MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maxglute | 2025-12-06 00:15:08+00:00
SpaceX is ultimately still an American company operating at American scale vs PRC. Last year spaceX had fleet of 18 F9s doing more than 50% of global launches, 80% including starlink. SpaceX stans fixate over 50% and 80%, but ignore that 18 rocket cores is rookie numbers. 7/145 US space launches in 2024 was Non SpaceX. That means US in aggregate build ~25 rockets (i think less since some SpaceX are older cores). Versus PRC 68, about ~80 tyhis year (missing keep missing goal of 100). So we can already see there's a 4-5x difference in total launch vehicles production. When/if PRC sorts out reusables, they get both cadence x volume, and no telling how far they can extend the gap, if anything like auto, fast enough that they can overtake SpaceX in historic payload within a few years. Assuming payload enough demand, which I doubt... outside space weaponization arms race.

I think the world, well mainly govs, many of whom who are already running Huawei network gear would appreciate PRC willingness to accomodate local filtering (censorship) rules with how world is trending towards cyber soveignty.

That said, I can see SpaceX being elevated to Boeing tier strategic asset to compete, assuming Musk badblood doesn't interfere.
by renewiltord | 2025-12-06 00:15:32+00:00
It is property of English language where "you" is used in place of "one" very often. This is particularly common in American English which has less formality to it; less Frenchiness. No 'on' etc. Everyone is 'tu'.

It is language quirk, but you can probably use LLM to replace HN headlines like this. Pretty cheap and one will no longer have visceral reaction that one does not wish.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-12-06 00:15:52+00:00
To be clear, this wasn't an attempt at a diss on Framework. They're what my recommended laptop has been for the past ~3 years (and would be what I got if I hadn't gotten my most recent laptop before frameworks were widely available).

What I probably should have said is that System76 takes open software ridiculously seriously in the same way that Framework takes open hardware ridiculously seriously. On the scale of Linux laptops, Framework is on par with Dell and Lenovo (the best of the big OEMs) in terms of upstreaming patches etc.

System76 OTOH is completely crazy. They've put Coreboot on their laptops, built their own DE because they got tired of Ubuntu not shipping proper nvidia drivers, etc.
by standardUser | 2025-12-06 00:15:52+00:00
I save my shopping list for Puerto Vallarta where I'll buy a small amount of benzos instead of battling it out with a US doctor for a prescription. But don't try that in Guadalajara - it's in the same state but the restrictions are far stricter.

And if you're a fan of Benadryl (diphenhydramine), don't expect to buy it in Latin America. It virtually doesn't exist.
by moomoo11 | 2025-12-06 00:16:08+00:00
Then yeah it makes perfect sense.

Founders are business people.

Seems like you need to respect their time if I’m being honest. And if you want someone to take time out for you, then you have to bring something.

Engineers get paid because they couldn’t figure out how to capitalize their own skill like founder (and they will have to scale that over many employees).

That’s why they have time, they get paid.

Are you trolling with your post? Because if so congrats. Good rage bait.
by daemonologist | 2025-12-06 00:16:35+00:00
Agreed, GPT-5 and even 5.1 is noticeably bad at OCR. OCRArena backs this up: https://www.ocrarena.ai/leaderboard (I personally would rank 5.1 as even worse than it is there).

According to the calculator on the pricing page (it's inside a toggle at the bottom of the FAQs), GPT-5 is resizing images to have a minor dimension of at most 768: https://openai.com/api/pricing/ That's ~half the resolution I would normally use for OCR, so if that's happening even via the API then I guess it makes sense it performs so poorly.
by mariopt | 2025-12-06 00:16:39+00:00
Hi Peter, thank you for doing this AMA.

How can an European Senior SWE land a job, let’s say, SF and have some kind of guarantee regarding the visa before flying into the US.

The 100K cost for the H-1B is so absurd that it crushes any hope of me ever participating in Silicon Valley or any other tech hub in the US. Is the tech alive or are companies just relocating to EU/others?
by gametorch | 2025-12-06 00:16:45+00:00
> HyperCore includes fully onchain perpetual futures and spot order books. Every order, cancel, trade, and liquidation happens transparently with one-block finality inherited from HyperBFT. HyperCore currently supports 200k orders / second, with throughput constantly improving as the node software is further optimized.

