MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CrzyLngPwd | 2025-09-11 20:08:03+00:00
The freedom the US has to kill anyone anywhere without trial trickles down, and individual citizens believe it is their right to use violence in the same way.

It was inevitable, especially since Israel can reach out and kill whoever it wishes, without consequences.

Seeing the people on social media celebrating Kirk's murder is so saddening and maddening. I am shocked that social media has allowed such widespread celebration of the murder of a US citizen.
by 3abiton | 2025-09-11 20:08:09+00:00
> It would also be good to know what a debug build entails, how exactly it is "less secure".

Using software engineering terms, think of the official GOS as production release, and the debug version as test release. You deploy it by actiually building it, like building a linux kernel. This takes lots of reaources (RAM + storage). But also is quite flexible because you can compile and build it whenver there is a new update. And you can sign the build yourself. The reason why they say it's insecure is the same why your server sysadmin does not give you the root password. You can do some serious damage if you have no idea what you're doing. On Android, root allow you to peek on other processes and apps, so if you grant root to a malicious app, high risk of data leakage. That's it though. Been rooting and building roms since early android days, no issues for me as I tend to use open source tools most of the time.
by mikae1 | 2025-09-11 20:08:48+00:00
> I run Debian stable, and it's not immutable, but it is very unchanging. I don't worry much about system libraries and tooling.

I basically did the same with Tumbleweed for a couple of years. Can't stand the point release distros. Lagging behind a year or two when it comes to the DE is not something I fancy. Never liked Tumbleweed much though. Felt very unpolished when using Plasma.

> The blind spot then is CLI apps and tooling.

I can really recommend homebrew. Works well. apt is for the system, homebrew is for user facing CLI apps. :)
by kjs3 | 2025-09-11 20:09:23+00:00
It's...cute? But the idea that the site I go to engage with a therapist slows my laptop (Dell Inspiron 5770) to a nearly unusable crawl and spins up the fan to max seems to be one of the most egregious impedance mismatch between "what I need" and "what I get" I've seen in a long time. I guess you only get treatment if you have a recent cpu or a gpu.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-11 20:09:25+00:00
No I said it wasn’t technically possible on any cheap headphones because while the processing was done on the phone, the audio capture was done by the outside microphones on Apple headphones that have ANC and even the older ones of those required Apple to update the firmware on its own AirPods working in concert.

This is no different than Google not supporting just any old headphones.

Then the argument came that Apple’s AirPods are “overpriced” even though the cheapest AirPods that support it - AirPods 4 with ANC are in the same price range as Google’s and cheaper than the worse sounding and more expensive Sony Earbuds.
by lukev | 2025-09-11 20:09:25+00:00
If we are going to create a binary of "understand LLMs" vs "do not understand LLMs", then one way to do it is as you describe; fully comprehending the latent space of the model so you know "why" it's giving a specific output.

This is likely (certainly?) impossible. So not a useful definition.

Meanwhile, I have observed a very clear binary among people I know who use LLMs; those who treat it like a magic AI oracle, vs those who understand the autoregressive model, the need for context engineering, the fact that outputs are somewhat random (hallucinations exist), setting the temperature correctly...
by hellotheretoday | 2025-09-11 20:09:44+00:00
you can find inflammatory rhetoric from any human being ever, that is obviously true, but it’s also disingenuous to act like trump is not the most inflammatory and devisive leader America has had in modern history. Look at how he responded to the murders of the Hortmans in Minnesota relative to how Biden responded to his assassination attempt or how most (if not all) democratic lawmakers are responding to this

And while political violence is abhorrent Kirk was no angel. In the aftermath of this his views on gun violence have been echoed widely but he is a man that called for political opponents (namely Joe Biden) to face the death penalty [0]. That page outlines much more. So are his calls for political violence including the death of his opponents, inflammatory language like slurs[0], encouraging violence against immigrants and transgender athletes[0] “reserved”? I would hate to see what you consider out of line then

[0] https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-has-h...
by ge96 | 2025-09-11 20:09:50+00:00
The newest thin fold looks amazing but I can't justify a $2K phone idk maybe I'm just poor. Like I used to want a Lamborghini Aventador but now I just want a Lotus Exige. $300K seems too much too me but again is it a poor/mindset thing. I think a land would be better use of that money.

Mindset as in levels... I used to be afraid of my $30K student debt while I was in school thinking getting an engineering job that pays $60K would be great but now I make more than that and my debt is also beyond $30K so yeah levels.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-09-11 20:10:30+00:00
Okay well, I think you know a lot about this stuff, and it’s worth thinking very deeply about these questions:

- why does Apple prefer the status quo? How do they “make more money”? Why do they use UNH? They make software, if it’s so simple as you say, administer plans, why don’t they do it themselves? Btw, Apple Health as in Health IT does exist! So does Google’s Health (IT)?

