MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Agraillo | 2025-08-26 10:24:08+00:00
Sorry if I didn't recognize your sarcasm, but if you’re serious, you’re probably also assuming that rooting is usually done for criminal activity. In fact, both rooting and easy app creation/side-loading are often tools to solve inconveniences. I didn't plan to root my last phone until I encountered some restrictions in the manufacturer’s version of Android that couldn’t be resolved without rooting.

Regarding the topic, I can easily imagine a legitimate app on Google Play with available source code, where you find something inconvenient and your attempts to suggest a fix to the developer did not lead to the desired outcome. Currently, you or your developer friend can simply fork such an app, fix the issue, and release it for the general public without any extra paperwork. This Google policy would make such a developer suspicious/disabled by default (if the developer is not already verified), unless proved otherwise.
by rldjbpin | 2025-08-26 10:24:18+00:00
still as much of a problem and only getting worse.

since EAAC was mentioned, it is comical how Battlefield 6 open beta was already swarmed with cheaters, despite using a "new" version of the anticheat[1]. it gets very annoying when a kernel anticheat is just slapped on as a marketing point about how 'secure' the environment is.

so much can be done at the server side instead, but devs try their best to minimize costs at their end. such as GTA online using P2P connections, and only including partial protections to avoid getting IP addresses of other players in the session only a couple years back.

personally, like tour de france, i rather accept the reality that there will be cheaters regardless than to face issues like this. there are other annoyances like blocking virutalization, etc. which still makes it hard to main linux and run windows for select things.

[1] https://kotaku.com/battlefield-6-open-beta-cheating-cheaters...
by lazyeye | 2025-08-26 10:24:23+00:00
Other ways you can lose your democracy....

Using lawfare to try to take out a political opponent (ridiculous NY charge with no precedent, no victim, and from a DA who was famous for reducing felonies to misdemeanours but for Trump did the opposite)

Applying govt pressure to social media companies to censor content they dont like thereby bypassing the 1st amendment (twitter files etc)

Using the intelligence apparatus to try to take out a political opponent (russian collusion hoax, fake dossier)

Relying on the media lies to maintain power (border is secure, Biden is mentally competent etc)

Leaving the border wide open to allow in 10 million+ illegal immigrants in order to ultimately sway the voter demographics in your favor.

Compared to this sacking somebody seems rather tame actually.....
by postexitus | 2025-08-26 10:24:47+00:00
Nope. Limitations feed creativity. When you have unlimited power/reesources, you end up with unlimited slop. One of the reasons why old movies were better on average - now we get so many average movies with no lasting effect. Another one, slightly orthogonal - a golden ring or rolex in a neatly designed photo shoot vs a middle eastern head of state's "throne room". When you have something in limited quantities, you get the best out of it - when it's unlimited you go crazy.
by mcintyre1994 | 2025-08-26 10:24:49+00:00
I saw, I think in another comment thread here, that US customs doesn't allow sending into the US with unpaid tariffs and then having the US recipient pay the tariff. That's how it works in the UK (at least for personal shipments) and I assumed everywhere. I'm guessing that's why they'd suspend shipments here, because they'd have to deal with all the logistics of paying the tariff themselves, and presumably charging the local sender.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-26 10:25:38+00:00
Blame Apple for this garbage. They have paved the way by trying to circumvent the DMA.

Hopefully the EU slaps everyone with massive fines for these obvious anticompetitive plays. Best case scenario would be an outride ban giving local companies space but I doubt this will happen given how spineless the current commission is.

Clearly for American companies to be tightening the noose like that quoting the approval of authoritarian countries, it means they’re starting to feel the fire. It’s hard to not see the obvious link with them losing against Epic here behind the usual security smoke screen.

Both Apple and Google should have been broken to pieces for their egregious anti competitive behaviour a long time ago anyway.
by tgma | 2025-08-26 10:26:05+00:00
Yes, in a way FSF has succeeded beyond their wildest imagination and they are facing a new world with new challenges.

