MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SXX | 2025-09-29 05:16:21+00:00
UK credit score system don't even have "nationality" in it so not discriminating non-citizens that much. Neither it hold any ID card or passport numbers.

Yeah there is electoral roll, but you can still access credit without being on it and afaik all residents of scotland are on it since even non citizens can vote in local election.

And unlike US there not even a "score" number since lenders only get records but not some magical number. Whatever credit agencies sell you as credit score is just random number they come up with and it's not being used by lenders btw.
by athrowaway3z | 2025-09-29 05:17:22+00:00
20$ p/m for a timeshare on a high-end unit that includes electricity costs is really not a bad deal.

Buying hardware that covers 90% of my use pattern isn't going to pay itself back for 5 or 10 years. With the added benefit that i can change my setup every month.

I strongly believe we're in a bubble, but even just buying stocks with the money seems a better investment in my situation.
by davydm | 2025-09-29 05:19:09+00:00
Disagree.

I'd say it's more akin to learning vim, where there's a fairly steep learning curve at the outset, with huge rewards down the line.

Yes, initial install can take a while. Yes, system updates take longer when built than from binaries - but modern hardware makes that a fairly trivial difference. Most people who have a problem with Gentoo either only used it decades ago when build time were a lot longer, or because they heard it takes long, which is way more common than the former.
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-29 05:19:22+00:00
A decade ago in NYC, they were giving out free rides left and right. I used Uber for months without paying for a single ride, then when they started charging, they were steeply discounted. I could get around for a little more than a subway fare.

Lyft did the same thing, got a bunch of free rides for a while with them, too.
by aw1621107 | 2025-09-29 05:19:34+00:00
> Everything that matters is I/O and this goes through syscalls, so there security can be enforced.

I don't think "good" I/O and "bad" I/O are necessarily distinguishable by the OS ahead of time and/or in general. The OS isn't going to know whether the program wrote out a proper file or complete gibberish, or whether the numbers you're displaying were derived from uninitialized values, or whether what you're sending over the wire is what you intended (e.g., Heartbleed), etc., but those are very much things one should care about!

> Why do you care about corrupting process memory? The memory state itself is totally irrelevant.

Strong disagree here. If memory is corrupted all bets are off, especially if you know your program is actually supposed to perform some I/O.

> The only thing that matters is the deletion of the file, you don't actually care about the memory safety.

You would care if memory safety issues directly led to file deletion!

> Thus, what you actually want is the computer to know that the file is not supposed to be deleted, when you have that, the memory can be trashed like the program likes to.

So what happens if you know a file is supposed to be deleted but memory corruption led to the wrong one being deleted?
by Aurornis | 2025-09-29 05:20:08+00:00
FedEx has been the source of the majority of my delivery problems, too.

I remember one time I sat outside our office and waited for the FedEx truck to come up because the driver had a habit of skipping deliveries and marking them as delivered. I watched the driver go through our office complex but just not stop at the back row of buildings.

Trying to call FedEx customer support was its own frustration. The person on the phone told me some story about how they couldn’t actually get any info about the drivers or their deliveries at the end of the delivery chain. There was no interest at all in the driver who was skipping deliveries, but the person on the phone didn’t seem surprised.
by tomhow | 2025-09-29 05:21:03+00:00
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Show HN: Reddit browser for MCP clients – works with any AI assistant
by karanb192 | 2025-09-29 05:22:10+00:00
Built this to give AI assistants native Reddit access. No more copy-pasting links.

You can ask things like "what's the sentiment on TypeScript vs JavaScript in r/webdev" or "analyze the top posts about GPT-5 today" and get instant analysis.

Technical: TypeScript, 3-tier rate limiting (anonymous works fine for most), LRU cache under 50MB. Works with any MCP client, not just Claude.

Someone used it to track reactions to H-1B changes across different country subreddits in real-time - that was pretty cool to see.

Open to feature requests and contributions welcome! Would love to hear how you might use this or any Reddit API patterns you've found useful.
by musebox35 | 2025-09-29 05:22:17+00:00
That is a fine point. However I am not sure if replacing the gpus themselves will be the bottleneck investment for datacenter costs. After all you have so much more infrastructure in a datacenter (cooling and networking). Plus custom chips like tpus might catch up at lower cost eventually. I think the bigger question is whether demand for compute will evaporate or not.
by skeptrune | 2025-09-29 05:22:59+00:00
I learned that the golang CLI[1] is the best through my work simplifying Firecrawl[2]. However, in this case I used one available through npmjs such that it would work with `npx` for the CF worker builds.

[1]: https://github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown

[2]: https://github.com/devflowinc/firecrawl-simple
by Vespasian | 2025-09-29 05:23:19+00:00
That is at most temporary. I expect within the next 5 year "partner products" and "LLM-optpmized content" will take the place of SEO.

