MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pcaharrier | 2025-08-26 19:04:12+00:00
>If the suspect had a file named "Not evidence of me stealing my neighbor's safe" and "Definitely not a video of me practicing how to break open a safe" would it be fair to assume the warrant doesn't allow access to it?

No, this is silly. That's not how search warrants ever work. The Fourth Amendment imposes no such "only search where labeled" requirement. It does, however, mean that police can only search areas where they are likely to find evidence of the commission of the crime that is alleged in the affidavit. For example, if the crime is theft of a full-size refrigerator and police have probable cause to believe that the stolen refrigerator is located at the residence of the accused, they can go into his house and look for the refrigerator anywhere that a refrigerator could be. That does not, however, given them the right to go rifling through his file cabinet or his underwear drawer, unless they have specific, articulable facts (i.e., not just a hunch) that there is probable cause that some other evidence of the commission of that crime will be found in such places.

What does that look like when searching a suspect's cell phone? Obviously every case is going to be different, but the point is that warrants cannot be utterly boundless. Such "general warrants" are one of the reasons the American colonists listed as a grievance against King George in the Declaration of Independence and today issuing such warrants would be considered prosecutable malfeasance in office. if police want to use search warrants as evidence-gathering tools they have to follow the law or convince the legislature to change it.

EDIT: Actually, consider this as an example.

California Penal Code § 653m says the following (subsection b): "Every person who, with intent to annoy or harass, makes repeated telephone calls or makes repeated contact by means of an electronic communication device, or makes any combination of calls or contact, to another person is, whether or not conversation ensues from making the telephone call or contact by means of an electronic communication device, guilty of a misdemeanor. Nothing in this subdivision shall apply to telephone calls or electronic contacts made in good faith or during the ordinary course and scope of business."

So let's say jilted boyfriend decides to ring up his ex-girlfriend a couple dozen times in the wee hours of the morning, but he uses something to block his caller ID. In that case, there might be evidence on his phone that he dialed the girlfriend's phone number when she claims the harassing phone calls came in. So can the police search his phone for evidence that he called her number? Absolutely. Can they look through everything on his phone (pictures, notes, settings, etc.)? Absolutely not.
by epistasis | 2025-08-26 19:04:18+00:00
> For example, the US has some of the largest lithium deposits in the world, but it's not being exploited because extraction is dirty and polluting,

It's important to get news from politically unbiased sources, because the reality is that US lithium sources are being stood up! Especially in that politically incorrect state of California which is supposedly a hellhole that would never approve something of the sort.

As for tariffs being a good way to support these industries citation needed! It's exactly the opposite type of policy for driving the investment that's needed. It's actually drastically collapsing all of the massive investment that was happening under Biden, in a complete disaster for the US. So I totally agree that you are not pro-US, but let's be honest about the disaster of tariffs.
by dilyevsky | 2025-08-26 19:04:31+00:00
I thought the argument was that if you run on gcp you can masquerade as googlebot and not get a 429 which is obviously false. Instead it looks like the argument is more of a tinfoil hat variety.

btw you don't get dropped if you issue temporary 429s only when it's consistent and/or the site is broken. that is well documented. and wtf else are they supposed to do if you don't allow to crawl it and it goes stale?
by theevilsharpie | 2025-08-26 19:04:32+00:00
> I still say that x86 must run two FPUs all the time, and that has to cost some power (AMD must run three - it also has 3dNow).

Legacy floating-point and SIMD instructions exposed by the ISA (and extensions to it) don't have any bearing on how the hardware works internally.

Additionally, AMD processors haven't supported 3DNow! in over a decade -- K10 was the last processor family to support it.
by theturtle32 | 2025-08-26 19:04:34+00:00
This is beautiful! I love this so much, as it makes it so simple and intuitive to drop into a sense of curiosity, exploration, serendipity, scanning around, seeing what catches the eye, zooming in and out.

