MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by meesles | 2025-09-09 21:32:16+00:00
I would point out that as of 3 years ago, green card holders felt completely safe in their legality as long as they were not committing crimes. This has now changed.

The balance has already slid and change that people never expected has happened. Assuming it won't happen more is foolish IMO.

There's also been recent talk about going after 'recently naturalized' individuals the admin considers criminals. How many years is 'recently'?
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-09 21:32:36+00:00
>Were we not warned of the possible consequences when less sensational or consenting news broke back then?

People were screeching about this stuff then but they were brushed off by as "conspiracy weirdos" or "yeah they're probably doing it but who cares because it'd be unconstitutional" or "they won't use it on petty criminals" depending upon the exact year and political context you brought it up in.
by randyrand | 2025-09-09 21:33:02+00:00
> There has never been a successful, widespread malware attack against iPhone. The only system-level iOS attacks we observe in the wild come from mercenary spyware ... to target a very small number of specific individuals and their devices. Although the vast majority of users will never be targeted in this way..

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the spyware that has been developed certainly could be applied at scale at the push of a button with basic modification. They just have chosen not to at this time. I feel like this paragraph is drawing a bigger distinction than actually exists.
by worldsayshi | 2025-09-09 21:33:04+00:00
There's a general phenomenon where terms get annexed, not by meaning that makes most sense, but by meaning that is most salient, most eye catching or emotionally riveting. This leads to Flanderization of many many important cultural concepts.

I fear this is the reason why intellectual discourse seems to have stagnated. We no longer pursue the spirit of important ideas but try to endlessly put them in uninteresting boxes.
by chuckadams | 2025-09-09 21:33:37+00:00
I can't say I love PHP, but I no longer hate it. And given how much I used to hate it, that's a massive improvement. I still consider it borderline unusable without having the composer ecosystem handy though -- worse even than perl without CPAN.

As for JS ... I like TypeScript, even love it in many ways. I can deal with raw JS, but I won't write full apps in it. Ironically, I'm favorably inclined to PHP's OOP features, but I avoid them like the plague in JS, where I stick to static closures instead.
by KetoManx64 | 2025-09-09 21:33:43+00:00
Ok, now be genuine about the other benefits they're most likely receiving as well: - Medicaid - Section8 - WIC - LIHEAP - LIFELINE Just to name a few.

I also worked for a non profit that helped people get government assistance and got an inside look at what these families are like and what they prioritize.
by kelnos | 2025-09-09 21:34:05+00:00
So I don't get this. Yes, my N=1 experience, but: I don't put my phone in a case, and only use a screen protector. I have a Pixel 8 (arguably one of the more notoriously ridiculous camera bumps), but have of course had other phones with camera bumps before this. I am generally careful with my phone, but of course I've dropped it, knocked it off a table onto the floor, etc. But I've never ever scratched the camera. Have I just been lucky, or are they harder to scratch than one would expect?
by antonvs | 2025-09-09 21:34:18+00:00
In a tightly targeted situation like entering the GCHQ building, sure. Because it’s essentially a target-poor environment with a known point of interest that possible targets are visiting. Those constraints make the problem much simpler.

But the OP article is about a Stingray operation covering 30 blocks, and other discussion in this thread is about protests such as the anti-ICE protest which gathered cellphone info from the protestors. In those kinds of environments, if you don’t want to show up on surveillance, you’re much better off not carrying a phone.

Being more specific, this comment of yours is not supported by evidence:

> No phone actually stands out a lot in real life surveillance systems and will very quickly get you a bunch of additional attention because it’s so unusual.

But, if you’re getting your information from videos like the one you linked, I can see why you have these beliefs.
by fluoridation | 2025-09-09 21:34:21+00:00
If I'm being honest, your quote makes the first character sound like an out-of-touch loonie. It doesn't make the point you're trying to make. Maybe in its original context it did, but the way you've presented it, it's like going to an AA meeting with a large binder, intending to expose corruption in the senate. There is such a thing as time and place.
by majormajor | 2025-09-09 21:34:33+00:00
you're gonna carry those two Steam Decks in your pockets?

