MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lefstathiou | 2025-09-23 16:40:24+00:00
My two cents, I believe there is an nuance worth deliniating, specifically differentiating between being elite "in status" vs being elite "in nature." Painting broad strokes here for the sake of this post (so take with a grain of salt)...

Many people born into or groomed for an elite status (via inherited wealth, rich families, strong support systems, etc) are rationally self preservationists. They were born on third base and know it. Many subconsciously know they do not belong there and cannot live up to the level of performance, intellectualism and hard work that laid the foundation for their current state or that others had to endure. Thus, they need support from the system to preserve their current state.

People who became elite in nature, are far more likely to value meritocracy. They lacked support, didnt know there was a "system" to be leveraged (eg getting unlimited time for an SAT score with a doctors note), had a chip on their shoulder, grinded their way to be top of their class, were the most productive, knocked on more doors, took risks others would consider irrational, etc.

At every level they've had to fight for what they have in a world where the criteria is often opaque. Being genuinely competent, they don't have an innate imposter syndrome, and thus, they value a system that has a clear and objective criteria for them and others, because they are confident they will operate fine within it.

EDIT 1: to add: With the above in mind, the more useful analysis in my opinion would be to assess the extent to which ethical frameworks and the role of fairness and meritocracy differ between those who were self-made (eg 1st of their generation to go to an IVY or get an MBA) vs not in "elite" positions of wealth or power.

EDIT 2: I'm not suggesting all people born rich don't deserve their success or do not possess these qualities of hard work, etc.
by fennecbutt | 2025-09-23 16:40:43+00:00
Unsurprising. I've left many a comment on what I think of MCP and so have many others.

I'm still not sure why everyone's acting like it's some well thought out system and not just tool descriptions shoveled into JSON and then shoved at an LLM. It's not a fundamental architectural change to enhance tool calls, it just got given a fancy name.

I do get that having a common structure for tool calling is very convenient but it's not revolutionary. What's revolutionary is everyone training their models for a tool calling spec and I'm just not sure that we've seen that yet.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-23 16:40:44+00:00
It is not short-term thinking. It is how we all think on a daily basis, even unconsciously, because it maximizes survival and reproduction, at least on evolutionary scales.

> The group that maximizes their long-term reproduction is the one that inherits the earth.

Yes, that's an interesting paradox in a world where the poorer tend to have more (surviving) children that the richer. But it emerged only very recently on evolutionary scales.
by cbeach | 2025-09-23 16:41:03+00:00
Which "fascists" are we talking about, here?

Be careful around powerful words with meaning (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism ). If we casually use these words to refer to people we simply disagree with - one day, when actual fascists start rising, we'll have taken all the meaning out of the language we rely on to identify them.
by leakycap | 2025-09-23 16:41:30+00:00
Your words: "Gotta make the case to me why they're directly related ..."

My response: Here are 3 more examples, in addition to the article we're commenting on here

You then say: "Seems like conspiracy theory thinking tying 3 events to ... what exactly?"

My response: Expecting someone to provide more than 3 links when you've done nothing except say "nuh-uh!" in the thread is silly and your next response will likely be less helpful.

You: huhcat.gif
by bitwize | 2025-09-23 16:41:38+00:00
Is it well supported by the kernel and upstream? Or are devs going to be left twisting in the wind like nearly every other offbrand ARM SBC?

I don't have to worry about getting even my freakin' 12-yo Raspberry Pi 1 going with newer software than it was originally built to handle. But the Chinese Gooseberry Pi that seemed like such a bargain on AliExpress, esp. considering the price-performance ratio, is a complete crapshoot.

It's pretty amazing what the Raspberry Pi Foundation has achieved in terms of software support and platform longevity in a world seemingly dedicated to bedroom experiments that are bound to eventually end up in a drawer or landfill. I'm old enough to remember the Gumstix and SheevaPlug, and those had these problems too.
by lukebrandon | 2025-09-23 16:41:57+00:00
Hey Community!

