MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by realreality | 2025-12-03 19:26:57+00:00
Objects in Garage are broken up into 1MB (default) blocks, and compressed with zstandard. So, it would be difficult to reconstruct the files. I don't know if that was a recent change since you looked at it.

Configuration is still through the CLI, though it's fairly simple. If your usecase is similar to the way that the Deuxfleurs organization uses it -- several heterogeneous, geographically distributed nodes that are more or less set-it-and-forget-it -- then it's probably a good fit.
by monerozcash | 2025-12-03 19:27:26+00:00
> Yes but National Security Letters make that pointless

It seems ridiculous to use the term "national security letter" as opposed to "subpoena" in this context, there is no relevant distinction between the two when it comes to this subject. A pointless distraction.

> You can't encrypt away a legal obligation.

Of course you can't. But a subpoena (or a NSL, which is a subpoena) can only mandate you to provide information which you have within your control. It can not mandate you to procure information which you do not have within your control.

If you implement e2ee, customer chats are not within your control. There is no way to breach that with a subpoena. A subpoena can not force you to implement a backdoor or disable e2ee.
by zahlman | 2025-12-03 19:27:27+00:00
As noted by others, the title is mistaken; this is a spaceship, not a glider. (As explained in the Wikipedia article, "glider" refers to a specific 5-cell pattern discovered very early on.)

> So finally 2/133076755768 ship of starting bounding box 3707300605x1 is here

My understanding is that 2/133076755768 is the speed, in (number of cells translated) / (number of generations to repeat).
by conradev | 2025-12-03 19:27:42+00:00
Hack Club builds software, so the students naturally built a banking product to scale their fiscal sponsorship: https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/

I was working with Hack Club students on an experimental VPN client (https://github.com/hackclub/burrow) but never got the momentum to finish it. Made some great friends, though! It's a really fantastic organization.

The students have one big global Slack instance. If you're a student and on here, you should also be in there: https://hackclub.com/slack/
by toutoulliou | 2025-12-03 19:27:57+00:00
The Story Behind MaVilleSante

I started this project because I noticed how difficult it was to find reliable, up-to-date information about healthcare facilities and practitioners in France. Existing solutions were either incomplete, outdated, or not user-friendly, especially for people who need quick access to medical care.

The journey began when I had to find a specialist for a family member. After spending hours searching through multiple websites and government databases, I realized there had to be a better way. That's when I decided to build a centralized, free directory that would make healthcare information accessible to everyone.

Technical Challenges:

Data Collection: I'm using official data from the French Ministry of Health (FINESS database), which includes thousands of healthcare establishments and practitioners. The challenge was processing and structuring this data effectively, especially with the various categories and specialties.

Geolocation: Implementing accurate geolocation features was crucial. Users should be able to find the nearest options easily, whether they search by postal code, city name, or use their device's location.

Search Performance: With such a large database, search speed and autocomplete functionality needed to be optimized. I implemented efficient querying and caching strategies to ensure fast response times.

Data Updates: Healthcare information changes frequently (addresses, phone numbers, new establishments). I set up automated tasks using Celery to regularly update the database and keep information current.

Tech Stack:

- Backend: Django (Python) - Frontend: HTML, TailwindCSS, vanilla JavaScript - Database: SQLite for development, ready for PostgreSQL in production - Task Queue: Celery for automated data imports

What's Next:

I'm planning to add more features like: - User reviews and ratings (with moderation) - Appointment booking integration

The site is completely free and will remain so. My goal is to help as many people as possible access healthcare information quickly and easily.

I'm open to feedback, suggestions, and collaboration. If you're a developer and interested in contributing, or if you have ideas for improvements, feel free to reach out!

You can test the search functionality, try the geolocation feature, or browse by category. I'd especially appreciate feedback on the user experience and any bugs you might encounter.
by NickyD | 2025-12-03 19:28:08+00:00
I’m in the situation the article is talking about where I’m both suggesting advice and willing to do the work. But it requires me to have some allotted time and the boss says we don’t have the resources even 1 hour a week.

