MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by troupo | 2025-12-22 07:45:47+00:00
Ah yes. The reason is because all the money is in the chill music. And not in the fact that the most formulaic genres get flooded with easily generated music ("chill work" music especially doesn't even need sophisticated AI, a random number generator would work).

And that's before we ask the question of how to identify AI-generated music (no one asks that question, but everyone wants it removed).
by doctoboggan | 2025-12-22 07:45:56+00:00
The YouTuber Will Prowse has an excellent site where he tracks his most recommended batteries (and other equipment like inverters) at any time. The prices are always changing, and there are new products all the time so check on the his list any time you are looking to buy:

https://www.mobile-solarpower.com

Like the other commenter said, batteries are a lot cheaper if you are willing to shop around. His top recommended budget battery today is a 4x your Anker Solix's capacity, and around 1/4th the price. You can find many 5kWh server rack batteries for under $1000 now.
by silisili | 2025-12-22 07:46:11+00:00
This is fascinating.

My uncle was a pilot, and I asked him 15 years or so ago about the job. He was going on and on about computers and autopilot, claiming that pilots were only really needed anymore for takeoffs and landings, and they could sleep during the rest. Probably realizing the liability in what he said, he was quick to clarify that he didn't, of course.

In that short time span we now have a system that can land a plane by itself. Nothing less than magic, and huge congratulations and thanks to everyone at Garmin who made this happen.
by lll-o-lll | 2025-12-22 07:46:13+00:00
> It absolutely can be. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with modern cloud block storage, or RAID backed by NVRAM? Both have durability far above and beyond a single physical disk. On AWS, for example, ec2 Block Express offers 99.999% durability. Alternatively, you can, of course, build your own RAID 1 volumes atop ordinary gp3 volumes if you like to design for similar loss probabilities.

Certainly you can solve for zero data loss (RPO=0) at the infrastructure level. It involves synchronously replicating that data to a separate physical location. If your threat model includes “fire in the dc”, reliable storage isn’t enough. To survive a site catastrophe with no data loss you must maintain a second, live copy (synchronous replication before ack) in another fault domain.

In practice, to my experience, this is done at the application level rather than trying to do so with infrastructure.

> There's no conflict between treating audit logs as logs -- which they are -- with having separate delivery streams and treatment for different retention and durability policies

It matters to me, because I don’t want to be dependent on a sync ack between two fault domains for 99.999% of my logs. I only care about this when the regulator says I must.

> Again, auditors do not care -- a fact you admitted yourself! They care about whether you took reasonable steps to ensure correctness and availability when needed. That is all.

I care about matching the solution to the regulation; which varies considerably by country and use-case. However there are multiple cases I have been involved with where the stipulation was “you must prove you cannot lose this data, even in the case of a site-wide catastrophe”. That’s what RPO zero means. It’s DR, i.e., after a disaster. For nearly everything 15 minutes is good, if not great. Not always.
by frm88 | 2025-12-22 07:46:36+00:00
You missed some of mine, for example Theatre of the God's is not on your list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45718536

Edit:the French edition of the Vorkosigan Saga has denfitively the wrong author https://hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app/
Show HN: Quick scrolling text for banners and tickers, built as a browser tool
by kuzej | 2025-12-22 07:47:35+00:00
I wanted the classic tilted crawl effect for intros, plus a clean credits roll for outros. The annoying part was always the same: getting a readable look, a controllable speed, and an output that overlays cleanly.

So I built a browser-first scrolling text generator that runs locally. It focuses on three use cases: a tilted perspective crawl, vertical end credits, and a horizontal ticker.

You can control fonts, size, colors, line height, alignment, and background mode (including transparent). The preview is real-time so you can iterate quickly without re-rendering in a heavy tool.

When it looks right, you export animated images or video files for editing, or copy an embed snippet for web and streaming overlays.

https://scrollingtextgenerator.space
by edg5000 | 2025-12-22 07:48:54+00:00
> absolutely relies on Office

You mean "absolutely relies on being able to work with Office formats". Which most Linux distros do well out of the box. I'm not aware of any feature that LO doesn't support, although admittedly I usually exchange PDFs.

