MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amypetrik8 | 2025-12-23 04:49:42+00:00
What are the chances that breaking up a tumor this way seeds cancer elsewhere in the body?

Welp I put it to you like this - if you DON'T use this then you have a gorillion cancer cells among which very likely one genetically predisposed to adventure throughout the body as turbocancer.

If you use this, or radiotherapy, or whatever, presumably there is just a lump of dead tissue where the cancer was, signifying at best you cured it but at worst, knocked it down - specifically if you knocked it down from a gorillion to a million cells, genereally speaking if the body has been seeded or the tumor persists - the tumor will take longer to rebuild back up where it was. The latter is manifested as another such and such months of life, making the therapy "life extending"
by locknitpicker | 2025-12-23 04:52:04+00:00
> Tyson is closing this meat packing facility because cattle herd sizes have shrunk. Why have they shrunk? Climate change.

That is not what your source states.

Here's a direct quote from the source:

> Many factors including drought and cattle prices have contributed to that decline. And now the emergence of a pesky parasite in Mexico and the prospect of widespread tariffs may further reduce supply and raise prices.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/beef-prices-record-high-cattle-st...

The word "climate" is not mentioned in either articles.

What the sources say is that beef prices are soaring, and ranchers have an incentive to sell off their cattle now to capture those soaring profits instead of holding onto it for breeding.

Also from the article:

> Nelson said that recently the drought has eased — allowing pasture conditions to improve — and grain prices are down thanks to the drop in export demand for corn because of the tariffs. Those factors, combined with the high cattle prices might persuade more ranchers to keep their cows and breed them to expand the size of their herds.
by scapbi | 2025-12-23 04:52:04+00:00
After sharing my story, I realized how widespread this has become. Almost every friend I know has at least one relative who has been a victim. These are not one or two isolated cases. It is almost everyone. This is no longer an exception. It is becoming normal, and that is terrifying.

One urgent warning I want to share is about how scammers are now using AI.

In my country, they are already using AI for video calls, voice cloning, and highly scripted conversations. The person on the screen can look and sound real. The conversation feels natural and authoritative. For many people, especially older relatives, it is almost impossible to tell that it is fake.

This is no longer about obvious scam messages or bad phone calls. AI is making scams feel personal and trustworthy. Please warn your families. No bank or authority will ever ask for OTP codes or urgent transfers, even if it is a video call and the person looks real.
by almosthere | 2025-12-23 04:53:30+00:00
Someone that is paid to install drywall is very much working a lot harder than any of us. Yet he's looked at every 5 minutes to make sure he's making progress. The progress is measurable (the room is drywalled or not). He is chewed out for his mistakes. There is no "PTO" let alone "unlimited PTO". Such a concept - can you imagine going to a drywaller while they are working and saying you don't have to do this now, in fact, we'll just pay you for the next month while you go on sabbatical.

Now just compare any of those points with that of a senior software engineer.

Now I'm not saying all drywallers are itching for us to lose our jobs, but part of that is they don't really know what our jobs are. But people are finding out, and resenting us.
by wavemode | 2025-12-23 04:53:37+00:00
Title is "Microsoft to replace all C/C++ with Rust"

Meanwhile the content of the post is merely that an engineer who works for a team within Microsoft's AI division wrote on LinkedIn "my goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft". (He believes that he can get AI agents to accomplish this.)

Not quite the same as an official plan announced by the CTO or something. Bit misleading title.
by yunwal | 2025-12-23 04:55:04+00:00
The fact that you can do it with spectral analysis libraries, no LLM required.

This is much easier than source separation. It would be different if I were asking to isolate a violin from a viola or another violin, you’d have to get much more specific about the timbre of each instrument and potentially understand what each instruments part was.

But a vibration made from a string makes a very unique wave that is easy to pick out in a file.
by niteshpant | 2025-12-23 04:55:22+00:00
I went down memory lane. In 2020, I dropped out of Dartmouth, flew back to Nepal on the second flight after borders reopened, and spent a year doing things I never expected.

One of them: building one of the first three-story I-beam steel structures in Far West Nepal. No local expertise. No supply chain. A crew that had never done it before. We figured it out anyway.
by toast0 | 2025-12-23 04:55:23+00:00
At least in networks I've used, it's better for buffers to overflow than to use PAUSE.

Too many switches will get a PAUSE frame from port X and send it to all the ports that send packets destined for port X. Then those ports stop sending all traffic for a while.

About the only useful thing is if you can see PAUSE counters from your switch, you can tell a host is unhealthy from the switch whereas inbound packet overflows on the host might not be monitored... or whatever is making the host slow to handle packets might also delay monitoring.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-23 04:55:59+00:00
Most grown men are influenced by this. The patriachy is strongggg.