It’s like we’re moving chopped wood from the forest to the village and I suggest building a wheelbarrow but the boss says what we don’t have time for that we gotta move all this chopped wood. It’s crushing to have a job that could be very interesting but the tooling and processes sap all of that out.
by fcoury | 2025-12-03 19:28:14+00:00
Shameless plug: I did a series a couple years back, before AI was this huge, about writing a Vim-like editor in Rust, in case you want to play with it in the future:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9KpW-9Hl_het1V3_dLhG...
by tarentel | 2025-12-03 19:28:32+00:00
It is unique because everything is quantized. I've never used these tools but I am assuming you could give it some level of randomness but as someone who has performed and recorded a non-quantized performance is not random. So sure, it's super easy to quantize in your daw but it is a tool to be applied when needed, not something that is on all the time by default.
by aiauthoritydev | 2025-12-03 19:28:46+00:00
Indians have this crazy love for idiotic paperwork and nitpicking around paperwork, coupled with mostly low IQ and less educated clerks everywhere it becomes worse. I once submited my PAN and Passport to the bank who refused it claiming the spellings of both names do not match as my middle name was shortened on PAN card. I showed them that my photo is present on both and both cards belong to the same person. But nopes.

A friend then showed me that he downloaded aadhar PSD online, put a random invalid number, his photo and a non-existent address on the bank and used it everywhere where people were asking for aadhar without any need. Building and Airport security, Hotel reservation staff, Bus tickets and so on and used real aadhar only for banking and sim cards. He said this simplifies life a lot.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-12-03 19:28:47+00:00
The real underlying reason is easy. You know how to really excel as a developer, you pretty much have to be in for love of the craft? Management's the same way, but instead of a focus on building software, it's a focus on fulfilling a sense of power. People who are motivated by the pursuit of power put more effort into achieving positions of power, until basically any position of power is filled by the power hungry. It's a fundamental failure of every hierarchy. Sometimes there are temporary exceptions, but over time everything reverts to the mean.

In office, managers get to look out over their little fiefdoms. It's a physical space, with physical people, and it's theirs. And their competitors (other managers) can see their domain, and understand where they stand in the pecking order. In WFH settings, the whole thing becomes far more abstract. The manager's desire for elevated position isn't met, and they become paranoid that their competition can't see their status.
by Eikon | 2025-12-03 19:28:52+00:00
I've been using Minio in ZeroFS' [0] CI (a POSIX compliant filesystem that works on top of s3). I guess I'll switch to MicroCeph [1].

[0] https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS

[1] https://canonical-microceph.readthedocs-hosted.com/stable/
by commakozzi | 2025-12-03 19:29:03+00:00
I used to understand/agree with this point, but over the past few years i've transitioned to my ipad pro for mobile usage and it has become my daily driver for mobile computing. When i need macos for anything, i typically will use Jump to connect and do something real quick, but that's rare. I'm starting to not understand why i wouldn't just want an ipad pro running a touch friendly (and i mean it would have to be VERY touch friendly) version of macos. again, i would have normally agreed with you, but that line is starting to blur for me...
by giardini | 2025-12-03 19:29:28+00:00
No, the main thing is to have a good head!

[Now we're trying to sell "soldering hoods" on HN?!]

Use common sense:

- Solder in an area with constant air flow,

- Keep some space around your work so the fumes move away,

- Don't snort solder OR flux!8-))
by Ccecil | 2025-12-03 19:29:34+00:00
I can only speak for what I have seen in the US..but it seems to me that a large portion of the SUVs out there are really just minivans with different doors in the back and a slight suspension lift. Especially ones like the VW Atlas and comparable. Not to mention the living room sized vehicles like the Toyota Sequoia and GMC Yukon. Most of the larger ones have 3 rows and essentially the same design internally. If you squint hard enough and imagine sliding doors on the sides there is very little difference.

