MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fluoridation | 2025-09-08 22:44:58+00:00
>For communication platforms (messengers) - the same kind that telecom companies are bound to, for example.

So, like, maximum response time to outages? That kind of thing? Do you actually understand what you're asking for? Those sorts of regulations exist as consumer protections, because you're paying for a service, so a minimum standard of quality is required. You don't pay for WhatsApp, Telegram, Matrix, etc. If your country tried asking for something unreasonable out of those companies, all it would do is make those companies block your country off.

>For social media platforms - similar to what older media platforms are bound on content, editorial / journalistic format and integrity etc.

Totally absurd. First, social media platforms are not journalistic outlets. What, because Bloomberg posts videos to YouTube, every YouTuber should abide by the same kinds of standards that Bloomberg abides by?

Second, I don't know where you live, but if your country has free speech in its constitution, it doesn't have regulation of journalists. Those things are in direct contradiction. Now, of course there are defamation laws, but other than that, the government in a country with free speech cannot regulate the speech of journalists. Things like journalistic integrity and such are matters of etiquette, not legality. There are no laws that, say, forbid a journalist from revealing his sources; it's just that if he does, no one will trust them again.
by flax | 2025-09-08 22:44:59+00:00
I looked at several yesterday. I landed on Action Launcher because it has a scrollable dock and infinite scrolling homepages. It lacks tabs in the app drawer, but it does let you create folders there.

Hyperion seemed to have all necessary features, but the UI was unintuitive and the documentation non-existent.

I also liked Lynx, but that would be a major change for me.
by 5555624 | 2025-09-08 22:45:19+00:00
>I don't understand why people leave email notifications enabled. There is almost no email I get that needs instant action.

People are different and have different use cases and needs.

i don't have them enabled; but, the email address I use for my Android phone and tables is used only for those devices.I've neer used my primary email address on a mobile device. Email can wait until I'm at a computer.
by Sabinus | 2025-09-08 22:45:29+00:00
Reducing economic dependence on China is a bipartisan issue. Biden passed plenty of large bills that aimed to bring manufacturing to America with the continuation of the Trump 1 tariffs and additional subsidies.

That's too subtle and long term for Trump. The subsidies have been torn up and the tariffs tripled. Now it'll be far more expensive to build the manufacturing capacity in America.
by _giorgio_ | 2025-09-08 22:45:50+00:00
Is the router only available on AliExpress?

No EU vendor?

Apparently the firmware is shipped without the GUI (LUCI). And only 900 units have been sold in 10 months. Something fishy is going on.

https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/comments/1h0pkbw/openwrt_on...
by ggm | 2025-09-08 22:46:00+00:00
Transgenic is the missing word in the title, the pig was no ordinary pig.

> Andrews received a kidney from a pig with three types of genetic modification. One involved the elimination of three antigens to prevent organ rejection; another the addition of seven human genes that reduce inflammation and the risk of bleeding complications. Retroviruses that are found in the pig genome were also deactivated.

Still an amazing milestone. one of 3, the previous record was just over 4 months, organ then removed because of immune system rejection. There's a third person, at around 3 months. They have approval to test around 30 people.
by sneak | 2025-09-08 22:46:08+00:00
Can happen to anyone… who doesn’t use password manager autofill and unphishable 2FA like passkeys.

Most people who get phished aren’t using password managers, or they would notice that the autofill doesn’t work because the domain is wrong.

Additionally, TOTP 2FA (numeric codes) are phishable; stop using them when U2F/WebAuthn/passkeys are available.

I have never been phished because I follow best practices. Most people don’t.
by taeric | 2025-09-08 22:46:19+00:00
Agreed. I'm... not entirely clear I get the distinction the article is trying to make?

If you take the idea that it is "artificially complex, because they actively added complexity", then I can see how that isn't quite right. But "artificially complex" can also allow for "because they actively avoided the effort to remove complexity." In which case, we are back to the same spot? But in agreement this time?
by Centrino | 2025-09-08 22:46:21+00:00
I would recommend to start with Wireguard, test it out with a VPS and one client computer before installing it for other family members on other computers.