I think modern smart phones are pretty remarkably un-fragile compared to 20 years ago before the iPhone ($300-700 for a Symbian with a tiny plastic screens that got scratched super fast) or even 10-ish years ago with much more fragile screen glass and cases. Last phone I did major damage to was my HTC Evo in 2012.

(That Nokia N95 was in 2007 dollars, too!)
by bri3d | 2025-09-09 21:34:36+00:00
True! On the flip side, MTE sucks at intra-object corruption: if I get access to a heap object with pointers, MTE doesn't affect me, I can go ahead and write to that object because I own the tag.

Overall my _personal_ opinion is that CHERI is a huge win at a huge cost, while MTE is a huge win at a low cost. But, there are definitely vulnerability classes that each system excels at.
by marshray | 2025-09-09 21:34:43+00:00
I find it very suspicious that the telemetry indicators are cropped. Typically when the military release drone footage, they are blurred.

After the object tumbles, an effect transition has been added. You can tell because it overlays the "Pause (Ctrl+P)" control and how blooms outside the cropped video frame. This strongly suggests that it's not actually a continuous time shot.

Perhaps:

- This video is of an ordinary cruise missile or drone.

- Its surface is very hot, making it appear as a blob.

- The so-called hellfire doesn't detonate for whatever reason

- The object tumbles and crashes, but the video is deceptively spliced.

I don't trust this Representative to not lie knowingly or evaluate such claims skeptically. Statements like "I'm not going to explain it to you, you'll see exactly what it does" and "This is when it's zoomed out, you can still see it traveling" seem to be careful wording meant to lead people to a conclusion without actually claiming it.
by occamsrazorwit | 2025-09-09 21:34:45+00:00
It's also not just her wealth but her personality. For better or for worse, someone as headstrong as her attracts a certain type of person, and the article showed that even her own husband was afraid of getting involved...

> Bi’s husband focused on stabilizing the family, a move he credits with saving their marriage. He blamed the hospital, not Smith, but told me that the litigation is “her grieving process.” He tried to stay out of the legal stuff so that Bi couldn’t blame him too.

I honestly feel bad for the family, because I've heard many stories about this type of familial dynamic from children who grew up inside them...
by CM30 | 2025-09-09 21:34:48+00:00
I don't think it can be emphasised enough how big of a deal the ease of deploying applications written in these languages is. The fact you can just upload the files with FTP, SSH, by pulling them from version control, etc makes learning so much easier than it'd be otherwise, and really speeds up deployment for software using these languages.

Like, this genuinely might be one of the big reasons that scripts like WordPress, MediaWiki and XenForo still use PHP. The people installing these things don't have to be technically minded in the slightest, and can get their sites running on a 5 quid a year shared hosting service without the need to understand the command line, shell scripting, containers, server management, etc.

Is it secure? Probably not. Is it best practice? No. But you can test your changes near instantaneously, and it takes like 30 seconds to get set up. Ease of use is huge.
by pzo | 2025-09-09 21:35:24+00:00
1 year old sure unlikely 50% cheap but 2 years old for sure can get for 50%. I don't see much difference between iphone 15 pro and iphone 17 pro. Honestly I'm still having iphone 13 mini and don't see much reason to upgrade but if decide to upgrade I will most likely buy 2nd hand iphone 15 pro.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-09-09 21:35:42+00:00
Mattermost is probably an easier self-hosted Discord alternative.

For $2/month you can spin up an instance on Pikapods, based on their community edition. If you want advanced features (available in enterprise editions) you'll need to figure out how to re-enable them by un-feature-flag-gate-ing the source code and recompiling (and at that point move hosting), or work it into the plugin system (which gives you tons of power)

It's not federated though
by dang | 2025-09-09 21:35:55+00:00
Related. Others?

DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45179939 - Sept 2025 (209 comments)

NPM debug and chalk packages compromised - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169657 - Sept 2025 (719 comments)
by KAMSPioneer | 2025-09-09 21:35:59+00:00
Hard agree. As a new parent, I bought a modern mirrorless camera before my kid was born, and the difference is noticeable. Especially, as you say, around skin details like milia (white spots on a newborn's skin) which often get wiped out on my Pixel (I'm sure by the AI processing).

