MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wtcactus | 2025-12-12 07:33:45+00:00
Ah, no, that's not what I mean. It's the input devices. Mainly the mouse pointer.

I now remember there was a way to go around it (a bit cumbersome and ugly) which was to render the mouse pointer only locally. That means no mouse cursor changes for tooltips/resizing/different pointers in games, etc. But at least it gets rid of the lag.
by tartieret | 2025-12-12 07:34:49+00:00
MCP includes a standard for some more advanced capabilities like: - tool discovery: for instance you can "push" an update from the server to the client, while with OpenAPI you have to wait for the client to refetch the schema - background tasks: you can have a job endpoint in your API to submit tasks and check their status, but standardization on the way to do that brings additional possibilities on the client side (imagine showing a standard progresss bar no matter which tool is being used) - streaming / incremental results / cancellation - ...

All of this is http based and could be implemented on a bespoke API but the challenge is cross-API standardization so that agents can be trained on representative data. The value of MCP is that it creates a common behavioral contract, not just a transport or schema.
by clort | 2025-12-12 07:35:11+00:00
what is the context for this photo please? (that is not a calf btw?)

It certainly does not look very nice, are you relating this to the "Ethically Raised in the Swiss Alps Cows" in the comment you replied to?

In truth, they just take the calves away from the mothers after a short while, ship them out to the abbatoir. There is no benefit to them being in the same enclosure with a spiky nose ring, it seems that this must have a different purpose than the one you mentioned.
by suzzer99 | 2025-12-12 07:35:20+00:00
I live in iOS notes. I can access them from phone, home and work computers. I have a work and non-work todo list and notes for about a million other things. Whenever I book a flight or hotel or something, I just paste a screenshot of it in my todo note. No more digging up details from an email or searching through some other system. I even wrote a book using iOS notes as my primary research recording tool.
by rallies | 2025-12-12 07:35:39+00:00
I work at the intersection of AI and investing, and I'm really amazed at the ability of this model to build spreadsheets.

I gave it a few tools to access sec filings (and a small local vector database), and it's generating full fledged spreadsheets with valid, real time data. Analysts in wallstreet are going to get really empowered, but for the first time, I'm really glad that retail investors are also getting these models.

Just put out the tool: https://github.com/ralliesai/tenk
by hogehoge51 | 2025-12-12 07:36:06+00:00
Level 2 is simpler and more mature, so it should be easier to specify, package and integrate.

It can follow the traditional OEM outsourcing route, where OEM has high-level models and gets suppliers to implement the details. e.g. I can find public information that Subaru use Veoneer cameras, Xilinx chipsets, but defines their own algorithms. I would speculate they have an outsourced company convert algorithms to FPGA netlists/embedded code. (On the other hand, I know other OEMs have a more complex mesh of joint ventures)
by silisili | 2025-12-12 07:36:20+00:00
I like this. I hope this thread fills with many more comments.

I think it's important to remember especially in traffic and such that cars aren't cars, they are people. I have no idea the real ratios, but imagine 20% are genuinely good people, 60% are just going about their lives, and 20% are miserable for some reason and drive like miserable people. It's easy to think everyone else is an idiot and become aggressive, but remember it's a small percentage who actually agitate you.

Now to answer the question. I guess it's when I was a kid, I'd completely torn my ACL but they wouldn't operate until I was done growing. I don't know how old, 12 maybe? I was in Washington DC running across a busy street when my knee slid out of place and I fell in the road. A Mercedes stopped, purposely blocking both lanes of traffic, and a husky middle aged black lady in scrubs got out and dragged me out of the road onto the sidewalk. She asked if I was ok, and I was as it happened here and there, and off she went. It was such a kind gesture in a city that seemed so cold and always on the go.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-12 07:36:42+00:00
> It’s not impossible, just impractical with a high likelihood of being wrong due to bad or insufficient data or interpretation.

