MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ofrzeta | 2025-12-18 04:15:41+00:00
No specific technical questions here, just some random remarks. When I worked at a printed magazine focused on Linux there was always the dream of creating a full production pipeline based on LaTeX but we never made it. The best we had was a text based markup format that in the end produced some markup with "Quark Tags" that could be imported in Quark or later Indesign. We also did some sponsoring of Scribus but never got to use it (trained graphics designers use Quark or Indesign, right).

I did some tests with Scribus but got to the conclusion that a huge part of the layout result is the hyphenation. There's that famous technical paper by Frank Liang about hyphenation in TeX called "Word Hy-phen-a-tion by Com-put-er".

Overall I think your layout looks great as a magazine layout. But for instance if you look at the third paragraph in the second page (starting with "The company hoped...") there's a bit too much white space between the words, I think. Also at the end of first paragraph (ending in "by end users - a first for the chip): it's pulling together "users" and "a" while it should be separated by an em-dash - but the problem could also be in the source - anyway there's not need to stuff that line with whitespace as it should be ragged left).
by jesseendahl | 2025-12-18 04:15:42+00:00
(1) is already true today. There is no way for services to enforce whether a passkey is stored in software or hardware.

(2) I understand you don't like the user experience. But to make a technical clarification: requiring a user action to prove there's a human involved in the login action (e.g. by clicking a button in UI or requiring Touch ID) does not necessarily mean there's another factor involved at all (MFA). What you are describing is more of a "liveness check" than a separate factor/separate credential.
by minitech | 2025-12-18 04:16:24+00:00
> The tech industry loves to abstract away the human. Users become “MAUs.” Problems become “pain points.” Customers become “conversions.”

The LLM loves to torture concepts into statements with pithy veneers and three-item. Punctuated. Lists. “Pain points” as an example, really? All of these terms are just more specific than the ones they’re contrasted with, which don’t have much of a human element to them to begin with.

The irony of bemoaning this while AI-mimicking a team of people and getting a computer to write for you in its own voice…
by wertnayi | 2025-12-18 04:17:27+00:00
Some options:

1. "Your PR is bad and you should feel bad"

2. Use AI to reject the PR

3. Does it fill an immediate business need? Then Ship it. Most code is slop anyways, even before AI era. Otherwise, it's an unjustified continuous maintenance burden - drop it.

Remember all your competitors are also using AI slop. You're in good company...
by scorpeoanlibra | 2025-12-18 04:18:05+00:00
Apple’s ML team has been surprisingly consistent with these "quiet" open-source releases lately (OpenELM, MGIE, and now DSplats). Using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) as the representation layer for a diffusion model feels like the right move over the older NeRF-based approaches.
by jesseendahl | 2025-12-18 04:19:38+00:00
There's nothing different about using a password vs. a passkey that makes it easier or harder for vendors to lock you out. I am not sure where this misconception comes from.

Whatever process a vendor requires someone to go through in order to gain access to someone's account when they pass away remains the same whether the user previously used a password or a passkey to login.

Are you aware of any vendor that actually does have differing policies based on the account's login credential type? I'm not aware of any.
by D-Machine | 2025-12-18 04:20:41+00:00
> "a statistical analysis of data from 121 individuals possessing likely disease-causing variants of the gene. The team discovered that 25 of these individuals had a diagnosed mental disorder, including psychotic, mood, anxiety, personality, or eating disorders. Notably, all but two of these subjects carried a “null” variant of the gene, suggesting it was non-functional."

