MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by radeeyate | 2025-12-26 03:12:21+00:00
For the past year, I've been learning a lot more about electronics, and in particular, designing PCBs, getting them manufactured, and assembled. I've come a long way from where I started, making little LED flashers shaped like trees for Christmas last year (everyone has to start somewhere!) where I'm now making small products with some of the super cheap ATTiny chips and writing code for them.

I really want to get more into microcontrollers, and design some more technical projects. I've been wanting to make a portable point-and-shoot camera for a couple years, though I've never been knowledgeable in that area to do it very well. Though, I'm finally getting to that point.

On a non-electronic-designing front, I'd love to learn more about networking and radios. I'm working on my homelab right now, and just got a nice switch to connect some free 15-year-old office PCs I also have. I'd love to get into AREDN, which is a 802.11 mesh network that can run on amateur radio frequencies.

I also want to write more about my projects on my website (https://radi8.dev,) where hopefully I can share what I work on more often than I currently do.
by lanthade | 2025-12-26 03:12:24+00:00
These are all good toys, my middle elementary kid really likes magnatiles.

That said, I still think Lego runs the board. My 40yo Lego is still in use, I still get pleasure out of it and my kid gets even more. My kid and I just finished team building the UCS millennium falcon and now we're having a blast playing with it. Soon it'll start being scavenged for other projects. I've never seen another toy equal Lego in replayability or in the vast array of ways it can be used. As a crusty old coot I complain about the seemingly single use pieces in new Lego sets and then watch as my kid uses them in new and creative ways in MOCs. No other toy we have has the same staying power and much to my wife's chagrin it's the yardstick by which I measure every other toy.
by guerby | 2025-12-26 03:12:48+00:00
I found this video interesting on understanding what type 1 diabetic management looks like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHaYPEDGaro

Beth McNally & Amy Rush - 'TCR in Practice: Navigating Insulin for Protein & Fat in Type 1 Diabetes'

At the end of the video there is some strategies described with automatic pumps.

And the graph a t=174 is kind of eye opening:

https://youtu.be/uHaYPEDGaro?t=174
by swgeek | 2025-12-26 03:13:38+00:00
I want to, no, need to improve my ability to focus on the task at hand.

Other than that near-universal constant, I want to try being a bit of a jack of many trades this year: learn full-stack, practice vibe coding, basics of graphics programming (update to the latest ways)

I understand that means master of none, but this is a play around year for me. In theory AI should make it easier to try new things, we shall see about how it works in practice.
by 999900000999 | 2025-12-26 03:13:46+00:00
Fantastic.

Can you please let me know if there is an ISO to get any mainstream Linux distro working on this Snapdragon laptop ?

ASUS - Vivobook 14 14" FHD+ Laptop - Copilot+ PC - Snapdragon X

It's on sale for $350 at Best buy and if I can get Linux working on it it would definitely be an awesome gift for myself.

Even if there's some progress being made, it's still nearly impossible to install a typical Linux distro on one of these. I've been watching this space since the snapdragon laptops were announced. Tuxedo giving up and canceling their Snapdragon Linux laptop doesn't instill much confidence
by planc0515 | 2025-12-26 03:14:08+00:00
I recently used emsdk to build interpreters for languages like Python. Then I wrote an online code editor based on WebAssembly that supports languages such as Python, Lua, and Ruby. No backend is needed, the code runs directly in the browser. Therefore, apart from the initial loading of WASM resources, there are no other network delays, and the results are displayed almost instantly. It can generate shareable links, so now I include the link when posting code online, and clicking it shows the results.
by jimrandomh | 2025-12-26 03:14:12+00:00
I'm a T1 diabetic, have worked on open source diabetes-tech (OpenAPS), and have used a number of different CGMs (though not this one specifically). This story... does not make very much sense.

CGMs (of any brand) are not, and have never been, reliable in the way that this story implies that people want them to be reliable. The physical biology of CGMs makes that sort of reliability infeasible. Where T1s are concerned, patient education has always included the need to check with fingerstick readings sometimes, and to be aware of mismatches between sensor readings and how you're feeling. If a brand of CGMs have an issue that sometimes causes false low readings, then fixing it if it's fixable is great, but that sort of thing was very much expected, and it doesn't seem reasonable to blame it for deaths. Moreover, there are two directions in which readings can be inaccurate (false low, false high) with very asymmetric risk profiles, and the report says that the errors were in the less-dangerous direction.

