MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lizknope | 2025-12-13 15:24:31+00:00
> one of the Fujica 690 bodies

I see Fuji GW690 bodies with a 90mm lens on various sites like keh in the $1200 range.

I have a Hasselblad 500 series camera from the 1980's that my father bought at a pawn shop near a military base. In the early 2000's professionals were dumping tons of medium format gear as they switched to digital cameras so he got a wide and telephoto lens. The problem is I never use them. They are big, heavy, klunky, and slow to operate. I've never liked print film. I used to be able to get 2 hour development of E-6 slide film but now I have to mail it off and wait over a week so I don't bother. I look at digital backs but most of them are for studio setups.
by sipofwater | 2025-12-13 15:24:38+00:00
1. "How do visually impaired people like to lock and unlock mobile phones?": https://old.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/j3gxd9/how_do_visual... (old.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/j3gxd9/how_do_visually_impaired_people_like_to_lock_and/)

2. "MFA for users with disabilities?": https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/jwp4ki/mfa_for_us... (old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/jwp4ki/mfa_for_users_with_disabilities/)
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-12-13 15:24:46+00:00
May I know if someone with no trading knowledge can get into this field? Or do new hires that you've seen generally have some background knowledge on related to trading, etc.?

I did consider applying for a role in a very similar field, but figured I'll be fighting an uphill battle with no knowledge in trading/stock market/etc.
Tell HN: The Python Software Foundation is now showing banner ads
by inesranzo | 2025-12-13 15:25:09+00:00
I was looking for a Python package and saw this Wikipedia-esque banner ad jump scare me out of nowhere.

https://postimg.cc/6ykTmSPD

I don't understand why the PSF is begging me to donate by showing an intrusive (and borderline manipulative) banner ad disrupting my reading flow.

If this was supposed to be the "point", it has made even more less likely to give money to support them.

I understand that sponsors are needed and the PSF have already been paid massively for this with their many PSF sponsors. Because of these generous sponsorships from these companies that use Python, you wouldn't need donations from me.

I just wish we can stop the enshittification of almost everything by polluting the web with ads.
by quitit | 2025-12-13 15:25:33+00:00
Yes I agree, and this would be the ideal and most efficient outcome, and it should be repeated: an EU-wide common standard, which can then be optionally adopted by businesses in each member state alongside not forbidding existing invoicing methods.

In this scenario we can anticipate that business practices will shift to the common standard over time, and that would include the accounting software used by new businesses: resulting in a phased conversion with minimal disruptions to running a business.
Show HN: Built an AI Song Creator with stem separation and commercial rights
by alexwang123 | 2025-12-13 15:25:55+00:00
Hey HN,

I built an AI music generation platform that solves a problem I had as a content creator: finding royalty-free music that's actually usable.

Key features: • Generate songs up to 8 minutes (vs typical 2-4 min limits) • Multiple AI models: lyrics generation, vocal removal, stem separation • Commercial license included - safe for YouTube, Spotify, TikTok • Export in WAV/MP3 with studio quality

Technical stack: Next.js 15, multiple AI providers (DeepSeek, OpenAI, etc.), PostgreSQL, Stripe for licensing.

Free tier available with 2 songs/month. Would love feedback from the community.

Link: https://aisongcreator.app

Happy to answer any questions about the AI models, licensing approach, or technical architecture.
by DANmode | 2025-12-13 15:26:05+00:00
Agreed.

Call me ignorant, but I’d rather we focus on stuff like increasing photovoltaic cell efficiency (and possibly cost-efficiency) by the 40%-60% we’re leaving on the table keeping them fully loaded and cooking.

Simple physics upgrades, like rotating cones, or lines of panels to swap with each other in Arizona-parking-lot conditions, can take us further, faster, and cheaper.

Nuclear is only safe after and during spending a bunch of money to keep it that way.

That makes me uncomfortable, because we’ve never had more instability in my lifetime, as far as “wildly important things not being addressed”.
by valleyer | 2025-12-13 15:26:14+00:00
From the RFC (note the "or businesses"):

Name Space Within States: ------------------------ "locality" - cities, counties, parishes, and townships. Subdomains under the "locality" would be like CI.<city>.<state>.US, CO.<county>.<state>.US, or businesses. For example: Petville.Marvista.CA.US. "CI" - This branch is used for city government agencies and is a subdomain under the "locality" name (like Los Angeles). For example: Fire-Dept.CI.Los-Angeles.CA.US.

