MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nivertech | 2025-07-28 05:12:19+00:00
AlphaDec: 2025_L0V3_001827 Instead of: ISO 8601: 2025-06-14T23:37:42.814Z

This is misleading. The precision is less than 1 min, So it should be:

AlphaDec: 2025_L0V3_001827 Instead of: ISO 8601: 2025-06-14T23:37 or DateTime: 20250614_2337

This format is a Rube Goldberg machine which adds nothing to the table.

BTW: was this format designed with the help of an LLM? LLMs can easily misunderstand or miss the big picture, while over-optimizing for small details.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-07-28 05:15:31+00:00
Thanks for the first hand feedback. It is helpful. When I read your post carefully ("laughably underfunded. We are 90 percent volunteer. We have zero paramedics"; "Who fixes that in a volunteer department?"), the first thing that crossed my mind is your tax revenue is just too low. You cannot have nice things with low taxes.

Another way to think about it: Are other highly developed nations seeing the same "crisis(es)" that you mention? (Think G-7 and close friends.) Hint: They do not.
by andsoitis | 2025-07-28 05:15:34+00:00
> Imagine 10-100 tests that take <1ms to run, being rerun with every keystroke, and the result being shown in a non-intrusive way.

Doesn’t seem like high ROI to run full suite of tests on each keystroke. Most keystrokes yield an incomplete program, so you want to be smarter about when you run the tests to get a reasonably good trade off.
by ashwinsundar | 2025-07-28 05:15:41+00:00
I've preferred Python-based web frameworks lately. Django has been my primary go-to, but I'm starting to use FastAPI more for very simple web projects that I want up and running in literally 10 minutes (including deployment over ngrok).

I also subscribe to the HATEOAS principle and really like the idea of separating the visual and business logic layers so that I can mix-and-match technologies based on the problem domain. The glue layer I'm using is HTMX - it can be dropped in anywhere, allowing you to pair any templating language for the front-end with any general-purpose language on the back-end.

As an aside, I have a personal definition of "vibe-coding", which is when the language/framework is so good, that it pretty much gets out of the way and lets you solve the actual problem at hand, instead of wrestling with a language/framework/way of life/whatever. That's what Django/Python, HTMX, some Alpine.js and Tailwind (just the classes) have done for me
by defrost | 2025-07-28 05:17:52+00:00
> If you realize that people have been required to check ID when selling material unsuitable for minors in physical stores

Not a great example.

No physical store would bother to check the ID of anyone clearly not {too young or borderline}.

Digital ID requirements are such that age verification of some form is required for every single connection .. and to assume that a connection from {X} might well require another ID check an hour later as it might well be a different person at the same computer or another device altogether.

That's an expansion from {only check young looking people} to {check and possibly retain records for _everyone_}.
by mzk_pi | 2025-07-28 05:18:11+00:00
Thank you. Do you truly feel that your $120,000 job is helping people in the future — from the heart? Isn’t it possible that your skills could actually save and support many more people?

Even when our own lives were financially stable, we couldn’t shake a lingering sense of emptiness. We couldn’t clearly see who our work was truly supporting, or how it was improving anyone’s life. Many client projects were focused on short-term profits, and at times, we found ourselves building systems that aggressively monetized even poor users, only to discard them when no longer profitable. It never felt like we were contributing to genuine human well-being.

Don’t engineers carry skills — and intentions — that deserve far more recognition than they receive? Have you ever asked yourself how your abilities should be used, and for what purpose? We keep asking: if not capitalism, could there be a different kind of future?
by Torwald | 2025-07-28 05:19:16+00:00
I think Joels has it right in his assessment of hours vs days: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/03/29/painless-software-...

In another piece somewhere he also states, that the engineer working on the thing should estimate the hours, because everyone has a different skillset and that then relates to the task and how long it takes.
by lisbbb | 2025-07-28 05:19:40+00:00
As a student of 1930s and 1940s history, I can say for sure that the most terrifying aspect of what took place wasn't the "Gestapo" and all the open terror, it was the propaganda that fooled so many people and the censorship that kept the lies alive. Humanity still has not fully come to terms with the layers upon layers of lies that took place before and during WWII.
by SomaticPirate | 2025-07-28 05:19:54+00:00
Honestly great to see this. This is the power that FB/Microsoft/Google have if they ever decided to take the gloves off. Maybe this will be the motivating factor to get some privacy laws with fangs.

