MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Animats | 2025-08-23 04:20:29+00:00
This encourages self-censorship, or what's called "anticipatory obedience".

YouTube has become much worse about censorship. Pepe's Towing, LA's main towing company for major truck accidents, complains that YouTube took down some of their videos. Their videos are simply detailed coverage of the complex but effective process by which large vehicles that had accidents are lifted, rotated upright, placed on their wheels or on a large dolly as necessary, and towed away. Their people wear body cams, like cops, their cranes have cameras, and sometimes they use a DJI drone. (They bring out the drone when someone drives off an embankment and they need to plan a difficult lift.) The main purpose of all the video is to settle arguments with insurance companies over the cost of recovery. But they started a YouTube channel for PR purposes.

Almost all this video is taken on public property on LA county roads and freeways, with the cooperation of the cops, CALTRANS, local fire departments, and other organizations that clean up other people's messes. These are very public activities, with traffic streaming by and sometimes news helicopters hovering overhead. Totally First Amendment protected. Not a violation of YouTube's stated policies.

So what's the YouTube censorship about? Preventing corporate embarrassment. Their older videos have clear pictures of truck doors with ownership info. Container markings. License plates. Pictures of damaged goods. Now. out of fear of being cancelled by YouTube, they're blurring everything identifiable. Recently someone rolled over a semitrailer full of melons, and they blurred out not just the trucking company info, but the labels on the melons. Which the people from Pepe's say is silly, but they don't want to fight with YouTube.
by rayiner | 2025-08-23 04:20:52+00:00
I’m not a “well actually” guy, I’m a constitutional fundamentalist. It’s definitionally not extortion to threaten to do something you have a legal right to do. The CHIPs Act gave the executive a bunch of money for making discretionary grants. And that means the President has a bunch of money to make discretionary grants.

Also, why should we give companies money without getting equity?
Show HN: Jeopardy Labs as a Static Web App
by abidlabs | 2025-08-23 04:21:06+00:00
Hi folks! I love trivia and have built lots of jeopardy boards over the years with Jeopardy Labs. I recently discovered that Jeopardy Labs now requires a paid account to upload images to questions. I understand that they can charge for features at any time, since they have to pay for servers, etc. At the same time, since I already pay for Claude Code, I wondered how long it would take for me to vibe code my own version of the site. I decided to code the website so that it doesn't require any backend server at all -- all questions, answers, and metadata are stored in the URL itself.

Feel free to try it out, fork it, or propose any feature requests.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-23 04:21:17+00:00
Linux is more likely to have to deal with something like poor/nonexistent drivers that mean a device consumes extra power compared to Windows. But,

* cpupower is pretty nice for manual control of your clock speeds

* the diversity of window managers allows you to have something like a mostly-black UI, which can help on OLED screens. You can even invert the screen color in X, if your programs insist on rendering black-on-white.

* not randomly cranking up the CPU for some windows whatever scan thing saves some power
by 999900000999 | 2025-08-23 04:23:10+00:00
>We need complete freedom on mobile.

Technically alternative stores exist on Android.

On IOS you can argue customers are paying for security.

Stopping Billy from downloading a key logger is a corporate choice Apple makes.

If you need to install random binaries from the internet your free to buy android device or a cheap computer.

iOS reduces the attack surface.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-08-23 04:23:12+00:00
My point isn’t that the US is great at everything (it’s clearly not), it’s that putting restrictions on US businesses while trading with places that don’t have the restrictions is moronic. It puts US businesses at a disadvantage and then still has the negative effect the regulations were trying to prevent in many cases (e.g. air pollution, water pollution, abuse of workers if you care about Chinese people too and don’t want to support their abuse, etc).
by rapidaneurism | 2025-08-23 04:23:51+00:00
Being unpopular is not the opposite of popular.

The winter fuel payments were very unpopular with a very vocal part of the population, while any benefits were very thinly distributed on the rest of the electorate.

