MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by randycupertino | 2025-09-17 15:50:25+00:00
- $6,800 to put up a former fashion executive at a luxury San Francisco hotel for four weeks.

- Antoine Phillips, who previously worked as a vice president for Gucci, according to his LinkedIn profile, stayed at the InterContinental San Francisco on the city’s dime for four weeks last year and two weeks in 2023, for a total of nearly $12,000, auditors found.

- On top of his hotel stays, the department paid Phillips nearly $12,000 for travel, lodging and other expenses, including $9,999 for “consultation and strategic planning meetings,” which the audit notes was $1 less than the $10,000 limit at the time. He and two other unidentified individuals were also provided town car service for two days that cost nearly $3,500, the audit said.

- $8,000 payment for a small nonprofit organization to host a weekend retreat, which included massage services

- $75,000 on what auditors deemed Sheryl Davis' personal endeavors, including a podcast she hosted.

- Davis received a $5,500 gift portrait of herself

- Davis had directed a nonprofit to “split” a payment of more than $10,000 to book a rental on Martha’s Vineyard into multiple invoices. City employees were not allowed to split payments to circumvent a then-$10,000 limit on such expenditures.
by ecshafer | 2025-09-17 15:51:43+00:00
The thumbs downs on Yuki's responses are baffling. It is a privacy filter, improving privacy. There is a strong para-social relationship with many younger internet users, so maybe people really do feel strongly about affecting their favorite youtube star's view count? Or it could be youtube creators who are worried. I can't think of any other reasons a user would be on the side of youtube here.
by jrajav | 2025-09-17 15:52:05+00:00
Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh?

Let's just leave aside the fact that the name genuinely made many people uncomfortable and unwelcome there (it did), it was also just teenage and immature. There's ways to inject personality and fun into a social experience without giggling about sex. Talk about lowest common denominator...
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-17 15:52:07+00:00
Building SOTA semiconductors is more art than science. All the best artists are in Taiwan.

You don't just buy (or copy) and ASML litho and turn it on. Just like you don't buy a horsehair brush and start painting Picassos. It's even more difficult than that because there are something like ~1000 sub processes and each one needs a world renowned artist in that specific art to get it done.

Its the reason why even Samsung can't match TSMC despite having the same tools and capital.
by rapind | 2025-09-17 15:52:32+00:00
> So this is only harmful to the creators, and not YouTube.

Pretty sure this is harmful to youtube as well as it lowers the value (less personalization data) for advertisers. Also the knock-on effect of impacting creators, meaning less investment in creating content.

That being said, I've always hated this business model. It's created so many other problems in our society. Resulting in a shift to authoritarian leadership in many countries.
by sharpshadow | 2025-09-17 15:53:03+00:00
Zelensky at the MSC 2022: “If … results do not guarantee security for our country, Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum is not working and all the package decisions of 1994 are in doubt”[0]. 4 days later Russia invaded Ukraine. At the time it was said that Ukraine pursuing nuclear weapons was the last straw, but who know really.

If Taiwan is going to place nuclear weapons on its territory the conflict would probably escalate quickly.

0. https://kyivindependent.com/zelenskys-full-speech-at-munich-...
by nis0s | 2025-09-17 15:53:26+00:00
Good article, biology, and thus evolutionary development of organisms, is ultimately constrained by the physics of the environment in which that organism develops. If life emerges, or has emerged, on a different planet under different constraints, we shouldn’t expect that it should look or think like anything we’ve observed here on Earth.

It might be the case that stable propagation molecules like RNA/DNA are the only ways life can thrive anywhere but they need some water-like medium to mingle and spread, and maybe it’s the case that other places in our vicinity are too radioactive and dry over a long term to sustain such a permissive development.

I guess it still befuddles me why there’s no other sign of intelligent life, like their space debris, or satellite probes.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-09-17 15:53:48+00:00
Two pieces of feedback here:

1. You implicitly take away someone else's hypothetical benefit of leveraging UUID v7, which is disappointing for any consumer of your API.