> The problem includes the actual control of how services are provided.

FSF has opinions about SaaS which they call SaaSS (Service as a Software Substitute).

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
by dabedee | 2025-08-26 10:26:49+00:00
The D-U-N-S requirement is the real killer here. It's a business identifier that costs money and requires a registered business entity. Even with the promised 'student/hobbyist' path, this fundamentally changes Android from a platform where anyone can distribute software to one where Google decides who's allowed to code. They're further normalizing the idea that installing software requires permission.
by bdcravens | 2025-08-26 10:26:49+00:00
I've considered these, but I find that a refurb MFF PC with an 8th-10th gen i5 provides way more bang for the buck in a package that isn't much larger (typically 7in x 7in x 2in), with out of the box OS and software support.

(my comment from a thread yesterday)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017074
by thyristan | 2025-08-26 10:27:01+00:00
Waterfall is a caricature straw man process where you can never ever go back to the drawing board and change the requirements or specifications. The defining characteristic is the part where design up front, you can never go back and really really have to do everything in strict order for the whole of the project.

Just having requirements and a specification isn't necessarily waterfall. Almost all agile processes at least have requirements, the more formal ones also do have specifications. You just do it more than once in a project, like once per sprint, story or whatever.
by johnisgood | 2025-08-26 10:27:44+00:00
I feel the same way. Thankfully there are still obvious signs in case of using LLMs, but it is not always so obvious. I think we may be better off assuming X is fake, and go from there. Sad but what could we do? There are websites that tell you (with a %) whether or not something has been written by an LLM. Unfortunately, however, some of my writings come out false positive. We may need to do improvements on this front, and I believe we will.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-26 10:27:52+00:00
That's fair. At the same time: the foundation and Broadcom really are two separate entities and I think even Broadcom is surprised by how successful the whole thing is. They may have thought to just humor their employee but it has become something much larger than that now. And I do agree they should open it up, just that that is not in Broadcom's commercial interest as far as I can determine.
by fjfaase | 2025-08-26 10:28:09+00:00
According to the 'Acts of the Apostles', Paul (then still called Saul) was actively prosecuting the followers of Jesus, which by many were considered to be a Jewish sect, like there were more of such sects.

It was on one of this prosecution trips that he experienced a medical condition that lead to temporary blindness, which he interpreted as a divine intervention, resulting him to join the sect.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-26 10:30:20+00:00
> How do you design a progressive consumption tax? Tax only private jets and yachts?

I mean, at the extreme, yes (some countries do have sin taxes on those sorts of things). But for a more basic example, take EU VAT. EU countries usually have three or four VAT rates; basic essential goods are often VAT-exempt.

(This occasionally leads to fun disputes; for instance see the famous Jaffa Cake court case, or the more recent determination by the Irish Supreme Court that Subway's bread was not bread.)
by photios | 2025-08-26 10:30:29+00:00
> no need to rewrite the Torah and books of prophets like Daniel and Isaiah

Funny you mention that. Because those Jews (not all of them, mind you) that did not accept the Messiah did try to change the book of Isaiah. The mental gymnastics about the "Almah" translation continue to this day.

https://jewsforjudaism.org/knowledge/articles/isaiah-714-a-v...
by LatteLazy | 2025-08-26 10:31:20+00:00
This is true in an ideal world where we have unlimited resources and all other services are already fully funded. But that is not the world we live in.

How many laptops will you remove from schools to provide to prisons? How many people should lose Medicare coverage to pay to have someone manually check the gbs of material a flash drive sent to or from a prisoner contains?

And all this because lawyers don’t want to just hit print?
by Reviewerfy | 2025-08-26 10:31:27+00:00
leading AI-driven lab is looking to strengthen the accuracy and reliability of large language models. Independent contractors in this engagement will design research-style prompts, validate model outputs, and carefully cross-check information across multiple sources. This opportunity is well-suited for detail-oriented individuals with strong research and fact-checking skills. The engagement is short-term, with flexibility for potential extensions.