Key part:

> fully onchain perpetual futures and spot order books
by pixelpoet | 2025-12-06 00:18:23+00:00
Fair enough, and I do appreciate Rust's contributions to the spectrum of programming language considerations. Personally I'd like to become a Zig guy, though.

There's also Fil-C BTW, and in normal C++ there are GCC or Clang (I forget which) extensions for detecting threading issues, even good old Valgrind is under-appreciated and under-used. In general one wants to adopt best practices and be proactive, rather than relying on the language to solve all problems (of course).
by SanjayMehta | 2025-12-06 00:19:18+00:00
I've read both version of the Holodomor or whatever it's called. I put it down to communist incompetence, Mao was no different than Stalin in this regard.

As for the famines in India, the war criminal Churchill deliberately routed grains to feed his armies during world war 2. Prior to that, it was British policy to trigger famines, not incompetence.

During the Irish famine, again under British rule, the latter were exporting grains and other produce to England. It was not incompetence but malice.

Who is Ramachandran?
by jonhohle | 2025-12-06 00:19:30+00:00
As a solo dev, I’ve been on ACA with my family for the past four years. In my market, a major insurance company is not returning for 2026 and the prices have gone bananas. Our premiums are increasing over 40%, all of our copays are more than doubling, and the deductible is astronomical. In many cases the cash pay price is probably cheaper than the insurance negotiated rate.

I’m the plus side, all bronze plans can contribute to HSAs next year.

We compared individual plans off market, but they’re mostly the same without HSA access or they’re targeting people with specific ailments (e.g. the diabetes plan).

On top of that, consolidation of hospital systems has made wait times for GPs months unless you’re lucky enough to find a cancelation. We have some older Canadian ex-pat friends and it seems like our health system has all of the downsides of socialized systems, plus we get to pay Cadillac prices.

I’m really hoping 2026 is so bad that something breaks enough to resolve some fundamental issues with private health costs, but I’m not naive enough to think it’s likely. ACA was such a monumental gift to someone, but it definitely not individuals who need family coverage.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-12-06 00:19:43+00:00
That's great to hear:) Given the long-term existence of eg. https://archlinux32.org/ and https://archlinuxarm.org/ I had always assumed that this was purely a question of policy and that Arch had no interest in supporting anything else. I found https://rfc.archlinux.page/0032-arch-linux-ports/ ; is there anything else I could read to catch up on the state of things?
by quesera | 2025-12-06 00:20:49+00:00
Right, I think we agree on everything of substance.

I'm just particularly bothered by sketchy research on the edges of contentious public health issues.

I hope this issue is litigated to conclusion, and if Monsanto is found to have pushed fraudulent research for their own benefit, I hope regulatory agencies around the world come down hard, even if the net effect on human health is small or zero. There's just no place for that kind of shite any more.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-06 00:21:02+00:00
This meme needs to die and was never true.

Cable TV started out as a means to broadcast network TV in areas where they couldn’t get it over the air. Those stations always had ads.

Then came nationwide rebroadcast of local “SuperStations” in Atlanta (TBS) and Chicago (WGN) with ads.

There has never been a time where basic cable didn’t have ads
by blargey | 2025-12-06 00:21:35+00:00
> "the creativity of a human"

> "the economic demand for digital art"

You twisted one "goalpost" into a tangential thing in your first "example", and it still wasn't true, so idk what you're going for. "Using a wrench vs preliminary layout draft" is even worse.

If one attempted to make a productive observation of the past few years of AI Discourse, it might be that "AI" capabilities are shaped in a very odd way that does not cleanly overlap/occupy the conceptual spaces we normally think of as demonstrations of "human intelligence". Like taking a 2-dimensional cross-section of the overlap of two twisty pool tubes and trying to prove a Point with it. Yet people continue to do so, because such myopic snapshots are a goldmine of contradictory venn diagrams, and if Discourse in general for the past decade has proven anything, it's that nuance is for losers.
by teleforce | 2025-12-06 00:21:40+00:00
Internet packet switching based architecture was originally design to withstand this type of outages [1].

