MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AOE9 | 2025-09-24 11:47:43+00:00
Interesting it says knife crime for 23/24 was up 16% for London. I wonder if they only record convictions so the 19% decrease will change as people are convicted.

Also West Midlands is that not Biringham etc? Is that not one of the other mostly non-white places in the UK? You could have pointed to number 3 on the list Cleveland being mostly white(95%+ I think) and not being much lower than London.
by tudorizer | 2025-09-24 11:48:00+00:00
There's a smell of pseudo-science here. That weird blend of interesting + plausible with sprinkles of heavy-handed parallels.

After "Isaac Newton, who may have been the smartest person who ever lived" the level of trust fell drastically.

Sure, the periodic table was extremely useful and we were using electricity before we understood it, but we understand LLMs far better, mostly because they are our own creation.

Maybe the lines between exploration, creation and discovery are fuzzy sometimes, but this article tips over into AI propaganda.
Show HN: Mnemeo – flashcard app with typing and rating modes
by rytisg | 2025-09-24 11:48:39+00:00
Hi HN! I built Mnemeo after years of searching for the right flashcard app.

I loved Memrise's typing mode and clean UI, but when they pivoted away from user-generated content, I had to find alternatives. Anki is powerful but wasn't quite what I wanted - the UI felt dated and the web version is limited. Plus I kept hitting ease hell.

So I built what I personally wanted: a modern spaced repetition app where you choose between typing mode (for exact answers - spelling, code syntax, languages) or rating mode (for concepts and quick reviews). Same cards, different review styles based on what you're learning.

Key features:

- SRS algorithm with intuitive 3-point scoring (wrong/close/correct) that avoids ease hell - Everything accessible in 2 clicks - no menu diving - Full keyboard shortcuts - review cards without touching the mouse - Import from Anki/CSV (I migrated my own Anki decks and Memrise courses this way) - Export your study data to CSV - Leaderboards and personal study metrics - Responsive web app - add, edit, study, organize from any device - Text-only for now - no audio/images yet

Completely free for now, but looking to add premium features.

Just launched after building what I wanted for my own studying. Would really love your feedback and what features matter most to you!
by iamzenitraM | 2025-09-24 11:49:01+00:00
Some of us are tracking their blocking over at:

https://hayahora.futbol https://tinyuptime.sconde.net

It's not only Cloudflare, but also other not so tiny CDNs are being blocked - currently an entire Backblaze B2 region is blocked in 3 out of 5 ISPs (!).

Particularly hurtful, the entire Cloudflare R2 is blocked during football matches so you can't pull Docker images or Ollama models.
by munksbeer | 2025-09-24 11:50:33+00:00
Greece already received something like 50% haircuts on the debt. Politically Greek people voting on something has no influence on the rest of the population of the EU. If Greece had more of its debt written off then other countries would want the same. Hence it wasn't politically possible for those on the other side of the negotiations to give this to Greece.

The only real hand Greece had was to simply refuse the bailouts and refuse to pay the debts. In that case they would have been cut off from international bond markets, they would have had to renounce the Euro and start using a different currency.

All that was possible, but the Greek government could see the obvious - it would have been far worse than what was on offer.
by kgwgk | 2025-09-24 11:51:04+00:00
Not sure what land is “their” land in the first sentence but the are as many Palestinians citizens of Israel as there are Palestinians living in Gaza - and I don’t think the former fear much more for their lives than other citizens of Israel.

Maybe you don’t think that most college-age people in the US - who according to that survey would like Israel to be ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians rather than see a two-state solution - are allies of Palestinians but surely they are not allies of Israel.
by steve_gh | 2025-09-24 11:51:14+00:00
Could someone with more legal knowledge than me perhaps explain what the legal situation around open source software, and ownership of OSS is.

Every open source licence basically says that the software is provided "as-is" - so I don't understand where RC's legal liability would be.

