MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mickael-kerjean | 2025-09-11 00:22:28+00:00
This is exactly what I've been working on with Filestash (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash). It lets you connect to any kind of storage protocol that possible exist from S3, SFTP, FTS, SMB, NFS, Sharepoint, .... and layers its own fine grained permission control / chroots that integrate through SSO / RBAC so you can enforce access rules around who can do what and where (MCP doc: https://www.filestash.app/docs/api/#mcp)
by tomhow | 2025-09-11 00:22:43+00:00
When you preface your comment with "Unpopular Opinion", then proceed to make a sweeping assertion like "The purpose of education past 8th grade is to keep young people out of the job market", without any supporting evidence, that's what we call "inflammatory rhetoric". This kind of comment will always attract downvotes and flags. This style of commenting is against the HN guidelines, as is complaining about downvotes.

The correct response to downvotes is to think about how you could express your point in a way that people can connect with. That's the art of a good comment. The best comments on HN are ones that make a point that many in the community may have disagreed with, but it is expressed in a way that creates a pathway for people to see things in a new way, and persuades them to see the issue from the new perspective you're illustrating.
by Nifty3929 | 2025-09-11 00:23:12+00:00
I'm reminded of the very final scene in Raider of the Lost Ark where the Ark is deposited into a giant government warehouse full of who knows what-all historical artifacts and such, everything in various sized crates, and the whole thing just gets closed up and forgotten about.

At least, that's how I remember it, but it's been a while.... I'll really have to go re-watch that actually.
by avazhi | 2025-09-11 00:23:47+00:00
If a person espoused and encouraged assassination as a means to achieve his political or philosophical goals then it's difficult to see how he could be surprised if he himself were to be assassinated or affected by violence. In a sense that would just be logical cause and effect.

But to my knowledge Kirk never did and 'live by the sword, die by the sword' wouldn't apply here. In fact I can't think of an instance in recent history where this would have applied - the logical implications inherent in such rhetoric are obvious to most people immediately. Even the Russians as a general rule don't murder their exiled former rulers - the new Czar figures he could be next, and wouldn't want to set a precedent.
by jpadkins | 2025-09-11 00:24:08+00:00
Whether or not people live in Hawaii is not the question. Of course in a free society you can live wherever you want.

The question is is it good for the mainlanders to subsidize or give money to people in Hawaii to live next to volcanoes. As you said, they have lived there for 1,500 years without subsidies from others. They can continue to do so without taking capital from people who chose to live in safer places.
by ForOldHack | 2025-09-11 00:24:28+00:00
It is so well preserved, because those who were liberated from it, were so horrified at what they witnesses, that they did not want anyone to forget. It was a herculean effort, many wanted to bury it,because of the pain, and many more wanted to bury it, like it never happened.

A personal salute to all those who fought to preserve it.

There is a great video on the Poles who worked to preserve it. A lot of it is ... Unspeakable.
by g8oz | 2025-09-11 00:25:15+00:00
Israel being a large employer of Palestinians is not a point in their favor. They are an exploited workforce exploited by the people who keep them locked in a Babylonian style captivity.

Also Israel never left Gaza. They had complete control over the sea air and land entry and exit points. Gaza was essentially an open-air concentration camp. They even calculated the minimum calories required so that Palestinians would not be "overfed". I'm in constant disbelief about the nonsense that Zionists tell themselves.

There's no significant Hamas presence in the West Bank and yet there Palestinians are routinely kicked out of their homes, beaten and shot by fanatical settlers as the Israeli army supervises. That is the reality of Israel. A fascist ethnostate, lawless and hyper aggressive. A Rhodesia on the Mediterranean if you will.
by defrost | 2025-09-11 00:26:01+00:00
There were multiple Cambridge Union debates, 1 hour forty minutes in total. He did poorly on all of them .. almost as if he'd never encountered a proper formal debate with rules and procedures before.

