MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cess11 | 2025-12-12 07:51:08+00:00
No, they did not. They also mainly used munitions that fly low and escape the israeli air defenses, which is why most of their targets were close to the border.

Hezbollah is a movement that is many things, among them one of the dominant parties in lebanese parliamentary politics. The name means 'Party of God', which is a hint. They also run hospitals, schools and other social services, as well as financial organisations. Due to the background as a militant mobilisation against israeli aggression they also have several armed factions, which is a very reasonable response to their southern neighbour.

Nasrallah and other Hezbollah leaders stated that they initiated militant action against Israel to support the palestinians and clearly expected it to shorten the genocidal campaign in the Gaza strip. As we now know, this strategy failed and Hezbollah misjudged the bloodthirst of israeli society as well as the degree of backing it would have from the US and european states. They should not have wasted time on a restrained attrition style campaign and instead acted more forcefully if they wanted to slow or halt the extermination of the palestinians.

As for Nasrallah, he is surely missed by many but he also spent his life expecting and preparing for martyrdom.
by chantepierre | 2025-12-12 07:51:52+00:00
Hello, author here ! Other interesting builds or projects going on in the french amateur telescope maker community :

- Sunscan, by the STAROS team : a fully integrated open-source solar imaging kit : https://www.sunscan.net/fr - Eric Royer's binocular 24" dobson : http://www.astrosurf.com/topic/124758-bino600/ - The Slim400 by Laurent Bourrasseau : https://www.cloudynights.com/forums/topic/920950-the-slim400/ - Astrowl, an electronically enhanced astronomy kit : http://www.astrosurf.com/topic/151807-projet-astrowl-de-visuel-assist%C3%A9/ - The smallest, an open-source 6" portable dobson : http://www.astrosurf.com/topic/176898-un-dobson-150-f5-facile-%C3%A0-imprimer-et-assez-compact/ - A dedicated astrophotography power supply : https://github.com/Antiath/Open-Power-Box-XXL

Of course there are many others but those are the one on the top of my head now
by leoedin | 2025-12-12 07:53:39+00:00
I don’t think I’ve met anyone in the UK who routinely checked tripadvisor for anything!

I just checked a few local restaurants to me in London that opened in the last few years, and the ratio of reviews is about 16:1 for google maps. It looks like stuff that’s been around longer has a much better ratio towards trip advisor though.

Almost certainly Instagram/tiktok are though. I know a few places which have been ruined by becoming TikTok tourist hotspots.
by firefoxd | 2025-12-12 07:53:43+00:00
Traffic to my blog plummeted this year and you can never be entirely sure how it happened. But here are two culprits i identified.

1. Ai overview: my page impressions were high, my ranking was high, but click through took a dive. People read the generated text and move along without ever clicking.

2. You are now a spammer. Around August, traffic took a second plunge. In my logs, I noticed these weird queries in my search page. Basically people were searching for crypto and scammy websites on my blog. Odd, but not like they were finding anything. Turns out, their search query was displayed as an h1 on the page and crawled by google. I was basically displaying spam.

I don't have much control over ai overview because disabling it means I don't appear in search at all. But for the spam, I could do something. I added a robot noindex on the search page. A week later, both impressions and clicks recovered.

Edit: Adding write up I did a couple weeks ago https://idiallo.com/blog/how-i-became-a-spammer
by bjord | 2025-12-12 07:54:05+00:00
fair enough. I'll add that one fantastic use I've found for LLMs is quickly checking the source of a given addon (though obviously this is no replacement for a real audit or finely-grained permissions).

I'd be doing this type of thing a lot more if browsers didn't make it difficult to load unpacked addons (in which case I could be modifying things I didn't like on the fly).
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-12-12 07:54:21+00:00
If people standardized around something like the RISC-V X280, added some standard license-free hardware codecs, and quietly ejected every other distraction. Than RISC-V may have dropped into mobile SoC markets like amd64 did with x86 hard-to-use failed successor IA-64. Note, the silicon business is about selling sustained volumes of identical product, and not about a CEOs ego selling bespoke chips in sub 100k batches.

