MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mitchellh | 2025-12-03 19:38:00+00:00
You can't build a house without the foundation (pun intended).

I said in the linked post that I remain the largest donor, but this helps lay bricks such that we can build a sustainable community that doesn't rely on me financially or technically. There simply wasn't a vehicle before that others could even join in financially. Now there is.

All of the above was mentioned in the post. If you want more details, please read it. I assume you didn't.

I'll begin some donor reach out and donor relationship work eventually. The past few months has been enough work simply coordinating this process, meeting with accountants and lawyers to figure out the right path forward, meeting with other software foundations to determine proper processes etc. I'm going to take a breather, then hop back in. :)
by unsignedint | 2025-12-03 19:38:09+00:00
A typical font contains around 7,000 characters. In everyday use, you rarely touch all of them—most situations stay comfortably within the realm of jōyō kanji. However, there are many edge cases, especially with personal names, where the required characters fall outside the jōyō set. Fonts must be prepared to handle all of these possibilities, including the less common name kanji.
by chaosharmonic | 2025-12-03 19:38:16+00:00
> RISC is China/Eastern

RISC-V was developed at UC Berkeley. It's roughly as Western as West realistically gets, short of being made in Hawaii.

> That's a geopolitical question

Sure, but that's not actually about where RISC-V is from. It's that it's a purposely open platform -- so much so that its governing body literally moved to Switzerland.

The reason it's a geopolitical question is more to do with what we did to their supply chains with sanctions on companies like Huawei and ZTE, and what COVID did to everyone's supply chains independently of that. Both of those things made it really evident that some domestic supply chains are critical. (On both sides -- see: the CHIPS Act)

Where RISC-V comes back in is that open source doesn't really have a functioning concept of export restrictions. Which makes it an attractive contingency plan to develop further in the event of sanctions happening again, since these measures can and have extended to chip licenses.

(Edit: I'm not saying any of this is mutually exclusive with valid concerns about Huawei, raised by various other sources. I'm less familiar with ZTE's history, but my point in either case is more of a practical one.)
by alwa | 2025-12-03 19:38:47+00:00
I’m not sure where our guidelines/norms are on this kind of thing, but I get the sense that most of us feel very capable of pasting articles into LLMs ourselves.

What we’re less capable of—and the reason we look to each other here instead—is distinguishing where the LLM’s errors or misinterpretations lie. The gross mistakes are often easy enough to spot, but the subtle misstatements get masked by its overconfidence.

Luckily for us, a lot of the same people actually doing the work on the stuff we care about tend to hang out around here. And often, they’re kind enough to duck in and share.

Thank you in any case for being upfront about it. It’s just that it’d be a shame and a real loss if the slop noise came to drown out the signal here.
by mrinterweb | 2025-12-03 19:38:56+00:00
I would rather congressional representatives be paid more and have much stricter rules (with sufficient oversight and penalties), than what we have now. Also the "revolving door" where congress members become lobbyists when they leave is no good. Not to mention that campaign fundraising starts the day they swear in, so they become beholden to their donors. Bribes, campaign contributions, what's the difference?

Federal US politician incentives are pretty much designed for corruption.
by bluGill | 2025-12-03 19:39:23+00:00
Probably not. For most people cost is not the issue of why they don't ride. Free would increase a little, but most people are not riding because the service isn't there. Service can be one of Frequency, speed, or ability to get to the destination.

Transit needs to: Get you from where you are, to where you want to be, when you want to go, in a reasonable amount of time, for a reasonable cost. If you lack any of those things and transit isn't useful. Generally cost is the only part of transit that is reasonable (but not always) and so it isn't something to focus on.

People who ask for free transit are really saying transit is for the poor and "normal people" should just drive.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-03 19:39:24+00:00
In my experience, it comes down to project management and organizational structure problems.

Companies hire a "security team" and put them behind the security@ email, then decide they'll figure out how to handle issues later.

