MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tsimionescu | 2025-07-06 11:40:57+00:00
The MI5, like every other secret service, wants their members to feel part of a brotherhood and to never ever divulge any secret to anyone outside the group. They also want their agents to be utterly loyal to their superiors, and to trust them that any despicable thing they may be asked to do is done in service of some greater good, or that at least it serves their own interests.

All of these things together make it so that the immediate reaction to any apparent wrongdoing is to close ranks, tell nothing to outsiders like the police or prosecutors until some boss decides otherwise. And that boss will of course weigh any such decision against the risk that any minute secret might be revealed in an investigation, that any agent might lose a tiny bit of confidence, etc - and likely will brush it off and apply some paltry administrative penalty then move on.
by satyrun | 2025-07-06 11:40:57+00:00
It is really even more than that because of the depth of the US bond market.

Nation states need to be able to make huge transactions without any one else holding the currency feeling it. That is what makes the reserve currency the reserve currency.

That can't be done without a massively liquid bond market and no one else is even close to the US.

Then the network of military bases and military power is just another layer on top of the US bond market.

Then on top of that the top competitor has capital controls.
by mtlynch | 2025-07-06 11:41:11+00:00
Cool project!

I've been an indie founder since 2018, and I'm interested in better communities to connect with other founders.

You're saying that there are no projects like this because there are actually a lot of projects like this. The problem I see with them is that the communities that are beginner-friendly tend to attract the most desperate and clueless founders, so it ends up being a community where people don't want to help each other so much as just get one more backlink and have a few more people look at their website.

The communities I've seen that are successful are highly curated and small.

What does this site do to encourage people to contribute rather than to just leech from the community?

Just from browsing the site a bit, I couldn't figure out how it works. If I click a project, it leads me to an empty profile saying "I just want to lurk." I had to click a few profiles before realizing that was my profile auto-generated. Also, saying "I just want to lurk" implies that I can lurk, when it seems like I'm actually not allowed to lurk and have to sign up for an account to see anything.

So, I think I'm the target market for this product, but the blocker for me is that I don't see how it would provide value for me. It would be nice to connect with other founders who are similar to me, but I'm not that interersted in connecting with a bunch of people who have no idea what they're doing and just want attention on their own projects. Nothing in the pre-sign up pages convinces me that there would be value for me.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-06 11:42:29+00:00
While this makes several cars a terrible choice for rentals, I do wish car owners would take maybe half an hour of their day after spending a couple thousand to read through the manual that came with their car. The manual doesn't just tell you how to change the radio station, it also contains a lot of safety information and instructions for how to act when something goes wrong.

How can I trust a driver to take things like safe maximum load into account when they don't even know they can open their car if their battery ever goes flat?
by lproven | 2025-07-06 11:42:30+00:00
Not tried 6, but I tried every free Amiga emulator I could find researching this article:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/amigaos_3_2_3/

I use Mac emulators, DOS emulators, ZX Spectrum emulators, etc. This is normally easy. A sensible modern emulator is a bit like a modern VM: it takes a guess at how many resources your host can give, takes big gulps of RAM and disk that won't hurt, sets sensible defaults and asks "where's the media to load from?" and you're in business.

Amiga emulators by comparison:

Ah hello! Would you like to try an Amiga app? Certainly sir. White, red, rosé, sparkling, or dessert? Which decade? North, south, east, or west facing slope or level? Dry season, or moist, or varied? Would sir prefer very small, small, medium, large, half bottle, or a full bottle? What colour would sir like the glass of the bottle? What material for the label? What type of closure? What material of the cork? What shape of drinking glass would sir like? Round or tall or thin or wide, long stem or short stem?

And until you answer them _all_, with suitable answers that match the other answers, and no hints are given, then nothing happens. 10 minutes of going through 50 successive dialog boxes, and then it says it can't save.

It was _horrific_.

I know the Amiga was a complex machine. I know it spanned from a slowish 68000 to fast 68060s. I know it could take from 256kB of ROM to 4GB or something.

But don't ask me. Set some defaults, aim high and then look at the media and what's on it and adjust down if it is some weird game that won't start if it sees more than 0.5MB RAM.

Utter disaster area, IMHO.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-07-06 11:42:42+00:00
The assumed yield varies by asset. For capital gains from investments it is >6% (roughly the expected return on the stock markets for the last century), for cash it is <1% (real returns used to be a bit higher but currently are extremely low, effectively overtaxing by a lot). But as already said above they are currently changing the law to use the actual yield instead, so the top level comment advice doesn't really matter anymore.
by klabb3 | 2025-07-06 11:42:57+00:00
> if you stop trying to build a compromise of a UI for both, touch screens and desktops

Agree many of the problems have to do with this, yet it’s barely mentioned by armchair designers. Temporally hidden and narrow scrollbars? Makes perfect sense for scrolling on touch screen (since you don’t touch them directly), but very annoying on desktop.

