MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tomatotomato37 | 2025-09-12 16:57:47+00:00
Most ICE vehicles with automatic transmissions (aka 90% of them) either explicitly open the clutch or do torque converter things when off throttle, the result being that the vehicle starts freewheeling. Air resistance and friction and what not means the vehicle will eventually stop, but in a modern car at highway speeds that stopping distance can still be multiple miles; and that's before you bring hills into the equation.

My point being for most people expected behavior is for a car to only slow down during active braking and maintain momentum otherwise, and trying to change that otherwise would bring more danger than it's worth.
by exodust | 2025-09-12 16:58:05+00:00
> "genocide scholars"

Laughable role, given no access to the place you claim is a genocide, and that's an active war zone with terrorists running around delaying the inevitable and prolonging the suffering.

1. Look at map of Gaza 2. Look at casualty stats, incident reports and statements released from the Hamas media office. (The same information cited by international media) 3. Look at carefully staged photos from journalists in Gaza who have contracts with Reuters but are nevertheless under Hamas who have strict control over the media landscape in Gaza and shape the narrative. 4. Declare "genocide".

> restrictions on food and supplies entering the area

Yes, and people are suffering. We all know it and wish it wasn't so. But Israel can't just go home and hide in their bomb shelters. Millions of tonnes of aid including food, medical supplies, shelters, water and other resources HAVE made it through in thousands of trucks. Some of which gets looted, or blocked by hostile groups who seize the trucks.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-12 16:58:22+00:00
A big part of the problem here is that ships and trips that don't by the numbers benefit from buying insurance are being forced to so there's a whole ecosystem of various shades of sketchy insurance insuring all sorts of mundane things and so sketchy insurance is a poor heuristic for "they might be up to no good, it's worth looking into them".

There's an artificially oversized haystack the needles are hiding in.
by kragen | 2025-09-12 16:58:28+00:00
That's a different question; I'm just saying it would contradict the "less than 10%" claim in the article and the press release.

It would maybe also not be a great idea to field weapons that cost more than their targets, because, measured in dollars, it means you're doing more damage to yourself than to the enemy. Economically speaking, it's like a handgun that shoots both backwards and forwards. If you're immensely richer than the enemy—and the UK's GDP is almost twice the size of Russia's, even before you add in Ukraine's GDP, Poland's GDP, Germany's, etc.—it can still be a winning strategy. But it's still pretty galling.
by jmyeet | 2025-09-12 16:58:35+00:00
This should surprise literally nobody. Let me briefly explain the US political landscape.

Classic liberalism is a pollitical and moral philosophy that came about in the last 600+ years that (among other things) enshrined individualism and private property. This evolved hand in hand with enclosures (ie private property) and ultimately led to capitalism as an economic system.

Colloquially, "liberal" is used to describe someobody who is socially progressive, typically a Democrat, but that really has nothing to do with the origins.

Neoliberalism is what liberalism evolved into, primarily in the 20th century. The key principles are that capitalism (the "free market") is the solution to basically all problems and deregulation (to increase profits, basically).

Everybody is a (neo)liberal. Democrats and Republicans both. Note that "leftists" are by definition not neoliberals and are anti-capitalist but people often mistakenly use terms like "liberal" and "leftist" interchangeably when they couldn't be more different.

Imperialism is the highest form of capitalism. Fascism is capitalism in crisis. The Democratic Party as it exists in the US today, is controlled opposition.

So we come to the Overton window. This is how it goes:

1. Republicans pass some legislation like the Patriot Act to take away rights, usually under the guise of "security". The Patriot Act of course was passed in the aftermath of 9/11;

2. Ultimately the Democrats get in office and... don't reverse it. It becomes the new normal. They do this by being institutionalists. But defending institutions is merely an excuse for inaction.

3. Come the next election the Patriot Act or the border wall or whatever will the new normal and some even more fascist legislation will be on the table. As an example, try and find the daylight between the immigration plan of the Kamala Harris 2024 campaign and the Trump 2020 immigration plan (that Democrats opposed at the time).

Nobody cares about our individual rights. Things continue to get worse because both parties will always choose the US imperial project and the profits of corporations over your rights. We are six companies in a trenchcoat.
by kaffekaka | 2025-09-12 16:58:53+00:00
You have a good point, and I do agree.

But at the same time I have been both a person exercising every day and a person not understanding how to find the time for exercise (even after having been the exercising person!). It is remarkable how much our identity can be shaped by contingent circumstances or beliefs.

So how to know if one is someone who needs alot of sleep, or someone who just believes there is no time? I actually don't know.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-09-12 16:59:04+00:00
And yet for some reason Melissa Hortman and her husband (as well as their dog) continue to be barely acknowledged by the White House/right despite being brutally murdered in their own home - they were democrat lawmakers in MN for those who are unfamiliar with this horrible story.

