MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kalberg6429 | 2025-09-17 03:42:41+00:00
You're presenting the standard Zionist narrative, a sanitized version of history that conveniently omits the actual ideology at play. Your entire argument is built to portray a European colonial project as a desperate search for "safety", if it ever had been about "safety" then why did they reject the Ugandan land they were offered? They needed a myth that justified their colonialism, which they had learned from the European colonizers whom they openly admired in their letters.

Let's correct the record. First, you claim Zionism was just a reaction to antisemitism, not the cause of the conflict. This is a deliberate misrepresentation. Political Zionism was a confident and proactive colonial project, growing from the exact same soil of European nationalism and race theory as antisemitism itself. The early Zionist leadership were not "traumatized victims" at all. They were confident Europeans, operating in the same intellectual environment as the "Scramble for Africa" who saw themselves as a superior people with the right to colonize. This wasn't some abstract theory, but their explicit worldview. As one of their key leaders, Chaim Weizmann noted: "The British told us that there are some hundred thousand negroes [kushim in Hebrew] and for those there is no value." - Weizmann, quoted by Arthur Ruppin in: Yosef Heller, Bama'avak Lamedinah , Jerusalem, 1984, p.140.

This colonial mindset is also why your second claim, that the focus on Palestine was just a pragmatic choice that only became central after Balfour, is historical nonsense. The proof is again the Zionist leadership's rejection of the Uganda offer. If the goal was simply to find a safe haven for worried Jews, a vast territory in Africa would have been the logical answer. They refused it because Zionism was never just about safety. It was a nationalist colonial project with a specific, predetermined target, and their argument was about claiming the right to do what other Europeans were doing i.e. conquering and colonizing a land inhabited by people they had already, in their own words, dismissed as having "no value."

Finally, and most cynically, you absurdly present the ancient and laughable claim to "Judea" as if it were a legitimate historical justification. You're framing a modern political maneuver as some kind of ancient "right". The secular, European, and atheist founders of Zionism did not even believe in the religious basis of this claim at all. They saw the biblical narrative noting more as useful myth-making tools to justify their colonialism. They weaponized these ancient stories, which they themselves viewed as superstition, for the very modern purpose of justifying the dispossession of the native population and legitimizing their colonial project. It was a calculated propaganda strategy, not a reclamation of faith. A faith in which they didn't even believe in, but which they were cynically weaponizing.
by sinuhe69 | 2025-09-17 03:43:14+00:00
I wish they would do the same for iOS 17, instead of forcing users to upgrade to iOS 18. A bunch of superfluous works and many of them even erroneous. Alarm clock for example: if you didn't allow it to snooze, pressing on the power button will snooze it, but without the possibility to turn it off easily. Why on earth would somebody rewrite the alarm clock?!
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-17 03:43:59+00:00
> In addition to the Great Recession and Covid, changing social, demographic, economic, and cultural factors also influenced attitudes about fertility, marriage, and children. These include greater educational and employment opportunities for women, the rapid increase in housing costs, the growing expense of children, limited access to child care and family leave, and changing patterns of cohabitation and immigration. Lower marriage rates account for much of the increase in childlessness, as fertility rates among never married women are lower than among woman who have been married. However, the number of married women who have not had a child is also higher than expected given historical trends.

https://www.morganstanley.com/ideas/womens-impact-on-the-eco...

> 45% of prime working age women (ages 25-44) will be single by 2030—the largest share in history—up from 41% in 2018.

https://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/50th-edition-spring-2025

> Just 48% of young Americans say having kids is important—the lowest ranking among the six life goals we measured. It signifies a generational shift away from traditional family formation.

Children have become a luxury good. Women are empowered to make other choices, and they are.
by scuff3d | 2025-09-17 03:44:31+00:00
We already know software companies are intentionally making their products shittier to drive profits. Google making their search worse to increase the number of times people have to search (so they see more ads) is a good example.

There is absolutely no reason to not think AI companies aren't doing the same. Dial in the accuracy so that each tier is only so useful, constantly and subtlety encouraging you to pay a little more for just a few more queries because "the next prompt will make it work, I'm sure this time!"
by mdaniel | 2025-09-17 03:44:36+00:00
$ cat Foo.java interface Foo { private String jimbo() { return "yup"; } } $ javap -c -private Foo Compiled from "Foo.java" interface Foo { private java.lang.String jimbo(); Code: 0: ldc #1 // String yup 2: areturn }

and

interface Bar { default boolean isAwesome() { return true; } }
by digianarchist | 2025-09-17 03:46:26+00:00
Any check mark?

https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/...

Edit: I searched my email and it doesn't look like they are doing this at all with their accounts.

