MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by moregrist | 2025-12-11 22:54:36+00:00
> > No chemist wakes up and decides to call it “Steve” because Steve is a funny name and they think it’ll make their paper more approachable.

The author is just wrong. Chemistry is fairly jam-packed with various cutesy names either to amuse the authors or because they’re attempting to make an algorithm memorable to the field.

Off the top of my head:

- SHAKE and RATTLE: Bond constraint algorithms.

- CHARMm: An MD package but you’d never guess it from the name

- Amber: Another MD package that you’d never guess from the name.

- So so many acronyms from NMR: COSY, TOCSY, NOESY

The list goes on and on and permeates most of the subfields in one form or another.

If you want really cutesy names, though, look in molecular biology.
by llbeansandrice | 2025-12-11 22:54:41+00:00
This would be an absolute energy and efficiency nightmare. I hope to god this never ever happens.

> No sharing space with people on public transit.

If people really want their own private suites they should be paying thru the nose and ears for it. Cars are a worse version of this and the car-centric lifestyle is heavily subsidized by everything from taxes to people's lives (air pollution from ICEs yes, but tire pollution is actually worse in many ways and is made worse with heavier EVs).

This will not fix food deserts, it will make them worse. If your car isn't packed to capacity on every single trip, it is less efficient and worse than public transit.

Roads are awful. We should be trying to minimize them, not expand them.

Whatever ungodly sum you are prepared to pay, I'm certain the actual cost is yet higher.
by takinola | 2025-12-11 22:54:47+00:00
> Aggressive lookbehind correction: these days you have to be seriously on your guard for your keyboard to not sneak-edit something you typed 5 words back

If I ever meet the person that invented lookbehind correction, I’m not sure I’ll be able to restrain myself. This person has robbed me of my peace of mind as I now have to be on guard every time I type anything on a mobile keyboard
by akersten | 2025-12-11 22:54:56+00:00
> They need to be advocating for good solutions, not

No, fighting back against horrible proposals does not require suggesting an alternative proposal to the alleged problem. That only serves to benefit the malicious actors proposing the bad thing in the first place, the hope that we'll settle on something Not As Bad.

Thank god for the EFF and their everlasting fight to stop these nonsense internet laws. I'm glad they don't waste their time on "well how about this" solutions. The middle ground will never be enough for the proponents of surveillance, and will always be an incremental loss for the victims.
by panick21_ | 2025-12-11 22:55:04+00:00
There are 10+ years of endless discussion about how wayland is being developed and being standardized.

The youtuber Brodie Robertson does regularly updated on all the discussion and proposals and why are the moving forward or not moving forward. And what the issue with the processes are:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRjzjpJ02WDOsPPtwUqqE...

If that's not good enough, you can find all the issues with the discussion, but be ready for the same issues to be discussed endlessly in a cycle for years and years.

Gnome is not the only issue but they are on of the biggest. The refuse to implement certain things even when pretty much every other system on the planet both linux and non linux support it. And those are things that many applications relay on. And because of the way the standardization process works it was for years really hard to get many things into the standard leading to basic things missing and applications having inconstant support or apps that are just broken.

Having more voting members and more members with some real money and development power and more composites has already changed the dynamics.
by harikb | 2025-12-11 22:55:06+00:00
History suggests it won't be that clean.

1. High-severity accidents might drop, but the industry bleeds money on high-frequency, low-speed incidents (parking lots, neighborhood scrapes). Autonomy has diminishing returns here; it doesn't magically prevent the chaos of mixed-use environments.

2. Insurance is a capital management game. We’ll likely see a tech company try this, fail to cover a catastrophic liability due to lack of reserves, and trigger a massive backlash.

It reminds me of early internet optimism: we thought connectivity would make truth impossible to hide. Instead, we got the opposite. Tech rarely solves complex markets linearly.
by jesse__ | 2025-12-11 22:55:29+00:00
I'd consider JAI shipped, it's just not publicly available. There are hundreds (maybe thousands?) of developers in the beta at this point. Next time you build a new programming language, 3D game engine, and ship a game, lemme know how long it takes.