People seem to buy way larger than they really need also...but that has kinda always been a thing in the US.
by sunnyday_002 | 2025-12-03 19:29:44+00:00
It is fairly common pratice almost engineering best pratice to not put logic in CI. Just have it call out to a task runner, so you can run the same command locally for debugging etc. Think of CI more as a shell as a service, your just paying someone to enter some shell commands for you, you should be able to do exactly the same locally.

You can take this a setup furthur and use an environment manager to removing the installing of tools from CI as well for local/remote consistency and more benefits.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-03 19:29:49+00:00
Knowing when to shut up is great advice and knowing how the wind is blowing. If I know their is an edict from the top down to be an “AI first company”, no matter how much I disagree with an initiative that comes from on high, I’m going to shut up and be all in.

“The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.”

The last time I worked for a product company was as at a startup where I was the second technical hire by the then new CTO who was building up the technical staff internally. The founders bootstrapped the company through an outside consulting company.

There I had a relationship with the CTO where I could just say “that’s a really bad idea” and he would listen.

Fast forward a few years and I was working for a shitty consulting company, I kept my head down for a year, let them fail after I was sure they wouldn’t listen to me and started interviewing and only stayed a year.

My career progression isn’t dependent on the job I have at the moment.
by vablings | 2025-12-03 19:30:30+00:00
The basic explanation is that it prevents binaries that are not signed by default from being loaded during the boot process. It only restricts the booting process in the uefi stage. If an executable has been modified, then it will not load due to secure boot. Technically there is nothing stopping you from modifying say winload.efi and signing it with your own key then adding that key to your bios keystore so that it will pass secure boot checks and still use secure boot.

I think the biggest thing is that the anticheat devs are using Microsoft's CA to check if your efi executable was signed by Microsoft. If that was the case then its all good and you are allowed to play the game you paid money for.

I haven't tested a self-signed secure boot for battlefield 6, I know some games literally do not care if you signed your own stuff, only if secure boot is actually enabled

edit: Someone else confirmed they require TPM to be enabled too meaning yeah, they are using remote attestation to verify the validity of the signed binary
by ragebol | 2025-12-03 19:30:51+00:00
There's a proposal (IDK the current status actually, coming into law in a few years?) in the Netherlands to tax cars based on the area they occupy, not on weight like they are currently taxed. Govt wants to incentivize going electric, but those are heavier than similar sized gas-powered cars.

But there also has been a surge of huge American pickup trucks, which are simply too large for the roads and parking places here. Taxing by area would help with that too.
by paulddraper | 2025-12-03 19:30:54+00:00
!!!

I’ve seen a lot of bad takes and this is one of them.

Listing keys is weird (is it V1 or V2)?

The authentication relies on an obtuse and idiosyncratic signature algorithm.

And S3 in practice responds with malformed XML, as you point out.

Protocol-wise, I have trouble liking it over WebDAV. And that's depressing.
by pierrec | 2025-12-03 19:30:59+00:00
7/4 happens to be approximately 30 cents away from 16/9. It's hard to tell what's "simple" when looking at fractions, but 16/9 is indeed simple: divide by 3 twice and adjust the octave. If we assume octave equivalence, that means one step in the "7" direction is perceived as more complex than 2 steps in the "3" direction, so the second interpretation wins, but is perceived as out-of-tune.

That said, we're trying to isolate things that are typically not isolated. If you get to 7/4 by following the harmonic series, it will sound in-tune. If you get to 16/9 by playing and applying 4/3 twice, then that will sound in tune. Unsurprisingly the second option is more common in music.
by dkdcio | 2025-12-03 19:31:02+00:00
I believe:

