MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by csomar | 2025-12-23 05:10:28+00:00
I've been using it for the last couple months. In many cases, it was superior to Gemini 3 Pro. One thing about Claude Code, it delegates certain tasks to glm-4.5 air and that drops performance a ton. What I did is set the default models to 4.6 (now 4.7)

Be careful this makes you run through your quota very fast (as smaller models have much higher quotas).

ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL=glm-4.7
ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_MODEL=glm-4.7
ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL=glm-4.7
ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL=glm-4.7
by throwup238 | 2025-12-23 05:11:35+00:00
Yes. There are several methods like high-intensity focused ultrasound (UltraShape and Liposonix) and the ultrasonic cavitation found in medspas.

The former is somewhat effective but based on early research shares the same problems as other active fat loss treatments: lysing the fat cells causes all the relevant hormones to get released into the bloodstream, causing reabsorption by other fat cells. It’s a very gradual process and quite expensive.
by maxglute | 2025-12-23 05:11:50+00:00
Tldr, comprehensive house cleaning to excise 20 years of built up treason tumor. Why didn't Beijing concentration camped Jimmy Lai and Legoco compradors pre NSL? Why did they wait for them to push HK sanctions (no real threat amirite) before pushing NSL and burying them. Whose handshaking out of sight? As if surveillance state like PRC has out of sight? BTW NSL outlawed shaking hands aka foreign collusion, something HKers got to engage with impunity before. Post NSL 250 arrests and 100% conviction rates vs before where it was political struggle to even hammer some book sellers.

>Terrorism

There were 100s of domestic terrorist attacks in mainland PRC from XJ, somehow that stopped when PRC increased securitization. Funny that, almost like non fuckarounditis securitization works. Yes, all those other east asian countries with restive coocoo Salafist Muslim populations, oh wait they don't... meanwhile southeast asian countries with Muslims extremists keeps going boom.

> cheaper lunch

Or you know, clearing fire escapes so 150 people don't burn to death because real estate tycoons learn to rig muh free market proceduralism. Ultimately, it's not a problem for previously nativist HKer to regress towards a higher QoL under 1C2S privileges that they can't afford in HK. It's getting shit done in the sense it gives Hkers (and TWners) alternate life to inept local politics and conditions. Doesn't matter rest of PRC has to deal with involution, 2Sers get apartheid rights to be mediocre and comfortable in mainland. Or they get crushed opposing. More are picking the cheap lunch.

> full blown authoritarianism with no real benefit

Who said full blown authoritarianism, I said late stage liberal capitalist shithole where capitalists naturally get to benefit. AKA the 200,000+ and increasing wealthy/talented mainlanders demographic transfer via TTPS to get to enjoy HK by being PRC's loyal new guard. HKers who play along and integrate also benefit, where integrate is moving their ass to mainland / greater bay area where 1C2S apartheid gets them higher QoL than they otherwise deserve. Restive middle class HKers who don't play along gets the shaft. The point isn't to benefit all of HK, it's to benefit HKers who cooperate, and mainlanders. HKers who don't gets to rot in their increasingly unaffordable shoeboxes. As it should be.
by noduerme | 2025-12-23 05:11:58+00:00
Value is subjective. Ownership is not. You're attempting to perform a sleight of hand by conflating the two.

It doesn't matter whether you personally find some creative material to be worthless, or you personally think someone doesn't generate sufficient value to deserve their bank balance. The reason it doesn't matter is that societies cannot run on an individual's opinion about whether other people deserve ownership over what they legally own. Because if it did, that society would quickly disintegrate into anarchy.

Speaking personally, as someone who once was on course to make 9 figures and now makes a low 6, I think it's sort of a pathology to spend your time worrying about how much less you have than other people. What matters is whether you can be recognized for your work and earn from it. I don't care that some people just inherited what they have, while I had to struggle as a taxi driver and waiter and minimum wage intern. That's annoying, but it's not as bad as living in a society where I can't capture the value of what I produce creatively. Having ownership of my work is far more important to me than money. But I have a right to expect that e.g. code I develop in my toolkit will remain my own to provide me an income.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-23 05:12:20+00:00
Hanlons razor is stupid and we should stop using it.

First off, we don't actually know how ignorant someone is or is not, but from what I see people GREATLY underestimate ignorance.

Rich people building state-sponsored surveillance are not ignorant. They absolutely know the consequences. They either don't care, or they are actually targeting those consequences.

Secondly, it falls apart in organizations. When we apply hanlons razor to an organization, we're claiming EVERYONE there must be ignorant. Which is just obviously not true.

