MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by philipallstar | 2025-08-13 12:22:22+00:00
> This radio emission at lower frequencies from Starlink isn’t their downlink frequency, but instead unintentional electromagnetic radiation (UEMR), thought to be caused by the onboard electronics of the satellite. This UEMR is not currently regulated by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the organization responsible for managing and allocating the radio spectrum for various uses.

Feels like this is regulatory UB, and therefore allowed.
by meowface | 2025-08-13 12:22:44+00:00
I am absolutely no fan of Twitter or its owner(s), but Grok* actually is pretty good at this overall. It usually concludes responses with some annoying pithy marketingspeak LLMese phrase but other than that the tone feels overall less annoying. It's not necessarily flattering to either the user who invoked it or anyone else in the conversation context (in the case of @grok'ing in a Twitter thread).

*Before and after the Hitler arc, of course.
by foldr | 2025-08-13 12:23:10+00:00
Let's do some back-of-an-envelope stats on this.

Assuming there are 9 million people in London, that means that 1/45,000 Londoners experience a phone theft on a given day.

We can then (very crudely) estimate the probability that a Londoner has their phone stolen over a ten year period:

1 - ((1-45000)/45000)^(365*10) = 0.08

So 200 phones a day translates to about a 8% chance of getting your phone stolen over a period of ten years.

I'm obviously not suggesting that the calculation above be taken too seriously. But it shows that 200 phones being stolen a day in a city of 9 million people is consistent with phone theft being a significant but not overwhelming problem.

(The adult population of London is around 7 million, and kids are obviously also victims of phone theft, so you won't get a radically different answer if you look at the population over a certain age.)
by rickdeckard | 2025-08-13 12:23:14+00:00
I'm curious to see how this will play out.

I don't see big potential for the current US government to value scientific interests higher than the interests of SpaceX.

Wouldn't be surprised if SpaceX just continues to launch such satellites causing unintentional interference, to then claim in case of escalation how uneconomic it will be for them to correct this issue now and how the financial impact to SpaceX needs to be valued higher than scientific needs.

This LEO Direct-to-cellular strategy seems to play out similarly, with SpaceX launching massive amounts of satellites which are technically not capable to prevent interference on private spectrum while crossing country-borders, so ITU/FCC/CEPT now need to find a solution to deal with this situation.
by CommenterPerson | 2025-08-13 12:24:36+00:00
Non-hacker here. The title says "modern". I don't need modern, have a 10 year old phone, can I still get the occasional simple app from F-Droid?

I upped my (small) monthly contribution. Hope more people contribute, and also work to build public support.

Also, for developers .. please include old fashioned credit cards as a payment method. I'd like to contribute but don't want to sign up for yet another payment method.
by TheChaplain | 2025-08-13 12:24:46+00:00
Some relevant threads below.

Linus having enough: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjLCqUUWd8DzG+xsOn-yVL0Q=...

The patches in question: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/mhng-7755CB81-B0C6-42D3-82B5-CE...

The authors response: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/mhng-655602B8-F102-4B0F-AF4A-4A...
by kmfrk | 2025-08-13 12:24:59+00:00
Whisper is genuinely amazing - with the right nudging. It's the one AI thing that has genuinely turned my life upside-down in an unambiguously good way.

People should check out Subtitle Edit (and throw the dev some money) which is a great interface for experimenting with Whisper transcription. It's basically Aegisub 2.0, if you're old, like me.

HOWTO:

Drop a video or audio file to the right window, then go to Video > Audio to text (Whisper). I get the best results with Faster-Whisper-XXL. Use large-v2 if you can (v3 has some regressions), and you've got an easy transcription and translation workflow. The results aren't perfect, but Subtitle Edit is for cleaning up imperfect transcripts with features like Tools > Fix common errors.

EDIT: Oh, and if you're on the current gen of Nvidia card, you might have to add "--compute_type float32" to make the transcription run correctly. I think the error is about an empty file, output or something like that.

