MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lijok | 2025-09-25 18:25:36+00:00
The only advice worth following here is: send shit PRs back.

If you don’t understand the change, it’s too large, it contains multiple independent changes that should’ve been separate PRs, anything that doesn’t smell right - send it back.

My expectation when you review my PR is that your ass is on the line just as much as mine if something goes wrong.

PRs aren’t a checkmark exercise that validates you’re not trying to backdoor an exploit into the system. A reviewer that accepts a change is committing themselves to maintain said change going forward.

If you let your kids get a dog and the kids don’t take care of it, you will. There’s no two ways about it.
by al_borland | 2025-09-25 18:25:37+00:00
I cancelled Prime last year after getting fed up with Amazon in several ways. Bringing ads to Prime Video was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

I do still end up ordering from time to time, and the checkout process for non-Prime members is horrific. Multiple Prime sign-up offers that I always need to carefully read so I don’t click the wrong thing, illogical default shipping options, with more tricks to try and get the user to sign up for Prime while choosing shipping, after having already declined multiple times.

I don’t know why any non-Prime customer would want to sign up for Prime after such a user-hostile experience full of dark patterns.

I graphed out my orders since the start of my Amazon account. There was a steady uptrend over 20 years, with yearly growth since 2018. All of that ended 2023. My orders fell off a cliff, dropping by 60% in 2024. The treatment of non-Prime customers isn’t winning me back, it’s pushing me further away. I think my goal for 2026 will be not to order anything from Amazon. It’s been such a bad experience. Apparently their goal of being the world’s most customer-centric company only applies to Prime users.

I hope this judgement will get them to change their ways, but I’m assuming they will do as little as possible to comply, and still pushing Prime hard.
by Too | 2025-09-25 18:26:29+00:00
Yeah. While this narrative style tries to explain what things are done, it instead often leaves the question: Why are we doing this at all?

Commit #1 adds a helper function for whatever, looks innocent enough, implementation is correct. Believe it or not, it even has tests, lgtm. Then only by commit #8 do you realize this helper function is not needed at all and the entire approach is wrong. Happens every time.

I started reviewing these chains backwards and refuse starting a review until the whole chain is available. That’s however not always easy either, when commit #2-#5 has incrementally refactored everything into something unrecognizable, so that both the left and right side of the diff are wrong! No, I’m not interested in ”this will be fixed 2 commits down the chain”. I just want to review the final state that goes into production, nothing else matters.

Yes, commits should be made small whenever possible and not include unrelated fixes or refactors. Just please, keep them meaningful on their own.
by mkipper | 2025-09-25 18:26:40+00:00
I never looked into the guts of how this was implemented, but I worked on a product which had an SNMPv3 agent that was only restricted by a username and password. I could flash a PC with a fresh Ubuntu image, apt install Net-SNMP and start sending SNMPv3 requests without every futzing with any keys.

If I remember right, handling SNMPv3 traps required some messy key stuff so the agent still sent SNMPv2 traps, but there was no requirement for keys for GET/SET.
by travelyesim | 2025-09-25 18:27:18+00:00
We built Travely eSIM to make travel internet reliable and affordable. Plans cover 200+ countries (with a single global option covering 172), and we’re currently running a 40% Fall discount.

I’d love feedback from HN folks on: • The onboarding flow (eSIM install setup). • Whether our pricing model feels competitive. • Any pain points you’ve faced with eSIMs that we should fix.
by dylan604 | 2025-09-25 18:27:19+00:00
I kept Prime when they rolled the video streaming service into it. I had already been toying with the idea of canceling to break the addictive habit of using their fast shipping. Now that they've gone ads inserted into nearly everything including "included with prime" content, I'm just over it. Laziness and knowing my annual renewal is months away still keep me from experiencing the cancel hell that is in my future
by basilgohar | 2025-09-25 18:27:24+00:00
Palestine has been illegally occupied by Israel since its inception. It is not AT WAR. It is resisting occupation.

