MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by viccis | 2025-07-29 06:59:36+00:00
>It seems weird that a military that had 3D mapping and monitoring of a region allowing it to detect and target concealed Hezbollah artillery in buildings somehow was caught flat footed. It’s weirder that there hasn’t been any commentary about this in an age where every decision made is analyzed to death.

Yeah. "Weird." Kinda like how it was weird that a music festival was moved to be next to a military base that was the target of an operation that one of the greatest signals intelligence powers in the world "didn't know about" over a couple of years of planning.

Weird that the IDF moved into the crowd instead of evacuating the festival. Weird that there were photos of massive numbers of bombed out cars that were disposed of before any forensics could happen. Kinda weird that IDF copters and tanks opened fire indiscriminately (or, sometimes, targeting Israelis due to Hannibal doctrine).

Really "weird" operation all around. Seems like it really didn't have to happen the way it did.
by tome | 2025-07-29 07:00:07+00:00
> > these kinds of threads almost never feel to me like the juice is worth the squeeze

> I agree. The trouble is that not discussing it at all is not a solution either.

Not discussing it at all is certainly a solution. There are plenty of other fora where these issues can be discussed (Reddit and Twitter, off the top of my head). HN does not have to also take up that mantle.

> > Too many good-faith comments that don't go with the thread mainstream get flagged and dead

> I don't think there's a "thread mainstream" here. I think the community is deeply divided.

It's quite obvious that there's a thread mainstream. One perspective absolutely dominates the top level posts and replies. Top level posts with a different point of view have been flag killed very thoroughly. I would make a contrarian post (the type that HN normally loves) to try share my knowledge of the situation (which I bet is significantly deeper than 99% of the commenters here) but it's not worth it when I expect it to get instantly flag killed.

> If you (or anyone) see good-faith comments getting mistreated in this way, we'd appreciate links so we can take a look. Sometimes we restore those comments, other times we find that the comment broke the site guidelines and thus should stay flagged. But we always look, and usually also have enough time to reply.

But the discussion will have moved on by then. There are simply not enough moderator resources to moderate a discussion on this topic. That's not your fault, that's just the way it is, but it does lead to HN becoming a worse place.
by exe34 | 2025-07-29 07:00:21+00:00
it's a shit argument. Fundamental research funded by the government led to the Googles and OpenAIs of today. If industry funds research, the profits stay in the hands of the same people. When government funds research, new billionaires are minted down the line. if you like billionaires (I don't), you'd fund government research, not hope that the existing billionaires think it's in their interest. We wouldn't know about CFCs and the ozone if CFCs companies funded the research - we'd be burned to a crisp.
by larodi | 2025-07-29 07:00:33+00:00
It is RAG for your codebase, and provides code completion. The gain is the local inference, and is actually useful with smaller models.

The plugin itself provides chat also, but my gut feeling is that ggerganov runs several models at the some time, given he uses a 192gb machine.

Have not tried this scenario yet, but looking at my API bill I’m probably going to try 100% local dev at some point. Besides vibe coding with existing tools seems to not work that good for enterprise size codebases.
by jibal | 2025-07-29 07:01:42+00:00
Another bit of "just so happened" involvement in computing history: I was on X3J11, the C language standards committee (one of the very few members there on my own dime after someone on ByteCom challenged me to put up or shut up after complaining about some of the committee's decisions) and, due to alphabetical order, I was the first person to vote to standardize the language. IIRC, it passed unanimously except for an abstention from Doug Gwyn (famous for saying “Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things”).
by snthpy | 2025-07-29 07:02:03+00:00
What about food security and the price of food? I recall seeing that's generally the ultimate catalyst for revolutions, cf French cake and the price of tea for wannabe ex-Brits ;-p

I believe this also featured in the Arab spring. When asking Zimbabwean colleagues 15 years ago why people hadn't risen against Mugabe yet, they told me that while people still had food they would bear the yoke.
Show HN: Walk-through of rocket landing optimization paper [pdf]
by scpowers | 2025-07-29 07:02:37+00:00
Hey all! Long time lurker, first time poster.