It kind of recaptures part of the intangible sense of flipping through the old physical pages to see what catches the mind's interest. This feels substantively different from the current way that we discover and stumble upon things in the modern web and especially mobile app ecosystems with infinite scroll and algorithmically curated feeds.
by stockresearcher | 2025-08-26 19:06:23+00:00
A major Mississippi River flood could drown the site, but generally I’d think the risk level is fairly low.

It’s north of the Old River/Morganza flood control system. I think this would have to fail first in order for the Meta site to be in danger.

Also, if the New Madrid fault went off again, I think you’d kiss this site goodbye. But if that happened you’d have about a million higher priority concerns than a stupid data center.
by dkll | 2025-08-26 19:06:29+00:00
If you have a a device that does not tolerate the lower voltage, check out NiZn rechargables. They top out at ~1.7 V when full and keep their voltage quite high until they are almost flat. (At which point they should be immediately recharged, they don't take deep discharge well.)

I use them almost everywhere nowadays. Most devices tolerate the slightly higher voltage and even expensive hardware usually cheaps out on proper battery circuitry.
by asdefghyk | 2025-08-26 19:06:41+00:00
This should be MORE prominent in the article. " On Tuesday the IDF published what it called initial findings, claiming troops had identified a camera being used by Hamas in the area of the Nasser hospital.

It also said "six of the individuals killed were terrorists", claiming one had taken part in the 7 October attacks. "

BCC also should say WE KNOW Hamas uses such facility's to hide behind - Hamas themselves and Military assets. Should also say according to laws warfare this makes the hospital valid military targets.

BCC importantly should also have said that there should be a analysis to determine if this was an "appropiate use of force for the situation ?"

What we know also skips over that there may be intelligence that will not be released
by mothballed | 2025-08-26 19:07:10+00:00
It may have been 10 years since a prosecution but it was far less than that since it was enforced.

On Oct. 1, 2020, federal agents raided the home of an Adams County man. They threw flash grenades, handcuffed the homeowner, used a Taser on his dog, confiscated hard drives — and seized $5 million of switchblade knives from locked cabinets in the man’s spacious garage, according to court documents. Two and a half years later, government representatives returned the switchblades with the message that they did not intend to pursue the matter further. Lumsden on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against the United States, alleging the government ruined his online switchblade business by taking his inventory, damaged his property and reputation, injured his dog, and caused him pain, suffering and severe emotional distress.

https://edition.pagesuite.com/tribune/article_popover.aspx?g...

So as long as they only taser your dogs, flashbang your family home, take millions in inventory it's all good as long as there wasn't a successful prosecution and thus there is no standing?

They don't need to actually toss people in prison to get compliance. Tasing their dogs and destroying their business is enough, using an unchallengeable law.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-08-26 19:07:35+00:00
Sometime in the early 2000's we passed a point where more than 50% of the population had an AXIS 2 or higher chemical disorder[1]. It was around this point that I became skeptical of the DSM.

If the majority of people are crazy, it's likely that our definition of "crazy" needs work.

That said, the situation isn't as dire as some folks with a vested interest would have you believe... If you're reading this and you're someone who needs to hear it: Keep taking your medicine! They'll work the kinks out eventually, and even if there is a conspiracy, it isn't against you personally.

[1] I meant personality disorder. Leaving the mistake to avoid making the thread confusing.
by anon7000 | 2025-08-26 19:07:50+00:00
For everyone against .config on mac: who cares? I, for one, don’t want to deal with or remember different patterns across different OSes as much as possible. So I’ll install gnu coreutils on Mac, and I’ll use .config.

For CLI apps, they broadly don’t support Library anyways, so .config is a nice way to organize things in a way that’s easy to access and remember. When was the last time I poked around in Library? I don’t even remember.

And thinking of windows: it’s not like apps use the appdata local/locallow whatever directories in any consistent way.
by chrisco255 | 2025-08-26 19:07:55+00:00
Quite simply: de minimis import rules make no sense, they are inevitably abused by China in particular to import billions in untaxed goods. No foreign country has a right to sell things in America. China and EU and others impose their own arbitrary redtrictions and taxes on imports but for some reason if America does it, it gets worldwide press because for the longest time, it was just open season as we drained out manufacturing and gutted the base that built America in the first place.