Cambridge debating is a microcosm of parliamentary debates in the UK, AU and elsewhere that I'm not entirely sure the US has in government anymore, if ever - the CSPAN footage I've seen largely features lone people showboating unchallenged, often with props.

Your 12 minute video shows a back and forth near Q&A exchange between Kirk and another not entirely opposed with Kirk taking various interpretations of well regulated militia as he saw them with little push back.

It has edits and has been self selected and post produced by Kirk to post on his channel to highlight how "good" he is.
by bbanyc | 2025-09-11 00:26:11+00:00
The ISA is only part of the computer platform, and the x86 PC is the only platform that's significantly standardized between vendors. There were several incompatible 6502-based computers in the 1970s and likewise for the 68k in the '80s, and now ARM is in the same position. I don't know if there's any way this can change, certainly it's not in any vendor's interest to make their products easy to clone, that's the "mistake" IBM made with the PC. And ARM is doing well for themselves just licensing CPU cores and letting their customers do the rest.
by mothballed | 2025-09-11 00:26:16+00:00
Anything I say on the internet, someone will always have a compelling but sometimes wrong argument as to why im wrong. If you listen to them for confirmation you'd never be able to do anything, and im not exaggerating. I could probably say the earth is round here on HN and some astrophysics PhD would tell me I failed to consider the 4th dimension or something and it's actually unknown if we can call it round.

Where are these people going that they just see encouragement without resistance?
by opo | 2025-09-11 00:26:43+00:00
>Why aren’t capital gains taxed at a higher rate than income?

The federal capital gains rates are higher than the effective tax rates paid by a family making a median income, but I suspect you are asking why the capital gains rates are not higher than the highest marginal rates.

One issue is simply that capital gains tax rates generally don't account for inflation. If you build a business over a few decades and sell it, much of the increase in value will be simply due to inflation. Do you want to encourage long term investment, or make it so only financially illiterate people do long term investments?
by sebmellen | 2025-09-11 00:26:43+00:00
While you can make this comment in an objective way, your vitriolic expression of this is not a good way to approach the situation.

For a simple first question, do you know of Iryna Zarutska? Killed with a pocket knife. Do we need to ban pocket knives too? Or do we need to have foundational discussion about how we quell violence and deter violent behavior in this country?

It’s not a given to presume that gun bans are the answer. And expressing that opinion is not something that should get you shot.
by roody15 | 2025-09-11 00:27:05+00:00
A therapist once explained to me that the human mind first processes things through the emotional regions of the brain (limbic) and only afterwards can it reach the logic center (pre frontal cortex).

This has helped me to understand a lot of human behavior and social media posts and reactions (also propaganda, cults, sales, etc)

You may think you have come to a logical conclusion about political issue x or political party x, but very likely the vast majority of us are first having a triggered emotional reaction and later using our pre-frontal cortex to logically create a narrative on why we feel this way and justify it.

Taken to extremes I think you can see things like today happen and see how people react.

Sometimes I catch myself defending someone or a position and later realize I am just wrong, it’s just that I had an emotional reaction felt a possible connection with the person or a cause or vibe they expressed or are connected with and then my attorney brain kicks into overdrive trying to make it all add up.

It also explains a lot of domestic issues, if you are upset or scared your brain stays in the limbic center and is literally incapable of rational thought until you calm down or feel safe.

Just my two cents
by jmpman | 2025-09-11 00:27:06+00:00
I live in a town of over 200k people. When I moved here, it was 12k residents, and dominated by religious conservatives. When I graduated high school, I vowed to never return. My wife however had other ideas, and as soon as my kids were school age, we were back. The town remains politically dominated by the same conservative religious group, even though they’re less than 20% of the population. Could I go to the school board meetings and raise and issue? Sure, but my son, who would be the recipient of any retribution, requested I not. I even offered to pay for private school for him, but he still wasn’t willing. Once he graduates, maybe I’ll spend my time fighting this fight. My peers from high school who weren’t from this religious group fled. None remain to fight. Even if I win a seat on the board, I’d be just one of 7, and nothing would change.
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-11 00:27:08+00:00
Has he ever changed his mind from those debates? Or does he always pretend to "win" them?

