MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codethief | 2025-09-14 15:21:25+00:00
Yeah. Personally, I'm crossing my fingers for SpectrumOS[0] to make things a bit easier. As the developer notes on her website[1]:

<qyliss> I have embarked on the ultimate yak shave <qyliss> it started with "I wish I could securely store passwords on my computer" <qyliss> And now I am at the "I have funding to build my own operating system" level

[0]: https://spectrum-os.org/

[1]: https://alyssa.is/about/
by TFYS | 2025-09-14 15:21:36+00:00
The US supported genocide in Gaza alone is much worse than anything done in Xinjiang. The genocide of native Americans, the bloody coups and corporate abuse in south America, the wars of the middle east with their millions of victims, the war crimes in Vietnam, the bombing of Japan and who knows how many more horrors that the US has been involved in. Do you honestly believe those things combined have less victims than Xinjiang?
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2025-09-14 15:22:13+00:00
Same here. Even very depressing news do not cause and endless circle of anxiety and scrolling, when you don’t have constant new enforcement in form of comments, I just get bored, switch off and take some distance - as we should. I already stopped using FB after 2016 when I noticed that instead of being better informed - like I felt I was - I was actually dumber and knew less what was going on. After that I have gradually quit forums, IG, reddit. Onlyone left is youtube, which I watch occasionally to watch some comedy. Ifeel better, more calm and I feel I am on the driver’s seat.

I think it is insane that we give these companies this much power and influence in our lives and societirs without them contributing almost nothing.
by carlwgeorge | 2025-09-14 15:22:36+00:00
> Heaven forbid you run RHEL on RHEL in containers, you’re gonna get fleeced.

You can run unlimited RHEL containers on a subscribed RHEL system. It's even set up where if you run a UBI container (a redistributable subset of RHEL content) on a subscribed RHEL system it automatically upgrades to full RHEL.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-14 15:22:43+00:00
That was the marketing on the side of the tin 250 years ago, but that's utopian thinking.

The problem isn't the size or nature of government or the size of the population, it's that an embarrassingly under-educated populace can be manipulated into giving away their rights and freedoms to incompetent, corrupt morons. Neither direct democracy nor communism work and will never work at any large scale. What needs to happen is to give up on the false fantasy of "freedom of choice" and shift towards public administration through sortition. Throw away political parties, career politicians, PACs, billionaires, and Hobson's choice voting that doesn't matter to be replaced with limited duration "jury duty". Also, a fourth actual co-equal branch of government to audit and check the other 3 appears necessary given the Gödel's loophole-like weaknesses that have been exploited in a era with handheld mass broadcasting and generative LLMs that can create entirely fake media potentially manipulating millions into committing atrocities.
by ben_w | 2025-09-14 15:23:39+00:00
Indeed.

Text rather than music, but same argument applies: Based on what I've seen Charlie Stross blog on the topic of why he doesn't self publish/the value-add of a publisher, any creativity on the part of the prompter* of an LLM is analogous to the creativity on the part of a publisher, not on the part of an author.

* at least for users who don't just use AI output to get past writer's block; there's lots of different ways to use AI
by vitanuova | 2025-09-14 15:24:21+00:00
It means what "fight" always means in a political discussion, work hard to make your voice heard and win the argument. So you know exactly what it could be. There were still court cases out there, and shenanigans being uncovered. And in the end the only person that died was a trump supporter. Unlike the other riots during that time where dozens died and it's much more easy to read what one side wanted to happen, namely country-wide intimidation and destruction. And another politician shouted "Fight like hell!". Do you denounce that? Of course now. I'm sure you don't even want to discuss it.
by paczki | 2025-09-14 15:25:33+00:00
To be honest, this job has changed my entire life. I don't exactly work with Google but nonetheless it's the same job being discussed. Nothing really egregious has happened to me in the months that I've been at it, other than only having 4 hours to fact check and verify a huge amount of information for one job, and it just wasn't enough time for me so I didn't get paid. But that was once out of hundreds? thousands? of tasks.