Another tip, for enhanced comfort and ease of installation: most modern routers, even cheap travel routers, can function as a Wireguard client. So you could install an additional router, downstream of your main router, and create a wifi access point for your family, which tunnels all traffic to the VPS. The advantage is that you do not have to install wireguard on every client machine. You just install wireguard on the VPS, and you enter the wireguard keys and other config information in the wireguard config screen of the router.

At the same time you can leave your existing router running with wifi, so that your family can switch between censored and non-censored internet by simply switching from one to the other wifi access point. Why have both options? First, because non-tunneled internet will still be faster than tunneled internet (I guess), second, because some websites or government-run services in your country may only be available from within the country.
by Someone1234 | 2025-09-08 22:46:24+00:00
> Any account passwords that may have been accessed were securely hashed, in accordance with best practices, meaning they cannot be read by a third party.

I am glad they were hashed, but that's a misleading statement. The point of hashing is to slow an attacker down, even with full best security practices (e.g. salt + pepper + argon2 w/high factors) they can still be reverse engineered. It is a matter of when, not if.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-08 22:46:24+00:00
I quit Plex years ago because I didn't like them shoving their FAST [1] offering down my throat. I suffered with Jellyfin for two years and never got it to work right -- movie night with the family was always a humiliation. If you go back to my posting in that time frame you will see a lot of bitching about XBOX which was really bitching about Jellyfin on XBOX for which they tried all kinds of things to make it work and said it was better every time and it wasn't.

I spent a lot of the summer of 2024 watching Tubi in the room of the other house with a stray cat that I failed to domesticate and figured FAST wasn't so bad after all. Last winter I switched back to Plex and I am so delighted with it. It's a consumer electronics experience to watch content off my server or FAST or live OTA TV or recorded OTA TV with a game console. With Plexamp I can listen to music off my server wherever I go on my phone and either listen to albums and tracks I choose or use the 'Deep Cuts' recommender which is just great because it challenges me to listen to stuff I don't always listen to.

That said, there's nothing more I dread than having to change my password on mobile and game console like devices -- one thing I really relish is being able to watch TV and movies on my game console and not have to log in every time (like it is watching DVDs) which was one of the many ways Jellyfin failed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_ad-supported_streaming_te...
by alchemical_piss | 2025-09-08 22:46:51+00:00
The capitalists are no longer capitalists.

Somehow we went from capitalism is the best system because it most efficiently distributes scarce resources to “give us all the money and power in the world because our large language model is going to usher in Star Trek!!!”

The grifters have one. Though you could equally assign the blame to the idiots who fall for it.
by stevenwoo | 2025-09-08 22:46:54+00:00
So I am not an expert and recalling what I have read in several books and articles, but the conditions of fusion necessary to create photons only exists in the core of the sun. It was a mystery to us and we did not know until scientists were able to use quantum mechanics was able to explain the mechanism, it requires enough temperature and gravitational pressure to force subatomic particles close enough to overcome the forces that ordinarily keep them apart, and this only happens to a small percentage of meeting nuclei with quantum tunneling explaining how they overcome the forces that want to keep the nuclei apart - there's just so many particles squeezed close together that a small percentage that meet (possibly easier to visualize as the quantum wave function describing the position) fuse. This is also why we cannot use this method of fusion on earth - it's impossible to do on earth barring some sci fi artificial gravity invention. If this were not true and fusion could take place anywhere on the sun, the sun could rapidly use up all of the fuel of hydrogen. I am simply repeating what I have read - each photon has to make its way to the surface of the sun after many collisions, since the direction is random and not always outwards, it is theorized they just ping pong back and forth for x years where x can be hundreds of thousands of years. Here's the clearest explanation I found though they only use one slide on the photon's drunken walk https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11084
by sgsjchs | 2025-09-08 22:47:10+00:00
Indeed, the "valid but unspecified state" refers only to some types defined in the he standard library. It essentially means that you can only call methods which have no preconditions and don't depend on what that state is, e.g. assignment or destruction, or something like string::clear or vstring::assign if you want defined outcomes. In general each type is free to guarantee whatever the author wants about the moved from state, e.g. moved-from std::unique_ptr is always null.
by tim333 | 2025-09-08 22:47:54+00:00
Helion is a odd one. They have picture of the site here https://www.helionenergy.com/articles/helion-secures-land-an...