Just like you can manipulate women en-masse by appealing to patriarchal attitudes around femininity and beauty, maybe by talking about weight or hair, you can influence men by appealing to patriachal attitudes around masculinity.

I mean, you can convince the average American man to drop an extra 20K on a truck he doesn't need and a multiply his gas cost by 2x just by convincing him it's manly. You can discourage men from drinking cosmopolitans and instead have them drink the equivalent of cat piss by telling him it's unmanly.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-23 04:56:10+00:00
> doing the right thing even when the right thing is slightly more expensive

And that's why I made the argument that it wasn't slightly more expensive. It's possible it would have cost more to add subtitles than the entire rest of the project combined.

I think it's fair to mandate subtitles when there's a certain level of budget. I don't think it's a good idea to unconditionally mandate subtitles.

> UC Berkeley is a public university and they have to adhere to certain rules

In their normal course of action. I don't think this side project was plugged in to the core tasks of the university.

Shutting it down counts as lazy but what do you want a project with minimal budget to do?

We're not shaming other universities for not putting courses online. We're only shaming one that did it "badly" and then gave up. That's unfair. Every other university that doesn't fund similar subtitles and uploads should get the same reaction.

And by "badly" I mean it still had okay subtitles, just not particularly good ones.
by jogu | 2025-12-23 04:57:20+00:00
Yeah, the passkey provider management is absolutely horrendous and is the biggest blocker to passkey adoption in my eyes. I have 3 different sources (iCloud keychain, Yubikey, and Enpass) and in the best case it's some extra clicks like you mention, in the worst case it just simply won't let me select the correct provider.

I've resigned to registering a passkey into all of my providers and just letting the most platform native option win for now.
by _tik_ | 2025-12-23 04:58:17+00:00
It’s hard to see Jimmy Lai purely as a victim. Much of his “martyr” narrative appears to be constructed by Western media as part of an ideological battle. From what I remember in Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai had a rather shady reputation. His media outlet was widely known for publishing paid-for stories, spreading misinformation, harassing news sources, and sensationalising sex scandals.

His original intent in setting up the news outlet was often said to be market manipulation for personal gain rather than journalism. He was also known for publishing xenophobic content targeting mainland Chinese. One of the most controversial examples was running ads that portrayed mainland tourists as “locusts” and called for them to be driven out of Hong Kong.

In addition, he donated money to prominent US neoconservatives. I’m not sure whether Western media are unaware of his earlier background in Hong Kong, or if they are deliberately choosing to whitewash his reputation.
by AdamWills | 2025-12-23 04:58:41+00:00
AI is being used in so many ways, you can’t even imagine it! It’s built to make things easier for users, and nowadays almost every platform uses AI in one way or another. It has become a natural part of everyday life. Recently, I used a platform for marching uniforms and was surprised to see that they also use AI for athlete measurements. Can you believe it?
by almosthere | 2025-12-23 04:59:22+00:00
I mean to your point, when someone is robbing a 7/11, in today's atmosphere, no - no they don't consider it because the punishment is fairly low. In Islamic countries, if you steal you will likely lose your hand (or your head). In those countries people REALLY do consider the consequences.

Now I'm not advocating for the second option there. Just something in between. (obviously a lot farther away than the second option).
by fasbiner | 2025-12-23 05:00:02+00:00
https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyis...

Do you mean these fine former civil servants simply making administrative decisions who are now Flock lobbyists, or do you mean current civil servants who are future Flock lobbyists?

You more likely are getting paid something to not understand things if you, in 2025, believe the "bipartisan consensus" with massive donor class overlap is credible to anyone without an emotional need to rationalize.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2025-12-23 05:00:22+00:00
The very first cop show, Dragnet, was explicitly a PR move to rehab the image of the police in the public's imagination. Every cop show since has been propaganda. Even shows where the police are not necessarily the "good guys", like The Shield or even Chicago PD, normalizes police brutality and the flaunting of basic constitutional laws because those dastardly bad guys have to be stopped at all costs.

I enjoy some of these shows myself but it is sometimes crazy how blatant they are about it.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-23 05:01:12+00:00
> They were approved by a prior administration that prioritized green energy over national security.

This is delusional. The US has been spending metrics fucktons of money on national security since long before Trump.

Biden, like trump, was absolutely a war monger, as almost all US presidents are. He was a center neoliberal politician who love love LOVED the military industrial complex, and it shows in all of his policy choices.

This characterization of the modern American Democrats as communist hippies is just so out of touch with reality it's not even worth humoring. It's just wrong. You're wrong.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-12-23 05:02:03+00:00
That makes no sense. Any US refinery that can process heavy sour can also process any other kind of crude. It isn’t the 1950s.

