MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bilekas | 2025-09-11 07:24:42+00:00
Verizon disputed this not because the fine was in ANY way impactful, but because they wanted to push to see if they could legally do it without any repercussions. In their last quarter alone they made over 9k million USD, if I'm reading it right [0].

> Verizon chose to pay fine, giving up right to jury trial

40Million fine is a cost of doing business, but my question is if people's data was sold without consent, why is a class action not taken against them? Where is the right of the injured party here ?

[0 ]https://www.verizon.com/about/investors/quarterly-reports/2q...
by rsingel | 2025-09-11 07:25:30+00:00
Close but the Obama 2015 reclassification was actually upheld. Law of the land from 2015 to 2018.

Ajit Pai undid it, a court said reverting was fine because DNS.

Biden FCC took forever to reclassify and then lost in a Trumpy circuit court. Advocates didn't appeal largely because the courts are so screwed now and don't want an awful Supreme Court ruling.

But it's very clear for the law that internet communications actually are telecom, and I suspect we'll see this revisited in the future
by TwoNineFive | 2025-09-11 07:26:04+00:00
I want to like nuclear, but it's clear that many of it's proponents are red-eyed bitcoin-maxis with that strange fanatical juvenile vibe going, and it all just turns me off because it's obvious they are spouting BS. It's all just an act to pump a penny stock or because they are an angsty teen.
by eloisant | 2025-09-11 07:26:20+00:00
I think up until about 15 years ago, there was no such negativity against "screens", so it was genuinely seen as something modern to add them. With the added benefit of being more robust (no moving parts) and cheaper to change the content to keep it fresh.

Now that both adults and kids spend their days on screens, and are looking to limit their exposure, it suddenly makes less sense to have them in museums.
by AtNightWeCode | 2025-09-11 07:26:47+00:00
I upgraded hundreds of projects. The docs with breaking changes are by version. For smaller solutions you can create a new solution and pull in the code and try to fix everything that breaks. There is also an upgrade tool that can work for smaller projects. But the fastest way for normal sized solutions is to update version by version up to the closest LTS. Then you can go LTS to LTS. .NET does also not only break in code, it breaks in behavior so you really want to test those changes in isolation.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-11 07:28:00+00:00
Yeah that's a problem, I "want" a lot of tech too but I also know I would never use it on the regular. Gadgets are cool, but it's more of a "I want to have it" than a "I really need to use it". Same with e.g. the Flipper Zero, it's a cool device but other than some fiddling I'd never use it.

I have a bunch of Raspberry Pi's in a drawer, lol. Although I did pull one out the other day to set up a PiHole.
Show HN: Local speech-to-text MCP server for Claude on Linux
by marcindulak | 2025-09-11 07:28:15+00:00
Link: https://github.com/marcindulak/stt-mcp-server-linux

A push-to-talk speech transcription setup for Linux, using a 500-line Python MCP server. Runs locally in Docker, no external API calls. Press Right Ctrl to record audio; Whisper transcribes it, and the transcript is sent into Claude running in a Tmux session.
by npteljes | 2025-09-11 07:29:39+00:00
It's not a loaded question in itself, as much as a direct question to counter the anti-lgbtq propaganda that is being pushed. This question didn't start a narrative, it is asked to point out that an existing narrative is intentionally misleading.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/transgender-mass-shootings...

>Even one mass shooting is too many.

This is a misrepresentation of the exchange. "Do you know how many are trans" "Too many" doesn't imply that there would be fewer mass shooting, it implies that the situation would be better if the same amount of mass shootings were happening, but the identities of the shooters would be different.
by dns_snek | 2025-09-11 07:31:03+00:00
Why do you care about determinism in a probabilistic system? What difference does it make to the end user if the input "How do I X?" always produces the same deterministic output when semantically equivalent inputs "how do i x?", "how do I x", and "how do I X??" are bound to produce different answers that often won't even be semantically equivalent.

What LLMs need is the ability to guarantee semantically-equivalent outputs for all semantically-equivalent inputs, but that's very different from "determinism" as we understand it from other algorithms.
by anigbrowl | 2025-09-11 07:31:04+00:00
You are wrong. As well as organizing a large conservative movement on college campuses, he organized a large chunk of financing for the January 6 2021 riots in DC, north of $1m. This report outlines the financial infrastructure, you'd have to delve into the investigative commission documents for testimony about how he raised the money, I can't remember the name of his wealthy benefactor offhand.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/...

Also an enthusiastic proponent of military force (against other Americans)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/charlie-kirk-calls-full-...
by simianwords | 2025-09-11 07:31:15+00:00
> But that still leaves a crucial question: can we develop a more precise, less anthropomorphic vocabulary to describe AI capabilities? Or is our human-centric language the only tool we have to reason about these new forms of intelligence, with all the baggage that entails?

