MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by epistasis | 2025-12-23 18:47:26+00:00
Why would you believe any numbers coming out of DOGE? The entire article is about their clear lies about their own numbers. Posting a number from the DOGE website and believing it is not rational behavior.

Further, there is nothing that will make the US poorer than ending the Fed or fiat money. The US has blown past all other economies in the world because of fiat money and its special status.

> revealed corruption in the NGO's.

No, it absolutely did not. DOGE revealed the corruption of DOGE. It's all political corruption, eliminating the regulators for Musk's empire, cover it up with lies about other things.

> Doge helped a lot of people come to that conclusion, so that's helpful.

The only thing that DOGE convinced people of is that Musk is a fraud. Nobody lost trust in the government because of anything Musk did, nobody thought "Oh I used to think that USAID was good, now I think it's bad!" Musk's popularity has hit rock-bottom, he has ruined some of the most valuable consumer brands in the world.

It's odd to see so many words that are directly contradicted by plain reality. One must be in a very very very deep information bubble to see your post
by eudamoniac | 2025-12-23 18:47:26+00:00
Okay, we can instead have the prisoners in their cells during that time instead of working. I'm sure they would prefer that, right? Except they have to apply for these jobs, so no, they wouldn't. Being in the cell is the default state of incarceration. They want to be out of it, even for free.

Words mean things. Slavery is something that is not occurring here. Argue amongst yourselves about the ethics of underpaying for the work, but don't invoke the word slavery.
by d1sxeyes | 2025-12-23 18:48:18+00:00
Maybe. All I know is that I used to buy Starbucks quite often, and I don’t any more.

If I divide total transactions by total number of Starbucks, it works out around 2500 visits per week. On my own, I’m not moving the needle. But only 25 people thinking like me is a 1% reduction.
Show HN: Embeddable fullstack web library without a build step
by vseplet | 2025-12-23 18:48:37+00:00
What is Morph?

Morph is a zero-build fullstack library for creating web interfaces with server-side rendering. Built on HTMX and Hono, it works with Deno, Bun, and Node.js

Perfect for: Admin panels, dashboards, Telegram Web Apps, internal tools, and small projects where you don't want to maintain a separate frontend

Why Morph?

No build step — just write TypeScript and run
Server-side rendering — components render on the server with full access to your backend

HTMX-powered — update parts of the page without writing JavaScript

Embed anywhere — add a web UI to any existing Deno/Bun/Node project

Minimal footprint — no project structure requirements, no config files
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-23 18:48:57+00:00
> When the network is bad, you get... fewer JPEGs. That’s it. The ones that arrive are perfect.

You can have still have weird broken stallouts though.

I dunno, this article has some good problem solving but the biggest and mostly untouched issue is that they set the minimum h.264 bandwidth too high. H.264 can do a lot better than JPEG with a lot less bandwidth. But if you lock it at 40Mbps of course it's flaky. Try 1Mbps and iterate from there.

And going keyframe-only is the opposite of how you optimize video bandwidth.
by john-tells-all | 2025-12-23 18:49:39+00:00
Strong recommend! Julia's posts are always really engaging and educational.

She also publishes a number of technical topics as ZINES. I bought her "Oh Shit, Git!" zine and learned a ton of useful info, despite having decades in the industry.Zines are a great way to encourage book-allergic coworkers into learning great material.

https://wizardzines.com/
by zahlman | 2025-12-23 18:50:25+00:00
> it is simply more enjoyable to design the types in your program than to write unit tests.

I have tried both and I have no idea what you're talking about.

> Making yourself think about “for all x” rather than a concrete x forces your brain to consider deeply the properties of x being used.

The entire point of dynamic typing is that you can think about interfaces rather than concrete types, which entails deep consideration of the properties of the object (semantics of the provided interface).
by vl | 2025-12-23 18:50:42+00:00
“does it all well” is a stretch.

Any non-trivial amount of data and you’ll run into non-trivial problems.

