MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by solatic | 2025-08-20 17:23:14+00:00
It's a design that is secure by default. If you have no NAT gateway and no VPC Gateway Endpoint for S3 (and no other means of Internet egress) then workloads cannot access S3. Networking should be closed by default, and it is. If the user sets up things they don't understand (like NAT gateways), that's on them. Managed NAT gateways are not the only option for Internet egress and users are responsible for the networks they build on top of AWS's primitives (and yes, it is indeed important to remember that they are primitives, this is an IaaS, not a PaaS).
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-08-20 17:23:17+00:00
The whole thing really felt like a post facto justification rather than a design flowing from requirements/constraints.

I get that it is valuable to be able to have the spacecraft take certain actions without reliable communications, but that isn’t unique to this spacecraft in any way, nor does it require using a scripting language. It seems like they just wanted an easier development environment, which is fine as long as it doesn’t compromise mission reliability.

I’m also concerned they suggest ascii encoding of the code instead of binary means the uploaded code doesn’t require verification. All data can be corrupted in transit, and I would be very surprised if they don’t still use error correction.
by dboreham | 2025-08-20 17:23:18+00:00
Anecdotally it is, but I wondered if I could find supporting statistics. I live near Yellowstone NP which has a fair proportion of non-US visitors based on my personal observations (perhaps 25%). Stats are collected on a monthly basis. July is the most recent month with full data (obviously). Report URL below.

The report says the visit count (MAU?) in July is down 18% vs last year. Since I can't think of any local issue (fire, flood, weather...) that would have had an affect on visitor count this year vs last, that seems quite a large change. Especially when the fact that only a proportion of visitors are not from the US.

https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/SSRSReports/Park%20Specific%20Rep...
by techcode | 2025-08-20 17:24:00+00:00
Our house in The Netherlands is now 3x more expensive than 13 years ago - from ~€200k to ~€600k.

We got lucky to move to NL and then buy house just around the time when post 2008 crisis was at the lowest point. Some houses are only 2x more expensive than back then.

Meanwhile apartments in Belgrade Serbia are now similar to price of apartments in Amsterdam/Amstelveen/etc from 10-15 years ago.

From what I've heard from friends and family - more of the same across France, Germany ...etc.
by ethin | 2025-08-20 17:24:15+00:00
As a citizen of the US I hate how SCOTUS has ground the fourth amendment down to practically nothing. It's absurd how people want the constitution to only apply to citizens, when IMO what makes the US unique is that it's constitution and the rights it grants are assumed to already exist for everyone, and all it does is acknowledge and respect them and order the government to do likewise. I very much doubt this will change anytime soon. At this point I'd be all for just abolishing the DHS and everything under it -- I don't think the DHS has, since it's inception, actually done anything that protects the homeland in any capacity. I could be wrong, but if it has actually done something, it's so inconsequential that nobody talks about it.
by Shog9 | 2025-08-20 17:24:16+00:00
Digg rather famously did have both followers and "influencers", though not in quite the same sense that those creatures are known today. Arguably its failure to limit the impact of both are what led to the forms we see today.

There's been an awful lot written about all of this over the years, much of it overly simplistic and some of it just straight-up wrong; we all want to believe that we're just plain smarter than the ancients, even when those ancients were us.

If you're interested in (ahem) digging into this, start by searching for things like "Digg voting network".
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-08-20 17:24:37+00:00
No one's really asking for this. And anyone that's asking for it is just looking for another forum/site to surf amidst thousands of subreddits and discords and the main social posting networks (of which now include the fediverse, bluesky, whatever). This isn't really worth eyeballs or the inevitable forced media coverage. Not to mention the inevitable mistelling of what happened with Digg v4 and the 'right place right time' that allowed Reddit to survive. Let sleeping dogs lie.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-20 17:24:40+00:00
I'd 1000x rather be stalked by a pervert in an office somewhere near DC than scrutinized by a local bureaucrat or enforcement official in my jurisdiction.

It's a lot like the difference between making a threat and posing a threat.