If a court decided that RC had some legal liability in the event of a software supply chain attack, what redress would the plantiff have. Could owner rights to a github repository be considered an asset and awarded to the plantiff if RC was bankrupted?
by JdeBP | 2025-09-24 11:51:59+00:00
It was where they started, which was following up on threat telephone activity, false police reports directed at prominent people. For the making of which the malefactor had probably seen this kit as an ideal opportunity, but for which purpose it is massively expensive and over-provisioned.

And that's the point. No-one would have thought bad of them for following up on stuff within their bailiwick and uncovering a scam support operation. It's the old caught-the-major-bad-guy-in-a-routine-traffic-stop tale, after all.
by egorfine | 2025-09-24 11:52:06+00:00
Given that this protocol is Coinbase sponsored, you can be sure that the whole KYC/AML bullshit is going to be applied to every transaction.

Want to read a paid message? Please upload your recent utility bill and confirm your identity with a video call. Sorry, you are not a US citizen with possession of the only subset of ID documents we support, reject.
by BoredPositron | 2025-09-24 11:52:17+00:00
>>Also the same in Germany.

Just because you want something to be true to make your argument...doesn't make it true.

Growth for memberships over the last few years are pretty strong especially in the under 16 age group with 9% yoy.[1]

Attendance is also on a steady upwards trend.[2]

The last EM also had new highs in viewership linear and streaming. As overall the non-linear media surrounding football is growing...[3]

[1] https://www.dfb.de/news/dfb-mitgliederstatistik-mehr-schiris...

[2] https://twocircles.com/gb/articles/2024-sports-attendance-ge...

[3] https://www.agf.de/en/services/press/press-release/tv-bilanz...
by vidarh | 2025-09-24 11:53:18+00:00
I'll note I'm white, but not native British, and none of the people in question tend to object to me being here. Often they make that explicit, by e.g. telling me that I'm "one of the good ones" or similar.

What instead often happen when they hear I'm Norwegian is a complete mask-off moment where they start explaining their favorite racist thinking to me, assuming that since I'm from a group they like, apparently I'm expected to agree with them (I do not).

My main exposure to anti-immigrant thinking face to face in London over the last 25 years have been repeated incidences of people who "just have concerns about immigration" revealing their racist motivations to me without me even asking them.

In other words: I don't buy it for a second when people try to insist it's immigration they care about, rather than seeing non-white faces.
by whatevaa | 2025-09-24 11:53:29+00:00
No offense, but some people requirements are really, really low. I played God of War on Steam Deck and it was not a good experience, it was at the bottom of 'okay', and only because at that moment I wasn't at home to play on better hardware.

This is the reason why I don't believe when people say that it runs great without trying it myself.
by incomingpain | 2025-09-24 11:53:30+00:00
Canada has a tyrannical style government that has been censoring speech. I had a discussion recently with a liberal who was arguing that it's a good thing the government is censoring the speech of their political opponents. That free speech comes with consequences.

My argument, free speech is a limit on the government. Give them as much consequences you please but not with government power.

That's the problem here, Democrats were using government power to censor their political opponents; but they wouldnt have been able to do it without government power.
by Keyframe | 2025-09-24 11:54:00+00:00
When I was looking it was more like 1.6k euros, but still great price. Mac studio with M4 Max 16/40/16 with 128GB is double that. That's all within a range of "affordable". Now, if it's at least twice the speed, I don't see a reason not to. Even though my religion is against buying a mac as well.

edit, just took a look at amazon. GMKtec EVO-X2 AI, which is the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 128GB of RAM is 3k euros. Mac M4 Max with 16 cores and 128 gigs is 4.4k euros. Damn, Europe. If you go with M4 Max with 14 cores, but still 16 cores of "Neural engine"... ah, you can't get 128 GB of RAM then. Classic Apple :)

edit2: look at gmktec site itself. machine is 2k euros there. Damn, amazon.
by griffzhowl | 2025-09-24 11:55:08+00:00
Specific electrochemical processes have their own characteristic photon emissions. Since there are some processes that occur distinctively in living organisms (e.g. to do with metabolism), it was previously thought that these would have characteristic photon emissions, but as far as I know these are the first observations of this kind of thing.

