MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Intralexical | 2025-09-18 02:53:17+00:00
Presumably, it would affect that, and also long-term channel growth. Which would be dastardly if it were intentional, because it would basically cull the platform of channels who voice support for ad blocking.

I wonder if CTR was affected. Could one of the affected channels could have detected that not adding up? I guess it was probably already blocked for privacy. Maybe I shouldn't be giving them ideas.

Interestingly, anybody can now measure what percentage of any channel's viewers run ad blockers, by using publicly available data on how much their views dropped during this period.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-09-18 02:53:23+00:00
That's unrelated to this.

As well, both Dependabot and Renovate in isolated environments withour secrets or privileges, need to be manually approved, and have minimum publication ages before recommending a package update to prevent basic supply chain attacks or lockfile corruption from a pinned package version being de-published (up to a 3 day window on NPM).
by Ajedi32 | 2025-09-18 02:53:42+00:00
Regardless of why you do it, working an honest job does help others. Money is the reward you get for that behavior.

My point is if you explicitly choose to work for free you're opting out of that reward structure. It seems odd to do that and then turn around and complain that "the world where we are living in" isn't rewarding you for your work.
by jnaina | 2025-09-18 02:55:08+00:00
Apple really plays the long game. More than 10 years ago, on a now defunct website for AAPL investors, there was an Apple employee who inadvertently blurted out about how his work at Apple was related to researching saccades & micro-saccades, the small rapid eye movements of the eye, as it never stays completely still, even during “fixation".

Apparently eye tracking must distinguish meaningful gaze from the natural jitters. I was thinking at that time, as an AAPL investor, that Apple seems to be wasting money on worthless R&D endeavors.

It only became apparent to me, much later with the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, how his seminal research on saccades contributed to the design and realization of the AVP.
by otterley | 2025-09-18 02:55:10+00:00
It’s not the criticism itself that is anti-Semitic. There’s plenty of criticism of Israeli actions and politics that don’t come across that way.

But you can tell who’s anti-Semitic by they way are attracted like moths to a light bulb to any story that has some connection (regardless of how distant that connection is) to Jews or Israel to get on a soapbox about how bad Israel is. And when confronted with accusations of their anti-Semitism, they rarely deny it. Instead, like you, they try to turn it around on the accuser.

It’s similar to the way you can tell who’s simply angry at his wife over a recent spat, and who’s a misogynist.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-09-18 02:56:38+00:00
Is that same China that murdered tens of millions of its own during the Great (sic) Leap Forward or a different one?

The same China in which anyone who can, tries to get a passport from a western Liberal democracy?

There’s plenty of sclerosis to complain about in the West, and there’s no question that China has done well in the last few decades. But the original poster was implying that he was coming around to the idea that using violence to get rid of markets was justified. An example involving China, in my opinion, would have to go the other way and conclude that their violent revolution was a bloody failure until they re-embraced markets.
by Vegenoid | 2025-09-18 02:56:50+00:00
I don't give a fuck about Apple not innovating right, or releasing the right lineup of product options, or not giving off the right vibes. I buy an Apple phone and computer because they work great for a long time, and because the computer is unix-like. My main computer and smartphone are both 6 years old and they are still fantastic. I don't expect to buy new ones for at least another 3 years, and it could honestly be longer. I'm free from having to know what's going on in laptops or smartphones and looking at products, because I have products that just work. As long as Apple keeps doing that, I'll keep choosing their hardware.
by dang | 2025-09-18 02:57:09+00:00
Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
by renewiltord | 2025-09-18 02:57:17+00:00
This is always why you should put as few incidents on status page as possible. People's opinion will drop and then the negative effect will fade over time. But if you have a status page then it's incontrovertible proof. Better to lie. They'll forget.

e.g. S3 has many times encountered increased error rate but doesn't report. No one says anything about S3.

People will say many things, but their behaviour is to reward the lie. Every growth hack startup guy knows this already.
by Intralexical | 2025-09-18 02:58:47+00:00
Worse than that, YouTube relies on client data for view counting while also actively creating an incentive for ad blockers to disrupt client data because of their anti-ad blocker measures.

This reminds me that I think it was the Invidious project that had a disclaimer saying they could not prevent YouTube from counting your view. Well, I guess they probably could after all, and probably did, depending on which method was used to fetch the video.
by kragen | 2025-09-18 02:58:49+00:00
Slack's business model has always been that you give them all your most critical data and they sell you access to it. This is basically the business model of the traditional kind of ransomware, before people got better at making backups.

You probably should expect large bill increases over time from ransomware-as-a-service companies like Slack. Not all of them—people are capable of behaving decently—but probably the nature of the category is such that you should expect it of most of them.

