MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by akcreek | 2025-12-10 18:13:19+00:00
As a follow-up, in case anyone else finds themselves in this position. I was never able to create a FB account for myself, but a member of our team was able to use their existing personal FB account to create a company page. From there, they signed the account up for Meta for Business.

Once you have a Meta for Business account, you can apply for Brands Rights Protection, assuming you have a registered trademark. Our application was approved quickly.

This opens up a set of tools to search for impostors, infringers, etc., and a bulk report option. This is significantly quicker than using the public-facing trademark and copyright reporting forms. Within a couple of days, all imposter pages were removed across FB and Instagram.

They also have a paid service called Meta Verified for Business. This service promises even quicker action on impostors, but there is a waitlist right now, so we couldn't try it. The Brands Rights Protection ultimately fixed our issue, for now at least.
by rawgabbit | 2025-12-10 18:13:26+00:00
Quote The human washing machine is only sized for one bather at a time, though, which is why the room also has the sauna, lounge, and a fridge apparently stocked with ice-cold beer (or at least beer can be ordered, if the promotional images are anything to go by).... Six sessions are available per day, all priced at 18,000 yen (US$118), with starting times between 10:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m.
by BurningFrog | 2025-12-10 18:14:06+00:00
I'll take on the low status role of not knowing if this is a good idea.

I've seen the data showing teen sanity nose diving concurrently with social media penetration. I'm also a borderline kook libertarian.

So I appreciate the arguments in both directions, and I think the only way to find out if it works is to try it out. Preferably on a remote isolated island without nuclear weapons, in case things go badly :)
by PineappleMLab | 2025-12-10 18:14:24+00:00
I have been working for a year on PineappleMusicLab, a web tool that automatically adds piano fingerings to sheet music.

The motivation: many pianists (students, teachers, enthusiasts) spend hours manually assigning fingerings, which is repetitive but crucial for playability.

I am looking for feedbacks about the product, suggestions about how to improve my user retention, how to find more early users, and how to get more feedbacks from my users.

How it works: - Upload a sheet music as PDF or MusicXML format. - the AI will outputs a fingered score that you can view, edit, or export.

Thanks!
by nephihaha | 2025-12-10 18:14:26+00:00
Oh it's irony alright. I've encountered many such folk. They claim to mean well but barely know what to deal with a real live proletarian when they encounter one.

What was it the Who once sang, "meet the new boss, same as the old boss"? I don't think he has ever been much out of privileged circles.

The way ordinary people's lives can improve is self-advocacy and self-determination. You're not going to find that from Cambridge University where he teaches (one of the snobbiest and class ridden institutions in the UK which often resembles Hogwarts more than a modern university), the World Economic Forum (which prefers closed meetings to public ones and is furtive about its aims), or anything like that.

In this article he is right to voice concern about Big Tech oligarchy. But his analysis is off and he is not aware of what it really means to millions of people.
by estearum | 2025-12-10 18:14:33+00:00
> No, evangelicals need all the Jews to go back to Israel for their end of the world prophecy to come true

Not according to literally any evangelical I've ever spoken to, nor any mainstream evangelical in US theo-politics. Nor is that actually stated in scripture. The complete assemblage of Jews in Israel can happen during or after Tribulation via Jesus teleportation magic.

Sovereignty to rebuild the temple is all that's required for Jesus to gain his Jew-teleportation powers.

Based on your vernacular I'm going to guess you aren't from the US and have no clue what the US religious landscape is actually like.

> you're claiming that Israel is getting some specially favourable treatment by sheer chance

I made no such claim.

My claim is that they're getting "favorable" treatment as a purely instrumental means to an end. In this case (the visas) the end is to exclude Muslims and libs. In other cases it's to bring back kamikaze Jesus. None of it has to do with actually liking Jews.

> Finally, why you feel the need to specify that Jews and zionists are not the same.

Because otherwise a person literally can't parse the factual statement that American evangelicals love Israel but don't care for Jews?
Ask HN: YouTube Only Showing Ads?
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-12-10 18:14:49+00:00
Just curious if other people are seeing this or if I'm part of an a/b test. When people embed a YouTube video on their page, you can (often? always?) click on the lower-left of the video to open the video on the YouTube page (instead of the page it was embedded in.)