- how can health IT be the second worst performing VC sector (only Ed tech is worse), but UNH is worth whatever it is, hundreds of billions? What is UNH’s actual product? It’s not “being a middleman” - that’s health IT…

- why do doctors think Kaiser sucks? Like how does Kaiser make money?

- do we have “death panels” in this country? What do they look like?

These are all related.

In general, I don’t think health IT has the answers to rising costs. That’s the POV I’m hearing. It’s likely that greater adoption of health IT has accelerated, not slowed, the growth of costs in a way that has not improved outcomes per dollar. That’s an orthodox opinion.

In my experience, the intellectual leap for a lot of engineers working in enterprise sales heavy sectors is two realizations: (1) that just because something happens, doesn’t mean it makes sense (2) and just because you give people what they ask for, such as in the context of health IT fulfilling dull consulting services asks, doesn’t mean that what people are asking for makes sense or is a net positive, maybe by any metric.

And anyway, most experts agree that the middlemen in the healthcare sector, like pharmacy benefit managers and insurers, are responsible for a significant part of the cost difference per outcome here compared to Europe. To me, it is unsurprising that middlemen in general cause costs to rise for very little actual gains, even if in their POV, they are fulfilling some requirement by regulations or whatever. You know, they’re stuck in the “I did what someone asked and paid for, and therefore it makes sense” mindset.
by unshavedyak | 2025-09-11 20:10:41+00:00
> Helix devs have their own vision and reject a lot of attempts/PRs to make it better.

I feel your pain, but i support their focus here. Not only does it help prevent feature soup but at the end of the day they're the ones that have to support all these things.

As always, anyone is free to fork it. That sounds short but imo true nonetheless. Especially if the feature is small enough that the fork is just maintaining a patch on the head.

Regardless, plugins are being worked on so in time hopefully it's less of an issue.

> It insane how fast Zed is moving in terms of development,

I imagine funding and bodies helps a lot on this front.
by gamblor956 | 2025-09-11 20:11:51+00:00
Charlie deliberately targeted blacks, Latinos, and the transgender. He wasn't just going with the tide on that animus, he created the tide. He was one of the initial proponents of the "Great Replacement theory" and the call to action to "fight" it. He called for genocide against Muslims in 2023 and earlier this year. He blamed the Jewish community for "pushing hatred" against Christians. He was close friends with a number of white nationalists with ties to domestic terrorism groups.He called the man who tried to kill Mr. Pelosi a hero and argued that he should have been set free instead of receiving prison time. After a Democratic legislator was murdered a few months ago, he tried to blame the "left" for assassination culture, ignoring the entirety of American history in which nearly all political assassins have been right-wing extremists. Literally seconds before he died, he tried to shift the blame for all of the recent mass shootings (most of them carried about by extreme right incels) to the transgender community.

Charlie was most famous for saying that the deaths at Sandy Hook were the price we pay to keep our Second Amendments rights. I wonder if he would have felt the same way knowing that he would be part of that price?

On a further note, unlike most of the people on HN, I've met and spoken with Charlie in real life (I met him through an ex and her admiration of him is why she's an ex.). He was even more extreme in real life, but he was media-savvy enough not to let that other stuff be filmed. What you see on camera was the filtered version of who Charlie was. I was, at one point in my life, a member of the Federalist Society. Charlie and his ilk are the reason I'm an independent now.
by nradov | 2025-09-11 20:12:14+00:00
Of course. Those employers are (mostly) not running charities so they'll always attempt to shift as many healthcare costs to employees as they can without triggering tax penalties, or hurting recruiting and retention. This is one reason why society would be better off with eliminating special tax advantages for employer-sponsored health plans. Having employers act as payers and intermediaries reduces consumer choice and hides the true cost of health coverage.
by lazyeye | 2025-09-11 20:12:23+00:00
We also dont know how much money China is investing in govt spyware either.

I dont really trust the intent of any information I read online. This article could well be part of a influence campaign by a foreign power.

"Because if you talk about something the most, this means you have it the most.." is how most people perceive things. Of course, the opposite is often true.
by barnabee | 2025-09-11 20:12:26+00:00
What important features are missing?

While I’m looking forward to the plugin system for a few nice to have tweaks, and amrunning the dev branch alongside the main build to check it out, there’s nothing really essential missing to me.

I appreciate that the maintainers aren’t trying to compete with vim or emacs for features or be all things to all people, aren’t that they don’t prioritise growing the number of users over keeping true to their vision for the editor.

