MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crote | 2025-12-09 23:54:52+00:00
We've reached a point where securing your hobby projects essentially means setting the "use_letsencrypt = true" config option in your web server. I bet configuring it takes less time than you spent reading this HN thread.

And with regards to the beancounters: that is exactly why the browsers are pushing for it. Most companies aren't willing time and effort into proper certificate handling procedures. The only way to get them to secure their shit is by forcing them: do it properly, or your website will go offline. And as it turns out, security magically gets a lot more attention when ignoring it has a clear and direct real-world impact.
by krisoft | 2025-12-09 23:55:23+00:00
I don’t understand your point about UPS 2976. You make it sound as if people there were hurt by the engine parts hitting them. But in actuality it is the airplane crashing into them which killed those unfortunate.

Even aviation turbines are quite safe and uncontained engine mallfunctions are very rarely a problem. On top of that there is every reason to think that ground based power generating applications can be even safer. There weight is much less of a constraint, so you can easily armour the container to a much higher assurance level. The terrestrial turbine is not jostled around so you have less of a concern about gyroscopic effects. And finally you can install the power generating turbine with a much larger keep out zone. All three factors making terrestrial power generating jets safer than the aviation ones.
by rendx | 2025-12-09 23:55:35+00:00
Where in the post do you see the author arguing about "a list of all results"? To me, it merely draws attention to the fact that there is only one algorithm available in Google Maps, and you rely on Google to calculate "relevance" based on (to us) unknown and intransparent metrics. It draws attention to the kind of power Google has over businesses and our daily lives, without necessarily presenting alternatives. Nothing about that is "silly". It might be more relevant to me to learn about new, small, independent restaurants, but I don't have that choice. If I had access to the full data set, like e.g. OSM, I would.
by ianbutler | 2025-12-09 23:56:36+00:00
Possible legit alternative:

Have the agents write code to use APIs? Code based tool calling has literally become a first party way to do tool calling.

We have a bunch of code accessible endpoints and tools with years of authentication handling etc built in.

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use#:~:t...

Feels like this obviates the need for MCP if this is becoming common.
by irishcoffee | 2025-12-09 23:57:47+00:00
I feel like this article is severely flawed.

Debugging wasm qt apps is not hard at all. Yes, as the article says, you need to build the code in debug mode, this isn’t unusual.

If you use qtcreator, it’s, and I hate this word, trivial. Most of the work comes from setting up the qt kit in qtcreator… which takes about 5 minutes.

Breakpoints just work. Debugging just works. Everything… works.
by jfindper | 2025-12-09 23:58:51+00:00
Right. I'm not advocating for a banning of corporate landlords. I just wanted to look at the regulations/ordinances/etc. of a "carefully-regulated market of institutional single-family-home lenders" to take some inspiration from, and perhaps advocate for some of the sensible rules in my area. I know you participate in your local politics, and have a different viewpoint than mine, so I thought I'd ask.
by kevin061 | 2025-12-09 23:59:19+00:00
OK, that is interesting. Separating infra from AI valuation. I can see what you mean though because stock prices are volatile and unpredictable but a datacenter will remain in place even if its owner goes bankrupt.

However, I think the AI datacenter craze is definitely going to experience a shift. GPU chips get obsolete really fast, especially now that we are moving into specialised neural chips. All those datacenters with thousands of GPUs will be outcompeted by datacenters with 1/4th the power demand and 1/10th the physical footprint due to improved efficiency within a few years. And if indeed the valuation collapses and investors pull out of these companies, where are these datacenters supposed to go? Would you but a datacenter chock full of obsolete chips?
by proactivesvcs | 2025-12-10 00:01:58+00:00
ursinewave@tv.gravitons.org : https://tv.gravitons.org/a/ursinewave/video-channels "Roberta Fidora is a genre-bender from the Isle of Wight, UK, hopping between field recordings in space, industrial-tinged electroclash, guerrilla puppeteering and wildly maximalist, mildly-anarchic pop music."

