MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-06 19:51:19+00:00
I don't know the neurological mechanisms behind autism, but I know that ADHD is, briefly, defined by a reduction of dopamine receptors across your brain.

The brain is neuroplastic, especially when young, but I doubt you can just influence the growth of significantly more dopamine receptors out of pure willpower and habit-forming; especially given that ADHD disrupts those two facilities.

This is in part why dopaminergic drugs such as Adderall work so well, and why dopamine/reward-center disruption due to childhood trauma can have such a negative impact on one's ADHD symptoms.

Again, I don't know how much this applies back to autism, but it has definitely been a bane of my existence constantly explaining to people why I can't just meditate, habit-form or diet or exercise away my symptoms.

These things help, as does directed research and experimentation with what does and doesn't work for me, and because of my ADHD these things are integral to my ability to function as an adult in this insanely complex and stressful world. And it's definitely made a difference in how I manage my symptoms, especially when I look at how my siblings don't manage theirs and lack basic coping mechanisms.

But I frequently run into people who arrogantly assume I've never even heard of meditation, or that I have a bad diet, etc. and offer them up as panaceas. These people often get defensive and more arrogant whenever I try to explain to them that ADHD is not just some "mental block" or collection of bad habits that can be "fixed".

So yea... I also think we need to do way more clinical studies about the effects of teaching coping mechanisms at a young age, but I don't think autism is something that you can grow out of, there are likely specific underlying genetic and neurological factors that affect how much a specific individual can control or cope with their symptoms.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-06 19:51:56+00:00
The KVM just uses a devboard that's also sold separately and just happens to have a microphone, given how cheap the mics are having one extra SKU would probably just cost them more than savings.

Also I wouldn't really consider it "server room" product. Pretty much any new server has KVM, this is more "a hobbyist needing KVM for their home server"
by mamcx | 2025-12-06 19:52:24+00:00
I'm on the hunt to build such thing (https://tablam.org + "excel" + "access OR fox pro", ...) and I have never consider the "all in one" a paradigm for end-users.

As you discovered, is for you as the tool maker and for your power users. On top of that, let's say you make "widgets" or "mini apps" that are built on top.

ie: You make Django, but you ship: Shopping cart, Blog, Wiki, each with their own UI and App branding
by mr_toad | 2025-12-06 19:52:30+00:00
> What they don't have is the ability to actually build the chips.

China has fabs. Most are older nodes and are used to manufacture chips used in cars and consumer electronics. They have companies that design chips (manufactured by TSMC), like the Ascend 910, which are purpose built for AI. They may be behind, but they’re not standing still.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-12-06 19:54:10+00:00
Hanlon's Razor at work; most of the shortfalls described in the article points to incompetence more than malice.

Though I find it strange though, because I would call this the shortcomings of a crowdfunded project, but the author took it as a malicious and planned act to take over target computers and networks.

As far as I remember, some of the botnets are formed by routers that vendors refused to patch, because they're no longer being sold and not profitable to do so.
by dabinat | 2025-12-06 19:54:28+00:00
I was in a car accident a few years ago that triggered my pre-existing PTSD, so it was a very rough experience. This experience was made worse by the fact that my insurer apparently sold the fact I had been in a crash to third-parties. I could not go anywhere on the internet without seeing personal injury ads, which often featured gratuitous pictures of crashes. This felt incredibly creepy and made a bad experience much worse.
by nradov | 2025-12-06 19:54:30+00:00
And this is why the EU is stagnant and unable to innovate. These nations can do whatever they want but let's be honest about what's going on here. The law is stupid because it's forcing US tech companies to subsidize research boondoggles. They're providing bullshit jobs to useless academics who are incapable of doing any real work, and the final output will be some long reports that no one ever reads.
by toast0 | 2025-12-06 19:54:34+00:00
That sentence doesn't indicate the sequence of events. Both of the following sequences match the sentence; thus the confusion.