Someone knows, probably lots of people know. And they choose not to act - that is malice. Choosing not to do something is a form of malice.
by klodolph | 2025-12-23 05:12:31+00:00
I already think that markdown is barely ok for writing documentation, and the experience of plugins in mdBook is why I tell people not to use it (edit: it = mdBook). The base flavor of mdBook is minimalistic. Maybe that’s a good thing, that you’re given a minimalistic markdown as a starting point? But if it’s minimalistic, then it’s certainly missing some things that I’d want to use in the documentation I write, and the experience of using plugins is, well, not very good.

My current recommendations are MkDocs (material theme), Jekyll, and Docusaurus. Hugo gets a qualified recommendation, and I only recommend mdBook for people who are doing Rust stuff.
by derbOac | 2025-12-23 05:12:49+00:00
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Even if you ignore the legitimacy of security concerns about foreign drones, this action gives more monopoly control over drones to the US government.

If some US drone manufacturer crosses the administration in some way, say in terms of backdoors or lack thereof, it's one less option for the consumer.

Think chat control in the EU but based on executive order in the US, and drones.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-12-23 05:13:36+00:00
We stare at screens full of text and pictures every day. We had screens full of text and pictures 20 years ago. Yet somehow we have justified re-creating every single component multiple times over, spending hundreds of trillions of dollars, to get the same thing we had 20 years ago.

We've been able to talk to machines, have them understand that speech, and do work based on it, for decades. But we're all still typing into keyboards.

We've had devices which can track our eyes to move a mouse pointer for 37 years, but we all still use our hands/thumbs to move a mouse.

We had mobile devices which had dedicated keys for input which allowed us to input without looking, and we replaced those with mobile devices with no dedicated keys (so we have to look to provide input) and bodies made of glass so they would shatter when dropped and required additional plastic coverings to protect them. Even automobiles, where safety is a high priority, also adopted input devices which require looking away from the road.

Our world includes a government which is indented to be led via decisions from all the people, and could easily be overthrown by all the people, but only a select few people actually get to make decisions, and they don't have to listen to the people, and basically do whatever they want (wrt the other few people who get to make decisions).

Yes, life is needlessly absurd. It's best not to think about it unless you wanna end up in a padded room.
by Terr_ | 2025-12-23 05:14:06+00:00
Well, at least until somebody devises a system that transports or projects it so that the heat ends up somewhere not-Earth. It'd still be heating the universe in general, of course, even in the form of sprays of neutrinos.

That reminds me of a sci-fi book, Sundiver by David Brin, where a ship is exploring the sun by firing a "refrigerator laser" to somehow pump-away excess heat and balance on the thrust.
by Espressosaurus | 2025-12-23 05:14:11+00:00
If it was phased in and didn't specifically include allied country imports, I could believe that.

This door-slamming-shut-suddenly method says there is no plan, and given we don't domestically make most of the critical components ourselves, at best it's going to take awhile to build the factories and expertise to make up for the loss of the biggest suppliers in the market.

We'll get to pay much higher prices for much worse products while we do so.

Just looking at what's available for enterprise use (since there is no consumer-selling US drone company at this point) it looks like US companies are around a decade behind.
by tylervigen | 2025-12-23 05:14:15+00:00
Ever since this post from two weeks ago [0], my wife and I have been referring to any LLM as “bag of words.” So you don’t say “Gemini said” or “I asked ChatGPT,” you say “the bag of words told me…”

I’ve found it very grounding, despite heavily using the bags of words.

[0] https://www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-words-have-mer...
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by sfRattan | 2025-12-23 05:16:03+00:00
The conceptual frontier of a world of networked computers is uncharted, and we are in the well along into that dark frontier now. I don't think TV or magazines are a good point of comparison, nor anything from the analog world of yesterday.

Analog mass media couldn't dynamically adapt itself to individual viewer proclivities in order to attract attention. Parents can understand that children shouldn't watch TV at night because society has agreed to constrain more mature programming to when children are mostly asleep. We can understand not to leave a Playboy magazine lying around in reach of children or, better, not to have such things in a family home at all. But digital media defies more than convention... It defies all points of reference a human computer-layperson might have in the analog world that could help to understand it fully.

Try to explain to someone on the street the sorts of things that are and are not possible with computers and networks, and why various things fall into one or the other category. Watch their eyes glaze over. Absent points of reference and useful context it's almost anticomprehensible.

>Something that stands out is also helping parents get a handle on their own consumption and habits to be able to better teach kids on what to look out for.