The economic dynamics did not change and the methods will adapt.

Why wouldn't Google sell advertisers a prominent spot in the AI summary. That's their whole deal. Why wouldn't OpenAI do the same with (free) users.?
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-29 05:24:03+00:00
> What's the point if runtime ignores them.

Ideally, with static checking, the runtime shouldnn’t need to care about types because cide that typechecks shouldn’t be capable of not behaving according to the types declared.

Python, even with the most restrictive settings in nost typecheckers, may not quite achieve that, but it certainly reeuces the chance of surprises lf that kind compared to typing information in docstrings, or just locked away in the unststed assumptions of some developer.
by weikju | 2025-09-29 05:24:09+00:00
This is addressed in the article as well, and while there's no technical reason they couldn't do this, it would break the licensing of the apps as well as the dangers of centralizations mentioned by a sibling reply.

> The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their apps through Google, but at the same time, we cannot “take over” the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications.
by tomhow | 2025-09-29 05:26:13+00:00
> Your comment is all over the place, but it is very telling. You are a confused westerner

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by doganugurlu | 2025-09-29 05:28:59+00:00
So, no action necessary if bullying victims have no access to guns or are just “taking it?” Kind of a bizarre view. Almost as bizarre as viewing gun regulation unthinkable, but I am not gonna talk about that.

I grew up at a time where school principals had monopoly on violence at schools. I think it’s an improvement that we don’t accept school staff to beat kids anymore. But, whose brilliant idea was to accept that students will just bully each other and nothing can be done? I see many comments on this thread that just accept it. Why not accept all kinds of violence everywhere then? It’s impossible to prevent it so just let go of trying at all.

Society has rules. Every institution has an authority figure. There are virtually no spaces without rules or an authority. Enforcement usually happens at varying degrees, from warnings to punishments. Back in the day beatings were warnings, punishments were suspensions and expulsions. We don’t want beatings, and if we are not resourced enough to rehabilitate, we have to aggressively suspend and expel.

It really isn’t rocket science. We don’t owe bullies anything.
by Voycawojka | 2025-09-29 05:29:05+00:00
It's easy to romanticize gamedev. A lot of kids are probably curious about it too.

I imagine people at that level won't encounter a website like mine because it's too niche. But if you search "how to become a web developer" on it there are some interesting articles there: https://gamedevtorch.com/search?q=How+to+become+a+game+devel...
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-29 05:30:00+00:00
> Duck typing is one of the best things about Python.

And duck typing with the expected contract made explicit and subject to static verification (and IDE hinting, etc.) is one of the best things about Python typing.

> If we ended up with a largely bug free production system then it might be worth it, but, just like other truly strongly typed languages, that doesn't happen

I find I end up at any given level of bug freeness with less effort and time with Python-with-types than Python-without-types (but I also like that typing being optional means that its very easy to toss out exploratory code before settling on how something new should work.)
by tfourb | 2025-09-29 05:30:08+00:00
You don’t need surveillance if you have relationships and trust. Bullying is intractable because traditional schooling is essentially and structurally exactly that: the bullying of kids by adults. It’s only logical that it results in the bullying of kids by kids.

Make teachers (and parents) people of trust, not only of arbitrary authority, and you create options to address bullying between kids as well.
Ask HN: How do you say “I don’t know, but I’ll get back to you” confidently?
by AbstractH24 | 2025-09-29 05:30:12+00:00
In meetings im often asked to answer a question or solve a problem on the fly. I hate to do that because it doesn’t give me time to fully think through what needs to be done, the best way to do it, and any implications.

What I try to do is tell people I’ll take a look and get back to them. But I never found a good way to do it confidently, in a way that doesn’t make it seem like I can’t be trusted that I know what I’m doing. Particularly if they want me to do the task in front of them.

Any advice?
by leptons | 2025-09-29 05:31:02+00:00
>There are vanishingly-few 25-year-olds in national office

Well thank [deity] for that, because many of them aren't fit for it. Neither are 75 year olds, but age doesn't really play that much of a factor - it's the people voting to put shitheads in positions of power no matter their age that are causing this damage in the first place.

>> "Muh ageism" is not a get-out-of-jail-free card for these kinds of conversations.

>There are vanishingly-few 25-year-olds in national office, certainly not in proportion to their chunk of the overall population. But bringing them up at all is beside the point.

Yes, it is the point - you made it the point with your "muh ageism" quip. I simply pointed out that age doesn't make a difference, but greed, corruption, and hate do.

>The contention at hand is that there are too many elderly people, who are beyond their ability to perform adequately, in positions of power.

There are also old people in power that are not "beyond their ability to perform adequately", and that's also a very subjective goalpost you're setting. Some of those shitty old politicians are doing exactly what their shitty constituents want them to, even if they are just holding the pen while someone younger moves their hand.

