MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pydry | 2025-09-14 12:42:44+00:00
>Combined arms done well is Op Desert Storm

Desert storm was a war against an isolated 3rd world country with no military industry and military hardware from the 1970s.

Were the Iraqis plugged into the supply chains of a global superpower (like, say, the vietcong was) then it'd be a bit more comparable.

>Just barely

Not just barely. We've emptied our inventories of air defense missiles. European capitals are essentially undefended.

Trump, meanwhile, has decided to wrap up supplies because he wants to save the remaining arms for a war with China.

It's not fun being a Russian proxy but it's even less fun being an expendable American junior partner.

The biggest poke in the eye has to be Denmark. They emptied their inventories the most out of all of NATO and Trump is now threatening their sovereign territory.

>Well, you've not been following the conflict that closely as Putin said multiple times that doing this or that (striking Kerch Bridge, shipping ATACMS, shipping tanks, attacking Russian soil) would mean he'd use nuke

This never happened even once. The west just made a big song and dance about crossing what they declared to be Russian red lines.

They backed away from a few, as well.

>3 days military operation

Was a phrase used by US General Mark Milley: https://www.foxnews.com/us/gen-milley-says-kyiv-could-fall-w...

By contrast, in 2022 Putin gave a timeline of "as long as it takes".

It is impressive enough that the largest country in Europe supplied by the richest and most powerful military bloc in the world is being defeated at all. There are lessons we could learn from this or we could do as you do - stick our fingers in our ears and just pretend everything is rosy.
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 12:43:34+00:00
I come from (have lived in my entire life) Canada, which also has fairly strict gun laws.

It is indeed not surprising that a rise in access to guns correlates with a rise in shooting deaths. That was indeed Kirk's exact point.

This does not contradict the quoted point in the slightest. It is worlds apart from what you are trying to dispute. Taking risks is not in the same category as being targeted.
by zurfer | 2025-09-14 12:43:41+00:00
It was such a great study imo and rightfully deserves a lot of attention since it's a great alternative to twitter vibes.

But to stop here and say AI coding doesn't work will just not hold up well. We have a sample size of 16 developers for 250 tasks.

Here is my data point: adding AI to your engineering team really is like adding a new member. At first it slows everybody down: explain this, explain that, stupid mistake made that the experienced dev would have avoided. But over the months you learn how to get the most out of them: they speak fluently all programming languages, don't mind writing 20 tests or coming up with good industry ideas to your problems.

Over time I have come to appreciate that the market is rather smart and even hype has its place. You often have to cross a line to know you crossed it, especially with something as fuzzy and quickly changing as technological progress hitting the messy real world. But then again, we need the heretics to stay smart and not follow an emperor without clothes.
by tobias12345 | 2025-09-14 12:44:16+00:00
Sean Baxter stated that he is not working on Safe C++ anymore, so that proposal is dead.

But is somebody still working on safety profiles? I have not noticed and profiles related paper seeing updates since Hagenberg. Herb just wrote in his trip report "Profiles papers received a lot of discussion time in EWG (language evolution working group) and feedback to improve consensus,", which leaves any interpretation open.
by perihelions | 2025-09-14 12:44:25+00:00
The US did this before; there was a Cold War-era law SCOTUS ruled unconstitutional in 1964.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptheker_v._Secretary_of_State ("Aptheker v. Secretary of State" (1964))

> In Aptheker, the petitioner challenged Section 6 of the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, which made it a crime for any member of a Communist organization to attempt to use or obtain a passport.[1]"

Some expanded context,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_Unit... ("Freedom of movement under United States law")
by quantum2022 | 2025-09-14 12:44:38+00:00
Yes, maybe what people create with it will be more basic. But is 'good enough' good enough? Will people pay for apps they can create on their own time for free using AI? There will be a huge disruption to the app marketplace unless apps are so much better than an AI could create it's worth the money. So short Apple? :) On the other hand, many, many more people will be creating apps and charging very little for them (because if it's not free or less than the value of my time, I'm building it on my own). This makes things better for everyone, and there'll still be a market for apps. So buy Apple? :)
by integralid | 2025-09-14 12:44:39+00:00
pass is easier for me - it enforces some reasonable structure, works well with other Unix tools, and has a built-in git support. You don't have to use "pass" command for everything, for example for getting passwords interactively I just combine fzf and gpg directly.

