MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by globular-toast | 2025-12-05 08:37:04+00:00
> Nowadays a whopping 4 in 5 people in America are using their phone at the same time as watching TV, they simply aren't paying attention.

I thought it was a lot, but had no idea it was that high. Man, phones really are like crack to us. One of the main reasons I like having a projector setup at home and no "TV" is when I put a movie on it means a) it's worth dedicating hours to and b) we really actually watch it because the room is dark and it fills our field of view.

All this time I've been wondering how people watch the mindless crap that's on TV. I can feel my brain rotting away as I look at that stuff. But now I realise the answer: they're not watching it.

How depressing. Well I guess I'll have to make do with ~50 years of quality and if it ever changes I'll consider it a bonus.
by gynvael | 2025-12-05 08:37:21+00:00
It's in progress, but we need to rebuild all older issues (to include publisher information on the editorial page as requested by the Swiss ISSN authority). And, because some of them were made when we still had the old build engine, there are technical issues we need to solve first before we can rebuild them ;). I expect we'll get the ISSN either near the end of this month or early next though.
by richx | 2025-12-05 08:37:51+00:00
I am affacted by this as well: the rear knuckle uniball bearing was broken after 3 years (Achsschenkel). Many MY here in Europe have this issue, due to bad parts or too hard suspension.

But there are two other things that make it a bit unfair for Tesla in comparison to other brands:

Often the cars fail official inspections because of rotten breaks - this happens when your drive carefully and the Tesla is using regenerative breaking instead of the real breaks. Simple solution is to force breaking from time to time (I.e. breaking in neutral). Another aspect is, that all the other brands have a mandatory inspection from the manufacturer before the cars will be tested by the independent check. This avoids that they will fail it, because the car will be repaired before it is checked by the independent inspection. This is not mandatory for Teslas.
by keyle | 2025-12-05 08:38:10+00:00
Thanks for opening my mind to this. I actually threw the ChromeOS Flex version onto a Thinkpad I had laying around and I was really surprised by how "ready" the setup is.

I feel the same about a good setup that works out of the box. Everything works, from sleep, to cameras, Bluetooth, and shutdown actually shuts down, which I can't get with debian, arch or bsd!

I will trial it further, the Linux WSL type enclosure feels right. I'm trying to understand if Penguin is actually a web rendered terminal or native. I only really know Ghostty which I can't get to run as it's missing some gnome libs I think. I will see if alacrity is better.

Thanks!
by miningape | 2025-12-05 08:39:10+00:00
Yeah people don't realise this, but shame and guilt (and fear) are our 2 society building emotions. Each society has it's own mix of these, and there are also "themes" depending on which is the dominant one.

Shame has practically been thrown out the window in certain places and we can see the effects of that - people scamming each other, lying in the streets, etc. Guilt is also being eroded across the west, leading to things like rampant criminality and punishments that are less than a slap on the wrist.

Fundamentally these emotions are designed to keep us in check with the rest of the group - does this negatively affect some: yes. But at the benefit of creating high trust societies. Every time I encounter this topic I can't help but think: Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
by unwind | 2025-12-05 08:39:21+00:00
I don't database, but I like to think I have some kind of intuition for storage space requirements, and this article was very confusing.

Ignoring the indexes and just focusing on the main table sizes reported, we have:

- String ("The frequent repetition of these names inflates the size of the table"): 392 MB

- Enum data type ("Internally, an enum type is stored as four-byte floating point number. So it saves space in the table [...]"): 338 MB

- Lookup table ("Also, since a smallint only occupies two bytes, the person_l table can potentially use less storage space than the other solutions"): 338 MB.

I just can't make sense of the numbers, especially given the authors comments that I've quoted.

Is this some kind of typo/editing fail?
by lmm | 2025-12-05 08:40:44+00:00
> And you end up with people that could have had help to be successful, and not they're not being able to operate within the constraints.

> So, what do you do then?