2. By storing the UUIDs differently on your API service from internally, you're going to make your life just a tiny bit harder because now you have to go through this indirection of conversion, and I'm not sure if this is worth it.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-17 15:54:03+00:00
This article is less about view counts dropping due to people abandoning the platform and more about view count spikes and troughs that are a consequence of the measure-countermeasure game of YouTube tweaking its code to account for ad blockers vs. ad blockers tweaking their code to account for YouTube ads.

Ad blockers (especially for complex sites and data streams) are basically like using a chainsaw to remove a mosquito(1); sometimes innocuous or beneficial features get omitted too because they're too "ad-shaped" for the heuristic.

(1) Anyone who thinks I'm under-selling the risks of unblocked ads has never seen the consequence of an unlucky bite from Aedes aegypti.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-09-17 15:54:05+00:00
> Say people deserve to die (or are expendable) long enough and loud enough and someone ends up convinced

This is the key part that people are the MOST upset about. From the right's perspective, they are getting called "nazis", "fascists" for things that are self-evident to them. But to the far-left, those beliefs are equivalent to Nazism. I don't think people on the right fully understand and internalize that their opponents believe that they are literal nazis. They think it's just a rhetorical device. So they think that the left is being grossly negligent by bandying these words around.

I think now, though, the right has finally realized that being called a "nazi" isn't cute or a rhetorical device, and the far-left really intends to kill people. Therefore, a little cancel culture is the very least you should expect from them.
by distances | 2025-09-17 15:54:11+00:00
Nope no data, that's why I prefixed with "I don't think". It's a sentiment from six months of reading product reviews and forum discussions. I took some good time building a new desktop.

People were recommending Noctua for long term durability, sure. But seems it's a minority who's willing to pay the premium for that.

Some data would of course be interesting.

Edit: Mindfactory is one of the few that publishes numbers. On a quick glance (didn't sum totals) looks like Arctic leads, followed by be quiet! and Noctua on the third spot. be quiet! is a German brand so that gets somewhat biased.

https://www.mindfactory.de/Hardware/Kuehlung+Luft/Gehaeuselu...
by freeplay | 2025-09-17 15:54:56+00:00
I don't think that email he posted from legal@google.com is legit.

Look at the first sentence of the first paragraph and the first sentence in the second paragraph. Two grammar errors which are a dead giveaway it's fraudulent.

> Thank you for your assistance and understanding during your recent support call, regarding a ficticious request aimed at accessing your Google account.

Comma doesn't belong there and "fictitious" is misspelled.

> To follow all guidelines of the internal review properly. Please keep a secure note with the temporary password which your support representative has provided to you.

Out of place period. Should be a comma.

Legit, canned emails like this (especially from legal@google.com) would be proofread much better than this. It's fake.
by toast0 | 2025-09-17 15:55:11+00:00
> Hamas, given the chance, would be performing real genocide.

Genocide requires intent and deeds. I think it's reasonable to consider the attacks of October 2023 to be genocide. The intent is clear from their founding statements, and the deeds likely qualify as well.

However, I also think it's reasonable to consider the ongoing war in Gaza to be genocide as well. The statements from officials waver but are often genocidal in nature, and the destruction and loss of life is too.

It's not a contest, both genocides are bad. But using one to justify the other doesn't make the second one better.
by jdiff | 2025-09-17 15:55:23+00:00
YouTube's where the money is. There are very few other places where you can make money like YouTube. Yes, that also means having to deal with their many, many issues, many of which directly threaten that money, but the solution is to work to solve those problems and highlight new ones. YouTube's too big to ignore, and too big to die no matter how many paper cuts and gaping wounds it gives itself.
by wtallis | 2025-09-17 15:55:39+00:00
Building an array of five 1TB QLC drives seems like a really odd decision, like somebody started with the constraint that they must use exactly five SSDs and then tried to optimize for cost.

The 4TB models obviously will hold up better under 170+ TB of writes than the 1TB drives will, and it wouldn't be surprising to see less write amplification on the larger drives.
by imtringued | 2025-09-17 15:56:06+00:00
The only way the average person can access a MI300 is through the AMD developer cloud trial which gives you a mere 25 hours to test your software. Meanwhile NVidia hands out entire GPUs for free to research labs.