Unfortunately, I decided to take software engineering more serious and try to make it my career and then the entire market nosedived, with no signs of recovering anytime soon. Breaking into this market has more or less been impossible for a junior, and dare I say: a junior in their mid 30s. At least within this job I do get to work with code every so often, and I get to do it from home while I'm at it which is a bonus.

It's inconsistent so I'm still learning and looking for software, but for the meantime it's been incredible.
by zug_zug | 2025-09-14 15:25:36+00:00
I understand this may look dismissive or blamey, but sometimes (actually a shocking amount) there aren’t equal merits to both sides…

I’ve looked into this a lot and there isn’t any strong argument I’ve seen that this is good for humanity, and let’s not pretend every political action is a sincere attempt to improve the world for all equally.

If you look into all the abuse heaped upon the man who discovered leaded gasoline was bad it helps give context on just how far some people will go for their own profits.
by smt88 | 2025-09-14 15:26:05+00:00
My friend pointed out yesterday that the left has lost its "evangelical spirit". It seems to have become political dogma that you can't persuade people to your side -- you can only turn them out to vote.

But Charlie Kirk went to the most left places he could think of, debated people, and won some converts.

Who on the left does that? Why doesn't anyone drive out to rural football games or country music concerts, have conversations, and put them on YouTube?
by tombert | 2025-09-14 15:27:08+00:00
Short of some January-6th style insurrection, I'm not entirely sure what "the left" [1] could actually "do" here. I am absolutely not advocating for a January-6th domestic terrorism event, I think that would be a very bad idea, but I also have no idea what we could actively do.

It's easy to say "reject the news agencies", and sure that might be a good idea, but that carries the risk of "substituting bullshit with different, more dangerous bullshit". This has already been somewhat demonstrated; the conservatives spent decades undermining trust in news media and that led to the rise of assholes like Alex Jones and conspiracy theories becoming normalized by American conservatives. It's easy to say "well the left wouldn't do that", but you have no way of knowing that any better than I would.

I don't want to be cynical or hopeless, but I genuinely have no idea what I could do to help fix any of the shit going on right now.

[1] whatever that actually means, I've heard about a dozen definitions.
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 15:27:19+00:00
> Yes. That's the "expendable" ones

No. That's not how the concept works.

Almost everyone believes that it is just and right that American homeowners can own cars and household cleaners. You would never comment at someone's funeral that the deceased thought that children killed in car accidents or by accidental poisoning were "expendable".

If a city mayor opposed to public transit projects or bike lanes were to get run over by a hitman, I can't fathom that you would be making the same argument.

> Kirk was sacrificed to the benefit of owning guns.

No. He was targeted and intentionally killed, for reasons that have no demonstrated connection to the issue. This is simply not comparable to an observation that some number of unspecified people might die as a result of a policy.
by codethief | 2025-09-14 15:27:31+00:00
Ugghh, once again I forgot that HN removes line breaks unless you use double line breaks or indent by 2 spaces, and now it's too late to edit my comment.

@dang People keep running into this. (See e.g. this comment[0] from a few days ago.) It also makes it rather awkward to write lists IMO. What's the reason for removing line breaks and could this be changed?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44946386
by ModernMech | 2025-09-14 15:27:45+00:00
I think that's actually where Rust can shine -- it's very good at refactoring, so when you move stuff around and cut things out that you don't need, the compiler tells you exactly how to put everything back together and what exactly needs to be changed. As the codebase grows, refactorability becomes crucial, because refactors are risky and can fail, causing major schedule disruptions. High code velocity achieved early on by ignoring reference lifetimes and borrows and type checking early on might feel good, but these features are a detriment later one when the project needs to start making guarantees.
by DrewADesign | 2025-09-14 15:28:12+00:00
Do you consider designers part of “we” or is it only the computer people that count?