When switching providers is impossible, the pricing of maximum profit for the provider is the pricing where the buyer is exactly zero. Slack presumably doesn't have quite enough information about their clients' businesses to calibrate this exactly, but if they can approach it approximately, they'll make a lot of money; even though they drive some of their customers out of business, those losses are compensated for by the higher revenues from their surviving customers.
by zrobotics | 2025-09-18 02:58:57+00:00
But he's also using a 12 year old maker bot. They're not really even in business anymore. Why are you pushing so hard that GP needs to provide a completely turnkey solution for their long out of production printer? All of your comments are attempting to make it sound like bambu is the only turnkey solution, and you aren't doing a terribly effective job refuting GP's point that there are and have been other printers that just work as well. For another comparison point, my prusa MK3s (also now out of production I believe) has been absolutely turnkey and has required literally zero fiddling. The only print failures I've had have been due to part design, which would also apply to a bambu. I bought mine as a kit, it was a fun few hours to build but you can buy them fully built and assembled. Literally plug into an outlet, load filament, and hit print. Bambu isn't the only option for printers that work reliably and aren't a separate hobby, I don't know why this narrative gets pushed so hard.
by coder543 | 2025-09-18 02:59:36+00:00
Or not.

> When you self-host Zulip, you get the same software as our Zulip Cloud customers.

> Unlike the competition, you don't pay for SAML authentication, LDAP sync, or advanced roles and permissions. There is no “open core” catch — just freely available world-class software.

The optional pricing plans for self-hosted mention that you are buying email and chat support for SAML and other features, but I don't see where they're charging for access to SAML on self-hosted Zulip.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-09-18 02:59:42+00:00
Literally just try it yourself?

The way you describe it working doesn't even pass a basic "common sense" check. Just think about what you're saying: despite having a `package-lock.json`, every developer who works on a project will get every dependency updated every time they clone it and get to work?

The entire point of the lockfile is that installations respect it to keep environments agreed. The only difference with `clean install` is that it removes `node_modules` (no potential cache poisoning) and non-zero exits if there is a conflict between `package.json` and `package-lock.json`.

`install` will only update the lockfile where the lockfile conflicts with the `package.json` to allow you to make changes to that file manually (instead of via `npm` commands).
by gregmac | 2025-09-18 03:00:03+00:00
> refuse to let them export it

Honestly, it's hard to feel too bad for people making the choices to use this stuff without considering an escape plan or safety net and then getting burned by it.

You choose to not get fire insurance on your house, your house burned down... like yeah, that sucks, I do genuinely feel bad that happened to you. But also, you took a risk presumably to save money and it bit you in the ass, and now you unfortunately have to pay the price.

Sometimes SaaS really does make the most sense. Having your people doing part-time, non-core operations of an important service they are not experts in can be a huge distraction (and this is a hard thing for us tech people to admit!).

But you need to go into SaaS thinking about how you'd get out: maybe that's data export, maybe it's solid contracts. If they don't offer this or you can't afford it... well, don't use it. Or take the risk and just pray your house doesn't burn down.
by Intralexical | 2025-09-18 03:00:13+00:00
What about adblocked views by YouTube Premium subscribers?

The point is that a view counter should show an accurate and honest count of views, because that's what it's presented as and lying is bad. Why should ad blocking have anything to do with that? Companies should aim to protect their revenue stream by providing a good service, not cripple their service to match the basest vision of their revenue incentives.
by brookst | 2025-09-18 03:00:56+00:00
Counterpoint: if you are willing to pay $X/year, the service is worth $X/year to you or your business.

If the company charged 10% of X for some time to prove the value (or “lock you in” if you prefer), then great, you got a subsidized ride for some time.

I do think platforms should offer data export, and I think customers should demand it, and I am open to the law requiring it.

But ultimately I don’t have a ton of sympathy for the “suddenly this tool I assumed would be underpriced forever actually wants to charge what I think it’s worth” position.

I know, unpopular opinion, roast away. Or tell me why any company should assume its suppliers will never exercise their leverage and take that consumer surplus right back.
by OrvalWintermute | 2025-09-18 03:01:03+00:00
Arguably, the leading RISC-V IP is from US firms like SiFive; it has also caught major traction with NVDA in custom products, and US Govt for various industries, and even Redhat is now supporting RH on Risc-V

Microchip Inc partnered w US Govt on the aerospace angle and funded Canonical for linux ports. Their Polarfires and now Euro aerospace like Gaisler are heading in the same direction. US Govt/DARPA and others have been funding risc-v ports for years, to include mainly automated porting.

There are big differences between lowend profile-challenged SBCs and the work of NVDA, Microchip Inc, and the US Govt in the much more highend GPU related, and safety critical industries.