I found this rocket landing trajectory optimization paper cool, but it took me a while to wrap my head around it and implement it. I wrote up an expanded version of the paper including details that would have helped me understand it the first time through, with the idea being that it might make the content more approachable for others with similar interests. The source code is also linked in the document.

I'm open to feedback, I'm always trying to get better across the board.
by avh02 | 2025-07-29 07:03:28+00:00
wow, a lot to unpack here.

First, i'll start by saying hamas was obviously not justified in what they did. then begin on your points:

1) re: urban combat and designations + leaflets: basically all of gaza has been designated a combat zone almost constantly - much like the hokey pokey, bits are put in and out on a whim. Much of the population have been displaced multiple times.

compare this to the speedy campaign waged against hezbollah or iran, where there was precision intelligence to bomb things out with minimal (not zero) civilian casualties. israel is capable of being precise.

2) roof knock bombs: omg - there are no roofs left to knock on (look at photos of gaza, seriously.), and even if there were, i think this "generosity" went out the window a few wars ago. tents don't have roofs to knock on. - don't pretend israel has been kind by "knocking" on the roof of people waiting in line to get water.

3) largest casualty of jews since the holocaust: I agree this is terrible, but is an arbitrary measurement. nobody seems to bat an eye that israel has 50x'd that terrible number, nor that they're inflicting very similar suffering to what the jews suffered in the holocaust (hunger and relocation at the very least being undeniable within gaza, intention to relocate the populace being disgustingly touted by certain groups).
by b0wen | 2025-07-29 07:03:55+00:00
While I agree that HUD offers clear benefits right now, I tend to think of copilots as a transitional step. In the long run, the real potential of AI agents might lie in shifting from copilots to full pilots — systems that don’t just assist, but make autonomous decisions when appropriate. At that time, having a job done is just as easy as buying a flight ticket.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-07-29 07:04:01+00:00
>broadest shoulders shoulder most

Part of the reason the US has a higher GDP is because we work longer hours and take less vacation. "You work harder, therefore you should shoulder more" hardly seems fair.

Europe makes fun of us for our defense spending yet demands protection, makes fun of us for working long hours yet says we should shoulder more, makes fun of us for overspending on health care yet charges us 10X as much for the drugs they manufacture: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/heres-how-much-more-o...

I just can't shake the feeling that Europeans see Americans as suckers.
by misja111 | 2025-07-29 07:04:13+00:00
Ok I'm by no means a fan of what the Israeli government is doing in Gaza, but I'll play the Devil's advocate here.

- those missiles targeting those Iranian scientists caused more casualties than just the scientists

- those 60,000 Palestinians were not all innocent. Sure, most were, but a substantial percentage of them were Hamas fighters

Again, I don't agree with Israel's approach and in particular not the targeted starvation of the Gaza population, but it's good to keep all facts straight.
by LoveMortuus | 2025-07-29 07:04:30+00:00
I've only had bad experiences with Parker pens and refills, they just don't flow and fill the line as nicely and constantly as Pilot Hi-Tec and other Pilot pens.

I paid more than 20€ for a Parker pen with refills and it was worse than a 3€ Pilot V5 Hi-Tecpoint (which is my current favourite, I have it in black, red, green, blue and pink colours).
by intermerda | 2025-07-29 07:04:38+00:00
> it’s funny because while I probably agree with you,

What do you agree with?

> FWIW, I think it is intellectually immature to talk about politicians like you know them. What else does Donald perceive? What was he like when you spent time with him?

I think it's intellectually dishonest to pretend that OP was talking about anything other than the Nature Magazine. And to know what Donald perceives, you could ask Jeffery Epstein. Oh wait.. you can't.
by ismail | 2025-07-29 07:04:59+00:00
Think about it from a logical perspective.

Apartheid South Africa’s real enemy—the ANC, the liberation movements, the “terrorists”—wouldn’t stop and wouldn’t surrender until white minority rule and its entire system didn’t exist. They had taken the innocent Black civilians of South Africa hostage. They were also so ingrained into the townships that resources were literally siphoned from humanitarian sites like churches and schools into hidden safehouses and underground networks; as just one example of reporting that many at the time were inclined to believe was credible, even with the mutual atrocities both sides were carrying out.

