MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paddleon | 2025-12-19 14:32:44+00:00
maybe they are concerned by the widespread adoption of the attitude you are taking-- make a very strong accusation, then when it was pointed out that the accusation might be off base, continue to attack.

This constant demonization of everyone who disagrees with you, makes me wonder if 28 Days wasn't more true than we thought, we are all turning into rage zombies.

p-e-w, I'm reacting to much more than your comments. Maybe you aren't totally infected yet, who knows. Maybe you heal.

I am reacting to the pandemic, of which you were demonstrating symptoms.
by Jabbs | 2025-12-19 14:33:08+00:00
1. Churn isn't as bad as I would have thought. There is also the use case for someone who has a job and wants to find the next one. But yea if someone wants to only use for 1 month, that is expected

2. I think companies (or the ATS's they use) might object to reposting a job listing on my site but I'm not doing that. You can search/sort/filter jobs but in order to view the job posting you will open a link back to the original job.
by borroka | 2025-12-19 14:34:23+00:00
As an aside, most of us, when watching a video of ourselves, may notice how slow our movements actually are. I had the subjective impression that I was fast and agile when practicing jiu jitsu, judo, or team sports, yet when I watched some of my videos, I couldn’t help but feel disappointed by how slow I appeared to move. The answer was to accept that what I subjectively perceived as fast was actually slow and thus trying to go faster, while not being sloppy or "spazzy".

Although we all know that too fast often means sloppy, if only because of the modifier too, our brains can easily deceive us into believing that we are fast when, in reality, we are moving at a glacial pace.

There is a clear parallel here with what happens when we trust our subjective experience too much instead of relying on objective assessments of ourselves and our skills, whether that means watching a video of ourselves in which we appear goofy or slow when we thought we were as elegant as Baryshnikov and as quick as Ma Long, or when we decide to measure ourselves against the best, and not the average/median competition, and realize how slow we are when operating.

Assuming that standards of quality or comprehension are maintained, it would do good for many, myself included, not to think in terms of "it will take as long as needed (to learn French, jiu jitsu, Python, violin)", but in terms of "how fast I can reach the goal?". And not because of some modern productivity bias, but for reason of speed in reaching the level we are aiming at: the faster we get there, the better our performance will be.

And certainly, many should have the goal of moving faster when doing sports (accounting for age, background, injuries, etc., but not excuses). Speed, more often than not, is the ultimate skill.
by yunruse | 2025-12-19 14:34:37+00:00
If every website needed verification, why not simply move the verification to the device or ISP level? This seems like an authoritative move to track users across websites, and another good reason to keep using a VPN.

Certainly a terrifying amount of responsibility and upkeep for each individual website. If the UK wishes to establish this and not want it to lead to an insane amount of privacy leaks, it should consider developing a technology that makes it work in a privacy-respecting way, like the European Age Verification Solution [0]'s Zero-Knowledge Proofs.

[0] https://ageverification.dev
by GuB-42 | 2025-12-19 14:35:14+00:00
As a non-American, I think that Americans are special in that they have the right combination of hard work and personal initiative and efficiency. To oversimplify, Europeans are efficient workers, but unlike Americans, they use their efficiency not to produce more but to work less and enjoy life. East Asians are hard workers but they tend to favor group cohesion over maximizing individual potential, which is not as efficient.

I am not saying that one culture is better than another, but I think the American way is particularly productive, particularly stressful too.
by pegasus | 2025-12-19 14:35:20+00:00
Those foreign students usually pay for the education they receive, they might not be willing to do so (or as much) if there are strings attached. Besides, I don't think any country should aim on brain draining any other country, that kind of selfishness will be counterproductive long-term. Who knows, might be what we're seeing right now (the US self-sabotaging). Karma's a bitch.
Show HN: Own your words – Markdown export for Facet
by matthiasstiller | 2025-12-19 14:35:33+00:00
Hi HN,

I just shipped a new feature on Facet.ink, a platform for digital writing and publishing.

