MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lazide | 2025-07-13 20:43:32+00:00
You might want to re-read your comment again, because you definitely explicitly said that people being deported were being deported because they did something illegal. Full Stop.

I provided two high profile and clear examples where that is either 1) unlikely, or 2) definitely not the case, and actually absurd in context, because she is a born US citizen, and the threats the US President is leveling at her are clearly not even close to legal.

Which you continue to ignore. And which even appear to be headline examples the administration is not only creating, but persisting in making very public.

In that context, how can anyone reasonably assume that the other, less high profile, cases are being done ‘correctly’?
by mixmastamyk | 2025-07-13 20:43:42+00:00
Your comment made sense perhaps only twenty years ago. But today, everyone is desperate for this kind of info. Third-parties provide these services for free or close to it, especially to get access to the data stream.

It's a several hundred billion dollar industry, in the US alone. Retail is definitely a source: https://market.us/report/data-broker-market/

Someone was on here a couple of years ago stating that even "line item" level data on your receipt is now being transmitted in a lot of cases, and growing.

The bottom line today—never expect a company to default to respect of your privacy. Simply too lucrative.
by jwr | 2025-07-13 20:44:08+00:00
> I've grown very tired of all the whining about the Mozilla Corporation.

The whining is because they have mismanaged so much. The only clearly visible strategic direction is to fire and keep firing developers, which does not bode well for the future of the product. All the side products and distractions seem to be experiments of business folks. The company isn't run by product people.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-07-13 20:44:29+00:00
GHOULS doesn't even begin to describe the people who take over these foundations. They are parasites who seek out nonprofits to infiltrate, and once they gain a position of power they bring in their pals and set up shop. Suddenly the CoC is weaponized to crush dissent, the decisions are made behind closed doors, and the organization starts contributing to political organizations that help their class of parasites spread. And there are WAY more of them than there are good-hearted honest people starting foundations. When a new foundation is created, these parasites line up to see who can corrupt it first.
by rasz | 2025-07-13 20:46:13+00:00
There is a substantial difference between developing state of the art hot R&D technology and maintaining one js hook into C codebase, especially considering its only this one webRequest.onBeforeRequest binding we are interested in thats being degrade/blocked/deleted and not the underlying codebase https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44544266

The problem here is $17B ad revenue MS is earning https://www.emarketer.com/content/microsoft-s-ad-revenues-gr...
by crop_rotation | 2025-07-13 20:46:36+00:00
HN is so weirdly optimistic that SWE jobs will not decline terribly in the age of LLMs. Yes claude code can not write a new web browser from scratch or even some innovative project, but almost nobody is doing that. Most of non big tech is writing the same CRUD apps with trivial differences. Even 90% of big tech (outside the core infra) is just writing CRUD apps. I have worked at two big tech companies in fairly senior levels and almost everyone is doing CRUD work, not that there is anything wrong with it.

But the comments saying Claude can't replace some genius are irrelevant. The amount of SWEs at big tech itself is so high that law of averages dictate most people are not rockstars (and this is validated in my observations). Most SWEs just write internal RPC to internal RPC wrappers. I am seeing that everyone is relying a lot on these tools, and the new SWEs seem to utterly depend on them. HN users will always have some edge case pointed out but most of software is crud apps low scale (even big tech most internal tool is low scale) and these tools are definitely doing better than the median SWE I have encountered.
Show HN: I made a free, simple open-source Stripe invoice generator
by RaulOnRails | 2025-07-13 20:46:39+00:00
A simple, free invoice generator for payments received from clients built with plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

This project was born out of frustration with having to manually create invoices for Stripe payments and not wanting to pay give 0.4% to Stripe or pay for external services so I built it myself. It's inspired by @levelsio's Stripe invoice generator.

