MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by voshond | 2025-12-28 12:29:34+00:00
I guess a bit of both?

We live in such a capitalistic world by now, that most people’s happiness is, if they want it or not, tied to money. And I think society is moving further towards this.

Having kids would be a large financial burden and given my projection, would mean I wouldn’t be able to guarantee a decent living and the mental stability, because kids are brutal and societal pressures are very hard to free yourself from.

I grew up very poor and only very recently I was able to get out of debt i racked up just to survive (and sheer ignorance/living above my means, because I had nothing to lose and no perspective). I would hate myself of putting a child in that position myself.

If money wouldn’t be such a dominant force in current society, I’d very much consider having children.
by WickyNilliams | 2025-12-28 12:29:39+00:00
You need some JS to change an attribute as much as you need JS to change a property. What am I missing?

I hope the command attribute (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...) will eventually support this out of the box. In the meanwhile you can write a single custom --toggle command which is generic and works with any toggleable element
by pitched | 2025-12-28 12:29:42+00:00
I slowed myself down to savour this comment for a full 20s. Enough time to linger on each word for a long moment. Just like parent was asking for.

I pictured it spoken with a heavy Californian surfer accent. He wanted elaborate but a huge wave was breaking and he really didn’t want to miss the next one. Was in far too much of a rush to even leave punctuation behind.

So long, dude, I hope the waves keep coming for you.
by jaapz | 2025-12-28 12:29:48+00:00
Have you actually used this in a real codebase? Because it is the opposite of my experience in gradually adding types to a large python codebase. There's no extra complexity or slower development. It's not like you need to suddenly move to a different coding paradigm with FactoryBeanFactoryBeans... You just keep writing python like you did, but add types here and there to help clarify things and make your LSP (like ty) work better.

If anything, it speeds up development. Plus it helps give more confidence in the correctness of your code.
by tzs | 2025-12-28 12:29:52+00:00
I’ve had some great recommendations from YouTube. For example the video below, called “The Squirrel and the Peanut”, which by just adding some well chosen classical music to some found footage of a squirrel getting a peanut turns it into a moving story of overcoming your fears told in a mere 1:32.

Watch with the sound turned up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ1ZYGHmtN8
by nvarsj | 2025-12-28 12:29:52+00:00
> For today's youth, Tik Tok is "the air we breath" - the de-facto standard against which the future will be judged. It's horrifying to imagine what will be worse.

So your argument is centrally controlled and edited distribution of news information is superior?

I was born in 82, and news has been largely rubbish in almost all forms. Heavily biased by the editors/owners, things missing, weird focuses. The 1940s was filled with propaganda and newspapers were owned by a few moguls or by fascist governments.

At least with the uncensored internet it's possible to educate yourself. There is plenty of amazing journalism if you look around. Including on Tik Tok!
by kace91 | 2025-12-28 12:30:04+00:00
This is dystopian:

> Workers who moved out of London for remote work are under pressure to come back to the office in the city, and some are choosing to stay in Japanese-inspired sleeping pods for just £30 ($40).

People that could be living in human friendly spaces are being pushed to live in a tube for no significant reason other than the whims of the wealthy.

Even setting aside stuff like fire hazards or claustrophobia, notably absent from this is the ability to lead a social life inside: no place to bring a partner or a group of friends.

Your time will be spent at work or recharging for the next work day.
by everdrive | 2025-12-28 12:30:34+00:00
>my overwhelming observation has been just how little key information is actually conveye

Much of it is merely factual statements conveyed by over-the-top body language and vocal intonation which paint a clear "this is bad" or "this is good" language. Often the language is biased as well, but the modern newscasters are "telling you how to feel" via the tone of voice in the same way that a friend is "telling you how to feel" when he recounts his horrible day that the office. Via body language and tone of voice he prompts you to respond sympathetically to him, and the newscaster does much the same.
by cons0le | 2025-12-28 12:30:56+00:00
I had such high hopes for blue sky. The team seems highly un-problematic. Every time I go on there it's just happy stories and people communicating.

But still almost nobody uses it. And now worst of all, people are saying it doesn't "count" as real federation.

It seems like we're letting perfect be the enemy of good. But what do I know
by anonzzzies | 2025-12-28 12:31:49+00:00
But the issue is, and I am not someone saying we should or can throw everything out, that if the US gov demands it, you have to hand over the data right? If your HQ is in the US? Palantir, for me, is worse because of what they are and their communications as you say, but all of these, when compelled by the courts, have to hand over right?
by DonHopkins | 2025-12-28 12:31:49+00:00
Your flustered questions -- that clearly showed you didn't understand cess11 was mocking you -- weren't addressed to me, they were addressed to cess11, and I just answered them for you.

You just didn't like the answers, so now you're so flustered and confused that you wrongly accuse me of not answering. THAT is unhinged.

