MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keyringlight | 2025-12-30 12:00:28+00:00
Another factor is the increased importance of software part of the product, and how that changes via updates that can make a manual outdated. Or at least a printed manual, so if they're doing updates to product launch it might not match what a customer gets straight out of the box or any later production runs where new firmware is included. It would be somewhat mitigated if there was an onus to keep online/downloadable manuals updated alongside the software. I know my motherboard BIOS no longer matches the manual, but even then most descriptions are so simple they do nothing more than list the options with no explanation.
by fleahunter | 2025-12-30 12:00:38+00:00
Using a human-rights sanctions framework against judges of a court literally created to prosecute human-rights violations is the snake eating its own tail. Sanctions used to be targeted at people trying to blow up the rule of law, now they are being used at people trying to apply it in ways that are politically inconvenient to a superpower and its allies.

This is why so many non-Western states call "rules-based order" a branding exercise: the same legal tool that hits warlords and cartel bosses is repurposed, with no structural checks, against judges whose decisions you dislike. And once you normalize that, you've handed every other great power a precedent: "our courts, our sanctions list, our enemies." The short-term message is "don't touch our friends"; the long-term message is "international law is just foreign policy with better stationery."
by thevania | 2025-12-30 12:00:43+00:00
can't wait for digital euro

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025...

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2025/html/ecb.sp251...

i hope it will be part of the digital wallet initiative: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet

there is an active discussion there on NOT integrating play integrity API or any other US-dependent remote attestation: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technic...
by MrSkelter | 2025-12-30 12:00:54+00:00
This reads like straight propaganda.

An inefficient system is always going to be ineffective. The author tries to posit that anything that isn’t market based is inherently inefficient and that their Chicago School solution is a success because it’s market based.

None of this is supported with evidence outside the new system working better than the old one.

Militaries efficiently allocate nutrition without markets (it’s the most important work they do) as do grocers.

There are a lot of ways you could improve on this, many not requiring the complexity and overhead of market based solutions.
by stuaxo | 2025-12-30 12:02:09+00:00
Its actionable by doing things for yourself, not for the purpose of meeting people.

When I say doing things, I mean things out in the world.

During those you might chat to people casually.

People like people that do things and turn up, so many people do little and aren't interested in going out and turning up to things.

Do stuff and you become more interesting.

Mostly people talk about themselves so ask them what they do and be interested, when they ask you what you do you will have done a bunch of stuff.

Get out there and enrich yourself with experience, make yourself too busy to be lonely.
by latexr | 2025-12-30 12:03:31+00:00
There’s nothing incongruent about that pairing (though I also think you’re not being entirely fair in describing what your parent comment said). Atom bombs also fit: They are basically useless and they are so powerful that they can destroy humanity.

With LLMs, the destruction is less immediate and overt, but chatbots do provable harm to people, and can be manipulated to warp our sense of reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot_psychosis

People are having romantic relationships with their chatbots and committing suicide because of them. That is harm.
by the_af | 2025-12-30 12:03:34+00:00
> You're one of the dudes online - never forget that.

I never made any outlandish claims and therefore the onus isn't on me to prove anything.

> Examining something != believing it

But parapschyology has been examined and tested by scientists, and none of it has been verified in independent and controlled conditions. Unlike what the other commenter claimed, there are zero documents indicating RV works. Many of its practitioners have been shown to be frauds, pranksters or cranks (Puthoff thought Uri Geller was a psychic and was fooled by sleight of hand). What new evidence is there? RV isn't a new claim; it's an old debunked claim. Have they won the Amazing Randi prize yet? They could have, if RV was real!

> If all you have to contribute to the discussion is thrashing around, maybe stay out of it?

I'm reminding participants about how the scientific method works, which is important when discussing outlandish claims.

> Maybe stay out of it

???
by calpaterson | 2025-12-30 12:03:38+00:00
No, it is significantly more difficult in other EU countries, yes.

