MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-16 18:19:55+00:00
> Enough to build sustain a company of Meta's size?

This is the problem - I'd argue we shouldn't have companies the size of Meta (or Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, etc.). It's that these companies are nation-state level huge, and operate in a system that continues to demand more growth still, that causes problems like enshitification.

Would enough people pay for Facebook to support a company of Meta's size? No, but that's OK - enough people would pay for it to support a much smaller, customer-focused company, and that would be a really good thing across all of tech.

What's so wrong about just sustaining a certain size/user base instead of endlessly growing bigger and bigger?
by general1465 | 2025-09-16 18:20:03+00:00
Well M&S got knocked down by amateurism of TCS - https://www.consultancy.uk/news/40295/ms-hackers-may-have-ga...

Guess who was taking care for JLR's IT system? That's right, TCS.

https://doublepulsar.com/the-elephant-in-the-biz-outsourcing...
by numpad0 | 2025-09-16 18:20:08+00:00
I guess I just want Japan to be truly a part of this planet and part of the human society, not a virtual dreamworld Timbuktu beyond the Gate only accessible by embarking high-tech Boeing aerospace product. That's what the Japanese government always wanted to since coal-powered US gunships appeared out of nowhere, after all. Squatting top 18/20 of top 10 busiest stations list don't help achieving that goal. I sort of also feel that East Asia is underrated while at it.

I don't mean to artificially undermine this country, nor look down on anyone. I just naively believe, better data drive us forward faster. And the data at hand don't really look down to Earth. So it gives me an itch.

You're right that I shouldn't be addicted to social media. I know, I shouldn't be...
by bayindirh | 2025-09-16 18:20:10+00:00
Actually, I'm pretty flexible when it comes to how lenses and systems behave. A lens with its unique flaws and look is equally valuable for me as a razor-sharp ultra high-fidelity lens.

All boils down what you want to achieve and what emotion you're trying to create with your photography. Film emulation has gone a long way, but emulating glass is not possible the same way (since you don't have any information about what happened to your photons in their way to your sensor), and lenses are important part of the equation, and will forever be, I think.
by saltcured | 2025-09-16 18:20:14+00:00
In some sense, that duality is true of any functioning city, isn't it? They fundamentally manifest a concentration of capital. But, they also host concentrations of young, working populations who can bring progressive culture in waves.

San Francisco has been such a concentration point and crossroads since the Gold Rush era. It had a frontier spirit, but also became a west coast center of finance and logistics. It has always been an arena for this tension between opportunism and idealism.
by zahlman | 2025-09-16 18:20:21+00:00
> You want to know why a lot of those people thought Obama was so divisive?

In the past, I have wanted to know, so I asked several of them over the years. Now I understand quite well.

> who are reactionary by nature

This is untrue.

> It's because they couldn't stomach being led by someone who wasn't white.

So is this.

> and was criticized by the right for his skin color.

This is not even remotely a fair characterization.

> so they had to use emotional cues to insult him personally.

Such as?
by PhotonHunter | 2025-09-16 18:22:05+00:00
It's an interesting question for sure!

Yes, I'd argue it is incompatible, at least for companies dealing with atoms. At some point, the technology lead erodes, "not bad" becomes good enough, and mature businesses are unable to adapt while maintaining engineering at the center. Technology development at the frontier is too irregular to rely on for the long-term.
by eesmith | 2025-09-16 18:22:15+00:00
The substance is to reduce the number of Black men in the military.

"A common reason for medical waivers is pseudofolliculitis barbae, or razor bumps, a condition caused by curly hairs growing back into the skin. It disproportionately affects Black men and is associated with frequent shaving." - https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-09-16/pentagon-limi...

"About 60% of Black men are affected by the condition, according to the American Osteopathic College of Dermatology" - https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/09/15/...