Casey's done both Handmade Hero, and Performance Aware Programming. Some of the best programming educational content available, in my opinion.

Also .. so what?
by irishcoffee | 2025-12-11 22:55:29+00:00
Sorry, my point was SAS has been on the network for at least what, 15 years? And he isn’t knowledgeable about anything but the NBA.

PM is probably the nicest guy on the network. I get why people hate him, but rarely does he talk shit about people.

If anything, SAS paved the way for PM.

That was why I said you’re biased. Or you just don’t know the network very well.
by dudeinhawaii | 2025-12-11 22:55:54+00:00
This is one of those areas where I think it's about the complexity of the task. What I mean is, if you set codex to xhigh by default, you're wasting compute. IF you're setting it at xhigh when troubleshooting a complex memory bug or something, you're presumably more likely to get a quality response.

I think in general, medium ends up being the best all-purpose setting while high+ are good for single task deep-drive. Or at least that has been my experience so far. You can theoretically let with work longer on a harder task as well.

A lot appears to depend on the problem and problem domain unfortunately.

I've used max in problem sets as diverse as "troubleshooting Cyberpunk mods" and figuring out a race condition in a server backend. In those cases, it did a pretty good job of exhausting available data (finding all available logs, digging into lua files), and narrowing a bug that every other model failed to get.

I guess in some sense you have to know from the onset that it's a "hard problem". That in and of itself is subjective.
by Seattle3503 | 2025-12-11 22:56:10+00:00
> Meanwhile in the world of smartphone data providers, social media networks, and the meta/googles of the world: they all know your personal information and identity up to the wazoo - and have far more information on every one of you than what is possessed by your own governments (well except for the governments that are also buying up that data.)

This is where I'm concerned too. We are seeing a proliferation of third party verification services that I have to interact with and that have no real obligations to citizens, because their customer is the website.

I'd like to see governments step in as semi-trusted third parties to provide primitives that allow us to bootstrap some sort of anonymous verification system. By semi-trusted, I mean trusted to provide attestations like "This person is a US citizen over the age of 18" but not necessarily trusted with an access log of all our websites.
by psunavy03 | 2025-12-11 22:56:14+00:00
I'd argue there's few Americans I flat out couldn't understand, even if it sounds like they're putting their words through a blender. And I say that having lived all over the country, Northeast, Midwest, West, and deep South. Accents can be thick but they're largely intelligible. Unlike, say, the Scots.

Especially compared to a language like German. I took 5 years of German and still didn't have a damn clue what anyone was saying if they were talking in dialect.
by johnwheeler | 2025-12-11 22:56:17+00:00
I'm not interested in using OpenAI anymore because Sam Altman is so untrustworthy. All you see on X.com is him and Greg Brockman kissing David Sacks' ass, trying to make inroads with him, asking Disney for investments, and shit. Are you kidding? Who wants to support these clowns? Let's let Google win. Let's let Anthropic win. Anyone but Sam Altman.
by dlubarov | 2025-12-11 22:56:28+00:00
If I dive bomb an enemy position, knowing that it's dark and windy and I might end up hitting something else, that's still a targeted operation. Same deal with the pager operation.

> So I target them by dropping a nuke on NYC.

You would have plainly violated the principle of proportionality, which is about the relative weight of military advantage vs civilian harm. The pager operation on the other hand created a massive military advantage, with less civilian harm than what's possible with conventional warfare.

> planting bombs in mundane places and setting them off in public

You would have a stronger point if the conflict looked more like Ukraine, where enemies are mostly sitting in trenches wearing uniforms. Hezbollah operates very differently, storing and firing weapons from mundane civilian places. There's no real way to fight Hezbollah without bombs in such places, it's just a question of whether bombs are delivered by artillery, planes or other means.

