MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-07 16:41:29+00:00
> They are not banning Facebook to improve quality of life, they want to limit freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech is great, but not if its used by your neighbours to stir up trouble. (the civil war was long https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepalese_Civil_War)

One thing the "west" ie the USA needs to understand (well they'll know very shortly) is that the right to consume propaganda from your countries enemies is not the same as being able to criticise your government for doing a bad job/breaking the law/killing it's own citizens.

Facebook et al is not a neutral platform, it is a vector for other states, and non state actors to whip up outrage and division.

> many authoritarian governments in Asia see freedom of speech in social media as a threat

Yup, because it is a threat.

see Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia to name just a few. all have had large scale unrest transmitted and amplfied by facebook. Now are they nice governments? no. did facebook help bring democracy? also no, they helped pinpoint activists and let the government(s) kidnap them.

The indian anti-muslim movement is properly being whipped up by the BJP and others, using facebook to get to the people that don't have TVs. Facebook is a big part in why they are still in power.
by egldmila | 2025-09-07 16:41:51+00:00
So I launched my streetwear brand about 6 months ago (not gonna name it here cuz I don't wanna be that guy), but the naming process was... rough. Picture this: Me, sitting with a notebook for WEEKS, writing down random words, combining them, asking friends, family, even strangers at coffee shops what they thought. My girlfriend got so tired of me asking "what about this name?" that she started ignoring my texts I went through probably 200+ potential names. Half of them had taken domains, the other half either sounded like medical conditions or were already trademarked by some massive corporation. Then last week I was helping a friend who's starting her own jewelry line, and I stumbled across this clothing brand name generator: https://namegator.net/clothing-brand-name-generator/ Honestly? I'm a little bitter I didn't find this earlier lol. What makes it different from the generic name generators:

Actually understands fashion terminology (not just random word combinations) Generates names that sound like real brands you'd see in stores Shows domain availability instantly (this alone would've saved me hours) Has different style categories - streetwear, luxury, casual, etc.

I ran it just for fun with some keywords related to my brand, and it generated 3-4 names that were legitimately better than what I spent months coming up with. One of them even had the .com available The AI suggestions actually sound brandable, not like someone just smashed dictionary words together. My friend ended up using one of the generated names for her jewelry line and she's super happy with it. Much better than my "ask everyone you know" strategy. For anyone starting a fashion brand: seriously, check this out before you go down the naming rabbit hole I did. Could save you months of overthinking. What's the weirdest name you considered for your brand? Mine was "Concrete Whispers" - don't ask me what I was thinking
by linotype | 2025-09-07 16:42:03+00:00
> CP wants to close a lot of post offices, complete the phase-out of door-to-door postal service in favour of community mailboxes (which are already in use for more than half of households), and even reduce delivery frequency to less than 5 days per week.

Honestly that sounds like some good ways to reduce costs and carbon emissions. For the elderly there would need to be some considerations made. I live in the US but in large apartment buildings here there’s a couple of mailrooms for hundreds of units, I imagine it’s significantly more efficient than delivering to each unit.
by socalgal2 | 2025-09-07 16:42:16+00:00
SF, NYC, and else where

Behind the Curtain: Inside the Revival of New York’s Vintage Photo Booths: https://web.archive.org/web/20250822165247/https://www.nytim...

From vintage to viral: Photo booths are making a comeback in the Bay Area: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/from-vintage-to-vi...

Vintage Photo Booths Are Back, and Baffling Newbies. ‘It’s Not an iPad.’: https://www.wsj.com/articles/vintage-photo-booths-are-back-a...
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-07 16:42:52+00:00
US aid seems bound by the willingness to spend money and escalate. EU aid seems bound more by the industrial capacity and willingness to escalate.

