MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bflesch | 2025-12-06 15:36:48+00:00
Exactly.

I know that not everybody spent 10 years fiddling with CSS so I can understand why a project might have a skill gap with regards to aesthetics. I'm not trying to judge their overall competence, just wanted to say that there are so many quick wins in the design it hurts me a bit to see it. And due to nature of open source projects I was talking about "empowering" a designer to improve it because oftentimes you submit a PR for aesthetic improvements and then notice that the project leaders don't care about these things, which is sad.
by Jascon71 | 2025-12-06 15:36:55+00:00
This working paper extends the Resolution Cosmology framework to the microscopic sector, proposing that the fine structure constant (α) is not a fundamental input to physics but a derived efficiency ratio of the "resolution cascade"—the sequential commitment of quantum possibility to geometric record.

Anchored by the Pokorny et al. (2020) experimental demonstration of quantum resolution dynamics, and utilizing a rigorous Shannon channel capacity derivation, the framework models α as the efficiency of the resolution channel bounded by thermodynamic noise. This inversion reveals that the observed "stiffness" of physical constants (β ≈ 10⁻⁵) is actually a direct measurement of the exponential dominance of primordial Planck-epoch constraints over current thermal noise (SNR ≈ e¹⁰⁰'⁰⁰⁰).

The paper yields a specific, falsifiable prediction for the redshift evolution of the fine structure constant (Δα/α ≈ -β ln(1+z)) consistent with current quasar absorption constraints. Furthermore, by integrating the Tolman temperature relation derived in the companion framework, it demonstrates that spatial variation of α must correlate with large-scale matter distribution, offering a unified explanation for the Webb dipole . This document supplements the main "Resolution Cosmology v5.2" framework and is released as a work in progress to stimulate discussion on the informational origins of physical constants.

I will be hanging around to answer any questions you may have; happy Saturday!
by mschuster91 | 2025-12-06 15:37:28+00:00
> Perspective is important. Does life happen to you or are you in control of your life? Are you a victim or do you take control?

Given that a lot of today's trouble are effectively caused by our economic systems being utterly rigged and heading for a hard crash - the former. Elections increasingly don't matter in practice, because fringes aside it's all the same shit just in different degrees of brown.

The only way left to take meaningful control is violence, which is consequently what we're increasingly seeing everywhere - be it escalating protests (e.g. BLM), individual murders (Luigi, Kirk) or executive overreach (ICE, police violence in general).

And that's not just a contemporary thing. Historically, the scale and brutality of violence has closely correlated with economic and wealth disparities - the French Revolution, the violent strikes around the turn of the 20th century and the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany are all directly linked to too few people becoming way too rich while the masses struggled to survive.
by quesera | 2025-12-06 15:37:51+00:00
I agree that it's not all bad.

But if I had to choose one or the other, I'd choose no ads.

And that's only comparing "then" to "now". I'm confident that "now" will get worse in the future, making "then" all the more appealing!

I'm all for the idea of small content creators being able to afford to create their work. I wish content creation did not attract so many people who only do it for money, though. Maybe this would be achievable if the rewards were lower. Advertising sucks all the air out of the room for alternative funding mechanisms. If ads were eliminated, there would be other mechanisms.

However, back in reality, I'll concede that (e.g.) Google's massive ad revenue has given them the ability to try a thousand other things, a handful of which will be long-term valuable to the world. But the cost is immense.
by ModernMech | 2025-12-06 15:37:56+00:00
I agree with you on the total ad ban, but this has more about schizophrenia than ads. I've had to care for someone with schizoaffective disorder and she would tell me the smoke detectors were spying on us because of the red light in it, so we had to cover it with electrical tape or she would become too distressed. She told me the cats were spies with CIA microchips in them. The fridge ad is incidental -- if weren't the fridge it would have been something else.
by escanda | 2025-12-06 15:38:08+00:00
lisp-1 (s) give me the chills: very much prefer doubled namespaces. Though these days I focus on systems security or threat analysis. I still fondly remember the days where I could launch Emacs with sbcl and write some Montecarlo simulations on Common Lisp with electric-parens haha Those were the days of stimulating learning
by karmakaze | 2025-12-06 15:39:25+00:00
I've only used a few integrated productivity apps and generally found them less useful to me than less integrated ones. The clearest comparison is Notion which has so many ways to store information that I'm always misplacing knowledge. The places where I can effectively store and retrieve knowledge is Google Drive/Docs or GitHub projects/issues/PRs.