Since it's just plain HTML, CSS, and JS, once you clone the repo, it can run completely offline. Not that you'll ever need to, but you're ever on a plane with no internet and forgot to do some bookkeeping, you can do it with this simple app that runs in your browser.
by Sparkle-san | 2025-07-13 20:46:45+00:00
I wouldn't group those together at all for the sake the argument. Take antidepressants for example. We're at the point of reexamining if we actually understand the consequences of long term usage of them. My personal experience was that my long term usage definitely came with issues and it's taken me a few years to feel like my emotional range has returned to a stabe baseline after going off them. I likely would have been better off using them short term. Depressiom is also quite similar to obesity in the sense that helping people develop the durable non-medical interventions while being treated with drugs would go further than just treating them with drugs alone.

Contrast this with Parkinson's which is a neurodegenerative disease with no known non-pharmacutical treatments and even the pharmacutical ones lose effectiveness as it progresses as they only treat symptoms, not the disease itself.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-13 20:46:45+00:00
> and the story isn’t sticking with folks.

This take is getting old, and the story won't stick with folks till their desk is in a cardboard box...

Out of all the faangs, amz is the best positioned to remove staff and agentify the work they were doing. First, amz constantly churns the lower x%. They've been doing this for years now. They know what to count and who to fire. Second, amz has had everyone write a story about everything they do, day in, day out for years now. Change a lightbulb? Not without a story. Guess what you need for training LLMs? Yup, stories.

There are plenty of people writing stories and coordinating the writing of other stories. Those people will be the first out. It's never the top nor the bottom.
by cgibson2025 | 2025-07-13 20:47:25+00:00
Just got the email saying that spots are full for YC office hours. I would've loved to chat with the professional's building startup's. But that's perfectly fine, every no is just another way to find a yes. No one succeeds in anything without failing first. I fail fast, and fix faster. I already have market validation, I am the first to come up with the "AI Agent Marketplace" and AWS is supposed to release their version on July 15, but my company AetherPro Technologies LLC now own the registered trademark rights to "AI Agent Marketplace"
by ofjcihen | 2025-07-13 20:48:09+00:00
Agree with this 100 percent and to add further part of the reason this wasn’t dealt with is because people on both sides of the aisle know that it brings cheap labor.

Heck, even Trump wanted to make farm and hotel workers exempt until there was too much blow back.

Every other country enforces its immigration laws. There’s no good reason that we shouldn’t.
by Vulturus | 2025-07-13 20:48:23+00:00
I was wondering myself, if it isn't very dangerous to host those kinds of services in an opressive state such as Iran? Hosting a site on Iranian IPs certainly sounds easy to track and I'm sure a Starlink receiver also makes substential RF noise. Anyone has any information about how likely is the Iranian government is to shut down such a site/service? Also, doesn't encrypted traffic in general (like Matrix servers) fall into this category?
by smt88 | 2025-07-13 20:48:27+00:00
It absolutely makes sense to buy things you may (emphasis on may) never use, especially if it never "expires". Insurance is a great example.

People are buying these games knowing they're adding to their backlog and likely won't get through the whole thing, but the price is so low that the chance they'll want to play the game someday is enough.

I'm one of these (apparently rather typical) consumers and will buy almost any modern-class AAA game if it's $5.
Show HN: A Browser-Only Dream Interpreter Using Symbol Logic and JavaScript
by DinoNuggies456 | 2025-07-13 20:48:58+00:00
I built a symbolic dream interpretation engine that runs fully in the browser no AI, no backend, no cloud. Just vanilla JavaScript and a hand-mapped keyword system. It scans dream text, matches symbolic keywords to over 300 custom meanings, using deterministic logic. All data stays in localStorage no tracking, no server. Try it here: https://dino-nuggies45.github.io/Dream-Interpreter/

Built to explore subconscious patterns and emotional systems without machine learning. Feedback welcome!
by perching_aix | 2025-07-13 20:49:17+00:00
> dear HN user who decided to silently downvote - you could do better by actually voicing your opinion

Sure, I'll bite. Let's address the obvious issue first: what you're saying is speculation. I can only provide my own speculation in return, and then you might or might not find it agreeable, or at least claim either way. And there will be nothing I can do about it. I generally don't find this valuable or productive, and I did disagree with yours, hence my silent downvote.