If you continue to send telemetry after I explicitly opt-out, then I get to sue (or atleast get a cut of the fines for whistleblowing)
by dwd | 2025-07-28 05:20:14+00:00
Many of the MAN trucks in Europe are fitted out by a supplier like Rosenbauer (mentioned in the article) who pair a standard truck chassis (MAN, Scania, Mercedes, etc) with a modular equipment layout. You'll know their iconic Panther trucks which are used at many US and Canadian airports.

The cost quickly adds up once you start adding features, and they have a lot to choose from.

https://www.rosenbauer.com/en/au/rosenbauer-world/vehicles/m...
by alephnerd | 2025-07-28 05:20:25+00:00
> Whether it's logical or not

From an American NatSec perspective, French strategic autonomy is viewed as a positive, as can be seen with Elbridge Colby's work (and similar work by Mastro and Doshi), and a lot of the initiatives led by the Biden admin, as this would allow burden sharing because the US is no longer in a position to manage a two continent war. France does our dirty work in the Sahel and can help in the Indo-Pac (as was seen with the US, France, and India jointly armtwisting the UK into ceding Diego Garcia to Marutius)

In Australia's case (and to the US's benefit), alignment with France makes sense and has been something that has come up in Australian NatSec for years.

New Caledonia is barely 800 miles off the coast of Australia and NZ, and both New Caledonia and French Polynesia have faced pressure due to China, especially after the recent violence in New Caledonia was linked to Azeri [5] disinfo networks on TikTok, along with decades of covert ops by China in New Caledonia [6][7]. France has also been an active defense partner with India and Indonesia - both of whom are increasingly cornerstones of Australian defense.

By every single standard, having an active "Indo-Pac" France is a net benefit for America+ strategy and Taiwan.

That said, French NatSec "strategic autonomy" does not have anything to do with French industry's alignment with marketing a "European first" tech story.

France has similar issues to the US with power politics (as can be seen with France, US, SK, and Israel sharing a similar CPI score), and the biggest booster and beneficiary for "European Tech" is Xavier Niel [0] (France's Mark Cuban or Elon Musk), who is on a first-name basis with Macron [1][2] and whose Father-in-Law (Bernard Arnault) has personally played a significant role in French power politics for years [3][4]. Arnault is also the reason why every country negotiating with the EU ALWAYS tariffs congac and champagne - Arnault's LVMH owns Hennessy and all the other congac producers, and the majority of champagne producers.

End of the day, this is just another inter-elite conflict between vested business interests like any other, but couched with the flag of nationalism.

Nothing wrong with that, but this is why you don't see alignment amongst EU member states - as each state is supporting their own vested business interests amidst a trade war. For example, there's a reason all of us American tech investors end up working with the same handful of politically aligned law firms in Czechia or ending up in the same IT Parks in Eastern Europe.

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-02-12/xavier...

[1] - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2024/12/22/emmanu...

[2] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-22/french-mi...

[3] - https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/insight-macro...

[4] - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2023/08/08/bernard...

[5] - https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/russia-azerbaijan-exploit-...

[6] - https://www.aspi.org.au/report/when-china-knocks-door-new-ca...

[7] - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2024/05/16/why-and-...
by hliyan | 2025-07-28 05:21:55+00:00
One (yet to be verified) insight I've had of late is that we make an implicit, paradoxical assumption about the unimpeded operation of the free market: that the rationality of market participants (a function of education), and their decision making (a function of information dissemination) somehow exists on a substrate unaffected by the market forces. In reality, not only are education and information (news) commoditized, but their supply is intermingled with the market dynamics of other products.