Garbage. Obviously p-hacked or of dubious significance, sample size isn't nearly large enough, and "mental illness" is not a coherent nor psychometrically valid category.
by casey2 | 2025-12-18 04:20:44+00:00
For Second-Handers the value of DRAM collapses past 256K anyway. I'd rather the people who can actually use it get societies resources than bums who use it to play games and crap out dumb scribbles or "vfx"

Second-Handers love to denigrate the work of Elon Musk and Sam Altman, but these men are solving fundamental problems, you can get your DRAM on the second-hand market after Sam uses it to create AGI. A reasonable man would be very grateful for the existence of these oligarchs. I assume you are just posting unconsciously not unreasonably.
by jdanbrown | 2025-12-18 04:20:51+00:00
Have you tried OpenRouter (https://openrouter.ai)? I’ve been happy using it as a unified api provider with great model coverage (including Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Grok, and the major open models). They charge 5% on top of each model’s api costs, but I think it’s worth it to have one centralized place to insert my money and monitor my usage. I like being able to switch out models without having to change my tools, and I like being able to easily head-to-head compare claude/gemini/gpt when I get stuck on a tricky problem.

Then you just have to find a coding tool that works with OpenRouter. Afaik claude/codex/cursor don’t, at least not without weird hacks, but various of the OSS tools do — cline, roo code, opencode, etc. I recently started using opencode (https://github.com/sst/opencode), which is like an open version of claude code, and I’ve been quite happy with it. It’s a newer project so There Will Be Bugs, but the devs are very active and responsive to issues and PRs.
by kinj28 | 2025-12-18 04:21:23+00:00
Nivumolab was the drug administered in adjuvant setting. Maybe you are right that 400k patient with decent efficacy - however pegged chances are about 70-80% and not 100. So my point is can there be a better test bench to try and inch closer to a better efficacy?

For example - if hela cells can be used for trials — can there be the cultured tissue be used instead of mice as day 1?

Also curious — how did the scientist decide on using a specific cell/protein to be used for checking if this is producing results. Is it a hunch or science ?
by yboris | 2025-12-18 04:21:55+00:00
Occasionally $500/month, but more reliably $300/month in sales of my Video Hub App - lets users browse, search, tag, and organize videos on local / network drives. Aiming to have an 8th anniversary release February 2026.

$5 per copy (Windows, Max, Linux; keep forever) https://videohubapp.com/

MIT open source (build your own copy) https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
by asdff | 2025-12-18 04:22:22+00:00
I think there is something to be said about provenance of the degree. For example there's been quite a lot of expansion in number of colleges or even community colleges expanding their systems while actual prestigious colleges themselves have only expanded so much.

Here are the stats for Harvard enrollment of undergrads (1,3), along with US population (2,4) and percent Harvard student (not sure where I get number of people in the workforce with harvard degrees data but maybe this is a decent proxy):

Year - ugrads - US population - % of US pop at harvard

1990 - 22,851 - 248,709,873 - 0.0092%

2000 - 24,279 - 281,421,906 - 0.0086%

2010 - 27,594 - 308,745,538 - 0.0089%

2025 - 24,519 - 343,000,000 - 0.0071%

1. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_312.20.a...

2. https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/dec/popchange...

3. https://www.harvard.edu/about/

4. https://www.census.gov/popclock/
by grog454 | 2025-12-18 04:23:15+00:00
I see the potential value of private evaluations. They aren't scientific but you can certainly beat a "vibe test".

I don't understand the value of a public post discussing their results beyond maybe entertainment. We have to trust you implicitly and have no way to validate your claims.

> There is no "winning" at benchmarks, it's simply that it is a better and more repeatable evaluation than the old "vibe test" that people did in 2024.

Then you must not be working in an environment where a better benchmark yields a competitive advantage.
by jesseendahl | 2025-12-18 04:26:11+00:00
Both of the major smartphone companies (Google and Apple) have pretty robust account recovery processes. Are you familiar with all the options they have? Your comment gives me the impression that you are making assumptions about what would happen, instead of doing research on how it actually works.

I experienced Google's recently and it was very robust.

Even before passkeys, the average user would have major problems if Apple and Google didn't have good account recovery processes.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-18 04:26:31+00:00
You can tell how safe a code snippet is from reading it.

Like, there's no way you're going to copy a 20 line algorithm from stack overflow on balancing a red-black tree and have it encrypt your harddrive.

Obviously you still need to test the code to make sure it works and understand what it's doing, but there is very little security risk here. Just look up the functions youre using and understand the code and you're fine.
by mojomark | 2025-12-18 04:27:22+00:00
First, I applaud what you're doing. Second, if you've already pondered these ideas, please disregard.