I ask because for a while it was a common "right wing faux intellectual" thing (think Sargon of Akkad, Milo Yulianopolis etc) to go around asking to debate. Then to not actually do much factual debating or any learning of other perspectives, and claiming that the left is simply uncapable of civilized debate because they eventually just refuse to go along with the act.
by jrflowers | 2025-09-11 00:27:52+00:00
Good faith debate involves being careful with facts and —very importantly — not lying.

The race baiting and conspiracy theories will be what Charlie Kirk is remembered for because that’s what he did constantly. There’s a whole section of his Wikipedia covering the falsehoods he spread about covid, election fraud, H1N1, human trafficking, protests in France etc.

It’s a bit strange to say that I’m somehow uninformed because of my “filter bubble” seeing as in order to call Charlie Kirk’s performances legitimate debate you would either have to have never heard of his many, many outright lies or believe that it’s acceptable to make stuff up in a debate. (If the latter is the case we simply disagree on what constitutes a real debate)

I’m familiar with his routine, which is why I described his performances as sometimes resembling legitimate debate. He was able to at times take (from your example) twelve minutes out of several hours of owning the libs to engage in a more mild performance, but that’s not the same thing as someone that has a genuinely good-faith interest in debate. That’s just taking a few minutes to make a marketing video for his podcast/speaking tours.
by csa | 2025-09-11 00:28:20+00:00
> I've been to places that add "service charge" by default now to relieve tipping, then still give you the option to tip on top of that, which some people do because they think maybe the service charge isn't going to the server

This may be the case some of the time, but from what I’ve seen and heard…

During COVID, everyone put out the tip jar. It turns out that some folks are willing to give in spots that are not “traditional” tipping situations.

Some folks just have extra money, and they are happy to share their wealth with others. This is doubly true in hard times.

Tips are one way to do that, and some folks do that with extra generosity.

I will also add that people seem to be more than happy to tip/give extremely generously to folks who “make their day”. Maybe it’s a great ride share driver, or a great massage therapist, or an online streamer, or whatever. Some people seem to be more than willing to tip folks who bring them joy.

All that said, if that’s not your style, just click skip and move on. Most people understand and won’t judge.

There are a handful of entitled people who will try to guilt people into typing in non-traditional tipping spots. Just don’t go back to those places if at all possible — those people suck.
by krapp | 2025-09-11 00:28:38+00:00
Yes, there were two more school shootings today you won't hear anything about, certainly not on Hacker News.

But every time a rich white asshole gets shot there's bound to be thousands of comments here and people clutching their pearls and saying it's the end of civil society. But the pile of dead schoolchildren, black people shot by cops, brown people shot by the military, Jews and gay people shot by spree killers? Not a care in the world, that's just background noise.

Trump (or whomever controls his Truth Social account - I seriously doubt he knows how Photoshop works) posts a meme about "Chipocalypse now" bragging about the violence he intends to commit against his own people and no one seems to care. Presidents have been taken down for far less egregious behavior. But it's Chicago, it's full of black people and immigrants so who gives a fuck?

I think you're right. I think Americans are afraid because for the first time in their lives they're being treated the way America has treated everyone who isn't straight, white, Christian and American, that the systems of oppression they built and which feed their empire are actually being turned on them. The only thing I can say is they aren't nearly afraid enough.
by Group_B | 2025-09-11 00:28:58+00:00
I think it's simply too late for real gun control in the US. Like how would that ever be enforced? There's too many guns already, and we have too many people down south that would be happy to smuggle guns back up North. And trying to control the ammo would be even more unrealistic. The gun culture America created over the past 100+ years is a massive mistake, and I don't think there is any undoing of it. Should have been more control immediately post WWII imo.
by crispinb | 2025-09-11 00:29:03+00:00
> What change was the person who shot him hoping to elicit?