> Citavi

According to the WineDB page for Citavi:, "native Linux alternatives include: - BibSonomy / PUMA - JabRef - Mendeley - Zotero - Colwiz"

Of course when going through education you don't want to take risks, there is a lot on the line. But it may be worth to play with the alternatives a bit, albeit on a VM or something. Of course maybe the Citavi format needs to be exchanged; that could actually be a problem. Annoying.
by Vespasian | 2025-12-22 07:51:37+00:00
Then they will break and wear off quite fast I imagine.

Take a look at industrial cobots (not a typo). They feature rounded corners, have very little to no "finger pinchy areas" and lots of force feedback sensors.

Despite that they still require trained (adult) personal and move very slowly when actually interacting with humans.

That's the price for them being sturdy and precise.
by mgh95 | 2025-12-22 07:53:30+00:00
What other choice is there? About 10% of all US healthcare spending is on end-of-life care [1]. It's not pleasant to talk about, but it is a discussion that needs to take place.

[1] https://www.wrvo.org/health/2019-09-30/ten-percent-of-all-he...
by Glawen | 2025-12-22 07:53:50+00:00
The trouble is that they successfuly made people believe social and human science are as reliable as hard science, using statistical data as mathematical proof.

My wife works in University, they are the most left leaning people I ever saw, but are afflicted by their own cognitive incoherence. For exemple they are against student visa fraud, but don't alert that the student never came as they don't want to be the one responsible. They just hope there are some right leaning people like my wife who will pull the trigger.
by Minor49er | 2025-12-22 07:55:37+00:00
My dad has been raving because he discovered that his Windows computer has been uploading all of his pictures to OneDrive. He doesn't remember an option to enable that behavior and can't find any ways to simply turn it off. This is on top of the other nags and sketchy behavior that Windows has been pushing on him normally. He's fed up with it

The silver lining is that my dad's finally getting a new Linux machine for Christmas :^)
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-22 07:55:53+00:00
I've used it and I found it the worst form of DRM. It required creating an "account" with Adobe despite having no relationship with them (It was to access books at my local library where I already had an account) and the software didn't even work on linux. Even getting it to work at all took ages of tinkering and I'm an IT expert. My parents who just wanted to simply check out a book out of the digital library during the pandemic would never have managed to figure that out.

And yes I have liberated all my DRM books from Amazon. But Adobe Digital I will never touch again (Nor buy books with DRM on it in the first place).
by AmbroseBierce | 2025-12-22 07:57:07+00:00
It does:

> Safe Return is an emergency system designed to be deployed by passengers in case of pilot incapacitation. But Safe Return also is programmed to activate itself when it senses the pilot has become unresponsive or succumbed to hypoxia.

Source: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2025/june/pilot...
by troupo | 2025-12-22 07:58:26+00:00
It depends on the algorithm which often preferences "similarity" (for whatever definition of similarity is).

This year I got into some pretty generic blues/rock when driving and really liked one of the songs in some playlist/radio [1]. Little did I know that the song was AI. So when I started a radio based on that song, the resulting radio was 99% AI though I didn't even realise that until after a second/third listen through.

So you can really fall through the rabbit hole.

[1] He Talked A Big Game, Played A Small Tune by Dumpster Grooves. A better song than most human slop that sells stadiums. https://youtu.be/L3Uyfnp-jag?si=mPBgJ_qO2AF80FGP
by andruby | 2025-12-22 07:59:10+00:00
I don't think that is necessarily the case. If you use certain words all the time, shortening them makes sense. They might just forget which abbreviations are and aren't common knowledge. You wouldn't get mad if people use PC, CPU, ATM and RAM, right? Even SSD would be fine on HN, but it probably wouldn't be fine outside HN. (neither would using "HN")
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-22 08:00:12+00:00
I only use OpenVPN (another reason to move away from Mullvad), not their own clients. I moved away from PIA in the past, I don't remember why, it was a long time ago.

