MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by electric_muse | 2025-09-16 16:19:20+00:00
This whole “real phone number is your access code to every service” trend is really frustrating.

I had the same experience recently with: - Ticketmaster - Docusign - Vercel

Probably a handful more I forgot.

I believe the main reason is because it prevents fraud.

But I see a deeper motive that phone numbers are more friction to change and therefore our “real” numbers become hard-to-change identity codes that can easily be used to pull tons of info about you.

You give them that number and they immediately can look up your name, addresses, age, and tons of other mined info that was connected to you. Probably credit score, household income, etc.

Phone numbers have tons of “metadata” you provide without really knowing it. Like how the Exif data in a photo may reveal a lot about your location and device.
by jedharris | 2025-09-16 16:19:27+00:00
Certainly one of my criteria for a utopia would be that some of the beings in it are engaged in intriguing or exciting activities with meaningful consequences. I'd require more than Special Circumstances to meet this criterion -- they are too small a piece of the total system.

In Player of Games we see a corner of a gaming culture which partly meets this criterion but it does not have meaningful consequences outside the gaming participants (unless you count the ways the Minds use it to manipulate Gurgeh).

Maybe by this criterion utopias are impossible, since the disruption caused by exciting activities with consequences conflict too much with the optimality of the society. But I don't think anyone now can prove this would be the case.
by eloisius | 2025-09-16 16:19:29+00:00
> It still looks to me like Linux 20 years ago. And I started with Linux in the mid 90s. Not much has changed or improved on the pure fundamentals.

Point taken, but that is exactly the quality I said I liked about it. I hope that 20 years from now my desktop will be exactly the same. The disjoint UI bothers me to an extent. I mostly use KDE apps or things built with Qt, but you're right that nothing is uniform. That said, I'd take disunity if it means stability. I don't care if the buttons in different apps look different, but don't take them away. Just look at what they did to Mail.app--in 2010 it was beautiful. Last I used it in 2020 it seemed like all the power user features of it were gone or hidden and everything was under a dot dot dot menu instead of out on the toolbar.
by Retinal7467 | 2025-09-16 16:19:38+00:00
You’re conflating small business and large business. The moment you have investors return on investment becomes the sole motivating factor and whatever humanity the organization had will be slowly squeezed out from the top down. This isn’t ideological, it is a legal principle. A corporation taking actions that harm returns opens them up to lawsuits.

Edit: worker owned coops don’t have this issue because they are definitionally managed from the bottom up.

Additional edit: the “you” in my post is doing heavy lifting I mean both the post I replied to and the one directly above it.
by _1tem | 2025-09-16 16:20:15+00:00
Also a longtime customer. I think Apple nailed it with this update. I love Liquid Glass, and not just because it’s sexier, it actually works better. The in-place context menus are far better mobile UX. Previously these were dropdown menus inherited from desktop environments which didn’t translate well to small screens (lots of fat fingering potential). The best part of the update was EMTE or the memory security feature. That’s exactly the kind of deep hardware and software integration with privacy protection that I expect from Apple alone.
by terminalshort | 2025-09-16 16:20:53+00:00
I'm usually skeptical of negative headlines about Tesla as there have been so many false positives, but this one is absolutely nuts. That design seems appropriate for a piece of industrial equipment that requires training to operate, not a passenger vehicle that people just jump into without any familiarity. I'm pretty sure I would die before figuring out how to open that back door in an emergency.
by rtkwe | 2025-09-16 16:20:59+00:00
There are a lot of bogus CFAA cases but it seems like this one is within the boundaries of reasonable law enforcement if the description posted above [0] is accurate.

The quick summary is (reddit) OP's husband was fired from a job and used old unrevoked access to crash their servers, was briefly contracted to fix it before the company found out they were the source of the crash and terminated them again, then after all that he then gained access to their DR facilities and physically damaged a number of servers.

If that's true it seems like a pretty cut and dry CFAA case (with some extra normal crime on top to boot) and the main issue to take with it is the FBI using it as leverage to get him to compromise his TOR node.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45262053
by fidotron | 2025-09-16 16:21:10+00:00
Whatever tech scene SF may have had died with the dotcom 1.0 collapse. What has existed since then is various forms of ad and surveillance web apps masquerading as something more interesting.

Actual SV always was and remains much more interesting, though perhaps less so than the 90s heyday. The fact the associated vibe difference is so perfectly demonstrated by the state of their airports is quite brilliant.

Edit to add: for those in denial, SF was HQ for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com
by randycupertino | 2025-09-16 16:21:13+00:00
There also was Mitch Mcconnell's sister in law, shipping billionaire Angela Chao, who drunkenly drove into a pond on her property and couldn't get out of her Tesla. Interestingly, her own sister was the Head of the Department of Transportation when the model she died in was approved.

https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/angela-chao-death-texas-tesl...