What would “winning” look like from a moral and ethical standpoint? Liberating the people of that region from the violence and suffering. Returning them to a “functioning society” with social and civic infrastructure. Fully denying major resistance and insurgency in the region for lifetimes—to the point that the hate and anger finally cooled off enough for people to “move on.”

Winning would require a multi-generational investment in humanity by humanity. It would require the buy-in of the people on the ground. It would require a United Nations coalition and boots on the ground from “responsible” countries who wanted to raise everyone above the hate. And of course, South Africa would need to be an absolute DMZ for that entire time—no armed liberation movements allowed, only peacekeeping forces sanctioned by the “international community.”

Getting from here to there? Even less popular than the hugely unpopular interventions elsewhere in the world. Don’t ask me how anyone could do it—those skilled in the art of diplomacy had tried for longer than my lifetime and probably longer than yours, and NOTHING had stuck. ———

wait; that’s not what it took.

It took the abolishment of apartheid; colonisation and oppression, peace was achieved. Your framing is flawed , it is framed as equal sides. Not the reality a colonial apartheid state.
by rixed | 2025-07-29 07:05:09+00:00
Evidence for "the vast majority of people across the world ...etc":

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/03/most-peop...

Notice that the question asked by this poll was a bit stronger than my claim (I believe one is more likelly to be in favor of the end of bombing than against Israel because advocating for peace is less damaging for one's reputation than voicing a more political stance, whatever that is).
by pivic | 2025-07-29 07:05:40+00:00
The next step could be Montblanc ballpoint pens, but that's a very different level where it comes to money; the writing experience is far beyond that of most ballpoint pens at a sub-100-USD range.

Then there's fountain pens, which is a whole new ballpark... If that interests yourself, I recommend these brands: Platinum, LAMY, Pelikan, Sailor, Montblanc, Pilot, and Nakaya, in no particular order.
by licebmi__at__ | 2025-07-29 07:06:53+00:00
>That logic cuts both ways.

What both ways are you talking about? GP is arguing on behalf of those who were called antisemites because they stated “international community should rein in Israel to prevent them to commit atrocities because of rage”, and your response seems to be “well atrocities were given because Hamas”.

This is exactly why this “mea culpa” rings hollow. People who apparently condemn the reaction will tumble on their own arguments to excuse the same actions.
by maxbond | 2025-07-29 07:07:44+00:00
The error message is a fair point, I do still think that making caching the default is premature.

I would definitely recommend writing a Compose file that applies your migrations to a fresh RDBMS and allows you to connect from the host device, regardless of what libraries you're using. Applying your migrations will vary by what tools you use, but the port forwarding is 2 simple lines. (Note that SQLx has a migration facility, but it's quite bare bones.)
by carleverett | 2025-07-29 07:08:29+00:00
But stablecoins are backed by real dollars.

People hold dollar-backed stablecoins because they believe the US dollar to be the most durable unit of account on the planet.

All the proof you really need for that is that most crypto users outside the US still consider the value of their crypto tokens in terms of how many US dollars it’s worth.

The author of this article talks about this being a “parasite” to the US monetary system, but it’s hard to think of a better thing that could’ve happened for the US. Not only has it reinforced that dominance… it’s also driven hundreds of billions of dollars of US treasury bills purchases from providers like Tether and USDC.

https://tether.to/en/transparency/?tab=reports
by forty | 2025-07-29 07:09:36+00:00
I assume they have an opinion on the topic, but it doesn't mean they are right (or wrong).

Think of driving a car. If the shortest path (in term to time of travel) is through traffic jam, and there is a longer path where you can drive must faster, it's very likely that most people will have the feeling to be more efficient with the longer path.

