MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dang | 2025-08-25 21:10:16+00:00
The current thread is a Launch HN that I helped the startup prepare (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html or, if you really want details, https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html).

The other thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008239) appeared by coincidence. It looks like it spent quite a few hours on the frontpage overnight, but I had no idea it existed! In any case the Launch HN was scheduled before that.

(Btw, I don't think that "using it made them crash" is correct - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45010327)
by michalpleban | 2025-08-25 21:10:22+00:00
I have recently had a need to create an Instagram account. I logged in from my home IP and it was recognized as coming from Vietnam (my home IP has been the same since 2016, always with the same ISP). Everything was in Vietnamese and I had to spend half an hour figuring out how to switch it back to English. But in the home feed I still got only Vietnamese influencers, and there was nothing in the settings to change that. I got assigned to Vietnam for life.

Well, I did nothing with the account except setting up the profile and following some people. Then I logged in to the account on my phone, which of course is not from Vietnam. Bam, account suspended for violating the TOS. I appealed, after one day got a message that the ban was upheld because I did violate the TOS.

I guess no Instagram for me. That's probably for the better.
by GeekyBear | 2025-08-25 21:10:29+00:00
> Wasn’t Apple the one actually caught throttling devices with an update to slow phones down under the guise of "saving battery"?

Nope. There was an issue in iPhones and Nexus phones that had been used for a few years where a worn battery could no longer maintain a voltage high enough to meet instantaneous SOC power demand, resulting in unexpected device shut downs.

Apple got the device to quit shutting off without warning by throttling older devices and Google did nothing and just told users to buy a new device.

They both got sued, and both lost.

> If you currently or formerly owned a Google Nexus 6P smartphone, we have some good news: you might be eligible for a cash rebate for those bootloops and spontaneous shutdowns the device was known for.

https://www.androidauthority.com/nexus-6p-lawsuit-2019-97547...
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-08-25 21:10:43+00:00
Yes and to add to this, we're seeing a rise of nonchalantness and apathy, or at least feigned apathy that's really devastating. Modern dating advice is basically how to show you care less than the other person. Don't ever show vulnerability!! The person who cares the least wins, as if it's a zero sum game. Everyone just loses instead.

I was watching some vintage F1 clips and it showed some guys from the 70's celebrating a win and it occurred to me that I rarely see people (men especially) celebrating in such a carefree and passionate way. They weren't afraid to show emotion or show that they really cared about the result. They were chalant.

I hope we can bring back vulnerability, emotions, and being okay with looking "cringe" sometimes.
by ghxst | 2025-08-25 21:11:07+00:00
I usually hit robots.txt when I want to make fetch requests to a domain from the console without running into CORS or CSP issues. Since it's just a static file, there's no client-side code interfering, which makes it nice for testing. If you're hunting for vulnerabilities it's also worth probing (especially with crawler UAs), since it can leak hidden endpoints or framework-specific paths that devs didn't expect anyone to notice.
by xp84 | 2025-08-25 21:11:09+00:00
Regarding #2 the fact that probably the majority of battery-powered non-toy devices now are designed not to ever have their battery serviced is indicative of a (in my opinion) diseased mindset of disposability. Each of the components including battery and other wear parts are only spec'd to last about 12-18 months. We're being conditioned (by one-year warranties and by the lack of repairability) to think that it's normal and expected that you discard and replace everything smaller than a car every 18-36 months, and a car every 7 years or so because "obviously" anything older than these milestones is "obsolete anyway."
by gethly | 2025-08-25 21:11:46+00:00
What is your opinion on token response type and/or id_token for oidc being part of the fragment of redirect uri? I have noticed that apple only supports "code" response type, which is the most secure way. Downside is that it requires a back channel and a second request to be made, but i cannot imagine a use case where this would be a problem as I don't see a pure Single-Page Application having any use for this in a any way, except purely rendering some protected data in a different format, which seems like a silly use case.
by eqvinox | 2025-08-25 21:11:47+00:00
This was the last drip in an almost-full bucket for me & I finally made the jump to "disable" YouTube on my phone. And, honestly, my mental health improved a bit. Rarely still pull up YT on laptop, but that's a different use pattern than on phone.

(I don't have any other YouTube-like on my phone, particularly no TikTok. Actually started reading more books instead.)
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-08-25 21:12:15+00:00
There are a great number of opinions expressed on this site. I generally think "cronies" is pejorative and you generally think "cronies" is pejorative, but I take it on faith that there is at least one person out there thinking "hunh... cronies? yeah. That sounds good. I don't know why people get so upset when I say that."

And I do not know whether the person using it in a sentence is using it pejoratively. And heck, there are PLENTY of heresies I subscribe to: testing software is more often useful than it isn't, the web was done by amateurs, adding comments to code documenting the programmers' intent is useful, the rust borrow checker should have just been an add-on tool for C++, etc. So it may be ME who is against the grain on this one.