As a small gift just before Christmas, authors can now download their texts written on Facet — chapter by chapter — as Markdown.

The goal is simple: writers should always own their words. No platform lock-in, no closed formats — just your content, portable and future-proof.

I’d love to hear your thoughts or feedback.

Matthias
by mmcnl | 2025-12-19 14:35:48+00:00
I'm not an AI fanatic, but I do use ChatGPT often. In my experience, ChatGPT now is only marginally better than it was in 2022. The only real improvements is due to "thinking" abilities, i.e. searching the web and spending more tokens (basically prompting itself). The underlying model still to me feels largely the same.

I feel like I'm living in a different world when every time a new model comes out, everyone is in awe, and it scores exceptionally well on some benchmark that no one heard of before before the model even launched. And then when I use it, it feels like it's exactly the same as all models before, and makes the same stupid mistakes as always.
by coldtea | 2025-12-19 14:35:53+00:00
>Many things are naturally repulsive, but are indulged out of necessity or gain

Most "naturally repulsive" things were accepted just fine in one society or another.

Aristole spent time to defend and rationalize slavery because that was just job, to spend time rationalizing things. Other societies practiced it with no such worries, and found it perfectly natural.

But even if we grant you your "naturally repulsive" actions existing, it doesn't mean they are objectively morally wrong. Just that their moral judgement is not just based on culture and historical period, but also on evolutionary adaptations. These could very well be considered fine in an earlier/later evolutionary stage (in an earlier one, for sure: animals don't have such qualms).
by mothballed | 2025-12-19 14:36:40+00:00
Update:

The murder was solved due to a post to reddit

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G8giswDXoAAV-Cp?format=png&name=...

Tips should be "public" in this case because that's the only way they get noticed enough to garner attention. Wouldn't surprise me if "homeless man" was ignored by the cops if he tried earlier, or "homeless man" was too afraid to approach them directly because of how cops treat the homeless.
by DrScientist | 2025-12-19 14:37:06+00:00
> What I would consider as the most impactful inventions of the last decade would be things like mRNA, Generative AI, and reusable rockets - all came from the US and the US is maintaining the lead in them.

This so myopic. The covid mRNA vaccine that Pfizer made billions from was done by BionTech a company in Germany led by immigrant turks.

Sure some American's recently got the Nobel prize for the pseudouridine modification - and whiles that's enabling it's not sufficient - you also need LNPs and a whole bunch of other stuff to make it all work - some of which was invented in America and some of which wasn't.

The nature of international science is collaboration.

The danger the for the US right now is it's cutting itself off from one of the biggest sources of innovation right now - China.
by nottorp | 2025-12-19 14:37:21+00:00
> Overclocking long ago was an amazing saintly act, milking a lot of extra performance that was just there waiting, without major downsides to take.

Back when you bought a 233 Mhz chip with ram at 66 Mhz, ran the bus at 100 Mhz which also increased your ram speed if it could handle it, and everything was faster.

> But these days, chips are usually already well tuned. You can feed double or tripple the power into the chip with adequate cooling, but the gain is so unremarkable. +10% +15% +20% is almost never going to be a make or break difference for your work

20% in synthetic benchmarks maybe, or very particular loads. Because you only overclock the CPU these days so anything hitting the ram won't even go to 20%.
by brokencode | 2025-12-19 14:37:55+00:00
Google has a separate browser for AI features? Gemini has just shown up in Chrome for me.

It’s of course a mess and a mad rush for market share right now. That’s just a product of a healthy, competitive market. I agree that I’d rather have one AI service I pay for that integrates with all my apps.

AI integration in apps is about being able to feed in the context from the app into the model, like the web page or document. It’s much nicer to just ask the model about what you’re looking at directly rather than having to copy in context. I don’t have market research on this, but I do believe customers will expect it.

Someday hopefully the OS will allow apps to expose context and actions for a systemwide AI assistant. This is what Apple is trying to do with their Apple Intelligence for instance. If this works well, that’d be great.
by xipix | 2025-12-19 14:38:26+00:00
We absolutely do need regulation of this harm by the law. It's how we stand together as a society, otherwise one child's rules will seem draconian against their friend's lax parents. There's plenty of precedent in other threshold ages at which children can start indulging in other potentially harmful vices.