> this was intentional

I'm not sure what you mean here. I of course agree Israel could have predicted that there would be non-zero harm to civilians. That's true of pretty much any operation though, at least in urban wars.

For comparison, consider Ukraine's massive truck bomb of the Kerch Bridge. Of course they knew there would be collateral damage, and 5 civilians ended up being killed. It was still widely considered legal, considering the major military advantage gained.
by ljm | 2025-12-11 22:57:02+00:00
I am basically rawdogging Claude these days, I don’t use MCPs or anything else, I just lay down all of the requirements and the suggestions and the hints, and let it go to work.

When I see my colleagues use an LLM they are treating it like a mind reader and their prompts are, frankly, dogshit.

It shows that articulating a problem is an important skill.
Show HN: TrackSplit – Remove vocals and instruments from any song, offline
by jomargon | 2025-12-11 22:57:20+00:00
I built TrackSplit because I wanted to practice drums along to my favorite songs without the original drum track getting in the way.

Existing solutions like LALAL.AI and Moises require uploading your audio to their servers. I wanted something that runs locally, both for privacy and because I didn't want another subscription.

TrackSplit separates any song into 6 stems: vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, and other. It runs entirely on your Mac with no internet required.

Technical details: - Built with Swift/SwiftUI with an embedded Python backend - Uses HTDemucs v4 (Hybrid Transformer Demucs) for separation - GPU-accelerated on Apple Silicon via Metal/MPS - Processes most 4-minute songs in ~90 seconds on M1

Use cases: - Musicians practicing along to songs (remove your instrument) - Creating karaoke tracks - DJs extracting acapellas - Remixing and sampling

Available on the Mac App Store for $19.99 (one-time, no subscription).
by varispeed | 2025-12-11 22:57:31+00:00
> Role and responsibilities of MI5 in law

> The Security Service Act 1989 sets out our functions and gives some examples of the nature and range of threats we work to disrupt.

> In summary, our functions are:

> to protect national security against threats from espionage, terrorism and > sabotage, from the activities of agents of foreign powers, and from actions intended to overthrow or undermine parliamentary democracy by political, industrial or violent means

Imagine you and I pay likely billions a year and these jokers just let asset managers like Larry Fink influence policies affecting fundamental rights of British people like it's nothing.

The country is corrupt beyond belief and soon we will wake up in corporate prison as slaves.

See:

https://thewinepress.substack.com/p/tokenization-blackrocks-...

https://www.cityam.com/reeves-and-starmer-meet-blackrocks-la...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-digital-id-scheme-to-...
by exasperaited | 2025-12-11 22:58:18+00:00
> Would you be less bothered if he said "I've got a human for that"? Or "I've got a worker for that"? "The staff to handle that need is available"?

"I've got a worker" is still somewhat dehumanising. "I have the staff for that" is somewhat less dehumanising.

But, for example, "yes we have someone here that can work on this with you" is so obviously less dehumanising.

I find it surprising that people would ever be confused about this. Perhaps it is because I am British and that sort of language is impolite, rude and arrogant. Or perhaps it is rejection-sensitive dysphoria (a real problem for me) making me sensitive to descriptions of myself and people I care about that reduce us to interchangeable allocatable units.

But again, the basic thing here is: there were four of us. Only one of us was ever going to do that job because there were four of us and we had four different jobs. So why ever lurch towards the language of interchangeability, in earshot.

Four people in a small business cannot really ever be a "category". And you should never use a word for a person that can also be used for a photocopier or a dictionary. A person can be resourceful; they are never a resource.
by sedatk | 2025-12-11 22:58:34+00:00
Canada life expectancy (2025): 83.3 years

US life expectancy (2025): 78.4 years

Alaska life expectancy (2025): 74.7 years

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/can/can...

https://indiadatamap.com/2025/11/03/usa-life-expectancy-2025...
by pvtmert | 2025-12-11 22:58:45+00:00
This was one of the best & heartfelt blog posts I have read on the HN so far.