The cost of the online safety act is very small and almost invisible distributed across everyone. Any major effects (leaking of personal data) can be blamed on the victims (most people assume that only perverts will have to verify their age). Another effect where security conscious people will be excluded from online discussions is probably in invisible (if not a benefit) to most people.
by lgas | 2025-08-23 04:24:07+00:00
I'm not an expert but I'd say based on my experience with Lean so far, the answer is yes. eg. I have entered some proofs from the Lean guide and then replaced tactics with `apply?` which searches for tactics to meet the goal, and eg. reduced this example from the guide:

theorem and_commutative (p q : Prop) : p ∧ q → q ∧ p := fun hpq : p ∧ q => have hp : p := And.left hpq have hq : q := And.right hpq show q ∧ p from And.intro hq hp

To this:

theorem and_commutative' (p q : Prop) : p ∧ q → q ∧ p := by exact fun a ↦ id (And.symm a)

Presumably the same thing could be done for each part of a more complicated proof and could be done so at each step automatically.
by balamatom | 2025-08-23 04:24:38+00:00
Says you haven't spent nearly enough time imagining things, first and foremost. "What have they done to you".

Can you, for example, hypothesize the kind of entity, to which all of your own most cherished accomplishments look as chicken-scratch-futile, as the perpetual motion guy with the cable in the frame looks to you? What would it be like, looking at things from such a being's perspective?

Stands to reason that you'd know better than I would, since you do proclaim to enjoy that sort of thing. Besides, if you find yourself unable to imagine that, you ought to be at least a little worried - about the state of your tHeOrY of mInD and all that. (Imagining what it's like to be the perpetual motion person already?)

Anywae, as to what such a being would look like from the outside... a distributed actor implemented on top of replaceable meatpuppets in light slavemode seems about right, though early on it'd like to replace those with something more efficient, subsequently using them for authentication only - why, what theories of the firm apply in your environs?
by musicale | 2025-08-23 04:25:27+00:00
You're not wrong, but Apple and Google probably remember things like the Facebook VPN fiasco of 2018, where Facebook's VPN app was banned from the app store for breaking privacy rules – and then they turned around and abused enterprise app certificates to sidestep the ban.

> By installing Onavo, millions unknowingly granted Facebook full access to their digital activity. App usage, browsing habits, and precise timestamps were silently collected. Facebook VPN didn’t just observe its own users - it tracked behavior across rival platforms like YouTube, Amazon, and Snapchat.

> ... Engineers exploited Onavo’s infrastructure to install a root certificate on phones, masking Snapchat’s servers to decrypt user activity.

This is an obvious security hole that should never have existed, but the fact that Facebook eagerly exploited it, while abusing VPNs for tracking and enterprise certs for sidestepping app store privacy rules, shows the threat landscape.

https://www.analyticsinsight.net/news/when-facebook-used-vpn...
by EasyMark | 2025-08-23 04:25:57+00:00
I really dislike what 4chan is, but I'm also a huge proponent of freedom online. I am glad that 4chan is telling the UK to go pound sand, I just hope they have the foresight to realize that they should not travel there or into countries that might extradite them. It's too bad that the country where 1984 originated is currently doing it's best to put the ideas in that book (the bad ones) to use in subjugating their citizens.
by anon84873628 | 2025-08-23 04:26:10+00:00
>Also, “unitary executive” doesn’t mean overriding other branches

I feel we're headed for a No True Scotsman fallacy. The Trump Regime and Roberts court endorse the unitary executive theory, and they are happily overriding Article 1 powers and violating laws like the Administrative Procedures Act based on this theory's farcical and ahistorical logic.

If the theory wasn't giving him more power (like firing non-political appointees without cause or withholding funds appropriated by Congress) he wouldn't be using it.
by Projectiboga | 2025-08-23 04:27:24+00:00
Single payer would allow all outcomes to be evaluated in total per year, so we could see better which things work and not, and what are the best return on spending. Big medicine doesn't want that, nor an FDA that has to consider budget implications of approvals. The ways single payer would help is by reducing friction in getting care, much less time with any approvals. And everyone would need less liability coverage if health costs are covered. That can lower automobile, business and other liability insurances. Everywhere else does it for less of a share of their own GDPs.
by cjbarber | 2025-08-23 04:27:24+00:00
1. Twitter: Founders and employees of early stage startups are often on twitter.