Back in the pre-touch days we’d have a lot of hover menus. But with a phone today? Nobody likes the hamburger/three dots, but there isn’t a better alternative without losing context. And nobody uses hover anymore for functional purposes.

But, I also don’t think building entirely separate apps and especially web sites for different form factors is desirable. We probably should be better at responsive design, and develop better tooling and guidelines.
by gjm11 | 2025-07-06 11:43:21+00:00
FWIW, when I put <<linux create file image encrypted file system>> into Google (this was the first thing I tried, though without knowledge that it might be a tricky case I might have been less careful picking keywords) I get what look like plausible results.

At the top there's a "featured snippet" from opensource.com, allegedly from 2021, that begins with: create an empty file (this turns out to mean a file of given size with no useful data in it, not a size-0 file), then make a LUKS volume using cryptsetup, etc.

First actual search result is a question on Ask Ubuntu (the Stack Exchange site dedicated to Ubuntu) headed "How do I create an encrypted filesystem inside a file?" which unless I'm confused is at least the correct question. Top answer there (from 2017) looks plausible and seems to be describing the same steps as the "featured snippet". A couple of other links to Ask Ubuntu are given below that one but they seem worse.

Next search result is a Reddit thread that describes how to do something different but possibly still of interest to someone who wants to do the thing you describe.

Next search result is a question on unix.stackexchange.com that turns out to be about something different; under it are other results from the same site, the first of which has a cryptsetup-based recipe that seems similar to the other plausible ones mentioned above.

Further search results continue to have a good density of plausible-looking answers to essentially the intended question.

This all seems fairly satisfactory assuming the specific answers don't turn out to be garbage, which doesn't look very likely; it seems like Google has done a decent job here. It doesn't specifically turn up the LUKS manual, but then that wasn't the question you actually asked.

Having done that search to find that the relevant command seems to be cryptsetup and the underlying facility is called LUKS, searches for <<cryptsetup manual>> and <<luks documentation>> (again, the first search terms that came to mind) look to me like they find the right things.

(Google isn't my first-choice search engine at present; DuckDuckGo provides similar results in all these cases.)

I am not taking any sides on the broader question of whether in general Google can give good search results if one picks the right words for it, but in this particular case it seems OK.
by kasey_junk | 2025-07-06 11:44:00+00:00
I use Claude at least weekly to help write documents for me. And I’m a good writer, who spent a lot of time and energy getting that way. I have a friend who is a terrible writer who I do proofreading for. He uses chatgpt and it’s made a world of difference for him in getting things accomplished and communicating what he wants.

I think there are lots of valid arguments against llm usage, but it’s extremely tiring to here how it’s not useful when I get so much use out of it.
by kemotep | 2025-07-06 11:44:09+00:00
Would you like your Facebook feed or Twitter or even Hacker News feed inserted in between your work emails or while you are shopping for clothes on a completely different website?

If you answer no, does that make you an unwilling user of social media? It’s the most visited sites in the world after all, how could randomly injecting it into your GPS navigation system be a poor fit?
by gavinray | 2025-07-06 11:44:28+00:00
I mean, what if it is?

The thought of being to upload a single static image of some scene with a humanoid-like entity in it and then being able to infinitely walk around a procedurally generated world with the same theme is insanely cool.

Still glad I stumbled upon seeing this, regardless of whether it's a marketing tactic. The future is amazing.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-06 11:44:48+00:00
Listing key management as the thing that makes distributed protocols hard seems like an error. If your stuff is in the cloud, what are you using to access it? Some kind of password, TOTP, etc., which is maybe tied to your email, which itself is tied to some password, TOTP, etc. So what happens if you lose access to your email or whatever they're using for password recovery? You lose all your stuff.

But it's even worse in that case, because that can also happen if they mess something up. Your email account got banned by some capricious bot, or the provider abruptly decided to stop providing the service, and then the service tied to it decided to send you a verification code to the email you don't have access to anymore -- even though you didn't forget your password for either of them. So now you have even more ways to lose all your stuff.

Meanwhile if you were willing to trust some email provider to not screw you and you only needed some way to recover your keys if your computer falls into the sea, you could just email a copy of them to yourself. And then you wouldn't be relying on that provider to have the only means of recovery, because they're still on your device too.
by lmm | 2025-07-06 11:45:15+00:00
Social cohesion. People are happy to rip off an outsider, a stranger, a schmuck. But people within a high-trust social group generally don't rip each other off - you still need to be on the look out for fraudsters, but you won't be doing it systematically and virtually openly.