When an issue comes in, the security team tries to forward the security issue to the team that owns the project so it can be fixed. This is where complicated org charts and difficult incentive structures can get in the way.

Determining which team actually owns the code containing the bug can be very hard, depending on the company. Many security team people I've worked with were smart, but not software developers by trade. So they start trying to navigate the org chart to figure out who can even fix the issue. This can take weeks of dead-ends and "I'm busy until Tuesday next week at 3:30PM, let's schedule a meeting then" delays.

Even when you find the right team, it can be difficult to get them to schedule the fix. In companies where roadmaps are planned 3 quarters in advance, everyone is focused on their KPIs and other acronyms, and bonuses are paid out according to your ticket velocity and on-time delivery stats (despite PMs telling you they're not), getting a team to pick up the bug and work on it is hard. Again, it can become a wall of "Our next 3 sprints are already full with urgent work from VP so-and-so, but we'll see if we can fit it in after that"

Then legal wants to be involved, too. So before you even respond to reports you have to flag the corporate counsel, who is already busy and doesn't want to hear it right now.

So half or more of the job of the security team becomes navigating corporate bureaucracy and slicing through all of the incentive structures to inject this urgent priority somewhere.

Smart companies recognize this problem and will empower security teams to prioritize urgent things. This can cause another problem where less-than-great security teams start wielding their power to force everyone to work on not-urgent issues that get spammed to the security@ email all day long demanding bug bounties, which burns everyone out. Good security teams will use good judgment, though.
by moi2388 | 2025-12-03 19:39:27+00:00
Are we sure this is not a limitation of language and language capabilities?

First off, I found toddlers can quite well understand some concepts or tasks, but struggle to understand your intent when you merely tell them instead of showing them.

Personally, I would struggle with these nested mental states if they were merely said to me. If I however was allowed to make a diagram, I suspect I’d have far less issues with them
by bfxbjuf | 2025-12-03 19:40:13+00:00
Well we have 600 people in the global response center I work at. And the priority issue count is currently 26000. That means its serious enough that its been assigned to some one. There are tens of thousands of unassigned issues cuz the traige teams are swamped. People dont realize as systems get more complex issues increase. They never decrease. And the chimp troupes response has always been a Story - we can handle it.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-03 19:40:15+00:00
>inversely price sensitive

This isn't a term used in economics. The typical terms used are positive price sensitivity and negative price sensitivity.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price-sensitivity.asp

While it is true that being added to the SP500 can lead to an increase in demand, and hence cause the index fund to pay more for the share, there are evidently opposing forces that modulate share prices for companies in the SP500.

>I've been looking for a way to diversify into companies that actually have solid earnings.

No one has more solid earnings than the top tech companies. Assuming you don't work for Tesla, you already are doing about the best you can in the US. Your options to diversify is to invest in other countries, develop your political connections, and possibly get into real estate development. Maybe have a bunch of kids.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/most-profitable-companies/
by stevenalowe | 2025-12-03 19:40:44+00:00
In many states a RealID costs $40 and is good for 5 years; if the info/vetting process is the same then the $45 fee should come with an ID good for five years or more

The TSA is not a joke, it’s a sleeper cell. Wait for the ICE-TSA collusion a bit longer and a $45 fee won’t save you from being the wrong color
by syn-ack-syn | 2025-12-03 19:40:58+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve been working with agile teams for years, and every Planning Poker session had the same problems: too many logins, slow interfaces, ads everywhere, or tools that feel like they were built in 2009.

So I built my own: https://scrumpoker-online.de

No signup, no ads, no tracking, no “premium tiers.” Just open the link, create a room in 1 second, and start estimating.

Why I built it

Planning Poker should be:

fast

frictionless

lightweight

and accessible for any team (remote or not)

Most tools overcomplicate something that should take 10 minutes of a sprint.