You figure out what the equivalent of Blackstone's Ratio for this kind of accommodation is, and then proceed accordingly. If we declare that it's unacceptable for even a single legitimately disabled person to miss out on accommodations, then we should the nonsense and just give accommodations to everyone, explicitly.
by lan321 | 2025-12-05 08:42:50+00:00
It's like the S60, VW W12, old V12 Continentals, etc. If it's expensive to maintain no one wants to buy it off you so you get hit with massive depreciation costs. You can get a 20y/o 'no issues' 500+hp V12 Continental for 10k where I'm at. They've had a brutal cost/year and cost/mile.
Show HN: The Forge Calculator – Instant results for complex crafting math
by neotanp | 2025-12-05 08:42:54+00:00
So, what is this thing? It’s called The Forge Calculator. Basically, it’s a tiny website I cooked up for anyone who messes around with the "The Forge" crafting system in those big games. You know, the one where you’re trying to figure out probabilities, stat ranges, and all that headache?

You plug in your materials and what you’re hoping to get, and the tool instantly spits out the exact success odds, the statistical sweet spots, and what trait thresholds you actually need to aim for. It turns that whole guesswork nightmare into actual numbers.

Go ahead and try it—no sign-ups or anything weird: theforgecalculator.online

The Story Behind It Honestly, I’m a huge fan of the game, but I got seriously fed up with the crafting math. Every time I wanted to forge a new high-tier item, I was digging through old forum posts and trying to make clunky spreadsheets work just to figure out my odds. It was time-consuming and I kept making mistakes.

I figured, "There has to be a better way." So, I started with a little script for myself. Then I cleaned it up and realized: if I’m struggling with this, the entire community is probably struggling, too. I spent my free time building this simple web interface around that core math engine so everyone could use it instantly.

Why Bother Using This One? You might have seen other tools out there, but they’re usually static charts, broken spreadsheets, or old, outdated websites. Mine is different because:

It’s Instant and Zero Friction: I hate signing up for things just to use a simple calculator. This site requires zero sign-up, zero email, and it’s not tracking anything. It’s just fast.

It’s About Optimization: It doesn't just tell you if you can succeed; it tells you the minimum required materials to hit the best statistical breakpoints. That saves serious time and in-game currency for high-level players.

It’s Built to Last: Everything runs right in your browser (client-side JavaScript). It’s super fast, and since I don't have to manage a complex server, I can keep it running forever.

I’m putting this out there because I think the community needs a solid, reliable tool for this. It’s pretty early days, so if you break it or find a weird calculation, let me know! I’m around to answer questions about the code or the logic.
by rayiner | 2025-12-05 08:43:04+00:00
Is your first sentence true? If you think so--how do you explain the cultural differences between different parts of the U.S. with different immigration histories? I can't help but notice that Minnesota (heavy Scandinavian influence) and Massachusetts (heavy Puritan Anglo influence) are clean, low in corruption, and orderly, while New Jersey and New York (heavy southern Italian influence) are significantly less so--a characteristic that they share with contemporary southern Italy (e.g, Sicily).

It's also worth pointing out that the social infrastructure for assimilation that existed in the early 20th century has since been destroyed. Italians immigrated to a country where there was strong pressure to abandon their foreign culture and assimilate into Anglo norms, attitudes, and customs. Assimilation was also facilitated by restrictive immigration laws adopted in 1921, which dropped the foreign-born population from 15% to under 5% by 1970.

Even then, the evidence we have is that assimilation only worked about halfway: https://www.sup.org/books/economics-and-finance/culture-tran.... To this day, differences in social attitudes between European countries show up in U.S. descendants of immigrants from those countries: https://cis.org/Richwine/Still-More-Evidence-Cultural-Persis... ("For example, in Europe, Norwegians are more trusting than Germans, who are themselves more trusting than Italians. Despite over a century passing since their peak period of immigration, those three ancestral groups order themselves the same way in the United States: Norwegian-Americans are more trusting than German-Americans, who in turn are more trusting than Italian-Americans.").
by close04 | 2025-12-05 08:44:12+00:00
Most people need a recommendation for something more current, from people who work on these modern cars daily. The reputation of 25+ year old models can be misleading.

