MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jcranmer | 2025-09-16 15:28:39+00:00
Biden never announced that he would blow up Nord Stream 2. What he said in effect, in a press conference after Germany grudgingly agreed to prevent Nord Stream 2 from going online if Russia were to escalate its actions in Ukraine, was essentially "it's not going to go online" and giving a vague "it won't" answer when the questioner pointed out what if Germany disagreed, since it was Germany's call in the matter after all.

A month or so later, Russia launched the 2022 offensive against Ukraine, and there was no longer any question of NS2 entering service because it was clear to all that the preconditions for Germany's rescission of approval for the pipeline had been satisfied. With that context, Biden's answer is best understood as him being quite confident in the quality of US intelligence that Russia was planning an imminent invasion of Ukraine that Europe was assessing as faulty. So while Europe was interested in the question of "what if Russia doesn't invade Ukraine?" Biden's answer was (in not so many words) "I'm not contemplating that scenario."
by BruceEel | 2025-09-16 15:28:41+00:00
Maybe for maximum effect it should have been a Japanese company... (maybe Sony, who, IIRC, at some point in the past have required installation of proprietary software/DRM in order to play their content, snuck in a rootkit in the process too, which is itself a kind of cyberpunky thing to do I guess but I digress...)
by jajko | 2025-09-16 15:28:56+00:00
Depending on the technology and individual, there is very little 'healthy' technology for teens. I don't say 0, far from it, but given whats usually available its really a minimal set.

Also there is very little of 'technological skill' to learn, clicking around could be understood by little kids, rest is just usage. Sure, hackers and generally brilliant folks may actually thrive, but they are rare and far apart in general population.

There is endless stream of highly addictive technology, and those kids have absolutely 0 defenses against it. Alcoholics also never notice when they crossed the threshold of a proper addiction, its quiet and sneaky business as usual till you hit the wall hard in some way.

What a great way to prepare for adult life, entering it with some heavy but peer-accepted psychological addiction or two. What could go wrong, raising a strong balanced individual right. Pride for any parent.
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-16 15:28:56+00:00
It is a crime!

But CFAA charges should, and this is the issue a lot of people have with them afaict, have a sliding scale for premeditation though.

If I knock on a door, it swings open, and I walk inside and steal something, then imho there should be a lesser maximum charge for possessing burglary tools than if I show up with a lock gun, crowbar, and concrete saw.

A lot of the CFAA excesses are maximum penalties from the CFAA being thrown at people using minimally sophisticated / premeditated methods, in addition to charges about the underlying crime.

That doesn't seem just or fair.

In practice it's turned into an if(computer){increase maximum penalty} clause, solely at the government's discretion.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-09-16 15:28:59+00:00
The amount of these bars that get to 99% and that in practice is the half way point is infuriating.

Surely at this point we understand the difference as programmers between the amount of bytes we need to change verses the number of files and the enormous performance difference of updating small files and why any measure needs to blend both to be at least a bit more accurate. Or if its more different types of work a much better split of the bar is necessary.
by rlmineing_dead | 2025-09-16 15:29:01+00:00
You can get an AD9363 clone of the USRP b210 online for like, 300 USD?

The AD9363 stock is only supposed to be 325mhz to 3.8ghz but stuff like the plutoSDR which uses it manages to get the transceiver all the way from 70mhz to 6ghz like the more expensive AD9361 used in the real USRP B210s

Benefit is you can transmit stuff too, not just receive unlike the RTL-SDR which is RX only
by EvanAnderson | 2025-09-16 15:29:02+00:00
Receiving 433Mhz sensor data using rtl_433[0] with an RTL SDR was a lot of fun when I started doing it last year. There's MQTT output if you want to send it to Home Assistant, et. al., as well as simple text output to stdout. It was great fun seeing my neighbors' sensors, tire pressure sensors in passing vehicles, etc.

There a ton of devices that use 433Mhz. You can also extend rtl_433 pretty easily.