I tend to also not like individual parts of an integrated productivity tool but everyone is expected to use most everything. Basically the bundled MS Teams problem. Integrated productivity isn't selling you the best of each, they're selling you the best integration of maybe-not-your-favorite tools. Just my hot take, YMMV.
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-06 15:40:10+00:00
https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/12/4/503 states that OABI support is quite obscure these days and will probably be outright unbuildable at some time in the future, but what you've found still qualifies as a (likely minor) security issue that should be properly reported as such. The kernel page on security reporting is https://docs.kernel.org/process/security-bugs.html
by Jascon71 | 2025-12-06 15:40:29+00:00
And for those that think "crank", one suggestion. There is the main paper, as well as supplemental supporting papers on Zenodo. Just download them. Read them. Or...if you don't have time, feed all of them to a reasoning AI and ask for analysis. Ask if it breaks GR. Ask if it is coherent.

Hint. It is. And it is falsifiable...not with stuff that maybe exists either...data that exists now or will in the very near future.
by Jascon71 | 2025-12-06 15:40:48+00:00
one suggestion. There is the main paper, as well as supplemental supporting papers on Zenodo. Just download them. Read them. Or...if you don't have time, feed all of them to a reasoning AI and ask for analysis. Ask if it breaks GR. Ask if it is coherent. Hint. It is. And it is falsifiable...not with stuff that maybe exists either...data that exists now or will in the very near future.
by Blackthorn | 2025-12-06 15:40:48+00:00
Anderton's (a music retailer in the UK) has an enormously popular YouTube channel (1M subs) which is basically just them demoing their stock while shooting the breeze. It's 100% an advertisement, but it's the sort that most people (including myself, who otherwise hates ads) is fine with because you have to seek it out.
by firesteelrain | 2025-12-06 15:40:53+00:00
You can use this site

https://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/downloads.html

And all the files are here

https://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/16.x/x86/release/

Under a HTTPS connection. I am not at a terminal to check the cert with OpenSSL.

I don’t see any way to check the hash OOB

Also this same thing came up a few years ago

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/reli...
by Jascon71 | 2025-12-06 15:40:54+00:00
one suggestion. There is the main paper, as well as supplemental supporting papers on Zenodo. Just download them. Read them. Or...if you don't have time, feed all of them to a reasoning AI and ask for analysis. Ask if it breaks GR. Ask if it is coherent. Hint. It is. And it is falsifiable...not with stuff that maybe exists either...data that exists now or will in the very near future.
by jlward4th | 2025-12-06 15:41:18+00:00
I recently discovered a similar concerning security issue with my KVM. In my case it was a pretty standard KVM for multiple machines to share a keyboard, mouse, and screen but also Ethernet. One day while looking at my home network I noticed the KVM had its own IP and was transferring GBs of data everyday. I quickly blocked it from my network. But having used it for a number of months I worried that with screen capture and access to all my input devices, someone could have gotten access to pretty much everything I use. I wasn’t able to figure out if any data was actually being sent off my network and I really didn’t want to put myself in any more risk so I just threw it in an electronics recycling bin. Pretty scary what a network connected KVM could maliciously do.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-06 15:41:30+00:00
No, because the drive circuit for a speaker is the opposite of the circuit for a microphone. The output stage of a speaker amplifier is just that, an output. The only way to record audio from a speaker, which is totally possible, is to have also purposely built an input stage also attached to the speaker. Which at that point you might as well just use a microphone...

