MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-12-09 03:01:29+00:00
Flipping GP's tangent on its head (after all states in the US are akin to countries in the EU/EA:)

If you can't blind them find them

I suggest that, absolutely, state governance has _already_ generated lots of excellent data >> federal level :) probably much more accessible than corporate governance data )

Of course YC's Seibel might have something to say here, it's probably not a new perspective
by culi | 2025-12-09 03:02:07+00:00
Well it's plain corruption, but yeah it's not like the $10,000 toilet seat cover,[0] $7,622 coffee maker,[1] or $37 screws[2]

[0] https://www.military.com/defensetech/2018/07/11/air-force-no...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/20/us/military-price-on-coff...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-30-vw-18804-...
by jameshilliard | 2025-12-09 03:02:28+00:00
> PA has to ask Israel to do anything of substance in the WB, because the WB is a mix of Israeli and PA controlled areas, with Israel controlling internal boundaries even between adjacent PA-controlled areas.

It's much more than just that, the PA/Fatah is considered to be very weak and are extremely unpopular in the West Bank. If Israel didn't intervene Hamas would likely oust Fatah in the West Bank similar to what happened in Gaza.

> the only reason is that Israel has refused to cooperate with all-Palestine elections negotiated and agreed to between Fatah (the party in control of the PA government) and Hamas

Fatah knows they would lose an election in the West Bank to Hamas, this is something neither Israel or Fatah wants, hence no elections.

> Most likely because the divide between the Fatah-led PA and Hamas, and the ability to portray both as undemocratic, serves Israeli's propaganda and other interests.

They tried all-Palestine elections in 2006[0], that backfired spectacularly. Hamas was elected in what were generally considered free and fair elections, pretty hard to get a good election outcome if a majority or at least a plurality of the population wants to elect terrorists.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_e...
by eru | 2025-12-09 03:02:36+00:00
> In some cases we aren't fully authorised to use the AI tools for actual coding but even just asking "how would you make this change" [...]

Isn't the logical endpoint of this equivalent to printing out a Stackoverflow answer and manually typing it into your computer instead of copy-and-pasting?

Nitpicks aside, I agree that contemporary AIs can be great for quickly getting up to speed with a code base. Both a new library or language you want to be using, and your own organisation's legacy code.

One of the biggest advantages of using established ecosystem was that stack-overflow had a robust repository of already answered questions (and you could also buy books on it). With AI you can immediately cook up your own Stackoverflow community equivalent that provides answers promptly instead of closing your question as off-topic.

And I pick Stackoverflow deliberately: it's a great resources, but not reliable enough to use blindly. I feel we are in a similar situation with AI at the moment. This will change gradually as the models become better. Just like Stackoverflow required less expertise to use than attending a university course. (And a university course requires less expertise than coming up with QuickSort in the first place.)
by tombert | 2025-12-09 03:02:48+00:00
I didn't really want to resort to piracy; I think it's stupid that Adobe won't sell a perpetual license.

I got a license to Moho from a Humble Bundle like a year ago, and I think Toonz is open source nowadays, all in addition to the ToonBoom copy I have so I probably don't need the real Adobe Animate anymore.
by markus_zhang | 2025-12-09 03:03:38+00:00
Yeah, that could be true. I'm not sure how many people are similar to me, who are allergic to "window shopping" and just want to buy, pay and exit. My Costco session is less than 30 minutes (from parking to back to car) in average.

I do research price, though, so if they show a big DISCOUNT sign and is more or less honest with it, I'll probably grab some, too.
by tomxor | 2025-12-09 03:04:32+00:00
Terrible comparison.

Horses and cars had a clearly defined, tangible, measurable purpose: transport... they were 100% comparable as a market good, and so predicting an inflection point is very reasonable. Same with Chess, a clearly defined problem in finite space with a binary, measurable outcome. Funny how Chess AI replacing humans in general was never considered as a serious possibility by most.

Now LLMs, what is their purpose? What is the purpose of a human?