For example, some of our pg databases got into such state, that we had to write custom migration tool because we couldn’t copy data to new instance using standard tools. We had to re-write schema to using custom partitions because perf on built-in partitioning degrades as number of partitions gets high, and so on.
by Reubend | 2025-12-23 18:51:14+00:00
When reading through the projects list of JS restrictions for "stricter" mode, I was expecting to see that it would limit many different JS concepts. But in fact none of the things which are impossible in this subset are things I would do in the course of normal programming anyway. I think all of the JS code I've written over the past few years would work out of the box here.
by tehjoker | 2025-12-23 18:51:14+00:00
I mean, having a more powerful laptop is great, but at the same time, these guys are calling for a >10x increase in RAM and a far more powerful NPU. How will this affect pricing? How will it affect power management? It made it seem like most of the laptop will be dedicated to gen AI services, which I'm still not entirely convinced are quite THAT useful. I still want a cheap laptop that lasts all day and I also want to be able to tap that device's full power for heavy compute jobs!
by jsiepkes | 2025-12-23 18:51:25+00:00
What I did once is lookup the financial report of the company, find all the board members and C level execs l, figured out what their email structure looks like (pete.whatever@company.com) and just walked them through my support experience. Then I asked if replacing the HEPA filter in my 5 year old vacuum cleaner should cost 250 Euro, which was more expensive than the vacuum cleaner at the time.
by davidgerard | 2025-12-23 18:51:32+00:00
I'm an AI Moderate, with much more sensible opinions - you can tell, I used a sensible-sounding name for myself! - and it's clear that the moderate position is to set it on fire. The only reason it seems useful for search is because AI vendor Google deliberately made their search worse to increase time on the search page. It's not actually in any way a use case for "AI".
by eleventyseven | 2025-12-23 18:51:33+00:00
There's nothing special with what Intel has lowered the bar as an AI PC so vendors can market it. Ollama can run a 4b model plenty fine on Tiger Lake with 8gb classic RAM.

But unified memory IS truly what makes an AI ready PC. The Apple Silicon proves that. People are willing to pay the premium, and I suspect unified memory will still be around and bringing us benefits even if no one cares about LLMs in 5 years.
by mdhb | 2025-12-23 18:51:48+00:00
The level of discrepancy between the rules as they are written and how things work in reality is miles apart. Every day.

Edit: since I can’t reply because my account was throttled for “posting too past” with a whopping 5 comments in the last 24 hours. Allow me to paste it here…

It would probably help if I were to bring a bit more specificity to my accusations here so we aren’t just talking about an abstract concept.

I’m making the claim:

1. The active page (what people are actually engaging with) and the front page (mods choice) regularly are regularly out of sync not just in general but in very specific and consistent ways.

2. There is a small group of people who intentionally use the flagging functionality in ways that have absolutely zero to do with the rules as they are written. People are incredibly open about this on a regular basis.

3. We are left with a de facto situation where that same small group are able to effectively censor what the rest of the community is allowed to talk about.

4. The moderation team seems to operate on the idea that everyone is just acting in good faith despite evidence to the contrary.

5. When the discrepancies between the rules as they are written and how things work in reality occur they are very rarely corrected by the moderation team and I don’t know what other conclusion to draw other than you seem to think that things are going great as they are and there’s no need to change anything.

6. You say the active page isn’t a secret but people are always saying they had no idea it existed. Surely you have some actual hard analytics numbers to show what percentage of logged in users visit the active page? I presume it’s in the single digits percentage wise but I’m open to being told otherwise.
by bikenaga | 2025-12-23 18:52:15+00:00
Abstract: "Many regions of the world have seen an increase in highly destructive wildfires, driven by well-documented increases in burned area and growth of housing in the wildland–urban interface (WUI), which exposes more homes to fire. However, it is unclear whether wildfires are also becoming more destructive due to changes in wildfire behavior or in the development patterns of exposed communities. Here, we assessed trends in wildfire building exposure and destruction rates in the conterminous United States from 2002 to 2022. We mapped destroyed and surviving buildings within 100 m of all wildfires that destroyed 10 or more buildings (n = 362) and assessed trends relative to major ecoregions and vegetation types. We used logistic regression to assess relationships between destruction rates and landscape factors. We found that 10% of exposed buildings were destroyed in 2002–2012, but this percentage increased to 32% in 2013–2022. This increase was largely due to greater building exposure in evergreen forests in the northwestern United States, where exposed buildings were more than 3.4 times as likely to be destroyed as those in grass and shrublands. However, annual destruction rates also significantly increased in all other vegetation types and were correlated with development type, weather, and burn severity. These results indicate that increasing wildfire destruction in the United States has resulted not only from increased exposure but from rising rates of building destruction, potentially indicating more extreme wildfire behavior. This finding underscores the need to better understand how fuel management, community planning, and hardening buildings can reduce vulnerability."
by ctoth | 2025-12-23 18:52:15+00:00
> frozen the state of the art

