MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tdeck | 2025-09-11 14:14:30+00:00
> So it seems possible Amnesty just doesn't know the secret military information and Israel didn't disclose it to them. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Do you believe there can't possibly have been any military objectives that make those air strikes legitimate?

We don't know for sure that Hind Rajab wasn't planning attacks when she was supposed to be learning the alphabet either.

Maybe she was leading a Hamas cell with a crayon, but the intelligence is too crucial to share!

This style of argument is absurd.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-11 14:14:46+00:00
Sometimes making a politician aware that "if you vote for this, it may annoy people" can be enough. Your average politician votes on a _lot_ of things, many of which they know little or nothing about. They will take only a small number of them seriously, and a big factor in what gets taken seriously is what people are moaning about.

The first step really is just getting the politician to think about what they're voting on.

They also don't actually necessarily get _that_ many letters.
by duxup | 2025-09-11 14:15:59+00:00
One of the nicest things about the ban (not total ban) at my kids school is no more parent email "Talk to your kids about their phone" type emails.

The kids who are really abusing their phone have parents who don't care to deal with it and they're not reading the emails. The emails just hassle the parents of the kids who already don't do the bad thing.

Now if they see a phone it's taken and if taken enough times (twice) the parents have to go to the office to retrieve the phone and have a meeting.

Pressure is now on the parents and kids who are the problem.
by mxuribe | 2025-09-11 14:16:15+00:00
> ...we talk about Desktop OS like in TUI.. with is.. well.. hardcore

Excellent point; that is pretty hardcore! :-)

> ...I run old OS with 4 virtual desktops...

This is quite interesting, because i know a few acquaintences and friends who also use this approach of several desktops (each maybe with a dedicated app for example) to help them get really focused and productive! It seems to work for them really well...but i've never been able to have it click for me. I mean, i get the idea, and it sounds good...but for some reason it doesn't give me what i need...or, well, maybe its "out of sight, out of mind"...and then i forget about those other screens/desktops, etc. Of course, the possibility could absolutely be that i'm simply "holding it wrong"/using this approach in the wrong/less ideal way. :-)
by Nextgrid | 2025-09-11 14:16:17+00:00
> regular enterprise dev

Yesterday I came across some obscure project on Github that was opensourced by what looks like a large company selling "insights" and risk analysis data to the insurance sector. Out of curiosity I looked at their careers page and all the tech roles were either in Poland or India.

The scary thing is, we all know how "good" Indian outsourcing is... but Eastern European outsourcing is actually good from my experience, so I'm not even sure "regular enterprise dev" will remain competitive for long.
by ebiester | 2025-09-11 14:16:33+00:00
1975-1988 we lived in the Cold War and the potential of nuclear strikes. The African, gay and trans communities (in particular but not exclusively) dealt with the AIDS epidemic. Iran moved to theocracy. In the 90s, we had the Iraq war that was not bad for the US but massively destabilized the region. In the 2000s we had 9/11 and let's not understate the fear from the Muslim community here. Africa has lived through famine and the pains of decolonization after their wealth was stripped and stolen over centuries.

This is worse, but we have always lived in "interesting times" depending on where you were in the globe.
by Reubachi | 2025-09-11 14:17:13+00:00
Expand upon your thoughts to comment in good faith :) This isn't reddit

Why do you attribute either opaque or transparent behavior/comms on UFOs from the power structure, if there is nothing to be gained either way by said power structure?

IF there is any discourse to be had on UFOs, power structures hiding things etc. it would be on the topic of US DoD obfuscating Next generations Weapons testing for sake of operational security. This has been a formal USAF departments initiative since the 80s, and it's very transparent initiative.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-09-11 14:17:15+00:00
This wouldn't increase the total cost of "owning and operating an automobile" by 17.6%, just the portion of that which funds road construction. Hard to quantify exactly how much that is since it's currently just part of your taxes. I don't think it's included in the BTS numbers. At the federal level at least it's pretty insignificant, only 2% of the Federal budget at most (I doubt most would even notice a 17.6% * 2% = 0.35% increase in their federal taxes). If I'm reading things right, the DOT budget is an even lower percentage of my state taxes. I think most road construction is funded at a more local level than that though so it's hard to say the exact impact without looking at individual villages/towns/cities.

Oil and gas subsidies are an entirely separate debate which would have almost no effect on the costs of some types of cars (electric) anyway, so it's rather pointless to bring up in this context.