If you are considering an expensive phone upgrade based off of the camera alone, consider buying a dedicated camera first, I say. I know the best camera is the one you have on you, etc...
by bigyabai | 2025-09-09 21:36:04+00:00
Don't know why you're downvoted. My boyfriend wears the Apple Watch Ultra in public and looks like a complete dork. He's got a pretty big wrist, too!

I left the ecosystem after Catalina, and my experience with macOS at work has horrified me enough to stay well away. Nowadays I'm happily using NixOS on the desktop, laptop and homeserver. My biggest gripe is that I didn't switch sooner, probably could have saved a decent amount of cash eschewing the Apple tax, SaaS fees and macOS migration hamster-wheel.
by dang | 2025-09-09 21:36:06+00:00
Related. Others?

We all dodged a bullet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183029 - Sept 2025 (273 comments)

NPM debug and chalk packages compromised - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169657 - Sept 2025 (719 comments)
by jbreckmckye | 2025-09-09 21:36:16+00:00
I'm sorry to take a belligerent tone, but this is total revisionism. People have always slacked off and bringing them into the office doesn't change that.

Maybe I'm an old greybeard as someone with more than five years experience in the workforce, but don't you remember before COVID? People screwed around all the time! On coffee breaks or smoke breaks or extended meetings or late lunches or ping-pong tables or just browsing Facebook on their desks.
by vel0city | 2025-09-09 21:36:25+00:00
> the kids do get a lot higher quality care from stay at home parents than a daycare can afford

Maybe, but definitely not always. There's a lot of variables with this logic. My wife and I aren't trained early childhood educators. We didn't spend years studying such things, we haven't been doing this for many years, and we aren't always as equipped with things like lesson plans and educational development attainment goals.

Without a doubt, every child is different, different kids grow in their own spurts and what not. But when we took our kids out of daycare for my wife to stay at home and tend to the kids after our youngest was born, we had our oldest remain in twice a week daycare so my wife could spend more time focusing on our infant at the time. His growth trajectory definitely fell. He wasn't able to keep up with a lot of his classmates, even though it had just been a single semester. He wasn't as happy, and his connections with his close friends he had known since he was barely able to walk were clearly fraying despite attempts to schedule as many play dates. Our youngest wasn't progressing as fast as others we knew from the daycare. In the end we put both kids back in full-time once my wife managed to find similar employment again. Once both kids were back in full time, it was almost night and day difference. Our oldest child was noticeably much happier. He quickly caught back up with the class and had those friendships restored. Similar story with our youngest.

We also tend to hang out with a lot of at-home families as well. Most of the kids I know from our school seem significantly ahead in logic and socialization skills compared to most of the kids I know who stay at-home. Not all, for sure, I know a few families who are exceptionally great at being educators for their kids. But I also know many families who try very hard but ultimately aren't that great in comparison. Not everyone is a good teacher, and that's OK.

In the end, we're not as effective of educators for our kids, it's just not what we're necessarily great at doing. So, they spend time with people who are. And we continue to try and do our best with them at home as well with things they aren't taught in school.
by footlose_3815 | 2025-09-09 21:36:41+00:00
Once again, stuff I don't care about. We would be 3x as impressed if it was 3x as wide and 3x battery life.

TouchID is also still sorely missed, and I will die on that hill. I'm on a 2022 SE hoping they change their mind one day. FaceID is a repellent experience.
by nakamoto_damacy | 2025-09-09 21:36:48+00:00
I have an iPhone 13 mini, just replaced the battery. If you want my money, give me an iPhone 17 mini with small width and height, I don't care about it being thinner like the Air. Also, no AI ruining the image quality of the expensive camera. I saw examples of a consumer-grade digital camera vs an iPhone 16 and the latter introduced "hotdog skin" effect and other effects that made the photos look over-processed.
by ewhanley | 2025-09-09 21:37:02+00:00
This seems to be true for almost every product update. Everyone hates everything. It's true when a new gen of a car comes out - "I guess I'm keeping my <last gen> model forever." or user interfaces or seemingly anything else. People hate change and predict the massive failure of every product revision. Flash forward six months and everyone has forgotten about these rants and likely owns the new version. Now, someone will come along and say "well, I personally" - Apple/Toyota/whoever doesn't care about "you personally", they care about everyone else who is going to buy the product. I'm not saying this is good or bad, it just is.
by sheepscreek | 2025-09-09 21:37:28+00:00
Very impressed with what you're doing. It's not immediately clear how the prompts and the data is used on the site. Your terms mention a 14 day API retention, but it's not clear if that applies to Octo/the CLI agent and any other forms of subscription usage (not through UI).