Sequence 1:

Day 0) Donor contributes kidney to donee

Day 10) Donor dies of rabies

Day 15) Donee dies of rabies

Sequence 2 (the incident sequence)

Day 0) Donor shows symptoms of rabies (undiagnosed)

Day 2) Donor dies of rabies (diagnosed as heart failure)

Day 2+?) Donor's kidney is installed in donee

Day N) Donee dies from rabies

Day N+M) Donor's death is reevaluted and rabies is diagnosed
by cyberax | 2025-12-06 19:54:38+00:00
> The only relevant subdivision of PFAS is by chain length: small, medium, large.

PFOA and PFOS have 8-member fluorinated chains. And they are dangerous, with clear dose-dependent effects.

PFHO has a 6-member fluorinated chain, and it has no known toxic effects.

> Even so, they all accumulate in the environment.

So does silicon oxide. Or a lot of other "terminal" compounds. The questions that need to be asked are:

1. Are they dangerous by themselves?

2. Do they bioaccumulate?

3. Do they stay mobile in the environment (i.e. don't get sequestered)?

In case of PFHO, it's not dangerous. It does not bioaccumulate because of its poor absorption. And it's also not mobile.

> The last I recall, it causes brain damage in children.

No, it doesn't.
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-06 19:55:25+00:00
I was homeless by 16 and had no safety net, had to graduate high school on my own while living out of someone's garage, and generally take care of myself most of my life due to absentee, drug-addict parents, and I can tell you that this trauma only worsened my executive function by the time I had the privilege of being able to sit back and reflect from a place of security and comfort.

I'm sorry you have resentment issues... definitely get that.
by calmbonsai | 2025-12-06 19:55:37+00:00
As someone who lived through that transition, we used Perl extensively to sysadmin ~30 Solaris and Irix workstations and it was superlative at that.

At that time, Guido was still working at CNRI locally to us in Reston, VA and we had several discussions at the local Pyggies (Python User Group) on transitioning over to Python for that work. We were a (mostly) C++/Java shop, but Perl fit into all the other "crevices" beautifully.

Python just didn't have enough library support for all of our "swiss-army chainsaw" demands. Still, it was very apparent at the time it would eventually get there and I was enamored with its "one right way" of doing things--even at the bytecode level.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-12-06 19:55:51+00:00
> My guess is that modern hardware is too complicated for one hacker to write reliable drivers.

Modern hardware has turned our operating systems into isolated "user OS" nodes in the schematics, completely sandboxed away from the real action. Our operating systems don't really operate systems anymore.

https://youtu.be/36myc8wQhLo
by jcalvinowens | 2025-12-06 19:56:05+00:00
Having a 10% faster laptop does not enhance your ability to earn money in any meaningful way. Just like driving around in a luxury car doesn't enhance your ability to travel from point A to point B in any meaningful way.

It's okay to like spending money on nice things, it's your money and you get to decide what matters to you. What you're getting hate for here is claiming it's justified in some way.
by monster_truck | 2025-12-06 19:56:18+00:00
It's not just great. It's so good that even on much older android phones than the ones tested in those links the brightness of the screen has a larger impact.

This is by design, so that even extremely dated smart tvs and etc can also benefit from the bandwidth savings.

Fun fact: I can't say which, but some of the oldest devices (smart tvs, home security products, etc) work around their dated hardware decoders by buzzsawing 4k video in half, running each piece through the decoder at a resolution it supports, then stitching them back together.
by fpoling | 2025-12-06 19:56:27+00:00
The hardware was evolving way faster 40 years ago and in much consequent ways than these days. Plus number of users grew exponentially. So a company spending too much efforts on software could loose its edge on the hardware side. And locking hardware would be counterproductive since as it would limit new users.

These days things are way slower and the are no exponential growth in users. Plus fast cellular networks made the speed of local hardware much less relevant. So the software became way more important and so its control.
by llm_nerd | 2025-12-06 19:57:48+00:00
>It could be a deadly blow for Google, NVIDIA, and the rest.