saying "Milestone keeps Helion on track to deliver electricity from fusion to Microsoft by 2028"

but as you say they don't seem to have produced any energy and after watching Sabine's take I'm very skeptical (https://youtu.be/YxuPkDOuiM4)

I think it may be a bit of a scam where they keep the investment and their jobs going as long as possible but don't produce power.
by palata | 2025-09-08 22:48:03+00:00
> The messages are mine, not theirs, and yet they refuse to allow me to handle them how I deem fit.

"They refuse to allow me" meaning "they don't add the features I want for free to the app they provide for free, so I complain".

The messages are yours, of course. But don't forget that you use their work for free. If you're not happy, go use the free work of someone else, I guess?
by akavel | 2025-09-08 22:48:27+00:00
In the same boat here - I played it for a while, but was (and am) sincerely super confused what people find so amazing in it. I mean, it's an ok game, and I get that some people may like it, why not; but the repeated claims of it being the best of all time, to me totally baffling. Already the respawning of the critters, and the grind to get some coins to get such a basic game feature as a map, two early aspects that I definitely don't like, and personally find somewhat disrespectful to my time.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-08 22:48:33+00:00
> the additional market coverage they would've gotten by not being abusive could've easily made up for the profit that they otherwise would've lost

I don't think anything would have been easy.

But I do think that if you want to be more than a one trick pony, as Meta desperately does, the best bet is leaning into creating value. Getting better and better at that. From whatever unique position you start with.

There is more potential value to create than extract.

Watching Zuck's VR and AI initiatives. It is clear he hasn't a clue, has no unique insights, into what would be useful or non-trivially engaging.

His big vision is to create bigger milking machines. Even before creating something worthy of being milked. Even for a predator, that puts the cart before the hyena.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-08 22:48:37+00:00
As both an EU citizen and a computer programmer, I applaud this article, and I generally agree with its sentiment. But let's be realistic. Chat control is going to happen sooner or later. This is a Hacker News forum. The audience here is very knowledgeable about computer science and fully aware of how technologically impractical the idea of fighting CSAM in this way is. But the general public is somewhere else entirely. They genuinely believe that this will help, to whatever they think it will help. They have no idea that real CSAM distributors will simply adapt by encrypting files into ZIP (or whatever) with strong passwords or using different channels. I've tried explaining this to some of my non-IT friends and family members. I think they now think I'm a pedophile. It's kind of stupid for a father of two teenage daughters, but that's the general public. They want it; they'll get it.
by coffeefirst | 2025-09-08 22:48:46+00:00
The pattern that finally seems to work for me is to use Freedom to block all scrolly crap specifically on mobile. If I want to dig through YouTube or look something up on Reddit that’s fine, but I have to physically go to a machine that’s not always in my pocket.

At least so far I don’t need any of the things I’ve blocked on the go.
by zackmorris | 2025-09-08 22:48:47+00:00
Don't get me started. Many new computers come with an NPU of some kind, which is superfluous to a GPU.

But what's really going on is that we never got the highly multicore and distributed computers that could have started going mainstream in the 1980s, and certainly by the late 1990s when high-speed internet hit. So single-threaded performance is about the same now as 20 years ago. Meanwhile video cards have gotten exponentially more powerful and affordable, but without the virtual memory and virtualization capabilities of CPUs, so we're seeing ridiculous artificial limitations like not being able to run certain LLMs because the hardware "isn't powerful enough", rather than just having a slower experience or borrowing the PC in the next room for more computing power.

To go to the incredible lengths that Apple went to in designing the M1, not just wrt hardware but in adding yet another layer of software emulation since the 68000 days, without actually bringing multicore with local memories to the level that today's VLSI design rules could allow, is laughable for me. If it wasn't so tragic.

