MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pta2002 | 2025-09-20 09:45:39+00:00
This is completely bullshit. If you find a proper download, you’ll usually see something like “NFLX.WEB-DL” on the file name. That means it got ripped and downloaded from Netflix.

The DRM decryption isn’t the hard bit - it’s actually mostly a standard thing, and there are plenty of tools on GitHub that will decrypt it from you if you have a key, e.g. Devine.

The issue is mostly around getting a key, but those are easy enough to get if you know where to look (e.g. TV firmware dumps).

Once you have this though, and any piracy group will have this, it’s so much easier to do this than to screen record, and will give you the original quality as well.
by rramadass | 2025-09-20 09:46:08+00:00
What is funny is that the H-1B "scheme" surpassed all expectations by selling the "American Dream" so well to the rest-of-the-world that they all actually lost due to "brain drain". It was a brilliant long-term strategy.

And yet you have people refusing to face the facts and see the data that the US has-been and is the clear winner in all this.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-20 09:47:25+00:00
That’s non sense metric.

Nobody cares about how fast their phone cpu is. My iPhone 13 was significantly less performant than a top of the line modern Qualcomm CPU and never felt slow. Apple chips are also no more twice as fast as the competitions. The gap has been smaller for years.

If that’s all you have, you have basically nothing.

Only the experience matters and the iPhone UX is strictly inferior to the competition. Battery life is worse, camera is worse, screen is worse. So happy I switched and really regret ever trying buying one.
by mrlambchop | 2025-09-20 09:47:54+00:00
Poking around at this product, it looks from the rendering like (a) USB-C based power pass through (unclear if its 2.0 BC etc... or true PD with CC pins - doesn't matter that much however if the phone range is small enough) (b) USB 2.0 device IC (STM32 or similar?) that connects to the phone over D+/D- pins. (c) power is being taken from the USB internal or external depending on what is plugged in.

I was confused by how CarPlay was working, as this requires the vehicle to be a host and the phone a device, but I'll assume it means wireless CarPlay (vs USB 2.0 CarPlay).

For the display, I wonder if the device is mimicking the assistive touch inputs via external USB PID (per the note) and using a mouse/trackpad HID can take a screenshot via assistive framework - I guess the app could see this arriving, process it and then delete? Also figure out what is being shown? would explain why the video is sped up a little, but YIKES. Also good luck stopping the app being killed in the background.

All direct USB streams require MFI auth, which might work for exactly 100 devices and could be an alternative, but requires Apple cert for bulk quantities.

I think ReplayKit can only work within an app and can't see the general output stream.

Cool use of tech and curious to see how it actually works :)
by sebastiennight | 2025-09-20 09:48:24+00:00
You definitely do not need or want to give database access to an LLM-with-scaffolding system to execute the example you provided.

(by database access, I'm assuming you'd be planning to ask the LLM to write SQL code which this system would run)

Instead, you would ask your LLM to create an object containing the structured data about those github issues (ID, title, description, timestamp, etc) and then you would run a separate `storeGitHubIssues()` method that uses prepared statements to avoid SQL injection.
by Timwi | 2025-09-20 09:48:24+00:00
> will render notably different in different browsers (and renderers like Batik/Inkscape/SalamanderSVG/etc).

I've run into this too, but only with SVG filters, not with basic elements like text, although you do have to make sure that the correct fonts are always available.

> tooltips in SVG don't work when the SVG is in an HTML page.

They work just fine when the SVG is actually in the HTML. What you're likely talking about is SVG that is referenced by an <img> tag. The latter means that the browser treats it as an image, so yeah, it doesn't have tooltips. Try putting the SVG directly into the HTML.

> Some mildly complex SVGs take GBs of RAM and 1> min to render.