EDIT2: And if you get another error, possibly about whisper.exe, iirc I had to reinstall the Torch libs from a specific index like something along these lines (depending on whether you use pip or uv):

pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118 uv pip install --system torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118

If you get the errors and the above fixes work, please type your error message in a reply with what worked to help those who come after. Or at least the web crawlers for those searching for help.

https://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit

https://www.nikse.dk/donate

https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/releases
by vintermann | 2025-08-13 12:26:00+00:00
You're ... Wait, never mind.

I'm not so sure sycophancy is best for entertainment, though. Some of the most memorable outputs of AI dungeon (an early GPT-2 based dialog system tuned to mimic a vaguely Zork-like RPG) was when the bot gave the impression of being fed up with the player's antics.
by reify | 2025-08-13 12:26:04+00:00
Like you my friend had 15,000 emails she had accumulated over a 5 year period in her gmail account from signing up to everything.

This made her google account full and she kept getting warnings and received no new emails. I am not a google user so forgive my random language and misunderstandings.

I tried to delete them for her from her phone, but you can only delete 30 emails at a time in the app.

I then got her to sign in to her gmail from her browser. Again it is not easy to delete 15,000 emails when you can only delete a certain amount (100) each time.

I could only do it by using rules in the search box.

older_than:4y

This deleted all emails over 4 years old.

I then did, older_than:3y, older_than:2y, and older_than:1y

So she was left with a years worth of emails.

I searched for say: "Next", to show all the emails from "Next".

I slowly went through them and unsubscribed, then deleted all the emails acssociated with "Next".

I did this for all the companies she had signed up to.

It took a long afternoon but eventually I managed to reduce her emails down to a manageable 150.

I have set her up a Protonmail account and redirected all her gmail to protonmail. And taught her about good email hygeine.

Protonmail now has an Unsubscribe button. Transfer the mailing list emails to the unsubscribe folder and unsubscribe from all the emails in the unsubscribe box.

Unsubscribing is a nightmare, just trying to find the intentionally hidden, link at the botton when you are as old and as blind as me is a testing task.
Show HN: ID Verifier – open-source wrapper around OpenID4VP and MDoc protocols
by kalegd | 2025-08-13 12:26:22+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a library to simplify Digital ID verification because existing protocols are overcomplicated and locked behind expensive ISO specs.

I think the recent Tea app fiasco is a good enough example for why uploading your full ID everywhere is a terrible idea. That's partly why I'm a fan of mobile ids with selective disclosure (e.g. proving you're over 21 without revealing your actual birthdate).

Unfortunately, besides the existing protocols being inaccessible and complex, there are already 4 different credential formats that you might want to support, and there's no automated process for verifying that the ID actually came from an issuer you trust. So I built this library to abstract out the protocols, various formats, and automatically verify the ID against trusted issuer lists like the AAMVA DTS or my wrapper for Apple's recommended IACA certs. Issuer info is indexed on an open source trusted-issuer-registry that I also built that automatically fetches the latest information from supported trust lists.

Hope someone finds it useful, and would love any feedback folks have!
by denispanda | 2025-08-13 12:26:57+00:00
Location: Bay Area, California Remote: Open

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Technologies: Full-Stack (Next.js, React, Supabase, Firebase, TypeScript, Node.js)

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1237stzg1b-UtPhuf97wpbUoG...

Email: dpandarakalam@gmail.com

Recent UC Davis CS grad with a strong track record of building products from a playlist queuing app using the Spotify API, to an internal project tracker deployed on AWS, to a medical image classifier built with PyTorch.

I'm looking to join a team where I can take ownership, learn fast, and contribute across the stack. Especially interested in early-stage startups, but open to any.

Available to start immediately. Thanks! :)
by teekert | 2025-08-13 12:27:12+00:00
I know this is off-topic, as is this whole sub-thread by now. But is there a way to read the news as the Israelis do? I sometimes read rt.com (even though I need a vpn for that, somehow my government feels I'm not allowed to study this??), it helps me understand how Russian media presents news to their citizens. Is there anything like that for Israeli news?