How would this be a deadly blow to Google? Google makes TPUs for their own services and products, avoiding paying the expensive nvidia tax. If other people make similar products, this has effectively zero impact on Google.

nvidia knew their days were numbered, at least in their ownership of the whole market. And China hardly had to steal the great plans for a TPU to make one, and a FMA/MAC unit is actually a surprisingly simple bit of hardware to design. Everyone is adding "TPUs" in their chips - Apple, Qualcomm, Google, AMD, Amazon, Huawei, nvidia (that's what tensor cores are) and everyone else.

And that startup isn't the big secret. Huawei already has solutions matching the H20. Once the specific need that can be serviced by an ASIC is clear, everyone starts building it.

>America will train 600k Chinese students as Trump agreed to

What great advantage do you think this is?

America isn't remotely the great gatekeeper on this. If anything, Taiwan + the Netherlands (ASML) are. China would yield infinitely more value in learning manufacturing and fabrication secrets than cloning some specific ASIC.
by miduil | 2025-12-06 19:58:20+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Leitner who runs https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fefes_Blog

Which often shares interesting things in the realm of technology, but with a high degree of skepticism - some of which practically results in incitement against minorities, with people being harassed by some of his follower crowd.

He had a stroke not too long ago, so this seems to be a sign he's recovered a bit.
by altairprime | 2025-12-06 19:58:52+00:00
It does if you restrict flexibility, but one of the critical flaws in Perl culture was the belief in letting everyone evolve in different directions while cooperating. It’s a genuinely charming belief, but it’s also explicitly incompatible with ‘interchangeable parts’ employment, and tends to only work in an environment where every individual is the ‘wizard’ lord of their personal domain over code. Even if you managed to train everyone to parse Perl, the cognitive overhead of having to train everyone in each other’s syntactic decisions was O(2^n) expensive, which contrasted quite sharply with Python moving that expensive cognitive overhead to the Proposals system while the produced language had slow version updates and “What we argued about so you don’t have to retread the same ground at work every quarter” mission briefs.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-12-06 19:59:20+00:00
The problem is nature throws far more in the way of hazardous stuff at us than what we add. And there's basically zero acknowledgement of it, let alone any attempt to regulate it.

And the basic reason to think glyphosphates are safe is the attack mechanism doesn't apply to our metabolism and environmental persistence was believed to be very short. (Turns out there are edge cases in the latter.) And it still comes down to how does it compare to the natural risk?
by zozzle | 2025-12-06 19:59:23+00:00
Barbra Banda failed a sex verification check issued by Zambia's Football Association, who then preemptively withdrew Banda and others from competing in WAFCON on this basis.

One would have thought the BBC could have picked a better candidate for Women's Footballer of the Year than a player who had been withdrawn from competition for not being female. You think JKR shouldn't comment on this?
by hinkley | 2025-12-06 19:59:28+00:00
Ultrawideband never caught on because it turns out that the speed of light and sound in air is frequency dependent, so you have to know the distance to the target pretty accurately and then skew the signal to send or receive. (Imagine a phased array antenna but also with a frequency domain to work out as well).

But that doesn’t mean you can’t make it function in a loud server room. The whole point of it is working in and around noise.
by ben_w | 2025-12-06 19:59:58+00:00
Mm.

Given what the fine is for, violating transparency rules, I think that there has to be some pretty important skeletons in this particular closet for it to be a hill worth fighing over.

Mixed metaphors aside, Musk doing this for a good reason of course assumes Musk understands X.com's skeletons better than he understands Diablo's gameplay.
by tasty_freeze | 2025-12-06 20:00:24+00:00
It isn't bad language design that you need to study the language before you can use it. I look at haskell programs and it looks mysterious to me because I haven't spent any time studying it, but I'd not thing to say it is bad language design.

Yes, one can write obscure perl code and some love perl golfing. In the same way there is an IOCCC which delights in unreadable code, it doesn't mean that the C language should be relegated to the dustbin. The answer is to write readable code, no matter which language is in use.
by VerifiedReports | 2025-12-06 20:00:33+00:00
No, because people who point out obscure titles are downvoted in most cases, and eventually shadow-banned. So those voices are silenced here.