Here in Finland for example the process is actually no different than for a non-EU migrant (same amount of time taken for an unproblematic application, same amount of appointments). You are just much more likely to be accepted but in fact they do still reserve the right to reject people. And it is, probably unintentionally, much harder to exist in Finland as a non-resident as you can't have a bank account, can't use foreign phone numbers for most things and any phone you can get is very limited (can't call many numbers, etc). I couldn't even log into the local eBay for the first 6 months. All the Nordics I would guess are similar.

And people have contested in the comments to you that Spain is not actually so easy as you suggested...

I actually don't know any western country that is as easy to move to as the UK was pre-Brexit. I still think the UK is in fact one of the easier Western countries to move to, especially if you can't find moderately paid work

Countries with a national id system I would guess tend to be more difficult overall though. And the UK famously is not one of those.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-12-30 12:03:58+00:00
> when rewatching older Trek shows it is also a bit infuriating how nothing really has an impact

TNG: You get e.g. changes in political relationships between major powers in the Alpha/Beta quadrant, several recurring themes (e.g. Ferengi, Q, Borg), and continuous character development. However, this show does much better job at exploring the Star Trek universe breadth-first, rather than over time.

DS9: Had one of the most epic story arcs in all sci-fi television, that spanned multiple seasons. In a way, this is IMO a golden standard for how to do this: most episodes were still relatively independent of each other, but the long story arcs were also visible and pushed forward.

VOY: Different to DS9, with one overarching plot (coming home) that got pushed forward most episodes, despite individual episodes being mostly watchable in random order. They've figured out a way to have things have accumulating impact without strong serialization.

> Last season of TNG they introduced the fact that warp was damaging subspace. That fact was forgotten just a few episodes later.

True, plenty of dropped arcs in TNG in particular. But often for the better, like in the "damaging subspace" aspect - that one was easy to explain away (fixing warp engines) and was a bad metaphor for ecological anyway; conceptually interesting, but would hinder subsequent stories more than help.
by masklinn | 2025-12-30 12:04:02+00:00
> UB doesn't mean there will be nasal demons. It means there can be nasal demons, if the implementation says so.

Rather "if the implementation doesn't say otherwise".

Generally speaking compiler writers are not mustache-twirling villains stroking a white cat thinking of the most dastardly miscompilation they could implement as punishment. Rather they implement optimisation passes hewing as close as they can to the spec's requirements. Which means if you're out of the spec's guarantees you get whatever emergent behaviour occurs when the optimisation passes run rampant.
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-30 12:04:06+00:00
Your registrar won't use automated tools to suddenly close your account. They have no reason to look at anything you're doing and most likely won't care as long as you pay your bills and they can pay theirs.

Google knows what you watch and post on Youtube, your emails, your google drive contents, your photos, contacts and everything. Any bit of that can trigger an automated ban for your account you can't recover from unless you know a Googler personally or can get through to their only working customer service outlet: the front page of HN.
by ben_w | 2025-12-30 12:06:03+00:00
I'm saying they couldn't have been designed as commuter cars: "neither the batteries nor the motors were up to being commuter vehicles".

Battery tech was way off on price/performance needed for commuting, until around Tesla happened: https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline

IIRC, similar issues with compact powerful electric motors, but I don't have a chart handy for that.
by agentifysh | 2025-12-30 12:06:21+00:00
just a mobile app i been working on figured i might try my luck with meta

what is the source for that uphill curve is that because its not clear what your user wants or optimizing ad copies ?

im definitely not looking to spend thousands of dollars, figured starting out small hmmm

getting hired by ad agency seems interesting reminds me of trading desks a bit
by Izkata | 2025-12-30 12:06:35+00:00
Many many years ago... it was already changing in the 90s and 2000s to slow changes per episode, with a callout for a little bit afterwards for anyone who missed the episode where the change occurred.