Still, just "willingness to escalate" would move the needle by a lot, and I'm of the opinion that the only language dictators truly understand is violence. Anything short of that is far too often interpreted as a show of weakness.
by MarkMarine | 2025-09-07 16:43:00+00:00
I saw this comment a little bit back and I don’t think the OP expanded on it, but this looks like a fantastic idea to me:

sam0x17 20 days ago:

Didn't want to bury the lead, but I've done a bunch of work with this myself. It goes fine as long as you give it both the textual representation and the ability to walk along the AST. You give it the raw source code, and then also give it the ability to ask a language server to move a cursor that walks along the AST, and then every time it makes a change you update the cursor location accordingly. You basically have a cursor in the text and a cursor in the AST and you keep them in sync so the LLM can't mess it up. If I ever have time I'll release something but right now just experimenting locally with it for my rust stuff On the topic of LLMs understanding ASTs, they are also quite good at this. I've done a bunch of applications where you tell an LLM a novel grammar it's never seen before _in the system prompt_ and that plus a few translation examples is usually all it takes for it to learn fairly complex grammars. Combine that with a feedback loop between the LLM and a compiler for the grammar where you don't let it produce invalid sentences and when it does you just feed it back the compiler error, and you get a pretty robust system that can translate user input into valid sentences in an arbitrary grammar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44941999
by cproctor | 2025-09-07 16:44:24+00:00
I thought this [1] New Yorker profile of the chief justice of Brazil's Supreme Court was a fascinating and thoughtful analysis of how tech giants interact with less-powerful countries. Surely we all agree that free speech is not absolute (e.g. we could probably agree that there should exist some boundary with respect to libel, threats/violent speech acts, national security, corporations as legal persons with free speech rights, the right or duty of platforms to regulate content, influence of money in politics...) and that therefore states have a legitimate interest in regulating free speech.

The "free speech" of tech platforms also comes with colonial power structures in which the tech company makes these decisions and imposes them on countries.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/the-brazilian-...
by nomilk | 2025-09-07 16:44:25+00:00
Looks like they're focussed on recruitment (and not much else yet), so the site prioritises design over anything else.

Given how new it is [0], it might change rapidly as priorities change.

[0] Wayback machine first captured it on 25 Aug 2025: https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://ndstudio...
by lazide | 2025-09-07 16:45:36+00:00
I did. The question is for you. I've answered it in several different ways in this thread. There is a sibling comment I replied to which breaks it down even more clearly.

You used the energy from the wall socket to pump the heat from outside into the inside, less efficiently than you could use that heat to generate more electricity or do other work later.

Aka you pumped the energy inside and concentrated it a bit. You didn't generate more energy than you had before. You did make existing energy more useful for you, comfort wise.

Actually operating one, you'll see that the energy cost of a heat pump becomes proportionally higher as the temperature difference gets bigger, so you spend more energy moving the heat when the source is low temperature and the output is high temperature.

Many people have gotten quite frustrated when they end up chilling the ground in their ground source heat pump too much, and they end up with very inefficient systems.

You could do the exact same thing (with better or similar efficiency) by using some other source of thermal mass. Air sourced heat pumps do it with the atmosphere. It's possible to use lakes and other bodies of water.

No net usable power is being extracted from the earth in this scenario. The earth is being cooled in order to heat your house. And heated, in order to cool your house.

Geothermal power systems do produce actual usable power, and they do so by running a heat engine (the opposite of a heat pump) off an extremely large temperature difference from a very large source of underground heat. You can't run a heat engine on the output of a heat pump and produce net power, anymore than you can hook a generator to an electric motor and produce net power.
by travisgriggs | 2025-09-07 16:45:40+00:00
Numerous comments on the “impossibly small” bit in the title. It makes me wonder if it was put there as a bit of tongue in cheek, less as a brag. E.g. The “it doesn’t have to be that big” Microdot web framework (which I honestly first thought had something to do with Microdot anti theft devices that they put on cars around me).

