MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danhor | 2025-09-14 18:08:38+00:00
While energy is expensive, I find it hard to blame on the "green stuff".

The majority of the energy cost increases in the last few years are because fossil fuels got more expensive for europeans, as cheap gas and oil from Russia wasn't cheap nor very available any more. Lower emissions technologies require much less energy: Heat pumps, induction stoves, electric goods and private transport. Renewables are furthermore more resilient to supply shocks, as they aren't as dependent on from despotic states such as Russia, Saudi Arabia or (seemingly) the US for much of the (fossil) energy. The correct response would be to electrify as much as possible (much less energy required) and produce electricity without the need for importing fossil fuels.

The housing situation sucks, but while many rules discourage housing production, only a smaller subset is there to reduce emissions (requirements about amenities such as outlets, room size and layout, parking and local opposition have little to do with emissions). Many countries such as the US which care much less also suffer heavily as well from being unable to build enough housing.

I have little idea about what specifically the netherlands are doing on climate, but it has at least not been my impression that they were the "best boy in class".
by bastawhiz | 2025-09-14 18:08:53+00:00
The rate of sea level rise since the turn of the century has nearly doubled to almost half a centimeter each year. At the current rate is increase, within a human lifespan, some Dutch dikes will be underwater.

If the ice caps fully melted, that's 60-70 meters of sea level rise. Well before we reach that point, the Netherlands will be lost. There's simply no building dikes which approach that level. Even if that's not within your lifetime, it's not outside of the realm of the possibility that your grandchildren would be facing that eventuality.
by arminiusreturns | 2025-09-14 18:09:07+00:00
Security, including privacy, is about layers of hardening. In this case, minimization of leakage and other privacy concerns for some can still be worth the tradeoffs. For example, some apps literally refuse to work on a completely de-googled phone. (I ran one for many years with no google services). Also, the general control the user gets offers a lot more ability to harden than most android. I bricked my phone and am currently borrowing one and using stock android and there are things like facebook that are literally uninstallable... At least on lineage/graphene the user can actually control the system.
by bluesnowmonkey | 2025-09-14 18:09:10+00:00
Micropayments introduced too much friction for you, a human. You have to think about how much the thing is worth, and consider whether the merchant is trustworthy, and enter your details to perform the transaction. Maybe you’re unsatisfied and want a refund.

Say it costs 1.7 cents and delivers 3.2 cents of “value”, you need to be able to do all that work in less than 1.5 cents worth of your time. You can’t do that as a human. But an agent maybe could, to pay for content or MCP calls. I see a big role for micropayments in this genetic future.
by ednite | 2025-09-14 18:09:14+00:00
You've absolutely hit the mark of what I wanted to share: the joy of journaling. Thank you for that.

Your practice of keeping book notes is such a great idea. Capturing what you felt in the moment can be priceless. I usually just note what I'm reading, it never occurred to me to write about my feelings about the read. It makes me wish I’d saved those thoughts when I first read some of my own favorites, like Don Quixote!
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-14 18:09:46+00:00
Let’s begin with concluding that you could not find a source for your claims. Instead you go on a tangent hoping to muddy the water.

I find it interesting how someone so smart can just lie through their teeth.

Now you’re trying to paint the entire renewable industry, solar, storage, onshore wind etc. with the paint brush of off-shore wind.

The German and Danish auctions were negative bid auctions.

To explain what that means: companies were asked to pay for the privilege to build off shore wind at a set very low CFD. Those delicious subsidies right?!? Might even call them negative subsidies!

Given recent interest rate hikes and increased cost for construction materials off shore wind is right on the cusp of viability.

Other projects like this one in Germany moves forward without any subsidies.

https://group.vattenfall.com/press-and-media/pressreleases/2...

What you of course don’t mention is that the recent interest rate hikes and increases in construction costs impacts nuclear power far more than off-shore wind and other renewables.

So someone actually knowledgeable in the topic would not promote nuclear power as the alternative.

So again. Please stop lying and misrepresenting cherry picked stats. You know better.
by Atlas667 | 2025-09-14 18:10:07+00:00
This is a such a false dichotomy, mate.

The capitalists see PFAS policies as anti-free-trade because it imposes "artificial" limits on production. They see PFAS policies as "big govt overreach". And that if consumers don't want PFAS they should vote with their dollars to remove it. This is their pro-capitalist justification for de-regulation.

And what you're doing is you want to conflate their money making policies, such as removing PFAS protections, with the exact opposite of what it is. You're confusing it with anti-capitalist policies when it is, in fact, benefiting plastic producers and was probably recommended by plastic producers and manufacturers in the first place.

Needless to say it cannot be both. This is not maoism, THIS is capitalism.

