MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drnick1 | 2025-09-25 18:58:52+00:00
This is 100% my experience too. Self-hosting email isn't any harder than self-hosting something else and there is no maintenance beyond apt update and apt upgrade. Even if you choose to do this in hard mode using postfix/dovecot instead of a dockerized stack, you can get a working config in a few minutes from an LLM these days.
by diego_sandoval | 2025-09-25 18:58:59+00:00
If anyone from OpenAI is reading this, I have two complaints:

1. Using the "Projects" thing (Folder organization) makes my browser tab (on Firefox) become unusably slow after a while. I'm basically forced to use the default chats organization, even though I would like to organize my chats in folders.

2. After editing a message that you already sent,you get to select between the different branches of the chat (1/2, and so on), which is cool, but when ChatGPT fails to generate a response in this "branched conversation" context, it will continue failing forever. When your conversation is a single thread and a ChatGPT message fails with an error, re trying usually works and the chat continues normally.
by psunavy03 | 2025-09-25 18:59:02+00:00
As a retired officer, this is at best tangentially true for warfighting roles. The more senior you get, the more you end up in staff and headquarters roles where plans and reporting become more of your role than direct operations.

But to get there you have to compete and succeed in a stack-ranked promotion system where your tactical and operational skills are what set you apart.
by kace91 | 2025-09-25 18:59:13+00:00
I’m surprised to see so little pushback in press to iOS/macOS 26.

I’ve been part of the public beta and it’s been so weird going from “this sucks but it’s a first beta” through “it really isn’t improving much as time goes by” to “we’re a week from launch, there’s no way they release this after the Apple Intelligence fiasco”.

And yet here we are. Performance issues, ui inconsistencies and garish design everywhere.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-25 18:59:14+00:00
The old web was people that could afford PCs, a select group, and who knew how/chose to connect to the internet, smaller sub group, plus college students. Then it was people who could afford very expensive toys (iPhone) on expensive phone plans that required credit qualifications. The types of people who are inquisitive, or who have expensive hobbies, or even time/energy for hobbies. There was a time early on when services that normally require some kind of credit check just...didn't... if you used the iPhone app.

Today's internet is wage slaves on prepaid phone plans using apps on cheap cell phones that want a cheap/free distraction from their lives.
by 3pt14159 | 2025-09-25 18:59:31+00:00
Governments need privacy. They literally investigate child mollestation cases. They hunt spies. They handle all sorts of messy things like divorce between couples with abuse.

I'm not commenting on the government coming in at unveiling encrypted communications, but certainly a better approach than "governments should be transparent and the people should be opaque" would be "governments should be translucent and the people should be translucent too".
by altairprime | 2025-09-25 18:59:55+00:00
Notes from the Google bug tracker linked by the GitHub issue: applying this command to each Chrome/Chromium app impacting your system will workaround the underlying macOS resource leak (EDIT: which only occurs when Electron mucks with private APIs to fake having native UI):

defaults write com.google.Chrome NSAutoFillHeuristicControllerEnabled -bool false

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/446481994#comment17

That command’s equivalent is being patched into Chrome and will have to ripple downward into Electron apps; directing complaints to each electron app impacted with a link to the relevant Google issue workaround will give them sufficient data to mitigate it, if they bother to.

Apple is already aware — https://x.com/ian_mcdowell/status/1967326413830472191 (apologies for the Twitter link, but it’s an Apple employee). EDIT: Someone else has traced the issue to Electron messing with internal OS APIs! Courtesy of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377253 —

> It turns out Electron was overriding a private AppKit API (_cornerMask) to apply custom corner masks to vibrant views.

ps. This issue was discussed a week ago here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292019

pps. Manually applying this workaround without scheduling its future removal has a slight but non-zero risk of someday breaking OS-linked autofill in your electron apps in weird or unexpected ways.

ppps. I don’t work for anyone, school for another three years minimum.
by lostlogin | 2025-09-25 19:00:10+00:00
> the US is one of the few countries actually having laws against genocide / war crimes.