If encrypted file works for you, that's great! But thinks like syncing it across devices, accessing entries programmatically, a mobile app all require rolling something on your own - pass solves this for you (while still being very simple).
by mrweasel | 2025-09-14 12:44:49+00:00
So for those who, like me, wonders why Apple keeps getting macOS Unix certified, it's to avoid a lawsuit. Apple misused the Unix trademark when they first launched MacOS, so to avoid legal trouble with The Open Group, Terry Lambert was put in charge of getting MacOS Unix compliant and certified: https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix...

It's basically the only relevance the Unix trademark has these days. I can't imagine many companies choosing macOS because it's a real Unix, nor would anyone really opt out of z/OS, AIX og HPUX, if they where not certified.
by blackbrokkoli | 2025-09-14 12:45:43+00:00
I was there earlier last year, and it was none too impressive.

Pretty shoddy brick walls (just straight blocks), crumbling at many places, constructed possibly along ancient foundations or maybe not, that you sort of walk through. Interesting things here and there. Couple of other tourists.

Walking through Saddam's palace next to it was much more fascinating; extreme grandeur morphed into a typical lost place with graffiti and empty bottles. The nearby town Al7illa certainly offered more to actually experience, like a mini theme park with the main attraction being (artificial) rain.

Anyways I genuinely wish the committed people all the best in the restoration, but I feel like the article is a tad over-enthusiastic and easily convinced.
by latexr | 2025-09-14 12:45:43+00:00
Can confirm, both from experience and consulting with veterinaries. Don’t play with cats with laser pointers. Had one cat who became so obsessed (and we didn’t even play that long) that for years afterwards would react to any light reflection, like the sun bouncing of the phone screen and onto the wall. Thankfully it subsided significantly later in life, but it took a lot of care and vigilance.
by mrjay42 | 2025-09-14 12:46:32+00:00
Asking about the logic here: this is a form of fallacy...kinda?

His "interpretation" or guess, wasn't worse or better than yours.

Therefore, his statement about a misleading title is not invalidated because you guessed in the opposite direction.

Let's say

Hypothesis 1

Article is negative (ChatGPT gave bad medical advice and that led to the E.R.)

Then * His guess -> is correct

* Your guess -> is wrong

Hypothesis 2

Article is positive

Then

* His guess -> is wrong

* Your guess -> is correct

Conclusion:

In any case you had NO way to know beforehand

So, in what ways pointing out that this is "his interpretation" invalidates anything he said?

Of course, it is his guess and based on the title alone, it's at least an equally valid guess as yours.

I say "at least", because it's not unreasonable to think that an LLM might have hallucinated some medical advice and that could lead someone to have an unhealthy practice which led them to the E.R.
by hleszek | 2025-09-14 12:48:30+00:00
For some reason the VibeVoice model from Microsoft (which is also able to clone voices and is also very good) has been deleted from GitHub 10 days ago even tough it was released under a MIT license. But this post shows that the cat is out of the bag for some time already now (post is from 2021) and we have to live with this technology.
Ask HN: Is Resend a better option to send Emails in bulk?
by jerawaj740 | 2025-09-14 12:50:09+00:00
i'm building a lead gen tool, user can upload a csv of many emails and i should send many emails in every batch, in this case, is Resend good for deliverability, i don't want to end up in spam or get blocked, is the pricing good compared to other providers ? any advices from you are welcome
by epolanski | 2025-09-14 12:51:08+00:00
Anything requiring skills may require a lifetime to be perfected, that includes making a burger.

But that doesn't make dishes or a cuisine sophisticated per se.

To me sophistication requires knowledge and mastery even if you need to make a very basic and the result is not good, think of a beef Welligton or roast beef or a soup d'onion.

Those are all much more complex dishes than making a pizza, they require more work, more ingredients, more time, more preparations.
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 12:52:57+00:00
> Dismissing the first point and downplaying the second

I have not done these things. I have disputed the first, and still not been shown good evidence. The magnitude of the second is irrelevant to the argument.