The US has very advanced refinery tech that can adaptively refine everything from heavy sour to light sweet. The reconfiguration for the customer is highly customizable and largely automated. It is why so many countries send their crude to the US for refining. The US refiners make money no what kind of crude you send them.
by esafak | 2025-12-23 05:02:04+00:00
> I think back to coworkers I’ve had over the years, and their varying preferences. Some people couldn’t start coding until they had a checklist of everything they needed to do to solve a problem. Others would dive right in and prototype to learn about the space they would be operating in.

This is the interesting question for me. I've had the impression that you should always have a plan, coming from big tech where a plan is demanded of anything significant, but working at a startup again where there's no bureaucracy to force me to do so, I find that I can live without detailed plans just fine. Then again, I am more experienced.
by mindslight | 2025-12-23 05:02:15+00:00
> They're not self-immolating.

> They're being torched down.

I think this is the crux of your misunderstanding. I did not say the scientific institutions were self-immolating - I said you were self-immolating. You're not torching some independent other. You're burning the foundations on which the strength of our country lays.

It's also frightening how often I hear this same refrain of griping about instances of "the left" transgressing upon a certain value, as justification for discarding the entire value - did those values ever matter to you, or do they not? Because the way I see it, the entire point of values is something you stick to even when others trample on them, giving society at least a chance of converging around stability.

For example: I'm a libertarian. I did not like what happened to Eich and I certainly understand the oppressiveness of DEI run amok. I have spoken out about those, dissecting the nuances in those issues modulo my own values. But now that those issues are being used as anti-intellectual rallying cries to tear down our institutions rather than reform them? I'm done. I'll choose the tribe that believes we should at least try to have a society.
by frankzinger | 2025-12-23 05:02:15+00:00
So many discoveries only find an application decades later. If you stop persuing knowledge purely for its own sake you will never again be able to compete with countries that are serious about science and you will never again live up to your past achievements.

From the perspective of somebody outside the US it really is a shocking tragedy what the Republicans have done to what used to be the greatest country in the world. I hope you can manage to right the ship soon because I fear it may already be too late.
by noppanut15 | 2025-12-23 05:02:32+00:00
Hi HN, OP here.

I recently visited Singapore and ran into a specific "walled garden" problem. The country is almost entirely cashless, running on a national QR standard called PayNow (based on EMVCo specifications).

While locals scan these easily, travelers using foreign banking apps (like Wise, or generic banking apps) often hit a wall. Our apps usually reject the local PayNow/SGQR codes as "Invalid" because they don't know how to parse the proprietary fields in the payload, even though the underlying transfer network might be compatible (or at least allow manual transfers).

I got tired of not being able to pay at hawker centers, so I built SnapUEN as a bridge. (Hawker centers / some local shops mostly accept cash or QR payment only. They don't accept cards.)

---

What it does: It’s a native iOS utility that scans the raw SGQR code, parses the EMVCo string locally, and extracts the key payment fields:

- UEN (Unique Entity Number) or VPA (Virtual Payment Address)

- Mobile Number (for P2P transfers)

- Transaction Amount (if embedded)

- Bill Reference (if embedded)

You can then copy these fields and paste them into your preferred banking app to initiate the transfer.

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Technical / Privacy:

- 100% Offline: The parsing logic is contained within the app; no data is sent to any server.

- No Tracking: I don't store or collect any transaction logs.

- VPA Support: Added support for proxy types beyond just UENs to handle newer e-wallets.

- It’s a niche utility, but it solves a frustrating "last mile" interoperability problem for digital nomads and tourists.

Happy to answer any questions about the app!
by bruce511 | 2025-12-23 05:02:56+00:00
Before starting I would recommend getting a good idea about what the software needs to do.

That means spending time in urban, and rural fire stations observing what they use the software for. Pay special attention to integrations with other systems etc. (Assume that, if for example your test site integrates to Quickbooks, that you'll be integrating to "all" accounting systems.

Not only will this inform your own specifications, but will also show keen pain points.

Then attention turns to non-software issues. For example, what happens when the system fails? What level of support is required? Realistically if you have 10, 100 or 1000 customers, what does the support layer need to look like? How is that funded?

Ultimately license fees often include a lot more than just software. You need to understand that non-software layer, and fund that. Yes, people might help write code for free, but that's only one part of the puzzle. Usually the rest has to be paid for.

Then consider "sales". How do you reach that rural station to offer them the alternative? And you planning to visit? Are you planning to support them migrating data? Retraining staff? How are you planning to convince them your solution will work?

Lastly talk to stations about their desire to change. In my experience there's strong resistance to change, even when the alternative is better. Find out if the cost is a significant part of the budget. You've got the number for a rural station, but what about others?