If you can find a way to secure the requests even during the 14 day period, or anonymize them while allowing the developers to do their job, you can have my money today. I think privacy/data security is the #1 concern for me, especially if the agents will be supporting me in all kinds of personal tasks.
by isatis | 2025-09-09 21:37:43+00:00
The funny part is that in elementary school here in the mid to late 90s, growing up in a rural area, metric was only touched upon for a day at most and until high school chemistry and physics classes, I very rarely had to deal with metric. Which sucked! My math classes kept to U.S. customary system / imperial units for example.

(It wasn't even told to me that it was the default for most of the world. It was disappointing to learn later how much resistance to metric there was in the U.S.)
by babelfish | 2025-09-09 21:37:49+00:00
[2] The authors favour a scenario in which a white dwarf was shredded by a so-called intermediate-mass black hole. A white dwarf is the small, slowly-cooling core that is left behind after a star like our Sun dies. Intermediate-mass black holes are between 100 and 100 000 times more massive than the Sun. Most known black holes have masses significantly greater or lower than that, and intermediate-mass black holes remain a poorly understood type of object.
by angmarsbane | 2025-09-09 21:37:51+00:00
I see benefits for stay at home Moms, universal childcare means she has somewhere safe to drop her kid off while she goes to her own doctor appointments, or when she needs a break, or if there’s a family emergency she needs to attend to or even if she’s going into labor to bring kid number 2 or 3 into the world. There are a lot of stay at home parents that don’t have family near by or a reliable sitter and this can help plug some gaps.
by philodeon | 2025-09-09 21:38:54+00:00
> In 2018, we were the first in the industry to deploy Pointer Authentication Codes (PAC) in the A12 Bionic chip, to protect code flow integrity in the presence of memory corruption. The strong success of this defensive mechanism in increasing exploitation complexity left no doubt that the deep integration of software and hardware security would be key to addressing some of our greatest security challenges.

There have been multiple full-chain attacks since the introduction of PAC. It hasn’t been a meaningful attack deterrent because attackers keep finding PAC bypasses. This should give you pause as to how secure EMTE actually is.
by snerbles | 2025-09-09 21:39:09+00:00
When I onboard users to my Matrix homeserver, I point them to a preconfigured Element-Web URL and the Element mobile apps. I also mention that there are other clients out there - a handful experiment with them, most don't.

One discovery problem is this client had three rebrandings, from Vector to Riot to Element. I've noticed users have had a hard time realizing the Element is a client for Matrix - even when they're actively chatting on Element. Usually they just refer to our chat by the homeserver's name.
by m463 | 2025-09-09 21:39:40+00:00
I agree with you, you're still going to put it in a fat case to protect the camera.

Personally, I think thin is just "omg look at my engineering". blah blah.

I found the (expensive!) bullstrap case to be helpful - thin and slippery enough to slide out of a pocket easily, well engineered to protect the camera.

But really, I think the iphone 13 mini was the most useful/practical application of apple's engineering.

I think a mini-sized 3-camera bulge phone would be great.
by manacit | 2025-09-09 21:39:41+00:00
Personally, I really like being able to use lightweight MagSafe batteries instead of having a thicker iPhone. I used to agree with you, but the tech has gotten ridiculously good the last couple of years.

With something like https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HRY02LL/A/anker-maggo-pow..., you get a magsafe battery that doubles the life of an iPhone and can be independently recharged, and is so slim that I can put it in my pocket attached to my iPhone and not notice.
by some_random | 2025-09-09 21:40:03+00:00
I agree completely, it's really unfortunate how AI on apple devices has been going. The message summarization is borderline useless and widely mocked, meanwhile their giant billboard ads for it are largely stupid and uncompelling. Let me choose to give it access to my data if I want to do really useful stuff with on device processing. They've been leaning into the privacy thing, do the stuff that would be creepy if it left my device, generate push notification reminders for stuff I forgot to put in the calendar, or track my location and tell me I'm going to the wrong airport. Suggest birthday gifts for my friends and family, idk.