Strongly agree. I've always shied away from algorithmically managed feeds and dark patterns. It felt instinctual to me but I think those instincts were born from coming to understand computers at a young age. Humanity at large has basically zero instincts for the digital world... Yet. Square one may be feeling the difference when you cut slopfeed content and targeted advertising out of your life. Square two may be new, computer-age fables to cultivate those instincts among those who aren't (and largely won't ever be) deeply computer literate. The sort of parables every single American grew up deciphering in McGuffey readers, once upon a time, but concerning things like, "a person can pretend to be anyone online, and that can cause trouble," or, "the boy who gave away his secrets could never get them back."
by derektank | 2025-12-23 05:16:18+00:00
She has worked as a staff editor in newsrooms, most notably at Tablet. It’s not accurate to say her career has solely been in the opinion section.

Also, it’s not unheard of for people working on the op-ed side of the house to become editors in chief. Most notable example I can think of would be Katharine Viner at the Guardian. And in the reverse, James Bennet went from being editor in chief at the Atlantic to running the op-ed page at the NYT.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-23 05:17:48+00:00
As an American citizen, I had to upload my passport to get an ETA before flying into the UK this year.

https://www.gov.uk/eta

I also uploaded my passport to Delta to make traveling to both Costa Rica and London faster this year.

https://www.delta.com/us/en/travel-planning-center/know-befo...
Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal
by samsep10l | 2025-12-23 05:17:50+00:00
Hi HN

I built CineCLI — a cross-platform terminal app to browse movies, view details,
and open torrents directly in your system torrent client.

Features:
- Search movies from the terminal
- Rich UI with ratings, runtime, genres
- Interactive & non-interactive modes
- Magnet handling via system default client
- Linux/macOS/Windows support
- No ads, no tracking

GitHub: https://github.com/eyeblech/cinecli
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/cinecli/

Would love feedback from terminal + Python folks
by array_key_first | 2025-12-23 05:17:53+00:00
If your argument has to start with "now, imagine your sister was raped", then it's probably just a bad argument.

Appealing to emotions, tsk tsk, but going right for the jugular? Yikes.

Also, elephant in the room: if your sister was going to be raped or beaten, it would probably be by someone in her home, in her family. Like her cop husband.
by simonw | 2025-12-23 05:18:47+00:00
Depends on the task and my goals. If it was something new to me that I wanted to learn really deeply - and I had the four hours to spend - I might try the LLM-free route for the first three hours like you suggest.

If I found myself needing to do anything unrelated to the learning task, like knock out a quick Bash script, I'd still call on the LLM to get me out of that and help me stay focused on the new skill though.
by defrost | 2025-12-23 05:19:00+00:00
The SAA is deepening and moving westwards.

Table 4 shows the change in the SAA from 2025.0 to 2026.0 as estimated at Earth’s surface and at 500 km by WMM2025 and WMMHR2025.

The area affected, as judged by the area inside the 25,000 nT contour at the Earth’s surface, has increased by about 8% over this time (for both WMM and WMMHR).

This contour approximates the region where radiation damage to satellites is most likely to occur.

Page 13, State of the Geomagnetic Field, December 2025 (PDF 19 pages) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46361359
by crystal_revenge | 2025-12-23 05:19:32+00:00
Have you written a compiler? I ask because for me writing a compiler was absolutely an inflection point in my journey as a programmer. Being able to look at code and reason about it all the way down to bytecode/IL/asm etc absolutely improved my skill as a programmer and ability to reason about software. For me this was the first time I felt like a real programmer.
by ofalkaed | 2025-12-23 05:19:56+00:00
HN did not ban it, the community flagged it. I started flagging these threads because people started playing the victim and did not offer anything other than spamming the same thing over and over. If a topic gets flagged, wait 6 or 12 hours instead of 6 or 12 seconds and try again, that is often all it takes.
by altairprime | 2025-12-23 05:21:33+00:00
No: the threat model as stated is referring to, in restated terms, “China could silently occupy DJI headquarters and control US-deployed DJI drones into quasi-military strikes using firmware updates, remote controls, or other such mechanisms.” Same theory as Huawei 5G routers could be remotely wiretapped in various ways, etc.

(It’s important to distinguish it from the “buy drone-as-weapon at US retail, use drone inside US” threat model, but beyond telling them apart, I have no position prepared on the relevance of either model.)
by s1artibartfast | 2025-12-23 05:21:38+00:00
Ive come to realize that there is very little that would make me truly comfortable with big risks, so I decided to just start taking them. If they dont work out, I will have the consolation that I tried, and so far, it has been working out well. I Got myself liable for a 7k mortgage, about 80% of my take home. Nervous about commitment but married my wife. Nervous about kids, but have one on the way.

If it all comes tumbling down tomorrow, I would be out a ton of money, but basically where I was 5 years ago. I wish I had taken the plunge on each of these things 5 years earlier.