But I noticed this morning that instead of taking me to the YouTube page for the embedded video, it takes me to the YouTube page for the first ad to run on the embedded video. And on top of that, it shows me an ad before showing me the ad.

Seems to work on all IP addresses and multiple browsers.

I should check to see if it does it when I'm logged out or logged into my work account. (Haven't done that yet.)

There's no way to give feedback directly to YouTube or Alphabet, so if anyone knows anyone over at Google, could you ask them to please stop doing this? -thx
by BobaFloutist | 2025-12-10 18:14:59+00:00
The prohibitions on booby-traps are that they're indiscriminant, not that they involve mundane objects.

I totally get the instinct to condemn the attack, since it's truly, deeply viscerally horrifying (not to mention terrifying!), but most of the rules about how you're supposed to conduct war basically boil down to 1. Make a reasonable effort to avoid disproportionately harming civilians 2. Don't go out of your way to inflict pain and suffering on your enemy beyond what's a necessary part of trying to kill or neutralize them 3. If your enemy is completely at your mercy, you have an extra duty to uphold 1 and 2.

Again, the pager attack is new, unusual, and just very upsetting. But it harmed civilians at a remarkably low rate, and the method of harm wasn't meaningfully more painful than just shooting someone. It compares very favorably with just bombing people on every metric other than maybe how scary it is if you're a combatant.
by fidotron | 2025-12-10 18:15:08+00:00
The main reason was to run Windows (3.1) inside a window on Risc OS in parallel. You could copy/paste between them too iirc. Use of floating point code from Risc OS was so non-uniform (i.e. the culture was rolling your own fixed point code) that any attempt to speed that up via offloading to another type of CPU would have only worked for a specific configuration of everything. The x86 cards available weren't exactly speed demons either.

At one time there was a lot more community excitement about shoving many Arms on a single board, or a DSP, but the StrongArm upgrade was already fast enough to oversaturate the bus making such a thing pointless.

Around this time Win95 overtook Risc OS in terms of realistic UX/cost as well.

With hindsight the Risc PC existed so there was an upgrade path for people from the Archimedes for particular software before ports of that to PCs were completed. e.g. Sibelius. Acorn knew they didn't have a chance.
by mikestew | 2025-12-10 18:15:25+00:00
I guess I should have said "a more inconvenient time" where owning an EV kinda revolves around your charging setup/schedule in a way that you don't have to think about with ICE cars.

I plug it in when I get home, and when I get in it again the "tank" is always full. I think about the EV a lot less than I do our ICE car, which seems to need gas at the most inconvenient times. You might have an argument for road trips, but even that's almost a no-brainer these days. Sure, I can't just get off at some random exit in the Utah desert and expect to find a charger, but my experience says this whole "charging on a road trip" is way overblown, as if even the slightest bit of look-ahead planning is just too much for people to handle.
by DFHippie | 2025-12-10 18:15:26+00:00
A lot of things will be harder for the US to do if everyone in the world hates us. Letting people come here and see that most Americans aren't monsters pays dividends beyond the dollars they spend.

The Trump Administrations actions read like a checklist of things you'd do if you wanted to destroy the US's power to protect itself and its allies and promote the well-being of its people.
by WithinReason | 2025-12-10 18:16:04+00:00
Not sure what the fuss in this thread is about, this is a completely believable claim. In table 5 he gets 83.26% with labels only (which I assume means not using the teacher) and 91.40% with the teacher. This is a nice result, not hugely ground breaking I'd say. Maybe training longer or using some clever normalisation would even close the gap. It's not something you can call 224x compression though so I would remove that claim everywhere.

This is basically a variation of distillation through the entire network, not just the last layer as typical
by x0x0 | 2025-12-10 18:16:12+00:00
It's the feigned surprise and sort of attitude that google is doing something malicious or it's a subterfuge. Starting with a bolded "Google Maps Is Not a Directory. It’s a Market Maker." and inishing with eg

> the most important result isn’t which neighbourhood tops the rankings - it’s the realisation that platforms now quietly structure survival in everyday urban markets.

