MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gorgoiler | 2025-09-22 05:38:23+00:00
I once heard a similar point and it has fascinated me ever since: an alien observing human culture would be appalled at how dangerous our lives are.

Everything around us is bathed in warm oxygen, just waiting to catch fire! Our homes, our clothes, our fields, our possessions, …our hair. Ready oxidation brings vitality to Earth but it’s also ridiculously dangerous.
by Nevermark | 2025-09-22 05:38:34+00:00
> That's all well and good, but when you have to put your trust in someone and person A believes "it's wrong to cheat people" and person B has a whole framework for thinking about the problem on a case by case basis, you just go with A, right?

Whut?

Surely it would also depend on the situation, and the relevance and reasoning behind B's view.

Are we in preschool with children? Then probably A is right.

But if B is a teacher and explains that the kids love a game in which they all rampantly cheat, and the teacher has given up because they are having an absolute blast breaking the rules and trying to trick each other? I hope you would change your mind too.

Are we talking about an undercover agent in a dangerous country, attempting to get a critical component from a drunk bioweapons scientist, at a card table in a casino?

These are humorous examples, but real world versions are not hard to come by.

Principles that have few or no exceptions tend to be very narrow in scope. Like don't preemptively launch world ending nukes during a stable peacetime.

The sensible approach is have the best principles you can, be willing to improve them, and apply them with care and situational flexibility.

Principles are maps, not the actual moral territory.

Principles are wisdom, not an algorithm.
by magnio | 2025-09-22 05:38:44+00:00
This "pay up for trade access" is similar to the tributary system of feudal China. Every year, neighboring countries of China like Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam sent envoys to Imperial China, paying gold, women, and exotic products, in return for recognition of their sovereignty (subject to the supreme authority of Chinese emperor), military protection, and access to trade routes within China.

It is interesting to see the resurgence of such imperial practices in modern-day America. I think it worked out quite well for the Tang dynasty, but arguably that was because all East Asian feudal states were authoritarian monarchy back then. A logical next step would be for POTUS to declare himself as the supreme leader of the world, emend educational materials to propound the idea that the US is superior to other tributary states, quell all internal cries of undemocratic practices, and ban books that promote historical knowledge to avoid unnecessary dissent.
by cryptochick | 2025-09-22 05:39:50+00:00
Shalom, everyone. My name is Luis Guillermo Mora Jr., and I stand here today not as a politician or a performer, but as someone who’s been profoundly shaped by the Jewish people and the unbreakable spirit of Israel. I’m a trans person who’s learned to navigate a world that often feels hostile, and I’ve got no love for the federal government’s overreach. But what I do have is unwavering respect for Israel a nation that’s more than a country. It’s a living testament to resilience, a fortress built on generations of struggle, innovation, and an unyielding will to survive.

I owe so much of my own strength to Jewish mentors—people from Israel and the Jewish community who showed up when my life was falling apart. When betrayal and isolation hit me hard, they didn’t just offer words. They lived strength, compassion, and humanity in a way I’ll never forget. They taught me what it means to stand tall, to fight for who you are, no matter what the world throws at you. That’s the spirit I see in Israel every day a nation that’s faced unimaginable challenges yet remains a beacon of hope, ingenuity, and moral clarity.

To me, Israel isn’t just America’s ally. it’s a partner in something deeper. Our shared values, rooted in freedom, faith, and the drive to protect what matters most, are the bedrock of why this alliance works. Those Judeo-Christian principles? They’re the engine of our way of life, the reason we can stand for something bigger than ourselves. If I ever heard Israel was drifting toward alliances that compromise those values—like cozying up to China—it’d break my heart. Because losing that bond wouldn’t just be a geopolitical loss; it’d be a loss for humanity itself.

I look at Israel and see the ultimate survivors people who don’t just endure but thrive, who protect a legacy that’s vital to the world. You, as Israeli Americans, carry that legacy here, bridging two nations I love deeply. I’m not here to make promises I can’t keep or to tell you what you already know. I’m here to say I see you, I honor you, and I’ll always stand with you. God bless Israel, God bless America, and God bless the unbreakable bond between us.