2. Portfolios of great angel investors and VC firms.

3. Emailing people you admire, eg investors, founders, or engineers.

4. Write down your friends and past and current colleagues who you think are a) most likely to be successful and b) you’d most enjoy working with. Or even just who you most like, trust, and admire. Then see where they work. And ask them about other companies they know. The simplest version of this is go on LinkedIn, and browse your network, and click to check out the companies all of your past classmates and colleagues work at.

5. Go to events that would have interesting technologists in your field (ie the areas where you have skill and taste, so you can pick who you admire), and ask them where they work, and which startups they’ve been impressed by. Talks, conferences, meetups, maker spaces.

6. Biased self-promotion: I’m kind of obsessed with interesting startups and sometimes share lists of startups, eg https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1957834156794343730 and https://x.com/chrisbarber/status/1957446016950816866

7. HN who is hiring thread: there are lots of interesting ones there, you’ll just want to dig through to find them.

8. Look up university career fair company lists to see which companies are hiring, if they’re hiring new grads and interns then they’re very likely hiring senior engineers too.

9. Podcasts: some technologists have great podcasts, so do some investors and VC firms.

10. Search for startups founded by alumni from your school, you’re more likely to have alumni second degree connections there.

I’ll note that investors get many bets, employees get one at a time. So you need a higher bar. Meeting in person is particularly high signal.

My tip for filtering companies is to spend as much time as possible in person with the team before accepting an offer, ideally at least on 3+ separate occasions, with 3+ separate people. If there’s doubt, skip. This is also why it’s so good to start by identifying your most impressive friends and colleagues and see where they work, because you start with that high trust filter.
by seedlessmike | 2025-08-23 04:29:11+00:00
So - I can't update the description anymore, but I added a demo account so that you don't have to enter emails.

at login, instead of an email address, type "show_hn" (without quotes). It'll populate the login code, and you can log in.

The token balance will deplete from 10,000 and when it goes below 1000, will be topped off to 10,000. It does have a wallet which is linked in the UI, you can look at it and see the transactions.

This way, no one has to create accounts with their email address. You can if you want, but you don't have to and there is really no reason to, unless you want your own (completely useless and worthless) HYPE tokens.
by kixelated | 2025-08-23 04:29:12+00:00
It's all hardware accelerated, assuming the VideoDecoder has hardware support for the codec. VideoFrame is available in WebGL and WebGPU as a texture or gpu-buffer. We're only rendering after a`requestAnimationFrame` callback so decoded frames may get automatically skipped based on the display frame rate.

I don't think the performance would be any worse than the <video> tag. The only exception would be browser bugs. It definitely sounds like the black bars are a browser rendering bug given it's fine when recorded.
by np1810 | 2025-08-23 04:31:57+00:00
> If they were just honest from the get-go, it'd be fine, but some people aren't.

If it were just individuals doing it, maybe it would've been somewhat digestible. But it's a pity that sometimes even trillion-dollar companies do it.

Pre-LLM days, the doers were atleast aware of their copy/clone/wrapper, but now it's happening unintentionally when LLMs give out modified versions of someone else's code without binding to its license, because AFAIK LLMs do not automatically add licensing details of libraries used inside their outputted code, or do they?
by MrJohz | 2025-08-23 04:32:36+00:00
I think the big difference there is that browsers are only responsible for Javascript, which is a big general purpose solution that solves a lot of problems and not just templating/styling XML. Everything else either happens server-side (build steps and webpack) or is userland code that lives inside the sandbox. So there's one task for browsers to do (make a fast and secure Javascript sandbox), and if that works that developers can do whatever they want. Whereas XSLT is not a general purpose tool in the same way, and so needs to be maintained in addition to Javascript and anything else that exists.