It’s definitely not better for the general public. Designers can’t even be replaced by AI as effectively as authors. They make things sorta ’look designed’ to people that don’t understand design, but have none of the communication and usability benefits that make designers useful. The result is slicker-looking, but probably less usable than if it was cobbled together with default bootstrap widgets, which is how it would have been done 2+ years ago. If an app needs a designer enough to not be feasible without one, AI isn’t going to replace the designer in that process. It just makes the author feel cool.
by tzs | 2025-09-14 15:28:35+00:00
It's also important to note that one party wants to drill while also greatly increasing development of renewables so we can reduce the need for future drilling, increase regulatory limits on emissions over time, provide incentives to adopt more energy efficient appliances, and recognizes that the world needs to reach net zero sometime in the next few decades and is trying to reach that gradually.

The other party wants to drill while doing everything it can to discourage renewables, is eliminating as many limits on emissions as it can and stopping enforcement of those it cannot yet eliminate, and their views on addressing global warming are a superposition of {it is a hoax by the Chinese to harm the US, it may be happening but humans have no way to influence it, it is good, even if global warming is as bad as predicted and we get a few degrees rise it is no problem because we can increase fossil fuels enough to make cheap air conditioning available so we can get by fine just like Dubai gets by fine with an average temperature of 35F higher than that [1]}. They also want to eliminate funding for satellites that monitor the climate and eliminate emissions reporting requirements for the industries that do most of the emitting.

[1] https://www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/how-fossil-f...
by tombert | 2025-09-14 15:29:41+00:00
Being critical of the news is good, but I don't think we want the lefty equivalent of the "Do Your Own Research" conspiracy crowd.

The problem with undermining trust in the news media is that people will just replace that with blind trust with something else, and we have no way of really knowing if that something else will be worse. This is what happened with conservatives and led to the rise of Infowars.
by righthand | 2025-09-14 15:30:15+00:00
I get two types of merge requests nowadays. The first is a traditional piece of code. Something simple like a bit of marketing text to a page or a new react component that adds another css effect to some content. The second type is a long complex merge request, for something more complex than a menu (not really though)…tabs, uses new dependencies, none of the old dependencies, is filled with emdashed code comments about personal dev choices (instead of logic flow or business context), and the core file convention is named after the implementers library choice: `react-tabs`. If I bring up any of these issues with the implementer they tell me “we can fix it later and they need to just get it out”.

The first type of merge request is one that should be generated by an LLM and the second is one that should be generated by a human.

Instead I get neither but I get efficiency so someone can deliver at the last minute. And so I can can go mop up the work later or my job is hell the next time “we just need to get this out the door”.

THANK YOU LLMS
by davidw | 2025-09-14 15:30:33+00:00
I think in this case you're actually advocating for "the devil" - that man is not using his money or voice for a better society, to put it mildly.

I mean just a few days ago, we got "the left is the party of murder" - super helpful in terms of turning down the heat in the US. And of course that was without knowing what we now know about that situation...
by dvrj101 | 2025-09-14 15:30:37+00:00
i mean the right literally voted for epsteins BFF and also the most prominent partner in child trafficking. Hiring minor under pretense of internship, drugging/spiking then and then trafficking them to private island. The difference between right and left is like night and day.

in case someone's feeling got hurt. Throughout the history of world not USA, right ideology has also blindly supported deregulation that people will die but regulation will naturally take place( ? ) like free markert
by Insanity | 2025-09-14 15:31:27+00:00
In EU we by and large don’t eat what America produces though. The same products like Doritos etc will have different ingredients in EU compared to US.

US typically gets the cheaper and worse option (less safe). Same for American coke w/ Cane Sugar instead of actual sugar.

Americans will regularly consume chemicals that are potentially carcinogenic and banned in EU.