While I applaud your reaction and willingness to do something, I fully expect that the situation is a lot more complicated than a magazine article makes out. Generally speaking the "software" part is the least of the issues. And I expect in most departments the cost is a tiny fraction of overall budget. And savings are not likely to be reallocated inside the station, they'll be reallocated elsewhere.

(That rural budget of 130k is set by the local govt presumably. Saving 10k of software just means the budget becomes 120k. This doesn't incentivise stations to go through the pain of switching. )

Good luck with your mission, but you should not underestimate the scale of what you are proposing, or imagine it can be done for free. Before starting it is good to understand what the end looks like.
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by brayn003 | 2025-12-23 05:03:30+00:00
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by amluto | 2025-12-23 05:03:50+00:00
This design implicitly does something similar to something that I sometimes think conventional transformers should try: allowing later layers to query the KV data from earlier layers. As far as I can tell, with a conventional transformer, if a layer (and presumably higher-level-thinking) layer wants wants to take input from earlier tokens from something lower down, it needs to get it from the output and “remember” it by itself instead of just reading it directly.

But suppose an extra attention head were added that queried the KV data from lower layers. At the very least, I imagine this might cleanly solve the STRAWBERRY problem: whatever layer has figured out that the prompt wants to count instances of R could attend to lower layers that actually perceive those Rs.
by cyberax | 2025-12-23 05:04:38+00:00
Wow. The text of the determination is just unhinged completely: https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/National-Security-De...

> Federal planning for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and 2028 Olympics already assumes that UAS will be a central threat vector. CISA’s soft‑target and UAS guidance notes that crowded venues, transportation nodes, and public‑gathering areas are particularly vulnerable to hostile drone activity.9 Recent congressional hearings on mass‑gathering security have emphasized that UAS are now a routine part of incident planning, alongside more traditional threats.10 The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of War are already investing heavily in detection, tracking, and mitigation capabilities with these specific events in mind.11 UAS are also playing a critical enabling role on the battlefield in many modern conflicts. In Ukraine and Israel-Gaza, low-cost commercial UAS inflict extensive damage and have caused significant loss of life.12 Drug Cartels are also reportedly using foreign-produced UAS to smuggle drugs into the United States and carry out attacks.

I'm sure, the ban on DJI devices will stop fentanyl and terrorists.
by TheSpiceIsLife | 2025-12-23 05:04:44+00:00
> around nuclear power plants

Exactly what I said.

> This is not true at all

Yes it is.

I mean, if you’re going to dispute my point without providing any evidence, then all we’ve got is opinions.

If we’ve got data, let’s go with the data. If all we’ve got is opinions, let’s go with mine.
by gnabgib | 2025-12-23 05:05:49+00:00
Related:

Backing up Spotify (1880 points, 2 days ago, 636 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338339

Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's scraping of their library (47 points, 12 hours ago, 79 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355793
by kyboren | 2025-12-23 05:05:51+00:00
The takings issue is why I believe that rather than invoking eminent domain, the CA government should institute a Uniform Water Use Tax, whose aim is to establish a single price for any use of water (charged per gallon/acre foot) in the state. The cost of acquiring the water used can then be claimed as a credit against the Uniform Water Use Tax.

This respects water rights while aligning incentives to conserve water and as a bonus establishes a more even playing field in the agricultural sector, enhancing competition and reducing the unjust profits of the Resnicks' shady water empire.
by eieio | 2025-12-23 05:08:46+00:00
I've been playing with multiplayer games that run over SSH; right now I'm trying to push the framerate on the games as high as I can, which is what got me thinking about my networking stack.

I mostly use go these days for the backend for my multiplayer games, and in this case there's also some good tooling for terminal rendering and SSH stuff in go, so it's a nice choice.

(my games are often pretty weird, I understand that "high framerate multiplayer game over SSH" is a not a uhhh good idea, that's the point!)
by rolph | 2025-12-23 05:09:54+00:00
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by throw-12-16 | 2025-12-23 05:10:20+00:00
There is no way this is economical.

Burn through your token limit in agent mode just to thrash around a few more times trying to identify where the agent "misunderstood" the prompt.

The only time LLM's work as coding agents for me is tightly scoped prompts with a small isolated context.

Just throwing an entire codebase into an LLM in an agentic loop seems like a fools errand.
by duped | 2025-12-23 05:10:21+00:00
Are you making this up? What spectral analysis libraries or tools?

String instruments create similar harmonic series to horns, winds, and voice (because everything is a string in some dimension) and the major differences are in the spectral envelope, something that STFT tools are just ok at approximating because of the time/frequency tradeoff (aka: the uncertainty principle).

This is a very hard problem "in theory" to me, and I'm just above casually versed in it.