MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paulryanrogers | 2025-09-11 12:19:36+00:00
> The stuff you do to "solve" drive-bys and targeted drug industry violence won't solve school shootings and vise versa.

Are you sure about that? There are probably some differences in prevention and response, but also plenty of similarities too. Like better mental healthcare, outlawing private gun ownership, and teaching non-violent conflict resolution.

> To lump them together serves no non-evil purpose. The people doing so are exactly as deserving of marginalization, and ideally legitimate state violence following due process (but that's just a pipe dream of mine)...

So you're advocating for violence in response to speech?
by KingMob | 2025-09-11 12:20:37+00:00
I would retort that a sizable fraction of society isn't civil, the gleefully malevolent who long to punish minorities. And a larger fraction is ill-informed about the first part, due to platforming liars and psychopaths, like you suggest.

Only part of Trump's voters thought this would be the outcome, but we're stuck with the results.

Please, quit playing word games. We've moved past that, and America won't survive if you treat this like your high-school debate club.
by ontouchstart | 2025-09-11 12:20:54+00:00
If there is a bug (a behavior defined by whatever criteria), it is just a single path in a very complex systems with high connectivity.

This nonlinear and chaotic behavior regardless of implementation details of the black box makes LLM seem to be nondeterministic. But LLM is just a pseudo random number generator with a probability distribution.

(As I am writing this on my iPhone with text completion, I can see this nondeterministic behavior)
by navane | 2025-09-11 12:20:57+00:00
Realizing that all you need is listen to RSS feeds and play audio files, I made a static html/js page that manages your podcast subscriptions and episodes.

I leveraged browser and OS capabilities as much as possible, the actual playback is not done in this site, nor does it track any status -- this is all done automatically and better by the browser or OS.

The brunt is vibed in a handful of prompts on DuckAI, driving back home from holiday (in the passanger seat). Now I spent as much time fiddeling with the background colors as I did making the whole thing, I deemed it time to publish.

Features:

- subscribe to podcasts with links to their rss - export subscriptions to (or mass subscribe from) a comma separated list - refresh episodes by refreshing the page - read episode and podcast descriptions by clicking on their row - click to play or download audio, your browser will handle it - keep track of listen status with blue-vistited-links

Implementation:

- HTML for structuring the information - javascript for subscribing to feeds and fetching the episodes - LocalStorage for persistence between sessions

Sourcecode: https://pastebin.com/4a86NAsd

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/2utv5av

Example podcasts comma separated list:

https://anchor.fm/s/21c734c4/podcast/rss, https://podcast.npo.nl/feed/europa-draait-door.xml, https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2040953.rss, https://feeds.megaphone.fm/QCD6036500916, https://wakingup.libsyn.com/rss, https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/df1c5e88-ffb1-4b44-b1ba-b1800112647a/22932043-46bd-4892-b94a-b22500dd01f5/176148f4-6026-442a-bd70-b22500dd04db/podcast.rss, https://feed.podbean.com/foreignaffairsmagazine/feed.xml
by woadwarrior01 | 2025-09-11 12:21:00+00:00
> Certainly not. The GDPR does not permit data trawling or allowing data controllers to do what they like with your personal data once they have it. It must only be used for the purpose it was requested for.

You might want to read the privacy policies of some of the European fintech and ad-tech companies (nb: I've worked at some of them). They cast a wide blanket over all purposes.

At best, the GDPR only introduces a minor indirection, the problem of hoodwinking the "data subject" into clicking the accept button. At worst, it gives them false sense of privacy, where there isn't much.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-09-11 12:21:15+00:00
Democratic or undemocratic are always subjective terms. For me personally, the level of indirection is a problem. This problem was known since the inception and the reason why the subsidiarity principle was underlined. Sadly, that doesn't seem to apply for important issues like chat control. Imagine accountability on a communal level. We wouldn't even see this crap.