>But please stay on topic.

You made this about "muh ageism" not me, so all ages are fair to comment about. Shitty 25 year olds are actually worse than shitty 75 year olds, because shitty 25 year olds will be around much longer doing much more harm than a shitty 75 year old politician could. And again, it has nothing to do with age, and everything to do about corruption, greed, and hate. Those things are ageless.
by joz1-k | 2025-09-29 05:31:10+00:00
> My observation is most people who suggest Rust alternative don't use Rust.

This is a very condescending statement. In fact, for most software, when given the option of a full rewrite from C/C++ to another language, Rust is usually the least reasonable option. Fully automatic memory-managed languages should be considered first.

> People who actually use Rust known it is worth to rewrite C/C++ software in Rust, either the whole or part by part.

A full rewrite is not a feasible option for many large projects, and Rust does not make it easy to rewrite C++ code piece by piece, as the linked article clearly explains.

It's not true that developers don't like full rewrites. Most often, it's the path most developers would choose if they had enough time and funding. But in reality, you don't get either of those two.

And even if you are willing to do a full rewrite, your project probably has non-trivial dependencies on large, mature C++ libraries. You are not going to rewrite those. This is why more new projects are started in C++ every day than in Rust.
by AnonymousPlanet | 2025-09-29 05:31:52+00:00
I don't believe for one second that Google is doing this because Apple does so too. They would have done so long ago. I would rather bet this has to do with recent political shifts that are also pushing for mandatory digital IDs and spying on encrypted messages (see UK and EU). This and Windows 11 depending on certain hardware are all pointing in one direction: a war on general computing.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-29 05:32:00+00:00
> The ancient Romans claimed to have had a 10-month calendar [1], which is what I assume the reference is.

Well, in the first place (as you note), there is no reason to believe that claim - the ancient Romans never made such a claim, but the classical Romans made that claim about the ancient Romans - but more importantly even if it were true the months would have been added many centuries prior to "about two thousand years" ago. Nothing related to additional months happened two thousand years ago.
by mcv | 2025-09-29 05:32:51+00:00
I live in Netherland, and here UberEats was a latecomer to what Thuisbezorgd had been doing for ages, but other than that it rings true. Before Thuisbezorgd, it was mostly just pizza that got delivered. Maybe also other Italian food, and maybe a little bit of Asian. Since Thuisbezorgd we can get any cuisine you can imagine delivered to your door.

But the standard Dutch takeaway food has always been Chinese (Dutch Chinese-Indonesian, actually), and I think even now that might still be more takeaway than delivery.
by eszed | 2025-09-29 05:32:56+00:00
This is a generation removed, at this point, but my younger sister and I went to the same small private, "good" Christian high school, and when Columbine happened we both looked at each other, and were like, "yeah, makes sense". Bullying was so endemic at our school that we could identify kids in each class around the both of us whom, had they had arrived with a gun and opened fire, we'd have been shocked, of course, but in no way surprised. Teachers (verbally) ridiculed and bullied students, and turned blind eyes to "high status" students bullying (including violently) odd, or even just poor, kids.

I escaped most of it, personally, because I had sharp enough wits and enough self-confidence to turn ridicule back on most people who went after me that way - I even figured out at one point that if I used big words the PE teacher would leave me alone, lol - and was physically big enough not to be a target otherwise. We didn't complain, though, not even to our parents, because that was just the way things were - why would kids think anything should be otherwise, when authority figures saw it and didn't care, like, at all?

What I didn't do, ever, was stand up for anyone else. It was a survival strategy. I remember reading about Columbine that Dylan Klebold waved one kid out from under his gun because, he said, "you were always nice to me". I didn't bully anyone, and even had friendly conversations with some of the kids who were the most consistent targets, but, had they come to school with a gun, I doubt I'd have passed that test. I can't shake the feeling that had one of them committed violence that the school - and maybe even I, myself - would have deserved it.

This shit's been going on a long time.
by geocar | 2025-09-29 05:33:12+00:00
> You’re listing things that are high powered and or old.

Sure. I have high-powered and old things, and I bet you've seen stuff like that too.

I'm explaining why I, as a non-expert, would not put 146V into something that says it can't take more than 150V.

> People generally are not lugging white goods internationally

Travel doesn't enter into it; My appliances came from Europe, they're just labelled a bunch of different voltages, so I think voltages within that range are roughly equivalent.

Furthermore, British have such a very special relationship with tea, such it would be entirely understandable that a Brit would take their kettle with them and often become quite annoyed that they cannot get an adapter to use it when holidaying amongst the yanks.
by Frieren | 2025-09-29 05:33:29+00:00
> If people elect officials that promise to not enforce crimes, how is that not Democracy?