I have never encountered that in my 10+ years of using SVG.
by fhd2 | 2025-09-20 09:49:08+00:00
This. Having had the pleasure to review the work and fix the bugs of agent jockeys (generally capable developers that fell in love with Claude Code et al), I'm rather sceptical. The code often looks as if they were on mushrooms. They cannot reason about it whatsoever, like they weren't even involved, when I know they weren't completely hands off.

I really believe there are people out there that produce good code with these things, but all I've seen so far has been tragic.

Luckily, I've witnessed a few snap out of it and care again. Literally looks to me as if they had a substance abuse problem for a couple of months.

If you take a critical look at what comes out of contemporary agentic workflows, I think the conclusion must be that it's not there. So yeah, if you're a good reviewer, you would perhaps come to that conclusion much sooner.
by rollulus | 2025-09-20 09:50:45+00:00
I have received a few LLM produced PRs from peers from adjacent teams, in good faith but not familiar with the project, and they increasingly infuriate me. They were all garbage, but there’s a great asymmetry: it costs my peers nothing to generate them, it costs me precious time to refute them. And what can I do really? Saying “it’s irreparable garbage because the syntax might be right but it’s conceptually nonsense” but that’s not the most constructive take.
by delusional | 2025-09-20 09:50:59+00:00
Why is it pointless? I think thats exactly what the people advocating for H1B for specialized workers want.

I dont know if thats a good idea. It does leave a bad taste in my mouth. Im also not sure its a bad idea either, it seems useful from an economic perspective. What i know its not is "pointless", it does do something.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-20 09:51:13+00:00
Ha ha ha, suckers! I still have my Canon Cat from '87 and use it most days. I don't have to use emulation!

Seriously though... I did a contract for Jef in the early 80s and he showed me the Swyft card. Was happy to buy one of these things when it hit the shelf (though figuring out where to buy it from was kind of difficult.)

The keyboard doesn't have as good a feel as you might expect, so emulation will let you use a decent, modern keyboard. I still have a large box of floppies so that's not an issue. In the 90s I hacked together some FORTH code to read / write documents over the serial port, but it's a bit fragile.

Anyway... It's worth checking out. The only thing I would change would be up and down arrow keys. I think Jef had a philosophical problem with this which is why it never shipped with them. It's usable without them, it just seems a bit weird.

Surprised the article didn't mention the book "The Humane Interface" which was the book Jef wrote with the philosophical underpinnings of Swyft and IA/Canon Cat. Worth a read. Might be up on the Internet Archive.
by photon_garden | 2025-09-20 09:51:28+00:00
My assumption is that most people on HN are making programmer money. $4 - 5 USD per month is affordable even on a junior engineer’s salary in many parts of the world.

The price per GB isn’t as good as the services you mentioned, but their storage limits are fine for the primary use case — storing a lot of plain text notes.

I’ve also had no problems with it, in contrast with iCloud which has routinely gotten stuck for me.

And if price per GB is what you care most about, use something else. That’s one of the great things about Obsidian.
by defrost | 2025-09-20 09:51:30+00:00
An unexpected hero arises ...

The administration’s pressure on ABC to fire comedian Jimmy Kimmel is very unpopular, as G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers notes, with people polled by YouGov on September 18 seeing it as an attack on free speech. That unpopularity showed today when podcaster and senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) celebrated Kimmel’s firing but called the threat of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr to retaliate against ABC “unbelievably dangerous.” Cruz called Carr’s threats “right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘nice bar you have here. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.’” He explained: “I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying, ‘We’re going to decide what speech we like and what we don’t, and we’re going to threaten to take you off air if we don’t like what you’re saying.’”

Letters from an American, September 19, 2025, Heather Cox Richardson

~ https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-19-202...

Up is Down, Right is Left, ...
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-20 09:53:14+00:00
> Android has nothing equivalent to AirPods, airdrop, find my, list goes on and on.

Sony has a product which is considerably better than the AirPods and the Pixel Buds are competitive.

Google has an alternative to Find my which works the same and allows to use trackers from multiple brands, including some which are better than AirTag.