Our Dutch news (and I think most EU news) is pretty much presenting us with the view that Israel has lost it (stories about young men searching for food being shot in the genitals for fun and such [0]), so I'm very curious how their government presents things to its civilians.

[0] https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2575933-beschietingen-bij-z...
Show HN: I made a problem-solving platform that monetizes your social media
by paus | 2025-08-13 12:27:30+00:00
I made a free link-in-bio tool that monetizes your audience. So it's like a Linktree, just on steroids.

- Cooperatively solve and help to solve problems - Hop on 1:1 calls with your audience - Show all your links - Enjoy our pricing algorithm - Profit actively and passively. Yes, even passively. Lifetime.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-08-13 12:27:42+00:00
> Tailscale is a VPN...

And if you use it as a VPN and don't turn on the funnel feature, your service won't be exposed.

> On the other hand, just install something like knocked and you don't have to do much. Knocking is not a difficult thing to set up.

Neither is wireguard.
by piva00 | 2025-08-13 12:28:09+00:00
I wouldn't say a "worse Google", and I'm also tired of the hallucinations and people copy-pasting AI-generated bullshit as if it was correct.

It's just a different tool than Google, and quite complimentary in many ways: instead of doing many keywords searches to collect information, aggregate it in a mental model, and derive a conclusion, it's easier to ask it to answer the aggregation I need and back-verify if it makes sense. To me it has helped a lot to not have to know the right incantations of keywords for the information I'm trying to find right out of the bat, and from the LLM answer I can backtrace what searches to do to confirm the validity of it.

It's a small twist but it has definitely showed me some value in these tools for more general information lookup.

The thing is: I still want and need to have a search engine, if for some reason search engines cease to exist and LLMs take their place I will not be able to trust anything...
by beastdevmoney | 2025-08-13 12:28:57+00:00
Posts can’t just “vanish” — they’re on Ethereum.

No “account bans” — your wallet is your identity.

Contributions don’t disappear — chain keeps them forever.

“Your words are yours” = no platform edits or owns them.

Spam/hate? Community bidding buries it; low-value posts won’t rank.

GDPR? Off-chain frontends can hide without altering chain.

Anyone can boost posts — even small bids affect ranking.

I hope those argumets clears your thougts, remember whatever you do in blockchain it wont be changed.

So the mechanism works in the same way:

You enter an amount, then generates the transaction with a message.

All replais are store in a db and not in blockchian, only the main threads.
by zamadatix | 2025-08-13 12:29:00+00:00
This is why I didn't say it made the investment risk free, I said being capital intensive does not make something (inherently) risky. There is no such thing as an investment without risk, but how risky it is is largely orthogonal to how capital intensive it is, and the above was talking about the latter so using the term "risk" for that half is not a great correction.
by uncircle | 2025-08-13 12:29:09+00:00
A good, albeit controversial, argument in favour of monarchy I’ve heard recently is that a monarch has to plan ahead for decades, if not centuries, to ensure them and their dynasty can keep ruling over a prosperous country.

A democratic politician only has to care about the next 4 years, at best; if any issue requires long-term planning, all you can do is hope it fixes itself.
by hackrmn | 2025-08-13 12:30:29+00:00
I'd argue that depends on what you mean by "innovation" -- Google has been pretty busy, meaning specifically developers on their payroll, churning out more or less useful Web API implementations, certainly at a far more frantic pace than people traditionally _blamed_ browsers of yester-decade for. Nevermind that some of these APIs are more haphazardly designed than others, truth be told most of them are okay and are aptly designed so it's not a critical issue (for Web developers or Chrome's market share). Google co-authors most Web standards and implement them often _before_ the "standard" is published (for better and for worse; anti-trust allegations, I am looking at you). But they're not idle, one thing's for sure. Markedly different than how I remember Microsoft resting for months if not years on their IE laurels, like a CO2 blanket in a room that evacuated all the air.

So yeah, how would you describe this lack of innovation you're referring to?

There can always be more innovation that isn't of the sort I described above, but Web _is_ made of Web APIs -- if a website cannot "do" it, you as a user of the site, won't be able to experience it, is my crude opinion. But I'd love to hear examples to the contrary, illustrating innovation that isn't Web APIs.