> "and in 12 months, we might be in a world where the ai is writing essentially all of the code. But the programmer still needs to specify what are the conditions of what you're doing. What is the overall design decision. How we collaborate with other code that has been written. How do we have some common sense with whether this is a secure design or an insecure design. So as long as there are these small pieces that a programmer has to do, then I think human productivity will actually be enhanced"

from https://www.youtube.com/live/esCSpbDPJik?si=kYt9oSD5bZxNE-Mn

(sorry have been responding quickly on my phone between things; misquotes like this annoy the fuck out of me)
by rootusrootus | 2025-12-03 19:31:17+00:00
I figure it's a legitimate concern. One of my older brothers keeps his phone away from his room, but not close enough to hear it ring. About 10 years ago my little brother died unexpectedly in the middle of the night and all I could do was leave my older brother a message about it. He was beating himself up about it the next morning when he got the voicemail. Not that it would have changed anything, by the time I was notified it had already happened, there was no final moments to miss. But I suspect my brother doesn't keep his phone so far from his bed now.
by cvsswebshit | 2025-12-03 19:32:06+00:00
Dear jfindper, I hope this professional email finds you well. Would you mind reading about HN's approach to comments and site guidelines? https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Kind regards, A. Webshitter
by oxag3n | 2025-12-03 19:32:53+00:00
Nobody mentioned headlights standard in US.

It literally lets manufactures go as bright as they want, any direction they want, mounted at any height.

EU headlights are not perfect and still can blind, but nothing as bad as bypassing Dodge Ram headlamp being higher than regular car side mirror. Tesla Model 3 and Y headlamps are just engineering failure, spreading light 180 degree and being super bright.
by eproxus | 2025-12-03 19:32:56+00:00
Yeah, that page is horrendous and looks super sketchy. It looks like a very professional fishing attempt to get unsuspecting developers to download malware.

They have a lot of obviously fake quotes from non-existent people at positions that don’t even mention what company it is. The pictures are misgendered and even contain pictures of kids.

Feels like the whole page is AI generated.
by criddell | 2025-12-03 19:33:06+00:00
When the government takes your property with eminent domain, they don't give you what you've put into it or what you owe, they give you the market value for the property.

If one or more of the AI companies fail, the government would pay what they feel is the market value for the graphics cards, warehouses, and standing desks and it will surely be way less than what the investors have put in.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-12-03 19:33:21+00:00
Very interesting, so to speak, but fairly typical, to see my previous comment quickly downvoted. Perhaps that's a QED on how the topic is dogma beyond critical discussion in many circles. Refusing to see issues through different points of views both prevents gaining understanding of others and forces your views on others. I thunk this is partl what happens every time someone predicts that China (or another country) will inevitably do exactly what we have.
by aljgz | 2025-12-03 19:34:14+00:00
The only apple product I ever bought has been an ipad with the huge disappointment that every app gets paused when not focused. I don't want to pay a company that deliberately limits my ability to use the product. My TV is being used as a second 4k 144hz monitor for my Fedora 43 + KDE on AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU, watch movies on it, play games, etc, and don't have to put up with limitations of Apple ecosystem.
by mghackerlady | 2025-12-03 19:34:41+00:00
I started by just turning off notifications for anything that isn't needed for important people (eg: friends and family) to reach me. I got rid of most social media[0] a little while after that. Another thing I did when I still used a smartphone was remove all the apps from my home screen. At least on iOS, notification badges don't appear in their slide-out app tray thing. For quick access to essentials I used an app that provides a widget for hyperlink like launching of apps

[0]HN, Reddit, and Tumblr are the exceptions for me. I have notifications off and those platforms tend to invite more nuanced discussions and be less distracting over all
by doctorpangloss | 2025-12-03 19:35:05+00:00
There are already numerous and simple policy levers that actually affect costs and cannot be gamed. Such as the age you become eligible for Medicare. You don't have to reach for anything innovative like global hospital budgets. I'm skeptical of your category of reforms - you really mean, "benign-looking administrative decisions," because if you're not making any hard choices, you're not making reforms. I would hardly call it "real efforts."
by epistasis | 2025-12-03 19:35:15+00:00
The building and electrical infrastructure are far cheaper than the hardware. So much so that the electricity is a small cost of the data center build out, but a major cost for the grid.

Of the most valuable part is quickly depreciating and goes unused within the first few years, it won't have a chance for long term value like fiber. If data centers become, I don't know, battery grid storage, it will be very very expensive grid storage.