Requiring employees to be clean-shaven is also on the EEOC guidelines at https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/section-15-race-and-color... . It requires a job-related reason consistent with business necessity. (Yes, the military is different than civilian employment. My point is it's a very well know issue.)
by thor-rodrigues | 2025-09-16 18:22:17+00:00
This is not the point of the author. The author is criticising the new redesign of the latest iOS/MacOS/WatchOS 26, as being of poor choice with an over focus on form in detriment of function.

Also, to which aspects are you referencing exactly, that “Apple’s competitors are funding lobbyists to get regulator help to tear down”?
by moritzwarhier | 2025-09-16 18:22:30+00:00
Why did you write so many words then?

Your second paragraph says nothing.

The letter in question here doesn't have a sentence that is irrelevant to Russells perspective. That's succinct, not "the minimum amount of words communicating anything that might roughly align with a view".

The sentences he writes to explain why he doesn't consider further correspondence fruitful seem genuinely thoughtful to me, they're not fluff or pointless pleasantries for code reasons.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-09-16 18:22:58+00:00
> Elon Musk, who owns X, recently tweeted that he was going to “fix” the platform’s AI assistant Grok after it cited research that showed right-wing violence was more common than left-wing violence: “My apologies, we are fixing this cringe idiocy by Grok,” he said.

I understand why it's hard to make AI that's accurate, but Musk's elite engineers can't even make it push a preferred narrative consistently. Sounds like it should be a much easier problem to solve.
Show HN: Quizquestions.org – A free library for quiz questions
by Salim99 | 2025-09-16 18:23:17+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Salim, a content marketer, and I’m working on a website called [quizquestions.org](http://quizquestions.org/). It's my project for building the biggest library of quiz questions.

This is not a quiz website per se, but a library for people who make quizzes.

You see, I make quizzes occasionally. There are many quiz makers, but not many resources for quizzes. And most of the resources are just blogs. So I've wanted to create a more structured website just for this.

Here’s what the site offers at the moment:

- A quiz card: Instead of browsing them, you can get quiz questions in a quiz format - Quiz categories: https://www.quizquestions.org/category - AI question generator: https://www.quizquestions.org/question-generator - A blog page for guides: https://www.quizquestions.org/guides - Saving questions: To use them later for creating a quiz - Sending questions: To send your own questions - Statistics about categories: https://www.quizquestions.org/statistics

This is my first website, so any feedback is welcome!
by nradov | 2025-09-16 18:23:48+00:00
Drones (both autonomous and remote piloted) have much higher mishap rates than crewed aircraft. Taking off is "easy" until something goes wrong, like a mechanical failure or runway incursion. It's impossible to anticipate and explicitly code for every possible failure mode, so developing autonomous flight control systems that would be safe enough for commercial passenger flights is extremely challenging.

Category IIIC ILS (full auto-land) does exist but requires special equipment for both the aircraft and airport. Human pilots have to actively monitor the system and take back control if anything goes wrong (which does happen).

Garmin also has the Autonomí auto-land system for certain general aviation aircraft which can attempt to land at the closest suitable airport. But this is only used for single pilot operation in case the pilot becomes incapacitated. It isn't suitable for regular flights.
by arcticbull | 2025-09-16 18:23:58+00:00
Cars of any sort, self-driving or otherwise, do not solve traffic any more than Uber does because you need to have enough of them to get everyone to and from work at basically the same time. Trains are the only way to address traffic. Trains are self-driving. Europe already has the better self-driving system. It's just boring because self-driving is much easier when you build the road to support it instead of removing all constraints and adding GPUs, lidar sensors, cameras and an army of fall-back operators in overseas call centers.
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-16 18:24:06+00:00
In an up market it’s going to be worse. HR is still going to hold the line on raises and not keep up with the market.

I’m old too - 51. But I consistently tell young people to chase money. Target BigTech or adjacent companies, “grind leetCode”, avoid startups and Monopoly money “equity”, etc.

One person I mentored when they were an intern in 2021 and when they came back the next year, is 25 years old making $220K (Solution Architect not a developer) and I couldn’t be happier for them. They make the same as I make now. But I’ve already raised two (step)kids, bought and sold the big house in the burbs, etc and love working remotely.

