MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alexwasserman | 2025-09-23 14:16:38+00:00
"It could have overwhelmed cell towers, toppling New York City’s cell service and preventing every Manhattan resident from accessing Google Maps."

Seems odd that the most important use they can highlight for cell service in NYC is accessing Google Maps. Not accessing 911, not some other vital use of cell service, but Google Maps.

NYC is full of free Wifi all over the place. So many McDs, Starbucks, and other restaurants and sites you can get Google Maps anywhere.
by cess11 | 2025-09-23 14:16:43+00:00
China is a member of WIPO, so that's mostly something the US does to trample on the UN. Why should India change its policies around sanctions and start implementing them because the US thinks they should, instead of leveraging the UN sanctions system, which India adheres to? Same thing there. The US dislikes diplomacy and international institutions that treat states as equals, and prefers overtly or covertly hostile unilateral actions.

I'm not sure what you mean by the South Africa example.

I'm also not so sure it's a tricky line. Civil disobedience is something everyone should consider as a means of political action.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-23 14:16:43+00:00
While these are great on paper, I think the part that needs solving is how to stop them from becoming dens of people who have checked out (voluntarily or not) of life/society.

Getting a place to live in for $350/mo would be absolutely game changing for low income (and even middle income) people trying to build wealth. The downside though is that these places will invariably turn into social crack houses, rather than the sunny smilely communal life ideals they are sold as.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-23 14:17:19+00:00
Being able to capture in super low light conditions is dependent on two things. 1. Your sensor's noise floor, 2. The number of photons you can get per unit time.

First one is dependent on the manufacturing process, and the second one is dependent on your sensor size.

Currently, the leading sensor manufacturers (namely Sony Semiconductor and Canon) are doing very low noise sensors. However, to get both these low noise levels and convincing images needs full frame sensors, at least. APS-C can somewhat close, but it can't be there (because physics).

Even in that case, you can't do 2000FPS and get meaningful images from every one of them.

There's no way that a Tesla car cam sports full frame or APS-C sensors.

So, it's physics.
by nlitened | 2025-09-23 14:17:54+00:00
> But if you are materially dependent on the job then you have battling imperatives that will stress you

I would like to offer a different perspective for you.

I’ve never been shouted at in my work life. And I also know a few people who complain about being shouted at, at all places of work they’ve had — and it’s difficult for me to empathize with them.

At some point I understood that I never allowed my coworkers or managers to shout at me, and in the rare occasions when their voice was raised, I had made myself very clear, and I quit on the spot had the situation ever happened again. As a result, I’ve always had very pleasant and respectful working conditions, with self-respecting people who I know will quit if abused, so I treat them with respect as well.

On the other hand, people who endure humiliation by imagining contrived moral dilemmas about why it’s good and right for them to continue suffering — suffer for decades wherever they are employed, as they seem to filter out and stick to workplaces where this is acceptable.

Are there really no jobs for your talent where you can be moral, or you’re prepared to endure immorality (and to be faithful employee to such businesses) until you’re old and frail?
by alephnerd | 2025-09-23 14:18:15+00:00
If I can hire someone remotely in San Antonio, why can't I hire someone remotely in São Paulo as a result?

This is why the offshoring boom happened since COVID - remote-first proved that async works well enough, which made offshoring more enticing.

Now that sponsoring 10 H1B visas is guaranteed to cost $1M, I may as well spend that much to open an office abroad, get 7 figure tax credits per employee, and pay a lower salary.
by zoezoezoezoe | 2025-09-23 14:18:23+00:00
As far as I see it, if a country is truly desperate to get some foreign good, it will. We see this with GPUs in China, despite there being very restrictive sanctions against China receiving American-produced GPUs, China, nonetheless, acquires American-produced GPUs. It's an endless game of whack-a-mole to get sanctions to completely work, and when they do, you've probably crippled your domestic markets.
by djoldman | 2025-09-23 14:18:23+00:00
I'm curious: what are the web standards/specifications that webkit does not implement, efficiently or at all, that prevent all but niche or insignificantly important functionality?

For that matter, what critical new functionality has been introduced in the web standards/specifications over the last 20 years that was not possible to implement prior? My quick and uninformed take is just: video.

As a casual web developer, it feels very much like the CSS, HTML, and Web API specifications are well well beyond what is critical and deep into the "specifications capture" phase of how companies compete.
by toss1 | 2025-09-23 14:18:56+00:00
Just wait until the current regime finishes their plans, which include hacking the exception in Section 1 of the Thirteenth Amendment [0] to bring back slavery for prisoners.

>> Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

The person occupying the Vice President's chair stated clearly [1] "Medicaid cuts in Senate tax bill 'immaterial' compared to ICE increases".

They aren't building all those for-profit prisons for nothing.

Beware.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/01/vanc...
by ajross | 2025-09-23 14:19:01+00:00
For anyone interested, I went digging. In fact the citation for that (FCC Chair) McNinch quote that is (not quite correctly) excerpted in the Coughlin article is a 1938 Times article talking about how he'd "recently" said it in a speech (I can't find a cite for the speech itself).

The FCC was created in 1934, four years earlier. So arguing from this basis that it was created to censor is clearly just plain wrong. The wikipedia narrative on the Coughlin page is basically a lie.
by scoop293 | 2025-09-23 14:19:08+00:00
If you think about this fee like "tariffs for service workers" then it's easier to infer its impact. Tariff distorts prices. That might be a good thing or not. Monopolies and dominant big tech will be able to absorb this cost better -- they already have huge legal departments and HR, and can pay for the cost as long as they can accelerated things with fees. startups, smaller players and universities will be less likely to be able to afford that. You already see this in H1B market, just to a less extent. More STEM immigrants could move to tech/finance (not that it's not already this case) because that's already the only place any H1B job can be found. You're not going to find a small brewery job recruiting H1B.

Another possibility is this cost gets shared with the workers who are desperate to get a job and supresses real H1B wages even more-- it's already quota controlled. Hey, what are you going to do if you don't get a raise, give up on your life in this country or pay 100k to move?

As always, the best way of protect labor is better regulations and maybe unions.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-23 14:19:31+00:00
I don't think this needs much "teaching." We overthrew their secular democracy in 1953 and installed an extremely unpopular autocratic monarchy. They were then overthrown in a "real" revolution in 1979 which is when they became an Islamic Republic. Since then we've spent decades trying to overthrow their government, actively assassinating their leaders and scientists, bombing their country, providing material support to Israel to regularly go batshit over there and so on. And I haven't even touched on sanctions. We're not exactly coming off as the good guys here.

Beyond this, it's a very poor analogy because the overwhelming majority of sanctions would be a war crime as they intentionally target civilians with no military value.
by simianparrot | 2025-09-23 14:19:50+00:00
Why would "for the fun of it" be a prerequisite for it to be bad..?

If someone shouts "death to <my name>" from across the street, I take it _very_ seriously.

I fully understand the history between Iran and the US, but you you can't have suicidal empathy with an enemy state that trains its people to want you dead.
by pg3uk | 2025-09-23 14:20:10+00:00
The US is probably ahead but they're so obsessed with moats, IP and safety that their lagginess is self imposed.

China has nothing to lose and everything to gain by releasing stuff openly.

Once China figures put how to make high performance FPGA chips really cheap, its game over for the US. The only power the US has is over GPU supply...and even then its pretty weak.

Not to mention NVIDIA crippling its own country with low VRAM cards. China is taking older cards, stripping the RAM and upgrading other older cards.
by xphos | 2025-09-23 14:20:32+00:00
I find the comments on the site that it would have no economic demand laughable. Everything has demand the question is at what cost. If an SRO could cost 500$ a month in NYC people would jump on it.

And don't get me wrong SROs were not happy places, people living in them should just try not being to poor to have real housing (sarcasm). I think homeless issues would not be solved but at least partially mitigated if SROs with regulations could exist. I think we need to look serious at whether people living and shitting on the streets is more or less dignified than SROs
by narrator | 2025-09-23 14:20:38+00:00
The legal system is not an API you can spam. You must have credentials that involve passing a very tough exam to even submit to it and going to school for 3 years. If you make a submission that is not fully syntax and reference checked you can face a $10,000 fine and suspension of your license to submit to it. You do not waste the legal system's time with AI slop.

I have worked in litigation and if you submit some litigation to a court clerk that is not perfect you won't even get a reply that it's no good. They'll just throw your brief in the trash without looking at it and never call you back.
by rwmj | 2025-09-23 14:21:04+00:00
The other responses to this post are very strange. Here in the UK I too lived in HMOs for many years while I was a student at university and later when I started working. It is simply a normal way of living if you're in your twenties. At no point did I live in a house that was a fire risk / 5 to a room / had anyone who had "checked out". It also let me live cheaply and save a lot of money, and I met many life-long friends.
by illuminator83 | 2025-09-23 14:21:31+00:00
Actually, developers are idiots. Everyone is. Some just don't know it or won't admit it.