Which is to say that while there was an early salivation for fiber that was eventually useful, overallocation of capital to GPUs goes to pure waste.
by deelayman | 2025-12-03 19:35:25+00:00
> If no one asked and no one is on the hook to change anything: Stop talking.

It seems like a matter of knowing who to talk to about what. I don't think the solution is to stop talking to everyone.

Presenting a rationale for something worthy of addressing (need/problem/opportunity) needs to be communicated somehow, and convincingly. In person, in writing, or a simple business case.

From my non-tech background, priorities are fluid, and things that are rationalized as urgent and important are given resources and attention.

If there is someone like the author spinning wheels in frustration, then maybe there's a problem with the organization aligning everyone on goals/objectives/outcomes -> leading to misaligned solutions being raised, and deaf ears. Or, maybe there's no opportunity to raise solutions with the right people.
by prewett | 2025-12-03 19:35:31+00:00
> I'm not sure what you mean with the "code snippets are straight out of Stackoverflow". That is factually incorrect just by how LLM works.

I'm not an AI lover, but I did try Gemini for a small, well-contained algorithm for a personal project that I didn't want to spend the time looking up, and it was straight-up a StackOverflow solution. I found out because I said "hm, there has to be a more elegant solution", and quickly found the StackOverflow solution that the AI regurgitated. Another 10 or 20 minutes of hunting uncovered another StackOverflow solution with the requisite elegance.
by turtlesdown11 | 2025-12-03 19:35:43+00:00
Amazing article, I found it fascinating.

> You can already use Claude Code for non engineering tasks in professional services and get very impressive results without any industry specific modifications

After clicking on the link, and finding that Claude Code failed to accurately answer the single example tax question given, very impressive results! After all, why pay a professional to get something right when you can use Claude Code to get it wrong?
by commakozzi | 2025-12-03 19:36:08+00:00
Just get a Steam Deck. it's an incredible value for what you get and for what it can do. I'm no expert, but I do pay as close attention as I can to what's going on with gaming hardware because of my limited budget, and I'm guessing Steam Deck 2 is more like Q1 2028, not any time sooner. I'm ok with that. I play all the games I want on my Steam Deck OLED, and I see plenty of life left in it, even this "late" in the game.
by posifi | 2025-12-03 19:36:18+00:00
In India you have to cheat just to get things done at all due to how nonsensically strict things are, which leads to increased scrutiny due to cheating, which leads to more need for non-cheaters to cheat just to get things done, which leads to increased scrutiny due to cheating…

As for the low IQ thing no one wants to acknowledge it but check the charts and see that it’s true. Centuries of caste based inbreeding and colonial clerk education will do that to a population. The added toxins in the turmeric will finish the job.
by rootusrootus | 2025-12-03 19:36:36+00:00
That was literally the same thought that crossed my mind. I agree wholeheartedly, accusing everything and everyone of being AI is getting old fast. Part of me is happy that the skepticism takes hold quickly, but I don't think it's necessary for everyone to demonstrate that they are a good skeptic.

(and I suspect that plenty of people will remain credulous anyway, AI slop is going to be rough to deal with for the foreseeable future).
by mghackerlady | 2025-12-03 19:37:44+00:00
One of these days I'm going to get an old thinkpad, install OpenBSD on it, and switch the majority of my computing to TUI programs. Lynx renders websites remarkably well and keeps me away from the seedy stripmall the internet of today is. Perhaps I'll start posting on Usenet, I hear there are at least a few people still there
by ffsm8 | 2025-12-03 19:37:52+00:00
They started off with the competitors data, and then moved on once they had their own data though? Not sure what y'all complaining about.

They made an effort to improve the product, but because everything in tech comes with side effects it turned out to be a bad decision which they rolled back. Sounds like highly professional behavior to me by people doing their best. Not everything will always work out, 100% of the time.

And this might finally reverse the trend of games being >100gb as other teams will be able to point to this decision why they shouldn't implement this particular optimization prematurely