MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by delusional | 2025-07-17 19:24:29+00:00
> same group that did the Panama papers

Isn't the icij "just" a network of people already doing investigative journalism who work on this stuff anyway? As in it's just a place where investigative journalists can meet/discuss investigations that cross borders? My impression were that they were just normal journalists and that groups then formed and disbanded based on interest within this network.

I certainly love their work, and I think a network like that is very important (we should probably have something similar for software developers/IT people across Europe), calling them a group seems wrong with my understanding though.
by ezst | 2025-07-17 19:25:07+00:00
I mean, for years Dendrite was positioned, by the developers of Synapse themselves, to become Synapse's successor, and Dendrite was getting a ton of funding and attention to make sure it happens.

It didn't then, and now that the situation is dire for Dendrite (with no funding and no official effort being put into it), I have little hope things are going to improve.
by chowells | 2025-07-17 19:25:14+00:00
That whole argument assumes that you as a consumer can always find a product with exactly the features you want. Because that's a laughable fiction, there need to be laws with teeth to punish bad behaviors that nearly every product would indulge in otherwise. That means things like requiring sites to get permission to track, and punishing those that track users without permission. It's a good policy in theory, but it needs to be paired with good enforcement, and that's where things are currently lacking.
by BogZMaszyny | 2025-07-17 19:25:26+00:00
Great idea, love it.

Moderation is good, indeed it's very hard to upload anything other than a cat picture. Descriptions are also on point.

One suggestion: Please fix the voting system, at first I was excited how well my cat does but turns out it's stupidly easy to cheat and for me - it defeats the purpose. Also, I would love a leaderboard of the best cat pictures out there.
by happytoexplain | 2025-07-17 19:26:54+00:00
I'm not familiar with the qualitative nature of the German/Austrian right wing right now (e.g. you can be an anti-immigration right winger without being Trumpian), but none of that sounds worthy of a dismissive attitude at face value.

Obviously I would not be surprised if he was a typical asshole about things like this. I just don't like the usage of those political opinions in particular as "this is a bad person" evidence.
by jjcob | 2025-07-17 19:26:54+00:00
I don't get why people can't just keep their stupid opinions to themselves.

That guy achieved some pretty amazing stuff, and I loved watching him, but then he starts publicly talking political bullshit to the media and it gets a bit hard to ignore that he is an asshole.

A lot of accomplished people are probably assholes in private, but they don't talk about it in public.

I wish Baumgartner would have just stuck to talking about the stuff he really knew very well.
by h0p3 | 2025-07-17 19:27:29+00:00
Let's not assume self‑interested corporate monopoly rents are a necessary precondition for innovation, and let's drop the romanticized notion that statutory patent terms by themselves constitute a just moral bargain, because history shows substantial discovery emerging from publicly funded science, mission driven nonprofits, collaborative consortia, open licensing, prizes, and advance market commitments, so we should test which incentive mixes work rather than presuppose one. Your "people always win on a long enough timeline" line doesn't answer the moral question of avoidable deaths, irreversible morbidity, or financial ruin before expiry; inevitability ≠ adequacy, and harms incurred during exclusivity remain morally chargeable. Commercialization does not require locking invention behind maximal (often crude, lengthy) IP, there are workable paths via milestone or frontloaded prizes, targeted or indication specific exclusivities, compulsory or voluntary licensing, patent buyouts, tiered pricing, and public manufacturing backstops; optimal mixes will and should differ across high‑income vs low and middle income country purchasing power. The "7‑year wait" is factually thin: statutory patent term is ~20 years from filing, while effective market exclusivity depends on regulatory data protections, biologic exclusivities, secondary or evergreening patents, litigation delays, and manufacturing barriers; patients routinely face restricted access even after nominal expiry. We also shouldn't conflate discovery scientists with development firms, nor firms with shareholders; in practice, salaried scientific labor is often alienated from downstream pricing power while financialization channels can parasitically extract surplus that need not translate into new R&D. Because many medicines and virtually all software have low marginal production cost relative to monopoly price, large deadweight losses arise when willing buyers are priced out, a staggering public welfare loss (and no, "deadweight" is not necessarily a synonym for "people you dislike"). Reading int_19h's rent‑extraction critique as a demand for Soviet central planning, and pivoting to talk of scientists as "spoils of war", is a straw man and a red herring that dodges the pricing structure at issue. If you want to defend the patent regime as a "social contract," we need to see the reciprocal side, access safeguards, anti‑evergreening enforcement, affordability commitments, otherwise it's a moral bargain in name only. Claiming membership among the "enlightened" means actually shedding light on these failures.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-17 19:27:30+00:00
My understanding of the comment wasn't that. It was that a solution for his adult version hasn't yet been developed because it's not commercially viable to do so due to its rarity. This of course brings me right back to the points I made in my own comment above. Resources are scarce, and commercial viability, or at least resource viability for all the effort of development, is a factor under any system you choose to look at. There are just so many priorities out there and we all know this. We can't compare the world of our ideal vision of how it should be with what's the case. We need to compare what's the case with what's realistic, and with was previously the case, and how it has changed, either for better or worse.

