MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dancrystalbeach | 2025-12-28 19:53:05+00:00
I’ve been a Polars bro for most of the last few years. Why? It’s Rust-based, fast, DataFrame-centric, just the way I like it. It also had the excellent feature, right from the start, of Lazy Execution. A few years ago, maybe two, I actually put Polars into production, running on Airflow, working with S3 and reading Delta Lake tables.

I was in love.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-28 19:53:10+00:00
I imagined truman show / scenes from truman show where they show ads from your last line.

Spoiler alert if you haven't watched truman

But That is incredibly uncanny and I think this is the reason why, I think truman must have caught what's happening and also I saw this youtube video trying to explain that truman knew about the show the whole time and the scene and the time he was digging dirt in the first scenes of the movie, he was actually digging his escape route.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mCXYfv-URg
by stephenlf | 2025-12-28 19:53:28+00:00
It’s an interesting challenge. Modern recommendation systems grew powerful because of enormous amounts of instant feedback. You can capture clicks and view time on the web. You don’t get that in books.

I see three possible solutions:

1. Google approach: scrape the web for book recommendations and somehow create an ML recommendation system that’s better than Goodread’s
2. Pandora Radio approach: (semi-)manually create classifiers for books (genre, tone, character traits, etc.) and build a recommendation system with that.
3. Practical approach: find book reviewers whose opinions you trust and follow their recommendations.
by morkalork | 2025-12-28 19:53:35+00:00
"We have AI therapists, most of the time it helps but sometimes it convinces the patients to kill themselves instead. Is the AI good or evil? Should it be allowed to continue to exist knowing it will inevitably kill again?"

Sounds more like the plot line of a 60s sci-fi novel or old Star Trek episode. What would the prime directive say? Haha
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-28 19:54:02+00:00
> Well, you're very much wrong about that. The cat can be put back into the bag if we want to. It certainly happened before.

Name a single technology that was invented, people figured out the drawbacks where bigger than the benefits, and then humanity just stopped caring about it altogether? Not even the technology with the biggest drawback we've created so far (literally make the earth inhospitable if deployed at scale) apparently been important enough to do so with, so I'm eager to hear what specific cats have been put back in what hats, if you'd entertain me.
by weslleyskah | 2025-12-28 19:54:32+00:00
I feel the same. I was trying to make some "art" with shaders.

I've got inspired by Zbrush and Maya, but I don't think I can learn what is necessary to build even a small clone of these gigantic pieces of software, unless I work with this on a day to day basis.

The performance of Zbrush is so insane... it is mesmerizing. I don't think I can go deep into this while treading university.
by Animats | 2025-12-28 19:54:42+00:00
The sites that think they need huge numbers of small network interactions are probably collecting too much detailed data about user interaction. Like capturing cursor movement. That might be worth doing for 1% of users to find hot spots, but capturing it for all of them is wasteful.

A lot of analytic data is like that. If you captured it for 1% of users you'd find out what you needed to know at 1% of the cost.
by ThomasFuhringer | 2025-12-28 19:54:59+00:00
I put together a simple Markdown reader using the functionality of Qt.
Nothing to install, just one small executable you can run from the command line to quickly view a Markdown file.
Also supports remote requests.
It has no dependencies, so it runs on Linux, Windows and Mac as long as Qt6 is installed. Compiling and linking it statically with Qt would also avoid that requirement.
by frm88 | 2025-12-28 19:55:12+00:00
Tesla is not uniquely bad - however, it is one of 5 companies that actually already maintains a kill-switch functionality: https://daxstreet.com/list/275984/5-cars-with-factory-kill-s.... The other 4 are BMW, GM, Ford and Chrysler. The tech is there and ready and can be used.

As for selling data: have look at this table from Mozilla Org, particularly the table where they list the worst offenders re. privacy: https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/arti...
by smegger001 | 2025-12-28 19:55:24+00:00
yeah before potato they had lots of lots of turnips and rutabagas, it is little wonder they went out exploring the world looking for anything better to eat. the new world gave tonnes of food not just nightshade family plant mentioned earlier (gp left out eggplant btw) corn, sweet potato, chocolate, sunflowers, and pumpkins, squash, peanuts, pineapple, cranberry and turkey.
by grishy | 2025-12-28 19:55:33+00:00
Hi HN, I'm the maintainer.

