MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fn-mote | 2025-08-25 23:26:48+00:00
> cracked versions of spotify/youtube/paid games

This doesn't make much sense to me.

To put the strongest face on it, by "cracked" youtube, you mean a version that shows the cracker's ads and maybe somehow generates extra clicks (or whatever) so they can get money out of it?

Cracked spotify? In my mind that's just like YouTube, almost entirely server-side. I guess you're talking about hijacking ads here, too? I feel like a "real" crack of Spotify would let you listen to music for free, but that should be impossible (unless their SWE's are incompetent).
by blacksmith_tb | 2025-08-25 23:27:17+00:00
I considered getting a personal MBP (I have an M3 from work), but picked up a Framework 13 with the AMD 7 7840U. I have Pop!_OS on it, and while it isn't quite as impressive as the MBP, it is radically better than other Windows / Linux laptops I have used lately, battery life is quite good, ~5hr or so, not quite on par with the MBP but still good enough that I don't really have any complaints (and being able to up upgrade RAM / SSD / even mobo is worth some tradeoff to me, where my employers will just throw my MBP away in a few years).
by mlyle | 2025-08-25 23:28:02+00:00
That's the opposite of how tax incidence works.

Elasticity means you can change your amount produced in response to changes in price.

Producers can’t easily change output, so they bear more of the tax burden themselves. But in the long run, producers can reallocate or exit until they’re producing at minimum(average total cost), which makes supply more elastic and shifts most of the burden onto consumers.

This is stuff that's covered in week 4 of a basic microeconomics class. It gets a little fancier with imperfect competition or heterogenous agents, etc, but predicting tax incidence is basically dominated by this even in advanced microeconomics.
by mullingitover | 2025-08-25 23:28:40+00:00
> The difference is that some things get hammered into a Constitution and are indisputable without a significant process.

Yes, but there's an alternative 'significant process' which is to simply have a political party capture the body which interprets the constitution, and then an elite group of powerful insiders captures the political party, and then you're just an oligopoly but with additional steps.
by bluescrn | 2025-08-25 23:29:12+00:00
> These both contain ways to run arbitrary compiled code from an arbitrary source

And they're both working towards taking that away.

For now we have Linux as a 3rd option, but that only exists so long as there's hardware available that'll let you run it. Can easily imagine a near-future where you can only get 'Windows hardware' or 'Apple hardware' and nothing modern that'll boot a 3rd-party OS.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-25 23:29:44+00:00
>To be human, for one.

Humans can be evil. Realistically to be human is to straddle both sides of good and evil. It is highly unrealistic and delusional to think humanity represents a paragon of goodness. No. Often evil must be done for the greater good. This is not just a movie trope, it's also reality.

>Extreme example: all you need to do to end all scams (and other, human-caused ills in the world) to just kill all humans. No humans, no human-made horrors.

Right and the extreme example is wrong. Just like your extreme example of absolute morality at the cost of zero effectiveness.

>This is very offensive, and makes zero sense, not in itself, not in the context of your argument. Please do reconsider.

No you can't use this shit to throw your weight around. I know one person who was scammed and blew his own head off with a bullet. Which one is more offensive? You're offending me.

I think we're done. I don't want to argue with someone who uses "offense" to avoid talking about the hard things that must be talked about.

You're the type of person who thinks in terms of black and white, and you try to think that the white is the most obvious form of reality that can ever exist. But this is just the surface.

I don't know about you personally, but these are the types of people in my experience end up being similar to catholic priests in the sense that They end up doing the worst shit behind closed doors.

The people who are actually open about the their own moral faults are actually much more moral then they think. But that's just my personal experience.
by beckthompson | 2025-08-25 23:30:05+00:00
Play casual matches! They only match you with players nearby and its a lot of fun. I regularly see the same people and its a lot of fun getting to know everyone and banter throughout the game (I only play the hostage gamemode as well).