I can relate because of 2 things; 1. I also played a lot of legos during my childhood & loved it. 2. I have a similar "preference" on configurations & shell-profile. (ie. overall setup)

At work, I am the only person who has a personal configuration & automation package (ie. dotfiles) at my director's level organization. (Maybe there is another one or two at most)

Not only that, I also have a nearly complete automation to provision a new machine, virtual or otherwise using the same code. (usually maintained by make && make install)

I update things regularly. It has bunch of "utility" scripts. As it being a $FAANG company, once in a while, here and there, people stumble on scripts/solutions/docs (also markdown). There were even occasional CRs (code-reviews / pull-requests) I received.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-12-11 22:59:07+00:00
lol no. There are literally a hundred plus Unix tools and commands. I couldn’t tell you what 90% of them mean. I sure as hell couldn’t have told you what sed stood for. And if you asked me tomorrow I also wouldn’t be able to tell you.

C programmers are great. I love C. I wish everything had a beautiful pure C API. But C programmers are strictly banned from naming things. Their naming privileges have been revoked, permanently.
by MisterTea | 2025-12-11 22:59:07+00:00
I agree, some names that come to mind are Celery and Windows. But there are always silly names. I like Plan 9, an OS named after an Ed Wood B movie. Its sibling, Inferno is full of puns and references to Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Its corporate dullards who insist that neutral boring is appealing to most and I again agree but its not a hard rule for me.
by bri3d | 2025-12-11 22:59:16+00:00
Yeah, I've often thought about what I'd do instead and there's no legitimate alternative. It might help developers feel better if they had some kind of "friendly name" functionality (ie - if registrations in the Registry had a package-identifier style string alongside), but that also wouldn't have flown when COM was invented and resources overall were much more scarce than they are today.
by modeless | 2025-12-11 22:59:58+00:00
> Satellites in higher orbits do a lot that can't be done in LEO

This isn't really true anymore. Yes there's a lot of legacy technology still in use and even still being launched, but there's nothing in MEO or GEO that can't be done in LEO with today's technology. Doing it in LEO requires more satellites and better radios, but you get better performance.

The risk of collisions may be lower but the consequences last thousands or millions of times longer...
by Glyptodon | 2025-12-11 23:00:12+00:00
English does construct things this way, maybe just not with the frequency of Chinese. In fact, "not bad" is a common expression.

That said, it's true that certain flavors of US English, like marketing speak, will avoid many phrases in this family.

This is because many American English speakers will see expressions like this, particularly when not used in a directly complementary way, as either bureaucratic and avoidant or slightly pedantic or both. Because for many Americans, leaving ambiguity implies lack of confidence in the statement or evasiveness. (At the same time Americans also know not to trust confident statements - they are separately known to be "snake oily" - but we still tend to see marketing that avoids directness as even less trustworthy.)

So this mode of expression is much more common in personal speech.
by nradov | 2025-12-11 23:00:14+00:00
Not immediately life threatening, but they have a major impact on quality of life and overall healthspan. When people lose mobility their overall health and fitness tends to steadily decline, although it can take a long time until those deficits become clinically significant. This is why affluent Canadians often skip the waitlists and pay out of pocket for joint operations as medical tourists in the USA.
by nixass | 2025-12-11 23:00:19+00:00
> In NYC with clean 15+ year driving record my premium is $270 a month

This is terrible. In Germany (major city) I pay 166 Eur a month for two cars, one normal (premium brand) family car and second being V8 coupe. I make about 25000km a year in total and have 6 years no claims. No accidents in my driving history (over 15 years). Price is for full coverage with low excess.
by nottorp | 2025-12-11 23:00:25+00:00
> with old iPhones

My first iPhone was a 4S and i was astonished how correctly i'm typing. At least in English.

I even managed to bully the spell checker into reasonably accepting both English and Romanian, back when they didn't have multiple languages at the same time on the keyboard.

