MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eightys3v3n | 2025-08-27 21:10:18+00:00
I don't agree that the only options are "give it almost everything" or "give it nothing and now it's a huge pain in the arse". Which seems to be what you implied. I do think there are better middle grounds where an app almost always works out of the box but also can't access almost everything on the system. There are also UI changes that can help deal with this like the Android security prompts do.
by modeless | 2025-08-27 21:10:45+00:00
Real crab bucket mentality here. We live in an age of wonders, literally the best time in human history to be alive, sci-fi turning to reality as we are on the brink of huge advances in space exploration, computation, robotics, biology, you name it.

No matter how good things get there will always be people filled with this sort of rage, but what bothers me is how badly this site wants to upvote this stuff.

HN is supposed to gratify intellectual curiosity. HN is explicitly not for political or ideological battle. Fulmination is explicitly discouraged in the guidelines. This article is about as far as I can imagine from appropriate content for HN. I strongly wish that everyone who wants this on the front page would find another site to be miserable on together, and stop ruining this one.
by tzumaoli | 2025-08-27 21:10:47+00:00
It's interesting to see the trend of the attitude towards GenAI in Hacker News through out the years. This is totally vibe based and I don't have numbers to back it up, but back in 2022-2023, the site was dominantly people who mostly treat GenAI as a curious technology without too much attachment, and some non-trivial amount of folks who are very skeptical of the tech. More recently I see a lot more people who see themselves as evangelists and try very hard to boost/advocate the technology (see all the "LLM coding changes my life" posts). It seems that the tide has turned back a little bit again since we now see this kind of posts surfacing.

For me, I kind of wish this site to go back to the good old days where people just share their nerdy niche hacker things and not filling the first page with the same arguments we see on the other parts of the internet over and over again. ; ) But granted I was attracted by the clickbait title too, so I can't blame others.
by rsoto2 | 2025-08-27 21:11:18+00:00
The article is "I'm an AI hater" it's about hating AI and why. Whats wrong with "at its core a fascist technology" do you not understand the statement? Companies like Palantir are using shitty targeting AI to literally mass murder children. Yes this technology you used was funded and created in partnership with apartheid governments. AWS and Microsucks are happy to lend a hand. The industry has fascist leadership, yes.
by siva7 | 2025-08-27 21:11:36+00:00
That's also not my experience. Giro was a nightmare compared to paypal 15 years ago and the only reason it slightly improved was regulations, not because the german banks cared about the customer experience. Now in 2025 Giro is dead as banks like DKB don't even hand out those cards by default. The system in germany is a big mess despite so many fintechs in germany.
by atcol | 2025-08-27 21:11:54+00:00
Thank you! I built it because I needed it. Current Data Lake catalogues are terrible with representing Iceberg tables, so I just built something for that purpose.

I am not happy with the Catalogue UX right now so I'll iterate on that a bit more.

I'll be hopefully implementing realtime monitoring of snapshots and other table aspects too.

Please let me know if you find issues or have suggestions (raise a Github Issue)!
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-08-27 21:12:18+00:00
I've seen a video on the youtube where a battery recycling company does this; they leave the car battery packs in their original housing, which I presume is water resistant enough. Each unit is also connected to a controller, which I also presume monitors battery health, temperature (assuming temp sensors on car battery packs), voltage, etc. If a unit is dying they can safely dispose of it, else, the units were out in the open and with several meters in between, meaning any fire would be unlikely to spread to something else and there's plenty of access opportunities.

Very space inefficient though, but there's more than enough of that in the US.
by CharlesW | 2025-08-27 21:12:37+00:00
> The fact that they retain the technical capability to deplatform apps outside their app store is a violation of the DMA.

Not in general, and courts would have to decide whether it's a violation in this specific case. The DMA doesn't force Apple to platform apps used primarily for piracy, it just requires that they be able to justify restrictions and keep them as narrow as possible. De-platforming a specific app is about as narrow as it gets.