Which is to say... just be careful out there when you assume things about a large audience.
by throwitawayfam | 2025-08-25 21:12:22+00:00
What do you do when these lookups return the company that owns the number but the company says that they are not in control of the number? E.g, I have one number that keeps harassing me that reports as Verizon but Verizon says they have not been with Verizon since 2024.

Also great tool, thank you
by TheAmazingRace | 2025-08-25 21:12:48+00:00
What's funny about all this is, back when the Raptor Blackbird MicroATX board dropped in 2018, you could cobble together one of those with a quad core POWER9 CPU for a reasonable $1200 out the door. Prices went up exponentially after the pandemic due to sourcing issues and some channels used for parts drying up. A shame, really.

I used to own one of these systems before I sold it to my dad, and I'm eagerly awaiting a next generation offering, if it ever comes out.
by mvdtnz | 2025-08-25 21:13:01+00:00
"Editing" implies they are applying some kind of editorial change. From what I've seen it's a sharpening/upscaling filter to improve visual quality. If your issue is that Youtube is changing the quality of the video, well, they have been doing that since the very first video every uploaded to Youtube. All Youtube videos are compressed, they have always had that ugly softness to them.

I'm not seeing the outrage here.
by cyanydeez | 2025-08-25 21:13:02+00:00
More context is not going solve this.

CSS requires understanding emerging properties of layout. So context doesn't help. Knowing how a variable expands a a div into a set of constraints isnt context dependent.

What you probably mean is a well designed model context which fits the most flexible and logical code framework.

Reading the last paragraph should make you realize the proposition isnt likely going to happen.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-08-25 21:13:07+00:00
> "... Intel NUC ..., then Gigabyte Brix series, then some cheapo china ones ..."

That's the mistake. Secondhand Dell, HP, or Lenovo mini PCs would probably have served better. They're cheap when second hand and the ones I've had have lasted a decade because the big OEMs are experienced in building office PCs.
by SlowTao | 2025-08-25 21:13:51+00:00
A few years back Chris Hedges did a showshow/podcast or something and he was forced to finally read in depth a lot more Rand.

I love his defeated responded of "It is amazing just how pedestrian those books are. There is nothing interesting in them.".

Hedges is always worth listening to even if you won't always agree but he does make doomers look like utopian optimists.
by evilduck | 2025-08-25 21:14:06+00:00
Reliability and consistency? Humans have bad days. Humans have needs and can't be available 24/7/365 for years on end. OF creators burn out or grow up or lose interest or cash out and retire.

It's not like the "real women" of OnlyFans are consistently real, or women. And there's some percentage that are already AI-by-proxy. There's definitely opportunity for someone to just skip the middleman.
by bitbang | 2025-08-25 21:14:24+00:00
For anybody on an android phone,I highly recommend https://github.com/aj3423/SpamBlocker

It is highly configurable with every feature I've ever wanted but could never find for call filtering in the the app store. I've essentially set mine so that if the calling number is not in my contacts, or is not a number I've called in the last 90 days, the phone never runs and the call is sent to voice mail. But it supports lots of other mechanisms to filter with like regex, or how many times the number has called within a given timeframe.
by ffsm8 | 2025-08-25 21:14:38+00:00
For what conceivable reason would they make the users go on desktop, considering mobile is in the process of being fully locked down?

If anything, they'd eventually deny access from desktop, forcing everyone to login via the fully manages mobile devices without any user freedom.

Some banks are already getting there btw, as their preferred 2fa is a companion app... One small step away from making that the only option, effectively denying access to anyone without a locked down mobile device.
by HelloImSteven | 2025-08-25 21:15:03+00:00
But this is for apps outside the Play store, so the DSA isn’t at play here insofar as Google needs to be concerned. I don’t think there’s any solid decision on whether third-party app distribution is subject to the trader requirements, but if/when there is, it’d presumably be on the alternative distribution platform to enforce, not Google. Plus, Google already adjusted its policies to comply with the DSA.

For the record, Apple notes that the DSA requirements only impact developers distributing through the App Store, not through alternative distribution [1].

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/manage-co...
by liquidgecka | 2025-08-25 21:15:31+00:00
It has not been true for a LONG time. That was part of Google early “compute unit” strategy that involved things like sealed containers and such. Turns out that’s not super efficient or useful because you leave large swaths of hardware idle.

In my day we had software that would “drain” a machine and release it to hardware ops to swap the hardware on. This could be a drive, memory, CPU or a motherboard. If it was even slightly complicated they would ship it to Mountain View for diagnostic and repair. But every machine was expected to be cycled to get it working as fast as possible.

