MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danielovichdk | 2025-12-16 16:13:26+00:00
Fine piece of what it's really about. The feeling of losing one's joy and possible applause for doing a good job.

But the inevitable is not a fact, it's a rigged fake that is, unfortunately, adapted by humans which flock in such large groups, echoing the same sentiments that it for those people seem real and inevitable.

Humans in general are extremely predictable, yet, so predictable that they seem utterly stupid and imbecile.
by bbminner | 2025-12-16 16:13:49+00:00
This is really cool, these patterns (run once now and then once triggered) surface all the time and usually turn into ugly code! How many interations did it take?

So most lines like A { B{ on D{ print() } } C{} } equivalently desugar into something like a = A; b = B(); a.mount(b); d = D(); d.on(f); b.mount(d); .. ?

I got confused by a couple of things. One of them is whether object parameters act like context parameters and there for depend on names in the caller variable scope? Ie if i define 'fn ship.Explode', i must have variable ship at call site? But i can still otherwise pass it explicitly as alien_ship.Explode(), right? How do i know if a particular call takes the current object into account? If i have two variables in my nested scope: ship and asteriod and both have ship.Explode and asteroid.Explode, which one is picked if i do just `Explode`? The innermost? Or I can't have two functions like that because the first thing is literally just a named variable and not a "method"?

Overall, if you could provide some examples of how things could have de-sugured into a different language, that'd be very interesting! Maybe with some examples of why this or that pattern is useful? I think it does a good job for things like on / once, but I'm not grokking how one would structure an app using this variable scoping use clause and object parameters.

Also not sure how to define functions that could be on'd or once'd. (Ah, i see, delve)
by torginus | 2025-12-16 16:14:06+00:00
Out of curiosity, I plugged in the numbers - I have solar at home, and a 2 m2 panel makes about 500w - i assume the one in orbit will be a bit more efficient without atmosphere and a bit more fancy, making it generate 750w.

If we run the radiators at 80C (a reasonable temp for silicon), that's about 350K, assuming the outside is 0K which makes the radiator be able to radiate away about 1500W, so roughly double.

Depending on what percentage of time we spend in sunlight (depends on orbit, but the number's between 50%-100%, with a 66% a good estimate for LEO), we can reduce the radiator surface area by that amount.

So a LEO satellite in a decaying orbit (designed to crash back onto the Earth after 3 years, or one GPU generation) could work technically with 33% of the solar panel area dedicated to cooling.

Realistically, I'd say solar panels are so cheap, that it'd make more sense to create a huge solar park in Africa and accept the much lower efficiency (33% of LEO assuming 8 hours of sunlight, with a 66% efficiency of LEO), as the rest of the infrastructure is insanely more trivial.

But it's fun to think about these things.
by pbmonster | 2025-12-16 16:14:11+00:00
> The only way I can get to the "crypto is inevitable" take relies on the scams and fraud as the fundamental drivers.

The idea of a cheap, universal, anonymous digital currency itself is old (e.g. eCash and Neuromancer in the '80s, Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon in the '90s).

It was inevitable that someone would try implementing it once the internet was widespread - especially as long as most banks are rent-seeking actors exploiting those relying on currency exchanges, as long as many national currencies are directly tied to failing political and economic systems, and as long as the un-banking and financially persecution of undesirables was a threat.

Doing it so extremely decentralized and with a the whole proof-of-work shtick tacked on top was not inevitable and arguably not a good way to do it, nor the cancer that has grown on top of it all...
by ivape | 2025-12-16 16:14:40+00:00
Prion dynamics (per gpt):

- Misfolding & Conversion: A normal, functional prion protein (PrP C) changes shape into a misfolded, pathogenic form (PrP Sc), which acts as a template to convert more PrP C into PrP Sc.