I'm not sure when it started to go downhill, but I was using an XS and it was at at least one more version after whatever XS shipped with.
by jaimex2 | 2025-12-11 23:01:01+00:00
I do have kids and they are well adjusted individuals. I spent time parenting them and showing them how the world works.

Turns out the social media drug loses all it's power if you reveal whats behind the curtain. Just like real drugs, dont be scared to show your kids what the consequences are.

I wasn't aware that banning alchohol and drugs to minors had any positive effect tbh. If anything that in itself made them more desirable and sought after.
by phamduongtria | 2025-12-11 23:01:15+00:00
Notice how there is no law proposed for the situation when the population hit below a certain number, like from war, pandemic or natural disasters. Im convinced this is just another mask for “we don’t want outsiders”. If economy and environmental stability was the priority they would have also introduced some policies for increasing the population (including by means of immigration) in those cases. Not to mention aging population is a real global risk
by FpUser | 2025-12-11 23:01:20+00:00
I've read many very positive reviews about Gemini 3. I tried using it including Pro and to me it looks very inferior to ChatGPT. What was very interesting though was when I caught it bullshitting me I called its BS and Gemini expressed very human like behavior. It did try to weasel its way out, degenerated down to "true Scotsman" level but finally admitted that it was full of it. this is kind of impressive / scary.
by absoluteunit1 | 2025-12-11 23:01:44+00:00
I love working with SVGs.

We use SVGs on https://typequicker.com/press for the blog post hero images.

This way - even if the user changes themes, the colors of the image will be consistent with whatever theme is currently active. Also - the loading time is near-instant since we don't need to fetch the img file for the blog post image - just render the svg.
by palata | 2025-12-11 23:01:45+00:00
I feel like we're talking past each other. I tend to agree with you, I don't like having a "bible" and "celebration of design patterns as a catalogue of general wisdom".

But formalising concepts with words makes sense. If your company maintains a catalogue of their patterns, and someone happens to know that this specific pattern is usually called a "singleton", I would find it weird to call it a tomato.

Some patterns have different names in different contexts or languages, and that's fine. I don't find it weird to have a discussion around "in this language there is this pattern that they call X, does that ring a bell for you working on that other language? The idea is [...]", and maybe the answer is "yep we have it too" or "oh, we call that Y, but that's pretty similar".
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-11 23:01:47+00:00
> Nobody is forcing anyone to have an unintentional pregnancy. What an unusual and manipulative way to frame the consequences of one's actions.

I'm not sure where you live, but most places on earth have a really shit situation wherever humans live, which is called involuntary sexual intercourse, if you haven't heard about it before, I guess consider yourself lucky. For the rest of the people who do experience that though, I feel a lot of compassion, and whatever they need and want to do to heal from that sort of trauma, should be OK, as long as they're not hurting other humans.

> Humanity was just fine for millennia

You also don't seem to grasp the long history of abortion, probably longer than even written history which is just 5000 years.

> By making abortions accessible, you make abortions necessary

Accessible or not, abortions are sometimes necessary, and sometimes the most compassionate route. If you were Christian, you might have understood, so I hope whatever degeneracy your chosen religion seems to have forced upon you, eventually lets up so you too can start to see compassion against your fellow human beings.
by mylesp | 2025-12-11 23:02:12+00:00
In Australia from my experience "not bad" = "good", "pretty good" = "amazing", "bit shit" = "really shit".

I don't think its as much that everything positive is just a non-negative, but that everything (especially emotions) is shifted towards the medium. Maybe it comes from a desire to not be abrasive and always soften everything, but I'm not sure.
by btown | 2025-12-11 23:02:13+00:00
Is batch mode on the roadmap? As the frontier model providers start to think more and more about profitability, and prices/latencies rise as a result, I can see batching becoming more and more necessary for many use cases.

Would love to know we can build against the OpenAI batch API and (soon?) have a path towards being model-agnostic.