The effect changing with injury or anaesthetic I guess reflects the fact that there are different electrochemical processes occurring in these cases that have detectable differences in the photon emissions
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-24 11:55:12+00:00
AI don't stop you from learning, it just forces you to reach father. The bench league projects that would have forced you to learn solo no longer cut it when GPT5 can solve basic problems. You need to identify your own personal moonshot, something that's outside your capabilities but not impossibly so, then just keep fighting the problem until you best it. I guarantee you will learn a tremendous amount.
by cocoricamo | 2025-09-24 11:55:52+00:00
You can disagree with someone politically and still work with them. It happens all the time in the real world unless you're someone so mentally ill that you cannot fathom different ideas (like actual nazis did wink).

Calling anyone who is conservative or with whom you happen to disagree with a "nazi" is disingenuous and in current times probably dangerous since there is a lot of crazy people preaching the "it's ok to punch a nazi".
by pessimizer | 2025-09-24 11:56:02+00:00
Full self-driving is 1000x more likely than AGI. There are all these maps, lines on the ground and signs; the roads don't wiggle like snakes, appear and disappear; and the other cars and obstacles don't suddenly change number, shape and physics.

I like the idea that mediocre sci-fi show Upload came up with: maybe they can get self-driving to the point where it doesn't require a human in the loop and a squirrel will work.
by majkinetor | 2025-09-24 11:56:39+00:00
> Also what world do you live in where an invitation to somewhere from your friend group can be seen as disrespectful, intrusive, or rude? Talk about disconnect from reality.

You are funny and aggressive at the same time. Good job.

Don't twist my words. Its not invitation that is the problem, but spam of invitations from the group that doesn't take your opinion into account. Its harresement.
by louthy | 2025-09-24 11:56:51+00:00
>> most developers today don’t pay much attention to the instruction sets and other hardware idiosyncrasies of the CPUs that their code runs on, which language a program is vibe coded in ultimately becomes a minor detail.

If it was even slightly true then we wouldn’t be generating language syntax at all, we’d be generating raw machine code for the chip architectures we want to support. Or even just distributing the prompts and letting an AI VM generate the target machine code later.

That may well happen one day, but we’re not even close right now
by rob_c | 2025-09-24 11:57:05+00:00
"an actual jacket like myself"... That's _sigh_ you're doing the thing that you're ranting at the agency for doing. At best you'd be an experienced pen tester in the tech industry, which is still good. Don't try to pretend you're living in a Hollywood drama.

We get it you have some political bent and don't like those in charge, but given the professionalism of the setup you don't know how quickly it was setup. If the place was rented last month that _is_ a $1M investment all up front. If it's over time it's still a professional setup all the same by people looking to abuse the system in some way or other for profit. I.e. unknown threat actor until proved proven otherwise.

Honestly picking at a public body bigging up the work they do for the public isn't worth a rant. If this was close enough to the UN buildings and Embassy's to cause a problem then yes. That becomes an international issue. Do you honestly think if this was just a scam farm they wouldn't take money from someone else to burn the thing and turn the city into a circus?

Besides if this was an agency with tech skill but limited funding, like a certain northern province in Asia, they'd bankroll it by scamming to start anyway wouldn't they.
by vessenes | 2025-09-24 11:57:24+00:00
OK, I like this. It’s an agent-based add on to (for now) Gemini that aims at improving the quality of output through a more ‘human’ style of research - digging deeper, considering counter examples, fleshing out with more research thin areas.

I’d like to try it, but I just learned I need and Enterprise Agentic subscription of some sort from Google; no idea how much that costs.