This week on React Native Rewind: Expo 54 rolls out with React Native 0.81, precompiled iOS builds, and Apple’s new layered .icon format. There’s also a fresh expo-iap module bringing in-app purchases back to Expo without the eject headache, and App Integrity to help your backend separate real devices from bad actors.

On the more visual side, we’ve got react-native-enriched for rich text editing without WebView baggage, and react-native-fast-squircle for those mathematically perfect corners.

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Chrome Extension Fingerprinting in the Wild
by AmazingTurtle | 2025-09-23 16:42:03+00:00
Ran across some production JS today that does more than analytics. It:

1. *Checks for Chrome* -> bails if not Chromium.

2. *Probes for extensions* -> keeps a big hard-coded list of extension IDs + file paths, then does `fetch("chrome-extension://<id>/<file>")`. If it resolves, the extension is installed. It also scrapes the DOM for `chrome-extension://...` URLs.

3. *Fingerprints the device* -> WebGL vendor/renderer, precision ranges, supported extensions, fonts, battery, network info, touch support, screen, storage, locale, even Android/iOS build and hardware details.

4. *Compresses + reports* -> bundles everything into a custom base64 LZ-compressed payload and fires tracking events upstream (`"AedEvent"`, `"SpectroscopyEvent"`, etc.).

This isn't just canvas hashes - it's a full environment + extension enumeration toolkit.

*Why it matters*:

* Lets sites detect ad blockers, password managers, automation tools.

* Increases identifiability way beyond cookies.

* In some jurisdictions, extension probing is a privacy red flag.

Letting arbitrary third-party scripts scrape your browser for a list of installed extensions is a terrible idea. Extensions are deeply personal: they can reveal what tools you use (e.g. LastPass, 1Password, uBlock Origin, privacy extensions, devtools) and by extension (pun intended) a lot about your browsing habits, technical sophistication, even threat model. When a script ships with a giant dictionary of known extension IDs, it's effectively de-anonymizing users at scale. That's not analytics anymore - that's surveillance.

The script was found on linkedin.com (which - caused by a bug? - triggered huge CPU spikes on my machine to the point that the tab froze - which lead to this analysis)
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-23 16:42:32+00:00
Yes for most domains encapsulation is fine. It is not fine, if the domain is the device itself. I want to apt update the phone, I want to switch to another kernel on boot, I want to update the firewall from the shell, I want to sync config by rsyncing parts of my home directory. All of these won't work by running an App on top of Google Android, because I want to change the layer below.

> ssh with Xorg

For example to run gufw on the Phone, but access it on my computer? Sure I could also learn to do it in the shell, but it is so damn convenient. Sometimes it's also nice to run an editor directly on the device itself and not run the editor locally on an ssh-mount.
by lproven | 2025-09-23 16:42:51+00:00
There are mentions of this here and there, such as on Freedesktop.org:

https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/Optimus.html

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME

But they're badly dated and don't discuss how to handle no-longer-supported GPUs on recent kernels.

I cannot be the only person battling this.
by reissbaker | 2025-09-23 16:43:05+00:00
GSK is one of the largest pharma companies in the world, created the malaria vaccine, the first HIV antiretroviral, amoxicillin, valacyclovir, and like a zillion other important drugs.

It's also not even an American company, despite your insinuation: it's British. This isn't some fly-by-night operation created by Trump or whatever.

How well will this pill work? I don't know. There is reasonably good research [1], (carried out during the Biden administration btw!) that a large percentage of autism is linked to folate deficiency due to autoantibodies that wreck your folate pathways, and that d,l-leucoverin bypasses those and restores folate to developing brains.

Complaining that it's "a simple pill" to me feels pretty anti-intellectual. So were antibiotics, so were antivirals, so were many other treatments for horrible diseases that just... are solved now. The fact that it's pill-shaped tells you nothing about the research it took to develop.