Key Responsibilities:

Create research-style prompts requiring browsing across multiple domains

Review and validate responses for accuracy, completeness, and clarity

Identify ambiguities, subjective phrasing, or formatting inconsistencies

Provide structured feedback to improve data quality and consistency

Ideal Qualifications Strong attention to detail with the ability to spot inconsistencies

Skilled in verifying information across multiple domains and sources

Clear and objective written communication skills

Analytical, meticulous, and reliable in following structured guidelines

Possible Backgrounds:

This engagement may be a strong fit if you have experience as a:

(This list is not exhaustive; applicants with similar skills are encouraged to apply.)

Research assistant, graduate student, or academic editor

Teacher, tutor, or test prep instructor

Paralegal or legal researcher

Librarian, archivist, or information specialist

Nonprofit researcher, grant writer, or program officer

Freelance editor, proofreader, or content writer

Regulatory filing, insurance claims, or compliance clerk
by 0xEF | 2025-08-26 10:31:29+00:00
I'm not the person you replied to, but I am in their shoes. I'm tired, too. Trust me, I used to champion your sentiment, keep fighting/keep moving and all that jazz, but...at my age, this War of Attrition that is the fight for user data rights and privacy has gone on so long, against a foe that has a much large reach and seemingly infinite resources.

Many of us are not only exhausted, but exasperated at the fact that the good majority of the consumer market continues to give permission to the very activities we are all supposed to be denying. In the end, we vote with our dollars, so we, the vocal minority can be as loud as we want but if the majority continues to buy, use and comply with the product, it's really just a lot of yelling for no reason, isn't it? That's how it feels, anyway.

I know, I know; can't start a fire without a spark. But I've been at it for two decades, since the first smartphone dropped, something I resist adopting for nearly a decade. I'm seeing my kid's generation growing up in this world, condition by it from the start despite our best efforts and they simply don't seem to care. From where I'm standing, I feel old, brittle and tired from all this, but there's nobody to pass the torch to.

So understand that when one of us comments "I'm so tired and disillusioned," we do so after years of resisting, and those words are not uttered lightly.
by epolanski | 2025-08-26 10:31:46+00:00
I know literally 0, 0 people who have installed malwares or had their smartphones hacked in their life times.

The very few I know that have had this happen where all computer users, and virtually all victims of social hacking such as "hey, I'm from IT department, sending you an email, could you please...". A friend of mine exposed sensible data of thousands of customers of her bank like this.
by Growtika | 2025-08-26 10:32:16+00:00
Another interesting research by SparkToro. This lines up with what we’re seeing working with SaaS companies. A few patterns stand out:

- Informational traffic is dropping since people can grab answers instantly from AI Overviews or LLMs without visiting the site.

- Traffic sources are more diverse now. Long-tail queries are showing up again, and discovery happens across more places than just Google.

- SEO hasn’t died, it’s shifted. It’s less about search engine optimization and more about search everywhere optimization. That makes strategy tougher, but also more interesting.

- The traffic that does land tends to be higher intent. Fewer drive-by visitors, more people ready to take action.

So while there was fear that AI would gut search and kill SEO, the effect has been different. It hasn’t removed the work, it has changed the shape of it. And in practice, that means more strategy, more experimentation, and actually more demand for the kind of work we do.
by leobg | 2025-08-26 10:32:23+00:00
> Psychiatrist and philosopher Thomas Fuchs points out that while chatbots can make people feel understood or cared for, especially in therapy or companionship settings, that sense is just an illusion that can fuel delusions or replace real human relationships with what he calls “pseudo-interactions.”

It doesn’t seem to me that we going from 0% fake to 100% fake here.

How many therapists are there who keep thinking about their patients when the session is over?
by strogonoff | 2025-08-26 10:32:33+00:00
Free trial is far from the norm. Where else in life does an average person get free trials? Whatever you buy, 99% of the time—be it electronics, clothing, etc.—you make the full payment up front, and if you return it you get a refund. You don’t just issue a chargeback if you didn’t like you new jacket; you don’t get a free trial on a washing machine.