Also the slow down of using LLM might be more subtle and harder to measure. They might happen at code review time, handling more bugs and incident, harder maintainance, recovering your deleted DB ;)...
by thephyber | 2025-07-29 07:09:41+00:00
(1) I use Claude Code as a solo iOS developer and don’t hit the 5 hour limits much. I suspect the users hitting it more often are throwing way more tokens from much larger code repos and are probably asking for larger incremental changes.

(2) I interpret this change as targeting people who are abusing the single Pro account, but using it more like a multi-developer business would maximizing the number of tokens (multiple sessions running 24/7 always hitting the limits). Anthropic has a business interest in pushing those users to use the API (paying per token) or upgrade to the $200/mo subscription.

(3) While I fear they might regularly continue to push the top x% usage tier users into the higher subscription rate, I also realize this is the first adjustment for token rates of Claude Pro since Claude Code became available on that subscription.

(4) If you don’t want to wait for the next unthrottling, you can always switch to the API usage and pay per token until you are unblocked.
by lmm | 2025-07-29 07:10:09+00:00
> None of this is because of regulation.

Disagree. Zoning law and regulation-driven credentialism are the closest thing to a root cause you can find for most of the problems with modern society; sure you can say "greed" but that's a permanent part of human nature, and most societies find a way to live with it. Today's world where for a family to succeed both parents have to be putting 40+ hours into bullshit fake work in a circular economy of bullshit fake solutions to bullshit fake problems so that they can afford to get their kids the right bullshit fake qualifications is a distinctly regulation-based phenomenon.

> These uncountable scams are all because of unregulated greed and profit.

Sure. But are they actually any worse than the regulated scams? Often the licensed and regulated stuff hurts the end victim more than the direct scams.
by ykonstant | 2025-07-29 07:10:09+00:00
Parker refills are a nightmare. I have tested both the Indian brand and the French brand of QuinkFlow several times, and they are all horrible. Atrocious. I got some Monteverde, Pelikan and Schneier refills and they work well.

If you can get a compatible Monteverde, it is great. Schneier is also very nice, but hybrid. Pelikan has the pelikan blue style, you either love it or hate it. QuinkFlow... ok, whoever says they are fine, send me that legendary "fine" refill I keep hearing about.
by dmantis | 2025-07-29 07:10:56+00:00
This is a very American-centric post.

E.g."Stablecoins won’t bank the unbanked, because people get stablecoins by purchasing them on a crypto exchange, and no crypto exchange will open an account for a customer unless they have a bank account."

Well, I understand that US has dystopia level of financial surveillance, but in many places in the world you can change cash in person to crypto without many issues. And you don't need to use any major exchange for that, that defeats the whole point.

And yes, Russians, Iranians, Palestinians are known to use crypto, for example. And the majority of them don't have US bank accounts.

One of the core features of crypto that it's not an American (or anyone else) thing, like paypal, stripe, or any other system and American laws can be easily ignored if both parties are outside of the US. That's already a very liberating feature for at least a billion of people of nations hostile to the US and potentially to 8+ billions of people more.
by misja111 | 2025-07-29 07:11:19+00:00
There's an offer from Hamas on the table for a total ceasefire and release of all hostages. The solution is to accept it. If at any point Hamas will break the agreement, Israel is free to attack again.

Some people seem to believe that eliminating the entire Gaza population is the solution. Either by deportation, or simply by killing all of them. There is a German word for such a solution, 'Endlösung'. We don't want that again.
by actionfromafar | 2025-07-29 07:11:59+00:00
Are you kidding me? I also have a video of a cat windsurfing, I'm sure it's in Gaza. The airdrops are totally ineffective as a method of distributing aid, but apparently pretty effective as whitewashing propaganda.