Israel has been the single most belligerent nation in the middle east, attacking and antagonizing their own so-called allies for its entire existence.

Israel is responsible for attacking the British (King David Hotel), the US (USS Liberty), all of its neighbors, and even others more distant (Tunisia). It in their nature to antagonize their neighbors because they WANT conflict. They occupy lands that once belonged to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. They aspire to occupy far greater regions. They are not interested in peace, only on expanding their borders. They continue to build settlements on what little land people still call Palestine. They are committing a recognized genocide in Gaza. Resisting and stopping this is not just a right, but a mandatory action according to the genocide convention.

If not for the US support of Israel, it could never act with such impunity.
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-25 18:27:27+00:00
But the question is do you want to actually reward behavior that is just less bad than before? Or should that reward just be in the form of less punishment? I agree the consequences should get better in relative terms, but I don't think bad behavior should be rewarded with a positive response, even if the behavior is less bad than before.

It's like, if someone steals a million dollars and then steals a thousand dollars, you don't reward them for making progress.
by omarspira | 2025-09-25 18:27:46+00:00
I would be surprised if this dichotomy you're painting holds up to scrutiny.

My understanding is Gemini is not far behind on "intelligence", certainly not in a way that leaves obvious doubt over where they will be over the next iteration/model cycles, where I would expect them to at least continue closing the gap. I'd be curious if you have some benchmarks to share that suggest otherwise.

Meanwhile, afaik something Google has done, and perhaps relates back to your point re "latency/TPS/cost dimensions" that other providers aren't doing as much is integrating their model into interesting products beyond chat, at a pace that seems surprising given how much criticism they had been taking for being "slow" to react to the LLM trend.

Besides the Google Workspace surface and Google search, which now seem obvious - there are other interesting places where Gemini will surface - https://jules.google/ for one, to say nothing of their experiments/betas in the creative space - https://labs.google/flow/about

Another I noticed today: https://www.google.com/finance/beta

I would have thought putting Gemini on a finance dashboard like this would be inviting all sorts of regulatory (and other) scrutiny... and wouldn't be in keeping with a "slow" incumbent. But given the current climate, it seems Google is plowing ahead just as much as anyone else - with a lot more resources and surface to bring to bear. Imagine Gemini integration on Youtube. At this point it just seems like counting down the days...
by deadbabe | 2025-09-25 18:27:53+00:00
I go to Starbucks for the co-working vibes, not the coffee.

When are small coffee shops going to understand, if you have a 1 hour limit on how long I can sit there on my laptop (if you even allow laptops), I’m not going to go to your shop. Coffee doesn’t matter, it’s all the same shit.

Starbucks has never cared if I buy one coffee and then sit there all day.
by kittikitti | 2025-09-25 18:28:19+00:00
Thank you so much Microsoft for standing with common sense and doubling down on the ethical principles in AI. This is in stark contrast with your competitors like Google who have abandoned their moral compass. This is inspiring for researchers like me who had to deal with these glaring ethical issues. Action's like this will keep Microsoft ahead of the game.

Hackers have a love-hate relationship with Microsoft but today, at least, might be one of love.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-25 18:28:22+00:00
> Mozilla actually dropped Servo at a time when they drastically reduced their efforts in a lot of projects which were considered non critical to their mission.

Like the new browser engine is not critical to the mission of providing an independent open-source web browser? You're basically answering your own question. Servo was dropped because it was more than Mozilla could handle financially and in terms of time, and they would not be able to complete it within a reasonable timeframe. Do you have a source for any other reasoning?
by bogwog | 2025-09-25 18:28:34+00:00
> Google is in a perfect position to compete but they don’t, so it’s not like Cloudflare is a monopoly or something.