Obviously I'd rather none of these agencies have any of the data, but that ship sailed decades ago.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-08-20 17:24:58+00:00
The fact that some people are totally unable to draw while others excel at it would alone imply that you should see similar variation in writing. And we do.

> What's funny is I gave up on cursive as long as I hit the internet in the mid 2000s because I instinctively knew it was fruitless.

Not exactly. Handwriting better reinforces information in our memories than typing or reading or listening alone. So, if we're going to be doing a lot of writing because we intend to do a lot of note taking (and reading of our scrawl later on), then effective writing is obviously useful, which is what cursive is supposed to be. Now, perhaps that doesn't necessarily mean you have to use cursive as you are familiar with it, but inevitably, all handwriting written quickly turns into some kind of cursive. Writing block letters is slow and tedious.
by michael1999 | 2025-08-20 17:25:14+00:00
This is the essence of why using a "business mindset" in government is doomed.

A central question of business is market - who am I trying to reach, and who do I exclude? Trying to sell to every one is doomed. Ignoring market segments as unprofitable to reach or server is smart business.

But for government this is completely wrong! They are obliged by law and justice to serve everyone. Or "equal protection" is just words on paper.
by evan_ | 2025-08-20 17:25:45+00:00
pretty sure this explains it:

> the government plan was to mix the meat from Chernobyl-area cattle with the uncontaminated meat from the rest of the country

I wonder if this was posted now as a result of a report of radioactive shrimp being sold at Wal-Mart:

https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-informatio...
by strawhatguy | 2025-08-20 17:26:43+00:00
Does that library use the browser's xslt?

I'm curious as to the scope of the problem, if html spec drops xslt, what the solutions would be; I've never really used xslt (once maybe, 20 years ago). In addition to just pre-rendering your webpage server-side, I assume another possible solution is some javascript library that does the transformations, if it needed to be client-side?

Found a js-only library, so someone has done this before: https://www.npmjs.com/package/xslt-processor
by NoGravitas | 2025-08-20 17:27:14+00:00
Depends what you mean by ballpoint. For a liquid ink rollerball, that's true or very close. For a gel ink pen, or an oil-based standard ballpoint, that's very much not true. Conventional ballpoints require much more pressure than a rollerball (like the UB-157) or a fountain pen. Gel pens are in-between.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-20 17:27:58+00:00
Social Media and News aggregation are not entirely different things, right? I mean, in the sense that News (and other link) Aggregation was one of the things that grew into Social Media. I think you are right to say it is more of an aggregation site, but also it’s worth nothing that in Digg’s heyday, Social Media was barely a thing.

Social networking was a thing. Social networking, link aggregation, discussion boards—it’s like pouring milk, hot sauce, and vodka into a vat to get Social Media.
by ethin | 2025-08-20 17:28:10+00:00
The problem is that customs officials (and immigration officers) are granted an extreme amount of power through discretionary authority. Congress has yet to actually constrain this, and from my understanding the statutory language is so broad that determinations can be made based on literally anything. Which is why that hole "abolish ICE" got quite popular (and in many places is still around). Congress and the courts are way too deferential when it comes to these two, instead of holding them up to an incredibly high standard and giving the courts that level of discretion, which is where it belongs.
by crims0n | 2025-08-20 17:28:11+00:00
> I think overall I'm just less enthusiastic about the internet...

Some of that is a function of age I am sure. When you are young, sites like reddit and digg hold promises of some new and interesting unknown unknown. As you get older, the amount of unknown unknowns fall off a cliff and you are just left with the known knowns and known unknowns... occasionally you are once again interested in the known unknowns, but you certainly didn't need a website to remind you they existed. The novelty is gone.
by OutOfHere | 2025-08-20 17:29:17+00:00
Pretty much the basis for the DHS was 9/11 and terrorism, but terrorism exists in the first place due to US support for Israel and unnecessary interference in the Middle East. I don't particularly like the Islamic nations one bit, but even I see the connection of pointless US foreign policies to terrorism. Moreover, Israel is in large part militarily capable of defending itself. As such, the argument for DHS was all very circular. If you take away the circles, there's nothing left.

