MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somenameforme | 2025-09-24 12:52:48+00:00
As of March 2025, the US intelligence had assessed that Iran was neither building nor pursuing a nuclear a weapon. [1] Claims to the contrary can from Netanyahu who is increasingly obviously an unstable individual. Notably the 'flip flop' when Trump decided to invade Iran was precipitated on very careful language that Iran could have a weapon if they chose to pursue it, under a likely exaggerated timeline. It's not really a flip flop as both statements can be, and probably were, true.

So why was Iran so close to a nuclear weapon in the first place? What happened is that after years of enriching at a normal level Iran suffered yet another attack from the US/Israel in 2021 that caused significant damage to their nuclear facilities. [2] Following this they increased enrichment to 60%, which is just below weapons grade, to make a point that they were entirely capable of making a nuclear weapon, but had made a conscious decision not to.

Following the latest US/Israel attacks on them, I think it's fairly certain that they will develop a nuke, if not only because it's increasingly obviously the only way they can stop the endless US/Israel attacks. Ultimately, you're not going to be able to stop a country full of brilliant individuals from building a nuke if they want it. It seems likely that Iran was negotiating in good faith, and then we literally launched an invasion on them mid-negotiation. What's the point of negotiating?

[1] - https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-iran-nuclear-weapon-2...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Natanz_incident
by dimitrisnl | 2025-09-24 12:53:09+00:00
I have only good things to say about TanStack start. I know there's some fatigue when it comes to full-stack JS/TS frameworks, since they re-invent ways to do data fetching, but are not in any way batteries-included.

I prefer it over Next.js and the whole RSC story, and it has sensible features that I missed in Remix (server functions from everywhere [1], middleware, type safety)

I wouldn't pick it as a full-stack framework, I will always keep my backend separate, but for a SSR-capable TypeScript framework it's amazing.

[1]: https://tanstack.com/start/latest/docs/framework/react/serve...
by empiko | 2025-09-24 12:53:25+00:00
Censorship in oppressive countries is often not carried out directly by the government. Instead, to save face, it is enforced along invisible power lines. The government gives a silent nod to other actors in society nudging them to act accordingly. For example, an Eastern Bloc citizen might not receive a formal penalty for leaving the communist party, but their children's admission to university could suddenly become more difficult, of course without any official acknowledgment of the fact.
by pmarreck | 2025-09-24 12:53:27+00:00
One of the reasons Proton has been so successful as a dev target is because the Windows API is not changing anymore and is thus stable.

The same, as I understand it, cannot be said about the Linux-native API. SteamOS may have stabilized it somewhat, but there's a reason why the readme on their site for this basically says "it may run on Linux proper, but we're not supporting it except on Steam Deck"
by tomaytotomato | 2025-09-24 12:53:29+00:00
You just cherry picked two examples which are not issues in other countries with ID cards.

ID cards can prove who is an illegal immigrant or not, and with the current atmosphere. I want to know and be confident that we can check people's status efficiently and correctly who's here.

Sure there might be some small process mishaps but for the safety of the nation, it is worth it.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-24 12:53:31+00:00
No, it is not easy to fake.

As @vinay427 mentioned this is most digital now so you get a "share code" from the Home Office, which you provide to your prospective employer. In turn they go to the Home Office's website, input the code, and should get your picture, details, and entitlement to work.

That's on top of having a passport to go with it.
by boctrg | 2025-09-24 12:53:41+00:00
I'm really confused with myself. I should feel horrible. Things are going downhill for me for years, but I don't seem to hit rock bottom. I wonder how much worse it has to get for me to ... idk what - break down, learn from it, realize or something. I've been diagnosed with depression a couple years back (had a couple therapy sessions too), but I don't feel as dark as back then. I'm somewhat numb and apathetic. Lots of self-pity, I guess, but I don't seem to learn anything from it and that is really weird.
by whstl | 2025-09-24 12:54:02+00:00
There are more than two paths.

The older leftist path was that taking refugees was the moral thing to do, but taking immigrants to do cheap jobs was not.

In the past the left was saying "the real issue is capital using migration to drive down wages and fragment worker power".

Today nobody is saying that anymore, left or right, because nobody cares about neither refugees nor workers. It's just extremist positions in public discourse. Saying "economic migrant" has become a dog whistle.
by caseysoftware | 2025-09-24 12:54:15+00:00
> One of the reasons we know this story is bogus is because of the New York Times story which cites anonymous officials, “speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation”.

Yes, we should be skeptical of anything that is entirely sources from anonymous sources.. even if they align with what we want to believe.

And further, I'd love to see reporters start burning sources that lie to them. After all, the source is risking/destroying the reporter's credibility along the way. Unfortunately, we'll never see that as it's all an access game.
by Bender | 2025-09-24 12:54:33+00:00
It is technically impossible for a large platform to implement E2EE without having a way to target one person to bypass it. True E2EE will always have to be a program external to the chat platform that handles keys out of band like OTR.

