MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryandrake | 2025-08-22 18:05:22+00:00
This solves the "dependence on Gmail" problem (which is definitely a worthy problem to solve) but not the general "dependence on a particular mail provider" problem. The next step in this walk-down-the-risk-chain is self-hosting on a VPS, where you're now just dependent on your VPS provider, and the next step could be self-hosting on your own metal, where you're now just dependent on your ISP. Happy trails!
by random3 | 2025-08-22 18:06:23+00:00
I think the most relevant is through your network, mainly because it’s generally a trust matter on both ends. It’s best when the deal is a known quantity vs looking over “who’s hiring monthly HN posts”.

I had 10-15 people i was working with (not all employed) at my last startup and they all came through my network either directly (ex colleagues) or through trusted parties.

Again it’s mostly a trust thing more than anything.

I think a good strategy is to get close to the kind of startups you care about without (before) direct intent to join. It’s easy to hang out (or at least it used to be) through various events, meetups or co-working places.

Many startups I didn’t join and could have been good, I’ve met through open-source (Hadoop, HBase, Mesos, etc.) these are companies like Cloudera, DataBricks etc. when they were tiny. I still miss that crowd, years later.

So it’s mostly a matter of being close to what’s happening, able to filter and ready to jump when opportunity arises.
by scarmig | 2025-08-22 18:06:29+00:00
It doesn't seem impossible technically to up the assertiveness. The issue is the tradeoffs: you up the assertiveness, and increase the number of accidents by X%. Inevitably, that will contribute to some fatal crash. Does the decision maker want to be the one trying to justify to the jury knowingly causing an expected one more fatal incident in order to improve average fleet time to destination by 25%?
by nucleardog | 2025-08-22 18:07:07+00:00
> Honestly, if you're maintaining a lawn in places that don't get year-round rain, you need to water it.

Only if you want to grow non-native species and always have it looking like a magazine cover.

My house is sitting in a five acre clearing covered in whatever flora decides to grow there, with minimal "curation" (tend to avoid cutting beautiful native flowers to encourage them to spread, do try and deal with removing things like poison ivy).

When it rains, everything greens up, grows quickly, needs lots of mowing. If it doesn't rain for a few weeks while the sun cooks it, some things will go a bit brown and lifeless. Then the next rain comes and it all perks right back up. When winter comes, it all sits under the snow for months and months and when the snow melts it picks right back up where it left off.

Most of these plants were here before we were and they'll be here after. They don't need my help.
by dang | 2025-08-22 18:07:16+00:00
Recent and related:

"Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44952185 - Aug 2025 (522 comments)

Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44909599 - Aug 2025 (96 comments)
by Kazik24 | 2025-08-22 18:07:17+00:00
Applications based on QUIC and/or P2P might be an option. QUIC is designed to not be as easy to filter as TCP + TLS. But then right now it can be blocked by just blocking UDP. But if majority of the internet would use QUIC then blocking UDP would mean blocking most of the internet so the governments wouldn't be so eager do nationwide firewalls (hopefully).
by const_cast | 2025-08-22 18:08:25+00:00
I think there's a good chance that when normies have to upload a picture of their real life ID to watch a funny tiktok or read a tweet they might start looking into VPNs.

Right now most of the privacy violations are covert and everyone is dishonest. Nobody reads TOS or EULA, Google just say "pinky promise we're not mean!", etc.

But there's no way to automate scanning someone's face to view a Garfield comic.

Governments are getting far too cavalier. They're flying too close to the sun here. They've already gotten away with murder and then some, they should quit while they're ahead.

Their greed will be their downfall. People will eventually push back.
by apolitic | 2025-08-22 18:08:26+00:00
As shown by the proroguing of parliament by Boris Johnson on the September 9th, from September 10th to October 14th in 2019 (1), just a couple of months before the COVID19 pandemic landed and the first cases were being reported.

This action to prorogue was however later deemed unlawful by the Supreme Court on the 24th September 2019 (2). See recent changes to senior members, and subsequent rulings on matters of state importance by the Supreme Court for a look at what happens when they try to correct parliamentary actions by the ruling party. They have been singing from the governmental hymn sheet ever since.

Whither democracy? Whither justice?

1. https://labourheartlands.com/parliament-has-been-prorogued-a...

2. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/decision-of-the-supreme...
by ogham | 2025-08-22 18:08:30+00:00
Yep great feedback! Thank you for sharing your thoughts here.

> What is an agent? Specifically, how are these counted?

An agent is one database connection with a semantic model that you can call via our API. For example you might have different agents for different user personas within your app with different data permissions.

> Number of rows/columns ingested feels a lot more natural to me

Yes this feels better than tables and we're going to consider changing. Thanks!

> How is a seat defined in the context of multi-tenant Saas? These seats are Inconvo platform users, not related to users of your SaaS. I'll update the pricing page to make this more clear.

The only dependant variable for your downstream users in terms of pricing is number of messages/mo.
by RandomBacon | 2025-08-22 18:08:44+00:00
It exists: just port your domain name to a new registrar, and/or point your mx records to a new email provider.

Phone number is just a user number. Email addresses are a user name at a server name. A little harder to do if you're looking for something as ubiquitous as phone number porting.

The closest thing to a server name when it comes to phone numbers, would be the network it is on. For example, there is the public switched telephone network (PSTN), then there is the Defense Switched Network (DSN)
by trod1234 | 2025-08-22 18:09:10+00:00
The article doesn't meet journalistic standards for clarity, transparency, or sources, and this is not unexpected given Nexstar has been funneling Chinese-state skewed propaganda to Americans for years.

The title of the article is quite misleading. Lake Tahoe, which rides the border of Nevada and California, has had a resident diagnosed, and this isn't uncommon in areas where flea's and ticks are. Antibiotics easily treat these.

Importantly, its not newsworthy, and the sole purpose is to fractionate viewers.
by hopelite | 2025-08-22 18:09:37+00:00
You feel you have the right and ability to freely associate, "select self"?

I agree with your naive libertarian perspective to the degree that it is meant to miss the mark, but when the government has not only violated the law, i.e., the Constitution, and has done some consistently and been derelict in enforcing the law, like free speech in the public domain, then you arrive at both the objective fact that the government has not been legitimate for many many decades, and that it is inherently illegitimate through its treason, the root word of which meaning betrayal.
by kasey_junk | 2025-08-22 18:09:41+00:00
In my experience you would not be able to identify code I wrote by hand from code I generated with an asynchronous agent, because I wouldn’t let it get to you if something stood out as off.

But I don’t “vibe code” anything. I understand and review all the code that gets generated. Most of the stuff coming from my agents is either boilerplate or extensively uses libraries and static analysis tools that make it easy to verify.

I kill aggressively any code the agent outputs that doesn’t match my standards unless it’s obvious that I can get it up to par quickly. This is one of the big advantages of the llm. I can do that without navigating inter personal conflict.

But the output is mostly indistinguishable from what I create by hand.
by otterley | 2025-08-22 18:09:41+00:00
The response says that for every provided XML document URL, there is an existing equivalent HTML document URL that accomplishes the same outcome for the end user and that is strongly emphasized by the site's UX. The fact that humans rarely access the XML documents via common browsers is also evident from the available usage metrics.

The question of abstract efficiency via reuse is academic. If the XML documents were the ones that users accessed most of the time, or were the only documents available, that might change the analysis. But that isn't the case.
by fsaid | 2025-08-22 18:09:46+00:00
Waymo should add a thin layer of "assertiveness" for actual deadlock that their self-driving architecture could cause.

While in Austin, I was in a Waymo that blocked 3 lanes of incoming traffic while attempting to merge into a lane going into the opposite direction. It was a super unorthodox move, but none of the drivers (even while stopped for a red light) would let the Waymo* merge into their lane.

Thank God for the tinted windows, people were pulling their phones out to record (rightly so). It felt like I was responsible for holding up a major portion of Austin 5 pm traffic on a Friday.