Another source of good recommendations could be insurance companies. Cars with low reliability or very expensive fixes probably need more expensive insurance. But I don't know if this data is public or if you can tell apart the reliability from the repair cost.
by Lio | 2025-12-05 08:44:38+00:00
I’d agree in that I never things like Coffeescript but I think that Rails’ frontend solution since 7.0 of Hotwire has been excellent.

Being able to sprinkle just enough JavaScript on server rended HTML works really well. That you can now use it iOS and Android apps too makes it a simpler alternative to React IMHO.

I still much prefer server rendering in a monolith than dealing with GraphQL, backend for frontend and the complexity of micro services and distributed transactions.

BTW Hotwire and Hotwire Native are also options for Django too.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-12-05 08:46:13+00:00
I have read that people managed to get an eSIM installed on it, but I think there are also physical eSIM options. See https://www.gl-inet.com/solutions/esim/

Edit: The SIMPoYo eSIM Physical Card (see https://www.gl-inet.com/campaign/simpoyo-cards/ ) seems really cool, may even be nice for a phone.
by defrost | 2025-12-05 08:46:47+00:00
Was the statements made by Jimmy Kimmel Libel?

Did senior figures in the crrent US administration successfully (temporarily) have the entire show pulled?

The US practices censorship - it's not overt, the fish can't see the water, but it's there via manufactured consent.

Returning to the actual question I addressed:

> Could you share an example of some censored media in the US that's available elsewhere?

Wikileaks is a clear example of material censorered by the US Government that was restricted from common US employees despite appearing in newspapers and not being restricted from the eyes of other peer military and goverment personal in many other countries.
by zkmon | 2025-12-05 08:47:43+00:00
Having a lot to deal with is same as having nothing. Having 10,000 applicants for a job is same as not having any, if a human need to process all of them.

Human attention and processing breaks down. Filters will be used, to cut the volume down to human levels. Automation becomes an indispensable layer between human-to-human interactions. Humans become cells served by the filtered feeds from automation, with no direct to other humans.
by tucnak | 2025-12-05 08:47:57+00:00
> Up to 2 Gbps downlink

> 2.5 Gbit/s PoE to upstream switch

Can anybody explain to me why these supposedly premier networking devices are lacking so much in bandwidth? I get it that mmWave is really only ever realistically going to hit 2.5G over the air, but is there any reason why they're not willing to provide at least 10G copper, or an actual SFP port? Hell, even Macs support 10G these days. I never understood this. Do they mean 2 Gbps downlink per client, or per device in total? If it's the former, 2.5G wired seems like a major bottleneck to any serious consumption.

If a single client at 2 Gbps is all the promise of 5G amounted to, well, it would be disappointing to say the least.
by nkrisc | 2025-12-05 08:48:30+00:00
Not GP but I’m trying to figure out what you’re insinuating.

> For tougher environments or deployments with poor indoor cellular coverage, the outdoor model maintains the same high performance cellular connectivity with improved antenna performance in a durable IP67 rated enclosure. It is built for rooftop installs, off site locations, and mobile deployments where reliability is critical. Just like its indoor counterpart, you can also connect it via any PoE port, anywhere on your network, greatly simplifying cabling requirements.

And the first image they show of the outdoor model is it installed in a fixed location on a rooftop.
by Flundstrom2 | 2025-12-05 08:50:04+00:00
Interesting take on it. Even more interesting to feed the article to different llm's and ask for their opinion on it.

I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral and Gemini, and they all agreed it's more of a PR stunt for a possible IPO to position Anrhropic's LLM as "not just an LLM", but that the author is overreacting on his conclusions as to whether the a user would perceive the "soul" of Claude as different from any other LLM.
by Aachen | 2025-12-05 08:50:06+00:00
> Then millions of people use the output uncritically.

Or critically, but it's still an input or viewpoint to consider

Research shows that if you come across something often enough, you're going to be biased towards it even if the message literally says that the information you just saw is false. I'm not sure which study that was exactly but this seems to be at least related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect
by simonh | 2025-12-05 08:53:16+00:00
Speaking honestly as a foot soldier employee, I look around myself and I think you could swap out most of the people around me, including me, for most other people in our industry and the company would continue just fine. In fact that happens naturally over time anyway. The work we do is essential, but as individuals we are not essential. If I quit and move on, how many investors will reconsider their position in my company? Give me a break, and they would be right to not care.