A country that so hates its own constitutional democracy cannot possibly support the democracy of other nations.
by umanwizard | 2025-08-20 17:29:20+00:00
Cool!

One of the countries in 1800 renders as “M?ori” for me, so it looks like you have some kind of character encoding issues (or there’s some language I don’t know about where ? is a letter).

Feature request: is there a way to get a blurb about one’s current country? Lots of people on this site will get “Viceroyalty of New Spain” (the pre-independence name of Mexico, which included the entire current American Southwest incl. California and Texas) when they switch to 1800 and might want to learn more about it.
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-20 17:29:26+00:00
Yeah, the number is closer to 10%:

> Approximately 40 million Americans travel abroad each year. This figure represents about 12% of the U.S. population. Travel data reveals that Americans commonly visit destinations in Europe, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

Source: https://travelpander.com/how-many-americans-travel-abroad/
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-20 17:29:33+00:00
Not really.

But the answer that one would conclude is "so that private citizens can't find out all the shady things we're doing with radioactive stuff".

I presume that was the policy even before Chernobyl. The US did not run an entirely clean nuclear program, but the USSR was worse (perhaps because ordinary people in the US could have Geiger counters, and so the powers that be knew that they were less likely to get away with spilling radio emitters).
by tptacek | 2025-08-20 17:29:51+00:00
That's not the fault of the vendor, it's the fault of the customer who refuses to pay for what the vendor charges. You couldn't argue that it would be "unethical" for Atlassian to charge $1000/seat; you'd just say it was too expensive. Somehow though, when you bundle security into that, you don't look at it and say "customers should not use the cheap-o account type and should pay what Atlassian is actually charging for this service, or use a different provider" --- no, they blame Atlassian.

No, not valid. It's Atlassian's customer that's on the hook for securing their offerings to their customers. Atlassian is holding up its end of the bargain. If you don't like it, don't take them up on it! I don't!
by mrtksn | 2025-08-20 17:29:54+00:00
I wonder what people these days think about the song "Imagine" by John Lennon. Free travel, world peace and equality is so out of fashion that a strong majority seems to think that it is OK to restrict people's movement around the world and feel so terrified of foreigners and yet without seeing the irony the same people would talk about becoming interplanetary species. I wouldn't be surprised if the totalitarians drop the "think of the children" line and just doi everything for "national security".

I'm not fan of the trend, I'm open about it I despise travel restrictions and the security theater but I really want to hear from people who like the new way the world is headed for.
by xenadu02 | 2025-08-20 17:29:58+00:00
Gaming of the procurement system. The websites are all written by big consulting outfits. Not to mention the disaster that is big corporate IT projects combined with government rules.

Obama had the Digital Service (that Trump shut down) which paid higher salaries. Those folks were sharp and everything they touched was actually decent.

As I noted this is not unique to government. Large corporate projects at the Fortune 500 are often the same sort of consultant-driven crap.
by PenguinCoder | 2025-08-20 17:30:24+00:00
Yes, it seems the older generation of Americans have good social nets for Healthcare. That may be soon disappearing though. And the younger generation doesn't have that, and likely can't expect to when they are older. Just private, outrageous insurance that can be denied for any reason despite the immense premiums and doctors judgment. Healthcare In America, IS broken.
by lb1lf | 2025-08-20 17:30:36+00:00
I do not know if this was the rationale, but presumably the powers that be could not see any upside to civilians possessing such equipment - after all, it could be used for purposes like calling the bluff on the official narrative

('During the recent fire at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, only trace amounts of radioactivity has been detected outside the immediate vicinity...')

or espionage ('Hmmm... I wonder why many of the freight cars coming down the track from the alleged paint factory in East Podunkskij are 100x more radioactive than those from other areas?')