The only issue I've had is the amount of bots. When I play I regularly get into matches where 19/20 players are all bots and they auto kick you the moment you join. Its very frustrating
by dapperdrake | 2025-08-25 23:30:31+00:00
How much do you like the rest of the hardware? What price would seem OK for decent GUI software that runs for a long time on batter?

Am learning x86 in order to build nice software for the Framework 12 i3 13-1315U (raptor lake). Going into the optimization manuals for intel's E-cores (apparently Atom) and AMD's 5c cores. The efficiency cores on the M1 MacBook Pro are awesome. Getting debian or Ubuntu with KDE to run this on a FW12 will be mind-boggling.
by Spooky23 | 2025-08-25 23:31:47+00:00
I think that's a little unfair.

Building out an idea for a bespoke supercomputer and making an iteration of that idea that applies to globally scaled workloads is a different thing. They are building computing factories, as is Amazon, MS, Facebook, etc.

That said, PR is PR, and companies always crow about something for their own reasons.
by Tostino | 2025-08-25 23:32:06+00:00
Sadly, that would reduce GDP by lowering spending. Can't happen.

I'm slightly joking, but only slightly.

I've built my own ebikes since I was a teen in the 2000s. I love them, and wish more people would use them to get around day to day. There has been such a lackluster or hostile adoption by "the powers that be" of them, I just can't see it actually making a difference in American transportation though.

At least we aren't the UK though. They have been so hostile to ebikes and escooters for a couple decades now I couldn't imagine bothering if I lived there.
Ask HN: Do you still use public computers?
by marcelox86 | 2025-08-25 23:32:08+00:00
I primarily use the M2 iMac's provided at my University Library when I want to have deep concentration on my work. I usually show up without my phone / backpack. I still have access to the terminal and all of the tools, so I grab an Emacs binary from emacsforosx.com + download of the Fork git client to start working. I also have access to the terminal so I can install homebrew (in a non-sudo environment) and install stuff like npm / python packages / etc.

All of the user data gets deleted upon sign out, so there are warning every couple of warning reminding students to back up their work on the cloud or from a usb drive. I just use rclone and back up to my server.

If you do use public computers, do you have access to the terminal? Do you have any concerns regarding privacy? Does your data get deleted on signout, or is it more like a Java Card hotdesking situation? [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/9BW-mbC7Xag?si=Uo-ODoYBWekYMGN1
by akomtu | 2025-08-25 23:32:17+00:00
Attributing such things to another solar system is a fallacy that everything that's out there can be explained by the little that we already know. It's no different than when people of past ages explained stars as little holes in the sky dome: it was simply the limit of their understanding. It's a comfortable self-delusion. Their origin can be as well under ground in our planet in some unimaginable to us way. Even appealing to the logic: if they built a flying thing to which laws of physics don't seem to matter, why would they live like us, on a surface of some rock in deep space?
by defrost | 2025-08-25 23:32:58+00:00
Both Rand and William McGonagall are widely regarded as are uniquely fascinating.

In a layered complex world both the above statement and the statement that there's little of interest in Rand's books for socialists, for hedge fund traders, or for the majority of people with a background in political science, can be true.

Stephen Fry, well known for his love of the English language and breadth of eclectic interest, when discussing the Scot said:

I am too kind to you and to [McGonagall's] memory to reproduce the entire poem'

(The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within [NY: Gotham, 2007], p. 153), and further:

Almost everything that can go wrong with a poem has gone wrong here. One might argue that McGonagall has brilliantly memorialised a doomed and structurally flawed bridge in congruently doomed and structurally flawed verse. His poem is a disaster for a disaster: it is the Tay Bridge, crashing hopelessly to its destruction and dragging every innocent word with it. It is not buttressed by metre, rhyme, sense or reason and even as we read it we feel it collapse under the weight of its own absurdity and ineptitude.