You cannot just add 100 layers of indirection and call it as democratic as direct representatives of your smallest communal voting unit. Any mandate in more indirect position should become weaker if the only metric is indeed democracy.
by simiones | 2025-09-11 12:21:17+00:00
We expect asymptotically better algorithms to be, well, asymptotically better. Even if they lose out for small N, they should win for larger N - and we typically expect this "larger N" to not be that large - just big enough so that data doesn't fit in any cache or something like that.

However, in this particular case, the higher-complexity sorting algorithms gets better than the hash algorithm as N gets larger, even up to pretty large values of N. This is the counter-intuitive part. No one is surprised if an O(n log n) algorithm beats an O(n) algorithm for n = 10. But if the O(n log n) algorithm wins for n = 10 000 000, that's quite surprising.
by roenxi | 2025-09-11 12:22:44+00:00
I don't agree with your characterisation of what the magic of protocols is. A protocol is the lightest possible thing that captures how two things can interface. That is magic in a way, but it is also the end of it, Clojure does a masterful job of keeping concepts tidy. In terms of what you can do with protocols, you can indeed do that in many languages. Clojure is pretty smooth but there is nothing stopping anyone implementing any interface on any object in most languages; build some sort of adapting whatever. It is rare enough in practice that the extra dev work isn't a major problem.

And as a bonus observation, any time your example of how to use a programming feature involves animals it is a fake use case. It is a bad sign because it suggests that the benefit doesn't have a real world use.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-11 12:23:23+00:00
I honestly don't get what the technical reason is. Surely no one is hardcoding pixel offsets somewhere. The rendering code likely doesn't care where it starts to render the taskbar and where the main display renders. It can obviously also be rendered without a taskbar below. The most effort is probably incorporating it into settings, but this is hopefully also not hardcoded. This all sounds like something a single employee could implement in one afternoon.
by ndiddy | 2025-09-11 12:23:31+00:00
> I'm mildly curious what the reaction to this will be compared to the reaction to other recent political murders, like the Hortmans, or of Thompson.

Trump has already issued a statement blaming his political opponents for the death before the perpetrator has even been identified.

"It's long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year, in the most hateful and despicable way possible. For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now. My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that funded and support it, as well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country."

> That said, I think people need to recognize that in many aspects what's happening is connected to societal issues that gun control and gun regulations will have very little impact on - remember, even in Japan somebody could make some kind of battery ignited home-made shotgun and kill Shinzo Abe.

The event was set up so nobody could have direct access to Kirk, which would have been required for the "home-made shotgun" approach. There were barricades and bodyguards in front of him, and a waiting car in case he had to be whisked away. Shooting someone from 200+ yards requires more precise weapons than someone can make themselves. I think it's also important to note that Utah literally started allowing open carry on college campuses a few weeks ago. Not only did all those "good guys with guns" not prevent the assassination, having a large number of armed people in a crowd makes finding the shooter more difficult, as we've seen from police arresting the wrong suspect multiple times.
by SapporoChris | 2025-09-11 12:23:45+00:00
The announcement was made on June 2nd. The account closures scheduled to begin on September 1st. It doesn't look like a seizure. Accounts are given about 60 days to address the problem. "According to Mr. Tuan, unverified accounts may be inactive accounts, abandoned accounts, or accounts with signs of fraud that have been opened widely in the past and are no longer able to be legalized. "

"the whole country had 200 million bank accounts, but after the State Bank required biometric authentication, the number of "live" accounts remaining was 113 million personal account" The whole country has around around 101.6 million people.

Personally I don't like the idea of a cashless society, but I don't see the Vietnam government doing anything illegal here.
by krapp | 2025-09-11 12:23:48+00:00
>Aren't you confusing the text[1] with what one person, namely Thomas Jefferson, said about it?

If I am, then so are the Supreme Court, the NRA, militia groups, the Republican Party and much of the country.

