MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Wikipedianon | 2025-09-16 03:46:27+00:00
"No one doxxing others in that particular clique is going to do it from anything other than a burner account."

This is incorrect.

many do it with accounts linked to their real onwiki profiles. jps is an example and I provided a link to unambiguous doxxing:

https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=14172

They've been doing it since 2016 when they started an" alt-right identification thread":

https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=8031

Others use accounts linked to their onwiki personas to ask for doxx. e.g. AndyTheGrump is a well-known user who posts in the "alt-right identification thread" about someone they dislike and getting a quick response. Here's AndyTheGrump asking for doxx on a user named "BlueGraf".

https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=8031&p...

Quickly followed up with that individuals full name and employment.

And many editors/admins participate in those doxxing threads to gawk or have fun under their real usernames.
by JonathonW | 2025-09-16 03:47:35+00:00
This approach (using a separate domain for content that isn't part of their service itself) has security advantages-- for example, this way a compromise of their news site CMS can't expose users' PayPal session tokens.

It's decently common for websites to do this-- this is the same reason why Github Pages is hosted at github.io rather than github.com, and why static blobs are at githubusercontent.com. Those have a somewhat different threat model than PayPal's news site (hopefully PayPal isn't letting any random person add news stories...), but the premise is the same: if the thing does not need authentication tokens for the main service, make it so that it's impossible for it to get them.

(You could get some of the same effect by scoping your cookies to a specific subdomain rather than allowing them to apply to all subdomains, but (1) that's not always how you want to structure your site, and (2) it's really easy to mess up and inadvertently scope a cookie too broadly (or for the browser to misbehave and send to subdomains anyways, which was the default behavior of one very prominent browser for a really long time). Using a different domain entirely sidesteps all of this completely.)
by somenameforme | 2025-09-16 03:47:52+00:00
It has nothing to do with tribes or policies, in and of themselves. It has everything to do with politicians and the media, who are increasingly regularly labeling everything and everyone they disagree with as fascists, threats to democracy, enemies of the state, and every sort of pejorative in between. And these same politicians/media then actively and directly incite violence in no uncertain terms. [1] This is then further backed by an extensive weave of NGOs and other groups that actively agitate young and easily impressionable individuals to violence.

Even in this thread you had somebody arguing that Charlie Kirk being murdered prevented a Civil War, which is just about the dumbest take imaginable, but that's again the result of somebody consuming endless amount of hyperbolic agitprop, often in online bubbles with no contrary voices present whatsoever, so dumb takes never get challenged, which is precisely what produces people like the killer in this case who has not only thrown away his own life, but taken the life of another individual and turned somebody he probably strongly disagreed with into a martyr.

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I'd also add here that the social media response to this is itself also telling. If e.g. somebody like Cenk Uygur was murdered because of politics, you're not going to have conservatives going on social media and cheering it. That's just completely sociopathic and absurdly inappropriate behavior. People can have different opinions, even opinions we strongly disagree with.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-QaXGM24Wo
by neilv | 2025-09-16 03:47:59+00:00
My Sony Bravia XBR6 from 2008 is perfectly fine for my living room screen.

(I even programmed an old Sony remote to kludge sending theequivalent of the PS5 controller logo button, for the PS5 that the TV is plugged into, for streaming and gaming. And found the trick to get the TV to go to standby when the PS5's HDMI signal disappears, which isn't a standard feature, though waking is.)

I'll probably only upgrade if I relocate cross-country, and have Bay Area levels of money to spend on a much more expensive non-'smart' setup.
by fragmede | 2025-09-16 03:48:22+00:00
Complain about feeling ripped off? Absolutely. I don't buy chips much, but skin care products are the worst offenders, with both the box and the container inside having extra space to make it look like more product than it has. I don't make complaining about this my whole identity, but I have complained about items with excessive amount of air in the container whenever I've received one.
Ask HN: How does your team keep UI/user flow documentation up to date?
by beep13 | 2025-09-16 03:48:47+00:00
My small engineering team gets a bunch of requests for user flow documentation updates from ops/customer service/compliance. The request isn't always just 'this is out of date, can you update it?' it's often 'is this still up to date?' which still requires taking the time to review/double-check. It feels like our ops teams don't ever feel confident that they have up-to-date materials for onboarding and customer how-tos, and we spend a bunch of time creating and/or reviewing user flow docs that quickly go out of date (even if only slightly).

Anyone else deal with this? Maybe we're just not on top of it enough? Any favorite tools or approaches for handling it?
by leptons | 2025-09-16 03:49:12+00:00
And yet people do it, and have no problems doing it - I know this for a fact as one project I work on is built on jQuery with a team of several developers. We do just fine with our medium-level non-trivial applications. React really doesn't make things that much easier, and often complicates things that should be simple. Just like with React, it entirely depends on how you approach building the thing. You can certainly fuck up a simple React project too.
by dzhiurgis | 2025-09-16 03:49:35+00:00
30-50% over 500k build is 10x more than 10k solar or 5k worth of batteries.