We have laws on the books and they have to be enforced equally, whether you're shipping in entire containers or thousands of small direct mail packages.
by pcaharrier | 2025-08-26 19:08:16+00:00
> If I have access to your entire phone, I can use anything I find against you as probable cause whether it’s related to the crime or not.

Well, that gets into the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine, but we're not doing a full criminal procedure law school course today . . .

Ironically, I heard more than one detective say that when they "dumped" a phone like that, they rarely found much useful evidence. There's just too much information on any given cell phone to be able to go through it all. So, in the end, their fishing expeditions end up being a waste of time and resources.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-08-26 19:08:35+00:00
Is it okay to be skeptically appreciative of Neuralink's technological breakthroughs while hoping that, due to its association with Elon, that the technology and talent decides to go elsewhere?

Could be for saltiness over his politics. Could be for skepticism that he can deliver (robotaxi, Mars, etc). Could be for wariness that he'll turn it to shit like USDS, Twitter, and Tesla's finances.
Show HN: Clipbeam – Private and Offline AI Powered PKMS
by rogerdcarvalho | 2025-08-26 19:09:41+00:00
Built to centralize all scattered information I rely on day-to-day.

1. Auto-tags and organizes docs, links, screenshots, spoken audio and other content. 2. Local AI model offers retrieval through natural language search. 3. Local AI model offers chat with RAG injection of any content processed.
by wqaatwt | 2025-08-26 19:10:16+00:00
Not that I agree with the comment above but that means nothing at all on itself.

One of the first things the Socialist government did was violently put down a communist coup. The communists would have abolished democracy ASAP and purged the socialists if they ever took power.

Fact is that extremist movements will crack down on anyone that tries competing with them for power. Ideological affinity hardly matters.
by rustc | 2025-08-26 19:10:17+00:00
> Malicious actors can hide instructions in websites, emails, and documents that trick AI into taking harmful actions without your knowledge, including:

> * Accessing your accounts or files

> * Sharing your private information

> * Making purchases on your behalf

> * Taking actions you never intended

This should really be at the top of the page and not one full screen below the "Try" button.
by Insanity | 2025-08-26 19:10:31+00:00
Yeah, I'm definitely agreeing with you on this. Which is why I think we're probably decades out from a post-work society. I do think it's inevitable, but in an optimistic kind of way.

My take is that an LLM is not ever going to lead to AGI, it's fundamentally the wrong paradigm to develop true intelligence.

Either way, I doubt that will happen in my lifetime and I don't spend any time worrying about it.
by timr | 2025-08-26 19:10:53+00:00
> I live in Switzerland and Swiss post, which is the state owned postal service, does not ship to the US anymore.

That is not what the link says. It says that goods consignments are not accepted -- which is not at all the same thing as "does not ship to the US anymore". The link explicitly says that they're continuing to ship letters, will continue to ship goods via another service, and (I can only presume) will continue to accept personal packages, since those aren't affected at all by these tariff changes.

The discussion on this topic on HN is far more heat than light.
by adwn | 2025-08-26 19:10:54+00:00
> It makes sense that the the economically struggling former communist areas would be both more drawn to extreme parties and have a distaste for the left.

That: "have a distaste for the left" is extremely wrong, because before the AfD, the far-left parties which traced their history back to the SED (the socialist party of the GDR (East Germany)) were very popular there, much more so than in West Germany.
by cube2222 | 2025-08-26 19:11:02+00:00
> We’re launching with 1,000 Max users and expanding gradually based on what we learn. This measured approach helps us validate safeguards before broader deployment.

Somewhat comforting they’re not yolo-ing it too much, but I frankly don’t see how the prompt injection issues with browser agents that act on your behalf can be surmounted - maybe other than the company guaranteeing “we’ll reimburse you for any unintentional financial losses incurred by the agent”.