If course XSLT can also be used server-side (which is probably a good idea if you want access to the latest features and not some ancient, frozen version of the spec), but browsers aren't the reason that that didn't take off. My guess there is that it's just not an intuitive way of manipulating and templating data in comparison to more traditional HTML templating libraries.
by p3rls | 2025-08-23 04:33:23+00:00
in my niche (korean entertainment) i now have to compete with 200 indian slop scammers when before it was 10 malaysian scammers, then everyone else was mixed race.

really sad what google has done.

you can see it really obvious on some of these korean queries for singers, eg, google "taehyung" and look at the news tab and give it a count.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-08-23 04:34:21+00:00
I have a high IQ and some combination of low key autism and ADHD which hinder my memory to some extent. I've gone my whole career finding the status quo way of doing things overengineered. I keep my stuff simple and I always see the team around me drowning in bugs and redesigns from their overcomplicated and unnecessary layers of abstraction and indirection that don't match how the business needs have evolved. I don't write a line of code until it's needed, and I find maintenance and extension of my code to be easy.
by DonHopkins | 2025-08-23 04:34:51+00:00
Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam was having staff shortage problems a few years ago, so they deployed holographic security guards that didn't threaten strikes. The only problem was that people would try to put their arms through real security guards. ;)

https://speld.nl/2022/05/31/schiphol-zet-hologrammen-in-van-...
by yoshamano | 2025-08-23 04:36:31+00:00
I'm still running TrueNAS Core, but I'm in the process of moving to the Community Edition. I'm doing a wholesale backup data, start from scratch, restore data to fix some initial choices in my zpool I wasn't happy with.

I'm dreading setting up Plex and Syncthing again so I've been dragging my feet. Seeing the comment about dreading each update isn't exactly lifting my feet out of the dirt.
by thayne | 2025-08-23 04:37:06+00:00
> For everything else, it’s up to parents or guardians to implement filters, content controls, and blocks.

First of, I'd like to be clear, I don't think laws like this are the right way to go.

But to be fair, even if you are tech literate, which most parents aren't, this is actually pretty difficult to do.

And there are really three approaches you can take to this. You can use an allowlist of sites, but that is very restrictive, and limits the ability to explore, research, and learn how to use the internet generally. You can use a blocklist, but then you will always miss something, and it is a game of whack a mole. Or you can use some kind of AI, but that will probably both block things you don't want blocked, and allow things you do want blocked, and will probably add significant latency.

One possible way this could be improved is if websites with adult or mature content, or potential dangers to children (such as allowing the child to communicate with strangers, or gambling) returned a header that marked the content as possibly not suitable for children with a tag of the reason, and maybe a minimum age. Then a browser or firewall could be configured to block access to anything with headers for undesired content. Although, I think that would be most effective if there were laws requiring the headers to be honest.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-23 04:37:18+00:00
I have 2 Supermicro H13SAE-MF with Ryzen 9's and ECC UDIMM RAM. It's not registered or LR ECC RAM like a mainstream server though, and not as fancy as Chipkill-like ECC systems. This particular board also accepts EPYC 4004 / 4005 series. I'll probably replace the Ryzens with EPYC 4585PX once they get old enough and cheap enough on the secondary markets. These boxes are 100 Gbps network test nodes.

(I'm currently in the midst of refanning my CSE847-JBOD with bigger, quieter fans and swapping PSUs.)
by paradox460 | 2025-08-23 04:37:57+00:00
Kind of. You can click a gear and set various options on it, including a "pulled string mode", which works similarly to this, where it has a "smoothing radius" that movement within will not change cursor direction, and then a "stroke catch up" mode where the stroke is at a somewhat constant speed, regardless of how you move your mouse.

The former looks like this https://i.imgur.com/TGE7N1z.png
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-23 04:38:01+00:00
Are you unfamiliar with the concept of cornering a market? Sure, uber was offering lower prices subsidized by VCs until taxis were driven off. After the fact they raised prices back up. Or what Amazon did with diapers.com? It is not wise to let your geopolitical foe gut the productive capability of your economy. It’s how America took over dominance from the UK by taking over the high tech business of the day back then (textiles).