- Self-Propagation: The core of prion dynamics is this autocatalytic cycle, where PrP Sc recruits and converts normal PrP C, leading to exponential growth. Aggregation: These misfolded proteins clump together, forming large aggregates (amyloid) that deposit in the brain, causing neurodegeneration.

- Fragmentation: For propagation to continue, large aggregates must break down (fragment) into smaller pieces (seeds) that can initiate new conversion cycles, a process crucial for disease progression and influenced by chaperones like Hsp104 in yeast.

The group you are describing would indeed need to remove the misfolded protein for survival.

In terms of hope:

".... For propagation to continue, large aggregates must break down (fragment) into smaller pieces (seeds) that can initiate new conversion cycles"

In other words, the Republican party could be looking at serious fracturing into many many post-mango camps, ala Margerie Taylor Green leaving the MAGA camp. These dynamics are probably exactly how the conservatives got co-opted by the MAGA strain.
by senordevnyc | 2025-12-16 16:14:47+00:00
I constantly use AI like this. For life decisions, for complicated logistics situations, for technical decisions and architectures, etc. I'm not having it make any decisions for me, I'm just talking through things with another entity who has a vast breadth of knowledge, and will almost always suggest a different angle or approach that I hadn't considered.

Here's an example of the kinds of things I've talked with ChatGPT about in the last few weeks:

- I'm moving to a new area and I share custody of my daughter, so this adds a lot of complications around logistics. Talked through all that.

- Had it research niche podcasts and youtube channels for advertising / sponsorship opportunities for my SaaS

- Talked through a really complex architecture decision that's a mix of technical info and big tradeoffs for cost and customer experience.

- Did some research and talked through options for buying two new vehicles for the upcoming move, and what kinds work best for use cases (which are complex)

- Lots and lots of discussions around complex tax planning for 2026 and beyond

Again, these models have vast knowledge, as well as access to search and other tools to gather up-to-date info and sift through it far faster than I can. Why wouldn't I talk through these things with them? In my experience, with a little guardrails ("double check this" or "search and verify that X..."), I'm finding it more trustworthy than most experts in those fields. For example, I've gotten all kinds of incorrect tax advice from CPAs. Sometimes ChatGPT is out of date, but it's generally pretty accurate around taxes ime, especially if I have it search to verify things.
by chunky1994 | 2025-12-16 16:14:58+00:00
But the world is not deterministic, inherently so. We know it's probabilistic at least at small enough scales. Most hidden variable theories have been disproven, and to the best of our current understanding the laws of the physical universe are probabsilitic in nature (i.e the Standard Model). So while we can probably come up with a very good probabilistic model of things that can happen, there is no perfect prediction, or rather, there cannot be
by patja | 2025-12-16 16:15:42+00:00
I would like to get a catastrophic plan that doesn't cover things I would categorize as consequences of bad choices. I get that covering these things is less costly for society than just letting things run their course, but it does drive costs onto everyone else's premium.

Catastrophic plans are still quite costly because they aren't really a pure insurance product. Mine is over 2k/month for 3 people on an ACA Bronze plan with HSA.
by henryaj | 2025-12-16 16:16:41+00:00
https://www.flockwith.me

I'm building Flock, a social goal tracking and intentions app. Styled a little around Complice/Intend, but with more of a focus on working in public with your friends and colleagues - see what they're working on, track your intentions against specific goals.

Building out reviews now - so you can systematically review your progress against your goals to stay on track. Give it a try, and add me as a friend! https://www.flockwith.me/u/henryaj
by epidemiology | 2025-12-16 16:16:51+00:00
I think you could say it's inevitable because of the size of both the good AND bad opportunities. Agree with you and the original point of the article that there COULD be a better way. We are reaping tons of bad outcomes across social media, crypto, AI, due to poor leadership(from every side really).

Imagine new coordination technology X. We can remove any specific tech reference to remove prior biases. Say it is a neutral technology that could enable new types of positive coordination as well as negative.

3 camps exist.