Personally I am experimenting with a lot more data-driven, declarative, correct-by-construction work by default now.

AI handles the polyglot grunt work, which frees you to experiment above the language layer.

I have a dimensional analysis typing metacompiler that enforces physical unit coherence (length + time = compile error) across 25 languages. 23,000 lines of declarative test specs compile down to language-specific validation suites. The LLM shits out templates; it never touches the architecture.

We are still at very very early days.

Specs for my hobby physical types metacompiler tests:

https://gist.github.com/ctoth/c082981b2766e40ad7c8ad68261957...
by epistasis | 2025-12-23 18:52:16+00:00
I have never worked for the government, but have worked in industry that deals with government employees. One thing that is very different in industry than in government budgets is that industry budgets do have that 10% of waste. But the budgets of all government orgs I have seen are incredibly lean, especially on the salary side. The government gets mission-driven folks that are willing to give up income in order to accomplish the things they want in the world. I saw this most clearly at CDC, all the scientists I interacted with could double their salary over night by going to private industry, but they stayed where they were because they were more interested in doing meaningful and impactful work. And when it came to the budgets that CDC used to accomplish scientific work, they were even more frugal and effective than the most penny-pinching academic labs I saw. Industry is awash in waste in comparison to how effective the dollars were that were spent at CDC.

And the CDC work is all pre-competitive work that boosts the efficacy of everything else in the economy. A tiny amount of money that results in so much more economic activity and savings than could be imagined in most private industry. And all the numbers for the public savings on, say, food safety are all clearly laid out in long reports. Reports that nobody at DOGE would ever read because they don't believe than anything good could be produced by people who accept lower salaries for higher impact.
AI That Thinks Like Your Brain: 3x Faster with 92% Less Energy
by buttersmoothAI | 2025-12-23 18:52:34+00:00
Jimmy DeJesus Co-Creator of Bravëtto AI just published 6 whitepapers on the next evolution of AI:

*AI That Thinks Like Your Brain* - Works 3 times faster and uses 92% less energy. Instead of reading code word by word, it sees patterns all at once - like your brain does.

*AI That Makes Better AI* - AI that designs new AI achieves 89% improvement and does it 6 times faster than humans can. Creates 3 times more different types of AI.

*AI That Remembers Time* - Finally understands WHEN information was created. Gets 94% of time questions right, 34% better than regular AI, and makes 28% fewer mistakes about old information.

*Computers Made From Living Cells* - Uses 94% less energy, fixes itself when broken, and adapts to changes. Made from real living cells that can think and heal.

*AI That Thinks Like a Person* - Solves really hard problems 2-4 times faster by thinking like a conscious person. Uses logic and shortcuts like humans do.

*AI That Explores the Universe* - Might help us understand the deepest secrets of space and time using just computers, not giant machines.

All papers: https://zenodo.org/records/18010560

Interactive demos: https://jimmyjdejesus-cmyk.github.io/jimmys-tool-stacks-portfolio/demos/ai-research/

The energy savings alone seem transformative. What are your thoughts on AI that thinks like your brain?
by burningChrome | 2025-12-23 18:52:55+00:00
Were you saying the same thing in 2014 and 2015 too?