It's hard for me to live and work in a tech status quo so far removed from what I had envisioned growing up. We're practically at AGI, but also mired in ensh@ttification. Reflected in politics too. We'll have the first trillionaire before we solve world hunger, and I'm bracing for Skynet/Ultron before we have C3P0/JARVIS.
by mnls | 2025-09-08 22:48:58+00:00
Don't worry people. If you are not a European let me tell you how it goes.

The 'Unofficial' boss of European Union is Germany. If Germany will vote against it, more countries will back off and it won't pass. If Germany wants ChatControl, it's over. It will pass and all other undecided countries will support it.

Thankfully, Germany (so far) is against it.
by fragmede | 2025-09-08 22:49:14+00:00
Restaurants have machines for washing dishes. They do pay people to do the dish washing, but commercial dishwashing machines exist, and they work differently than home machines. They're large stainless steel monsters, some with a conveyor belt, others operate vertically. They usually use high temp water rather than soap to do the cleaning.

eg https://youtu.be/Nk_0j936_DY
by 3np | 2025-09-08 22:49:19+00:00
I think one source of confusion is that many probably see "Chat Control", expecting it to be a reference to one specific proposal or legislation (a la "GDPR" or "DMA"), while it's an umbrella term you use to group different proposals pushing the same agenda and end-results. Readers look for one face to point at but it's a hydra and they just leave confused.

Clearly defining the term and its intended meaning would do well, I think.
by defrost | 2025-09-08 22:49:43+00:00
Not if:

* they already have peer filename.nfo files with TVDB | IMDB | TMDB ID's

* not if they have scene standard names AND are not ambiguous media names (eg: Utopia - which of the 5 possible series do you mean?)

But these are issues all media libraries face.

Group series episodes in per series (or even per season) folders and include a tvshow.nfo file with any IDs.

eg:

<episodeguide>{"tmdb":"328","imdb":"tt0983200","tvdb":"82616","tvrage":"7565","wikidata":"Q6805564"}</episodeguide> <id>82616</id> <imdbid>tt0983200</imdbid> <tmdbid>328</tmdbid> <uniqueid default="false" type="tmdb">328</uniqueid> <uniqueid default="false" type="imdb">tt0983200</uniqueid> <uniqueid default="true" type="tvdb">82616</uniqueid> <uniqueid default="false" type="tvrage">7565</uniqueid> <uniqueid default="false" type="wikidata">Q6805564</uniqueid> <premiered>1989-05-08</premiered>

is over kill for Media Watch https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/328-media-watch

which just leaves the issue of TheMovieDB being weak on metadata for that series .. but can be completed from theTVDB https://www.thetvdb.com/series/media-watch
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-08 22:50:00+00:00
> at least humans will signal / try do something in a safe manner to continue going on

Your experience must be very different. I've been on the road long enough to know that humans will try all sorts of things to not avoid missing the turn & Tesla behaved very similarly.

FWIW, it was signalling all the right ways and no collision seemed imminent and I doubt it would have gotten into an accident. I just didn't want it acting like an asshole on the road and didn't trust it enough to let the situation play out by itself.
by SigmundA | 2025-09-08 22:50:14+00:00
Hmm batteries don't have range, vehicles have range. Battery have energy storage capacity and I don't see it listed anywhere very annoying.

I bet a could get 470 miles out of 75kwh battery under the right conditions with the right vehicle. A Chevy Silverado EV got 1000 miles out of a 200kwh and its a brick.

Saying a battery has range is a nonsensical statement. Tell me how much energy it stores and how much it weighs thats whats important.
by autoexec | 2025-09-08 22:50:21+00:00
That article is out of date. It says things like "Signal still knows nothing about you", but Signal collects every user's name, phone number, photo, and a list of their contacts and permanently stores that data in the cloud.

That data is only protected by a pin (which can be brute forced) and SGX which has a history of being leaky. Researchers even demonstrated that data could be collected from Signal at one point. There are very likely side channel attacks that would allow Signal, or the government to collect the data stored in the cloud.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250117232443/https://www.vice....

https://web.archive.org/web/20230519115856/https://community...
by zokier | 2025-09-08 22:51:55+00:00
In many ways traditional Linux distros operate on similar model as I imagine googles monorepo. Both aim to this "globally consistent" dependency situation where you have one version of each library and you patch up things from upstream when they don't fit.

