MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jcalvinowens | 2025-09-18 21:54:20+00:00
> High voltage means nothing if the power source can't deliver the current

It can still be dangerous though, it can trickle charge an output capacitance which will deliver the current to hurt you. A small battery only charges it more slowly, the end result is a function only of voltage (assuming the battery has sufficient capacity to completely charge the capacitance).
by rick_dalton | 2025-09-18 21:54:33+00:00
I had a 2020 dell XPS 13 on which I installed Fedora. Battery life was an atrocious 4 hours at best, I tried out all the power management tools as well. Windows was much better. Not that I used it, I just kept it plugged in and running fedora. Still glad I returned the laptop eventually though.
by pseudalopex | 2025-09-18 21:54:51+00:00
> Tahoe now escrows your FileVailt key to the iCloud keychain, even if that is something you explicitly opted out of before.

Yes and no according to Glenn Fleishman. Storing FileVault recovery keys in iCloud Keychain wasn't a choice before. The old iCloud recovery method wasn't end to end encrypted. But iCloud Keychain is. So calling it escrow is debatable. And old recovery keys aren't added to iCloud Keychain. But new recovery keys are stored in iCloud Keychain if enabled.[1]

[1] https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/filevault-on-macos-tahoe-...
by mgh2 | 2025-09-18 21:54:55+00:00
I am more prone to believe the rich always play games to maximize public approval (for votes or sales) with stories they want you to believe.

Much like Trump, they are playing PR/politics due to the culture shift.

> Rich and powerful people have quite a different attitude and approach to truth and lies and games compared to ordinary people. https://youtu.be/m6lObdE3s10?t=245

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44733706
by softwaredoug | 2025-09-18 21:55:07+00:00
What has metastasized goes beyond Trump. If Trump wasn't president tomorrow, this persecution-minded, we've got to "get all our enemies" way of running the country would be around in Vance, et. al.

Jan 6 was the turning point from GOP that sort of tolerates Trump, to GOP becoming the Jan 6 party.
by pndy | 2025-09-18 21:55:38+00:00
OpenID was aiming to be a decentralized digital identity solution for everyone but then companies opted out for own solutions.

I'm seeing more and more sites pushing for signing with facebook/apple/google accounts and I'm afraid how the Internet may look like in a few years. It seems we're on path on total sanitization of online services, sites and content to the point where everything will be "safe", verified and authorized and so will be users.
by steveruizok | 2025-09-18 21:55:53+00:00
We support iPad about as good as we can, with stylus pressure and some tricks to avoid slowdowns due to the high input rate. I actually did the ink in Excalidraw too, so it at least worked last time I touched it! But the difference between iPad Safari input latency and native latency is gigantic, really heart breaking to work on. Not sure if a native wrapper would improve things. If I did a native app, it would likely be a minimal drawing app for handwriting only. I recently started prototyping an Android app with the new low-latency jetpack ink APIs and they’re fantastic, beating perceived latency vs iPad even on a 60fps screen (Daylight).
by xrisk | 2025-09-18 21:56:01+00:00
This is not the same thing is it? Arch Wiki mentions something about having to install a separate ssh server into initramfs to support ssh’ing into fully encrypted systems.

systemd-cryptenroll seems to be about storing encryption keys into the TPM so that they can be decrypted automatically at boot (?)

Apologies if I misunderstood something.
by mlyle | 2025-09-18 21:56:03+00:00
> Normally fraud involves lying to someone to get them to enter into a business relationship with you, not to keep one.

There is no distinction of the sort in the law. e.g. California:

(3) “Fraud” means an intentional misrepresentation, deceit, or concealment of a material fact known to the defendant with the intention on the part of the defendant of thereby depriving a person of property or legal rights or otherwise causing injury.
by yallpendantools | 2025-09-18 21:56:03+00:00
Hey. I think we all accept that all companies are inevitably fallible. What companies can be consistently good at---but very few take the effort to excel at sadly---is customer support communication. Honestly, reading TFA, it's still conceivable that putting Hack Club in the wrong pricing tier was an honest error on your part, but the communication was horrible to say the least. As others already pointed out, seven days to pay-up or your data goes poof sounds more like ransomware than a company trying to meet a customer half way.

