MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by the_af | 2025-09-24 13:53:05+00:00
The auto-dub feature is madness. I noticed it first a couple of days ago, I'm crossing my fingers that few authors choose to enable it, and that YouTube makes it easy to disable as a default in settings (not currently possible, you have to do it as you watch, every time).

I'm in a Spanish speaking country, but I want to watch English videos in English.

Auto-generated subtitles for other languages are ok, but I want to listen to the original voices!
by cubefox | 2025-09-24 13:53:06+00:00
What is considered "misinformation" depends on whatever the censoring authority in question (e.g. Facebook or YouTube or some news website) _believes_ to be misinformation.

For example, in 2020, the WHO(!) Twitter account literally tweeted that masks don't work. That same statement would have been considered medical misinformation by a different authority.

Another example: the theory that Covid leaked from a lab in Wuhan which was known to do gain of function experiments on coronaviruses was painted as a wacky conspiracy theory by most of the mainstream media, despite the fact that many respectable sources (e.g. the CIA) later concluded that it has a significant amount of plausibility versus the alternative Wuhan wet market hypothesis which required that the virus somehow arrived there from a bat cave more than a thousand kilometres away.
by nikcub | 2025-09-24 13:53:08+00:00
Just the other day there was a story posted on hn[0][1] that said YouTube secretly wants downloaders to work.

It's it's always been very apparent that YouTube are doing _just enough_ to stop downloads while also supporting a global audience of 3 billion users.

If the world all had modern iPhones or Android devices you'd bet they'd straight up DRM all content

[0] https://windowsread.me/p/best-youtube-downloaders

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45300810
by yorwba | 2025-09-24 13:53:17+00:00
If you're a Cloudflare customer who suffers damages when LaLiga obtains a DNS block for Cloudflare IPs used for pirate streams, you'll have better chances suing Cloudflare for failing to provide the service you're paying them for (of course if you're on a free plan, you don't have much of a leg to stand on).

One Cloudflare customer doing something illegal is only able to cause this much collateral damage because Cloudflare is set up so that taking down one customer requires taking down most of their infrastructure. But what works for DDoS protection doesn't work so well for legally mandated blocks. I think at some point Cloudflare will have to start kicking pirate streams off their platform faster if they want to stay up.
by masklinn | 2025-09-24 13:53:17+00:00
Are you a consultant for ryanair? If not, you should apply.

They tried to straight up remove the window shades, but that’s currently required by Ireland so no dice. A toilet charge has been floated but is apparently difficult both legally and technically. However given Ryanair’s usual treatment of passengers with disabilities I have no doubt a passenger with IBS would have an experience.
by hedora | 2025-09-24 13:53:31+00:00
How do the real price reductions compare to the rest of the world? Computers automated away a ton of airline jobs, and fuel economy has increased.

Also, are those prices apples to apples with pre-deregulation tickets?

Like, can I just walk up to the terminal, same day, pay that price, and get the equivalent of business class on the plane, and still pay 44% less than real 1978 prices?
by al_borland | 2025-09-24 13:53:36+00:00
I’m a Premium user and primarily watch on AppleTV. A little while ago they added a feature where if I press the button to skip ahead on the remote when a sponsor section starts, it skips over the whole thing. It skips over “commonly skipped” sections.

While it doesn’t totally remove it, it lets me choose if I want to watch or not, and gets me past it in a single button press. All using the native app. I was surprised the first time this happened. I assume the creators hate it.
by JohnFen | 2025-09-24 13:53:38+00:00
> By good, I mean a developer that can successfully build an app from scratch that doesn't have any bugs.

If we take the "doesn't have any bugs" qualifier seriously, then there's no such thing as a good developer.

If you mean a dev that can develop a solid nontrivial application from scratch, then I personally know a dozen or so.
by kakacik | 2025-09-24 13:53:45+00:00
You are of course absolutely right, but its more complex. When I look around me at my family, people there and already gone, one of the issue is communication and whole mental model of reality.

Younger generations live emotionally richer lives. Or maybe thats not the best description, but something along that. I can't talk about deeper emotions even with my parents, the generational gap is absolutely huge. They never talk about theirs, and trying to start the talk ends the talk, they simply are not wired for such introspection. Both proper university educated which is a small miracle given how they and their parents were viewed as potential enemies of communist state.

They lived their whole lives under soviet oppression, never left Europe, don't understand modern world and technologies, they lived their whole lives in single monolithic culture. Critical thinking outward and especially inward is not in their runbook. I live past 20 years away from my home country, travelled the world that changed me (for the better) permanently. i tried psychedelic drugs a bit in the past, also a profound and probably permanent change they never had a chance to go through. I was/still am doing a number of potentially dangerous mountain sports that expose you to fear of death regularly, and one has to overcome that fear and move on, over and over - definitely a personality-changing experience. And so on.