With Heavyweights like IBM/Redhat now on risc-v joining canonical and others, the SW side is definitely improving

TSMC btw, has always been about labor arbitrage
by zdragnar | 2025-09-18 03:01:20+00:00
Organizations aren't limited to a single country. My current client has employees in most of, if not every, time zone across the world.

As such, you need to be able to review the legal status of every pairing or group of people's private chats.

At any point in time a US based customer might invite a EU based customer, so looking specifically at US jurisdictions is irrelevant.
by TZubiri | 2025-09-18 03:02:42+00:00
aikido published a list of the affected vulns.

You can probably get a list of the repos with a github API or something.

Git clone with org admin user credentials (can be read only) so you have access to all the repos.

run grep on all package.json files, search for all of the affected repos.

No need to do any code regarding versions, just filter it down and manually process versions if needed. If you have any of these packages, no matter the versions, you should already be making efforts to migrating, kill the baby with the bathwater, cut off the arm before the gangrene spreads. At any rate you can check versions manually after you have filtered it down to something reasonable, part of automating is knowing when to stop.
by anigbrowl | 2025-09-18 03:02:55+00:00
This comment posted earlier by Commissioner Carr seems relevant here: https://x.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1968449919221416427

I want to thank Nexstar for doing the right thing.

Local broadcasters have an obligation to serve the public interest. While this may be an unprecedented decision, it is important for broadcasters to push back on Disney programming that they determine falls short of community values.

I hope that other broadcasters follow Nexstar’s lead.

Amusingly, one of the replies quotes Carr in 2019 saying 'The FCC does not have a mandate to police speech in the name of the 'public interest.''

https://x.com/AdamKinzinger/status/1968485214511878199
by creativeSlumber | 2025-09-18 03:03:54+00:00
> Pro pricing is $7.25 per active user per month

This pricing model makes no sense for a non-profit that is trying to teach coding to teenagers worldwide. They will have a lot of users (remember) who might only send one or two messages once in a while. having to pay $7.25, for some who just asked a single question, is essentially extortion for a non profit like that who's primary purpose involves reaching out to as many people a possible.

> then I think that means they have over 2,000 active members in their Slack which does not sound like a "small nonprofit" to me.

those are not employees, but most likely the people they are trying to help.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-18 03:03:57+00:00
>Any human with their head screwed on straight innately assigns a very negative value weight to murder.

Murderers walk freely among you, and we're not all bad people. A few good people earn their legal kills.

A healthy society would encourage any speech which could reduce divisiveness (e.g. comments on Mr. Kirk, without retribution) — yet ours thrives on division, getting people to hate better with bigger hearts.

¢¢

"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society..."
by ethantrang | 2025-09-18 03:04:26+00:00
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we've seen this being useful for coding agents too like cursor to plan and manage larger projects.

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by jrockway | 2025-09-18 03:04:49+00:00
I think it's a fine argument to make. At some point, the price discovery mechanism has to ask someone a price that's too high. Someone then has to say "no".

Everyone starts off with a price that's too low because you want a "no" from a customer to be "no, because your product isn't useful to me" and not "no, I don't have that kind of money". (Maybe this is a flaw and generalizes to generative AI. I like Github Copilot for $0/month. I would not like it for $200/month. If it costs them $200/month to run it, then there is a big problem with the business model.)
by kragen | 2025-09-18 03:04:54+00:00
"Eventually" often means 30 years later. Computer Associates was a pure customer abuse house for 20 years; many Oracle products have been that way for 35 years.

Enterprise software—software bought by people who don't have to use it—is as a rule abysmal. My model of how this happens is that there are large barriers to entry, and actually working well is not one of them, because the guy signing the PO doesn't have visibility into whether they work well or not. I don't know what the barriers are, but I suspect they include hiring people who already know CTOs, bribing ignorant shills like the Gartner Group, and having a convincing appear you'll still be in business in 10 years.
by Retric | 2025-09-18 03:05:37+00:00
People rarely get to actually negotiate contracts with a SaaS company. Unless you’re a very large customer it’s simply not worth their time. Such imbalances regularly give rise to regulations in other parts of the economy see automotive lemon laws etc.

Most SaaS companies can disable data exports at any time. Even if you’re regularly backing up that data when they disable it you need to instantly move to a new service or there’s going to be a gap.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-09-18 03:05:55+00:00
>IRC had these archives so repeat questions had a corpus to search

It did? I used IRC pretty frequently back in the day, and the only logging I ever saw was through your own client. This was in the days of dialup, so you'd miss any conversations from when you weren't logged in. If you were fancy, you'd have a bouncer set up on an always-on remote server to log messages when you were away. But I never saw any centralized logging à la Slack/Teams/Mattermost. It's certainly not something supported by any IRCd I'm aware of. Maybe a few channels had custom bots that logged everything to a centrally searchable location, but I never saw such a thing.