Wish it just asserted itself ever-so-slightly to get itself out.
by neilv | 2025-08-22 18:09:48+00:00
Every time someone mentions a good idea for interviews, I imagine the interview prep people adding it to the standard performance ritual. Then the signal is lost for the needle in a haystack who actually embodies what you sought to find.

With how ridiculously performative and disingenuous the techbro interviews have become, if we don't want to play that game, we have to keep some signal unspoken.
by raffraffraff | 2025-08-22 18:09:56+00:00
I moved myself and my wife's business away from Google, but that hasn't been without it's issues. Even though we're using a globally recognised mail provider and have DKIM, SPF etc all set up perfectly, we get bounced or delayed by certain mail admins. There are also occasional delays and issues. One thing I'll say about Gmail is that it's extremely reliable.
by throw0101a | 2025-08-22 18:10:30+00:00
Trump seems to have a very 'eccentricæ level of knowledge about the world; him yesterday: "I have a lot of golf courses all over the place. I know more about grass than any human being, I think, anywhere in the world."

* https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

Trump today: "We’re going to find out. I know nothing about it. I just saw it this morning, they did a raid."

* https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/22/fbi-searches-ex-nat...

Also today (on Fox News): "I tell Pam [Bondi] and I tell the group, I don't wanna know, but you have to do what you have to do."

* https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1958897383288304126

Also, coïncidentally, the first batch of Epstein files are heading over to Congress today:

* https://www.npr.org/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5509535/epstein-files-c...
by indigodaddy | 2025-08-22 18:10:40+00:00
Anyone considering a move should also look at NameCrane/CraneMail by the crew behind BuyVM. Solid service, incredibly reasonable prices, great community/discord. They are always looking to improve, extremely proactive and reactive to customer feedback and issues. No builtin PGP, but I believe that is out of their control as they use SmarterMail on the backend.
by ebiester | 2025-08-22 18:10:40+00:00
It entirely matters. It matters because as humans, we can only keep so much context in mind. That means that if you are looking at 100-200 lines at a time, you can think about the architecture. You can modify the code, whether it's fixing or refactoring. It means that it can only get too far off base.

It also means that sometimes, you say "this is bad code," refine the prompt, and run it again.

Yes, it means that you as a code reviewer is a bottleneck. It means that you are limited to the productivity gain that can exist. We are talking 10-15% productivity gains per person in mature code bases, not some magic replacement.

But if you're worried about reviewing code, maybe we shouldn't allow junior programmers to contribute to codebases either. After all, you might make a mistake in reviewing that.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-08-22 18:10:43+00:00
Notice how original claim was "launder a lot of money for terrorism" as if it was something well-known, widespread and repeated. However the evidence so far is "how about this" and "how about that". I would appreciate something more specific like "the investigation found X billions laundered for Hezbollah".

Regarding your question: the whole concept of "terrorist states" is made up if you ask me, and UN agrees. States wage wars and commit war crimes (or "collateral damage" if you win the war), other states retaliate. This has little to do with the asymmetric confrontation with terrorist groups which inflict violence but then evade retaliation due to their secretive and decentralized nature. States can't do that: they are centralized and not secretive, you can find them on the map.
by x0x0 | 2025-08-22 18:10:56+00:00
I'm going to plug fastmail. Rationale:

(1) tech support that actually reads your messages and replies with a solution demonstrating comprehension of the message that you wrote. Amazing. I've emailed them twice and gotten a great response both times.

(2) it is the best UI I've seen outside gmail;

(3) They have continued actively developing their UI, with nice updates released perhaps in the last 6 weeks.

(4) keyboard shortcuts that work

(5) Instead of inbox 0, I practice inbox 50k and it handles it fine.

(6) I just had a decade-anniversary there and I've never regretted it.
by bonoboTP | 2025-08-22 18:11:01+00:00
Yeah, all that stuff in the end boils down to: rich parents will find a way to have it their way. Whether private schools or tutors or whatever.