I once joined a company with a large C/C++ codebase. There I worked with some genuinely expert developers - people who were undeniably smart and deeply experienced. I'm not exaggerating and mean it.

But when I enabled the compiler warnings (which annoyed them) they had disabled and ran a static analyzer over the codebase for the first time, hundreds of classic C bugs popped up: memory leaks, potential heap corruptions, out-of-bounds array accesses, you name it.

And yet, these same people pushed back when I introduced things like libfmt to replace printf, or suggested unique_ptr and vector instead of new and malloc.

I kept hearing:

"People just need to be disciplined allocations. std::unique_ptr has bad performance" "My implementation is more optimized than some std algorithm." "This printf is more readable than that libfmt stuff." etc.

The fact is, developers, especially the smart ones probably, need to be prevented from making avoidable mistakes. You're building software that processes medical data. Or steers a car. Your promise to "pay attention" and "be careful" cannot be the safeguard against catastrophe.
by vel0city | 2025-09-23 14:21:33+00:00
I consider myself extremely lucky, but for large swaths of my professional career I've actually really enjoyed what I was doing. There have definitely been grindy projects where I'm not working on a project that interests me on a technology stack I don't care for, but especially at the start I always looked forward to going to work in my programming job. It might as well have been the best videogame I'd ever played before. Every day was full of learning new things and I was finally getting paid a wage for something I'd been doing for fun for years. It was a small office a short drive or bike ride away with people I got along with really well. It was a short walk to a few cheap restaurants and a grocery store. I rarely had extremely tight deadlines.
by cootsnuck | 2025-09-23 14:21:48+00:00
Nah it's that size. You need an individual modem for each SIM card because you need a unique IMEI. It's possible each of those SIMs are eUICCs as well which means basically that each card is like a "wallet" with multiple profiles.

I've used hardware a decent amount larger than what's pictured in the OP for work. But what I was using wasn't just for SMS. So I needed more sophisticated modems. What they're using looks like a bunch of 64 port modem banks exclusively for SMS.

(Oh wait if you mean the devices for what's in the article you linked, then yea, those I'm sure are much smaller and quite different.)
by lapcat | 2025-09-23 14:21:50+00:00
I have no wish to defend Apple. However, I have no wish to defend Google or Microsoft either. Collectively, those three have a monopolistic market share for operating systems and web browsers on both desktop and mobile.

My fundamental problem with this author is his massive conflict of interest. He's not an outside observer but rather a Chromium engineer, former Google employee, current Microsoft employee. He talks about "competition" and "competitors" while basically ignoring the monopolistic landscape of the industry and the role of his own employers in that monopolization. Nobody has clean hands here, not Apple, not Google, not Microsoft. I don't see any of them really acting in the best interest of consumers. Let's not pretend, for example, that Chromium doesn't push a bunch of shit that consumers never wanted.

Progress would be breaking up this triopoly, not allowing Blink/Chromium to dominate everything.

The web "standards" bodies are a joke now because of the dominance of these few companies over web browsers. I don't even want to hear about standards anymore. So-called standards now are just the monopolists coming to agreement among themselves. All we have here is the employee of one monopolist complaining about another monopolist.

As far as I'm concerned, the web standards should be so simple that a little indie developer could write a full-fledged web browser. But people like the article author want web browser engines to become entire operating systems, which in effect excludes almost everyone from writing a web browser. That's not openness and freedom. It's inherently monopolistic.
by felixge | 2025-09-23 14:22:13+00:00
Do you think the GC roots alone (goroutine stacks with goroutine id, package globals) would be enough?

I think in many cases you'd want the reference chains.

The GC could certainly keep track of those, but at the expense of making things slower. My colleagues Nick and Daniel prototyped this at some point [1].

Alternatively the tracing of reference chains can be done on heap dumps, but it requires maintaining a partial replica of the GC in user space, see goref [2] for that approach.

So it's not entirely trivial, but rest assured that it's definitely being considered by the Go project. You can see some discussions related to it here [3].

Disclaimer: I contribute to the Go runtime as part of my job at Datadog. I can't speak on behalf of the Go team.

[1] https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/552736

[2] https://github.com/cloudwego/goref/blob/main/docs/principle....

