MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mystraline | 2025-12-06 23:40:47+00:00
The article is using "voluntary" in a very questionable fashion.

> Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, has voted to introduce voluntary military service...

> The form will be mandatory for men and voluntary for women.

> The government says military service will be voluntary for as long as possible, but from July 2027, all 18-year-old men will have to take a medical exam to assess their fitness for possible military service.

> a form of compulsory military service could be considered by the Bundestag.

Well, that escalated quickly. There's nothing here that could be really described as "voluntary".
by nearbuy | 2025-12-06 23:41:03+00:00
First, the thrust of your argument is that you already knew that it would be impossible for a model like Gemini 3 Pro to solve a maze without code, so there's nothing interesting to learn from trying it. But the rest of us did not know this.

> Again, think about how the models work. They generate text sequentially.

You have some misconception on how these models work. Yes, the transformer LLMs generate output tokens sequentially, but it's weird you mention this because it has no relevance to anything. They see and process tokens in parallel, and then process across layers. You can prove, mathematically, that it is possible for a transformer-based LLM to perform any maze-solving algorithm natively (given sufficient model size and the right weights). It's absolutely possible for a transformer model to solve mazes without writing code. It could have a solution before it even outputs a single token.

Beyond that, Gemini 3 Pro is a reasoning model. It writes out pages of hidden tokens before outputting any text that you see. The response you actually see could have been the final results after it backtracked 17 times in its reasoning scratchpad.
by chihuahua | 2025-12-06 23:41:38+00:00
To properly appreciate a post like this one, it should ideally be paired with a Raymond Chen post that argues in Hercule Poirot style irrefutable logic how a combination of backwards-compatibility with CP/M and some 1990s programming done by raccoons means that this messed up state of affairs is logically the only way it could possibly be.
by palata | 2025-12-06 23:42:08+00:00
> if you don't have a better option

My whole point here is that "doing whatever bullshit makes you feel good" is not necessarily the better option. Either you can prove that it's worth something, in which case you will not have to ask "What's your proposal?" because people won't complain about it, or you're just doing something for the sake of doing something, and your only recourse when people show you that it's bullshit is to get defensive.

> If you aren't rewarding good performers with money and growth most of them will leave.

And if you don't identify good performers properly and don't reward them, they will leave as well.

A pragmatic approach is to reward your team, as a team. If you go with "we fire the lowest 10% every year because there have to be low performers", you're creating an adversarial situation. Wanna know what happens if you're my manager in an adversarial context? Easy: I will be an adversary. How constructive is that? Not my problem, I did not make the rules.
by watersb | 2025-12-06 23:43:44+00:00
Some i3 models, like mine, lack the internal-combustion engine and its fuel tank, and i3 enthusiasts call it the "BEV", for Battery Electric Vehicle. The one with the gasoline engine is the "REx", for Range Extender.

The REx models use an engine design based on one of BMW's motorcycle engines; as such, I'm pretty sure that it's not a diesel. The gas tank is only about two gallons; to qualify for EV tax credits in some markets, the battery capacity needed to exceed the energy available from fossil fuel.

That battery capacity for initial models is woeful by today's standards. The design started with 17 kWh, upgraded batteries in later model years doubled that figure. Mine is a degraded original with about 12 kWh available. Freezing temperatures can cut that by half.

I drive it like grandma and get more than 4 miles per kWh. But it was less $$ than a golf cart. (I learned about EV tire expenses after purchase.)
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-06 23:44:00+00:00
> the whole "one way to do a thing"

There’s a whole lot of words popularly excised (as you just did) from that line of the Zen to create a false polar opposite to Perl’s TMTOWTDI that was never actually part of Python’s philosophy.

The actual line from the Zen of Python is: “There should be one—and preferably only one—obvious way to do it.” (omissions in italics).
by anon7000 | 2025-12-06 23:46:16+00:00
The backup thing is really more than just backing it up. I take a picture, and it’s nearly immediately available in the same way across all my devices and the web. I can search for “pizza” on the web app and see any picture of pizza I ever took. On a different or new device I’ll immediately have access to the whole library with no set up.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-06 23:46:57+00:00
>living in an era where a lot can change in a few decades

So were people in 1910. You could say the printing press set up the following industrial revolution and things have been accelerating ever since. People talk that in the future there will be a technological singularity that things will go so fast people won't be able to keep up, but really in many ways we've been in it for a while already and it's still accelerating.
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-06 23:47:42+00:00
The download being cached in RAM kind of makes sense, curl will do the same (up to a point) if the output stream is slower than the download itself. For a scripting language, I think it makes sense. Microsoft deciding to alias wget to Invoke-WebRequest does make for a rather annoying side effect, but perhaps it was to be expected as all of their aliases for GNU tools are poor replacements.