But since you're explicitly asking for other people's speculation, here I go. Advanced "spellchecking" necessitates the usage of AI, as natural languages cannot ever be fully processed using just hard coded logic. This is not an opinion, you learn this when taking formal languages class at university. It arises from formal logic only being able to wrangle formal logic abiding things, which natural languages aren't (else they'd be called formal languages).

What the opinion is, and the speculation is, is that this is what the feature kicks off when it sends over input data to MS's servers for advanced "spellchecking", much like what I speculate Grammarly does too. Either that, or these services have some proprietary language engine that they'd rather keep on their own premises, because why put your moat out there if you don't strictly have to.

Technologically speaking, at this point it might be possible to do this locally, on-device now. This further didn't use to be the case I believe (although I do not have sources on this), and so this would be another reason why you'd send people's inputs to the shadow realm.
by jeremynixon | 2025-07-13 20:49:22+00:00
This blog post is flawed.

"Life insurers can predict when you'll die with about 98% accuracy." Is not even properly framed and is found nowhere in the cited report.

Predictions of when you will die need a range in order to be attached to a number like accuracy. The attached report is not about this but about population-level mortality trends.
by hrunt | 2025-07-13 20:50:08+00:00
You are wrong. The fuel shutoff switches are directly beneath the throttle levers, and they move down to cutoff, which is exactly the direction a hand beneath the throttle would move to accidentally switch them to cutoff.

Secondly, while the FO was flying the airplane and thus would have control of the throttles during rollout, the captain would certainly have his hand beneath the throttles in an observer position during at least part of the takeoff. And during takeoff, procedure would have the captain take over control of the throttle levers until rotation while the FO handled the yoke with both hands.

blancolirio[0] has two excellent video examples of 787 takeoffs within the cockpit showing FO-pilot takeoffs and both officers' actions during takeoff.

Page 10 of the Air India preliminary report[1] shows a picture of the fuel cutoff switches -- clearly labeled "FUEL CONTROL" with "RUN" in the up position and "CUTOFF" in the down position -- directly beneath the throttle levers.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA_UZeHZwSw [1] https://aaib.gov.in/What's%20New%20Assets/Preliminary%20Repo...
by godelski | 2025-07-13 20:50:15+00:00
> ditch Chrome (and all Chromium browsers).

People should do this for many reasons. Monopolies are not good for anyone, including Google[0].

For most people, that means installing Firefox or using Safari. There are others, but the space is small. Don't listen to people, Firefox is perfectly good and most people wont see major differences.

Truth is we like to complain. It's good to push things forward and find issues that need to be fixed, not nothing is perfect. For every complaint about Firefox there's another for Chrome. You can't just switch to Brave, Edge, Opera or some other color of Chrome. Things will feel different, but really it's easy to make mountains out of molehills. So what do you care more about?

[0] short term, yes. Long term no. Classic monopoly gets lazy and rests upon its laurels
by BobbyJo | 2025-07-13 20:50:31+00:00
> Tariffs are a demand-side change, there's also subsidies for supply-side.

Yes, but subsidies are typically more complex to implement than tariffs. Imports are already controlled via customs, so you're piggybacking off existing oversight. New subsidies require entirely new oversight.

> Whatever it is you want to on-shore (or prevent from being off-shored), tariff that, but not the economic inputs to make that.

Why? Its impossible to account for second order effects beforehand IMO. I think its way better just to put up flat tariff, see what's working and what isn't and adjust from there.