There were many great chips that never survived in consumer product spaces. When manufacturers tell chip houses there is a permutation compatibility risk issue, and people take a petulant stance on the feedback... “Not my circus, not my monkeys” as they say.

1. Intel is kept alive by the promise of an integrated NVIDIA RTX SoC.

2. AMD understood something important about the software market, and that was easy backward-compatibility wins over _every_ other feature. Even Intel had to learn this the hard way.

3. 93% of the market is change sensitive... anyone that assumes cross-compiling is on the queue for that sector is greatly mistaken. Note, it took ARM over a decade driven by Googles dominance with mobile to gain traction.

4. Most software libraries will only enable advanced chip features if hardware is detected, and most compiled code simply uses the compatibility subset of compiled features (sure its 3 times slower, but it works everywhere.) No one is going to go through every permutation of an ISA with vendor specific features. The NERF'd subset of features in most Aarch64 and amd64 packages should be enough indication software people won't give a bean about unstable vanity silicon features.

We shall see how RISC-Y plays out in the market. Old Yeller sure looks nervous. =3
by locallost | 2025-12-12 07:54:25+00:00
I'm not defending React and this feature, and I also don't use it, but when making a statement like that the odds are stacked in your favor. It's much more likely that something's a bad idea than a good idea, just as a baseball player will at best fail just 65-70% of the time at the plate. Saying for every little thing that it's a bad idea will make you right most of the time.

But sometimes, occasionally, a moonshot idea becomes a home run. That's why I dislike cynicism and grizzled veterans for whom nothing will ever work.
by jffhn | 2025-12-12 07:54:36+00:00
I can guarantee you that I have been doing just that for 20 years, creating and working on the same codebase, and that it only got better with time (cleaner code and more robust execution), though more complex because the domain itself did. We would have been stuck in the accidental complexity of messy hacks and their buggy side effects if we had not continuously adapted and improved things.
by dmje | 2025-12-12 07:54:51+00:00
I’ve of course got absolutely zero evidence and you’re taking this more seriously than I’d hoped people might, but I bet he didn’t. Us Brits just don’t say “math”. Or “Legos”.

Of course he may have been indoctrinated by 27 years away from home but I thought it was more likely that he’d been misquoted / adapted for the WP audience.

Anyway, it wasn’t a serious point, just a light hearted one. As you were ;-)
by psychoslave | 2025-12-12 07:56:17+00:00
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by ManuelKiessling | 2025-12-12 07:56:40+00:00
I really wonder why the swarm intelligence of software developers still hasn’t decided on a single best clearly defined architecture for serving web applications, decades after the building blocks have been in place.

Let the server render everything. Let JS render everything, server is only providing the initial div and serves only JSON from then on. Actually let JS render partial HTML rendered on the server! Websockets anyone?

Imagine SQL server architecture or iOS development had this kind of ADHS syndrome.
by rl3 | 2025-12-12 07:57:08+00:00
You're right, autonomous vehicles kill far less animals than humans and therefore when they do end up unfortunately killing animals, it's perfectly justified because in aggregate it's actually safer.

See, most people don't have the intellectual capacity to understand this fact. Fortunately, you and I understand. We get it.

Well, except for the fact that it happening in the first place is basically the result of engineering decisions best described as low-caliber dogshit. But, don't tell Kit Kat their death was perfectly preventable. It'd ruin the mystique of the sacrifice being for the greater good or some such.
by kergonath | 2025-12-12 07:57:54+00:00
> Even this thread talks more about McDonalds than the “French supermarket’s” ad. The “French supermarket” isn’t even named in the title.