Subscription model is not the norm either (and if you ask me, it’s among the worst models ever when it comes to small focused software of the kind Rogue Amoeba makes).

A major benefit (which, frankly, is a surprise to me that it’s even worth mentioning) is that refunds is the most intuitive process to handle it. Us weathered tech geeks have an intuitive grasp of the shareware business model; however, we are a minority.
Show HN: GlobeChat – Chat App on world map
by siddharthroy12 | 2025-08-26 10:32:46+00:00
This app is inspired by wplace.

I really liked the idea of drawing on world map, it gives a new fun way to communicate with other people.

So I thought I should make a chat-like app on world map, so that people can discuss things in the context of the location so I made this.

Here is how it works:

1. You log in using your google account (there’s no other way atm)

2. Then you can either click on random button to go to a random chat on the map or click on the map to create a new one.

3. Chats (or should I say threads?) only live for 7 days after that, they will get deleted.

I want to make this platform fun but I'm not sure if this concept will be fun for others.

Currently this website is very basic in terms of functionality but I’m planning to add new features in future.

I'm looking for suggestions and feedback from you guys.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-26 10:33:00+00:00
> But what can — and I’ve experienced firsthand — happen, is that the US retailer will eat some/all of the tariff in order to not lose the customers business (or even just out of goodwill).

There are limited cases where this might happen, but when you're talking about the likes of Walmart... Supermarket profit margins are generally below 5%. There is not much scope to absorb additional costs without passing them on.
by martin-t | 2025-08-26 10:33:54+00:00
I don't think there's anything wrong with inteligence or knowledge tests. People obviously have wildly different abilities to make good decisions.

The real issue is that western societies are built on individualism and the is that everyone is equal when they are obviously not and this would expose the lie.

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However, the real issue is that decisions are packaged together. People vote for a party which they agree with on a few issues (or just one) and the rest become the noise.

So we need to split voting by issue. You could have one vote to determine which issues people care about most, then have multiple separate parlaments - but there would need to be a mechanism to force them to only write laws for the specific issue which is hard.

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We could also allow people to override the votes of their representatives. The more people vote directly, the less weight the representatives have.
by prmph | 2025-08-26 10:34:01+00:00
Very interesting project! The Roman world really comes alive this this.

A pet peeve of mine though (and a bit OT):

I know it is not your fault, since this is inbuilt behavior, but I cannot for the life of me understand why almost all map widgets now have this behavior when as you are scrolling the whole page and happen to go over the map, suddenly the scrolling motion is used to zoom out the map, which thus quickly collapses into a thumbnail or a dot. It always drives me nuts when it occurs, a total fail of a UI/UX design. What was wrong with pinching to zoom out??

Not sure, but I think Google Map started this trend. I wonder if these map widget designers actually test the interaction with actual users.
by rkomorn | 2025-08-26 10:34:07+00:00
I think the difference comes down to prolonged exposure to lower levels (eg medium exposure) vs short-term exposure to high levels.

The canary is for the latter scenario.

If the EPA says it can kill "in minutes" [1], then I'd be inclined to believe them over "you'll feel it if you're exposed to it for hours".

1- https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/protect-your-fami...
by ziplinerss | 2025-08-26 10:34:12+00:00
> different from conditionally having access, or having access for a pre-set period of time.

Irrelevant since the terms allowlist/denylist do not presuppose conditionallity or pre-set time limits.

> If someone says to add an IP address to an allow access list, that’s longer

Allowlist/denylist (9 + 8 chars) is shorter than whitelist/blacklist (9 + 9 chars).

> Inventing a personal language

Sounds like you think the proposal was to invent a whole new language (or one per person)? I would be against that too. But it is really only about updating a technical industry term pair to a more descriptive and less semantically loaded pair. Win-win.

> we aren’t going to solve racism by literally removing black and white from our language.