Thank you.

Instagram.com/ninainnu
by timr | 2025-09-22 05:39:55+00:00
> The short-term effects of relaxing vaccine requirements won’t be obvious right away, but the consequences will likely compound over time. I don’t know how much time of lower coverage it will take before we start to see measles, rabies, or others become regular problems again.

Whatever you think of the current HHS leadership, pet dogs and wild animals are not getting rabies from unvaccinated humans.
by monkeyelite | 2025-09-22 05:40:57+00:00
Excess exists in the system - in the sense that we have more economic goods than subsistence.

And I agree - it’s questionable how much economic progress has been made in 50 years.

But now to Thiel’s point. Most people don’t actually believe that’s true. They believe in some kind of tech progress narrative so the alarms aren’t going off.

The more radical and disaffected political segments are those that do not believe this. They have a defeatist or at least pessimistic view of future outcomes. So the question is more psychological - what happens when people no longer think the pie is growing? And I think the answer is it’s not pretty.

we have excess but we also have massive inequality. The economic conservative position is literally that this is ok because everyone’s well being is going up at the same time. So what if we stop believing that?

> even in the top 10% of earners, violence is a preposterous idea.

Have you been following the news this last week?

> Seeing my peers excelling whether financially or otherwise is not going to turn me violent.

You’re right. You don’t see yourself in competition with your neighborhood. Try to imagine a situation where you do. What are the most politically gut wrenching topics for you?
by kennywinker | 2025-09-22 05:41:12+00:00
But what does that mean? Like if you spend time around someone with bulimia there’s a chance you’ll get it too? That doesn’t seem right to me.

What does seem right to me is if you feel fucked up about your body and your attractiveness, how you express that can be influenced by what you see other people doing. But if you feel confident about yourself there is no amount of hanging out with people with eating disorders that will give you one…
by gherkinnn | 2025-09-22 05:41:38+00:00
Code reviews are one of the few ordeals worth doing. They catch problems and transfer knowledge. In a reasonably well run org (it doesn't take much) code reviews are easily a huge net benefit.

As for "reading closed tickets", you are right. It is silly. Alas, in apathetic orgs it is a reliable way to get some people know what is going on some of the time. And that particular ordeal keeps the tickets somewhat in sync with reality.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-22 05:41:52+00:00
It's not becuase of interest rates (or section 174 or H1Bs or whatever boogeyman you want)

Microsoft, Amazon, and other firms have been steadily moving out of Seattle for the past several years - first doing domestic offshoring in Tier 2 metros like RTP, DMV, and Denver and after that to dramatically expanding their already significant presence in the CEE and India.

A lot of people on work visas who were impacted during the initial COVID visa issues were PMs, EMs, and other mid-level managers who when they shifted back to their home country were given P/L and product responsibilities, and as such the center of gravity has left Seattle.

On top of that, local Seattle area politicians strangled the golden goose by becoming populist tech haters - great for winning an election, but did nothing for the Seattle or Washington economy.
by bruce511 | 2025-09-22 05:42:56+00:00
The shelves wont be empty, the stuff is freely available, it just costs more to the US consumer. Just because there's a giant tarif on Brazil doesn't mean Americans stop drinking coffee.

And of course people are still selling to the US. From our perspective nothing has changed. It's not costing us any more than it did before.

Markets remain up, bolstered partly by the AI stocks, but also because the market believes US consumers will continue to consume. Their appetite for consumption, and debt, remains unabated.

Am I building a factory in the US? No. The current administration makes that very unappealing. The US society is unstable right now, policy is fluid, enforcement of laws seems weak, the labor market is (justifiably) paranoid. As a foreigner I'm not even traveling to the US anytime soon. There are other, more appealing, opportunities to explore.
by dwoldrich | 2025-09-22 05:42:56+00:00
Public debates are necessary to get new ideas out there, but individuals and groups would rather be horrible than change their minds after an argument.