[0] https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433
Ask HN: Give me your terrible job-search advice
by SMAAART | 2025-09-16 15:29:30+00:00
’m hunting for a new gig, aiming for an Operations role with an AI or AI-driven company in NYC, and the usual “good” advice hasn’t moved the needle.

I am reading Ideaflow by Jeremy Utley, and in it Jeremy reminded me that sometimes the fastest way to good ideas is to start with awful ones.

So I figured I’d ask the HN tribe: what’s the worst job-search advice you can come up with? The sillier, riskier, or more doomed, the better. I’ll sort through the carnage for anything I can twist into something useful.

Hit me with your terrible ideas.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-16 15:31:16+00:00
I have a room in my house that only has an old tube amplifier and a typewriter (and a litterbox). All very low tech... it just works:

the amp still sings | the typer still writes | the litter still clumps

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The best method for keeping my tech/writing/life simple has been to establish multiple workstations ("desks") that each have their own machine & purpose (e.g. tax machine, browsing / youtube, technical writing machine, multiple typewriters [one for correspondences, another for brainstorming]). An extra laptop (or two) is helpful for general purpose multitasking, anywhere.

In 950sqft, I have six separate desks, with three primary workstations. If you haven't ever composed on a typewriter... it's worth exploring (no distractions other than emptiness-induced tech addiction syndrome).

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One of my favorite Tom Hanks -isms is that he gifts dozens of typewriters, annually, to various authors... and if he ever see his gifts sitting unused as art/museum pieces (i.e. not being used to type) he will dismantle the famous Tom Hanks typewriter exhibit and force the recipients to actually set them up for ready-use upon desks (or re-gift the machine) [American Typewriter (2016)].
by Andromxda | 2025-09-16 15:31:31+00:00
I had the same misunderstanding of your comment, as this other commenter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256978

I thought you claimed that Pixels also used eFuses to disable certain features after unlocking the bootloder once, like Samsung devices do. That's why I pointed out that Pixel devices have always had support for relocking the bootloader with a custom root of trust.

Your response to this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45244933 made it seem that way, because you appeared to disagree that "Pixel devices don't have anything like the Samsung Knox eFuse, which blows after running a third-party bootloader".

I guess that was a misunderstanding.
by WorldMaker | 2025-09-16 15:31:34+00:00
- I feel that you are unlikely to need Babel in 2025, most things it historically transpiled are Baseline Widely Available now (and most of the things it polyfilled weren't actually Babel's but brought in from other dependencies like core-js, which you probably don't need either in 2025). For the rest of the things it still transpiles (pretty much just JSX) there are cheaper/faster transpilers with fewer external dependencies and runtime dependencies (Typescript, esbuild). It should not be hard to replace Babel in your stack: if you've got a complex webpack solution (say from CRA reasons) consider esbuild or similar.

- Axios and Jest have "native" options now (fetch and node --test). fetch is especially nice because it is the same API in the browser and in Node (and Deno and Bun).

- Redux is self-contained.

- React itself is sort of self-contained, it's the massive ecosystem that makes React the most appealing that starts to drive dependency bloat. I can't speak to Svelte.
by incomingpain | 2025-09-16 15:31:41+00:00
So a DGX spark at fp4? or a 5090?

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark...

I imagine it's not signficant in terms of bitcoin mining.

I'd use it for LLM inference. Probably GPT 120b would be best on a dgx spark.
by structural | 2025-09-16 15:31:44+00:00
The more fine-grained you make a capability system, the more you have an explosion of the number of permissions required by an application, and the chance that some combination of permissions grants more access than intended.

It also requires rewriting all your apps.

It also might require hardware support to not be significantly slower.

"Just sandbox each app" has much fewer barriers to entry, so people have been doing that instead.

And systems like Android have been working with discrete permissions / capabilities, because they were able to start from scratch in a lot of ways, and didn't need to be compatible with 50 years of applications.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-09-16 15:31:48+00:00
It does sound like a crime to me too. But was it a password or other credential that was guessed, or was it just some sequential primary key? The latter is not an authorization system, and I do not believe it a crime to do that unless you have specific knowledge that it is likely to cause damage and/or the intent to cause that damage.