Audio input and output are not reversible.
by f13f1f1f1 | 2025-12-06 15:41:55+00:00
They are useful if they are understood properly. For example different "similar" groups respond to different treatments differently. Social phobia responds very well to exposure therapy, anti-social personality disorder does not. If you are able to follow the distinctions you are able to leverage more effective treatments. I don't think they have any use outside of psychological treatment though. This is a great video on a good way of breaking down how personality disorders in general are broken down and function and are separated. https://youtu.be/4mgifm3ftl8
by sneak | 2025-12-06 15:41:59+00:00
I think my point was lost, then. I agree with you there is a HUGE falloff in productivity ROI above maybe $2k/year.

My point is that the extreme right end of the slider, where you go from “diminishing returns” to “no return whatsoever”, still costs less than leasing a Kia. It costs less than my minsicule shabby office in the sketchy part of town. Compared to serious computer business revenues, it isn’t even worth spending the time to talk about. I spend more on housekeepers or car insurance.

Given that, why not just smash the slider to the right and stop worrying about it? For serious computer professionals the difference between a $2k/year hardware budget and a $7k/year hardware budget does not matter.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-06 15:43:02+00:00
> The Nextcloud iOS app does it.

Searching for "nextcloud ios background sync" shows a whole bunch of forum posts and bug reports about it not working well unless you have the application open.

One issue (https://github.com/nextcloud/ios/issues/2225) been open since 2022, seems to still be not working properly. Another (https://github.com/nextcloud/ios/issues/2497) been open since 2023.

For something that works well it seems like a ton of people have a lot of issues with it. Are you sure you're on the latest iOS version? Seems like people experience the issues when they're on a later version.
by tiborsaas | 2025-12-06 15:44:38+00:00
How do I know if I'm neurotypical? I have some challenges, I've done a few tests, but I could just be a lazy neurotypical bastard. I think if you go to therapy you can get to take yourself more seriously, look at the signs, self reflections and process that. Now that can easily lead to "I need to get diagnosed with XYZ". Just to be sure.

It's not about the rising rates, that could be explained in other ways.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-06 15:44:39+00:00
Exactly this. I’m still friends with my former manager at AWS who is now an L7 “very important person” over a service there and another former coworker who is a tech lead over another service. He’s an L6. I can guarantee you neither of them are being micromanaged and have mostly autonomy. I’m sure they have to deal with OP1 goals (? It’s been awhile I think that’s the term).

Hell I was a lowly L5 consultant who they only entrusted to small projects and slices over larger projects (fair I only had 2 years of AWS experience at the time) and no one micromanaged me as long as I was doing my job. I flew out to customers sites by myself to lead work and my manager rarely knew what I was doing. I would go weeks without talking to him.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-12-06 15:44:50+00:00
It doesn't strike me as that useful to have a hidden microphone in a KVM product as most of the time, they're going to be stuck in server rooms with just lots of fan noise to record.

Far more of an issue would be any kind of keylogger built into the software, which is why it's best to go for devices that support open source software.
by dwoldrich | 2025-12-06 15:44:57+00:00
Now imagine every other aspect of modern life is enshittified similarly to some extent and all being dialed up. Nothing is sacred, and talk to the contrary is laughable. Government is a scummy grift, every big (money) cause is full of unaudited scammers. I hope you are never passionate about a pet government policy!

You can buy local or do it yourself, but all of those are squeezed at the margins by enshittified inputs.

Before even seeking to fix the problem, I try to work on me.

First, I try (difficult) to not be sucked into useless wallowing, which keeps me exactly where the enemy wants me to be. I tend to skim 'news' headlines now, if that.

Second, in my career I strive to produce uncommon quality so as to not add to the problem.