Anytype is a local-first notes app, and its sync backend is open source. In practice, self-hosting that backend can feel like wiring together a bunch of moving parts. I built any-sync-bundle to make the "run your own Anytype Sync" path closer to a single, reproducible deploy.

What it does:

- Packages the official Anytype sync modules into a single binary or container.

- On first run, it generates `./data/client-config.yml` that you import into the Anytype apps.

In README a shot tl;dr part.

A few concrete details:

- Only two ports need to be reachable: TCP 33010 (DRPC) and UDP 33020 (QUIC).

- Local storage is the default (embedded BadgerDB, no extra deps).

- Optional S3 mode uses the upstream Anytype S3 implementation (AWS S3 / MinIO / DO Spaces / Cloudflare R2 /
Backblaze B2).

- There’s an “all-in-one” image (embedded MongoDB/Redis) and a “minimal” image (external MongoDB/Redis).
by Bad_Initialism | 2025-12-28 19:55:40+00:00
It won't run on a MacBook Air M1 running Sonoma. Only Tahoe.

Come along with me! We'll destroy the planet so fast that we'll all be cinders before you know it.

All we have to do is gobble the marketing speak so fast and make everything shiny and new, and we'll all be dead before you can say "Greta Thunberg."

Come die with me for thin and for stylish. Kill the animals with me for "sleek".

Die. With. Me. Now! I made an app!
by somenameforme | 2025-12-28 19:56:13+00:00
> Both are an excellent way to screw up heart health.

Plain black coffee has, somewhat surprisingly, been repeatedly demonstrated to be very healthy - with substantial reductions in all-cause mortality as well as the chances of developing cardiovascular disease. I tend to live somewhat spartanly in terms of consumption, and wanted to drop my coffee habit, but looking up the data on it left me dropping that idea real fast.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-28 19:56:23+00:00
Let me add a few more search providers

brave search
ecosia (environment focused)
qwant
mojeek (a little bit obscure)
swisscows (once again obscure)

There is also searx and searxng and their public instances which actually are a mix of many of the search providers I listed about.

Giving references to anyone whose interested perhaps but duckduckgo is a good option to start out and its something that I myself use.
by massysett | 2025-12-28 19:57:01+00:00
Buy a cookbook. Keep it on your shelf. When you want a spinach salad recipe, look in the index.

Or, subscribe to America’s Test Kitchen. Search their website for a spinach salad recipe.

But you’d rather have a free spinach salad recipe - you want the Internet indexed for free, and you want someone to deliver the recipe for free. And you don’t want ads to pay their bills. In other words, you want something for nothing.
by RyanHamilton | 2025-12-28 19:57:03+00:00
My favorite quote from this video, that I wish more languages would embrace is:

"I went from application to application trying to use the same techniques. The most encouraging thing is that they would work. After 2-3 years during which time the language had grown by accretion, it grew and grew, eventually I found it was shrinking.

Essentially the idea was once you look at enough different applications you begin to see what is the general notion. So I came to generalisations that allowed me to take out whole chunks of special things I had put in.

Furthermore to my surprise it turns out the general ideas are usually much simpler to understand than any of the special cases."
by dijit | 2025-12-28 19:57:17+00:00
> The market has exploded in the 12 years between UT2004 and The Division.

Yes, and you can’t assert that it didn’t happen at least in part due to efforts to make games more accessible.

You couldn’t release a game like UT2004 today with the same UX and expect competitive sales. Even if you did, the experience would scale very poorly.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-28 19:58:08+00:00
hey! Quick suggestion but if you create an firefox extension, please open source it. It immensely boosts my trust in an extension and I doubt that it would be considered a shill (atleast in my book) if you open source it and I don't think that you earn from the extension but if its open source and people like it, it opens up a pathway where people can donate if this extension helps their problems!
by jeanlucas | 2025-12-28 19:58:28+00:00
Your comment makes sense to me and it feels like a Windows trade-off: optimizing for the average user while eroding power-user controls; Mark Russinovich has talked about the need for explicit, advanced modes instead of burying power-user behavior behind heuristics in one of his videos about what he would change in Windows.