Third, I'm 49 years old and I was heavily into the "payola is evil, liberate music back to the ears of the listeners" movement, that spawned projects like muxtape, Napster, jamendo, and ultimately Spotify and the like (my involvement was nowhere near the scale of any of these players, but I knew the space well).

Now, I miss the Clive Davis's of the world. Go figure. I also miss trading cassette tapes with my friends, but today, to some degree, I do that through Spotify, but it's not the same. Of course, am not the same as the kid that was trading tapes. I'm a different person, no longer pedaling down the street to buy the latest Bad Religion album to listen to at a sleep over. Today I'd be more inclined towards Theloneous Monk. Nevertheless, I still LOVE listenng to, discovering and sharing music. I could be wrong, but given the trend, I don't really feel like that will change until I die.

With the context, I offer the following thoughts, to take or leave:

1. Maybe reconsider whether algorithms are indeed the enemy. The world of music is vast. Algorithms are powerful in helping me find new music in that ocean. However, the current Algorithms do seem quite myopic to me, functioning more like a echo chamber, vice expanding my musical aperture. So, maybe consider an algorithm, but one that functions more like the legacy music industry system network comprising scouts, producers, agents, managers and labels. Maybe even with some humans in the loop. The discovery and sharing go hand-in-hand. You want to share what you discover and love. Algorithms, I believe, can still help listeners discover.

2. Maybe consider radio. I don't fully understand why it seems as though people are forgetting the amazing network that is FM/AM radio (not internet radio). It's a one-way, open and persistent broadcast of information to subscribers - in a geographical vicinity that is. That latter piece is key. If I'm dialed-into a station, I know that others listening are in my local proximity and so are experiencing the same local issues as me (e.g. politics, crime, weather, natural disasters, war, etc). The other people listening aren't necessarily your friends, or family or colleagues (though some may be of course), but rather just people in this geolocal bubble you happen to be in together. The structure of our radio network is constrained geographically, which I believe is a massive strongsuit, vice a weakness. Bottom line, I suspect there is a benefit to the listener in music sharing mediums that are, perhaps at least in part, geographically constrained.

Keep going! Love where this is headed
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-12-18 04:27:26+00:00
That is a fact.. LGPL can unintentionally contaminate the code base, and why https://wxwidgets.org/ had to have a more open license to cross-port programs from/to other platforms (especially Android and windows often needed Static builds just for practical reasons.)

Additionally, a public-domain/CC0 license can run up against some organizations policies. It is better to release under several licenses to reach as many users as possible. Personally prefer Apache 2.0, as 10 years from now someones situation may need that...

Sad a grief'er decided to bury your response. Happy holidays =3
by spopejoy | 2025-12-18 04:27:59+00:00
> the political will is not there

The SEC was decently anti-crypto for quite a while, basically until Trump 2. It was following an established strategy of going after the worst actors to establish case law to underpin rulemaking that would therefore be less vulnerable in court once made. In finance you can assume defendants will be well-funded so it's not the dumbest strategy.

It of course made nobody happy -- the anti-crypto crowd thought it was nowhere near aggressive enough, while everyone in crypto was crying a river about the "unfair" and "corrupt" SEC "doing Wall Street's bidding" by making things hard for pump-and-dumpers.

Meanwhile, in marked contrast, Bitcoin itself was more or less given a clean bill of health as long ago as 2012, when FINCEN ruled that miners were not money-transmitters. Say what you want about bitcoin, but it's not transparently a security like pretty much every NFT and most leading altcoins.

Anyway that's all ancient history now since Trump 2, although Gensler had already more or less lost once the Bitcoin ETF was approved. Tradfi seems to love crypto now, what could possibly go wrong?
by ajdude | 2025-12-18 04:28:12+00:00
Earlier this year I downloaded TikTok once, I needed to access some very niche videos and couldn't watch them without getting an account. I never added anybody, and I never associated with any other socials, but somehow I started getting emails from TikTok that one of my NEIGHBORS were viewing my profile! Even used their full name. I deleted the account and uninstalled the app.
by richardfeynman | 2025-12-18 04:29:50+00:00
You’re not “correcting” me. You’re swapping denominators and then accusing me of misrepresentation.

