MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maxbond | 2025-09-12 01:35:23+00:00
Everyone should give that some thought but look at Texas. In 2021 they were devastated by a snowstorm. This year they were devastated by flooding. Not to pick on Texas, they aren't the only ones caught under prepared for severe weather. Wildfires and drought in the western states is another thing we're under prepared for. And look at the hoarding of toilet paper etc. in 2020. I presume there's been problems in Europe that I'm not aware of that are more relevant to Denmark's calculus.

The climate is changing. Natural disasters are going to be more common. It's prudent to prepare for it.
by shoo | 2025-09-12 01:35:49+00:00
> THE .EXPOSED TLD This TLD is attractive and useful to end-users as it better facilitates search, self-expression, information sharing and the provision of legitimate goods and services. Along with the other TLDs in the Donuts family, this TLD will provide Internet users with opportunities for online identities and expression that do not currently exist. In doing so, the TLD will introduce significant consumer choice and competition to the Internet namespace – the very purpose of ICANN’s new TLD program.

> .EXPOSED will be utilized by registrants seeking new avenues for expression on the Internet. There is a deep history of progressivity and societal advancement resulting from the online free expressions of criticism. Individuals and groups will register names in .EXPOSED when interested in editorializing, providing input, revealing new facts or views, interacting with other communities, and publishing commentary.

-- https://icannwiki.org/.exposed
by diogenes_atx | 2025-09-12 01:36:25+00:00
For those who are looking for information and analysis about Palantir, there is an academic study about surveillance technology with useful information about the company:

Sarah Brayne (2020) Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing, Oxford University Press.

As the book explains, Palanatir is one of the largest companies specializing in surveillance data management services for law enforcement, the military and other corporations. Palantir does not own its data but rather provides an interface that runs on top of other data systems, including legacy systems, making it possible to link data points across separate systems. Palantir gathers its data primarily from "data brokerage firms," including LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters CLEAR, Acxiom, CoreLogic, Cambridge Analytica, Datalogix, Epsilon, Accurint. As Brayne observes, these data brokerage firms "collect and aggregate information from public records and private sources, e.g., drivers licenses, mortgages, social media, retail loyalty card purchases, professional credentials, charities’ donor lists, bankruptcies, payday lenders, warranty registrations, wireless access points at hotels and retailers, phone service providers, Google searches and maps geolocation, and other sources who sell your data to customers willing to pay for it. Yet it is difficult to fully understand the scope of the data brokerage industry: even the FTC cannot find out exactly where the data brokers get their information because brokerages cite trade secrecy as an excuse to not divulge their sources."

Why is this a concern for people living in a democratic society with a legal system that supposedly protects individual freedoms? "Big data companies argue that their proprietary algorithms and data are trade secrets, and therefore they refuse to disclose their data, code and techniques with criminal defense attorneys or the public" (p. 135). This means that, "In many cases it is simply easier for law enforcement to purchase data from private firms than to rely on in-house data because there are fewer constitutional protections, reporting requirements and appellate checks on private sector surveillance and data collection, which enables police to circumvent privacy laws" (pp. 24-5, 41-2).
by lmm | 2025-09-12 01:37:21+00:00
> Within the scope of mathematical logic, there’s a counterexample with Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem, which says that any theory sufficiently strong enough to model arithmetic contains a true sentence that’s not provable, called a Gödel sentence for the theory. The Gödel sentence is verifiable by its construction; however, it’s not provable from below.

I don't think this is a valid counterexample. The Gödel sentence is only verifiable from outside the theory, and you can prove it from outside the theory in the same way (e.g. with a large cardinal assumption for ZFC).
by vitorgrs | 2025-09-12 01:37:52+00:00
More relevant than Bolsonaro conviction, it's that the generals that were involved in the coup plot, were also convicted.

This is the first time that a General get arrested. Brazil had several coups in his history, they never got arrested.

The last general that got arrested in Brazil, got arrested for... trying to prevent a coup. Henrique Teixeira Lott.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrique_Teixeira_Lott
by giveita | 2025-09-12 01:38:18+00:00
It seems a workaround. Browsers suck so let's make a browser ... hell ... a full blown OS UI inside a web page? One that is bespoke for our site.

I prefer the semantics of deep bookmarkable urls to open things in new tabs. HATEOAS! And using my OS tiling to handle things. Choosing my browser/plugins too for better tab management (maybe Arc can help here?)
by shruubi | 2025-09-12 01:41:14+00:00
> What's with "defend them no matter what"? Defend from what and why?