So you'd be counting on the sub-registrar of jacksonville.fl.us not to allow a registration for the fraudulent "business" of Sheriff, Inc. -- multiplied by every municipality across the country.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-13 15:26:43+00:00
> You do not like person x, send them some Apple gift cards... :o

99.999% chance they happily redeem them and go about their lives.

These stories, while frustrating, are clearly edge cases. Yes I know you can find more if you search social media, but I don’t think a lot of these HN commenters realize the volume of gift cards Apple sells and redeems without problem every day.
by cameldrv | 2025-12-13 15:27:01+00:00
I think it's a combination of money laundering and phone scams where people are told they owe money to the IRS or something and are tricked into buying a bunch of gift cards.

That said, if buying and redeeming gift cards are such an indicator of fraud that people are legitimately afraid of getting their accounts permanently locked, why doesn't Apple just stop selling them?
by evanelias | 2025-12-13 15:27:25+00:00
I didn't mention em dashes anywhere in my comment!

If this isn't AI writing, why say "The “New Account” Trap" with then further sub-headers "The Legal Catch", "The Technical Trap", "The Developer Risk"... I have done a lot of copyreading in my life and humans simply didn't write this way prior to recent years.
by Kholin | 2025-12-13 15:27:31+00:00
I believe this is primarily due to the distinct humanistic perspective found in Studio Ghibli animations. For the average anime enthusiast, entertainment value often takes precedence over other factors; however, Ghibli works are regarded as possessing greater intellectual depth and literary quality. Their themes often revolve around childhood innocence, societal shifts, environmental protection, and are replete with metaphors for the real world. This offers ample room for interpretation, allowing the films to resonate with a diverse audience—whether through their imaginative visual storytelling or their unique spiritual essence.
by Farfignoggen | 2025-12-13 15:27:37+00:00
So pain all around for the supply chains for PCs/Laptops and Console/Devices makers until the DRAM/NAND Market prices stabilize. Maybe Nvidia's Jensen can convince the US to allow for Chinese DRAM/NAND to be used/imported to supply markets that are hungry for that. But even if the Chinese increase their production to meet their internal needs for DRAM/NAND that can sill reduce the need for using only the western suppliers that are maybe artificially limiting their production to keep prices inflated!

The Tech Press is maybe focused too much on the Big 3(Micron, Samsung, and SK-Hynix) and maybe the Chinese Government will be helping to increase their own internally produced DRAM/NAND production to meet more than just the Chinese internal market needs! Electric power for Industrial production of DRAM/NAND is relatively more affordable in China and the Chinese appear to be not as restricted by the Foundry Equipment import restrictions.

But maybe the western Markets need to allow China access to the older DUV equipment that's gotten restricted, as well as the EUV equipment, to allow for there to be more DRAM/NAND productions to meet demand worldwide for DRAM/NAND to be supplied to keep prices more sane for everyone worldwide! DRAM and NAND production does not necessarily need EUV or any leading edge process node technology but even DUV equipment is being restricted from Chinese Import and maybe the Western Governments need to allow the Chinese to purchase more of those used DUV machines to help relieve the supply DRAM/NAND shortage.

Maybe the Chinese can provide some of its Long Distance Power Transmission infrastructure and supply power to neighboring countries and sell power to places that are not as Fab Equipment restricted to produce DRAM/NAND for SE Asian market DRAM/NAND needs. But with the Price of DRAM/NAND so high there will probably be the investment to do just that in SE Asia and using Chinese supplied Electrical power for that production as the Chinese look to be quite capable to supply more electrical power than even the Chinese need currently for its internal needs!
by tonymet | 2025-12-13 15:28:53+00:00
I back up regularly using Google Takeout and similar tools, but I don’t think it’s fair to shame this author . Even if you have backups , your recent and essential content and credentials will be locked out . 1% of your content is the most important

We all depend heavily on cloud storage and sso . Everything works fine until you are locked out .