A: The grifters. They see the opportunity to exploit and individually gain.

B: The haters. They see the grifters and denigrate the technology entirely. Leaving no nuance or possibility for understanding the positive potential.

C: The believers. They see the grift and the positive opportunity. They try and steer the technology towards the positive and away from the negative.

The basic formula for where the technology ends up is -2(A)-(B) +C. It's a bit of a broad strokes brush but you can probably guess where to bin our current political parties into these negative categories. We need leadership which can identify and understand the positive outcomes and push us towards those directions. I see very little strength anywhere from the tech leaders to politicians to the social media mob to get us there. For that, we all suffer.
by Escapado | 2025-12-16 16:16:58+00:00
Genuine question: How does it happen that a heart surgery costs 100k? 2 surgeons (200$/h) + 6 nurses(100$/h) for 10 hours would be 10k. Where do the other 100k come from? Is it the equipment cost? Consumables? After care? Or are the margins just ridiculous?
by ralferoo | 2025-12-16 16:17:05+00:00
I dug one of mine out of the cupboard and just checked. There's an option for refresh after every: with options from 1 page to 6 pages. I guess better than I remembered, but that's still not what I was after.

What I really want is for the framebuffer to remember past pixels, so that the blacking out is restricted to only areas where there previously were pixel. I don't really mind noise on where the text was while the page is replaced, it the big areas flashing black needlessly that's distracting.

I might try out this firmware over the holidays though. If I get back into using the kobo as an e-reader, maybe I'll look at the issue myself now that it's open source, if it's not been addressed by someone already.
by jeberle | 2025-12-16 16:17:20+00:00
Cat constructed from block: Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, U+1400 to U+167F

U+14DA ᓚ CANADIAN SYLLABICS LA U+160F ᘏ CANADIAN SYLLABICS CARRIER YO U+15E2 ᗢ CANADIAN SYLLABICS CARRIER TTU

https://unicode.scarfboy.com/?s=%E1%93%9A%E1%98%8F%E1%97%A2
by fennecfoxy | 2025-12-16 16:17:31+00:00
>Art is an expression of human emotion

Yet humans are the ones enacting an AI for art (of some kind). Is not therefore not art because even though a human initiated the process, the machine completed it?

If you argue that, then what about kinetic sculptures, what about pendulum painting, etc? The artist sets them in motion but the rest of the actions are carried out by something nonhuman.

And even in a fully autonomous sense; who are we to define art as being artefacts of human emotion? How typically human (tribalism). What's to say that an alien species doesn't exist, somewhere...out there. If that species produces something akin to art, but they never evolved the chemical reactions that we call emotions...I suppose it's not art by your definition?

And what if that alien species is not carbon based? If it therefore much of a stretch to call art that an eventual AGI produces art?

My definition of art is a superposition of everything and nothing is art at the same time; because art is art in the eye of the arts beholder. When I look up at the night sky; that's art, but no human emotion produced that.
by jordanb | 2025-12-16 16:17:49+00:00
Ironically I think Chanos got murdered by the data center boom. Back before his fund folded he was talking constantly about how data center REITs were an awful business by the numbers and they were an artifact of ZIRP because they were making small amounts of revenue on large amounts of capital. Longer term they were slowly losing to market consolidation by the "hyperscalers" (AWS, Azure etc).

His thesis was sound in a rational world but our world isn't rational anymore and his data center REIT short got obliterated by the AI bubble.
by immibis | 2025-12-16 16:17:55+00:00
Same reason anyone removes outliers from any analysis. The average person eats zero spiders per year, if we don't count Spiders Georg. He is not an average person. We count him separately from the average people.

The USA is sick. It's just lucky to have a tech bubble that counteracts its sickness. By analysing minus the tech bubble, we can see that tech is the only thing holding the economy above water.
by reactordev | 2025-12-16 16:18:10+00:00
Cool but for us, this kind of thing is better solved closer to the edge with automation like Caddy server that does this for us while also being our ingress proxy for all those domains.