The ~69% figure is not “probably based on” anything. It’s directly from the FBI’s 2023 hate crime data as summarized by DOJ: 2,699 religion-based incidents, 1,832 anti-Jewish. That is 1,832 / 2,699 = 67.9% (call it ~68–69%). Source: https://www.justice.gov/crs/news/2023-hate-crime-statistics

Now you try to “debunk” that by quietly switching the denominator to all hate crimes. Fine. Do that math too: 1,832 / 11,862 total incidents = 15.4% of all reported hate crime incidents in 2023. For a ~2% population, that’s still about 7–8x disproportionate. So no, it’s not “not true.” You’re just changing the question and hoping nobody notices. You even implicitly concede the underlying statistic (“69% of religion-based hate crimes”) and then pretend it’s false by changing denominators mid-argument.

Your “only if religion-based hate crimes were the only type” line is nonsense. I explicitly restricted the claim to religion-based incidents, and the DOJ/FBI table does the same. You’re arguing with a strawman you invented.

As for “overreported” and “asymmetric” enforcement: that’s vibes plus two cherry-picked links about a specific incident. If you think the FBI/DOJ figures are inflated, show a dataset and a method, not anecdotes and insinuation.

Also, plenty of incidents never get reported at all. I’ve personally been assaulted for being Jewish and didn’t report it. That is what undercount looks like in real life.

Finally, please stop misrepresenting what I wrote. I explicitly said “religion-based hate crimes.” Your comment only makes sense if you pretend I didn’t.
by Waterluvian | 2025-12-18 04:30:21+00:00
The thing that drives me absolutely mental about most developers I’ve worked with is just how much work they’ll do to avoid the easy thing, if the easy thing isn’t programmatic.

I have tests and CI and all that, sure. But I also have a deployment checklist in a markdown document that I walk through. I don’t preserve results or create a paper trail. I just walk the steps one by one. It’s just so little work that I really don’t get why I cannot convince anyone else to try.
by umeedsto | 2025-12-18 04:31:18+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a Discord bot for MathGPT.today that helps students work through math problems inside Discord, with an emphasis on clear step by step reasoning instead of just spitting out an answer.

What it does

Slash command solve: type a question and get a structured solution with the final answer plus the steps

Image support: upload a photo or screenshot of a problem and get it solved

Clean math formatting: renders formulas clearly so it is readable in chat

Follow ups: ask “why” or “show another example” without retyping everything

Why I made it A lot of students already study in Discord servers, but most math help there is either low quality or too hard to read. I wanted something that feels like a helpful tutor in the same place students already hang out.

Try it Bot invite: https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=1448732030543... Website: https://mathgpt.today

Feedback I would love from HN

What would make this actually useful in a real study server

Any Discord UX ideas for making step by step solutions easier to skim

Features you would want as a teacher or tutor (homework mode, hints only, practice quizzes, etc.)

If you try it and it breaks or gives a confusing explanation, tell me what you typed or uploaded and I will use that to improve it.
by bloomingeek | 2025-12-18 04:31:21+00:00
<I am just the properly paranoid type in part due to a good upbringing by a properly paranoid person.>

I say you've properly got your eyes open. Anyone who thinks anything you do online is completely private is naive. IF any government wants to know what you've been up to online, nothing can stop them. Privacy is a thing of the past, we should vote only for politicians who say they want the government out of our backyards, banks and bedroom. Oops, too late!
by advisedwang | 2025-12-18 04:32:03+00:00
It's true that you can boil it down a lot. In fact, the book even has a checklist checklist that distills down the advice to one page. However it was overall a very quick read and the extra discussion really did further my understanding of the underlying principles that make a checklist good. I'd recommend reading the whole thing so that you actually make a useful checklist instead of a cargo-cult copy of an aviation checklist.
by crq-yml | 2025-12-18 04:32:28+00:00
I think the gap comes from the collective/individual divide found elsewhere in Japan/US comparisons. It's just a bit less obvious w/r to art.