I told them to do whatever it takes to be seen, promote themselves, build a network internally and with clients and make all the money they can.
by elcritch | 2025-09-16 18:24:26+00:00
It seems betting markets are now allowed in the US? I keep seeing advertisements for them. They'd be an awesome tool for this stuff.

Edit: there's one open bet on a US recession in 2025 on Kalshi that's gone down to only a 5% chance. Sort of fascinating how it's exact opposite of what TFA is saying. I'd link but not sure if that's kosher.
by spankalee | 2025-09-16 18:24:28+00:00
The supply chain infrastructure needs to stop being naive and allowing for insecure publishing.

- npm should require 2FA disallow tokens for publishing. This is an option, but it should be a requirement.

- npm should require using a trusted publisher and provenance for package with over 100k downloads a week and their dependencies.

- Github should require a 2FA step for automated publishing

- npm should add a cool down period where if won't install brand new packages without a flag

- npm should stop running postinstall scripts.

- npm should have an option to not install packages without provenance.
by jdeibele | 2025-09-16 18:25:07+00:00
I use adaptive cruise control a lot, where I rely on the car for keeping a safe distance.

I have a limited version of SuperCruise which means it operates hands-free on freeways but nowhere else. My wife's Equinox EV has the regular version, which operates on a lot of arterials near us and has more capabilities. The first time that the Equinox signaled, changed lanes to pass, signaled, then changed lanes back was shocking.

We moved to a small town and drive a lot more than we used to and I find that having those capabilities really helps relieve the stress.

I will say that I move to the center lane when going through a notorious set of curves on I-5 in Portland because my Bolt doesn't steer as smoothly as I'd like near the concrete barricades. I wanted SuperCruise because it has a fantastic safety record. There are lots of times it's not available but when it is, I have near-total confidence in it.
by rustystump | 2025-09-16 18:25:15+00:00
My java apps from uni days still work on windows and non-arm macs. With a little tweaking for opengl links, arm works too.

My old uni android apps still work on android last i checked. With a recompilation my ios apps work on ios too.

However, with absolutely zero work, ALL of my web stuff across all time works just like it used to even the angular 1 stuff.

It is why i love web so much. It is the ultimate distribution platform with so little needless churn.
by ckastner | 2025-09-16 18:25:19+00:00
Landing can be: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland

In fact, it's pretty routine. Don't have the source at hand, but somewhere around 1% of all landings (at airports with ILS) are autolands.

I think it was Boeing that even requires at least 1 autoland per plane every 30 days or so.

You can find videos of this on YouTube. Completely hands-off.
Ask HN: Startup with Small Children
by IronyMan100 | 2025-09-16 18:25:36+00:00
I am thinking about setting up a startup. I am a scientist and I see increasing commercial interest in my field, as well as some potential problems that could be turned into a startup. However, I have a 1.5-year-old toddler and my wife and I are planning to have another child in the near future. Sometimes I think I want to start something on my own and give my research a useful application. On the other hand, I hear so many founders working 60–80-hour weeks, and that's just not possible right now. Could you tell me about your experience?
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-09-16 18:25:56+00:00
I find it funny how AWS goes out of their way in both providing really useful services for cost monitoring or optimization, yet at the same time do the exact opposite with all their recommendation bs.

Go and create RDS Aurora instance. Immediately you are banged with "2 recommendations" telling you to enable Performance Insights (extra paid unless your historical data is worthless, which it obviously isn't) and create a read replica (which will basically double the cost and 99% of the time you don't need it, otherwise you'd create it yourself).
by castillar76 | 2025-09-16 18:26:58+00:00
Interestingly, it has held up quite well, too: outside of the occasional bit of old tech sticking out here and there, the whole thing could be set in 2025 with a minimum of updating. The problem the MacGuffin solves, the methods for conducting their various heists, even the inclusion of the post-Soviet Russians as a player are all still valid today.
by hypeatei | 2025-09-16 18:27:15+00:00
> I think this is not too surprising?