According to data from Thomson Reuters, 2015 is set to be the biggest year ever (once the planned deals close) in worldwide dealmaking, with $4.7 trillion in announced mergers and acquisitions—up 42 percent from 2014, and beating the previous record of $4.4 trillion in 2007.

The year stands out, not just for the total value of the deals but for the number of so-called mega-deals, which refers to any deal that exceeds $5 billion. Just in the last three months, notable mega-deals include AB Inbev’s acquisition of SABMiller, creating a $104 billion beverage company; Pfizer and Allergan’s announced a $160 billion merger; and the chemical companies DuPont and Dow Chemical Company’s plans to unite as a $130 billion company. Thomson Reuters counted 137 mega-deals last year, which accounted for 52 percent of the year’s overall M&A value.
by refulgentis | 2025-12-23 18:52:57+00:00
The LinkedIn slop tone, random bolding, miscopied Markdown tables makes me invoke: "please read the copy you worked on with AI"

smaller thing: many, many, moons ago, I did a lot of work with H.264. "A single H.264 keyframe is 200-500KB." is fantastical.

Can't prove it wrong because it will be correct given arbitrary dimensions and encoding settings, but, it's pretty hard to end up with.

Just pulled a couple 1080p's off YouTube, biggest I-frame is 150KB, median is 58KB (`ffprobe $FILE -show_frames -of compact -show_entries frame=pict_type,pkt_size | grep -i "|pict_type=I"`)
by tikhonj | 2025-12-23 18:53:22+00:00
> In the end the best will win on the merits.

The last six decades of commercial programming don't exactly bear this out...

The real lesson is that writing software is such a useful, high-leverage activity that even absolutely awful software can be immensely valuable. But that doesn't tell us that better software is useless, it just tells us it is not absolutely necessary.
Show HN: Apple Health Wrapped 2025
by nihalgoyal10 | 2025-12-23 18:53:36+00:00
Hi HN,

I recently started running, and like most people who get into it, I began caring a lot about the data.

I use an Apple Watch and Apple Health to track everything, but there’s no wrapped-style summary for that data which I can be proud of. So I built one.

Apple Health Wrapped connects to your Apple Health data and generates a beautiful, shareable yearly summary (similar to Spotify Wrapped, but slightly more fun)

This is a small side project and still early. I’m mainly curious:

Did you liked it? What part exactly?

What would you want to see in a fitness wrap that’s missing today?

Happy to hear feedback here.
(Disclosure: I built this, with 2 of my friends - Shivay and Aman)

— Nihal
If needed, you can also reach me at: nihalgoyal10@gmail.com
by The_President | 2025-12-23 18:53:51+00:00
Cool - Ambient Light Sensor support. Do the current brightness settings for multiple monitors synchronize yet, or is this implemented on top of the existing functionality?

Is bluetooth fully supported yet? Bluetooth in KDE is missing basic features like not connecting automatically to certain devices, and not staying disconnected when instructed. KDE Bluetooth also does not handle segregating paired devices between multiple hardware bluetooth adapters. Worst behavior of KDE Plasma Bluetooth is by far the "flapping" of the device connection when "trusted" for the paired device is disabled.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-23 18:54:00+00:00
>So, porn, then? Surely there must be limits.

Pretty sure HN has discussed porn, the porn industry, sex work, sex workers, etc tons.

For example you can find in my history on posts about how porn access is being restricted that the "They have more fraud" claim is likely false and claimed in bad faith, and in fact Pornhub has been so removed from the payments industry that they now seem to have grafted themselves onto the internet gambling industry to make money, which is just awful. They have not turned to crypto payments because they just don't work, which is interesting to discuss.

But you would never see any of those discussions if you banned from the front page anything that mentioned porn.

Do you see how that works? Interesting discussion is about who is discussing, not about what is being discussed.

IMO the topic guidelines are entirely the wrong way to ensure meaningful discussion. All they have done, as clearly evidenced by the time HN tried to outright ban politics, is provide ample fodder for people to shut down discussions they were never going to participate in and contribute to anyway, and force people to have less interesting discussions about "Does this belong here", despite the guidelines themselves saying "If it's here, it belongs here"

HN also bans a lot of meta discussion which is crap, as talking about the sneaky and intransparent parts of HN, like the Orange Nametag cohort, would be interesting to the constant influx of new accounts.