In Japan there is a presumed collective endeavor to creativity. That starts in school and continues into the professional world: mangaka will plagiarize from each other in the pursuit of a collective storytelling lamguage (a concept introduced to me by Even A Monkey Can Draw Manga, a great humorous short read on simple realities of the industry with practical advice). Someone who makes a bad drawing is given a lot of leeway to be "pulled back in line", for better or or worse. The professionals complain that everyone copies from everyone else overly much, and the pressure at the top level to continuously put out high level work is deadly intense, but it creates the high standard of uniformity.

But the US culture guarantees a lot of awkward standoffish scenarios because, if you make art, it's positioned relative to the worst framing of your ambition, and this typically means you are viewed as a speculator, someone who is plotting a way to cash in without doing something for others. It's far more acceptable to say that you are an art teacher than an artist because then it locates you within the structure of the firm and the state, which is the "hidden" collective tendency in US culture: be as individual as you want if it builds the nation in balance sheet terms, otherwise you are a failure. Thus the observation from earlier in the thread that a sports fan is more deserving of respect than an amateur athlete - the fan is a consumer, they are participating in the market.
by rriley | 2025-12-18 04:34:24+00:00
https://unrav.io . Lets users reshape any article, paper, or video into the form that actually helps them think, mind-maps, summaries, podcasts, or interactive Q&A. Launched as part of the Bolt.new hackathon in August and growing steadily. Going from a 100% vibe coded web app to a full production system has been quite a ride!
by IAmGraydon | 2025-12-18 04:35:07+00:00
My day job is a Director level role at a large commercial real estate firm. Our primary segments are brokerage, management, and development management. I've been doing this for 11 years.

>The story starts with a building operator and a bank deciding what a building is worth. To figure this out, the operator is going to make a financial model that projects the income that a building will generate.

We're going by existing leases at the property, and take into account their expirations and rent escalations. Mostly, we're looking at current income. If a building is valued at $20M because of a $1,000,000 NOI at a 5% cap, that's because it literally has $1,000,000 of yearly income NOW and some seriously high grade tenants to justify that cap. Also, if there are no tenants in the building, we value it by things like construction value. If we're talking about new developments, we usually pre-lease and borrow based on the signed leases.

>You may wonder how the cap rate is determined. The simple answer is the owner and the bank negotiate and agree on a number.

This is disingenuous. We don't pull a cap rate out of thin air. We go by market caps on comparable properties and also factor in the credit of the existing tenants and their lease terms. There is a tiny bit of back and forth on the cap if the buyer and the bank disagree but this a matter of tenths of a percent.

All of that said, I have never known a property owner who refused to lower rents in a game of chicken with the bank and most would certainly rather fill a space with someone than keep rents elevated. If a space is empty, it's generating zero income, your NOI is therefore lower, and the building value has already decreased. The bank isn't pretending it's worth more than it is because you're advertising a certain rate. They're just giving you more time to lease the space so it doesn't have to go into receivership, which is a loss for everyone.

Beyond that, most leases are signed at or below asking rent unless the area is extremely high demand. They may not be advertising a rate drop, but anyone in this business knows that asking rents are a point to be negotiated during the leasing process.
by ethersteeds | 2025-12-18 04:36:06+00:00
> Pre-passkeys, was this lockout issue a true issue with apple and google accounts?

Yes, absolutely. I have a second Google account I created and lost the password to. I can't reset it because it wants to know the exact month I opened it. I don't even know if it was 2012 or 2016, I'll never guess the month.
by czhu12 | 2025-12-18 04:38:08+00:00
https://canine.sh - makes it dead simple to turn your Kubernetes environment into a Heroku like PaaS.

Mainly used in organizations with developers who want to deploy to a corporate Kubernetes environment, but don’t want to deal with the complexities.

It’s fully open source so we’re covered by sponsors, the largest being Portainer $5k+ / m from sponsorships.

Makes it possible to keep the cloud offering totally free.