> “The night was chilly and very dark, with no moon, so rather than walk, Chao got in her Tesla Model X SUV for the four-minute trip back to the house.

> The account of what happened to Angela Chao that weekend is based on interviews with people close to Chao and her family, county officials who were briefed on what happened or were there, as well as reviews of law-enforcement documents.

> Within minutes of saying her goodbyes, she called one of her friends in a panic. While making a three-point turn, she had put the car in reverse instead of drive, she said. It is a mistake she had made before with the Tesla gearshift. The car had zipped backward, tipping over an embankment and into a pond. It was sinking fast. Could they help her?

> Over the next several hours, her friends, then the ranch manager and his wife, and then paramedics, and firefighters and sheriff’s deputies rushed around and tried to break the windows, find an escape hatch or any way to get Chao out of the car. Somehow an executive who made her living on the sea was drowning in a stock pond within sight of her home.”
by Spivak | 2025-09-16 16:22:08+00:00
I highly doubt that. High end appliances that are actually social media worthy are essentially the opposite of these tacky things.

If you're going to downvote then at least prove me wrong: the social media darling is the viking tuscany range, fridges are colorful 70's inspired with no "tech" -- smeg and it's competitors. Negative signaling at it's finest, it's a flex if you don't have any "smart" appliances.
by whoknowsidont | 2025-09-16 16:22:31+00:00
No. I'm speaking from experience having used React from its very first release. You're not only factually wrong about me being wrong, your knowledge is obviously quite limited.

React has always initially rendering components on the server, then hydrated on the client. You don't have to take my word for it, download the initial release and try it out yourself: https://github.com/facebook/react/releases/tag/v0.4.0

Go ahead, run that and write a simple app. Even better, want to do full SSR with no client lifecycle? Write an app that uses "React.renderComponentToString" and then describe what's happening for me.

Even .NET had solutions around using React just for SSR: https://reactjs.net/features/server-side-rendering.html

Claiming that react itself could not just render out a component server-side and spit out the HTML to the client requires several critical misconceptions about how software in general works lol.
by dmix | 2025-09-16 16:22:41+00:00
I also hit Cursor usage limits for the first time in a year. Hit limits on Claude, GPT, and then it started using Grok :)

I chose to turn on Cursor's pay per usage within the Pro plan (so I paid $25, $20+$5 usage, instead of upgrading to $60/m) in order to keep using Claude because it's faster than Grok
by iamleppert | 2025-09-16 16:22:45+00:00
It makes me sick when I think how I have wasted my life in tech. If I had it to do over again, I would have done almost anything else. Spending most of your life rotting in front of a screen, knowing what you are doing is only helpful to a small group of people who don't care about you and you will never meet or know, ephemeral, and for what? Eventually as you get older, your "passion" for learning new things just for the sake of learning wanes and you start to see tech for it really is, and all new tech starts to look the same. If you're around long enough you'll be burned and screwed by the aggressive personalities the industry attracts.

I got into tech because I wanted to help make the world better, not worse. I can confidentially say after working in the industry for over 20 years, that it doesn't do that. That's not what it is. It's not what it's ever been about.

Almost everyone I know in tech is not happy, and works non-stop, expected to give their all for a company that could fire them tomorrow for no reason. They have been doing this for years. If anything good comes from AI, maybe it will be a release? A release from the hell of being chained to a laptop screen for most of our lives?
by ggregoire | 2025-09-16 16:23:15+00:00
You mean 15 years ago? jQuery gives you a list of helpers to manually mutate the DOM and style. Angular1/React allows you to declare a variable and to mutate the DOM and style automatically when that variable changes. Takes 10x less lines of code to achieve the same thing and it doesn't break if someone changes an id on a div. Angular1/React also gives you the framework to write reusable components.

It might not matter for a quick side project over the weekend, but it changes everything for a complex app with 10k+ LOC developed by several people and maintained over the years.

I switched from Angular1 to React 10 years ago because React is mostly standard JavaScript (I never need to open the React docs since I know how to write a function, a loop and a condition in JavaScript and I remember how to use React's core methods useState & useEffect) while Angular1 has hundreds of methods and DSL syntaxes to remember.
by cbeach | 2025-09-16 16:23:27+00:00
> this is just one man's ego.

Since you're attributing the design of all Tesla features to Musk, would you compliment him on the Tesla Model 3 being reported as the "safest new car on the market," acheiving an overall EuroNCAP score of 359/400?

https://www.whatcar.com/news/the-safest-cars-on-sale-today/n...

... or would that go against the narrative?

FWIW, and for balance - I think the retracting handle design on the Model S is dangerous. I own the car and it's a nagging concern in my mind.
by pxc | 2025-09-16 16:23:29+00:00
> Where is the guy with the opposing view and sharp tongue that's able to talk back to him?