And using them isn’t fully voluntary. They are necessary for collaboration . You end up using what your team uses .

You can try to be that “own cloud” snob but it only works if you live in a basement

Every normal person has content in Google , iCloud , OneDrive , Dropbox and maybe more. That’s 4+ single points of failure

You’re just not imaginative enough if you think you’re safe .

OPs only recourse is an insider or a lawyer
by losvedir | 2025-12-13 15:28:55+00:00
MCP is a terribly designed (and I assume vibe-designed) protocol. Give me the requirements that an LLM needs to be able to load tools dynamically from another server and invoke them like an RPC, and I could give you a much simpler, better solution.

The modern HTTP Streamable version is light-years better, but took a year and was championed by outside engineers faced with the real problem of integrating it, and I imagine was designed by a human.

OpenAI was there first, but unfortunately the models weren't quite good enough yet, so their far superior approach unfortunately didn't take off.
by TypeDeck | 2025-12-13 15:28:58+00:00
Completely agree with both points. Skills replacing one-off microservices and agents writing their own skills feel like two sides of the same coin to me. I’m a solo developer building a markdown-first slide editing app. The core format is just Markdown with --- slide separators, but it has custom HTML comment directives for layouts (<!-- layout: title -->, <!-- layout: split -->, etc.) and content-type detection for tables, code blocks, and Mermaid diagrams. It’s a small DSL, but enough that an LLM without context will generate slides that don’t render optimally. Right now my app is designed for copy-paste from external LLMs, which means users have to manually include the format spec in their prompts every time. But your comment about agents writing skills made me realize the better path: I could just ask Claude Code to read my parser and layout components, then generate a Slide_Syntax_Guide skill for me. The agent already understands the codebase—it can write the definitive spec better than I could document it manually.
by Scubabear68 | 2025-12-13 15:29:00+00:00
I wish the article had stuck with the technical topic at hand and left out the embellishment. In particular the opening piece talking about what is happening outside the exchange.

What happens outside the exchange really doesn’t matter. The ordering will not happen until it hits the exchange.

And that is why algorithmic traders want their algos in a closet as close to the exchange both physically and also in terms of network hops as possible.
by estearum | 2025-12-13 15:29:06+00:00
Well that's a ridiculously stupid paper.

Major claim: COVID is not the correct explanation for the 31 million excess deaths during... COVID.

Reasons provided:

* Excess deaths didn't rise until after public healthy emergencies were declared (yeah, duh, emergencies were declared as testing showed extreme growth which occurs at least weeks prior to most deaths)

* Vast differences in mortality rate between political jurisdictions, even among those who shared borders (yeah, duh, sharing a border doesn't mean you have the same public health or data reporting systems as the county, state, or nation nearby)

* Erratic mortality patterns (yeah, duh, there's a seasonality to many viruses and one can quite obviously see that in excess mortality and also by uhh... living through winter...)

* Unstable economic correlations (yeah, duh, there were different interventions protecting or exposing different people disproportionately at different times)

So all of these things they say disprove the virus hypothesis.

Frankly laughable. Thank you for sharing!
by DivingForGold | 2025-12-13 15:29:31+00:00
Bits and pieces, all from Wikipedia:

Sacks was born to a Jewish family in Cape Town, South Africa, and emigrated to Tennessee, United States, with his family when he was five.

Sacks is a member of the so-called "PayPal Mafia", a group of founders and early employees of PayPal who went on to found a series of other successful technology companies.

According to a 2024 New York Times article, "Over the last few years, Mr. Sacks, a longtime associate of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, has transformed from a prominent Silicon Valley executive into an unlikely media celebrity for would-be entrepreneurs, especially those leaning right, who listen to his popular All-In podcast.

His family lives on Broadway in Pacific Heights, San Francisco, in an area known as "Billionaire's Row".[78] In June 2024, they hosted a sold-out fundraiser for Donald Trump at their home, with tickets from $50,000 to $300,000 per person. For his 40th birthday, rented a $125 million-dollar mansion and threw a Marie Antoinette-themed party, called "Let him eat cake".
by vladms | 2025-12-13 15:30:14+00:00
The list is a bit overkill for the normal person. I would suggest just:

- Have a local backup (simple giving the storage prices)

- Pay for one email provider (less chance to ignore you)

- For important services (bank, etc.) always register also a telephone number / second email if possible (there is a low chance that both primary and secondary thing will be blocked at the same time)
by pjmlp | 2025-12-13 15:30:27+00:00
Yet another Rust article that ignores the choice among memory safe languages, including the ML linage that inspired Rust's type system.

