MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pests | 2025-09-16 19:37:00+00:00
The output of a usb radio like this is a set of IQ values which is the raw data from the ADC. The amount of values (samples) you get is device dependent and also limited by your interface. The RTL SDR 4 over usb can do up to 2.4-3.5MHz. The ADC on that device is 8 bit so you will get two 8 bit, IQ numbers per sample.

You can tune into remote SDR’s people set up to work with this data without having your own device or download recordings others have made.

It is this raw sample data that you then demodulate according to whatever scheme required on the PC side.

A great resource I found was pysdr.org. I had absolutely no background in RF and very little python experience but that guide explains everything from the ground up from how the IQ samples are physically generated and read in an antenna, all the modulation schemes you mentioned, and how to code useful things with the various devices. No affiliation but a great resource.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-09-16 19:37:35+00:00
For the consumer, maybe not, other than a delay of some years.

In terms of having the industry? Absolutely. How many other areas of "tech" has Europe basically punted on and ceded to Americans? Currently there's some gnashing of teeth across the pond for how there's no real European equivalent to the big US cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
by jacques_chester | 2025-09-16 19:37:48+00:00
Most of the biggest repositories already cooperate through the OpenSSF[0]. Last time I was involved in it, there were representatives from npm, PyPI, Maven Central, Crates and RubyGems. There's also been funding through OpenSSF's Alpha-Omega program for a bunch of work across multiple ecosystems[1], including repos.

[0] https://github.com/ossf/wg-securing-software-repos

[1] https://alpha-omega.dev/grants/grantrecipients/
by ht-syseng | 2025-09-16 19:37:53+00:00
Just tried. Actually quite impressed with how well it works. I avoid using AI to write code, I'm a little worried that the existence of detection tools like this will lead people to over-rely on them; I would feel bad if someone suggested I used AI to create code I took pride in writing. I don't matter, but on a societal scale that effect may compel people to over-rely on AI as their work is treated as slop whether they put effort in or not, which will just increase the tide of terrible AI slop code, engineers managing systems they do not understand, and thus the brittleness and instability of global infrastructure. I sincerely hope you guys succeed, I suppose the point is that almost succeeding might be worse than not trying at all...
by munksbeer | 2025-09-16 19:38:02+00:00
>Even using OpenJDK is a sword of damocles waiting to fall.

No, it really isn't. Honestly, people seem to go to great lengths of talking nonsense to discredit Java. There are many reasons to not like a language, and that is absolutely fine. But there is no point talking nonsense about it when you could just... not use it.
by ajross | 2025-09-16 19:38:18+00:00
> — never give out codes sent to use via sms or push notifications to someone requesting them via phone or email. Never. The messages often even say that!

I tried making this point downthread but it bears repeating higher up. Per OP, this was account with Authenticator enabled. If you have a working authenticator setup, they aren't going to "ask for a code", since by definition you're already authenticated. And while I'm no expert, I really don't think there is such a thing. Recovery for a lost account never goes back to device-in-hand once you have enabled full 2FA.

Something is being skipped in the description of the phish here. I don't think OP is being completely honest.
by justin66 | 2025-09-16 19:39:14+00:00
What is he even talking about here?

We never had workers rights at Blue Systems, we were all on self employment contracts. This will continue at Tech Paladin. It is illegal but unenforceable when done on an international setup. But employment rights are not a luxury you can chose to do without if you enjoy your job and want some more flexibility in your work day. They are fundamental and life altering rights that change people’s lives as I discovered when my adopted children were taken away from me. Nobody should be doing business with or taking money from Tech Paladin else be party to illegal workers rights abuses.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-09-16 19:39:26+00:00
> it's objectively not what you're representing it as

Well, they represented it as "the mass-murder of mentally ill people". There's lots of them (mass), they're being intentionally killed against their will (murder), and the vast majority of chronically homeless people are mentally ill.