As far as I am concerned, I am allowed to send any traffic I wish to public-facing hosts, and if they respond with content that the owners would not wish me to see, I have no responsibility to refrain. The only traffic I am not permitted to send are credentials I am not authorized to use (this would include password guessing, because if I manage to guess correctly, I was still not permitted to use it).

So which was it?
by kstrauser | 2025-09-16 15:32:11+00:00
Yeah. That’s actually a favor in disguise. Now they can’t accuse you of stealing or destroying stuff on your way out.

BTW, last time I posted stuff like this, someone thought I was treating this like an alibi: “ah ha! Now I can run amok and not get blamed for it!” No. Don’t do that, lest ye end up with a felony and permanent unemployability. I just mean that when things inevitably break due to natural entropy, the first question is often of who had access, and you don’t ever want your name to be on that list.
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-16 15:32:55+00:00
Mutation testing is poorly named in some sense. Mutation testing is probabilistic measurement of code coverage. It doesn’t test anything, instead it tells you how good your existing test suite provides coverage of non-existent bugs - it changes your code to generate a “mutant” (eg changes an addition to a subtraction) and sees if your test suite still passes - if it does that counts as a failure. Traditional alternative approaches are things like codecov that measure line coverage or branch coverage which famously don’t actually give you an actually accurate estimate of quality whereas mutation testing does a bit better job. However, none of this actually tests anything and is more a meta-metric of how good your test coverage is.

Antithesis is more like property testing - it tests your code under random scenarios and sees if the tests still pass. Unlike property testing, rather than just random inputs, it also randomly reorders events at a very deep level to make sure your distributed system behaves correctly. It can even be used for simple things like helping you deterministically reproduce a flaky test in a non-distributed system.
by Barrin92 | 2025-09-16 15:33:03+00:00
I'm as eager to anyone when it comes to holding companies accountable, for example I think a lot of the body dysmorphia, bullying and psychological hazard of social media are systemic, but when a person wilfully hacks around safety guards to get the behaviour they want it can't be argued that this is in the design of the system.

Or put differently, in the absence of ChatGPT this person would have sought out a Discord community, telegram group or online forum that would have supported the suicidal ideation. The case you could make with the older models, that they're obnoxiously willing to give in to every suggestion by the user they seem to already have gotten rid of.
by myrmidon | 2025-09-16 15:33:24+00:00
Demand side management is a nice concept, but it is neither free nor a cure-all:

It has real costs because it limits the utilization of involved infrastructure and is simply not feasible for a lot of industries. It does not help when residential demand exceeds the available supply either.

The most practical solution will probably be a mix of overprovisioning (especially considering how cheap solar panels have become), battery storage and fuel powered fallback, with the balance shifting as long as batteries and panels get cheaper.

Grid level battery storage is already coming online at scale (e.g. https://www.ess-news.com/2025/08/18/statera-energy-powers-up...).

LiFePo cells are already down to ~$60 for 1kWh (8000 cycles), which is pretty palatable for a lot of applications and prices still trend down.
by numpad0 | 2025-09-16 15:33:26+00:00
I had looked into "properly" buying LCDs once, just in case it had been within trivial reach of mine and I could just do what I wanted to do.

The one I was interested in would come in couples of aluminized vacuum sealed bags in a cardboard box, with 2k panels per each bags, laid out on plastic trays and stacked few up. The standard procedure to use these things is to wipe the bag surface to remove contaminants, leave it 24 hours at the factory to equalize temperature to avoid causing condensation, then tear it, and put it through production line before the panels degrade from absorbing too much moisture in the air.

I suppose you can forget about surplus parts or just buy 1/n of 2k parts at n/1 price premium from manufacturers with quote-unquote-nonfunctional parts, should you be contractually required to do so, but the point is, you can't easily produce just 1k of something in excess of 10 or so of prototypes built of no-guarantee spare parts.