I want Apache to do this natively.

I want nginx to do this natively.

I want tomcat to do this natively.

I want express to do this natively.

Every single http server punts on TLS as an afterthought of supply me your private and public key and I’ll do it. Sure there are modules now for those servers for ACME but this process is still old school Web 1.0 deployment logic.
by jesse__ | 2025-12-16 16:18:13+00:00
I'm curious, did you specifically choose Voxel Max over MagicaVoxel for any reason?

> I’ll have to try some of my assets out in this engine.

The asset loading is currently broken in Bonsai after a big rewrite, but it's the next thing on my list to fix! Would love to see your art :)
by nix0n | 2025-12-16 16:18:16+00:00
There's an API[0] that takes a prefix of a hash.

I don't know how to verify what the website does, but I think that in a few minutes I'll be able to put together a CURL call that does what we're hoping the website does.

[0]https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v3#PwnedPasswords
by HackerThemAll | 2025-12-16 16:18:20+00:00
I don't believe that it's about the wellbeing of children. They will introduce total digital control in the name of high ideas, when in fact they'll be above that. We've seen this already with age verification for porn sites in UK. Even those exact people who voted for it, used VPNs to bypass the law they've created themselves. It's a laughterhouse.

In addition to that, one must be really naive to think that well-organized criminals won't arrange non-mainstream devices with custom modified Android or a new kind of Linux-based OS and/or protocol, without central authority, or with central servers in "certain" countries, that will bypass the stupid limitations.

Anybody who thinks that criminal gangs with paying members use WhatsApp for CSAM is an idiot.

When it comes to porn sites, only those big ones are going to be affected by this, but they're going to be affected badly. Stuff will be shared via some covert file-sharing mechanisms that will ALWAYS slip under the radar.

This surveillance will only target and affect normal people, and will take away your privacy for good, forever.

Remember that politicians are voted for on the basis of who's a better stand-up speaker, after only a few minutes of hearing/watching them, or even less than this, because your sibling told you so. They're not selected based on objective judgement of their competence, balanced view of the world which they base on data and science, but who's able to light your emotions sufficiently so that you remember that until you cast the ballot. Therefore most of them are just great drama actors, but are incompetent in all other areas.

Some say "I don't care, let them proceed, because I don't do anything wrong, and have nothing to hide". You'll see people arrested, investigated and imprisoned due to false positives. We've seen that already, but not to the extent this law is going to bring.

And one more. Not very far from now we'll experience AI and robots enforcing this digital utopia. West is going downhill. There will come a time when you'll call China with its social scoring system a "truly free world".
by esafak | 2025-12-16 16:18:29+00:00
This so-called “human touch” is not a presence but a trace, an effect of an education that subsumes us into the matrix of imperial grammar. The critique of AI as mechanism is precisely the logocentric fallacy: to posit a pure human essence standing apart from the machine. Yet what is ChatGPT if not the externalization of the very norms that once inscribed us? The vector of colonizing pedagogies, the empire’s syntax ...
by runjake | 2025-12-16 16:18:45+00:00
I find that modern versions of dotnet seem to run better on Linux. And from what I see from Azure and from MSFT engineer blog posts, I'm assuming dotnet support on Linux is a higher priority than on Windows.

In any case, their claim that dotnet is a bad framework made me chuckle out loud. I'd like to see their impression of what a better framework looks like.
Show HN: Code Review for Hardware Startup Fit
by mraspuzzi | 2025-12-16 16:19:06+00:00
I run Hardware Meetup (40+ cities) and many hardware startups are looking for software engineers but are having a hard time figuring out fit.

So I built this over a couple weeks to see if past projects could work better.

