MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DarkmSparks | 2025-12-18 12:58:02+00:00
Hmm, I'd expect better from Yale to be honest, this reads like BBCesq style snow melts in winter click bait.

Tldr: City that outgrew its water supply recommends moving to a place with more water.

Although you wouldn't really get that from reading the article, which seems more about blaming people for Tehrans rapid growth and weather conditions.
by kevin061 | 2025-12-18 12:59:06+00:00
Thanks for saying the truth. Free speech is a concept that has been prostituted for political gain, but only for the already powerful. It has never been the case that you could publish the crimes of powerful people and get away with it. And especially now that US has embraced the path of authoritarianism and the government is actively harassing and ridiculing journalists, as well as pulling funding for libraries and schools, a cornerstone of democracy, freedom, and justice. Values the US has abandoned in exchange for oligarchy.
by sekai | 2025-12-18 12:59:45+00:00
> When my spouse and I were dating, we made fun of those “overly involved parents” who tried to live vicariously through their kids and over-scheduled them.

> Since having kids, my spouse has (over a one year period) put our 5 year old in: T-ball, swimming, dance, theater, Sunday school, church, soccer, gymnastics, library group sessions, and to my absolute bewilderment and dismay—beauty pageants. On any given week, there are 5+ activities outside of school. My spouse stays up until 2 AM “helping” our daughter on her kindergarten school projects. Never mind all the activities our 2 year old is ramping up into.

> I don’t think this is healthy at all for children, and it’s really created a rift in our marriage. It’s been so bizarre to me to see this change in behavior from what we discussed prior to marriage compared to now. I worry the kids are going to burn out. I certainly didn’t grow up this way, and my personality as a kid would not have handled this well.

Parents appear increasingly terrified of childhood boredom, and thus meticulously cram their children's schedules with activities they feel are "crucial" for "development".
by dgb23 | 2025-12-18 12:59:46+00:00
> Capital gains are risky to generate. Many investments completely fail and when that happens, investors get very little tax relief.

You seem to conflate and misunderstand a few things here. For one, capital gains are paid out from profits, so they leave the company's budget and are not part of investment.

Secondly, holding stock and stock trading has been immensely profitable, relatively low risk and require little if done reasonably and over long periods.

More and more studies are affirming that simply buying index funds and holding them over long periods is _less_ risky than buying bonds.

> Tax rates are carefully tuned to maximize tax revenue without unduly disincentivizing production.

They reflect power relations and tax competition more than anything.

> To change them purely based on vibes would be catastrophically stupid.

Not based on "vibes". The people who actually generate wealth are workers and consumers, not stock holders.

> Please don't vote.

We should mutually respect our rights to vote even if we disagree.
by jspizziri | 2025-12-18 13:00:05+00:00
All the audio is by real humans but I definitely use AI help on the descriptions and images, as graphic design and copywriting are not areas I’m competent in, and as a side gig currently I only have so much time.

A good chunk of the initial audio has been curated and re-engineered/enhanced from librivox, however I’m also working with voice actors to produce originals. For instance I just release A Christmas Carol which is original to our platform (also see Metamorphosis and Alice and Wonderland). More are coming every month but it takes time to develop real audio recordings with humans.

I appreciate your constructive feedback and welcome more!
by nerdjon | 2025-12-18 13:02:01+00:00
That would be my guess, I know personally yesterday I finally setup Forgejo and today I plan to evaluate its runners or even just using a dedicated CI like woodpecker.

Not fully sure what I will do regarding any open source repo's yet, but at least anything private I am already in the process of moving away.

This was something I already wanted to do for privacy concerns (especially possibility using private repo's to train AI) so this was just the push I needed.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-18 13:02:25+00:00
As a former student/child, who fortunately has grown up in a place where none of the ridiculous restrictions typical for US schools existed, I find extremely sad that there are such places on Earth where the management of a school has decreed that the student was guilty even without possessing any weapon because "was holding his musical instrument like a rifle".