Elsewhere on HN right now is a post about a dermatologist vibecoding an app for skin stuff. I view the “need/use ai for coding” as an indictment against how complex software development has become. What I think we marvel at is the surprise that sometimes reall can be just that simple. 99% of the people who are using Django/flask/etc don’t really understand how they work under the hood all that well. And so it’s always an “is that all??” moment when we do these “back to the basics” exposé’s where we show that 80% of our needs are covered by something simple and understandable.
by chmod775 | 2025-09-07 16:45:57+00:00
HAP is a family of codecs for GPU accelerated decoding. HAP R uses BC7 frames.

There's support for various HAP codecs in ffmpeg, VLC, etc, but I think support for HAP R is lacking. However HAP, HAP Alpha, HAP Q and HAP Q Alpha have wide support. They use DXT1/DXT3/DXT5/RGTC afaik.

Compared to your implementation, their addition of BC7 is quite recent, yet they did have support for alpha channels for probably a decade.
by techpineapple | 2025-09-07 16:47:00+00:00
But it always has, Twitter hasn’t gotten bigger “people have gotten tired of echo chambers” would imply movement from echo chambers to places where people are together. Where’s the movement. I think _more_ people are opting for echo chambers than did at the hay day of the Internet, but not as many as you would think.

So I wouldn’t say, “people are tired of echo chambers” I would say, “people are interested in echo chambers, but not as many as first thought”.

But of course, none of these are true echo chambers, and this is in response to Nate Silver saying that he was glad that the far left is gone from Twitter, so everyone has a different definition of their sort of spectrum of “this is a different opinion” and “this is spam”. Is “I don’t want to be in the nazi bar” and “I don’t want bad faith leftists in my social media” a substantively different argument?

But also, I dunno, I’m on blue sky and not Twitter because I don’t tend to enjoy being in the “place where it’s happening”. It’s not an echo chamber to me, just smaller, I hate obnoxious leftists too.
by adamddev1 | 2025-09-07 16:47:33+00:00
I remember at the beginning of the serverless hype how they said it was great because it automatically scaled as big as you need it. Given how sudden and massive these "scaling spikes" can be, I would much rather deal with a death-hugged VPS than a $100k bill.

Plus the VPS is just so much faster in most cases.
by petralithic | 2025-09-07 16:47:36+00:00
Yes, and it's shocking to see people cheer it on. An oft-heard refrain is about the legal right of the first amendment of the US constitution preventing the government from blocking speech, but that is based on the natural right of freedom of speech, as Hobbes and Locke would differentiate. Social media platforms are at such a scale in the modern day that they are essentially the public square, so the government blocking them is akin to blocking free speech in the legal right itself.

Some might say, you can publish elsewhere on your own domain, but again, it's like barricading the public square and only allowing one to speak in the middle of a forest; if no one but the trees listen, what is the point of the natural right to free speech?
by jonahx | 2025-09-07 16:48:18+00:00
Cool project, and helpful for learning.

One concern:

I don't believe the rates that you see "concerning" vs "not-concerning" in the app match the population rates. That is, a random "mole-like spot or thingy" on a random person will have have a much lower base rate of being cancerous than the app would suggest.

Of course, this is necessary to make the learning efficient. But unless you pair it with base rate education it will create a bias for over-concern.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-07 16:48:57+00:00
We should think of mementos as going through a distillation process or something. For the original owner, the set exists as a reminder of their whole younger life—throwing parties with overcomplicated settings and finally getting into the middle class.

For the person that inherited it, they exist as a memento of childhood. Their parents big parties were only a small part. Keep a couple little pieces.

These also might have been, in some sense, insurance policies. Some of your ancestors might even have been second-class citizens in your country. The silverware might have been their best way of storing any value at all. I don’t know if I believe in spirits. But if you end up selling it off for what seems to you to be a trivial sum: that’s because your family was successful enough to not end up needing it. I think the spirits are proud.
by AngryData | 2025-09-07 16:49:27+00:00
I mean the US had no problems selling Nazi Germany arms at the start of the war. The US only really took a side after Germany told the US to stop also supplying war materials to their enemies, which Germany viewed as merely prolonging the war and deaths, and when the US ignored them because they were making too much money Germany stopped buying and doubled down on blockading material support to allies.
by s1mon | 2025-09-07 16:49:51+00:00
Having gone through this exercise recently, silver is typically only valuable if it’s not plated and then only for the metal. Unless you have some really special pattern that someone else wants, it will be melted down for other uses.

