MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jedimind | 2025-09-19 12:26:55+00:00
It is truly incredible to see those Zionist terrorist's pragmatic calculation rebranded as "moral fortitude." Begin avoided a civil war because he knew his extremist ideology would eventually conquer the state from within, and he was proven right.

The idea that violence for him and Shamir was just a "means to an end" that stopped in 1948 is a complete fantasy. They simply nationalized their terrorism. Begin didn't find peace. He swapped his Irgun uniform for a state uniform to launch the brutal 1982 invasion of Lebanon and to oversee a massive, violent expansion of illegal settlements. His "peace" with Egypt was a strategic masterstroke. It neutralized his biggest military threat, freeing him up to colonize Palestine with impunity.

This continuous, state-sanctioned violence was never just random. It was the implementation of an ideology that sees Palestinians as subhuman obstacles. And now, that project has reached its logical and horrifying conclusion. It has culminated in what leading human rights organizations like Amnesty International and hundreds of the world's foremost genocide scholars explicitly call it: the crime of genocide.[1][2]

So your attempt to contrast this with Palestinian leaders is a disgusting exercise in victim-blaming. You are defending the architects of a political project that resulted in genocide, while slandering its victims for resisting their own extermination. It is a morally bankrupt position that rests on a complete inversion of reality.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/israel-committ...

[2] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-inter...
by kannanvijayan | 2025-09-19 12:26:58+00:00
There's a risk of misaligned perspectives here.

What you've called out is meaningful, but it includes an implied requirement that you're not spelling out: the time and effort and attention to detail, along with the history of experience, to really apply the principles you are talking about to a project.

When I read the main article, I interpreted it from my perspective. I'm mostly a systems person. I can appreciate the points you mentioned, but I don't have those other implied things that are prerequisites for applying those concepts effectively.

Without rules of thumb like these, the UIs I design end up looking like grade school collages. Building UIs that make people _feel good_ when using them is not my core competency. I'm just looking for a baseline level of quality.

I believe there are two cohorts here: the people who want to make UIs that are beautiful, and the people who need to make UIs that are not hot garbage.. and we're reading the article from our respective perspectives.
by astrobe_ | 2025-09-19 12:27:07+00:00
Minetest sort of officially rebranded itself as a game engine when it changed name, it already was a game engine before that. Most of the bugs are caused by games and/or mods themselves, in particular if you had a Lua exception.

Among the various games that took inspiration from Minecraft (Voxelibre, Mineclonia, Repixture), some are more reliable than others. Those that don't try to be too close are the more reliable because replicating complexity tends to lead to more bugs.
by therealpygon | 2025-09-19 12:27:28+00:00
Not a sociologist but I don’t think this one is a big mystery. Off the top of the head I think of two reasons; people who buy things without research based on how a thing looks — you can bet the “demo” in-store isn’t constantly running ads, which should be false advertising — or because they want the thing in spite of the ads to show off to friends, to brag, because their {insert person} got one, etc.

Humans are just jealous moths who lack self-control.
Levox – A PII detection tool for codebases (fast and low false positives)
by levox | 2025-09-19 12:27:39+00:00
Hi HN,

We built Levox, a tool that scans codebases for PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and secrets. The motivation: secrets and sensitive data (emails, API keys, credit cards, etc.) often sneak into repos, and existing scanners are either noisy or slow.

Levox tries to fix that: - 7-stage detection pipeline (Regex → AST → Context → Dataflow → CFG → ML filtering → GDPR checks) - <1s per file, memory efficient - Supports Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java - Outputs JSON, SARIF, or terminal tables

Demo: [GitHub link or landing page]

We’re curious: - How do you handle PII leaks today? - Would you see this as a pre-commit/CI step? - What would make it trustworthy enough for production use?

We’d love your feedback!

Easily Install: pip install levox-cli
by nabla9 | 2025-09-19 12:27:52+00:00
That's the traditional middle class. "American Middle Class" is a clever political trick. It was created to remove "working class" from the vocabulary so that people could no longer identify as such.