Kirk made a substantial portion of his living trolling people and fomenting hostility between people of different political ideologies. He said gay people should be stoned to death. He did not deserve to die, I do not celebrate his murder. But I will not celebrate the way he lived his life, let alone indulge this flagrant (and tasteless) attempt by the GOP to make him a saintly martyr.
by grmartinez | 2025-09-12 17:00:18+00:00
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by kevinskii | 2025-09-12 17:00:23+00:00
> ” I worked crazy hours in my early 20s because I liked it. I liked computers, I liked my team, and to be frank, I had not much else to do. If I went home early, I would be spending time on the internet anyway.”

This describes me almost exactly when I was in my 20s. However, I have far fewer regrets than you might. My career progressed a lot faster than it otherwise would have, and thanks to salary compounding my family enjoys much greater financial security than we otherwise might have. The institutional and product knowledge I gained in those days enables me to now have a much more relaxed work schedule and spend time with my family while still delivering value. And finally, it’s fun to walk through a lab and see the software I wrote unprompted over a few weekends still humming along two decades later on hundreds of stations.

I am under no illusion that my company is my family, but I didn’t do it for them. I did it for myself, and the company happened to benefit. There have never been any loyalty expectations on either side, and I would probably do it all over again.
Show HN: I built sendwish, birthday reminders and gift sending that doesn't suck
by saintmalik | 2025-09-12 17:01:16+00:00
Unlike other birthday apps that ping you the morning of, sendwish gives you countdown alerts: "Mom's birthday in 5 days "

You get time to:

- Craft a personal message - Pick from gift options like personalized merch boxes, gift cards and more - Actually be thoughtful instead of rushed

The app handles:

- Birthdays, anniversaries, graduations - Countdown reminders (5, 10, 25 days out) - Gift integration - Personal message crafting - Global SMS/WhatsApp delivery

Currently at 224 users from different countries.

Tech stack: Go + Supabase + Twilio + LemonSqueezy

Try it: sendwish.app

What events do you always forget? Looking for feedback on features vs simplicity balance.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-12 17:01:18+00:00
>The state fell short on that, and hence created an arbitrage opportunity

The state fell short on that because everyone hates violence so there isn't the political will to deploy it at the drop of a hat multiplied by everyone's pet issues.

The state "technically could" do a lot of stuff but it doesn't because doing even a small subset of those things more than it does would destabilize it.
by diggan | 2025-09-12 17:01:28+00:00
Nämndemän (Lay Judges) are nothing like juries, at least how I understand juries. In lower courts (tingsrätt), those people are appointed by the city council, and the people chosen are often politically involved (yet the appointment is "unpolitical"), they're not just "randoms" who got called to be in the jury, like how I understand the juries in the US to work.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-12 17:01:48+00:00
Sorry, I think I might have accidentally use a term-of-art, and misused it. I meant “no cap on how much the insurance will pay out.” But, when in the same sentence with “high deductible,” the more reasonable parse (and the one I think you read it as) is “no cap on out-of-pocket expenses.” My bad.
by vintermann | 2025-09-12 17:02:04+00:00
> If they don't bring the war to Russia in full scale, it'll never end.

How exactly do you picture it ending? No, really. Imagine you got everything you wanted. Everyone delivers max offensive capability to Ukraine. Ukraine brings the war to Russia in full scale. Putin, or his successors, give up. Then what?

At the end of the day, Russia will still be there, at Ukraine's borders. What happens?

(Unless you're one of those who imagine a split-up - a sentiment Putin absolutely has noticed and used in building domestic support, by the way. But either way, there will be something that used to be Russia at Ukraine's borders, and they may not be very happy about their neighbors after a full scale war.)

I'll listen to any plausible scenario - plausible to you I mean, I'll defer judgment for now. Don't worry about convincing me, just convince yourself. I just want to know what happy outcome you imagine after Ukraine has somehow brought the war to Russia and won.
by mikert89 | 2025-09-12 17:02:13+00:00
There's another thing happening which people haven't really heard much about, which is basically ChatGPT Pro is really good at making legal arguments. And so people that previously would never have filed something like a discrimination lawsuit can now use ChatGPT to understand how to respond to managers' emails and proactively send emails that point out discrimination in non-threatening manner, and so in ways that create legal entrapment. I think people are drastically underestimating what's going to happen over the next 10 years and how bad the discrimination is in a lot of workplaces.
by petsfed | 2025-09-12 17:02:31+00:00
The problem with this line of thinking is that home invasion is a different kind of crime from breaking and entering.