Google could benefit from the same idea: an expert mode where explicit signals override inference with genuinely usable advanced search features (language, filters, etc) as first-class tools.
by cogogo | 2025-12-28 19:58:52+00:00
Zero intention to speak badly of the deceased… Just an anecdote - I started at IBM in the early 2000s right out of college. At the time his immediate legacy was the divestiture of a big chunk of IBMs real estate. As a new IBMer that meant hot-desking if I went to the office and a very liberal work from home policy 20 years before its time. I love work from home but experienced first hand how hard it can be on young people. In my first professional job I maybe saw my bosses (yes plural because of org changes and the IBM matrix) twice a year.
by Flere-Imsaho | 2025-12-28 19:59:40+00:00
Our whole tech stack is foreign owned and built. Everything from the CPU to the operating system and more. We live in a globalised system and there's no undoing that. The very idea of "nation" is being challenged.

To me the NHS is a hang-over from the 20th century, out of date and struggling to keep up. A new system of health care needs to take over. I'm not smart enough to know what that is, but I hope it happens soon.
by mrandish | 2025-12-28 20:00:09+00:00
This article seems like a purposeful PR 'leak' attempting to deflect criticism of the deal structure. I'm skeptical about the approximate numbers claimed but even if they're ballpark accurate, I suspect the generally rosy impression the article gives is leaving out a lot of non-rosy parts.

Even if this particular deal concluded like the Grinch movie with Jensen showering uncharacteristically generous gifts on the residents of Whoville, ultimately this type of asset acquisition deal undermines the 'startup promise' the valley was built on.
by QuercusMax | 2025-12-28 20:00:25+00:00
For similar psychological reasons I started keeping detailed notes of everything I did at work, at a time when it felt like I wasn't making any progress anywhere. Just seeing a record of when I helped someone else fix a bug, or all the times I moved the ball just by an inch or so - it really makes a difference.

If I have 50 pages of things I spent time on, I must actually be doing something!
by daft_pink | 2025-12-28 20:01:10+00:00
I hear you. There is obviously a lot of tension between price and performance. I think the introduction of boards with larger and larger ram specs really pushed the cost just before the pandemic and then scarcity spiked things even more. As when I purchased the rpi4, I got the maximum RAM and that became expensive.

However, SD Cards are really terrible devices to run a general purpose computer on and they are designed for storing large files like photos, videos and mp3’s sequentially not the SWAP, logs, and databases that a full operating system is constantly writing and accessing in a random fashion.

I think if you are running a base 2gb, then maybe absolute value makes sense, but once you start hitting the larger RAM configutations, an M2 slot is a no brainer.

I think the cheapest working SBC is really the zero line.
by thisisit | 2025-12-28 20:02:14+00:00
YouTube always had a slop problem. Previously it took time, people, money and effort to create a slop channel. That’s why it was mostly run by content farms based out of Eastern Europe. For example 5 minute craft based out of Cyprus. With AI creating slop and content farming is easier than ever. Now it can be run at scale by anyone.

As such the only purpose is to make money.

YouTube has started banning some AI channels and maybe with time put serious restrictions. Or maybe not, at least not for big channels because 5 min crafts continues to exist despite producing most bizarre, outrageous and down right dangerous content. YouTube needs that sweet advertisement money.
by mFixman | 2025-12-28 20:03:09+00:00
Robin Pearson ended the 1000-year long epic of The History of Byzantium earlier this year: https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/

The podcast started as a sequel to Mike Duncan's classic The History of Rome, and in my opinion surpassed it. Where THoR eventually falls into the narrative trap of turning into "The Lives of Roman Emperors", THoB spends a lot of time talking about economic, demographic, societal, and technological changes within the Empire and the world.

Extremely recommended if you want a proper history podcast.
by morning-coffee | 2025-12-28 20:03:36+00:00
> I know it’s thermal throttling because I can see in iStat Menus that my CPU usage is 100% while the power usage in watts goes down.