I love to stand out and feel proud of my work. It makes me sad when coworkers are concerned/confused when I put in extra effort. I know where they're coming from. No one notices nor cares at $megacorp, and my work is internal and humble.

I do it for self-improvement and to make the time I spend working for them worthwhile to me.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-06 15:45:05+00:00
It's more like we've fell into a raging torrent screaming down river at 30km/h and the best we can do is a backstroke 1km/h upstream.

I mean, I'm not saying it's impossible to slow it down or stop it, but I feel that in itself would require it's own dystopian level of enforcement as it opens up game theory to the one that defects and progresses technology as the winner in being able to control others.

We flew towards the sun, and went to high, and then the sun swallowed us.
by iso1631 | 2025-12-06 15:45:07+00:00
But these cameras have been around for 30+ years, including in the US. Why is it suddenly in the news.

The cameras don't track me either. They track a car. They have no idea who is driving the car.

> If it were released that everyone's ring cameras were being fed into some NSA program running facial recognition to track citizens movement I'm sure they would be upset about that too

That's the interesting bit, how did ANPR get into the US public consciousness now, rather than over a decade ago when it started to be used on toll roads
by cs97jjm3 | 2025-12-06 15:45:23+00:00
I'm a Business Analyst and kept solving the same problems manually every week: calculating release dates from velocity, figuring out what fits in a sprint based on MoSCoW priorities, working out meeting times across timezones. Built an MCP server to handle it. 17 tools including:

Release date calculator (story points remaining + velocity = ship date) Working days calculator (UK bank holidays, extensible) MoSCoW capacity planner ("50 points this sprint, what can we commit to?") MoSCoW dependency validator (catches Must-haves depending on Won't items) Sprint date generator Velocity calculator with capacity adjustments User story formatter (As a.../I want.../So that... with Given/When/Then) Timezone converter + meeting time finder

Works with Claude Desktop. Node.js, MIT licensed. GitHub: https://github.com/cs97jjm3/ba-workflow-tools This is my third MCP server - built two others at work (date operations across 14 countries, web analyser with login). Happy to answer questions about building MCP tools or BA workflow automation.
by devrwoody | 2025-12-06 15:45:28+00:00
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by cxr | 2025-12-06 15:46:04+00:00
The donor's corneas were used for grafts for three others. The article states:

> The three patients’ grafts were removed, and one tested positive for rabies, the doctors said. None of the three patients had symptoms of rabies, but they were being treated with preventive drugs, the report said.¶ Since 1978, four organ donors have passed rabies to 13 organ recipients, the report said. Of the 13 recipients, six who received treatment for rabies survived. The seven others, who did not receive treatment, died.

Four of those seven were in an incident from May 2004, which you can read about here: <https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa043018>
by wavemode | 2025-12-06 15:46:23+00:00
Nobody's trying to sell you on anything. You again seem to be out-of-context with respect to the discussion being had.

The parent commenter stated that sum types work differently from a hypothetical float / NaN split, because compilers can't always "understand the code fully enough" to enforce checks. I simply responded that that is not true in principle, since you could just treat non-nan floats the same way that many languages treat non-null types.

Indeed, everything you're describing about non-nan floats applies equally to sum types - you can't operate on them unless you pattern match. You're highlighting the exact point I'm trying to make!

The fact that you consider this system "inconvenient", is entirely irrelevant to this discussion. Maybe the designer of Nim simply cares more about NaN-safety than you or I do. Who knows. Regardless, the original statement (that sum types and non-nan floats can't work the same way) is incorrect.
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-06 15:46:47+00:00
On one hand I wouldn't cheer for spreading lies, but if this specific post got Samsung to lay down where the ads appear and at which frequency, I'd see the positive side of it. In particular they're that less likely to actually silently move to full ads in the near future even if they planned to, now that they officially commented on it.

On the other hand, this was traditionally the role of art and fiction. Black Mirror was based on the premise of getting people to react to this kind of future, and it looks like it's either not working (anymore?) or we're past the point where hypothetical situations would grab our attention and we can do something about it.