Also, it's arguable that the DSA (Digital Services Act), which is just as applicable, actually compels Apple to de-platform this app. The DMA is a competition law, and allowing an app whose primary purpose is distribution of infringing content undermines fair competition among legitimate content providers.
by chatmasta | 2025-08-27 21:13:01+00:00
macOS at least has some basic sandboxing by default. You can circumvent it, of course – and many of the same people complaining about porous security models would complain even more loudly if they could not circumvent it, because “we want to execute code on our own machine” (the tension between freedom and security).

By default, folders like ~/Documents are not accessible by any process until you explicitly grant access. So as long as you run your code in some other folder you’ll at least be notified when it’s trying to access ~/Documents or ~/Library or any other destination with sensitive content.

It’s obviously not a panacea but it’s better than nothing and notably better than the default Linux posture.
by mrguyorama | 2025-08-27 21:13:15+00:00
>received wisdom about military things can be just completely wrong.

Consider that what you thought was "received wisdom" was literally Russian propaganda. However, the actual reality was always there, always being patiently insisted by people who knew what they were talking about, who were in fact still discussing actual boondoggles with the program, like the portion of the program that built the tailhook and was terribly run and ineffective at points.

People like Pierre Sprey have been shouting the same lies for decades, and credulous people with zero domain knowledge have been repeating his horse shit forever. He was the same guy who insisted that we should be building really stripped down planes without radar, without missiles, without anything.

He was very much the originator of a lot of anti-F35 FUD, on Russia Today no less. Western media was literally quoting the Russian propaganda firm to tell people how the F35 sucked. He helped push the utter BS that is "Oh, Russia's long wave radar makes stealth not work" which if you don't understand how that's irrelevant and untrue, don't ever have an opinion on modern warplanes.

There's a famous article talking about how terrible the F35 was by interviewing an F16 pilot who had faced it in dogfight training. The article talked at length about how the pilot of the F16 was able to out dogfight the F35. Now, it's sufficient to mention that gun range dogfights are not a thing in modern air combat, or at the very least are not designed for, because as long as your enemy has a single radar or IR missile left, you've already lost. However, beyond that, the F35 wasn't terrible, it's just very unlikely to match the literal king of dogfights. More importantly, the article mentioned something that I'm sure they didn't even realize the importance of.

Even at knife fighting range, the F16 radar assisted gunsight was unable to lock on to the F35. Go look at early jet aircraft gunnery statistics for an idea of how laughably bad dogfighting an F35 would be.

Oh, and that entire test was done with an F35 that wasn't allowed or capable of flying it's full envelope. It was an F35 with a hand tied behind it's back.
by chermi | 2025-08-27 21:13:18+00:00
Haven't the economies of scale already kicked in a little? Starlink is profitable. I'm not sure if spacex minus all starship costs is profitable. I'm pretty sure they're quite good at building them faster, better, and for less now. Please show me otherwise. I guess you could call that more learning curve, but that's a fuzzy line.

I guess overall I don't understand your point. What does it matter that the majority of their payload mass was their own? And nobody asking for something is certainly not the same thing as nobody wanting/needing it. See: cars, computers... Starlink now exists and I'm quite certain people love it and rely on it. Wouldn't exist without falcon 9. Starlink basically solved the last mile problem, surely you'd agree rural folks having access to Internet is a good thing?

They made their own demand for falcon 9, with that scale bringing down costs enough to raise demand for basically every research org needing satellites to contract with SpaceX.

I don't think we can definitively predict the demand either way for payload at $300/kg or whatever without first getting there, but Jevons might have some ideas.
by Vrondi | 2025-08-27 21:13:18+00:00
At the time PayPal rolled out, the single feature that made it popular in the USA is that it provided eBay sellers an easy/cheap way to receive credit card payments from buyers. That is all. Any person could set up a PayPal and instantly start receiving credit card payments without setting up a vendor account with a credit card company (which was not trivial at that time).
by yabones | 2025-08-27 21:13:20+00:00
Mazda punches way above their weight when it comes to "moonshot" innovation over and over again. Few of them really "succeed" commercially (Rotary engine, miller-cycle engine, HCCI) but I respect them for constantly pushing the technology forward.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Wankel_engine

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_cycle

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyactiv#Skyactiv-X

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous_charge_compression...
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-08-27 21:14:06+00:00
Except that the cigarrette is only 30% smoked and still perfectly fine to smoke for a while longer (if you insist on an analogy).

