MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigyabai | 2025-06-08 18:29:14+00:00
You're putting words in my mouth. I never said they were encrypted. I said that Apple deliberately misled developers about the surveillance functionality by pushing whitepapers that do not accurately describe how these systems work. This prevents developers from protecting their users and creates confusion around how Apple services operate.

Even if it was E2EE - trusting Apple with proprietary crypto is like trusting Microsoft to not backdoor Bitlocker. It requires a specifically-qualified moron who doesn't respond to technical arguments and only understands marketing language.
by TrackerFF | 2025-06-08 18:29:34+00:00
I don't have to deal too much with college-aged people, other than some interns every now and then - but a friend of mine from college is now a professor, and has to deal with this kind of stuff on seemingly a weekly basis.

He told me that one of the most common problems he faces when trying to organize the logistics of a class, is that kids will just block each other from everything, with no notice. They won't even try handle a conflict, straight to blocking and ghosting. So every semester there last-minute conflicts with group projects, lab work, etc. where these things happen.

Anyway, as for me, the only incidents we have/had tend to revolve around feedback to interns and fresh grads. Some of these kids will have what seems like a small breakdown the first time they receive poor (or below average) feedback on something. We had one intern that received a "Need improvement", and the person ghosted the manager, and went straight above - teary eyed - to plead their case.

I suspect that some of these kids have never actually experienced a real conflict before, or been in a position where they had to actually face one.
by asveikau | 2025-06-08 18:30:32+00:00
If you've known a few people who suffer psychotic symptoms and get to know the pattern of how they developed, drugs can appear commonly but it's much less cut and dry whether the drugs are responsible.

For example college age, like your buddy was at, is very typically the onset time for schizophrenia even without drugs. And schizophrenia itself may make people gravitate towards drugs.
by Molitor5901 | 2025-06-08 18:31:14+00:00
My opinion is there is not really a housing shortage, instead, there is a shortage of housing where people want to live. Take any populous city and you will find the cute, walk-able neighborhoods that everyone wants to live in. Because of that, they have higher rental prices.

There is plenty of housing, but in a capitalist market of supply versus demand, the loudest group are going to be those who want to live in the expensive housing but can't afford it.
by margalabargala | 2025-06-08 18:31:56+00:00
Thank you for pointing out the orders are mutual; this strengthens my point. What is the use of one in the described situation? To stabilize and avoid escalation of the situation of "oh shit I'm so sorry I thought this was my friends room I am immediately leaving now"? Now neither of them can accidentally climb into the incorrect window that the other happens to be behind?

The no contact order being a response to unintentional contact is just blatantly the wrong tool for the job.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-08 18:32:40+00:00
> But if Cloudflare already has that info from half the Internet, then the loss of privacy from that is outweighed by the gain of privacy from hiding it from your ISP.

Except that your ISP gets it anyway via SNI and seeing which IP addresses you connect to.

> Once Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android all default to secure DNS with no automatic fallback, I expect browser vendors will be perfectly happy to change it.

Then why is Chromecast hard-coded to use Google's DNS with no option to even manually change it?

> The phrase "devices in my family" sounds a lot like "other people's devices", so wanting that seems uncomfortably close to what the malicious network operators want.

The "devices in my family" want the same DNS server because they want to be blocking ads and malware. The issue is there are then rather a large number of them and requiring them each to be configured individually with many opportunities for omissions becomes a security vulnerability, since omissions allow the malware through.

You also need this if you want devices to resolve local names.

> That's specifically what there needs to not be, because if such a setting existed, malicious networks would all just use it.

The browsers already have this:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-appli...

The problem is it's not a standard so then not everything respects it or does it the same way, and devices not implementing it out of malice (e.g. to purposely avoid ad blocking) get to pretend they're not doing anything untoward.
by kassner | 2025-06-08 18:32:44+00:00
As said by others, mostly the fire risk. They can catch on fire, although rare, and a bad contact or flaky power source could make it go into many charge/discharge cycles in a short period of time. Batteries also degrade faster if it is too warm, cheap laptops often have terrible thermals and you could also shove it in a closet. A combination of those will increase the fire risk.