Cause it seems to me like any straightforward methods are really just an arms race between prompt injection and heuristic safeguards.
by rdtsc | 2025-08-26 19:11:19+00:00
Gr is the science journal version of Van Halen's brown M&M rider -- it's how you can tell the reviewers and the authors had no idea what they were doing and just copy pasted junk around.

I think established authors should try to sprinkle obvious mistakes like that on purpose once in a while in the literature and then see how much it spreads.
by crustaceansoup | 2025-08-26 19:11:31+00:00
Wildly different and subjectively less "presentable", to be clear. The fashion bubble just generates a vague bubble shape with the subject inside it instead of the"subject flying through the sky inside a bubble" presented on the site. The other case just adds the fork to the bowl of spaghetti. Both are reproducible.

Arguably they follow the prompt better than what Google is showing off, but at the same time look less impressive.
by grimblee | 2025-08-26 19:12:01+00:00
This is in the same veins as implementing backdoor in every messaging app. The problem is that no matter what, criminals are going to do crimes and by closing tor (or make it insecure for people that really need it) you will just penalize innocents for nothing. Imho the efforts are much better invested in infiltrating and dismentling pedohile networks and also raising public awarness about the taboo of incest, because lot of it happens inside the familial circle and that awarness could prevent a lot of harm.
by crote | 2025-08-26 19:12:38+00:00
Great! Now prove it.

The problem isn't creating a reasonable estimate, anyone can do that. Most cheap consumer PCBs are going to be 2-layer FR4 with 1oz/sq. ft. of copper, minus some etched away, with negligible copper in parts like chips. That indeed should get you fairly close.

But there are also 32-layer PCBs, and even PCBs with a solid copper core. And your PCB could be filled with copper inductors! Similarly, it could also be a solid aluminum-core PCB. If I were a malicious customs officer, I would insist that the only valid upper bound is a 100% copper PCB, which is also 100% aluminum, and 100% whatever else. Don't want to pay that? No problem, just provide a certified lab analysis report!

Simple things rapidly get complicated when the goal is to frustrate the process as much as possible. You don't live in a modern economy focused on global trade anymore, you are now living in a Kafka book.
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-08-26 19:13:16+00:00
What is an Axis II chemical disorder? I'm fairly certain that Axis II was personality disorders and intellectual disabilities in the DSM IV.

70% of people 60 years of age and older have high blood pressure[1], 50% of men regardless of age. Does this mean that our definition of high blood pressure needs work?

I'm not arguing that the DSM is perfect, but it's possible for something to be bad and also common. But I appreciate the "Keep taking your meds" sentiment as well, it has bigger problem overall, but it can still help people.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db511.htm
by trimethylpurine | 2025-08-26 19:13:26+00:00
I'm not sure it's the same as what GP is saying. Maybe anecdotal, but living in Italy I had a very hard time finding a lot of things. Even getting basic mail delivery was pretty difficult. Same with Spain, to varying degrees.

As another example, visiting the Netherlands, it would take a week to get a decent child car seat delivered last year.

Comparing with the US, it's night and day. I can order something at 6AM and it's at my doorstep by 10AM. And the number of goods that are offered at that speed is absolutely astonishing.

As a side note, what the US has done to the shopping experience may not be preferable when considering all related effects on the market, happiness, etc. But it certainly sets a very high bar if you are comparing to Europe.

EDIT: I almost forgot to mention that all of this magical instant delivery is free!
by coldpie | 2025-08-26 19:13:32+00:00
The goal of Republican policy is to make the wealthy & powerful, more wealthy & powerful. As we see here, small companies can't deal with the tariff complexity, and so they turn away American customers. Large companies can handle the complexity, both by having compliance employees and lawyers who can cover over mistakes. So, Americans must do their business with the only remaining suppliers, which are the large companies who can now charge higher prices due to less competition.

The mega-wealthy individuals will not suffer from any economic downturn, so it doesn't matter if their policies harm the economy.
Show HN: Free ADA compliance scanner for websites
by borxtrk | 2025-08-26 19:13:37+00:00
I noticed many government and nonprofit sites are still failing basic accessibility checks, even with the 2026 ADA deadline coming fast.

