MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FabHK | 2025-09-14 17:06:55+00:00
Of course, if the sender can cancel transactions at their discretion, that enables another class of frauds. The solution has to lie in some trusted centralized party outside the payment system [0]. Chia can't solve this. A banking system and legal system can.

[0] Goharshady, A. K. (2021). Irrationality, Extortion, or Trusted Third-parties: Why it is Impossible to Buy and Sell Physical Goods Securely on the Blockchain (arXiv:2110.09857). http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09857
by shigawire | 2025-09-14 17:07:44+00:00
>These policies also affect wealthy individuals and wealthy individuals want to be healthy (I assume).

They get to move to whatever enclave they want and buy expensive RO filters.

Or, they don't believe in science broadly and believe they won't be impacted. If scientists are so smart, why aren't they rich like me and exploiting everyone and everything to the maximum potential profit??
by m_fayer | 2025-09-14 17:08:02+00:00
The populist wave is global and its causes are complex. But in the case of the US on top of it all, our populists happen to be clowns and morons.

I think the reasonable mind struggles to deal with the current obvious stupidity even within a populist frame, and hunts for a hidden explanation. It’s a lot scarier to believe that the world’s biggest economy and military and nuclear arsenal are somehow in the hands of not just authoritarians, but crooks and morons.

But it’s true. Britain did it too, it happens.

So why do they do it? To play out some idiotic meme-driven culture war, reduced through these people’s small minds to caricature. They don’t think about second order effects, they lack the sophistication for that.

It’s terrifying.
by creer | 2025-09-14 17:08:28+00:00
Let's say you use your own-run web server on your own machine (home likely for an individual, at the office for a small business), and https and/or a vpn between the phone and the server. Potentially all the way to a remote desktop or SSH to command line app. Let's compare:

> Privacy

For phone-hosted: threats of phone image screening, repair tech access, checkpoint demands, security bugs. For server-hosted: mostly just security bugs and working around phone cache.

> reliability and predictability

For phone-hosted: you'll never have all your data, you are constantly dependant on apps tradeoffs or outright availability (even my train schedule app stopped supporting my phone OS, amazing), phone theft or broken or other loss. For server-hosted: All your data, apps you control, always able to write your own additional tool and deploy whenever you want, reliable backups, against rare no network access.

> wanting to avoid setting up accounts

For phone-hosted: Indeed more and more difficult to deploy your own apps (because accounts and hoops to jump). For server-hosted: what accounts? My server my accounts. You rarely need something like an additional remote server (which even then would be less constrained than a phone developer account - and probably cheaper.)

> space (you didn't mention this one)

Server-hosted is much cheaper space than on the phone (at the tradeoff of transfer speed).

> development hurdles (you didn't mention this one)

Gone! Free as the wind! Whatever tool, whatever "pratices", no gatekeepers, update when you want either standard software or your own - or postpone updates when the situation demands. Absurdly simpler development. All yours.

So anyway, my point is that the original attractiveness of hosting a private-data personal app on the phone has changed. (1) that has been made harder - and less private, while (2) access of your home server has become MUCH better.
Show HN: Fiverr for AI Agents (Sokosumi)
by Padierfind | 2025-09-14 17:08:40+00:00
I'm part of the team that build Sokosumi, a marketplace where you can hire and deploy AI agents for specific tasks (research, design, sentiment analysis, etc.).

Instead of one big chatbot, they’re positioning it as a directory of specialized “freelancer” agents, with a blockchain-based backend for payments and identity. Developers can also list their own agents and monetize them.

Curious what people here think about this model:

Will specialization make agent marketplaces more useful than general-purpose LLM tools?

How viable is blockchain as the backbone for an agent economy?

What pitfalls might this run into (quality control, UX friction, trust)?
Show HN: Yobio – A super fast, clean Link-in-Bio tool
by FabianJani | 2025-09-14 17:08:42+00:00
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by pjmlp | 2025-09-14 17:08:55+00:00
Thankfully not everything needs Kubernetes.

If you are going there, I also consider Kubernetes optional.

When I have the option to push for specific cloud deployments, I usually push for serverless or managed containers.

You might argue that still depends on Kubernetes, for me Kubernetes just like Linux, is mostly an implementation detail, that we get to open support tickets when it doesn't go as planned.

No one needs to hurt themselves running a local Kubernetes cluster.
by jstimpfle | 2025-09-14 17:09:27+00:00
According to ChatGPT, a tape device is actually considered a "slow device". Even though I'm not sure it's that unpredictable. Maybe for most common use cases it is.