That Not Just Bikes video isn't showing "low density suburbs" being "subsidised by high density cities", it's showing low density parts of a city are subsided by high-density parts of that same city. That's still a fair point, but when I think of the suburbs I think of areas outside city limits, usually with their own separate governments and separate tax system. Those survive just fine without any such subsidies; low density parts of a city would be fine without them too.
by phpnode | 2025-09-11 14:17:16+00:00
It’s a newer, vc funded competitor to the open source battle tested dominant player. It has incentives to lock you in and ultimately is just not that different from node. There’s basically no strategic advantage to using bun, it doesn’t really enable anything you can’t do with node. I have not seen anyone serious choose it yet, but I’ve seen plenty of unserious people use it
by wanderingmoose | 2025-09-11 14:17:35+00:00
If you want a book that is more technical and really gives a sense of what the scope of the project was, I'd highly recommend The Los Alamos Primer by Serber which was the intro lecture given to scientists when they would arrive. Serber did a great job of annotating the lecture to explain in more accessible detail each section. A quick read, and well worth it.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-09-11 14:17:36+00:00
The moderator dang has actually responded to several comments about their editorial stance re israel-palestine. I don't have time to find them but I've engaged with him personally on this several times over the last couple years.

Basically it boils down to he thinks we have talked about it enough and it annoys him how upset people are about it. And ultimately he considers admiring the technology used in war machines (and terrorism like the pager attack) to be clearly within the editorial remit of HN but that discussing their effects on the people they are used on is borderline so they police it more vigorously.
by k__ | 2025-09-11 14:17:39+00:00
To me, the reasoning seems to be:

Npm, pnpm, and yarn are written in JS, so they have to use Node.js facilities, which are based on libuv, which isn't optimal in this case.

Bun is written in Zig, so it doesn't need libuv, and can so it's own thing.

Obviously, someone could write a Node.js package manager in C/C++ as a native module to do the same, but that's not what npm, pnpm, and yarn did.
by bccdee | 2025-09-11 14:17:45+00:00
> there has to be intent to prevent civilians from accessing food

Intent, in cases of genocide, is basically impossible to establish except in retrospect. We can only establish what is happening right now:

> “The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza,” UN-backed food security experts said on Tuesday, in a call to action amid unrelenting conflict, mass displacement and the near-total collapse of essential services in the war-battered enclave.

> The alert follows a May 2025 IPC analysis that projected catastrophic levels of food insecurity for the entire population by September. According to the platform’s experts, at least half a million people are expected to be in IPC Phase 5 – catastrophe – which is marked by starvation, destitution and death.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165517

> It is unclear to me how much actual starvation is taking place there.

It sounds pretty clear to the UN.

Israel is in full control of this situation. If things were playing out differently to how they wanted, they could permit more aid to go through.

> They claim there's enough food entering gaza, but hamas is stealing it

The idea that there's plenty of food but Hamas has squirrelled it away so that everyone starves is ludicrous.

> so long as they are keeping international laws in good faith

The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel multiple times to permit aid into Gaza.

> You have to realise that genocide is not a realistic operational aim for the idf or the political establishment

Sure it is. They just have to keep doing what they're doing right now. It's worked so far.

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I cited a laundry list of expert organizations specializing in identifying crimes against humanity. You've cited an op-ed. The balance of evidence and expertise overwhelmingly indicates genocide, and it's not even close.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-09-11 14:18:04+00:00
Bun is much newer than pnpm, looking at 1.0 releases pnpm has about a 6 year head start.

I write a lot of one off scripts for stuff in node/ts and I tried to use Bun pretty early on when it was gaining some hype. There were too many incompatibilities with the ecosystem though, and I haven't tried since.
by thiago_fm | 2025-09-11 14:18:12+00:00
FED is caught between a rock and a hard place, in a double bind.

Because of jobs data, it will 100% cut interest rates in the next 2-3 FED meetings with inflation clearly showing an upwards trend.

US could print money for over a decade because of China exporting deflation to it and the world, now that China is an enemy, it's up for a rude awakening.

Monetary policies matter, the Dollar will suffer great debasement (it already is).

Imagine how many dollars are in supply around the world, and now the world is quitting the dollar.

There'll be too many dollars for too little demand. Fasten your seatbelts...

The country will become industrialized for the wrong reasons -- by becoming poorer.
by Tiberium | 2025-09-11 14:19:26+00:00
Seems like an interesting benchmark, but my takeaway from the results is that Codex is almost as good enough as their custom solution (no mention of the underlying model) and only requires a $20 ChatGPT subscription to start using it (of course with limits), without having to shell out $$$ for an enterprise Qodo plan to use Qodo Aware - https://www.qodo.ai/products/qodo-aware/. The "free" plan in Qodo Aware only lets users work with 100 hand-picked open-source repositories.

It also would be nice if the article clearly mentioned what specific model settings were used for Claude Code and Codex. Both of those allow changing the reasoning level, so if the benchmark was done using the default settings, it seems a little unfair - they have a result of their own agent at high reasoning as a separate entry.
by throw0101d | 2025-09-11 14:19:43+00:00
> DOGE was a scam and you all fell for it.