If we use only lifestyle indicators, such as making enough money to save and retire comfortably, having enough money to go on vacations and to restaurants frequently, and being able to buy a house, the middle class is shrinking.
by freetonik | 2025-09-19 12:28:33+00:00
I wanted to make a simple Linkedin alternative for a long time, based on the primitive idea that the news feed is entirely based on CV updates. No posts, no reactions, no reposts, etc. Just a way to keep your work history and share it with others. Of course, it won't work unless a lot of people join in a short period of time. I don't know how to pull this off.
by SXX | 2025-09-19 12:28:51+00:00
As far as I aware you can't actually do 100% of crypto needed for SSH auth inside the SEP itself. Might be I missed something, but I tried to find a way before and there was none. This would obviously be most secure.

What you can do though is use Secure Enclave powered app for storing and managing access to the keys. So basically app like "secretive" run on your normal OS, but isolated and only it can access keys, use them and there no export function even with admin privileges.

AFAIK this will fail if there is a local root exploit on macOS, but still much better than keeping keys in plain text.
by breppp | 2025-09-19 12:29:13+00:00
If in the 70 years that passed there was no longer Lehi or Etzel, then these organizations disappeared.

If they became part of a nation army, divided across the different units, and most of their men discharged after the war, then these organizations disappeared

Had the IDF adopted the Etzel tactics of bombing the British as you suggest that would probably cause immense issues in the next desert tank war fought in 1956
by mtw | 2025-09-19 12:29:30+00:00
Of course the U.S and allies like Canada/Australia have all the critical minerals needed. But the U.S. does not have the ecosystem to mine and process it. The author suggests critical R&D but the administration is also waging war on the top universities (Harvard & co.), and generally looking down on what's coming from them. A good researcher is going to have a pact with the devil to agree to this, unless the administration throws money and brute force at the problem.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-19 12:30:08+00:00
I disagree. The palestinians refuse to take any responsibility for any of the acts that takes place in their name. On the other hand they never condemn or disown them either. The target of their violence is often their fellow Arabs but usually it's Jews. But always the people who suffer the most from their actions are their own. Yet their behaviour is rarely condemned and often implictly and explicitly encouraged. With such a mindset how can there be a reasonable prospect for peace?
by em-bee | 2025-09-19 12:30:13+00:00
people who are already suspicious

see, that's the problem. it's not a technical issue. it's lack of trust. i am not saying that there are no issues, but by far the biggest issue is and has always been expectations and trust. the expectation that there will be no problems, which is not even fulfilled when you upgrade windows or word, and also the subtle differences, quirks that you got used to, are different now.

it's resistance to change, while completely missing that microsoft forces more change on their users than linux or libreoffice ever did. if we could sell a switch to linux/libreoffice as a windows upgrade, people would moan, but it would not be any worse than an actual windows upgrade.
by aptly_yclept | 2025-09-19 12:30:19+00:00
There's an analogue method too - just do a very long exposure of a busy street. There is so little reflected light from people (relatively speaking) that it barely registers on the film/sensor, hence they are 'invisible' in the final shot. That's why old street photos are sometimes empty of people, because both lenses and film were slow, leading to long exposures.
by tsimionescu | 2025-09-19 12:30:20+00:00
This doesn't seem to track with broader sociological trends. For example, let's compare the USA, one of the most religious Western countries, with the USSR, where 60%+ of the population was atheistic, and where the state promoted atheism. Between 1960 and 1980, the US population grew from 179M to 226M (a 26% increase). The USSR population grew from 208M to 262M (a 25% increase). So, despite massive differences in religiosity, the population rate was pretty similar. China, another largely atheistic state, grew from 582M to 1B in roughly the same period - a 73% increase.

