MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hermitcrab | 2025-12-29 14:40:34+00:00
From wikipedia:

"Despite being obsolescent, the Swordfish achieved some spectacular successes during the war, including sinking one battleship and damaging two others belonging to the Regia Marina (the Italian navy) during the Battle of Taranto, and the famous attack on the German battleship Bismarck, which contributed to her eventually being sunk. Swordfishes sank a greater tonnage of Axis shipping than any other Allied aircraft during the war. The Swordfish remained in front-line service until V-E Day, having outlasted some of the aircraft intended to replace it."

They also took part in the Norwegian campaign, the (still controversial) attack on Mers-el-Kébir, the defense of Malta and the Battle of Cape Matapan.

The fact that was slow had some advantages for launching torpedoes. I've also heard it said that the Bismarck struggled to shoot them down because its fire control systems were not calibrated for planes that slow (don't know if that is true).

"Indeed, its takeoff and landing speeds were so low that, unlike most carrier-based aircraft, it did not require the carrier to be steaming into the wind. On occasion, when the wind was right, Swordfish were flown from a carrier at anchor."

Despite looking like something from WW1, they only entered service in 1936.

There is one on display at the Imperial War museum in Duxford, UK.

My father had a friend who flew Swordfishes in WW2. He was quite a character.
by fsmunoz | 2025-12-29 14:40:35+00:00
Yes! And this can be partially a limitation that helps, in the sense that it forces you to add that. In this example, I had to spent some time with the Common Lisp dexador approach to make it work. I've added a "PROXY: " UI hint in the page at https://horizons.interlaye.red/ , you will see that it says "-- PROXY: http://squid.egress-proxy.svc.cluster.local:3128 --". This was actually something from my debugging that I decided to keep.

A next article will likely address this limitation though, and look into transparent proxying. This will involve nftables, sidecars, etc, and the more we go into this direction, the more installing a CNI that comes with this by default starts to make sense.
Ask HN: Why does your recorded voice never match how it sounds in your head?
by OrphanedPiglet | 2025-12-29 14:40:44+00:00
When we speak, our voice sounds one way to us internally, but when we hear a recording it often feels unfamiliar or even uncomfortable.

I know the common explanation involves bone conduction vs air conduction, but that feels incomplete to me. Even with high-quality microphones and clean recordings, there still seems to be a persistent gap between how we perceive our own voice and how it’s captured externally.

Is this something the brain ever fully adapts to, or is there no such thing as a single “true” voice—only different monitoring contexts?

Curious how others here think about this, especially anyone who’s worked with audio, perception, or human-computer interaction.
by poszlem | 2025-12-29 14:40:49+00:00
Saying they were "just in an exclusion zone" is kind of a self-justifying excuse. It’s the same logic you see in authoritarian countries, like when Russian police arrest people for holding blank signs because they’re technically standing in a prohibited area.

If the government can simply label certain places off-limits and turn ordinary, non-violent behaviour into a crime, then the rule of law stops being a protection and starts being a way to selectively shut people up.
by lossyalgo | 2025-12-29 14:40:52+00:00
Thankfully there are tons of assets you can buy or download from github that will extend the functionality of the inspector windows, which IMO need a LOT of love. The last update I saw was where you can do math inside e.g. transform properties e.g. scale is 1, you can type in 1+2 and it will show in game/scene views immediately your changes, and if you press ENTER it will commit those changes. It's not really well-known (I discovered it by accident reading some changelogs at some point a couple years ago).
by sevensor | 2025-12-29 14:41:14+00:00
> a lot of jobs are CRUD web apps and those are certainly gone at this point

We thought Rails would do this. I think it’s safer to say that CRUD is now cheaper than ever, and that changes what the job of producing it looks like. Remember the Rails Bro? I suspect we’ll see something like him for a while until this all shakes out.
by sxp | 2025-12-29 14:41:27+00:00
For those who want to consider the mundane explanation about remote viewing: remember that humans can still be surprised by the birthday paradox and other synchronicities that occur when sampling data at large scale. So across thousands of sessions, the weak coincidences documented by the Stargate project are expected.

For those who want a skeptical & cynical view: if remote viewing works, it would be part of the standard strategy of every hedge fund. Remember that theses are groups who pay millions for millisecond advantages in information. And you only need an ~51-55% success rate to make a killing in HFT (vs a 50% success rate from a coinflip). The fact that hedge funds don't have remote viewers on staff is evidence against RV providing utility greater than an RNG.