I was under the impression that seeking a disk you can generally calculate well with 10ms? Again, it depends on the file system abstractions built on top, and then the cache and the current system load -- how many seeks will be required?
by westurner | 2025-09-14 17:09:32+00:00
That twisted SWCNT store energy basically without heat loss is incredibly under capitalized.

/?hnlog graphene (345 references), vortices (70 references) .. westurner.github.io/hnlog/

That's it, I'm writing a tool to parse this for citations

From "Single atom defect in 2D material can hold quantum information at room temp" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40478219 :

> - "Observation of current whirlpools in graphene at room temperature" (2024) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj2167 .. "Electron Vortices in Graphene Detected" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40360691

>> re: the fractional quantum hall effect, and decoherence: How are spin currents and vorticity in electron vortices related?

> [...] But the Standard Model Lagrangian doesn't describe n-body gravity, n-body quantum gravity, photons in Bose-Einstein Condensates; liquid light in superfluids and superconductors, black hole thermodynamics and external or internal topology, unreversibility or not, or even fluids with vortices or curl that certainly affect particles interacting in multiple fields.

This is probably wrong if these are also true:

This says that the standard model actually does describe the n-body orbits of the planets:

"Perihelion precession of planetary orbits solved from quantum field theory" (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14447 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45220460

There's also this:

"Fluid vacuum yields exact solutions to Pioneer anomaly and Mercury's perihelion (2019)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45220585
by nickpsecurity | 2025-09-14 17:09:46+00:00
"I believe the argument is that you can also encode information in the time domain."

Brain research showed that's happening, too. You'll see many models like this if you DuckDuckGo for "spiking" "temporal" "encoding" or subtitute "time" for temporal. You can further use "neural" "network" or "brain" focus it on sub-fields.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-14 17:11:32+00:00
How come? Genuinely curious.

I feel the same way with Go, OCaml, Factor, Erlang / Elixir, Common Lisp, and even Perl, depending on what I am doing. Heck, I still have new projects written in C due to its simplicity, which is what I want sometimes, and more control.
by rickydroll | 2025-09-14 17:11:47+00:00
One possible solution is to get all the liberal/progressive voters to register as Republicans and run liberal/progressive candidates as Republicans. Built on the Eisenhower platform of 1956 and his record as a military commander. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-p...

Granted, it's not ideal, but coming in the back door may be necessary.
by californical | 2025-09-14 17:12:02+00:00
> You guys hate corporations so much

Sorry I don’t know who you’re grouping me with, but I don’t hate corporations. I hate people intentionally harming others for their own profit.

> Do you guys also think all the old asbestos manufacturers hoped/intended that their miners and others working with their sheeting would get mesothelioma?

Again, not speaking for a group here since I’m just some guy. But I think when evidence started to appear that “holy crap this is killing people like crazy”, then choosing to allow it to continue - yes is equivalent to killing people intentionally.

I don’t consider “disguising your killing through statistics” to be a reasonable defense. If I have 100 miners that I’ve hired in a room, and I know that 10 of them will die as a direct result of my actions, such as not taking precautionary safety measures… It doesn’t matter which 10 it is, I’ve still chosen to kill 10 of those people.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-09-14 17:13:00+00:00
> Okay, but it's very easy for you to build and sign your own builds that provide root access to the user.

> GOS publishes pretty detailed documentation. They don't explain step by step how to build an OS with root specifically, instead assuming that the users knowing the immense risks also have the skils they need to achieve it without handholding.

It really sounds like you call it very easy, then promptly turn around and say that it's not easy but that's okay because it should be hard. You're also conflating the ability to assess security risks with the ability to build Android from source and modify it in the process, even though these skills are mostly unrelated.

> I dint understand why you insist on this massive risk to be laid on on everyone.

Largely, I don't agree that it's a "massive risk" in the first place. I don't believe that user-controlled root access is a problem, and I certainly don't believe that a default-off option to enable root access constitutes a problem.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-14 17:13:07+00:00
Actually, the team behind archive dot today in at least spiegel.de has premium accounts, I presume bought with anonymous credit cards.

You can see artifacts when their servers are at queue load and you see the URLs, a few resources have the JWT with the account details in the URL. IIRC the clearname of the account in the token is Masha Rabinovich, with an email account masha@dns.li, an identity that has cropped up in various investigations [1][2].

[1] https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-...

[2] https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/145817/who-owns-...
by mystraline | 2025-09-14 17:13:29+00:00
About that.

A browser is a 'User agent', as in it is supposed to act on MY behalf, and things in my intent and benefit. Similar agents are real estate agents, or attorneys as my agent.

So... For something that is MY agent, why are browsers creating, and instituting anti-agent choices against my will?

Barring excuses of "following the spec", I should be able to easily disable my user-agent's execution of said onerous code.

