MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by martin-t | 2025-09-08 17:05:22+00:00
Is how they evolved relevant? When somebody protests against the government itself, the legal system doesn't even matter, unless it has a mechanism how people can secede legally. Do any have that?

When I meant is that victimhood works when you need to gain support from somebody with more power than you. Either from the legal system or from masses of people. The latter can by foreign (putting political pressure on the government) or domestic (gathering more people to show how many are willing to stand against it). Violence is the only thing that can work when there is nobody to appeal to (again, not just legally but through empathy or intimidation) - see below - a large crowd is a lot of implied potential violence and you need victimhood to achieve that mass.

> Since mechanised warfare, I think there have been more peaceful revolutions than (non-state backed) violent ones.

I purposefully didn't mention examples like the "Velvet" revolution because they too use violence, they just don't materialize it.

Violence is most powerful when it's implied, before it's used physically. Imagine oppressing a nation >10 million and now 1 million are standing on the square in front of your government building, shouting slogans. Anybody would give up power "peacefully" because if they didn't, there's a high chance that implied violence would materialize and they'd end up killed instead of having made a nice deal for peaceful retirement.

> The latter tend to just result in failed states.

Because the latter tend to happen in states which never had functioning institutions to begin with so they have no experience with running a functioning let alone democratic state. Sarah Paine had a lecture about how restoring democracy to Germany or bringing it to Japan after WW2 was possible because they already has the organizational knowledge. But the US failed to bring democracy to Afghanistan or other places it invaded because those were always a mess full or corruption and you'd need several generations to ingrain the principles.
by chimeracoder | 2025-09-08 17:05:29+00:00
> They’re calling it "opt-in," but it doesn't look like that's actually true? You can’t know whether someone you’re talking to -- who may not understand the implications -- has enabled it. In group chats, it looks like a single person turning it on eliminates signal protocol for everyone in the chat.

People already can export backups of the messages they receive, in plain text, and publish those on the Internet if they way.

Signal's threat model has never included "you are directly messaging an adversarial party and expect to retain control over redistribution of those messages".
by cddotdotslash | 2025-09-08 17:05:31+00:00
NPM deserves some blame here, IMO. Countless third party intel feeds and security startups can apparently detect this malicious activity, yet NPM, the single source of truth for these packages, with access to literally every data event and security signal, can't seem to stop falling victim to this type of attack? It's practically willful ignorance at this point.
by softwaredoug | 2025-09-08 17:05:57+00:00
To me this is an indictment of the leadership style of the day of charging in, laying everyone off, then putting you on an AI death march project. That just destroys institutional knowledge, your credibility as a leader, while inevitably the project fails (and few on the team believed in it anyway).

Sure this type of leadership can work in limited short term circumstances where you have a very clear and meaningful objective. But if you can’t quickly get the team itself to believe in the project - and make it THEIR project not YOUR project - you’re going to fail.
by mhh__ | 2025-09-08 17:07:13+00:00
A small point on formatting that I'm getting increasingly firm about as I "age" (still not that old): Formatting is very important, but if you find yourself complaining about what a formatter does to your code, the code be bad (obviously making an exception for a big block of constants or something)

e.g. if the formatter is really shifting stuff around, your code might be too nested - if you have a compiler, let it take the strain.
by bnycum | 2025-09-08 17:07:14+00:00
I also started taking the Sports Research omega-3 capsules early this year. Seems the consensus for taking any omega-3 is that it's single-source and wild caught which is why I chose that brand. My biggest benefit has been my eyesight with way less floaters.

However I started taking creatine this summer to help with my recovery from running now that I'm older. I will say I feel it's done more for my cognitive function than the omega-3 did.
by daft_pink | 2025-09-08 17:07:21+00:00
The car business sucks, FYI. It’s a capitally intensive and labor intensive and highly cyclical business in a highly regulated industry with numerous players propped up by numerous governments based on national security concerns that local auto manufacturing would be crucial during any war, and special interests due to the sheer number of people the companies employ.

It is highly sensitive to interest rates, currency, tariffs, and ability to align all this complicated production with trends and quality so that volume meets demand for long lead time extremely expensive factories.

The advantage of electric over non-electric is that it uses expensive materials that reduce the number of components that slightly reduce the labor and capital intensity and overall management skills it requires to build a high quality vehicle, but this isn’t enough to make it a great industry.

The erosion of Tesla’s brand due to Elon’s political involvement is another significant headwind and end of government subsidies for electric cars has created significant headwinds for Tesla.

That being said, the fact that Tesla produces the most fully optimized electric cars without all the legacy costs and has succesfully been able to hire the best engineers who are passionate about what they are building. They still sell some of the best if not the best cars on the road.

