00
I believe this is wrong for many topics. The news media is strongly incentivized to sensationalize and continuously produce content for their readers and viewers. Wikipedia is able to cover many topics that are less contested in a slower and more tempered manner, as the content does not need to be marketable or immediately available. As an example, for STEM topics I'd trust Wikipedia far more than any news media.
by apatheticonion | 2025-12-24 01:49:09+00:00
Hevy is honestly great and good value. For something polished and feature complete, you can't go wrong with it.

I started building this app out initially to see how far I could get in a short space of time. It's still quite bare but it shouldn't be difficult to flesh out from here.

For me, it's more about the fun of making a working thing and then sharing that with others. If people contribute that would make my year, but it's rewarding enough to know that people are using it.

I'd like to expand on the exercise details page, but not looking to profit so licensing resources is off the table. Cloud sync is an interesting one because I'm trying to keep this free. I was hoping to offer users the choice of sync solutions (Google Drive, for instance).
by plqbfbv | 2025-12-24 01:49:32+00:00
I dabbled a bit with recoding/encoding videos in the past: 40mbps is basically blu-ray quality (1080p/4k depending on content), and it's being used to stream a mostly-static background with some text scrolling in front of it.

A 3-minute chat with Claude suggests 30FPS should be plenty (perhaps minor cursor lag can be noticed if it's drawn), with a GOP of 2s (60 frames) for fast recovery, VBR 1mbps average with a max bitrate at 1.2mbps for crappy connections, and bframes to minimize bandwidth usage (because we have hw encoding).

The crappiest of internet cafes should still be able to guarantee 1.2mbps (150kb/s). If they can do 5-10FPS with 150kb frames, they have 6-12mbps available. Worst case GOP can be reduced to 15 frames, so that there's 2x I-frames every second, and the latency is 500ms tops.
by palata | 2025-12-24 01:50:21+00:00
> or if you just disagree that it's a good idea

I disagree that it's a good idea. They heavily rely on fossil fuels, and when they don't, they heavily rely on France's nuclear energy.

Renewable is great when there is wind and sun, not so much otherwise. It's the kind of situation where "but we're 50% there!" does not matter if the last 50% is impossible. And hoping for nuclear fusion proves that renewables don't solve the problem on their own.

Nuclear fission is not bad, those who are afraid of it are just uninformed.
by dehrmann | 2025-12-24 01:50:31+00:00
> We’re building Helix, an AI platform where autonomous coding agents work in cloud sandboxes. Users need to watch their AI assistants work. Think “screen share, but the thing being shared is a robot writing code.”

This feels like a fast dead end. Agents will get much faster pretty quickly, so synchronous human supervision isn't going to scale. I'd focus on systems that make high-signal asks of humans asynchronously.
by netsharc | 2025-12-24 01:51:21+00:00
So, this is cynical trolling, but what's Microsoft's current "north star"? Trying to use their OS and work suite (what is it called now, Copilot 365?) to capture a bigger slice of the "attention economy"? Use those tools to capture and track users' behavior to get a bigger slice?

Hey, why haven't you logged on to OneDrive? Buy OneDrive, now!
by hapticmonkey | 2025-12-24 01:51:33+00:00
I don't know much about this, but does "proximity pairing" use some open standard API that's part of the bluetooth spec? Are there any examples of other devices using something like this?

Part of the appeal of Airpods is how seamless they are to pair and share between devices. The UX of bluetooth headphones pairing and device switching before Airpods came along seemed atrocious.

Is this a case of Apple arbitrarily locking out third parties, or is a case of Apple doing the work to get something to work nicely and now being forced to give competition access?
by apatheticonion | 2025-12-24 01:52:16+00:00
Hey this is interesting! Thanks for sharing.

I was thinking of adding in workout templates and maybe even figure out progressive overload or routines like 5-3-1.