I'm not denying some legitimate yet tedious human tasks are to regurgitate text... and a fuzzy text predictor can do a fairly good job of that at less cost. Some people also think and work in terms of text prediction more often than they should (that's called bullshitting - not a coincidence).

They really are _just_ text predictors, ones trained on such a humanly incomprehensible quantity of information as to appear superficially intelligent, as far as correlation will allow. It's been 4 years now, we already knew this. The idea that LLMs are a path to AGI and will replace all human jobs is so far off the mark.
Show HN: WhatsApp Backup Reader – Offline Viewer
by rodrigogs | 2025-12-09 03:04:36+00:00
Built this after a business partnership went bad and I needed WhatsApp conversations for legal proceedings.

My lawyer had me screenshotting hundreds of messages, trying to keep them in order, then having opposing counsel question if anything was tampered with. I looked at existing tools but they choke on large chats and have no way to bookmark or search efficiently - useless when you're digging through years of conversation for specific evidence.

So I made this. Drop in your WhatsApp export zip, get a proper chat interface with all media. The original export stays untouched (important for evidence), bookmarks and annotations layer on top. Voice messages get transcribed locally via Whisper/WebGPU - nothing leaves your machine.

Tested with 18k+ messages, no issues. Runs in browser or as an Electron app for all desktop platforms (Android and iOS coming soon).

Feedback welcome, especially from anyone who's dealt with digital evidence.
by yuye | 2025-12-09 03:06:19+00:00
>It also makes me think about the classic Save icon: the floppy disk. That was certainly descriptive at its origination, but is it still so? In the age of natively storing documents in the cloud or copying to a USB drive, it seems like we might want more than one save menu or an appropriate icon for where the file resides on the single Save menu item.

It originated from when floppy disks were still widely used, yes.

Nowadays, people associate the icon of a floppy disk more with "saving locally" than the floppy itself. Changing it will just cause confusion.

Another example is how the icon for Database was chosen to resemble an old-timey stack of hard drive platters. Everyone knows what it means, even if your database isn't stored on HDDs, so there is no need to change it.

Even the telephone icon on your phone resembles an old-fashioned telephone horn, despite these getting less and less common.
Show HN: TinyJson API – Create temporary API endpoints from JSON in seconds
by yterasaka | 2025-12-09 03:06:59+00:00
Hi HN!

I made TinyJson API (https://tinyjsonapi.com) – paste your JSON into a text field, click "create", and get a temporary API endpoint that works for 24 hours.

Perfect for prototyping, testing, or sharing data quickly without setting up a backend.

It's minimal by design right now. Would love your feedback!
by copypaper | 2025-12-09 03:07:38+00:00
Yep. My grandma bought her house in ~1962 for $20k working at a factory making $2/hr. Her mortgage was $100/m; about 1 weeks worth of pay. $2/hr then is the equivalent of ~$21/hr today.

If you were to buy that same house today, your mortgage would be about $5100/m-- about 6 weeks of pay.

And the reason is exactly what you're saying: the average US worker doesn't provide as much value anymore. Just as her factory job got optimized/automated, AI is going to do the same for many. Tech workers were expensive for a while and now they're not. The problem is that there seems to be less and less opportunity where one can bring value. The only true winners are the factory owners and AI providers in this scenario. The only chance anybody has right now is to cut the middleman out, start their own business, and pray it takes off.
by defrost | 2025-12-09 03:07:56+00:00
Depends where you live - Australia has a lot of FiFo work, Fly In Fly Out on minesites and for various kinds of office work.

There's certainly people I know that live several hundred km away from a capital city, work remote, and come in for two or three days to catch up with everbody once a fortnight, once a month, etc.

It helps to have a wider PoV perhaps.
by zoklet-enjoyer | 2025-12-09 03:09:07+00:00
I don't even care anymore. There have been so few TV shows or movies that I've wanted to watch in the past decade. Books, podcasts, YouTube, music, and older movies for me. I got sick of the Marvel movies somewhere around the first Avengers movie. I don't think anything currently on TV interests me other than Bob's Burgers
by refactor_master | 2025-12-09 03:09:35+00:00
> Go to any Asian country and houses, healthcare and cars are priced like commodities, not luxuries.