On the third hand, I have no intention to buy a fridge with a screen on it, but if it becomes the mainstream offering will I be forking 10% or 20% to not have th screen, or if those will have significantly better features (better temperature management etc.). I also wished I wasn't looking at ads, but in practice the best educational content right now is sponsored by S**space.
by Aachen | 2025-12-06 15:47:11+00:00
Would you like this phone to run your own apps?

If you spend development time on the ecosystem, I could maybe pay your voucher (the 99€ downpayment part), then you can get the hardware on release at the discounted price they offer for backers

Edit: I'll probably miss any replies here. Email me on (rot13) wbyyn99@ytzf.ay. I'm offering this because imo it's important to have an alternative ecosystem to Android, considering the developments in the last year where it's becoming more like iOS. Other developers who are short on funds who read this should also feel free to reach out, though I'm not some super wealthy investor I can see about what I can do
by heavymemory | 2025-12-06 15:47:43+00:00
This started as a small experiment in structural rewriting. The basic idea is that you give the system two or three before and after examples, press Teach, and it learns that transformation and applies it to new inputs.

It is not an LLM and it is not a template system. There is a small learned component that decides when a rule applies, and the rest is a deterministic structural rewrite engine.

There are a few demo modes:

TEACH: learn a structural rule from examples COMPOSE: apply several learnt rules together TRANSFER: use the same rule in different symbolic domains SIMPLIFY: multi step rewriting CODEMOD: for example you can teach lodash.get to optional chaining from two examples

Once a rule is learnt it generalises to inputs that are deeper or shaped differently from the examples you gave. Everything runs on CPU and learning happens in real time.

Demo: https://re.heavyweather.io
Show HN: ThinkMoon – AI Trading Assistant Using LLMs for Live Crypto Trading
by thinkmoon | 2025-12-06 15:48:16+00:00
I built ThinkMoon because I wanted to see if LLMs could actually make money trading crypto, not just talk about it.

It's an AI-powered trading platform where you can connect models from OpenRouter, OpenAI, or Anthropic to real markets and let them execute actual trades on Binance Futures.

How it works: the AI gets real-time market data (candles, order book, ticker), analyzes it, and outputs structured trading decisions. Then it actually executes - long/short positions with leverage up to 40x. Every single decision is logged with the full prompt, the AI's reasoning, and market snapshot at that moment.

What I'm most excited about is that you can create your own trading agents. You write or start from basic strategy prompts, pick your risk parameters, choose which cryptos to trade (BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, whatever), and let it run. You can even mix different LLMs and compare how they perform.

I also added Telegram and Slack notifications so you get alerts when trades happen. Plus a dashboard to track everything - live P&L, open positions, the AI's chain of thought.

The risk management side was important to me: stop-loss, take-profit, position limits, and a kill-switch if drawdown gets too high.

Currently working on our own custom LLM fine-tuned specifically for trading decisions. Early results are promising, better consistency than the general models.

Would love to hear what features you'd want in an AI trading assistant. What's missing from tools you've tried?
by Libidinalecon | 2025-12-06 15:49:54+00:00
I just can't imagine we are close to letting LLMs do electrical work.

What I notice that I don't see talked about much is how "steerable" the output is.

I think this is a big reason 1 shots are used as examples.

Once you get past 1 shots, so much of the output is dependent on the context the previous prompts have created.

Instead of 1 shots , try something that requires 3 different prompts on a subject with uncertainty involved. Do 4 or 5 iterations and often you will get wildly different results.

It doesn't seem like we have a word for this. A "hallucination" is when we know what the output should be and it is just wrong. This is like the user steers the model towards an answer but there is a lot of uncertainty in what the right answer even would be.

To me this always comes back to the problem that the models are not grounded in reality.

Letting LLMs do electric work without grounding in reality would be insane. No pun intended.