(p. 154, as above)

Regardless of anyone's position on the political stance of Rand, her written works deserve little more than to be the subject of atrocious parody of her robber baron sick o' fantasy, the breathless bodice ripping drama of trains repeatedly entering and being reversed out of tunnels against a soundscape of a geared steampunk stock ticker of yore.
by dgacmu | 2025-08-25 23:33:01+00:00
This is baloney? Air quality experts like Richard Corsi (UC Davis, now, poor guy, the dean of the college of engineering) have been advocating for increasing both external ACH (air changes/hour) and filtration ACH since nearly the beginning of the pandemic.

> Early in the pandemic, his efforts focused on lowering inhalation dose of virus-laden aerosol particles indoors. He led an effort to develop an educational tool for assessing parallel interventions for lowering inhalation dose for aerosols and risk of infection in buildings. His concept of a low-cost and effective do-it-yourself air cleaner to combat virus-laden aerosol particles and wildfire smoke has become known worldwide as the Corsi-Rosenthal Box. He recently chaired a National Academies committee responsible for the 2024 report, “Health Risks of Indoor Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Practical Mitigation Solutions.”

An awful lot of people who pay attention to engineering solutions for airborne risk reduction - the people who know what ASHRAE is - were saying exactly the same thing throughout nearly the entirety of the pandemic. Because of their advocacy and data, as one example, we got HEPA filters installed in our kids' elementary and preschools as part of the strategy to resume in-person education.
by grizzles | 2025-08-25 23:33:08+00:00
This must be because of Epic's win in antitrust court.

What someone needs to do is create a "Store" browser that loads apps from random websites like https://site.tld/app.apk

You could manually parse AndroidManifest.xml and allow only apps that expose <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

I'm somewhat interested in doing this myself actually. What do people think?
by Lerc | 2025-08-25 23:34:20+00:00
What does that mean for environmental impact? Hydroelectric power uses water in the sense that the "used" water is at a lower altitude. What happens once that is done, is what matters.

Depending on what global average means, it seems like that's quite a lot of cycling of evaporation unless they are releasing steam at 800C

Looking up overall water usage, the US uses 27.4Billion gallons a day residential and 18.2 Billion gallons industrial. It surprised me that industrial was lower, but I guess the US manufactures less these days.

If the 1kwh per litre were accurate then judging by this calc https://www.google.com/search?q=(27.4billion+gallons+*365)*+... 37 857 903.3 terawatt hours

0.1% of The residential water use of the US would be enough to cool the entire Electicity output of the world (about 30,000TWh)

(of course, with these things it's easy to slip an order of magnitude(or several) so best check my numbers)
by giantrobot | 2025-08-25 23:34:43+00:00
Given Google's history and the fact they rolled this out without notice or consent makes me feel comfortable saying "yet". If YouTube can get away with making GenAI YouTubers (via some likeness sign off buried in the T&C) without paying the originals I'm sure they'd love to do so. All the ad impressions with none of the payout to creators.

Their AI answers box (and old quick answer box) has already affected traffic to outside sites with answers scraped from those sites. Why wouldn't they make fake YouTubers?

> I mean, I'm also not Brad Pitt. "Yet."

Not with that attitude!
by kube-system | 2025-08-25 23:34:56+00:00
> Comparing PSTN to instant messaging walled gardens is interesting, but I’d argue the real parallel is email: a federated, open standard that also suffers from spam and abuse, yet still manages to limp along thanks to heavy filtering and layered trust systems.

I think you're absolutely right to draw that parallel. But, today's email landscape isn't much of a federated open standard. It's a web of trust and distrust, filters, and deliverability issues. It's real work to maintain an email server and attain high deliverability with other email services. So much so that most don't even do it anymore. Most email is just delivered by a few large providers.

Really, email is suffering from a lot of the same issues that PSTN also suffers from. But email providers just decided to "solve" the problem themselves, mostly by taking a heavy hand at blocking things and deciding they don't really care if you're not a big provider.
by craftkiller | 2025-08-25 23:35:07+00:00
Bro, you forbade exactly the reason this is good for average users. Average users get emails that say:

> you have been infected by 3 viruses, click here in the next 5 minutes or the damage will be permanent

And they believe it. Giving them the power to run any software they want, also means giving everyone else the power to make them run any software they can be tricked into installing.