Maximally, it is subjectively not how they represent it, if one believes that a state-sanctioned judicial killing is not murder. That is far from a universal belief.
by anonym29 | 2025-09-16 19:39:31+00:00
>Firstly, I can tell you phone number verification made a very meaningful impact. The cost of abuse can be quite high for services with high marginal costs like AI.

Nobody has made the argument that it's not a deterrent at all. The core argument is that it's privacy-infringing when it doesn't need to be, and the cost posed to attackers is extremely low. If your business is offering a service at a price below your business' own costs, the business itself is choosing to inflict cost asymmetry upon itself.

>Second, all those alternatives you described are also not great for user privacy either.

This is plainly and obviously false at face value. How would blocklisting datacenter IP's, or doing IP-based rate limiting, or a PoW challenge like Anubis be "also not great" for user privacy, particularly when compared to divulging a phone number? Phone numbers are linked to far more commercially available PII than an IP address by itself is, and PoW challenges don't even require you to log IP addresses. Behavioral analysis like blocking more than N sign-ups per minute from IP address X, or blocking headless UA's like curl, or even blocking registrations using email addresses from known temp-mail providers is nowhere remotely close to being as privacy-infringing as requiring phone numbers is.

The privacy difference between your stated practice and my proposed alternatives isn't a difference of degree; it's a fundamental difference of kind.

Being generous, this is lazy, corner-cutting engineering that seeks to impose an unknown amount of privacy risk from the perspective of end users by piggybacking off an existing channel that only good-faith users won't forge (phone number), at the possible expense of good-faith users' privacy, rather than implementing a better control.

Of course, there's no reason to be generous to for-profit corporations - the much more plausible explanation is that your business is data mining your own customers via this PII-linked registration requirement through a coercive ToS that refuses service unless customers provide this information, which is both entirely unnecessary for legitimate users and entirely insufficient to block even a slightly motivated abusive user.

...not that you'd ever admit to that practice if you were aware of it happening, or would even necessarily be aware of it happening if you were not a director or officer of the business.
by amradio1989 | 2025-09-16 19:40:19+00:00
Shocking. Kidding, of course. People have been shouting about censorship from social media companies since COVID.

Ostensibly, that’s why Elon Musk bought X. Ostensibly, that is why Rumble rose as an alternative video platform. I say ostensibly because the truth is often different than appearances.

So no, this article did not uncover a social media censorship crisis. That was uncovered years ago, and roundly ignored by at least half of the country.

This too, will probably be ignored as well. The unfortunate truth is that people tend to silently — or not so silently — support censorship of views they don’t like. The irony is that this empowers censorship of views or ideas that you DO like.

We would be better off if we divorced ourselves from these social media platforms. They are shaping public discourse in unhealthy ways.
by Barbing | 2025-09-16 19:40:21+00:00
>human pilots have napped many times over the

months?! :)

"The [German pilots'] union said it had carried out a survey of more than 900 pilots in recent weeks, which found that 93% of them admitted to napping during a flight in the past few months."

-The Guardian, "Almost all German pilots admit to napping during flights in union survey"; 2025-09-10
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-16 19:40:24+00:00
I agree with this and it's something I've encountered when just trying to understand a codebase or track down a bug. There's a bit of the tail wagging the dog as an increasing proportion of commits are "meta-code" that is just tweaking config, formatting, etc. to align with external tools (like linters).

> Unless there's actually reason to change code (eg. some genuine refactoring a human thinks is actually needed, a bug fix or new feature, a tool exposed a real bug, or at least some identifiable issue that might turn into a bug), it should be left alone.

The corollary to this is "Unless there's actually a need for new features that a new version provides, your existing dependency should be left alone". In other words things should not be automatically updated. This is unfortunately the crazy path we've gone down, where when Package X decides to upgrade, everyone believes that "the right thing to do" is for all its dependencies to also update to use that and so on down the line. As this snowballs it becomes difficult for any individual projects to hold the line and try to maintain a slow-moving, stable version of anything.
by Quekid5 | 2025-09-16 19:41:07+00:00
What, exactly, are the JVM's competitors (not Java, btw)? You can always use Kotlin or Scala if they take your fancy. They both interop fantastically with 20+ years of the Java ecosystem.