Also when using an old laptop, the battery could be pretty beaten up (too many cycles or prolonged exposure to heat) or it could have been replaced by a cheap non-compliant alternative, making it harder to trust wrt fire risk. And if you have to buy a brand-new one to reduce that risk, it immediately changes all the economic incentives to use an old laptop (if you are gonna spend money, might as well buy something more suitable).

> many won't have an easily removable battery

That’s true, although I’d guess majority can still have the battery disconnected once you get access to the motherboard.
by morningsam | 2025-06-08 18:32:54+00:00
>Though I have wondered about the idea of programming something like Dependabot, but telling it, hey, tell me about known CVEs and security releases, but otherwise, let things cook for 6 months before automatically building a PR for me to update.

Renovate can do both of these things already:

https://docs.renovatebot.com/configuration-options/#vulnerab...

https://docs.renovatebot.com/configuration-options/#minimumr...
by Tallain | 2025-06-08 18:34:53+00:00
> The government recommends that free sugars – sugars added to food or drinks, and sugars found naturally in honey, syrups, and unsweetened fruit and vegetable juices, smoothies and purées – should not make up more than 5% of the energy (calories) you get from food and drink each day.

> This means:

> Adults should have no more than 30g of free sugars a day, (roughly equivalent to 7 sugar cubes).

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-types/how-does-su...

Like I said, it adds up. And as I pointed out above, the added sugar varies wildly in the "same" things you buy off the shelf, so it does pay to pay attention.

I don't see the same argument for adding more beneficial things to your diet like protein or fiber so it's curious to say the negative things don't also have some cumulative effect.

You can easily find peanut butter without added sugar, and applesauce without added sugar, and many more of the garden variety things without added sugar. Sure, there is naturally occurring sugar, but that's the point -- why add more, and why add that to your diet?
by bigyabai | 2025-06-08 18:35:16+00:00
> but this overestimates how much humans know especially with respect to space

Does it? We can't know how many secrets there are out there, maybe there's infinite and maybe there's nothing. It's hard for us to know the opportunity cost until we understand what we're bartering for.

Like, humanity could pool their resources to comprehensively explore the Mariana Trench if we wanted. That's fairly unknown, entirely feasible, and could yield scientific advancement. But it's also expensive, and doesn't guarantee any lucrative returns for us. Maybe there's gold deposits at the bottom of the floor, maybe it's all silt and sand. Maybe we harvest the gold, and discover that humanity has upset a delicate balance that has only survived by us ignoring it.

Iunno, if I was an alien civilization somewhere, I'd be praying to whatever higher powers exist to ensure humanity stays far, far away from me.
by js8 | 2025-06-08 18:35:50+00:00
> They're intended to stabilize volatile situations and prevent escalation.

Wouldn't it be better, in many of these cases, to actually talk it out? When I was young and there was a conflict of this sort, we were taught to apologize and shake hands, as a sign of future goodwill.

There is a reason why non-reciprocal altruism (you can say assumption of good intent) is a thing in humans. If we are all only thinking reciprocally, then with errors and mistakes, nobody would communicate with anybody, and no relationship would ever come about.
by cyberax | 2025-06-08 18:36:41+00:00
Yes, they are. Do an experiment, drop ten points randomly on a city map. Then plot routes between them, using Google for transit and cars.

For most cities, cars will be about 2-3x faster. For three simple reasons: no walking, no waiting, no stopping.

And that's the paradox. Cars are better than transit, yet modern cities are hell-bent on destroying the car infrastructure.