The vulnerable elder population is more difficult to define by a simple age threshold. We all decline at different ages and different rates.
by barbazoo | 2025-12-19 14:38:30+00:00
> CHCF scenarios show monthly jumps from $249 to $2,165.

Not an American here but how can these numbers look so scary yet no one is out on the streets protesting?

These look like budget evaporating changes in monthly cost how are the majority of people not freaking out about this?

I’m assuming it’ll get dealt with in the theatric last minute late night fashion as is customary in US politics.
by simonw | 2025-12-19 14:38:34+00:00
Just one very simple example: you add a new frontend feature where clicking a button opens a modal. You include an automated test that selects the button and clicks it using document.querySelector("#mybutton").click() - and the test passes. Then when you test it in a browser yourself you find that the button is impossible to click because it's invisibly positioned behind some other element.
by hopelite | 2025-12-19 14:39:07+00:00
Arguably we already have autocracy (call it emergent, if you like) in both the EU and America due to a combination of abdication and subversions of democratic will, self-governance, and sovereign nationhood over the last many decades, which is really starting to show its ugly nature just recently.

People forget, autocracies don’t just show up one day and announce “ok, we’re going to do autocracy now and I’m your dictator. Ok? Good?” They are conditions that have a long tail setup and preparation and then an accelerating escalation (where it seems we are now) and then, if not adequately countered, it bursts into place almost overnight.

That has resulted in the state of, in the EU, unelected (popularly) Commission Presidents dictating and dominating all of Europe, and the Presidency using powers it wasn’t supposed to have to tariff and threaten countries with destruction, conferred upon the office by a Congress that has also failed its core function.

Shallow thinkers tend to think in terms of the past archetypes, but it is unlikely that we will ever see anything like one of the middle eastern or Latin American autocrats with a clownish amount of metals on their chests ruling the West. It is a small cabal of people that manage a new kind of patronage system where everyone gets a piece of the plunder of the peasants. Call it neo-aristocracy if you like, until a better term emerges. Remember, the new tricks and lies tend to not be the same as the old tricks and lies.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-19 14:39:16+00:00
> the UK wishes to establish this and not want it to lead to an insane amount of privacy leaks, it should consider developing a technology that makes it work in a privacy-respecting way

They don’t care about the privacy aspect.

A key part of effective age verification is associating an identity with the account. They don’t just want to confirm that the person accessing the site has access to an ID of anyone who is 16+, they want to make an effort to associate the ID with the account. It’s the same reason why when you present an ID to buy alcohol they look at the photo to make sure the ID is actually yours, not just that you have an ID of someone older in your possession.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-19 14:39:28+00:00
To make it perfectly clear, no browser support outside Appleworld

https://caniuse.com/?search=HEIC

I mostly am a DSLR photographer but for the occasional iPhone shot

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/115740936297822037

I use Photoshop. (Where's Cindy when I need her?)
by Larrikin | 2025-12-19 14:39:43+00:00
Every single right you have can be taken away by the justification of it will protect children or it is wrong because of something some person wrote in a religious text.

Parents who think they need this are bad parents and bad citizens.

Someone pointed out that every single one of these laws in spirit does not need the website to verify and block the user. There is no need for complicated schemes of all websites implementing complex screening software and storing all our IDs. The website could report a single string saying if there is adult content and software the parent or authoritarian governments ISP has installed on the device could block it.

But protecting children isn't the point
by numpad0 | 2025-12-19 14:39:57+00:00
Users aren't supposed to be (choosing && swapping) CPUs by themselves between these identical sockets(LGA2011 v0 through v3). These are supposed to be bought in trays and kitted in a shop. So reusing same parts for cost saving should not cause issues.