Even though Kirk made a point to debate students, generally, there were always a few at good schools that pretty thoroughly defeated him.

And in fairness to Kirk, he sometimes posted the in full (albeit always with laughably distorted headlines):

https://youtu.be/RXuePZj5eU0
by fivestones | 2025-09-16 16:24:47+00:00
I don’t know. I asked chatgpt where I can get the most calories for my money when eating fast food, tempered by the qualification that the food is delicious. It very confidently and without any wishy washiness told me I should go to Wendy’s and get a burger. I highly doubt this is actually the best answer to my question, but I bet lots of people are asking similar questions. It made me actually think about going to Wendy’s. It read like an ad, in some ways, but some part of me took it in and tried to believe it because it felt much more similar to a recommendation from a friend (which I would for sure listen to) than an ad (which I almost always tune out—the louder and more obnoxious the stronger I look away).
by tonyarkles | 2025-09-16 16:24:51+00:00
Ahh, I really wish I could go into all of the details because it was a really cool project. The high-level answer (which is also related to the software-defined radio post that's on the front page right now) is that it was simulating the orbit of a satellite such that we could simulate the signals the satellite was transmitting with enough accuracy to implicitly get Doppler shift. That is... we didn't explicitly model Doppler shift in any piece of the system, it just showed up as a result of accurately modelling the orbit of the satellite's position and velocity relative to the receiver on Earth.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-09-16 16:25:47+00:00
Thanks mods for the title fix.

I can't find a copy of the letter this is in response to which would provide more context. I believe it was an invitation of some sort.

Bertrand Russel was a prominent logician and philosopher, more or less invented types to solve a problem he was having with set theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell

Sir Oswald Mosley founded the British Union of Fascists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley
by freetime2 | 2025-09-16 16:25:58+00:00
> Except it’s 24-100 mm.

I guess the proper claim would be to say that it has three prime lenses at 13mm, 24mm, and 100mm equivalents. The larger sensors in the 13mm and 100mm cameras, along with improvements in processing, should make for a significant upgrade over my current iPhone.

I agree that Apple's "optical quality" claims are BS. I was actually so confused initially by the claim that I had to do some research to figure out if they are doing anything special to claim "optical quality" zoom on a fixed lens. There is some computational photography going on that may muddy the waters a bit, but I'd definitely still call it a digital zoom.

That being said, the 48MP sensors do provide some latitude for cropping that wasn't available in the older 12 MP sensors. A very charitable reading would be that this "8 pro lenses in one" claim, all of which match the "optical quality" of the previous generation of sensors is the simplest way that Apple's marketing team could describe the increased versality to regular users without resorting to jargon that only photographers would understand. But still... it feels like false advertising to me.

Regarding the design - I actually view the orange color as being a nod to the Apple Watch Ultra and its orange accents. My impression is that they are going with a more rugged, masculine look with the iPhone 17 Pro. The "PRO" lettering almost feels like something you'd see in an ad for a pickup truck. This is in contrast to the more elegant, feminine look for the iPhone Air. I think this differentiation could actually be a successful strategy for Apple, and I also think that one reason that most of the tech reviewers and commenters on HN don't see the point of the Air is because that demographic tends to be largely male.
by toast0 | 2025-09-16 16:26:14+00:00
I've got a fancy new car with fancy door handles. Overall, eh. But at least mine are intuitive on the inside ish; you can push yje handle to open (when the car thinks it's safe), or you can pull twice. You have to be told you can push to open, but pull twice happens pretty easily. I don't yet know how the fail safe open works on the outside, grab and pull (pressing the button with the grab) seems to work intuitively enough for people though.
by smb06 | 2025-09-16 16:26:48+00:00
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Does HN automatically change the title of post without human intervention?
by busymom0 | 2025-09-16 16:26:56+00:00
I am aware that HN mods sometimes change the title of posts. This has been discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37646179

However, my question is not about mods changing title or some automation removing numbers from titles or adding things like [pdf], [video] etc.

My question is about the title being instantly automatically changed upon submission.

For example, I made the below post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234649

The title I submitted was the same title in the article:

> Dinosaur egg dated directly for the first time

However, when the post got submitted, it had a different title:

> Dinosaur Egg Dated Directly

I feel like the "for the first time" is important part of the title which was removed.

Since the title had instantly changed upon submission, it was not mods who changed it.

Note that the HN guidelines say "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

So, why and how are the titles changed automatically?
by trod1234 | 2025-09-16 16:27:25+00:00
The question of reasoning doesn't really matter once you show its happening.