What do you mean? Several Asian cities have housing crises far worse than the US in local purchasing power, and I'd even argue that a "cheap" home in many Asian countries is going to be of a far lower quality than a "cheap" home in the US.
by cherrycherry98 | 2025-12-09 03:09:49+00:00
If you care about minimizing child mortality, increasing literacy, pulling people up out of poverty, you should be a capitalist, as it's empirically the best way to meet those goals. This seems to be a hard thing for many to understand or accept because it is largely a second order effect, the capitalist primarily concerned with their own personal gain but winds up improving the lives of others as a side effect.

This is the essence of Adam Smith's often misunderstood invisible hand metaphor. Of the individual he observed: "By pursuing his own interest, he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it." Second order effects stack up and improve quality of life for more people better than trying to do so explicitly.

Multiplying capital creates abundance and that abundance allows for improved standards of living for and the means to spend excess resources in support of charitable endeavors. Growth is good because it means more abundance and opportunity. I would argue that pursuit of growth is not an ideology but a force of nature. Life is opportunistic and will expand to wherever there is fertile conditions, and often adapt even when they are not. We are part of nature and understand this intuitively, seeking growth opportunities. As an example, one is better off being part of a growing company (more wages and opportunities) than one that is stagnant or declining (fighting for scraps and survival).
by vunderba | 2025-12-09 03:10:00+00:00
From the paper:

> Through four experiments with 123 young nonmusicians, integrating eye-tracking, neurophysiological recordings, white matter structural imaging, and behavioral analysis, we reveal a previously unrecognized form of synchronization: spontaneous eye blinks synchronize with musical beats.

Now you’ve got me imagining a bizarre Ocean's Eleven parody where a "supe" crew uses music as a kind of rhythmic saccadic masking to hide their high-speed movements.

Tangentially related, I have roughly a dozen electronica-genre MP3 files in a "running playlist" on my phone, all of which are exactly 150 BPM so that I can naturally time my footfalls to the bass beat.
by creer | 2025-12-09 03:10:36+00:00
Perhaps BOTH the "money-grubbing hospital admin" and the "very well-respected and honor-bound doctor" are wrong for not involving their patients in these decision? And their insurance for that matter.

Recently my US-system, world-ranking university hospital complex was first convinced that my insurance would not pay for XXX (and consequently did not recommend it and delayed it). Then after I insisted and got that done, they told me how surprised they were (1) that my (US) insurance did in fact cover every single bit of everything we eventually got done and (2) how MUCH that same US insurance in fact paid them for each of the bits. On the first try. That insurance company has horrible problems, but I can't complain that they didn't cover the hell out of the thing. You know - on the same year we read everyone else's horror stories.

The whole system is very sick.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-09 03:10:48+00:00
> Romans were true imperialists. They considered their opponents to be barbarians

The Romans also aggressively appropriated from and integrated the people they conquered, extending the concept of citizenship and thus what it meant to be Roman in the process.

Nobody is saying the Romans came across terra nullis. But describing their engineering and culture as "merely improving roads" is silly.
by gorgoiler | 2025-12-09 03:11:04+00:00
I looked for a modern, trending show on predb.me (Pluribus) and the results were unweighted, without any comments or votes, and sorted by upload time. They were also multiplied out by broadcast language (at least for German, “iTalian” and “MULTI”.) I know it’s not meant to be perfect but it was kind of a backed up toilet of results.

It would be a lot nicer if I could see a social network of torrenters and locate the market leader — the most popular with the best rips or most friends or something like that.

It feels like Altavista when I really wanted Google.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-12-09 03:11:34+00:00
I find that highly unlikely given how much commercial agreements with MS costs.

But if that's the case then they should either look for a different COTS solution, and/or change their business workflow.