You can also check this site with isochrones for different transport modes: https://www.geoapify.com/isoline-api/
by Molitor5901 | 2025-06-08 18:37:07+00:00
Yeah! I have had that exact same feeling! The one I remember burning the most was a collection of photos and movies of my family. I printed across the disc a photo of everyone. It was just so cool, even in black and white, but I always held back because they were a little expensive, and I wanted to save them for something really special! Had they been the same price as other discs.. I think I would have used them more.
by derwiki | 2025-06-08 18:37:32+00:00
Not sure if this is sarcasm or sincere, but I will take it as sincere haha. I came back to work from parental leave and everyone had that same Studio Ghiblized image as their Slack photo, and I had no idea why. It turns out you really can unplug from social media and not miss anything of value: if it’s a big enough deal you will find out from another channel.
by brudgers | 2025-06-08 18:37:38+00:00
A weakness built into the USB-C from the very beginning was that the specification for the physical connector was always separate from the specifications for the USB Power Delivery specification for charging, the USB-C Alt Mode specification for carrying non-USB signals like DisplayPort or HDMI, and for the USB protocol itself (that is, the data transfer speed a given port is capable of).

This is the same as USB A and USB B.

Letters specify mechanical properties.

Numbers (1.0, 1.1, 2.0, etc.) specify electronic properties.

Not that life would not be better without the confusion...but then again, changing the meaning of existing terms probably won't reduce confusion.
Show HN: I built FoundersWall where builders pin chaos instead of chasing likes
by harvansh | 2025-06-08 18:37:46+00:00
I used to be just a blogger.

Now I build internet products, still without code, using AI, design, and taste.

I was building in public on X for last 2 months.

And honestly, I got tired of how it became performative and started to feel fake.

I shipped 2 products. Both failed to get any real traction.

I kept sneaking into popular builders’ profiles, hoping to learn how they do it.

One thing I kept seeing everywhere, product launch directories. I thought here is the scope. So I started building one. Same UI like the rest. Nothing special.

Suddenly one day when it was half built, I realized builders like me were just dropping launch links in comment sections like

> “Drop your link, what you're working on below” People would say cool or awesome idea and disappear. It felt hollow.

That’s when I knew I had to make something different. Something for all of us shouting into the void, hoping someone actually sees what we’re building. So I built FoundersWall.com a weird raw space where indie hackers pin what they’re actually building.

So I built FoundersWall.com - a weird, raw public wall for indie hackers.

Each underdog builder gets their own timeline to pin whatever they’re working on feature drops, rewrites, rants, even dead projects. No feed. No likes. No algorithm. Just you, showing up.

The design leans into chaos sticky notes, scribbles, colors, because real shipping isn’t clean, and that’s the point.

Today, I added 'Launch Alliance' You pin your upcoming launch and get support from others. In return, you support someone else when they launch. No hype loops. Just mutual visibility between builders.

It’s slowly gaining traction among early builders. Would love to hear what you think, especially if you've felt the same frustration with build-in-public culture.
by josephcsible | 2025-06-08 18:37:50+00:00
> Except that your ISP gets it anyway via SNI and seeing which IP addresses you connect to.

Hence my point about CDNs and ECH upthread.

> Then why is Chromecast hard-coded to use Google's DNS with no option to even manually change it?

I lump Chromecast into the "IoT" category, not the "browsers" category. Google could spy on you even with no DNS access at all if it wanted to.

> The "devices in my family" want the same DNS server because they want to be blocking ads and malware. The issue is there are then rather a large number of them and requiring them each to be configured individually with many opportunities for omissions becomes a security vulnerability, since omissions allow the malware through.

If you're concerned about that, don't you realistically need something like uBlock Origin on each endpoint anyway, since so many sites serve their (malware-laden) ads from their own domains these days, specifically because of things like the Pi-Hole?

> You also need this if you want devices to resolve local names.

There would be nothing wrong with a fallback just for TLDs like ".local" and ".internal" that will never exist for real on the Internet. The critical "no fallback" point is just for potentially-real TLDs when the DoH server isn't reachable.

> The browsers already have this:

> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-appli...