I was happy with Mullvad for a long time, especially being able to buy their scratch cards, but now I had to move to Proton due to the deprecation of port forwarding and openvpn at mullvad.

But PIA is american anyway so that won't work for me, I'm not signing up with new american services anymore since Trump came to power again.
by sgt | 2025-12-22 08:00:17+00:00
Note this comment:

thank you for this. sorry about my impatience earlier. i would like to contribute a library. but i don't have an idea at the moment. i would have to give away my real name. which is dangerous for me. because i don't use a vpn or any other internet security scheme. to defend my privacy. but this is just my mind. merry xmas, happy hollidays and better season's experiences next year.

... The stuff open source maintainers have to deal with.
by nashashmi | 2025-12-22 08:00:37+00:00
A famous quote by Winston Churchill’s mother on meeting Gladstone and Disraeli is, “When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.” How people make us feel is so important — not only in Leadership but also in life.
by Doxin | 2025-12-22 08:03:09+00:00
One hack to almost get a justified gallery like that with no javascript is to lay them out with flexbox, setting their width to a percentage or vw value which your backend calculates based on image aspect ratio and desired image height, use flex-grow to stretch them to fill remaining space, and then using background-position: cover to make the images fit the slightly wrong aspect ratio containers.

This will of course slightly crop all your images to make it fit, but in practice as long as you keep your image aspect ratios reasonable and the images small enough on the page it's really quite subtle.

I had hoped that this feature would provide for masonry like that, but one has to make do.
by ursAxZA | 2025-12-22 08:03:31+00:00
I wasn’t talking about human reinforcement.

The discussion has been about CoT in LLMs, so I’ve been referring to the model in isolation from the start.

Here’s how I currently understand the structure of the thread (apologies if I’ve misread anything):

“Is CoT actually thinking?” (my earlier comment)

→ “Yes, it is thinking.”

→ “It might be thinking.” → “Under that analogy, self-training on its own CoT should work — but empirically it doesn’t.” → “Maybe it would work if you add external memory with human or automated filtering?”

Regarding external memory:

without an external supervisor, whatever gets written into that memory is still the model’s own self-generated output — which brings us back to the original problem.
by dgfl | 2025-12-22 08:04:59+00:00
I have more or less the same views, although I can’t formulate them half as well as you do. I would have to think more in depth about those conditions that you highlighted in the GP; I’d read a book elaborating on it.

I’ve heard a similar thought experiment to your bitterness one from Keith Frankish: You have the choice between two anesthetics. The first one suppresses your pain quale, meaning that you won’t _feel_ any pain at all. But it won’t suppress your external response: you will scream, kick, shout, and do whatever you would have done without any anesthetic. The second one is the opposite: it suppresses all the external symptoms of pain. You won’t budge, you’ll be sitting quiet and still as some hypothetical highly painful surgical procedure is performed on you. But you will feel the pain quale completely, it will all still be there.

I like it because it highlights the tension in the supposed platonic essence of qualia. We can’t possibly imagine how either of these two drugs could be manufactured, or what it would feel like.

Would you classify your view as some version of materialism? Is it reductionist? I’m still trying to grasp all the terminology, sometimes it feels there’s more labels than actual perspectives.
by otterley | 2025-12-22 08:05:12+00:00
> It matters to me, because I don’t want to be dependent on a sync ack between two fault domains for 99.999% of my logs. I only care about this when the regulator says I must.

If you want synchronous replication across fault domains for a specific subset of logs, that’s your choice. My point is that treating them this way doesn’t make them not logs. They’re still logs.