Then when the ball was in your court, you dropped it again, Georgie.

As a crybaby histrionically claiming to suffer from "violent unsanctioned speech" when complemented on your sick casual racism, it's pretty rich to hear you accuse me of being unhinged for answering your questions and asking you to explain what you mean.

It was predictably easy to shut you down by simply asking you to explain what you mean, because you lack any meaning at all. Now take cess11's sagely advice and stop trying to engage in conversation.
by gregoriol | 2025-12-28 12:32:12+00:00
I wouldn't worry about fire: it seems to be quite modern so most likely has quite some fire equipment and concrete. Common parts from the pictures don't seem to have much flammable stuff. Last time I stayed in London was in a hotel assembled from multiple old 3-4 floors buildings and multiple old wooden staircases, like to go to your room you had to go to floor 2 then end of a corridor then to floor 3 and right left and stuff like this in 1-person wide corridors and stairs. There I was scared of a fire because there was definitely a feeling of no way to escape fast.
by dspillett | 2025-12-28 12:32:22+00:00
> And no one in the comments, of which many look fake too, notices it is AI. That is the most scary part.

Many who notice won't bother commenting, because most who notice know how pointless that is (counterproductive in fact: a comment is an interaction, any interaction is a positive for the "content"). Those that do notice and comment are either drowned out by

• those too numbed on the brain to care, let alone notice, who lap it up, and praise it

• bots (either those being used to interact with the clip to drive it's interactions counters, or more general spam bots)

or if there is anyone/anybot monitoring the negative comments are removed.
by jimnotgym | 2025-12-28 12:32:59+00:00
Maybe that is the answer. Put a note in your readme setting out your terms.

1) If you want to send a PR we charge $1000 to review them. This is no guarantee that we will merge. We will quote any further costs needed after a review.

2) Feature requests should be accompanied by a $250 quotation fee. Then we will scope and quote what is required to do your feature. If your feature would compromise the project, or is impractical a started we retain the right to refuse to quote or suggest more work is required. The $250 fee is non returnable.

Something like that?
by orwin | 2025-12-28 12:34:58+00:00
Two month ago, i'd say 5%. With Opus4.5, Gemini 3 and gpt 5.2, it's now 20%, maybe 50% if we only talk about personal code output.

If we talk about my whole team output, I'd say the impact on code production is like 80-100%, but the impact in velocity is between 10% and -25%. So many bug in production, security holes, so many poor models definition making it to production DB only for me and the other true senior to have to fix it.

We are seniors, we read your PRs and try our best to do it thoroughly, but with AI multiplying your code output, and writing quite convincing solutions, it's way harder, so please: if an AI have written the code in your PR, verify the tests are not superficial, verify everything works, think for yourself about what the model is used for and if it can be improved before release. Re-verify the tests (especially if the AI had issues writing/passing them). And do it once more. Please (hopefully one of my coworkers will read this).
by tialaramex | 2025-12-28 12:35:40+00:00
What "TOFU directory" ? The whole point of TOFU is that you're just going to accept that anybody's first claim of who they are is correct. This is going to often work pretty well, after all it's how a lot of our social relationships work. I was introduced to a woman as Nodis, so, I called her Nodis, everyone else I know calls her Nodis, her boyfriend calls her Nodis. But it turns out her employer and the government do not call her that because their paperwork has a legal name which she does not like - like many humans probably her legal name was chosen by her parents not by her.

Now, what if she'd insisted her name is Princess Charlotte. I mean, sure, OK, she's Princess Charlotte? But wait, my country has a Princess Charlotte, who is a little girl with some chance of becoming Queen one day (if her elder brother died or refused to be King). So if I just trusted that Nodis is Princess Charlotte because she said so, is there a problem?
by rco8786 | 2025-12-28 12:37:35+00:00
I generally agree with you, but am trying to see the world through the new AI lens. Having a machine make human errors isn't the end of the world, it just completely changes the class of problems that the machine should be deployed to. It definitely should not be used for things that need those strict verifiable processes. But it can be used for those processes where human errors are acceptable, since it will inevitably make those some classes of error...just without needing a human to do so.

Up until modern AI, problems typically fell into two disparate classes: things a machine can do, and things only a human can do. There's now this third fuzzy/brackish class in between that we're just beginning to explore.
by yoshuaw | 2025-12-28 12:37:55+00:00
I couldn't agree more. And in the rare cases where destructors do need to be created inline, it's not hard to combine destructors with closures into library types.