So while it may be true that certain small deeply religious populations are more incentivized to have children, this doesn't seem like a significant effect at population levels overall. You'll also find small non-religious groups with similar behaviors.
by ArslantasM | 2025-09-19 12:30:55+00:00
The idea of an LLM writing flawless code every time can sound daunting — almost unsettling. But if we look at history, every great leap forward, like the iPhone transforming communication, initially caused both excitement and anxiety. In reality, such changes tend to elevate human potential rather than diminish it. With the right structures — guidance, standardization, and regulatory frameworks — these tools can dramatically enhance quality of life. Fear often acts as a self-imposed wall, but progress usually shows us that adaptation opens more doors than it closes.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-19 12:31:16+00:00
The thread is already buried. Like I said, it's your call whether you want to engage. Either way, no loss. If I actually manually wrote down those citations so SERVE your request it would've been a massive waste of my time and it would be rude for you not to respond.

Good thing I used AI to assist me. I knew you'd leave. Mainly because there's really no solid evidence so a lot of this will go in circles. Good day sir.
by StrangeWill | 2025-09-19 12:32:37+00:00
Long-time C# Dev here -- yeah I'm still jealous of being able to find more esoteric libraries in Node, Python or PHP -- or just having more options then someone's back-yard half-baked implementation sometimes.

On the other hand, I have nearly 20 languages under my belt and have been writing code professionally for 22 years -- I still use C# most of the time for a lot of other reasons, just this is one of the bigger pain points.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 12:33:14+00:00
> Back when the internet was a nice place, I mean years 1999-2010

By 1999, Internet Explorer on Windows had over 95% of the web browser market. Modems were 56K. This is not comparable to the web in 2010, much less the web today.

You're experiencing nostalgia - it isn't factual, though.

> Private websites are nearly extinct

I wonder what these password managers are all about, then?

> Corporations like Meta are scared of people taking control over their own data, so they put lots of effort into making the content creation process as brainless as possible.

How exactly does Meta have any role in the ease or difficulty of content creation? Last I checked Meta makes zero of the top content creation tools and is mostly an ad company.
by smileybarry | 2025-09-19 12:33:17+00:00
From the original post:

> According to the German Automobile Association, manual opening is only possible from the inside, which complicates rescue attempts for emergency services.

The issue, other than complicated internal release, was the lack of an external way to manually open the doors. (e.g.: driver is unconscious with small kids who haven't read the manual)
by throwaway0236 | 2025-09-19 12:33:25+00:00
> So you have a billing process that includes a step where you extort the customer and demand substantial amounts of money or else you delete the customer's data on very short notice

I think this is the most important finding from this story. It's not that someone has mistakenly billed a non-profit, but that this form of "customer relations" is apparently part of the standard billing process for business customers.

They are free to do so of course, but I imagine that this may impact customer retention if the practice continues. This short notice is something that I would have reacted very strongly about if I had integrated Slack so deeply in my business as the OP did. With the push for workflows, agents and additional functionality, it is actually a huge risk to the business if you get a short notice to migrate if the new terms can not be met.
by shoo | 2025-09-19 12:33:45+00:00
R was developed for and by statisticians, for better and worse. I used R a little bit 15-20 years ago, what I remember was that quite a few libraries and function interfaces seemed to be designed to be convenient for interactive use, but if you tried to use them in an automated script, e.g. some analysis you wanted to scale up and repeat 10,000 times while bootstrap sampling or hyperparameter sweeping or what have you, those same library and interface design choices involved bizarre edge cases where functions would sometimes do something completely different (perhaps changing the return type) when invoked with slightly different arguments. All these automation hostile edge causes were annoying to discover and then work around.

None of this was forced by R the language, it was purely a library design thing by the folks writing the libraries. Whereas in contrast, you simply wouldn't and didn't get such library design in mainstream general purpose programming languages (e.g. in C++, java some of this stuff wouldn't even type check) and similarly in python, even though python being dynamic was fertile ground for people to develop completely bonkers and unautomatable numeric and scientific libraries, the customs for how libraries should work were different

This is maybe just a reflection that R and R's libraries were being designed for interactive use by humans doing exploratory data analysis, model fitting etc, unlike other programming languages which are used to automate things or build software products that can be shipped.
by GordonS | 2025-09-19 12:34:09+00:00
Having to deploy and manager Clickhouse put me off a little - OpenObserve uses it's own binary format, so there are zero external dependencies, making it super easy to setup. Maybe Clickhouse is nothing to worry about, but it's something I've never used before.