I built a free tool that runs Google Lighthouse accessibility checks and gives you a 0–100 score plus a PDF report you can share with leadership.

adaquickscan.com

Curious what the HN community thinks — what features would make this more useful? (API? deeper reports? integration ideas?)
by bob1029 | 2025-08-26 19:13:53+00:00
Access to very cheap power in the MISO region is likely one of the top driving factors for this location. It extends partially into Texas and I've found that my rates are sometimes as little as half of what ERCOT customers are paying.

The #1 thing that makes MISO so cheap is the fact that it has the heaviest coal generation mix (>40%) out of all US regional grid operators. Any talk about natural gas or renewables pales in comparison.
by snozolli | 2025-08-26 19:13:56+00:00
Please name, say, three elements of NAZI policies that were socialist. To my knowledge, the only thing that's even a tiny bit socialist was Hitler's plan for some sort of central bank, because of course he saw banking and loans as part of some Jewish conspiracy.

Hitler was an O.G. troll, taking over the Workers' Party and renaming it with the word Socialism purely to aggravate his political opponents. He hated socialists, communists, and anarchists.
by farceSpherule | 2025-08-26 19:14:44+00:00
Good luck getting anywhere with this... Companies will lobby hard to squash it.

Ghost jobs help companies do one important thing: hire the person they already selected and want in the position but have to go through the "interview" process to make things look "transparent." They post the job, "interview" some folks, included their preferred candidate, then miraculously "select" their preferred candidate over everyone else.
by scblock | 2025-08-26 19:14:45+00:00
Zero people enjoy QR codes to get menus.

If you own a restaurant just print the menu. If you have a rotating tap list or daily menu just get a laser printer and print on plain paper or send someone to a copy store to print them out. Your customers will be quite happy have it in front of them instead of on their phones.

Doesn't matter how quick or "easy" or "responsive" your stupid online menu is.

Sorry buddy.
by tomwheeler | 2025-08-26 19:14:57+00:00
I have an M2 Max MBP for work and a Framework 16 for home.

Build quality of the MBP is better. The machine feels more solid. The battery life is better, although to be fair, I run Linux on the Framework so the hardware itself isn't the only difference.

The Framework 16 wins hands-down when it comes to ports, one of my biggest pain points with any Apple laptop in the last 10 years. It has six of them and I can mostly arrange them according to my needs. In the rare cases where I plug it into an external monitor, I swap out one of the USB ports for an HDMI port. If I'm using more older devices than normal, I replace the USB-C ports with USB-A ports. I say "mostly" here because not all ports work in all positions.

The repairability and openness of the Framework laptop were the big draws for me and it delivered well on both counts. I'm happy with it.
by rvz | 2025-08-26 19:15:38+00:00
> According to their own blog post, even after mitigations, the model still has an 11% attack success rate.

That is really bad. Even after all those mitigations imagine the other AI browsers being at their worst. Perplexity's Comet showed how a simple summarization can lead to your account being hijacked.

> (Sidenote, why is this page so broken? Almost everything is hidden.)

They vibe-coded the site with Claude and didn't test it before deploying. That is quite a botched amateur launch for engineers to do at Anthropic.
by xp84 | 2025-08-26 19:15:43+00:00
Sure, but the thing is, from appearances Trump seems to lack the ability to think strategically, to plan, and importantly, to find and listen to people who know things.

Even setting aside most of the culture-war stuff, which is so white-hot right now that it clouds matters, I think almost any other politician other than Trump, AOC, MTG, and probably a couple more I'm forgetting, would be more likely to do that last thing.

Trump's main issue is that he gets all excited and makes rash decisions based on the last person he talked to, compounded by the fact that he chooses who to talk to overwhelmingly based on chump change "campaign contributions" (bribes), family nepotism, or just his existing network of sycophants.

I'm saying all this neutrally toward ideology and left/right. Frankly I think life was fine domestically under both G. W. Bush and Obama, because both of them weren't impulsive and easily swayed to erratic decisions.