We did a disk upgrade on a whole datacenter that involved switching from 1TB to 2TB disks or something like that (I am dating myself) and total downtime was so important they hired temporary workers to work nights to get the swap done as quickly as possible. If I remember correctly that was part of the “holy cow gmail is out of space!” chaos though, so added urgency.
by xp84 | 2025-08-25 21:15:52+00:00
Hmm... $30 and only being sold by third-party sellers there. That's not encouraging. Hope that's a temporary inventory shortage because of pent-up demand and not a sign that they barely intend to make any of these. Because I have a half drawer worth of various of the compact USB-A receivers and have literally never seen any USB-C equivalents in real life yet... It's time.
by Yeul | 2025-08-25 21:16:14+00:00
The realistic scenario is that the Taiwanese elite does a deal with the CCP.

America is nobody's friend, at the end of the day China are still Chinese. Americans are xenophobic and racist. Increasingly anti free trade and isolationist.

Also I am incredibly sceptical that the US wants to go to all out war with China over Taiwan. A war they aren't even sure they can win and that REGARDLESS OF OUTCOME will leave Taiwan in ruins.
by MrResearcher | 2025-08-25 21:16:15+00:00
The powertrain warranty is usually 5 years or 60K miles. Bumper-to-bumper warranty is around 3 years, I think. I would be OK with the loan for as long as powertrain is covered, at the very least. The modern day turbo engines have exceptionally low reliability, it will blow while you still owe quite a bit for the car.
by ayende | 2025-08-25 21:16:15+00:00
If you are checking the cert logs, it is a very tiny bit to validate the key as well. If you aren't checking... well, that isn't a concern anyway, now is it?

And the whole _point_ of the cert transparency log is that it only take _one_ such instance to ruin the credibility of a CA.

The fact that you do that in the public, and that it is _forever_, make it very hard to do in the shadows.
by Mic92 | 2025-08-25 21:16:24+00:00
Technically sops-nix doesn't require sops files to be added to the repo. It's just what most people choose because it makes deployment convenient - if you have your deployment tool uploading sops files that would be a way around. I have also heard people using private flake inputs. You may find https://github.com/numtide/systemd-vaultd useful if you go the vault route
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-25 21:16:25+00:00
I have an original, non-BT MX Revolution that I keep rehabilitating periodically with batteries and pads (the sites call them "skates") for my laptop-dock workstation so there's no pairing issues.

Also have an MX Master 3 Advanced for travel, USB-C charges, and supports switching between 3 BT devices with an optional USB transceiver that stores away, and it also works on iOS devices but that's really more of a gimmick.
by Pfhortune | 2025-08-25 21:17:05+00:00
Disgusting, horrifying, but utterly predictable. A dark day indeed, once no major mobile platform allows running whatever code you wish. Sideloading isn't really sideloading if the app has to be signed by the gatekeeper.

Isn't this a death knell for F-Droid, at least for running on most hardware? Since they require their own builds/attestation?

The Overton Window for computing keeps inching towards gatekeepers having total control over devices. I can't help but imagine myself lurching along on the last somewhat open hardware I can cobble together in a couple of decades, because I refuse to drink the verification can to continue...
by m463 | 2025-08-25 21:17:18+00:00
Everybody can (and should) try this with their phone camera.

Just put it in Panorama mode and move the camera in non-standard ways.

Like this it will work on passing trains. It will also (kind of) work out the window of a train.

works out the window of a car too. It will get confused and "compress" parts of the panorama.

It will also work vertically...

It works on tall trees - scan with the arrow from the base upwards to the top.

You can also make weird photos vertically if you keep going. Start from in front of you, up over your head and facing backwards.

Also fun is to try is facing down to the ground and walking forwards. You can get a garden path or the sidewalk or other fun panoramas. If you want, you can intentionally stick your feet in the frame and get "footsteps" along the panorama.

:)
by ayende | 2025-08-25 21:18:03+00:00
FWIW, I once got a cease and desist letter because "company-xyz" found that we were using a subdomain "company-xyz.customers.our-service.com".

They discovered that because they were monitoring the CT logs. And they were concerned about trademark issues. It ended up being one of the teams in "company-xyz" that had opened an account (under the company name, of course).

But that is just a small note that people _are_ monitoring those.
by vkou | 2025-08-25 21:18:29+00:00
It's not intentional malice, it's just 2025 - an age where calling someone a fascist or a racist is worse than being one.

If that doesn't make a lick of sense to you - it's simple. The latter is an offense against a nebulous, undefined outgroup of people, while the former offends a particular person.

It's the same reason why someone can steal a dollar from a million people, but why you'd go to jail for punching the thief in the face.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-08-25 21:18:32+00:00
> Even if you did that, you should show somehwere this finitist foundation disagrees with the results obtained by the standard foundation, otherwise there's no reason to think the standard foundation is in error.