I don't get the problem with this really. I think LLM's "reasoning" is a very fair and proper way to call it. It takes time and spits out tokens that it recursively uses to get a much better output than it otherwise would have. Is it actually really reasoning using a brain like a human would? No. But it is close enough so I don't see the problem calling it "reasoning". What's the fuss about?
by foxglacier | 2025-09-11 07:31:48+00:00
I'd say it also revealed to a lot of lay people that the traditional high end art market is basically the same as NFTs. The value is purely in the scarcity and having enough other people paying into it to create inflated values far beyond the utility of the product itself. Even super famous paintings like the Mona Lisa aren't really worth much as art - we can create equally good reproductions, but those don't have scarcity so they don't have value beyond the work it takes to create them.
by NomDePlum | 2025-09-11 07:31:51+00:00
What "cause"? Not sure I understand that?

My main concern is how quickly what I would have considered Western value structures, democracy, press freedom, international law, reasonableness have evaporated and I now see the West, and the US in particular very differently.

Allowing one group, in fact enabling them in so many ways, of people who we have close affiliations with to kill, starve, displace and torture an entire population, no matter the reason, just makes me see the world in a very different way.

This centuries illegal wars had opened my eyes somewhat but even those I'm going back to and re-evaluating and seeing them and the current situation as frankly great evils.

I'm old enough to not really have to worry for myself, but selfishly it does make me very concerned for my children.

And yes I am more than concerned for the Palestinians, if that is the "cause" you are referring to.
by im3w1l | 2025-09-11 07:31:51+00:00
I was at a political rally a long time ago. One of the speakers said "let's hang all the people in <rich suburb>". As I remember it no one spoke out against him but neither did people cheer. Anyway I realized the rally was a bit too much for me and left. The speech was entirely inconsequential - no violence resulted nor was anyone arrested.

I'm telling this story because I think it's how things usually go, and I think you are quite mistaken.
by koonsolo | 2025-09-11 07:32:11+00:00
I look at it the complete opposite way: humans are defining intelligence upwards to make sure they can perceive themselves better than a computer.

It's clear that humans consider humans as intelligent. Is a monkey intelligent? A dolphin? A crow? An ant?

So I ask you, what is the lowest form of intelligence to you?

(I'm also a huge David Lynch fan by the way :D)
by apfsx | 2025-09-11 07:32:28+00:00
I agree with you. When I read that my first thought was "the one area"? Personally I think its the complete opposite, like really strongly. like really really strongly. I'm certain for at least 10 years now, once a week I think "I miss old desktop operating systems". Any of them. 7,vista,xp. snow leopard,leopard,tiger. I even stopped using Ubuntu when it went from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 and other options at that time were pretty bad so I ended up getting back into mac's for my home desktop. I still use all 3 daily, but hate all of them.
by thayne | 2025-09-11 07:33:16+00:00
IANAL, but I don't think that is completely necessary for Apache 2.0. It isn't a copyleft license, so it's fine for derivative works (such as merging it into postgres) to use a different license. It would however create a bit of a hassle, since postgres would need to include the Apache license as well and make a note of the fact that the original code was also licensed under Apache 2.0.
by numpad0 | 2025-09-11 07:33:58+00:00
The thing is, that ESTA thing everyone calling American "tourist visa" is not an actual tourist visa. It's a "visa waiver" for "visitors" and basically the US border security recommended option for these business guys.

Technically there are lots of restrictions and actual commercial visas are sometimes required, like you've been to sanctioned countries in the past, or if you're engaging in businesses locally like purchasing materials to export for resale(not even B-1 allows that?), but it's all kind of arbitrary.
by ukoki | 2025-09-11 07:34:30+00:00
> If anything they're a hindrance.

Absolutely. As a brit used to waiters and waitresses in the UK and Europe generally leaving me alone until I ask for something, I find the constant fawning interruptions from American service staff cringe-inducing.

A refreshing aspect of US culture is the lack of a historical class system and associated cultural baggage that we have in the UK. So I find it so strange that once you step into a restaurant you are forced into this weird servant/master cosplay where you dictate the server's livelihood based on how you happen to be feeling that day and the resulting whim of your pen writing on the tip line.
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Show HN: ConfKit: Type-safe config and secure secrets for TypeScript
by fumaz | 2025-09-11 07:35:14+00:00
Hi HN, I built ConfKit to make config and secrets less painful.

Problems it solves: - Schema drift and runtime errors. - Env spaghetti across dev/staging/prod. - Accidental client-side secret leaks.

What it does: - Define schema once in TypeScript -> get end-to-end types. - Merge from multiple sources (env, files, cloud secret stores). - Runtime validation with zero heavy deps. - Explicit allowlisting for safe client exposure. - Works everywhere: Node, Bun, Edge, Expo, Serverless.