Android has a default feature called nearby share which works the same and has had sharing via WiFi for much longer than Apple including some options which are not annoyingly gimped proprietary technology.

It’s always the same issue with Apple fan. They are completely unaware of how far behind Apple is because they don’t want to even look outside.
by ehnto | 2025-09-20 09:53:32+00:00
It was less that it went wrong, and more that when something small went wrong it became a complex issue due to how the system was built, and how it handled a module failure.

The car was entirely capable of continuing to operate normally, but the operator is not trusted by BMW. Their ecosystem locks out the owner from easily maintaining their car as well, which made even more painful as I had no trouble identifying and sourcing a new module.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-20 09:54:27+00:00
So, we tend to think that it’s just common sense that most animals reproduce sexually (actually I think most people would assume that _all_ animals do; in fact, as with most things, there are edge cases), but, well, to an extent that’s because we already know that. The historical view was a bit different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation

This isn’t even the only weird idea that people used to have about reproduction; there’s also stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle_goose_myth
by ggm | 2025-09-20 09:54:35+00:00
Hate to say it but don't treat your body like an Olympian of you want to live to 200. They don't. Tremendous stresses on the body, amenorrhoea, arthritis, reduced immunity from stress, sport specific injuries, joint issues...

Great writing and a good hook. The front boulders would indeed be a great start to organ manufacturing. Even better if they were productive with milk glands and a nipple, I would imagine mastectomy patients would love this work.
by shiandow | 2025-09-20 09:54:43+00:00
I knew inversion must have had something to do with it. Seeing it spelled out like that makes it pretty clear.

Sending the point where all three outer circles meet to infinity you get two parallel lines (they only touch at infinity) and one orthogonal line since inversion preserves angles and it's clear that the two semicircles are orthogonal. Then you are left with two circles that meet all three lines and it becomes easy to figure out their exact position and radius.

Sadly that is where my knowledge of inversion stops, but if I had to I suppose I could reconstruct the equations from first principles.
by gerdesj | 2025-09-20 09:55:27+00:00
The embossed numbers were used to transfer the details quickly and reliably. A roller would apply pressure to press special paper onto upraised letters and numbers. The seller would hand write the amount and the buyer would sign. Two copies were made simultaneously (carbon impregnated paper) and separated and a copy kept by each party.

Its a far cry from paying by bonk and your phone beeping a few seconds later to indicate your bank has already registered the transaction!
by simonw | 2025-09-20 09:57:28+00:00
> Where are the "code-review" agents at?

OpenAI's Codex Cloud just added a new feature for code review, and their new GPT-5-Codex model has been specifically trained for code review: https://openai.com/index/introducing-upgrades-to-codex/

Gemini and Claude both have code review features that work via GitHub Actions: https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/docs/review... and https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/github-actions

GitHub have their own version of this pattern too: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-04-04-copilot-code-review...

There are also a whole lot of dedicated code review startups like https://coderabbit.ai/ and https://www.greptile.com/ and https://www.qodo.ai/products/qodo-merge/
by rsynnott | 2025-09-20 09:57:45+00:00
Aaah, right, I suppose if you’re assuming it’s a bird it _would_ need a specific call-out, yeah. I was assuming it’d be covered by the hooves-and-stomachs stuff, but if you don’t think it’s a mammal in the first place that wouldn’t work.

(From the above: “Bible Gateway is currently unavailable to consumers in the United Kingdom and European Union due to technical issues.” I am now very curious just which EU regulation the bible website was worried about.)
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-20 09:57:59+00:00
Virtually all descend brands support multiple pairing and fast switching nowadays. This is not a AirPods advantage. AirPods miserably fail at this as soon as you use them on anything non Apple.

Nearby Share works exactly the same than AirDrop with regards to pair to pair mode on supporting device. It also works on anything supporting one of its client which covers a lot of material.

Find my: Google has exactly the same functionality and has had it for years.