Well these are probably easy to find even now? E.g the Banach-Tarsky paradox is unlikely to be provable in finitist math which is somewhat of an improvement.
by kbolino | 2025-08-25 21:18:47+00:00
I would be surprised if Android has a reputational issue among users. Maybe at the margins, but not enough to significantly affect market share. Most people have already sorted into iOS and Android camps already.

To whatever extent Google may be responding to an issue arising from the market, it is likely at the behest of large companies, especially payment processors, payment card networks, banks, etc. These institutions lately have begun to exert increasing influence over end-user activities, and it would not surprise me if they are playing a part here, too.
by godelski | 2025-08-25 21:18:48+00:00
A few times it has been bad enough I've thought about picking up learning how to make phone apps so that I can one click report the numbers to the FCC. I'm not sure it'll do something but making an explicit "fuck you, do something about this" statement tends to help. Squeaky wheel and all that... (Why is this not a feature in the base phone app?)
by shkkmo | 2025-08-25 21:18:54+00:00
> religious people often conveniently shift goalposts

It isn't "shifting goal posts"...It's called updating your beliefs when the evidence proves them wrong. Many religions have a strong history of doing this and it is something that flat earthers don't do.

> Flat earthers do almost the same thing just they use conspiracy theories instead.

If you don't understand the epistemological difference, you should try educating yourself. There is quite a bit of scholarly work on this...
by VoidWhisperer | 2025-08-25 21:18:56+00:00
> "At first, I was presented with an endless spinner, as I hadn’t configured things properly. The documentation on Github is enough, but frustratingly, the failure mode I ran into was the video just… not loading. However, I eventually got it nailed down, and now I have a new camera in Protect."

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It is unfortunate that they decided to omit how they fixed the last issue they mentioned. That could've been useful knowledge for others
by Scoundreller | 2025-08-25 21:19:06+00:00
My counterexample is that I sell mid-high end vintage bicycle parts.

There’s about a 0% chance of Shimano or Campagnolo bringing that production to the US because they haven’t made this stuff in several decades.

I’ve now jacked my US shipping prices to account for tariffs. I’ll probably lose all US sales.

US buyers probably won’t realize that ~5-10% of its supply has disappeared for these parts. They also may not recognize that US sellers can/will raise their prices accordingly but they will have that increase in price.

Heck, I know some Canadian sellers that set up their supply chain well enough that they put down a US location and buyers think they’re buying domestic. Those will be toast (or have to vastly inflate their pricing).
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-25 21:20:12+00:00
The majority of mobile phones don’t have a telephoto lens good enough to take a useful picture of something ordinary sized high up in the sky. Just ask anyone that’s tried to take a decent picture of the Moon! Samsung famously inserts a picture of the Moon into photos to avoid user disappointment.

I do agree with you, by now I would have expected a lot more footage if UFOs were really visiting us. However that amount — if they were here — would still be a lot less than you might expect!
by nomel | 2025-08-25 21:20:29+00:00
The mechanism for China to compel Starlink to not operate there seems more clear: the leader decides to block all direct and indirect business activities in China, related to Elon Musk.

Is that comparable, for the UK? Maybe other EU members would agree?

As an American, I have trouble comprehending multiple governments colluding to enable mass government censorship, and expecting to stay in power. But, I know nothing of the European mindset.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-08-25 21:20:49+00:00
I used to get a deep sense of dread trying to write apps or code complex projects. I could always do well at LeetCode style programming challenges, but making full-blown web apps and managing all the set up, initialization issues and bug fixes was a headache that turned me off from software engineering.

However now all that is way easier with LLM's and stuff like Claude Code, I don't have that dread anymore because I can always just increase/decrease the amount I rely on LLM's and use them as a Hail Mary so I am not spending hours searching a super specific weird bug.

I know it means I may not be learning as much, but I see it as a worthwhile exchange because otherwise I probably would have not gone into making apps or doing anything ambitious in the first place.
by cool_dude85 | 2025-08-25 21:20:50+00:00
>I don't, because it doesn't matter what the authors of that paper assert / wishcast in regard to decades old admissions standards.

>The only people that take virtually any social science paper seriously are people without science training. Or people with an agenda who are willing to overlook the fact that the so-called science is garbage.

The "nuh-uh" defense typically begins needing some additional ammo outside of grade school. So what concrete reasons do you have to dismiss the authors' work?
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-08-25 21:21:37+00:00
+1 to this mouse (edit: I have the MX Anywhere 3S actually, a recent iteration)

Although the first one had its primary button stop working after 3 months. But they sent a replacement. I fear it won't last much more after the warranty period ends.

I'll also add that it works great over Bluetooth — look ma, no dongle!
by scrlk | 2025-08-25 21:21:37+00:00
You can see the male quick disconnect fittings for the liquid cooling at each corner of the server in this photo:

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8aMm!,f_auto,q_auto:...

Looks like the power connector is in the centre. I'm not sure if backplane connectors are covered up by orange plugs?