Legally it will never truly happen. Any platform saying they have E2EE is outright lying. Lavabit was an example of what happens when a large platform makes lawful intercept impossible. People keep telling me that Proton and Signal are E2EE and I will always offer them a tropical island for sale on the dark side of the moon, heavily discounted. Moxie of all people should know better.
by adzm | 2025-09-24 12:54:36+00:00
I was surprised they went with Deno instead of Node, but since Deno has a readily available single-exe distribution that removes a lot of potential pain. This was pretty much just a matter of time, though; the original interpreter in Python was a brilliant hack but limited in capability. It was discussed a few years ago for the YouTube-dl project here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32793061
by emadda | 2025-09-24 12:55:02+00:00
I built a macOS app [1] (to fuzzy search Apple Notes) using Ghostty as a base so that I could use its fast rendering for large lists.

I think there is space for an Electron-like framework but for standalone terminal apps. Looking forward to using Ghostty as a library.

[1]: https://enzom.dev/hot-notes/
by mallowdram | 2025-09-24 12:55:16+00:00
We have to keep in mind that mimesis (Auerbach) and mimetics (Girard) are narrative theories of how storytelling literature engages the senses and memory. As there's no sci validity to either approaches, there's no falsifiable outputs that can be tested. They have nothing to do with reality, as words have nothing to do with thoughts.

Mimetic thought (Merlin Donald, eg) is an evolutionary phase of behavior that's been segregated from episodic, mythological and analytic. But that neither Girard or Auerbach have made theoretical distinctions in their literary approaches, they're invalid.

Memes are as yet unverifiable units of behavior that may have scientific value. The jury is still out.
by davzie | 2025-09-24 12:55:26+00:00
I have had many jobs and scenarios where I need to provide proof of residency and I have never once had a share code like you mention @mytailorisrich like this. The reality is that it doesn't happen like this. Usually about 6 months into your job someone forgets you haven't done the necessary checks and reaches out for you to send a couple of sketchy photos of your IDs so they can upload it to their HR system and forget about it.
by willvarfar | 2025-09-24 12:56:12+00:00
These are the main points listed in the article:

* Automatic Refunds for Cancellations: Airlines want to remove the requirement to provide automatic refunds when flights are cancelled or significantly altered. Passengers may instead receive only vouchers or no compensation at all, leaving them without recourse in the event of a major flight disruption.

* Transparency of Fees: The airlines also aim to strip away rules that require them to disclose all fees (like baggage, seat assignments, and service charges) upfront. Instead of the clear, itemized pricing system that passengers currently rely on, airlines could hide fees until later in the booking process, making the true cost of a ticket much higher than expected.

* Family Seating Guarantees: Under current regulations, airlines must ensure that families with young children are seated together without additional charges. This would no longer be guaranteed under the new proposal, meaning families could face extra costs just to sit next to one another.

* Accessibility Protections for Disabled Passengers: The deregulation proposal also targets protections for disabled passengers, weakening their access to support and assistance during air travel.

Nasty site full of a gazillion trackers etc.
by Aerbil313 | 2025-09-24 12:56:49+00:00
I have a counter-anecdote.

In order to get over my social anxiety I did the same. First year of college, I'm in to every event, hangout and gathering. I made many close friends, connections, memories.

Yet after any significant social interaction I was somehow, inexplicably, almost mysteriously, extremely exhausted. A lunch with few close friends would have me resting on the couch for a few hours afterwards. A meetup with more people would incapacitate me for the weekend. There was no alcohol or anything, the exhaustion wasn't physical but mental.

I kept at it for a year but the anxiety never eased off like so many "Get out of your room, touch grass, socialize" people claim. By the second year I was literally dreading getting out of my dorm room to get groceries for the off chance I'd meet a friend in the building. Meanwhile everybody loved me and were very friendly to me, but for some reason I was feeling like secretly everybody doesn't like me. I had negative amounts of self confidence and had constant people-pleasing behavior.

My friends kept inviting me because I was showing up to every event.

It turns out I had undiagnosed autism and ADHD. I was masking all this time[1]. The reason I felt why everybody doesn't like me was because I didn't like my friends, but never deemed my emotions important enough to even realize that.

After I realized this I let go of %99 of my "friendship"s and I'm much, much happier, content and stress-free than ever before. The comfortable level of socialization for me is maybe an outdoor activity with a close friend once a month.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autistic_masking
by piltdownman | 2025-09-24 12:57:46+00:00
In Ireland it's closer to €200/month just for Soccer depending on who you support. As a result 1 in 5 homes in Ireland admit to having a 'dodgy box' - i.e. an android or SoC box capable of running an IPTV Subscription pirating live Digital TV and various streaming services. These are usually sold as an annual subscription for €50-100 in pubs and on places like facebook marketplace.