1: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34834493/
by supertrope | 2025-09-23 16:43:23+00:00
People pick housing based on current conditions and want it to never change. This is very understandable. Using force of law to maintain aesthetic levels and social class divides is where the perverse incentives set in. The US Supreme Court approved the earliest zoning laws based on health justification. The dicta in the court opinion cited cities as parasitically infringing on bucolic greenery. We now see the logical endpoint of restrictive zoning. Million dollar houses that are mostly the right to live at that address (the structure is small and worn). Landlords having tremendous power over tenants.
by dang | 2025-09-23 16:43:23+00:00
Related. Others? (most recent first:)

An Update from Ruby Central - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45344448 - Sept 2025 (1 comment)

A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45325792 - Sept 2025 (148 comments)

Goodbye, RubyGems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306135 - Sept 2025 (1 comment)

Ruby Central's response to the RubyGems situation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45301949 - Sept 2025 (1 comment)

Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45299170 - Sept 2025 (244 comments)
by lossolo | 2025-09-23 16:43:33+00:00
> I never said that.

Reading your first comment in full, it seems like you actually did, at least that's the impression I got from the wording you used. Then you toned it down and didn’t address the other arguments.

What I meant is that simply giving a license to company Y is not the same as being capable of producing the EUV machines that ASML produces. It's similar to TSMC, anyone can buy an ASML machine, but there is only one TSMC, because it's not just about the machine and not just about the light source.
by basisword | 2025-09-23 16:43:34+00:00
In about 18 years in HMO's I've only had one occasion where the rooms were let separately (in that case they were all being let separately from the start). Most of the time you move in and join an existing lease where the leaving tenant is removed and you are added alongside the other tenants.

I think it probably depends on how the initial people moved in. If the estate agent is renting the rooms individually from the beginning it'll be separate agreements. If it's initially rented to a group of friends it's likely a joint AST and then re-assigned over the years as individuals change and the lease is renewed until you have a bunch of strangers jointly and severally liable (not a great idea).
by vinceguidry | 2025-09-23 16:43:57+00:00
The Ruby community has long had a rift between two types of members, the really nice folks that take after Matz, and techbro assholes like DHH. The former have mostly tolerated the latter creating an ugly toxicity that the community has become known for, and is why I use Ruby, but have not involved myself with it. Zed Shaw, a well-known asshole himself, described it in this piece: https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ruby/rails/is-a-ghetto

DHH has been going off the deep end with his rhetoric for years, the current political environment has made it so that he can't be ignored anymore.
by bhouston | 2025-09-23 16:44:02+00:00
DHH is on Shopify's board now:

https://www.shopify.com/news/david-heinemeier-hansson-board

Shopify's support for DHH's world view makes sense. Shopify's executive team has been right-wing for a while now:

https://pressprogress.ca/shopify-executives-right-wing-media...

https://disconnect.blog/the-conservative-tech-alliance-is-co...
by fennecbutt | 2025-09-23 16:44:20+00:00
Do we have to still use the phrase "pounding-in-the-ass" when the general sense of it has been proven untrue and not particularly as common as people would think. I guess rape jokes are just funny when they're about certain people.

Same thing with "sod" still being in common usage. Pretty bizarre to be allowed to get married in some countries now but there's still all these historical bits and pieces.
by Glyptodon | 2025-09-23 16:44:27+00:00
This isn't a serious article.

While it's true that parents and schools have a weird relationship with ASD, with some parents doing anything to refuse the label no matter how apt, at other times with officials and parents going out of their way to do things like label kids with symptoms of severe trauma as having ASD, along with a long tail of higher SES parents who see claiming various special ed needs (not just ASD ones) as a way to get more resources for their children, particularly in states where they can get additional vouchers or payments with a label, these things don't really change a ground truth: severe autism is not easy to hide or easy to fake, and cases are increasing.

IMO diagnostic drift is maybe a fine thing hem and haw about when it comes to mild cases.