I feel like we’re largely in violent agreement, other than whether you actually need to do this. I suspect you’re overengineering to meet an overly stringent interpretation of a requirement. Which regimes, specifically, dictated that you must have synchronous replication across fault domains, and for which set of data? As an attorney as well as a reliability engineer, I would love to see the details. As far as I know, no one - no one - has ever been held to account by a regulator for losing covered data due to a catastrophe outside their control, as long as they took reasonable measures to maintain compliance. RPO=0, in my experience, has never been a requirement with strict liability regardless of disaster scenario.
by saubeidl | 2025-12-22 08:07:01+00:00
Americans really need to consider stuff outside their little bubble sometimes and think about how their country is just a gear in a much larger system.

Of course American power is being pissed away by the guy hurting the transatlantic alliance American power was built on in the first place.

Your internal generational squabbles don't concern us. How you present yourself externally does, and that's worse than it's been in a long time.
by forty | 2025-12-22 08:10:07+00:00
If those countries have laws against making and consuming pedophile pictures and drawings (or "artwork"), I feel it's perfectly fine for people making and consuming those to be raided, even if they disagree with the law (if people could opt out of all laws they don't agree with, I'mnot sure what would be the point of making laws).

What is not ok is to watch the activities of everyone who is not a pedophile in order to catch those, otherwise when does it stop? Should they have cameras in every room of your home just in case?
Show HN: 13Radar.com – A real-time visualizer for SEC 13F filings
by EvansWilson | 2025-12-22 08:13:13+00:00
Hello HN,

I’m one of the creators of 13Radar.com. We built this tool because parsing raw SEC filings (EDGAR) to track institutional money flows is still surprisingly painful in 2025.

The Problem: Raw 13F/13D filings are messy XML or text tables. They are hard to visualize historically, and it's difficult to see "what changed" between quarters without building your own scraper and normalization layer (handling ticker changes, CUSIP mapping, etc.).

The Solution: 13Radar parses these filings in real-time and visualizes the portfolio structures. We focus on speed and clarity—turning the raw regulatory data into actionable intelligence.

Interesting data from our latest 2025 parse: We just finished processing the latest batch of filings, and the shifts are massive. A few examples visible on the site right now:

1. Bill Ackman (Pershing Square) has completely pivoted. UBER is now his #1 holding (~20% of portfolio), and he has built a massive position in Brookfield (BN). 2. Warren Buffett finally bought Google (GOOGL) in Q3 2025, while slashing his Microsoft position significantly (via the Gates Foundation Trust data). 3. Cathie Wood is back into Alibaba (BABA) and doubling down on crypto infrastructure like Bitmine.

How it works: We ingest the SEC index files, parse the primary document tables, calculate the portfolio weights dynamically, and map them against historical pricing data to estimate entry points.

The site is currently free to use. I’d love to hear your feedback on the data visualization and what other specific metrics (e.g., sector rotation, concentration risk) you would find useful.

Thanks!
by beautron | 2025-12-22 08:15:10+00:00
> The typical Go story is to use a bunch of auto generation, so a small change quickly blows up as all of the auto generate code is checked into git. Like easily a 20x blowup.

Why do you think the typical Go story is to use a bunch of auto generation? This does not match my experience with the language at all. Most Go projects I've worked on, or looked at, have used little or no code generation.

I'm sure there are projects out there with a "bunch" of it, but I don't think they are "typical".
by est | 2025-12-22 08:18:31+00:00
> the processes that use them run on the remote

Yes but but does the process have to read from a file system dotfile, instead of some data fetched over a ssh connection?

> your alias includes a process substitution

Very valid point. How about a special shell only provides sys calls and process substitution on remote, the rest runs on local client, and communicate via ssh?

I understand this will make client "fat" but it's way more portable.
by notorandit | 2025-12-22 08:18:54+00:00
I switched to Linux (Slackware, Gentoo, Kubuntu, Arch Linux) some 22 years ago. It has been a pain and sometimes I still get issues.

But I am grateful my PC basically does whatever I ask it to.

A desktop PC lasted 10 years before dying. A laptop another 6 years. No NAGs, no service subscription.

And no ads from software (browser sometimes excluded), no nothing.

I could still install it on a very old machine, with some extra work needed, I could still use less than 1GB RAM.