Not to comment on whether they're actually a monopoly or not (since idk much about CF's market share, except that it's big), but how does this prove they aren't a monopoly? If anything, it'd work as evidence to prove that they are.
by egorfine | 2025-09-25 18:28:37+00:00
> the internet was worse without Cloudflare

It had much more freedom. Currently it's up to Cloudflare to decide whether you will read that article or not. Tomorrow some stupid law will mandate certain ideas to be hidden from children[1] and Cloudflare will happily comply.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
by marstall | 2025-09-25 18:28:46+00:00
well i'd suggest most countries are already regulating AI and will continue to do that with existing laws that protect privacy, the environment, worker safety, limit hate speech, etc. some of those regulations extend beyond national boundaries, like GDPR, etc. in the EU.

I think the fearmongering around AI may be overblown by its investors and promoters, but to the extent that some models may morph what it means for a country to be militarily secure, there's no reason why diplomacy, negotiation and de-escalation won't be the same powerful tools they often have been in the very human drive to mitigate the risk of conflict ...
by emchammer | 2025-09-25 18:28:48+00:00
I’ll take it. I’ll take the flag. My comment was cynical and unfounded in the kind of discourse that we should see on HN. I will not edit it either. For posterity, I was thinking of the recent cutbacks to prevent “waste, fraud and abuse”, which, coming from a senator, should have been grounded in an even higher standard, rather than walking away from requests for clarification.
by hashim | 2025-09-25 18:28:57+00:00
Not just some people - a lot of people, and an increasing amount of people in the last year or so, including whole countries like Ireland, Spain and Slovenia. See the BDS movement/website/Facebook pages. As a lifelong Windows user I've been seriously considering moving to a Linux distro for my next desktop. I'll need to dig into the news some more, but this decision more than likely means I can stick with Windows.
by davidmckayv | 2025-09-25 18:28:59+00:00
This really captures something I've been experiencing with Gemini lately. The models are genuinely capable when they work properly, but there's this persistent truncation issue that makes them unreliable in practice.

I've been running into it consistently, responses that just stop mid-sentence, not because of token limits or content filters, but what appears to be a bug in how the model signals completion. It's been documented on their GitHub and dev forums for months as a P2 issue.

The frustrating part is that when you compare a complete Gemini response to Claude or GPT-4, the quality is often quite good. But reliability matters more than peak performance. I'd rather work with a model that consistently delivers complete (if slightly less brilliant) responses than one that gives me half-thoughts I have to constantly prompt to continue.

It's a shame because Google clearly has the underlying tech. But until they fix these basic conversation flow issues, Gemini will keep feeling broken compared to the competition, regardless of how it performs on benchmarks.

https://github.com/googleapis/js-genai/issues/707

https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/gemini-2-5-pro-incomplete-re...
by Dumblydorr | 2025-09-25 18:29:35+00:00
Seems like a non-sequitur. How are you addressing the perverse incentive? Yes CEOs get paid too much, yes workers get paid, there’s no “weird hang up” in the parent comment. It’s just logical that if our country believes as a founding principle in life, then don’t let money and profit get in the way of life.
by xcskier56 | 2025-09-25 18:29:44+00:00
The entrenched interests would fight tooth and nail against this but I think that the drive towards simplifying billing and pricing is a generally good thing.

That being said, in my view, one of the fundamental problems with healthcare is that outside of truly elective procedures like cosmetic plastic surgery and lasik, it's nearly impossible to have free market economics function.

- There are HUGE information asymmetries between doctors and patients - Judging performance of doctors is very challenge. Reviews are terribly inaccurate, data can be better but has big problems, and even other doctors aren't good judges of doctors outside their specialty. - Right now at least, price discovery is nonexistent so you can't price shop and compete on price vs quality - Insurance means that consumers of healthcare are not actually footing the bill so they have no incentive to price shop. And most healthcare procedures are completely unaffordable so there's no way we can do without insurance - and finally it's really hard to make an economic decision that is literally life and death. Am I going to forgo a $100k surgery if it means I'll die? There's no choice there

All of these things lead me to the conclusion that healthcare is fundamentally incompatible with classic free market economics, and some form of single payer is the only solution to avoid us bankrupting our country spending on healthcare
by divbzero | 2025-09-25 18:29:49+00:00
You know, it might be closer to AWS SES and SendGrid than I thought initially. My first reading of blog post gave me the impression that Cloudflare Email Service was designed for Cloudflare Workers only because that’s what they emphasized upfront. But I missed this piece:

> We’re also making sure Email Service seamlessly fits into your existing applications. If you need to send emails from external services, you can do so using either REST APIs or SMTP.
by muxator | 2025-09-25 18:29:59+00:00
> - nobody reads intermediate commit messages one by one on a PR, period [...] > > - “every commit must compile” - again, unnecessary overzealousness. [...]