Its hard to find people to talk about ie backpacking travelling to exotic undeveloped remote places even within my peers, who did that. I gathered more life experience living in 3 countries, dating ladies from various cultures, raising my kids in a foreign culture than they ever could. I understand psychology and people way better than them.

The roles reversed some time ago - I am helping them, however I can. As long as they are actually willing to listen, not every topic is like that. I can't talk politics to them, russians did a very good job in subverting public opinions of large portions of population into absolutely illogical self-harming position, and just stating truth leads nowhere.
by disiplus | 2025-09-24 13:53:48+00:00
yeah, like you go on alibaba and can get them right away. i was even thinking about them like 10 years ago when we had to send transactional sms to our customers to get one instead of paying for somebodies sms gateway.

https://www.made-in-china.com/showroom/faf448fd0d906a15/prod...
by swiftcoder | 2025-09-24 13:54:38+00:00
Something feels off about these rankings, and comparing to lat year's stack overflow survey (albeit also potentially not a super accurate accounting), I'm left wondering if their sampling methods are at all accurate.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#most-popular...

Even with a big uptick in Python and Java due to AI, I don't see Javascript+Typescript losing that much ground year-over-year.
by phatskat | 2025-09-24 13:54:42+00:00
I think a lot of people did read the OP and were left wanting - I know I did and was.

Breaking down the posted article, there’s a lot missing (which the author admits), and it’s not clear really what the goal of the post was other than to say “someone, not me, made an oops. But it’s fine, right, because the community needed this to happen.”

Parts that were particularly odd, that others have said with better words:

- Who imposed this ultimatum on RC? - How long was the timeline to “tighten things up”? It sounds like there was both a decent amount of time and an immediate urgency - it can’t be both. - “We’re nerds who can’t communicate well” (paraphrased) is such a poor argument - I get it, I’ve had to do a lot of work to figure out how to navigate social spaces and how to communicate effectively in professional settings. That said, the author is writing as if they’ve never had a single conversation with a technical person that they didn’t know well; that any conversation about removing or reducing access would be a catastrophe. That’s ridiculous.

It seems that either there was poor planning around this, or someone forgot about the deadline and YOLO’d it, or there was a malicious push to oust some of the biggest contributors under the guise of security.

One thing is clear, regardless of what the root cause of this all was: RC showed a deep lack of respect for the people that make their community what it is, and that stinks.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-24 13:55:22+00:00
It might not be the most ideal solution, but did you consider installing TrueNAS on that thing?

TrueNAS can handle the OpenZFS (zRAID, Caches and Logs) part and you can deploy Garage or any other S3 gateway on top of it.

It can be an interesting experiment, and 80 disk server is not too big for a TrueNAS installation.
by somethingsome | 2025-09-24 13:55:37+00:00
Take into account that this is posted on IEEE.

In my opinion, their target audience are scientists rather than programmers, and a scientist most often think of code as a tool to express his ideas (hence, perfect AI generated code is kind of a graal). The faster he can express them, even if the code is ugly, the better. He does not care to reuse the code later most of the time.

I have the hint that scientists and not programmers are the target audience as other things may trigger only one category but not the other, for example, they consider Arduino a language, This makes totally sense for scientists, as most of the ones using Arduino dont necessarily know C++, but are proud to be able to code in Arduino.
by gotodengo | 2025-09-24 13:55:47+00:00
I'm on year 10 of learning my second language and passed through a variety of teaching/learning methods. Intensive FSI courses, immersion including output as early as possible, self guided based heavily on reading and vocabulary, etc. While I get by mostly fine and now live in my second language, my listening is definitely my weakest skill.

Anki is probably my most beneficial single tool. Though if I were to do it over again I'd follow more or less the poster's strategy. Maybe 80% comprehensible input for listening and 20% Anki for vocab building. At least until I could watch native TV without much effort. I've played around a bit with LLMs, but still haven't found a really great use case for my study.

On the otherhand I think consistent practice (with growing difficulty) trumps technique. Whatever process keeps you motivated to practice month after month is most important.
by teekert | 2025-09-24 13:55:48+00:00
I must say this makes me a tad sad, I was sort of unofficially joining https://endof10.org/, but I guess I'll just be honest and tell my neighbors, my wife and people at the repair-cafe that they can wait another year.

The choice was between: Unsafe Win10, New computer, Give Linux a chance.

But this gives them a forth: Keep the same computer with Win10 for another year. I bet they all prefer it, I know my wife's happy nothing will change.