Indeed, some here even tout the "ephemeral nature of IRC as a feature, not a bug." [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32000415
by whatevertrevor | 2025-09-18 03:06:29+00:00
I may or may not be younger than you, that is of no relevance other than a vague appeal to defer to your experience about it.

I find plenty of valuable things on the current internet that wouldn't exist without commercialization, the possibility of a career as an individual YouTuber or streamer, for example.

And I'd like to see them continue and be actually paid for their efforts in a sustainable way instead of pining for a return to "all content is just passion side projects".

Because absolutely nothing about the current internet stops people from posting passionately as a side project.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-18 03:06:42+00:00
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Biden administration on June 26, 2024, in the case Murthy v. Missouri. The 6-3 decision rejected the argument that the federal government violated the First Amendment by coercing social media companies to remove posts related to COVID-19 and the 2020 election.
by nebula8804 | 2025-09-18 03:07:41+00:00
Its not like the US hasn't done big ambitious things before: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. Hell didn't they help develop some of the social programs for Post WWII Europe/Japan etc?

Post Nixon the government really just got captured and paralyzed and so a generation has grown up not understanding that this is a deliberately broken government, not how a government can operate. Instead people have been raised to think that all government is just ineffective and naturally broken. The only people who actually get it are the subset of Americans who have traveled or lived overseas for some time. As of 2023 only about half of Americans have a passport so there is a large chunk that haven't seen anything else.
by clhodapp | 2025-09-18 03:08:05+00:00
To understand the capabilities in modern terms, imagine if each file was a SQLite database in addition to containing its normal data. The normal data and the database would be entirely independent "chunks" of data. The system APIs would offer the ability to either open the file as a normal data stream, or to query it as a SQLite database.

In such a world, you might find yourself leveraging the database "side" of executables to store assets for your programs. You might use it to store the fonts used in your documents. And you might use it to store metadata for your photos.

In some cases, you might find yourself creating files just as an easy way to get a SQLite database, and not putting any normal data in them.

The format wasn't actually SQLite, but in a hand-wavey way, that's resource forks.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-09-18 03:08:29+00:00
1. This guy clearly doesn't know how NPM works. Don't use `--no-save` regularly or you'll be intentionally desyncing your lockfile from reality.

2&3. NPM 5 had a bug almost a decade ago. They literally link to it in both of those pages. Here[^1] is a developer repeating how I've said its supposed to work.

It would have taken you less work to just try this in a terminal than search for those "citations".

[^1]: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/17979#issuecomment-3327012...
by dang | 2025-09-18 03:08:58+00:00
I hear you - the problem is that HN can't have a frontpage thread about all of these developments without turning into a current affairs site, which is not its mandate. So we end up taking a fairly small sample of the topics that arise. Many stories that HN doesn't cover are far more important than nearly everything on the front page. We know that and don't imply otherwise.

Every user has their own list of which stories ought to clear the bar for frontpage representation, and it's impossible to include them all. Frontpage space is the scarcest resource that HN has (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). As a result, there's no HN reader who gets the frontpage they want, including us. This is baked into the fundamentals of how the site is designed, unless and until we start customizing the frontpage per user preferences.

There's another important aspect that I wrote about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42787306 and still haven't explained very well. In that post it's called "the temporal decay of interestingness in any sequence of related stories"—a clumsy phrase—but if you follow the argument, the conclusion it's impossible to prioritize political stories by importance on HN, even if everyone were to agree about what the important stories actually are.
by mr_tristan | 2025-09-18 03:09:18+00:00
There are a lot of mid-sized companies identified in the book _Hidden Champions of the 21st Century_. I just started the book, but it's exactly the ethos you're talking about here: these companies just focus on a niche, tend to sell to other businesses, and just stay doing this thing profitably, absolutely dominating their niche with razor focus.

I'm reading this book because, well, that's the kind of place I'd like to work. I think it makes sense to get a feel for how these places think, in order to really identify job opportunities

Edit: here's a Wikipedia page on the topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_champions
by roblh | 2025-09-18 03:09:19+00:00
I think everyone is wired a little differently. I agree that sadness isn’t the right word for it either, apathy and empathy and hopelessness are bang on. But for me, I guess I take refuge in learning. I find it hard to go and do anything physical or social, and the only outlet left is to learn obsessively cause otherwise I’ll lose my mind. Maybe trying to stockpile knowledge for the day when the hopelessness goes away and it’ll end up being useful?