meljoann@tv.gravitons.org : https://tv.gravitons.org/c/meljoann/ "Meljoann is an extremely physically attractive Irish multidisciplinary artist. They’ve been supported by Pitchfork, Beats Per Minute, XLR8, KEXP, Dan Hegarty, Cian Ó Cíobháin, Jenny Greene and Tara Stewart of RTÉ radio, Irish Times, Nialler9, Hot Press, BBC’s Gemma Bradley, Dummy Mag, HMUK and the Arts Council of England. She’s currently releasing a series of self-directed video singles. ‘HR’, their anti-capital concept album, is out now. Their third album, ‘Status’, releases in 2025"
by bill_joy_fanboy | 2025-12-10 00:02:45+00:00
If a discovery is good, someone else will want to steal the credit for it. That would apply to discoveries made by men or women. I highly doubt that there is any proof of a sexist conspiracy to steal the limelight from women specifically.

STEM is mostly dominated by men, so there is both more men to make discoveries and more men to swoop in and steal credit for a discovery.
by parliament32 | 2025-12-10 00:02:57+00:00
> With the product sucking up server time

This is the part that hasn't made much sense to me. Maybe just.. have a better product?

As you quoted above, "most of those conversations were trivial commands to play music or ask about the weather." Why does any of this need to consume provider resources? Could a weather or music command not just be.. a direct API call from the device to a weather service / Spotify / whatever? Why does everything need to be shipped to Google/Amazon HQ?
by ghaff | 2025-12-10 00:02:58+00:00
Voice assistants that were at the level of a fairly mediocre internet-connected human assistant might be vaguely useful. But they're not. So even if many of us have one or two in our houses or sometimes lean on them for navigation in our cars we mostly don't use them much.

Amazon at one point was going to have a big facility in Boston as I recall focused on Alexa. It's just an uninteresting product that, if it were to go away tomorrow I wouldn't much notice. And I certainly wouldn't pay an incremental subscription for.
by 0x457 | 2025-12-10 00:03:10+00:00
You only need to lock sequence if you care about IDs being ordered within a millisecond. That generally only matters when you create a batch of IDs at once, in that case you don't need to lock anything: generate ULID, keep incrementing sequence in that batch either by doing on the same thread, or by moving it from thread to thread. Kinda like creating an iterator and zip'ing it with iterator of thing you need IDs for.

I've switched to using UUIDv7 tho. It made sense to use ULID before v7, but now ULID only has one thing going on - smaller string representation. That doesn't matter if your storage can store UUIDs natively (i.e. as 128 bit integer)

If your goal is to have global order intact, then neither ULID nor UUIDv7 is going to work for you.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-12-10 00:03:22+00:00
I always think that I would hate to work into my old age, but it's different for some. I can't speak to what Anna's financial situation is like, but the way she talks about her work as part of the community and a way to stay active and independent makes me think that she's content, and that's great. She certainly seems like she's doing well for 101!
by calvinmorrison | 2025-12-10 00:03:25+00:00
"Alexa Play SpongeBob on youtube" is met with a sabrina carpenter hit every time. no idea why

Alternative it is hit with

"Would you like Spongebob, Spongebob Sponge on the Run, the spongebob squarepants movie, or Bob Espanja Pantalones Cuadrados
by jordwest | 2025-12-10 00:03:37+00:00
Same, I think there's an idealistic belief in people who write those tickets that something can be perfectly specified upfront.

Maybe for the most mundane, repetitive tasks that's true.

But I'd argue that the code is the full specification, so if you're going to fully specify it you might as well just write the code and then you'll actually have to be confronted with your mistaken assumptions.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-12-10 00:03:53+00:00
Yeah, I'm old enough to remember when microcassette voice recorders were a fad, and pretty much everyone found they just weren't worth it.

Psychologically there's a sort of information hoarding aspect to this. I think a lot of people experience this with browser tabs, where they don't want to read something right now, but also don't want to just abandon it. So you end up with this backlog you feel you have to hold onto.