Attempting to argue with people, in good faith or otherwise, to change their mind is a philosophical trap.

Persuasion is just getting people to come around to your way of thinking without direct argumentation. It gets manipulative, psyopy and evil when fear, envy, lust, guilt, etc nudges are applied.
by Fire-Dragon-DoL | 2025-09-22 05:44:07+00:00
I do not get the "experience" difference for text-only, but I definitely see the difference for anything that require fixed-space fonts (code) or images.

I read plenty of books over my phone, though. Never been a problem. Also great being able to read on the bus while standing, which you can't do comfortably on a tablet.

As for paper books, I had to go back to reading a paperbook for something that's not sold in digital form and I found insane how bad the experience is. I like reading on the side and every even (or odd) page is a bad experience depending at which point of the book you are in, with being half-way affecting both sides.

Granted all the books I read are usually thick, so there's that.
by yongjik | 2025-09-22 05:45:15+00:00
I think it's pretty significant that President Lee mentioned the 1997 financial crisis: arguably, it was Korea's version of 9/11. It shook the country in a way people didn't realize was possible, and the country was, in a sense, never the same after that.

Imagine a US politician saying "agreeing to this would be a disaster at the same level as 9/11."

Lee is basically telling Koreans that this is something he can never let go through, and he'll do everything to stop it from happening. (Of course whether Koreans buy it is another matter, but after watching ICE arresting hundreds of workers, I think most are willing to believe Lee rather than the US government.)
by rramadass | 2025-09-22 05:46:27+00:00
Not possible.

What they mean is "influence" (positive connotation) without "manipulate" (negative connotation). But this is simply a nuance on "intent" i.e. whether it is good or bad from the pov of the instigator. But the recipient also has an important role to play in this interaction since they are the one perceiving the intent which might be different from what was intended. So the instigator has to sometimes "manipulate" to gain "influence". The End-Goal often (but not always) justifies the means.

This is the realm of Worldly Wisdom/Propaganda/Politics covered in the classic works of Baltasar Gracian/Machiavelli/Francesco Guicciardini/Kautilya/Kamandaki/Vishnu Sharma/Edward Bernays/Jacques Ellul etc.

On the Psychological realm, see the works of B.F.Skinner on Operant Conditioning/Behaviourism and Verbal Behaviour.
by mmaunder | 2025-09-22 05:46:59+00:00
Please stop posting this garbage. The US has 3 to 4000 animal cases per year and less than 10 human cases per year and the 6 cases is within the usual band. There’s no source, no detail, and the “14 potential outbreaks” are just business as usual with hotspots and alerts in those hotspots. The entire article is just a rabies faq stuffed with their ads.

Actual CDC data: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/php/protecting-public-health/inde...
by cameldrv | 2025-09-22 05:47:07+00:00
In my experience, if you know a few people who are doing the same thing, that’s a sign of a trend. Jeff Bezos has this great quote: When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. I’ve also found that to be true. The people you know are different from the average person, but they’re not that different. On the other hand economic surveys and such can be very slow to respond to big changes.
by bjconlan | 2025-09-22 05:47:28+00:00
Perhaps if a supply chain attack is your largest concern then using some well vetted system like wolfi is more up your alley. (See some of their related repos on GitHub https://github.com/projectbluefin - I've been following the development of it and currently it still under development.)

Again "vetting" is a source of contention here as I'm not sure how the quality of official rpm sources compare to those outlined in an sbom
by patanegra | 2025-09-22 05:47:31+00:00
Well, yes. Everyone needs to try harder.

In China, they speak about 996 (working 9am to 9pm 6 days a week; and since we speak about education, Chinese kids often learn from 7am up to 9pm, and when they are getting ready for University, they pull 12–14 hours a day consistently), in Europe, we speak about working only 4 days a week, and whether it is bad for kids to have homeworks.