The FDA announcement doesn't say much about what the actual issue was, but given that it was linked to particular production batches, my bet is that it was a chemistry QC fail in one of the reagents used in the sensor wire. That's not something FOSS would be able to solve because it's not a software thing at all.
by codys | 2025-12-26 03:15:49+00:00
Go can have memory unsafety leading to arbitrary memory reads and writes by having an interface replaced by another thread (go interfaces use 2 words, one for the vtable and another for the data. It does not replace these in a thread safe way, so one can use a vtable to work with an unexpected data pointer.

Folks have shown this allows the kinds of arbitrary memory reads/writes that folks normally ban in their definition of memory safe (and this post's website has a definition does as well):

https://research.swtch.com/gorace

https://blog.stalkr.net/2015/04/golang-data-races-to-break-m...

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2025/07/24/memory-safety.html
by esperent | 2025-12-26 03:16:21+00:00
> If you look at the amounts, they’re tiny. I don’t know the doses that would be used in humans but typically ordering from chemical supply shops would be economically infeasible for just about any drug. These are meant for one-off studies and experiments, not ongoing human use

I didn't get the impression that the person above was suggesting actually buying it here, but rather just pointing out that if it does prove effective in human trials, it's going to become cheaply and easily available since it's already possible to order online for research.
by krapp | 2025-12-26 03:16:30+00:00
>one should celebrate the birthday of the most influential and awesome man in the history of mankind.

Cool. So why don't you celebrate the birthday of Siddhartha Gautama? Or Confucius? Genghis Khan? Julius Caesar?

Because Jesus was not the most influential man in the history of the world. He was influential, but the world is bigger and history deeper than Christians want to believe.

Hell, the only reason anyone even still cares about Jesus is because the Roman emperor Constantine decided Christians were more valuable to him fighting in his army than being fed to lions. If not for him, Christianity would have just been another weird Levantine cult and would have probably died out. So why not celebrate Constantine's birthday instead?

Or the Apostle Paul's birthday? It was his idea to spread the faith to gentiles after all, and one could argue modern Christianity is more influenced by Paul than Jesus.

This is not an opportunity for you to proselytize me.
by banbangtuth | 2025-12-26 03:16:42+00:00
I am a fullstack frontend leaning engineer of 10 YoE (still employed). In the early days of my career I enjoyed learning about various programming languages and reading technical books (although mostly tutorials, nothing to deep technically). These days I don't do those things anymore because I am now older, a lot of responsibilities, and hobbies that I need to do, and also quite comfortable in my comfort zone in terms of my niche.

I don't do anything anymore these days to advance my career in SWE. Maybe because I am quite jaded because job market sucks, and the job itself sucks (making the rich richer), and any extra time I need to do to advance my career is just doing leetcode monkey grind.

I want to change it this year. I do CRUD apps, and I am very boxed in my brain, thinking that CRUD apps is the only programming there is. I often marveled at people who create database, compilers, emulators, 3D engines, version controls, text editors, etc. Those people are like wizards to me.

I wonder how can I be creative like that? Like, how can you just wake up one day and decide to create magic.

I want to learn how to do those. Any advice is appreciated.

Also I want to do it in Zig because I've never worked with manual memory management language before, and I figured might as well.
by kenrick95 | 2025-12-26 03:17:01+00:00
I want to learn driving.

I live in a city with well-connected public transport (Singapore) so I don't feel the need to learn. However, this year I travelled to some rural areas in Japan and started to feel the pain of relying solely on public transport which is either extremely sparse, or sometimes non-existent which limits the places I want to visit. That's why I felt like if I obtain this skill, I can explore more places in my travels
by exasperaited | 2025-12-26 03:18:22+00:00
> I want to, no, need to improve my ability to focus on the task at hand.

This. My control of my focus has been reduced to the point of disability at times (seriously worrying, when in middle age)

> Other than that near-universal constant, I want to try being a bit of a jack of many trades this year

But this, honestly, is at odds with it. It will be difficult to do these two things at once (source: trust me bro, but no really do trust me).

Rather I would suggest a strategy, if you want to learn lots of things: ask yourself, what small set of goals are all those things in service of? What could you gain if they all pointed mostly in one direction, and how will you keep a slow, low-level, long term focus on that direction?