With breaking and entering, the goal is to get what they can with a minimum of fuss. Locked doors, barking dogs, automatic lights, security systems, etc are all great deterrents, because the goal is to get as much as possible while avoiding capture. The table stakes are that the burglar can get in and out without getting caught.

With home invasion, the whole threat profile is different. The operating premise is that the invader will use violence or the threat of it to brutalize the home occupants into facilitating the theft, the escape, and avoidance of prosecution.

Think of how wild animals engage in violence: they will not enter into a violent situation unless trapped (either physically, or by circumstance - e.g. fight or starve), or they think they can win the fight without sustaining any substantial injury. In the case of a home invasion, you are trapped, but the other guy has chosen the fight.

All of that to say, compliance should be done in the light of keeping yourself and those around you together and unharmed, and not willy-nilly. Obviously, don't pick a fight over a TV. But understand that if they continue their breaking-and-entering after they know you're there, compliance may be insufficient to protect your life.
by JdeBP | 2025-09-12 17:03:22+00:00
Tip: Debian provides browsable source repositories so it is usually easy to find out whether something is a local Debian change.

* https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/nginx

* https://salsa.debian.org/nginx-team/nginx/-/commit/3e7838a6b...

* https://salsa.debian.org/nginx-team/nginx/-/merge_requests/8...
by bluGill | 2025-09-12 17:03:34+00:00
Interviews should not be about cleverness. They should test that you can code. I almost never write an algorithm because all the important algorithms are in my standard library already. Sure back in school I did implement a red-black tree - I don't remember if it worked, but I implemented it: I can do that again if you need me to, but it will take me several days to get all the details right (most of it looking up how it works again). I use red-black trees all the time, but they are in the language.

You need to make sure a candidate can program so asking programing question make sense. However the candidate should not be judged on if they finish or get an optimal or even correct answer. You need to know if they write good code that you can understand, and are on a path that if given a reasonable amount of time on a realistic story would finish it and get it correct. If someone has seen the problem before they may get the correct answer, but if they have not seen it they won't know and shouldn't expected to get the right answer in an hour.
by segmondy | 2025-09-12 17:03:36+00:00
I was told to use ANY language in an interview. I asked them if they were sure, so I solved it with J. They were not too pleased and asked me if I could use another language, so I did prolog and we moved on to the next question. Then the idiot had the audacity to say I should not use "J and Prolog" but any common known language. I asked if assembly was fine, and they said no. Perhaps python or javascript. I did the rest in python, needless to say I didn't get the job. :-)
by tracker1 | 2025-09-12 17:05:33+00:00
My biggest problem with leetcode type questions is that you can't ask clarifying questions. My mind just doesn't work like most do, and leetcode to some extent seems to rely on people memorizing leetcode type answers. On a few, there's enough context that I can relate real understanding of the problem to, such as the coin example in the article... for others I've seen there's not enough there for me to "get" the question/assignment.

Because of this, I've just started rejecting outright leetcode/ai interview steps... I'll do homework, shared screen, 1:1, etc, but won't do the above. I tend to fail them about half the time. It only feels worse in instances, where I wouldn't even mind the studying on leetcode types sites if they actually had decent explainers for the questions and working answers when going through them. I know this kind of defeats the challenge aspect, but learning is about 10x harder without it.

It's not a matter of skill, it's just my ability to take in certain types of problems doesn't work well. Without any chance of additional info/questions it's literally a setup to fail.

edit: I'm mostly referring to the use of AI/Automated leetcode type questions as a pre-interview screening. If you haven't seen this type of thing, good for you. I've seen too much of it. I'm fine with relatively hard questions in an actual interview with a real, live person you can talk to and ask clarifying questions.
by bilekas | 2025-09-12 17:05:40+00:00
I've heard of this a few times but I still don't quite get it..

It's just the only hard enough part of the body that won't be rejected but won't the autoimmune issues persist?

It's really incredible this has been around since the 60's and I would love to have a chat with the first person who said "let's try a tooth"
by nostrademons | 2025-09-12 17:05:49+00:00
I've noticed this as well, but see it mostly as "A players hire other A players, B players hire C players". The top tier of Indian execs/management that I've met will hire diverse teams, just like the top tier of every other ethnicity will as well. There's simply not enough people at the top to put a racial/ethnic/caste filter on it. But then once you get down to the second tier, people will happily hire people like themselves, because at that level you're hiring on vibes rather than data and similar people give you fuzzy comfortable vibes.