And in the event even that is unfeasible, then just continue to keep a few windows machines (maybe convert them to VMs or VDIs for ease of maintenance) for the few users that can't be migrated.
by randycupertino | 2025-12-09 03:11:42+00:00
A lot of companies essentially cherry pick healthy patients and write insane inclusion/exclusion criteria to rule out anyone except for the ideal participant, which is why more and more research sites are negotiating payment up front for pre-screening and higher screenfail % reimbursement for into their study budgets.

Study design is sometimes optimized so only the "best" most enticing participants will actually be eligible, I've seen as low as 2% - 12% but frequently 50% randomization rates. Some studies also have 100 to 150 day screening period, a limited AND full screening period, etc.

Overly restrictive inclusion/exclusion criteria to super narrowly defined ideal populations hinders enrollment, causes a large burden to sites for prescreening and ends with trial results that fail to reflect real-world demographics.
by rhaen | 2025-12-09 03:12:52+00:00
Not strictly speaking? A universal subspace can be identified without necessarily being finite.

As a really stupid example: the sets of integers less than 2, 8, 5, and 30 can all be embedded in the set of integers less than 50, but that doesn’t require that the set of integer is finite. You can always get a bigger one that embeds the smaller.
by antonvs | 2025-12-09 03:13:04+00:00
https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/03/why-i-could-care-le...

I tend to assume that anyone who objects to “I could care less” has never lived in the New York City area. See the mention of Yiddish in the above link. But for some who object to it, that’s the issue: it’s a shibboleth of a culture they’re not part of.
Show HN: Quintus Calendars – An alternative to the irregular Gregorian calendar
by egz | 2025-12-09 03:14:26+00:00
Hello! I'm sharing this Quintus calendar format - 12 months of 30 days with 5 day weeks and some overflowing days - as an alternative to the more common Gregorian calendar.

This website runs a time server for the current Quintus date alongside conversions between dates for different calendar formats on the landing page. Plans to convert scheduled events with the ".ics" format are supposed for the next few months.

A hand-pressed 2026 edition is also offered now and has been quite fun to make. Questions, critiques, or ideas are all appreciated!
by sfink | 2025-12-09 03:14:37+00:00
> First, ignoring frail patients means your trial isn't representative of the wider population, so it shouldn't be accepted for general use - only on people who were well-represented in the trial.

Sure, but including frail outliers does not automatically mean you can generalize to the whole population. People can be frail for a wide variety of reasons. Only some of those reasons will matter for a given trial. That means the predictive power varies widely depending on which subpopulation you're looking at, and you'll never be able to enroll enough of some of the subgroups without specifically targeting them.

The results in the posted paper seem valid to me, but the conclusion seems incorrect. This seems like a paper that is restating some pretty universal statistical facts and then trying to use that to impose onerous regulations that can't and won't solve the problem. It will improve generalizability for a small fraction of the population, at a high cost.

> Second, you're ignoring the possibility of other treatment options. It isn't always the binary life-or-death you're making it, so SAEs do matter.

Of course they do. It's a good thing we have informed consent.

> Third, a big part of trials is to discover and develop prevention methods for SAEs. Explicitly ignoring the people most likely to provide data valuable for the general population sounds like a pretty silly approach.

If your primary claim is that data from non-frail people is not generalizable to frail people, then how can you claim that data from frail people is generalizable to non-frail people? If the trials for aspirin found that hemophiliacs should get blood clot promoting medications along with it, then should non-hemophiliacs also be taking those medications?

I'm thankful we can extract some amount of useful data from these trials without undue risk. It's always going to be a balancing act, and this article proposes putting a thumb on the scale that reduces the data without even solving the problem it's aiming at addressing.
by lucyjojo | 2025-12-09 03:14:48+00:00
My father almost died from old rice and my brother got seriously sick and hospitalized from another old sitting starchy something.

So it seems very real for me.

classic chubbyemu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnSYfv6bCA

please. don't take unnecessary risks with food...

in most cases it's not like "not getting involved in an accident". there are things you can do to avoid egregious cases.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-12-09 03:15:37+00:00
My cousin had many old tapes from 1994-1995 of radio recordings. They've been put up for years and he's been recently listening to all of them. Most still work. He says that 30-ish years is the longest time he's seen a storage medium last. So he's been recording YouTube audio he wants to keep over them.