Unless the total cost of gutting and reprogramming work exceeds that of fulfilling MOQ amounts of few thousands total(including customer warranty spares, media and storefront demo units, investors thank you specials, lottery prizes and all), it's going to make more sense to just buy and gut existing things, than producing just 1k units.
by guywithahat | 2025-09-16 15:34:14+00:00
This author seems to have trouble distinguishing between things she doesn't like and far-right. I don't think downtown SF is "exalt" with far-right inhabitants, and given the largest AI firms are run by a gay man, climate man, and a company who build their brand on left-wing "alignment" I don't think the industry is "exalt" among the right either.
by notatallshaw | 2025-09-16 15:34:16+00:00
Seems like this is a fairly recent change, for Pnpm at least, https://socket.dev/blog/pnpm-10-0-0-blocks-lifecycle-scripts...

What has been the community reaction? Has allowing scripts been scalable for users? Or could it be described as people blindly copying and pasting allow commands?

I am involved in Python packaging discussions and there is a pre-proposal (not at PEP stage yet) at the moment for "wheel variants" that involves a plugin architecture, a contentious point is whether to download and run the plugins by default. I'd like to find parallels in other language communities to learn from.
by 123iasdjrZ | 2025-09-16 15:34:36+00:00
According to the New York Times, Ukraine receives major help from the US on all fronts:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-...

The first Kerch Bridge attempt was only a partial success. Traffic continued almost the next day. The second attempt was a complete failure. For the refineries, Ukraine uses at least GPS.

The sail boat theory is plausible from diving standpoint, but they allegedly installed explosives on NS-1 and NS-2 sites that were at least 100km apart, within 10 hours, with no decompression equipment. If they can do that, why do they repeatedly fail at Kerch Bridge?
by tolerance | 2025-09-16 15:34:58+00:00
I wish that this wasn’t a LLM-generated summary of a YouTube video.

I wish that this was a personal website and the content was handwritten. That the voice and insight was yours. Reading LLM-generated prose is like reading an obituary.

The name appropriately describes the content. The font weight for the table of contents doesn’t appear to sufficiently increase to indicate the user’s place on the page.
by jimkleiber | 2025-09-16 15:34:59+00:00
This hits too close to home.

I built an app for micro-journaling [0] in 2013. I think the iOS version stopped working in 2016, the Android version maybe a year or two after (I switched to iPhone so don't know for sure).

The interactive demo site I built in JS?

Still works exactly the same.

And I tried to make the apps as backwards compatible as possible.

Maybe AI could help make OS upgrade maintenance easier?

[0]: www.ifeelio.com
Show HN: Mii Maker – Free browser-based Mii avatar creator (no signup)
by dallen97 | 2025-09-16 15:34:59+00:00
Hi HN — I built Mii Maker, a free, browser-based editor for creating Mii-style avatars. You can start instantly without sign-up and export images for profiles, socials, or docs.

What it does • No registration, free & unlimited usage; open the site and start creating. • Real-time preview while tweaking face/eyes/hair/clothes/accessories. • Export & share: save to your device (multiple formats) and use anywhere. • Works on desktop/tablet/phone with the same UI.

Why I built it I often needed quick, playful avatars for profiles and team docs, but most tools had account gates or heavy installers. I wanted a lightweight web editor you can use in seconds.

What’s different • Starts instantly in the browser; keeps the flow fast for casual use. • Simple presets + fine controls so you can get “close enough” quickly. • Focused on export quality/usability rather than game-console import formats.

Limitations / notes • It’s an independent web tool and not affiliated with Nintendo. “Mii” refers to Nintendo’s customizable avatar concept introduced with the Wii; this project is a fan-style creator for general image use, not for importing into consoles. • Feature requests welcome (e.g., SVG export, batch variants, color palettes).
by shagie | 2025-09-16 15:35:06+00:00
The setup of Tor has some specific dates in the transcript. Page 10

3 Q. So, Ms. Routh, having been acknowledged of his 4 obligations to monitor and pay for the service on 5 August 29th, can you please tell the Court how 6 Mr. Rockenhaus complied or didn't comply with the terms 7 of his release? 8 A. Yes. On September 22nd the defendant did 9 successfully download the monitoring software program 10 on his computer. On October 11th Officer Ramos 11 contacted the defendant regarding his lack of computer 12 usage. So he reviewed some reports and realized that 13 nothing was appearing, indicating that he was using his 14 computer.