Edit: Of course there was also the options to pay.
by NickC25 | 2025-09-24 13:56:05+00:00
agree. im american and i see a bunch of youth in major cities who are clearly unhealthy.

sport should be encouraged. i get that not everyone likes it, and not everyone will enjoy it (and even fewer will be good enough to actually enjoy it), but encouraging physical activity instead of playing on phones is a good thing.

i was a nerd growing up (still am) and i sucked at sports (still do). i still enjoyed doing them and knew that physical activity was beneficial.
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-24 13:56:47+00:00
You aren't a good person for being subservient. You are a bad person, because you are enabling bad people.

Evil is in most cases a Yin/Yang system of abuser and willing victim. Both are dependent on each other for their common goal of creating evil in this world.

The abuser from primitive motives: "I have to do it to them, because if I'm not an abuser, somebody will make me a victim."

The willing victim because he thinks it's an easy path to be a good person: "I don't have to engage my heart and soul, just take abuse and each "point" of abuse turns into good boy points for me."

There is nothing to be admired about victims and the victim cult is a mistake. They deserve empathy and help, they don't deserve admiration.
by lief79 | 2025-09-24 13:56:53+00:00
It's still there at the accounting/backend level. Automated Financial Systems Level 3 and it's replacement Vision are commercial loan systems.

LVL3 is pure cobol. It has been recently deprecated but there are many banks who own the code and are still self hosting it, along with it's IBM green screen support.

Vision is a java front end in front of an updated cobol backend. When your reputation is based on your reliability and long term code stability, at what point do you risk making the conversion, versus training new developers to work on your system.

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/business-analyst-afs-visi...
by hnexamazon | 2025-09-24 13:57:02+00:00
I was an SDE on the S3 Index team 10 years ago, but I doubt much of the core stack has changed.

S3 is comprised primarily of layers of Java-based web services. The hot path (object get / put / list) are all served by synchronous API servers - no queues or workers. It is the best example of how many transactions per second a pretty standard Java web service stack can handle that I’ve seen in my career.

For a get call, you first hit a fleet of front-end HTTP API servers behind a set of load balancers. Partitioning is based on the key name prefixes, although I hear they’ve done work to decouple that recently. Your request is then sent to the Indexing fleet to find the mapping of your key name to an internal storage id. This is returned to the front end layer, which then calls the storage layer with the id to get the actual bits. It is a very straightforward multi-layer distributed system design for serving synchronous API responses at massive scale.

The only novel bit is all the backend communication uses a home-grown stripped-down HTTP variant, called STUMPY if I recall. It was a dumb idea to not just use HTTP but the service is ancient and originally built back when principal engineers were allowed to YOLO their own frameworks and protocols so now they are stuck with it. They might have done the massive lift to replace STUMPY with HTTP since my time.
by jampekka | 2025-09-24 13:57:38+00:00
This is insane. USA is already pushing sanctions against Europeans via US companies (e.g. Microsoft revoking ICC accounts), and now they are about to tie basic functioning in the society to two US megacorporations. At the very least this will solidify the duopoly.

At this point I don't find it impossible that critics or other "enemies" of US (or Israel) in Europe will get their phones bricked as sanctions, and as a result become second class citizens.

I don't even see the necessity for having hardware attestation. We've had for decades online ID systems that can you can run on any device with an internet connection.

But think of the children, right?
by atonse | 2025-09-24 13:58:24+00:00
Even though I’ve flown a dozen or more airlines in my life, I actually felt true loyalty towards Southwest because of their amazing no fee policies. And it was worth playing the “check in quickly cuz there’s no assigned seats” game for all the other benefits. And we’ve flown so many flights as a family due to that. It removed all the stress from the ticket purchasing process.

This CEO is a freaking idiot. Is this an excel jockey/MBA a-hole like the kind that ran Boeing and Intel into the ground?

What’s wrong with the board that voted this idiot in?
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-24 13:58:33+00:00
The digital identity wallet isn't part of the DSA; it is part of an effort to bring identity to your phone, basically: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

If implemented according to plan, things like ID cards, drivers' licenses, diplomas, train tickets, and even payment control can be handled within such apps entirely digitally. Aside from age verification, with attribute based authentication you can prove digitally that you're permitted to drive a certain vehicle without revealing your social security number (equivalent).

A healthy dose of cynicism would make clear that the moment such optional infrastructure is rolled out, new legislation can be drafted to "save on expenses" by enforcing this digital model and "protect the kids/fight the terrorists" by forcing age verification on more businesses.
Ask HN: I went to prison and can't recover my Google Workspace. What to do?
by ripmyworkspace | 2025-09-24 13:59:07+00:00
I've run my life and work on a Google Workspace domain for 15 years. Unfortunately, during my 18-month federal prison sentence, the account's password was changed and recovery email address, too.

I lost access to the admin login as well.

I've been through every official support channel, including direct back-and-forth with Google Workspace support. The recovery process hinges on answering historical questions (old admin email, old recovery info) — which, after 15 years, I don’t fully remember.