If on the other hand, a solution for his problem does exist and is simply not available, I don't see how that makes sense. Why wouldn't it be sold if it were available?
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-17 19:28:23+00:00
> In recent years, he made headlines of a different sort with controversial political statements, criticizing German and Austrian migration policies and opining that a "moderate dictatorship" would be preferable to a democracy, in which "you can't move anything."

That's putting it mildly. The full quote [1] is:

> Wie weit sind wir bereit unsere Identität und unsere Kultur aufzugeben und sie zu vermischen mit einer völlig anderen Religion und Ideologie?

or translated:

> How ready are we to give up our identity and culture and to mix it with a completely different religion and ideology?

That is 1:1 naked "great replacement" theory, the stuff that the vilest of the vile of the far-right believe in [2].

On top of that, he believed that domestic violence is acceptable in disciplining children [3].

[1] https://www.sn.at/salzburg/chronik/felix-baumgartner-wird-po...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement_conspiracy_t...

[3] https://www.diepresse.com/1433977/felix-baumgartner-ohrfeige...
by badsectoracula | 2025-07-17 19:28:59+00:00
While pirated/backup games can be an incentive, they are far from the only one and for many who actually tried to crack open the consoles, being able to run their own software like emulators is a much higher priority and this is possible with the dev mode. In fact AFAICT the main thing that is impossible is pirated games.

And in practice there isn't that much of an incentive for pirated games on Xbox One and later either since nowadays pretty much all of the games there are also available on PC where piracy is much easier.
by const_cast | 2025-07-17 19:29:06+00:00
The application is almost certainly sending off data to Notion without consent, you just wouldn't be able to tell.

If a company is willing to do even small privacy violations, I do not trust them at all. Feel free to run OpenSnitch or LittleSnitch - most apps are opening connections to many domains you won't recognize. Your guess is as good as anyone's what data they're exfiltrating. That is, of course, unless you use more privacy-preserving apps that are typically opensource.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-07-17 19:29:15+00:00
> Our PMs don't like making things opt-in.

Whenever people on HN and else where present you the mustache twirling evil Microsoft or Apple or Google C-suite/board who are trying to enshitificate a product or a tool because they don’t care, always keep in mind that the reality is often a lot more mundane than that.

The application that is “sneakily” listening to you and transmitting everything you say to their servers can be a legitimate product of a mustache twirling villain, but it’s a lot more likely (in my experience) that a group of 5 engineers and a PM were tasked by “Present relevant products from our company to the user” task and someone was like “what if we record what they are saying (or just zip-up their entire ~/Documents folder), run it through an LLM on our server and prompt it to analyze their convo or documents and recommend one of our products to sell to them? Sounds good to me, no?”
by anonymousiam | 2025-07-17 19:29:21+00:00
100%!

