MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Terr_ | 2025-09-09 22:57:48+00:00
The context is that the Lawful-Neutral leader of the city-state has been framed and thrown in the dungeons by a shadowy conspiracy of powerful figures. The printing press was just recently invented the first character accidentally inventing Journalism wants to break the story while a coworker is arguing that it's not relevant to the citizens.

Expanded portion:

> "Someone has to care about the... the big truth. What Vetinari mostly does not do is a lot of harm. We’ve had rulers who were completely crazy and very, very nasty. And it wasn’t that long ago, either. Vetinari might not be ‘a very nice man,’ but I had breakfast today with someone who'd be a lot worse if he ran the city, and there are lots more like him. And what’s happening now is wrong. And as for your damn parrot fanciers [...]"

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With respect to "we've had rulers", a bit from a previous book Men At Arms:

> "[...] He wielded the axe, you know. No-one else'd do it. It was a king's neck, after all. Kings are," he spat the word, "special. Even after they'd seen the... private rooms, and cleaned up the... bits. Even then. No-one'd clean up the world. But he took the axe and cursed them all and did it."

> "What king was it?" said Carrot.

> "Lorenzo the Kind," said Vimes, distantly.

> "I've seen his picture in the palace museum," said Carrot. "A fat old man. Surrounded by lots of children."

> "Oh yes," said Vimes, carefully. "He was very fond of children."
by altruios | 2025-09-09 22:58:08+00:00
> They can't buy up enough small players to make it work.

We just don't have the data to track that. KKR, Blackstone, and Bain Capital, all buy up small time contractors, as well as real estate. They absolutely have the money to bully their way using that strategy. We don't know for sure if that's what they are doing or not... but as you agree: That goal makes sense.

> Anybody can write a book that sounds good.

Not everyone can write a book both sound and logical, agreed. That is to say, a well researched book is rare indeed.

It is biased, yes: it is very anti-landlord. It views a landlord as inherently extractive, and makes the case for that viewpoint.

To say that the book is not worth reading is also incorrect. It has some fantastic insights unrelated to its anti-landlord bias and it is an interesting read.

And yes: you shouldn't just trust what you read. Ever.

Regardless of it's flaws, I still recommend it as a read.
by jwpapi | 2025-09-09 22:58:44+00:00
I think there is one thing that most people miss, obviously!

=> You can use AI to double-check (not single check), avoid overengineering, fill knowledge gaps, scan for inconsistencies and many more things. The main benefit it has for me is not that it codes me stuff real fast. It is that my learning curve improved, drastically, whenever I have a missunderstanding. I dive down and test it. Sometimes AI is wrong and I have to go to docs, sometimes docs are wrong and I have to test and I have to open a issue.

If you combine AI capabilities with debugging skills and testing you have a lot of power as developer nowadays. Its a lot of fun.

To me it seems like most things tend to develop to: It’s more fair. If you are lazy and try to do a shorcut you’ll be punished with wasted time and a lot of frustration. If you try to do thing conscientiousnessly and take ownership for the code you push, publish and run. You’ll learn faster, improve faster, ship faster and have way less headache.
by tenarchits | 2025-09-09 22:58:45+00:00
Most of the comments are focused on the supply of education. But I don't think the supply side is the problem, irrespective of teachers and high schools. There is more and cheaper education available than ever before. Nearly every highschooler has more access to learning that kings and emperors would have fought wars for less than 200 years ago. However,the United States, particularly in the last 50 years, seems to have fostered a culture averse to education. I believe the years long decline in test scores is a symptom of that cultural shift.
by mbirth | 2025-09-09 22:58:48+00:00
The previous MagSafe battery has the size of the MagSafe wallet and thus fits onto all the iPhones that have MagSafe down to the "Mini" variants. It's the perfect emergency power backup. But Apple discontinued this a while ago.