I tried to look into the whole Expand-Archive thing, but as of https://github.com/PowerShell/Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive/c... I can't even find the Expand-Archive cmdlet source code anymore. The archive files themselves seem to have "expand" be unimplemented. Unless they moved the expand command to another repo for some reason, it looks like the entire command will disappear at one point?

Still, it does look like Expand-Archive was using the plain old System.IO.Compression library for its file I/O, though, although there is a bit of pre-processing to validate paths existing and such, that may take a while.
Show HN: Watsn.ai – Scarily accurate lie detector
by flx1012 | 2025-12-06 23:48:12+00:00
No signup required—just upload or record a video to verify its truthfulness. You can test it on anyone: internet clips, your significant other, or even yourself.

I'm aware there are tons of scammy 'lie detector' apps out there, but I built this using SOTA multimodal models in hopes of creating a genuine breakthrough in the space.

It analyzes micro-expressions, voice patterns, and context. In my own testing (over 50 trials), it reached about 85% accuracy, which honestly felt a bit scary.

It’s also fun to test on famous YouTube clips (like Obama talking about UFOs). I’d love to hear what you think and will be improving Watsn.ai every day based on your feedback!
by araes | 2025-12-06 23:48:14+00:00
Somebody had PC Part Picker [1] on a different thread. Found it kind of helpful. 3x, 3.5x, and 4x is relatively common across most memory types. DDR4-3200 2x32GB is one of the few that appears to have flattened slightly at 2.5x, although most DDR4-3200 is not as severe as other DDR4 or DDR5. None of the other lines appear to have flattened significantly yet.

[1] https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-06 23:48:15+00:00
> What I didn't see were any young Germans

Seems ~20% of the population are immigrants (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg#Demographics), some of the people you saw are Germans and some of them are not, but I think the main confusing part is how you mix up how someone looks and what nationality they have. I think maybe you're trying to say "white" instead, but for some reason avoided using that word?
by nine_k | 2025-12-06 23:48:26+00:00
Terminals can't send certain modified keys, something like M-S-;. What this thig does:

- Uniformly describes different key codes across different terminal emulators and platforms;

- Sends the codes which native platforms support, but the terminal protocol does not, via a custom prefix. It gets decoded on the Emacs side, and mapped back to a native-matching key code. You can press fancy keys and have a uniform reaction in Emacs, no matter if you're using a local graphical Emacs, or remote Emacs in a terminal.

I confirm, this is a great approach; I used a much simplified version of it with WezTerm and remote Emacs.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-12-06 23:48:35+00:00
> "We don't want to spend half a year of our lives locked up in barracks, being trained in drill and obedience and learning to kill," the organisers of the protests wrote in a statement posted on social media. "War offers no prospects for the future and destroys our livelihoods."

Is the idea that it’s better for your livelihood to just start learning how speak Russian now?
by sejje | 2025-12-06 23:48:36+00:00
That's fair, and I think it's a reasonable take. I agree with you.

I just find it annoying when people declare [thing] is a right. Often they don't even understand what a right is, and haven't thought about where their rights are derived.

If they mean it should be a right, I probably agree in many cases.

How do you feel about companies developing GMOs and then saying farmers can't keep the seed? If we don't protect their products legally, will we continue to have GMO advances? Is enough of the research happening at a non-profit level? I don't know the answers, so I haven't decided myself.
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-06 23:48:45+00:00
The issue is to have them do anything at all.

I see it akin to the proverbial "not getting out of bed for less than XXXXX". You're getting out of bed every day, for free. But having someone make you do it for a specific reason will be an exponentially harder proposition.

> 1 line in their app

Aren't you asking them to maintain compatibility outside of Play Services and be on available on your platform ? That's a whole project, including their (or their contracting shop's) validating the whole new stack from a security and technical perspective, and a legal and business check on what that actually means to them.

Perhaps we can look at it from a darker perspective: if a random guy came to the bank to ask them support for their parralel phone ecosystem, the bank would at least want to know what they're getting into and what's in it for them. Especially if they're offered 10 millions for allegedly one line of code.
by palata | 2025-12-06 23:48:50+00:00
Well if you rely on running Android apps, you still rely on Android.

Actually, if you rely on the app, you really on the Android SDK which is not open source.