In my experience, a lot of sports fans love to debate and argue, claim some strategy was "unfair" when used against their team, argue whether some penalty was justified or not. People who are die-hard for their team will usually defend their team no matter what.

> Sport is just sport - just watch, enjoy, have a good time

This is the thing. Politics has basically become a form of entertainment these days. You have talk-shows covering politics and making fun of the political news of the day, you have YouTubers and streamers who make a living off of making political content. Artists make comics that are varying degrees of witty political satire and, in America at least, the democratic and republican conventions are basically a political sideshow circus. To top it off, how many people have taken this situation as a reason to post on social media? Regardless of if you like or dislike Charlie Kirk and his idea's, using his death as a reason to post something on social media, positive or negative, is just using the situation for entertainment purposes.

How many people these days can honestly say they engage in politics to talk about policy, and not as a form of entertainment?
by keyle | 2025-09-12 01:41:31+00:00
It's neat but it runs like a dog. I opened a couple of things and tried to move the window... I'd take a statically generated bunch of webpages over this. If you're going to make one of those multi window webpages looking thing, make it good.

To note, in the past, this was a big no-no because SEO was important. You had to have good SEO for search engines to index your content efficiently and show up well ranked in search results...

Now, well, that ship has sailed and sank somewhere off the west coast...
by londons_explore | 2025-09-12 01:42:44+00:00
What pays for this?

If an emergency store costs 10% more to run, and emergencies are only 1 day in 10,000, then prices during emergencies would need to be 1000x normal for it to make business sense.

Unfortunately anti-price-gouging laws wouldn't allow that, nor would you manage to keep law and order in the shop when telling customers that a bottle of water is gonna cost them 2000 dollars/euros.
by apsurd | 2025-09-12 01:43:22+00:00
Private group chats are the new social networks. It's apples and oranges but I think for people that really don't want to be "on social media" the alternative is to keep engagement with close friends on a group-by-group basis.

So whatever they share on there is how I get my social-media awareness. It's basically intentionally a very very narrow filter. It has to be.

Then, subscribe to paid publications, journalism, podcasts, newsletters.
by 14 | 2025-09-12 01:43:36+00:00
I am not blaming others at all but my point was more to ops question about people panic buying the answer is yes people will do so. Without limits those with lots of money will take the lions share.

I am not trying to clear my conscious. I know I am a good person and literally would give the shirt off my back. But I had a hint things might get bad and as a father of young children above all and everything in this world I had to make sure I had at least a bit or reserves if things got bad. I am not rich at all so when I say I did a costco run I am not talking like thousands of dollars. More like an $800 run which is nothing, but I know how to make that much last a long time. I got a bunch of flour and rice. Some meats and tomato sauce. I would not be eating in luxury had their been a long term shortage but I would at least be able to make some bread and basic foods to keep my family feed even if poorly.
by red369 | 2025-09-12 01:44:23+00:00
I tend to agree.

I didn't rush off to panic buy, but when I first heard about it happening, I did go to do a normal grocery run in case things later ran out. There was nothing on my list. Also, there was almost nothing on the shelves. It was like the supermarket had been looted. Well, of everything edible or useful anyway. Probably high-value, non-essentials were still there, unlike in real looting.

I walked and walked the aisles, and the only thing I could find that we might eat were black olives. I disliked black olives (as apparently did everyone else), but I bought (and later ate) them anyway. That wasn't the only thing edible in the supermarket - it was a while ago, so I forget what was still there. Perhaps condiments, and obscure baking ingredients.

I held out from panic buying right through, but once the shelves were restocked I started buying a couple extra of everything each time, as long as there were lots on the shelf. I gradually filled one cupboard shelf with 6-7 of every canned and jarred food we eat. Later on, there were a few more instances of people panic buying at the slightest provocation (1), and I now assume people will do it if allowed.

1) https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/473591/you-don-t-need-to...
by majormajor | 2025-09-12 01:44:28+00:00
Nah, the portion of people on phones vs reading newspapers/magazines/books is much higher. Most people 20 years ago didn't find enough interesting in the average paper or magazine (and didn't read for pleasure much anyway).

So it was a weak background distraction at most. Course, different places had different accepted levels of conversation - London tubes aren't chatty - but there's a difference in brain activity, patterns, anxiety, etc sitting in silence with your thoughts vs having the phone constantly trying to get "engagement" with attention-grabbing provocations.

Similarly, watching TV at home was more "background" than "constant binge." The types of shows reflect this - intentionally repetitive, fairly low stakes, things are back to normal at the end of the episode, because most people weren't so hooked that they watched the same stuff every week at the same time.