When I read this I wondered "Why isn't core temperature alone not a reliable indicator of thermal throttling?". Isn't that the state variable the thermal controller is directly aiming to regulate by not letting it exceed some threshold?
by akerl_ | 2025-12-28 20:03:39+00:00
Can you give an example of an email provider or technology that’s doing GPG or SMIME at the gateway? I’ve never seen that configuration and it doesn’t seem like it would make sense.

Either it’s just theatre, encrypting emails internally and then stripping it when they’re delivered, or you still need every recipient to be managing their own keys anyways to be able to decrypt/validate what they’re reading.
by tolerance | 2025-12-28 20:04:42+00:00
> It's like writing something with a commodity Bic ballpoint vs a fancy fountain pen with expensive ink. The style of the prose itself is not the valuable artifact, at least not here (it may be in certain places e.g. poems and novels), unless you think well-written/well-spoken people are automatically more veritable or intelligent, which is just as shallow as lookism.

I think this simplifies the entire discipline of literary criticism and I suppose every other related science. You can write the same prose with both the Bic and the fountain pen; the quality of pen only affects the material quality of the writing—the ink—but not the style (rhetoric? eloquence?) of the writing (i.e., the contents of language, how it’s conveyed, etc.). We aren’t arguing whether it’s appropriate to depreciate writing generated by an LLM to using speech-to-text as opposed to using a keyboard.

The style of the prose does contribute to the value of the artifact and speaks to the repute of the reader in addition. Readers care about what you say and how you say it too.

Nonetheless I as well as others have good reason to interrogate the intrinsic value of LLM-assisted writing especially when it refers to writing like the one being discussed which I reckon qualifies as a part of the “literary non-fiction” genre. So it’s apt that we criticize this writing on those grounds. Many here have even said that they would prefer the 100% genuinely-styled version of the author’s experience which is apparently only 1.5 points lower than whatever their verbal acumen is. [1] Which I imagine places them around the rank of your average American...and I assume so with charity toward the Americans.

While I think some LLM accusations are lazily applied I think communities such as this one benefit from these discussions when waged critically. Especially when status and social capital are of implicit interest.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46411214
by gbuk2013 | 2025-12-28 20:05:09+00:00
IIRC V8 actually does some tricks under the hood to avoid malocs which is why Node.js can be be unexpectedly fast (I saw some benchmarks where it was only 4x of equivalent C code) - for example it recycles objects of the same shape (which is why it is beneficial not to modify object structure in hot code paths).
by Natanael_L | 2025-12-28 20:05:34+00:00
Asking for an equivalent to GPG is like asking for an equivalent of a Swiss knife with unshielded chainsaws and laser cutters.

Stop asking for it, for your own good, please. If you don't understand the entire spec you can't use it safely.

You want special purpose tools. Signal for communication, Age for safer file encryption, etc.

What exact problems did you have with age? You're not explaining how it broke anything. Are you compiling yourself?
Age has yubikey support and can do all you described.

> if your fancy tool has less than 5 years of proven maintenance record, it won't do. Encryption is for the long term. I want to be able to read my stuff in 15-30 years.

This applies to algorithms, it does not apply to cryptographic software in the same way. The state of art changes fast, and while algorithms tend to stand for a long time these days there are significant changes in protocol designs and attack methods.

Downgrade protection, malleability protection, sidechannel protection, disambiguation, context binding, etc...

You want software to be implemented by experts using known best practices with good algorithms and audited by other experts.
by Lerc | 2025-12-28 20:05:56+00:00
Can you freely compose signed distance functions? Obviously people use them for + and - regularly. My intuition says you should be able to apply *, / and more as well.

and
sqrt( sdEquilateralTriangle(pos.xy, 10)**2 + sdCircle(pos.xz,10)**2 )

seems like there's scope for a nice little domain specific language to.

I think it would be interesting to have some composite operations that did probabilistic branching based upon a hashing RNG to conditionally combine shapes

something like

float thingy(pos,r) {
float more = infinity
float pseudoRandom = HashToUnit(pos)
if (pseudoRandom >0.5) {
float direction=randomAngleFromSeed(pseudoRandom+r)
more = thingy(pos+direction*r, r*0.75)
}
return min(circle(pos,r),more)
}
by Ari_Ugwu | 2025-12-28 20:06:22+00:00
It makes a kind of intuitive sense to me. Given I have no real understanding of the topic. Perfect click bait to get me to feel smart waxing intellectual on the toilet.