Nothing risked, nothing gained.
by tehlike | 2025-12-23 05:23:55+00:00
You'd think so, but everytime a crime is solved by flock or the like, people keep celebrating it and using it as a justification.

It reminds me of this meme:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/sa0eh3/dont_crea...

There are few reasons people probably keep building on this topic:
1. Eventually someone will do this anyway.
2. Thus, it shall be mine - I for sure will handle data better than anyone else can, respecting all sorts of guardrails etc.
3. company ipos, founder leaves, things happen.
by Supermancho | 2025-12-23 05:24:28+00:00
In the book Calculating God, a character notes that this is a common civilization-wide choice. Living in virtual reality, rather than trying to expand into the vast expanses of space, is a common trope as much as it's a logical choice. It neatly explains the Fermi Paradox. In some fiction, like The Matrix, the choice might be forced due to cultural shifts, but the outcome is the same. A relatively sterile low-energy state civilization doing pure processing.
by sq_ | 2025-12-23 05:25:18+00:00
I think GP might’ve been referring to the part of Jeff’s post that references GPS, which I think may be a slight misunderstanding of the NIST email (saying “people using NIST + GPS for time transfer failed over to other sites” rather than “GPS failed over to another site”).

The GPS satellite clocks are steered to the US Naval Observatory’s UTC as opposed to NIST’s, and GPS fails over to the USNO’s Alternate Master Clock [0] in Colorado.

[0] https://www.cnmoc.usff.navy.mil/Our-Commands/United-States-N...
by D13Fd | 2025-12-23 05:26:09+00:00
5 miles is a long walk. That’s at least 1 hour and 15 minutes for a very fast walker, and probably around 2 hours for a more typical walker.

Plus you have to walk back, with groceries. Assuming you are feeding a family and not doing this 2-4 hour round trip every day, that means you’ll need a cart to push or pull.

Good luck pushing that loaded cart on a road with any amount of traffic. Most places in the U.S. where the grocery store is 5 miles away will involve either zero sidewalks and dangerous roads (more rural/suburban areas), or many many road crossings with lights that slow you down (denser areas).

I’m a big fan of walking. But 5 miles to a grocery store and then back is going to be way too much and too dangerous for most people.
by Varaldar | 2025-12-23 05:26:18+00:00
im thinking about the consolidation around minute marks. its at every minute mark below 10 minutes, albeit dropping precipitously after 4 minutes. i have 2 guesses. guess one is that people like even numbers so if a track was already going to be within so many seconds of exactly a minute mark that they are more likely to push it to that number. with people caring less above 4 minutes because you are already making a long song, i could imagine caring less at that point. but my second guess is that along with the vast increase of ai slop posted to spotify both by spotify themselves and by other people, some of the programs they use probably fix on minute increments. like how a lot of ai videos are 10 seconds long or a series of 10 second videos. just a guess, however. i have no information or facts to back this up
by 613style | 2025-12-23 05:26:22+00:00
He's not making it up and there's no reason for that tone. Strings are more straightforward to isolate compared to vocals/horns/etc because they produce a near-perfect harmonic series in parallel lines in a spectrogram. The time/frequency tradeoff exists, but it's less of a problem for strings because of their slow attack.

You can look up HPSS and python libraries like Essentia and Librosa.
by thisisit | 2025-12-23 05:26:28+00:00
This logic is funny.

Because majority of the tax payers who might agree with the non-funding of "everyone's project" have another problem. They are also afraid of the unknown "They" and big industries - like Big Pharma. Private institutions research can be easily dismissed as biased. But given that like you they believe even public research is politically motivated - might as well not do any research at all.

Full charge towards third world country standards.

(PS: While I see you asking for proofs from others, you haven't provided any of your own. Do you have proof to show how this is going to fix the deficit and kill the debt?)
by ls612 | 2025-12-23 05:26:40+00:00
I had Grok write me a 150 line shell script which it nearly oneshot, except for the fact it made a one character typo in some file path handling code that took me an hour to diagnose. On one hand it’s so close to being really really good for coding, but on the other with this sort of errors (unlike other frontier models which have easily diagnosable error modes) it can be super frustrating. I’m hopeful we will see good things from Grok 5 in the coming months.
by esperent | 2025-12-23 05:28:12+00:00
I thought this was some crazy CSS syntax I've never seen before:

background: @shaders(
fragment { }
vertex { }
texture { }
);

Searching around just leads back to this blog though [0]. It would be amazing if this was real syntax, but I guess security reasons would probably make it a no-go for general use.

Indeed, there was an old CSS Shaders feature (in Chrome, behind a flag) behind from way back around 2013 [1]. Unclear if there's been any development since.

[0] https://yuanchuan.dev/add-shaders

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/introduction-to-custom-fil...