The Irish Legal Community has already raised issues with how Sky is going about tracking down infringement at the user level, as they have an appalling record in this area and are likely to try and emulate the egregious situation in Spain to mitigate or retaliate.

https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/2025/june/dodg... https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0619/1519317-data-prote...

What's even more ridiculous is the "3pm blackout" rule which prevents football matches from being shown on UK television between 14:45 and 17:15 on Saturdays when 50% of fixtures in the top two divisions are scheduled to kick off at 15:00. The policy was introduced in the 1960s to encourage fans to attend lower league games - and it remains in force even in the globalised streaming era. Sadly the rights-holders can't be bothered splitting the package for Ireland, so we get to pay more for SkySports and still have to buy additional services.

In short, piracy is always a service issue. As a soccer fan going legit you'd possibly need to maintain a Sky Sports, BT Sport, TNT Sports and Premier Sports subscription. God forbid you want screen-casting support or 4K resolution.

In Ireland you STILL can't purchase/watch UFC PPVs as one-offs, there isn't a way for you to watch it legally the next day or live as a single event. The only way would be to get a subscription to a big provider like SkyTV or NOW!
by progbits | 2025-09-24 12:58:02+00:00
From https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/33186

> Currently, a new style of player JS is beginning to be sent where the challenge code is no longer modular but is hooked into other code throughout the player JS.

So it's no longer a standalone script that can be interpreted but it depends on all the other code on the site? Which could still be interpreted maybe but is a lot more complex and might need DOM etc?

Just guessing here, if anyone knows the details would love to hear more.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-09-24 12:58:03+00:00
As other's commented it is "special" because a good portion of the radiation from the Sun is in the same range.

It's also special for a few other reasons. The most obvious one being that UV light is destructive to many forms of animal life, there isn't much utility in being able to see for example something like X-Rays. They don't occur naturally in any quantity and the mechanisms that create them (lightning) also give off visible light.

On the other end of things, lower energy photons are what we would call heat. Some animals can see it, but not humans. We can sense it just fine through other mechanisms however.
by piyuv | 2025-09-24 12:58:07+00:00
I’m a paying YouTube premium subscriber. Last weekend, I wanted to download something so I can watch it on my way in the train. The app got stuck at “waiting for download..” on my iPad. Same on iPhone. Restart did not work. I gave up after an hour (30 mins hands on trying stuff, 30 mins waiting for it to fix itself). Downloaded the video using yt-dlp, transferred it to my USB c flash drive, and watched it from that.

Awaiting their “premium cannot be shared with people outside household” policy so I can finally cancel. Family members make good use of ad-free.
by Hetzner_OL | 2025-09-24 12:58:30+00:00
Hi there, I hope that it's okay that I respond here since you all mentioned Hetzner. What "clan" wrote here is correct. For our dedicated servers, which are un-managed, customers are responsible for monitoring. And naturally, if something comes up, our team will be happy to investigate it and replace the hardware (or even entire server) free of cost. It helps to speed up the process if you can document the failure as clearly as possible for our team by logging onto your account, navigating to the correct server, and opening a support ticket. You can also ask the team to run a full hardware check for you. For customers who don't want to spend as much time or effort on sysadmin, we have managed servers, where monitoring and other support is included. --Katie, Hetzner
by forducks | 2025-09-24 12:58:35+00:00
Eh, what I've been told from multiple people including former PMs/founders is that if I'm out of work for another year and nobody is willing to take a chance on me, the gap will be interpreted as coasting and the door to tech career will close. I'd like to think that someone out of work for years can score just any job in tech because hiring managers are compassionate, but reality is companies need shit done and a candidate with even a 6-month gap will ALWAYS outclass a candidate with a 3-year gap. These things really do have hard limits and it puts a deadline on how much time before it's fruitless.

Assuming you're going the LinkedIn/recruiter route at least. If a friend is going to recruit you off the street it might not apply, but... at that point it's a different type of battle. How to make tech friends for material gain while chronically depressed, broke, moody...
by erremerre | 2025-09-24 12:58:45+00:00
ISP with the right to football goes to court to report themselves (not a joke) about piracy happening in their networks.

An old man judge which understand technology as much as I understand biochemistry (nothing) decides that they need to stop piracy, His solution is to give laliga the power to block those illegal streams, that all ISP must comply for the time that a match exist. The judge covers himself by saying, that the blockage can't affect third parties.

All ISP happy comply. It does affect third parties.

Cloudflare (third party) puts a recourse to say that it is affecting their business. The very same old man, decides, that is not going to proceed with that investigation.