Edit II: Looks like it's on hold: https://blog.kickbox.com/gmail-bimi-exploit-what-you-need-to...
by chillfox | 2025-09-17 03:46:49+00:00
I used to be on android, but after the Samsung Galaxy S3 started fucking with my settings in updates I went to Apple and have been on iPhones ever since. Specifically what sticks in my memory the most was an update that reset the shortcuts on the bottom menu bar to default and locked it so it was no longer possible to customize it. At the time I used none of those default apps.

Actually, similar reason that I ended up abandoning Windows for Linux on my home desktop (I had been using Linux on work computers for years at that point). Windows 10 kept changing my settings back to default after every major update and it was infuriating. I would have gone for a mac if there were better support for games.
by tTarnMhrkm | 2025-09-17 03:46:54+00:00
Your advice on the Reddit posts is also spot on. It's a fine line to walk between sharing the journey and just attracting low-effort clones.

And I completely agree about the moat. For a utility like this, it really does come down to marketing, support, and just building a better, more polished user experience than the copycats are willing to.

Also, a huge thank you for the feedback on the homepage screenshots! That's a good fix, and you're 100% right, they are way too small. I'll get that updated in the next couple of days.

Appreciate you taking the time to write all that out, and thanks for the kind words about the app's design!
by seer | 2025-09-17 03:49:00+00:00
I was right there during the protests (as a tourist) and it was such a bizarre situation.

The thing started with the police _killing_ more than 10 children. And after that the crowd went after places like police stations, some palaces and the parliament. Most politicians fled, but the ones that were caught up were mostly bitten up, not killed.

As someone from Eastern Europe, who lived through the fall of the Soviet Union, it all seemed remarkably chill and peaceful - people were really after justice, not vengeance.

Prisons were mostly filled by political prisoners, though some bad apples took advantage to escape as well.

Being just a few kilometres away from the epicentre of things, it all felt very chill, people on the streets were very happy, police were ok, military was smiling and chatty - they were giving people water and trying to “look helpful”

Just the media wants to portray chaos cause that’s what’s driving the clicks, but the situation on the ground was quite ok.

The people did a quick *discord* vote, chose an interim president - who is someone everyone in the country agrees is one of the few incorruptible and honest people, and they will apparently have a proper election at some point when things settle down.

As “revolution” goes this seems like the most sane one I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a few …
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-17 03:49:38+00:00
You have a team of 20 engineers on a project you want to maintain velocity on. With that many coooks, you have patches on top of patches of your build system where everyone does the bare minimum to meet the near term task only and it devolves into a mess no one wants to touch over enough time.

Your choice: do you have the most senior engineers spend time sporadically maintaining the build system, perhaps declaring fires to try to pay off tech debt, or hire someone full time, perhaps cheaper and with better expertise, dedicated to the task instead?

CI is an orthogonal problem but that too requires maintenance - do you maintain it ad-hoc or make it the official responsibility for someone to keep maintained and flexible for the team’s needs?

I think you think I’m saying the task is keeping the build green whereas I’m saying someone has to keep the system that’s keeping the build green going and functional.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-17 03:49:56+00:00
> Last election the democrats didn't have a primary, and the republicans barely had one

Now do down ballot.

> electorate can't be blamed for its leaders not doing their jobs when the their leadership is needed

Pro-Palestinian voters who swung for Trump explicitly endorsed the war. Even if they thought they were just throwing a tantrum. That includes the war’s repercussions, including the dissolution and incorporation of Palestine.

If you care about net effect, the answer is obvious. If how one feels reigns supreme, yes, that voting bloc is excused. (But still irrelevant.)
by neilv | 2025-09-17 03:49:56+00:00
I loves me some Noctua. I suspect that the very quiet single 120mm is enough to keep air moving sufficiently through my 3090 GPU server chassis (though I also put a couple 80mm where 4U chassis airflow narrows in the rear, just to be safe).

I also put Noctuas in short-depth 1U servers and routers at home, usually 40mm.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-17 03:50:07+00:00
You need to consider profit margins. The cost of showing somebody an ad is very near $0, which is what makes digital products so profitable. But when you do things in the real world, especially in highly competitive markets where the customer is extremely price sensitive, your profit per mile is going to approach $0. For instance WalMart's profit per item sold is less than 3%, and for driving this will likely be substantially lower (given the combination of customer price sensitivity + competition). The way you make up for this is in massive volume, but Waymo for now remains a heavily ringfenced operation and so it's not entirely clear how they reach scale. Google also has a very poor record of long-term performance in competitive markets.

The winner in self driving will likely be enabled by extreme vertical integration - you want to be building your own cars, cleaning your own cars, repairing your own cars, and so on.
by revlolz | 2025-09-17 03:50:08+00:00
“Two wrongs don’t make a right” misframes the issue. Hamas murders civilians deliberately; Israel targets Hamas while taking steps to limit civilian harm. Civilian deaths are tragic, but tragedy is not genocide. The moral difference is intent.