Unfortunately most Fortune 500 companies are in the hands of B players now, and it goes all the way up, with the government (multiple governments, really) being in the hands of B/C players. The A players are happily retired and pulling strings in the background with their 501(c)4s.
by myth_drannon | 2025-09-12 17:05:57+00:00
Spanish civil war was in the 30's and officialy Spain was fascist until 1975... But is it a normal country now? When PM gives a speech and laments that too bad they don't have nuclear weapons, otherwise they would have nuked Israel... something is rotten in the little kingdom of theirs. Longing for the times of the Inquisition, when they could freely torture jews, I bet.
by jsheard | 2025-09-12 17:06:13+00:00
Even when using forward+ style rendering it's still common for certain effects to get handed off to deferred passes, which precludes easily supporting MSAA anyway. For example the recent Doom and Call of Duty games use that hybrid approach, so you won't find MSAA support in them despite their use of forward shading.

It's very rare for games to be 100% forward nowadays, outside of ones specifically built for VR or mobile.
by w10-1 | 2025-09-12 17:06:13+00:00
These are pitched as self-reflection and self-control, as if deciding matters most.

But invariably they're prompted if not reinforced by changes in circumstance.

Before the internet replaced actual experience with virtual, many middle-to-upper class westerners took a year after school to travel. Traveling means people don't know you; you discover that you can present yourself however you want, and people will mostly go along. (Something similar is true for meditation, etc.)

So the fixed world becomes more dynamic, and as you return, you work on making a dynamic world that fits you instead of fitting yourself to the world: you apply to that school, chase that partner, etc.

People who commit to work or partners or houses/locations before traveling in this sense are really making it much harder to live.

The scarcity of opportunity makes this much, much worse. People feel they need to keep following their followers or the latest tech trends to stay relevant for opportunities, and they never travel.
by ajross | 2025-09-12 17:06:16+00:00
That's an editorial point, not a substantial one. Obviously requiring an application be submitted by an inconvenient and antiquated method that isn't used by the demographic in question is going to create friction and reduce the number of applications.

That this is expressed in a whimsical way (personally I liked the turn of phrase, but that's an issue of taste) might personally offend you but doesn't change the substance of the article.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-12 17:06:21+00:00
Ohio senator introduces 25% tax on companies that outsource jobs overseas - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45146528 - September 2025

https://www.moreno.senate.gov/press-releases/new-moreno-bill...

https://www.moreno.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/The...

(if you're a company with no US nexus or presence, and no access to the market, your hiring practices are up to your local jurisdiction; if you want access to the US market, you can hire in the US, I find this to be very reasonable)
Show HN: TierBuddy – A better, faster tier list creator with AI
by jaequery | 2025-09-12 17:06:30+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m a former CTO who’s getting older and just wanted to build something fun again. So I vibe-coded TierBuddy, a tier list creator that’s simpler, sleeker, and has AI to auto-generate lists from a single prompt. It also has built-in image search and a UI that doesn’t get painful once you have 20+ items.

I haven't had much luck gaining traction from Show HN lately so if you can please upvote and leave a comment, that'd be much appreciated. Thanks!
by seper8 | 2025-09-12 17:06:48+00:00
I have a 2x 4k ultrawide. The Samsung Oddysey 55(?)inch variant.

Not only is it very bright and legible, the fact that the screen takes up my field of view helps me focus.

And I connect it to my MacBook using two seperate HDMI cables, so it's essentially two seperate monitors without bezels. I think I'll probably keep this monitor for a decade or so: any higher DPI and it doesn't make any difference because you have to size up the text. Any brighter and my eyes will burn out of their sockets.
by btilly | 2025-09-12 17:06:58+00:00
Bottom up dynamic programming algorithms require some cleverness.

All of the ones listed can be solved with a top down dynamic programing algorithm. Which just means "write recursive solution, add caching to memoize it".

For some of these, you can get cleverer. For example the coin change problem is better solved with an A* search.

Still, very few programmers will actually need these algorithms. The top thing we need is to recognize when we accidentally wrote a quadratic algorithm. A quick scan of https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/ shows that even good people on prominent projects make that mistake on a constant basis. So apparently being able to produce an algorithm on the test, doesn't translate to catching an algorithmic mistake in the wild.
by autoexec | 2025-09-12 17:06:58+00:00
> Think about this one, start a populist stupid referendum like: "Should the gov give you $10M?", I could bet it will end up at 90% yes and the entire country ends up in ruins.

I think people might agree with that if they alone were going to get the money, but far too many people vote against their own interests to keep "the wrong people" from getting anything. They'd never allow a "give everyone 10M" referendum to pass.
by caminanteblanco | 2025-09-12 17:07:04+00:00
"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." — Frank Herbert, Dune

I was half expecting this article to start quoting from the Orange Catholic Bible. If this article is actually AI generated, the Frank Herbert irony would be off the charts.