Car battery packs are really good; even the oldest Teslas are only now getting to less than 80% capacity. They are designed not to swell/fail if they're worn, else there would be a lot more car fires.
by xmodem | 2025-08-27 21:14:14+00:00
Every time one of these comes up, I have similar thoughts. A threat actor is in the position to pull off a large-scale supply chain compromise, and the best thing you can think of to do with that is also the thing that will guarantee you are discovered immediately? Mine crypto on the damn CPU, or publicly post the victim's credentials to their own GitHub account?

On one hand, I cannot accept that the actors that we see who pull these off are the best and brightest. My gut tells me that these attacks must be happening in more subtle ways from time to time. Maybe they're more targeted, maybe they're not but just have more subtle exfil mechanisms.

On the other, well we have exactly one data point of an attempt at a more subtle attack. And it was thwarted right before it started to see wide-spread distribution.

But also there was a significant amount of luck involved. And what if it hadn't been discovered? We'd still have zero data points, but some unknown actor would possess an SSH skeleton key.

So I don't know what to think.
by MrResearcher | 2025-08-27 21:14:25+00:00
I generally recommend to exit either via :xa (save all & exit) or :qa! (discard all and exit), bound to ZZ or ZA respectively. If you exit via :q or :wq, it just closes the current buffer, and moves to the next one. E.g. if you have a neotree open along with the editor, you type :wq, it closes the editor buffer and moves you into the file tree, which can be very confusing for beginners.
by quotemstr | 2025-08-27 21:14:44+00:00
> One thing that's weirdly precarious is how we still have one big environment for personal computing and how it enables most malware.

You're not the only one to note the dangers of an open-by-default single-namespace execution model. Yet every time someone proposes departing from it, he generates resistance from people who've spent their whole careers with every program having unbridled access to $HOME. Even lightweight (and inadequate) sandboxing of the sort Flatpak and Snap do gets turned off the instant someone thinks it's causing a problem.

On mobile, we're had containerized apps and they've worked fine forever. The mobile ecosystem is more secure and has a better compatibility story than any desktop. Maybe, after the current old guard retires, we'll be able to replace desktop OSes with mobile ones.
by hopelite | 2025-08-27 21:14:53+00:00
You can’t elevate something to federal charges that is not a federal crime, mostly committed across state lines (at least not in a just system); and the interstate commerce clause and possibly the free speech clause would likely be where that gets hung up.

There is a certain group in the USA that is working hard on undermining the rights of the people of America, the enemies, foreign and domestic, per se; and this is part of their plank to control speech through fear and total control and evisceration of anonymity.

I support controlling access to porn for children, especially since I know people who were harmed and groomed by it, but these types of laws are really just the typical liar’s wedge to get the poison pill of tracking and suppression in the door.

I hope some of the court cases can fix some of these treasonous and enemy acts by enemies within, but reality is that likely at the very least some aspects of these control mechanisms will remain intact.

If it really was about preventing harm against children, then they would have prevented children from accessing things, not adults. But that’s how you know it’s a perfidious lie.

This MS situation is just another step towards what they really want, total control over speech, thought, and what you are able to see and read.

This MS situation is just a kind of trial balloon, a probe of the American people and the Constitution and this thing we still call America even though enemies are within our walls dismantling everything.

As you may have read, in MS they are trying to require all social media companies to “…deanonymize and age-verify all users…” …… to protect the children, of course. So you, an adult, have to identify yourself online in the public square that is already censored and controlled and mapped, to the government so it can, e.g., see if you oppose or share information about the genocide it is supporting … to protect Mississippi children, of course.
by debug-desperado | 2025-08-27 21:14:55+00:00
If Twitter & Bluesky are for thoughts, and Instagram is for thots, Threads is where the "thots go to share their thoughts."