> The problem is it's not a standard so then not everything respects it or does it the same way, and devices not implementing it out of malice (e.g. to purposely avoid ad blocking) get to pretend they're not doing anything untoward.

That setting is bad and needs to go away. It completely defeats the purpose of DoH.
by KerrAvon | 2025-06-08 18:38:02+00:00
I don’t disagree with that assessment of Sculley but I’m not sure if that would have helped anyone. What the movie makes clear is that General Magic very badly needed adult supervision (all these “geniuses”! doing absolutely nothing of value! together!), and I’m not sure Apple of that era would have been capable of providing it in a productive way.
by iambateman | 2025-06-08 18:38:07+00:00
This is a fantastic question, and sparked a lot of thought.

The story shows 28/44 metro areas had decreasing rents last year, so 64%. That still means that the other 16 had rising rents.

My guess is that rents lag inflation quite a bit, so the (slight) decrease is basically reflecting the drop in inflation over the past couple years. So, yes rents dropped 1% last year but they’re up 20% over 5 years.

I do believe that the US has a significant shortage of housing that is high quality in city centers. Families don’t want to live in apartments in this country so they end up living 20+ miles from their work and spending a huge amount on transportation.
by eastbound | 2025-06-08 18:38:21+00:00
Gatekeeping words would be important if it were respected. Unfortunately it is not, when the context doesn’t favor a specific flavour of the outcome.

Example in France, “homeless” is called SDF, and it means “no home” (no fixed address to receive mail, although shelters allow mail) but doesn’t mean “no roof”. And that was done to include women, because women were practically not represented on the street, as they often have someone who can host them, even if they cannot call it home. There is no word (except derogatory like “Claudo”, or workarounds like “on the street”) to describe the homelessness that men suffer.

Now, since women represent 16% SDF, but most of them are hosted, they do not tend to die during winters. They do not tend to face street violence. They do not match those stats. Unfortunately, since they still represent 16% of SDF, they also get reserved budgets in addition to the budgets which are destined to homelessness in general (and which are themselves already allocated with a slant towards the female gender - the whole thing is absolutely despicable).

So, since words are perverted for political goals precisely in this area, I’d rather we let history written by the writers, with their own appreciation of the words’ meaning. The usual side will win again, but when there is an odd article not written in “the correct way”, let it live.
by tptacek | 2025-06-08 18:38:43+00:00
Presumably after an event like that one of those two students would have strong preferences to avoid the other, and it's hard to see any cognizable interest for the school in overriding that preference; meanwhile, honoring that preference stands a good chance of foreclosing on future conflicts between the two. A college has a mission, and should draft and enforce rules that further that mission. Students at colleges should get used to the idea that joining most mission-oriented organizations will involve complying with some set of rules, because that will certainly be expected of them in the workforce.

Again, I see the "fragility" narrative here in exactly the opposite way the WSJ article does: what's fragile to me is having a temper tantrum over being told that there's a mutual no-contact order in place between you and a student who doesn't want to be in contact with you.
by to11mtm | 2025-06-08 18:39:35+00:00
It depends a lot on the ICE and setup.

If I'm in my WRX and I do need to go above 75 quickly, I can drop into 4th and get to 80 more quickly. But I've got a stick so I can do that. If I'm in something with a slushbox, I have to wait for the thing to decide that downshifting is needed before it will pick up. I'll admit the Toyota Hybrids hit a good 'in-between' for these (probably closer to an EV than either a Manual or a slushbox.) I'll get a bit of instant acceleration but anything after a half second to second is a bit slower.
by harvansh | 2025-06-08 18:39:40+00:00
Hey HN I’m not a dev. I came from writing, picked up AI tools, and just kept building things until I landed here.

FoundersWall came from a simple feeling, I was tired of pretending to build for attention. I wanted to build for real, with others, in public without putting on a show.

So I built the kind of space I needed. One that feels raw, loud, imperfect like how real indie building actually is.

If you’re building and feel like nobody sees you. I hope this makes you feel seen.