You drank the kool-aid on anti-govt thought and now you think the government is anti-capitalist when the capitalists hold almost a total monopoly on government functions and officials and have always had, since they control most of the nations wealth and production and can employ it to serve them. The capitalists control the government outright.

To further elucidate your position: the fact is you hate free trade policies because they put you and your loved ones in danger, but you have been convinced that they are, theoretically, better for all of us. That is because in pro capitalist theory/propaganda anything that helps them is seen as benefiting the population because of two things:

1. Capitalist see themselves as part of the population (even though they are the minority). 2. They conflate the "invisible hand" metaphor with literal evolution without even giving a forethought to how these dynamics play out. Especially in a monopolized environment.

They espouse these ideas through their think tanks and media outlets because it benefits them.

They teach this double-think through total hate of govt policies because they see many govt policies as hindering them.

Think about how our broke asses can influence government. Very slim pickings.... Now think about how a billionaire can influence government. Capitalists have always controlled government.
by mk12 | 2025-09-14 18:10:52+00:00
Another thing to watch out for with SVGs is how they appear in RSS readers or browser reader views. If you're using external SVG files then it should be fine. If you've optimized them by embedding into the HTML, then you need to be careful. If they rely on CSS rules in the page's CSS then it's not going to work well. For my website I try to make the SVGs self-sufficient by setting the viewBox, width, and height attributes, using a web safe font, and only relying on internal styles. You can still get some measure of light/dark mode support by setting fill or stroke to currentColor.
by ysnp | 2025-09-14 18:11:04+00:00
GrapheneOS primarily exists to give you tools to exert more control over what apps have access to and to better protect your data. What you do with those tools is entirely your own concern. Where those apps come from is not GrapheneOS's concern.

I don't think most people use Google services out of choice anyway, but more because sometimes that's the only way to get functionality you may need.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-09-14 18:11:21+00:00
It's not comparable because you agree with the Democrats' positions! When it comes to immigration, for example, I'm sure you'd agree with me that Trump's efforts to end various TPS designations are "red meat shitfest fight stuff" - if he succeeds, he'll get to deport quite a lot of people. But Biden's extensions of those very same TPS designations (some of which have been "temporary" for decades now) weren't "red meat", because you agree with Biden that the designations are correct and the people protected by them should not have to leave the US. The Democratic base just isn't very interested in framing politicians as brave disruptive fighters for doing the right thing.
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 18:12:22+00:00
> I just find it hilarious that MAGA cried for so long over being "cancelled" and now they're doing it themselves.

It's not at all hard to find examples of them rationalizing them. Much of it has been preemptive, even.

The central argument, from what I have seen, is that the things right-wingers got "cancelled" for in the past are simply not in at all the same category as the glorification of political violence.

Others have argued that people saying "what happened to free speech?" are being disingenuous, because they will use that freedom of speech precisely to argue against freedom of speech in the future.
by ohdeargodno | 2025-09-14 18:12:48+00:00
That's not -20 OR +40. You're getting both. And while you're busy touting your preferences, I'm sure your farmers will be happy about their crops freezing, their land becoming unusable, your building being thoroughly unable to withstand such massive temperature swings and cracking, making it even worse to live in.

>We know for sure when we arrive at that point.

The moment you do arrive at the -20 every year point means that:

* You've spent the previous 40 years in denial that it happens more and more often

* You're on the path to -30 already, with no way to stop it.

So, no, we won't "wait and see", no.
by JosifA | 2025-09-14 18:12:48+00:00
Unfortunately, c-ares is not problem-free on all platforms.

On iOS, its use triggers a local network access popup (it tries to reach your DNS server, which is often on your LAN). If a user denies acess, your app will simply not work.

On Android, it's not compatible with some VPN apps. Those apps are to blame, but your users are going to blame you not them.

So, at my previous company we ended up building libcurl with a threaded DNS resolver on both iOS and Android.
by el_benhameen | 2025-09-14 18:13:25+00:00
> I’ve had one interview where I had to do multiplications really quickly, whilst shouting my name, and doing such-and-such random thing every five minutes.

I think the whole “I would stand up and walk out of that interview” trope is a little overused but … I would stand up and walk out of that interview. Was that a real situation?
by vict7 | 2025-09-14 18:14:29+00:00
False equivalence. Remind me what political power Unicorn Riot actually possesses compared to the party currently controlling the federal government. Unicorn riot hasn’t “done” anything because they don’t run the government.

Statements or actions taken by some fringe group are in no way equivalent to statements and actions taken by the actual government—which is currently being run based on fringe right wing ideology.
by motorest | 2025-09-14 18:14:35+00:00
> (...) "You shouldn't be writing new code in C++ if you want guarantees".