Yet the US does not allow prosecutions in the international criminal court.

How do you explain Mai Lai what went on more recently in Afghanistan and Iraq.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Intern...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes
by JamesSwift | 2025-09-25 19:00:30+00:00
Yeah Im fine with the kayfabe angle. Its more what the current state of the game has become because of the fallibility of the umpire, but at the same time the absolute infallibility of them as well.

I dont think baseball does a good job of being honest about umpires blowing calls, and to fight the perception of being wrong umpires lean _way_ to the other side to the point that if a batter is even suspected of questioning a call they are ejected. Then, sure, I dont see a problem with the arguing because what else can you do. Its a tight rope, and I dont think they've walked it well. It does feed into the lower leagues though, with completely different relationships (volunteer umps and no replay review), but the same antics.
by moogly | 2025-09-25 19:00:35+00:00
I could write things here about those officially reported deaths (not estimates, which are much higher, but no one really knows and very likely never will), or the internal diaplacement, but since there might be at least 1 Palestinian still alive digging in the rubble somewhere, literalists like you would still feel the need to overcorrect.

I thought the defeated tone of my post made it clear that it was not meant to be taken that literally. I guess not.
by arunbahl | 2025-09-25 19:00:55+00:00
As a startup that chose to locate in Canada, we’ve already had a dozen amazing candidates currently in the US reach out and apply for roles since we shared our thinking earlier this week [0].

The feeling of ambient immigration hostility in the US (even beyond any one specific policy) is palpable.

0: https://aloe.inc/blog/the-best-talent-in-the-world
by troyvit | 2025-09-25 19:00:58+00:00
Being blocked from a web site and having to hit a little box are two different things. Are you talking about the former or the latter? If it's the former ... that has literally never happened to me unless I'm on a VPN and even then it's rarely (if ever) CF that's doing the blocking.

If it's the latter then it reflects the sad truth that we can't have nice things anymoret. I have lots of problems with the accessibility of that box, but either Cloudflare would be implementing it, somebody else would be implementing it, or a huge chunk of data would be unavailable to you anyway because of accidental DDoS attacks caused by irresponsibly deployed bots.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-09-25 19:01:52+00:00
When did I say they shouldn’t expect consequences or that it wasn’t a fireable offense? The whole point of this discussion is that cries for people to “protest properly” are ridiculous and designed to make protests ineffective.

Clearly I get that their jobs and more were at risk, hence why I said they were brave. The only thing unclear is where you got the impression I thought otherwise.
by horsawlarway | 2025-09-25 19:01:55+00:00
In my experience - this one is the correct one. Make a commitment, keep the commitment, stay responsible for the commitment afterwards.

This whole chain is like arguing on how tidy your desk should be. Some people like it fastidious to the nth degree. Some people prefer a little mess.

In neither case does that preference really matter much compared to all the other things a real job entails.
by breakingcups | 2025-09-25 19:02:13+00:00
My pet theory without any strong foundation is because OpenAI and Anthropic have trained their models really hard to fit the sycophantic mold of:

=============================== Got it — *compliment on the info you've shared*, *informal summary of task*. *Another compliment*, but *downside of question*. ---------- (relevant emoji) Bla bla bla 1. Aspect 1 2. Aspect 2 ---------- *Actual answer* ----------- (checkmark emoji) *Reassuring you about its answer because:* * Summary point 1 * Summary point 2 * Summary point 3 Would you like me to *verb* a ready-made *noun* that will *something that's helpful to you 40% of the time*? ===============================

It's gotta reduce the quality of the answers.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-25 19:02:33+00:00
Exactly my point, but also, to add to it:

Let's say you're actually texting in a group. Even if you use perfect operational security, odds are terrible that all members of your group will perfectly uphold the same level of security every time they share their content.