They build better optimized cars without legacy costs so they are better than the legacy automakers, and sold so many units and been able to share parts and engineering costs across most of their platforms and built out an eco system of charging and accessories etc that they are generally significanltly better than the electric vehicle startups.

I would still prefer to buy a Tesla, but I’m not sure I would want to own the company building them or any company in the car industry for that matter.
by Marsymars | 2025-09-08 17:07:33+00:00
> They’re calling it "opt-in," but it doesn't look like that's actually true? You can’t know whether someone you’re talking to -- who may not understand the implications -- has enabled it. In group chats, it looks like a single person turning it on eliminates signal protocol for everyone in the chat.

TBF Signal already supports automated key-protected backup (and has for years), it's just stored on-device, but there's no way to know what the other party is doing with that on-device backup.
by _zachs | 2025-09-08 17:08:03+00:00
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by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-08 17:08:13+00:00
How is your argument that you can’t avoid Google supported by the argument that with manifest v3 you can’t block Google analytics even though you can?

In the US, iOS has 60% market share and installing an ad blocker is a matter of going to the App Store and installing it and then enabling in settings. They all walk you through the process. It’s the same on the Mac with the Mac App Store.
by KevinMS | 2025-09-08 17:08:20+00:00
That's what I'm thinking. "making invalid states unrepresentable" is about avoiding variable data that shouldn't be possible by designing your types to not allow it.

A dumb example is something like a light bulb data structure

In psuedocode

Light(color: string, on:bool, off:bool)

above is bad because you have a string (which could be anything) and on and off which could both be true of false.

This is better (if your lang allows it) because no invalid state is possible

Light(color:red|blue|green, on:bool)
by gferrate | 2025-09-08 17:08:35+00:00
I didn’t create this website with the goal of making money, but with the goal of leaving a mark on internet history. The concept is simple: it’s the world’s first infinite AI-generated image. As users reach the edge of the existing image, they can expand it by adding their own custom prompts, introducing small details. These updates instantly become visible to all other users in real time.

Because running this project is very expensive, I had to add a paywall. But if I had enough AI credits, I’d remove it in a heartbeat.
Best revenue-based financing providers for B2B SaaS?
by davidpombar | 2025-09-08 17:08:48+00:00
Hey everyone,

We run a B2B SaaS called Trackingplan (we help marketing teams automatically monitor and audit their analytics and pixels) We’re almost profitable with recurring revenue and still in growth mode, and we’re currently exploring options for revenue-based financing to fuel expansion without going down the equity/VC route right now.

I’d love to hear from founders and operators here:

Which RBF providers have you used (Capchase, Pipe, Wayflyer, Clearco, etc.)?

Any pros/cons or lessons learned you wish you knew before signing?

Are there alternatives to RBF that you’d recommend for SaaS businesses (e.g., venture debt, lines of credit, hybrid models)?

Anything specific to watch out for in the fine print?

Our goal is to access flexible financing to scale faster while keeping control, but also avoid pitfalls in terms of hidden costs, covenants, or misaligned incentives.

Would really appreciate recommendations, experiences, or even horror stories so we can make an informed decision.

Thanks in advance!
by tracker1 | 2025-09-08 17:09:30+00:00
I'd like to see a "new" RSS standard based around newline delimited json, where the summary text is a minor extension to GFM (to support left/right/spread images, minimal formatting, basically match medium.com options). This can allow a common reader to do a display that renders to their own liking (colors, font, etc).

Beyond this, maybe a framework to show a single header ad on the reader giving the revenue credit and money to the original content site.

The reason for newline separated json, is simply that you can do a partial content download in the reader... the most recent 100kb or 2mb or whatever... you the most recent is on top, and allows a site to publish more than just the most recent, but you don't have to grab that. Or maybe just standardize a since=(iso-style-datetime) or last=## (number of articles).

Just a couple loose thoughts on this.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-09-08 17:09:34+00:00
Datacenter gpu margins are 80%+. Consumer margins are like 25%. Any company with a datacenter product that sells out is just going to put all their fab allocation toward that and ignore the consumer segment. Plus these companies are really worried about their consumer products being used in datacenters and consuming their money maker so they kneecap the consumer vram to make sure that doesnt happen
by OutOfHere | 2025-09-08 17:09:56+00:00
> Meta, which owns WhatsApp, also failed to adequately address the hacking of more than 100,000 accounts each day and rejected his proposals for security fixes

WhatsApp is absurdly unsafe to use, but so are SMS/MMS and unpatched web browsers for various reasons. There is also no good way to segregate them, meaning that their compromise is a compromise of the entire device. Even GrapheneOS is now unsafe because it hasn't received patches for months. The only logical conclusion is that both Google and Meta are in on it. Something tells me that these vulnerabilities are why the government gives both companies a free pass.