At some point one has to admit that the purpose of a system is what it does and the American system does violence very well.
by ourmandave | 2025-09-11 12:24:09+00:00
Most my phones are the low end free-to-get-you-to-sign-up models.

AT&T doesn't have low end Motorolas so I bought an unlocked, guaranteed to work with AT&T, sub $300 one directly off motorola.com and took it to the AT&T store.

So far it's left me alone.
by southwindcg | 2025-09-11 12:24:51+00:00
You've got some stiff competition out there, with companies like Google and Facebook funding development of these algorithms. I think the days of individual coders surpassing the current state of the art are gone. It's in the interest of companies that move huge amounts of data to be as efficient at it as possible.

It's definitely interesting that your method competes with Zip and such though. Keep it up!
by danso | 2025-09-11 12:24:52+00:00
Subhed and archive link: “Methods included cryptographic analysis, metadata analysis and corroboration with external sources.”

https://archive.is/ETo2I

Relates to this main story about the contents of Epstein’s yahoo email account (which is less technical)

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-jeffrey-epstein-emai...

Don’t often see mainstream articles refer to Python libraries by name:

> Whenever emails included cryptographic “DomainKeys Identified Mail” signatures, or DKIM, in their headers, we used Python’s dkimpy library to verify that signatures matched their messages. A valid signature match is strong evidence that the message is genuine and unaltered, but a failed DKIM check is not, by itself, evidence of fabrication. Our analysis of emails from the years when DKIM was widely seen in the inbox (2013-2022) validated roughly 45% of the messages, rising from about 20% in 2013 to nearly two-thirds by 2020 as DKIM adoption broadened. For these messages we also checked DKIM-based DMARC identifier alignment—whether the DKIM d= domain aligned with the visible “From:” domain—and 55% of messages were aligned. We manually inspected the emails that weren’t aligned and found all matched to known mailing list providers and other similar services.
Show HN: Speech-to-text CLI in Rust with Nvidia Parakeet-local, fast, extensible
by elvin_d | 2025-09-11 12:24:54+00:00
Hey HN! I built Para-speak to fit my workflow - I wanted something simple: press shortcut → talk → press shortcut → text appears at cursor.

Existing tooling wasn't sufficient, and at the same time NVIDIA's Parakeet model was showing excellent results online, so I wanted specifically to try that.

Para-speak is a Rust CLI that uses NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT model running locally via MLX on Apple Silicon.

Demo & details: https://elvin.engineering/blog/2025/09-10-para-speak-cli/

GitHub: https://github.com/elv1n/para-speak

Key features:

- Configurable global shortcuts (double-tap, combinations, sequences) - Audio feedback - Text insertion at cursor position (emulating cmd+v) - Extensible controller system (e.g., manipulate Spotify volume during recording) - Idle uses minimal resources - about 10-15 MB of RAM on my MacBook Pro M1 on average load.

Current limitations:

- macOS only for now - Shortcuts pass through to other apps (not consumed)

I've been using it daily for AI-assisted coding. The accuracy is surprisingly good for a small model.

Still very early stage. Would be nice to have daemon mode, proper installation (Homebrew, etc.), and add some UI feedback.

Would love your thoughts!
by mxkopy | 2025-09-11 12:25:21+00:00
“If it’s just the south” like the south isn’t the larger of two cultures that define the U.S. historically.

Again, it’s not out of pocket for the US to be blatantly racist. You say these are extreme beliefs (and they are objectively) but in the US they never were really fringe. Compare that to whatever you made up for leftists, there’s no historical precedent. The “both sides” way of thinking is just not moored in reality here.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-09-11 12:25:22+00:00
To me LLM are one of the greatest advancement in gaming. I don’t understand how there isn’t already any big game that’s using it to have ‘live’ npc.

It would make single player game so much more alive, even railroaded one like red dead redemption because the npc could adapt more easily to what you just did, how you behave in game and so on.