Every ideological system has certain hangups, depending on what they can afford. In the Soviet communist system, obviously a big thing was to promote kids of worker and peasant background etc., but they kept the standards high and math etc was rigorous and actual educational progress taken seriously. But there was Cold War pressure to have a strong science/math base.

Currently, the US is coasting, relying on talent from outside the country for the cream of the top, so they can afford nonsense beliefs, given also that most middle-class jobs are not all that related to knowledge, and are more status-jockeying email jobs.

It will likely turn around once there are real stakes.
Show HN: Fantasy Football Neuron – AI-powered debates for lineup building
by machinemusic | 2025-08-22 18:11:03+00:00
I built an app called Fantasy Football Neuron, a tool that turns fantasy football lineup research into live multi-agent debates.

Instead of static articles or black-box optimizers, you pick a panel of up to six AI analysts (tuned on different strategies: GPP, data-heavy, contrarian, etc.). Ask a question like “Tua or Allen?” → they argue it out in real-time with ElevenLabs voices. The transcript shows why each pick wins, and you can export the chosen lineup directly to DraftKings/FanDuel.

Tech stack: • Backend: Cloud Run + Cloud Functions (serverless-first) • Frontend: Next.js (hosted via Lovable) • Database: Firestore (real-time debate/live dashboard) • Caching: Redis + Cloudflare edge routing (infra <$0.05 per debate) • Models: six LoRA adapters trained on open-source LLMs (Vertex AI preemptible GPUs) • TTS: ElevenLabs for character voices

Live here: https://fantasyfootballneuron.app

Would love feedback from the HN community on the approach — especially around scaling real-time debates and caching optimizations.
by machinemusic | 2025-08-22 18:11:25+00:00
This started as an experiment in game theory and cognitive architectures. I wanted to see if lineup optimization could be turned into a conversation instead of spreadsheets or opaque optimizers.

Closed beta (32 users) gave me feedback that shaped the “One-Click Pivot” feature and real-time lineup exports. It’s now live for NFL pre-season.

Not perfect yet (still optimizing infra + analyst creation UX), but I figured it’s better to share early and get feedback from builders here.
by andrewaylett | 2025-08-22 18:11:38+00:00
It's fairly prevalent, but actually the UK government gave up on replacing CE a couple of years ago: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-government-announces-e...

I'm sure the companies who put effort into adopting UKCA were really happy to have put in that effort :P. Even if it's I hope not as onerous as adopting it (or CE) from scratch, as they both have quite similar (if not originally identical?) requirements. It seemed more intended to give the impression of Brexit success than of actually making a difference to anything.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-08-22 18:11:43+00:00
I have been using mailbox.org for a few years and no complaints. I don't think the web UI is amazing but I use it via Thunderbird so it doesn't affect me.

If you use your own email client and your own domain name, you don't really need to worry about UI with email providers at all (as long as your provider supports those features). And your own domain name makes it easy to move around in future if you need to.

I don't really have any plans to move away from mailbox.org, though I just saw the post about Thunderbird offering an email service in the future. That might actually prompt me to move as I'd like to support the makers of a FOSS email client I've been happily using for years.
by redeyedtreefrog | 2025-08-22 18:11:43+00:00
Same here, my numbers come from "how much progress do I make with a single day spent working on a given project".

Previously: make a little bit of progress, realize I'd need a year's worth of weekends to complete it, give up after one day.

With vibe-coding assistance: make 10x+ progress, realize that with a few more weekends I could finish it, keep going.
by caleblloyd | 2025-08-22 18:11:59+00:00
Flash removal broke multiple government sites. I couldn't take a required training course for a few months after flash support was removed and the site was taken offline for an upgrade.

I’m sure ActiveX and Silverlight removal did too. And iframes not sharing cross domain cookies. And HTTP mixed content warnings. I get it, some of these are not web specs, but some were much more popular than XSLT is now.