Old China patterns are very hard to sell as well. Younger people have no interest in things which can’t go in a microwave and need to be hand washed.
by acoustics | 2025-09-07 16:50:13+00:00
The assignment of blame for misconfigured cloud infra or DOS attacks is so interesting to me. There don't seem to be many principles at play, it's all fluid and contingent.

Customers demand frictionless tools for automatically spinning up a bunch of real-world hardware. If you put this in the hands of inexperienced people, they will mess up and end up with huge bills, and you take a reputational hit for demanding thousands of dollars from the little guy. If you decide to vet potential customers ahead of time to make sure they're not so incompetent, then you get a reputation as a gatekeeper with no respect for the little guy who's just trying to hustle and build.

I always enjoy playing at the boundaries in these thought experiments. If I run up a surprise $10k bill, how do we determine what I "really should owe" in some cosmic sense? Does it matter if I misconfigured something? What if my code was really bad, and I could have accomplished the same things with 10% of the spend?

Does it matter who the provider is, or should that not matter to the customer in terms of making things right? For example, do you get to demand payment on my $10k surprise bill because you are a small team selling me a PDF generation API, even if you would ask AWS to waive your own $10k mistake?
by benoau | 2025-09-07 16:50:15+00:00
Somewhere on the horizon is the distinct possibility some tech leaders will serve time for the favors they curry from Trump, and Tim Cook is probably the top candidate after Apple's run of good luck in the last month: tariffs, Watch ban, and Google Search deal all ending spectacularly for Apple amidst massive investment announcements and of course the gift.

There's already one court case, Masimo v. Customs and Border Protection, exploring whether the investment pledges constituted a bribe:

> 59. During the months following the denial of its second administrative ruling request, Apple announced a series of substantial investments in the United States. See, e.g., Press Release, Apple Will Spend More Than $500 billion in the U.S. Over the Next Four Years, Apple (Feb. 24, 2025). Press Release, Apple Expands U.S. Supply Chain With $500 Million Commitment to American Rare Earth Magnets, Apple (July 15, 2025) Press Release, Apple Increases U.S. Commitment to $600 Billion, Announces American Manufacturing Program, Apple (Aug. 6, 2025).

> 60. On August 14, 2025, Apple announced that it was now able to provide blood oxygen monitoring features on its Series 9, 10, and Ultra 2 Apple watches

> 61. Plaintiff was unaware of any new ruling by CBP because neither Apple nor CBP had provided Plaintiff any notice of a new CBP proceeding. Plaintiff was provided no opportunity to participate in any proceeding or process that led to this new ruling. It therefore appears that whatever proceeding led to this new ruling departed substantially from CBP’s established practice regarding LEO ruling requests.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283...
by connorjay | 2025-09-07 16:50:46+00:00
Hello, this will mark my first submission.

The blog post attached details a method of detecting XSS, one of which I've never seen before in any publicly available tooling. In a nutshell, it injects multiple parameters in a single http get, as opposed to sending them one by one. This makes it incredibly fast when compared to traditional tooling, ideal for mass scans and hidden parameter discovery.

The post also walks-through three real-world XSS vulnerabilities xssprober discovered, one of which has a bug bounty program (US Government).

The tool, xssprober, is available open source on github (link below). All feedback is appreciated.

Thank you.

xssprober: https://github.com/connorjaydunn/xssprober
by hxtk | 2025-09-07 16:51:11+00:00
I know AWS in particular does not because they do not increment the bill for every request. I don't know exactly how they calculate billing, but based on what I do know about it, I imagine it as a MapReduce job that runs on Lambda logs every so often to calculate what to bill each user for the preceding time interval.