Removing tab-based browsing (an anti-pattern if you ask me)? Optimizations (speed, size, etc)?
by danaris | 2025-08-13 12:31:03+00:00
> If its not intellect, what are we missing?

...Why would it not be intellect?

What we're missing is anything that actually resembles thought at anything more than the very surface level.

LLMs are not intelligent. They sound intelligent because they're being trained very well at predicting what tokens to produce to sound that way, but they have no intellect, no understanding, no world model, no consciousness—no intelligence.
by moffkalast | 2025-08-13 12:31:59+00:00
Well it's hyperbole alright, but a local measure helps not if it's not done the same way in all countries if you want to actually make a useful comparison.

Trying to find an international version leads me to ICVS and this[0] publication which likewise ranks London at the very top. By that data, the UK ranks average at per-capita crime but is second at the same people being victimized more than once, which I take points towards that the majority of the country is likely relatively normal, but a handful of cities have very concentrated crime rates that are raising statistics.

Do you have any other sources to show or do you just like pointing out that all of them are bad if they don't agree with you?

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282573613_Criminal_...
by mcv | 2025-08-13 12:32:11+00:00
> the conservatives have largely withered on the vine becoming merely another center left party.

Excuse me, WHAT?! I can't imagine what else you could write to signal so clearly that nobody should take anything you write seriously.

Even Labour barely comes across as center-left anymore. The Tories have never been.

I would hope that the LibDems and the Greens would strongly oppose this use of the OSA, but I haven't seen that they do.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-13 12:32:14+00:00
>What If A.I. Doesn't Get Better Than This?

What if it does?

There's a certain type of fear . . .

"It's the fear . . . they're gonna take my job away . . . " It's the fear . . . I'll be working here the rest of my days . . . "

-- David Fahl

Same fear, different day.
by aa-jv | 2025-08-13 12:32:34+00:00
By way of anecdotal counterpoint, I've got a teenage trainee apprentice working in my lab who can indeed read the RP2350 datasheet and describe what its doing and how to use it effectively in other applications.

I don't think things are as difficult to understand as you do - but then again, I grew up with 8-bit computers where it really was competitively important to understand how they worked - and I don't think the cyclomatic complexity of the Ashet is much greater than anything from that era.
by meowface | 2025-08-13 12:32:50+00:00
Okay, true, that was a silly statement for me to make. It's just a look that's different from the typical media treatment of the rationalist community, and is as far as I know the first time there's an inside view of this cult-spawning phenomenon from a media outlet or publication.

The story from the outside is usually reduced to something like "rationalism is a wacky cult", with the recent ones tacking on "and some of its members include this Ziz gang who murdered many people". Like the NYT article a week ago.
by snthd | 2025-08-13 12:33:45+00:00
https://www.deepki.com/about/#certifications-awards

>Deepki holds the label BCorp certification, thereby strengthening its commitment towards its communities and stakeholders.

https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/standards/complaints/

>B Lab will investigate material, credible, and specific claims against a current B Corp in one of the two following categories:

> 2. Breaches of the B Corp Community's core values as expressed in our Declaration of Interdependence.

https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/certification/

>B CORP DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE

>As Certified B Corporations and leaders of this emerging economy, we believe:

> That we must be the change we seek in the world.

> That all business ought to be conducted as if people and place mattered.

> That, through their products, practices, and profits, businesses should aspire to do no harm and benefit all.

> To do so requires that we act with the understanding that we are each dependent upon another and thus responsible for each other and future generations.
by ordu | 2025-08-13 12:34:02+00:00
I really don't like how you rejecting the idea completely. People have online one-shot training, but have you tried to learn how to play on piano? To learn it you need a lot of repetitions. Really a lot. You need a lot of repetitions to learn how to walk, or how to do arithmetic, or how to read English. This is very similar to LLMs, isn't it? So they are not completely different architectures, aren't they? It is more like human brains have something on top of "LLM" that allows it to do tricks that LLMs couldn't do.
by aa-jv | 2025-08-13 12:34:25+00:00
You can say all of this of drug-oriented seekers of superpowers, too. Trust the SSRI cult much?