Games are already demanding on gpu, running a very tiny local LLM and only when people interact with npc wouldn’t require so much power.

I’m sure there are issues which explain why it’s not already being used but the first one to do it will be remembered.
by baranul | 2025-09-11 12:25:34+00:00
Thought you made some very good points. Being faster to getting a working prototype and beta out the door, can be the difference between success versus failure for many, even though it might be at the cost of a bit more ram or it being a little slower.

Other related points are: 1) Feeling the need to be a bit faster versus an actually critical necessity. 2) GC is "bad" and manual is "good" silliness. 3) Premature optimization or unnecessary optimization.

These can be personal or even psychological issues, not reflected in reality. Kind of like a guy who spends globs of time and money on building a "must have" monster 10-second car, but 99% of the time, no one ever needs to go that fast. Speed definitely has its place, but is also relative to what is being done, the situation, and the hardware used.
by redwood | 2025-09-11 12:25:53+00:00
Oracle's mega moves in the market (cpl hundred $B in market cap),due to their claim that OpenAI was doing a multi-year commit to move much of their workloads to their cloud ... likely a heavy revenue play rather than profit... with an aspiration to push as much CapEx deprecation to out years as possible (btw Oracle where is all the capex?) AKA Financial aengineering... just shows how overly leveraged this bubble has become.

The Economist recently featured a piece pointing out that it's no longer risk that drives the market but a balance of fear of loss and fear of missing out (https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/08/06/w...). FOMO is out of control right now
by benmmurphy | 2025-09-11 12:26:20+00:00
There is a difference between 'lets try something out' and we will use the force of law to compel you to do something. A lot of people seem worried about over use of law enforcement but really its not a general problem with law enforcement but rather a problem with what laws are being enforced. They are happy to have law enforcement cracking down on people flouting a mask mandate but less happy when law enforcement is going after shop lifters.
by whackernews | 2025-09-11 12:26:51+00:00
Sure. Our own mainstream media is very guilty of doing the same things with regard to editing down reality for the sakes of entertainment or pushing an agenda. I guess one admirable difference, to offer him some defence, is he is an appproachable guy. Literally. If you so disired you could go and view his debates or even debate him yourself. He has the right to make himself look good on his own channel.
by Bridged7756 | 2025-09-11 12:28:16+00:00
No, we don't. Don't speak for the rest of the world, for not everyone lives in your country, let alone in your bubble.

I think your "offense" Is downright naive, if not moronic. You should know how difficult politics are, and what you are asking for, the civilians, the military, just sitting down to "protest" is not only an imaginative fantasy, but I would also wager downright impossible.
by davidee | 2025-09-11 12:28:21+00:00
Redefine what perfection is (although I'd argue you'd probably do well to work on disabusing yourself of the idea of perfection altogether - but that's for another time).

Back to redefinition: what's perfect for you may not be what's perfect for your team, your division, your line of business, your company, your personal project, whatever. Is part of the perfection metric time to deliver? Customer (user) satisfaction? Reduction of support requests? I'm not saying any one of these is right, but I believe there's a framework of compromise out there that can help you should you want to change this area of your professional life. In short, think outside the core problem and expand the radius of context from just you and that notion of perfection, to something larger, something more systemic - I believe that can help.