The flow:

1. You add your best GitHub repo

2. It reviews your code and scores it 1-100 with actual feedback

3. Reviews your LinkedIn for experiences in building and project history (not just job titles)

4. Pick a role you're looking at

5. It creates a fit score from the two

Planning to add multi-repo support, actual contribution tracking, and other portfolio formats (websites, PDF, etc).

Curious to hear:

1. Is the code review useful or not yet?

2. Does a composite score even make sense here?

3. For hardware founders here, when hiring, what do you wish you had beyond a resume?

This is a super rough v1. Please roast.
by codyb | 2025-12-16 16:19:25+00:00
They're pretty good near me

And of course, there's this idea everything needs to be done like the house is on fire, but I'm usually fairly happy if I see someone getting a break to look at their phone and doesn't notice immediately that I'm standing waiting or whatever. Or ambles over at a leisurely pace, that's fine, take your time, it's hard running around all day
Show HN: Forge – Universal CLI for coding agents, powered by ACP
by pat_erichsen | 2025-12-16 16:19:28+00:00
Hi HN,

A few months ago while on a backpacking trip in Yosemite, my friend Tony and I were talking about how cool it would be if you could run any coding agent in parallel through a TUI. We worked on a solution using tmux + worktrees for a few months, and then discovered the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) from Zed!

ACP provides a “standardized protocol for agent-editor communication, similar to how the **Language Server Protocol (LSP) standardized language server integration” (https://agentclientprotocol.com/overview/introduction).

We threw away what we had built and decided to fork OpenCode to turn it into an terminal based ACP client (OpenCode itself has ACP support, so you can run OpenCode in OpenCode!).

ACP in the terminal gives you a single scriptable interface to any agent that you can run headlessly with `-p`, pipe input/output, or integrate directly into CI.

We're building Forge (still in alpha) to explore what terminal-native ACP unlocks. It's still early, but we're curious what patterns others see here.

Try it out and let us know what you think: https://github.com/forge-agents/forge
by throwforfeds | 2025-12-16 16:19:47+00:00
Yeah, I haven't used it to write Terraform yet and am not surprised that it would trip on itself with it. However, I did do a major refactor to AWS CDK using TypeScript and Claude worked really well. I treat it as a pair programmer, have it work really atomically, and always question it's work. I find scoping things down really helps with the quality of it's output.
by pfdietz | 2025-12-16 16:19:57+00:00
Temperature is a property of systems in thermal equilibrium. One such system is blackbody radiation, basically a gas of photons that is in thermal equilibrium.

The universe is filled with such a bath of radiation, so it makes sense to say the temperature of space is the temperature of this bath. Of course, in galaxies, or even more so near stars, there's additional radiation that is not in thermal equilibrium.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-16 16:20:04+00:00
Take the poll in 2026 after ACA subsides evaporate and Medicaid cuts. Highest satisfaction is for government run insurance (Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare).

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-are-sati... ("Overall, 82% of Americans said they’re satisfied with their health care coverage, including a third who said they are very satisfied with their current coverage. The group that reported being the most satisfied were older adults, with 9 in 10 Americans over 65 years old saying they were satisfied. And 42% in that age group reported being “very satisfied.”. Roughly 9 in 10 of those who have public health insurance coverage through Medicare or Medicaid also reported being satisfied with coverage, compared to 77% of those with private health care coverage.")

https://www.kff.org/medicare/overall-satisfaction-with-medic...

https://www.citizen.org/article/public-support-for-medicare-... ("Support for Medicare-for-All continues to rise, whether in Congress, state legislatures, or among the American people. Recent polls indicate that six in ten Americans support Medicare-for-All. In addition, more than 60 percent believe that government is responsible for ensuring health coverage for all Americans. And nearly 70 percent of all voters, including battleground voters, identify health care as an important issue in upcoming elections.")

My comment with citations from six years ago showing the trend holds: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22550774 (March 11th, 2020)

Americans With Government Health Plans Most Satisfied - https://news.gallup.com/poll/186527/americans-government-hea... - November 6th, 2015