I'm afraid context is required to actually understand what was said. For example, it can mean anything including very obvious things like stating that the committee is still working on proposals to provide guarantees and they won't feature in a standard until the work is done and a new standard is published. Which would be stating the obvious.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-14 18:15:19+00:00
> Per capita is irrelevant in this matter.

Sounds like something a country with extremely high per capita emissions would say. Somebody else would say that the imaginary line drawn around a bunch of land and given a name matters a hell of a lot less.

I actually don't worry about emissions at all because I compare my personal emissions to the emissions of the entire continent of Asia. It's not my fault that the inhabitants decided to be more than one person.
by Zagreus2142 | 2025-09-14 18:15:33+00:00
This is so neat! I hope at some point in the future cities and/or nation-states provide real time 3d environments of their built environment, with highlights for public transit, public spaces, food, government services, etc. Like if gis systems were better standardized and have these models integrated into them.

Seattle has been a mess of last minute bus stop changes that aren't propagated to Google maps before you find yourself missing your bus. And even checking the metro page directly sometimes isn't up to date with sudden construction closures
by edent | 2025-09-14 18:16:09+00:00
The original Bitcoin paper says:

> Transactions that are computationally impractical to reverse would protect sellers from fraud, and routine escrow mechanisms could easily be implemented to protect buyers.

Emphasis added.

It is conceptually possible to create a crypto "credit card". But given that existing transactions are already slow, expensive, and complicated to integrate - I can't see it being attractive.

There's also the issue of trust. Escrow merchants need to be highly-trusted by both sides. They also need regulation and insurance. Those things are all in short-supply in cryptoland.
by motorest | 2025-09-14 18:16:51+00:00
> Like the google people who can't convince them and went on to create carbon?

Lots of people in mega-companies set forth to reinvent the wheel. I think we have enough track record to understand that the likes of Google don't walk over water and some of the output is rather questionable and far from the gold standard. Appeals to authority are a logical fallacy for a reason.
by sunscream89 | 2025-09-14 18:16:57+00:00
“All that does is”? Eep!

We see it in different ways. Not determinism as in ideompotent operations, determination as in “what WILL you do next?”

My working definition of “will” is the “determination of resolve.” Meaning where reality contains uncertainty, information reduces uncertainty, and determination of resolve is any action generated in correlation to this progressive practice. All figuring out what we will do next. I suppose through the lens of what “motivates” us.
by wtfwhateven | 2025-09-14 18:17:13+00:00
How do you suggest this is implemented for mains water supply? Should miles and miles of new water pipe be laid down for every new water supply company on the area and the customer is given a key from Water Corp to turn on their Water Corp supply valve and Water 4 U Corp sends a guy to turn off their valve?

Have you ever even paid a water bill in your life or spent a few seconds thinking about how water is actually supplied?
by cool_cherry | 2025-09-14 18:17:42+00:00
It's actually really great!

Google Play Services is a dependency for some apps, and GrapheneOS allows for people to take steps to protect their privacy while still being able to use those apps.

First, with GrapheneOS google play services run in a sandbox like any other app. (play services have more privileged access in vanilla android)

It also works well with a multi-user setup. The default account in Android is the "owner account" and in GrapheneOS (and AOSP) you can use the owner account to create multiple distinct user accounts on the device. Then, you can only install google play services in one user account. Google play services won't start if you're not logged into that user account.

Google play services won't have visibility into your other user accounts and what you're doing there. And even in your account with play services installed, there's a bit more privacy because of the sandboxing (although I believe google play will know all of the apps installed in that user account)

There's a full explanation here: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play

Edit: I am a web security researcher and longtime user of GrapheneOS and have always been impressed by the features, frequent security updates, and focus on usability, security, and privacy. They've upstreamed numerous security improvements to Android and other open source projects (so if you're running Android, they've probably made your phone more secure!).

https://grapheneos.org/faq#upstream

I encourage folks to join me in making a regular small donation to the project if you have some cash to spare. They're doing good work.

https://grapheneos.org/donate
by ktosobcy | 2025-09-14 18:18:08+00:00
> El acceso a la presente dirección IP ha sido bloqueado en cumplimiento de lo dispuesto en la Sentencia de 18 de diciembre de 2024, dictada por el Juzgado de lo Mercantil nº 6 de Barcelona en el marco del procedimiento ordinario (Materia mercantil art. 249.1.4)-1005/2024-H instado por la Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional y por Telefónica Audiovisual Digital, S.L.U. > https://www.laliga.com/noticias/nota-informativa-en-relacion...

Of FFS...

one thing is using http but another this one…
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-14 18:18:45+00:00
You're confusing idle (the user is not present) with idle (the screen contents is not changing). The latter is extremely common when someone is e.g. reading a document. Nothing changes for a minute or two, the user scrolls down and in an instant the contents changes, then nothing changes for a minute or two again.