Changing to allowlist/denylist would not remove the terms black/white from language. There is good reason for making the change that do not involve any claim that doing so would solve racism.
by dariosalvi78 | 2025-08-26 10:35:17+00:00
look at all those HNers happily cheering at Apple's walled garden. Not surprising that there would be many pushing for a similar garden in Google too.

Mobile phones have never been free, we may just need to acknowledge this. From the 90s where telecom companies controlled everything, to now, where only 2 companies control everything. The only way to push back is through vendor-independent standards, especially for all security related stuff (because at the end of the day, security is the problem they are trying to "solve"). If standards exist, alternatives can be built.
by jraph | 2025-08-26 10:35:32+00:00
Did you include the environmental impact of training these models? I failed to find the information and that seems quite important to me (I'm a bit tired so maybe that's just me).

> Our proprietary methodology and algorithms are trade secrets and confidential business information

Sorry, but that's a no go IMHO. This stuff needs to be reproducible, transparent, ideally peer reviewed, and we must be able to study it. You are doing the equivalent of "here are facts, just trust us". That's not reliable.

What is it you are selling that such a core thing like your methodology is kept secret?

I tried to understand a bit what you did reading your methodology page [1] but didn't understand a thing. I looked for concrete stuff but didn't find any. Now, again, I'm a bit tired so I'm possibly missing something.

We need to see for ourselves all this stuff to determine if you are rigorous, if there are possible conflict interests (for what I know, you could be selling good grades), etc. The basic requirements of scientific research, basically.

[1] https://modelpilot.co/methodology
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-26 10:35:32+00:00
Hm yea. I also feel something similar,

maybe just thinking or being internet heroes doesn't matter. Maybe the real change happens at leaving the house.

But I wonder, if that is real change too. Like, maybe the system is so fucked up that even that wouldn't have an impact. Should I invest my energy into such a gamble? maybe, there is no right answer. a part of me who has watched movies and watched good guys win makes me want to say yes but uh reality says otherwise for the most part.

But maybe reality happened because there are people who are on the fence like me who said nah, noone else would do it, then peer pressure happened and welp nobody did anything and that became an evidence for the next generation who can again say nah and the cycle of suffering repeats.

But can this cycle truly change with just the will of one person like me? I doubt that my presense makes a change.

I have started to think that the best way I can make real change is maybe by open sourcing / working in a non profit / maybe helping them with some linux expertise in my community since I love linux. I can set up self hosted stuff for them so that they can control their infrastucture. I can reduce their costs from these bloated app subscription hell holes, maybe help these non profits and donate to the right causes and work on fixing my life too. Does this make sense?
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-08-26 10:35:47+00:00
> Never had checked luggage for a week work trip

Are you US based, perchance? I'm based in Ireland and remember the first time I got in a plane on the states and saw the absurdly large carry-ons that people had. I guess I'd just do that if I were in the US but as I cut my teeth with Ryanair I tend to optimise for smaller cabin baggage and a checked bag for work trips.

> And carry-on can often be an issue when arriving in US at least for liquids and potentially having to reclear security.

This is totally fine as the duty free people put the spirits in a specific bag which they let through security.
by RossBencina | 2025-08-26 10:36:33+00:00
> it doesn't work on wifi

802.1AS-2020 (gPTP) includes 802.11-2016 (wifi) support.

The IEEE's gatekeeping is indeed odious.

The biggest limitation is that many ethernet MACs do not support hardware timestamping. Nor do many entry-level ethernet switches.

For what it's worth, I'm interested in TSN for fun (music, actually), and I'm prepared to buy compatible networking hardware to do it. No difference to gamers spending money on a GPU.
by lylejantzi3rd | 2025-08-26 10:36:59+00:00
Am I the only one who thinks that describing this as a "bug" sounds a bit off? Most bugs don't come with their own updated alert text. It sounds a bit more like they had planned to switch to a different trial method and enabled it earlier than they expected? Or maybe a "rogue" employee added the feature as an experiment and didn't tell anybody?