It just seems to be a human condition that whenever anyone tries to find a way to improve themselves and others, there will always be other human beings who attempt to prevent that from occurring.

I don't think this is a cult thing - I think its a culture thing.

Humans have an innate desire to oppress others in their environment who might be making themselves more capable, abilities-wise - this isn't necessarily the exclusive domain of cults and religions, maybe just more evident in their activities since there's not much else going on, usually.

We see this in technology-dependent industries too, in far greater magnitudes of scale.

The irony is this: aren't you actually manifesting the very device that cults use to control others, as when you tell others what "specific others" should be avoided, lest one become infected with their dogma?

The roots of all authoritarianism seem to grow deep in the fertile soil of the desire to be 'free of the filth of others'.
by NoGravitas | 2025-08-13 12:34:44+00:00
> While there are plenty of non-religious (and thus, small-r rationalist) alternatives to consequentialism, none of them seem to make it past the threshold in these communities.

I suspect this is because consequentialism is the only meta-ethical framework that has any leg to stand on other than "because I said so". That makes it very attractive. The problem is you also can't build anything useful on top of it, because if you try to quantify consequences, and do math on them, you end up with the Repugnant Conclusion or worse. And in practice - in Effective Altruism/Longtermism, for example - the use of arbitrarily big numbers lets you endorse the Very Repugnant Conclusion while patting yourself on the back for it.
by perihelions | 2025-08-13 12:34:51+00:00
I'm not clear why not. The scale of the completed SKA-low (512*256 = 131,072 antennas, 1.8 meter lengths) is the same as that of Starlink itself. It's even less mass; the antenna parts alone, they are wire dipoles, they say they only weigh 1.6 kg each.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06708

Why can't humanity launch 2^17 small antennas into deep space, as a free-floating constellation?
by whstl | 2025-08-13 12:35:08+00:00
I think this comment shows the difference between web development and other industries.

This problem is not existent in languages that traditionally use single-file libraries because projects rarely get to the point where they use 63 libraries, let alone have 63 indirect dependencies to a library.

Also: popular single-file libraries in the tradition of stb won't even have dependencies to other libraries of the sort, only to the standard library.
by victorwynne | 2025-08-13 12:37:30+00:00
Thoughts on Thomas Dohmke’s resignation, and GitHub’s further integration into Microsoft’s CoreAI team marking the predictable end of the platform’s remaining independence.

The writing has been on the wall since Nat Friedman stepped down in 2021 and Dohmke replaced him with the key change of requiring the CEO report directly to Julia Liuson.
by komali2 | 2025-08-13 12:37:34+00:00
> Mozilla/FOSS community has fucked up Firefox, big time, which is not even their fault as they cannot hire thousands of six-figure developers.

I don't see how - it's a more than serviceable browser. The only issues I've ever had were because a webapp detected I wasn't using a browser of choice and blocked me specifically, which isn't really firefox's fault.

I guess I prefer chromium dev tools over firefox's but it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if I only was able to use the firefox ones.
by ta1243 | 2025-08-13 12:37:45+00:00
my i5-6200U with firefox/linux is about 10 years old. I used a variety of add blocking and fingerprint blocking techniques. Cloudflare often complains and blocks me.

This page loaded pretty much instantly (certainly in the time it took to switch to the background tab I loaded in). But then ffmpeg is written by old school engineers with old school ways of working. Their social media accounts are a hilarity of trolling worthy of slashdot in its peak.
by Catbert59 | 2025-08-13 12:37:53+00:00
That's weird.

The company I'm working for has its own EMC chamber (maintaining that huge room fully calibrated and standardized is ultra expensive... just looking at these EMC test receivers that go up to 40GHz my me cry in $$$$) and we invested giant engineering effort into our products to be far below every radiation limit norm in the world.

Shouldn't satellite companies have even better stuff and more strict regulations or are these unintended effects maybe caused by the harsh environment?