I think the slow changes in the 2000s and early 2010s were the sweet spot - a lot of room for episodic world and character building that would build to interspersed major episodes for the big changes.
by nkrisc | 2025-12-30 12:07:21+00:00
It’s a request, and requests may be denied or ignored.

If they cared, they wouldn’t post publicly or the service would not allow that message to embedded.

An enforceable request is called a “demand”, and unless you’re actually capable of enforcing it, it is in fact still just a request.

It would have been polite to honor the request, but they are under no obligation to do so.

Don’t make public posts if you don’t want them publicly displayed.
by throaway45425 | 2025-12-30 12:07:22+00:00
I just don't think the economics of this work. Software synths are just such cutthroat competition that there is no profit margin.

I have a Pittsburgh Modular TAIGA that cost $800. How much am I willing to pay for a software synth doing analog modeling? Basically nothing.

To get everyone a piece of the pie to make it worth it for this, it would cost the end user so much for the pie that no one would bother.

My experience with music collaboration is that the technical challenges have been minimal for a long time now. The challenges of collaboration are social and being on the same page musically. Even in the 90s, it wasn't hard to find people to make rock music with locally. The problem was always what was meant by "rock music" to begin with.

It is exactly the opposite problem of video games. It would be like the economics of video games if the goal was to team up to play video games no one else was playing.

I think this would only work if every musician's goal was to be Taylor Swift.
by _heimdall | 2025-12-30 12:08:31+00:00
> Electric vehicles were the first types of cars invented.

Where is this claim coming from? I don't see that in the history of the automobile wiki [1], and given that the first early motorized carriages were a century before Ben Franklin flew a kite I have to assume they were electric vehicles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile
by dimitri-vs | 2025-12-30 12:09:41+00:00
TBH I'm not building "production grade" apps depended on by hundreds of thousands of users - our clients want to get to a live MVP as fast as possible and love the ability to iterate quickly.

That said, it's well know that Anthropic uses CC for production. You just slow things down a bit, spend more time on the spec/planning stage and manually approve each change. IMO the main hurdle to broader Claude Code adoption isn't a code quality one, it's mostly getting over the "that's not how I would have written it" mindset.
by fpoling | 2025-12-30 12:09:52+00:00
Russia after starting aggressive war against Ukraine quickly deployed own version of payment system. And it has been working much better than Visa/Madtercards with much more straightforward integration with online services and very intuitive apps. Russian people who moved from Russia as refugees or just to escape mobilization or prosecution have found banking system in EU/UK/US are rather unsmooth to put it mildly.
Want to Learn about Timepieces
by ClaudeGustav2 | 2025-12-30 12:10:00+00:00
www.thenakedwatchmaker.com
I came up with the idea of this website in 2016 after my now ex, quit his job. "what are we going to do now?" he asked. Now divorced, I kept the site. I have been sick with an autoimmune sickness and it's been hard to keep it going. But I'm still standing. I'm now trying to include more diverse elements to the site. Please check it out.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-12-30 12:10:13+00:00
Except when, for some reasons, the recent trend is to release an episode per week even though they have all of them filmed and could just drop a whole season.

As a binge watcher, this irks me to no end; I usually end up delaying watching episode 1 until everything is released, and in the process forget about the show for half a year or something, at which point there's hardly any conversation happening about it anymore.
by ajuc | 2025-12-30 12:10:41+00:00
> They don't because too many people pirate games to make that a viable business

I think mostly they don't because people already have steam installed, and creating a new account on some other website to buy 1 game is too much hassle.

See dwarf fortress that was free for decades, and got much more popular when it was released on steam (paid version).

Or see Vintage Story which is great, and should be much more popular, but it's only available on its own website.
by df0b9f169d54 | 2025-12-30 12:11:25+00:00
The ticket mentioned in the article seems to be a Deutschland ticket, unfortunately compensation is low. For time sensitive trip I often consider other option.