"Background phone use" is much more conversation-killing.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-09-12 01:44:43+00:00
No, that's not so. One of the relevant rulings (https://ec.europa.eu/competition/digital_markets_act/cases/2...) dictates that merely providing any API isn't enough. Among other requirements, the API must "properly consider the needs of third parties that will make use of the solution", it must be "properly tested for bugs or other shortcomings", and Apple must "provide adequate and timely assistance to third parties that report issues". A barely hacked-together API that's hard to use without constantly pinging the team who implemented it - entirely normal for the first release of a big new feature - wouldn't be enough.
by JackeJR | 2025-09-12 01:46:41+00:00
N=1 study should not have made it into headlines.

> Although the research marks a milestone in the search for treatments of type 1 diabetes, it’s important to note that the study involved one one participant, who received a low dose of cells for a short period—not enough for the patient to no longer need to control their blood sugar with injected insulin. An editorial by the journal Nature also says that some independent research groups have failed in their efforts to confirm that Sana’s method provides edited cells with the ability to evade the immune system.
by whycome | 2025-09-12 01:46:42+00:00
The article mentions "Technology Connections titled 'Algorithms Are Breaking How We Think'"

I'm a huge fan of the channel, and that video is mostly great and insightful. But his being "puzzled" at the way people use the subscriptions "feed" is kinda surprising. The low percentaged from that feed should lead to asking questions to understand why, instead of assuming people are "doing it wrong". People use subscriptions as a sort of meta bookmarking system. It's also a way of honing their algorithm. People can have a wide variety of interests. Just because someone is subscribed to a channel on anime doesn't mean it's the thing they're looking for at the time they dip into that feed. And some channels just fill the feed up with posts that don't always necessitate the work of pruning it. So, that firehose ends up being a lot of noise. The ideal would be some sort of in-between. Where you can pare down the subscriptions feed based on a current interest. One doesn't need to see the very latest post by a creator of they aren't someone who is chronically online.

I think we will still see the emergence of "human algorithms" that personally curate content for you.
by vitorgrs | 2025-09-12 01:48:26+00:00
There was a poll released this week [1]:

[...] What is your position on the final outcome of the trial?

49.6% The fair outcome is for Jair Bolsonaro to be convicted

36.9% The fair outcome is for Jair Bolsonaro to be acquitted

¹ https://www.cnt.org.br/pesquisas

This is one of the few polls that got the 2022 election results right, so pretty big deal.
by theamk | 2025-09-12 01:48:38+00:00
Looks neat, but also makes feels really slow in my browser. I'd take the regular windows at any time, especially since it's super simple to detach a tab from browser, check "Always on top", and put next to code editor or something.

Also there are non-removable bars on top and bottom of the page, even if window is "maximized".
by majormajor | 2025-09-12 01:49:22+00:00
News doesn't get created that fast.

There's a lot of commentary addicts and such. Cable "news" started this, the internet has magnified it even more. "Screens" wouldn't be the problem if we all used them for mental enrichment, but instead they've been taken over by "engagement"-hunters trying as hard as possible to get you to see just one more ad... and then another one... and another one...
by glxxyz | 2025-09-12 01:50:13+00:00
It sounds like the company is doing it as a community service. It doesn't make 'business sense' except perhaps by improving the company's image. Companies also donate to charities etc.

“This is our core task and a responsibility we take on, and we also believe that it is timely […] that we – like other countries – prepare for possible crisis situations, which a good and constructive dialogue with the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness has also confirmed. We hope that this will not be necessary, but should it happen, our customers can count on us.”

https://www.esmmagazine.com/retail/salling-group-advances-wo...
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-12 01:50:47+00:00
Is anyone surprised? The Brazilian Supreme Court is incredibly biased and has been engaged in unconstitutional suppression of political opposition. The same requirements they had for social media companies led to young Nepalese overthrowing their government in a few days time. But I guess the Brazilian population has accepted their new authoritarian rule from the judicial bench.

Let’s see what comes of this:

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/rubio-vows-us-respons...
by Jarred | 2025-09-12 01:50:52+00:00
Streaming prevents many optimizations because the code can’t assume it’s done when run once, so it has to suspend / resume, clone extra data for longer, and handle boundary cases more carefully.

It’s usually only worth it after ~tens of megabytes, but vast majority of npm packages are much smaller than that. So if you can skip it, it’s better.
You can vibecode your way to being useful (and be paid for it)
by reyneill | 2025-09-12 01:52:22+00:00
Pretty surprised waking up to paying customers after investing time into making a tool to assist developers into better AI coding experiences, despite not "promoting while building" nor paying ads, just organic post-launch content.