Helix is all the better for its slow, considered development as far as I’m concerned.
by tryauuum | 2025-09-11 20:12:46+00:00
Because the tools created for censorship for the good cause are too dangerous to exist

Governments quickly realize that they cannot effectively block websites in foreign jurisdictions. The only way to achieve this is to tell local ISPs which subnets to block, and fine them if they disobey. When this automation is in place, the government can block any website in a matter of hours, no matter where it is located
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-09-11 20:12:58+00:00
It has always been a cat and mouse game. To an extent, some expect the net to not be 100% proof ( though I will admit that the holes you pointed out are a little odd -- buddy is an IT admin at a school so while there is obviously a lot of variation, I would think most are pretty locked down ). Anyway, first rule of bypass is not to mention it:D
by imiric | 2025-09-11 20:13:19+00:00
Why should every software need to support encrypted connections? That is a rabbit hole of complexity which can easily be implemented incorrectly, and is a security risk of its own.

Instead, it would make more sense for TLS to be handled centrally by a known and trusted implementation, which proxies the communication with each backend. This is a common architecture we've used for decades. It's flexible, more secure, keeps complexity compartmentalized, and is much easier to manage.
by rickdeckard | 2025-09-11 20:13:59+00:00
Also, Apple cannot name this as reason explicitly, because users may look up the details of that ruling and may find themselves agreeing with the sentiment...

"[..] The measures will grant device manufacturers and app developers improved access to iPhone features that interact with such devices (e.g. displaying notifications on smartwatches), faster data transfers (e.g. peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connections, and near-field communication) and easier device set-up (e.g. pairing). As a result, connected devices of all brands will work better on iPhones. Device manufacturers will have new opportunities to bring innovative products to the market, improving the user experience for consumers based in Europe. The measures ensure that this innovation takes place in full respect of users' privacy and security as well as the integrity of Apple's operating systems."
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-09-11 20:14:08+00:00
And an unsafe block in Rust having UB is exactly as bad as having UB in C or C++: the whole program's behavior can be altered in unexpected ways. So at its worst it's equivalent to C, but if there's no UB encountered in the unsafe block(s) then the whole program is safe, where for C you can hit UB anywhere in the program not just in annotated sections.
by euroderf | 2025-09-11 20:14:12+00:00
> Before there was any bomb there was the Chicago Pile-1 in the middle of Chicago in a space under the stands at Stagg Field originally built as a rackets court

Groves's book ("Now It Can Be Told") mentions the people that worked with the graphite bricks, that it got into their skin, and even after an after-work shower, they'd still ooze graphite for hours.

Firstly I wonder what their cover story for their spouses was.

Secondly it's clear that they should've had an on-site sauna. Get some deep cleaning going. That would've flushed the graphite gunk out of their hides.
by bpye | 2025-09-11 20:14:25+00:00
> What if I want to install/configure something that hasn't been Nix-ified?

You can setup an FHS environment, this is often the strategy used when packaging closed-source binary packages. An example in nixpkgs is steam-run [0], I also used a similar approach to package Xilinx ISE [1] in a flake.

[0] - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/by...

[1] - https://github.com/benpye/nix-fpga-tools
by HankStallone | 2025-09-11 20:14:37+00:00
Yes, it's a poor analogy. Taylor swift is a megastar at the top of her industry. Everyone has heard her music and seen her in ads, even if you didn't ask to. Charlie Kirk was one of many conservative speakers, and plenty of Trump voters never heard him speak. That's not a criticism of the man, just the reality of how reputations get blown out of proportion for the media's purposes.

A better analogy would be David Hogg: a young man who could appeal to the younger generation in his own party, and who could engage in fiery rhetoric at times but also tried to engage with the other side.
by schwartzworld | 2025-09-11 20:14:55+00:00
OP mentioned a standard of being able to do 80% of human activities. You might need human legs to climb stairs, but then again, if you work in a building with elevators, that might be a pretty simple tradeoff to make.

> Or operate existing power tools? Or get teleoperated by a human with mocap gloves?

Requires grippers that can hold in a similar way to human hands.

> Or get into a generic car to get transported to a new workplace?

My dog can do this and traverse a flight of stairs, and she is decidedly not humanoid.
by munk-a | 2025-09-11 20:15:50+00:00
These approaches may be nice to demonstrate the concept in brief but I'm a bit sad the article didn't take the opportunity to go into a design that only stores the triangular data since it's pretty trivial to overload operators in C++. If this is meant to be a demonstration of the performance advantage of mdspan over nested vector creation (which certainly is the case for large multidimensional arrays) it'd be good to dial that up.
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by like_any_other | 2025-09-11 20:16:03+00:00
It's probably just because this assassination was more high-profile. I don't recall any warnings issued for these events either:

A 26 year old man from Irondale, Alabama was later arrested and charged in connection with the bombing. Prosecutors stated that prior to the bombing, the suspect had been spotted placing stickers on government buildings, displaying "antifa, anti-police and anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement sentiments" and had expressed "belief that violence should be directed against the government" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Marshall#Bombing

Man, 80, run over for putting Trump sign in yard, say police - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1rw4xdjql4o

Alabama Antifa Sympathizer Pleads Guilty to Detonating Bomb outside State AG’s Office - https://www.nationalreview.com/news/alabama-antifa-sympathiz...

a man armed with a pistol and a crossbow showed up at Fuentes' home - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Fuentes#Alleged_murder_at...