One is going to slip up. He's going to get arrested. And he's going to turn the whole group in to reduce his sentence. Everyone else meanwhile has their operational security become proof of intent, proof of deliberation, proof of trying to evade authorities. They thought they were clever with the encrypted ZIP files, but the judge and jury are going to be merciless. I don't think most authorities have a problem with that.
by jama211 | 2025-09-25 19:02:37+00:00
Well said, it’s a red flag for me if someone both states that they “can’t understand what others like about [thing]” AND then assumes that means they’ve been tricked or they’re stupid or sheep or something else… it’s like, other people having completely reasonable reasons that you just don’t happen to know what they are couldn’t possibly be a possibility.

It’s an ego thing I suspect.
by inetknght | 2025-09-25 19:02:44+00:00
> Stop the FUD with those quotes. Bose does not require or "require" an app to be installed to use their headphones and I'm not sure any vendor of BT headphones does

Is it FUD? It's fear, for sure. Uncertainly maybe. Doubt, not really.

An app that doesn't do that today is an app that could do that after an update tomorrow.

As for firmware... well the fact that something that just processes audio needs a firmware update demonstrates that the company isn't doing proper engineering. Proper engineering processes would be able to resolve just about anything with firmware before it gets released. Yes there "might" be bugs. No, those bugs shouldn't be severe. And regardless of proper engineering, a firmware that doesn't send telemetry back today is a firmware that could send telemetry after an update tomorrow.

So it is FUD? No. It's awareness of what's possible.
by 9rx | 2025-09-25 19:02:45+00:00
Definitions do vary, but everyone agrees that it requires autonomy. That is ultimately what sets AGI apart from AI.

The GPT model alone does not offer autonomy. It only acts in response to explicit input. That's not to say that you couldn't built autonomy on top of GPT, though. In fact, that appears to be exactly what Pulse is trying to accomplish.

But Microsoft and OpenAI's contractual agreements state that the autonomy must also be economically useful to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars in autonomously-created economic activity, so OpenAI will not call it as such until that time.
by n4r9 | 2025-09-25 19:02:52+00:00
> a slippery slope which has never worked well in practice

Yet if we do it your way we get violent nationwide riots fuelled by misinformation on social media.

> Everything Tommy Robinson has said is true ... Nothing he says or does is violent or illegal

Tommy Robinson who was tried and jailed for repeatedly spreading libellous allegations about a Syrian refugee? Are you being serious?
by ericreyes217 | 2025-09-25 19:03:01+00:00
Right now, I’m focused on a personal project where I’m building an AI-driven agent platform. I’ve been working with LangGraph for workflow orchestration and MCP for coordinating multiple agents and models. Through this, I’ve gained practical experience integrating LLMs, vector databases, and external APIs into a scalable backend system.

I’m looking for a remote role where I can apply this hands-on experience with Full Stack engineering and AI agent orchestration to real-world production environments.
by neuroelectron | 2025-09-25 19:03:36+00:00
American tech sector is being destroyed so it can be replaced by _____ and their surveillance state. It's death by a thousand cuts, labor supply, education, taxes, regulation, finance, dependencies, versioning, operating systems, etc. all are being made obfuscated, complex and frustrating to slow advancement and ultimately unstable and impossible to maintain. Most of our tech stack already has surveillance built in and that is already being co-opted and we're well on our way of having it outsourced to a foreign state.
by meowface | 2025-09-25 19:03:46+00:00
At some point, when basically the entire world is saying one thing and only two countries (the US & Israel) are saying the opposite, you really need something strong to convince someone that basically the whole world is wrong.

This is some lame right-wing outlet whose front page contains things like:

>The assessment, shared exclusively with the Free Beacon, follows mainstream media claims that cuts to global health funding will endanger life-saving programs

While not mentioning that, yes, the Trump administration's USAID cuts absolutely will kill millions of people.