Would love your feedback. On the idea, the vibe, or even just how it made you feel.
by IshKebab | 2025-06-08 18:42:07+00:00
Yeah but if everyone was saying "I don't understand how functions or arrays work in Javascript", that's a pretty solid indicator that functions and arrays are badly designed in Javascript and are unnecessarily hard to understand.

I think in some cases things are just fundamentally difficult and them being hard-to-understand is intrinsic. For example formal verification in Lean is hard to understand but I don't think Lean is badly designed.

But it's hard to see why package management is one of those things. There are soooo many ways Nix could be easier to use and understand. The language itself is unnecessarily esoteric in my experience - compared to something like Starlark for example.
by simonw | 2025-06-08 18:42:27+00:00
If you're interested, you can get cost estimates from my pricing calculator site here: https://www.llm-prices.com/#it=11&ot=1200

That link seeds it with 11 input tokens and 1200 output tokens - 11 input tokens is what most models use for "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" and 1200 is the number of output tokens used for some of the larger outputs.

Click on different models to see estimated prices. They range from 0.0168 cents for Amazon Nova Micro (that's less than 2/100ths of a cent) up to 72 cents for o1-pro.

The most expensive model most people would consider is Claude 4 Opus, at 9 cents.

GPT-4o is the upper end of the most common prices, at 1.2 cents.
by LorenDB | 2025-06-08 18:42:34+00:00
> Don’t start with a wooden harp like marine band. The metal and plastic ones are typically a bit easier to bend.

OTOH I find the Marine Band Crossover (with a bamboo comb) to be probably the best bending harp out there due to it receiving detailed factory setup.

> Lower notes are generally easier to bend than higher notes

Additionally, you'll probably find a lower key harp to bend better, at least to a point. I feel like an A harp is the sweet spot for bending really well without being so low that it starts becoming difficult. G harps are good too, but require you to dig deeper to get a good bend.
by esseph | 2025-06-08 18:42:56+00:00
https://www.newsweek.com/austin-housing-market-trouble-20625...

"Just because home prices are coming down and there are more listings, doesn't mean that prices are affordable. So there's still a supply problem in cities like Austin," Turner said. "I think only 25 percent of Austinites can afford to purchase a home at the median home price."
by bsenftner | 2025-06-08 18:44:02+00:00
Every article that begins with any variation of loses me immediately:

"I went through a phase that I imagine many software developers go through at least once in their careers—a period of intense fascination with Emacs..."

What is this widespread overt fascination with the tools one use? I've always been aware of a tradeoff between why one uses a tool and any tendency to fascinate on the tool or process of using a tool. The use, the purpose, the goal outside and originally to want any tool has always been my preference. To see the forest when among trees, to see a purpose and path through. Not to navel gaze at the existence of tools in preference to using them beyond pontificating their existence. This then extends to shaking my head at the swelled population of developer influencers that over fascinate on tools, appearing to do that in preference of anything else.

This confuses a tool with knowledge itself. smh.
by to11mtm | 2025-06-08 18:44:42+00:00
It's a difficult question, because there's both the labor cost difference as well as the environmental cost difference. Plenty of things aren't made in the US anymore simply because the cost of producing them without becoming a superfund site are too high vs a country that's willing to either just designate the whole thing as forever industrial wasteland (or decide that the long term societal damage of pollution is worth the gain at this time).

Pragmatically, the sanest thing we might be able to do is find a region of the country that is remote enough in every way and turn it into a free for all industrial park so long as workers aren't exposed to excessive danger.
by pseudalopex | 2025-06-08 18:45:07+00:00
A prediction does not make a report late. And many things obvious to some people are not obvious to a general audience.

> If the source of the idea cheapens the work I put into it with pencils and time, I’m not sure what to say.

This is a straw man. The idea is part of the product.

> This sounds eerily similar to the messaging around SWE.

Yes. This similarity included how the executive's imagination and the individual contributor's experience differed.