We are, after all, talking about a system which restricted access to photocopiers.
by douglasisshiny | 2025-08-20 17:30:48+00:00
I was thinking about this as an approach for a side project to build in order to (speed up) learn elixir/phoenix for work. While the old-school forums dedicated to specific topics work (why re-invent them?) I was thinking of a "tribal" social network.

You as a person decide you want to create a space with a combination of reddit-like features, maybe video, etc. Only people you invite can discover it (or you can allow them to invite people) It could work for neighborhood groups (similar to nextdoor but with a limited crowd that you like/trust), school groups, family, or specific interests -- although specific interests are the idea's weakest selling point since it lacks easy discoverability.

Yeah, there are forums, discord, etc. etc., but I thought it could potentially be interesting. And yeah, people would abuse it (i.e., share pirated and illegal content), so maybe not really viable.
Show HN: I built an app to track expense temptation
by 0xshadow | 2025-08-20 17:31:04+00:00
Introducing SkipWise: The app that turns your spending impulses into savings wins.

See something you want → Log it → Choose resist or buy → Watch your savings grow

No budgets. No lectures. Just awareness that builds discipline.

Please give your feedback to improve it further
by jakestevens2 | 2025-08-20 17:31:21+00:00
Your description is exactly right. We create a search space of all possible kernels and find the best ones based on runtime. The best heuristic is no heuristic.

This obviously creates a combinatorial problem that we mitigate with smarter search.

The kernels are run on the computer the compiler is running on. Since runtime is our gold standard it will search for the best configuration for your hardware target. As long as the setup is mostly the same, the optimizations should carry over, yes.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-20 17:31:28+00:00
That's hard to do in practice when at any given moment the people screeching about a given affront are the same people who were cheering AML/KYC a decade ago because they didn't like tax evasion and the people screeching about that were all in favor of invasive policing over drugs a decade before that and so on and so on.
Show HN: Turn any study material into practice questions with one photo
by e_patjas | 2025-08-20 17:31:40+00:00
Built this because kids 10-15 can't prompt AI effectively. They'd type "make quiz plz" and get confused when ChatGPT asks for context.

Lexie takes 46 steps of AI prompting, context explanation, and output formatting and makes it one step: point camera, get quiz. The photo constraint isn't just better UX, it's the only way to get usable output from that age group.

This demographic gets the worst deal in edtech. Too advanced for baby apps, too young for adult tools. They get gamification theater instead of real learning tools.

I stripped all that out. Photo your geology notes, get instant flashcards and quizzes that expose what you don't actually understand.

No ads, no trackers, photos stay on device. Making money from subscriptions, not from kids.

Available on iOS, Android coming soon. Works in English and in Finnish .

Personal motivation: got tired of watching my kids waste time highlighting and re-reading when I knew there was a better way to study.
by coldpie | 2025-08-20 17:31:48+00:00
The trouble is that ad-based business models incentivize maximizing engagement, because more engagement gives you more places to put ads. It turns out maximizing engagement is the primary driver of all of the bad things about social media, and honestly the modern internet as a whole. Regardless of how the ads are chosen, ad-based models will always end up at the same place: pushing extremist content in order to maximize engagement.
by dingnuts | 2025-08-20 17:31:57+00:00
it doesn't even matter. I've run a small community at a loss, for "fun", for the better part of a decade and people just go elsewhere when the winds change and they find themselves no longer in an echo chamber they agree with. everyone just wants to shout into the void and be validated and it doesn't even matter who the audience is

it's extremely disheartening actually
by seanw265 | 2025-08-20 17:32:20+00:00
I assume that payments from purchases come from you guys, rather than me needing to create and manage an affiliate account with each individual vendor?

You say that commissions average 5%, but what is the variability and where does it come from?

Last, a bit of feedback about the product.

I tried searching "nintendo switch 2" on your homepage and the results that came up kind of sketched me out. You mention that the products are US-only, but the first result clearly says "hong kong" in the title. And the store listed is "My Nintendo Store PT"; is that the official store? When I google that it takes me to the Portuguese version of the nintendo website, and that makes me even more confused.

The second result for the same search appears to be a dress, which is obviously completely unrelated to video games in general.