That said, this seems like a real abuse of the term diffusion, as far as I can tell. I don’t think this thing is reversing any entropy on any latent space.
by ruszki | 2025-09-24 11:58:04+00:00
I don’t know whether it’s possible with modern networks, but it was basically impossible to DDoS a tower with SMSs. Either the tower was unavailable at all times even without text messages, or SMSs never caused a problem. You couldn’t even send many text messages at once, it took a while to send say 50 SMSs, like minutes. I know that the tech stack is different nowadays, but it really depends on prioritisation, which I don’t know much about.
by estearum | 2025-09-24 11:58:37+00:00
Not really. You can argue that the government should have the right to request content moderation from private platforms and that private platforms should have the right to decline those requests. There are countless good reasons for both sides of that.

In fact, this is the reality we have always had, even under Biden. This stuff went to court. They found no evidence of threats against the platforms, the platforms didn't claim they were threatened, and no platform said anything other than they maintained independent discretion for their decisions. Even Twitter's lawyers testified under oath that the government never coerced action from them.

Even in the actual letter from YouTube, they affirm again that they made their decisions independently: "While the Company continued to develop and enforce its policies independently, Biden Administration officials continued to press the company to remove non-violative user-generated content."

So where does "to press" land on the spectrum between requesting action and coercion? Well, one key variable would be the presence of some type of threat. Not a single platform has argued they were threatened either implicitly or explicitly. Courts haven't found evidence of threats. Many requests were declined and none produced any sort of retaliation.

Here's a threat the government might use to coerce a platform's behavior: a constant stream of subpoenas! Well, wouldn't you know it, that's exactly what produced the memo FTA.[1]

Why hasn't Jim Jordan just released the evidence of Google being coerced into these decisions? He has dozens if not hundreds of hours of filmed testimony from decision-makers at these companies he refuses to release. Presumably because, like in every other case that has actually gone to court, the evidence doesn't exist!

[1] https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/06/congress/ji...
by nicce | 2025-09-24 11:59:01+00:00
Proton version will always work better if someone does not show an example and encourage the usage of native support. With Proton you are guaranteed to never reach the optimal potential, or get full advantages of the Linux/Wayland ecosystem. While with native versions you have at least the chance to get in there.

It is like judging someone for taking an advantage of the new CPU instructions that accelerate processing because general instructions are already good enough.
Show HN: Quantum Lings – A LeetCode-style platform for quantum computing
by accelerationa | 2025-09-24 12:00:18+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Yongcong Luo, the creator of Quantum Lings.

I've been fascinated by quantum computing for a while, but I always found the learning curve to be incredibly steep. Most resources are either dense academic papers or require complicated local setups with SDKs like Qiskit or Cirq before you can even write your first line of quantum code.

There wasn't a simple, interactive way to get hands-on practice with quantum algorithms in the same way LeetCode or HackerRank let you practice for traditional software engineering.

So, I built Quantum Lings. It's a browser-based platform with a series of coding challenges designed to take you from basic quantum gates to more complex algorithms like Grover's search. The goal is to make learning quantum concepts more accessible and interactive.

Key features right now: * In-browser quantum simulator – no local installation required. You can start coding in seconds. * A growing library of guided problems with tutorials and hints. * Circuit visualizations to help you understand what's happening to the qubits at each step.

This is a pilot launch, so the platform is still very new and I have a long list of features and problems I want to add. I'm launching it today because I'm looking for feedback from the community.

I would love to hear what you think. Is it useful? What problems would you like to see added? Are there any bugs or things that are confusing?

I'll be here all day to answer questions and listen to any and all feedback. Thanks for checking it out!
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-09-24 12:00:26+00:00
> Given that this protocol is Coinbase sponsored, you can be sure that the whole KYC/AML bullshit is going to be applied to every transaction.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on perspective), this is the law basically everywhere where people have money. Like, you can avoid KYC/AML checks by using small operators, but as they get larger they'll have to introduce them or be regulated out of existence.