In my part of the world both of these are true, and proudly so. We keep catching a myriad of errors, big and small. The history is easy to read, and helps anyone catching up with how a certain project evolved.

I understand it might not be true for everyone, every team, in every line of business; but this sort of discipline pays off in quality oboth of the code _and_ the team members' abilities.
by brk | 2025-09-25 18:30:02+00:00
This corporate word substitution bullshit really needs to die. Nobody on the receiving end of this is a "partner". Partner implies some amount of equality in things, a voice, a considered opinion. The people being cut almost certainly did not want to be cut, and I would wager none of them were asked for their input.

Zero "partners" are impacted by this. The people impacted are employees.

Also, Starbucks do not operate "coffee houses", they're coffee stores at best, or even just "retail locations".
by fuzzfactor | 2025-09-25 18:30:26+00:00
Every Amazon product page has a unique identifying number within the URL that can be used to relocate that exact product again if it is still online later.

If you copy & save the whole URL it works as expected when you paste it into a browser next time, unless that page is gone for good.

But if you just read the ID number to somebody and they type it into the search box, the product will appear as a tile surrounded by a few related product tiles and the rest unrelated. Completely outnumbered, and intentionally crafted to make it easier to buy some other product besides the exact one desired.

And that's when you already know exactly what you want.

Only if you then click on the correct one will it take you back to the exact same product page.
by slg | 2025-09-25 18:30:44+00:00
A minute of research has led me to conclude the discussed limit which comes from the 1997 Balanced Budget Act[1] was, like most of these sorts of efforts, passed by a Republican controlled Congress with weak opposition from Democrats. Republicans in the House voted 219 for and 7 against with Democrats 51 for and 154 against[2]. There was even less resistance in the Senate with 52 Republicans for with 3 against and 21 Democrats for and 24 against[3]. OP's "suspicion" was not "unfounded" and there was in fact "one party... driving this policy more than the other." If your complaint is simply that OP speculated on this without evidence, you're just as guilty of flagging their comment based on your own speculation without any evidence.

[1] - https://www.cms.gov/priorities/innovation/files/migrated-med...

[2] - https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/1997241

[3] - https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/105-1997/s130
by resters | 2025-09-25 18:30:54+00:00
How can capitalism create things like my macbook m3 that are very high quality, but you don't think it can create a very high quality healthcare business?

Why doesn't everyone have a macbook like mine? Because society hasn't decided to subsidize them. But that doesn't mean the macbook isn't high quality.

Capitalism's incentives alone are not sufficient to provide healthcare in a way that most people think is reasonable and fair for all members of society. But that doesn't mean that it can't be useful in allocating capital in ways that are very beneficial to society.

The purpose of regulation can be to create incentives where capitalist participants profit goals align with society's notion of what is best for everyone.

The problem as usual is that some people think that researchers who create new medicines should not be motivated by profits, or that doctors are taking too much money, etc. Any dimension that we regulate will result in pressures on other parts of the system. In my view, government is often not good at creating socially optimal regulations because interest groups get involved and create regulatory capture.

Should surgeons really earn $900K and the top student in a top med school class has a 50% chance of even getting the chance to train in that subspecialty? Do the outcomes really justify such an excessive focus on quality? Should we all expect our insurance to cover 2025 pharma options when 2010 options might cost half as much?