EDIT: I'm noticing irrelevant results for many queries. Searching "plain white pillowcase", the third result is a t-shirt, the seventh result is a dress, and the eleventh result is a light bulb.

Searching "men's wallet" the very first result is an outdoor picnic table.
Show HN: Llmswap v3.0 – CLI and SDK for OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Watsonx
by sreenathmenon | 2025-08-20 17:32:28+00:00
LLMSwap is a CLI and Python SDK for switching between AI providers (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, IBM watsonx, Ollama) with automatic fallbacks and response caching.

Started this during a hackathon when constantly switching between Claude for code review and GPT-4 for debugging. Got tired of managing different API clients and keys.

After the hackathon, kept building on it. Added CLI when I wanted to pipe error logs directly to AI for analysis. Added caching when I realized I was testing the same prompts repeatedly during development and burning API credits. Added code review features when our team started using it in CI/CD.

New in v3.0 - Professional CLI: 1. llmswap ask "Debug this SQL query performance issue" 2. llmswap review app.py --focus security 3. llmswap chat # Interactive AI sessions 4. llmswap debug --error "ConnectionTimeout in production"

Python SDK features: 1. Multi-provider support (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, IBM watsonx, Ollama) 2. Response caching for cost reduction (great for development/testing) 3. Auto-fallback when providers fail 4. Async support with streaming 5. Thread-safe for production apps

Real-world use cases: 1. Developers: Code review, debugging, documentation 2. Content teams: Writing, analysis, research 3. Startups: Prototype quickly, switch providers based on cost/features 4. Students: Free local models (Ollama) + cloud when needed 5. Enterprise: IBM watsonx integration for regulated environments

Three versions later, it's become our go-to tool for anything AI-related in development workflows. The CLI works great in automation - we use it for automated code review and log analysis in CI/CD.

Technical notes: 1. Zero dependencies for basic CLI usage 2. Works offline with local models (Ollama) 3. Production-ready with error handling and retries 4. Full backward compatibility from v1.0

Real-world adoption: 5k+ PyPI downloads

Install: pip install llmswap
by OptionOfT | 2025-08-20 17:32:49+00:00
I expect a Camry to keep on working with regular, normal maintenance.

I'm probably doing something wrong, but in my experience the amount of magic that Ruby allows (and RoR and library creators use), create for situations where updating code is extremely risky. It can be mitigated by having an extensive testing-codebase, but those only tell you if your assumptions still hold up, they don't help you in fixing your issues per-se.

And half of these tests are checking that your invariants are being upheld, things that you get for free with statically typed languages.
by mckn1ght | 2025-08-20 17:33:14+00:00
Sounds kinda like StumbleUpon with comments. I'm not sure I'd like to host unmoderated content on my site, but I do miss the original StumbleUpon experience. Reading through the history of what happened to StumbleUpon in the 2010s is sad, and indicates that this idea may not actually be viable (or maybe was ahead of its time, or maybe wasn't done right).
by time0ut | 2025-08-20 17:33:55+00:00
I have had the same experience within the last 18 months. The storage team came back to me and asked me to spread my ultra high throughput write workload across 52 (A-Za-z) prefixes and then they pre-partitioned the bucket for me.

S3 will automatically do this over time now, but I think there are/were edge cases still. I definitely hit one and experienced throttling at peak load until we made the change.
by jsnell | 2025-08-20 17:34:27+00:00
No, the economics will never work out for a Proof of Work-based counter-abuse challenge. CPU is just too cheap in comparison to the cost of human latency. An hour of a server CPU costs $0.01. How much is an hour of your time worth?

That's all the asymmetry you need to make it unviable. Even if the attacker is no better at solving the challenge than your browser is, there's no way to tune the monetary cost to be even in the ballpark to the cost imposed to the legitimate users. So there's no point in theorizing about an attacker solving the challenges cheaper than a real user's computer, and thus no point in trying to design a different proof of work that's more resistant to whatever trick the attackers are using to solve it for cheap. Because there's no trick.