You are completely disconnected from the state of the art. Meanwhile it’s 2025 and iOS still can’t properly deal with notifications.
by naveen99 | 2025-09-20 09:58:52+00:00
a lot of international athletes come to the usa on athletic scholarships. Universities are also a gateway for about a million students a year. And then there are about a 100 million tourists a year who can head to a sanctuary city… And a lot of labor just walks over also via a daily limit upto 15k people per day depending on wage inflation. It’s not so much a drain as a centrifuge that concentrates the willing and able from every category.
by jwe | 2025-09-20 09:59:39+00:00
The amount of neo-antisemitism, ignorance towards history of antisemitism, Oct 7 denial, WW2 perpetrator/victim reversal, among other perception errors in this thread (and of course all online threads about this) is staggering and breathtaking.

At this point - except for this one message in this one thread on this one website - I have stopped all interaction with this topic online. I feel helpless, powerless and hope that this phase of human/news/information/power interaction is well past all of us within my lifetime.
by esperent | 2025-09-20 10:01:13+00:00
You could use an LLM to give you advice on how to present that take in a more constructive manner.

Partially sarcastic but I do personally use LLMs to guide my communication in very limited cases:

1. It's purely business related, and

2. I'm feeling too emotionally invested (or more likely, royally pissed off) and don't trust myself to write in a professional manner, and

3. I genuinely want the message to sound cold, corporate, and unemotional

Number 3 would fit you here. These people are not being respectful to you in presenting code for review that respects your time. Why should you take the time to write back personally?

It should be noted that this accounts for maybe 5% of my business communications, and I'm careful not to let that number grow.
by sublinear | 2025-09-20 10:02:35+00:00
I will second this. I believe code review agents and search summaries are the way forward for coding with LLMs.

The ability to ignore AI and focus on solving the problems has little to do with "fun". If anything it leaves a human-auditable trail to review later and hold accountable devs who have gone off the rails and routinely ignored the sometimes genuinely good advice that comes out of AI.

If humans don't have to helicopter over developers, that's a much bigger productivity boost than letting AI take the wheel. This is a nuance missed by almost everyone who doesn't write code or care about its quality.
by constantcrying | 2025-09-20 10:03:12+00:00
What people have to understand is that this is not a repository for software developers. It is a repository for people needing tools for statistical analysis and scientific computing.

The way a software developer thinks about a package is totally different to the way someone trying to perform statistical analysis thinks about packages.

This is the same for CTAN, the name is no coincidence. The packages are for users and not developers.
by JdeBP | 2025-09-20 10:03:28+00:00
Ongoing parallel discussions of the same thing, as reported by various news sources and by Google itself:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45297331 (gemini.Google)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292260 (blog.Google 1)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292163 (blog.Google 2)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45300679 (blog.Google 2)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45297955 (omgubuntu)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45296416 (thenewstack)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306898 (arstechnica)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292637 (wired)
by constantcrying | 2025-09-20 10:05:22+00:00
>If you want to change something which breaks them, you have to then do it in a different way.

Almost every other package repo works differently and publishing packages which would break other packages is more than common, it is the standards way to publish updates.

>Then get all the dependencies that use the old way to migrate to the new way. Then when the dependents are no longer relying on the old way, you can push out a change which removes it.

This is actually how no software repo works as it is actually insane.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-20 10:06:02+00:00
I noticed a recent link to an article about the Swyft Card, Archy and Canon Cat. This is a video of Sherwin Gooch interviewing Jef Raskin for the TV program "High Tech Heroes." I think this was from '92, which is why the video looks like it was made with a Video Toaster. Back in the day all we had was standard definition analog video... And we liked it that way.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-20 10:06:46+00:00
This idea that you can get good results from a bad process as long as you have good quality control seems… dubious, to say the least. “Sure, it’ll produce endless broken nonsense, but as long as someone is checking, it’s fine.” This, generally, doesn’t really work. You see people _try_ it in industry a bit; have a process which produces a high rate of failures, catch them in QA, rework (the US car industry used to be notorious for this). I don’t know of any case where it has really worked out.