Also, I wasn't sure if Zookeeper was mandatory even for a single-server SigNoz install?

SigNoz UI certainly looks more polished tho!
by incomingpain | 2025-09-19 12:34:37+00:00
>The constitution doesn’t guarantee Kimmel a talk show, but it does guarantee that the government won’t quash his speech because of what he chooses to say. Kimmel now has a straightforward suit for damages and forward-looking relief that he can and should file — not just against ABC, but also against the government officials who were the driving force for his embarrassing public disciplining.

The threat made by the government to censor him is a tool that has been there since 1992. A tool made by George H Bush and used often by every administration since. Oddly enough, nobody ever challenges it and I see 0% chance Kimmel has any chance of winning. Absolutely no way Kimmel has any odds of winning in court.

I consider as well, lets say he does win and this rule is thusly struck down. It's going to be a nightmare situation for everyone in the usa after.
by Amezarak | 2025-09-19 12:34:50+00:00
The USSR was one of the most authoritarian regimes in world history. They killed millions of people. They invaded Poland together with the Nazis, which was the start of WWII.

I have no idea what was bad about the fascists that wasn't equally true of the Soviets - the underlying systems of thought and actions were essentially the same. There is no sense in which I can see the Soviets were the "good guys." They were simply allies of convenience, and the net result of the war was that half of Europe was handed over to them and lived under this horrific regime.
by StrangeWill | 2025-09-19 12:34:52+00:00
We build a Shopify-leading platform on C# at a startup -- they got so much flak from colleagues about it being built on C# instead of Node or Python.

Absolutely no reason other than "C# icky" -- they ended up with a platform that is crazy fast (and fast scales way easier, it handles a dumb amount of traffic without a lot of crazy design)

Startup culture is toxic AF at times, bad engineering decisions for cargo cult stuff.
by lapcat | 2025-09-19 12:35:18+00:00
> But... if every small bug is fixed

This is a straw man that I never suggested. On the contrary, I said in Part 1, "I don’t fix every bug in my products."

> How do the actually-important things get addressed?

How exactly do you define "important"? And how do you address my point that the volume of so-called "unimportant" bugs can pile up until your product is noticeably full of those unimportant bugs?

> Suggesting big numbers like Google's quarterly revenue has any bearing on the organization's ability to address bugs in their myriad of releases tells me this can be boiled down as "man shakes fist at cloud" (pun intended)

Google is constantly, constantly, constantly, constantly adding new features. For example, they just introduced "AI Mode" in the Chrome omnibar. There's an infamously long list of products that Google created and then killed: https://killedbygoogle.com Google used to give their engineers 20% time to do whatever they wanted; I don't know whether they do that anymore, but the point is that Google has plenty of time to do stuff.

Google has vast engineering resources, more resources than almost any other company on Earth. They choose NOT to prioritize fixing bugs. Worse, they've obviously chosen to auto-close bugs that they've ignored, thereby incentivizing the ignoring of bugs, and deincentivizing the filing of bug reports.
by 64d032fe | 2025-09-19 12:35:51+00:00
Hard, in this sense, does not necessarily mean negative or bad. And the safety nets are often illusions (see: insurance, for one example).

There's a balance of course, but I believe most people would benefit from harder lives (in the natural/physical sense). Modern life being more comfortable and easier is actually bullshit. If your life is driving through traffic hours a day to go to a place to sit in front of a computer by yourself to send out messages by chat and email, that is a very hard life. You are forsaking nature and an eon of evolution to satisfy what exactly?
by weatherlite | 2025-09-19 12:36:33+00:00
> So you click a button, it pops open a text box in a floating window, you type in a question, and the AI replies. This is the most underwhelming implementation of browser-based AI that they could have come up with. Quite literally just gemini.google.com in an iFrame.