The weirdest thing in my city is that the bus driver often forgets 1 or 2 stops. There was a kid bursted into tear when she lost her direction on her way back home from school because the bus driver took a "wrong" path.
by pm3003 | 2025-12-30 12:11:30+00:00
I travel mostly by high speed train over very long distances and I fail to see it making more economical sense than air travel, even with taxed kerosene.

The costs of a high speed line are on the scale of 30 millions euros per km, with maintenance of 300,000 €/km/year. A TGV with 740 seats costs around 25 millions euros and has maintenance too. Most of the operating costs are per trip, a TGV typically does 2 to 3 500km trips per day.

A mid-range plane like the A320neo costs around 100 millions euros for 190 passengers and typical operating costs of 5 millions for a 2 flights per day average. A lot of these costs are hourly costs (fuel and maintenance) and airport costs. Fuel is 10%.

In France, trains and especially high-speed trains are heavily subsidised with a lot of tickets paid under various incentivized and subsidized schemes. SNCF (trains and railways) receives between 10 and 20 billions euros per year from various government entities (depending on what you include), i.e. 20% to 35% of revenue. There are also indirect subsidies through corporate tax schemes like commuting exemptions. Finally, long haul buses have long been forbidden and considered a threat to the train monopoly, and after a short golden age of EU-led monopoly breaking, they have been again heavily regulated so they can hardly compete. Similarly, short-haul flights have been almost banned.

The train is more practical but when I hear it is on par with air travel economically and more environment friendly I fail to make sense of the numbers.
Show HN: Simple Chrome extension to play focus music
by 404softwarelabs | 2025-12-30 12:12:47+00:00
I built this because I was tired of the focus music dance—opening YouTube, fighting autoplay recommendations, getting distracted by comments.

As a developer, I spend hours in deep work mode. I wanted something that just works: one click, instant focus music with actual binaural beats (not just labeled that way).

I'd love your feedback: Which genre do you reach for when you need to focus? Any features you'd want to see added?
by yahoai | 2025-12-30 12:13:06+00:00
Hey HN,

I built Ornix because my Downloads folder was a disaster - 2000+ files piled up over the years. Every few months I'd spend an hour manually sorting them, only to watch it become a mess again within weeks.

I wanted a folder that just stays clean automatically. No complex setup, no rules to configure - just run the app and it works.

So I built this:

- Drop files into watched folders
- App auto-categorizes by type (Images, Documents, Archives, etc.)
- Convention over configuration - zero setup required

Would love feedback, especially on the categorization logic and any edge cases I might have missed.
by iExploder | 2025-12-30 12:13:36+00:00
You havent mentioned whether you are doing any after school activities?

Join any club where you can interact socially, like martial arts, boxing, any group sports, dancing.. or if not into that try chess/literature/board games/music clubs.

Not 100% guaranteed it will find you good friends, but you will get social interactions and be able to practice social skills.

This is maybe a bit of boomer advice, but if you are a young man you wont have many friends unless you can provide value to others, or unless they think they can get something out you, that something can be as little as social currency or being interesting to hang around with, which comes from skills and life experience.
by throaway45425 | 2025-12-30 12:13:50+00:00
"linux musician" once meant trying to get this audio program to compile that would never work because I am not a unix system admin.

I didn't realize Dave Phillips had passed away. I remember he had an incredible page of audio software links but all stuff I almost never got to make any sound. Sometimes I would even blow up my whole system trying to get something to work and have to reinstall the whole operating system.

Seeing how far we have come with this site is just incredible.
by lproven | 2025-12-30 12:14:04+00:00
Just for what it's worth, I tried to explain the context and the historical importance when I wrote about the original discovery of the tape, and about the recovery:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_t...

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix_v4_tape_successf...
by GuB-42 | 2025-12-30 12:14:08+00:00
For the same reasons why Google did it in the first place.