All jokes aside, it's an endless stream of takes from people who don't have an internal monologue. Plus some influencers trying their hand with unoriginal bait threads. Like the other poster said, it's worth checking out every now and again just to read some comments from folks who aren't thought leaders.
by watwut | 2025-08-27 21:15:30+00:00
They love his anti-trans crusade, they love his anti-eco crusade, they love he is sticking it to the libs. They find his sexual harasment issues to make him more true manly. None of that has anything to do with labor itself or economy. It has nothing to do with parties changing other then Republicans changing to more extreme right.

That being said, actual labor as in worked did not went for Republicans all that hard. It appears that way only if you restrict labor meaning to males of specific demographics.

It is not labor thing. It is gender resentment over not being on top of hierarchy thing.
by brokencode | 2025-08-27 21:15:43+00:00
I’m talking about how it impacts society in general, not you specifically. Also, I don’t think you appreciate how deeply AI will affect your life in the future.

The next time you get a CT for example, it might be an AI system that finds a lung nodule and saves your life.

Or for a negative possibility, consider how deepfakes could seriously degrade politics and the media landscape.

There are massive potential upsides and downsides to AI that will almost certainly impact you more than a coupon company.
by Teever | 2025-08-27 21:15:44+00:00
That's sort of a fallacious argument though because you could say the same thing about every part of a spacecraft that is used only for the return phase of its mission.

It might be more accurate to say that the ratio of mass for re-entry equipment to the entire craft mass is too great.

But with that said I think that the ultimate failure of the shuttle was that the design wasn't amenable to low cost maintenance. A spacecraft could have a crappy payload to orbit as long as it's cheap to maintain and use with quick turnaround.

I have a feeling that should Starship succeed this will be the case with it and it will end up having a substantially lower payload than intended but will make up for it with a design that's cheap to build and maintain.
by grover_board | 2025-08-27 21:16:18+00:00
You're right, it's probably just a distraction, like sending the army into D.C. and Chicago is a distraction, like trying to illegally fire Fed governors is a distraction, like ordering the prosecution and persecution of political enemies is a distraction, like every blatant power-grab, attempt at intimidating the opposition, and obvious effort to establish a de facto hybrid authoritarian regime is just a distraction from...something. After all, the administration and its cronies are nothing but scrupulous about their adherence to The Rules.
by quotemstr | 2025-08-27 21:16:18+00:00
> By default, folders like ~/Documents are not accessible by any process until you explicitly grant acces

And in a terminal, the principal to which you grant access to a directory is your terminal emulator, not the program you're trying to run. That's bonkers and encourages people to just click "yes" without thinking. And once you're authorized your terminal to access documents once, everything you run in it gets that access.

The desktop security picture is improving, slowly and haltingly, for end-user apps, but we haven't even begun to attempt to properly sandbox development workflows.
by atonse | 2025-08-27 21:17:17+00:00
This is still better than me having to somehow encode:

"find a flight for me, wife, 2 kids aged blah blah, to <destination>, i have family in <layover cities> so at most 1 layover, always avoid United airlines or anything operated by them, because I'd rather sail on a wooden plank across the atlantic like Greta Thunberg than fly United again."

into a bunch of filters with 40 clicks.
by 9x39 | 2025-08-27 21:17:53+00:00
Nothing.

Over time, developers stop testing on or releasing for W10. For example, Adobe Lightroom CC demands a certain release of W10 to even run, and it'll probably eliminate W10 before too long.

Maybe in 5 or so years, the newest hardware doesn't launch with W10 compatible drivers. That might be a problem.