Any sliver of relief allowed by the IDF is under growing international pressure. Gaza is becoming a death camp, no need to send anyone elsewhere.
by onion2k | 2025-07-29 07:12:18+00:00
Truchet tiling is a staple of the shader community - https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=Truchet

A particularly nice example - https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4td3zj

And a nice '3D' one - https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4lSBzm
by kkfx | 2025-07-29 07:12:22+00:00
Like GNU Taler, who born out of eCash, born out of an idea of David Chaum in 1982 (see https://youtu.be/DDsQCcuST6c for a nice introduction) there was

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondex (Mastercard)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Cash

And there is ongoing from the BIS https://www.bis.org/about/bisih/topics/cbdc/tourbillon.htm beside that there are many CBDC projects designed for inter-banks usages or some for wide public usage.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-07-29 07:12:33+00:00
It's a straightforward conclusion from research on the dynamics of grievance-fueled violence. Basically, unlike Nazi Germany, the strength of Hamas is proportional to how many aggrieved civilians there are. Every airstrike that kills one fighter creates two more down the road, out of the aggrieved survivors. I'm pretty sure Hamas understood this and launched the Oct 7th attack with the goal of provoking the harshest possible reaction, and Israel played right into their hands.

Their strength in armaments almost doesn't matter; even if every tunnel is collapsed and every rocket launch site obliterated, even if a ceasefire is reached and the hostages returned, even if Hamas leadership capitulates, you still end up with two million angry people swearing revenge for the injustices they've suffered.

There are two stable equilibria that this can settle into: no grievances, or no surviving civilians. I think the former is the only hope although Israel is making all the wrong moves. I am sure there are right-wing hardliners who would push for the ethnic cleansing route, but most Israelis are peace-minded moderates who would never forgive that option, and so I really think that result would eventually collapse the state of Israel from the inside out, doing more damage than any Hamas rockets ever could.
by parasti | 2025-07-29 07:13:10+00:00
As a parent of a toddler, could not disagree more.

This article can be read two different ways.

A parent making an app for their own children is wholesome and making a list of UX finds is helpful to other parents in that position.

At the same time app stores are filled with games that hook kids on with bright visuals, sound effects, and basic button mashing.

That second use case is vastly more common.
by Nursie | 2025-07-29 07:13:24+00:00
> They promised 2 things that are guaranteed to increase immigration

> A points-based system, you can find articles talking about how this increases immigration

Firstly, I don't think they actually introduced one of those, did they? And secondly, how is that guaranteed to increase immigration?

The UK media and some of politicians at the time were all talking about an Australian-style points system. As someone pretty intimately acquainted with the Australian system, people (including ex-PM Teresa May) didn't seem to understand that under the Australian system -

- The government sets a minimum number of points under which you won't even be considered.

- The government set a maximum number of visas they will grant under the scheme each year

- The people with the best points are invited to apply for those visas

So with this setup the 'paper' minimum might be 65 points, but the effective threshhold is often 95 points to actually be invited to apply.

Yet in the UK the picture was painted as if you set a points threshhold and that's it, anyone with more than that gets a visa and you can't possibly control the numbers. It seemed like a total misunderstanding of the scheme.

They also said things like "And Australia has proportionally even higher migration than the UK under that scheme!", which is true, but again that's because the government has decided to set the amounts of visas at that level and sets them higher or lower, or adjusts which skills get more points, according to perceived need for skilled people. Aus has higher migration under their points scheme as a choice. The UK could have chosen to limit skilled visas under a similar program to a much lower level.

As far as I could tell, all of the articles and talking points at the time entirely ignored this.
by sudopluto | 2025-07-29 07:13:47+00:00
wait wait waittttttt

from your analogue, you are mixing things up.

- ANC = palestinian nationalists

- south african majority = palestinians

- afrikaners = ottoman / british

- other minorities, ex: indians = zionists

south africa is not a good analogue since it's fate is different from that of palestine, and you are making this obtuse analogue to stir up feelings of decolonisation as a sort of nationalism

www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/notes-on-nationalism/
by digital_voodoo | 2025-07-29 07:14:29+00:00
It's high fees, burdensome sanctions/AML checks (especially if the said country has been recently or is still on a GAFI list), plus the suboptimization of the core banking systems regarding international transfers, that make the whole things happen in weeks (or sometimes never happen if the end beneficiary doesn't start pinging, emailing or phoning its bank every now and then). The whole unreliability/unpredictability of the thing makes it undesirable for regular operations.