EDIT: I meant high fructose corn syrup, not cane sugar. My bad!
by avazhi | 2025-09-14 15:32:12+00:00
Whether I have a reasonable explanation for this change or not doesn't change the fact that that comment was a simplistic caricature. I never claimed to know the full answer. But I am nearly certain it doesn't begin with those evil corporations literally trying to make people sick. Merchants of Doubt, which is a great book related to this subject, is full of stories about how cigarette and PFAS corporations like Dupont pulled all sorts of shady shit to cover up the harms their products caused consumers. At no point has it ever been suggested, either in that book or anywhere else that I'm aware of, that corporations did it on purpose to make people ill so they could what, make money through the healthcare industry? Touch grass.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-14 15:32:28+00:00
> They are too easily distracted by hot-button issues.

I disagree.

The issue is there's about 1000 fires burning all with somewhat critical importance.

But further, the left and the politicians ostensibly representing the left simply are not aligned (at least in the US). It's a rock and a hard place. Generally the politicians positions are better than the right, but far less than what the left actually wants. So they rely heavily on "what are you going to do, let the other guys win?".

Meanwhile, the right has adopted nearly the opposite position. On most positions when the base says "jump" they say "how high?".

A big reason for that is money in politics. What the rightwing base wants is generally pretty compatible with monied interests. It's no skin off the nose of a rightwing politician if they want to ban books, that doesn't ultimately harm Disney's bottom dollar.

For the left, what they want in almost all ways will negatively impact monied interested. Better regulations makes rich polluters mad. Nationalized healthcare makes every business (except maybe small businesses) mad.

That's why "left" politicians tend to only support initiatives which effectively do nothing like recognizing a MLK or saying it's ok to be gay. And even then, they are happy to ditch those positions to win more rightwing base support because, shocker, that rightwing base is likely to care less about their inaction on climate change.

You are right, though, news is a big problem. And that's because mainstream media is corporate captured. That's why left policy positions no matter the channel are always framed in the absolute worst way possible. For example, whenever nationalized healthcare comes up I can guarantee you the framing will be "How will you pay for this very expensive program that will eliminate choice and cost a lot of money which might make everyone sad and probably will bankrupt everyone?"
by Scaevolus | 2025-09-14 15:33:27+00:00
UE BPs do have a few abstractions available-- macros, interfaces, classes, data-only. [1]

I think the greatest challenge of VPLs is how they don't have an inherent linear structure, so reading and understanding them for modification requires a nonlinear scan of a node soup. This puts them in the class of tools that struggle to make large programs readable, like Bash or Forth.

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/...
by jsnell | 2025-09-14 15:33:27+00:00
The headline seems pretty aspirational.

The licensing standard they're talking about will achieve nothing.

Anti-bot companies selling scraping protections will run out of runway: there's a limited set of signals, and none of them are robust. As the signals get used, they're also getting burned. And it's politically impossible to expand the web platform to have robust counter-abuse capabilities.

Putting the content behind a login wall can work for large sites, but not small ones.

The free-for-all will not end until adversarial scraping becomes illegal.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-09-14 15:33:38+00:00
There is no left in America, in any historical or contemporary manner.

If you look closely at the Ds they back Trumps policies, not that they come out and say so. Rather Bernie will come out and attack it. but Ds on so mnay fornts now remain silent and passive.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
by thr0w4w4y1337 | 2025-09-14 15:34:16+00:00
1) To quote myself: "I'm not saying email self hosting should not be done, I just say a bit of planning should be done". I self host my email. I just meant it is not "just rent a VPS and slap some docker containers on it"

2) I never said receiving email is a SPoF

3) Please explain in detail what do I do in order to keep receiving emails using "me@johndoe.com" after johndoe.com gets undelegated. I do not know of a way and would very much like to know. If there is no way.. It is a SPoF.

edit: formatting
by yndoendo | 2025-09-14 15:34:26+00:00
USA HealthCare insurance companies are the _Death Panels_, run by CEO, accounts, and investors, that work to maximize profit over keeping people health. They pay _specialist_ to contradict the actual practicing doctors on why some procedure or medicine is needed.

A firm's sole responsibility is to increase profit and a maximize returns for shareholders. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine
by groby_b | 2025-09-14 15:34:35+00:00
You might want to think a little bit further.