I've just setup electrical heating for my bedroom (HA PID sensor). Uses about 450KWh - $90 NZD worth of grid power per winter. Heat pump would take 20+ years to pay itself. Double glazing probably 30-40 years.

To make same amount of solar power per year I need a single $130 NZD panel.
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-09-16 03:50:01+00:00
Anyone can share their thoughts on Claude Code vs Codex?

I've just started out trying out Claude Code and am not sure how Codex compares on React projects.

From my initial usage, it seems Claude Code planning mode is superior than its normal? mode, and giving it an overall direction to proceed and rather than just stating a desired feature seems to produce better results. It also does better if a large task are split into very small sub-tasks.
by bigglywiggler | 2025-09-16 03:51:28+00:00
Sure, but how many other products have a feature like that? I live in a very remote area. I NEED Starlink because it's my only choice for internet. I NEED a big 4x4 because if there's some particularly bad rain I'd be trapped in my home. If a tree falls in the nearby forest and nobody is there to hear it our power still goes out because it fell on a powerline and we NEED solar panels with battery backup or we can't flush the crapper because the water pump doesn't work without power. If my wife has a breakdown of her car or, god forbid, an accident on her way home from grocery shopping there is no cell service. No way to call me or the breakdown company or the police or an ambulance. I'm also not the only person who lives here. There are a few hundred people spread out across the general area and they all have these issues too. Apple's atellite communication could literally save my life as I go about normal, non-adventurous humdrum day-to-day tasks. Informing consumers of an actually useful standout feature unique to your products is good marketing and they're doing it at a marketing event they host to market their products. This guy's whole article was just the same tired applebashing that has actually become quite annoying. We get it - you don't think Apple products are good value for money in your use case and you don't understand the people who buy them.
by linguae | 2025-09-16 03:51:59+00:00
I’ve also come to this realization as a longtime Mac user. Granted, I’m not old enough to have used the classic Mac OS as a professional, though I did use it in my childhood. However, I was in high school and college during the Jobs era of Mac OS X, and that’s when I started using Macs as my daily drivers from 2006 until 2022 when I retired my 2013 Mac Pro and 2013 MacBook Air and switched back to PCs running Windows.

Before Apple’s success with the iPhone, Apple was essentially the Macintosh company. Its fortunes were tied to the Mac, and Apple seemed to be attuned to the needs of Mac users. In return, there was quite a strong Mac fandom. The Mac was more than just a tool or just a platform. The Mac was a philosophy, and what attracted people to the Mac was the philosophy of the Mac and its ecosystem.

Ever since the iPhone became a major hit, and especially since the passing of Jobs, it became apparent to me that my best interests as a computer user and Apple’s interests as a company no longer align. Apple no longer needed to cater to “the Mac faithful” to survive. In fact, Apple is one of the biggest companies in the world thanks to the iPhone. It also seems that macOS is losing its distinctiveness.

The unfortunate thing, and I think this is where some Mac users get emotional and disappointed, is that there’s nothing else out there in the personal computing landscape that is like the glory days of the Mac. Windows is an inconsistent mess filled with annoyances, and the bazaar of the Linux ecosystem is nothing like the polished cathedral of the Mac. Everything is a step down from older Macs, even modern Macs.

However, while thankfully we can enjoy retrocomputing for hobbyist use, many of us still need to use up-to-date platforms to browse the Web and to get our work done, and so clinging on to, say, Snow Leopard is not an option outside of hobbyist activities. Hence, why I use Windows. It’s not Snow Leopard but it gets the job done for now.

The beauty about software, though, is that we don’t have to resign ourselves to accepting whatever Apple, Microsoft, and Google releases. Many of us reading this forum have the ability to write our own software. FOSS projects such as Linux have shown that it’s possible for user communities to write their own software that fit their needs without needing to be concerned about business matters such as market dominance.

So, yes, this is a hard lesson for many longtime Mac users about being loyal to a company; companies change. But this lesson also creates opportunities. I think if enough disaffected longtime Mac users got together and pooled their resources together, we could create a FOSS alternative that is community-driven, one where the evolution of Mac-like personal computing is driven by the community, not by Apple or any other corporation.
by tranq_cassowary | 2025-09-16 03:54:23+00:00
If you are going to use a desktop instead, you are hurting your security significantly. Traditional desktop OSes like Window, MacOS and Linux desktop lack a sane security model with a mandatory app sandbox with fine-grained permissions. They also heavily use memory-unsafe code compared to modern OSes like Android OSes and iOS and lack modern exploit mitigations. Only daily drivable productions grade desktop OS with security in its foundations is ChromeOS.
by ettutateu | 2025-09-16 03:54:34+00:00
Good point. British people don't really exist. What are even English or Scottish people? French people? European people? Where does it start, where does it end? We don't know.