For any service like this, _of course_ ranking is at the core of it. A more honest article could have started there, eg "since you can't display all results, and doing so is useless to everyone, the heart of these products is their ranking algorithm and choices. Let's examine Google's."
by mytailorisrich | 2025-12-10 18:16:19+00:00
Exactly as predicted you are now claiming that I am still wrong by picking a suitable timescale instead of discussing the point. As already said in another comment the graph does show a decline as 2024 is still below 2019, especially with a drop in 2023 (which corresponds to the highest annual population growth on record).

I don't know why you are doing that (using narrowest possible interpretation of what I wrote to "prove me wrong" and "debunk") but you are not commenting anything constructive or substantial.
by gicgic | 2025-12-10 18:16:38+00:00
I suspect this is largely driven by a subset of liberals who have equated words they don't like with violence. So when someone like Kirk commits a misgendering or some other verbal assault against their beliefs, this is essentially the same as exacting physical violence. Which by that logic can be responded to with actual physical violence.

It's very twisted, and fortunately not all liberals have this perspective. Some are actually liberal in their beliefs.
by CaliforniaKarl | 2025-12-10 18:16:38+00:00
This, I think, is the crux of the matter.

As an example, I always knew urllib3 as one of the foundational packages that Requests uses. And I was curious, what versions of urllib3 does Requests pull in?

Well, according to https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/main/setup.cfg, it's this:

urllib3>=1.21.1,<3

That is exactly the kind of dependency specification I would expect to see for a package that is using semver: The current version of urllib3 is 2.x, so with semver, you set up your dependencies to avoid the next major-version number (in this case, 3).

So, it seems to me that even the Requests folks assumed urllib3 was using semver.
by jjice | 2025-12-10 18:16:45+00:00
> That's not the case. It's using Rust as a selling point

"Rust as a selling point" was a big thing in 2018-2022ish. You see it a lot less of the "written in Rust" in HN headlines these days. Some people were very excited about Rust early on. What feels more common today are people who unnecessarily hate Rust because they saw too much of this hype and they (justifiably) got annoyed by it.

If there is a new, optional language to be added to Linux Kernel development, Rust makes sense. It's a low level, performant, and safe language. Introducing it for driver development has almost no impact on 99% of users, except maybe it'll safe them a memory related bug fix patch having to be installed at some point. Is Rust the "selling point" here, or is the potential to avoid an entire class of bugs the selling point?

> The fact that you think linux machines are enjoyed by only a specific group of people makes me happier with my choice

If by "specific group of people" you mean "people who will refuse to use an OS based on the implementation language(s)", then I guess so.

I don't mean to be rude (although it reads like it, apologies), but I just think that you're coming at this from a perspective of malice instead of what the goal was, which was to reduce bugs in kernel drivers, and not to pimp Rust as a programming language by getting it into a large software project.
by autoexec | 2025-12-10 18:17:30+00:00
> Those employees and service workers take the subway.

Not the ones who need to bring service vehicles with them. Not anyone who has to enter or return with heavy items or any number of the other many many reasons people choose to drive and not take the subway. The fact of the matter is that the subway has always been an option for many people, but not all people and it comes with costs of its own. The people driving into the city, as obnoxious as that trip is, were making the decision to put up with the traffic and parking for a reason. Now many of those people, enough to make measurable differences in pollution levels, have been priced out of that choice. "It's only a few poors, why are people bitching about it?" isn't going to make people across the country worry any less about it spreading to them.

> The subway is both faster and cheaper than driving in NYC at peak hours.

And also not an option at all for many and a less attractive option for many, as noted by the number of people who were driving. It's not as if the subway is a well kept secret.

> Right but that isn't true.

Just because you say it isn't doesn't make it true. Show me that millionaires are taking the subway because of the increased fines at the same rate as the hourly workers and I'll concede that the impact is being equally felt.
by fullstop | 2025-12-10 18:17:55+00:00
I have an Equinox EV and the brakes do not get used often. They did a great job with blending kinetic regeneration with friction activation, but you can still feel the difference when it kicks in.