If AMD really wanted to play in the same league as NVidia, they should have built their own cloud service and offered a full stack experience akin to Google with their TPUs, then they would be justified in ignoring the consumer market, but alas, most people run their software on their local hardware first.
by groby_b | 2025-09-17 15:56:06+00:00
Not always, but since OP mentioned it was "deleting and rewriting" files - that's how the CLI agents usually "move" files.

And sure, you can use an IDE, but that's harder to do if you live in vibe land. (We really need to understand that for some things, we have perfectly fine non-AI answers, but that's not the world as it is right now. Mechanical refactors, move + import fixes, autocomplete - all of those do not require an LLM. We're not great at drawing that line yet)
by pndy | 2025-09-17 15:56:14+00:00
I'm seeing abundance channels with generated content - doesn't matter if it's official page, "proxy" services or apps. It's always heartbreaking stories about poor senior women whose lives are hell because of their families or homeless girls who want to eat leftovers from the plates of the rich, or supposed death of celebrities.

Considering I have zero interest in this stuff it seems their algorithm pushes such trash by cross-referencing with the closest thing possible - even by a digital picometer distance.
by mikeocool | 2025-09-17 15:56:30+00:00
Oh hi -- Thanks for your work! Just finished replacing SwiftData in an app with GRDB and it was a pleasure to use.

After struggling with some issues in SwiftData, GRDB really hits the nail on the head in terms of providing a solid dev experience for the common cases, but allowing you to drop into the more advanced features when you need them.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-17 15:56:30+00:00
They impact individual channel revenue because so many channels have gone to sponsored ads, which automatic ad-blockers can't block (yet (1) ). The calibre of sponsor a channel can attract is impacted by the reported views from YouTube.

(1) Hey, imagine I had a plugin that monitored the behavior of several viewers of each video and could collate where most people skipped a big chunk of video, then, oh I don't know, offered a feature where if lots of people skip one chunk, it'll automatically skip it for you when you're playing the video....
by dkarl | 2025-09-17 15:56:34+00:00
I think the term "algebra" is nice and neutral, common ground from grade school through college mathematics and higher, and I think it's a good clue for someone who doesn't have much math background. "You know how you learned to do math operations on numbers, and then in algebra class you learned to do them on other things like variables and equations? You can do operations on types as well."

It's inevitable that someone starting from zero like this needs some time to get used to the ideas. Nobody learns this stuff instantly. Even if they can read an explanation in ten minutes and understand every word of it, it still takes time for the ideas to sink in and become natural. That's why an undergraduate math course might only cover a couple hundred pages in a semester. For someone not used to the process of absorbing ideas like these, the time it takes can be confusing and disappointing, but it's normal.

I think one point of confusion that could be avoided is that areas of math that are initially taught as separate topics often get freely mixed in introductory explanations of type theory. For example, someone who is exposed to a little bit of set theory in one class, and a little bit of logic in another, probably thinks of these things as separate from each other and both separate from algebra. But then an explanation like this confuses them by freely interchanging "union" and "sum" and the operator "|" which programmers learn as logical "or." Ideally, I think an introduction should stick to a single set of terminology from one area (I would pick set theory) at first, and after the student is comfortable with the concepts and operations, only then show how the other terminology maps to the ideas the student has learned.
by some_random | 2025-09-17 15:57:00+00:00
Either you didn't read the page you linked or are deliberately lying, the API issue is speculation we know now that it was predominantly spearphishing.

All from the same article:

>"Apple claimed in a press release that access was gained via spear phishing attacks."

> "Apple later reported that the victims' iCloud account information was obtained using "a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions", such as phishing and brute-force attack guessing."

>"Court documents from 2014 indicated that one user created a fake email account called "appleprivacysecurity" to ask celebrities for security information."