Even though I still control the domain and can verify my identity with ID, pictures, etc., none of that seems to matter to Google. I have to respect this because it'd be trivial for a bad actor to take over an account. Without those old answers, it seems you're locked out forever.

This goes well beyond account credentials and extends to personal artifacts that aren't able to be duplicated.

Has anyone managed to navigate this situation successfully? Or is the lesson that if you lose Workspace admin credentials, even legitimate domain control isn't enough to regain access?

Any help or advice is appreciated.
by jasode | 2025-09-24 13:59:20+00:00
>If you ever wondered why the likes of Google and Cloudflare want to restrict the web

I disagree with the framing of "us vs them".

It's actually "us vs us". It's not just us plebians vs FAANG giants. The small-time independent publishers and creators also want to restrict the web because they don't want their content "stolen". They want to interact with real humans instead of bots. The following are manifestations of the same fear:

- small-time websites adding Anubis proof-of-work

- owners of popular Discord channels turning on the setting for phone # verification as a requirement for joining

- web blogs wanting to put a "toll gate" (maybe utilize Cloudflare or other service) to somehow make OpenAI and others pay for the content

We're long past the days of colleagues and peers of ARPANET and NFSNET sharing info for free on university computers. Now everybody on the globe wants to try to make a dollar, and likewise, they feel dollars are being stolen from them.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-09-24 13:59:28+00:00
Well, in the end there may only be one thing left we can collectively do, but which we surely won't collectively do, because too many of us are way too comfortable to accept any discomforts: We can avoid using services implementing shit, so that any business that singles out desktop users or disadvantages them, doesn't have much of a customer base. Voting with out feet.

I have very little hope, that the common user will make use of their own agency avoiding a dystopia, or even think about issues associated with their behavior. We can see this everywhere even today. The majority of people are clueless and just accept whatever bone is thrown their way. Need to buy a new phone every year now? OK. Pressured to accept digital surveillance by not even state agencies but private profit oriented companies, that want to sell your data or use it for nefarious purposes? OK. Giving all your communication data to big tech? OK. ... It is all just a big "auto-accept any digital rape" for most people, as they don't even want to think about the technical implications and implications for society. It's all so far above their technological understanding, that they just exit the bus, when it comes to discussing these things. That is the problem we face. How to make the normal person aware and interested in their own digital rights.
by hoistbypetard | 2025-09-24 13:59:39+00:00
The Behind the Bastards podcast episodes covering Frank Lorenzo might be right down your alley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bmGff5f-Ug

(They are available from all the usual podcast places, but it just happens that the youtube mirror is the easiest way I know to link a specific episode.)
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-24 13:59:52+00:00
Will you accept the head of the IDF for much of the war?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/12/israeli-ex-com...

> A former Israeli army commander, Herzi Halevi, has confirmed that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza, and that “not once” in the course of the conflict were military operations inhibited by legal advice.

> Halevi stepped down as chief of staff in March after leading the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for the first 17 months of the war, which is now approaching its second anniversary.

> The retired general told a community meeting in southern Israel earlier this week that more than 10% of Gaza’s 2.2 million population had been killed or injured – “more than 200,000 people”. That estimate is notable as it is close to the current figures provided by Gaza’s health ministry, which Israeli officials have frequently dismissed as Hamas propaganda, though the ministry figures have been deemed reliable by international humanitarian agencies.

Coupled with the IDF's own databases https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21...

> Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.

Coupled with the fact that half of Gaza is under 18, there's really only one rational conclusion here... and it's one the IDF largely doesn't dispute any more.

What reputable contradictory estimate would you like to highlight?
by phatskat | 2025-09-24 14:00:12+00:00
I hate this for the community - I’m an outsider, who always wanted to give Ruby (and Rails) a good swing. However, after this, and after learning about dhh’s awful (imo) stances, I’m not ever going to go near any of it.

I had a similar “yuck” when WPEngine started taking Mullenweg to task over all of the WordPress shenanigans - that hit a lot closer to home for me, as I’ve spent about half of my career building great sites and applications on top of Wordpress. Although I’ve moved on, I was still an active contributor on the WP StackExchange and had my ear to the ground in several plugin repos I authored for employers who contributed to Five for the Future, and replied to comments on blog posts from people who found my previous insights helpful.

I have zero interest to ever go back to that project because of how poorly it’s been managed - if you want to see one man completely wreck an open-source ecosystem, it’s quite a fascinating if not depressing story.
by throaway5445454 | 2025-09-24 14:00:15+00:00
Canada just allowed the USA to have control over their nuclear plants and waste for 20 years.

South Korea had to publicly come out and say they wanted to accept Trump's deal, but it had to have some concessions or else they would go into economic collapse!

And the EU just allowed something like 30% more access from USA food which was previously considered not fit for human consumption under their health laws right? Please correct my figures if they're wrong.