What it offers

Create a room instantly, share a link, start estimating

Works for remote teams without onboarding

Mobile-friendly

No user accounts

No cookies / no trackers

Super clean UI

Absolutely free

Bonus: I also built a comparison of the best Planning Poker tools

While researching, I tested all major tools and wrote a breakdown here: https://scrumpoker-online.de/en/best-planning-poker-tools

(If you're curious how mine stacks up.)

What’s next

I’m collecting feedback and planning to add:

optional room history

integrations (Jira, GitHub issues)

real-time anonymity mode

a public API for custom workflows

Would love your thoughts – especially around UX, technical improvements, and integrations you’d actually use. Happy to get roasted; that’s why I’m posting here.

Thanks for checking it out!
by aiauthoritydev | 2025-12-03 19:41:26+00:00
India supreme court is bonkers and often known for its BS judgements devoid of logic and law.

Aadhar is "identity", it is not a "card" of any kind though Indians have inherent love for collecting various cards for fun. I have my driving license, PAN, aapar, kisan and state government health insurance cards, labor department id card. I have few more in some drawer.

Once a person gets aadhar, it acts pretty much same as OAuth. You go to a hotel to get a room, Hotel by law is required to verify that your name and face match. You give your aadhar card to them which they scan on their computer and verify that your name matches your face. Because they are a hotel they have right to only verify that.

This is much more privacy preserving than what supreme court did. Because of Supreme Court, hotels no long bother to implement this and instead demand your passport and other identification, scan it and leave it in their system forever. They also are known to sell this data to other from time to time.

The technical idea behind was aadhar was similar to UPI. Government runs the core infra with basic APIs but private companies build apps on top of it. For example, say GPay builds aadhar interface where when you walk into a hotel to reserve a room, Gpay automatically generates a new aadhar number with permissions only to show your name, photo and age. Hotel system verifies that and stores a receipt. If in future government is investigating who stayed in which room, law enforcement can convert these receipts to identification.

This was a better model which would have unlocked a lot of potential. The government failed to argue the case correctly and supreme court acted more like an activist court.

I do think both Government and Supreme Court failed to show the correct user journey here.
by tasty_freeze | 2025-12-03 19:41:27+00:00
I've always driven small sedans (sentra ser back in the 90s, currently a toyota corolla). Learning to drive in 1980, it was common to be able to see traffic through the two cars in front of you because (1) most cars were small sedans, and (2) really dark window tinting hadn't become a thing. Now I'm usually looking at the rear of a SUV or tall pickup truck and can't anticipate traffic even one car ahead.

Anyway, for years I've always responded to the "I feel so much safer in my big car/truck" with "I always stand up in movie theaters because the view is so much better"
by fulafel | 2025-12-03 19:41:37+00:00
Think back to the x86 32->64 bit transition, but much worse, since ARM is more niche and there are more arch differences.

You need all your 85 3rd party middlewares and dependencies (and transitive dependencies) to support the new architecture. The last 10% of which is going to be especially painful. And your platform native APIs. And your compilers. And you want to keep the codebase still working for the mainstream architecture so you add lots of new configuration combos / alternative code paths everywhere, and multiply your testing burden. And you will get mystery bugs which are hard to attribute to any single change since getting the game to run at all already required a zillion different changes around the codebase. And probably other stuff I didn't think of.

So that's for one game. Now convince everyone who has published a game on Steam to take on such a project, nearly all of whom have ages ago moved on and probably don't have the original programmers on staff anymore. Of course it should also be profitable for the developer and publisher in each case (and more profitable & interesting than whatever else they could be doing with their time).
by saltcured | 2025-12-03 19:41:43+00:00
I wonder if modern motor and power control tech could be adapted to make a desk-side motor-generator set that is efficient enough to rival an always-active, dual conversion AC-DC-AC UPS.

How efficient could a small AC->motor->generator->AC chain be with a modest flywheel mass to provide cycle-to-cycle stability?