So cloudflare needs to to through a different slower legal procedure.

Meanwhile, we have a company with the authority to block what they want thanks to corruption.
by karmelapple | 2025-09-24 12:59:33+00:00
What part of this discovery was made thanks to NIH and/or NSF funding from the USA, or the NIHR in the UK?

I don't ask to strictly bring up politics, but instead to try and address the broad lack of understanding of how medical breakthroughs like this are made.

It's not done just by drug companies. The article says:

> UniQure says it will apply for a licence in the US in the first quarter of 2026 with the aim of launching the drug later that year.

That's true, but that doesn't talk about the tens to hundreds of research papers that have been published over likely decades to make this discovery a reality. And it doesn't talk about how much public money went into this discovery.

Many people reading this article probably have a vague idea that more than just this company was involved, but I feel it is not at all clear to the vast majority of people, since the vast majority of people are not involved in biomedical research.

I wish there was an easy way to figure out how many dollars, how many grants, how many researchers, went into achieving this breakthrough. And that the media would put that into news articles like this. Trace all the citations back a few orders, and I bet you'll find a massive number of NIH and NIHR grants.

There is unfortunately not more massive, bipartisan public outcry in the US over defunding the essential basic research the NIH does... and it's not new to the current administration, since it was attempted to be done back in 2017, too [1].

Scientists need better messaging or else we're going to stop having breakthroughs like this... and the breakthroughs are already going to slow down thanks to things like the $783 million in cuts to NIH grants that the US SCOTUS authorized in August [2].

1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5468112/

2. https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/08/supreme-court-allows-trum...
by adrian_b | 2025-09-24 12:59:37+00:00
The sensitivity of the eyes is indeed matched to the available light.

However the causal dependencies are more complex than this. If the available light would have been from another range of the possible frequencies, the eyes could not have used the same kinds of photoreceptors that are used now in the eyes of all animals.

For instance, if the available light would have been only infrared, then photo-chemical reactions could not have been used for detecting it, but such light could have been detected by its warming effect, like some snakes do for detecting infrared.

If our star would have been much colder, with negligible visible light, then such light might have been not usable for splitting water and generating free oxygen in the atmosphere. In such a case, the planet would have remained populated only by anaerobic bacteria and viruses, like in the first few billion years of Earth's history.
by martinald | 2025-09-24 13:00:25+00:00
The UK already has (various) digital IDs but this is the 'new' one https://www.gov.uk/using-your-gov-uk-one-login. So what's going to be different? Just making it mandatory?

I can see some justification (sorta) for not making it mandatory, but saying it won't improve citizens lives is complete rubbish. Having one login for all government services would massively improve the efficiency, especially if other departments can share data (with consent ala oauth) with each other. Even in the NHS itself this would be a huge boon, if you get referred to two different NHS trusts they basically cannot see any other data. If all medical records could be linked to an ID (that is more sophisticated access control wise than the NHS number) it would actually be a huge boon for privacy/audit/logging.
by falcor84 | 2025-09-24 13:00:41+00:00
> Taking existing data and correlating it and discovering new relationships in that data isn't an advancement of capability.

What? Are you arguing that anyone in the world who isn't themselves running empirical research is not advancing any capabilities?

Also, on a related note, there's absolutely nothing stopping AIs from designing, running and analyzing their own experiments. As just one example, I'll mention the impressive OpenDrop microfluidics device [0] and a recent Steve Mould video about it [1] - it allows a computer to precisely control the mixing of liquids in almost arbitrary ways.

[0] https://gaudishop.ch/index.php/product/opendrop-v4-digital-m...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf-efIZI_Dg
by ajross | 2025-09-24 13:00:43+00:00
This is sealioning. Demanding people on internet forums provide proof of really-not-very-controversial statements, hiding behind appeal to authority arguments and then feigning outrage when called out on it isn't really the right way to do this. There are many comments in this topic and others[1] explaining the idea you're pretending not to understand.

[1] This one is at the top of the front page as we speak: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45357693
by mijoharas | 2025-09-24 13:01:08+00:00
you don't think of Tommy Robinson as fascist? that's surprising to me. Ok, so I've grabbed a random definition of fascism[0] (first thing that came up googling).

> a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition

now, let's think about tommy robinson and the EDL.

* exalts nation and often race above the individual - check.

* wants a centralised autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader - check.

* by forcible suppression of opposition - I mean... it's the EDL, big check.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism
by teamonkey | 2025-09-24 13:01:31+00:00
Shader recompilation causes stuttering not general performance problems. Shader complexity will though, which is a function of render quality.

But I’m confused about why you think fill rate isn’t an issue? If you are now upgrading from 1080p to 4K your GPU needs at the very least 4x the pixel pushing power and even then that’s only to maintain the same detail; you bought a 4K screen for more detail.