(I am writing this comment to myself, as you can probably tell.)

I must develop (re-develop) planning skills, because my management of time is poor and my management of my direction in life non-existent. I have a broad set of underdeveloped talents that point to me being able to do a lot more stuff for more people if I wasted less time and just steered them in a couple of directions that will have slow-growing benefits.

Apart from progressing some life challenges, what I would like to do is design one complete physical prototype every two months, to move my brain away from everyday web development and towards something that helps people again.

I have CAD and 3D printing skills, I am learning what I would need to get work CNC milled, I have just enough awareness of embedded computing possibilities and I have a couple of interests that can be used to drive product ideas forward or at least provide a personal context for learning.

Probably photography, initially; I have already made some things and used them for my own photography work, and I have ideas for more. The goal would be Tindie-type sales or at least to get tools into the hands of like-minded friends.

I have spent the last year really developing my "CAD thinking" and now it is time to just make things, completely enough that they could be sold at a sort of boutique scale.
by db48x | 2025-12-26 03:20:09+00:00
Sure, but 99% of that cost was paying for the absurd physical dimensions of that particular television.

> The "pixels" didn't become larger on lower resolutions…

Strictly speaking, the CRT only had discrete lines not pixels. Within a line the color and brightness could change as rapidly or slowly as the signal source desired. It was in fact an analog signal rather than a digital one. This is why pixels in many display modes used by CRTs were rectangular rather than square.

> We can get much better results today with scaling than we ever could on CRTs…

I say it’s the other way around! No ordinary flat–panel display can emulate the rectangular pixels of the most common video modes used on CRTs because they are built with square pixels. You would have to have a display built with just the right size and shape of pixel to do that, and then it wouldn’t be any good for displaying modern video formats.
by Empact | 2025-12-26 03:20:16+00:00
I would argue the prospect of people waiting to stop them is a good deterrent, a beneficial complement to any effective justice system. When seconds count, the police are at best minutes away. For example, concealed carry is demonstrably effective in mass shooting attempts in churches, ending the threat in 6 seconds:
https://youtu.be/LflruqEMlVU?si=Q4VeYnClxPGtrI88

Consider too that there are many documented cases of the authorities being incompetent to or unwilling to stop a threat, most recently in Bondi Beach, but also in Uvalde. Maybe they’re just not coming to save you?
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by neogodless | 2025-12-26 03:21:37+00:00
It certainly doesn't compare which is why I've never bought a Mac....

But that's a goofy argument. Different use cases, different value proposition. My speakers are actually really nice though I alternate using them or using my HyperX headset.

Still I think you probably have zero experience with an Acer Nitro 16 if you think it's as bad as you're hinting at.
by throwaway1413 | 2025-12-26 03:22:01+00:00
People need to realize, Framework laptops are atrociously overpriced, terrible in terms of specs, loud, unwieldy, and not robust. It's a bad company that just rides on being in vogue with the tech crowd who see the word "repairability" and go nuts over it.

for 2k euros the author could have gotten a maxed out 16 inch m5 pro with:
10-Core CPU
10-Core GPU
24GB Unified Memory
1TB SSD Storage

This setup is superior to framework in basically every conceivable way (better power efficiency, more ram, more storage, better GPU, better multithreading, better single thread perf, more durable, cheaper).

If you are buying a framework you might as well set 300$ on fire and buy a macbook instead.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-12-26 03:22:47+00:00
I'd like to get a full QPSK based OFDM modulator/demodulator implemented in an FPGA. Means improving my Verilog skills, my FPGA tool familiarity, and really understand how to implement OFDM modulators.

Create a blog and post at least 8 times to it over the next 12 months, which would be improving my skills with writing and illustration.

Design at least two boards and get them through the prototype stage into bringup and running.

Become conversational in Ukrainian.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-26 03:22:58+00:00
> I bought a purpose-specific, old model iphone from "Back Market" with no SIM card, very briefly allowed it wifi access long enough to download the "Lingo" app, then set the phone to airplane mode. Dedicated, throwaway email and AppleID.

None of this actually matters if you went through the steps to use the app. The app is designed such that you agree to the terms before you can use it.

You can use all the throwaway emails, devices, VPNs, and other tricks in the world, but unless you can reliably demonstrate to a court that you were utilizing the app in a way that didn’t involve accepting any terms of service then they could simply demonstrate that it’s part of their app flow.