On the other hand, if your drive for whatever you believe perfection is, works for you, then, meh, do you! We do need folks to scream that x or y isn't good enough, even if only to evaluate if we should find a better compromise than the current one.
by SeventhState | 2025-09-11 12:28:36+00:00
Seventh State, the independent RabbitMQ consultancy and support provider, today announced the release of its new PauseR Plugin – a fully open source solution available for public use. The plugin restores the familiar “pause minority” behaviour in RabbitMQ clusters, offering operators greater control and predictability during network partitions. RabbitMQ is transitioning from its long-standing Mnesia storage engine to Khepri, a Raft-based system designed for stronger data safety. While this shift prevents “split-brain” scenarios, it also introduced new behaviours that some operators find less predictable. The PauseR Plugin, created by Seventh State, brings back the option to stop minority nodes serving requests – ensuring applications fail over cleanly and avoiding “false availability” during partitions. “We built this plugin because the community asked for it,” said Lajos Gerecs, RabbitMQ Consultant at Seventh State. “Open source software thrives when users have choice and transparency. With PauseR, we’re giving operators more flexibility and continuing our commitment to keeping RabbitMQ innovation open and accessible.” Supporting the RabbitMQ Community Seventh State positions itself as the alternative support provider for the RabbitMQ community, offering expert support, consultancy, and plugin development while continuing to back open source and legacy use cases. Where others are shifting focus away from community features, Seventh State is investing in openness and legacy support. The PauseR Plugin is freely available on Seventh State’s GitHub and works with RabbitMQ 4.1+ using Khepri storage. Alongside open source contributions, Seventh State also provides an exclusive suite of enterprise-grade RabbitMQ plugins to its support customers, including: DRS (Disaster Recovery & Data Salvage): rapid recovery from outages, even with a single surviving node. PrioriQ: priority messaging support for quorum queues. Q-Spy: non-invasive message inspection. SafeConX: improved partition handling and connection stability.

“Our mission is simple: empower the RabbitMQ community to run systems that are more resilient, efficient, and tailored to their needs,” said Gerecs. “PauseR is just one example of us giving back – and we’ll continue to champion openness while delivering enterprise-ready solutions for those who need them.” Availability The PauseR Plugin is available today as a free, open source download at LINK For enterprises seeking advanced features and 24/7 expert support, Seventh State offers a range of support packages and exclusive enterprise plugins.
by beAbU | 2025-09-11 12:29:07+00:00
Don't make it sound like Apple is some sort of victim of regulation who's being picked on the whole time.

They will not get fines and lawsuits if they make a foldable phone with a display that degrades over time.

I do think a move like this will hurt their reputation for making durable devices. They are a victim of their own success a little here.
by firesteelrain | 2025-09-11 12:29:11+00:00
Yes, there was one study showing that Sweden fared better than the US. However the US as a whole, some of the States, are the sizes of countries. So you get a patchwork comparison. We would have to find a state with similar demographics, culture, economy, etc to compare.

[1] https://www.cato.org/blog/sweden-during-pandemic-pariah-or-p...
by johannes1234321 | 2025-09-11 12:30:09+00:00
They got 4 languages, not 24. Of those 4 there is one clearly dominant (German) and a clear second. Most debates happen in German.

With it's 24 languages the EU debates have interesting interpretation challenges, as they don't have interpreters for going from any language to any language, but often the translate first into one language (say from Latvian into German) and then some other language (German to Portuguese), which loses a lot of nuance and color from the language.

Also media can cover it better, with few languages and politicians can provide their press statements in those few languages.

And then culture is a lot more similar, which helps to identify the "relevant" topics and way to talk about it.
by didgetmaster | 2025-09-11 12:30:51+00:00
No, I didn't have the same reaction. There is a big difference between people being hurt or killed for their opinions and families being separated because a dad broke the law.

This happens every day when someone's dad is sentenced and incarcerated for something like armed robbery.

If someone died in ICE custody due to neglect as you suggested, then EVERONE would have heard about it by now.
by mystraline | 2025-09-11 12:31:00+00:00
You do realize that the original Shakespeare and similar time period plays were MUCH more like how the kids did it, right? Plays in that century were bawdy, vicious, and just nuts. And to be fair, Shakespeare's own material talks about stuff, if modernized, would be considered rated 'R'.

Sitting quietly to watch a show is pretty recent. Even classical performances were louder with praise and en-core requests shouted out loud.

I'm not exactly sure when the 'sit down, shut up, and listen' happened, but yeah.