And ofc, it has C-level attention now because it blew up on HN. Sorry but this screams damage limitation. For every Hack Club, you wonder which other non-profits suffered this "mistake" but didn't have the social media reach to get C-level treatment.

(Speaking as someone who spent this week being gaslit by Amazon and Google support. :mad: )
by pogue | 2025-09-18 21:56:45+00:00
Yeah, if it did that kind of thing, it could definitely be a selling point.

Incidentally, I've been doing something similar in Mistral's Le Chat. I went down a rabbit hole to see if it could help me with my skincare routine, and now I've gotten to a point where I'll have it OCR transcribe lists of ingredients on the sides of packaging to see if it's compatible for me, and if not, it gives me product recommendations for alternatives, suggestions on cheaper products & it'll crawl the web to do so. While it won't make me lists or do price comparisons across stores & things like that, what it offers has been incredibly helpful.
by jaccola | 2025-09-18 21:56:51+00:00
Zuckerberg has negative charisma, it's painful to watch...

Jobs handled this so much better; while clearly he is pissed, he doesn't leave you cringing in mutual embarrassment, goes to show it isn't as easy as he makes it look!

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M4t14s7nSM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znxQOPFg2mo
by skhameneh | 2025-09-18 21:57:02+00:00
As much as it'll be "interesting" to see how models behave in real world examples (presumably similarly to how the demos went), I'm not convinced this is a premade recording like what seems to be implied.

I'm imagining this is an incomplete flow within a software prototype that may have jumped steps and lacks sufficient multi-modal capability to correct.

It could also be staged recordings. But, I don't think it really matters. Models are easily capable of working with the setup and flow they have for the demo. It's real world accuracy, latency, convenience, and other factors that will impact actual users the most.

What's the reliability and latency needed for these to be a useful tool?

For example, I can't imagine many people wanting to use the gesture writing tools for most messages. It's cool, I like that it was developed, but I doubt it'll see substantial adoption with what's currently being pitched.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-18 21:57:26+00:00
> Is there some strict test that separates journalism from election spending?

Truth? You seem to act like the only consequences of fraud, sexual assault and associating with pedophiles is the detriment to one's identity.

Have you considered that there are victims to crimes like fraud, rape and pedophilia? That, perhaps, the perpetrators aren't victims in this scenario?
by II2II | 2025-09-18 21:57:44+00:00
Everyone will have different opinions on the matter. My Lenovo has a touch screen, but I hardly ever use it because I forget that it is there. Likewise, it is Wacom compatible and I was as far as picking up the stylus for it. Hardly ever use it. For the most part, I prefer to interact with computers via keyboard.

Different people like interacting with computers in different ways, unfortunately, this one size fits all philosophy that permeates the tech sector creates a lot of tension because those ways of interacting are not necessarily compatible with each other.
by geerlingguy | 2025-09-18 21:58:14+00:00
I would really like to have a geiger counter that I can put on the wall and connect to Zigbee/Z-Wave/WiFi and tie into Home Assistant. I've considered building one with the cheaper tube and ESP32, but I'm surprised that for Radon and radiation, it seems like something like AirGradient, but for radioactivity, doesn't exist.
by bergheim | 2025-09-18 21:58:37+00:00
This is an opinion stated as fact. KDE is mostly for dads that like a mouse oriented Windows/mac like OS but with buttons to customize.

Sway, exwm etc are for power users.

If you aren't in that category, you may not like it or may find it to be not worth the time investment in.

10/10 gatekeeping buddy.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-09-18 21:58:39+00:00
A great answer can compensate for a bad question.

A great question can compensate for a simple answer.

Kids can ask questions, but they rely on an experienced teacher to effectively answer.

Teaching someone effectively through answering questions, require the teacher through the students questions to build a model of the students model. To answer not only the question directly, but also the question that should have been asked instead.

A good end-of-chapter quiz doesn't check that a reader read the next. It asks questions whos answer rule out possible (or common) incorrect mental models the reader may have built.

A learner skilled in asking truly excellent questions, makes questions for which even a bad or simple answer rule out and refine their assumptions.

And that is a skill i doubt is ever truly mastered.