If you really hate this (which is a valid position that I mostly don't share) then you should either run for elected office or sponsor/help other people to do this, as that's the only way to change the law.

Fundamentally, as the internet ends up mapping to just society, it will be a reflection of society, much of which is driven by government regulation.
by mosura | 2025-09-24 12:00:36+00:00
> isn’t really helping, is it?

It isn’t wrong. How else are you supposed to tell people that their behavior indicates that their removal is a feature and not a bug?

> Moreover, generational complaints about use of language and communication style are solidly off topic and do not rise above the level of cliche.

There are no generational complaints. The problem is gossip culture, as indicated by the language.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-24 12:00:57+00:00
I'm a booster, but LLMs are 100% not going to give us true autonomous intelligence, they're incredibly powerful but all the intelligence they display is "hacked," generalization is limited. That being said, people are making a huge mistake with the idea that just because we're not gonna hit AGI in the next few years, that these tools aren't powerful enough to irreversibly transform the the world. They absolutely are, and there's no going back.
by nextaccountic | 2025-09-24 12:01:04+00:00
There is, the web. The web distributes code directly to end users at a much larger scale. To distribute the bandwidth costs, the web is federated: to depend on a script you refer to its url, and whoever hosts this url foots the bill.

Deno is a Javascript implementation for the backend that attempts to mimic this pattern (it later introduced a more npm-like centralized repository, but afaik it's optional). Deno is of course less popular than Python, but its url-centered model can really scale imo.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-09-24 12:01:39+00:00
<< First thing I thought when reading it. This story makes no sense. Nothing they mentioned in the article is actually illegal.

A lot of things are not, but US for a while has been on a path that suggests that whether something is legal or not is not the standard. The standard is basically, based partially on personal vibes.

Naturally, this comes years after it was normalized in banking, red flag laws and so on, so I suppose this is not a surprise, but I am surprised that people are making 'this is not illegal argument'.

In this setup, illegal does not matter. If it is suspicious, you are in trouble. For example, I invite you to look at DHS/FBI 'signs'[1][2] to report by private orgs:

- Producing or sharing music, videos, memes, or other media that could reflect justification for violent extremist beliefs or activities

Note the could and despair at the future we are gleefully approaching.

Anyway, I don't disagree with you on principle, but I want you to understand that the system behaves differently these days.

https://tripwire.dhs.gov/documents/us-violent-extremist-mobi... https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/counterterrorism/us-viol...
by rayiner | 2025-09-24 12:01:49+00:00
He’s still at Apple as of last year. https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/an-anand-has-been-sight...

The “scandal” was unsubstantiated assertions in a Nuvia legal filing. Basically Apple accused Nuvia of poaching employees. In responding trying to show they were good guys, Nuvia said Anand sent them powerpoint slides marked confidential, but they responded that the communication was inappropriate. The case ultimately went to nowhere: https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/01/apple_nuvia_lawsuit/.

This doesn’t mean anything other than some lawyer thought it would be a good optics. I bet Apple’s default powerpoint slide template has confidential headers. And Nuvia would be right to cover its ass by responding the way it did—they don’t want anything marked Apple confidential in their possession even if the actual content of the slide is public information. Inclusion of the correspondence in the Nuvia legal filing could even have been a prophylactic measure, intended to get out in front of the evidence before Apple seized on it to show Nuvia did anything wrong.

Just don’t believe stuff in legal filings. It’s not that they’re untrue, it’s that they’re definitionally self-serving and selected to paint the other side in the worst light possible. That’s a byproduct of our adversarial system.
by klausa | 2025-09-24 12:02:01+00:00
> And I’m with you, I’d normally be incredibly skeptical of a substack post from an author I’ve never heard of before, who writes as egotistically as this.

It's always funny to see comments like this; because there's always at least 50/50 chance that the article is from someone that is actually prolific, just that the person has a blind-spot for whatever reason.

That is, also, the case here.