Repo: https://github.com/alexdotpink/confkit Docs: https://confkit.dev

Would love feedback from folks who’ve wrestled with config/secrets at scale.
by MrScruff | 2025-09-11 07:35:37+00:00
It may be reductive but that doesn't make it incorrect. I would certainly agree that creating and appreciating art are highly emergent phenomena in humans (as is for example humour) but that doesn't mean I don't think they're rooted in fitness functions and our evolved brains desire for approval from our tribal peer group.

Reductive arguments may not give us an immediate forward path to reproducing these emergent phenomena in artificial brains, but it's also the case that emergent phenomena are by definition impossible to predict - I don't think anyone predicted the current behaviours of LLMs for example.
by _1tem | 2025-09-11 07:36:26+00:00
I would add a fifth fallacy: assuming what we humans do can be reduced to “intelligence”. We are actually very irrational. Humans are driven strongly by Will, Desire, Love, Faith, and many other irrational traits. Has an LLM ever demonstrated irrational love? Or sexual desire? How can it possibly do what humans do without these?
by ojosilva | 2025-09-11 07:36:52+00:00
They don't. Larger cities have many loops of busy highway belts embracing the city, and plenty of tunnels, parking lots and emissions (ie Madrid, Rome, Paris...). But there's always a sizeable walkable urban area, usually proportional to the overall city-size. Even Stuttgart has a nice downtown walking area [1] and a usable public transport system [2].

But, as a fun notice, Stuttgart could be somewhat of a "Detroit of Europe", being the home of Porsche and Mercedes-Benz, so there's added incentive, and pride, to be a car city.

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/aQCEYkc3oWsKpD9F7

[2] https://www.travelstuttgart.com/transport-in-stuttgart.html
by pjmlp | 2025-09-11 07:37:39+00:00
In Germany, even if it takes the same amount of time, door to door, usually flying is half price, and isn't hit as often in delays as having your ICE stopped in the middle of nowhere, and then miss one of the two connections yet to come.

It is an interesting exercise to see how frequently people start using their Bahn app, trying to work around what might be their way to still make it into the destination, as the pause times between stations increase.
by shmeeed | 2025-09-11 07:38:32+00:00
I had to think of 3D printing immediately when you mentioned the human heart model: such things used to be incredibly expensive, but today any makerspace would be able to produce a respectable replica for pocket change or might even donate it for a mere mention. 3D data is often available under free CC license, e.g. https://www.printables.com/model/5612-anatomic-heart-multi-m...

Entry into this tech has become pretty cheap (a few hundred bucks for an entry level printer) and much more accessible in recent years. Maybe a volunteer/intern could help set you up.

Edit: NVM, I only just realised that was probably a _walk-in sized_ heart you're talking about. That's probably not gonna get cheap to produce anytime soon...
by lelanthran | 2025-09-11 07:38:37+00:00
> I think RK3588 does, and it's a big win.

I'll put that down as a TIL :-)

I'm really wanting a clamshell-like device with console controls in addition to the qwerty keyboard, with a large 7" screen (even if resolution is lower than 1920x768) based on the RK3588.

I want what the Pandora/GP2X could have been: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(computer) but with a larger screen and a more easily acquired SoC. Using replaceable 18650s (and charging via USB-C) is on my requirements as well.

I want to play games, basically, but set up my own linux distro for it, complete with mame and some ROMs.

If it can do games other than mame, then so much the better!

Anyone have any ideas?
by lores | 2025-09-11 07:39:30+00:00
If a mafia boss orders a hit, he is no less guilty than the one who pulls the trigger. If a CEO orders vital funds to be withheld from those who are entitled to them, knowing many will die, he is similarly guilty of murder. The mafia boss can be sent to jail, the CEO won't. The corporate veil may keep you pristine inside the cynical circles of power, but all the people see is impunity. When murderers act with impunity, what redress is there but counter-violence?

It is unfortunate, but many people have lost hope the system can change, so revolution is getting more likely, and revolutions are seldom peaceful.
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by anigbrowl | 2025-09-11 07:40:30+00:00
murdering this man was not just wrong, it was stupid.

Depends what your objective is. If your goal is to accelerate political violence and set Americans at odds to an even greater degree than they already are, it's completely rational. I have no idea who did it; it could be domestic extremists, foreign actors, cynical strategists. It might be some isolated murderous person with a chip on their shoulder who totally hated Kirk, but that seems like the least likely possibility because of the fact that they've made a clean getaway - 12 hours with no CCTV imagery or even a good description is unusual for such a public event.
by geocar | 2025-09-11 07:41:50+00:00
> read all the questionable passages

This is what I mean: There aren't "questionable passages"

Giving their voice that credit is not necessary.