To point at one example: we recently added `std::mem::DropGuard` [1] to Rust nightly. This makes it easy to quickly create (and dismiss) destructors inline, without the need for any extra keywords or language support.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/mem/struct.DropGuard.h...
by gregoriol | 2025-12-28 12:38:45+00:00
The story is interesting but clearly lacks the most useful parts:
- interview and feedback of people actually using it (since the author says they are not the target audience at the end)
- experience with the shower: does it feel private enough, was it clean, ...
- experience related to other people staying there: could you hear them? were they nice? socializing?
- feeling regarding the small space
by vbezhenar | 2025-12-28 12:38:48+00:00
Service accounts can't belong to groups, so they are super not convenient for human operators. You can't just create group "developers", assign roles for this group and add service accounts to this group. You must assign role for every user in every namespace, etc.

Having SSO is fine as long as it's built-in. Installing and configuring separate SSO software is not fine.
Show HN: Databasus – open-source backup tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB
by rostislav_dugin | 2025-12-28 12:38:58+00:00
I had a post in the start of December about Postgresus 2.0: self hosted tool for PostgreSQL. Since then the project changed the name and added support of other databases: MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB.

Website - https://databasus.com

GitHub - https://github.com/databasus/databasus

Main features:

- Scheduled backups for multiple PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB databases

- Storage to S3, Cloudflare R2, Google Drive, Azure Blob, NAS, SFTP, rclone, etc.

- Notifications about backup status via email, Telegram, Slack, Discord, MS Teams and customizable webhooks

- Works with both self-hosted and managed PostgreSQL (RDS, Cloud SQL, etc.)

- Runs as a single Docker container or via Helm on Kubernetes, can be installed via script

- There are workspaces and role-based access with audit logs
by upofadown | 2025-12-28 12:39:47+00:00
Here is my take on the OpenPGP standards schism:

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:schism

Nothing has improved and everything has gotten worse since I wrote that. Both factions are sleepwalking into an interoperability disaster. Supporting one faction or the other just means you are part of the problem. The users have to resist being made pawns in this pointless war.

>Maybe the new formats in RFC 9580 are indeed "too radical" of an evolutionary step to safely implement in GnuPG.

Traditionally the OpenPGP process has been based on minimalism and rejected everything without a strong justification. RFC-9580 is basically everything that was rejected by the LibrePGP faction (GnuPG) in the last attempt to come up with a new standard. It contains a lot of poorly justified stuff and some straight up pointless stuff. So just supporting RFC-9580 is not the answer here. It would require significant cleaning up. But again, just supporting LibrePGP is not the answer either. The process has failed yet again and we need to recognize that.
by andy99 | 2025-12-28 12:40:05+00:00
It sounds great to me. I travel regularly for work, and when doing so I work and sleep with no social life. I get as much work done as possible and then I go back to my house and family. I don’t need a big room or anything really, because I’m just there for work. They obviously don’t fit every use case.

I definitely shouldn’t have to pay more for a hotel because other people are claustrophobic. And the fire thing is a red herring, in a modern city there are fire codes and inspections - presumably this is very regulated. You’re almost certainly less safe staying in an unregulated air bnb, people have died in airbnb fires.

See https://montrealgazette.com/news/owner-of-old-montreal-build... for example
by sallveburrpi | 2025-12-28 12:41:59+00:00
Is calling someone boomer an insult in itself?

I get that saying “boomer ruined the world for all the generations afterwards” is an insult, but the word itself is now considered an insult?

Genuinely asking here; the constantly shifting landscape of what one is allowed to say when talking to US Americans is a bit hard for me to navigate and I currently only have online discourse as guidepost (which is like 1000% more toxic)
by jimmySixDOF | 2025-12-28 12:43:12+00:00
One of my soft milestone tests for AGI is if this gets reproduced in a World Model with Gaussian Splats or whatever it is by then that lets you do gameplay walkthrough in first player egocentric 3D-6DOF-360 view in XR with some friends till then its just all stochastic parrots on word calculators whats the point
by mysaasidea | 2025-12-28 12:44:39+00:00
I’m building Explore.Fans, a search engine for discovering OnlyFans creators
using keyword search and image-based similarity search.

It combines face embeddings with structured filters (price, location, tags etc...).

I’m mostly looking for feedback on:
– how intuitive the search feels
– whether image similarity is useful in practice
– performance and UX issues you notice
by whimsicalism | 2025-12-28 12:45:02+00:00
the section immediately after that you didn’t quote:

> evidence keeps piling up. Most recently, in November 2025, a comprehensive paper (opens a new tab) published in Cell Metabolism traced the downstream molecular effects of a father mouse’s exercise regimen on sperm microRNAs that target genes “critical for mitochondrial function and metabolic control” in a developing embryo. The researchers found many of those same RNAs overexpressed in the sperm of well-exercised human men.

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(25)...
by NooneAtAll3 | 2025-12-28 12:46:08+00:00
> If you were under the impression that community RE was to praise for its usability

no, it's you are under some impression you imagined that came from misreading what I wrote

I'm saying "if something is popular, one would expect everything to be scrutinized already, just due to popularity".