I've learned to just trust my brain more, where if something occurs to me is important, it'll probably occur to me again when its relevant, vs me treating random momentary insights like they're a priceless treasure.
by ofu997hn | 2025-12-10 00:04:27+00:00
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by Terr_ | 2025-12-10 00:04:51+00:00
I think we should distinguish between the feature being good/hated:

1. An automatic translation feature.

2. Being able to submit an "original language" version of a post in case the translation is bad/unavailable, or someone can read the original for more nuance.

The only problem I see with #2 involves malicious usage, where the author is out to deliberately sow confusion/outrage or trying to evade moderation by presenting fundamentally different messages.
by giardini | 2025-12-10 00:04:54+00:00
Perhap he shouldn't have gone with her. Perhaps your gf shouldn't have let him go with her. Perhaps you face marriage into a family that has hereditary bad judgment!

Changing your oil and washing your car may be the luckiest decision you've made in your life!

I once did not marry a (beautiful) daughter of a family with an overweight heart-diseased patron. Turned out to be one of the best accidents of life for me. Saw her years later and she was almost as big as her Daddy was when he had his second heart bypass! Glad I missed that "iceberg in the night"!
by crote | 2025-12-10 00:05:06+00:00
What's the alternative, showing the company's unique registration ID?

CAs invented EVs because the wanted to sell something which could make them more money than DVs. The fact that company names aren't unique means that the whole concept was fundamentally flawed from the start: there is no identifier which is both human-readable and guaranteed to uniquely identify an entity. They wanted to sell something which can't exist. The closest thing we have got is... domain names.
by didibus | 2025-12-10 00:05:38+00:00
I agree with you, it's not that it isn't impressive, but it functions poorly as a website. Innovation in design I'd expect from the HN title is something where the 3D enhances the user experience of the website itself, navigation interfaces feel natural, and so on.

This is a very well made little game that also showcases some of their work. I was hoping for something like, now I wish all websites were like this.
by WalterBright | 2025-12-10 00:05:44+00:00
Some things I've learned over the years:

1. do not show a slide full of code. The font will be too small to read. Nobody will read it

2. don't read your slides to the audience. The audience can read

3. don't talk with your back to the audience

4. make your font as big as practical

5. 3 bullet points is ideal

6. add a picture now and then

7. don't bother with a copyright notice on every slide. It gets really old. Besides, you want people to steal your presentation!

8. avoid typing in code as part of the presentation, most of the time it won't work and it's boring watching somebody type

9. render the presentation as a pdf file, so any device can display it

10. email a copy of your presentation to the conference coordinator beforehand, put a copy on your laptop, and phone, and on a usb stick in your pocket. Arriving at the show without your presentation can be very embarrassing!

11. the anxiety goes away

12. don't worry about it. You're not running for President! Just have some fun with it
by ericmcer | 2025-12-10 00:05:46+00:00
All the RTS games are underplayed nowadays. Starcraft 2 is maybe the most active still and has been all but abandoned by Blizzard.

A good RTS has an extremely harsh learning curve and is not super monetizable. Someone would have to rethink the genre: make it easier for casual players and figure out how to get the addicting money making patterns in. Otherwise big companies are gonna have no interest.

Sucks, I love Starcraft 2, but it is legitimately the most mentally demanding game I have ever played. Sometimes I procrastinate getting into a match because 1v1 is so stressful. I totally get why it has limited appeal.
by anyfoo | 2025-12-10 00:06:03+00:00
Ah, lots of supposedly solid state computer stuff, including CPUs, did that. I, too, used it for debugging. This wasn't very conscious on my part, but if some whine became unusual and constant, it was often a sign of something hanging.

As I got older, not only did computers stop doing that, my hearing also got worse (entirely normal for my age, but still), so that's mostly a thing of the past.
by willis936 | 2025-12-10 00:06:28+00:00
I ran into an AVP recently and it actually is a great piece of hardware. It only has two issues: price and software. The former is forgivable because it really is an amazing piece of hardware and the price is justified. The latter is not and is the original sin that has killed it.