> These points also are in no way an encouragement of violence

I did not say they were. "Encouragement" and "justification" do not mean the same thing.

Yes, I proposed that this was approximately as bad as saying that it was a good thing. Saying that something is a good thing is still not the same as encouraging further such actions.

> That's some blatant attempt at derailing the discussion, but even then you're still wrong. Cause and effect is still not justification.

It is not a derailment. It is a characterization of what's wrong with your analogy. The entire point is that you are trying to say that someone (Dowd) pointed out logical cause and effect, but he did not. He saw a deliberate illegal act and attempted to characterize the specific as a natural consequence of increased access to tools. It is nothing of the sort. Kirk's quote, on the other hand, is accepting a statistical consequence and making a statement about risk and moral tradeoff, in defense of what he considered a fundamental right (I disagree, btw).
by seanbax | 2025-09-14 12:53:11+00:00
I illustrate why it won't work with a number of examples here: https://www.circle-lang.org/draft-profiles.html

To address your points: 1. The safe subset of C++ is too small to do anything with. 2. The Standard Library is not written in the safe subset.

My favorite example from the above paper is the problem of std::sort -- the compiler has no idea if both operands are iterators into the same allocation. The function is fundamentally unsafe. Which C++ profile do you turn on to make that safe? Does it ban use of std::sort? Does it ban use of all <algorithms>, all of which work on pointers/iterators that are susceptible to use-after-free UB?

The whole Standard Library is unsafe. I proposed a rigorously safe std2, and that was rejected. And now you propose a safe std2 (using refcounting primitives)--why would that fare better? What does Profiles actually propose? No change in existing code. The compiler simply finds all UB. Right.
by hypeatei | 2025-09-14 12:54:06+00:00
> But it’s naive to imagine the radicals on the other side do not get the same treatment

Please show me a Democratic and/or leftist politician that hasn't disavowed political violence.

> As an example, consider all the politicians on the left who have called Trump a Nazi. A vile, ludicrous lie

That's just like uh, your opinion, man. Someone holding the view that he's a Nazi certainly isn't that crazy considering the military deployments to protests, election results denial, and attacks on free speech. Either way, I don't see how viewing someone as a Nazi is the same as covering for violent actors on your own side.

By the way, Trump himself has called opponents fascist on multiple occasions[0].

0: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
by thedrbrian | 2025-09-14 12:55:43+00:00
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Breathes in

Aahahahahahahahahahahahhaahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahahahhahahahahahahahahah

So how is that blockchain going? Still at a minuscule fraction of visa for 10x the power?
by diggan | 2025-09-14 12:57:06+00:00
2mm QR codes according to the article:

> The protocol used at Fukushima is automated. Each bee is equipped with a 2-mm-wide QR Code which is read by a camera, activating the opening of the maze.

But yeah, doesn't look like a QR code at all, are there possibly different variations of QR codes? Haven't heard about that myself.
by fulafel | 2025-09-14 12:57:21+00:00
Nitpick: the press of course did remove the humanity from book-copying work, before that the people copying books often made their own alterations to the books. And had their own calligraphic styles etc.

But my thought was that the printing press made the printed work much cheaper and accessible, and many many more people became writers than had been before, including of new kinds of media (newspapers). The quality of text in these new papers was of course sloppier than in the old expensive books, and also derivative...
by snickerbockers | 2025-09-14 12:57:35+00:00
That's still not the original state. In addition to not always knowing what exactly it was supposed to look like, using non-authentic materials and methods (power-tools) will effect the final outcome. If people are more interested in the experience than the genuine artifact, full-scale replicas can be created offsite without damaging ancient artifacts (BTW there's a 1:1 Parthenon replica in Tennessee, ive never been but I hear its impressive).

Also, the article barely mentioned this but the biggest source of damage to these specific ruins actually isn't being adjacent to major battles in two modern conflicts, it's Saddam-era "restorations". The reason why the zigguraut looks so much more pristine than any other ancient ruins is that what you're looking at was built in the 80s on top of the actual ancient ruins. It wasn't a particularly accurate restoration either; they used concrete and Saddam even made them stamp his face on some of the bricks so future generations would associate him with nebuchanezzar.
by diggan | 2025-09-14 12:59:07+00:00
Yes, and I enjoying swimming in the ocean for example. But I don't like swimming just for the sake of "it's good for you", don't know why and doesn't really matter.