Consumer oriented sockets(LGA115x) has different notches and pin counts to prevent this issue - actually, some of "different" sockets in consumer oriented sockets with "different" chipsets are actually identical, and sometimes you see Chinese bastardized boards that use discarded server-marked chips and pins-fudged hacker builds online that should not be possible according to marketing materials, so there is their own rabbit hole there.
by wongarsu | 2025-12-19 14:39:58+00:00
> one piece of regulation away from removing the idea of privacy altogether and policing all forms of communication. You're building the infrastructure to create 1984.

Politicians attempt this all over Europe, but Britain is trying especially hard, with surprisingly little pushback. Not just the internet, also their state-run and state-accessible CCTV networks, now even with face detection. The idea of giving up privacy for the greater good is surprisingly normalized in the UK

I don't think it's a coincidence that 1984 is set in England and was written by an Englishman
by TheCleric | 2025-12-19 14:40:52+00:00
“Here’s the thing: I am 100% sure these things are connected. The more people block ads, the more aggressive advertising became.”

This is naive at best. Some of the worst ads (popups/popunders/autoplay flash with sound) existed years before adblockers.

I don’t know what the adblocker usage rate is but I’d bet it’s low as virtually none of the non-technical people I know use them.
by left-struck | 2025-12-19 14:40:58+00:00
When you think about it, why should you trust any app that tries to trick you when you’re looking for something else? It’s such awful behaviour, I don’t want any part of it, I don’t want to reward it so in any place where I can’t forcibly remove this trash I go out of my way to never click on the ad results even if in the rare case it’s exactly what I searched for.
by palmotea | 2025-12-19 14:41:56+00:00
> If AI edges humans out of the business of thinking, then we're all in deep shit

Also because we live under capitalism, and you need something people need you to do to be allowed to live.

For a century+, "thinking" was the task that was supposed to be left to humans, as physical labor was automated. If "AI edges humans out of the business of thinking" what's left for humans, especially those who still need to work for a living because they don't have massive piles of money.
by b800h | 2025-12-19 14:42:10+00:00
I'm a parent of four, and the family controls on Android, paired with sensible oversight of laptop use at home, are perfectly sufficient. We've enabled WhatsApp, but check it every so often for the younger ones; they have a timeout, can use Wikipedia, and have a time limit on their use of AI. They can't use the stupid services like Tiktok.
Show HN: Ayder HTTP-native durable event log in C (50K msg/s, P99 3ms, Raft HA)
by Aydarbek | 2025-12-19 14:42:12+00:00
Hi HN — I built Ayder, a single-binary durable event log / message bus in C. The idea: what if event streaming was just HTTP?

# Produce curl -X POST 'localhost:1109/broker/topics/orders/produce' -d '{"item":"widget"}' # Consume curl 'localhost:1109/broker/consume/orders/mygroup/0?encoding=b64'

No JVM, no ZooKeeper, no thick client libraries. Just HTTP.

What it does: append-only log with per-partition offsets, consumer groups, durable writes via sealed AOF + crash recovery, HA with Raft consensus (3/5/7 nodes), leader redirects, idempotent produce, KV store with CAS + TTL.

Benchmarks (real network, 3-node Raft, DigitalOcean 8 vCPU, wrk2, 64B payload):

Throughput: 50,000 msg/s sustained P50: 1.58ms | P99: 3.35ms | P99.9: 8.62ms

Server-side P99.999 is 1.2ms — the tail you see in benchmarks is network/kernel, not the broker.

Curious finding: real NIC beats loopback at high concurrency (P99 3.31ms vs 5.79ms). Makes sense — loopback means client and server fight for CPU cores.

I'd love feedback on: API shape, HA ergonomics, what you'd expect from "durable event log over HTTP" in 2025.

Happy to discuss implementation details — Raft catch-up, AOF format, zero-copy parsing, whatever interests you.
by therobots927 | 2025-12-19 14:42:25+00:00
This is cool. I recently bought a GameCube and a few games, it’s just as fun and engaging as I remember it being as a kid. The graphics aren’t as “good” as modern games but if a game was fun 20 years ago it’s still fun now… nothing about the game changed. Just our expectations. And the modern game industry is beyond saving at this point outside of a few independent studios.
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-19 14:42:41+00:00
> Firstly, maybe I shouldn't have said "saturated," but then again, you wouldn't argue that your earth tones, for example Yellow Ochre or Burnt Sienna aren't saturated in color?