I don't think we should normalize cover ups like this especially when it comes to political violence studies. POTUS immediately blamed the "radical left" after the attack without evidence. Not only is that reckless, it's not even the most likely scenario.

> If you already have guns, the threshold for terrorist actions is likely lower

Guns are easily accessible to everyone in America.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-09-16 18:27:25+00:00
Yeah but f.. off simply does not say the same thing that his letter says, now matter how succinct.

He writes like he assumes good faith, then explains why he thinks that exactly this attempt won't be fruitful, giving a good-faith argument for why Oswald should consider further correspondence fruitless, unless he changes his whole political ideology.

That's a lot more than just "I don't want to talk to you and I think badly of you"
by jbm | 2025-09-16 18:27:48+00:00
Yeah, likewise. Claude has been going downhill recently for me, while Codex works great. I nearly cancelled my ChatGPT membership until they started providing codex, and now I'm considering if I want to use Pro again.

It's weird though because ChatGPT itself is not particularly better than it was before. Bringing down costs per token probably means they can do more reasoning before coding than Codex does.
by supermatt | 2025-09-16 18:28:17+00:00
I can understand how you can parallelize tasks when there is some structure - but how do you get to that initially structured state where each agent isn't recreating the world to conflict with every other agent?

When i use that approach I end up merging one PR, then have to prod the others to fix themselves - resolving conflicts, removing duplicate code, etc - so it ends up slower than just running one agent at a time.

Like i said - maybe this is a problem on a bare repo? But if so, how are people vibe coding from scratch and calling themselves productive? I just don't get it.
by zahlman | 2025-09-16 18:28:21+00:00
> the mass-murder of mentally ill people.

No, only those who refuse government assistance.

Which inherently makes them a threat to others. Keep in mind that this is happening in the context of Iryna Zarutska getting stabbed to death.

I disagree with it, but it's objectively not what you're representing it as.

> I guess if I call him a Nazi, that just means I just, like, disagree with him?

It's not justified by the evidence.

> At what point can we call a spade a spade? What do we call that man?

Something else.

> How is he not getting cancelled?

How isn't he? I've lost count of the times I've had to hear about this in the last few days, which is strange because I don't watch American TV at all and he has nothing to do with Kirk. If you think he should be fired from Fox because of it then you are absolutely welcome to call them and say so. That's freedom of speech, and I agree that you have a much better case than most of the "cancelling" attempts I've seen over the years. Fox execs, however, are under no obligation to agree with you.

> Should someone celebrating something bad happening to a man that's calling for mass-murder get cancelled?

I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Kirk and Kilmeade are different people.
by johnh-hn | 2025-09-16 18:29:09+00:00
I'm split with this. If it helps other people, then I'm all for it. But speaking as someone who is legally blind and makes extensive use of these settings, Windows 10 accessibility drives me mad. I'm waiting for fractional scaling to improve for Linux so I can make the switch.

The problem with Make text bigger and Make everything bigger is they apply to every single application that supports them. Let's say I have two applications: A is comfortable enough to see and B isn't. If I change either of these settings to help me use B, A could now be a problem because it can take up too much screen real estate, which makes it unusable for a different reason.

This doesn't sound like much of a problem until you have 5 or more applications you're trying to balance via these two settings. In reality, it's more complex than I'm describing because I may need to change both settings to help with a new application, which then means I have to continuously test every other application I use to make sure they're all somewhat comfortable enough to use.

If an application I use updates to include support for these settings, I have to go through all this unplanned work again to try and make everything usable once more. It's frustrating.

I know people make fun of Electron, but one major plus point for me is I have per application scaling when using it, and so it gives me better accessibility than Windows does by far.

> (Failing that, adding basic support for scaling text or UI via ctrl+plus/minus would be a huge improvement!)

I'd consider this to be a better option.
by canucker2016 | 2025-09-16 18:29:18+00:00
According to Boston Marathon 2025 statistics, about 9% of entrants don't start the race.