We don't know what a white person is. No idea, no clue. Where could we even start?

Funnily enough, though, those considerations never seem to apply to Palestinians, native Americans, indigenous Australians, etc. There is only a certain group that is somehow impossible to define precisely, yet is the primary target of those considerations.
by gnabgib | 2025-09-16 03:55:59+00:00
The history does, never the less - an email is better than a comment:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
by Animats | 2025-09-16 03:56:35+00:00
To some extent Apple is now a "lifestyle brand", like Rolex.

Rolex was originally a rugged, waterproof watch for people who needed such a watch. Pilots, divers, mariners, and military officers wore the things. Rolex had the accuracy of a marine chronometer in a small package. The Rolex Submariner was introduced in 1953 at $150. That would be $1,820 today. But the base price for a Rolex Submariner today, the same watch, is around $9,200, plus a few thousand dollars of "additional dealer profit". As the CEO of Rolex once said, "We are not in the watch business. We are in the luxury business." The people who need a rugged, accurate watch today get a G-Shock.

That may be Apple's path - to fashion themselves as a niche luxury brand.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-09-16 03:57:10+00:00
I appreciate your interesting response. I'll start with an oft-repeated myth that falls apart under scrutiny:

"Essentially much of what you wrote can be traced to much older sources, countlessly translated, and very probably distorted, because there is always loss in translation."

Your claim assumes that whatever published document appears to be older was (a) older than any oral traditions, (b) the original claim, and (c) true, or more true than the later one. Then, any published works that come later are inventions or distortions rather than the truth. We have literally millions of counterexamples today disproving all of those premises.

Today, we see most people racing to be first to publish or to market often do shoddy work or lie or scheme to succeed. The people who move more slowly and carefully are often more accurate.

Most traditions and stories don't even get published. They're almost all oral traditions among friends. This was more true back in ancient days with their transmission done carefully. Whoever wrote something first had more money. We see today that whoever has more money for publishing isn't the first or most honest in many cases. The corporate media dumps out so many lies we can't count them.

The polytheistic works show many changes as they morphed from a few to thousands of gods and mythical stories. The Bible is firstly monotheistic which was a mind-blowing concept in that region. People are jailed or killed for claiming only one God even today. Next, the Bible gets extended in a backwards-compatible way by over a dozen authors from different walks of life and time periods. Then, it has history backing it up which was often challenged by atheists before that history showed up.

Then, there's the miracles. They have multiple witnesses, some who were skeptical or enemies of Jesus Christ, backing up His miracles. We've seen these follow the real church for a long time in areas where the Hindus and Buddhists say they never saw miracles before. Further, Jesus Christ had perfect character, didn't sin by using people for sex as you claimed to, and also never changes. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever which is comforting given His promise of salvation never changes for those who repent.

Most of what you described wouldn't come from God. It's out of character for Him. All of those encounters, done in Christ and righteously, would've instead been a nice testimony of loving, upbuilding acts. It's instead just hedonism that might be severely punished by God. That would mean you got your power from the Devil, lied about it, or imagined it. I've prayed you repent and are healed of whatever is going on with you.
by tripletao | 2025-09-16 03:57:16+00:00
In other guidance, "construction" is specifically excluded from the permission to "install equipment". That's not a very clear distinction, especially for large industrial machines, though I do see their general intent, to permit work requiring equipment-specific skills but exclude work that a locally-hired employee could do about as easily.

https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/BusinessVisa%20Pu...

I don't think this greatly changes your general point. It's likely that many of those detained were in fact lawfully present.
by dangus | 2025-09-16 03:57:50+00:00
My progression:

1. Apple photos redesign from last year sucks and I’m already frustrated with iCloud abstraction and lack of cross platform friendliness

2. Switch to an alternate cloud photos provider

3. Find out about Liquid Glass, looks like shit, impulse sell my MacBook Pro in favor of a Framework

4. Surprise surprise, it’s actually the year of the Linux desktop. My gaming situation is way better on Linux and it does everything my Mac did. The only compromise is my need to carry a big extra battery around.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-09-16 03:58:04+00:00
> they think their users are dumb

Aren’t they/we? :-)

*majority of

Well, hasn’t this been the single biggest reason for their sustained stellar returns year after year where often (or maybe most of the time) the biggest change their devices (like iPhones) used to see was the version number change e.g. iPhone 13 -> 14.