I'm deeply concerned about how this will impact users like us, especially since we're such a small minority that our desires could easily be trampled by the masses, but this is a clear win for the average user.

(And don't make the perfectionist fallacy w.r.t. Google not successfully preventing 100% of malware)
by glenstein | 2025-08-25 23:35:19+00:00
Agree and disagree: the pressure on unity worked, and Sonos and, IIRC on Google's "federated cohorts" idea.

But often people try to project their opinions onto "the people" and predict they will rise up, and there's probably 100 predictions in comment sections that are completely spurious to every one that actually happens

So I'm not sure, but if I had to guess this one is a rare case where there may be real prospect of backlash.
by princevegeta89 | 2025-08-25 23:35:19+00:00
I have been all-in on Logitech keyboards and mice for years now. In the beginning it was just the unifying receiver but they've recently switched over to the Bolt receiver. Unfortunately the Bolt receiver is not backwards compatible with devices made for the unifying receiver.

You can pair a single device to multiple receivers and the "switch" button on each device will let you cycle between each receiver. I use the same keyboard and mouse with both my personal computer and my work computer. Every time I need to switch, I just need to use the device switch button on the keyboard and the mouse.
by steve_taylor | 2025-08-25 23:36:02+00:00
There are many third-party money apps that login to your online banking that are a violation of ToS. That doesn't stop people using them. In fact, when they get really big, they can be legitimised by banks. For example, to get my mortgage, I had to use a third party service that logs in to my online banking account and ingests all my transactions to show that I saved for my deposit legitimately.
by gerdesj | 2025-08-25 23:36:09+00:00
"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."

Are you sure you want to go down this route: "Turn device into IP Camera"? - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ip-camera-lite/id1013455241

Anyway - this is likely the Github mentioned: https://github.com/p10tyr/rtsp-to-onvif

... its a proxy that takes a RTSP stream and makes it look all lovely and ONVIF (ie discoverable). The particular fix that OP mentions will be in that Github repo/wiki/issues but given I don't anything Apple, I can't be arsed to search

I think that Frigate has recently had a proxy or proxy handling recently added. Zoneminder would also work with this approach.

Please, whatever you do, put your cameras on their own VLAN, with no access to the internet. Especially if names like Reolink (int al) are involved. I own quite a few Reos and they live on a VLAN called SEWER!
by dhx | 2025-08-25 23:37:05+00:00
As an example of government regulation driving this change, see [1].

This regulation of NSW, Australia considers rooted devices with extra non-Google/non-Apple approved security features such as a duress/wipe PIN (a standard feature of GrapheneOS[2]) as a "dedicated encrypted criminal communication device". How the device is being used doesn't matter. It's how it _could_ be used.

[1] https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ca190...

[2] https://grapheneos.org/features#duress
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-08-25 23:37:26+00:00
Close:

1. Has there been any independent verification of combatant "use" of the hospital? (No)

2. Has there been any independent judgement that any "use" justified the killing of so many innocent civilians: doctors, rescuers, journalists, etc.? (No)

3. Is it moral to knowingly kill so many innocent civilians: doctors; rescuers; journalists; etc, just because doing so makes it easier for you to kill somebody you unconvincingly claim was a combatant and unconvincingly claim was launching attacks from there? (No)
by Pocomon | 2025-08-25 23:37:36+00:00
‘Black folks have always been huge culture drivers on social media platforms and other tech products. Systemically excluded from access to capital and distribution, Black folks leverage creativity to make social media platforms their “own” without ever having true ownership.’

I really don't get it. Who has been excluding ‘black folks’ from digital spaces. Does any of the other users of social media actually own the platform.
by mulmen | 2025-08-25 23:37:44+00:00
Apple makes it extremely easy to fall prey to email scams. They absolutely refuse to show an email address in less than 3 taps. There’s no setting in Mail to always show the address and they trust all senders to give an honest name. So if a contact loses their contact list scammers can send a known name with a junk address and you won’t see it unless you go out of your way.