The name of the supermarket is mentioned in the title when the audience is likely to know it, e.g. on French websites. I don’t blame any American who does not know Intermarché, as they are very unlikely to come across one. I am not going to link them because that’s a bit pointless and the URLs are terrible, but a quick googling of "publicité Intermarché" should give plenty of examples.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-12-12 07:58:09+00:00
Usually my experience is stuff just slowly drifts into irrelevance. Sometimes people ask me for performance numbers or error messages that are 3 months old and I can find them with a backsearch. On the other hand there's implementation ideas that are years old which are perfectly decent and would probably be improvements, but nobody has ever gotten around to them. Letting them gradually slide upwards out of mind seems appropriate. The only thing I do is archive the old file once a year at new-years to prevent any editor slowdown.
by jve | 2025-12-12 07:58:24+00:00
Amazing

This reminds me of an adventured died just a few months ago at age of 40 after suffering insult. He has crossed ocean on a rowboat and more.

https://boredofborders.com/adventures/

DeepL Translation of wiki:

Bardel's largest and most notable expeditions involve crossing oceans and traveling around the world without external assistance. On May 4, 2016, he and his traveling companion Gints Barkovskis set out to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Namibia to Brazil. After 142 days, they safely reached the coast of South America, becoming the first two-person crew to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a rowboat. [6] During the voyage, both men encountered serious health problems (vitamin deficiency, skin inflammation) and Barkovskis broke his ribs, but neither wanted to interrupt their journey, and the expedition ended successfully. [6]

After crossing the Atlantic, Bardelis continued his journey in South America and began a new stage in 2018. From Brazil, with the support of Gints Barkovskis, he traveled by tandem bicycle through South America to Lima, Peru, completing the approximately 5,400 km stage in 102 days. [7] Bardelis then set out alone in a rowboat to cross the Pacific Ocean in June 2018. He covered a distance of approximately 26,000 km from South America to Malaysia, spending a total of 715 days on the journey; with this achievement, he became the first person in the world to cross the Pacific Ocean from South America to Asia in a rowing boat. [7] During this sea expedition, he had to overcome several stormy periods and was forced to stop at islands, but in the end, Bardelis became known worldwide as the first ocean rower in this direction. [7]

https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81rlis_Bardelis
by IshKebab | 2025-12-12 07:58:49+00:00
Nah I think HTML comments are fine. I don't think there would be a benefit to allowing comments in more places and it would make it more annoying when you actually do want to process comments.

If CSS had mandated that comments could only appear in certain places (e.g. before a rule or attribute) I think that would have been fine too, though maybe slightly confusing given the resemblance to C-style comments which are allowed almost anywhere.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-12 08:01:45+00:00
Well the question is how many watts you need to display an error message. You made it sound like voltage was the main issue.

And yeah you're supposed to negotiate before pulling 2.4 amps at 5v but that's not usually a big deal in practice. Especially when you're actually supposed to stick to 100mA at first, but who does that.

A diagnostic LED sounds nice but given how most cables don't even have a speed printed on them good luck at something more invasive.

I will say that thunderbolt support isn't often an issue beyond the basic speed rating, and should be even less of one since USB4. And that power ratings are pretty simple, 60W or moreW. I really don't think the overloading of many different types of feature is a big deal, I think the single feature of unknown speed is the big issue-causer.
by ndr_ | 2025-12-12 08:02:17+00:00
Is there a trustworthy third-party "Retro" keyboard app - none of the shenanigans that made the default keyboard bad, and also no typing exfiltration to third-party servers?

I imagine the problem could be severe enough to some that they would pay the price of the Apple Developer program just so they may install such a Retro keyboard app from Github - if one exists?
by tsimionescu | 2025-12-12 08:03:15+00:00
> A truly new taste that doesn’t map onto the existing five basics would likely register as “off” rather than delicious. Your brain wouldn’t know what to do with it, nutritionally speaking.

We have five taste receptors, so it's it's actually impossible to get something that doesn't map unto those five. Instead, what we call the taste of food, and what GP was referring to, is actually the smell of food, or more commonly, its aroma, which we can detect both from the outside by sniffing it with our noses, and while it is in our mouths via molecules wafting up to our respiratory tract.