Someone earlier made a reference to another app that lets you write/share scripts that can be used to design custom programs - which is very interesting. Being web based, custom programs could be written in JavaScript and `eval`'d in a sandbox - allowing for a similar experience.
by ajross | 2025-12-24 01:53:44+00:00
Given the context and the baldly political direction behind the redactions, it's not at all unlikely that this is the result of deliberate sabotage or malicious compliance. Bondi isn't blacking these things out herself, she's ordering people to do it who aren't true believers. Purges take time (and often blood). She's stuck with the staff trained under previous administrations.
by lovich | 2025-12-24 01:54:00+00:00
The Bong hits 4 Jesus case[1] clarified that minors don’t have full first amendment rights since they are compelled to attend school, and government employees can punish them for their speech.

My memory is failing me for the relevant case name but I’m also fairly sure students don’t have full 4th amendment rights, again because they are compelled to attend school and the government employees are allowed to search them at any time

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_v._Frederick
by Anon1096 | 2025-12-24 01:54:06+00:00
What you're missing is that for these massive systems there's never enough capacity. You can go look at datacenter buildouts YOY if you'd like. Any and all compute power that can be used is being used.

For individual services what that means is that for something like Google Search there will be dozens of projects in the hopper that aren't being worked on because there's just not enough hardware to supply the feature (for example something may have been tested already at small scale and found to be good SEO ranking wise but compute expensive). So a team that is able to save 1% CPU can directly repurpose that saved capacity and fund another project. There's whole systems in place for formally claiming CPU savings and clawing back those savings to fund new efforts.
by rafaelmn | 2025-12-24 01:54:15+00:00
A large % of their revenue comes from app store/services and they have incentives to lock you into the ecosystem, sell you digital shit and take a cut off of everything.

I saw an ad for apple gaming service in my iphone system settings recently !

That's not to say that Google isn't worse but let's not pretend Apple is some saint here or that their incentives are perfectly aligned with the users. Hardware growth has peaked, they will be forced to milk you on services to keep growing revenue.

Personally I'm looking forward to Steam Deck, if that gets annoying with SteamOS - it's a PC built for Linux, there's going to be something available.
by enaaem | 2025-12-24 01:54:15+00:00
There is this idea that regulations are unnatural and no regulations are natural. But the environment where in Apple can operate and make profit is completely artificial. We could go really deep into the origins of nation states, but there is also a practical example like IP law. Is it natural that no one is allowed to copy a iPhone one-to-one? Imagine our ancestors weren’t allowed to copy bow and arrows.
by sombragris | 2025-12-24 01:54:25+00:00
Very OT, and this betrays my age, but...

When I saw "Perfect Software" in the title, I thought it referred to Perfect Software, the developer who produced the Perfect Writer word processor, Perfect Calc spreadsheet, and Perfect Filer database. These were a suite of office software products developed in the early '80s for CP/M and MS-DOS computers.
by nerdix | 2025-12-24 01:55:09+00:00
Wifi 5 for an $80 router in 2026 (I mean we're almost there) is pretty disappointing. I get that its mostly going to be used on crappy hotel networks and the crappy hotel network will often be the bottleneck but $80 looks to be roughly twice the price of the typical travel wifi 5 travel router, about equal to the price of a typical wifi 6 travel router, and only $30-40 cheaper than a typical wifi 7 travel router.

I don't mind a unifi premium for the integration but they should at least have a $50 wifi 5 version and a $100 wifi 6 "pro" version
by apatheticonion | 2025-12-24 01:55:35+00:00
Right now the exercise movements are listed (e.g. shoulder press), which you can add to, but the routines themselves are manually entered.

I'm going to be adding in workout templates and maybe even auto-workouts (like auto progressive overload or routines like 5-3-1).

Another commenter mentioned an app that lets people write scripts to program custom routines. That sounds super interesting and a great way to share routines. I'm thinking of writing an engine for custom routines then use that to program some default ones.
by catlikesshrimp | 2025-12-24 01:55:53+00:00
There it is. Actual true blue speech triggers emotions.

Speech communicates ideas. It is mostly opinions. If you state something as fact, when it isn't, it is libel. As such, saying "there is a fire" in the theater is not speech, it is an exclamation.

If you aren't for free speech, then yes, yawning is speech.