When you constrict the market like they have done, you naturally get distortions, and the adversarial nature of the market fails to perform economic calculation potentially leading to grave consequences. Even at this point, whipsaws would be quite destructive. I know people who have abandoned their careers due to lack of job availability for the foreseeable future. They were searching for years with no recovery.

When you destroy a pipeline of career development for short-term profit which is possible because of the decoupled nature of money-printing/credit facility, decisions made are psychologically sticky. When there is no economic benefit for competency, the smart people leave for a market where this is possible.

The smart people I know right now are quietly preparing for socio-economic collapse as a result of runaway money-printing. When you have a runaway dangerous machine, you can either step back and let it destroy itself (isolating yourself), or you can accelerate the breakdown of its dependent cycles. Many choose the former, since the latter carries existential risk for no real benefit in the short-term but the latter would result in the least amount of causalties.

70% of the economy covers the white-collar market, which will be gone soon, not because the jobs can be replaced by AI, but because the business leaders in consolidated industry all decide to replace workers becoming the instrument of their own demise through deflationary economics.
by reify | 2025-09-16 16:27:36+00:00
I suppose this includes a full body hair removal for the male ranks.

Ideally, a full sack, back and crack, body grooming training, including, while out on maneuvers, with an epilator, to teach the male soldiers about real pain.

it will ceratinly sort the men from the boys.

If you cant take a civilian epilator, what chance a bullet on the battle field.

I'm not a soldier, though my mum used to call me her little soldier when I was a about 5 years old.

she told me, it doesn't matter if I have a beard or clean shaven. What counts is you can still pull the trigger when under fire.

I am thinking, does this full body hair removal also apply to the female ranks?

It would look slightly out of place on military parade, with female soldiers donning shaved heads and the men donning lovingly brushed pony tails.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-16 16:27:49+00:00
> and for what

A ton of money? Easy to forget about that if you don't have to worry about where next month's rent is coming from.

> I can confidentially say after working in the industry for over 20 years, that it doesn't do that.

I can confidently say that it has made the world better. You've just forgotten about all the things that sucked. Remember how we used to have to get taxis?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-16 16:27:52+00:00
There is underlying code logic that makes changes to make the title more clear, concise, less baity, etc, and mods may also make changes based on their discretion. When mods make changes, they sometimes comment to document so in the thread.

If you believe an automatic title edit removed relevant context, you can edit the title to update it accordingly (with the caveat being mods may make changes at any time).

See https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re... for more details
by gilleain | 2025-09-16 16:28:49+00:00
Interestingly, not only are those worms _able_ to survive low temperatures, they also _require_ low temperatures:

> They freeze at around −6.8 °C (19.8 °F), and their bodies decompose after continuous exposure to temperatures above 5 °C (41 °F).

Goes to show (perhaps) that adapting to unusual environments is not so much like a superpower but a tradeoff.
by Rockslide | 2025-09-16 16:28:49+00:00
Well but the docs you cited don't match what you stated. You can delete node_modules and reinstall, it will never update the package-lock.json, you will always end up with the exact same versions as before. The package-lock updating happens when you change version numbers in the package.json file, but that is very much expected! So no, running npm install will not pull in new versions randomly.
by colanderman | 2025-09-16 16:28:53+00:00
https://khanfar-spectrum-analyzer.web.app/ also has some phase-based direction-finding software and upcoming hardware.

For triangulation though, if you have a reference signal at a known location, TDoA (time difference of arrival) requires less hardware (just a single receiver at each location, e.g. an RTL-SDR). I don't know of any open-source software which does that though I've been slowly building some for my own use (it's pretty janky at the moment).
by DonaldPShimoda | 2025-09-16 16:28:56+00:00
So worth the watch. The list of novel contributions outlined in the demonstration is incredibly impressive, but you also have to include the developments that went into making the presentation itself. For example, high-speed modems were developed an a microwave transmission system engineered so that they could run the software and teleconference remotely from miles away — no mean feat in 1968!
by kouteiheika | 2025-09-16 16:28:56+00:00
I don't see how that's relevant. When I'm making a phone call I'm also interacting with hundreds of systems that are not mine; do I not have the right to keep my conversation private? Even the blog post here says that "It is extremely important to us, and to society, that the right to privacy in the use of AI is protected. People talk to AI about increasingly personal things", and that's one of the few parts that I actually agree with.
by lupusreal | 2025-09-16 16:29:10+00:00
> You can't expect people to re-write everything over and over.

Call me crazy but I think agentic coding tools may soon make it practical for people to not be bogged down by the tedium of implementing the same basic crap over and over again, without having to resort to third party dependencies.

I have a little pavucontrol replacement I'm walking Claude Code through. It wanted to use pulsectl but, to see what it could do, I told it no. Write your own bindings to libpulse instead. A few minutes later it had that working. It can definitely write crap like leftpad.