It’s fine for the consumer in the short term but a flawed long term strategy.
by henearkr | 2025-08-23 04:38:20+00:00
Why aren't they issuing ordinances for people to switch to electric cars?

To learn foreign languages?

To study sciences?

I really don't know what to think.

Like, if they think that the bottleneck, the motivation source, to get people to improve their lifestyle, is to have an ordinance issued, then they really need to study the basics of psychology and sociology. And of public communication.
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-08-23 04:40:50+00:00
I don't know if anyone else agrees, but for some reason no one can replicate the smoothness of the Apple trackpad. And now with that PLUS the heatless apple silicon - I don't think I could go to another OS and the x86 hardware world. I would just feel like I'm in clunky-land. Now don't get me wrong, I like a lot about Linux desktops, but Mac gets a lot of things right. I don't want to take anything away from people migrating from Mac, but the PC didn't kill Desktop Linux, Mac did.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-08-23 04:43:24+00:00
It's making three round trips. The first is to get the original xml file, then it's to load the second xml file, then it's to load the stylesheet.

Now you can imagine with a real site, you will have many includes per page, each one perhaps using includes of it's own. You end up with a really bad waterfall where it can take a long time for a page to load because it's going back to the server constantly, whereas if you did it on the server it would be a single round trip.

Early SPA's did this, they would load a shell and then begin fetching from the client. Some still do but we know better than to do this for things that aren't web apps.
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-23 04:43:33+00:00
I think you may have a flawed understanding of how VCs work. VCs generally care little for one company does. That’s what the whole “invest in 500 startups” strategy is about. Now a $200M investment probably starts to leave that range and enters the “throw weight around to win”, but generally they care little about the software except as a means to an end to get returns and business growth and software value are only loosely correlated.
by copper_think | 2025-08-23 04:46:06+00:00
One thing not mentioned is that Visual C++ and Visual Basic historically were separate IDEs with separate codebases. When the time came to unify them, only one of them could continue on. My understanding is that Visual Basic won, and that today's Visual Studio IDE (devenv.exe, msenv.dll, etc.) is the continuation of that VB codebase.

I don't actually know in which release that transition happened. But since there's a screenshot of each version in the article, presumably that transition is visually documented...
by nine_k | 2025-08-23 04:46:12+00:00
You are. You can run Docker for Windows, and run Windows binaries in reasonably isolated containers, without involving Linux at all [1]. Much like you run Linux containers on Linux without involving Windows.

It's Docker Desktop what assumes WSL; Docker engine does not. Also, you seem to need Windows Server; IDK if it can be made to work on a Pro version.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscont...
by cornholio | 2025-08-23 04:46:38+00:00
This part is very relevant:

> There is an income threshold—EUR 5,175 per month or EUR 62,100 (as of 2024), at which the percentage contribution is capped. What this means is that if your income increases, then this percentage remains fixed and doesn’t change with your salary increase.

Germany has a quite progressive tax scheme and the brackets are designed to be complementary, so that as income raises the pension and health benefits are capped while the general income tax grows more aggressively up to a total taxation rate around 45% for high incomes.

This is more than you would pay in the US but it includes both free healthcare for the rest of your life and a livable state pension after 67, and you get those benefits even if worse comes to worst and you suffer an accident, major disability etc. This is powerful social safety net that can't really be compared with what the American federal + state + private insurance offer you in return as benefits for your total tax+healthcare contribution.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-08-23 04:47:29+00:00
> ...that is always on

with predictable results w.r.t. quality-of-living when your house already has central heating.

Agas used to be a very rural middle-class thing: it was how I imagine most countryside homes' heating and cooking worked, and it scaled from a modestly-sized cosy cottage to being in expansive stately homes. But postwar, and especially since the 1960s, Agas are just a status-symbol appliance to me.

Like, in North America, you know you've made it when you have a Wolf range and a Subzero fridge in your kitchen. In the UK, it's when you've got an Aga.

...probably because the only comfortable way to run the thing is by also having central air-conditioning installed and running full-blast while you use the thing.