I don't think this admin is doing tariffs correctly, but I welcome the added incentive for domestic manufacturing and mining.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-07-13 20:50:46+00:00
The comment you originally responded to was calling out cheerful cruelty, and in response, you gave a lukewarm "I don't support all of the methods the current administration is using" in the midst of a comment otherwise defending the current administration. Consider the meaning of the phrase "praising with faint damns". Also consider that much of what the current administration is doing has nothing to do with laws, and has repeatedly targeted people who have broken no law and in fact did everything entirely legally.
by duskwuff | 2025-07-13 20:50:56+00:00
1) What on earth do they mean by "zero energy storage"? Magnetic tape doesn't consume energy at idle either. Hell, even hard disks can be powered down.

2) "Also, the optical-based new tech’s touted 50-year life is 10x the life of magnetic tape." Say what? Most magnetic tape is rated for up to 30 years in storage. You might only get a few years out of a tape if you're writing to it frequently... but this new format is write-once, so it's not even in the running.

3) People have made wild claims about holographic data storage being the Next Big Thing since the 1980s - in particular, there was a whole wave of them in the late 2000s claiming to have a DVD replacement under development. None of them have brought products to market. I'm not confident this one's going to be any different.
by zzrrt | 2025-07-13 20:51:44+00:00
> characterizing "enforcing our immigration laws" as some kind of "irredeemable" act is just...beyond the pale. It is not irredeemable to enforce laws.

Setting aside the other aspects, this misses the point, in my opinion. The irredeemable part is their pride and glee in the unfortunate effects of their “enforcing our immigration laws.” Joking about alligators getting detainees, filming in their Salvadoran gulag, the “deportation ASMR” video, etc. If they were decent people who were “only” enforcing the laws, they would at least do it quietly without all the cruel grandstanding for their fans.
by roughly | 2025-07-13 20:52:06+00:00
Yeah, I certainly didn't mean it to denigrate Gibson - his writing is beautiful, and I think he's one of the most perceptive Sci-fi writers going. The Blue Ant trilogy was one of the best encapsulations of the "new" world at the turn of the millenium, and reading The Peripheral has the terrifying quality of being given a prophecy of a future you don't want.

I've mentioned it elsewhere, but "This Is How You Lose the Time War" is one of the few other sci-fi books I've read that has that same level of artistry - the Calvino-esque ability to conjure an entire world history out of a short description of three objects sitting on a table. It's much more polarizing for the sci-fi audience, because it doesn't stay in one place and it doesn't flatter as much as Gibson tends to, but it's quite beautiful.
by elcritch | 2025-07-13 20:52:13+00:00
Well the law to allow deportations without due process was passed by congress under Clinton as I understand it.

The main difference with Trump up to now has sensationalization of it and pushing the legal boundaries of those immigration laws.

Trump pushing the legal bounds on due process is not too different than when Obama pushed the legality of murdering of an American citizen without due process. Except Trump sensationalizes it while Obama layered it with a vaneer of intellectualism.
by noracists | 2025-07-13 20:52:46+00:00
Sending people back to their home country, especially when 50% are criminals, is not the same as the holocaust. Comparing it to such is disgusting and insulting to the actual victims of Nazi violence.

ICE is often operating in a racist and dehumanizing way, but it is nowhere near the level of organized atrocity that it is regularly compared to.
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan | 2025-07-13 20:52:49+00:00
According to all the studies, this is absolutely the worst thing that you can do. GLP-1s are revolutionary, but when you go on them, you should intend to stay on them for life. When patients first go on them, they lose both muscle and fat, and when they go off them, they regain just fat, and in many cases they're in a worse situation than they would be if they hadn't gone on them in the first place.

Letting your weight fluctuate up and down in giant swings is, in many ways, harder on the body than just staying at a steady weight, even if it's overweight.
by crop_rotation | 2025-07-13 20:54:01+00:00
> Amazon is also way behind tech peers on AI. These sorts of puff PR pieces don’t do much to shake that reality.