It's about leverage. It's all about where you stand and how long your lever is. Musk stands at the top and he has a very long set of levers. He's also much more closely personally involved in engineering aspects of a company that most CEOs know little to nothing about. Sometimes that's good, sometimes it's bad, because his decisions have massively outsized effects because of this. Leverage.

If Musk makes good or bad decisions over the next few years, that matters much, much more than the decisions of anyone else at Tesla, especially because he hires and fires everyone else at Tesla. They're all only there, as individuals in particular, because of him anyway.

As it happens I think his decision making has deteriorated significantly recently, in some respects but not all. Also Tesla just doesn't have the magic special sauce SpaceX has had since they developed reusability. There's no special engineering insight in the Tesla architecture. Other vehicle manufacturers already caught up. That catch up is happening in space tech as well with BO's recent booster recovery, but SpaceX still has a very significant lead there, based on a truly revolutionary concept (which Musk championed personally) that they had exclusively for 10 years. Starship still doesn't work though, so we'll see.
by ngow25 | 2025-12-05 08:53:30+00:00
Location: Berlin, Germany Remote: yes, or on-site Willing to relocate: No Technologies: python, asr/nlp/search, backend/data engineering(elasticsearch, kafka, etc) Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fQ1kHRvHC7kHT2E0SnDtoBk9AbYbDYIL/view?usp=sharing Portfolio: nrgow.github.io Email: nrgow@protonmail.com

10 years experience in data engineering and natural language processing including automotive voice assistant. Open to anything interesting in this area.
by pm90 | 2025-12-05 08:53:31+00:00
This is not good. One major outage? Something exceptional. Several outages in a short time? As someone thats worked in operations, I have empathy; there are so many “temp havks” that are put in place for incidents. but the rest of the world won’t… they’re gonna suffer a massive reputation loss if this goes on as long as the last one.
by drfranke | 2025-12-05 08:53:46+00:00
Writing “I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer” with a long description of how they’re better than the other person, is not something a leader that will rise in any company should be writing for the public, even if they’ve given up.

Someone else will always at some point will steal or deserve the spotlight.

You can’t have a successful show full of prima donnas that all vie for the lead role on stage. You can do your best, and have some way to promote yourself for compensation when the time comes, but if there’s this much of a problem that you feel you have to write a lengthy defense to the public, you’ve lost your way and should go elsewhere/
by moralestapia | 2025-12-05 08:53:57+00:00
Ooof, this one looks like a big one!

canva.com

chess.com

claude.com

coinbase.com

kraken.com

linkedin.com

medium.com

notion.so

npmjs.com

shopify.com (!)

and many more I won't add bc I don't want to be spammy.

Edit: Just checked all my websites hosted there (~12), they're all ok. Other people with small websites are doing well.

Only huge sites seem to be down. Perhaps they deal with them separately, the premium-tier of Cloudflare clients, ... and those went down, dang.
by da_grift_shift | 2025-12-05 08:54:48+00:00
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/hlr9djcf3nyp

>We will be performing scheduled maintenance in ORD (Chicago) datacenter

>Traffic might be re-routed from this location, hence there is a possibility of a slight increase in latency during this maintenance window for end-users in the affected region.

Looks like it's not just Chicago that CF brought down...
by Galanwe | 2025-12-05 08:54:53+00:00
This is so true, I have seen it happen with so many projects. It always starts with a cute declarative DSL, and inevitably imperative / flow control structures emerge, at which point you wonder why they didn't use a real programming language in the first place and save you the hassle or learning a half baked imperative DSL.

- Puppet

- CMake

- Terraform

- ...