Attempted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Assassin Identifies As Transgender; Hoped To Kill “Nazis” - https://wsau.com/2025/01/30/doj-filing-attempted-treasury-se...

10 arrested after ambush on Texas ICE detention facility [..] When an Alvarado police officer arrived on the scene, one of the individuals shot him in the neck. Another individual shot 20 to 30 rounds at the facility correction officers, according to Larson. - https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-arrested-after-ambush-texas-ice...

I could also not find any sign of a warning in the Luigi Mangione case, although I'd argue that one has no clear left-right political placement.
by sema4hacker | 2025-09-11 20:16:31+00:00
Although I'll give her the benefit of the doubt that she can accurately remember her past, the scholarly article Popular Mechanics is referring to seems too concerned with the "time travel" aspects of how she organizes her memory, as opposed to confirming she indeed remembers things accurately. They state "the accuracy of such detailed autobiographical memories is difficult to verify" and apparently did not attempt any verification at all. There weren't any old family photos or videos available (and which she had not already seen) by which to confirm and assess her memory is indeed accurate?
Show HN: Chess Invite, start a game of chess, share the link
by jrnkntl | 2025-09-11 20:17:52+00:00
The idea for this came from a comment on HN I read 6 months ago, where someone said: "I wish I could send a one-time link to my father where we could play chess against each other by re-visiting the same link" [1].

Of course lichess.org was mentioned, but it got me excited to build something simple with not too much scope creep. So that's what I tried to build: simple, without signup and supporting slow (make a move every week) or fast (sse based) games.

Built with PocketBase[2] (customized to f.e. support web push), chess.js[3] and Claude it rekindled my interest in chess and I started playing it offline again and shared some game invites with friends.

Hope some of you like it -> https://chessinvite.com

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43267296

[2] https://pocketbase.io

[3] https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js
by dijit | 2025-09-11 20:18:38+00:00
I just don’t see the distinction as clearly when it’s a single binary that cannot be decoupled or introspected.

Why is it if I build a static binary with GPL code and distribute it I must open source my changes; but if you do the same as a whole OS it’s not necessary.

Feels like it should all be fine or none of it is fine somehow.
by Animats | 2025-09-11 20:18:42+00:00
> Tesla went into humanoid robots because they noticed what kind of thing their AI architecture was developing into.

Tesla went into humanoid robots to pump the stock. Musk recently claimed that 80% of Tesla's value is in Optimus.[1]

(What is it with US auto company management? Tesla did well for a while, then Musk got distracted. No new models in years, and the Cybertruck turned out to be a dud. Stellantis has cut Chrysler down to one line of mini-vans, raised prices on everything, and messed up Jeep, which killed sales. The dealers demanded the CEO be fired, which was done. GM is being GM, plugging along. The CEO of Ford seems to have a clue. He got a BYD car to drive around and has been telling everybody that Ford has to get that good and that cheap, and fast, which they are trying to do.)

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-story-of-optim...
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-11 20:18:42+00:00
So you want to raise the marginal tax rate by 12.4% (employee + employer) without the person getting any benefit?

> Same reason people pay school taxes if they don't have kids. Because we live in a society, and we tax people to fund things like this.

And educated children, police, roads, etc benefit society and we were all at one point kids who could take advantage of public education, I don’t even have a problem paying more in taxes for universal healthcare that will reduce my + employer expenses on my healthcare.

But paying an extra 12.4% for what was suppose to be a retirement account that I don’t get any benefit from and reduces the amount I can save toward my own retirement is a bridge too far. Since 2018, I’ve been slightly above the increasing social security maximum. So it’s not that I’m one of the 1%.
by CM30 | 2025-09-11 20:19:36+00:00
Seeing Musk buy Twitter and start promoting right wing speech rather than left wing speech was quite the shock to these people. Suddenly the realisation dawned that corporate censorship could be used against those you agreed with, and in favour of your opponents.

(it was also amusingly the time in which the right went quiet on censorship on Twitter, for much the same reason).

Either way, it's become really apparent that most people don't have any consistent political beliefs or values, and only value freedom of speech so much as 'their' team gets to say what they want without consequences and their opponents get bullied and shut down at a moment's notice.