The article is also wrong on several points regarding the attributes of the medium:

> Meanwhile, cassettes break and jam quite easily.

No they don't. It happens sometimes but really tapes and decks were pretty reliable as long as you didn't have foreign material in the deck. CDs and vinyls are more fraglie. A Sony tape deck my cousin has had a belt wear out, but it was fixable. Unlike your Airpod batteries.

> Choosing a particular song might involve several minutes of fast forwarding, or rewinding, which clogs the playback head

Lol, clogging the head? No, tapes don't do that.

> and weakens the tape over time.

I recall that anything more than a 45-minute tape ("C90") is too thin and could experience this issue. So I never bought C100s or C120s (if those existed). Wearing tapes out wasn't a thing I ever experienced back in the day.

> The audio quality is low

I don't know the specs of all the Dolby NR stuff (which was a technology on later decks) but decent quality tapes had full frequency range. Given things like the loudness war and the artifacts of compressed audio, tape is perfectly fine for most typical music listening.

> and comes with a background hiss.

I've always liked the faint airy sound of tape silence in a weird way. But in most cases were you listen to music in real life, you don't notice it when the songs start playing.

The really cool thing about tapes are the same cool thing that playing an MP3 locally has: you can listen, give, trade, or share the audio without things on the Internet tracking or preventing you from doing it. In a time where digital freedom and creative artistic recognition is becoming less and less, this is one gateway into the offline world, which is going to be where the real interesting stuff starts to happen if current trends continue.
by credit_guy | 2025-12-09 03:15:39+00:00
Why the editorializing of the HN title? The actual title of the blog post is "NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle" and the URL is https://philippeoger.com/pages/deep-dive-into-nvidias-virtuo.... There is no mention of the "circular funding", except in the body of the post, in a pretty oblique way, without claiming that this is the authors stance:

> Here is my take on the hardware market, the "frenemy" dynamics between OpenAI and NVIDIA, and the "circular financing" theories that everyone—including Michael Burry, has been talking about.
by jt2190 | 2025-12-09 03:15:54+00:00
It feels like you’ve mixed up cause and effect: Getting access to mental health resources that can result in a diagnosis does not bestow a higher social rank upon people, those people’s existing higher social rank allows them easier access to mental health resources and thus they are more frequently diagnosed/treated.

You also seem to be implying that these diagnoses are frequently not merited and just used to increase social rank somehow, which is extremely cynical.
by wqtz | 2025-12-09 03:17:08+00:00
I do advisory for pre-Series A startups as a last ditch effort to save them.

I do not get the unified industry delusion about "why X company has a bad product". It is usually either one of two things: comfort or ego. Everyone knows that but do not want to say it out loud.

I have seen these happen time and time again. Companies that are cash cow, do not care to do a better job. There is no incentive to do a better job. Moreover, the recurring thing is that if I did something different, I wouldn't have been this much successful in the first place.

The rest of the smart consultants walk on eggshells. They hint at stuff but never want to bite the hand that feeds them because the clients would rather fire you than be challenged.

It is not an IBM thing; it's generic business thing to some degree. I really have to call this a delusion. Good consultants submit generic reports that just tell them what they want to hear. It is not you; it is the economy. Stupid consultants that are well-meaning tell them they should be the best on competitor intel. Do you not think some stupid person did not approach IBM to do what Oracle or AWS is doing? Of course, they did, and they were fired immediately.

The best consultants are less of a consultant and more of a therapist.

After doing only four-month projects for the entire year, this year's realization was that nobody in the industry wants to do better. Everyone is in their place because of ego or a perceived sense of success. Or because of a grand conspiracy theory. IBM has a significant number of government contracts, so they are set for life because the vast majority government IT systems are pigeonholed into IBM systems. The acquisition is to tell the shareholders that we are so successful that we can literally buy companies. We do not even care to do things. Whatever the new thing is, we will buy it at some point.