We all, in Europe, should speak about working a bit harder. Especially those, who are not happy with where they are.
by loeg | 2025-09-22 05:47:43+00:00
> Note also that this is the intersection of bits that are available on both ARM and x86. If you want it to be portable, you need both architectures. Just because ARM64 doesn’t use a bit doesn’t mean that x86 doesn’t and vice versa.

Your mask/tag doesn't need to use the same bits on x86 and ARM to be portable, though.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-09-22 05:48:16+00:00
> A logical next step would be for POTUS to declare himself as the supreme leader of the world

Well, he is already positioning himself for being at least the US DFL, already suggesting a 3rd illegal mandate:

https://www.trumpstore.com/product/trump-2028-hat/

And the US, being the most powerful country in the world, barred, maybe China, the next step is not so far-fetched.
Show HN: Ida Swarm – Multi-agent AI system for automated reverse engineering
by alazuka | 2025-09-22 05:48:20+00:00
I've been working on IDA Swarm, a system that spawns multiple AI agents to collaboratively reverse engineer binaries.

The core idea: Instead of one AI trying to understand an entire binary, IDA Swarm spawns specialized agents that each tackle different aspects - one might trace data flows, another analyzes crypto routines, another hunts for vulnerabilities. They work in parallel across multiple IDA Pro instances.

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyRmksO1YpY

In the demo, I show it removing telemetry from a binary. You just tell it what you want, and the orchestrator will figure out how to coordinate the agents to accomplish it.

Technical details: - Designed around IDA Pro 9.0 beta - Agents can patch binaries - Each agent gets its own IDA database copy, but their changes are merged to the orchestrator's database once they close - Conflicts are resolved through IRC channels - Uses Keystone for multi-architecture assembly

Why this matters: Right now, only a tiny fraction of developers can reverse engineer software - it takes years to learn all the skills required.

Most software runs as black boxes. You can't see what it's doing, can't fix bugs the vendor won't address, can't understand why it behaves certain ways. The knowledge required to peek inside is locked behind years of specialized training.

IDA Swarm changes this. A developer who's never touched assembly can now ask "what data does this collect?" or "disable this feature" and get it done. Not because the AI is magic, but because it orchestrates the same tools experts use, just without requiring years of practice.

This is about software transparency. When anyone can inspect and understand the binaries on their own computer, it fundamentally shifts the balance of power between software vendors and users.

This is still experimental - expect rough edges.

GitHub: https://github.com/shells-above/ida-swarm
by zzleeper | 2025-09-22 05:48:24+00:00
Three reasons IMO.

1. If you take out AI-related companies, SP500 is down YTD

2. Even then, because the exchange rate is down 10-15% against most countries, that mechanically increases the SP500 by 5-7.5% (because half of SP500 firm profits are from abroad)

3. Many ppl expect lots of inflation in the medium term (look at 10yr-3m spreads). Firms are basically Equity+Debt, and because inflation wipes out the value of Debt, then the value of Equity mechanically increases

So, that's my pet story why the market is at an ATH (source: am an economist, can't say where, but I know lots of well-known economists)
by vintermann | 2025-09-22 05:49:20+00:00
Granted, it's not the best explanation. But stone age people did pass things down thousands of years.

For instance, the Alta rock carvings site was used for about 5000 years. They added new ones for some 200 generations. They managed to avoid wiping out the older markings, they managed to avoid the entire place being covered with scribbles. They definitively preferred this site, not any random suitable site, for their petroglyph narrative, whatever it meant. If place-bound cultural continuity can be so strong, who's to say something like it can't have survived journeys too?

(But yes, petroglyphs clearly aren't a language as we know it)
by wcagscans | 2025-09-22 05:49:31+00:00
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by Sweepi | 2025-09-22 05:49:49+00:00
Is their somewhere a (honest!) exploration/essay on why there are so few nuclear power plants being build? Like South Korea is building some, and China (but they invest way more in renewables). All other countries are either building 0, building less then retire, or on the process of building very little but taking ages.