Number of male and female entrants in the 18-39 age group are almost even, but the proportion of female entrants drops in the older age groups.

This pattern appears in 2024 and 2023 as well.

see https://registration.baa.org/2025/cf/Public/iframe_Statistic...
by drexlspivey | 2025-09-16 18:29:33+00:00
These are great but day of the jackal is more of a police procedural than a spy thriller.

There is a whole sub-genre called Paranoid thrillers of the 70s. Some more:

- Marathon Man

- Klute

- All the president’s men

- The Parallax View

- The China Syndrome

- Capricorn One

- The Boys from Brazil

- Z

- Blow Out
by gavmor | 2025-09-16 18:30:03+00:00
Very fun, and immediately useful. Also something I haven't seen before? So, kudos on an an ingenious choice of projects.

That being said, I almost immediately ran into 429: Too Many Requests.

Like, yeah, I started making a ton of `{increment: 1}` requests that are getting dropped. What's the bottleneck? Simultaneous DB writes?

Edit: I do want to reiterate that I think this is a great concept, especially in a "Shift Left" era in which agentic tools are exposing non-technical roles to the domain of workflow automation and async job queue management.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-09-16 18:30:22+00:00
On the shoulders of god(s)?, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

"He credited his acumen to his family goddess, Namagiri Thayar (Goddess Mahalakshmi) of Namakkal. He looked to her for inspiration in his work[111] and said he dreamed of blood drops that symbolised her consort, Narasimha. Later he had visions of scrolls of complex mathematical content unfolding before his eyes.[112] He often said, "An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God."

"While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing."

—Srinivasa Ramanujan

"The limitations of his knowledge were as startling as its profundity. Here was a man who could work out modular equations and theorems... to orders unheard of, whose mastery of continued fractions was... beyond that of any mathematician in the world, who had found for himself the functional equation of the zeta function and the dominant terms of many of the most famous problems in the analytic theory of numbers; and yet he had never heard of a doubly periodic function or of Cauchy's theorem, and had indeed but the vaguest idea of what a function of a complex variable was..." - G. H. Hardy
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-16 18:30:23+00:00
I left IBEW almost one decade ago; my former local's contract is only +10% since then... in one of the nation's secondary tech capitals!

After a decade I shuttered my own electrical contracting shop because I realized I didn't want to become large enough for full-time employees, but also didn't want to be 100% responsible for problem solving 24/7 (in addition to sales, billing/collection).

If I had to start over Apprenticeship Year One, I couldn't afford to anywhere in America... unless perhaps I were still young and/or lived with parents at under-market rates. In my three decades working, now feels like the worst time to be Bottom 80th%ile™.
by mikestorrent | 2025-09-16 18:30:28+00:00
Much as I like the elocution of Russell's letter, it's clear that it boils down to an unwillingness to continue the conversation, which is inherently somewhat an indication of weakness, even if it doesn't imply defeat. When one is resoundingly winning an argument, it's much rarer to take this position, after all.

It's entirely possible to logically respond to fascists (if you actually find one that isn't just a role-playing fool) and to push back against their extremism. The first step of that is actually understanding what it is that they really purport to believe, rather than attacking the easy strawmen that have been rhetorically established for you.

Anyone who wants to attack fascism should read Evola's critique on fascism "from the right" - really helped me fill in my understanding on what these people were trying to do, to separate the ideology-in-theory from the ideology-in-practice. Just like with communism, where "true communism has never been tried", so too nobody's ever really tried "true" fascism, or democracy for that matter.

When arguing with someone, it's usually best to actually get a mental model of how they themselves think... but that's a vulnerable moment for both parties involved, and not always something that can happen in the heat of verbal sparring.
by ck2 | 2025-09-16 18:30:29+00:00
While it's important to note they are trying to delete stuff like that

it's way way more alarming they are deleting cancer research, for many decades to come

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/magazine/trump-administra...

and the weird thing is no-one quite understands why, this is not even vaccine related