I for one would also find deep dives into moderation or site meta information to be very interesting. I deal with abuse prevention in my day job, so seeing how others experience that abuse and deal with it would be not just interesting to me, but downright educational.

Meanwhile, HN is full of "I slapped an LLM into someone else's open source code" as if that is interesting at all. The entire point of vibe coding and agents etc is that anyone else could do that just as easily. So it seems "being interesting to hackers" just isn't the actual desired content.
by Zak | 2025-12-23 18:54:11+00:00
Ask anyone who has tried to run banking apps on GrapheneOS how that works out in practice.

GrapheneOS supports attestation. GrapheneOS even provides the sort of security guarantees that would make risk management types at banks happy, but it isn't popular enough for them to be motivated to support it as an attestation target.

Now imagine it was practical for websites to require attestation from browsers. How likely do you think it that all the major services would accept anything other than Chrome, Safari, and Edge?
by Lockal | 2025-12-23 18:54:31+00:00
Glad to see a project of Fabrice Bellard on github, finally. I know many great opensource projects exist without public development (notably, sqlite), but is always disappointing to have no public bug tracker, no patch submission, no commit history, contact by email, tarballs (even with a signature, tooling for signed downloads never received any development), etc.
by ajross | 2025-12-23 18:54:53+00:00
That explanation is days late, though. It's attested that she didn't even take a call from the episode producer before killing it. I mean, sure, if you put a bunch of people in a room and ask them to retcon a reasonable-sounding explanation for why you did something embarassing, you can do it! The world is a complicated place.

It's abundantly clear why she spiked it. I know it. You know it. We all know it. She was brought in as a clearly partisan voice to put exactly this finger on exactly these levers at CBS. We all saw it when she was hired and we all warned about this. And she did.

I mean, why bother stenographising the excuse? No one is fooled. "Partisan hack does partisan hackery" is like the least surprising line in this story.
by epistasis | 2025-12-23 18:55:39+00:00
Power respects power, ultimately. If you have wealth and power, those in power assume it was earned, because otherwise it's admitting that their own power could be through luck.

I will say that there are a few billionaires out there that do not get respect because everybody else assumes they "got lucky," but it's certainly not many billionaires. And those that people assume "got lucky" have mostly had terrible PR management on their way up, and not bothered to try to clean up their image. I have taken investment from one such billionaire that people would tell me "he got lucky," and though I don't think he got lucky to make his billions, he was also really terrible in his judgement and could not make the switch to investing even in similar industries successfully.
by georgefrowny | 2025-12-23 18:55:46+00:00
> This is an insane thing to say.

I don't think it's insane. In that hypothetical case, it would be a slightly painful experience for some people that the top end is a bit curtailed for a few years while game developers learn to target other cards, hopefully in some more portable way. But also feeling hard done by because your graphics hardware is stuck at 2025 levels for a bit is not that much of hardship really, is it? In fact, if more time is spent optimising for non-premium cards, perhaps the premium card that you already have will work better then the next upgrade would have.

It's not inconceivable that the overall result is a better computing ecosystem in the long run. The open source space in particular, where Nvidia has long been problematic. Or maybe it'll be a multi decade gaming winter, but unless gamers stop being willing to throw large amounts of money chasing the top end, someone will want that money even if Nvidia didn't.
by nine_k | 2025-12-23 18:56:31+00:00
Postgres is wonderful, and has great many useful extensions. But:

* MySQL has a much easier story of master-master replication.

* Mongo has a much easier story of geographic distribution and sharding. (I know that Citus exists, and has used it.)

* No matter how you tune Postgres, columnar databases like Clickhouse are still faster for analytics / time series.

* Write-heavy applications still may benefit from something like Cassandra, or more modern solutions in this space.

(I bet Oracle has something to offer in the department of cluster performance, too, but I did not check it out for a long time.)