"binary blob in the middle of open source" is doubly intriguing target that's weird that it took so long to attract attention
by em500 | 2025-12-28 12:46:30+00:00
What are you looking for exactly? And what issues did you hear from others who grew up in China? Most of the historical / political events (Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution) are fairly accurate, while personal / family experiences are necessarily subjective. China is a huge, diverse country with a vast range of experiences from people growing up in different regions and eras (just like the US, or Europe), so it's hard to dispute any personal / family experience.
by kotaKat | 2025-12-28 12:46:50+00:00
Similarly, I grabbed one of the over-the-counter CGM biosensors (Stelo) to gather some data for a couple of weeks and the initial fear of "holy hell, I'm slamming a needle into my arm with something stuck to it" goes away as soon as you slap the injector release.

Just one little clap sound, you feel a little pat on your arm, and the sensor's already made it where it needed to with no pain.

When you remove the sensor it's a little bit of a shock when you see the sensor wire and realize just how small it was and how you never felt it run around inside your arm for a couple weeks.
by TheDong | 2025-12-28 12:46:59+00:00
Wildly incorrect title, and I am not happy I had to watch through a typical youtube-minecrafter jabbering about crap to verify that.

Java's memory safe, a real memory overflow would be interesting. This is just about triggering out-of-memory on saving a chunk by making that chunk very large. The title is editorialized, wrong, flagged.
by locknitpicker | 2025-12-28 12:47:48+00:00
> So some kids would complain that C++ destructors RAII philosophy require creating a whole "class X{public:~X()}" which is sometimes inconvenient so it doesn't exactly equal "finally".

Those figurative kids would be stuck in a mental model where they try to shoehorn their ${LanguageA} idioms onto applications written in ${LanguageB}. As the article says, C++ has destructors since the "C with Classes" days. Complaining that you might need to write a class is specious reasoning because if you have a resource worth managing, you already use RAII to manage it. And RAII is one of the most fundamental and defining features of C++.

It all boils down to whether one knows what they are doing, or even bothers to know what they are doing.
by pseudony | 2025-12-28 12:48:01+00:00
Try telling the boomer generation that they have to work in the city center, for a salary insufficient for suitable housing (read: space for children) close by.
Then, while remote-work could work, tell them they can’t, instead, push then toward sleeping in a king-sized coffin while god knows how they can manage having children.

I think it’s time for a societal reality-check.
by guntis_dev | 2025-12-28 12:48:11+00:00
I think there's a reason these wrappers keep appearing - different tools for different use cases. Not everyone needs to become an ffmpeg expert, especially if they only need it occasionally.

For example this one is also ffmpeg wrapper, https://lorem.video and built for devs and QAs who just need a quick placeholder video without diving into ffmpeg syntax. It's optimized for that narrow use case to generate test video by typing a URL.

Nothing wrong with learning ffmpeg properly if you use it regularly, but purpose built tools have their place too.
by thomasthelliez | 2025-12-28 12:49:06+00:00
If you are a web developer or a cloud architect, the world of robotics often feels like a foreign land. We imagine humanoid machines and low-level C code that looks more like math than software. But modern robotics has moved away from monolithic codebases. Instead, it relies on Middlewares, the “glue” that allows different software parts to talk to each other.
by sigseg1v | 2025-12-28 12:49:24+00:00
I think that the fact that people don't understand why there are so many negative positions is equally frustrating. To me it seems blatantly obvious that the majority of LLM usage by people today is coming from models that are trained on stolen data without following any of the requirements or licenses of the authors.

With Rob Pike being such a prolific figure in software development, it's likely that a sizable portion of what makes the LLM function and be able to send him that email was possible only because they didn't uphold their end of the bargain. I don't see why anyone has trouble comprehending why this would make him furious?

I know for me personally, I'm happy to share things I've made but make no mistake, I would never share it if other users of it did not credit me, specifically by following the terms in the license I've published. The fact that LLMs have ingested and used so much software yet I can't find the licenses text provided by the training data authors is at minimum deeply distributing and at most actively harmful. For works licensed under something like the GPL where someone is only ok for their software to be used under strict terms, I don't even know where to start with how upset I imagine they would be.

Why is this weird? If anything I feel it would be the default response from someone on here.
by jibal | 2025-12-28 12:49:54+00:00
Not all epigenetics is regulation of gene expression. The article says "these molecules transmit traits to offspring and that they can regulate embryonic development after fertilization" -- that's from the reporter, but I don't have faith that "transmit traits" is at all accurate--it certainly isn't true in the way that genes express traits. And then thry quote an epigeneticist saying
“We just don’t have really any understanding of how RNAs can do this, and that’s the hand-wavy part”