It's not a coincidence that all this has happened as the US' national identity has gotten weaker and weaker. They're shifting from a cohesive nation to one of those "it's a single block on the map but it's actually 200 tribes who all hate each other" countries, and people's values and behaviour are shifting to match.
by lproven | 2025-07-06 11:45:22+00:00
> What exactly does bitcoin offer the world today?

An unrivalled opportunity to fleece the gullible, and for criminals to move assets around without law enforcement supervision.

That's about it. The three categories of users are hopeful fools, criminals, and scammers.

Of course, membership of any one group does not preclude membership of the others, and some are all 3.
by taneq | 2025-07-06 11:45:28+00:00
The thing is, though, that time wasn’t wasted. It was spent fully understanding what they were actually trying to say, the context, the connotations of various different phrasings etc. It was spent mapping the territory. Throwing your initial, unexamined description into a prompt might generate something that looks enough like the email they’d have written, but it’s not been thought through. If the 10 minutes’ thought spent on the prompt was sufficient, the final email wouldn’t be taking days to do by hand.
by GHanku | 2025-07-06 11:45:34+00:00
For anyone not familiar with the British State, it, along with its lieutenants such as the bbc, continually check the temperature of the nation. As it’s important that the docile middle classes who rarely interact with the justice system or question the media, remain naive. Along with those sold on the British Image around the world.

These legal cases are just theatre with professional actors.

‘Justice being seen to be done’

Trust in the bbc has been nosediving, and up pops this case of the BBC holding the state to account… and the judges giving appearance of impartiality…
by Havoc | 2025-07-06 11:45:40+00:00
Sure seems like big tech is on the cusp of killing the open internet by pulling the rug out from underneath bloggers etc.

And the antagonistic algo everywhere world is starting to suck. And google removing their "don't be evil" sure seemed very self-aware.

...but not sure about the whole "needs WW3 to reset" angle...seems a bit much
by layer8 | 2025-07-06 11:46:22+00:00
This argument never made much sense to me, although I do subscribe to Fitts' Law. With desktop monitor sizes since 20+ years ago, the distance you have to travel, together with the visual disconnect between application and the menu bar, negates the easier targetability. And with smaller screen sizes, you would generally maximize the application window anyway, resulting in the same targetability.

The actual historical rationale for the top menu bar was different, as explained by Bill Atkinson in this video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44338182. The problem was that due to the small screen size, non-maximized windows often weren't wide enough to show all menus, and there often wasn't enough space vertically below the window's menu bar to show all menu items. That's why they moved the menus to the top of the screen, so that there always was enough space, and despite the drawback, as Atkinson notes, of having to move the mouse all the way to the top. This drawback was significant enough that it made them implement mouse pointer acceleration to compensate.

So targetability wasn't the motivation at all, that is a retconned explanation. And the actual motivation doesn't apply anymore on today's large and high-resolution screens.
by flowerthoughts | 2025-07-06 11:46:27+00:00
As someone who moved from Sweden to Switzerland, I think I'll want to stay here. Sweden is going downhill fast. Most of the issues seem to stem from dogmatic political decisions.

The problem is most Swedes are unaffected by these changes, so they happen. The slowly boiled frog. And when the boundaries of what is and what is not allowed suddenly start having an impact on the people, they are so tight that it's too late (the law enforcement can only apply so much common sense), creating either revolt or civil war. I just hope it won't happen in my lifetime. (Yes, I buy into The Fourth Turning and Ray Dalio's philosophies to a large extent, the problem is it's not easy to forecast what tips the scale.)

Democracy in Sweden is broken. Lobbyists are running the country.
I tried an AI Travel Agent and it planned my entire trip in minutes
by ned7 | 2025-07-06 11:47:46+00:00
I recently discovered Navoy, an AI travel planning tool and used it for my upcoming vacation. It was incredible how fast it created a personalized itinerary just from my destination, dates, and interests. In minutes, I had a complete plan with flights, hotels, and activities. The ability to tweak the itinerary and export it as a PDF is also super handy. I know this kind of idea is everywhere after LLMs took over and I tried a few of them, however I found this one a bit more crafted and useful.

Here's the URL: https://navoy.io/

Has anyone else tried similar AI travel planners? I'd love to hear about your experiences and how it compares to traditional planning methods.
by more_corn | 2025-07-06 11:48:05+00:00
To that end I suspect that tracking starlink used in an unmanned narco sub would be trivial for an insider at the company. My first thought was “I wonder if the movement and activity pattern would be unique. Yes probably. If unique could a script be run to pinpoint them? Yes probably.” If law enforcement has tasked someone with doing this (likely and legal) there’s high likelihood that any future narcosub using starlink will be intercepted. So to anyone on either side of this arms race: “you’re welcome”
by synecdoche | 2025-07-06 11:48:32+00:00
> This is not the same as cleaning latrines or collecting garbage

> Although as I'm thinking about it, there are other jobs which have a similar soul-toxicity as sex work

It’s not as clear cut as one might think.