If it's impractical to know, why is using personal preference and intuition a "huge red flag"?

That's the core idea being disagreed with, not the idea that you could theoretically with enough resources get an objective answer.
by kergonath | 2025-12-12 07:38:25+00:00
> - So so many acronyms from NMR: COSY, TOCSY, NOESY

My favourite: MAS, for magic angle spinning. Because every paper needs a bit of magic.

Scientists are the wrong population to pick if you want people who dislike silly names. They are everywhere because we don’t hate fun, and it does make things memorable. We’re also fond of naming things after people, which is as un-descriptive as it gets.
by 1313ed01 | 2025-12-12 07:38:55+00:00
I use Termux on my Android phone and sync my text-files using git or fossil, just like how I sync between laptops/desktops. I run Emacs in Termux (but vim and many other text editors are also available, for those that prefer those). No need for special apps or cloud stuff, just syncing the plain files and using the same software I use on bigger computers.
by subscribed | 2025-12-12 07:39:34+00:00
OK, but the order of "importance", as stated by the government, was:

- easier access to the services - remember this is supposed to be STRICTLY digital only, so presumably on par with government gateway ID? - control of illegal immigration - with scale of the problem wildly blow out of proportion - presumably by helping control the border? how? And ostensibly by making impossible to work without right - which is a check mandatory already based on the existing digital-only online check -- once again fake non-solution

Certainly after experiencing multiple problems with the existing eVisa (Digital only) and reading multiple horror stories of faults and errors it proves to me the government is NOT taking ANY of the best practices into consideration while unfairly using parallel to the (like Estonian ID)

The only thing it would do is to cut the fraud a bit, but the impact would once again be limited because it would be a physical document (which, I must repeat from the abundance of caution, might bear a certificate or a chip that makes it incredibly hard to make a fake version of it).

I'm sorry but the government made it a fight for the souls of the rightwing voters once again, it didn't show the awesome project. It showed the stick it want to introduce to conduct the same checks it runs already :)

Just VERIFY and examine their claims. It's been discussed so many times, not only on HN.
by cess11 | 2025-12-12 07:39:52+00:00
In WWII Germany was the genocidal aggressor, in this case Israel and its backers are the genocidal aggressors.

Punishing a state for genocidal aggression is quite a bit more reasonable than the might is right-ideology you subscribe to.

The palestinians have a right to statehood and self-determination, it's not something they need to be "offered". They also have a right to return to their homelands, and they have a right to oppose occupation, violently if they so choose.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-12-12 07:41:10+00:00
I still have one in a drawer from when I worked at Nokia around 2009. Great device. I also had the N800 before that.

What made them interesting wasn't the hardware, though the full keyboard on the N900 was useful but the fact that it was Linux phone based on Debian complete with the ability to apt-get install whatever the hell you wanted. Including compilers, developer tools, openssh, and whatever you could think of.

The big difference between the N800 and the N900 was that the N800 was more of a tablet form factor (released years before the ipad or the iphone were a thing). The N900 was smaller and had a proper phone built in. It could connect to mobile networks and make phone calls. The N800 was by operator decree basically crippled to be wifi only. Operators absolutely hated the notion of an open platform like Linux running on devices connected to their networks.

The victory Steve Jobs imposed on operators was basically getting them to beg on their knees if he would please allow iphones on their networks. He completely turned the tables on them. The first iphones were exclusive to some networks only and people cancelled their subscriptions if they were on the wrong network. That's why iMessage is a thing and SMS texts are a thing that is no longer generating meaningful amounts of revenue for operators. There was no off switch for iMessage. Steve Jobs basically told operators to take it or leave it. Likewise MMS was not a thing on the first iphone. Nokia mistook that as a fatal omission. A missing feature. The truth was that MMS was dead as a doornail the moment 3G internet connectivity became a thing. Why have operators act as a middle man? Steve Jobs had no patience for any of that.