TLS is fragile, and working around it is often necessary. Certs can expire or be revoked (anywhere in the chain) and the renewal process can be bugged. The time on the client (required for confirmation of certificate validity window) could be wrong (either accidentally or deliberately).

Requiring TLS on an inter-LAN connection is mostly useless, and impossible if no Internet gateway is available.
by VerdisQuo5678 | 2025-07-17 19:29:23+00:00
>I haven't heard of this. Is Reddit enforcing ID verification

just double checked, thyre enforcing you to validate a date of birth with an external camera based system

>Generative AI is administering the fatal injection. This experiment has nearly reached its conclusion.

i was hoping to avoid draw a defitionist conclusion for this. it seems like thats whats the world is doing. theres literally no pushback to this IRL, most of the public seem to be in favor of these IDs system
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-07-17 19:29:52+00:00
You know, I can't see myself doing that with a movie. That would be the ultimate expression of the mindless action flick, and those have stopped appealing to me. I think about all the movies I've really enjoyed that had some friction in viewing - either because it was a genre I didn't normally like or I just didn't have any interest in viewing. All that would be gone.

But ooooh boy, would porn change. Maybe that would be the end of pornography, the perfect wish fulfillment making it no longer enjoyably.
by mrtesthah | 2025-07-17 19:30:10+00:00
The argument is that Intuit engages in corrupt practices to boost their profits at the expense of american taxpayers' time and money, by complicating tax code and limiting the development of government-funded solutions. Your comparison to other forms of lobbying doesn't change that, and neither does sowing doubt about the efficacy of said lobbying; these practices are unethical and wrong regardless of your ideologically-motivated justifications.
by taf2 | 2025-07-17 19:30:17+00:00
I think the question then is what's the human error rate... We know we're not perfect... So if you're 100% rested and only have to find the edge case bug, maybe you'll usually find it vs you're burned out getting it 98% of the way there and fail to see the 2% of the time bugs... Wording here is tricky to explain but I think what we'll find is this helps us get that much closer... Of course when you spend your time building out 98% of the thing you have sometimes a deeper understanding of it so finding the 2% edge case is easier/faster but only time will tell
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-17 19:30:47+00:00
That's because the stuff is wrapped in layers. Read the original quotes (I've translated in [1]), or run the German Wikipedia article through a translation engine [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44597171

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner#Umstrittene_...
by phtrivier | 2025-07-17 19:31:00+00:00
Is there a good primer on how this kind of offshoring works, for people ? I have notions of how tax evasion / optimization works (things like the irish-dutch sandwich, where you manage to pretend that Google does not make any money in France because it has to pay a very expensive license to Google Ireland , etc..)

But for offshoring, I'm clueless as to how manage to "reshore" the money, so to speak, so that you can eventually... Spend it to buy stuff. (Or isn't that the purpose of hiding the money ?)
by ddp26 | 2025-07-17 19:31:01+00:00
Predicted by the AI 2027 team in early April:

> Mid 2025: Stumbling Agents The world sees its first glimpse of AI agents.

Advertisements for computer-using agents emphasize the term “personal assistant”: you can prompt them with tasks like “order me a burrito on DoorDash” or “open my budget spreadsheet and sum this month’s expenses.” They will check in with you as needed: for example, to ask you to confirm purchases. Though more advanced than previous iterations like Operator, they struggle to get widespread usage.
by johnsmith1840 | 2025-07-17 19:31:05+00:00
I don't disagree but clearly not what the op was trying to say.

To your points.

Isreal just leveled iran without a single plane shot down, tech still dominates. The F35 is a terrifying weapon and Irans drone and missle attacks were ineffective. Ukraine shows us what two poor and land locked countries fight like.
by ffsm8 | 2025-07-17 19:31:57+00:00
I take it you don't use any phones, especially no apple products then, right? After all, apples gigantic sponsorship of the Chinese government is well covered at this point.

Clothing is also a no-no, right? After all, there is *literally no way to purchase clothing from any store that hasn't been produced - in part - by effective slave labor and Chinese machinery.