The "optimizations" we have at this point are far from optimal, and any serious analysis needs to look at many different measures of quality or it doesn't make sense. Much medical care has virtually no impact on longevity, does that mean it is useless? I'm not advocating for private equity at all, just saying that it is the regulatory environment that creates those "market opportunities" for PE firms, not something about capitalism. As we've seen with Trump and the support his base has for his whimsical tariffs, people put way too much faith in government's ability to optimize things.
by orsenthil | 2025-09-25 18:31:02+00:00
Real Deal here is.

Store Closures:

North America coffeehouse count will decline by about 1% in fiscal year 2025 Will end with nearly 18,300 total Starbucks locations (company operated and licensed) across US and Canada

Staff Reductions:

Approximately 900 non-retail partner roles eliminated Additional open non-retail positions closed Store employees (partners) at closing locations will be offered transfers where possible, or severance packages if transfers aren't available

Who's affected:

Non-retail partners (corporate/support roles) - notified Friday morning Retail partners at closing coffeehouses - notified during the week of the announcement
by 827a | 2025-09-25 18:31:06+00:00
Yeah; it would have had the added benefit of generating more revenue for the government via increased income taxes ($100k * income tax rate over N years versus $100k only once).

But I think the reality about the H1-B program no one wants to state plainly is that its effectively a system of voluntary indentured servitude, and its important to all of the masters of the program that the visa holders accumulate as little power as possible.
by ecshafer | 2025-09-25 18:31:52+00:00
In the US specialty coffee shops may be just as expensive or more expensive than Starbucks. Starbucks doesn't make good coffee, however they're main competitors in the US are basically Dunkin Donuts, McDonalds, or various regional/local chains. So they are often better than the competitors, since Dunkin Donuts is not as consistent of quality, and McDonalds isn't really a cafe (despite being one of the largest coffee sellers). A lot of local places also close at like 2 or 3 pm, so if I want to grab a coffee at 3 pm, or meet a friend I don't have a ton of options.

I don't really like Starbucks, but I feel a need to defend them that they have earned their success in ways other than marketing.
by kleiba | 2025-09-25 18:31:57+00:00
The is the n-th attempt to install some regulation that would (a) lead to increased surveillance of most of the population; and (b) is trivial to circumvent by those who the government is ostensibly trying to target. So clearly, the cost-benefit ratio is severely skewed for the EU population.

Assuming that the regulators are fully aware of the above points, it's not very hard to speculate what the real intentions behind all of this are.
by kimfc | 2025-09-25 18:31:59+00:00
at least in america I think it’s a consumer comfort thing. Like no matter where you are you can get close to the exact same sugar-coffee-cream-drink-thing at any starbucks on the continent, and it’s not really about having actually good coffee (their drip coffee is actually terrible).

But everywhere Ive lived (rural New England and now Seattle) there has always been cheaper better coffee available at local shops. It seems that people who like starbucks and people who are into coffee are consumer groups with little crossover
by minimaxir | 2025-09-25 18:32:01+00:00
Grok Code Fast 1 usage is driven almost entirely by Kilo Code and Cline: https://openrouter.ai/x-ai/grok-code-fast-1/apps

Both apps have offered usage for free for a limited time:

https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/grok-code-fast-get-this-frontier-...

https://cline.bot/blog/grok-code-fast
by nicoburns | 2025-09-25 18:32:12+00:00
> After researching the topic it turned out that the internet now runs on an IP reputation system. Major email services like gmail assume that anything sent from unknown IPs is malicious.

You have to buy/rent a dedicated IP address (that you'll be able to keep long term), and it warm it up by gradually increasing mail volume over a few months to weeks. But once you have, deliverability shoudl be fine.

I think the bigger issue is needing to keep on top of mainenance of the server.
by zitterbewegung | 2025-09-25 18:32:15+00:00
Even if it was just chat and or API I have used the API and I know that they have at minimum added the retraining date and time that they could just affix to the Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite because when I use the API I have to verify that the upgrade of the backend system didn't break anything and pinning versions I assume is pretty common.