[3] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57175
by alex-moon | 2025-09-23 14:23:03+00:00
Oh wow! This is a huge honour, thank you so much! I definitely started writing a "lol HTMX is shit" post, but it just wasn't honest. HTMX is incredibly powerful - I am a fan of what you all have done with it. This attempt on my part to try and write something server-side rendered wouldn't have happened without the kick up the butt HTMX gives me (and all of us).
by mig4ng | 2025-09-23 14:24:11+00:00
I have been sharing house with a roommate for years now (in Portugal), and I prefer it to living alone. Even with a girlfriend, I highly prefer to live in a house with more people.

I come from a "big" family, and I am used to movement where I live. And living alone or just with one person, makes my energy go down.

Now that I plan on moving to Paraguay, I am looking for co-living options or someone to rent place with. Different people have different preferred ways of living.

For me, it's cheaper, and I am happier, when I share place with other people. Also, you get to learn from others, have people to talk with, at the expense of a bit of privacy. But depending on the roommates you choose the privacy thing is usually not an issue.
by reactordev | 2025-09-23 14:24:17+00:00
I thought the entire goal was to get to a point where you're checked out? Retirement. The issue is income hasn't kept up with inflation and definitely not the rents required for older gen folks to survive on their own.

Perspective: My mother owned a home in a wealthy area of Virginia, her mortgage was $1200/mo for 30 years. When she sold it (for double what she paid for it) she thought she was rich. Then came the assisted living rent bill of $8k/mo. She realized she only has a few years to live on her life savings. It's a generational rug pull and kicking the ladder out from those climbing. It's going to end very badly.
by AyyEye | 2025-09-23 14:24:23+00:00
Mcfly[1] takes your working directory into account when searching shell history.

From the readme:

> The key feature of McFly is smart command prioritization powered by a small neural network that runs in real time. The goal is for the command you want to run to always be one of the top suggestions.

> When suggesting a command, McFly takes into consideration:

- The directory where you ran the command. You're likely to run that command in the same directory in the future.

- What commands you typed before the command (e.g., the command's execution context).

- How often you run the command.

- When you last ran the command.

- If you've selected the command in McFly before.

- The command's historical exit status. You probably don't want to run old failed commands.

[1] https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
by ezekiel68 | 2025-09-23 14:24:32+00:00
> How do you justify...

It's easy. I just remind myself that, in about 5 billion years, the Sun will have sufficiently run out of fuel to begin its transition to a Red Giant. At that point, all remnants of biologic life that ever lived on the crust of the earth will be incinerated and it won't have mattered whether anyone carefully conserved the precious time remaining in their lives or not. I have so thoroughly incorporated this understanding into my psyche that I can merely blink now and all of that context is immediately present to me.
by latexr | 2025-09-23 14:24:37+00:00
The original title is almost double the maximum length for HN titles, and it’s confusingly dry. “Children's Advertising Review Unit” does sound like it could be a government entity. I do agree the current title could be slightly misleading, but hopefully there is a middle ground. I don’t have a suggestion offhand, but if you do, HN moderators do tend to take user suggestions into account in these cases.
by JdeBP | 2025-09-23 14:24:40+00:00
Looking at the original press release (https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2025/09/us-s...) and the attached high-resolution photographs, there are things that probably leap out at a Hacker News readership:

The Bad Guys are neat with their cable ties, and number their gateway boxes.

The Bad Guys went with simple heavy-duty metal garage shelving rather than real racking, seemingly vastly overengineered for the weight of the equipment, as that sort of shelving can hold up to a Mg per shelf UDL. The "WallOfSimBoxes" kit does not sport any rack mounting brackets.

The Bad Guys don't use redundant power supplies, or battery backup.
by narrator | 2025-09-23 14:24:56+00:00
The hallucinations in legal briefs get really out of hand when the attorney wants to make an argument not supported by the case law. The LLM wants to do a good job defending a case, so it invents the legal precident, because otherwise it'd be impossible to make the argument credibly. This invites a rule 11 challenge from the other side where you claim the lawyer is so full of crap with his claim that he deserves sanction for not understanding the law and wasting everyone's time.

What's interesting about the rules of civil procedure is that it has been built up over centuries to prevent all kinds of abuse by sneaky, clever, unscrupulous litigants. Most systems are not so hardened against bad faith actors like the legal system is and AI just thinks it can pathologically lie its way through cause most people trust somebody who sounds authoritative.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-23 14:25:13+00:00
Where are these types of places illegal in reality?

I know of single room rentals available in pretty much every major metro in the world. Shared common bathroom and kitchen.

I also know of one in plenty of subletting of multi-bedroom apartments.

I have never heard of enforcement against this. It also doesn’t bring rents down as much as claimed.
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