Some people even go further by speculating that the original military DARPA network precursor to the modern Internet was originally designed to ensure the continuity of command and control (C&C) of the US military operation in the potential event of all out nuclear attack during the Cold War.

This the time when Internet researchers need to redefine the Internet application and operation. The local-first paradigm is the first step in the right direction (pardon the pun) [2].

[1] The Real Internet Architecture: Past, Present, and Future Evolution:

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691255804/th...

[2] Local-first software You own your data, in spite of the cloud:

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/
Show HN: AcquireMock – Self-hosted mock payment gateway for testing
by ashfromsky | 2025-12-06 00:21:49+00:00
Hi HN! I built AcquireMock – a self-hosted mock payment gateway for developers who need to test payment integrations without dealing with sandbox APIs or API keys.

The problem: When building e-commerce features, you often need to test payment flows. Sandbox environments from providers like Stripe work great, but they require API keys, have rate limits, and don't work offline. For educational projects, MVPs, or demos, this is overkill.

AcquireMock simulates a full payment flow including: - Beautiful checkout UI (dark mode, 4 languages) - OTP verification via email (optional) - HMAC-signed webhooks with auto-retry - Card storage for returning customers - Docker deployment in one command

Tech stack: FastAPI, PostgreSQL, SQLModel, Jinja2. Everything runs locally with docker-compose up.

Use cases: - Testing payment flows in development - Learning how payment gateways work - Building MVPs without PSP setup - Creating payment demos for clients

The test card is 4444 4444 4444 4444 (any CVV/expiry works). There's an interactive test page at localhost:8000/test.

This is explicitly NOT for production – it's a mock for testing only. When you're ready for production, you'd swap it out for a real PSP like Stripe or Fondy.

I'd love feedback on the approach and feature requests! The repo includes full API docs and examples of webhook verification.

GitHub: https://github.com/illusiOxd/acquiremock
by aiipassword | 2025-12-06 00:22:24+00:00
ClipNotebook is a small tool I built to escape tab overload. You paste a link and it becomes a clean card you can move into playlists. Your notebook lives at one unique URL you save. No account needed. It helps with research study paths inspiration boards and team handoff kits. You can also share a playlist with one read only link and friends can import it into their own space. It stays free and privacy focused.

I created it first for myself because I found problems in all the other alternatives. I made a version for my team and their friends started using it too. That is when I decided to open it to everyone. Can you try it and share your feedback.
by runarberg | 2025-12-06 00:23:22+00:00
They both affect the weather, but in a totally different way, and by completely different means. Similarly the mechanisms in which the human brain produces output is completely different from the mechanism in which an LLM produces output.

What I am trying to say is that the intrinsic properties of the brain and an LLM are completely different, even though the extrinsic properties might appear the same. This is also true of the wind and the sunshine. It is not unreasonable to (though I would disagree) that “cognition” is almost the definition of the sum of all intrinsic properties of the human mind (I would disagree only on the merit of animal and plant cognition existing and the former [probably] having similar intrinsic properties as human cognition).
by WalterBright | 2025-12-06 00:23:29+00:00
> Zig particularly shines: comptime metaprogramming, explicit memory allocators, and best-in-class C interoperability. Not to mention the ongoing work on compilation times

The D programming language shines:

comptime: https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#interpretation

metaprogramming: https://dlang.org/spec/template.html#function-templates

explicit memory allocators: these are easily made, there's nothing special about them, I use them all the time

best-in-class C interoperability: Nothing beats D's ImportC, where you can import a .c file as if it were a module. You can even use ImportC to translate your C code to D! https://dlang.org/spec/importc.html

Performance: same as C and C++
by testfrequency | 2025-12-06 00:23:35+00:00
Same. Echo chamber hell. I appreciated the modernness of the interior as a design nerd, though it was uncomfortable as a primary desk for all the reasons you’ve said. Never mind the never ending flood of visitors up and down the walkways.

The roof was the main reprieve about the entire environment, wonderfully maintained and honestly a blessing to escape the main campus.