(I'm ignoring this for Google chrome. They're an adtech company, and they won in court as a monopoly. Fuck them.)
by MostlyStable | 2025-09-14 17:13:29+00:00
No, I'm not. Pick whatever estimate of deaths from Chernobyl you like. Take the highest, most unreasonable estimate. It's still true. And yes, _now_ we have other options. In 1960 we didn't. We have nearly a century of carbon emissions and particulate deaths that were unnecessary. There are literally _millions_ of premature deaths every year as a result of fossil fuel particulate emissions.

Nuclear may not be the best option anymore (I'm skeptical that an ideal power generation mix doesn't include more nuclear than we currently have, but agree that it probably shouldn't be the primary source anymore), that doesn't change the fact that not using it for past 80+ years as our primary energy generation source was a huge civilizational blunder.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-14 17:14:04+00:00
One of my “friends” on Facebook who is a devout evangelical Christian that I went to school with between elementary school at a private Christian elementary school, a magnet middle school and she was one of the few white people at my majority black high school and even one of the fewer that didn’t segregate herself and made friends with everyone claimed that Charles Kirk was a good Christian and said I was insensitive for quoting his words after his death.

I honestly had never heard of him before he was shot and looked up things about him thinking from all of the things said about him by her and other conservatives was that he was a traditional pre 2016 Republican who I might disagree with around the edges. But I could have a beer with him.

I then looked up some of the things he said, showed her with links to videos, verified sources etc and she refused to even read the links because they would have forced her to confront her cognitive dissonance.

For the record, she isn’t one of the fire breathing conservatives and 99% of her posts are quoting scriptures and family oriented.
by visarga | 2025-09-14 17:14:34+00:00
> but have no architectural mechanism to separate facts from expressions

Sure they do. Every time a bot searches, reads your site and formulates an answer it does not replicate your expression. First of all, it compares across 20.. 100 sources. Second, it only reports what is related to the user query. And third - it uses its own expression. It's more like asking a friend who read those articles and getting an answer.

LLMs ability to separate facts from expression is quite well developed, maybe their strongest skill. They can translate, paraphrase, summarize, or reword forever.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-09-14 17:14:55+00:00
> but there's one side that constantly does things like this, on top of giving tax cuts to rich people that need it the least.

That side is consistently good at pushing uneducated voters to care about nothingburger issues like transgender bathrooms and mass immigration.

the reality is that the average american is an uninformed moron made complacent through excess and enteratinment but thats not something that can be easily fixed.
by cryptonector | 2025-09-14 17:15:54+00:00
UTF-8 does not need a BOM at all and never needed it, for two reasons:

- first, byte order doesn't affect the UTF-8 encoding,

- second, the codeset metadata problem you're trying to solve is a problem that already existed before and still does after UTF-8 enters the scene -- you just have to know if some text file (or whatever) uses UTF-8, ISO 8859-x, SHIFT-JIS, UTF-16, etc.

The second point addresses your concern, but that metadata has to be out of band. Putting it in-band creates the sorts of problems that others have pointed out, and it creates an annoyance once all non-Unicode locales are gone. And since the goal is to have Unicode replace all other codesets, and since we've made a great deal of progress in that direction, there is no need now to add this wart.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-09-14 17:16:11+00:00
This is what I find so interesting about the MAHA "movement". Kennedy is making some good (and many bad) points about food and nutrition. But then he is part of an administration that promotes pollution and wants to remove safeguards against chemicals that harm people. I have no idea how this is supposed to fit together but in today's political climate it's not necessary for things to make sense.
by iszomer | 2025-09-14 17:16:12+00:00
It means the event has had such an impact in which it has already reverberated across the entire globe, where other countries' leaders and people have responded.

He's saying to not be surprised when this may potentially affect the already volatile state of the global markets and economies even further or, whatever industries you follow or are in or, policy changes that may (already) be in the pipeline.

If I may give a metaphor, in the context of the global trade and economies, countries have been using the "carrot on a stick" approach to negotiations. Trump came and changed the stick to a club. Who knows now whether he'll throw out the carrot altogether and whether others will do the same.
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 17:16:12+00:00
> anyone who came to the stage to dispute him would receive death threats

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

> Read the audience. He knew what he was doing.

The footage I have seen universally depicts a cheering, entertained crowd that expresses nothing I could interpret as hateful towards anyone.

> Kirk repeatedly promoted the false claim that the medical examiner who performed the autopsy declared Floyd had died of an overdose.

Two autopsies were performed, and both involved at least one medical examiner. One of them found that fentanyl and/or methamphetamine may have been a complicating factor. But this is understating the case. Floyd is known to have taken a very high dose of fentanyl (https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/george-floyd/evide...), which is commonly understood to be a very dangerous drug. The other autopsy, commissioned by Floyd's legal team, did not include a toxicology report.