Unlike the simplicity of taste, we have a huge array of smell receptors, with most of them having much more indirect associations, if any, with any specific survival need. It's very much possible, and in fact quite common, to synthesize novel smells/aromas which don't resemble any natural food.
by Eisenstein | 2025-12-12 08:03:41+00:00
If failing to validate a page because it is pointing to an RSS feed triggers a spam flag and de-indexes all of the rest of the pages, that seems important to fix. By losing legit content because of such an error they are lowering the legit:spam ratio thus causing more harm than a spam page being indexed. It might not appear so bad for one instance, but it is indicative of a larger problem.
by troupo | 2025-12-12 08:04:37+00:00
> CG through its convenience if not due to outright flaws.

It's also over-reliance on this convenience. Bad shot? We'll fix it in post. Objects missing, or in wrong places, or too many of them? We'll fix it in post. Bad sound, camera position, actor unavailable? Believe it or not, post.

And many don't even think whether you should prepare the shot for post-production, or even give vfx teams more time to complete the work
by sj01f | 2025-12-12 08:04:48+00:00
If the inaccuracies are limited to metadata and do not constitute scientific fabrication, the most plausible explanation is that the author attempted to patch incomplete Zotero exports using GPT, inadvertently introducing errors.

Such errors arise from the uncritical adoption of automated tools and a failure to verify outputs manually. This reflects academic laxity and an excessive trust in LLMs. As AI tools become ubiquitous in research—even for generating encyclopedic content—some individuals have developed a misplaced confidence in GPT, leading them to undervalue the importance of citation accuracy.

However, while this is undeniably negligent, it does not validate wholesale dismissal of the paper’s scientific merit, nor does it warrant ad hominem attacks. Demanding the end of an academic career for citation errors is a draconian measure akin to a witch hunt.
by onecommentman | 2025-12-12 08:05:37+00:00
Opposite for me, I read more physical books, primarily >50 years old. Reading more for pleasure now, I find the physicality of books deeply satisfying. Also prefer paper magazines for hobbyist content.

I still refer back to ebooks I had bought primarily for the novelty value, and especially PDFs of public domain works that of which I purchase paper copies when I have the chance. For staying current, it’s predominantly electronic media.
Deleting Substack account after Australia age laws
by freefrog334433 | 2025-12-12 08:07:13+00:00
Hello,

I don't want to submit to substack's age verification process that requires streaming face mug videos, and am trying to delete my account and paid subscriptions.

Unfortunately, the only way seems to be logging into your account first - a nice catch-22.

support@substack.com autoreply directs you to substack.com/contact -- which requires you to pass age verification first.

The substack AI chatbot is ridiculous - no hope of reaching a human. The process for cancelling a deceased account doesn't work either as the chatbot can't look up my account using my email address (presumably it is frozen until age verification). Tor and VPNs don't work as my profile includes my location in Australia, and my email address is Australian.

Any ideas? I'm about to cancel my credit card as a last resort.
by svara | 2025-12-12 08:08:10+00:00
In my experience, the best models are already nearly as good as you can be for a large fraction of what I personally use them for, which is basically as a more efficient search engine.

The thing that would now make the biggest difference isn't "more intelligence", whatever that might mean, but better grounding.

It's still a big issue that the models will make up plausible sounding but wrong or misleading explanations for things, and verifying their claims ends up taking time. And if it's a topic you don't care about enough, you might just end up misinformed.

I think Google/Gemini realize this, since their "verify" feature is designed to address exactly this. Unfortunately it hasn't worked very well for me so far.

But to me it's very clear that the product that gets this right will be the one I use.
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-12 08:08:48+00:00
A lot if this sample is representative: https://secondstreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/BC-%E2%8...

> In Fiscal Year 2024/25, there were 222 booking records cancelled and removed f rom the Interior Health (IH) wait list due to the death of the patient while they waited f or their surgical date. There were 59 various types of procedures cancelled due to patient death; Cataracts had 86 (39%), followed by Arthroplasty Knee Replacements 17 (8%)

Also, for this particular regional health authority, only 38% of these wait time were above the target.

> 85 bookings (38%) had been waiting over the clinical benchmark wait time target for that surgery type at the date of patient death.