>"During the investigation, it was found that Collins phished by sending e-mails to the victims that looked like they had been sent by Apple or Google, warning the victims that their accounts might be compromised and asking for their account details. The victims would enter their passwords, and Collins gained access to their accounts, downloading e-mails and iCloud backups."

>"In August 2016, 28-year-old Edward Majerczyk of Chicago, agreed to plead guilty to a similar phishing scheme, although authorities believe he worked independently and he was not accused of selling the images or posting them online."

>"Garofano's attorney said he had been led into the phishing scheme by criminals."

>"Through a phishing expedition[further explanation needed], he hacked more than 200 people"

All of the other methods of compromise are speculation, what has been unambiguously proven in a court of law over and over again was phishing.
by delusional | 2025-09-17 15:57:09+00:00
The current "positive" number from spring 2025 is actually 52%, only 5 points down from the highest number in the past 20 years, and the second highest trust number in the same time period.

Sure, the eurozone debt crisis of the 2010s was rough for the trust mumbers, taking them down to 33% but they've fully recovered from that.
by sieep | 2025-09-17 15:57:10+00:00
Some big leaps being made in your argument, but I think the sentiment is where the heart of the issue with this tech lies. Privacy focused individuals will never buy a product like this, but it clearly is meant for the masses & not the typical HN user.

A privacy-first version of smart glasses running OSS would make me lean forward in my seat, at minimum.
by GeekyBear | 2025-09-17 15:57:17+00:00
It's a little embarrassing that people are still pushing that particular conspiracy theory a decade after it was debunked.

Not only was "Celebgate" the consequence of a standard phishing attack, but we know from court records that a larger number of Google accounts were breached than Apple accounts.

> A Pennsylvania court has sentenced a man to 18 months in jail for hacking into the accounts of celebrities and stealing nude photos and videos.

Collins tricked his victims - including actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Scarlett Johansson, and Kirsten Dunst - by sending emails appearing be from Google or Apple.

Collins accessed at least 50 iCloud accounts and 72 Gmail accounts.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37796986
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-17 15:57:20+00:00
Plus so many ads are malware, dangerous, or scams that even the FBI says you should use an ad blocker

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker/

YouTube is one of the worst offenders for scam ads. Even today you sometimes find an ad that talks about some scary health risk and points to some ad that drones on and on for 45 minutes and if you get to the end they try to sign you up for an $80 a month subscription for some worthless supplement.
by dotancohen | 2025-09-17 15:58:33+00:00
And Arabs owned about 8% of the land. Still more than the Jews, but nowhere near the 94% implied by omission.

In any case, go look at the malaria maps and desert areas. Notice how they match up with the areas allocated to Jews. The Jews may have gotten allocated slightly more land, but it was not fertile or desirable land.
by russdill | 2025-09-17 15:58:47+00:00
The human flea is not extinct and is actually one of the counter examples as it does infect other species such as pigs.

Humans cannot host infestations of dog fleas. You can be bitten by a dog flea, but you cannot complete it's life cycle. If you find yourself constantly dealing with fleas, you are in the presence of an active infestation from another animal.
by account42 | 2025-09-17 15:58:49+00:00
> Perhaps you don’t know that on a CRT the number of lines that can be displayed is variable. Any CRT can display 400 lines or 399 lines or 1000 lines or however many lines you need or want.

This isn't true. Besides there being only a finite number of distinct phosphors / grid holes, the electronics and logic driving the display can also only handle a limited range of frequencies.

As LCD pixel densities increase the situation becomes effectively the same.
by klipt | 2025-09-17 15:59:04+00:00
> October 7th was a valid reaction to people violently stealing your land and killing your families.