Anyway, Nokia still obeyed the operators and it ended up crippling anything with software potential. There were big discussions about having Skype on these things. The N800 had that. And a webcam. You could make video calls with it. In 2007. The N900 did not have Skype. And it was positioned as a developer phone. Worse, it had to compete internally with Symbian and the Symbian team was in control of the company.

So, it was positioned as a developer phone and the N9 was launched (2011) similarly crippled in the same week that they shut down the entire team working on the OS. That was around the time Symbian lost out to Windows Phone and the beginning of the implosion of Nokia's phone division.

The key point here is that Nokia had an Android competitor long before Google launched the Nexus. Before they had the Nexus, they were dual booting N800s into Android. I flashed mine with a development build at some point even. Nokia screwed up the huge chance they had there long before the iphone was about to launch. The N770 launched late 2005. The iphone wasn't even announced until 2007.

Nokia did not understand what it had and crippled the platform instead. And then it dropped out of the market completely.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-12 07:41:59+00:00
> What does it mean "no AI"?

It means no AI. If I say you used no AI but had an LLM write or refine the script, I would have lied.

You may be getting downvoted because your comment's tone can read as accusatively presumptive. "Who knows" isn't a useful contribution to almost any discussion. Which is a shame, because you raise an interesting point–I would personally feel fine saying no AI was used to do work even if I used AI to help me with research. (Provided I read all the primary sources.)
by hnlmorg | 2025-12-12 07:42:34+00:00
> This is not my personal experience nor the experience of a number of folks that I know personally. I think it's pretty hard to generalize about this.

I think it’s pretty easy to generalise because public repositories are public, so the data is available.

The vast majority of repositories on GH has between 0 and 10 stars and no issues raised by other people.

Even people (like myself) who have repos with thousands of stars and other GH members “following” them, will have other repos with in GH with zero interaction.

> So what? It's probably not going to impact you, so it's okay and we just have to deal with it? I reject that logic entirely.

That’s a really uncharitable interpretation of my comment.

A more charitable way of reading it would be:

“Worrying about a minor problem that is easily remediated and likely wouldn’t happen anyway isn’t a strong reason to miss out.”

If we were talking about something high stakes, where one’s career, family or life would be affected; then I’d understand. But the worst outcome here is an assumption gets proven true and they delete the repo.

Please don’t take this as a persuasive argument that someone should do something they don’t want to do. If people don’t want to share their code then that’s their choice.

Instead this is responding to the comment that your friend DID want to share but was scared of a theoretical but low risk and unlikely scenario. That nervousness isn’t irrational, but it’s also not a good reason by itself to miss out on doing something you said they did want to do.

If however, that was really just an excuse and they actually had no real desire to share their code, then they should just be honest and say that. There’s no obligation that people need to open source their pet projects so they don’t need to justify it with arguments about GHs lack controls. They can just said “I don’t want my code public” and that’s a good enough reason itself.
by asas057 | 2025-12-12 07:42:57+00:00
If a person usually uses Zotero to manage literature and finds incomplete metadata when exporting BibTeX, and with the submission deadline approaching, they use GPT to complete the metadata, leading to errors, this is indeed lazy and negligent behavior. But is it what many call deceitful and unforgivable?

I believe that once this person realizes the unreliability of using GPT to complete metadata, they will no longer use such methods in the future.

I also look forward to the community's dedicated individuals developing more comprehensive automated export tools, as copying and pasting one by one is inherently tedious and should be automated.

Currently, these individuals used incorrect automated tools and placed excessive trust in them, resulting in errors. This is a profound lesson that must never be repeated.
by Tor3 | 2025-12-12 07:44:44+00:00
My N900 (Made in Finland, an early one) was great. I would have used it still if it wasn't for the fact that after 3G disappeared it was useless. The battery could be replaced (as others have mentioned), so it was perfectly fine still. Mechanically it was as good as new as well.