So yes, most of these death have nothing to do with excessive wait time of patient whose death would have been preventable with another system.
by nurettin | 2025-12-12 08:08:56+00:00
If you watch any Hikaru Nakamura content, you will see him draw "classic right angle triangle"s with three pieces, "classic wooden shield"s (a cross showing the scope of a centralized bishop), so he definitely uses some kind of geometry while playing.

Not sure if he just recognizes the shapes as they appear or tries to make them appear, would be nice if he came here to answer.
by miki123211 | 2025-12-12 08:09:07+00:00
How do you know this?

I see this argument repeated over and over on HN, with 0 evidence for it. Any "evidence" people cite is usually of the "politicians are evil, so this should be obvious by definition" kind, sometimes of the "they tried x in the past, so surely some unrelated y they're trying to pass in the future is also about x" kind.

I haven't seen a single leak, a single admission from somebody trying to pass a law like this, that surveillance is actually the goal here. There are far too many politicians trying to pass laws like these, in very different countries across the world, for some kind of giant global conspiracy to stay undetected.

Plain ignorance seems far easier to believe.
by npodbielski | 2025-12-12 08:09:21+00:00
I am not a techbro. I am not a transhumanist.

And I am pretty sure I know more about my nature then you mate.

I think you did not read the article. Author argues that: - people on retirement fade away and die - he need to work - he need to have deadline to actually do the work - he says something that in order to achieve that apparently you need to stop enjoying life ("not eating food he enjoys, not drinking, not doing anything spontaneous")... like why? Why advancements in our technology and medicine that will make our lifespan longer will mean that it will be devoid of spontaneous enjoyment?

Again this is silly and author seems to be living a life when he needs outside stimulus to actually be forced to do something instead of doing things he likes just for himself.
by aurareturn | 2025-12-12 08:10:28+00:00
These articles are insufferable.

Everyone is saying there is an "AI Bubble" and it's going to pop. Yet, no one can actually tell us when, at what prices will it pop, and how long will it take the market to recover (Nasdaq is 5x higher now than dotcom).

If it's going to "pop" but everyone knows it will go way higher than in the future than in 2025, then what exactly is the pop? A buying opportunity?

Everyone who isn't a total idiot will buy when it "pops" and wait it out for massive gains in the future. People writing these articles think the AI bubble will burst stay down forever. They keep citing dotcom but conveniently leave out the fact that tech is far bigger now than in the peak of dotcom.

This is exactly why despite these countless AI bubble burst predictions, the market is still near all time high. I'd like to see these bubble burst people put their money where their mouth is.

Here's my prediction: There will be an AI bubble but when it pops, it will still be way bigger than in December 2025. In other words, I believe we're in 1995 of the dotcom and not 1999.
by swiftcoder | 2025-12-12 08:10:48+00:00
Back of the envelope, for a family of 4 eating US quantities of chicken... you need to be slaughtering ~100 chickens per year. In a homesteading setting it usually takes a chicken about 12 weeks to reach slaughter weight, so you need to be raising a minimum of 25 at any time.

That's a pretty substantial backyard operation.
by survirtual | 2025-12-12 08:11:43+00:00
Most people have significantly less than what we are spoon fed by media and the internet at large.

Just as in history we learn of emperors and kings instead of the common person, most digital content is about the modern day lords, barons, emperors, and kings. They call them billionaires, presidents, CEOs, prime ministers, etc now, but they are the exact same as they always have been.

If you turn the screen off and take a walk, start talking with real people that actually provide value to society, the world is much kinder than we've all been made to believe.

The real people are a good people, as they long have been. Their stories may not be written, but the Earth itself carries their memories.
by ifwinterco | 2025-12-12 08:12:22+00:00
I'm not an expert but my understanding is transformers based models simply can't do some of those things, it isn't really how they work.

Especially something like expressing a certainty %, you might be able to get it to output one but it's just making it up. LLMs are incredibly useful (I use them every day) but you'll always have to check important output