Imagine that your boss came to you, the tech lead of a small team, and said “okay, instead of having five competent people, your team will now have 25 complete idiots. We expect that their random flailing will sometimes produce stuff that kinda works, and it will be your job to review it all.” Now, you would, of course, think that your boss had gone crazy. No-one would expect this to produce good results. But somehow, stick ‘AI’ on this scenario, and a lot of people start to think “hey, maybe that could work.”
by ginko | 2025-09-20 10:06:55+00:00
I think it should be relatively straightforward to set up something like that with build123d[1]. You can load the emboss pattern from an SVG and project it on the surface of a cylinder with `project_faces()`[2]. Some positive/negative extrusion and some added keyholes and you're done.

[1] https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

[2] https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/direct_api_refere...
by mercutio2 | 2025-09-20 10:06:56+00:00
There are 3 different components of PG&E electricity bills, which makes the bill difficult to read. I am also in PG&E East Bay community generation, and when I look at all components, it’s:

Minimum Delivery Charge (what’s paid monthly, which is largely irrelevant, before annual true-up of NEM charges): $11.69/month

Actual charges, billed annually, per kWh:

Peak NEM charge: $.62277 Off-Peak NEM charges: $.31026

Plus 3-20% extra (depending on the month) in “non-bypassable charges” (I haven’t figured out where these numbers come from), then a 7.5% local utility tax.

Those rates do get a little lower in the winter (.30 to .48), and of course the very high rates benefit me when I generate more energy than I consume (which only happens when I’m on vacation). But the marginal all-in costs are just very high.

That’s NEM2 + TOU-EV2A, specifically.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-09-20 10:07:34+00:00
I haven't watched that one. Seems to be from the period where Jackie Chan was heavily marketed to western audiences as the new Bruce Lee. Though, you know, always playing the cop.

I consider that period a complete failure. I loved Jackie Chan best in the comedic, Harold Lloyd/ Buster Keaton kind of roles where he is just some regular dude who is constantly trying to run away from bad guys and protect himself and his loved ones with acrobatic kung fu instead of beating everyone up: the polar opposite of the "bad guy kicks ass" of Bruce Lee. And I never could get into Bruce Lee.

Er. His films, I mean.
by bambax | 2025-09-20 10:07:59+00:00
Happy user of yt-dlp for years. It's not just an app, it's mainly a Python library, so it can be scripted from a larger Python app, which is super useful.

Had never heard of Statcher, but it seems to just be a gui front for yt-dlp.

In my experience, New Pipe has never worked properly.
by piva00 | 2025-09-20 10:08:00+00:00
Supporting far-right movements in the UK, Germany, etc. is a very good reason to not trust anything related to information coming from him.

Edit: it's funny how factual statements like this attract downvotes these days on HN, the Overton window shift has truly reached everywhere... Wouldn't expect 15 years ago to share this space with people not calling out fascist tendencies.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-09-20 10:08:18+00:00
> I wonder, though, if they got full body sun exposure on a regular basis, if that would change things

Yes - their whole body would be subject to the ageing effects of the sun.

> It seems unlikely that we would have evolved to have a single part of our body exposed to the sun while the rest wasn’t

And yet it's common for dark skinned people to have significantly lighter palms and soles of feet as they have less exposure to the sun.
by EliRivers | 2025-09-20 10:08:44+00:00
People need to understand that most reformists don't want to get rid of the truly exceptional immigration to the US.

What do the most influential reformists want? The ones who set the extreme agenda that everyone else follows? As I understand it, right now the US is routinely enacting policies that the majority of citizens do not want; from this, could we surmise that the majority of people, and presumably thus the majority of reformists, will receive the extreme H1B policies that they don't want?