Selling a thin phone with half a battery where you have to buy the other half and keep it attached to get a proper battery runtime (turning it into a normal-sized phone) can't be the solution Apple intended. At least I hope so. And that battery doesn't fit other iPhones as the camera bump of those other phones is in the way.
by nickjj | 2025-09-09 22:58:52+00:00
Yeah it's weird. I was just over 50 miles from NYC at some point. A place I worked remotely at was having a small team get together and they asked me to join.

Given it's a ~2 hour journey from door to office (car + train + walk) I asked if I could leave early so I didn't have to put in a ~13-14 hour day.

They said no, I had to work a full 9-6 day or use a PTO day. Meanwhile they flew a few people in from around the US and put them in a hotel.

That was a principle level role where I survived multiple rounds of layoffs so it wasn't like I was treated poorly. It's just the company wouldn't budge on their policies.
by joshjob42 | 2025-09-09 22:59:11+00:00
I'm going to preorder one because I want a light phone and a large screen. This will be the lightest iPhone in years while also having a bigger screen than most. I dropped from the Pro Max to the Pro last year because I was tired of how much it hurt when I dropped my phone on my face.

I don't have much call for most of the camera system, and my battery life on my Pro is just fine. I have plenty of chargers typically, and for emergencies or times I know I'm going to be out I could potentially get the battery pack.

I basically never use cases on my iPhone, and at most will maybe use an ultra-thin one or some sort of structure adhered to the plateau just to make it flat across so as to not rock on a table.
by bsder | 2025-09-09 23:00:02+00:00
> This is in California where the test scores are some of the worst in the nation.

This is an easily disprovable statement that calls into question your credibility.

California schools generally score right at or just below the median for the entire US.

That doesn't make them good, but they sure aren't the worst.

> I would not lean too hard at political party affiliation

In the US, it's not hard to look at a map of political party affiliation and a ranking of the worst schools and not notice the correlation.
by verdverm | 2025-09-09 23:00:03+00:00
> We have billions of data points conclusively showing that users don't care about nerd fantasies. No one cares if it's decentralized or not, if it's open source or not, if it's patent-encumbered or not. Maybe there are good philosophical reasons why people should care, but they don't.

This is focused on the technical aspects as if this is why people go to the big platforms. It is not the why for where they are or where they will go.

(1) The big platforms came first, most people don't know there are different ways for humans to organize social media.

(2) They have desires to leave for greener pastures, they know these companies don't have their best interest in mind.

We need a viable alternative and ATProto is in the best position right now. I have been able to get people excited and even create an account, knowing that the better way forward is still very young and a work in progress. I talk to them about features at the conceptual level, never about federation or any of that gobbledygook that they don't understand or want to
by dredmorbius | 2025-09-09 23:00:18+00:00
"Israel targeted top Iranian leaders by hacking, tracing their bodyguards’ phones — report"

<https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-targeted-top-iranian-le...>

I'm listing the Times of Israel first as it's an Israeli publication, though it cites the following NY Times article which researched the story:

"Targeting Iran’s Leaders, Israel Found a Weak Link: Their Bodyguards"

Despite all the precautions, Israeli jets dropped six bombs on top of the bunker soon after the meeting began, targeting the two entrance and exit doors. Remarkably, nobody in the bunker was killed. When the leaders later made their way out of the bunker, they found the bodies of a few guards, killed by the blasts.

The attack threw Iran’s intelligence apparatus into a tailspin, and soon enough Iranian officials discovered a devastating security lapse: The Israelis had been led to the meeting by hacking the phones of bodyguards who had accompanied the Iranian leaders to the site and waited outside...

<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/us/politics/israel-iran-a...>

(Archive / paywall: <https://archive.is/XdZet>)

It's not just your phone, it's the phones of those around you. Whether or not you have a security detail.

This is one factor which makes pervasive surveillance so absolutely insidious.
by jerlam | 2025-09-09 23:00:26+00:00
For Visible, anything above their cheapest plan will give you the same priority as postpaid Verizon. Many prepaid carriers will gladly take more money to shift you to a higher priority.