Edit: And add strong controls to limit what it can and cannot access, especially for the creepy stuff.
by Nextgrid | 2025-09-09 21:41:35+00:00
I remember having ~150Mbps with an iPhone 8 on LTE in 2017. Bandwidth itself has basically never been the limiting factor for the last decade or so. The problem is always data caps, and unless 5G/mmWave/etc is somehow magically exempt, it's not really a benefit (you can now burn through your monthly quota in seconds instead of minutes - great!).
by dakiol | 2025-09-09 21:42:51+00:00
I don't need to bond with you. I don't need team-building exercises. I have been working for over a decade and made 0 friends at the office. I'm an easy going guy, though, no complaints or anything. Just keeping it professional is good enough. A bit tired of the whole "we are a family" thing really. Plenty of successful open source projects are successful and driven by people working together remotely and behind avatars.
by bri3d | 2025-09-09 21:43:18+00:00
FWIW (I am a nobody compared to you; I didn't make FIL-C :) ) - I think that MIE/MTE are practically superior to CHERI.

I also think this argument is compelling because one exists in millions of consumer drives, to-be-more (MTE -> MIE) and one does not.
by therobots927 | 2025-09-09 21:43:22+00:00
Thanks, that was a very thoughtful comment and you basically read my mind, in that I have become so paranoid that I’m afraid to go to a protest. And I can definitely see how that plays right into their hand. I think there is definitely a lot of room for messaging like yours because it seems like now many are becoming aware of the surveillance situation which is good but at the same time can result in a form of learned helplessness.
by nine_k | 2025-09-09 21:43:30+00:00
It's all fun and games until somebody else patches the RAM of your device, and sends your money away from your account.

More interesting is how to trace and debug code on such a CPU. Because what a debugger often does is exactly patching an executable in RAM, peeks and pokes inside, etc. If such an interface exists, I wonder how is it protected; do you need extra physical wires like JTAG? If it does not, how do you even troubleshoot a program running on the target hardware?
by some_guy_nobel | 2025-09-09 21:44:25+00:00
I remember when Anthropic first started and waxed poetic about intentions. This, the recent case, and the DoD (sorry, Department of War) partnerships seem to show just how much of that was pure bullshit.

Curious how all of the employees who professed similar sentiment, EA advocation, etc. justify their work now. A paycheck is a paycheck, sure, but when you're already that well-off, the rest of the world will see you for what you really are *shrug*.
by zbeegnew | 2025-09-09 21:44:40+00:00
I needed to export my macOS Calendar and Reminders for my personal AI assistant. AppleScript fell short, and I couldn't find any existing CLI tool for this. So, using my go-to AI workflow, I had LLMs build a complete Swift tool in about 2 hours. I'm sharing it as a case study on leveraging AI for rapid development in green field projects; the post includes the open-source tool and all the prompts I used.
by npteljes | 2025-09-09 21:44:57+00:00
The video moved something in me. I feel I hate being put down a bit too much. (Being made feel stupid, small, inadequate). I mostly counter this not by facing the problem itself, but by overpowering myself in another context - in games, via gear or levels. After winning these battles I don't feel victorious, I feel like I finally got away.

Thanks for sharing your perspective, I really appreciate it.
by mceoin | 2025-09-09 21:45:24+00:00
Separate to the Superagents launch here, LLMs are excellent for keyword optimizations since the compression/summary/synthesis essentially comes for free out of the box. This isn't unique to Sourcetable, but I do find it extremely pleasant that vector analysis with LLMs is easy, not hard. SEM/SEO is all just math at the end of the day.

The main things we bring to the table are that the AI can write code and handle much larger datasets than fit in ChatGPT, etc., and also that Superagents you can pipe your data in without code or SaaS interface kludge, so you can ask much more complicated questions than you usually might if you're not great at cleaning, filtering or analyzing data.