MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by engineer_22 | 2025-12-22 22:51:32+00:00
If your mothership is low-observable/submersible you could park it in a harbor and when time is right unleash a swarm of hybrid aerial underwater drones with mission payload.

This design uses 1 swashplate server plus 1 brushless drive motor for each prop for a total of 8 motors. Designs in Ukraine are now using 1 brushless drive motor to synchronously drive all 4 props and 1 swashplate servo each prop, reducing total number of motors to 5, which might be a natural path of optimization for this type of hybrid aerial underwater?
by blibble | 2025-12-22 22:52:02+00:00
> The required accuracy (Tables 1 and 2 in that document)

no, Tables 1 and 2 say divergence, not accuracy

accuracy is a mix of both granularity and divergence

regardless, your statement before:

> The regulatory requirement you linked (and other typical requirements from regulators) allows a tolerance of one second, so it doesn't call for this kind of technology.

is not true
by gardncl | 2025-12-22 22:52:06+00:00
Yeah, my opinion on how much should come from nuclear is that current levels (~20%) are enough to fill the rest in with renewables.

I'd love to be France (~50%) but there is so much pushback against the technology due to accidents that happened decades ago with generation II plants (chernobyl + three mile island). We're now building tech for gen III+ plants and there is just almost no appetite to build them, we finished the vogles and now are completely pivoting to SMRs, which is fine.

SMR is probably what makes the most sense even if they're less efficient because until now the nuclear plants have not been very standardized which increases costs.

Why do I think nuclear is a distraction? Because I don't think it's a like-for-like replacement of fossil fuels and this admin knows that. They're willing to invest because it won't disrupt their biggest donors. The time horizon on nuclear is long, and there is a future (I hope) where we have nuclear plants hooked up to carbon capture technology and we pull these gasses out of the atmosphere. But until then what is the cheapest and most efficient path between current emissions and a massive cut in them? Renewables and battery tech (that's currently undergoing very dramatic cost reductions!).
by xboxnolifes | 2025-12-22 22:52:43+00:00
The front page is 30 items. I wouldn't call it a lot of those types of posts if there was 1 AI glazing post at all times there. At least, not relatively speaking with AI currently eating the media world.

I'm not sure how many would be considered glazing, but right now, 6/30 front-page submissions are about AI.
by mopsi | 2025-12-22 22:52:52+00:00
> You are free to knit or whittle gifts for friends. What you wouldn't be free to do is setup "mopsi's scarf business" without working through the state. You wouldn't be allowed to take the earning from "mopsi's scarf business" and use them to become a landlord.

If my scarves become so popular that even strangers begin offering money for them, I won't be interested in working for the state for basic necessities while the state takes the rest.

I'd rather barter with others for the useful things they produce. My friend, for example, grows excellent tomatoes.

Over time, if we have many friends, we will live comfortable lives, while loners will wither away. Is this an acceptable outcome for you as the dictator of the Bestest Communist Paradise on Planet Earth (BCPPE), or will you do something about it?
by wahnfrieden | 2025-12-22 22:53:06+00:00
Not really. Maybe for consumer. But there are many kinds of b2b infrastructure businesses that I can build and launch myself where I wouldn't want to expose myself to risk of day-long outages (for either reputational or as competitive disadvantage of having no HA story), such as anything to do with payment gateways, API gateways, AI proxies or other AI infrastructure - anything where client services would experience critical outages if your service goes down... Lots of these businesses are started without VC investment or big money from day 1.

Luckily now with solutions like Yugabyte, we can achieve enterprise-grade HA without high cost or high maintenance complexity.
by hobofan | 2025-12-22 22:53:30+00:00
> Aside: Why are LLMs good at greenfield?

I have the complete opposite experience, where once some patterns already exist 2-3 times in the codebase, the LLMs start to accurately replicating them instead of trying to solve everything as one-off solutions.

> You can’t be inconsistent if there are no existing patterns.

"Consistency" shouldn't be equated to "good". If that's your only metric for quality and you don't apply any taste you'll quickly end of with a unmaintainable hodgepodge of second-grade libraries if you let an LLM do its thing in a greenfield project.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-22 22:53:51+00:00
> $10k gets you a Mac Studio with 512GB of RAM, which definitely can run GLM-4.7 with normal, production-grade levels of quantization (in contrast to the extreme quantization that some people talk about).

Please do give that a try and report back the prefill and decode speed. Unfortunately, I think again that what I wrote earlier will apply:

> In practice, it'll be incredible slow and you'll quickly regret spending that much money on it

I'd rather place that 10K on a RTX Pro 6000 if I was choosing between them.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-12-22 22:54:15+00:00
First. $120/MWh for new built nuclear power is cheaper than any modern western reactors. Real costs are ~180-220/MWh when running at 100% 24/7 all year around. As based on Vogtle, FV3, HPC, proposed EPR2s, proposed Polish reactors etc.