The only reason to pick Rust instead of one of those, is exactly because the memory safety without GC that it offers, when any form of automatic resource management, be it in whatever form, is not possible, or welcomed by the domain experts.
by pfdietz | 2025-12-13 15:31:17+00:00
There are fundamental reasons why fusion, at least the DT variety, will be more expensive than fission. It has to do with inherently low volumetric power density of DT fusion reactors. ITER is 400x worse than a PWR; ARC is 40x worse. So, the reactor itself becomes much larger and, because it's also more complex, much much more expensive. The other putative advantages of fusion cannot make up for this. And fission itself is too expensive, so DT fusion loses to a loser. It's a double loser.

If you want to see where energy will come from in a deregulated environment, look at Texas. New grid capacity there is solar and batteries. Even gas isn't being installed much; the Texas state government put down $7.2B to fund more gas capacity yet this money has been mostly spurned, I think < $400M has been taken. New nuclear is completely out of the picture there.
by flatter | 2025-12-13 15:31:23+00:00
Did you even read the article? "The only recent activity on my account was a recent attempt to redeem a $500 Apple Gift Card to pay for my 6TB iCloud+ storage plan" a 6TB plan is $29.99 monthly.. It's not farfetched to assume he purchased a $500 gift card so he could keep the subscription without worrying about it!

"The card was purchased from a major brick-and-mortar retailer (Australians, think Woolworths scale; Americans, think Walmart scale)" There's not much of a reason to assume someone else unaffiliated with the author bought this card, he mentions talking to the vendor and getting a replacement which means he has the receipt
by lcuff | 2025-12-13 15:31:35+00:00
I remember reading some time ago that there is a real difficulty running passenger trains and freight trains over the same rails. With freight, you can tolerate bumps at the rail-join points, and freight tends to create such bumps because the heavy loads push the rails slightly out of place. Also, freight routes should be limited to a 2% grade, whereas 4% can be tolerated for the lighter passenger cars. Have these problems been mitigated on the Koralm Railway? Anyone know how?
by p-e-w | 2025-12-13 15:31:54+00:00
> The part of craft that can be replicated mechanically is the least interesting and valuable part of art.

Everything humans do can be replicated mechanically. We’re biological machines, and crafts are just behaviors, not some mystical feat that somehow defies replication or analysis. And there can be no reasonable doubt that machines will replicate (and indeed surpass) everything human very soon.
by leejo | 2025-12-13 15:32:09+00:00
My Xpan is now over 25 years old, and I've been doing stuff like this with it for over a decade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIy2_IpEw8c # electronics are still holding strong... for now. They tend to have more mechanical problems than electrical problems in my experience. But yes, I certainly wouldn't spend anything like what they are going for these days.

Albert (the subject of the original article here) is a former colleague and I recently visited him at home where he showed me his studio and the cameras he'd been creating. All very cool stuff.
by seven_qwq | 2025-12-13 15:32:45+00:00
I found EyeTestOnline.org, a free, browser-based site that lets you take a quick, scientifically grounded vision screening online. It includes visual acuity, color vision, contrast sensitivity, and visual field tests that can be completed in just a few minutes and works on any device with instant results. The platform processes everything locally — no registration needed, no personal data collected, and results stay on your device. There’s a clear medical disclaimer that these tests are screening tools only and not a replacement for a professional eye exam, which is especially important if you’re noticing vision issues or have medical concerns
by macNchz | 2025-12-13 15:33:08+00:00
I disagree with this article—its premise relies too heavily on the oft repeated, oft misunderstood line “there is no security in obscurity.”

This concept is used to argue that obscurity shouldn’t be used at all as a defense mechanism, when really all it means is it shouldn’t be your only line of defense.

Obscuring aspects of a system can contribute to its overall functioning: it’s a filter for the laziest of adversaries, and it creates an imperative for more motivated ones to probe and explore to understand the obfuscation, creating signal and therefore opportunities to notice their behavior and intervene.