Could it ever make sense to put one of these after a standby UPS so the output is always filtered by the motor-generator but the UPS only has to kick in for outages?
by evanelias | 2025-12-03 19:42:29+00:00
It's just a terrible article. The primary example doesn't even make sense, since the fee only applies to those aged 18+. Basically if your "family of four" is entirely adults, and none of you ever bothered to get Real ID, and your vacation is 11+ days long, then you have to pay the per-adult fee eight times instead of four... big deal.

I am assuming this is just AI slop, given that it is needlessly 1700 words, including redundancies like "who spoke on condition of anonymity—their name is therefore off the record". Plus this gem of a final sentence regurgitating the lede and entire point of the article: "The upcoming fee will likely shift that figure even higher by February next year, when travelers without a REAL ID or a passport will have to shell out $45 when passing through airport security."
by 7373737373 | 2025-12-03 19:43:13+00:00
Two of the most fascinating open questions about the Game of Life are in my opinion:

1. What is the behavior of Conway's Game of Life when the initial position is random? Paraphrasing Boris Bukh's comment on the post linked below, the Game of Life supports self-replication and is Turing-complete, and therefore can support arbitrarily intelligent programs. So, will a random initial position (tend to) be filled with super-intelligent life forms, or will the chaos reign?

There exist uncountably infinitely many particular initial configurations out of which a random one may be drawn, which makes this more difficult (a particular infinite grid configuration can be represented as the binary digits (fractional part) of a real number, spiraling outwards from a given center coordinate cell: 0.0000... represents an empty infinite grid, 0.1111... a fully alive infinite grid).

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/132402/conways-game-of-li...

2. Relatedly, does a superstable configuration exist? One that continues to exist despite any possible external interference pattern on its border? Perhaps even an expanding one?

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/132687/is-there-any-super...
by rohan2003 | 2025-12-03 19:43:14+00:00
I have made a TUI gitarsenal.dev/ that can run and make it super easy to setup your codebases on cloud sandboxes and run everything on your TUI.

You can run all these cloud sandboxes and switch between them from the sam tui, with just 1 click.

We also ranked 6th on Product Hunt.
by anthonypasq | 2025-12-03 19:43:28+00:00
the MBTA already absolutely bleeds an incredible amount of money. No businesses in Boston are even open late, theres no night life. 90% of the young people in the city are nerds doing Phds.

I loved living right on the red line, but its just not worth it unless we figure out how to make it not cost a fortune.
by nathan_douglas | 2025-12-03 19:43:56+00:00
VistA is an old system, and it's definitely "aging." But the thing is that it actually works really, really well. For instance, it kills a remarkably low number of people, which is one of the benchmarks I personally value in an EHR.

One of the interesting things about this is that, from my perspective, VistA's sort of a mesh of servers rather than the hierarchy we might expect from a federal system. Perhaps that's because of the complex interplay between federal and state and local laws. But anyway, there's probably a "station" for VistA near you that serves your area, and that's very similar (though not identical) to the "station" in the next neighboring area/metropolis/state/whatever.

But weirdly it seemed like the plan to roll this out was to replace all of the functionality at a given VistA station, rather than to do a strangler fig sort of thing and work on supplanting VistA's functionality in a specific functional area (whether locally or nationally). I don't know if that's because of the aforementioned complexity of laws, or the complexity of how the system(s) is/are administered, or other reasons that would elude me.

It's, uh, it's a fun situation.
by ljm | 2025-12-03 19:44:37+00:00
As a joke I put a face into GPT and said, make it look upset.

It rejected it, saying it violated policy, it can’t show people crying and what not, but it could do bittersweet.

I said that crying is bittersweet and it generated the image anyway.

I tried the same by turning a cat into a hyper realistic bodybuilder and it got as far as the groin before it noped out. I didn’t bother to challenge that.
by stuartjohnson12 | 2025-12-03 19:44:48+00:00
It seems like Waymo... just fundamentally does in fact work. So if we do things with cars intended for long term systematic reform, we should do things that are optimised for the world of increasing driverlessness.

I imagine a world without drivers to be a lot safer from a driving quality perspective.