The problem with these ”system costs” analyses is that they don’t capture the direct physical incentive structure of our grids.

Why should someone with rooftop solar and a home battery buy $180-220/MWh when they have their own electricity available?

Why should they not sell their excess to the grid cheaper than said nuclear power? It is zero marginal cost after all.

You can call it tragedy of the commons but new built nuclear power simply is unfit for our modern grids.

We need firming for near emergency reserves coming from production with the cheapest possible CAPEX without an outrageous OPEX.

Likely gas turbines running on carbon neutral fuels. But only if we determine that they are needed in the 2030s.

New built nuclear power simply doesn’t even enter the picture in late 2025.
Show HN: A small terminal metronome written in Go
by s3gm3nt | 2025-12-22 22:54:25+00:00
I built a simple TUI-based metronome for practicing guitar. I wanted something keyboard-driven, simple to use, and aesthetic that I could run directly in my IDE terminal. Most existing terminal options felt either too minimal, overcomplicated, or unmaintained, so I put this together in a day over the weekend for my own use. A colleague encouraged me to share it on GitHub.

Feedback welcome.
by flashgordon | 2025-12-22 22:54:29+00:00
This. Companies are chomping at the bits about developer productivity and how they can do 10x more. What is not clear even if they can fire 90% of their engineers (assuming the 10x productivity gain is real), how are they expecting that even a tiny sliver of that 90% cannot replicate the products - with AI? And if we are in such a world how are those companies' valuations justified any more?

I am really excited at indie software again!
by observationist | 2025-12-22 22:54:49+00:00
Then you've failed in security infrastructure, policy, and enforcement, and you've infantilized your users and wasted a bunch of IT time on checking boxes. The real power move in that case would be ensuring some third party vendor checked the boxes for you, so that your ass gets sufficiently covered and you have a narrative that goes something like "well, we did everything you're supposed to, those pesky superhackers are just soooo devious and skilled that they can get anywhere!"

The actual fix for things like that is to ensure that your sensitive data is properly protected, and things that you don't want exfiltrated aren't put into scenarios where exfiltration is possible. If you need to compromise on security for practicality, then make those exceptions highly monitored with multiple people involved in custody and verification. Zero trust means you don't give any of your users or host devices any trust at all, and modern security software can require multiple party approvals and MFA.

You can use a phone to scan documents as you scroll through them, or mitm hardware devices that appear to be part of a cable, or all sorts of sneaky shenanigans, and it's a never-ending arms race, so you have to decide what level of convenience is worth what level of risk and make policies enforceable and auditable. In some cases that might mean SCIF level security with metal detectors and armed guards, in other cases it might mean ensuring a good password policy for zip files shared via email.

Inconveniencing users by limiting web access and doing the TSA style performative security thing is counterproductive. This doesn't mean you give them install rights, or you don't log web activity, or run endpoint malware scanning, or have advanced unusual activity monitoring on the network and so forth. It just means if Sally from accounting wants to go shopping for ugly christmas sweaters for staff on Etsy, she doesn't have to fill out forms in triplicate and wait 3 months while the IT department gets approvals and management has meetings and the third party security vendor does a policy review and assessment before signing off on it, or telling her no.
by musicale | 2025-12-22 22:54:56+00:00
> The web has developed in to a perverted Minitel, it's a place I go to order something, if I can't find it in local stored, I read a little news, I look up documentation, and then I check out again

Minitel sounds interesting though:

> Minitel was thus hardly the rigid, static system imagined by many Internet advocates of the 1990s. The hybrid architecture—bridging public and private, open and closed—provided a rich platform for innovation and entrepreneurship at a time when online services elsewhere in the world were floundering.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/minitel-the-online-world-france-bu...
by itishappy | 2025-12-22 22:56:01+00:00
> If the algorithm "working as intended" consistently downranks stories that cast a bad light on YCombinator, the sorts of people y'all mingle with, or the tech industry in general...is that any better than putting your thumb on the scale?

That's the exact opposite of what Dan stated, what this thread (and your link) demonstrate, and my own lived experience here.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-12-22 22:56:10+00:00
Those three positions are all extreme viewpoints. There are certainly people who hold them, and they tend to be loud and confident and have an outsize presence in HN and other places online.

But a lot of us have a more nuanced take! It's perfectly possible to believe simultaneously that 1) LLMs are more than stochastic parrots 2) LLMs are useful for software development 3) LLMs have all sorts of limitations and risks (you can produce unmaintainable slop with them, and many people will, there are massive security issues, I can go on and on...) 4) We're not getting AGI or world-destroying super-intelligence anytime soon, if ever 5) We're in a bubble and it's going to pop and cause a big mess 6) This tech is still going to be transformative long term, on a similar level to the web and smartphones.