“The fact of the matter is that Israel hasn't merely been attacking Hamas targets that happen to also have civilians present, but rather that Israel is going beyond that to willfully engage in a near-indiscriminate extermination campaign against unjustifiable targets.”

Calling this “indiscriminate extermination” ignores Hamas using civilians as shields and demands an impossible standard of zero casualties. It also drains the word genocide of meaning. The Holocaust was genocide, the systematic extermination of Jews for existing. That is not what Israel is doing to Palestinians.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-09-17 03:52:02+00:00
I think the downvotes might be due to one or more of the following:

- You're uncritically parroting the notoriously untrustworthy talking points of a notoriously untrustworthy company, and HN posters expect more critical thought in comments.

- You're redirecting to some rumored "goal" rather than a realistic prediction, which was the topic, and HN posters liked the topic.

- HN posters may think that your vested interest in tesla behooves you to think more critically than the average person on matters involving tesla, rather than less, to overcome any implicit bias you might have.

- I have a goal of end-of-month, so that means I'll have it even sooner than tesla, right? This is how many view the claim by tesla, except I, a random person, literally have less of a reputation for dissembling and failure to deliver than tesla does.
by tguvot | 2025-09-17 03:53:03+00:00
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre
by DecoPerson | 2025-09-17 03:53:53+00:00
AussieBroadband (who use Optus wholesale). I love 'em, and literally my only complaints after years of using them are:

- lack of eSIM support

- invoice/statement layout hard to read

- businesses can use the residential NBN plans but they don't display correctly on their Carbon business portal

- some advanced mobile service control codes to configure message bank, call forwarding, etc, don't seem to work

Everything else about them has been perfect. Great service, reasonable prices, perfect reliability (zero downtime AFAIK!), and Australian-owned.

(Gonna chuck my AussieBroaband referral code here in case this convinces someone to switch! 13610811)
by tehjoker | 2025-09-17 03:55:37+00:00
This isn't right, though it can feel like an option when you are looking for a solution that doesn't make you feel bad.

Zionism is the idea of colonial occupation. The internal logic will always end in ethnic cleansing. It did in 1948. It's doing it now. American Manifest Destiny had a similar function, and it also resulted in massive genocide for which we have not atoned.

Zionism is done. A secular democratic state for all people with the right of return guaranteed for displaced Palestinians along with some kind of reeducation / denazification program for the genocidal citizens of the current state of Israel is the only viable solution.

As a Jew, I don't think Arabs should pay for Germany's crimes. I think Germany should pay. They paid a little already. They should pay more, especially now that they are supporting this genocide too.
by lovelearning | 2025-09-17 03:56:07+00:00
Such reports should drop the idea of ranking countries and instead focus on the rise or fall in per-country scores relative to their previous scores.

Whenever countries are ranked against each other, discussions inevitably focus on the relative ranks and ignore the underlying causes of any drop in scores.

When a country moves up in rank mostly because some other countries moved down, it feels odd to the people there who wonder why they ranked higher without any improvements on the ground. Nationalist governments tend to claim the higher rank is because of their policies, knowing that their people most likely won't study the changes in score components of previous years.
by TheDong | 2025-09-17 03:56:42+00:00
Sure Papua New Guinea scores 5/5 on the "Violent Crime" assessment (to the US's 2/5), but the US incarceration rate is 5/5, while Papua New Guinea only scores 1.5/5.

The US also has much more weapons exports, and external military involvement.

People deciding where to travel are largely thinking about "violent crime" levels moreso than "how many fighter jets does this country sell"

This report tries to also take into account things like "Military size, expenditure, and weapon exports", which surely indicates a non-peaceful nation, even if on the ground citizens can live peacefully.

If the definition of "peace" includes nation-level involvement in conflict, then I think it's very fair to argue that the US isn't a peaceful country. Papua New Guinea is not providing significant military support to multiple wars at once. The US certainly is.
by throwaway3060 | 2025-09-17 03:56:42+00:00
None of which has anything to do with which countries politicians feel most comfortable visiting. If the political class felt much affinity with Mexico (rightly or wrongly), I imagine that there would be much less talk of a border wall. Clearly they do not feel the same way about Canada.

I doubt that there are recorded numbers just for politicians, but these are all popular destinations for Americans in general. Now, if there's something else odd about this statistic other than just the number you want to point out, that's a different story.
by tTarnMhrkm | 2025-09-17 03:56:43+00:00
You're right to call me out on my posting history and to be skeptical of the intent.

Looking at my submissions, you're correct that my recent activity has been too focused on my own projects. As a solo dev in launch mode, I've been overly focused on that, and I need to do a better job of contributing to the wider HN discussion. I appreciate the reminder of the guidelines.