The government will do what they do best, hire a contractor to update the site to something more modern. Where it will sit unchanged until that spec too is removed, some years from now.
by cookiengineer | 2025-08-22 18:12:50+00:00
Those meatbags usually have a different form of ledger. Be it open source contributions, built prototypes, apps or games, or other things they've shared before to create a track record of their skillset.

I never claimed that there is one type of ultrageneric ledger that works for all areas of research. But somehow, the LLM world still thinks that is the case for whatever reason.
by goddamnyouryan | 2025-08-22 18:13:08+00:00
I built a simple bookmark manager myself a couple of years ago:

https://link.horse

Mostly it just lets you apply any arbitrary number of tags to a link and the groups then together. The other key was building a bookmarklet to make saving them easy.

I don’t plan on monetizing it or really adding that many new features, but it’s worked great for me for a few years now.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-08-22 18:13:18+00:00
So, here's a time machine. You can go back to a time and place of lasting, enduring stability. There have been been numerous such periods in recorded history that have lasted for more than a human lifetime, and likely even more prior to that. (Admittedly a bit of a tautology, given that most 'recorded history' is a record of things happening rather than things staying the same.)

It will be a one-way trip, of course. What year do you set the dial to?
by throw0101a | 2025-08-22 18:13:45+00:00
> Also today (on Fox News): "I tell Pam [Bondi] and I tell the group, I don't wanna know, but you have to do what you have to do."

Kind of reminds me of the Mitchell & Webb comedy skit about "Needlessly ambiguous terms":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6cake3bwnY
by jerf | 2025-08-22 18:13:47+00:00
The real problem is you need a real-number-valued universe for this to work, where the measurer needs access to the full real values [1]. In our universe, which has a Planck size and Planck time and related limits, the statement is simply untrue. Even if you knew every last detail about a piece of fairy cake, whatever "every last detail" may actually be, and even if the universe is for some reason deterministic, you still could not derive the entire rest of the universe from it correctly. Some sort of perfect intelligence with access to massive amounts of computation may be able to derive a great deal more than you realize, especially about the environment in the vicinity of the cake, but it couldn't derive the entire universe.

[1]: Arguments are ongoing about whether the universe has "real" numbers (in the mathematical sense) or not. However it is undeniable the Planck constants still provide a practical barrier to any hypothetical real valued numbers in the universe that make them in practice inaccessible.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-08-22 18:13:56+00:00
My wife and I took a road trip that included time in SF last year and seeing a Waymo was pretty neat.

To save some money, we stayed in downtown Oakland and took the BART into San Francisco. After getting ice cream at the Ghirardelli Chocolate shop, we were headed to Pier 39. My wife has a bad ankle and can't walk very far before needing a break to sit, and we could have taken another bus, we decided to take a Waymo for the novelty of it. It felt like being in the future.

I own a Tesla and have had trials of FSD, but being in a car that was ACTUALLY autonomous and didn't merely pretend to be was amazing. For that short ride of 7 city blocks, it was like being in a sci-fi film.
by tsimionescu | 2025-08-22 18:13:59+00:00
I wonder how many more people have lost access to their DNS than to their email account. When you lease a domain (you can't buy domains), you have to periodically renew your lease - this is much more likely to be a problem than typical mail accounts. And if you lose your domain, and someone buys it, they now get all of your email - a much worse situation than Google locking out of your account. And there is no chance to appeal - again much worse than even Google's terrible user help.
by fragmede | 2025-08-22 18:14:00+00:00
> These are all acquisition plays.

Which seems fine? VC money gets thrown at a problem, the problem may or may not get solved by a particular team, but a company gets created, some people do some work, some people make money, others don't. I don't get it. Are you saying no one should bother doing anything because someone else is already doing it or that it's not difficult so why try?
by bytemut | 2025-08-22 18:14:14+00:00
NYC is a new set of challenges. As you already mentioned snow and ice is new. But also missing the high density of people and cars per square area. Behavior of drivers and pedestrians are different and much less polite. I can see it working in NYC but "just fine" is a bit of an over confidence... at least not for the first few years before they learn to deal with these issues that they don't face yet in LA and SF.