Well, they're gonna have to support an astronomical scale of queries - not many companies in the world are able to do it and Alphabet is doing it pretty much on their own stack of cloud, a.i chips and software. So sure, the front end is not a big deal but this is still a big move.
by dfox | 2025-09-19 12:36:47+00:00
The reasoning behind the auto-locking feature is that when the doors are locked it adds to rigidity of the car and thus decreases the likelyhood of the passanger cabin collapsing on the occupants. Auto unlocking the doors would completely defeat the reason for that feature.

The actual mechanism of how the door works as kind of "configurable deformation zone" usually involves somewhat thick steel rod running down the middle of the door that on hinge side abbuts similar strength member in the chasis and on the latch side connects to the latch. The latch has two distinct positions depending on whether the door is just latched or locked and the only latched position is not strong enough to hold the potential impact forces..
by eviks | 2025-09-19 12:37:55+00:00
> Or if there is another way

Of course there is a much better way for all your troubles! Window move: hold a modifier and click&drag anywhere in the window area instead of wasting time precision hunting the titlebar. Window resize: same, use a big 30%-window-width area close to the border instead of hunting for those few pixels of an actual resizable border Horizontal scroll (though strange, Win 11 explorer has horizontal scrollbar immediately visible, though maybe that's a config?): hold a modifier and use the more convenient mouse wheel (or use a window manager with shortcuts or visual grid) None of that, of course, is part of your unhelpful OS

> But modern design lunacy dictates that this scrollbar must be INVISIBLE.

In a real modern design there is no lunacy as wide/tall scrollbar is mostly a space waste as you have better control options, and narrow/short ones are still that, but also unergonomic to use. So you'd have a wide/tall invisible one, which in those smaller % of cases you need them would become visible, but still wide/tall ones

> I, director Skinner and Homer's dad did not get the memo.

That's unfortunate indeed that the bad old ways of window management and scrolling persist for so long and the better ways aren't integrated in the OS
by danaris | 2025-09-19 12:38:04+00:00
I mean, for a start, literally every human-made object is designed. It may be designed poorly, or designed purely for function, but every one is designed. The pen you use to write notes with, the sticky notes you write on, the traffic cones blocking off the open manhole on the way to work, the manhole cover lying nearby...all of those are designed.

Design isn't just "making things look nice". It's every thought that goes into the structure, function, and aesthetic of an object, whether physical or digital.
by 3oil3 | 2025-09-19 12:38:14+00:00
You'r not the only one: Javascript makes me think of ads; Oracle of Symphony, some restaurant stuff I worked with; hard to describe the experience. Not very safe, designed so normal people are ultra dependent on paid-for support. etc But I'm not here to rant :)

I do find that request outrageous, the true objective hidden, and I still don't grasp what the fuss is about anyway; in what way does it matter does Oracle own the name? Before being superseded by Python, wasn't JavaScript the world's most used language? Don't get me wrong, I'm no Oracle fan-boy, but why? And doesn't Oracle own Java as well? Sure, very different languages, but hard to say the same for the trademarked names, and Java is older. How about taking energy to do something else, something positive. 'JS' as somone said earlier, is pretty cool.
by e40 | 2025-09-19 12:40:24+00:00
I don't know where, but probably here on HN, I read a very long version of the same story. The wikipedia version was surprisingly short. I remember reading it and feeling a lot of emotions. I think this is the version:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/magazine/old-leatherman-w...

but it seems too new... I'm sure it was more than a year ago I read about it...

EDIT: that's definitely not the one. The one I read was by an author who had had a life-long obsession with the Leatherman and wanted to retrace his steps, on his own, and he had a family. It was a haunting piece.

EDIT 2: actually, looks like it is the article. I didn't scan far enough. I guess March 2025 feels a really long time ago.