For the rest of their users — they make a noise (which is not even feeble in comparison), bicker around, lament the fact that the other alternative is Google (Windows and the Wild Linux West), and they stay. Rinse, repeat.
Show HN: QuickMarketFit – For engineers who hate marketing but need users
by bivtsjenko | 2025-09-16 03:58:49+00:00
I have been a software engineer for more than ten years. Like most engineers I loved building things and avoided everything that looked like marketing or sales. I used to roll my eyes at marketers. Code felt clean, sales felt messy.

When I finally went solo I discovered what many of us only realize too late. Building is the easy part. Getting people to care is the hard part. Without users, even the best project is just another forgotten repo on GitHub.

What worries me is how few engineers even think about this. Many of us hide behind our screens and never learn how to reach real users. With AI moving fast, those safe jobs are at risk. To be more self-sustaining we need to build ventures and side projects. And that requires more than coding. It means proving that people actually want what we build and learning how to get it in front of them.

Since I had no clue how to do that, I built something for myself: QuickMarketFit.com . It finds places where people are already talking about the problem you are solving and gives you practical steps to reach them. Instead of guessing you can start with real discussions.

I built it because I needed it. If you are an engineer who wants to go beyond coding and start learning the market side, maybe it will help you too.
by godelski | 2025-09-16 03:59:01+00:00
I think people don't realize how complex simplicity actually is. FFS, we've all see Conway's Game of Life, right? We all solve hard complex problems by solving simple ones, right? Yet, we have a hard time recognizing that simplicity is complex.

The truth is that simplicity is difficult to implement and even more difficult to maintain. It's easy to oversimplify, as all you need is to not be aware of some complexity. Given that there's infinite depth to things, it's always going to be easier to be missing information than to have enough. But then simplicity is difficult to maintain. Because each time we touch something the same process happens, causing things to compound. If you're 99% "good enough" (a pretty high and unlikely number) then 10 times and you're at 90%[0]. Often a small mistake can lead to big problems. If things run without much slack, then things break. Entropy is a bitch.

The way I think about it is the inverse of how we problem solve. We solve big problems by breaking them down into small problems. Their composition solves the big problem. Consequently, any big problem is composed of many small problems. So I don't understand why we are so dismissive of the little things. The difficulty is figuring out which little problems meaningfully contribute to big problems and which little problems have little impact or are contributing to a different big problem. So when we use dumb thought terminating cliches like "don't let perfection be the enemy of good" we're ignoring the reality of the issue here. If someone believes perfection exists, yes, fix that. But only really junior people think that. Far more often it is a disagreement about what is "good enough" and so the cliche just prevents having a conversation to figure out what that is. No one is omniscient, so why not hash this out?

I think we gravitate to complexity because simplicity is not simple.

[0] This is oversimplified. I'm intending this for communication rather than specifics. Obviously how things compound matters. The numbers are made up but the math isn't. You'll have to read between the lines to determine the complexity that exists for a given situation. I can't be 100% accurate, so let's work together to communicate as best as we can.
by 6510 | 2025-09-16 03:59:22+00:00
I see a coming soon page one time that had a background image, a logo in the middle and 5 lines of text. That was the entire thing. Wondering why it took so long to load I view the source. 30 js files, 5 css, a hundred html tags with 10 classes each.

Wondering the same visiting a web shop I found a seemingly infinite amount of js. Digging a bit deeper I ended up getting lost in some enormous library for rendering unicode smiles with data uri's. It seemed like a good idea as each page was already making many hundreds of requests. If they add 100 smiles to a product description it probably never loads.

In my experience you can avoid things getting very complex by just refusing to add new "features". If that is out of your control it isn't your fault. Build them the pyramid!
by xmprt | 2025-09-16 03:59:23+00:00
There's no straightforward way to migrate between an iPhone and Android so you'd spend a lot of time. Also I'm not sure if it's even possible to fully move over - for example would you be able to export your iMessages? Also, if you're fully bought into the ecosystem with Airpods and a Watch, you'd be better off replacing those (at least the watch which turns into a paperweight without an iPhone).
by dangus | 2025-09-16 04:00:24+00:00
I agree with a lot of what you said but the app launcher was dumb. It was just the iPhone’s Home Screen ported to Mac.

Spotlight is way faster than that when you’re at a keyboard. I barely even use the dock, just command space and type in the first few letters of the program I want. Clicking is for people with too much time on their hands.
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-16 04:01:25+00:00
What I find depressing is that so many of these cases lead to various authorities issuing a limited statement on behalf of just their particular in-group. We do see some wider condemnation going on. But like, the right thing for the Korean companies and government to do would be to issue a full-throated denunciation of the administration's entire immigration fiasco (if not the entire administration itself), rather than just "please don't do these specific things to this particular type of worker from this particular country".

If someone is firing a machine gun indiscriminately in all directions, it's naive to think you can survive by asking them to just please not point it towards you.