They are active in reverse, to ensure that they are used and so that any rust gets cleared from the rotors. They also activate if you slam on the brakes or if the battery is at 100% charge and the kinetic energy can not be used.

I have about 12,000 miles on the car over the last year and the rotors and pads look the same as when I got them. The first annual inspection showed no measurable wear.
by kop316 | 2025-12-10 18:18:16+00:00
I mean...at least for GTK on Linux, you still can? It won't be 10 seconds (probably closer to 30-40 seconds) since you have to go through a couple of prompts to name it, decide a license, etc., but with:

https://apps.gnome.org/Builder/

You can do the same thing. In fact, this was the exact method I used to make a few GTK apps.
by pron | 2025-12-10 18:18:20+00:00
No, I mean that instead of vibe coding - i.e. guiding the AI through features - you'll just tell it what you want in broad strokes, e.g. "create a tax filing system that's convenient enough for the average person to use", or, "I like the following games ... Build a game involving spaceships that I'll enjoy", and it will figure out the rest.
by kube-system | 2025-12-10 18:18:55+00:00
If you are selling in the US, and an account with a primary address overseas buys your item and uses a US shipping address, you are likely shipping to a package forwarder. These services are common because many people and businesses in the US only ship to the US.

I have my eBay account set this way, and I still get bids from overseas accounts -- I always Google the shipping address, 100% of the time it has been a package forwarder.
by jsheard | 2025-12-10 18:19:40+00:00
Yeah, the chip they used isn't ideal though because it converts DP1.4 (32Gbit) to HDMI 2.1 (48Gbit), so the bandwidth is bottlenecked on the input side. Ideally you'd want a chip which takes DP2.1, which I'm not sure exists yet, and the upcoming Steam Machine only supports DP1.4 so it wouldn't have helped in that case anyway.
Show HN: We open-sourced our internal tool for scoring PRs with Claude AI
by textcortex | 2025-12-10 18:19:51+00:00
Hi HN! I'm sharing MergeMint, an open-source platform we built at TextCortex AI to automatically evaluate and score pull requests using Claude AI.

The problem we had: Our engineering team lacked visibility into contribution impact, and performance reviews felt subjective. We wanted objective metrics without the overhead of manual PR reviews.

How it works: When a PR merges, MergeMint analyzes the diff, linked issues, and commits using Claude AI. It classifies component/severity, calculates a score, posts feedback on the PR, and updates team leaderboards.

The results after 6 months: • 3x increase in developer engagement with our internal bug bounty program • Team members actively compete on leaderboards (gamification really works!) • Performance reviews now backed by concrete contribution data • We caught and rewarded high-impact work that was flying under the radar

The scoring is fully configurable – we defined our components (auth, API, UI) with multipliers and severity levels (P0-P3) with base points. Claude does the classification, we control the weights.

Honestly, the gamification aspect surprised us the most. Developers started paying more attention to linking issues, writing better PR descriptions, and picking up high-priority work.

Tech stack: Next.js 15, Supabase (PostgreSQL), Anthropic Claude, Tailwind v4. Fully self-hostable with Docker.

We're open-sourcing it because it's been transformative for our team, and we think other engineering orgs could benefit.

GitHub: https://github.com/MergeMint/mergemint-app Free SaaS version: https://mergemint.dev

Happy to answer questions about our experience deploying this in production or the technical implementation!
by mritterhoff | 2025-12-10 18:19:57+00:00
My understanding is that picked fruits and veg are still alive [1], and often respirating [2]. This is a big component in figuring out how to refrigerate them at the optimal temperatures and atmospheric makeup.

1. https://healthland.time.com/2013/06/21/theyre-alive-harveste... 2. https://agriculture.institute/food-chemistry-and-physiology/...
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-10 18:20:22+00:00
Back in the 1960s, my parents were one of the "first generation" of what we'd call "sport climbers" now. They and their friends climbed all over Scotland, and once they'd done that they climbed in Italy and Austria. They packed everything in, and they packed it all back out, camping, bothying, and bivvying in all conditions.