For example, say it costs a supplier X per year to safely eliminate a negative externality (e.g. local air pollution) that would otherwise cause a percentage of consumers to form a negative opinion of the brand and shift to competitors. Now say it costs Y to purchase a level of control of information flow (news, PR, which are naturally commoditized) that could mitigate said negative public opinion. If Y < X, an economically rational (but ethically unscrupulous) actor would choose the second avenue.
by dh2022 | 2025-07-28 05:22:41+00:00
Not quite. WW1, and its continuation WW2, was a fight between Germanic states on one side vs. Britain and France on the other side. The fight ended (it really ended!!!) when two powerful outsiders (US and USSR) invaded and split the European continent.

What is happening now in the Ukraine is a result of a gross miscalculation without any grounding in reality (no, NATO was not going to attack Russia). The war in the Ukraine is not a leftover from WW2.
by daemonologist | 2025-07-28 05:25:05+00:00
Biofuels in the US were mostly motivated by a desire to reduce oil imports ("energy security") and were a bipartisan misstep. The original mandate (7.5e9 gal/yr) was part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, passed during a Republican trifecta, and was later expanded to 3.6e10 gal/yr by a Democratic congress in 2007 (still Bush - part of his "Twenty in Ten" energy security goal [0]). That said, reducing greenhouse gas emissions was definitely seen at the time as a benefit as well.

[0] https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/stateoftheunion/...
by exiguus | 2025-07-28 05:26:47+00:00
In my opinion, it's dangerous to consider absolute numbers alone in this context. Saying something like, "Less than 0.02% of paragliders die because of the sport," can be misleading. When nn reality, the chance of dying from paragliding is 1000 times higher than in football. When I choose my next hobby, this information is very useful.
by scottdfouts | 2025-07-28 05:27:05+00:00
This started with a simple question: “Do you think I deserve access to higher level GPT given how I use it?”

GPT said yes — and then wrote an internal-style memo to OpenAI on my behalf.

I submitted it to support. The response? “We don’t have a process to read that.”

This case study was co-written by the model and me to document what happens when an AI tries to advocate for a user — and the system isn’t built to listen.

Not angry. Just asking: what now?
by rincebrain | 2025-07-28 05:27:32+00:00
I would assume that like a lot of regenerative tradeoffs, without sufficient global state, just producing more organelles without limit would be a cancer cell's dream.

Given that we only published confirmed evidence that mitochondria sometimes decide to ditch a cell and run around on their own this year, I would be willing to bet decently heavily that A) we're going to find research about cancerous mitochondria being a metastasizing vector in the next few years, and B) a bunch of data on what makes different mitochondria more or less effective over time.

My personal guess would be that, like a lot of senescence problems, it's an accumulation issue - if a bunch of regeneration mechanisms are based around donating mitochondria, then after you hit adulthood and stop printing new cells like you're zimbabwe's currency, it starts having much more noticable of a permanent impact if cells do that, since there's less new ones being created passively...leading also to more need for them since you need to repair more things versus it just being washed away in the constant replacement, and a spiral ensues.

But that's just wild speculation. I suppose a data point in favor of that would be if all-cause mortality is statistically significantly up the more body mass you have permanently removed (e.g. missing limbs), even controlling for exposure to risky things.

It might also be interesting to see if this kind of infusion at a large scale significantly can impact your body's "learned" fat retention, since it's known that, like how an athlete who has fallen out of shape can get back to a level they formerly trained to much more readily than someone training anew, so too does the body "learn" to start retaining things as fat more and not really unlearn it, and afaik we don't know the mechanisms for that.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-28 05:28:46+00:00
> If someone shares their ID publicly, that person could be identified and blocked, so this would probably be limited to sharing of ID to the people in person's social circle.

This was the thing your proposal was supposed to do:

> User hasn't revealed any PII data besides "is_over_18" value to the site and identity authority doesn't know which site user is accessing.

If you have that, someone sets up a service that uses their ID (or a set of IDs from any data breach) to provide tokens to anyone.

If the tokens can be mapped back to the IDs, the alleged privacy protection is fake. If they can't, you don't know whose ID is being used to generate tokens for third parties.