I feel we need more of these kinds of distros so you don't need to manage dependencies directly from upstream and deal with the integration effort yourself. What if we had a Rust disto following this same model, where there is only one version of each dep, some reasonable curation, and also you had nice clear release cycles? I feel that could real boon for the industry.
by cataflam | 2025-09-08 22:52:05+00:00
Hey, you're doing an exemplary response, transparent and fast, in what must be a very stressful situation!

I figure you aren't about to get fooled by phishing anytime soon, but based on some of your remarks and remarks of others, a PSA:

TRUSTING YOUR OWN SENSES to "check" that a domain is right, or an email is right, or the wording has some urgency or whatever is BOUND TO FAIL often enough.

I don't understand how most of the anti-phishing advice focuses on that, it's useless to borderline counter-productive.

What really helps against phishing :

1. NEVER EVER login from an email link. EVER. There are enough legit and phishing emails asking you to do this that it's basically impossible to tell one from the other. The only way to win is to not try.

2. U2F/Webauthn key as second factor is phishing-proof. TOTP is not.

That is all there is. Any other method, any other "indicator" helps but is error-prone, which means someone somewhere will get phished eventually. Particularly if stressed, tired, or in a hurry. It just happened to be you this time.

Good luck and well done again on the response!
by vannevar | 2025-09-08 22:52:17+00:00
You're describing regulatory capture, which is true in unregulated capitalism. When I say "unregulated capitalism", I'm not talking about business regulation---I'm talking about regulating capital itself. In a healthy, regulated capitalist system, the political influence of individual companies is diluted and there is greater competition. Business regulation is always needed to ensure things like public safety, contract enforcement, and fair competition. But when disproportionately large players politically capture the regulatory machinery, they tilt the regulatory playing field towards themselves. This is a symptom, it is not the disease.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-09-08 22:52:48+00:00
> Silksong as a game should not exist. It is so brutally difficult that it stretches the very definition of the word "game". Games are supposed to be fun [...]

I haven't actually played HK yet, and I don't normally play Souls-likes, but I did finally start playing Elden Ring about two months ago.

Yes, I've had times where I'm cursing out loud because I've been trying to beat a boss for three hours without success, sometimes dying with the boss only needing one more hit to die, and I'm frustrated with myself because knowing he only needed to get hit one more time started making me greedy with my attacks, and so I take big hits to the face and don't back off to heal.

But what makes them fun is the dopamine rush when I finally succeed. A couple times, it felt damn near orgasmic. I've been playing video games for probably around 35 years and nothing felt as good as when I finally downed Morgott.
by unethical_ban | 2025-09-08 22:53:19+00:00
Soemtimes I have needed to rename files, but to me it is both sensible (how else to recognize a show, maybe a metadata file) and totally worth it.

I don't want to need to have a centralized account to access my media library on my device.

I don't want to have to pay monthly to enable hardware transcoding.
by stuzenz | 2025-09-08 22:53:41+00:00
My theory (from anecdotal use) is that the OOXML complexity also explains why M365 office implementation is lacking in so many features and is just not very good at all when compared to the Google office suite.

I do have strong memories of OOXML and the scandals that were with it when it became a standard through MS allegedly buying/stacking/influencing votes:

https://chatgpt.com/share/68bf5e11-4e10-8003-ac9d-d4d10f7951...
by kragen | 2025-09-08 22:54:09+00:00
Gravimetric energy capacity limits range, which is why ICE cars outcompeted electric cars for a century until the batteries got Goodenough.

Basically the problem is that, once most of the vehicle's weight is battery, adding 5× the battery capacity adds 5× the weight and thus 5× the rolling resistance, so it only increases the range slightly.

LFP has historically been inferior to other lithium-ion chemistries like NMC in gravimetric energy density, so the range of the resulting vehicle is a major consideration.