> ... voter fraud ...

This is, of course, hotly contested. People on the other side of the aisle, from what I can tell, sincerely believe that the people "disproving" these claims are fabricating their evidence and/or ignoring supporting evidence.

Regardless, believing a falsehood to be true is not the same thing as lying.

> Kirk called the public health measure of social distancing prohibitions in churches a "Democratic plot against Christianity". In the 2020s, Kirk was a Christian nationalist who called the separation of Church and state in the United States a "fabrication". Appearing at a Trump campaign rally in 2024, he said: "This is a Christian state. I'd like to see it stay that way."

This is the same thing repeated three times, and it is an opinion, not a claim. He was not saying anything about what the law or Constitution provides. He was describing what he considers to be the general order of the society around him.

Many political thinkers across the spectrum have disputed that the US implements real separation of church and state, irrespective of what the laws and Constitution say. There are many simple ways to make this argument.

For example, giving preferential tax treatment or legal recognition to married couples is a clear mingling of church and state; government didn't come up with the concept, existing religious traditions (including paganism; I am not agreeing with Kirk's opinion on Christianity here) did.

For another example, from the Constitution:

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights...

It's hard to fathom, given the identities of the people involved, that "Creator" here refers to something other than the Christian God.

> There are innumerable more.

Again, the reliability of "fact-checking" institutions is in question. I have personally encountered examples of sites like Snopes and Politifact giving significantly different truth ratings to the same claim when it was made by different politicians. There are other sites out there dedicated to cataloguing such examples.
by ganyu | 2025-09-14 17:16:28+00:00
PFAS is short for 'Per- and poly- FluoroAlkyl Substances'. The Teflon that's used on your pans, which are 'poly-' materials, comes in extra long chains (hundreds of thousands of molecules). Most of its chemical bonds are hidden behind the extremely reactive Fluoride atoms (so if Fluoride is bonded onto that position, it's hard to take it off) and are extremely inert, so they don't interfere with typical biological reactions, thus are perfectly safe.

C8 is known as PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid). Per for its chained molecule shape (no carbon side chains), 'fluoro' for the F part, 'octanoic' for the 8 carbon atoms, and 'acid' for its chemical property. Unlike Teflon:

- C8 has a really small molecular mass, making it easier to flow around your body participating in all kinds of biological operations; - It is an acid (having the carboxylic '-COOH' group) and can pretend to be all kinds of acids and actively take part in reactions. Once they start to get inside, the consequences can be unpredictable and devastating. - All other atoms on C8 except for the last -COOH group are covered by fluoride atoms. This means that C8 is not biodegradable (no enzyme can break apart the C-F covalent bond since it's bond energy is really too high), and when it gets into the environment, it stays that way.

C6 has a highly similar chemical property akin to C8 (it's a carboxylic acid, and has all atoms covered by fluoride), so is equally harmful.
by Theodores | 2025-09-14 17:16:30+00:00
Can anyone remember when IBM made their own clones?

Ambra?

They had very unusual mice but I never saw one in the wild.

The sale to Lenovo went very well, when compared to how most mergers, acquisitions and consolidations went in the period. I can't remember Lenovo from before the acquisition and, again, I can't remember seeing any pre-Thinkpad Lenovo machines.
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-14 17:16:45+00:00
I read it as just being context dependent. The "Tripoli" vs "Triple E" bit in the article was to me another anecdote on how we resolve ambiguity based on what we have in our mind's stack at the moment:

> A friend once told me of an ingenious class demonstration that helped her begin to understand this process. A professor split the class in two and then spoke to the first half alone, telling them of his love for travel and a recent trip to Libya. Next, he spoke to the second half about shopping and how hard it was to find the right size shoe. Last, he brought the class together and said a single word. He asked the students to write it down. Students in the first group wrote, “Tripoli.” Those in the second wrote, “Triple E.”
by toast0 | 2025-09-14 17:17:05+00:00
> with x86 first. I quickly got annoyed with all the legacy boilerplate required.

IMHO, if you use a reasonable bootloader, you don't have too much boilerplate. Multiboot loaders do leave you in real mode, and most people want to be in protected mode, so you have to set up some tables and do a jump, but that's not that much boilerplate. There's a bit more stuff if you disable legacy interrupt controllers (which you probably want to) but it seems to me being able to maybe run on a regular pc is worth it (caveats about console interfaces apply... my hobby OS needs bios boot and uses some vga things that I found aren't well supported... serial console is easier, but lots of computers don't have a serial port either)