"We primarily just want to retain the title that was chosen by the author/publisher, because it’s their work and they are entitled to have such an important part of their work preserved."

Nobody said the title had to be deleted. But when it doesn't convey WHAT the "thing" is, it needs augmentation. Currently on page 4 there's an example that not only conveys nothing, but DOESN'T respect the actual title you find on the linked page. The HN post is entitled merely "tunni.gg".

But if you click on that, you get to a page that says, "Expose localhost to the internet." But the poster couldn't be bothered to put that important and interesting information in the title. Instead, the title is worthless.

You see plenty of similarly and intentionally obscure titles on HN daily. Try calling them out and see what happens.
by autoexec | 2025-12-06 20:01:04+00:00
The founding fathers knew that the system wasn't perfect and would need to be modified as things changed and flaws were discovered. Making it work by "doing it right this time" was the point. That's not a sign of a bad system, it's a good thing!

Of course, nothing about government itself prevents adults from engaging in consensual transactions, and only a tiny percentage of laws do. Sometimes those laws are stupid and sometimes they are good to have. The original plan (and I still think it was a good one) was that we would have the ability to remove the bad laws and add good ones as needed. That process mostly even works, but with corruption and bribery in our government going unchecked it usually just works for a small few and the rest of us get shafted as a result.
Show HN: I built an open-source AI tool to analyze CSV locally in the browser
by maxgfr | 2025-12-06 20:01:17+00:00
Hey everyone,

I just finished a small side project and wanted to share it. It’s an open-source web app called CSV AI Analyzer. The idea is simple: you upload a CSV file, and the app analyzes it with GPT and suggests charts or insights. Everything runs locally in the browser with no backend, no uploads, no tracking. Your data never leaves your machine.

You can drop in a file, adjust parsing settings if needed, add your API key, and get quick analysis and visualizations. It supports automatic delimiter detection, a clean data table, and several chart types like bar, line, scatter, pie, and area. I built it with by starting the project with t3. The stack is : Next.js, Tailwind v4, Recharts, and PapaParse. I’ve vibe-coded 95% of the app, and that's pretty impressive. Regarding security, I use strict secure cookies to store API keys locally, avoiding the use of local storage. That’s part of the 5% I tweaked on my side.

If you want to try it: https://maxgfr.github.io/csv-ai-analyzer/

Source code is here: https://github.com/maxgfr/csv-ai-analyzer

I’d appreciate any feedback :)
by jsomers | 2025-12-06 20:01:28+00:00
This was posted when it came out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45802029. It generated a lot of comments -- more heat than light, possibly -- and I wonder if instead of just taking the title as a jumping-off point, folks could engage with the meat of the article itself.

(I wrote the article. I'm a longtime HN user. I find that threads here lately have gotten very jumpy-offy -- commenters use a specific article about e.g. icebergs melting to have a conversation about climate change and climate change denial, instead of to talk about the merits of the particular article -- and I was hoping to nudge folks to read the full piece, then comment on specific parts of it. I'm not sure that'll work but figured it's worth a try!)
by ribosometronome | 2025-12-06 20:01:33+00:00
It sounds to me like the article author calls that social awkwardness not autism, no?

>The key distinctions are that socially awkward individuals understand what they should do socially but find it difficult or uninteresting (versus genuinely not understanding unwritten rules), show significant improvement with practice and maturity, are more comfortable in specific contexts, lack the sensory sensitivities and restricted/repetitive behaviors required for autism diagnosis, and generally achieve life goals despite awkwardness rather than experiencing clinically significant impairment.

It seems to me that this sort of definition would preclude any person having general intelligence such that they are able to learn to mask (or feel like they have to mask less in certain safe areas).
by loph | 2025-12-06 20:02:01+00:00
I have taken three of those classes as part of the Online Master of Cybersecurity program. They were all excellent. I can say that the assignments were an important part of the learning experience, for instance the practical experience of attacking weak RSA keys.