It’s interesting to think this information being passed is something like “Heads up. This dude does a lot of exercise which means it must be crucial to survival wherever we are.”
by kristianp | 2025-12-28 20:06:50+00:00
> potential contraction in the global smartphone market alongside an increase in average selling prices (ASP). In 2026, in our moderate downside scenario, we could see the market contract by 2.9%. In our pessimistic downside scenario, it could be as bad as 5.2%.

> PC market contract by 4.9% compared with a 2.4% year-on-year decline in the November forecast. Under a more pessimistic scenario, the decline could deepen to 8.9%.
by Barrin92 | 2025-12-28 20:07:02+00:00
>When you are literally dying the last thing on your mind should be whether some blogger deems your thoughts valuable or cheap.

to be fair when you're dying the other last thing on your mind should probably be your regrets, so there is some truth in the article.

When people go through dramatic events, not necessarily limited to their literal death, there's often a false sense of clarity. It's not uncommon for people with trauma or loss to suddenly have some conversion of one kind or the other, and it's rarely as good of an idea as they think it is. It seems more sincere because for the individual it's tied to some important event, but I think it's often the opposite.
by slg | 2025-12-28 20:07:03+00:00
>I don't think anyone here tried to use it that way

That's certainly the impression you gave with your response. You didn't engage with the clear example of harmful behavior or debate what various numbers on either side of the equation would mean. Your approach was to circumvent OP's direct question to talk philosophy. That suggests you think there are some philosophical outlooks that could similarly sidestep the question of a therapist pushing people to kill themselves, which is a rather simple and unambiguous example of harm that could be reduced.
by PrairieFire | 2025-12-28 20:07:31+00:00
This is the “answer” in plain sight and I agree. The iPhone is the beating heart of the modern Apple empire. Tim Cook has been a vocal proponent of AR since the summer of Pokemon Go. That combined with Meta getting traction with their Rayban line is almost certainly at the center of an overarching internal strategy at Apple to ensure they are positioned to maintain or even grow position as end user mobile computing form factors shift beyond the traditional smartphone. Getting the ux and app ecosystem ready visually is what ‘caused’ Liquid Glass.
by andruby | 2025-12-28 20:07:35+00:00
Not OP, but one example could perhaps be American Prometheus and the Oppenheimer film. I would consider them "dominant Western narratives" about the origin of the nuclear bomb.

And like the person said, there is nothing inherently wrong with such a narrative. Like them I'm also curious about non-western narratives.

If most groups, cultures, religions, countries were more curious about "non-native" stories, maybe we'd all be a bit more open-minded and understanding.
by bzb | 2025-12-28 20:08:22+00:00
A micro recommendation for This Week in Virology (TWiV). Essentially a journal club for virology papers, I think they nail the conversational/technical balance that’s so hard to get right.

Incidentally, TWiV changed my life. I was working as a cabinet maker with no college degree when I gave it a shot, on a whim. The host’s refusal to shy away from technical depth convinced me that I could learn hard things. 10 years I have a biochemistry degree and work as a machine learning engineer.
by jmclnx | 2025-12-28 20:08:37+00:00
I believe all the criticism of GnuPG is due to the fact most people grew up with Microsoft or Apple, so they are use to hand-holding.

If you read the various how-tos out there it is not that hard to use, just people do not want to read anything more than 2 lines. That is the main issue.

My only complaint is Thunderbird now uses its own homegrown encryption, thus locking you into their email client. Seems almost all email clients have their own way of encryption, confusing the matters even more. I now use mutt because it can be easily likned to GnuPG and it does not lock me into a specific client.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-12-28 20:08:45+00:00
I don't think I want anyone quitting their jobs over this. Is democracy working or not? Let's make it illegal then. If people who vote are just not aware of this, then there needs to be a more organized awareness campaign, how can we help with that?

I don't think all this "lone hero" b.s. by engineers is useful. I don't need someone martyring their careers.