But it's basically a form a bike shedding because the severe cases are so incontrovertible and so much more common than they used to be. You can't claim that kids with severe cases are okay and just out to get money because they're so obviously and clearly not well. And schools have gone from maybe having none to a couple per grade to needing whole classrooms or even schools to safely handle high severity autism over the last 50 years.

You could maybe instead claim that "when achieving any semblance of normalcy is impossible, society shouldn't spend so much effort," but that is usually not a well-received message because it sounds like the forced institutionalization or incarceration of the mentally ill or locking them in bedrooms to be forgotten.

Similarly, there are some situations where the repercussions of severe early childhood trauma get diagnosed as autism, but these are also situations where you'd still have a massive service need, so there's no cost reduction to be had, just a proportionally small chunk of misdiagnosis.
by gdulli | 2025-09-23 16:44:41+00:00
The law is not intended to be the final say on socially positive behavior, it just defines behavior so bad the the state has been given the power to punish it.

Think of the law as only a foundation upon which to build the real society we ultimately want, where people are good to each other above and beyond the bare minimum required.

A given act can seem arbitrarily labeled as good etiquette if violations of it don't bother you. But surely you'd agree that there are some norms our society is widely agreed to be better off for practicing, despite no legal requirement for doing so. It's not necessarily going to be all the same norms you'd care about. We're all different people and won't agree about all of them. But we can make life easier for each other and ourselves by making an effort to adhere to them where possible and practical.
by mariusor | 2025-09-23 16:44:48+00:00
Being a full grown adult and still looking at a whole category of other people as freaks and dysgenics (yay for actual nazi terminology here, which I was actually trying really hard not to label you with) is a very non-humanistic perspective which shows you for a terrible person. If you're legitimately thinking that, and not being a full troll, is beyond sad in my opinion. Dragging this "us vs. them" ideology into the Overton window is, in my opinion, the greatest evil that the current public figures of US politics and culture are guilty of. People like you that embrace it and spew it to others are going to be their victims in the end too. There's no remorse and no empathy from the sociopaths at the top, and there's going to be only so much "otherness" out there.
by tptacek | 2025-09-23 16:44:49+00:00
Single family zoning was invented with the Chinese in mind. But much of American zoning post-WW2 is a reaction to the Great Migration and concomitant phenomena like redlining, which created new neighborhood and municipal borders that were defended in part by shrink-wrapping inhospitable zoning codes around existing residents.

A good starting point for reading about this is "Harland Bartholomew". He's the architect of what turned out to be St. Louis's ring suburb design, but he also traveled the country building these de facto redlining codes all across the continent.

It's not a red herring.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-23 16:44:57+00:00
For listening on my PC I use 'Bluetooth Audio Receiver' and still just play from my phone and use my computer as an audio device. I've found any advanced setups just no longer worth the setup investment/hassle. Literally nothing in this future timeline works well in any complex setup. So I keep it simple. It all exists in it's own magic box. And if I get a call, etc, all that auto behavior (stop playback) just works.

To be fair, in Star Trek you will see them carrying around like 3-4 data tablets, so even our broken enshittified tech works in a way Star Trek future predictors thought would be high tech.
by bpt3 | 2025-09-23 16:44:58+00:00
The problem is that there's a "housing crisis" (which really just means that desirable places are more expensive than people would like for the most part, because homelessness is not up significantly since that term became popular to my knowledge) largely created by a lack of new housing starts in those areas, and existing laws bar people from circumventing that with alternative arrangements.

I don't understand why local governments feel like they need to regulate every aspect of a household. Enact laws against the negative externalities that are associated with SRO occupancy if the existing residents want them, and then leave things alone.
by siva7 | 2025-09-23 16:45:02+00:00
Well, i see the case that those with great power want factories building ai factories, much like a factorio simulation, to solve cancer. Sure sama, you have to name the most noble goal imaginable everyone agrees on, though we know that's not what drives you. AI to become a fundamental right, that won't work as some kind of subscription service, we also agree on this?
by bhouston | 2025-09-23 16:45:05+00:00
> HH has been going off the deep end with his rhetoric for years, the current political environment has made it so that he can't be ignored anymore.