You don't want the hardware in a high-power state during the time it's not doing anything, even when the user is actively looking at the screen.
by zahlman | 2025-09-14 18:19:13+00:00
This is plain sophistry.

When an order to harm is given and followed, the harm was caused proximately by the person following the order; and ultimately by the system in which the speech was to be taken as an order, and was followed. It was not caused by the speech itself.

Where American law makes an exception for "incitement to imminent lawless action", this is a recognition that something more than mere "speech" is going on.
by instagib | 2025-09-14 18:19:43+00:00
They’re trying to reduce non-technical people or elder scams and fraud.

A scam network takes over phones, tricks people on friends lists to follow directions so their phone can be remotely controlled (Apple and Android). Then the cycle repeats and they try to drain bank accounts in the process.

Thailand is placing 50k maximums for digital transfers then adjusting over time based on … 50k baht = $1,575 USD
by DiabloD3 | 2025-09-14 18:19:57+00:00
Wonder whats going on in your system. Hard to give any more suggestions without having it in front of me, but as much as I shit on Nvidia, you should absolutely not be drawing that much at idle.

There are settings in the BIOS that can effect this, and sometimes certain manufacturers (Asus, mainly) screw with them because they're morons, so I wonder if you might be effected by it.
by legulere | 2025-09-14 18:19:59+00:00
> Housing market is the worst, too little houses are being build because of all the rules.

I find other reasons way more convincing:

Construction can’t keep up with efficiency gains of the rest of the world. This has less to do with regulation and more with failure to automate as much. Basically baumoll’s cost disease.

Centralization means that everyone wants to live in the same places. We hardly can create new land to build on, especially where we need it the most.

Missing or wrong regulation of cars in cities. They take up an enormous amount of space.

Financialisation of the housing market. Housing can either be affordable or a good investment asset. Not both.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-14 18:20:03+00:00
"Appellants counsel has acknowledged that his briefs are replete with fabricated legal authority, which he admits resulted from his reliance on generative AI sources such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. Counsel says that he was not previously aware of the problem of AI hallucinations, but he has educated himself about the issue since receiving the OSC."
by strbean | 2025-09-14 18:20:37+00:00
I quoted paragraphs of Charlie Kirk's own words. You come back with... Stephen King? What in the appeal to authority is this?

Maybe you could respond to my comment instead of link to a horror author's tweet.

You could also address the other points. Or do you think the whole advocating for the killing of guys thing is bad and needs to be weaseled out of, while the advocating for the killing of Trans people part is ok?
Show HN: AutoDocs – Reduce AI costs and never manage context again
by Aperswal | 2025-09-14 18:21:19+00:00
Hey all, Adi and Sohan here. We're building Sita (https://trysita.com/), an open-source documentation generator that builds a codebase-aware knowledge graph, writes documentation for all your code, and provides an MCP server so your coding agents get precise, grounded context with citations.

Run 'git clone https://github.com/TrySita/AutoDocs’ and follow our 5 minute set up in the README, and you'll have a local instance of Sita up and running. From there add your repos, use the UI to explore the dependency graph and docs, or plug into an MCP-compatible editor (Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, etc) to fetch context while you code.

Check out a full demo here: https://youtu.be/S-0-9_F1AlE

Before Sita, we felt stuck copy-pasting across files, Slack, and tickets, waiting several minutes while agents guessed about parts of our codebase they were unaware of. With Sita, we generate accurate docs in minutes (which always stay in sync with our code) and feed agents the exact files and functions to change.

There are many code search and mapping tools (e.g., Sourcegraph, CodeSee), but none keep an agent-ready experience with human-readable docs and citations. On the other hand, tools like Notion or Confluence replicate the “docs” experience but lack auto-refresh from code, MCP endpoints, and easy setup.

We wanted our tool to mirror how senior devs navigate real code: by building a mental map of the dependency graph and navigating straight to files and functions. Existing SDKs and hooks don’t support this end-to-end, so we built an open-source pipeline that parses your repo (AST + SCIP), constructs the dependency graph, and generates easy-to-read docs; we expose everything through an MCP server and stream results to the web UI in real time. Our entire stack is open source and free to self host under the Apache 2.0 license at https://github.com/TrySita/AutoDocs. Looking forward to your feedback and hearing your thoughts and comments!
by t43562 | 2025-09-14 18:21:44+00:00
In my experience you can only moderate your response. So you cannot pretend to be very pleased when you're 90% certain that someone has been very rude to you but you can avoid an immediate angry response and give yourself time to think. I sometimes feel that I'm being put upon at the moment and then later think perhaps not - I'm always glad when I manage to restrain my initial reaction.