There's an unfulfilled promise of spatial computing. I wish I could load up my preferred CAD program and have wide and deep menus quickly traversable with hand gestures. Barring that the least it could do is support games. Maybe if some combination of miracle shims (fex emu, asahi, w/e) were able to get onto the platform it might be savable. The input drivers alone would be a herculean task.
by letsgetreal | 2025-12-10 00:06:38+00:00
Nothing mentioned will help for a website with a Let's Encrypt SSL cert. How can I know with confidence that I can conduct commerce with this website that purports to be the company and it's not a typo squatter from North Korea? A google search doesn't cut it. Nothing in this thread has answered that basic question.

It's a non-issue for DigiCert and Sectigo certs. I can click on the certs and see for myself that they're genuine.
by winternett | 2025-12-10 00:06:44+00:00
A lot of tools & companies created in the .Com era were copied, consumed, & bought by companies under the table... The eras were indeed different in many ways, but the way the "hype machine" was wound up late in the game (after cracks began to show) should not be forgotten... Lots of whales lost lots of money even when the ships were sinking because they stopped evaluating companies & the actual tech, and just bet on news reports... In terms of investment & the markets, all of the speculation has taken on a speculative & careless "lottery style" of investment now too...

Investors that have no idea of what the tech is really doing, nor even the huge copyright implications are flocking to invest based on agenda-laced news reports of Ai taking jobs, and for that very reason it's creating a huge set up. Ai is over-promised already, just like self checkouts at the supermarkets, everyone in EV self-driving cars , and speed cameras in preventing crimes were years ago..>

These things are made to drive company profit, and they do, even well after law suits are settled, so I guess that's why it keeps happening with funded mega-marketing campaigns.

Twitter came out of the Dot.Com era, so did many other tools we still use... Let's hope that they change Ai and social media to generate actual money and useability for non-corporate-backed (everyday non-millionaire+) humans without ever-increasing monthly subscriptions...

That's the only way it won't end up shelved as a meme generator, or just used as an expensive calculator. Ai's pretty good at math though.

Twitter ended up later going from one of the world's most valuable platforms to being a meme of itself for only $45 billion. Great job they did there.
by illdynamics | 2025-12-10 00:07:12+00:00
Mini quickstart

Target: Linux / macOS / Windows with Docker installed and running.

1. Get the code

git clone https://github.com/illdynamics/qonqrete

cd qonqrete

chmod +x qonqrete.sh

2. Set API keys for the providers you want to use (only these are required):

export OPENAI_API_KEY='...'

export GOOGLE_API_KEY='...' # or GEMINI_API_KEY

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY='...'

export DEEPSEEK_API_KEY='...'

3. One-time init

./qonqrete.sh init

4. Define your tasQ

Edit `worqspace/tasq.md`, e.g.:

“Create a simple Python web server on port 8080 that returns 'Hello, QonQrete!' for all requests. The script should be executable.”

5. Run a cyQle

# TUI + security-focused agent personas

./qonqrete.sh run --tui --mode security

# Auto mode with fine-grained task breakdown

./qonqrete.sh run --auto --briq-sensitivity 1

# Force user-gated mode

./qonqrete.sh run --user

At a CheQpoint, if you are not running in autonomous mode, you’ll be prompted to [Q]ontinue, [T]weaQ, or [X]Quit.

When running in autonomous mode, press Ctrl+C to stop at any time. Your code will be persisted inside the qodeyard directory.

Full quickstart with more detail: https://github.com/illdynamics/qonqrete/blob/main/QUICKSTART...
by DoctorOetker | 2025-12-10 00:07:26+00:00
Those robots consume quite a bit of energy, I think racks hanging on linkages constraining their orientation (so they don't tilt) and constrain their translational motion to cycloids, so that a hanging rack can be let loose, swing across the lowest point and be caught at approximately the starting height but on the other side.