Who is this "you" that you talk about?

There were many folks talking about all the 'saving money' was just a veneer; a sampling:

* http://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archi...

* https://www.epi.org/blog/doge-is-not-worth-engaging-you-cant...

* https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/doge-isn-t-about-money-...

Even the libertarian Cato Institute:

* https://www.cato.org/blog/six-ways-understand-doge-predict-i...

The hypothesis of an 'ideological purge' was fairly common.
by Nextgrid | 2025-09-11 14:20:30+00:00
> Anyway - not sure if they are downplaying FAANG salary, or its more about the ROI (long hours, stress ...etc)?

The latter. I'm not saying FAANG salary is nothing (or that SWE salary is nothing). I'm arguing that the juice ain't worth the squeeze, FAANG or not (FAANG comes with extra challenges, but even the basic SWE job has a baseline level of unique challenges to deal with... the interviewing/hiring process being one of them for example).

Furthermore, the amount of juice appears to be decreasing every day with things like RTO, layoffs, beliefs in AI replacing everyone any day now, and the ever decreasing standard of software quality, meaning AI may actually replace a lot of us - not because it's any good at software, but because once you have a monopoly you have no reason to produce good software.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-11 14:20:47+00:00
I was really talking about the Transformer specifically.

Maybe there was an implicit hope of a better/larger language model leading to new intelligent capabilities, but I've never seen the Transformer designers say they were targeting this or expecting any significant new capabilities even (to their credit) after it was already apparent how capable it was. Neither Google's initial fumbling of the tech or Shazeer's entertainment chatbot foray seem to indicate that they had been targeting, and/or realized they had achieved, a more significant advance than the more efficient seq-2-seq model which had been their proximate goal.

To me it seems that the Transformer is really one of industry/science's great accidental discoveries. I don't think it's just the ability to scale that made it so powerful, but more the specifics of the architecture, including the emergent ability to learn "induction heads" which seem core to a lot of what they can do.

The Transformer precursors I had in mind were recent ones, in particular Sutskever et als "Sequence to Sequence learning with Neural Networks [LSTM]" from 2014, and Bahdanau et als "Jointly learning to align & translate" from 2016, then followed by the "Attention is all you need" Transformer paper in 2017.
by moduspol | 2025-09-11 14:21:31+00:00
Not just socialization and introspection, and not just among kids!

I guess I'm probably preaching to the choir here on HN, but the amount of social woes we are currently experiencing that are indirectly the result of a dramatic increase in social media consumption is a lot higher than I think most people expect.

There are just so many aspects of life that one only really gets nudged into doing at least partially out of boredom, despite ultimately fulfilling so much more. When you can stave off boredom instantly and indefinitely, there are all kinds of experiences that will be substituted.
by Findecanor | 2025-09-11 14:22:11+00:00
In media, "Israel" refers to the current government of Israel and the actions that are done on its behalf. The evidences of war crimes are countless and irrefutable.

Nobody with half a brain conflates Israel's government with Judaism or with the Israeli people, ... but Israel's intelligence services have for a long time had the tactic to influence people to conflate them so as to be able to deflect criticism against its state as being anti-semitism — and they have been quite successful at that.

Similarly, antisemitic groups have taken advantage of the worldwide movement against what Israel is doing in Gaza and sometimes managed to insert themselves and their message among legitimate protests. For instance, this summer an MP in my country had retweeted an image containing symbolism that she didn't understand — which caused her party to (over)react and exclude her.

I am sure that there is a lot of misleading propaganda going left and right within Israel as well.

It is important to be careful and identify things for what they are.
Corporate Controlled Linters
by archerfsn | 2025-09-11 14:22:35+00:00
I’ve worked for two large Fortune 500 companies and I’ve also worked for a mid-sized company.

Can someone convince me that not all linters are good? If they are commit hooking linters that are configured to nest shit into one line and densely pack 20 args/params undoing all dev attempts to make the code more readable, and there’s not much you can do because it’s a linter controlled at the sector/corporate level rather than at the individual team level (meaning you can’t configure it without going through someone who likes it the way it is)… and you’re mandated to use it because your team lead and their skips don’t want to fight up the chain… and because they’re not the ones programming either… and especially if most devs own their entire repo (so no one else except for the next hire to backfill) will read that repo.

I agree it’s a silly hill to die on, I guess I’ll just collect my paycheck then. Definitely motivates me to continue personal projects which I can control the quality of.