They and their friends spoke disdainfully of the "short toothbrush brigade". These were the climbers who sawed the handles off their toothbrushes, to save like four grammes in their backpack weight. Massively inconveniencing themselves but they sure were a teaspoon lighter!

This feels like that. Really do you think that playing childish pranks on the garbage collector is going to speed up anything? Pick a faster sorting algorithm or something.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-10 18:20:41+00:00
>We assume people are mostly not lying

Why? There are massive incentives for people to lie in a great many cases, especially where profits exist. Car manufactures, as we know, gladly lie and fake evidence. Even when there are massive fines involved, the fines are generally less than what they make in profit from the lies.

What's even better is you can play both sides to confuse the issue. Create 3rd party groups on the other side of your claims and have them make up the stupidest claims "Just looking at a car will give you cancer". Flood the zone with false information, bullshit asymmetry. Lobby the shit out of politicians so they don't care about the issues, only the money it brings in.

The confused regulars in the middle are so propagandized to they no longer know up from down and billionaires laugh all the way to the bank.
by amarant | 2025-12-10 18:21:02+00:00
I'm not sure social media was ever sane. I distinctly remember thinking it wasn't back in my highschool days, so around 2007-2009, which was pretty much when Facebook completely took over the market in Sweden where I lived.

Before then I used to use lunarstorm. Was that the sane period of social media? Maybe, my memory is fuzzy: it's been a while.
by rawgabbit | 2025-12-10 18:21:04+00:00
Having tried a variety of tools, I usually return to Snowflake. Within Snowflake, I don't use notebooks; instead, I prefer to create database Views to contain my code. I may have Views that call other Views etc. I like Snowflake because for every query in its UI, it automatically profiles the results it returns. e.g., for each column it gives a frequency distribution histogram of the values within the column. In short, I like the ability to store my code in something I can easily backup and re-use without adding a lot of other tools.
by bluerooibos | 2025-12-10 18:21:26+00:00
It's about as good an idea as firing up a bunch more coal power stations.

The grid, at least in the UK, has a bunch of these industrial gas turbines for coping with peak demand, etc and being able to quickly add more power to the grid.

Not exactly something you want running in huge numbers for a long time or you may as well wave your climate emissions targets goodbye.
by 9rx | 2025-12-10 18:21:36+00:00
Not all that interesting when you think about it. Doing so would lead to having to admit that the Go team was right that the proposed arena solution isn't right; that there is a better solution out there. Which defies the entire basis of the blog post. The sunk cost fallacy wouldn't want to see all the effort put into the post go to waste upon realizing that the premise is flawed.

The post could have also mentioned that the Go project hasn't given up. There are alternatives being explored to accomplish the same outcome. But, as before, that would invalidate the basis of the post and the sunk cost fallacy cannot stand the idea of having to throw the original premise into the trash.
by pessimizer | 2025-12-10 18:21:36+00:00
Everybody seems to have missed the memo that all power was concentrated in the Executive branch since the Bush Doctrine, and that since 2016 people have started insisting that the Executive doesn't even have any obligation to the President, the only important vote left (although limited to choosing between two private clubs funded by the same donors.).

If Congress steps away from doing anything but serving donors (helped by the filibuster), and the captured regulators don't have to obey the President, there's actually no democracy left. We're in the impossible situation where Trump not being in control is scarier than Trump being in control.

Even scarier is that the people saying that we're on the way to becoming an authoritarian state are saying that because they think that the voters get too much say. Authoritarianism is when we don't beatify Dr. Fauci, or agree that it's fine for pregnant women to take Tylenol. The upper middle class, in its complete narcissism and fall into self-indulgent fantasy, is entirely focused on aesthetics.

edit: when replies that say that there's already a problem, but seem to be heretical about the covid response get flagkilled, there's a blessed opinion. I have no idea how elite echochambers are supposed to avoid an authoritarian state. Your bosses are kissing Trump's ass, and you're working hard doing things that advance their agenda. They couldn't do it without you.