That billing strategy makes it impossible to prevent cost overruns because by the time the system knows your account exceeded the budget you set, the system has already given out $20k worth of gigabyte-seconds of RAM to serve requests.

I think most other serverless providers work the same way. In practice, you would prevent such high traffic spikes with rate limiting in your AWS API Gateway or equivalent to limit the amount of cost you could accumulate in the time it takes you to receive a notification and decide on a course of action.
by ksec | 2025-09-07 16:51:14+00:00
> that hardly anyone wants.

People continues to mis-weight the benefits of AGI / LLM or in the case "graphics card maximizers". It is precisely because of this, we can continue to extend semi-conductor improvements for at least another 5 years, brings in 1200W CPU in server and liquid cooling along with new DC and Rack design 5 years earlier. Partly continues to fund Gaming GPU where the industry itself were not able to sustain it. New improvement to Networking Gear due to heavy use of LLM. HBM profits that drives current EUV DRAM innovations.

As far as I can tell, I see very little down size to all these investments where Big Tech would have spent those money on stock buy backs or dividends.

And this is assuming AGI really is a bubble and brings little to no productivity, and exclude all the improvements that is adjacent to it.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-09-07 16:51:39+00:00
As far as I can tell, he's not even describing an "API" as we'd normally use the term today. For all practical purposes, it's pretty much just "using an HTTP server and hyperlinks to let (human) users discover and interact with resources". (Or replace "HTTP" with another protocol like it in all but name.) If it has any structure past that, then it's not REST in his sense.

Personally, I think "API" is an unclear term for that kind of structure. The only actual interfacing is the HTTP protocol between the server and web browser. But the browser traditionally only acts as a proxy for the user, who is the one being served access to the resources.
by 8x | 2025-09-07 16:51:48+00:00
The software feels a bit clunky but I was very surprised when I plugged my Fenix watch to USB and found it mounted as a storage device with all of the data directly accessible as files. The watch would be perfectly usable without the cloud and using an alternative app like gadgetbridge. This should be the standard, but it isn't, and it is more important to me than a sleek UI
by scottbez1 | 2025-09-07 16:52:47+00:00
This is entirely unsurprising. It's been clear that Google has been into their Android duopoly-abusive stage for a while now, with more and more of their Android changes moving into GMS or non-AOSP Google apps (like camera, messages, location services, etc) over the last decade. Graphene has been doomed to this fate for a long time, and anyone who thought otherwise was naively optimistic.

The same is clearly coming for Chromium forks, which is why I've always thought the privacy and ad-blocking forks are a joke - if they ever gain enough marketshare, or if google just tires of the public open source charade, they have no chance of maintaining a modern browser on their own.

This is all the more likely now that Google has been emboldened by not having to sell off Chrome for anticompetitive reasons.
by stopthebullshit | 2025-09-07 16:53:00+00:00
You missed the point.

Part of the anxiety is the bias of the media and their attempts to get attention by sensationalizing the news, and often by lying.

Having the lies in text without photos does not fix the issue.

Edit: if you find yourself disagree, then it's because of your political position. I did not see it was NPR when posting this. replace NPR with Fox News and then read my comment again, see how you feel.
by tetromino_ | 2025-09-07 16:53:22+00:00
If you sign up for electrical service for your house, and your shithead neighbor taps your line to power his array of grow lamps and crypto mining rigs, the power company will happily charge you thousands of dollars, and you will need a police report and traverse many layers of customer service hell to get a refund. If you sign up for water service and a tree root cracks your pipe, the water company will happily charge you thousands of dollars for the leaked water, and will then proceed to mandate that you to fix the broken pipe at your own expense for a couple tens of thousands more; and yes, that may well bankrupt you, water company don't care. So why do you expect different treatment from a computing utility provider?