Now if you could run AOSP but your own apps built with an open source SDK, that would be a different story. Some people seem to really want to do that with PWAs. I personnally tend to hate webapps, but I have to admit that they can be open source.
by fabian2k | 2025-12-06 23:50:10+00:00
Military service was only recently abolished in Germany. And compared to the old system, this one would qualify as voluntary for now. This might not remain that way, but that's probably an issue to discuss if and when that happens. There's all kinds of other challenges at that point, and I think at that point challenges based on fairness could be valid (as only some people are drafted, not everyone).
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-06 23:50:25+00:00
Which is another reason we need to strip this hardware attestation stuff out of the hardware. It either needs to use exclusively keys the user loaded into the device themselves or the keys aren't on the device whatsoever and then the "high value targets" verify the contents of the drive from a known-clean machine once they get it back from the adversarial foreign officials before putting it back into service. Or better yet, keep a separate laptop on each side of the border and then sync the data over the internet instead of losing physical control over the device at an adversarial border.

Plenty of adversarial countries have a competent security service. A foreign government can compromise the corporation's root signing key for the devices through technical attacks and through bribery, espionage, physical intrusion, etc. And they're not going to tell you that they have before using it against your high value targets, so how do you protect them? By not relying on systems with a single point of compromise.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-06 23:50:44+00:00
>50’s to the 80’w as being more “real”

Yea, people really are out of touch with what was going on around them. Naugahyde, for example was invented in 1914. Fake wood on cars started in the 1940s! It is very likely people remembering the 'real' stuff were quite often talking about objects that were far older.
by zozzle | 2025-12-06 23:50:46+00:00
Semenya took a case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and lost. The published ruling revealed that Semenya has a disorder of sex development that only affects males. Semenya later acknowledged in an interview of being "born without a uterus" and with "internal testicles". At this point, it is indisputable that Semenya is male.

Banda was withdrawn by FAZ from WAFCON because CAF had started testing athletes in the female category for male-typical levels of testosterone. Barring serious illness or doping, a failed test implies presence of testes which implies male.

Some male athletes who want to compete in the female category have suppressed their testosterone, either through pharmaceutical means or surgical excision of their testes. This doesn't mean they aren't male, nor does it remove the physical advantages conferred during male sex development. Which is, fundamentally, what the female category in sport exists to exclude.

So there is no contradiction as it all leads back to this principle.

Women with minor hormone irregularities, like PCOS for example, aren't affected by the above.
by sfl83 | 2025-12-06 23:50:51+00:00
Got laid off 3 months before my kid was born. Instead of job hunting, I built the baby tracker I actually wanted.

Most apps are overwhelming and I just needed something simple and fast.

It learns from your logs and predicts the next nap window. Few taps to log anything. Partner sync so both parents stay updated.

Free this month. Feedback welcome.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-06 23:50:53+00:00
Those are no longer big these days so no. Also, they're not going to restart a whole product category just for grapheneos.

As OnePlus is kinda dead and taken over by oppo, I'm guessing Sony. They have some similar collaboration in the past like with Jolla. My Sony XA2 was one of the few models that could run sailfish.
by Fanaxuki | 2025-12-06 23:50:54+00:00
Everyone talks about "chain-of-thought" in LLMs but nobody actually measured when thoughts emerge in humans. So I sat with a stopwatch, tried to keep my mind blank, pressed lap every time a thought broke through. 100 data points. Mean latency: 11.77 seconds, which lines up almost exactly with Default Mode Network oscillations from fMRI studies. The interesting part: once a thought breaks through, 54% chance the next one comes faster. They cascade. Distribution is bimodal (modes at ~5s and ~25s), two distinct processes. Full dataset with millisecond precision in the paper. Not claiming this solves AGI, just actual data on something we keep hand-waving about.
by cluckindan | 2025-12-06 23:51:06+00:00
In practice, sometimes. But in principle, hard disagree.

HTML was explicitly designed to semantically represent scientific documents. [1]

”HTML documents represent a media-independent description of interactive content. HTML documents might be rendered to a screen, or through a speech synthesizer, or on a braille display. To influence exactly how such rendering takes place, authors can use a styling language such as CSS.” [2]

1: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/introduction.html#bac...

2: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/introduction.html#:~:...
Show HN: FuseCells – a handcrafted logic puzzle game with 2,500 levels
by keini | 2025-12-06 23:51:08+00:00
Hi everyone, I built FuseCells, a minimalistic logic puzzle game where every level is handcrafted (no procedural generation). It started as a personal challenge to design a clean rule-set and scale it to thousands of puzzles without losing difficulty balance.