Apple makes a lot of dumb user-hostile decisions but this one is particularly egregious and has caught me off guard.
by al_borland | 2025-08-25 23:38:10+00:00
I have a huge problem with companies using their own apps for 2FA.

Google started doing this for Gmail. To use Gmail on my laptop, I need to approve it with Gmail on my phone. I never signed up for this. I’m now afraid if I delete the Gmail app from my phone that I’ll lose access to my email.

I hate the direction “security” is taking us. It’s done in the name of security, but it feels more like blackmail to get and keep the company app on your phone.
by derbOac | 2025-08-25 23:38:11+00:00
I don't necessarily think the funding source means the study is invalid or corrupt, but I do think it should increase scrutiny and attention to replicability issues and so forth. It shapes the actual (as opposed to claimed) posterior a bit.

I had a colleague with this type of funding and I don't think there was any kind of quid pro quo or anything like that but I do think in the very least it increases pressure to file drawer unfavorable results to maintain funding.

Empirically speaking funding source matters though in the way you'd expect, in terms of interpreting results:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/730383
by homebrewer | 2025-08-25 23:38:29+00:00
I recently looked at 1.6 servers for the first time in maybe 10 years. There are tons of active servers out there now, far more than there were ten years ago, and they're filled to the brim with bots, which definitely was not the norm back then. You used to see just a few active servers filled with real players, and the rest were simply empty, with either zero or just a couple of players who knew each other.

What changed? Was this lunacy adopted from CS2?
by wpollock | 2025-08-25 23:38:29+00:00
Big-O isn't as relevant as it once was. Modern hardware includes mutithreading, piplining, numa, and complex caching. Some operations can take less than one CPU cycle and others can take hundreds, or exceptionally thousands of cycles. Trying to describe the behavior of algorithms solely as a function of the number of "trips through the innermost loop" can be a very misleading description!

Besides that, other measures such as big-Omega should be referenced in any discussion of big-O.

(I did enjoy Big-O the anime series though! /grin)
by stockresearcher | 2025-08-25 23:39:01+00:00
fdroid is based in the EU and the Cyber Resilience Act was already going to force them to either make their filters more strict (absolutely prohibit anything with any sort of "monetization"), or start collecting this data.

If they have anything on the platform that is subject to the CRA, they are a distributer:

https://www.cyberresilienceact.eu/cra-guide-for-importers-di...
by ethbr1 | 2025-08-25 23:39:42+00:00
> Seems like we're seeing an increasing number of cases where small-time officials who used to work largely unseen because no one went to meetings of things like the local water board, are getting resentful because now they're on video or citizens are starting to show up and ask questions, and they're not responding well to all the democratic involvement.

Caveat that there are very different factors in play in more populated areas.

As a thankfully-former Florida resident, there's also a current of hitherto politically unengaged (and still democratically uneducated) citizens showing up at meetings and deciding that if they yell the loudest they should get their way.

Some of the shit grown-ass adults did at Florida school board meetings was just mind-blowingly ignorant.

It also made me realize how low the bar of civic education is in the US.

Real democratic change comes from organizing, coalition building, compromise, and engagement with stakeholders. Not knee-jerk emotional outbursts.
by zem | 2025-08-25 23:40:16+00:00
a good way to look at it is that problems solved is an asset, but lines of code are a liability. you pay the cost of maintaining that code because you want the benefit of the problems it solves.

note that LLM-generated code is even more of a liability because when you go to maintain it you will not have the context of the decisions that went into writing it - it's legacy code from day one.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-08-25 23:40:38+00:00
> When a normal user is highly motivated...

...they reap the consequences of their actions.

A warning lets a person know it is getting deeper. It is up to the person to realise if they are out of their depth.

If a person lacks the self reflection to realise their capabilities then they need a guardian. Children and the elderly routinely have this for other aspects of life. Why not a phone?

Why can't I delegate such authority to others when I become old and infirm?