EDIT: The only remotely competitive ecosystem is JS/TS (because billions of pre-installs) and C#.

> Even using OpenJDK is a sword of damocles waiting to fall. If I forget to update OpenJDK, Oracle could come after me. It's just risk that I don't have to worry about by choosing not to go with Java. It's probably not a lot of risk, but it's risk nonetheless that doesn't exist with Java's competitors.

This is absurd hyperbole.
by pxc | 2025-09-16 19:41:15+00:00
I don't know. I have a medical light sensitivity problem that makes most HDR content physically painful for me unless I manipulate picture settings to reduce peak brightness, backlight, and/or contrast in various ways. Between my light sensitivity and my progressive colorblindness, I don't get as much out of HDR as most people do, so I just turn it off where possible.

Maybe some day when I have more external displays with OLED or something else that can do millions-to-one contrast ratios, I'll play around with HDR and see if I can find a way to reliably make it comfortable, but for now I don't own any-- it's just the built-in displays of my mobile devices, and I spend as much time as possible on much larger screens because I also have visual acuity problems.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-09-16 19:41:29+00:00
> it's clear that it boils down to an unwillingness to continue the conversation, which is inherently somewhat an indication of weakness

Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps Russell had already responded to the fascist position elsewhere, either generally or to Mosley specifically? Perhaps it didn't make sense to dialogue with him at that particular time?

> Just like with communism, where "true communism has never been tried", so too nobody's ever really tried "true" fascism, or democracy for that matter.

I reject this claim, but even if I were to concede for the purposes of argument, they don't need to be tried to be rejected, because what makes them repellent in the first place aren't the supposed ways in which regimes and people have failed to "try them", but the very positions themselves. Both are rooted in a false anthropology and a false humanism that reduces individual persons to means, which further entails a false ethics of utilitarianism.
by traceroute66 | 2025-09-16 19:41:32+00:00
Its been a while since I looked into "just use Noctua" for $another_use_case, but ...

Isn't the problem with Noctua (and similar "silent" fans) that they don't offer the same airflow throughput as their noise making bretheren ?

So sometimes its not as easy as "just use Noctua" ?
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-09-16 19:41:37+00:00
This is very cool. I have been thinking of a similar service that should exist.

Suppose you want to host your own email, or a mastodon server or similar. You download this application to your local computer. You pick what you want to install. It asks you which domain name provider you want to use, and which server host you want to use (eg. local or hetzner). It guides you into creating accounts for these services. Then uses their API, to set up the appropriate server, DNS settings etc.

It might not be fully automated, but something like this can seriously bring down the skill floor needed to host anything.
by fvgvkujdfbllo | 2025-09-16 19:41:38+00:00
Yes, it is so easy to enable this setting, they even keep sending us notifications to enable it. But once enabled, it is impossible to disable it.

It is a setting that let your power company to change your temperature settings when grid is under load. We wouldn’t mind it but they turned our heat way down during one freezing night while we were sleeping. Everyone woke up with cold next day.
by searls | 2025-09-16 19:42:13+00:00
I had some time to kill a couple years back and asked a Japanese friend where to go from Kagoshima, and she said I could take the ferry to Yakushima, so I walked to the dock, bought a ticket, and booked a minpaku lodge en route.

Turns out, it's the forest with the ancient moss and yakusugi trees from Princess Mononoke. Little did I realize that actually getting there is a pretty involved process, and it's a small miracle I was able to figure out the buses and do the whole hike in jeans and a t-shirt (most people came actually well-equipped to hike it)

Write-up and video: https://justin.searls.co/posts/go-to-yakushima/

Probably the most beautiful place I've ever been on earth.
by rwyinuse | 2025-09-16 19:42:47+00:00
Yeah temperature, wind, altitude, weight, runway slope all matter, and then there needs to be enough spare space for the aircraft to successfully take off even with engine failure in the worst possible moment. Then there's the question of fuel consumption too. Takeoff power isn't typically configured to get the aircraft off the ground as fast as possible, but to minimize fuel consumption, while still leaving enough margin in case of engine failure.