Point is that some people know what's good for you, but cannot force them to do it just because it's good, we need something more :) Just because something feels like a "chore" doesn't mean you should avoid it.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-09-14 12:59:55+00:00
> a rise in access to guns correlates with a rise in shooting deaths

> That was indeed Kirk's exact point.

This is a disingenuous framing of his quotes that are being thrown around.

> I think it’s worth it. It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God given rights. That’s a prudent deal.

> Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty.

That's not "of course there will be deaths", it's "the deaths are justified".
Show HN: Paasword – a password vault that never stores your passwords
by yoyo250 | 2025-09-14 13:00:29+00:00
Warning: pre-release, unaudited, not for production use. (Though my password was generated with it)

Instead of saving secrets, it derives them on demand using domain + username + a short passphrase + a physical OpenPGP key (smartcard/YubiKey).

Passwords are reproducible but never persisted.

Currently tested only with RSA4096 on Windows + GnuPG 2.4.x.
by cvanelteren | 2025-09-14 13:00:46+00:00
You are right. I was doubting whether to make a more complicated example -- but formatting is poor in text boxes. Let me give you a more complex one.

Let's say we want a 3-column plot: colormesh, polar, and geo plot.

UltraPlot:

import ultraplot as uplt, numpy as np fig, ax = uplt.subplots( ncols=3, share=0, proj="cart polar merc".split(), journal="nat2" ) ax[0].pcolormesh( np.random.rand(10, 10), cmap="viko", colorbar="r", colorbar_kw=dict(title="some interesting colors") ) angles, radii = np.random.rand(100) * 360, np.random.rand(100) ax[1].scatter(angles, radii, c=radii, cmap="spectral_r") x, y = np.meshgrid(np.linspace(-30, 30, 100), np.linspace(-60, 60, 100)) z = np.exp(-(x*2 + y*2) / 100) ax[2].pcolormesh(x, y, z, cmap="Fire") ax[2].format(landcolor="green", land=True, grid=True, lonlabels=True, latlabels=True) ax.format(abc="[A]") fig.show()

Matplotlib equivalent:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt, numpy as np, cartopy.crs as ccrs fig = plt.figure(figsize=(15, 5)) ax0 = fig.add_subplot(1, 3, 1) pcm = ax0.pcolormesh(np.random.rand(10, 10), cmap="viridis") cbar = plt.colorbar(pcm, ax=ax0) cbar.set_label("some interesting colors") cbar.ax.yaxis.label.set_color("r") ax1 = fig.add_subplot(1, 3, 2, projection="polar") angles = np.random.rand(100) * 2 * np.pi radii = np.random.rand(100) sc = ax1.scatter(angles, radii, c=radii, cmap="Spectral_r") ax2 = fig.add_subplot(1, 3, 3, projection=ccrs.Mercator()) x, y = np.meshgrid(np.linspace(-30, 30, 100), np.linspace(-60, 60, 100)) z = np.exp(-(x*2 + y*2) / 100) pcm2 = ax2.pcolormesh(x, y, z, cmap="magma", transform=ccrs.PlateCarree()) ax2.coastlines() ax2.gridlines(draw_labels=True) ax2.set_extent([-30, 30, -60, 60], crs=ccrs.PlateCarree()) import cartopy.feature as cfeature ax2.add_feature(cfeature.LAND, facecolor="green") for i, ax in enumerate([ax0, ax1, ax2]): ax.set_title(f"[{chr(65+i)}]") plt.tight_layout() plt.show()

The aim isn't to replace matplotlib but make publication-ready plots with fewer keystrokes and better defaults. We also bundle plot types not available in matplotlib like graph plotting, lollipop charts, heatmaps etc.
by aspenmayer | 2025-09-14 13:00:51+00:00
I can say that the link posted up thread works for me. If you need to access archive.today|.is|.ph and cannot, use their .onion domain over TOR (Browser); the link is on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

> archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcbiyd.onion

So if you need, here’s a TOR version:

http://archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcb...