The rest is shitting on Democrats and supporting Trump. Obviously some right-wing site is going to say whatever they can think of to try to defend Israel's actions.
by rocketvole | 2025-09-25 19:03:48+00:00
It seems like Raspberry Pi has been trying hard to push itself as a PC instead of a tinkering embedded systems board. I'm not sure how I feel about this, since you can get better performing computers for cheaper. That being said, I'm not sure if it even holds up as a reasonably priced hardware learning platform anymore, with esp32, arduino, and others providing a very similar learning curriculum at a fraction of the price.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-25 19:04:08+00:00
I keep thinking that Email would be a pretty natural extension process with the workers model in general... if they offered workers that could handle a tcp connection as stdin/out from the application perspective. Especially in concert with D1, R2 and other services.

I think the biggest issues would come down to server-side search functionality though. For very basic services, and even most of common IMAP/JMAP, it could be pretty great. Working on an a major email platform is something I've really wanted to do for a while now. (cloudflare, call me)
by kragen | 2025-09-25 19:04:17+00:00
No, people are dying because they can't get good enough jobs, which is 100% contingent on what other people think of them, or because they've been ostracized from their previous support structure, or because they're depressed and commit suicide, or because they're divorced and alone. Very few people can get away without worrying about what anyone else thinks of them.

Perhaps it's a coincidence that Joe O'Brien died this week at 48 or 49 https://old.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/1nn3jel/joe_obrien_1... after being ostracized from the Ruby community†. But there aren't many people who die that young. Social isolation is a top risk factor for depression.

______

† for, in my view, good reason: he fired his employee after she turned him down when he sexually assaulted her in a bar. I don't think he deserved to die for this, but I also wouldn't have wanted to hang out with him.
by topspin | 2025-09-25 19:04:53+00:00
> Are the Europeans insane?

I don't think so. If they were, it would actually be better: one can have sympathy for insanity, and at least isolate it, if not treat it.

Instead, it's extreme insecurity combined with limitless regard for infallible authority. The thought that the hoi polloi might write or say things that are beyond scrutiny is intolerable. That's the insecurity part. And all intolerable things must be criminalized, because in Europe, laws infallibly fix everything. That's the authority part.

That's not insanity. That's just how you behave when you imagine it is your mandate to perfect the world and indulge hubris sufficient to believe you have the wisdom to do so.
by itsnowandnever | 2025-09-25 19:04:57+00:00
hey, man - I understand this is a stressful time for you. but you're not doing your people any favors by denying the suffering your government is causing. in fact, the bold faced unapologetic nature of these atrocities is why people are talking about sanctions (which is also likely why MS made this move - to avoid being caught up in sanctions)
by buffalobuffalo | 2025-09-25 19:05:18+00:00
Blockchain only has 2 legitimate uses (from an economic standpoint) as far as I can tell.

1) Bitcoin figured out how to create artificial scarcity, and got enough buy-in that the scarcity actually became valuable.

2)Some privacy coins serve an actual economic niche for illegal activity.

Then there's a long list of snake oil uses, and competition with payment providers doesn't even crack the top 20 of those. Modern day tulip mania.
by coredog64 | 2025-09-25 19:05:25+00:00
The other side of this is that the people doing the protesting have to have the fortitude to accept judicial punishment. If the punishment is out of whack WRT the crime, then you get popular support (e.g. a year in jail for sitting at a lunch counter). But the current situation where folks can break the law and then suffer no consequences? F that noise.
by boc | 2025-09-25 19:05:30+00:00
Blockchain is essentially useless.

You need legal systems to enforce trust in societies, not code. Otherwise you'll end up with endless $10 wrench attacks until we all agree to let someone else hold our personal wealth for us in a secure, easy-to-access place. We might call it a bank.

The end state of crypto is always just a nightmarish dystopia. Wealth isn't created by hoarding digital currency, it's created by productivity. People just think they found a shortcut, but it's not the first (or last) time humans will learn this lesson.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-09-25 19:05:36+00:00
With Apple being able to forbid application on the App Store and Google now requiring developer to identify themselves before compiling app, and being able to block sideloading at any time, I don’t see what choice is left if you want to bypass that privacy invasion.