It wouldn't be that hard to fully automate a flight from gate to gate when everything works perfectly. But the various failure modes, human error like airport vehicles entering active runway, all that requires human backup. Self-driving car can just stop to the side of the road and turn on emergency lights if its engine fails, with a plane things get much more complicated.
by FearNotDaniel | 2025-09-16 19:42:57+00:00
It’s a fundamental mistake that people make so often in politics, is to think that somebody they personally find repulsive or merely bland must be seen the same way by others. It can be a shock to recognise that figures like Boris Johnson and, yes, even Farage, have hordes of fawning admirers who don’t just agree with their policies and methods but also find them witty, charming and even attractive.
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by kazitasnim | 2025-09-16 19:43:09+00:00
I made a simple tool called TextGlitch.com that lets you generate “glitch text” (also known as Zalgo text).

It works by stacking Unicode combining characters on top of your text so it looks distorted, eerie, or chaotic. You can control the intensity of the glitch, copy the result instantly, and use it on social media, memes, or just for fun.

I built it as a side project because most glitch text sites were either overloaded with ads, outdated, or clunky. My goal was to make something clean, fast, and distraction-free.

Would love feedback on: - How smooth/usable it feels compared to similar tools - Ideas for features (e.g., styles, presets etc)

Thanks for checking it out!
by tialaramex | 2025-09-16 19:43:24+00:00
In a sense no, hence the choice to vaccinate younger children who will mostly not be sexually active yet.

But because the modern versions of these vaccines cover many strains (initial vaccines were two, Denmark chose a 4 way vaccine, now a nine way) it's very possible that you get a meaningful benefit by being protected from say six strains your body has never seen, even though the three it has already seen wouldn't be prevented.
by searls | 2025-09-16 19:43:36+00:00
Yeah, I went to Dogo Onsen last year and after the fact people told me it was inspiration for Spirited Away and I literally didn't believe them. I've been to countless riverside onsen resorts in the middle of nowhere that look more similar.

Agree this kind of article is really reductive and misses the point, but what're you gonna do.
by phs318u | 2025-09-16 19:44:00+00:00
When I wake up at 4am and my brain instantly starts non-stop looping and branching across all sorts of thoughts and topics, most of which have nothing to do with work, then no - ADHD isn’t just a problem with my work environment. My work environment may exacerbate it - absolutely. But that’s a contributing factor not a cause.

For me, my ADHD (formally diagnosed ADHD & ASD at age 58; finally my life made sense) manifests as an inability to slow down my thoughts, especially the constant context switching. I can only achieve it doing certain contemplative activities eg. intense workout at the gym, laying on my Shakti mat, meditating with breathwork.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-16 19:44:14+00:00
Also there’s more of a habit to release to the pre release channel for some time first.

I honestly think a forced time spent in pre release (with some emergency break glass where community leaders manually review critical hotfixes) could mitigate 99% of the issues here. Linux packages have been around for ever and have fewer incidents mainly because of the long dev->release channel cooking time.
by aksss | 2025-09-16 19:44:34+00:00
I have to say I prefer Claude for code and diagnosis. ChatGPT in CoPilot often replies with essentially, "these are the things I would be looking at if I wanted to troubleshoot this", to which my muttering frustration is, "yeah obviously - no sht - now do it.", whereas Claude just does it (e.g. looks through the code, provides analysis as to where the problem is or the nature of the problem, and returns a practical and immediately useful response). You could say that's a prompting problem (and you'd be right) but if Claude is lower drag than ChatGPT in this context and others, that's a value proposition.