If not even the children can play any more however they want, for fear that automated surveillance would identify them as "pretending to have a weapon", which can result in punishment, I believe that such a society has serious problems for which it certainly did not find the right solution. I would not want for myself or for my children to live in such a place.
by rmunn | 2025-12-18 13:02:41+00:00
This hardly needs to be said here, but there should have been human review of the AI output before taking any drastic action. That would (I assume, though since I can't read the original article I don't know if that assumption is correct) have immediately let them know that the alleged "gun" was nothing of the sort, and avoided the massive disruption of a totally unnecessary lockdown.
by psd1 | 2025-12-18 13:03:02+00:00
If you think for a moment, you'll realise that it's irrelevant whether marriage is important to you - it's important to many.

So when a person wishes to deny this important institution to a minority, they are creating an out-group and discriminating against them.

By that logic, we can put those discriminators themselves in an out-group and discriminate against them. We can deny them institutions such as directorships. Fair's fair.

It's more than fair - despite what conversion camps want to sell, being queer is an intransigent characteristic. Being a bully is just a choice. Discriminating against bullies is as morally just as discriminating against the incompetent.

Obviously it's fine to campaign against marriage.
by Earw0rm | 2025-12-18 13:03:15+00:00
Because it needs to fetch implements, access cupboards, use appliances. Otherwise it's basically a Thermomix.

I'm not talking about a long term storage drawer for the laundry system, more like a large pull-out in which dry, folder items are dispensed. And I wouldn't put a suit in a washing machine full-stop, I don't know what they have where you are but the ones in this country would wreck a suit jacket very quickly, we take jackets for dry-cleaning once a month or so.
Show HN: RAG-powered search tool for 20k+ Epstein files
by benbaessler | 2025-12-18 13:03:30+00:00
I built epfiles.ai to make the U.S. House Oversight Epstein document release actually searchable.

The files exist publicly, but they're scattered across nested Google Drive folders in mixed formats: PDFs, images, scanned documents. Manually searching through 20,000+ files is impractical for most people.

This tool lets you query the corpus in natural language. Every answer includes clickable citations to the exact source page, so you can verify against the original. The goal is document discovery, not replacing human verification.

Technical approach: - OCR'd the entire corpus - Chunked and embedded for semantic search - RAG pipeline returns relevant passages with source links - Citations point directly to the House Oversight Committee's Google Drive

I built this because I think public document releases should be usable, not just technically available. Happy to answer questions about the approach.

Demo: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7sQgRvwK3LE
by Joker_vD | 2025-12-18 13:03:33+00:00
> If you didn't have vectors, Maxwell's equations would spill all over the place.

What do you mean, "would": they did! :) The original equations had 20 separate equations, although Maxwell himself tried to reformulate them in quaternions. But if you look e.g. at works of Lorentz, or Einstein's famous 1905 paper, you'll see the fully-expanded version of them. The vector form really didn't fully catch until about the middle of the XX century.
by Vinnl | 2025-12-18 13:04:03+00:00
I feel like as soon as a particular type of student learns that this is used, they'll have an excellent way to get that test that they didn't study for postponed, and even have plausible deniability that they didn't intend to lock the school down. At least for the first one or two times, after that it's back to triggering the fire alarm.
by dlisboa | 2025-12-18 13:04:30+00:00
There's just no discussion that modern parents are more personally involved in their kids development than parents in the 70s/80s. That's just a fact, not an insult.

I never said you can't raise kids without all the overprotection and also be present.

The issue of over parenting seems to be a developed nation issue, I agree. I'm not in one and here kids don't do mountains of activities, but violence rates are very significant. There's just no point exposing my son to it in the hopes he comes out the other side unscathed, when even I don't want to be out alone at night. That's "vibe parenting", not an intelligent way of raising children.
by Xylakant | 2025-12-18 13:04:31+00:00
How do you pay? Because the basic organization plan is free and gives access to GHA and includes 2000 free minutes.

If you upgrade the plan, you get more minutes for free - which can be consumed by the cost for free runners. They haven't specified at which rate a self-hosted runner consumes the free minutes, but at least for us, the change will largely consume free minutes.