So I am grateful, despite some extra work is sometimes needed. Nothing is really free. It's a matter of tradeoffs.
by hanche | 2025-12-22 08:19:43+00:00
Heh. To borrow an idea from xkcd (measuring gas consumption as area): The kWh measures energy, right? And energy is force times distance. So energy divided by distance is force! Let’s all start measuring EV consumption in newtons, folks. It even makes intuitive sense: It correlates well with how hard you need to push the car to get it going at the usual travel speed. But it sucks if you need to figure out how far you can travel on a given charge.
by rthrfrd | 2025-12-22 08:20:06+00:00
That’s because you’ve become so accustomed to politics as tribalism and sports-like entertainment that you’ve completely forgotten why we even started the political systems we have today in the first place. Divestment of power, not accumulation. Serving others, not ourselves. You can still embody those things. But it’s better to admit to ourselves that we aren’t selfless enough to do that, than hide behind a learned helplessness.
by peterbecich | 2025-12-22 08:24:30+00:00
Speaking only of the financial aspect, not any other ethical issues:

Those end-of-life patients paid into the system, earlier in their lives, financing the cost of earlier generations of end-of-life patients. It would be unfair to change the social contract now.

In my opinion, it is no different from how adult taxpayers finance public education for children. It is a rolling responsibility from generation to generation.

You may be able to alleviate this financial issue (and not any other ethical issues) by phasing-in this policy change with the youngest generation of Medicare taxpayers, somehow.
by uecker | 2025-12-22 08:24:53+00:00
But there are more than 2000 uses of "unsafe" even in the tiny amount of Rust use in the Linux kernel. And you would need to compare to C code where an equally amount of effort was done to develop safe abstractions. So essentially this is part of the fallacy Rust marketing exploits: comparing an idealized "Safe Rust" scenario compared to real-word resource-constrained usage of C by overworked maintainers.
by easyThrowaway | 2025-12-22 08:25:28+00:00
Can't talk for the USA, but it's widely acknowledged that the spread of broadband in Europe was driven by P2P and tools like Emule/eDonkey or BitTorrent.

We need some similar killer application for satellite connectivity and mesh networking. Something that makes the technology so requested and so ubiquitous in such a short time that it couldn't be banned even if they tried.
by 2dogsanerd | 2025-12-22 08:25:57+00:00
preparing to and found a pilot project with endboss pdf which im able to handle already.... but i focus on 100% quality in the db, so there is always a hitl below 100% confi...cant wait to proof im able to have a "hallucination free" rag..... main goal so far....next headache will be the update of data in the rag
by GaryBluto | 2025-12-22 08:26:20+00:00
I don't know what I expected from a blog written entirely in lowercase but I'm unsurprised it's something like this.

> if i can't feminize my compiler, what's the point?

I remember when people saying things like this would be considered strange, because it is strange, along with all the other bizarre and often fetishistic references in both the blog body and various screenshots. Same for the bizarre pull request screenshot referring to "the gay people in my phone", which is also devoid of grammar.

It's one thing to act stupidly, it's another thing to act stupidly write a self-important blog about it and how much you enjoy pissing people off (back in the day we called that trolling, believe it or not, and it was largely considered a negative thing). I eagerly await the paradigm shift when people stop condoning and supporting bizarre behaviour like this and I won't need to create proxies and extensions explicitly for filtering this kind of nonsense out.

I find the worst thing about this not the blog post itself, but the fact people on here see no problem with it.
by LoveMortuus | 2025-12-22 08:27:06+00:00
I got the following: "... a linguistic purist who will defend a 32-bit Atom CPU until the heat death of the universe or the next Debian update."

Interesting, semi-accurate, though with some of the other things it wrote, it was completely wrong: "You claim labels are limitations that prevent you from being yourself, then immediately spend 500 words explaining why your entire identity is based on being a 1%er." I wish I was a 1%er, sadly I'm on the other side of the spectrum, currently with no money, so I'm on my fourth day of not eating, though luckily I should receive my salary this week or the next, so it'll be alright!