There is a list of all the prioritization tiers (aka QCI, or premium data) on all the three main US carriers here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/1mxogtx/data_pr...
by dan-robertson | 2025-09-09 23:00:28+00:00
A big difference between feudalism and modern societies is that in feudalism, you expect to earn much less than the value of the land you inherit and pass on (or the custom or right of your family farming the land) whereas in modern societies most people will earn much more in lifetime earnings than they would inherit or pass on. This results in far more social mobility and much more freedom in praxis. I don’t think companies are like feudal societies.
by IgorPartola | 2025-09-09 23:00:36+00:00
I was at a coffee shop a little while ago with some friends and a stranger was sitting near us working on his laptop. Someone from our group decided to strike up a conversation with him and the stranger started telling us about how now they have these AI tools that can have you make an app in a few hours and without knowing how to code. He was not a software person but look at what he is able to do with it. The implication was that he has an idea and was going to make it a reality as quickly as possible using whatever AI tools he was using.

I am not sure what the moral of the story is but it reminds me a bit of that parable about the investor getting his shoes shined and the shoe shine kid giving him investment advice.

Partially I think the idea of an app being so valuable that it makes money without being connected to anything is just not really a thing. Some games (Flappy Bird anyone?) can be like that or some very specific type of lifestyle app, but for the most part you need a real world service connected or it will not be seen as valuable. But perhaps I am wrong.
by teachrdan | 2025-09-09 23:00:36+00:00
> This is in California where the test scores are some of the worst in the nation

I read your post and thought it was BS, so I did a little research. According to this, California public school test scores are better than Texas and closing in on New York and Florida.

> California politics is heavily influenced by Teachers Unions, and yet we score near the bottom of the entire US.

California scores better than Texas, a completely Republican-run state where the teacher's unions have almost no influence. How do you account for that?

https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-k-12-test-score...
by neuronexmachina | 2025-09-09 23:00:56+00:00
Direct study link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S153561082...

> Fc-optimized CD40 agonistic antibody elicits tertiary lymphoid structure formation and systemic antitumor immunity in metastatic cancer

> CD40 agonism enhances antitumor immunity but is limited by systemic toxicity and poor efficacy. Here, we present a phase 1 study (NCT04059588) of intratumoral (i.t.) 2141-V11, an Fc-engineered anti-CD40 agonistic antibody with enhanced binding to the inhibitory receptor FcγRIIB. Among 12 metastatic cancer patients, 2141-V11 was well tolerated without dose-limiting toxicities. Six patients experienced tumor reduction, including two complete responses in melanoma and breast cancer. 2141-V11 induced regression in injected and non-injected lesions, correlating with systemic CD8+ T cell activation and mature tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) in complete responders. In CD40/FcγRs humanized mice bearing orthotopic tumors, i.t. 2141-V11 promoted de novo TLS formation, facilitating i.t. CD8+ T cell effector responses independent of lymph node priming. The resulting local immune responses by 2141-V11 mediated abscopal antitumor effects and sustained immune memory. These findings demonstrate that i.t. 2141-V11 is safe and promotes immune-privileged tumor microenvironments that promote systemic and durable antitumor immunity.
by araes | 2025-09-09 23:02:16+00:00
Yup, introduced by Michelle Wucker at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland in January 2013.

"highly probable, high-impact, yet neglected threat that is obvious to many but often ignored until it causes significant damage."

Also contrasted with Gray Swans:

"event that is known and possible, but which is assumed to be unlikely."

Thanks for the reference though, had not heard of the partner theories to Black Swans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Wucker#Gray_rhinos

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_swan
by gcau | 2025-09-09 23:02:17+00:00
Humans are imperfect and anyone can make mistakes, yes. I would argue there's different categories of mistakes though, in terms of potential outcomes and how preventable they are. A maintainer with potentially millions of users falling for a simple phishing email is both preventable and has a very bad potential outcome. I think all parties involved could have done better (the maintainer/npm/the email client/etc) to prevent this.
Show HN: HardView – Cross-Platform Hardware Info and Monitoring (Python/C++/C)
by gafoo1 | 2025-09-09 23:03:01+00:00
Hey HN!