My intent here was not a "Show HN" because the topic wasn't about app itself, but the phenomenon of rapid cloning and what it means for the app ecosystem. Something I thought was a genuinely interesting topic for this community.

I can see how it comes across as a ruse, and I should have been more prepared to substantiate the claims. I wanted to talk about how something like this is not app specific. I've been hesitant to post direct links to the other apps because I don't want this to turn into a witch hunt. In the world of LLMs who know what including those links will do to AI Overviews.

Thanks for holding me to a higher standard and for the critical feedback.
by vitus | 2025-09-17 03:56:58+00:00
> San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Austin, and Phoenix are ~10% of US population.

Surely you're describing metro areas? There's no way those five cities add up to 34 million people within city limits, given that none of them have 6 million people.

The MSAs added up to 27 million based on the 2020 census, so "close enough". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area

That said, Waymo's service areas are nowhere close to covering the full MSAs: https://support.google.com/waymo/answer/9059119?hl=en

- SF doesn't cover East Bay (two thirds of the MSA by population).

- Silicon Valley doesn't cover San Jose, and barely reaches into Sunnyvale (basically just covering the Google Moffett Park office buildings).

- The Phoenix area is missing most of the densest parts of Phoenix itself, as well as anything north / west of the city.

- Los Angeles doesn't even come close to covering the city, much less the rest of LA County or any of Orange County. (Maybe 2-3 million out of 13, from just eyeballing the region.)

On Uber (https://support.google.com/waymo/answer/16011725?hl=en) there's also Atlanta (which looks like it actually has very nice coverage, other than the western half of the city) and Austin (again focused on downtown / commercial districts) which help drive up the numbers.

The population that's had opportunity to see Waymo in the wild is probably higher because they're testing in quite a few cities now (a sibling commenter mentions NYC, for instance).
by aetherson | 2025-09-17 03:57:50+00:00
You might, but most people wouldn't, and more to the point, overwhelming more people will choose to drive their own car (or take transit) vs either Uber or Waymo.

If Waymo can drop its price by 50%, it could steal a lot of demand from normal cars and transit, but that doesn't seem like it's even on the conversation right now.
by toshinoriyagi | 2025-09-17 03:59:16+00:00
Are SELECT queries most companies' bottleneck? While we find the occasional SELECT without an index or joining something it doesn't need to, my biggest struggle is optimizing UPDATES.

In our busiest times we need to update up to 100,000 rows, ~50 columns, every ~5 seconds. So ideally the update finishes before the next one starts to avoid deadlocks.

MySQL probably isn't the most ideal DB for our use-case, but it's what the startup had been using for years before I joined.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-17 03:59:46+00:00
I think this is a case of two distinct populations being inappropriately averaged.

There are many high-level C++ applications that would probably be best implemented in a modern GC language. We could skip the systems language discussion entirely because it is weird that we are using one.

There are also low-level applications like high-performance database kernels where the memory management models are so different that conventional memory safety assumptions don’t apply. Also, their performance is incredibly tightly coupled to the precision of their safety models. It is no accident that these have proven to be memory safe in practice; they would not be usable if they weren’t. A lot of new C++ usage is in these areas.

Rust to me slots in as a way to materially improve performance for applications that might otherwise be well-served by Java.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-09-17 04:00:16+00:00
> I just want to say that things like reputation and network matter... and thats not really "nepotism"

I strongly agree with this, and I'm glad you put it so clearly. If you've been in your industry say 10 years or more, you should have built a reputation by that point that makes people say "I want to work with that person again, or I'd recommend that person to a friend who has a job opening". (Important thing to clarify, though, I'm not denigrating anyone who has been out of work a long time. I've seen many categories of jobs in the tech industry where there are simply a lot fewer jobs to go around - it's musical chairs and a lot of chairs got taken away all at once).

I would put in an important caveat, though, and that's for people who are early in their careers. The hiring process really is truly shitty for people just entering the workforce and for people with only one or two jobs under their belt.
by nothrabannosir | 2025-09-17 04:01:25+00:00
On the front page right now:

Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised (stepsecurity.io)

935 points by jamesberthoty 16 hours ago | flag | hide | 730 comments

Maybe obstreperous dependency management ends up being the winning play in 2025 :)
by illiac786 | 2025-09-17 04:02:23+00:00
You should think about how you would react to “you can tell a lot about the qualities of a society by the way they [detain people on Nauru | reject asyl seekers | don’t care for indigenous populations]”.

I feel your comment is a generalisation and could be construed as provocation/trolling. Probably not your intention, but just so you are aware how this is coming over.

Better maybe: “societies that have good health care thrive” or something like this. Sounds less judgmental and it doesn’t put all US Americans in one basket.

I fully agree on the content though, only criticising the form here.