Well the Arab states collectively stole land 5 times the size of Israel from the Mizrahi Jews they ethnically cleansed (who now make up a majority of Israeli Jews)

So by your logic the Mizrahi Jews are entitled to enact October 7 style killings on the Arab states until they pay reparations for the land they stole.
by fwip | 2025-09-17 15:59:10+00:00
Your story reminds me a little bit of an issue with the late-Intel macbook pros. If your USB-C charger was plugged in on the left side, and you had an external display connected as well, you'd get crazy thermal throttling. I believe this was because the GPU was on the left side, and so the heat from the charging chip + the GPU resulted in the Macbook deciding to throttle the CPU and crank the fans to max. The solution was to charge on the right side.

https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/61253-power-your-macbook-pro...
by nis0s | 2025-09-17 15:59:17+00:00
Not saying that’s what happened in the Kirk case, but the reason video games are prevalent in such cases of violence is because they are a good recruitment tool for agents all along the political spectrum to nab fresh blood. In the past, cults used to do the same thing with music or religion, or social activities like festivals, but the playbook is the same. From what I can tell, predators are going to use whatever people do socially to target them as it’s the easiest way to build trust and demonstrate shared values.
by Venn1 | 2025-09-17 15:59:28+00:00
If you're unfamiliar with the creator dashboard there is a spot reserved for notifications from YouTube. This should have been front and center last week, not buried in a creator help thread. Why wasn’t it? That's open to speculation.

As someone with a small tech channel, I'm glad I was following this. If not, I would have spent the last week swapping out thumbnails and video titles, which seem about as effective as percussive maintenance. But hey, you have to try something.

Well over a decade ago a gentleman by the name of Brian Brushwood said, and I'm paraphrasing, “YouTube is like working for an AI manager that never tells you what it wants but punishes you severely if you get it wrong.”

Welcome to 2025.
by actionfromafar | 2025-09-17 15:59:35+00:00
Eventually the whole system will rebalance. TV ads were shown to people even though you couldn't if any single person was watching or not.

Where does line go? If a future "Adblocker 3000" don't let advertisers capture you eyemovements in realtime 30 times per second, would that be sad?

Seems the ball is with Youtube. They can compensete and pay out more. Or not.
by ortusdux | 2025-09-17 15:59:37+00:00
There was an aluminum extrusion company that falsified test records for years. They got away with it because what's a few % when your customer's safety factor is 2. Once they got into weight sensitive aerospace applications, where sometimes the factor is 1.2, rockets starting blowing up on the launch pad.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/aluminum-extrusion-m...
by adastra22 | 2025-09-17 15:59:42+00:00
You claim that AI is patterned matching instead of reasoning, but the psychological literature is clear that people reason by pattern matching. As evidenced by the fact that people tend to make the same sorts of mistakes when reasoning quickly.

Ask someone who has made such a mistake to think a little more on it, and they’ll notice their error. Ask a reasoning model to do literally the same thing, to “think” on it, and it will also notice its error.

If you’re still insist that AI are not reasoning here, then neither are people.
Ask HN: Is Claude Code less useful in recent weeks for you?
by vintagedave | 2025-09-17 15:59:47+00:00
In the past couple of weeks, I've found Claude Code much harder to work with. It seems to not understand well-known (eg for me, .Net) libraries as well as it should, and I have had to download the library source from github and instruct it to read the library to know how to use it; it does not follow instructions as well; it frequently assures me something is fixed but sometimes has forgotten a key portion; and it frequently ignores its memory: for example, it commits even with a stored memory instruction to never commit without me verifying it first. It's starting to be a real time drag and I am not getting the productivity I did even a short time ago. Is anyone else seeing this?
by BatteryMountain | 2025-09-17 15:59:50+00:00
Brother I'm looking right at it. I cannot set one monitor to 120% and another to 160% (both are custom values), like on KDE. If I use a custom setting it gets applied to both monitors, in fact it gets grayed out for some reason - the values don't even show properly. Only a reset button available that logs you out to reset it to 100%.

If I want to set them to different scaling factors, I have to use one of the values from the drop downs (100/125/150/175/200%), which is not what I want.
by c420 | 2025-09-17 15:59:51+00:00
You are correct: "Kape Technologies is a United Kingdom-based cybersecurity software company. Kape owns VPN services and cybersecurity tools, including CyberGhost, Private Internet Access (PIA), ZenMate, ExpressVPN, and Intego."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Sagi#Kape_Technologies