Even if these doors were closed, there is also the cell tower communication chip that has significant access to the phone, and risks device compromise. All together, using a smartphone is more unsafe than using Adobe Flash back in the day, but nothing is done about it.
by jftuga | 2025-09-08 17:10:09+00:00
I have a macbook air M4 with 32 GB. What LM Studio models would you recommend for:

* General Q&A

* Specific to programming - mostly Python and Go.

I forgot the command now, but I did run a command that allowed MacOS to allocate and use maybe 28 GB of RAM to the GPU for use with LLMs.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-08 17:10:17+00:00
The net result would surely be retail workers only get to deal with hostile (or just difficult, even) customers while the LLM deals with the easy ones. That's what has happened with every other technology introduced to retail - less "business as usual" and "overhead" work and more "oddball" handling. E.g. the electronic PoS and intercom system already have the same kind of effect.
by cestith | 2025-09-08 17:10:19+00:00
Many of the languages that allow people to quickly develop software end up with their own tradeoffs. Some of them have unusual syntax, at least in part of the language. Many of them allow duck typing, which many consider a major detriment to production reliability. Some of them are only interpreted. Some of them have a syntax people just don’t like. Some of them are just really big languages with lots of features, because getting rid of the boilerplate often means more builtins or a bigger standard library. Some of them either the runtime or the build time leaves a lot to be desired.

Here’s an incomplete list for those traits. For unusual, there’s many of the FP languages, Ada, APL, Delphi/Object Pascal, JS, and Perl. For duck typing, there’s Ruby, Python, PHP, JS, and Perl. For only interpreted, there are Ruby, PHP, and Perl (and formerly for some time Python and JS). For syntax that’s not necessarily odd (but may be) but lots of people find distasteful there’s Perl, any form of Lisp, APL, Haskell, the ML family, Fortran, JS, and in some camps Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, or anything from the Pascal family. For big languages with lots of interacting parts there’s Perl, Ada, PHP, Lisp with CLOS, Julia, and PHP. For slowdowns, there’s Julia, Python, PHP, and Ruby. The runtime for Perl is actually pretty fast once it’s up and running, but having to build the app before running it on every invocation makes for a slow start time.

All that said, certain orgs do impressive projects pretty quickly with some of these languages. Some do impressively quick work with even less popular languages like Pike, Ponie, Elixir, Vala, AppScript, Forth, IPL, Factor, Raku, or Haxe. Notice some of those are very targeted, which is another reason boilerplate is minimal. It’s built into the language or environment. That makes development fast, but general reuse of the code pretty low.
by MBCook | 2025-09-08 17:10:27+00:00
Yep they are. And I’m not trying to say that should be ok.

But if Garmin isn’t killing it today, opening the iPhone won’t let them kill it tomorrow.

I see lots of Apple Watches. I see some Google/Samsung watches. I don’t think I’ve seen a Garmin watch. So I don’t think it’s fair to claim Apple’s policy is the only thing holding them back from being a dominant player.
by chimeracoder | 2025-09-08 17:10:32+00:00
I know plenty of people who have inadvertently lost their entire messaging history because their phone broke or was lots and they couldn't transfer messages directly from the old phone to the new one. Signal allows you to export backups of messages to a file, but only on Android - the iOS version does not. This is a great feature not only for users who are less technically inclined than the average HN reader, but for any user who doesn't want to go through the tedious process of manually backing up their messages periodically but doesn't want to risk losing their message history if their phone has one unfortunate encounter with gravity.

My only concern reading this is that I hope they don't remove the manual export feature once this is rolled out. I know that that feature has been technically complicated to support, but it's important for users to preserve the option to maintain control over their backups, if they want to manage backups themselves, alongside the option of having a more convenient, automated approach.
by GuestFAUniverse | 2025-09-08 17:10:38+00:00
There are no regulations that hinder me to buy any AC I like.

I bought a mobile AC, like a lot of smaller shops in the cities do it.

I just looked that it has a high EER and COP to do myself a favour (smaller bill, and more silent when not needed on max.)

I'm right in the middle of the EU. I didn't have to pay any extra taxes, so I don't know what that article is talking about.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-08 17:10:39+00:00
> The “doxxing truck” appeared days after the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups

Called out academia as an exception.

> You have not even seen the billboards I'm talking about, have not asked me about them, you're just dismissing them out of bias

I’m dismissing them on the basis of being billboards.

> They are actively creating a conflict narrative

Yeah. That’s legitimate speech. To pretend there isn’t a debate about what to call what’s going on in Gaza is a bit insular and counterproductive.

Again: there is a chilling effect. Disagreeable billboards aren’t an example of that.
by chimeracoder | 2025-09-08 17:11:51+00:00
> It would be really useful to have more client-side control over media storage. That way, I could better manage storage growth without wiping entire threads.