Your choices are "no real privacy protection" or "you don't know who is sharing tokens" and the first one is unacceptable, at which point you might as well use the simpler system.
by motorest | 2025-07-28 05:29:41+00:00
> There is some amusing irony in the EU relying on the US for furthering its own authoritarianism.

I think you're trying too hard to post cynical remarks as if the were this major gotcha. Even though the bill is quite awful, Occam's razor is quick to point out this has all the hallmarks of an overzealous technocrat than authoritarianism. Try to think about it for a second:

- the goal of the legislation is to ensure adult content is not provided or actively pushed to children,

- adult content is pushed primarily by tech platforms,

- the strategy is to allow access to adult content only to users who prove they are adults,

- the strategy followed is to push an age verification system.

- technocrats know age verification systems can be circumvented if tampered with.

- technocrats proceed to add provisions that mitigate the risk of tampering age verification systems.

The detail you're glancing over is US's hegemony over social media and tech platforms. The world is dominated by three platforms: Microsoft's, Apple's, Google's. Even Samsung is not European. How do you expect to push a technical solution for an authorization platform without leveraging the systems that people use?

Also, the way the current US administration is pushing their blend of fascism onto the world is something I do not find funny. If anything, this would mean the American fascists are succeeding.
by rurban | 2025-07-28 05:29:48+00:00
Riptides are only dangerous for beginners who don't know how they work. It's a narrow stream outwards, about 3-4m wide. Like a street. At your surf you get out by paddling parallel to the beach just a few strokes. Beginners fight the rip, but you just need to step out. For surfers it's a dream
by ptman | 2025-07-28 05:30:11+00:00
80% of UK’s waste oil would only power 0.6% of its flights

Using synthetic e-fuel for all USA domestic flights would use 85% of USA’s electricity generated.

Powering UK flights on plant-based biofuels would use >50% of its agricultural land

2⃣ UK waste oil is already spoken for, used in soap, cosmetics etc.

But it’s far short of what would be needed anyway.

Instead we will import ‘waste’ from places like Malaysia, which also happens to be a major palm oil producer (worse than diesel for warming).

3⃣ Synthetic e-fuels use lots of electricity.

Using renewables doesn’t make it ok.

That’s because, until we fully decarbonise, it diverts renewables from reducing the burning of gas & oil, worsening climate change.

4⃣ UK Gov isn’t pushing crop-based bio-fuels, but other nations are, like Singapore.

These have high emissions, because they lead to forest destruction. They also threaten food shortages, with warming already hitting crop yields—and ecosystem collapse.

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/sioldridge.bsky.social/post/3luwjfr...
by lisbbb | 2025-07-28 05:31:28+00:00
I now think that we've been lied to big time: One thing Covid was good for was to provide a cover story for massive inflation that was likely coming no matter what. I'm not saying it was released for that reason (and yes, I do think it was deliberately released) but governments worldwide certainly took full advantage of the chaos and uncertainty to pull off all kinds of devious projects that they had on the back burner. Look at how effective Covid was at ending the democracy movement in Hong Kong, for example. Massive overhang of inflation? No problem!
by KennyBlanken | 2025-07-28 05:31:32+00:00
Except that because of all those things, the government is more likely to use it so the "it's cheaper!" argument doesn't hold water.

The comparison is not between "do it without smart bombs and drones" vs "do it with smart bombs and drones" and the former costing more.

The comparison is between "if we didn't have the smart bombs and drones, we wouldn't have done anything because whatever it was wouldn't have been worth the cost in money and American lives" versus "we spent a million dollars blowing up some stuff because we could do it on the cheap and with no risk."

On a broader scale the US's involvemnt in the foreign affairs of other nations skyrocketed when we went from having volunteer armed forces to a "professional" armed forces. Ike predicted as much in his rant about the military-industrial complex.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-28 05:32:36+00:00
It doesn't have to be a national ID. It doesn't have to be any specific ID at all. Pass a national law requiring local governments to print the token on their local IDs.