As it was basically like Debian Linux inside I could do what I usually do - write hobby projects and run it on the N900. I had my minicomputer emulator running. Nice to see my old favourite minicomputer editor on my N900.
by Epa095 | 2025-12-12 07:44:52+00:00
Making them illegal does not fix it. There will be a indefinite whack-a-mole game which is very hard to solve without draconian control over the Internet.

The problem is that it's easy to make, easy to deploy, easy to make money on, and a single site opens up the whole Internet. It will happen even if it's illegal.

Compare this to adult webpages setting the header. They will probably be quite willing to do so, since they want to make their money legally, and there is probably little money in serving to kids anyway. And even if a single out of thousand adult webpages refuses, it still only opens that single site.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-12-12 07:45:10+00:00
> The United States is freaking huge. By the time modern transportation arrived, people were already living all over the country in pockets every which where. We opted for cars and planes to cover the vast distances. And as it turns out, we have some of the best in the world of both of these - and in vast quantities.

You have this narrative precisely backwards.

At the risk of pointing out the obvious: the great sprawl that made us dependent on cars happened after cars got popularized.

Yes, the cities were already spread out relative to each other, but that distance can be covered with trains well enough. What made us need cars, and what cars encouraged, was a huge amount of spread within a city or metro area. If you sprawl out over a city such that population density is constantly low, then public transit and walking can't work effectively anymore, and everyone needs to own a car.

US cities that were already large and well populated before the advent of cars tend to be densely built. Their cores, at least, are walkable as a result. This is true even for non-major cities -- just google "streetcar suburbs" as an example.
by subscribed | 2025-12-12 07:45:12+00:00
They also hold people arrested for opposing genocide on remand without trial for months already.

For holding rhe sign.

The famously authoritarian police threatening arrest for an attempt to hold an EMPTY placard.

Or arresting for a shirt with "Plasticine Action".

Or locking in a prison for several years for zoom call in which they planned nonviolent protest (blocking the motorway).

We could do it for months.
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-12 07:45:14+00:00
The only weird thing about it was that you couldn't charge a fully empty N810 with the micro(?) usb charger. It'd charge just enough to boot and then crash again, because it couldn't wake up far enough to negotiate a higher current with the charger.

Had to use a barrel plug to charge it.

Spent a very nervous and sweaty day figuring that out when I bought one used with no warranty or returns and it didn't boot properly =)
Show HN: Toqen – privacy-first authentication flow with QR and TOTP
by antonmb | 2025-12-12 07:45:28+00:00
I have been working on a lightweight authentication flow designed for SaaS apps, courses, and small platforms that do not want to deal with complex identity systems or collect personal data.

Toqen provides QR-based login, temporary access passes, and TOTP verification without storing user information. The goal is to create a simple, privacy-first alternative to email login and passwords.

It uses Cloudflare Turnstile for anti-bot protection and runs on an edge-first stack. I would appreciate feedback from the community on the architecture, security considerations, and potential pitfalls.

Demo: https://www.toqen.app/demo
by Certhas | 2025-12-12 07:45:31+00:00
I find this highly annoying. Here we've had very tasty wheat based slices that can serve the same purpose as sliced salami/meats on bread, and didn't try to muck anything in particular. But they disappeared from the shelves while the stuff branded as Vegan Salami seemingly does well.

I guess for casual buyers having a familiar reference point is just crucial.
by keepamovin | 2025-12-12 07:46:39+00:00
Thank you. It was a great one-shot and I didn't end up doing any updates. Thrilled to see how it inspired work from: Thomas Morford (CSE @ UC Merced, thomasm6m6) who did the amazing article/thread generation (in < 100 lines of PY!): https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/news.html ; and also from Andrej Karpathy (ex-OpenAI, now Eureak Labs, karpathy) who did an interesting analysis of prescience quality of threads/commenters inspired by a reply linking the page of 10 years past to compare: https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/

This was wonderful. 3000 points? I mean, fuck. Among the biggest posts of all time, and definitely of Show HN. Funny for me is that all the work I've done in the last 10 years, probably 100 Show HN's all different, this was by far the hugest. Could be months of work, no interest. And this thing, which dropped into my mind, probably 30 minutes, demolished them all. It's hilarious that it even beat out legitimate AI posts, and contaminated search results with future stories.