One, figure out why you're "anti-Atlantist", and anti-defense pact. Two, think about how radicality created the US problems, and why you think radicalism is the answer in your case.

Yes, Europe needs to change its stance, but electing a "burn-it-to-the-ground" faction is not actually going to do this in a productive way.

As for the "omnipresence" of the US, that is and has always been a lot of individual choices more than a political choice. By all means, fixate less on the US yourself, but I promise you that trying to force that on others by electing a more authoritarian party will backfire spectacularly.

Soft power isn't countered by hard power. The two working counters are increased soft power on your own (i.e. a culture that's more attractive than US culture), or said soft-power self-reducing. You can trust DJT to achieve the latter.

You don't have to "cut ties". You have to learn to think on your own.
by ragequittah | 2025-09-14 15:34:56+00:00
A whole lot of what I use every day especially for images and audio is open source. The open source AI video is getting pretty good these days as well. Better than the sora that I pay for anyways. Granted not nearly as good as veo3 yet.

So long as Nvidia doesn't nerf their consumer cards and we keep getting more and more vram I can see open source competing.
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2025-09-14 15:35:58+00:00
Are we? In a sense yes that the content is usee-generated and stranger are discussing the content, but is any newsfeed with a comment-section or a hobbyist forum social media? Can I monetise my contributions here, advertise products, sell my karma-points or create networks of like-minded individuals here? Is there any point for me to try to turn my personality into a brand or try to ragebait you to interact with me by saying that your aunt Mary likes Duran Duran, or that your goldfish looks silly, in order to trick the algorithm to show more of my content? Can I channel people from here to a website showing lewd pictures of my parrot in order to get them pay me?

If all social media was like HN, I think we would be fine y’know.
by avazhi | 2025-09-14 15:36:07+00:00
I own no shares, nor do I work in any industry that would be affected by this. I'm fully against PFAS and related chemicals being used in consumer/cooking products or being released in the environment. They should be outlawed and not used, end of story.

Now that that's out of the way, I don't think corporations are actively trying to make consumers sick so they can recoup the profits through their investments in the healthcare sector (or whatever insane conspiracy theory you guys are suggesting here).
by vinceguidry | 2025-09-14 15:36:33+00:00
The profit motive is largely what drives these problems.

My big dream is a social media platform for humans. Self-hostable Zoom / Discord alternative that just works. AGPL-licensed and eventually turned over to the GNU project for long-term maintenance once it's feature-complete. Mastadon is nice and all, but micro-blogging isn't really for ordinary humans.
by hliyan | 2025-09-14 15:36:43+00:00
This is probably also evolutionary. Most species, once safe and sated, tend to calm down and relax, or even nap. But we humans suffer from boredom, which tend to agitate us into action even when there is no hunger or threat. Probably the evolutionary adaptation that allowed our particular lineage to overtake (and parhaps wipe out) other competing lines of homonids and develop civilization.
by SloopJon | 2025-09-14 15:36:52+00:00
I found the idea of a password generator appealing, mainly due to vault anxiety. I didn't (and still don't) like the idea that I can't access a resource without this precious vault. If I'm home with my tools, great. Otherwise, give me the right hash function, and I can MacGyver my way to PBKDF2 and generate my password.

However, once you introduce metadata (e.g., to deal with password rules), the idea loses most of its appeal. I wouldn't feel any more comfortable posting such a thing publicly than I would a vault.
by cloverich | 2025-09-14 15:37:00+00:00
It does feel like this. I remember this moment clicking for me with my dads family who was typically more rational. "did you hear California is going to outlaw bacon now"; everyone laughs.

I mention that sounds kind of click baity? look it up. California wants to impose more stringent minimum space standards for amimals bred to slaughter (prop 12). Seems maybe good, or at least worthy of a real discussion?

But everyone had moved on by then, ironically to how much they care about animal rights (spending significant time volunteering in shelters and such).

Its just too easy to dumb people down with memes.