Did people elected officials to not enforce the law? Or did people elected officials because they though they will be the law-and-order (even if they were mistaken)? That are two very different things.

People make mistakes, misinformation exists, to think that once a goverment is elected that gives them the authority to do whatever they want is not understanding how constitutions and separation of power work. There are safeguards in place to avoid elected officials to become dictators (because the country founders know that someone will try).
by j_bum | 2025-09-29 05:33:47+00:00
He would pay to have his videos as ads on other people’s videos.

E.g., I’d go to watch a video of SmarterEveryDay, and Tai Lopez would show up as an ad, telling me all about his Lamborghinis and bookshelves of books he’d never read. And people would just watch the full ad, even after they could’ve skipped (5s).

That was an interesting era of YouTube, for sure.
by shirro | 2025-09-29 05:34:02+00:00
While Google are capable of being evil all on their own I wonder if the regulatory environment companies are facing around the world is contributing. It is going to lead to increasingly restricted systems with less choice for consumers.

I recently tried to install Thunderbird email on my 17 year old's phone so he could access our self-hosted email for education, jobs, government things that young adults require. After jumping through hoops with age verification it turned out not to be allowed for his age for some unfathomable reason. Increasingly content providers, app stores, os providers etc are coming under chilling industry codes here requiring age verification and age restriction. So I used f-droid so my young adult could start making applications.

What I see as freedom might look a lot like circumvention to regulators.

As all the big commercial services step into line with government codes and turn restrictions to their commercial advantage I am not sure where that leaves those of us who use FOSS software. My apps come from Flathub, arch, debian, f-droid not Apple, Google, or Microsoft stores. My devices come OS free when possible. The volunteers involved haven't participated in the development of industry codes and aren't in a position do all the compliance stuff that governments increasingly demand from tech companies. How much longer will free and open source be tolerated?
by _1tem | 2025-09-29 05:34:20+00:00
It’s about the fact that opening your API limits your own engineering capabilities. A device with an open API has a different security and performance profile.

So Apple has to sabotage their own devices performance and security to let other people use it. The EU has no business in this.

If Apple provided public APIs for their products their own mobile devices battery life and security would be worse due to crappy third party integrations. Apple achieves high performance experiences precisely because that is a ENGINEERING REQUIREMENT to build high quality products.
by willvarfar | 2025-09-29 05:35:02+00:00
This is all talking about the big companies investing in AI as a service to sell to others. The whole financial aspect of all the articles is focused on investing in a service to sell?

But the moment that the AI can exceed a human programmer, at something as narrow as coding, then the company that has that AI shouldn't sell it to replace humans at other companies - it should instead use it to write programs to replace the other companies.

And the moment an AI can exceed a human generally, then the company that has that AI shouldn't sell it to replace humans at other companies - it should instead ask it how to dominate the world and replace all other companies (with side quest to ensure no competitor achieves AGI)?
by ssivark | 2025-09-29 05:36:15+00:00
Unfortunately, it's not so simple, especially once you go beyond the ASCII. Dylan Beattie has this brilliant talk [1] where he points out how even the "systems" in human language involve a pile of quirks rather than any simple clean rules, and many of those rules are conflicting and the appropriate order of precedence depends on the context. Eg: the correct sorting order for the same sets of strings might even depend on the geography in which the question is asked!

If you haven't had to deal with it previously, you'd be flabbergasted at how many foot-guns there are in such a simple question as alphabetical sorting, even without involving numeric components in strings.

[1] There's no such thing as plain text https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajfb5LSbQVM
by thaumasiotes | 2025-09-29 05:37:26+00:00
Really? Here's an image of what I take to be some Indian clothing: https://www.lerevecraze.com/product/mep14377/

And here's some Arab clothing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dishdasha.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thawb#/media/File:Sheikh_Moham...

They don't look very different, to me.

I pulled this from a Bangladeshi newspaper's website: https://cdn.bd-pratidin.com/public/news_images/2025/09/29/17...
by notarget137 | 2025-09-29 05:38:12+00:00
Exceptionally good. Sometimes I even think it's worth it. Need a specific statement or a document - here you have it in PDF in 2 minutes in an android app with somewhat decent usability.

The only saving grace for us is incompetence. Tyrannies breed incopmetence in goverments since competent people are able to ask troubluing questions. At least I hope so.
by dudisubekti | 2025-09-29 05:38:44+00:00
Even China doesn't rely on controlling information from the user-side, they know any devices can be hacked lol. They rely more on controlling the server-side (WeChat, Douyin, Weibo, Bilibili, etc) and infrastructure (GFW).

Well mostly, aside from some exceptions like (allegedly) Apple's AirDrop limitations.

Many Chinese brands still support unlockable bootloader: https://github.com/melontini/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame...

Although going forward, there's a strong incentive for manufacturers to follow Google and lock their devices.