What makes sex work different and why? Garbage collection, and many other jobs, expose people to disease or hazards. What makes sex work special?
by anenefan | 2025-07-06 11:48:56+00:00
I'm sure some make-a-buck-quick types will try and convince prospective markets that A.I. is the latest unicorn poop and they've got all their answers ... despite the same fundamental issues going on presently. Will A.I. get any more info out of banner type sites than regular searches - no. Will A.I. be able to draw instead on reviews from review sites ... people generally do not review things they bought retail from a bricks and mortar store and most online sites the reviews are gamed a bit, so one might have rocks in their head to trust that sort of information, A.I. though doesn't care.

A.I. will eventually start to make inroads - for one as a powerful search filter. I look forward to the day I can search for x I want to buy locally at a store - and remove every online only instance - of course for the moment I have to settle for crude things like foo bar -site:bunnings.com to avoid the online only BS results that flood out real results. Sadly they're not the only brick and mortar idiots doing that sort of BS in Australia though.
by zbentley | 2025-07-06 11:48:57+00:00
> blunt every aspect of your personality that may be an “ick.”

That’s not what was meant and you know it.

Ten years into a relationship, I sometimes leave my dinner dishes in the sink and wash them in the morning. Had I done that early on in my relationship—or had those dishes in a photo on a dating site—I’d sabotage my chances with a lot of people.

The same is true for interests. Maybe you really like guns: marksmanship, customizing them, restoring them, and so on. If you have guns front and center in your dating app pics you are going to alienate a lot of people. Plenty of those same people would enjoy being introduced to that hobby once you are in a relationship! But guns being a photographed part of your dating-site-identity is not going to help your chances. The people who swipe left are avoiding gun nuts, misogynists, etc. Putting guns in your picture only sabotages yourself.

That’s not “I have to totally be someone I’m not and remove every single thing someone might find objectionable”. That’s basic social awareness and understanding that there’s a time and a place for presenting different parts of yourself.
by 0dKD | 2025-07-06 11:49:36+00:00
thanks!! i havent seen any sideproject communities with the focus of creating relationships between the "makers" so that new startups happen, but maybe there are some?

good question around contributing vs leeching, im not really sure yet. we are working on functionality now so that product leaders joining can tag their project with "need builders" and builders can sub to new projects needing builders, with hopes of creating new connections in a small way, that can grow into more

leeching right now is hard, if you just hang around and comment not valuable stuff, youre just ignored i guess. If u give value in comments and have thought through projects, then that will surface. thats my hope and vision though. Im also thinking gold rings around "verified relentlessly resourceful" people... like i know who in my community has actually shipped stuff, is ethical, is kind, and not just a "talker" or someone who wants to get rich fast without caring about solving something. so thats an interesting thought im pursuing. and also maybe silver rings on people that "might be RR", if youre recommended by a gold RR its pretty liekly you are an RR.

Stuff like that. Its still early days though, this is just almost an MVP, so we are optimising the flow for product leaders now (cause thats my pain, that i know very well), then we will look at optimizing for builders. In our slack where we started we have 220 members ish, this site is an evolvement from our slack (fenomener.framer.website)

Yeah i see its not intuitive that clicking a project shows your "not created profile page", ive noted that and we will do something with that <3. and yeah youre right, the site today doesnt really allow lurking, since u only see titles and oneliners of projects

anyways, really useful feedback! its so valuable with a glimspe into the first impression of a person like you, one that we 100% hope to capture in the future <3

ive met six pepole in here the last year, some never on a call or physically, that i now feel i "know" and can trust. thats pretty special <3
Show HN: Logic Simulation GUI – No AI, Safe Public Version
by symbol_reasoner | 2025-07-06 11:50:07+00:00
This is a logic engine GUI where users can input structured interactions (e.g. Gravity(Earth→Object)) and visualize the logic flow as diagrams and property tables.

No AI, no solver, no learning. Just pure structure.

https://github.com/wdaserdfwrwerv/nonliengine-gui
by pydry | 2025-07-06 11:50:28+00:00
Im not sure it's even that simple. Ive worked for many companies that havent worked in their own self interest. Large organizations captured by small, self interested or ideologically extreme groups often dont.

What the state of Israel is doing, for example, is not in its own interest and the untrammeled support given by the west to what it does is definitely not in our self interest.