Someone might have to make a page like this for it: https://trackerninja.codeberg.page/post/windows-7-power-256-...
by frozenseven | 2025-08-27 21:17:59+00:00
>The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance

>at its core a fascist technology rooted in the ideology of supremacy

>inherently mediocre and fundamentally conservative

>The machine is disgusting and we should break it

Jesus. Unclear why anyone would endorse this blogpost, much less post it on a website focused on computer science and entrepreneurship.
by quotemstr | 2025-08-27 21:18:34+00:00
> SmartOS is a specialized Type 1 Hypervisor platform based on illumos.

On Solaris? Why? And why bother with a Type 1 hypervisor? You get the same practical security benefits with none of the compatibility headaches (or the headaches of commercial UNIX necromancy) by containerizing your workloads. You don't need a hypervisor for that. All the technical pieces exist and work fine. You're solving a social problem, not a technical one.
by ranger_danger | 2025-08-27 21:18:38+00:00
We must be having some kind of disagreement on what "the 100 mile zone" even is then, because I thought the 8 CFR 287 link explicitly defined it. Can you please elaborate on exactly what it is you are claiming is a myth and why? I'd like to understand your point of view better.

And if this is indeed a settled issue as I believe you are claiming, can you cite any court cases that establish whether (whatever you claim is a myth) is actually legal or illegal?
by josefx | 2025-08-27 21:19:18+00:00
> int x = bar + 1; // should be illegal: it can be hard to distinguish if `bar` is a local variable versus an instance member

If it was this->bar it could be a member, it could also be a static variable. A bar on its own could be local or it could be in any of the enclosing scopes or namespaces. Forcing "this" to be explicit doesn't make the code any clearer on its own.
by nilslindemann | 2025-08-27 21:19:29+00:00
Python.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html

https://www.statista.com/statistics/793628/worldwide-develop...

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/03/08/language-rankings-1-2...
by gloosx | 2025-08-27 21:19:41+00:00
Impressive writing, I enjoyed it, yet I feel it needs to go deeper and acknowledge that AI is nothing more but a product of modern society which dictates what is to be done: an algorithm which generates infinite profits; This algorithm was just invented, it can respond pseudo-emotionally and mimic the individual, so it has potential to build dependence and empty said individual's pocket indefinitely. Thats peak capitalism
by lukan | 2025-08-27 21:19:49+00:00
The difference with spiders laying eggs in your ear, is that leeches sucking on your body is a regognized medical treatment for various things.

They don't lay eggs, they don't infest you. They just suck blood and are gone.

But just nitpicking on your example. I had leeches involuntarily on me for real where I just ripped them off and I don't think I would ever considering letting them suck till they are full.
by quickthrowman | 2025-08-27 21:19:57+00:00
You are correct, virtually every state has a law that says “If you buy something in another state and pay less sales tax than we charge, you owe us the sales tax we would’ve charged you.”

It’s called a ‘use tax’. In practice, nobody pays (personal) use tax, myself included.

Washington has a use tax: https://dor.wa.gov/taxes-rates/use-tax

California has a use tax: https://cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/use-tax/

Idaho has a use tax: https://tax.idaho.gov/taxes/sales-use/use-tax/online-guide/

So, all of those people going to Oregon to shop without sales tax and not paying use tax were technically breaking the law, not using a loophole. I’m not judging them, I don’t pay use tax either :)
by watwut | 2025-08-27 21:20:07+00:00
They dont do what they think is best. They want to harm people not like them, they are attracted to fraud and want affirmation of hierarchy that they think is advantage to them.

The infantilizing thing is constantly project positive motivations on people who do the opposite.

They were literally looking forward to cause harm, they just thought it will harm only liberals, trans, stupid feminists and well ... anyone not them.
by AlexeyBrin | 2025-08-27 21:20:19+00:00
Have you considered that some of the people that are against AI are worried about a potential loss in the human experience like AI replacing writers, painters and thinkers or at least diluting the human output with a sea of mediocre AI output ?

I'm not saying that they are right or wrong, but you should at least respect their right to have their own opinions and fears instead of pointing to an illusory appropriate content for HN.