Even using tricks to utilize the device outside of the app wouldn’t help, because they could simply demonstrate that you weren’t using it as designed or intended.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-12-26 03:23:24+00:00
I want to build the AGI god in order to bring abundance, wealth, and prosperity to all of humanity.

Aside from that, I'd like to shore up the cracks or gaps in my mathematical foundations, and learn more advanced mathematics.

I'm still really confused about thermodynamics so that's another topic that I would like to revisit. I've never neen able to convince myself that our current understanding is correct.

Honestly, I want to read and study more college level textbooks about every single subject.
by jasoneckert | 2025-12-26 03:24:04+00:00
I've been an Asahi user since the early stages of the project when it used Arch. Today, I run Fedora Asahi Remix on a Mac Studio M1 Ultra with the Sway desktop, and it truly has been the perfect Linux workstation in every way.

https://github.com/jasoneckert/sway-dotfiles/blob/main/Asahi...
by LooseMarmoset | 2025-12-26 03:24:26+00:00
I think the problem is that non-divergent people really cannot comprehend an inability to perceive non-verbal communication. Nonverbal communication is like breathing, or eating - it's something that just works for them; they don't have to think about it. It's scary and weird to them when they meet people that can't do it.

Then there are those of us for whom social situations are a 3-billion-line case/esac statement.

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people just see what, to them, is obnoxious or boorish behavior. So, divergent people must first understand that they are divergent and what that means, and then they must try to put themselves in the shoes of the people they interact with. Is it fair? Life isn't fair - but you either want to fit in and interact reasonably, or you don't.

Somehow, I managed to get married. My wife helped me understand what I was missing - it was like gaining eyesight after never having it or even understanding eyesight was a thing people had.

Yes, many people lack empathy. That is no excuse for you (or me!) to learn and use empathy.
by EvansWilson | 2025-12-26 03:24:37+00:00
Cathie Wood and ARK Invest are back on the offensive. The latest portfolio data reveals a decisive strategy: a massive recommitment to the "Magnificent Seven" AI leaders and a series of surprising new entries in fintech and crypto infrastructure.

Cathie Wood stocks bought: The AI Supercycle Bet

The most striking trend in the latest filings is the sheer volume of Cathie Wood stocks bought within the semiconductor and autonomous driving sectors. Despite already being her largest holding, Wood increased her position in Tesla (TSLA) by a staggering 16.64%, adding over 512,000 shares. Tesla now commands 9.5% of the entire portfolio, signaling her unwavering belief in the robotaxi thesis.

But the buying didn't stop there. After previously trimming chip stocks, ARK is aggressively re-loading on hardware. The fund increased its stake in NVIDIA (NVDA) by 15.06% and AMD by 12.92%. Even Amazon (AMZN) saw a healthy boost of 6.85%. This coordinated buying spree suggests Wood believes the AI hardware rally has a "second leg" that investors cannot afford to miss.

Shocking New Entries: Klarna, Alibaba, and Crypto Mining

Beyond the big names, the "New Buy" column offers some fascinating insights into ARK’s future roadmap.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR): In a bold move into crypto infrastructure, ARK opened a massive new position here, instantly making it 2.31% of the portfolio.

The Return to China: Perhaps the most surprising addition is Alibaba (BABA). After largely exiting Chinese equities years ago, Wood has initiated a fresh buy, suggesting she sees deep value in the battered tech giant.
Fintech IPO Plays: The fund also acquired a stake in Klarna Group (KLAR), likely positioning for the anticipated IPO of the "Buy Now, Pay Later" giant.

The Verdict: Cathie Wood is pivoting from defensive positioning back to high-beta aggression. By loading up on Tesla, Nvidia, and speculative crypto miners, she is positioning ARK for a potential liquidity-fueled breakout in 2025.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-12-26 03:24:55+00:00
CUDA Tile is an open source MLIR Dialect so it wouldn't take much to write MLIR transforms to map it from the Tile IR to TOSA or gpu + vector + some amdgpu or other specialty dialects.

The Tile dialect is pretty much independent of the nvidia ecosystem so all it takes is one good set of MLIR transform passes to run anything on the CUDA stack that compiles to tile out of the nvidia ecosystem prison.

So if anything this is actually a massive opportunity to escape vendor lock in if it catches on in the CUDA ecosystem.