This would be a relevant question in many nations, but it's a bit beside the point in the US. Violence is a deeply respected and loved core of the culture for its own sake. It's an end, not means. Nearly all the US's entertainment, culture and myths are built around a reverence for violence. Even political violence has been pretty much the norm through most of the US's history. Celebrated cases aside, there's been something of a lull since the mid 1970s, but if as now likely it increases again, this will be a boring old reversion to the US's norm.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-11 00:29:35+00:00
It might have reflected the experience of the guards. One of the most astonishing facts i heard was that the guards used to get prisoners to play music for them and would even be moved to tears!

It reveals something deep about the human condition. Auchwitz was a perfectly lovely place for many of the employees as long as they disassociated themselves from all the suffering and evil around them.
by codyb | 2025-09-11 00:29:54+00:00
So... if anything, this is the exact situation stricter gun laws wouldn't really prevent. Which would be the targeted assassination of a societal figure by a determined ideologue or partisan or mole.

In which case you'd need a strong internal investigatory services in order to root these plots out before they happen by following up on leads and tips.

Well... not to get political, but I think we're hollowing that out too?
by ryukafalz | 2025-09-11 00:30:15+00:00
Careful, this often ends up with cities and towns building isolated pilot bike lanes that go nowhere and then ripping them out when nobody uses them.

The value of a bike lane isn't in the lane in isolation, in the same way that the value of a street isn't in that street alone. It's in the ability of that lane/street to get you where you need or want to go.
by tomhow | 2025-09-11 00:30:22+00:00
Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by ryao | 2025-09-11 00:30:23+00:00
Ask someone who is visually impaired. I know that they historically use browsers that do not support JavaScript. I also am acquainted with one developer who uses software for reading his terminal outloud, although I never asked the specifics of what he uses for web browsing or IRC for that matter. I do know that he loves the iPhone.

That said, I just found this post by a blind person who uses Lynx and complained about it the last time Google broke Lynx support:

https://blind.guru/blog/2019-11-25-endofgoogle.html
by jmpman | 2025-09-11 00:30:39+00:00
As for the books being questioned by other parents - I was only aware of it when I searched for the high school name and library on Twitter. First and only hit was for a parent posting a link to some website that alerts parents for books with questionable content in their children’s libraries. Had they read the books? Of course not, but the web site allows you to read all the questionable passages. The tweet was advocating for the school board to remove the books.
by creata | 2025-09-11 00:31:04+00:00
Fwiw, I don't think anyone should ever be killed, but nobody's entitled to anyone's sympathy, and it's not messed up that many people find it difficult to sympathize with Kirk, given the political positions he preached.

For example, maybe (or maybe not) for you it's just an abstract argument about far-away matters, but when Kirk called Leviticus 20:13 (the one about killing men who lie with men) "God's perfect law", it's not so abstract to gay people.
by nerdjon | 2025-09-11 00:31:22+00:00
It is interesting seeing this article come up since just yesterday I setup longhorn in my homelab cluster needing better performance for some tasks than NFS was providing so I setup a raid on my r630 and tried it out.

So far things are running well but I can't shake this fear that I am in for a rude awakening and I loose everything. I backups but the recovery will be painful if I have to do it.

I will have to take a look at rook since I am not quite committed enough yet (only moved over 2 things) to switch.
by paulvnickerson | 2025-09-11 00:32:13+00:00
It's not a gun problem that we have in this country. Iryna Zarutska was murdered with a pocket knife. What we have is a spiritual sickness, which cannot be legislated...

The only thing I can think of that the government can do is to clamp down hard on violence, including speech which advocates for violence (e.g. glorifying Luigi Mangione, calling everyone a Nazi/fascist, etc.). Freedom of speech ends where it actually turns into violence.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-09-11 00:33:03+00:00
Thanks for the perspective. I think it's difficult for small cities like Pontevedra to create high quality jobs. There are not enough people to support rich doctors, lawyers, accountants and such. Factories can be established, but most people employed in a factory won't have a "high-quality" job. What other type of high-quality job could the city create?