I mean for the actual legit user. Pedophiles will still be able to use encrypted mail, Android phone that are not Google certified and so free to sideload anything, or even just passworded zip.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-25 19:06:00+00:00
If you want another data point, you can just look at my company github (https://github.com/orgs/sibyllinesoft/repositories). ~27 projects in the last 5 weeks, probably on the order of half a million lines of code, and multiple significant projects that are approaching ship readiness (I need to stop tuning algorithms and making stuff gorgeous and just fix installation/ensure cross platform is working, lol).
by efitz | 2025-09-25 19:06:21+00:00
I think Cloud providers should be common carriers. I don’t think that it is a good thing when a company can make an arbitrary decision and disable functionality that you have put millions of dollars and thousands or tens of thousands of person hours into.

I think that the only reasons that a cloud provider should be permitted to use to justify termination of service, are illegal activity (in the country of service), non-payment, or attempting to harm or disrupt the service.

I am in no way condoning anything that Israel is doing, just like I wasn’t condoning what people on Parler were saying when AWS axed them in 2021.

No matter how much you like what the people in charge are doing today or who they’re doing it to, sooner or later someone will take the reins who decides that you are the target.

Same with banks, credit card companies, etc. if you are incorporated and your business is to support commerce, you should keep your thumb off the scale.
by groby_b | 2025-09-25 19:06:35+00:00
I'm feeling obliged to rehash a quote from the early days of the Internet, when midi support was added: "If I wanted your web site to make sounds, I'd rub my finger on the screen"

Behind that flippant response lies a core principle. A computer is a tool. It should act on the request of the human using it, not by itself.

Scheduled prompts: Awesome. Daily nag screens to hook up more data sources: Not awesome.

(Also, from a practical POV: So they plan on creating a recommender engine to sell ads and media, I guess. Weehee. More garbage)
by stale2002 | 2025-09-25 19:07:18+00:00
There is nothing wrong with being seen or heard. Instead it is that being violently disruptive tends to lose you support.

You are posing a false dilemma where the only thing a person can do to voice there opinion is to destroy or disrupt things.

That's not true though. Instead you can simply voice your options. You can put out manifestos, publish articles in the newspaper, post to social media, or even talk to people in person.

All those methods are how speech and ideas are normally distributed in a normal society. And if people aren't convinced by what you say, then it is time for you to get better arguments.
by reify | 2025-09-25 19:07:40+00:00
Ties in with all the UK stores using Facial recognition and Project Pegasus.

After all, how would a drone operator know who the shop lifter was, unless he had access to all the scanned faces and the shoplifter was identified.

Keep a look out for small launch pad on the roof of your local store.

here are the UK Facial recognition Offenders.

FOOD STORES:

Sainsbury: Tesco: Iceland: Co-op: ASDA: Morrisons: Marks & Spencer: Waitrose: farmfoods: Budgens: Costcutter: Londis: Nisa Local: SPAR: Village Wholefoods:

OTHERS:

Sports Direct: House of Fraser: Home Bargains: Boots: Primark: Hobbycraft: John Lewis: Next: Booths:

B&M: Cadbury Garden Centre: EAT 17: Flannels: Gieves and Hawkes: Gordons Wine Bar: Ladbrokes/Coral: Lawrences Garages: Leicester Racecourse: Luton Town Football Club Shop: Middlesborough Empire: Palm Beach Casino: QD Stores: Rowans Bowling Alley: Ruxley Manor: RWB Auctions: Symposium: The Gym: Tian Tian Market: Welcome Break: Whitehall Garden Centres.
by bornfreddy | 2025-09-25 19:07:43+00:00
> (I put this last because I know what HN will say to this, but: are CEOs and other executives not people too? Can they not make principled moves either?)

Not sure what you mean by "what HN will say to this", but for me the answer is clear - they are, they can, and they often do. As do their employees - or at least they push in the direction which is better aligned with their values.