And for curious people who want to try a scientific approach, I suggest joining https://www.social-rv.com/ which is collecting data about RV and trying to make the experiment ironclad via blockchain authentication of predictions.
Show HN: Why Populism Isn't the Disease, It's the Symptom
by ersinesen | 2025-12-29 14:42:24+00:00
This piece reframes populism not as personal aberration but as adaptive response to the mismatch between hyper-mobile capital and territorial states. Particularly this bit on why inconsistency is a feature:

This explains several otherwise puzzling features of populist politics. Ideological inconsistency is not a bug but a requirement. Ethical incoherence is not accidental but adaptive. Reversals, contradictions, and symbolic excess are tolerated because responsiveness, not consistency, is the optimization criterion. The leader’s role is not to resolve systemic tension, but to remain aligned with its most salient expressions.
by ACCount37 | 2025-12-29 14:42:46+00:00
"Compensatory approaches" is what the behavioral interventions for autism are. No silver bullet, but it does help, and it's often well worth the effort.

A timely well executed intervention may make the difference between "needs a caretaker" and a mere "struggles in life". But it's not going to negate all of the damage.

Gene therapies I have little hope for. Maybe something there may help. But the impression I get is that it's less of a "fix biochemical deficits" issue, and more of an "unwire and rewire existing neural circuits" issue. We have no fucking clue on how to do that. And to sidestep that, you'd have to intervene early - as early as "remove genetic predispositions in an embryo".
by kamaal | 2025-12-29 14:43:28+00:00
>>Feynman was a uniquely gifted teacher that made things intuitive and simple.

I think explainers like Neil deGrasse Tyson have a job harder than people imagine. Historically the problem with science education has been, that, as the conceptual universe gets bigger and complicated there's a tendency to assume the common person is too stupid and beneath the subject to understand it.

To simplify and demystify science to a point to get people interested in it as a intuitive iterative process helps a lot in increasing participation of the general crowd.
by dandellion | 2025-12-29 14:43:51+00:00
Around 2018 I used a Mac at work and a Dell XPS at home and I had zero issues with the trackpad on the Dell. It was a bit smaller than the Mac's, but I actually preferred that because it was so large I'd sometimes move the mouse accidentally. Back then I thought PCs had finally caught up with Mac trackpads, but was extremely disappointed when the next XPS had one of those trackpads that is just integrated with the laptop cover (it's like a touchscreen instead of a pad inside a cut-off, if that makes sense). My guess is they changed for the aesthetics, but it was so bad that I returned it. I haven't used a good trackpad on a Linux PC since that Dell.
by random9749832 | 2025-12-29 14:44:28+00:00
At the end of the day the job market will correct itself accordingly which is what most people who bother going to university or collecting any certificate care about. And right now it is already looking bleak. https://accountancyage.com/2025/09/29/pwcs-graduate-glow-up-...

Might be time we start adapting the pipeline into employment and start revising the importance of some of these gatekeepers before more people fall into unnecessary debt.
by scotty79 | 2025-12-29 14:44:33+00:00
You just basically confirmed what the previous commenter said. GPS is not directional. You need two of them placed some significant distance apart (think ship length, not smartphone length).

When you have two points determined with high enough precision you obviously have a direction and even orientation.

Your comment could have been just that. Useful information many people could find interesting. Instead you decided to sprinkle it with bile.
by omnimus | 2025-12-29 14:44:43+00:00
SEPA payments are now instant in almost every country. I understand the rollout is gradual but in some of the countries QR payments through SEPA is has been highly popular for few years now.

I have merchants/restaurants asking me if i can pay with QR instead of card because they get more money. And in local eCommerce all the online stores give it as option and often have it as prefered default.

I think the problem is that many countries have huge lag in adoption and often lie about it. Electronic crossborder prescriptions (ePrescription) was pushed and countries claimed to adopt it so they got some EU money yet when you are in Greece (one of the countries claiming support) nobody has ever really heard about ePrescription.

The other problem is constant Not invented here syndrom of Germany that never wants to adopt anything already running and instead invents their own variation.
by Fh_ | 2025-12-29 14:44:45+00:00
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by whywhywhywhy | 2025-12-29 14:46:54+00:00
No one would bother optimizing for it at all if it had a yearly refresh.

Not saying that's why they don't, but that would be a side effect. I actually think it's more their business doesn't rely on selling Steam Decks, hardware business where you do a yearly refresh is a very different beast to one you do a new model every few years. Their organization doesn't seem set up for that.
by soldthat | 2025-12-29 14:46:56+00:00
Iran is a thousand miles away from Israel. There are like 30 other countries within that radius.