What’s unique: • 2,500 handcrafted levels across multiple grid sizes • Deterministic logic — no guessing required • A rule system inspired by constraint-solving and path-finding concepts • Daily challenges and global progress tracking • Fully built as a solo dev project

Technical notes for those curious: • Level generation tools I wrote validate solvability using a custom constraint solver • Difficulty is estimated via step-count of the solver • The game is optimized to run smoothly on low-end devices • Designed first for iOS, now fully adapted for iPad as well

I’d love feedback from puzzle lovers, game designers, and anyone interested in handcrafted logic design. Here’s the App Store link: [inserați linkul]

Thanks for reading — happy to answer any technical questions!
by tolerance | 2025-12-06 23:51:45+00:00
For whatever reason I am reminded of this HN comment after reading this blog post:

> Folk music is mostly dialectic materialist conspiracy theorists singing hymns to their oppressors.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35274237

Especially towards the end of it.

The past was not “cute” and neither is the present. But in spite of its edges the past afforded one a greater sense of whatever abstract phenomena is related to the word “cute” that escapes the present.
by wlonkly | 2025-12-06 23:51:53+00:00
Larry was (and presumably is, but I'm out of that loop) a gem. The Weird Al of programming languages. Hilarious and kind.

But those who remember the regulars of, say, efnet #perl (THIS ISN'T A HELP CHANNEL), there was a dearth of kindness for sure. I was probably part of it too, because that was the culture! This is where the wizards live, why are you here asking us questions?

Like cms, I'm also hesitant to name names, but the folks I'm thinking of were definitely perl-famous in their day.

There were also a bunch of great people in the community, and they helped me launch my career in tech in the 90s, and I have close internet friends from that community to this day (and great memories of some who have passed on). But there were definitely also jerks.
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-06 23:52:02+00:00
Explorer freezing halfway through copying happens all the time for me, usually it means Windows' I/O buffer is full and the drive is taking its sweet time actually doing data transfers. Windows will happily show you gigabytes per second being copied to a USB 2.0 drive if your RAM is empty enough, but it'll hang when it tries to flush.

Sometimes it's interference, sometimes the backing SSD is just a lot slower than it says on the box. I've also seen large file transfers (hundreds of gigabytes) expose bad RAM as caches would get filled and cleared over and over again.

You should be able to go into the Windows settings and reduce the drive cache. Copying will be slower, but behaviour will be more predictable.
by jcalx | 2025-12-06 23:52:18+00:00
> Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . .

> History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

> My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket . . . booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .

> There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .

> And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

> So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
by constantcrying | 2025-12-06 23:52:55+00:00
Yes, the past definitely wasn't that cute, but outright denying that it was not very different is just as absurd.

The definition of "normal" has drastically changed, even over the last few decades. A hundred years ago much of the societal structures still revolved around farming (which it had for thousands of years before that), something which now only involves a small minority of people.

People love to look at the past, not as it existed, but superpositioned over reality as it exists now.
by cm2187 | 2025-12-06 23:53:23+00:00
One thing I don't understand with Windows Server is that it seems no matter how fast the nvme drives I use, or I pair/pool, I can't get a normal file copy to go faster than around 1.5GB/s (that's local, no network). The underlying disks show multi GB/s performance under crystal disk mark. But I suspect something in the OS must get in the way.
by antonvs | 2025-12-06 23:53:41+00:00
> If anything supporting my argument by suggesting that makes anyone proper royalty.

This could potentially be a good argument for more democratic systems.

My grandmother was very proud of the fact that we were descendants of King James (one of them, I couldn't tell you which one, probably the one that abdicated!)

What she didn't understand is that something similar was true of almost everyone she knew.
by charcircuit | 2025-12-06 23:55:09+00:00
>not getting out of bed for less than XXXXX

I just made up the figure. Perhaps 10 billion dollars is more enticing. Perhaps you have to purchase the company outright and then dictate they add support. My point is that it's not impossible to get the apps people need to work on an alternate Android OS. It is a matter of funding conpatibility. You can find a niche audience of people to start out with to make a competitive OS for them. And then overtime expand that audience more and more.

>Aren't you asking them to maintain compatibility

Typically the complaints about banks is that they use the Play Integrity library which doesn't trust other operating systems. So the ask is to support the Android API for integrity and to trust the key of the OS provider. This would be done via a new library to make integration easier and more foolproof.