Or try:

https://archive.is/p8z10

You can also use this unlocked link to access the article on the NY Times’ site:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/technology/fake-reviews-s...
by pas | 2025-09-14 13:01:28+00:00
thanks for the links, and ... uhh, mad respect on the xwiki CQL feature! :)

a bit tangential, but isn't Solr (and ElasticSearch and probably others) all use Lucerne "indexes" (as in Lucene is a library like LevelDB)?

what's strange is that most JQL that people want would translate to the most boring Hibernate query (or whatever Jira uses for relational DB access)
by briHass | 2025-09-14 13:02:17+00:00
Also, KeepassXC and OG KeePass with a plugin can auto-open another vault from an entry in the primary vault. This works well if you have the more secure vault open a less secure vault, or in my case open a shared vault used for common passwords off a network share at work.

I also preach the tiered password security model. For the common, frequently used passwords that don't need max security, I just use the browser store (with a copy in KP).
by TFYS | 2025-09-14 13:03:09+00:00
The list of atrocities and political influence by the US is just as long if not longer. A country under the US sphere of influence is independent only for as long as its interests don't conflict with US interests. Before Trump the US might have continued pretending that its empire is somehow better than a Chinese one, but he threw that mask into the trash and set it on fire.
by fanf2 | 2025-09-14 13:03:10+00:00
The problem in the US is that time zone boundaries very frequently do not match state boundaries.

It’s common for major cities to be located on rivers that are state boundaries, the area around the city uses the same timezone, and one of the states has a timezone boundary in the middle. Indiana has many tz database entries because of this kind of thing.

There are other fun cases like the Navajo Nation in Arizona.
by nis0s | 2025-09-14 13:03:25+00:00
I am not sure if there are studies on this, but it seems to me that while someone may not consciously demonstrate an action regarding a given piece of advice, some process of both internalization and mimetic desire likely leads them to incorporate at least some part of that advice for future decision making. But I think maybe I just talking about nature and nurture, in some sense.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theory
by sipofwater | 2025-09-14 13:05:09+00:00
"Resolving Windows 11 24H2 KB5063878 SSD Issues with Game Launching": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5553708/... (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5553708/resolving-windows-11-24h2-kb5063878-ssd-issues-wit)
by BeauNer | 2025-09-14 13:05:44+00:00
Buying a car is one of the biggest financial moves most people make, and it rarely feels simple. Prices are high nowadays, financing is confusing, and every website claims to have the right answer. When it came time to replace my 2020 Nissan Rogue Sport with 45,000 miles, I wanted a smarter way to cut through the noise. So I leaned on ChatGPT 5, the newest generation of AI, to see if it could help me make a clearer decision.

This was not an experiment for fun. It was a real purchase that mattered to my family. With a toddler and more road trips ahead of us, the Rogue Sport just was not cutting it anymore. It was starting to feel cramped, and I knew it would not hold up trouble free forever (its CVT is notoriously problematic). Trading it in before it hit 50,000 miles made sense, but deciding what to buy next was the real challenge.

Narrowing down the choices

At first my list was long. The Subaru Outback, Forester, and Ascent were on my radar because of their reputation for safety and reliability. The Nissan Pathfinder looked appealing as a step up in size. The Acura MDX offered more luxury. The Mazda CX-9 had great handling reviews. And then there was the Honda Pilot, a steady family hauler with a strong reputation.

Normally I would spend hours bouncing between forums, YouTube videos, and car sites. This time, I asked ChatGPT 5 to compare models directly. I typed in questions like, “Which lasts longer, a Pathfinder or a Pilot?” or “Does a Forester really have less cargo space than a Pilot?” Within seconds, I had clear breakdowns that summarized reliability, maintenance costs, and practicality.

In the end, AI did not replace common sense, test drives, or gut feelings. What it did do, however, was make me sharper and more organized. Instead of drowning in conflicting opinions and messy math, I had clarity at every stage. For me, that was the difference between feeling pressured and feeling prepared.

So yes, I used ChatGPT 5 to buy a car. And I would do it again.