Don't let the noise from the extreme people who formed their opinions back when ChatGPT came out drown out serious discussion! A lot of us try and walk a middle course with this and have been and still are open to changing our minds.
by thomoliverz | 2025-12-22 22:56:39+00:00
Very interesting -

Do agree totally on recaps of recaps.

Point here is more to dump all the links somewhere and then send you a briefing (with all the full content attached) so that you can actually read them in full when you have time.

You can also get everything in a printable PDF so that you can read it the good old way!

You can test here: https://read-fast.replit.app/

Let me know what you think!
by cedws | 2025-12-22 22:56:50+00:00
I'm interested in how the takeover happened on the inside. How do you take control of a country with minimal drama when even small corporate takeovers get so messy? I assume there's been a lot of work to root out internal dissent, install aligned individuals, take control of computer systems. Even though the UK handed HK to China, there's got to have been people with strong feelings that created roadblocks along the way.
by tenxsengineer | 2025-12-22 22:57:11+00:00
Just last week (December 16, 2025), Google launched Conductor a game-changing extension for Gemini CLI that introduces context-driven development. Instead of jumping straight into coding, it enforces a structured lifecycle: Context → Spec & Plan → Implement. This helps maintain persistent project context, formalize plans in Markdown, track progress, and keep AI agents aligned with your tech stack, style guides, and team workflows.
As a big fan of this disciplined approach (and a heavy Claude user), I immediately thought: Why not bring the same power to Claude Code?
That's why I open-sourced Conductor for Claude Code — a plugin that ports this exact workflow to the Anthropic ecosystem.
Key features:
Plan before building with structured specs and plans
Shared, persistent context (product docs, tech stack, style guides)
Visible progress tracking with tracks, phases, and task status
Git-aware logical reverts (by tracks/phases/tasks, not just commits)
Simple commands:
/conductor:setup
/conductor:new-track
/conductor:implement
/conductor:status
/conductor:revert
Quick local install (marketplace-ready soon):
claude --plugin-dir /path/to/conductor_cc
If you're working with Claude Code and want more predictable, reviewable, and team-scalable workflows — give it a try!
Repository: https://github.com/pilotparpikhodjaev/conductor_cc
by anonymousiam | 2025-12-22 22:57:36+00:00
The Nagle algorithm was created back in the day of multi-point networking. Multiple hosts were all tied to the same communications (Ethernet) channel, so they would use CSMA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-sense_multiple_access_...) to avoid collisions. CSMA is no longer necessary on Ethernet today because all modern connections are point-to-point with only two "hosts" per channel. (Each host can have any number of "users.") In fact, most modern (copper) (Gigabit+) Ethernet connections have both ends both transmitting and receiving AT THE SAME TIME ON THE SAME WIRES. A hybrid is used on the PHY at each end to subtract what is being transmitted from what is being received. Older (10/100 Base-T) can do the same thing because each end has dedicated TX/RX pairs. Fiber optic Ethernet can use either the same fiber with different wavelengths, or separate TX/RX fibers. I haven't seen a 10Base-2 Ethernet/DECnet interface for more than 25 years. If any are still operating somewhere, they are still using CSMA. CSMA is also still used for digital radio systems (WiFi and others). CSMA includes a "random exponential backoff timer" which does the (poor) job of managing congestion. (More modern congestion control methods exist today.) Back in the day, disabling the random backoff timer was somewhat equivalent to setting TCP_NODELAY.

Dumping the Nagle algorithm (by setting TCP_NODELAY) almost always makes sense and should be enabled by default.
by attila-lendvai | 2025-12-22 22:57:36+00:00
i started typing no caps at least a decade ago (and i'm 50). the reason was mostly that when i edited a sentence i had to mess around with caps, plus speed and pinky strain.

learning about Lojban and its punctuation probably also swayed me (it marks the start of the sentences with punctuation, which makes a lot more sense).
by thomoliverz | 2025-12-22 22:57:48+00:00
Completely agree.

Direction of travel for this is less re: summaries and more re: creating time for the user to actually read the content in full.

Made some changes based on your feedback to that effect, this week, too. E.g. now when you receive the briefing you can go through the original content side by side to actually deep read.

You can test here: https://read-fast.replit.app/

Would be grateful for your thoughts!
by aucisson_masque | 2025-12-22 22:58:29+00:00
It's not only that.

> The terms were also found to be disproportionate to the achievement of the company’s stated data protection objectives. Since user data are a key input for personalised online advertising, the double consent request that inevitably arises from the ATT policy, as implemented, restricts the collection, linking and use of such data. As a result, such double consent requirement is harmful to developers
by mattmaroon | 2025-12-22 22:58:44+00:00
The article you linked to indicates anything but how you’re portraying it.