I think for anyone who has dealt firsthand with mitigating online fraud, hackers, spam, trolls, cheating etc, the idea of having completely transparent defense mechanisms is pretty much ludicrous.
Show HN: Free usage-based pricing infra for F25 batch until $500K revenue
by sudeepsd__ | 2025-12-13 15:34:15+00:00
Hey HN, Sudeep S D here from Flexprice (flexprice.io)

Every YC batch has had teams pushing insane tech, but almost all of them hit the same bottleneck before they even realize it.

This is not compute. Not models. It's Billing.

The moment you try to run real pricing experiments, the whole thing cracks.

So for the recent YC F25 batch, we’re removing that drag completely.

Flexprice is going to be FREE until you cross $500K in revenue.

We want you to plug in the infra that top YC teams use to handle millions and skip the internal hacks.

Try Flexprice today and do let us know your thoughts!
by oidar | 2025-12-13 15:34:16+00:00
This sucks Paris. What hope does the normal joe have to get a fair shake if you can't even get this resolved? The layers of click through contracts, opaque terms, LLM customer service, un-empowered customer service, and arbitration agreements make this a crazy relationship we get into with big tech. If we have a problem like this, we should be able to talk to a person at the company that can resolve this right without threatening a lawsuit. It's nuts.

I'm curious about the apple's passwords app. Where you able to use it? What about passkeys?
by mmulet | 2025-12-13 15:34:36+00:00
I use alpine for this [1] reason, but I will admit that this is a premature-optimization. I haven’t actually ran into the problem myself.

——

Your code is great, I do basically the same thing (great minds think alike!). The only thing I want to add is that cgo supports pkg-config directly [2] via

// #cgo pkg-config: $lib

So you don’t have to pass in linker flags manually. It’s incredibly convenient.

[1]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57476533/why-is-statical...

[2]https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything/blob/def8c93a3db25...
by omosubi | 2025-12-13 15:34:46+00:00
I grew up playing a lot of jazz in the late 2000s and there was always a strict canon - big band was seen as kind of cutesy and not worth putting much effort into while the Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Coltrane, Davis, Hancock, Shorter and a few others were the "real" musicians. But the internet was in its infancy at the time and YouTube/spotify started showing things that I had never heard of like a bunch of Japanese jazz musicians, so I always wonder what musicians coming up today see as "the canon". Is it still mostly the names I mentioned or does it include a lot more?

On a separate note, I always saw Chet baker and Gerry mulligan as "real" musicians but was taught early on that Brubeck was "staid" and boring. After judging it myself I guess you could say his soloing was a little underwhelming but he was incredibly creative in a way that a lot of the "serious" musicians weren't. Jazz people can be such losers sometimes
by martinesq | 2025-12-13 15:34:53+00:00
> Steve Martin is one of the best banjo players out there

And he’s great with a lasso!

I love his albums with Edie Brickell, he’s good with Steep Canyon Rangers, and more recently have heard him shine with Alison Brown (banjo), Sierra Hull (mandolin), and others in his latest tour.

If you’re looking for the top banjo players technically, you might check out Béla Fleck, Jens Kruger, Noam Pikelny, Tony Trischka, Bill Keith, Don Reno, and Earl Scruggs. I’ve personally heard superhuman performances by Jens Kruger in-person and I grew up on Scruggs.
by quinncom | 2025-12-13 15:35:06+00:00
Awww. If there weren’t only 237 of them, I would want to bring one of them home.

> Kākāpō can be up to 64 cm (25 in) long. They have a combination of unique traits among parrots: finely blotched yellow-green plumage, a distinct facial disc, owl-style forward-facing eyes with surrounding discs of specially-textured feathers, a large grey beak, short legs, large blue feet, relatively short wings and a short tail. It is the world's only flightless parrot, the world's heaviest parrot, and also is nocturnal, herbivorous, visibly sexually dimorphic in body size, has a low basal metabolic rate, and does not have male parental care. It is the only parrot to have a polygynous lek breeding system. It is also possibly one of the world's longest-living birds, with a reported lifespan of up to 100 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81k%C4%81p%C5%8D