I get that you’re trying to make a different point, but your exaggerated language presents a distorted slant, and such one-sided rhetoric, especially when repeated many times, actually contributes to the political shifts and the spirals of violence that you worry about.
by sklarsa | 2025-12-29 14:47:11+00:00
In my experience as someone who started learning how to golf in their 30s, you need to be playing at least 4x a week to get good enough to start enjoying it in the first place. Unless you like shanking balls 5 yards, looking for lost balls in the woods, or picking your ball up near the green because the rest of your group has already finished the hole. Which to me, is no fun at all.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-12-29 14:47:43+00:00
> Why is someone on HIV antivirals if no test ever confirmed them to have HIV?

Mu. If it was confirmed, but not "confirmed by laboratory criteria according to country definitions and requirements", then they do not meet the diagnostic criteria (interpreted literally). Suppose, for instance, that there was a procedural error that might have messed up the diagnosis (so is forbidden by regulation), but in this case didn't mess up the diagnosis.

I can produce as many of these literally-correct, deliberate misinterpretations as you like. They have no bearing on actual medical practice.

> which definition is correct?

Which definition of "carbon atom" is correct? Our definitions have, for 200 years, been sufficient to distinguish "carbon atom" from "not carbon atom", but those definitions have changed significantly in that time. Autism is that category into which autistic people fall, and into which allistic people do not fall, which is distinguished from several other categories with which it is often confused. (The ICD-11 spends way more words on distinguishing autism from OCD, Tourette's, schizophrenia, etc than on defining it directly.)
Show HN: Open-source Spotify Wrapped for arbitrary data
by ford | 2025-12-29 14:47:52+00:00
Get a "Year-In-Review" for arbitrary data.

Yirgachefe was borne out of 3 ideas:

1) Spotify Wrapped is delightful
2) In many countries, services are required by law to provide your exported usage data in a timely manner.
3) Many services don't (or can't) provide years-in-review. I also love the idea of summarizing data people may _not_ want, a la the recent SNL "UberEats Wrapped" sketch.

Now you can "wrap" anything if you have the data - traditional sources like video & music streaming, or more creative ones like terminal history, amazon purchases, git contributions, etc.

If you bring-your-own API key, all processing exclusively happens in your browser + the Anthropic API (minus some anonymized usage data sent to Umami).

Outputs aren't perfect (it's AI after all), but it's also a demo of what you can do with the latest LLM coding tools and a weekend.
Show HN: Meter – Scrape sites and keep content in sync automatically (no LLM)
by mckinnonr | 2025-12-29 14:48:36+00:00
I built Meter to keep scraped website content in sync over time.

Meter uses an LLM once to generate a scraping plan, then runs entirely on raw HTTP requests (no Selenium, no LLMs) to periodically detect changes and re-extract content.

I built it after spending years writing custom scrapers: parsing sites, wiring the output into databases, and keeping everything working as pages evolved. Meter follows the same approach I use in practice — do heavy analysis up front, then run fast, cheap scrapes continuously.

I’m really interested to hear from people maintaining scraping jobs or RAG pipelines in this context. I’d love any feedback on the product - thanks!
by tuetuopay | 2025-12-29 14:48:48+00:00
Thank you for the clarification! I'm sorry for engaging in the LLM hunt, I don't usually do. Please keep writing, this was a really good breakdown!

In hindsight, I would not even have thought about it if not for the comment I replied to. LLM prose fail to make me read whole paragraphs and I find myself skipping roughly the second half of every paragraph, which was definitely not the case for your article. I did somewhat skip at the emoji heading, not because of LLMs, but because of a saturation of emojis in some contexts that don't really need them.

I should have written "this could be LLM assisted" instead of "this more feels like LLM assisted", but well words.

Again, sorry, don't get discouraged by the LLM witch hunt.
by nicoburns | 2025-12-29 14:49:09+00:00
> As an example: I'm autistic and I learn inside-out, building larger new concepts out of smaller existing ones; those with Asperger's on the other paw, learn outside-in instead, breaking down larger existing concepts into smaller new ones; both are part of the "autism spectrum", but differ very fundamentally.

To me this just sounds like the interaction of autism with other variances in neurotype. You can also reasonably categorise non-autistic people into people who learn outside-in and those who learn inside-out.
by bwb | 2025-12-29 14:49:37+00:00
I'm surprised too, as that is one I overlap on :)

We are working to do it based on frequency as part of the bigger app we are building right now. And show that. I'm hoping we might get that in this for next year.

On the broader site, we do have "books like" Kingkiller Chronicles, and it does them based on the frequency they are associated together in the lists by humans:
https://shepherd.com/books-in-order/the-kingkiller-chronicle...

(funny enough, the most recommended book alongside Kingkiller is Mistborn)

And Mistborn here:
https://shepherd.com/books-in-order/mistborn/books-like

So we take the 12,000 book lists authors have made, and use that to generate these.