To not undermine trust into their product and because ads are lower quality than organic results, and by making them indistinguishable, it will make their product worse.

The chatbot market is still competitive, and while users may tolerate ads alongside their answers, they may not tolerate lower quality answers (that is ads disguised as answers). With Google search, they can get away with it because they are still the best even with the enshitification.

There is another reason why it is in their best interest to make it really obvious there are ads. Chatbots want you to pay directly, sometimes hundreds of dollars a month, they are not getting that kind of money with ads, so obnoxious ads are also a way to say "hey look, if you pay, you won't get ads". It doesn't mean ads won't make a comeback in paid tiers later, but not initially.

So, yes, lots of "probably", but my guess would go towards the first ads being obvious and flashy rather than subtle.
by bonesss | 2025-12-30 12:15:00+00:00
Generating CRUD is like solving cancer in mice, we already have a dizzying array of effective solutions… Ruby on Rails, Access 97, model first ORMs with GUI mappers. SharePoint lets anyone do all the things easily.

The issue is and always has been maintenance and evolution. Early missteps cause limitations, customer volume creates momentum, and suddenly real engineering is needed.

I’d be a lot more worried about our jobs if these systems were explaining to people how to solve all their problems with a little Emacs scripting. As is they’re like hyper aggressive tech sales people, happy just to see entanglements, not thinking about the whole business cycle.
by intended | 2025-12-30 12:15:15+00:00
With analysis? Like what else?

Throwing ones hands up in the air and giving up, would be valid if it was actually hard. The example you have given just mixes up CEOs, Politicians and the Fed.

Being charitable, this is a question of whether someone can understand all these domains well enough to make out good from bad. Yes - people have. It takes time, effort and a desire to learn these things, but its done regularly.
by ben_w | 2025-12-30 12:15:21+00:00
All the problems you list are true, but the solutions not so much.

I've seen this problem with humans even back at university when it was the lecturer's own example attempting to illustrate the value of formal methods and verification.

I would say the solution is neither "get humans to do it" nor "do it before writing code", but rather "get multiple different minds involved to check each other's blind spots, and no matter how many AI models you throw at it they only count as one mind even when they're from different providers". Human tests and AI code, AI tests and human code, having humans do code reviews of AI code or vice-versa, all good. Two different humans usually have different blind spots, though even then I've seen some humans bully their way into being the only voice in the room with the full support of their boss, not that AI would help with that.
by CaptainZapp | 2025-12-30 12:16:47+00:00
> People in Switzerland and the EU are being de-banked by local banks because of US pressure allowing them to force any bank that wants to use USD

That's not quit accurate.

American citizens will indeed have a very hard time to open a bank account in Switzerland. But the reason is not so much free speech than FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) [0] [1]

The requirements to host bank accounts for Americans are so onerous that banks rather forgo business with such clients than having to deal with the legal mess it incurs.

Another reason for a bank not wanting to deal with customers are if they are on a sanctions list. People winding up on such lists usually don't do so, because they said something nasty about Mr. Trump.

This, alas, may change if you look who got sanctioned in recent times just for raising the ire of the president (such as EC commissioners or ICC judges).

[0] https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/tax-policy/foreign-a...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...
by immibis | 2025-12-30 12:17:16+00:00
But that's also true on 1 channel. Doesn't solve the hidden node problem. You have 1/20 as much risk of starting to transmit at the same time on the same channel as someone else, after you both determined the channel was clear, since that's a race condition with a fixed time window per transmission, but is that the main cause of collisions?
by wartywhoa23 | 2025-12-30 12:17:48+00:00
> Or else you'd be rallying just as hard to allow children to drink alcohol

Why? I don't have a threshold at 127 in my luminance channel.

Just a reminder - what children are allowed or not is not any government's business, it's parents' one. Which requires tearing their asses off from sofas and their eyes from screens and actually talk to their children and be in the know of their circles and activities.