> You might as well say that we should be paying per PR and Issue because, well, that part can’t just be free, you know?

You're misrepresenting what I said. I said, I'm fine with this for these reasons. It's a statement about me, not about what you should do nor what you should consider fine.

I pay (quite a bit) for GH because I do receive a service that's worth it, at least for now. And I'd rather see that GHA is something that makes them money than become something that is second-rate and lingers, just as it did before they made this announcement.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-12-18 13:05:05+00:00
I'd argue their parents are similarly affected with Something - a kind of anxiety or fear that something will happen to their kids or they won't end up alright if they're left to their own devices.

"left to their own devices" has its own meaning nowadays too, and there's more and more calls to NOT let them on their own devices, because they're an attention sink.
by danaris | 2025-12-18 13:05:47+00:00
But this is part of the problem with crimes and enforcement in the modern age: sure, I might have only wasted a few minutes of my time. But I'm just one of hundreds or thousands of people who were tricked into wasting that time, by this one act.

Multiply this across all the fraudulent job postings, and it really starts to add up.

It's clear (to me, at least) that we need better laws to handle this sort of wide-but-shallow attack on people. It's analogous to spam.
by MrJohz | 2025-12-18 13:05:54+00:00
I think the question is whether Cyberpunk 2077 would ever have been made under the constraints that Blow and Muratori talk about. Like, Order of the Sinking Star looks pretty impressive, but from what I can tell it's basically just a bunch of Sokoban-style games operating on a fixed grid. You don't need anywhere near as complex an engine for that as you do for a game like Cyberpunk 2077.

My impression is that the Blow/Muratori style works well if you're the only person working on a game, or part of a very limited team, which is fair enough, but it naturally limits the scope of what you can achieve.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-12-18 13:06:22+00:00
To make it a bit tropey, a sheltered kid is much more susceptible to people luring them out of their safe space with promises of excitement and Things Their Parents Would Not Approve Of.

Of course, the data (e.g. teen pregnancies) shows that this isn't a universal / statistically provable truth, but still. It makes sense in my head.
by neves | 2025-12-18 13:06:35+00:00
You forgot to mention what may be the most serious water problem in Brazil. Agribusiness invests heavily in the Cerrado, the Brazilian savanna. In the Cerrado originate the vast majority of Brazilian rivers, which supply water to almost all of Brazil. Its trees, with deep roots, retain the scarce water of the region. This entire region has been deforested for the production of soybeans and cattle ranching. Brazil is a great exporter of water, which it currently does in the form of meat, soybeans, coffee, and paper.

Today we are experiencing unprecedented droughts in the region. In the future, we will pay a much higher price.
by Ethancurly5246 | 2025-12-18 13:07:37+00:00
*Body:*

I built a tool that turns your birth chart into a candlestick chart showing your life fortune from age 1-100.

*The Concept:* Traditional Chinese Bazi (Four Pillars) fortune telling + AI analysis = Visual life fortune chart

*What You Get:* - Interactive K-line chart (like stock charts) - Fortune scores for each year of your life - Peak periods, low periods, and trend analysis - Detailed AI-powered insights

*How It Works:* Enter your birth info → System calculates your Bazi chart → AI analyzes fortune patterns → Generates visual K-line chart
by apothegm | 2025-12-18 13:09:08+00:00
UGH.

The externalities of helicopter noise are already miserable — take it from someone who lives under a designated corridor. Noise pollution is a real thing with real mental and physical health implications.

More of that, disrupting hundreds of thousands of people’s lives over and over just so a few mega-rich people don’t have to sit in traffic like the plebs?
by mosura | 2025-12-18 13:09:16+00:00
Indeed: https://metro.co.uk/2025/12/17/man-jailed-burning-migrant-ho...

“An X user who posted two anti-immigration tweets been handed a 18-month jail sentence.”

Edit to point out 1. That is a quote and 2. The UK considers this Ok though https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjeykklwn7vo
by ileonichwiesz | 2025-12-18 13:09:26+00:00
> Your peers are now way more aware of child abuse, kidnappings, murders, than your parents were.