I would not let the lack of assignments, tests, and quizzes stop you from trying these if you are interested. At a minimum, they would give you a feeling for what the program/s are like, and possibly encourage you to enroll into the online degree program, which is an exceptional value.
by __bjoernd | 2025-12-06 20:02:11+00:00
German internet nerd.

Professionally he's running a successful code/security consultancy [2]. This pays his bills, so that nerd-wise he is running his own web server and content management system where everything is self-written, inclusive of his own libC implementation with a focus on bare minimum requirements. [1] He's been around in the German IT community for decades and was earlier involved in Chaos Computer Club (CCC) where he still used to attend their annual congress, which is kind of the "meet and greet" of the German IT community.

His self-hosted blog was/is very popular/controversial. He is pretty opinionated on nearly everything and he's not taking hostages when he criticizes someone. So the "woke" people don't like him, the nazis don't like him, the corpo guys don't like him. And he pretty much doesn't care.

Earlier this year he apparently suffered some critical health condition and went quiet without notice for more than 6 months, I believe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietlibc [2] https://www.codeblau.de
by ZpJuUuNaQ5 | 2025-12-06 20:02:52+00:00
I never understood why people, especially americans, are so hyperfocused on "mental health" and wear their pseudoscientific bullshit diagnoses like medals. I agree that there is a small fraction of people that do have mental issues, but it is very likely that most of the people that encourage "therapy" and yap about "mental health" very likely don't have any meaningful issues worth diagnosing and are just unnecessary burden on the medical system. The term "autism" in itself is so overused nowadays that it doesn't mean absolutely anything anymore, the fact that it doesn't have precise, rigorous definition doesn't help either.
by snapdeficit | 2025-12-06 20:03:09+00:00
You’re dead on. This kind of knee-deep gluey “advice” is the cult of personality that intel now thinks is effective planning. The head’s-down hard work of the 80’s and 90’s vanished when the media turned Grove into a reluctant folk hero and the bubble burst. I was there for 21 years, this guy is symptom of a much larger problem that is self-sustaining. Too many people trying to hide, do the bare minimum, and collect a fat paycheck, while people like this wave around grand plans that will never be touched. Yep I’m a cynic, two decades there fried my compassion circuits.
by thih9 | 2025-12-06 20:04:06+00:00
As an AI outsider with a recent 24GB macbook, can I follow the quick start[1] steps from the repo and expect decent results? How much time would it take to generate a single medium quality image?

[1]: https://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image?tab=readme-ov-file#-qu...
by killingtime74 | 2025-12-06 20:05:07+00:00
1) I do have separate backups, as well as this, which runs more frequently (after picture is taken) vs daily for device backup

3) not compared to iCloud photos which I migrated from. You can export a whole album with Google at original quality with 1 click. With Apple you can only do 1000 at a time. For apple you can ask for a whole account export, but that takes a few days and gives you all photos. (Similar to Google Takeout).
by konmok | 2025-12-06 20:05:25+00:00
What you mean is, they decided she had too much testosterone (although apparently even the details of the test are unclear?). Lots of women have high testosterone, it's bizarre to unilaterally declare her to not be a woman on that basis alone. Sex, like gender, is a spectrum.

But sure, I guess we can consider that hormone requirement as just an extremely crude approximation. JKR's comments are still repugnant.
by hannahnowxyz | 2025-12-06 20:06:22+00:00
Have you tried a two-pass approach? For example, where prompt #1 is "Which elliptic curves have rational parameterizations?", and then prompt #2 (perhaps to a smaller/faster model like Gemma) is "In the following text, replace all LaTeX-escaped notation with Markdown code blocks and unicode characters. For example, $F_n = F_{n - 1} + F_{n - 2}$ should be replaced with `Fₙ = Fₙ₋₁ + Fₙ₋₂`. <Response from prompt #1>". Although it's not clear how you would want more complex things to be converted.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-12-06 20:06:51+00:00
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/felony-contempt-busine...

It's not your phone, it's theirs. They're just letting you use it, and only if you're a good boy who follows all their policies and terms and conditions. Subvert this in any way and it's a felony.