I built HardView, a cross-platform project for Windows and Linux that provides hardware information and monitoring. It combines Python, C++, and C libraries, with optional kernel drivers, giving developers a unified interface for accessing system and hardware metrics.

Supported Platforms: Windows and Linux, Python 3.8–3.14

Install (Python):

pip install hardview

More info / Docs: GitHub: https://github.com/gafoo173/HardView | Docs: https://gafoo173.github.io/HardView/

The project is MIT licensed, with some CLI/GUI tools under GPL3.

Would love feedback from HN on performance, usability, and API design.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-09-09 23:03:06+00:00
Absolutely. It's augmentation not automation, it does what I want or it gets the hose again.

You make the framework and it colours in the lines. If you don't draw the pattern first you're going to get a kindergarten mess. There are times I'm amazed by its suggestions but it will also cheat and "lie" and if you're not paying attention, you'll miss it.

But these days many tasks for me consist of: I need this, look how I did it here before, and follow this exact pattern through to the end and write tests, too. And the results are usually exactly what I would have done. Because it is an excellent mimic. But if I hadn't put the work into the framework, it would be awful.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-09-09 23:03:10+00:00
In my experience, Anthropic's models may be slightly better for coding. (I think that GPT-5 Thinking/Pro are ahead, but I know that others disagree.) Where just about everything else is concerned, though, my impression is that they're way behind. They're particularly terrible at analyzing images. I recently gave GPT-5, o3, and Gemini 2.5 Pro an image analysis task (literally as simple as "describe this image"), and all of them passed the test with flying colors. I gave the exact same task to Opus 4.1 and it was spectacularly botched, twice.

So I might use Opus for coding and perhaps for agentic stuff, but I'd hesitate to use it for anything else.
by saagarjha | 2025-09-09 23:03:31+00:00
A bunch of commenters are confused how this "blunder" even happened. I was too, except I recognized the company name. They have a history of making up or completely misunderstanding their own software. They make EDR products which trigger "events" except they don't really have the knowledge to triage them, so they come up with wild explanations for them that involve threat actors and anomalies which are not real. For example, earlier they posted this to their Twitter account: https://twitter.com/HuntressLabs/status/1865111713948852572

Anyone who knows anything about macOS knows that it is not possible to disable System Integrity Protection without rebooting into recovery (an environment that it is not possible to actually get events from). So their "detection" is just some random guy typing "csrutil disable" in their terminal and it doing absolutely nothing. I would not be surprised if there is some similar dumb explanation here that they missed, which would make for a substantially less interesting story.
by terminalshort | 2025-09-09 23:03:51+00:00
In that case the damages would be $3000 per copy you sold. Distributing copyrighted work is an entirely different category of offense than just simply downloading and consuming. Anthropic didn't distribute any copies, so the damages are limited to the one copy they pirated. That is not remotely what generative AI is, and it's why the judge ruled that it was perfectly legal to feed the books to the model.
by alach11 | 2025-09-09 23:04:06+00:00
> Florida did drug testing as a condition for welfare benefits... and it cost more than they saved

It's more complicated than that. Of the 6352 people who applied for TANF, 2306 dropped out during the process. Then of the 4046 TANF applicants remaining, only 2.6% tested positive for drugs. The vast majority of media coverage focused on the 2.6% being less than the ~8% drug-use rate in the general population.