But Shopify is also right wing in its executive team, and via these move they appear to be support DHH:

https://pressprogress.ca/shopify-executives-right-wing-media...

https://disconnect.blog/the-conservative-tech-alliance-is-co...

And yeah, Shopify is going to protect DHH because DHH is on Shopify's board:

https://www.shopify.com/news/david-heinemeier-hansson-board
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-09-23 16:45:16+00:00
1: Police unions: Police in this country hold a monopoly on violence granted by the state. Police unions in turn have created a political bubble around the holders of this monopoly. By politicizing what should essentially be a public servant, we have made any accountability for these public servants very difficult to perform.

2: Breech of public trust can never be punished with a slap on the wrist. There cannot be "get out of jail free" sentencing for people of note. That deconstructs any trust anyone can have in the system, if there exists a class who cannot have the law applied to them.

3: A bill of Human rights, designed to encompass attempts to remove rights from certain people. A focus on positive rights, ie "the right to live", rather than negative rights "the right to cause damage to others via an existing right(property rights)".

4: Overturning of citizens united or the ability to punish corporations in an equivalent measure to how an individual can be punished. The fines must always be greater than what can be saved by exploitation via crime.

That's more or less a start. I'm no political scientist but to me these are big points of gridlock.
by andrewrn | 2025-09-23 16:45:17+00:00
I mean, yeah, I would feel bad after spending a lot of time doing it. But part of why its so insidious is that its mostly unconscious in the moment, so the idea here is that you could get some help with that unconscious aspect. This is kinda like asking why people get addicted to drugs... social media and a lot of internet content is designed to target domapine and your limbic system, out of reach of our higher reasoning.
by glenstein | 2025-09-23 16:45:21+00:00
A perfectly fair question, and predictably but unfortunately down voted.

I think it's of interest because (1) it implicitly presents a question of how to go about a premeditated end-of-life message to be shared in an online space.

And (2) relative to typical prose in this context, it's a bit cheeky, more like an "aw, shucks" than a grand tragedy. Something about it reached across the veil of impersonality, again in a digital space. And to me at least it's raising a question of how you choose to express yourself and how that choice gives you life in the ability to be regarded and known by others, and perhaps an even more general question of how we're all already doing something like that on a day to day basis. I don't think anyone who voted on it said any of that stuff out loud but you could feel those themes as implicitly present even if it's hard to put your finger on exactly what they are.

To your point I don't think it's the only message that has questions like those behind it, but I don't think it's ever been teed up for community discussion quite like this.
by HardCodedBias | 2025-09-23 16:45:21+00:00
(3) and (4) are likely true.

In theory competition is supposed to address this.

However, our evaluation processes generally occur on human and predictable timelines, which is quite slow compared to this impulse function.

There was a theory that inter firm competition could speed this clock up, but that doesn't seem plausible currently.

Almost certainly AI will be used, extensively, for reviews going forward. Perhaps that will accelerate the clock rate.
by nineplay | 2025-09-23 16:45:45+00:00
Looking for The Cause of autism and The Cure for autism is exactly as absurd as looking for The Cause of cancer and The Cure for cancer. I think most people understand that there are many causes of cancer and many treatments that cover a range of different use cases.

The whole concept of a cause and cure is really damaging to the autistic community and just flying in the face of any sort of intelligent diagnosis and treatment.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-09-23 16:45:48+00:00
That's more than a bit exaggerated.

Apart from Spotify, it ships with a few app launchers for PWAs for some of 37signals' stuff. These launchers are easily removed, and basically just launch chrome windows.

It does not ship with steam or minecraft, though it has a menu where you can install it (along with various popular software, mainly development tools).