When linters are implemented well (and if not, then if you have the flexibility and luxury to configure the linter without running into heavy resistance), then I agree that could be good. But I would rather not have a linter if I’m going to have to deal with a shitty linter for 8+ hours/day.
by gus_massa | 2025-09-11 14:22:48+00:00
> Is there a better way to determine the impact of research and to encourage researchers to not feel so pressed to output and boost their citations? Why is it like this today?

It's hard, specially if you have to compare people of different areas (like algebra vs calculus) that have different threshold for what is a paper worthily result and each community has a different size and different length of review time.

Solution 1) Just count the papers! Each one is 1 point. You can finish before lunch.

Solution 2) Add some metrics like citations (that favor big areas and areas that like to add many citations). Add impact index (that has the same problem). How do you count self citations and citation rings?

Solution 3) Cherry pick some good journals, but ensure the classification committee is not just making a list of the journals they publish in. Filter the citations, or add some weight according to the classification.

Solution 4) Give the chair of the department a golden crown and pretend s/he is the queen/king and can do whatever they like. It may work, but there are BDFL and nepotist idiots. Now try scaling it for a country.

Solution 5) RTFA. Nah. It's too hard. Assume you have 5 candidates and they have 5 papers in the last 5 years (or some other arbitrary threshold). You need like two weeks to read a paper, more if it's not in you area, perhaps you can skim it in 1 or 2 days, but it's not easy to have an accurate understanding of how interesting is the result and how much impact it has in the community. (How do you evaluate if it's a interesting new result, or just a hard stupid calculation?) You can distribute the process of reading the papers, but now you have the problem of merging the opinion of different people. (Are your 3/5 stars the same that my 3/5 stars?)
by Sandbag5802 | 2025-09-11 14:22:57+00:00
Funny that you say that, I just discovered this phone service called Cape - https://www.cape.co/

It was co-founded by John Doyle who led Palantir’s national security business before starting this company. I think this comment best describes why Cape was started in the first place:

"Cape is not disclosing valuation, but it’s notable that the funding is coming at a time when startups building military, defense, and security services are getting increased focus and priority at a time when geopolitics are shifting.

While many of those shifts are playing out at a much higher level involving wars, espionage against officers and officials, and major contacts between outsized industrial entities, Cape’s products and its growth are one of the rare examples of how some of that evolution is playing out at a consumer level"

source - https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/cape-opens-99-month-beta-o...

Ultimately, I still want to read up on them before considering making the switch.
by DetroitThrow | 2025-09-11 14:23:07+00:00
Announcement title and actual license divergence has made reading these announcements a bit of a chore on HN since you're required now to read the full post. Good on these guys for not open washing their project.

And of course it doesn't help the tedium of reading HN that there's 5 very vocal commentators who want to the world to know that "OSI doesn't own the definition of open source", even though when asked will define open source as "can be commercially restricted".
by zwnow | 2025-09-11 14:23:08+00:00
Professional joy does not matter. Do not make your job your life. Family matters, personal goals matter, professional goals however do not. When my father had cancer the only question his employer ever asked was "when is he coming back to work? We need him here". He passed not long after. Your work does not care about you, no matter if its a corporation or a tiny business. If your personal goal is to be a professional at your job making as much money as possible, honestly, that's just sad.
by mensetmanusman | 2025-09-11 14:23:19+00:00
Sure, I’ll unpack, sorry for the over-compression:

Academia and broader cultural messaging teach students to see career success, productivity, and corporate loyalty as higher priorities than caring for or investing in family.

People are encouraged to define themselves by their job titles, income, or the prestige of their employer rather than by family roles or community contributions. (Proven in polls)

Students may be groomed to see working for large companies as the “default path” to security, respectability, and self-worth. This is relevant with in the context of how few gen Z folks on the left view family as important (<10%) - this was major news this week.

Universities often emphasize employability, corporate partnerships, and internships with major firms, implicitly signaling that this is the “right” way to succeed.

If corporate work is framed as more important, family responsibilities can be treated as distractions rather than central parts of life.

Societies that reward corporate loyalty over family care risk weakening intergenerational bonds and making people feel alienated outside of work.

The critique is that academia is not only instilling blind faith in perpetual economic growth but also shaping values so that young people see serving corporations as more worthwhile than serving their families. Kirk’s main message was pushing back against that hierarchy—saying family, community, and personal meaning should matter more than being a cog in the corporate machine.
by skinkestek | 2025-09-11 14:24:16+00:00
Can we at least start with the facts about Goebbels? He was:

- Pro–killing “undesirable” children (look up T4 or Tiergartenstraße 14)

- Virulently anti-Jewish

For starters, Charlie Kirk, for all his flaws, is the opposite on those two points.

I’m not pretending Charlie Kirk was a saint or planning to livestream the funeral but it does puzzle me how people who share far more political DNA with the Nazis keep declaring that others are the "modern Nazis" or Goebbels equivalents.