[1] population ~ 80k, but working population ~ 50k.
by daotoad | 2025-09-11 00:33:06+00:00
I want a clamshell that has one OLED/LCD screen and one e-ink screen. Both should be multi-touch. The hinge should pivot (like an omnibook) so that either screen can be visible when close.

Besides the obvious benefit of having a single tablet with both types of screen, in "laptop mode", the e ink screen could be used as a soft keyboard and touch pad.

Something like this in phone sizes could be really great too.
by mickael-kerjean | 2025-09-11 00:33:32+00:00
mine does support SSE (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash) but it fails before getting there, with the log looking like this:

2025/09/11 01:16:13 HTTP 200 GET 0.1ms /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server 2025/09/11 01:16:13 HTTP 200 GET 2.5ms / 2025/09/11 01:16:14 HTTP 404 GET 0.2ms /favicon.svg 2025/09/11 01:16:14 HTTP 404 GET 0.2ms /favicon.png 2025/09/11 01:16:14 HTTP 200 GET 0.2ms /favicon.ico 2025/09/11 01:16:14 HTTP 200 GET 0.1ms /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server 2025/09/11 01:16:15 HTTP 201 POST 0.3ms /mcp/register 2025/09/11 01:16:27 HTTP 200 GET 1.4ms /

with the frontend showing: "Error creating connector" and the network call showing: { "detail": "1 validation error for RegisterOAuthClientResponse\n Input should be a valid dictionary or instance of RegisterOAuthClientResponse [type=model_type, input_value='{\"client_id\":\"ChatGPT.Dd...client_secret_basic\"}\\n', input_type=str]\n For further information visit https://errors.pydantic.dev/2.11/v/model_type" }
by nirvdrum | 2025-09-11 00:33:41+00:00
If that works for you, great. I split files up into multiple repos and manage them with VCSH. The modular approach lets me configure multiple machines differently. I have config on my work laptop that shouldn’t end up on my personal devices, vice versa. I don’t really need my i3 config on my MacBook Pro. Ditto for XDG paths, just as I have macOS config that doesn’t have a natural fit on a Linux desktop.

I could use one repo for work and one for personal and live with the mess of useless files, but I like the cleanliness and having simple git histories. I also don’t have to have conditional statements all over the place.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-11 00:34:13+00:00
It's a small industry and people talk. You can also infer more about the systems from the bits that are public and/or reasonable.

Unfortunately, information ages quickly. Stuff that Waymo published about their architecture only a few years ago is now wildly out of date.

That said, diversity is decreasing. Most players are standardizing on relatively similar hardware platforms using nvidia compute, with connectivity heavily focused around ethernet as opposed to older buses.
by colinmorelli | 2025-09-11 00:34:15+00:00
> in this specific case

You could have quoted the beginning of the sentence, where the point was about this specific case, and how in this particular case, a gun clearly allowed an assassination that would have been challenging to pull off with a knife.

That is not a way as saying killing someone with a knife is impossible. It's a way of saying that guns allow you to kill people in ways and distances that knives do not.
by muzani | 2025-09-11 00:34:17+00:00
I had GPT-3 access at the time. GPT-3 was a dick. ChatGPT was the same guy in a suit and customer service. OpenAI put a ton of guardrails on it because they didn't trust it. They overtrained and cut out a lot though, and the good stuff was in the API. People thought of AI as rigid and boring, but unbarred, it was a fever dream. Great for brainstorming because it went into places the human brain wouldn't go.

Some publicly released stuff I had at the time: https://github.com/smuzani/openai-samples

Feel free to go through the history, there's some stuff from before 3.5.

My GitHub desc was there to fill a disclaimer requirement by OpenAI for any AI generated code using their API. I keep it for historical reasons.

I kept the good stuff private though. At the time I was pissed with Stack Overflow and had hacked together my own personal version which I wired to my terminal. All I got from SO at the time was being closed for being a duplicate of an unrelated question, so AI was a large step ahead.