> For example, being able to see all media across chats, sort by file size, and optionally group by conversation would make it much easier to clean things up.

I have good news for you: this already exists.

On Android:

Settings >> Data and Storage >> Manage Storage >> Review Storage

This allows you to view all of your media, files, and audio across all chats, sorted by the amount of storage used. You can also delete those files individually without affecting the rest of the chat.

You can also do the same thing within a conversation.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-08 17:11:57+00:00
Betamax's "Standard" playback was better than VHS's "standard" playback... the issue was VHS "standard" could get something like 2 hours to a typical tape and BetaMax was like half an hour. For actual content, BetaMax tapes were recorded in an extended play format, while most VHS tapes were in Standard. This dramatically reduced BetaMax quality to be comparable or worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyKRubB5N60
by meinstein | 2025-09-08 17:12:08+00:00
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by Retric | 2025-09-08 17:12:11+00:00
Non monetary transactions aren’t actually free here. So Facebook users are very much their customers.

Advertisers also want protection from negative associations. Which is why many types of YouTube videos get demonetized for example, but good look getting that level of protection on Facebook.

As to pedestrian safety, that is on the mind of car manufacturers. Backup cameras for example have significantly reduced the number of pedestrians struck while backing up. In part that’s because it’s the drivers family members at risk, but there’s also concerns around lawsuits etc.
by btilly | 2025-09-08 17:12:22+00:00
It is a principle that applies to every kind of employee. If you are an employee of a company, you have a duty to do what the company wants you to.

This duty may be overridden by a higher duty, such as the fact that you need to follow the law and report violations of the same. But it is literally what you are being paid for.

If this requires you to do something that you don't approve of, you have a choice of leaving your employment. This is not a joke choice. Many people, including myself, have left companies because we objected to what the company wanted us to do.

And with this we come to a hard truth about capitalism. There is no system of wealth creation that has ever come close to capitalism. It would be impossible for capitalism to work if investors took on unlimited liability for what employees of the company did. Thus capitalism depends on a legal framework that enables LLCs - literally Limited Liability Corporations. But the obvious outcome is that LLCs enable bad behavior. They put a legal wall to allow shareholders to avoid liability for the natural consequences of their desires.

Thus our prosperity requires capitalism. (And by "prosperity", I mean the ability to not mostly be living at the edge of starvation. Which was the historical norm from the rise of agriculture until a couple of centuries ago.) And our general wellbeing requires additional laws to curb the abuses that capitalism naturally tends to.

All systems have failure modes. The failure mode of non-capitalism is literally mass starvation. The failure mode of capitalism is abuse, followed by regulations to curb that abuse, followed by regulatory capture, followed by growing corporate power, leading the cycle back to abuse.

As much as I recognize the shortcomings of capitalism, I rather like not starving.
by _mu | 2025-09-08 17:12:24+00:00
This article is attempting to make some kind of statement about 996 and "look, now it's here!"

But this is plainly ridiculous. The Bay Area has been full of high achievers the entire time I've lived here (since the 20th century). All the startups I worked at, people would work Saturdays. Not all the time, of course, but it was quite common.
by kstrauser | 2025-09-08 17:13:05+00:00
I check it on my own time, but for my own personal curiosity. “I wonder how that team’s dealing with such and such”, that sort of thing. And my job’s inherently on-call 24/7; if something goes badly, I’ll get notified even if I’m not the primary responder, but that’s so rare that I never consider that when making plans.

I’m perfectly content turning my phone off to go camping or whatever. I also don’t feel bad seeing what my coworkers are up to when I’m out of office.
by Spooky23 | 2025-09-08 17:13:12+00:00
How you can characterize this type of threat as a “James Bond” fantasy in 2025 is breathtaking.

The Federal government is forensically collecting phones during routine border crossings to see if you reposted Fat JD Vance memes. That’s publicly disclosed and well know.

I have no trouble believing that potential enemies of the state like the governor of California and his cabinet are bugged. If I were a person like that, I’d try to take supply chain countermeasures.
by iamleppert | 2025-09-08 17:13:51+00:00
At this point, it's obvious and clear that you can outwork these 996 companies by simply requiring employees work 7 days a week in the office.

What is preventing one of these 996 companies from doing that and taking the lead in their respective AI niche? If they really believe that an additional day is their competitive edge, that seems like a really easy moat to overcome for a competitor, and by that logic why stop there? Wouldn't you want to maximize your chances of success by requiring your employees work 7 days in the office?

Just have your employees work a full 7 days in the office. I'm not joking either. Would some CEO who has adopted this practice care to explain why they don't just make things simple and require their employees to report to the office 7 days per week? It's simple and will only select for the most hardcore of the hardcore. I'm actually surprised someone hasn't tried this yet.