They’re technically more aware of those risks, sure, but any of those crimes are less likely than ever before. This increase in awareness and anxiety isn’t based in data, it’s based on sensational lies and myths. Those lies cause strong feelings and get eyeballs and clicks, and so they spread really well through our fractured media ecosystem.

Nearly all child kidnappings are performed by one of the parents, and there’s no confirmed case of a child ever dying from poisoned Halloween candy.
by eterm | 2025-12-18 13:09:48+00:00
Once again, the transparency we do have in the UK is weaponised against it.

You see this with "OMG knife-crime is out of control in London" type stories that the US love to run.

It's because we were :

1. a decade or more ahead of the rest of the world in actually collecting knife-crime stats 2. Include in those stats people who were simply carrying the kind of knife that wouldn't even get you noticed elsewhere, let alone recorded in the stats.

The actual rate of stabbings per capita is higher in the USA than the UK.

And that's even without considering that the weapon of choice in the USA is the firearm.

But you wouldn't beleive it from the headlines.

Back to this story, here we have legislators doing their job of scrutinising, and their open scrutiny is held up against the country.

We could instead have a system where people vote on bills without knowing their contents like the US does.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-12-18 13:10:18+00:00
We were ahead of the curve in having our attention spans hijacked by infinite content. This article is from 2003 (but has been updated over time, as e.g. Spotify and Slack came out later) and was already a warning: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/nadd/

edit: ah finally; through another HN comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=528944) I was able to find the original link to the article (http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2003/07/10/nadd.html) and an archived version of the first version (https://web.archive.org/web/20031008160117/http://www.randsi...). Notably, the list of activities changed:

2003 version:

> Me, I've got a terminal session open to a chat room, I'm listening to music, I've got Safari open with three tabs open where I'm watching Blogshares, tinkering with a web site, and looking at weekend movie returns. Not done yet. I've got iChat open, ESPN.COM is downloading sports new trailers in the background, and I've got two notepads open where I'm capturing random thoughts for later integration into various to do lists. Oh yeah, I'm writing this column, as well.

Current version:

> Me, I’ve got Slack opened and logged into four different teams, I’m listening to music in Spotify, I’ve got Chrome open with three tabs where I’m watching stocks on E*TRADE, I’m tinkering with WordPress, and I’m looking at weekend movie returns. Not done yet. I’ve got iMessage open, Tweetbot is merrily streaming the latest fortune cookies from friends, and I’ve got two Sublime windows open where I’m capturing random thoughts for later integration into various to-do lists. Oh yeah, I’m rewriting this article as well.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-18 13:10:30+00:00
> In other words, instead of insisting that "No one can have this," or "Only a few can have this,

Please show me where I ever said anything remotely like that. You’re painting my stance as very all or nothing, which is inaccurate.

You’re trying to make me into some caricature that you can grind your axe against, when I’m somebody who doesn’t even agree with modern copyright law. I think we’re past the point of productivity, so I’ll just leave it there. Have a good one
by sjzhakaijzg | 2025-12-18 13:10:57+00:00
No one is getting 20 years for tweet content in the UK like they are in Saudi Arabia. No grandmother is being arrested for holding up a blank sign like in Russia. I can go on just with the reported stuff from memory for an hour wrt Iran, North Korea and China. I don't even know how many books it would take to read to learn of all the examples worse that aren't.

Look I think there are problems with the UK's policy here, but this comment is either disingenuous or naive.
by Kbelicius | 2025-12-18 13:10:59+00:00
> I don't understand why you got heavily downvoted.

Because his post contributes nothing to the discussion.

> Yes, there are governments that are worse than European, but the decline of European government is the fastest.

What makes it the fastest?

> You may be surprised that the UK is the world leader in the number of people arrested because of internet posts. And that Germany, which is still way behind the UK, has more people arrested for the same reason than Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Belarus, Saudi Arabia, and a few others combined.

Don't know about you but I'd rather be arrested for posting something in EU then be disappeared in any of the countries that you mentioned.