Its like the X Y. A great teacher answers X instead of Y. A great learner asks about X in the firstplace.
by harshaw | 2025-09-18 22:00:31+00:00
Sounds more like an object system (immutable) with the veneer of a file system for their use cases. I sort of read the doc - sounds like data is replicated and not erasure encoded (so perhaps more expensive?).

I think many people have said this, but "file systems" get a lot easier if you don't have to worry about overwrites, appends, truncates, etc. Anyway, always interesting to see what people come up with for their use cases.
by xoa | 2025-09-18 22:00:34+00:00
I don't know but I'm still not seeing the relevance? The threat/target scenarios in general for FDE are physical theft of a device, hardware servicing by 3rd parties, and dealing with end of life (either due to replacement or hardware failure). FDE means that "erasing all data securely" can involve simple key purging instead of extremely time consuming zeroing/overwriting or physical destruction. But it's no barrier nor meant to be any barrier against hot online attacks, if someone is able to get admin remote access to a running system without authorization that is the problem and it'd be equally the problem whether the machine was cold booted or already booted. And if they illegitimately possess the recovery key then it's a problem whether remote or physically present.

FWIW and having not looked yet (since I never upgrade major macOS versions anymore without a good 3-5 months going by and the first 2-3 minor fixes first) my default assumption is it's still possible to not escrow recovery keys, if only because plenty of people don't use iCloud keychain at all (including myself), and also because I know for sure that you can use configuration profiles to control FV recovery key escrow already. That'd be a requirement for lots of business usage so even if it needs a profile to use should still be there? But again this all seems orthogonal to the issue at hand. Stuff does crash or need updates that require a reboot and previously you either needed to turn off FV entirely or use a hardware workaround for GUI access (ie, setup a basic SBC with HDMI/USB in and use it as a bridge or use a premade solution along the lines of PiKVM [0]). It's definitely a small but nice (and feels rare nowadays from Apple) remote admin gesture to let it be done in software like it should have been long ago.

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0: https://pikvm.org/
by your_fin | 2025-09-18 22:01:49+00:00
I came across https://kdl.dev recently, and it has become my favored yaml-replacement when normal code doesn't work.

The data model is closer to XML than JSON, though, so unfortunately it's not a drop-in replacement for yaml.

Small sample:

package { name my-pkg version "1.2.3" dependencies { // Nodes can have standalone values as well as // key/value pairs. lodash "^3.2.1" optional=#true alias=underscore } }
by ZeroCool2u | 2025-09-18 22:03:11+00:00
This is cool, but if you're ever in need of a dope present, especially for someone like your father-in-law, Better Geiger[1] is awesome. My FIL was stoked. Loves checking the bananas at costco and other random stuff at costco.

[1]: https://www.bettergeiger.com/
Hosting projects built with Cursor / n8n / Lovable is harder than it should be
by Vikram_jindal | 2025-09-18 22:03:22+00:00
I’ve been experimenting a lot with AI-assisted tools like Cursor, Lovable, and n8n. It’s wild how quickly you can spin up a micro-SaaS or workflow, but the real pain comes when you try to host it.

Options I’ve run into:

VPS providers like hetzner, linode (cheap, but you need Linux/DNS chops)

Serverless (starts cheap, but gets unpredictable with scale)

Managed hosting (great for WordPress, not so much for custom stacks like Supabase/n8n/etc.)

I eventually hacked together a way to run multiple apps (Supabase, Lovable sites, WordPress, backend APIs, etc.) all on one server through Kloudbean, which I’m building with my team. It gives me a clean dashboard instead of forcing me to mess with terminal commands.

But I’m still wondering:

Are others here facing the same issues hosting these newer AI/no-code/low-code tools?

Do you stick with raw VPS, or pay more for managed setups?

If you’re not DevOps-heavy, how do you balance cost vs. simplicity?

Not trying to pitch anything, just trying to understand if this hosting gap is something real builders are hitting, or if I’m the only one overthinking it.
by pja | 2025-09-18 22:03:44+00:00
> > I didn't want to actually host my own mail stack > > Is there a way to only host the receive portion? > > I'm happy to pay someone to handle all the idiocy around sending email and getting it through Google and Microsoft, but I'd really like to hold my emails myself.