Really, consumer boycott of nations is infeasible in a global market. The only thing you're doing is virtue signalling.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-07-17 19:32:04+00:00
Charity is not a replacement for a functioning government. Assuming you're in the US, it's hard to argue that you're not paying far less than you should be, given how quickly we're running up the deficit.

I'm of the opinion that we should have a constitutional amendment which limits debt to gdp to 80%. If the CBO indicates we will breach that, congress has 8 years to get it back under control before the CBO has the authority to ban officials from public office if it's determined they voted in favor of the legislation responsible for the breach. No doubt there are problems around that. Someone smarter than me can fill in the holes.
by mmphosis | 2025-07-17 19:32:06+00:00
https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

Cost: $0

Currently, I treat all generated code as "sample code" which is not of much use and a waste of time but let's see what the future brings.

I use llama to generate "boilerplate" in simple non-coding sessions.

Although my writing skills aren't great, I find that starting with pre-written content makes it easier for me. Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct.Q6_K.llamafile
by SLWW | 2025-07-17 19:32:48+00:00
Been an Early Adopter, joined January of 2023 and I have never looked back or paused my monthly. I'm currently running with the Ultimate package which is good value for the $25/month price tag.

Beyond content to stay with Kagi, I hate shilling for products but this is one I would encourage anyone to try out. They have a free tier so you can feel it out for yourself, and even for $5/month you can still have a pretty good experience.

I use it for every search need, much like with Google back around 2012, as long as you know how to leverage the Search Engine you can almost find anything! Kagi is what Google should have been, sure it has some small short-comings but the overall experience is so good that it's easy to see past the silly things sometimes the SE pulls.
by patrickhogan1 | 2025-07-17 19:33:09+00:00
I completely agree, so many people miss out on great experiences simply because they’re afraid of looking dumb.

One big advantage many athletes had growing up was a parent who taught them a skill [basketball, soccer, biking] early, someone they felt safe failing in front of.

That’s one of the things I find so cool about learning with AI, you get to try, mess up, and improve without judgment.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-17 19:33:15+00:00
A lot of this is a result of how trade licensing works.

In most states it's not about whether you know how to do something -- you can't just take a licensing exam and get a license even if you know the material -- it's about having access to someone who already has a license to sign off on you. From which you get two consequences.

First, if you know someone who already has a license but doesn't know what they're doing or isn't a good teacher, they sign off on other people without actually teaching them how to do a good job, and then you get even more people with a license who don't really know how to do the job.

And second, because the existing license holder has to sign off on several years worth of hours for someone new to get a license, you deter people who would do a good job but -- because of that -- have more opportunities in other industries where you don't have to spend a large chunk of your adult life beholden to someone else because it's still prohibited by law for you to strike out on your own, in an industry that people would otherwise want to enter because they want to do exactly that. Which both lowers the average quality of the candidate pool and creates shortages by lowering the number of candidates.
by EA-3167 | 2025-07-17 19:33:21+00:00
He was on record advocating for dictatorship. I'm not saying that in a typically hyperbolic, social media sense either, he used the terminology himself. So yes, when a state news agency is announcing the death of someone who's major contributions have been some very impressive sporting achievements... and having political views that are fairly alarming coming from anyone, never mind an Austrian, it might come up. It wasn't a one-off either, he later pointed out Victor Orban as a model for how to handle government, immigration, etc.

If you want a eulogy I'd suggest seeking out the eulogy his family probably published, not a death announcement from DW.
by phtrivier | 2025-07-17 19:33:32+00:00
True, but they also tend to be papers that can't consistently rely on advertising, precisely because of their investigations (publishing the deeds of corporate billionaires is a great way to not get ads placed for whatever the billionaire sells.)

So, at least subscribe to one of the papers !