Page 11 and 12

22 So Mr. -- Officer Ramos spoke to Phillip 23 Danford with IPPC Technology and he stated that, yes, 24 the defendant had downloaded the software. They showed 25 that on September 22nd he said that the defendant -- 1 they see that the defendant looking at, it's called the 2 TOR Network website on September 23rd, which is where 3 you download software to access the dark web.

If I read this correctly... in August he was required to install the monitoring software (likely within 1 month).

On September 22nd, 2019, the monitoring software was downloaded. On September 23rd, Tor was installed. No internet activity was detected for the remainder of September or October by the monitoring software.

I don't believe that 2 or 3 come into play in terms of the parole violations (including the subverting of the monitoring software).
by browningstreet | 2025-09-16 15:36:07+00:00
F4 on my Macbook Pro brings up Spotlight, not Launchpad.

But, bringing up Spotlight, clicking backspace, then clicking on the Applications icon brings you basically Launchpad.

They've mushed them together, but there seem to be three states: Spotlight with typing pre-filled, Spotlight bare with some additional icon options, and then Launchpad, which is more Spotlight than I remember it being.
by roxolotl | 2025-09-16 15:36:19+00:00
This is the big question. It could be any combination of the following and it likely depends on the company/position too:

- Generative AI is genuinely capable enough to replace entry level workers at a lower cost.

- The hype around Generative AI is convincing people who make hiring decisions that it is capable enough to replace entry level workers at a lower cost.

- The hype around Generative AI is being used as an excuse to not hire during an economic downturn.

Could even still be other things too.
by MisterTea | 2025-09-16 15:36:19+00:00
You can look this up on wikipedia you know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_diving

"The open-sea diving depth record was achieved in 1988 by a team of COMEX and French Navy divers who performed pipeline connection exercises at a depth of 534 metres (1,750 ft) in the Mediterranean Sea as part of the "Hydra 8" programme employing heliox and hydrox."

Sounds like 80 meters is cake walk for any modern naval institution.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-09-16 15:36:23+00:00
This may be overly cynical. I suspect that she's getting her biased account from the only person she knows who is technically savvy: her husband. She accepts this uncritically, and that some very large fraction of the spin originates with him. Some stuff (like ignoring that the drug use violates probation) might be hers, but the rest probably isn't.
by tjpnz | 2025-09-16 15:37:02+00:00
>The best part is, though, nothing ever changes. I get things working the way I want, and it just stays that way year after year. No UI language updates, no replacing my default shell, nothing. It just keeps working the way I like.

While Arch might make you safer by virtue of choice, some of the more "beginner friendly" distros aren't immune to changing things seemingly overnight. Ubuntu for instance dropped GNOME for Unity which I still have bad memories of to this day.
by Insanity | 2025-09-16 15:37:53+00:00
Sadly, you are right. Everything is made to retain attention, feeding into the addiction. Games do this with live services and 'daily events', social media apps are tailored to keep you constantly hooked (I'm reading 'Algospeak' at the moment which talks about how linguistics plays a role here, recommended read).

I don't think I know of a good parenting solution to this, to be honest. But if parents read this and want to chime in, I'm quite curious to see how others handle this. And I'm assuming the HN parenting crowd is a technical audience that understands the risks involved.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-09-16 15:37:57+00:00
Their sabotage attempts of several bridges in Crimea did not go this well, suggesting that the Ukrainians alone aren't the best at understanding explosives, and their successes like "fly a bunch of FPV drones out of a shipping container" are quite a bit simpler than this. "Intelligence agency" is a spectrum of capability. Suggesting that an intelligence agency that tried and failed to blow up a bride twice was the same as the one that executed a flawless operation against an underwater pipeline is a bit far-fetched.