Nonetheless. Frank is a legend, very fortunate to have been able to been able to experience his work on a daily basis.
by wrs | 2025-12-06 00:23:52+00:00
For one thing, as I understand it, the ACA was pretty effectively sabotaged by removing the mandate, which destroys the math that makes insurance work.

Because pre-existing conditions have to be covered, you're free to wait until you have a serious (expensive) condition, then sign up for an ACA plan. And there's no mandate that spreads that risk around to healthy people, so the population is severely skewed.

I have no definitive data on this, but it seems self-evident that the system can't work well.
by defrost | 2025-12-06 00:24:06+00:00
You might want to look deeper into the links I provided re: dendrochronology.

There's no necessity for 12K years of volcano adjacent tree ring sources, any more than there's a requirement that the current immediate vicinity have many trees.

I can leave that for you to ponder, it's not hard to fathom why.

The scope of volcano eruption also comes into play, of course, there's a bunch of papers about tree rings and evidence of volcanic eruption wrt: The Black Death (1347 - 1353) in Europe with a wide separation between volcano and tree ring sites.

On a tangential note, of all the trees in all the arid places about the globe, these are some of my favourites: https://www.snexplores.org/article/carvings-australia-boab-t... and https://theconversation.com/the-boab-trees-of-the-remote-tan....

The Tanami's tough country, it's where the last people (known) to first encounter "western" civilisation walked out from. It's where several of them returned after a few years of exposure.( https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30500591 )

Do you have any stories of your time in the Ethiopian Afar that provide first hand field experience for your strong assertion?

Getachew Eshete and Göran Ståhl did some work there in 1999 in the Rift Valley part of the Afar region that indicated Acacia growth rings can be used as climate indicators for the 30 year life span periods of the wood studied.
by k1musab1 | 2025-12-06 00:26:03+00:00
On chronic coffee consumption: "One meta-analysis found that RR coffee 0.757, RR caffeine 0.721 (12). Another one found RR 0.76, with an optimal protective effect at ∼400 mL/day (13). In comparison to many drug treatments that have an effect size in this range, this is not a small effect size. A risk reduction of 20 to 25% is quite impressive."

As if I needed another reason to drink coffee.
by immibis | 2025-12-06 00:26:08+00:00
If a company doesn't respond to this it tells you they likely only respond to lawsuits. As a paying customer whose business operations are impacted, you should have standing to sue. Your company could potentially extract from Zoom the entirety of the money that their dumb decision made your company lose. Consult a lawyer for actual advice and next steps.

Of course, it's also possible you signed a contract that basically says "we can just decide not to work and you can't do anything about it" in which case, sucks, and fire whoever negotiates your B2B contracts. But also, those clauses can be void if the violation is serious enough.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-06 00:27:03+00:00
dhh always been "controversial", initially it was mostly about strongly held opinions about software, engineering and such, presented in a very vocal way that got a lot of attention at the time. Then at one point Basecamp had some drama about employees calling customers names, which spiraled into a debate about racism and company culture, and ultimately leading to Basecamp banning "discussions about society and politics" or similar. More recently he started sharing opinions about London having too many foreigners, immigrant communities having gangs of groomers or something, and a bunch of Ruby community members have written publicly about what they think about him.

The air around dhh always been dramatic for various reasons, not sure that particular theme is new. But I think is new is that currently people are re-evaluating if they want a prominent community leader to have views that could be seen as "against" members of the community they're supposedly leaders over.
by recursive | 2025-12-06 00:27:10+00:00
Now? There's no change. Also human readable text substantially consists of letters. But that's most of the base64 alphabet too. So this isn't like steganography. All the letters in the human-readable words are valid base64 characters too. The only thing about this is that you get to choose where to put the spaces and newlines. You can't exactly construct arbitrary payloads starting from arbitrary messages.
by cpncrunch | 2025-12-06 00:27:22+00:00
I have been managing production commercial web servers for 28 years.

Yes, there are various bots, and some of the large US companies such as Perplexity do indeed seem to be ignoring robots.txt.

Is that a problem? It's certainly not a problem with cpu or network bandwidth (it's very minimal). Yes, it may be an issue if you are concerned with scraping (which I'm not).