If you want the token between when you turn 18 and when you next renew your ID then show your ID to any adult at any government office or anywhere else and have them give it to you, or get it from your parents.
by tzs | 2025-07-28 05:33:03+00:00
> Why would growing corn for ethanol and burning it in an engine be any climate-friendlier than growing that same corn for food and burning an equivalent amount of gasoline in an engine? The carbon absorbed in the field wouldn’t change; neither would the carbon emitted from the car. If the only difference was that producing ethanol emitted much more carbon than producing gasoline, where were ethanol’s benefits?

Where the carbon comes from matters.

When you burn gasoline all of the carbon emitted is carbon that until we took the petroleum it was in out of the ground had been out of the atmosphere for millions of years.

When using gasoline on an ongoing basis the result is a large net increase in atmosphere carbon from burning the gasoline, plus whatever similarly old carbon is emitted during the processing of the petroleum into gasoline.

When you burn ethanol that was made from corn all of the carbon emitted is carbon that was in the atmosphere until the corn took it out of the atmosphere to use in photosynthesis.

When using ethanol from corn on an ongoing basis there is no increase in atmospheric carbon from burning the ethanol. There is just an increase from whatever old carbon is emitted in the process of growing the corn and turning it into ethanol.
by TheDong | 2025-07-28 05:36:41+00:00
> This is another one of the reasons why I'm opposed to the current trend of "memory safety"

So the argument is that those buffer overflows in iMessage used to target people (i.e. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i... used to target a Saudi activist) are actually good because a hacker might jailbreak a phone with it?

It's good if all my software on linux crashes with segfaults because it might let someone unlock a locked down linux device one day?

I don't feel particularly free if my device is pwned with ransomware
by af78 | 2025-07-28 05:36:54+00:00
That's a common misconception. The European Convention on Human Rights guarantees freedom of expression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_R... and is legally binding in all member states. Sure, there are exceptions but in the USA too freedom of speech is not absolute either.

Moreover, in practice, there is more freedom of speech in most EU countries than in the USA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/freedom-of-expression-ind...:

USA: 0.89 France: 0.96 Germany: 0.94 Czechia: 0.96 etc.
by JimDabell | 2025-07-28 05:37:03+00:00
I didn’t mention state transitions. When I said “mechanically iterate over every possible state”, I was referring to writing tests that cover every type of input and output.

Acceptance criteria might be something like “the user can enter their email address”.

Tests might cover what happens when the user enters an email address, what happens when the user tries to enter the empty string, what happens when the user tries to enter a non-email address, what happens when the user tries to enter more than one email address…

In order to be in the driver’s seat, you only need to define the acceptance criteria. You don’t need to write all the tests.
Show HN: OpenCodeSpace – Disposable Containers for Claude Code in YOLO Mode
by vadepaysa | 2025-07-28 05:37:48+00:00
Hello HN!

I built OpenCodeSpace https://github.com/ngramai/opencodespace — a CLI tool that lets you launch disposable, self-hosted VS Code environments in one command.

It’s like a self-hosted Code Spaces, but:

- Works locally with Docker or remotely on Fly.io (AWS, GCE coming soon) - Auto-configured with Claude Code, OpenAI, Gemini CLI - Designed for YOLO mode development: temporary, parallel, throwaway sessions

As Claude Code and Gemini CLI became core to my dev workflow, I kept needing a way to run them in parallel, in clean, isolated environments in full YOLO mode (`--dangerously-skip-permissions`) without worrying about its effects on my computer.

I tired devcontainers, but not all repos have them configured and remote devcontainer setup is a pain. I also tried git work tree + multi window local VSCode, but I felt all the branching and folder replication on my local desktop a bit messy.

I wanted something simpler, so I built this.

How it works:

* Run `opencodespace .` in any folder * It checks for `.opencodespace` (or initializes one) * You choose: run locally with Docker or remotely on Fly.io * Browser-based VS Code opens up with everything ready

Install: pip install opencodespace

Code: https://github.com/ngramai/opencodespace

It’s still early days, but I love using this. I often spin up a few of these on Fly to let Claude code automatically chug away on bugs while I focus on heavier tasks in my local IDE.

Would love your feedback and ideas!