I can imagine a world in cars where, like trains, it is no longer the norm to wear a seatbelt because crashes are so rare.

What implications does that have for the interior design of cars? Does that make the perfect car bigger or smaller?
by nickelpro | 2025-12-03 19:45:26+00:00
You're an expert, you're overestimating the competence of the median programmer.

That's a great bug you found, and of course it is a compiler bug, not UB.

99.9% of the bugs I've dealt with of this sort were just pointer aliasing. Or just use-after-free. Or just buffer overruns.

The median programmer, especially in the good ol' days, wrote UB code about once every 6-10 hours.
by anthonypasq | 2025-12-03 19:45:28+00:00
brother the MBTA arleady bleeds money at an astounding rate despite a large budget and fairs.

Why would your solution to be to make the rest of the state pay more for services they cant even use rather than make the people that use it pay the true cost it take to run it?

People that drive cars actually pay most of the cost to upkeep car infrastructure. people that ride the T dont.
by superxpro12 | 2025-12-03 19:45:32+00:00
On a similar note, the NHL has a lot of problems with its referee program (they only recruit washed up AHL players with zero passion or experience in officiating), but one thing they seem to get right is that they pay the NHL ref's full time professional salaries up to 250k. Just to ref. With the goal that they're compensated enough to not worry about betting scandals or anything that can ruin the integrity of the game.
Show HN: Niccup – Hiccup-Like HTML Generation in ~120 Lines of Pure Nix
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-03 19:46:10+00:00
Yesterday I saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121799 (Nixtml: Static website and blog generator written in Nix) and before I clicked on it, I thought it was gonna be a polished version of something I've hacked together myself in the past few weeks, but it was something else, so since seeing it, I've been polishing my hacked together Hiccup-alternative made with Nix, and I think it's good enough for some feedback from the outside world :)

The basic premise is to take a Nix expression like this:

[ "div#main.container" { lang = "en"; } [ "h1" "Hello" ] ]

And turn it into HTML like this:

<div class="container" id="main" lang="en"><h1>Hello</h1></div>

Nothing more, nothing less. Just "Nix Expressions/Data > HTML".

If you've used hiccup (https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup) before this will be immediately familiar to you, native data types in arrays transformed into HTML, and it matches really well with Nix! Kind of almost took me by surprise.

I've made some more involved examples available on the website, where the website itself is also dynamically generated with niccup: https://embedding-shapes.github.io/niccup/

And if that wasn't enough, I also added a quine example on the website itself, which if you copy-paste the two files you get a built version of the page itself: https://embedding-shapes.github.io/niccup/examples/quine/ (this was probably the most tricky and fun part of this whole project, so worth mentioning separately for sure)

I've used it to generate documentation websites and some smaller projects so far, but hasn't been used by others before, so I'm eager to hear what people think about it! Thank you for reading and your temporary attention!

GitHub repository: https://github.com/embedding-shapes/niccup (~800 lines of Nix in total, main implementation src/lib.nix is only ~120 lines though)

The source of the blog itself: https://github.com/embedding-shapes/embedding-shapes.github.... (~150 lines of Nix)
by hurricanepootis | 2025-12-03 19:46:11+00:00
I remember looking for Crucial DDR5 SODIMMS at Microcenter a month ago. There was barely any stock and only a few sticks left. I talked to the sales associate at the counter, and he let me known that RAM prices were increasing. As an aside, I was eyeing this ram for a month before getting it. Hearing what he said made me go for it.

Also, I feel bad for the aftermarket market. Crucial was always the best option for upgrades to OEM systems or laptops.
by fzysingularity | 2025-12-03 19:46:30+00:00
Here's a short cookbook exploring an agentic approach to vision–language tasks: detection, segmentation, OCR, generation, and combining classical CV tools with VLM reasoning.

Happy to run examples if you leave a comment.

[1] IPython notebook: https://github.com/vlm-run/vlmrun-cookbook/blob/main/noteboo...

[2] Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/github/vlm-run/vlmrun-cook...