From wikipedia,

"The cycloid, with the cusps pointing upward, is the curve of fastest descent under uniform gravity (the brachistochrone curve). It is also the form of a curve for which the period of an object in simple harmonic motion (rolling up and down repetitively) along the curve does not depend on the object's starting position (the tautochrone curve)."

So swinging a rack along the cycloid is the fastest motion without having to contribute energy (apart from that to overcome friction etc.).

So you can have a large number of racks in the "left" position, choose to open a passage between racks 34 and 35 by having all racks >=35 swing to the right position. In this way all N racks can be accessed with only the loss of space of a single planar passage.

If everything which enters is weighed before insertion, the loading and unloading could happen near reversibly by arming or releasing appropriate counterweights.

Kinetic energy can also be stored gravitationally: accelerate (by dropping the weight) and decelerate (by lifting it again) for quick motions.

Better design for the ultimate cost center, energy consumption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycloid
by torarnv | 2025-12-10 00:07:42+00:00
Qt for macOS maintainer here.

We've tweaked our styles to take the new design metrics into account, and fixed or worked around issues where we've seen them. We don't integrate with NSGlassEffectView and friends yet. If you find any issues in recently released version of Qt 6.10, 6.8 or 6.5, please report them upstream, thanks!

See also https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-on-macos-26-tahoe
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-10 00:09:11+00:00
Most people are apathetic about most things at best. They don't "really" care nor should they. They only casually approve or disapprove.

The problem is that we as a society tolerate people turning off their brains and becoming useful idiots if you frame things in certain ways. And so what to the scheming weasels with special interests to serve do? They frame things that way.

You see it all the time on HN, say nothing of "other" platforms. People who have no real pressing need to care about some specific thing will go to bat for something just because it's peddlers say it's good for the environment or public health or god or whatever. Anything can be framed in such a way they're happy to advocate for. It's like an open mail relay or DDOS reflection. This exploit in our society gets leverages left and right by special interests to get all sorts of things that make them money written into the rules and laws at every turn.

These people ought to feel bad for just taking a one sided story at face value and broader society ought to ostracize them for it same as we'd ostracize anyone stupid enough to go to bat for bigotry in drag.

The problem is in the mirror. This is a social norms issue.
by subscribed | 2025-12-10 00:09:58+00:00
OMG, no, thank you, I'm not sure I'm ready for this -- I once took several LLMs for a ride through my whole reddit posting history (it went into the interesting archives), and some of the insights were shockingly accurate and/or uncomfortable (could be accident).

Not sure if I'm ready for a roast but I'm sure by the end of the week someone will write a browser plugin / greasemonkey script to attach some snarky oneliners to the posters' nicks :)
by specialist | 2025-12-10 00:12:31+00:00
Thanks for followup and link. Interesting.

IANAL: That court's decision was based on the contract w/ Flock. It does not move the needle wrt public records.

I may read the decision, testimony, and any amicus briefs. During the 00's, Wash Citizen's for Open Govt had a prominent blindspot wrt tension between privatization and public records (in the shape of Tony Nixon). I'm curious if they were involved with this case, and if their positions have matured.
by charleslmunger | 2025-12-10 00:12:40+00:00
It's so weird to see the leading heroin story phrased like a hypothetical, when:

1. Heroin itself was marketed as a "non-addictive morphine substitute", and sold to the public. It didn't become a controlled substance until 1914 (according to Wikipedia) 2. The opioid crisis was basically started and perpetuated by Purdue pharma, again marketing Oxycodone with the label “Delayed absorption as provided by OxyContin tablets, is believed to reduce the abuse liability of a drug.” and other more egregious advertising. 3. Britain went to war with China twice to force the Qing dynasty to allow them to sell opium there. 4. President Teddy Roosevelt's grandfather made a ton of money in the opium trade.

It's supposed to be sort of shocking hypothetical, except actually that's basically the history of the actual drug.