Cloudflare's "solution" is a much bigger problem that affects me multiple times daily (as a user of sites that use it), and those sites don't seem to need protection against scraping.
by semiinfinitely | 2025-12-06 00:27:30+00:00
I don’t understand why today’s laptops are so large. Some of the smallest "ultrabooks" getting coverage sit at 13 inches, but even this seems pretty big to me.

If you need raw compute, I totally get it. Things like compiling the Linux kernel or training local models require a high level of thermal headroom, and the chassis has to dissipate heat in a manner that prevents throttling. In cases where you want the machine to act like a portable workstation, it makes sense that the form factor would need to be a little juiced up.

That said, computing is a whole lot more than just heavy development work. There are some domains that have a tightly-scoped set of inputs and require the user to interact in a very simple way. Something like responding to an email is a good example — typing "LGTM" requires a very small screen area, and it requires no physical keyboard or active cooling. checking the weather is similar: you don’t need 16 inches of screen real estate to go from wondering if it’s raining to seeing a cloud icon.

I say all this because portability is expensive. Not only is it expensive in terms of back pain — maintaining the ecosystem required to run these machines gets pretty complicated. You either end up shelling out money for specialized backpacks or fighting for outlet space at a coffee shop just to keep the thing running. In either case, you’re paying big money (and calorie) costs every time a user types remind me to eat a sandwich.

I think the future will be full of much smaller devices. Some hardware to build these already exists, and you can even fit them in your pocket. This mode of deployment is inspiring to me, and I’m optimistic about a future where 6.1 inches is all you need.
by NicoJuicy | 2025-12-06 00:28:26+00:00
You should really check Cloudflare.

There is not a single company that makes their infrastructure as globally available like Cloudflare.

Additionally, the downtime of Cloudflare seems to be objectively less than the others.

Now, it took 25 minutes for 28% of the network.

While being the only ones to fix a global vulnerability.

There is a reason other clouds wouldn't touch the responsiveness and innovation that Cloudflare brings.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-06 00:29:17+00:00
I overstated, but it's murky.

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12/05/despite-medias-claims-ic...

Why would ICE leave the number as low as "70%" if they could be higher? Every illegal alien is a criminal as far as the law is concerned. Every illegal alien arrested is "charged with a crime". Otherwise ICE is openly stating to its supporters that they arrest illegal aliens and then release them, something their supporters are vocally against, and the administration believes and claims to be a serious problem.

Meanwhile, the Cato Institute a libertarian think tank, claims they have been leaked far worse data https://www.cato.org/blog/5-ice-detainees-have-violent-convi...

A direct reading of ICE's claims (that seem to be contrary to information obtained through FOIA?) is that 70% of the people they arrest are criminals, which by their own definitions, would imply 30% of the people they arrest are not illegally here, but that's reading between the lines and it's hard to lend any credence to anything said by an administration that treats public statements as a fun gaslighting game.

But essentially, if ICE COULD claim everyone they arrest is an illegal alien (and literally a criminal they are legally allowed to arrest and deport), why wouldn't they?

Flag my claim if appropriate.
by Izikiel43 | 2025-12-06 00:30:28+00:00
Ok.

So this is why earlier in the thread they said, less wild chicken pox, more shingles, because immune system goes stupid as there is no wild chicken pox?

I had chicken pox as a kid, the vaccine became available in my country in 98, several years after, so it seems I'm screwed for shingles.
Show HN: Tranzia – Safety-Scored Routes for NYC and London Using Real Crime Data
by mednosis | 2025-12-06 00:30:54+00:00
Hi HN! I built Tranzia because I always wondered: “What’s the safest route to take at night?”

Tranzia scores routes (0–10) using official crime data, nighttime visibility, walking exposure, station safety history, and anonymized user feedback. It currently supports NYC and London.

Under the hood it uses H3 spatial indexing, percentile-normalized crime distributions per city, and a transparent scoring formula (55% crime, 20% time of day, 15% walking, 10% feedback). Every route includes a breakdown of why it scored that way.

Would love feedback on the model, data normalization, and extending this to more cities. Live demo here.