All these started with pure declarative DSL then incrementally created a nightmarish imperative monstrosity.
by delaminator | 2025-12-05 08:55:04+00:00
There's a real schism, isn't there? I don't even type anymore. I've got voice transcription using whisper (which Claude built). I have like three or four Claude instances open in i3wm. I have head tracking so the mouse and therefore focus moves with my head (which Claude built). So I move my head from one to the other and speak prompts!

It's amazing!

My boss has dubbed it "programming at the speed of thought" which I'm sure he's picked up from somewhere. I've seen other people say that.
by ansgri | 2025-12-05 08:55:26+00:00
There are now quite a few options for wifi APs with cellular backup. I use TP-Link, and it's ok for the price, I guess, and supports adding OneMesh range extenders.

The problem with this setup for me is that it doesn't work with uplink that sometimes becomes unstable yet nominally working, and in general LTE fallback triggers slowly.

Are there any prosumer-friendly options for connection bundling, which can balance uplinks continuously?
by elric | 2025-12-05 08:57:07+00:00
> An aspiring teen could set up an RPi that modifies headers for all traffic on the network that the parental units never even know about.

Who cares? Why is this an issue? An aspiring teen can (and will) do many things their parents don't know about. It's part of growing up. Making air tight surveillance systems to prevent teens from talking to friends or looking at boobies is many a bridge too far.
by brindy | 2025-12-05 08:57:42+00:00
The thinking in the comments here seems very US-centric (as usual).

Until recently watching HBO in the UK and Europe was not easy unless you’re prepared to watch it on Sky (in the uk anyway) so there’s money on the table for Netflix here in the form of eating some of Sky’s share. (HBO Max is coming to EU in Jan and UK sometime next year finally)

Secondarily adding HBO gives Netflix the opportunity to upgrade its production rather than downgrade HBO.

Having access to HBO/WB catalog on Netflix is going to add a lot of value imo.

I welcome this.
by aroman | 2025-12-05 08:57:56+00:00
looks like a big one. interestingly, our site, which uses a TON of Cloudflare services[0] — yet not their front-line proxy — is doing fine: https://magicgarden.gg.

So it seems like it's just the big ol' "throw this big orange reverse proxy in front of your site for better uptime!" is what's broken...

[0] Workers, Durable Objects, KV, R2, etc
by ixsploit | 2025-12-05 08:58:25+00:00
Is there a good resource on how to get better at python prototyping?

The typing system makes it somewhat slow for me and I am faster prototyping in Go then in Python, despite that I am writing more Python code. And yes I use type annotations everywhere, ideally even using pydantic.

I tend to use it a lot for data analytics and exploration but I do this now in nushell which holds up very well for this kind of tasks.
by csomar | 2025-12-05 08:58:34+00:00
They just did an update, and it is bad (in the sense that they are not realizing their clients are down?)

> Investigating - Cloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs.

> These issues do not affect the serving of cached files via the Cloudflare CDN or other security features at the Cloudflare Edge.

> Customers using the Dashboard / Cloudflare APIs are impacted as requests might fail and/or errors may be displayed.
by ckbkr10 | 2025-12-05 08:59:00+00:00
As another person that spends the whole day in the terminal. It's sad to see there is no Windows version. I do not understand why I would need gpu acceleration for a terminal, but I would still try it.

I use a company managed/provided machine that runs windows, I do not have to bother maintaining it. All I use is basically Firefox and a MinGW to have a bash
by preisschild | 2025-12-05 08:59:09+00:00
Hey, If they want to improve, they can always get a second chance. At least from me.

But I'm also quite happy with my Google Pixel 9 Pro XL and I have no reason to change. And unless Google changes their bootloader-stance in the future I might continue buying Pixels anyways. But its always good to have more options.
by close04 | 2025-12-05 08:59:21+00:00
Dell and HP are significant in the "devices" world and they just dropped the support for HEVC hardware encoding/decoding [1] to save a few cents per device. You can still pay for the Microsoft add-in that does this. It's not just streaming, your Teams background blur was handled like that.

Eventually people and companies will associate HEVC with "that thing that costs extra to work", and software developers will start targeting AV1/2 so their software performance isn't depending on whether the laptop manufacturer or user paid for the HEVC license.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/hp-and-dell-disable-...