Sure. Set your MX to your own SMTP server but pay a mail delivery service to send your emails & use their SMTP servers as your outgoing server. You'll have to setup SPF & DKIM appropriately of course.

It's not trivial to do this, but it should be possible.
by bmicraft | 2025-09-18 22:04:43+00:00
> I'm not sure if this isn't as common as I think it is - but what's wrong with typing `ip` into a terminal

Well, for a start, `ip` isn't enough to give you anything. You'd need at least `ip a` or `ip r`, but then you'd have to already know that or go hunting in the manual (the `ip` help really is pretty bad). For something you might only need once a year (and will forget before you need it again!), having it in the GUI is very valuable.
by johnea | 2025-09-18 22:05:55+00:00
I don't disagree with you that my post is not directly related to the article, and I would point out from my original post:

> This is not specifically the topic of the article

I would disagree that this has nothing to do with the culture wars. The culture war topic of gay and trans rights is saturated with articles on topics just like this one.

My point is that facing off against scientific fact to support an ideological point is counterproductive.
by decimalenough | 2025-09-18 22:06:03+00:00
North is 0-127, South is 128-255. When you go south enough, the 8-bit counter overflows and that's how Australia becomes North.

Alternatively, "Global North" is just code for "white", with a few apartheid-style token "honorary whites" like Japan added.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_whites
by reissbaker | 2025-09-18 22:06:12+00:00
This generally isn't my experience with GNOME.

You have to install an extension to get a dock at all.

No, there's an auto-hiding dock built-in. Pressing the Super key acts like better version of Apple's Expose feature: it shows the windows you have open, auto-opens the dock, and focuses the application launcher search bar so you can just start typing and launch an app.

You had to install a system tray extension

I'm sure you needed to at some point, but (as you mention), that's no longer the case: it's built in by default.

clipboard manager

If you mean clipboard history... That's true. Although macOS doesn't have a built-in clipboard history viewer either, and I never particularly missed having one. There are plenty of GNOME extensions with clipboard history if you want one.

Generally speaking I like GNOME much more than KDE, since GNOME's gesture support is much better than KDE's. I also personally dislike Windows-style infinitely-nesting-menu taskbars, which is what KDE uses, whereas GNOME is more macOS-like (although it has its own, IMO slightly cleaner style... And of course, it's much more modifiable than macOS).
by Bender | 2025-09-18 22:06:16+00:00
Phones near a blaster can be forced to connect to its illegitimate 4G signals, before the blaster pushes devices to downgrade to the less secure 2G signal.

How many phones still support 2G? If its a lot I suspect a security patch or firmware update could fix that. They do link to this [1] for Android, a setting I do have.

They then push the scam messages, which contain links to fraudulent websites, to the connected phones

Seems like disabling non-HTTPS could also be done through an update. Plenty of scammer sites have legit DV certs though.

[1] - https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/cellular-s...
by dailker | 2025-09-18 22:06:50+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a personal project called Dragon’s Vault, a web-based encrypted chat platform built from the ground up with zero-trust architecture. The core idea is simple but ambitious: even if the server or database is compromised, your messages should remain completely unreadable.

The system uses multi-layer client-side encryption: AES-256-GCM for the first layer, XChaCha20-Poly1305 for the second, and RSA/ECC for key exchange. Everything happens in the browser: the server only ever sees encrypted blobs. Even metadata like timestamps and usernames are encrypted, and encryption keys are stored securely in IndexedDB.

Some of the features currently implemented:

End-to-end encrypted one-on-one messaging

Friend-based system with requests and approvals

QR code sharing for profiles

Real-time notifications

Multiple UI themes (dark, light, ocean blue, neon)

Fully responsive design for desktop, tablet, and mobile

From a development perspective, the project is built with Next.js, a MongoDB backend, and client-side cryptography libraries. There are clear abstractions for encryption, key storage, and authentication, making it easy for contributors to pick up and extend features.

I’m sharing this here because I’m looking for:

Feedback – on the security model, UX, and overall architecture

Feature ideas – are there ways to make encrypted social chat more usable without compromising security?