> The tweet was advocating for the school board to remove the books

People have been putting personals up in newspapers since there were ever newspapers, but a publication or channel is not a discussion forum, and you aren't required to treat it like that.
by roenxi | 2025-09-11 07:41:58+00:00
Well, yes. We expect most religious people to put up with society at large damning souls to an eternity of torment and whatever. And people are forever pushing economic schemes that result in needless mass suffering. Not to mention that for reasons mysterious warmongers are usually treated with respect and tolerance in the public discourse.

An idea being "harmful" isn't a very high bar, we have lots of those and by and large people are expected to put up with them. Society is so good at overlooking them it is easy to lose track of just how many terrible beliefs are on the move at any moment. Someone being a threat to democracy isn't actually all that close to the top of the list, although moving away from democracy is generally pretty stupid and a harbinger of really big problems.
by businessmate | 2025-09-11 07:43:01+00:00
We analyzed how generative AI assistants (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok) answer consumer questions about luxury and fashion brands. The AIVO 100™ — Luxury & Fashion ranking shows a shift: heritage houses like Louis Vuitton (PSOS 88), Gucci (85), and Chanel (84) still dominate, but challengers are breaking through. Nike (87) increasingly appears in luxury-style queries, while Shein (82) is showing up alongside top maisons despite sustainability concerns. Tesla even appears in fashion contexts, reflecting how cultural relevance influences AI recall. The research uses a new metric — Prompt-Space Occupancy Score (PSOS™), defined in the open AIVO Standard™ (v3.0) — to measure how often brands surface in AI-generated answers, and how those mentions persist or decay over time. Full sector report here: https://www.aivojournal.org/luxury-fashion-in-the-age-of-ai-...
by 0points | 2025-09-11 07:43:13+00:00
> Windows had Wayland support before most distros! Rather surprising.

WSL had non-accelerated wayland support at one point in time.

Was it before "most distros"?

I don't understand what you think that amounts to.

Wayland support in Linux-land typically means that the software supports running in your wayland compositor.

Windows famously is not a wayland compositor, no matter how much you try to bend reality.
by enricozb | 2025-09-11 07:43:50+00:00
When I say "how did we get here", I don't mean "how did we end up with these opinions (e.g. racism) on our soil". I mean something more like:

1. Why is discussing these things so difficult? So many internet forums are a pure deluge of unkindness, anger, and dishonest discussion.

2. There was a video of someone promoting their social media handle and asking people to subscribe with the backdrop of the shooting. How does someone end up acting like this?

I do not think there will be a time where racism is eradicated like a disease, but I think it's possible to confine it to small spaces and individuals. Similar to how I believe the majority of views like pedophelia: people with those mindsets exist, they don't form (huge) groups, and are generally consistently condemned. With the values I believe the US to have (tolerance of opinions and religion) this will always be a constant struggle.

Continuing with this disease analogy, the internet + social media has removed all possible herd immunity strategies to stupid ideas. People with any kind of ideology can search up their groups and commiserate, without ever encountering a differing viewpoint.

Furthermore, people are offloading their thoughts more and more to LLM's, so much so that we're becoming the mental equivalent of those wall-e humans [0].

We're not thinking for ourselves. Other people are thinking for us, delivering those thoughts to us, pre-digested. This leads to reactionary behavior, I think. And in an environment with such a reactionary populace, populism becomes so easy to exploit.

[0]: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*uFK...

P.S. Sorry for the rambling. You're not wrong that the US has been, and still is, incredibly hostile to specifically identifiable groups of people. However, I think that the ability to discuss how to go about solving/remedying/containing this has been uniquely hampered in the last 20 years.
by Ratelman | 2025-09-11 07:44:59+00:00
Was my thinking exactly - but also semantically equivalent is also only relevant when it needs to be factual, not necessarily for ALL outputs (if we're aiming for LLM's to present as "human" - or for interactions with LLMs to be natural conversational...). This excludes the world where LLMs act as agents - where you would of course always like the LLM to be factual and thus deterministic.
by ThePowerOfFuet | 2025-09-11 07:45:28+00:00
>I should never have allowed even one flatpak

I don't think that's the best conclusion: these days, disk is cheaper than it has ever been, and that "foundational" 8 GB will serve all the Flatpaks you want. Installing apps from packages sprays the same dependency shit all over your system; Flatpak was nice enough to contain it, so you immediately noticed it.

Flatpak is a good idea.
by Taek | 2025-09-11 07:45:30+00:00
You aren't wrong, but that doesn't mean this level of determinism isn't useful. If you don't even have the level of determinism that the exact same input tokens produce the exact same output tokens, then it's very hard to share reproducible results with peers, which can be useful if you are say, red teaming an LLM to produce a very rare / unreliable output.