What do you think?
by spwa4 | 2025-12-29 14:50:02+00:00
> It's almost like both numbers are heavily biased in the UN.

Yes, but in the opposite direction. It would be baffling if the UN's claim of 16,000 Ukrainian victims wasn't at least 100,000 in reality.

And, let's be honest, in Gaza, it does not seem realistic that there are even 50,000 victims of the 70,000 civilian victims claimed total. Don't get me wrong, significant amount of victims, but much less than reported. And on top of that it doesn't seem realistic that none of those are militants. I'd guess, say, at least half of those are militants, not civilians.

And on top of that, UN has no problem to state that of those 16,000, about 70 Ukrainian dead are not victims of Russia but of Ukrainian frienly fire. Again, of the 70,000 claimed dead in Gaza ... let's assume at the very least 300 are victims of hamas friendly fire (probably more, since hamas is no stranger to boobytrapping civilian buildings), rather than enemy action.

If you count the way the UN counts in Gaza in Ukraine, Russia has killed some 400,000 people minimum. Maybe half a million, and of course climbing fast. No distinction between civilian and military, no distinction between accidents vs friendly fire ...

And I guess in the Gaza case I sort of understand. But why downplay Ukrainian victims? Why by a factor of 2, not counting military deaths, which would make it a factor 5 lower than real, minimum? I guess if you discounted everything the same way in Gaza the numbers would also drop by a factor of 5 there, but still.
by sallveburrpi | 2025-12-29 14:50:37+00:00
You assume too much about my politics…

In what way is hopping on a plane to an island retreat for a week a “timeless Buddhist principle”?
And immediately shilling your next commercial project while you’re at it?

Sounds more like a timeless US-American practice.

Thanks for sharing your personal experience - I do agree that the middle class is the most anxious; anxious about dropping lower and levelling up at the same time.
Terminally online though seems to be a pretty common thing across all classes - just look at Trump or Musk tweeting every 5 minutes…
by JohnFen | 2025-12-29 14:51:01+00:00
I have worked for many years with human hearing and audio perception. In my opinion, the bone conduction hypothesis seems complete and correct. It means that you cannot ever hear your own voice as it sounds to others.

> Even with high-quality microphones and clean recordings

High quality microphones and clean recordings don't compensate for the bone conduction, though. What you'd really need to do is to place a contact microphone against the bone in your inner ear. And even then, the results would not be identical because the microphone will necessarily be placed differently than the
ossicles and other hearing-related ear structures.

Also, what we hear is hugely influenced by our expectations. When you speak, you know what noises you're intending to make and will interpret the sounds you hear accordingly.
by hylaride | 2025-12-29 14:51:22+00:00
Raw investment numbers don't necessarily matter, but the productivity of said number. Even if things are more expensive in Switzerland, if they make efficient use of said investment, then it can work out ok (or even better).

I have no idea if this is actually the case, but you have to take that into account or Switzerland would not be as successful as it is. Higher incomes have historically been a symptom of productivity (and while median incomes and productivity have decoupled, especially in the angosphere, it is still usually correlated).
by Saline9515 | 2025-12-29 14:51:43+00:00
> "The EU is not a state"

It's a supranational institution that dictates laws to States, with a budget and coercive powers against States. It just lacks an army of its own. Whether it's a proper state or not doesn't matter.

> conceptualised in the EU

No, in Europe. No EU bureaucrat conceptualizes things. EU =\= Europe.

> I think that's only expensive for companies who intend to to sell or otherwise do something shady with user data. Remember, not collecting data makes you instantly compliant with zero cost.

A lot of businesses need consumer data to improve their offerings and be competitive against the big boys. And RGPD lawyers ain't cheap, so even if you keep the minimal amount of data, you have to fork 10k+ to review everything, etc. The requirements for AI are even worse.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-12-29 14:52:54+00:00
Capital P proof is great if you want to know whether a topological space is separable, but if you want to know if you should stop paying your taxes because maybe they're causing more harm than good then you're going to have to rely on something besides capital P proof. You're going to have to rely on induction and probability. More vs less data matters quite a bit in such places.

Sources can include people you've never met, have no reason to lie, and happened to be in an opportune position to contribute to the sort of lowercase p proofs that you need.

If we can fix social media there can be many such people. If not, there will be necessarily fewer, and they'll have to be replaced by people for whom addressing the public with new information is their job. The latter sort are high value targets for corruption. As long as they're worried about keeping that job, they have to also worry about who they upset with their information. You're necessarily going to get weaker lowercase-p proofs from such people.

That's not to say that we'll have no tools for keeping power in check, but we will have fewer, which means their abuses will be more frequent and more severe.