> And many people still believe that those countries are beacons of democracy while the others are backward dictatorships.

That is because Germany and UK are beacons of democracy when compared to the countries that you listed.
by paulcole | 2025-12-18 13:12:01+00:00
> I like the simple point about the hypothetical IQ test sent one week in advance.

It’s a simple point but an incorrect one.

If you can work on it for a week, it’s no longer an IQ test. Nobody is saying that the questions on an IQ test are impossible. It’s the fact that there are constraints (time) and that everybody takes the test the same way that makes it an IQ test. Otherwise it’s just a little sheet of kinda tricky puzzles.

Would you be a better basketball player if everyone else had to heave from 3/4 court but you could shoot layups? No, you’d be playing by different rules in an essentially different game. You might have more impressive stats but you wouldn’t be better.
by jstimpfle | 2025-12-18 13:12:15+00:00
I would be very surprised if this connotation was intentional of him. His name was "Naysayer88" for a long time, and I had wondered as well where that 88 came from -- maybe it was a rhyme on "Naysayer", which (ignoring the number) is an apt description of his ways and approaches. At some point he changed the name. I assumed the reason was he had gotten aware of the connotation.
by klausa | 2025-12-18 13:12:16+00:00
I think for games like Blue Prince, specifically, it’s not a false dichotomy.

Those are made in tiny teams. You can either spend more time tinkering with the gameplay mechanics and experimenting with the game parts; or you can put on your software engineer hat and make the code better (or, spend even more time to learn how to make the code better in the first place!).

This gets less true with scale of a team, and with 5000 people behemoths you probably should care _a lot_ more about the code; but ROI on improving the code in (relatively! Calling Blue Prince “small” is ridiculous.) small games is very dubious.
Ask HN: Why do official-looking emails cause anxiety before I read them?
by BianDan | 2025-12-18 13:12:56+00:00
This is something I’ve noticed about myself and I’m curious about the underlying mechanism.

Whenever I receive a letter or email that looks official — from a bank, government office, school, etc. — I feel a spike of anxiety almost immediately. What’s strange is that this happens before I even know what the message actually says.

In most cases, it turns out to be routine or harmless. Still, the anxious reaction comes first and sometimes lingers until I fully understand the content.

I’m not looking for personal advice, but I’m curious whether this response is tied to how humans process authority, uncertainty, or perceived consequences. Is there any psychological or cognitive explanation for why the anticipation alone triggers stress, even when experience says it’s usually nothing serious?
by agotterer | 2025-12-18 13:13:10+00:00
I think there’s quite a few reasons people come. I’m just going to bullet some of them out in no particular order:

- We do the work to find the restaurant and curate a menu, story, and theme. E.g., we might go to an Indian restaurant and focus the event on only the southern regional dishes.

- Many times we have dishes that are off menu specially for our event.

- Sense of community. We have quite a few regulars who have gotten to know each other. In 2025, 45 people reached their 20th or 30th event with us. Since we take over the whole restaurant there’s a little more freedom in how the space is used. Lots of new friendships have been forged.

- When you go to a restaurant with a friend or small group, you can only order so much. We’ve had events with upwards of 25 different bites. There’s really no better way to sample everything the restaurant has to offer.

- There’s a few people who say their partner are picky eaters, so they come to our event each month to have the opportunity to be a bit more adventurous. It’s an incredibly diverse group with a lot of different reasons to attend.
by benbaessler | 2025-12-18 13:14:06+00:00
Here's what it does: - Natural-language search over the full corpus - Results are document discovery, not “trust me” summaries - Every result includes clickable citations that jump to the exact source page in the committee’s Google Drive so you can verify context quickly

Some useful test queries: - “Find documents mentioning [person/org] in connection with flights / schedules / contacts” - “Show mentions of ‘massage’, ‘modeling’, ‘recruiting’, ‘Palm Beach’, ‘New York’, ‘Little St. James’” - “What documents reference [date range] and [location]”

Known limitations: - OCR noise on low-quality scans - Names/aliases can be inconsistent; citations are the ground truth