(I know, sorry HN, I asked people to pay for a service that could be financed by ads to gather more data - aka more food for the algo. Sorry.)
by slibhb | 2025-07-17 19:33:40+00:00
> That is not what I said (per my comment "Yes, sure, lifestyle has something to do with any or all of these.") But it seems likely we'll find that lifestyle and diet are not the only cause, maybe not even the primary one.

What would it even mean for lifestyle choices to directly cause some condition?

Attributing causation is largely subjective (up to a point). It's like saying "flipping the light switch didn't turn off the lights, rather it was the cessation of the flow of electrons".

> So... cardiovascular problems can be "prevented" with those simple measures? It seems likely there are some non-smoking marathoner vegans that have died of heart attacks. But maybe he was mis-translated.

Eating right, not getting fat, and exercising dramatically lowers the risk of heart disease. Some people who do all that will still get heart disease due to some congenital condition. But the vast majority of heart disease can be avoided.
Show HN: Portfolio Site with AI Agent and Notion‑CMS Pushed as GitHub Snapshots
by aditbala | 2025-07-17 19:33:44+00:00
Hey HN,

I recently finished a new portfolio website!

Frontend

• Terminal-style UI, built to run local-first (except for the AI query) • All content served from an in-browser SQLite database

Backend

• Twice-daily sync with my Notion workspace via GitHub Actions • Automatically updates RAG embeddings for AI queries • Dumps a snapshot of the Notion DB into SQLite for the frontend

I designed the backend as a standalone “knowledge-base” engine so future site iterations can focus purely on the UI. It may not be the most optimized architecture, but it handles sync, embedding, and snapshot storage—all in one place. I hope others might also find this useful, or make something even cooler with it!

Also, very open to any feedback as well!

Frontend repo: https://github.com/adit-bala/portfolio

Backend repo: https://github.com/adit-bala/knowledge-base
by kotaKat | 2025-07-17 19:33:54+00:00
I'm one of the genuinely very happy and very grateful users of IRS Free File, and I'm genuinely pained to know I'm going to be fucked moving forward trying to file my taxes because of these moves -- and for what, for me to have to go through more hoops and make sure some dickhead at Intuit can buy another yacht?

*(I know about the efforts to maintain Free File externally, but the question then becomes for people in states that need to file onwards, will they be able to continue onwards with their state in a similar way? I'm in NY, so this is a big one for me.)
by boating32 | 2025-07-17 19:34:28+00:00
Seems strange to include this quote: “To increase [generation] by 40 gigawatts is to almost triple our entire grid for one industry … and to do that for one industry is absolutely unprecedented”

The grid doesn’t follow state lines… and PJM is already supporting nearly 160GW peak load (https://www.gridstatus.io/live/pjm). There’s no reason to examine Virginia in isolation.

And “one industry”, as if we should peanut-butter-spread generation to every industry? Obviously some industries need more electricity than others.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-07-17 19:34:34+00:00
> Most Europeans are allergic to anything that even smells like a commercial promise of a better tomorrow. "Hype" is universally used as a term to ridicule anyone who dares to be excited about something new, something different. Only a fool would believe that real progress is possible!

I think this article has the right tack: Anti-hype hate is almost as infuriating as the hype. And some amount of hype needs to exist for new things to breathe. Right wingers in the US used to say: let Europe decay gracefully, with its cynical, jaundiced view of everything American, the US has more in common with East Asia, and in some important cultural respects, like this examination of "hype", that is dead right.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-07-17 19:34:39+00:00
I'm a gamer, and for Intel to make a comeback for me, they need something that competes with AMD's X3D chips, which absolutely dominate all the gaming benchmarks.

The Core Ultra CPUs are an absolute joke for gaming, often being beaten even by the 14th gen CPUs. The Core Ultras had a major performance regression in L3 cache speed which destroyed gaming performance.

Games love large cache sizes. The Ryzen 9700X has the same number of cores, but a slower clock than a 9800X3D, yet the 9800X3D comes out on top purely because it has 96 MB of L3 cache compared to 32 MB. If Intel would have put out an i9-14900K with 96 MB of L3 cache, it'd probably come out on top.