What tech peers is Amazon way behind on AI? Neither MSFT nor AAPL have their own models. FB has no path to model monetization. GOOG is unique but that's it, and AWS might be able to better capitalize on AWS enterprise customers. Amazon was way behind yes but at this point they are positioned well enough to execute.
by layer8 | 2025-07-13 20:54:52+00:00
Desktop OSs idle most of the time, and the comparison is with respect to an idle desktop. Forcing context switches and propagating updates through the GUI stack every second isn’t free in that situation, it means that at least one CPU core can’t stay in a lower-power state. In contrast, you probably won’t see much of difference in battery life for the seconds display when simultaneously watching video or running computational tasks.
by brandall10 | 2025-07-13 20:55:04+00:00
My argument is the value quotient is so insane that the primary friction to purchase is likely more down to the UX of the storefront to complete the purchase, rather than the purchase price itself.

So in that vein, it doesn't matter if there will be another identical sale. The psychological things "in the way" to complete a purchase are virtually non-existent if you had even a minor passing interest in the title the first time you see it at that fire sale price.
by kxrm | 2025-07-13 20:55:44+00:00
Many years ago I used to believe in the narrative of the "right way" to immigrate to the US. However after learning a lot more about the immigration process and the history of immigration in this country, I've learned that the "right way" has extremely high arbitrary barriers that are intended to keep some people out who come from some countries while allowing more from others. This is the quota system.

IMO this is a flawed application for immigration policy because it can cause some people who go the "right way" years to get through the system with one or two minor mishaps meaning you jeopardize your chance of becoming a citizen. It really shouldn't be that hard to become a citizen of this country. Immigration reform has been long discussed as the only solution to this problem, but Republican lawmakers have decided this is too good of a wedge issue to ever fully fix the problem.

So, yes, while I agree with you on the surface, where I disagree with you and this argument is that it papers over the extremely hostile, dated and ineffective policy that has largely been the source of problems for Immigration for decades that lawmakers don't seem to want to solve because it benefits their campaigns.
by mrweasel | 2025-07-13 20:55:46+00:00
One of those companies are available where I live, and I'll never use them, because they make my pick ups insufferable.

I have kids, and can see McDonalds from my bedroom window, so I have more McDonalds points than I care to admit. Wolt is pissing me off every time. The amount of time the McDonalds staff needs to dedicate to Wolt staff is insane. They could easily serve twice the customer in resturante/drive-through if they didn't have to help a borderline incompetent Wolt staffer on a moped. It's actually rude to priorities deliveries over in restaurant customers. For that alone I will never use Wolt. Fortunately every single good pizza place nearby have their own drivers, who are actually polite and competent.
by Tostino | 2025-07-13 20:56:07+00:00
I built one of the trade promotion management (TPM) tools used in that space and had to deal with these companies daily for the last decade.

There are absolutely a bunch of acquisitions/ consolidation in that food distribution space, but there are still hundreds of different distributors just in the US. However, most volume does flow through the largest distributors.

For example, I had to build a specific feature to merge distributors after an acquisition happens in the industry, to make the product work properly because that's such a common occurrence. Had the same type of feature for manufacturers (my customers) also, because they kept buying each other.
by nucleardog | 2025-07-13 20:56:43+00:00
Other company was, indeed, AI Startup #528532.

We're in a niche, extremely boring industry. We have an extremely small client base. We do line-of-business/sales management applications for something akin to like... light switches and light fixtures. The most exclusive thing we have access to is wholesale pricing from manufacturers. We don't handle payments. The extent of PII we handle is "name and email" from when someone emails out a quote.

We are the epitome of uninteresting to a foreign actor. Being "uninteresting" apparently does not disqualify you.

We also do not hire overseas (the applicant claimed to be from California) and offer a good US wage. We weren't targeted or vulnerable because we were being "greedy".
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-07-13 20:56:47+00:00
Not a museum, but you might be interested to know that a lot of historians argue that "the industrialists" in late 1920s and 1930s Germany went along with the holocaust because for a lot of them it just meant more business, and for some free labour.

In fact if you consider the question of what's the difference between "fascism" and "authoritarianism", the answer is that fascism is a subset of authoritarianism that focuses of business.

So yes, a lot of it is about money/business/economic impact. Always has been.