Currently the app has just two digit users but 50% of them are paying customers

The app is doqment.dev (MCPs on demand). It emerged as an internal tool which turned into a product out of friends feedback, sort of like Claude Code

To give some stats out:

Product hunt makes number 1 referrals by far (doQment was 11th of the day with 101 upvotes). Followed by X (2-3 posts on communities), strangely enough Google, and then Hacker News (a single launch post)
by majormajor | 2025-09-12 01:52:35+00:00
Computers still have a lot of pre-24/7-internet applications and patterns compared to phones. You can get all the brain-killing stuff on them, but you also have more options for doing interesting stuff.

(Most HN use arguing with strangers is not that. Clearly I'm guilty too.)

Ironically for the "you'll rot your brain" panic of the eighties and nineties, a lot of video games are similarly better. Invest 60 hours into a complicated game and you've worked your brain out MASSIVELY more than 60 hours scrolling or watching tiktok.

Hell, at this point making it through a pre-2000s TV show or movie can be an attention-span challenge. Where's the constant payoff every 30 seconds like with memes??
by mallowdram | 2025-09-12 01:53:06+00:00
My favorite molecular mechanisms paper

https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-02...

In terms of NCC of memory, the papers beginning around the mid 2000s are seismic. The encoding and retrieval are subtly varied depending on the lab.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17425535/

Also the cohort studies are immensely helpful, dementia, Down's syndrome let us see the impairment.
by al_borland | 2025-09-12 01:54:16+00:00
Some of it has to do with app defaults. When you load up YouTube it doesn’t go to the subscriptions, it goes to the Recommended page. It has enough of the new videos from subscribed channels people watch, plus enough of the new videos from channels they commonly watch without a subscription, that people have no reason to go to the Subscriptions page.

Launching from the Subscriptions is an intentional act by people who are actively trying to avoid the Recommendation page, or where the Recommendation page failed to surface what they wanted.

I would not be at all surprised if any using of the Subscriptions page triggered YouTube to adjust their algorithm for that user to see more of what they played on the Recommendation page. They probably see the use of the Subscriptions as a failure of the Recommendation engine.

For a short while my YouTube app on my AppleTV was showing Watch Later and Subscriptions when it launched. I loved it. I assume they were just A/B testing, because it stopped doing that after a while.
by stickfigure | 2025-09-12 01:55:41+00:00
> if behaviorally, you cannot distinguish it from “real” intelligence?

Current LLMs are a long way from there.

You may think "sure seems like it passes the Turing test to me!" but they all fail if you carry on a conversation long enough. AIs need some equivalent of neuroplasticity and as of yet they do not have it.
by a_paddy | 2025-09-12 01:56:57+00:00
Do you mean the claim that there was a command center under al-Shifa hospital? That was debunked over 18 months ago by multiple sources. None of the attacks on hospitals have been justifiable under the Geneva Conventions.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67453105 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/17/idf-evidence-s...
Ask HN: Why there is not a solid Auth solution for JavaScript?
by jerawaj740 | 2025-09-12 01:59:11+00:00
i see a lot of solution every year most of them are paid, the flexibility of javascript ecosystem sometimes feels like a pain when i should rely on 1000 dependencies to build a small CRUD web app, batteries included frameworks like ROR,phoenix elixir, laravel,django did a great a job
by sheepscreek | 2025-09-12 01:59:24+00:00
I guess it's a spectrum with varying abilities. If you ask me, I can see a red apple - or a photo of a red apple precisely. It's not in 3D though, I cannot imagine it from other angles so I cannot image the dots around it. But if I were to sit in a quiet and dark room without any distractions, and tried concentrating super hard (with my eyes closed), then I would be able to see it as other can. Perhaps even manipulate it in my mind.

Then maybe, at least in my case, it is my inability to focus my imagination when my senses are already being bombarded with external stimuli. But I cannot speak for anyone else.
by astrospective | 2025-09-12 02:00:01+00:00
We had a classmate would would wander off with his laptop unlocked so one day we set all his system sounds to fart noises and cranked up the volume. He came back to class minimized a window and the whole class heard the noise and cracked up. We also got good mileage out of adding a wireless mouse on another occasion and zipping his cursor around the screen for probably a good ten minutes.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-12 02:01:45+00:00
Does anyone else cringe when they see so many examples of sexualised young women? Literally, Case 1/B has a women lifting up her skirt to reveal her underwear. For an otherwise very impressive model, you are spoiling the PR with this kind of immature content. Sheesh. I guess that confirms it: I am a old grumpy man! I count 26 examples with young women, and 9 examples with men. The only thing missing was "Lena": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna