MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mbesto | 2025-09-25 18:11:41+00:00
Here is a few examples of PE shops and their list of portfolio companies. Please name all of the companies that fit the criteria of "the business is suffering from financial hardship or the current owner is unable to continue to run the business and cannot find a successor"

https://www.ta.com/portfolio/investments/

https://www.accel-kkr.com/portfolio/

https://frontiergrowth.com/our-partnerships
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-25 18:11:52+00:00
The moderators of this site feel like explaining why they let this kind of post be flagged? No sense even guessing the idiot reason of whatever baboon did the flagging since they abound and have their own brainless logic, but the moderation at HN could adapt slightly better standards.

Some pearl clutcher feel like chiming in that it's "not relevant to tech!!!?"

Well, neither is this, for example, yet it's on page one of hacker news with 360+ comments and no problems with being flagged by some assclown.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372442
by em-bee | 2025-09-25 18:12:06+00:00
but ruby central using the trademark is not the problem. as long as everyone else can use it too. but ruby central wants to prevent everyone else to use it, and that's the problem.

if the trademark is determined to be generic, then ruby central can not prevent anyone from using it.

the goal is not to stop ruby central from using the trademark. the goal is to stop them from claiming ownership.
by gretch | 2025-09-25 18:12:26+00:00
> I'd hope that they fixed this. If an account is locked, it seems like it would be common sense to place a hold on any subscriptions associated with it.

The problem with this is you can deny someone's service very easily just by knowing publicly associated data (e.g. email address) and intentionally getting the password wrong a few times.

> So, while being locked out of my account, I couldn't cancel my subscription to Kindle (lost all of the books, too). I just kept getting charged month after month (of which I'd just forget about it after getting angry for a minute).

Most places have some law where you must be able to cancel by calling or some other path. But as a last line stop gap, you can contact your credit card company and deny the charges based on the inability to cancel.

In fact, this is one of the explicit value propositions of an intermediary payment company.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-25 18:12:37+00:00
I am seeing a lot of demand for something like a semver for AI models.

Could thereotically there could be something like a semver that can be autogenerated from that defined and regular version scheme that you shared?

Like, Honestly my idea of it is that I could use something like openrouter and then just change the semver without having to worry about these soooo many things as the schema that you shared y'know?

A website / tool which can create a semver from this defined scheme and vice versa can be really cool actually :>
by artembugara | 2025-09-25 18:12:47+00:00
Congrats on the HN Launch!

It's probably the best research agent that uses live search. Are you using Firecrawl, I assume?

We're soon launching a similar tool (CatchALL by NewsCatcher) that does the same thing but on a much larger scale because we already index and pre-process millions of pages daily (news, corporate, government files). We're seeing so much better results compared to parallel.ai for queries like "find all new funding announcements for any kind of public transit in California State, US that took place in the past two weeks"

However, our tool will not perform live searches, so I think we're complementary.

i'd love to chat.
by fair_enough | 2025-09-25 18:12:54+00:00
I liked Tulsi Gabbard's "two-tier" proposal for healthcare reform back in 2020. Grant state or federal government full control over emergency care and only the most expensive and obscure cancer treatments all of which act economically as a natural monopoly. Then for every other segment of healthcare where competition can exist, keep them as private markets but greatly enhance antitrust enforcement.

The only thing missing in all the good talk about healthcare is what to do about health insurance, which is the middleman that drives up prices. I propose making all forms of price discrimination illegal in healthcare, i.e. uninsured and HSA patients cannot be charged more than health insurance companies.

I also propose standardizing healthcare into 5 different health plan contracts, then requiring all health insurance companies to make all of their health plans fit into one of those contracts with zero modification to the terms and conditions. This will make litigation faster and easier, and it will avoid fraud disguised as "fine print".

Then, finally I propose requiring all health insurance companies to pay for the services up front and then sue the patient to get the money back, reversing the existing pattern where the burden of proof falls on the patient and the patient has to wait until the insurance provider relents. Think of it like a patient suing an insurance company and getting an injunction to pay out the claim while the legal ruling is pending, but faster.
by stego-tech | 2025-09-25 18:13:10+00:00
Serious question I’d like you and others to consider: why shouldn’t they be [a jobs program]?

Seriously, think about it for a moment. We have built a global society on the singular foundation that one must work to survive, yet we do not provide guarantees of work to provide the wages needed for survival of the labor class. It effectively condemns the unluckiest among us to suffering and an early death solely because they could not find gainful employment for whatever reason - disability, illness, lack of skills, insufficient wages, missing credentials, regime policies, the list goes on.

In that context, shouldn’t we be mandating companies at least abstain from layoffs when they’re posting profits or engaging in share buybacks, for a set period of time? Should we not be mandating governments provide job guarantees and minimum wages that enable every worker to have a safe, livable home and nutritious food?

Just something to chew on, because you’re right in that companies aren’t a jobs program.

But maybe they should be.
by basilgohar | 2025-09-25 18:13:19+00:00
You say "the Jews" but you're leaving out that there are Arab Jews and European ones. Arab Jews have lived in Palestine for hundreds of years alongside other Arabs peacefully in coexistence.

The arrival of Zionist European Jews was a phenomonen of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Zionist Jews that came from Europe brought with them a supremecist ideology that, in their eyes, justified all forms of violence committed against the Muslim, Christian, and yes, Jewish Palestians that opposed their colonization.

I don't know what you're making or misrepresenting in your statememt about Jordan and Jerusalem, but Jews have always lived in Jerusalem since the Muslims first took control of it 1400 years ago when Umar ibn El-Khattab brought back in Jews who had been expelled by the Christian rulers prior to that.

Jews have always prospered under actual religious Muslim rule, whether in Palestine, Spain, Morocco, Iran, or otherwise. Zionism is what drove a rift between Muslims and Jews in past two centuries, as prior to this there never was one.
Show HN: Glenride – human-first, Conversation‑style forums (alpha)
by natural1 | 2025-09-25 18:13:26+00:00
I’m testing Glenride, a modern forum-of-forums built for real conversation. If you’re feeling the bot creep, paywalls, and opaque moderation elsewhere, I’d love your eyes on this alpha.

What’s different: Bot-resistant by design (velocity caps, link cooldowns, optional non‑biometric proof‑of‑personhood) Transparent moderation (community charters, audit trails, appeals) Human-centric feeds (chronological and “quiet mode” ranking) Data portability + open API (fair terms; easy export) No sitewide paywalls; communities choose their own models Looking for feedback on onboarding, posting friction, mod tooling, and the API. Expect rough edges; mobile polish and some mod features are still in progress. Public roadmap and integrity metrics are linked from the site.

Link: https://glenride.onrender.com

I’ll be in the comments for questions. If you run a community and want to migrate, ping me—we’re prioritizing mod tooling and support.
by xp84 | 2025-09-25 18:13:48+00:00
From the article, the current flavor of "threat" this is being positioned to fight is CSAM.

Does anyone believe that predators commit those heinous offenses because of the availability of encrypted channels to distribute those products of their crimes? I sure don't. The materials exist because of predators' access to children, which these surveillance measures won't solve.

Best case scenario (and this is wildly optimistic) the offenders won't be able to find any 'safe' channels to distribute their materials to each other. The authorities really think every predator will just give up and stop abusing just because of that? What a joke.

More likely of course, those criminals will just use decentralized tools that can't be suppressed or monitored, even as simple as plain old GPG and email. Therefore nothing of value will be gained from removing all privacy from all communication.
by zdp7 | 2025-09-25 18:14:13+00:00
You are over simplifying the problem. First off, the place you quote at 2K is probably an imaging business or part of a larger business that can keep the machines more fully utilized. The hospital has it's equipment to support it's main business. Nobody is going to the hospital for routine imaging. Next, nobody pays $10K at the hospital. Insurance will either have an already agreed to rate or will negotiate it down. As a private pay patient, you can negotiate it down. For planned imaging, a lot of people still won't shop around. Even with a deductible, it should still be the negotiated price. After deductible they all cost the same for most people on insurance. Modern Healthcare isn't a free market. These days insurance has most of the power.
by neobrain | 2025-09-25 18:14:18+00:00
> How is it a misinterpretation? To re-quote that last sentence:

I think we agree in our understanding, but condensing it down to "TSO isn't as much of a deal as claimed" is misleading:

* Efficient TSO emulation is crucial (both on Windows and elsewhere)

* The blog claims hardware TSO is non-ideal on Windows only (because Microsoft adapted the ecosystem to facilitate software-based TSO emulation). (Even then, it's unclear if the author quantified the concrete impact)

* Hardware TSO is still of tremendous value on systems that don't have ecosystem support

> [volatile metadata] doesn't help executables compiled with non-MSVC compilers like Clang, nor any JIT code, nor is there any documentation indicating how to support either of these cases.

That's funny, I hadn't considered third party compilers. Those applications would still benefit from ARM64EC (i.e. native system libraries), but the actual application code would be affected quite badly by the TSO impact then, depending on how good their fallback heuristics are. (Same for older titles that were compiled before volatile metadata was added)
by kbelder | 2025-09-25 18:14:40+00:00
It's a difficult question, because obviously violence is out of line for protests about many topics, while just as obviously necessary for some.

I think think that violence or vandalism in this case was unwarranted, but there are some other in this thread who believe otherwise.

I guess that I'd say that, probably, vandals/criminals should always be punished, because they're doing clearly illegal things... and it's up to the protestors to judge whether the cause they're supporting is really worth going to jail for. If sufficient numbers of people feel that, you have a revolution.

(And also, a separate issue, whether the violence is actually going to benefit their cause. It probably won't.)

I certainly don't think that we should be in a position where courts are are judging certain crimes as forgivable because of their cause, while supporters of other causes get the full weight of the law for similar actions. I think the vandals on Jan 6th should get the same punishment as, for instance, similar vandals during BLM.
by SR2Z | 2025-09-25 18:14:47+00:00
Yeah, the speed and price are why I use it. I find that any LLM is garbage at writing code unless it gets constant high-entropy feedback (e.g. an MCP tool reporting lint errors, a test, etc.) and the quality of the final code depends a lot more on how well the LLM was guided than the quality of the model.

A bad model with good automated tooling and prompts will beat a good model without them, and if your goal is to build good tooling and prompts you need a tighter iteration loop.
by throwuxiytayq | 2025-09-25 18:15:01+00:00
No, it isn’t. It makes no sense and I can’t believe you would think this is a strategy they’re pursuing. This is a Pro/Plus account feature, so the users don’t pay anything extra, and they’re planning to make this free for everyone. I very much doubt this feature would generate a lot of traffic anyway - it’s basically one more message to process per day.

OpenAI clearly recently focuses on model cost effectiveness, with the intention of making inference nearly free.

What do you think the weekly limit is on GPT-5-Thinking usage on the $20 plan? Write down a number before looking it up.
by joecool1029 | 2025-09-25 18:15:08+00:00
> What about Matrix Authentication Service?

Still its own thing which I have not deployed on my homeserver.

> as opposed to the SQLite like my Synapse instance uses

I've done this for testing but they really don't recommend it for production. It's had a history of being broken: https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/18325
by nicoburns | 2025-09-25 18:15:10+00:00
> doesn't name the source of the funding

It was Futurewei for a couple of years, and is now Huawei.

There is also some NLnet funding (not sure if Igalia has any, but some other people certainly do).

Servo also recently approved funding for one additional (non-igalia) person funded by community donations, which is pretty cool
by xrd | 2025-09-25 18:15:25+00:00
I was a GAP employee long ago. That was a "good" job because I saw how the "Associate Managers" barely made more than me, the "Assistant Managers" were stuck at 30, so I spent my lunch hours reading computer science textbooks. I mean "good" job in that it taught me exactly what I never wanted to do long term. I recall they had this management consulting team come in with an acronym "GAP ACT" (Greet, Approach, Product add-on, Accessorize, Close/cashier (?) and then Thank"). I suppose they were right because 30 years later I have not forgotten it, but I do recall quitting when they told me to take a toothbrush and clean the plastic fronts of the jeans racks. What a shitty job, and I bet it is not much better for Starbucks employees.
by DougBTX | 2025-09-25 18:15:43+00:00
1999, $25 million investment: https://googlepress.blogspot.com/1999/06/google-receives-25-...

2000, launched ads: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Ads

2001, profitable: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2001/aug/08/internetn...
by NoahZuniga | 2025-09-25 18:16:14+00:00
> Even if the law went into effect 3 months ago?

No. The right not to be tried for actions that weren't crimes at the time is pretty universally applied in the west (I am not aware of the legal situation in other parts of the world, but I imagine it's honored there too). (Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights for the EU, Article I, Section 9 & 10 of the constitution for the US)

> So, are the images said individual created and shared three years ago subject to prosecution?

Generally, criminal acts are judged according to the rules of the jurisdiction where they happened, so I wouldn't be too worried about this. This isn't a universal rule though, so you won't find it enshrined in constitutions or treaties.
by mike_d | 2025-09-25 18:16:36+00:00
I am genuinely curious what protections are in place to ensure that? What is the plan after you are gone?

It looks like you have voting shares with 10x the power of institutional investors, but activist investors aren't dumb either.

My biggest fear of Cloudflare has always been that one day you'll get hit by a bus and someone will figure out that merging Cloudflare with an ad network would create so much more shareholder value. The road to hell is paved with free DDoS mitigation, so to speak.
by fragmede | 2025-09-25 18:16:51+00:00
I am American, and haven't used Ruby since two jobs ago, so don't have a dog in this fight. Still, going off of https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 which is supposedly DHH's own words on his personal blog, you get, repeatedly in full so I can't be accused of taking it out of context:

> As soon as I was old enough to travel on my own, London was where I wanted to go. Compared to Copenhagen at the time, there was something so majestic about Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, and even the Tube around the turn of the millenium. Not just because their capital is twice as old as ours, but because it endured twice as much, through the Blitz and the rest of it, yet never lost its nerve. I thought I might move there one day.

> That was then. Now, I wouldn't dream of it. London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late '90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Brits.

and that last sentence links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London showing that, well, they're aren't as many white people in London as there used to be.

Now, I don't want to put words in his mouth, but it's pretty easy to interpret that as non-white people shouldn't be seen in London. That's not exactly "you, personally, don't belong in public spaces?", but it's seems fairly close to me, to anyone that isn't white. I am open to hearing alternate interpretations of what I quoted from DHH's personal blog though.
by christoph123 | 2025-09-25 18:17:29+00:00
Working on https://donethat.ai - a fully automated work tracker and in the future also AI coach.

The concept is pretty simple: It takes screenshots every few minutes and reconstructs a calendar of what actually happened. On top of that features to set goals for how much time to spend on topics and a social feed.

This is obviously super sensitive data. I built it in a way that it never stores raw data and you can also bring your own Gemini key, plus a lot more privacy features. Tried to make it fully local but found that it takes too much energy and only works on high end machines.

I have a few first users, iterating with them, and right now exploring if it’s possible to make this work in team settings without sacrificing privacy.
by throwaway74628 | 2025-09-25 18:17:52+00:00
This comment sums up well how the spirit of the law is not being upheld, given that the biggest players in government, finance, and the corporate world are working together hand in glove.

>”Corporations cannot exist without government intervention”

>”Some privates companies and financiers are too big to fail/of strategic national importance”

>”1A does not apply to private entities (including the above)”

>”We have a free, competitive market”

I find it very difficult to resolve these seemingly contradictory statements.
by colpabar | 2025-09-25 18:17:57+00:00
But that’s my point - who will do that? Who is going to go to their company’s CEO and convince them to put in the massive amount of effort to switch cloud providers? Who is going to say “I don’t think we should use Teams anymore” and actually be able to switch to something else? I have no idea if microsoft even cares about retail customers anymore, but are there really enough people who are going to boycott microsoft products (I honestly don’t know what those products even are) over this?

I just don’t think they have anything to worry about. I personally think it’s good what they’re doing here, but I guess I’m too cynical to believe they are doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, and I don’t think the real reason is that they’re worried about bad publicity.
by itsdrewmiller | 2025-09-25 18:18:02+00:00
This sounds like a great natural experiment (the quota dropped by 3x!) until you realize that they weren't even coming close to hitting the old quota, and the number of approved h1bs actually rose in the two years after the quota was dropped.

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/h1b0...
by hashim | 2025-09-25 18:18:12+00:00
No, it isn't ignorant, it's history, and pointing to other historical examples of colonialism and imperialism doesn't make modern colonialist states legitimate. Romans lived in the UK over a thousand years ago, but that wouldn't give their descendants in modern Italians the right to occupy the UK, and us native Brits would be well within our right to fight back any invading and occupying force whether the invading and occupying force likes it or not. Muslims, Jews and Christians lived in relative peace in Palestine for almost a thousand years before the British put Israel there.
by jjani | 2025-09-25 18:18:35+00:00
Can't agree with that. Gemini doesn't lead just on price/performance - ironically it's the best "normie" model most of the time, despite it's lack of popularity with them until very recent.

It's bad at agentic stuff, especially coding. Incomparably so compared to Claude and now GPT-5. But if it's just about asking it random stuff, and especially going on for very long in the same conversation - which non-tech users have a tendency to do - Gemini wins. It's still the best at long context, noticing things said long ago.

Earlier this week I was doing some debugging. For debugging especially I like to run sonnet/gpt5/2.5-pro in parallel with the same prompt/convo. Gemini was the only one that, 4 or so messages in, pointed out something very relevant in the middle of the logs in the very first message. GPT and Sonnet both failed to notice, leading them to give wrong sample code. I would've wasted more time if I hadn't used Gemini.

It's also still the best at a good number of low-resource languages. It doesn't glaze too much (Sonnet, ChatGPT) without being overly stubborn (raw GPT-5 API). It's by far the best at OCR and image recognition, which a lot of average users use quite a bit.

Google's ridiculously bad at marketing and AI UX, but they'll get there. They're already much more than just a "bang for the buck" player.

FWIW I use all 3 above mentioned on a daily basis for a wide variety of tasks, often side-by-side in parallel to compare performance.
by ghc | 2025-09-25 18:18:40+00:00
While it could be a bot, I have a more charitable take. The comments mostly appear quite similar in structure to certain academic writing I've had to edit in the past -- specifically proposals written by non-native English speakers at the graduate or post-doc level. Academic jargon usually has precise vocabulary conveying a specific meaning with lower ambiguity than standard English. If the majority of your time is spent using those terms, you may default to using them conversationally when speaking English even in casual settings. This makes you especially hard to understand when you also make simple grammatical errors and use punctuation in an unnatural manner (for English).