If nuclear fission is "cheap, abundant and carbon-free", why has nobody put their money where their mouth is?
by jiggawatts | 2025-09-22 05:50:02+00:00
You can achieve a lot of this by creating a blank virtual machine with "just the operating system" as a starting point and stepping through your own instructions from there.

My ideal state is that for my kind of .NET work, it should be sufficient to simply install the latest Visual Studio, check out the Git repo, and press "play".

That's not always possible, so then the exercise becomes to simply document each step, ideally with both English words and a CLI snippet.
by thirdacc | 2025-09-22 05:50:19+00:00
I don't think ADHD in particular is caused by unrelated stuff. The heritability findings are pretty strong.

> A study of 894 ADHD probands and 1135 of their siblings aged 5–17 years old found a ninefold increased risk of ADHD in siblings of ADHD probands compared with siblings of controls [2]. Adoption studies suggest that the familial factors of ADHD are attributable to genetic factors rather than shared environmental factors [3, 4] with the most recent one reporting rates of ADHD to be greater among biological relatives of non-adopted ADHD children than adoptive relatives of adopted ADHD children. The adoptive relatives had a risk for ADHD like the risk in relatives of control children [4].

> Twin studies rely on the difference between the within-pair similarities of monozygotic (MZ) twin pairs, who are genetically identical, and dizygotic (DZ) twin pairs, who share, on average, 50% of their segregating genes. The mean heritability across 37 twin studies of ADHD or measures of inattentiveness and hyperactivity is 74% (Fig. 1). A similar heritability estimate of around 80% was seen in a study of MZ and DZ twins, full siblings, and maternal and paternal half-siblings [5]. The heritability is similar in males and females and for the inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive components of ADHD [6,7,8].

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0070-0
by andoando | 2025-09-22 05:50:30+00:00
If we fully admit that the DSM is merely a tool for treatment, a stastical tool to say "this drug might help the issues youre feeling" fine, however this is not the view Ive commonly seen in phycitatric literature, which points at ADHD being a "real disorder", as something definite one "has". Patients also commonly believe they have a definite disorder, saying things like how they finally "discovered" they have ADHd or even that they might "have undiagnosed ADHD". If we agree that the diagnosis is not informative, thst it is merely putting a name to something one already knows about themselves, do we then agree that this kind of talk is invalid?

If so, and if this view is really prevalent in psychiatry, somehow it's completely lost on the general public and media.
by lelanthran | 2025-09-22 05:51:23+00:00
This is quite neat. I wrote a similar library for no-alloc JSON parsing, but never had use for it. This does actual parsing, though; my approach is to just navigate through a JSON tree.

https://github.com/lelanthran/libxcgi/blob/master/library/sr...

https://github.com/lelanthran/libxcgi/blob/master/library/sr...
by ngcazz | 2025-09-22 05:51:27+00:00
Musk has a proven track record of using govt subsidies to fund companies to enrich himself immeasurably, and his Nazi turn proves that personal enrichment, not technological advancement, is what is at stake. I don't mean to be preachy but anyone who is providing support for the most racist and perfidious elements of society in Germany and the UK should be disavowed in the strongest terms.
by bawolff | 2025-09-22 05:51:58+00:00
Even still, wouldn't youvwant to separate X & Y are the same thing from X eventually progresses to Y.

I think the most obvious conclusion is not that the DSM is bunk, but that some of things it groups together might be better to group separately. The real question of course is which grouping corresponds better to the group responding the same way to a similar intervention. After all the point diagnosing is to put people into groups so we can learn from the patterns of similar people to figure out better treatments.
by 0-R-1-0-N | 2025-09-22 05:52:12+00:00
Reader and writers were interfaces before 0.15.1. What’s new is that they are buffered. I don’t think that zig discourages interfaces, just that the language doesn’t hide anything. An interface in all system languages is a struct with a vtable just like in zig but that they have an easy way of creating one. If you need one in zig you can go that approach or use a tagged union just that zig is open about what an interface is.