One of the funniest things for me was hearing how people tabbed away from the page, only to come back and momentarily feel it was the actual HN page. Hahahahaha! :)

All I can say is, I love you all. Watching it stay at the top for 24 hours...it felt like it wasn't something I made at first. But it was. Cool
by sho | 2025-12-12 07:47:19+00:00
> Figuring out "what to prompt" is not problem-solving in a true sense

This just sounds like "no true scotsman" to me. You have a problem and a toolkit. If you successfully solve the problem, and the solution is good enough, then you are a problem solver by any definition worth a damn.

The magic and the satisfaction of good prompting is getting to that "good enough", especially architecturally. But when you get good at it - boy, you can code rings around other people or even entire teams. Tell me how that wouldn't be satisfying!
by seec | 2025-12-12 07:47:59+00:00
Yes, I lived in a rural area in my youth (not too bad, very close to the city), and I had friends who were sons of farmers. Much of the work was mechanized, but still there was plenty of boring, tiring work to be found.

I am always amazed by those who idealize the rural life; they obviously never had a part in it, otherwise they would rather not do it. People who end up doing this all their lives usually are stuck there with no real opportunity/alternative.

>in fact cheapskating at paying the price for herbicides

This is a pattern I have noticed as well. In my opinion, many of the organic proponents don't actually do the hard work and are often stingy to a fault. It is effortless to argue for something that requires way more work when you have to take part in the work. I think it is just rhetoric to ask for something of perceived better quality at a lower cost.
by Nition | 2025-12-12 07:48:07+00:00
I always love the moment in blog posts like this, where the writer with their esoteric knowledge of the project will say something like "I almost considered reflaboring the exahenge, but of course it would be a ridiculous prospect for a project of this type". And then always, inevitably, there is the followup edit; "I reflabored the exahenge."

Too rarely in life are things made better than practical consideration would dictate, just because of dedication to the craft.
by lihaciudaniel2 | 2025-12-12 07:48:10+00:00
There are two doors. One leads to heaven and one leads to hell. There are two figures standing beside the doors and they both look like angels. However, one is Satan’s minion. He always lies and that door leads to hell. The saint at the other door always tells the truth and that door leads to heaven You get one question. What question can you ask either of them to be able to decide your fate?

ORIGINAL QUESTION
by npodbielski | 2025-12-12 07:48:45+00:00
Can't wait for being fired because some VP or other manager asked some model to prepare list of people with lowest productivity to pay ratio.

Model hallucinated half of the data?! Sorry we can't go back on this decision, that would make us look bad!

Or when some silly model will push everyone to invest in some radicoulous company and everybody will do it. Poisoning data attack to inject some I am Future Inc ™ company with high investment rate. After few months pocket money and vanish.

We are certainly going to live in interesting times.
by RealityVoid | 2025-12-12 07:49:05+00:00
That's not completely true.

https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/master/docs/SAFETY...

It's an... interesting approach, They essentially reduce the surface area as much as possible. I don't buy that it's enough, but, again, interesting to see what they do.

Besides, a big OEM could pour an army of developers and turn the Comma approach into an ASIL D, it would be quite a lot of work but within the realm of possibility.
by spragl | 2025-12-12 07:50:37+00:00
The push for age verification must be about something else. There are good solutions to this, but they are ignored. Its always about some complex setup leaking information all over the place. It must be either ignorance or indeed about surveillance, as many here think it is.

Shameless plug: I wrote about hash chains some time ago. They are a nice and simple solution to age verification. https://spredehagl.com/2025-07-14/