Contributions – anyone who wants to help improve code, add features, or enhance security documentation

The repo is open source: https://github.com/dailker/dragons-vault

I’ve put a lot of thought into balancing strong encryption with usable social features, but this is very much a work in progress. I’d love to hear from anyone interested in privacy-first messaging or client-side encryption. Even small contributions, security reviews, or suggestions are incredibly valuable.

Thanks for reading.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-09-18 22:06:56+00:00
Firefox has had AI chatbot integration in its sidebar since 133 [1] (Currently we are on 143). Fortunately, you have to sign in manually into the relevant service. I haven't tried it so don't know what happens next.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot
by mrcwinn | 2025-09-18 22:07:26+00:00
Somehow saying AI is a hype train, not liking smart phones, and putting mobile revolution "in quotes" all seem of one coherent piece together.

I can take the point that some AI features are oversold or under-considered, but suggesting that these new technologies are not driving business innovation is just completely indefensible to the point that the argument is absurd on its face.
by Anthony-G | 2025-09-18 22:07:28+00:00
I had never seen Kimmel until I watched the YouTube clip¹ linked elsewhere in this thread earlier today. After doing so, I cancelled my Disney+ subscription, giving “cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel” as the reason and won’t be in any hurry to re-join (though I heard the new Alien TV show is worth watching).

I hate cancel culture whether it’s coming from the conservative right (we’ve had that in Ireland for most of the 20th century) or the liberal left (more recently) and I believe that comedy should be able to transgress social norms and push up against boundaries but what I saw of Kimmel was wholly innocuous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3YdxNSzTk&t=123s
by zamadatix | 2025-09-18 22:07:38+00:00
I have been rewatching Stargate SG-1 recently and noticed in S07E08 "Space Race" the surface of the planet (Hebridan) clearly had India and the Arabian Peninsula in it https://i.imgur.com/ocNHrpi.png but nearly upside down.

I wonder how many times I missed similar things just because the perspective was different than I'm used to.
by anal_reactor | 2025-09-18 22:07:46+00:00
I'd like to argue that most people are tasteless and that's actually a good thing.

1. Attention is finite. You can't be tasteful in everything you do. If I dedicate my attention to making tasteful home design, I just don't have the attention to take tasteful photos, and it makes sense that instead I'll just look at photos that someone else prepared. In this scenario, I'm very tasteful in home design, I'm completely tasteless in photography. And that's great. Because the alternative is to be mediocre in everything.

2. It just makes sense that for any given problem, the society would dedicate a small group of individuals to find a tasteful solution, and then apply said solution across the whole population. Most tasteful people are far deep into the territory of diminishing returns, and the attitude of everyone being tasteful simply won't work at the scale of entire society. This means that it's an expectation that most people would be tasteless in most situations, and just follow tasteful people's suggestions - after all, are you going to argue against your doctor, or are you going to just take the prescribed pills, even if theoretically you could improve your treatment by 2%?

> Contrariwise, it's possible (but harder) to have no sense of taste and merely copy what most would regard as "good taste" and be perceived as having "good taste."

That's exactly the most common scenario. Blindly following latest trends will usually result in others perceiving you positively.
by linguae | 2025-09-18 22:08:08+00:00
Many users of Microsoft Word 5.1 for Macintosh hated Microsoft Word 6; they felt the latter was not Mac-like. I was a kid during this time and the only Mac word processor I used in the classic era was the one included with ClarisWorks, so I don’t have any opinions about Word 5.1 vs 6.

I feel Mac OS X peaked with Snow Leopard, though it wasn’t until Catalina when I started refusing to upgrade my personal Macs, which remained at Mojave until I retired them from daily driving.

I also remember SimCity (the successor to SimCity 4) and SimCity Societies not being well-received. Sadly the SimCity franchise is dead; I enjoyed SimCity 2000 and 4 (I never played 3000).

The fourth generation of Pokémon games, in my opinion, was the high water mark of the franchise’s main series games, peaking at Heart Gold/Soul Silver.
by kccqzy | 2025-09-18 22:08:12+00:00
That's a Pacific-centered map not a China-centered map. You can buy these in the U.S. too; I'm sure the people of Hawaii would prefer these. https://www.natgeomaps.com/re-world-classic-pacific-centered or https://www.natgeomaps.com/re-world-executive-pacific-center...