What we don't know is of the people who dropped out, was this due to unintended reasons (privacy concerns, the inconvenience of the drug test, missing deadlines) or due to the intended reason (people self-selecting out because they knew they would test positive and become ineligible for 12 months). We'll never know the real breakdown, but it's misleading to say "it cost more than they saved".
by awesome_dude | 2025-09-09 23:04:07+00:00
I don't blame them for trying to get funding - but I do blame them for over hyping scientific breakthroughs which leads to headlines where a correlation being noticed is reported as a causation has been discovered and people should stop doing whatever immediately (or start eating some new fad diet)

The system is well broken, and the outcome of the over hype is the MAHA movement - people who have not understood the reporting really means "We have found an interesting new avenue of research" not what they hear which is "We've cured disease" which inevitably then leads to "Science is false, they told me they could cure disease, but it didn't, eat more Vitamin C instead"
by alexashka | 2025-09-09 23:04:23+00:00
Meh.

The greater scam here is that rugged individualism can lead to positive societal outcomes.

Just more free market capitalism, bro! We just need more freedom for the tech bros, the finance bros, bro!

This AI shit is yet another oh look - increase in rugged individual 'productivity' is going to lead to positive societal outcomes, trust me, bro!

It's all bullshit but what else have the western retarded elite got? Or non-western elites for that matter? USA is USSR 2.0 - falling apart from the retarded short-sighted incompetence and selfishness of its sociopathic 'elites'. China will be USSR 3.0 in a generation or two.

It's all so terribly tedious, boring and cruel - the monumental amounts of wasted opportunity and resources because everyone's too busy being 'productive' to ever spend a decade or two to actually think through anything and come up with potential real solutions to real problems. The average 'elite' doesn't even know what the real problems are or how to begin finding out what they might be - they probably think it's climate change or more likely - how to make sure they retain their billions. Oh well, so it goes.
by favorited | 2025-09-09 23:04:35+00:00
Even though the US allows copyright assignment, none of the Big Five publishing houses in the US require it as part of a standard book deal, even with first-time authors. If you open any book or ebook to the copyright page, unless it's something like a reference book (which are frequently work-for-hire), it will say some variant of "© Author's Name."

Publishers get exclusive print publishing rights for a given market, typically get digital and audio publication rights for the same, and frequently get a handful of other rights like the ability to license it for publication in other markets. But ownership of the work is almost always retained by the author.
by orwin | 2025-09-09 23:04:40+00:00
Depends on the default rate, and I'm pretty sure the past year in the US, default created more money than what was printed (even taking QE into account).

Basically why everybody decided to go with money printing during COVID btw, people realised in 2008 that a 2B default is the equivalent to printing 2B, so if that's the case, why not print money instead (that's a bad calculation imho, in my opinion in a capitalist market economy you need defaults for the market to work, and I would say, you need defaults that pierce the corporate veil).
by fuzzy_biscuit | 2025-09-09 23:04:40+00:00
To me, vibe coding is all about "make something that kinda works, quickly, to test and play and create." It shouldn't replace the specifics of a design, a functional specification, or the thought process that creates a final product.

Perhaps that's obvious to others, but it felt worth saying from my perspective. If vibe coding tools are touting themselves as a key to easy wealth, shame on the product and marketing teams creating the messaging.
by jongjong | 2025-09-09 23:04:41+00:00
What about web-based apps which users can access in the browser without download? They can be very user-friendly. Big companies which do surveillance make their browser-based web apps crappy on purpose in order to coerce people into using their app-store app; precisely because it gives them more surveillance capabilities (e.g. location, file access, camera access, ...). A well-intentioned chat app does not need such permissions so a web app is a good medium.
by switchbak | 2025-09-09 23:05:09+00:00
"If you combine AI capabilities with debugging skills and testing you have a lot of power as developer nowadays" - precisely. As a tool for learning and expanding existing capabilities - it's phenomenal. I've not found anything this compelling for exploring areas that are new to me, and for getting a 1000ft view of a tech landscape (or almost any endeavour). Does that mean it gets it entirely correct? Hell no, but neither does a web browsing spelunking session aggregation random opinions from reddit and stack exchange.

If you want to outsource your skill and thinking - that's never going to go particularly well.

It almost seems like a test for impulse control - those who can restrain themselves from taking shortcuts with it can gain tremendous capabilities.