First it talks about young adult who goes there several times a year, sometimes with her parents, because it’s cheaper than traveling overseas.

Then it says childless people have more discretionary income than parents (duh).

The general population, also, has drifted toward older people without kids. 20 years ago nearly 50% of Americans had a child under 18. Now it’s under 40%. So this whole article just indicates that the population is shifting and Disney is adapting to it by making the parks more palatable to single adults.

“In the last year, 93% of respondents in a consumer survey agreed that the cost of a Disney World vacation had become untenable for ‘average families’”. And yet the statistics indicate that more than 7% of families actually likely did go to a Disney park. (Presumably even more could afford it but just went somewhere else.)

Which illustrates my point, this is a thing that feels correct but likely isn’t, and part of the reason it feels correct is that people regurgitate it factlessly.
by self_awareness | 2025-12-22 22:58:51+00:00
I don't know if you're harsh, but one thing I've thought before I've clicked the link was "oh, another gui toolkit reinvention, I wonder how many times it will reinvent what's already invented and how many already solved problems it will simply ignore".

Well, I guess accessibility is one thing it skipped. It's a huge topic, I admit, so I'm not particularily surprised, but I think a better way for the author of this series would be to promote already existing huge toolkits that do have lots of functionalities built-in, including accessibility, like Qt for example.

That would be good also because already established huge toolkits have already answered a lot of important questions, questions which "modern" GUI toolkits simply ignore. New generations won't even know what we had when we were young.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-22 22:59:13+00:00
Yeah, that's not how it works, in my experience. They hand me something, I notice it's likely written by LLM, ask them. They say "Yeah, some quick things blah blah" and then I ask "Did you check all the details themselves?" and they say "Yeah, most of them" and then I answer "Ok, check all the details, then I'll go through it" and then later they come back and things look a lot better.

If you're ending up doing this back and forth with someone more than once, just outright refuse to work with someone so unprofessional who doesn't even validate their own work. It wouldn't fly in most workplaces I've worked in.
by aeonfox | 2025-12-22 22:59:31+00:00
> Technology is augmenting real world experiences all the time

As the sibling comment says, I never made a claim that technology writ large wasn't augmenting real world experiences. I did make reference to 'the technology', which if it helps to clarify could be read as 'a specific X technology'. A technology could be as broad as 'software', but it could mean a software innovation like 'infinite scroll with status updates'. How a technology is used can also factor in. iNaturalist, MeetUp, and hospitality club style websites are all social networks that encourage people to go out into the world and experience things. Even Facebook groups and marketplace can facilitate this to some degree, though real-world human connection is counter to its revenue strategy.

> and not always in positive ways.

Augmenting means to add to something, not take away. The word for that is detract.
by Gracana | 2025-12-22 23:00:00+00:00
Titanfall 2 is a really good one. Not something I expected to have such a strong emotional element. I didn't know Vince Zampella's name, but it is another project of his, so it seems fitting to recommend it here.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (the original, I haven't played the sequel) was crazy good. Gameplay-wise it's fine, but story wise it is one of the most emotionally intense games I have ever played. I recommend going into it spoiler-free. Look it up and see if it's something you're interested in, and if you want to play it, stop reading and play it.
by chiph | 2025-12-22 23:00:12+00:00
I finished treatment for prostate cancer this summer. Most of my time in the x-ray machine was spent getting the alignment right. They'd take a CT scan, do some image analysis and other computations, then adjust the table some small amount before turning the beam on.

I'm curious how they do the alignment with the histotripsy machine. I would think that they could obviously do an ultrasound scan to get the gross alignment correct. But perhaps there is a CT scan afterwards that lets them make the fine alignment. It probably also helps that the liver is a much larger gland so aiming is less critical?
by Eji1700 | 2025-12-22 23:00:25+00:00
It also seems weird that people are only scanning code that breaks?

I have 0 cred in anything security, so maybe i'm just missing a bigger picture thing, but like...if you told me i had to make some sort of malicious NPM package and get people to use it, i'd probably just find something that works, copy the code, put in some stylistic changes, and then bury my malicious code in there?

This seems so obvious that I question if the OP is correct in stating people aren't looking for that, or maybe I misunderstand what they mean because i'm ignorant?
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-22 23:01:32+00:00
You may not have realized it but leaving an 80 year old bedridden and unable to care for themselves is a death sentence. Any doctor sending an 80 year old home with a shattered hip and not a replacement knows that.

I live in red state America, like one of the super red states. The American healthcare system decided it didn't make sense financially for our small community to have ambulance coverage. You know what we in red state America did? We taxed ourselves and have much better ambulance coverage/care then we ever had before.

How we deal with healthcare is a choice.