However, I really do* prefer ChatGPT for generalized but as-applied conversation about architecture decisions, pros/cons of different approaches, patterns. Claude can do this too, but I do prefer ChatGPT for this.
by mtlmtlmtlmtl | 2025-09-16 19:45:00+00:00
The thing is, ChatGPT isn't really designed at all. It's hobbled together by running some training algorithms on a vast array of stolen data. They then tacked on some trivially circumventable safeguards on top for PR reasons. They know the safeguards don't really work, in fact they know that they're fundamentally impossible to get to work, but they don't care. They're not really intended to work, rather they're intended to give the impression that the company actually cares. Fundamentally, the only thing ChatGPT is "designed" to do is make OpenAI into a unicorn, any other intent ascribed to their process is either imaginary or intentionally feigned for purposes of PR or regulatory capture.
by contingencies | 2025-09-16 19:45:12+00:00
rather than campaigning for open phones, i think we need to actively campaign against the requirements for phones in society.

like, get some laws passed that say "if you require a phone number from someone, that's discriminatory/illegal".

this way we can remove the carriers, remove the population-wide location tracking, and ensure systems such as public transit, government interfaces, finance, etc. are still accessible.
by kentm | 2025-09-16 19:45:13+00:00
No, you're trying to draw an equivalence with the Fed here, and its not at all valid. The current US administration fired the BLS commissioner for a bad jobs report and is actively suing news outlets (and installing "fairness checkers" at others). That destroys credibility. There have been accusations that the Fed put their finger on the scale for Biden but none of that is grounded in actual fact; just the fact that the Fed is not aggressively cutting rates just because the President asks for it.
by gameman144 | 2025-09-16 19:45:25+00:00
> It's not feasible for me to audit every single one of my dependencies, and every one of my dependencies' dependencies

I think this is a good argument for reducing your dependency count as much as possible, and keeping them to well-known and trustworthy (security-wise) creators.

"Not-invented-here" syndrome is counterproductive if you can trust all authors, but in an uncontrolled or unaudited ecosystem it's actually pretty sensible.
by mystraline | 2025-09-16 19:45:38+00:00
Another company that sends 2FA over SMS codes, then wants them over the phone is Family Mobile. Its a Walmart T-Mobile derivative.

Its not a GREAT carrier, but I have a legacy plan for unlimited everything at $20 a line.

But if I have to call in, they do send a 2fa SMS code, and require to tell them over the call. Its absolutely ridiculous. But, Ive only had to call in 4 times in the last 9 years, so, yeah.
by neutrinobro | 2025-09-16 19:45:41+00:00
My comment was directed at your statement "that at no point in history was the US dollar 100% backed by gold (or silver, originally). Never." which is entirely false. The US dollar (the currency unit), was at one point quite literally an exact weight of silver. This is no longer the case, but it was true in the past. This has nothing to do with the nation debt, or what is backing it. Obviously, the national debt isn't collateralized by precious metals or anything else except the military and power to raise taxes.
by bbsbb | 2025-09-16 19:46:14+00:00
This is a spot on observation, the most challenging so far to detect appears to be code produced via tooling usage that is slightly ahead of the overall curve in adoption and practices. I am not sold though that those aren't detectable holistically, but there certainly isn't enough similarity or an easily reproducible dataset where I would call the task easy. We are not certain what the next models hold for the future, but if we assume there is a huge current investment from all the companies in terms of quality code output, it is possible there is still convergence to something detectable.
by bgwalter | 2025-09-16 19:46:23+00:00
Nord Stream money is being replaced by China in the new gas deal:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-china-bless-v...

So Russia can now export gas, get foreign currency, and buy weapons with the money. I do not see any strategic wins here.

Additionally, China gets an economic boost. That is a sublime strategy.
by InMice | 2025-09-16 19:46:36+00:00
I also feel like the article doesnt completely explain what happpened. Where is this code from?

Did they send the fake legal email and at same time trigger a recovery code to be sent?

Is this like the same thing in discord where they ask you for your email to join a server then ask you for a code sent to verify you own that email but really they submitted the email for password reset. The victim doesn't realize it's a real recovery code sent by Microsoft, etc instead in the moment thinking it is a "discord code". Once you submit the code in discord they have your account stolen in seconds.

Is this what the article is attempting to describe?