I think you are confusing a definition of saturation meaning "unable to absorb more" with the visual perception definition.

Optical Engineer here, but AFAIK artists use the term the same way: "saturation" refers to how the color is free of both white- and black-shading, "degree of non-grayness" if you will.

The outer ring of this image is fully saturated; you'll see that "muddy" colors like ochre and sienna don't occur there.

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi...
Ask HN: Doing sprints without story points. What has worked for you?
by Desafinado | 2025-12-19 14:42:42+00:00
The general gist I keep reading throughout the industry these days is that estimating tasks with story points is no longer recommended. On one side of it taking the time to make the estimate is a waste of time because the estimate is usually wrong, and on the other side of it, by obsessing over velocity we have developers trying to hit speed rather than quality metrics.

All that being said, I'm interested to hear from others who are a part of teams that aren't using story points to plan sprints. Which methods have you used? What worked, what didn't?
by unrealhoang | 2025-12-19 14:42:50+00:00
All of `Vec` is much smaller than all of the place using Vec. IIRC, Vec is around 3k LoC. And for even low level code like Oxide & Android core, they are observed less than 4% of their code is inside or related to unsafe, that’s a massive improvement.

Yes, Rust is not new in term of allow building hard to misuse abstraction, it’s just allow abstraction over memory safety without relying on GC or runtime checks. Rust achieve this by adding capability to enforce shared XOR mutability with its borrowck which C++ couldn’t.
by wongarsu | 2025-12-19 14:43:23+00:00
Even if we keep it at the website level, a government-run solution that allows you to verify your age without revealing your identity would be the logical solution. There is no good reason why they need to know who I am to know how old I am. The EU seems to be headed that way. The UK doesn't seem to care, almost as if associating real names with accounts was the whole point and saving children was just a convenient excuse for them
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-12-19 14:43:23+00:00
Are these necessary "AI Chips", not just "Chips"?

If - hear me out - this whole LLM AI thing turns out be be overhyped, won't this capability be useful for a lot of other things , from consumer electronics to combat drones.

e.g. Useful in the growing Chinese EV sector. And lessening dependence on chips made in Taiwan seems strategic.

It seems broader than a bet on "AI" specifically. A more strategic move.

From the article, first paragraph:

> cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and weapons central to Western military dominance.
by g-b-r | 2025-12-19 14:43:55+00:00
New things are not always progress.

And even if LLMs turn out to really be a net positive and a requirement for the job, they're antithetical to what most software developers appreciate and enjoy (precision, control, predictability, efficiency...).

There sure seems to be two kinds of software developers: those who enjoy the practice and those who're mostly in for the pay. If LLMs win it will be second ones who'll stay on the job, and that's fine; it won't mean that the first group was made of luddites, but that the job has turned into crap that others will take over.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-19 14:43:58+00:00
Exactly. Maybe a better word is "spiraling", when it thinks it has the tools to figure something out but can't, and can't figure out why it can't, and keeps re-trying because it doesn't know what else to do.

Which is basically what happens when a person has an existential crisis -- something fundamental about the world seems to be broken, they can't figure out why, and they can't figure out why they can't figure it out, hence the crisis seems all-consuming without resolution.
by sajithdilshan | 2025-12-19 14:44:46+00:00
I disagree

> one child's rules will seem draconian against their friend's lax parents.

So what is wrong with that? parenting is not equal among all parents in UK and why should only this aspect be normalized?

> The vulnerable elder population is more difficult to define by a simple age threshold. We all decline at different ages and different rates.

This is a hypocritical statement. For children we are more than willing to normalize and enforce rules as us adults wants because we assume all children grow up at same age and same rates, but when it comes to policing adults, the line is gray and more difficult because everyone is different.